At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was a feudal town, but in Western Europe

No, we have done nothing wrong. Is this also the curse of the Father on us?Is the Father not on our side, but on the side of the heathen? "

A burnt smell spread to everyone's nostrils. At first, the soldiers were just puzzled, but then their expressions changed drastically, and they stood up one after another, looking into the distance.

Behind Pepin, the suspension bridge between the two cliffs is burning!That was the only bridge for them to return the same way!

"I understand. I embezzled your interests and forced you to go to the battlefield. Now, now, I even burned down the drawbridge and let you fall into death.

Now, you and I are in the same death situation, you want to call me crazy, if we can survive, let you scold me all over, but now, you have two options in front of you.

Either, defeat our enemies, or starve to death in the mountains, don't you say it is the curse of the heavenly father?Alright, then let us see whether this is a curse from the Heavenly Father or a trial from the Heavenly Father!

My soldiers, my brothers, my fellow believers!

I swear, tonight, I will hold high the torch and the battle flag, you can see me no matter where you are, you are my supervising team, if I escape, cut off my head!

I swear, tonight, under the battle flag, I will stand at the forefront of all of you until death, and I will never retreat or surrender!

I swear, tonight, this battle will be an unprecedented victory!A victory that even Gabriel would be jealous of!Even Isaiah wanted to cast a staring gaze!

So, my fellow citizens, if you believe me, follow me!Follow me! "

Pepin's voice lingered back and forth in the open valley, and only this voice lingered.

Turning on his horse, Pepin held the torch high, stepped over the bonfire, and walked towards the valley entrance, with a battle flag slung across his back, and the night was as thick as ink, wrapping Pepin's body.

There is no sound in the silent night, only the sound of Pepin's hooves.

After a few seconds of silence, the sound of hussars and war horses followed one after another. Although there were footsteps, they were pitifully rare.

Lost the bet?Pepin raised his head, Father, if you must curse me, why did you let me be born, let me put in so much effort, but take it away one by one.

If so, who can redeem me?

Pepin seemed to be in a trance at this moment. All the sounds in his ears disappeared. He looked up at the moon sky. The bright moon was like the eyes of the heavenly father. Is this really what you mean?

Pepin stretched out his hand towards the night sky, wanting to hold the moon and the eye of the Father.

In the dark night, the beeping sound of burning torches is so piercing, like sonatas before death, but these sonatas seem to be mixed with some other sounds.

It was the sound of boots or sandals slapping on the mud, the sound of dust being splashed, and the sound of rubbing clothes. This sound became louder and louder, and even seemed to turn into a torrent.

Waking up from his confusion, Pepin noticed something was wrong. He turned his head and saw that he had already walked forward for almost half a mile, and behind him, almost all the soldiers had arrived, and every corporal commander ordered Light a torch, and behind each torch are seven or eight people.

Countless torches gathered around Pepin in the middle like fireflies in the night, and the air was filled with the smell of burning turpentine.

The flames lit up and darkened their faces.

Seeing this scene, Pepin seemed to understand something. He turned his horse's head and raised the torch in his hand high.

Forming a long dragon towards the torch, Pepin pointed the long sword forward, and roared hoarsely:

"Those who yearn for victory! Follow me—"

"Oooo--"

Chapter 272 People who are eager to win! Follow me!

The moonlight cast a layer of silver-white snow on the cliff, turning the entire mountain into a snow mountain.

The moonlight is very bright tonight, but the night is also very dark tonight, even faintly feeling like black mist.

On the cliff, there is a narrow winding path, the width of which is less than one meter at the narrowest point. Since this is a path for hunters to enter the mountain, the only thing that can be grasped and supported is the vines on the mountain wall.

On the narrow mountain road, a thousand soldiers in chain mail were slowly moving forward.

Coincidentally, the Basque guide had escaped from this path before, and if Pepin hadn't sent someone to look for him, they wouldn't even have known that there was a mountain path that could only accommodate one person.

Pepin knew that the heretic had many sentries and guards at the valley entrance. Once he attacked in the dark, he would be caught by patrolling light cavalry within a few meters.

Judging from the battle with those pagans today, the total number of opponents is only more than 3000. Compared with most of our own infantry, the opponent is mainly archers and camels, and there are many servants who are responsible for supporting the scene and doing logistics. military.

On the battlefield, victory or defeat is always a matter of a second thought. Pepin guessed that since the enemy is guarding Taniguchi tightly, the barracks must be empty. Who would have thought that the disarmed army that was beaten five hours ago would be able to gather morale and attack again?

"Crack it."

"Boom-"

The gravel rolled down from the black rock and fell to the bottom of the valley between the cliffs. The mountain wind blew people tottering, and the soldiers could even feel a suction force emanating from the bottomless abyss. Opened its big mouth.

"Hush——" Pepin supported the vine, looked at the abyss, and felt a little dizzy, "Don't be afraid, order to go on, everyone puts a cloth on their mouths, only allowed to look at the back of the head of the person in front, not to the left."

For the first time on the cliff that has been silent for thousands of years, there are crowds of human voices, the sound of clashing swords, rapid breathing, and the rustling of sandals rubbing against each other.

Seen from a distance, it was a long silver snake coiled on the mountain road. Under the moonlight, their chain mail exuded a white color.

Go around the mountain road, go down the gentle slope, turn another mountain road, and arrive at a small hill with a height of only two or three meters.

Standing on the hill, under the moonlight, Pepin looked into the distance. On the edge of the white land, only there was dyed red with wine and fire. The distance from here to Adam's camp was only seven or eight miles at most.

Fortunately, the weather is fine today, otherwise it would be a big trouble just to investigate the location of Adan's camp.

The follow-up troops gradually arrived, and it was like a miracle that only thirty people were left behind, and the occasional fall from the cliff did not cause a large-scale panic among the soldiers.

"Extinguish all the torches, put on the prepared burqas, and don't let the chain mail reflect the moonlight." Pepin whispered to the people around him, and then he called more than 20 teams to form a circle in front of a sandy field, "Is the moonlight clear?"

"clear."

Pepin pointed to the mountains in the distance and said, "Can you see the two mountains over there?"

"can."

"Okay, remember those two peaks. When we move forward later, everyone is not allowed to make a sound, and no one is allowed to light the fire. You are only allowed to light the torch when I raise the torch.

Every team, when you are advancing, once the dark clouds that block the moonlight dissipate, look back immediately. If the two peaks can overlap, it means that you have not gone astray.

If they do not overlap, please adjust the position as soon as possible to make it overlap.The corporal leader followed the team and moved forward one by one. "

"As ordered!"

In the dark night, the moonlight was dim, and Pepin kept advancing among the low hills and bushes, not daring to make a sound, while the scouts dressed in herdsmen's attire scattered away on foot.

At night, the silence was terrifying.

Due to the blurred vision, many people were still blindfolded. Every time they walked two miles, they had to regroup and wait for the stragglers to catch up. Everyone held their breath and tied up the horses' mouths with cloth strips.

During the march, a hill of corpses caught everyone's eyes, many of them were relatives and friends of the soldiers, but they couldn't open their mouths.

go ahead!go ahead!

Under the constant reports from the scouts, they were getting closer and closer to the camp.

Three miles, two miles, and one mile away, from here, Pepin could already clearly see the shape of the camp. It was divided into two layers, inside and outside. On the outside, there were tents scattered here and there, while inside, there was a low wall hidden in a curtain.

In this position, Pepin asked most of the cavalry not to move forward, but to stay in a dry forest and charge after seeing the signal, while Pepin himself and a dozen elite wing cavalry, including his few The righteous brothers are on the front line.

This is also what he promised, holding high the battle flag and torch, and dying in front of everyone.

In the last 200 meters, Pepin could even smell the scent of refined wheat juice and refined grape juice floating in the camp, and even hear the deafening snoring of the guards.

By this time, Pepin was finally able to observe the situation in the main camp.

I have to say that the camp in the distance seems to have been built only today. Not only does it have no ditches, but even the walls are only fences as tall as a person. Some tall soldiers walked past the fence, and Pepin could even see half of their bodies. head.

But internally, it is not so clear.

He patted the backs of the winged infantrymen around him, and four winged infantrymen with crossbow arrows came out from behind the bushes, crawled carefully on the ground, and walked around to the two Umayyad soldiers guarding the road to the camp, and walked 50 meters away. distance.

The sound of crossbow arrows flying and heavy objects falling to the ground did not attract the attention of other patrolling soldiers.

Although he was patrolling, it could be seen from his blank eyes that his mind had already flown back to Cardona's mistress's house - until a spark bloomed in the corner of their eyes, until his companion collapsed in a groan.

Nearly a hundred burning flames rose from the grass, turned into dozens of red rainbows under the night sky, and came straight to the door.

"Boom! Boom!"

The flame exploded, and the big drum suddenly sounded.

"Father—"

The torch was ignited in Pepin's hand, illuminating the battle flag on his back, and the battle flag was fluttering, and it was about to burn.

"Those who desire victory! Follow me!"

Holding up the torch in his hand, Pepin led the guard cavalry to the front. Guided by the flame in his hand, the infantry lined up in neat formations and rushed forward towards the center with the low fence inside. The camp advances.

"Ooooh oooh-"

The hussars behind them roared loudly and charged from the dry forest.

"boom!"

The soldiers in the outer camp didn't react at all, and Pepin rushed to the gate of the inner camp.

They didn't even knock a few times, and the thin wooden door was knocked open, and the door of the inner camp opened in front of Pepin.

Pepin held up the torch in his hand. At this moment, his voice could not reach the ears of every soldier, but they could all hear it. The sound of gongs, drums and wind had become his voice:

"He who desires victory! Follow me—"

"Oooo--"

Battle banners passed through the doorway, followed by battle cries and swords.

The flames licked and rolled backwards, turning the silver armor of the winged infantry into gold. The soldiers of Xingyue woke up from their panic. Turning their panic into substance—yelling, yelling in terror.

The night wind pushed the wall of fire, and in front of the wall of fire, Pepin's hussars stepped on the flames and rushed towards the soldiers who were trying to gather. The tent was ignited and their heads fell heavily.

These elite warriors from Arabia were firmly nailed to the ground by spears before they even had time to put on their exquisite armor and chain mail.

The heat of the flames dried the blood on the ground. The panicked figures, collapsed tents, and loud noises made the Arab soldiers who had just woken up dizzy.

Of course, it wasn't that there were soldiers who didn't understand. The Xingyue Sect soldiers with their heads covered were not inexperienced in dealing with fires. They beat the flames with their furs and pushed down the tents near the burning tents to stop the fire from spreading.

But unfortunately, following Pepin's hussars, the infantry armed with spears, axes and long swords had already caught up. Those elite cavalrymen were beheaded and shot through their throats by the well-trained infantry before they even got on their horses.

When the flame scorched the air, Adan woke up from the heat on the woman's belly, and he couldn't open his eyes because of the blazing fire.

"What happened? What happened?"

He stumbled and opened the curtain of the tent, the monstrous fire in front of him almost took his breath away, and the spear cavalry galloping back and forth in the distance made his vision even darker.

He had seen this group of pikemen before. Only Pepin's cavalry would do such a special decoration. The cracked pikes made a loud bang, which stimulated Adan's eardrums.

"My lord." Adan understood instantly, he turned around, put on the leather armor quickly, and greeted the guards loudly.

However, what made Adan feel weird was that until he put on his armor, his guards didn't bring his horse.

"This group of dirty slaves, Wei An! Wei An! Where are you guys?"

"Stop shouting, Master Vali." The Berber youth with blood on his shoulders smiled lazily, and walked out from behind the tent slowly, "When you were sleeping like a dead pig, your guards were already dead. It's all taken care of by me."

"You, do you want to rebel? Your sister is still in my hands!"

"I'll save it myself, so I won't bother you."

"Wait...how much do they offer to bribe you, I offer..."

The light reflected by the scimitar was like the silver moon in the sky, and the blood color at this moment was like the blood on the scimitar. Adan Wali stepped back again and again, clutching the leaking throat on his neck, speechless.

His eyes widened, his fingers trembled slightly, and he pointed at the Berber youth, and the Berber youth stepped forward in two steps, once, twice, and three times, chopping off Adan's neck before he stopped.

Taking a deep breath, the black-skinned youth hung Adan's head on the tip of the spear, and shouted loudly in fluent Arabic and Persian: "Wali is dead! Wali is dead!"

Chapter 273 People who are eager to win! Follow me! Next

The red and blue flames danced back and forth on the scorched wooden frame, and the firelight made the night seem like day, reflecting the joyful and sad faces of several Sheikhs and elders of Murduin.

Pepin was sitting in the middle of an open space, with Adan's head hanging on the battle flag beside him. He was naked from the upper part of his body, and let several attendants apply medicinal oil to his bruised body.

Because of the hunchback, Pepin's body was somewhat deformed, but Murduin and others did not dare to look at it, their skin was scorched hot by the flames.

Taking a deep breath of the bloody air, Murduin took a step forward, bowed his head and said, "Pipin, the prince of the Heavenly Father Church from the north, your divine power is unrivaled. I pray to you, and I hand over my Weapons, let your soldiers spare our lives."

Although the remaining local tribal army naturally surrendered after the soldiers directly under Wali were slaughtered, Murdu was frightened instead.

Wars in this era, especially jihads between pagan religions, are very cruel. If you are unwilling to convert, massacres of cities and prisoners are very common.

Although he had surrendered, Murduin was still afraid that Pepin would kill him.

Pepin was not used to seeing his hunched back by strangers. He waved his hand, and the people around him put on clothes for him. After putting on the clothes, Pepin asked casually: "Are the tribal people near Cardona?" Are you here? Are you all at war?"

Suppressing the fear in his heart, Murduin quickly replied: "About one-third of them are here. Some young and strong cavalry joined the battle. The main force is the Berbers. As for Adan's personal soldiers and main force, they were not killed by you. Yes, they were killed by the Berbers."

"Are you afraid of me? Afraid that I will kill you all?"