Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 190 Frost Maple Ridge Defender

On the empty wasteland, only the wheels of the siege tower were creaking.

The soldiers of the bandit coalition armed with long swords and short swords, iron spears and wooden spears, hand axes and war hammers, all kinds of leather helmets and armors made by all countries are mixed together, which makes their lineup more disorganized and their military appearance is weak;
If there is one thing that these bandits and bandits have in common, it is that they all look tense, and bead-sized beads of sweat are pouring out from their hairlines, falling towards them like broken beads. land.

A bandit minion looked up to the sky, and on the edge of the tall body of the siege tower, he saw a stray wild goose howling through the scorching sun.

"Hey! What happened to the north?" A bandit who was traveling with him poked his shoulder with his finger.

The bandit minion shook his head and bit his lip tightly.

Not long ago, almost everyone in the coalition army heard faint tremors from the north, and some even saw flames rising from the ground with sharp eyes.

And when they asked what happened to their little leader, they got only a long silence and worried eyes.

All of this made the advance journey under the cover of the siege tower even more ominous.

And directly behind the team that the bandit pawns could not see or hear, Sirius, who held the command of the entire army, although he was still sitting upright on his horse, had stretched out his fingers and squeezed his brow tightly.

"You guys are the only ones back?" The leather warrior from Rock Creek City gritted his teeth invisibly.

In front of him, several bandit infantrymen with spears on their backs nodded desperately.

Their breathing was short, their bodies were covered with soot, their clothes were in tatters, and their eyes were full of unforgettable fear.

"Sir... Sirius..." A bandit spearman swallowed and panted, "They... they seem to have magicians! Just, just suddenly, there was a big, big monster in the sky. The fireballs fell! Catapults...and brothers, all... gone...fire, fire everywhere..."

The magician... Sirius frowned slightly, but quickly suppressed the change in his expression.

"Lord Sirius..." the Bandit Spearman lowered his voice, his voice was trembling like being electrocuted, "the catapult is gone, they still have magicians, we... can't we win..."

Sirius said indifferently:
"Don't be afraid, I have my own way. You guys who escorted the catapult have worked hard, so you don't have to follow the siege tower. Take the brothers back to the camp to rest."

The Bandit Spearman nodded tremblingly and limped towards the camp with the rest of the surviving escort.

It didn't take long before they ran into a group of accomplices guarding the gate of the bandit camp with knives.

The leader of the bandit spearmen staggered forward, and before he could speak, he was surprised to see the gatekeeper take two steps forward with a knife, and shouted loudly:
"Stop! Lord Sirius has an order, those who return to the camp before the army are all deserters, shoot to kill!"

"What? But..." The spearman had just uttered a few words when he saw the light of the knife flash, and the world was spinning.

Heads rolled away on the sandy wasteland.

……

Before the war is about to start, the silence of the mountain and the rain is a kind of torture for both sides;
Fortunately, under the gaze of thousands of eyes, the bulky bandit siege tower, like the footsteps of the goddess of fate, finally approached the green dam fortification of Phoenix Terrace slowly.

The brief peace was broken.

Standing proudly on the top of the green dam wall, the Shuangfengling recruits who have kept aloof and silent, seeing the time came, they quickly shook off the slings in their hands under the order of Chris Mann, and the stones were thrown into their pockets , and then raised his arms to face the slowly approaching siege tower, and started the first round of intimidating offensive.

Although slings and ammunition bags are standard equipment for all Shuangfengling recruits, those who are qualified to stand on the top of the green dam to face the enemy directly are all elites with quick eyes and hands selected from the pioneering army—even those who have been The former Shuangfengling guards who served as the instructors of the Huangpo Military Academy are now also fighting against the brothers of the tiger as father and son soldiers, carrying slings and standing on the same front as the young students.

Although Frost Maple Ridge had already organized sling training, it was the first time for such a large-scale collective shooting.

Standing on the roof of the Horned Eagle Manor, Xia Houyan looked into the distance, and saw a whole row of stone slingers on the top of the green dam wall. Almost in an instant, they threw out countless slingers like flying locusts and flying stars with a wasteful mentality like smashing cans. The sharp stone bullets, accompanied by the crackling sound of piercing the air, played a drummer's version of heavy metal rock on the cowhide masks of the five siege towers and the weak flesh and blood of the bandit soldiers. party.

However, don't look at the terrifying power of this round of stone bullet projection, but the actual effect is very little.

Although the five tall siege towers were built hastily by bandits cutting wood, their basic shape is the crystallization of the wisdom of many soldiers. Their role on the battlefield is to cover the infantry from approaching the city. How could the siege tower, which is not too afraid of bows and arrows, be damaged by a pile of stones?
The thick cowhide nailed firmly on the front of the siege tower directly swallowed most of the projected firepower:
When the citizens of Shuangfengling prepared stone bullets for the pioneering army, they had picked up hard rocks with sharp edges as much as possible, but none of these stone bullets could penetrate the thick layers of specially tanned stone bullets. Cowhide, if you are lucky in the stone bullets, you can punch a gap and embed it in the leather, but most of them just hit a small hole and then fall to the ground;

The real casualties caused by the sling were basically finding a good angle from the side and hitting the bandits behind the siege tower. , there was a blood hole and screams that shook the sky;
However, after the thieves quickly adjusted the angle of the siege tower, similar opportunities to steal chickens were almost impossible to find.

Chris Mann, who was in charge of the defense at the top of the Green Dam wall, hurriedly stopped the follow-up stone throwing and shooting, lest some stupid recruits get bloody and angry at the same time, and took out the densely grained steel to throw bombs-this round The original intention of throwing stones is to put a little pressure on the opponent's advance symbolically. It's okay to throw some worthless stone bombs. If someone wants to smash a few dilapidated siege towers, they also throw precious magic metal bombs. Chris reckoned that he would be skinned off by the stingy lord after the war.

To put it bluntly, dense grain steel bombing is a special means to deal with heavy armor, and the best killer is the best killer.

Seeing that the attack of the slingshots weakened, the bandit coalition army who was secretly delighted was about to push the siege tower to accelerate, but because of an overly absurd scene, their steps faltered, and they almost collapsed into a gourd:
Just in front of the closed city gate of Phoenix Terrace, a heavy-armored warrior with a whole body in pitch black stood proudly. In his hand was an oversized rune epee, which seemed to be fighting purely by its weight rather than its sharpness.

For a moment, the bandit soldiers even fell into a trance:

In the situation where the two armies are facing each other and the situation is too tense, where did a person who is not afraid of death come from, just like a log waiting to die outside the gate of the platform?
No way, no way, no one really thinks that with this exaggerated black heavy armor, they can stop the siege of nearly a thousand bandits in turn?
Even Sirius, who was at the end of the line, was suddenly taken aback.

This leather armored warrior from Rock Creek City, sitting on his horseback, fixed his eyes and saw a man with a giant sword, black helmet, black armor and black cloak, and a tall flag on his back outside the wooden city gate of Frost Maple Ridge , painted with golden-patterned goshawks and ice-blue maple leaves, is exactly the banner of the Igor family's Frost Maple Ridge territory, and he is indeed a fierce general;
Sirius didn't care about it for a while, but he heard the heavily armored man beating his chest and stamping his feet, cursing outrageously in the old imperial saying:

"Listen to you wasteland bandits, hey! Juan Clemente, the Knight of Thorns of the Empire, is here today. You may attack, or fight, or advance, or retreat, or fight, or fight; Fight, don't advance, don't retreat, don't fight, don't fight, you are the generation of ordinary people!"

"Fuck! Cut off this lifeless tin can!" Before Sirius gave an order, a bandit leader jumped up and cursed.

After Sirius acquiesced to the order, he was still wondering on his horseback:

Knights and heavy warriors are recognized as the most costly units in the mainland. According to the common standard in the Central Plains of the empire, to support such a well-equipped heavy knight, at least four or five attendants plus countless real money——Ke Shuang Not long after Fengling established its foothold in the wilderness, the Igor family committed a major crime. They were poor and homeless dogs. Where did Elliott Igor, a dude lord, recruit such a warrior to serve him with allegiance?
——But it doesn't matter, the opponent's support has obviously sent this heavy armored warrior to a dead end:
Although it is said that it is ten times with one force, no matter how brave a warrior is, it is absolutely impossible to escape from the siege of bandits hundreds of times his own!No matter what wishful thinking Shuangfengling had in mind, they sent this heavily armored warrior outside the door to resist the enemy, but they were just emptily destroying a general and taking away their own morale!

However, deep in Sirius' heart, there was still a trace of undetectable suspicion:
"Knight of Thorns", a title that obviously does not belong to the imperial knight system and is probably fabricated, why does it sound so familiar...?
No matter what calculations the Warlord of Rock Creek City had in mind, the bandit soldiers at the front still kept their weapons and surrounded Clement cautiously.

Facing heavy fighters with such a huge size and such strong armor, it is obviously a lie to say that the bandit soldiers are not afraid;
But firstly, the little boss behind him is rushing for his life, and secondly, the siege tower really has no way to move forward if we don't kill this incomparably blocking black canned food...

There is no way to do it, so I can only bite the bullet!

But soon, they discovered that there was something harder than the scalp——

——It's that rune giant sword shining with faint blue light!
In the first few steps approaching Clement, the bandits even had a hint of joy in their hearts, as if they were walking to pick up their wallets, because after they emerged from the shadow of the siege tower, the frost maple on the top of the green dam wall Ling defenders did not throw stone bombs as before;
At first, the bandits thought that this group of noble soldiers were afraid of accidentally hitting the heavy armored soldiers and accidentally injuring friendly troops;
But in the end they realized that the reason why they didn't throw stone bombs was because they didn't need them!

The Thorn Knight, Juan Clemente, was an elite fighter who was the champion of bravery as early as 800 years ago, counted by Earl Henry Igor as his confidant, and the 800-year life of facing the wall in the underground laboratory of Simon Adrian, Not only did he endow him with the status of a death knight and the ghostly magic power that permeated his body, but also made him have a sudden enlightenment in the way of martial arts like the founder of Bodhidharma!

One moment ago, the death knight was still standing on the spot like a mountain, but the next moment, he was already moving like a rabbit and charging towards the bandits who were approaching every step of the way——

In the first step, the rune giant sword was dragged behind him like a long knife, and in the second step, the Nether Blade with the whistling wind had already rushed to him!
The mortal eyes of the thieves can almost only catch a flash of black shadow——

Then, in a moment of silence, the rune blade entwined with the magic power of the nether world was already cutting towards the bandits who were most eager to go to Huangquan Road, piercing armor, skin, flesh, and bones without any hindrance. The uncontrollable whirling force of the martial arts master made the two corpses of the unlucky bandit spin out of thin air in a whirlwind-like circle, and then ping-pong into the air, each knocking down a bunch of bandit accomplices jostling each other;

With just one sword strike, in the blink of an eye, a fountain of blood, two battle marks, and bandits and cowards fleeing in panic were cut out in front of Juan Clemente!
The majestic knight of the thorns of the empire can face tens of thousands of powerful enemies with a smile, but how can he be merciless when facing a group of drowning rats?Juan Clemente directly followed the sword move of the previous move, took a step forward, crushed the skull of a fallen bandit with his iron boots, and then turned his arms around in the rain of brain plasma and blood, and made another move. The sword swung out mercilessly——

one step, one sword;
Another step, another sword!
Juan Clemente seems to have turned into a black-painted heavy hammer building demolition machine, but every heavy blow of the rune giant sword stirs up not bricks, steel bars and rubble, but meat, Broken bones and many dead souls!

In just three short steps, Juan Clemente had dug out a lifeless and mournful quagmire of flesh and blood all over his body, and the outer part of the quagmire suddenly swung open due to the escape of the bandits. A large circular empty no-man's land.

Even the official Xiahou, who was watching the battle with a telescope on the roof of the Horned Eagle Manor, almost bit his tongue.

You must know that the previous battles in Shuangfeng Ridge were either defensive battles that were suddenly attacked by surprise, or they were dealing with giant monsters such as giant dragons or red flame vultures. —Juan Clemente, who is covered in heavy armor, has not found any chance to confront a group of weak infantry face to face until now;

It's a good thing that there is no chance. When the opportunity comes, the death knight immediately uses his own martial arts and equipment to perform what is called a unparalleled crushing game!

(End of this chapter)