Riding and Slashing

South of Cliff Bay.

On a bare, nameless slope.

Here is a tragic battlefield, with corpses lying all over the ground, and a group of remnants dressed in lion retinue costumes are retreating down the hillside.

Godric stood at the top of the hill, slashed the neck of the last enemy with a swing of his sword, and then sat down on the ground panting.

He scored another victory.

But he was also covered in blood, his armor was damaged, and his sword was blunt, unable to pursue him.

A lord of Ravencrows also walked to Godric panting heavily, and sat down on the ground with a big sword.

"How come there are so many lion servants? Lord Godric, are there so many people in the Lion Knights? We don't think these people look like knight servants..."

This is the lord of the Kingdom of Ravencrow, Lord Adarian, Duke Adarian. He is about the same age as Godric, and his current status is also about the same.

Right now, the two of them are jointly commanding the battle in Cliff Bay.

The joint army of the Ravencrow Kingdom and the Sarleon Kingdom had fought many battles with Brennus' troops around the Cliff Bay.

Brennus has lost consecutive battles, and it seems that he is retreating steadily, but there are always new troops blocking him.

Cliff Bay is like an endless army, and a large number of troops wearing lion retinue equipment poured out time and time again. Although they lost consecutive battles, they succeeded in preventing the combined forces of the two countries from launching large-scale siege battles. .

Although the coalition army has achieved successive victories, the actual progress is quite slow-so far, the coalition army has not even touched the city wall of Cliff Bay.

Up to now, it has only just conquered Amir Village, and it can be regarded as pulling out the last stronghold outside the cliff bay peninsula, completely sealing off the sphere of influence of Brennus within the peninsula.

After continuous battles, both the Ravencrow Kingdom and the Sarleon Kingdom were tired of veterans, and had to rotate the main force of the battle—the joint forces of Gregory IV and Leofric had already fought several games. They are resting in the area of ​​Mimbol Castle.

The Silver Hand led by Klose had been following Godric, but had to stay in Amir Village to regroup after continuous battles.

The current main offensive force has been replaced by Duke Adarian and Godric.

Up to now, the troops of Adarian and Godric have faced three rounds of blocking.

The progress made was only to advance the battlefield to this small hillside to the south of the cliff bay, but it was still twenty miles away from the cliff bay.

"Of course there are not so many people in the Lion Knights... These people are not lion followers!"

Godric gritted his molars, and pulled out a crossbow embedded in his breastplate: "The Lion Knights don't know how to use crossbows... I didn't expect that Brennus would be in the cliff bay. So many weapons and equipment have been prepared... During this period of time, more than 1000 people died in battle just wearing the lion squire equipment?"

"You mean these people are temporarily armed? But where did Brennus find so many troops who are willing to fight desperately for him? And...the Lion Knights have never appeared!"

Duke Adarian shook his head, looking a little confused.

Godric sighed: "It is because the Lion Knights have been in the Cliff Bay that so many people will try their best to stop us, and even die because of it... These people are just poor people wearing lion guard equipment , Their family must be controlled by Brennus with the Lion Knights, for the survival of the family, for the life of the whole family, they can only come out to resist us."

"This kind of coercion... oh..."

Adarian also sighed.

As the Duke, Adarian knew that this method was actually difficult to solve, because those who came out to resist were fighting for their respective families.

If they don't fight, probably the whole family will die at the hands of the Lion Knights.

But if they went to war, it would be unexplainable rebellion, and the Sarleon Kingdom would definitely regard them as rebellious. After all, it was difficult to distinguish who was forced to follow Brennus and who actively followed Brennus.

So they will fight very resolutely, and will not retreat until the battle situation cannot be saved, and will not accept surrender.

And Brennus did a very planned job-he probably secretly organized these troops who were forced to go to the battlefield wave by wave, five or six hundred at a time, which was just enough to stop the pace of the coalition army, but not to cause trouble. The people of Yaoyan Bay resisted all-round and rioted.

People everywhere have the same bad habits - they don't get ahead if they don't care about it, and most people will sit back and let a small number of people be forced into battle, and they will only pray that it will not happen to them.

And the few who resisted in advance will naturally be suppressed by the Lion Knights, and then their property will be turned into military expenses of the Lion Knights, and their families will also be turned into military supplies-so that the Lion Knights can maintain their morale.

Everyone knows that this is the last madness of Brennus.

But everyone can't help it.

"Enemy attack! My lord! There seems to be another enemy coming down the mountain!"

An archer who was observing the movement next to him reported the military situation loudly, interrupting the conversation between the two.

The two tired leaders sighed and stood up.

"It's endless...they're not going to force all the men in Cliff Bay into battle?"

Adarian pulled out his great sword from the ground, shook his head and sighed, "Such Lion Knights really don't deserve to be called Knights!"

"From the very beginning they are not worthy... especially not worthy of being called Lion Knights..."

Godric put on his helmet: "Ready to fight!"

"Wait... Godric, something seems wrong..."

Adarian looked straight down the mountain: "Why do I feel that those people seem to be the lion servants who have just evacuated?"

"My lord, be careful! These corpses... are fallen!"

The messenger archer swooped down and threw down a bloody fallen man behind Godric, then drew out his short sword and pierced the chest vertically, nailing the fallen man to the ground.

Adarian and Godric turned around at the same time, and shouted in horror at the same time: "Cut off its head!"

These two lords have seen the world...

But this reminder was too late, the sword piercing the chest failed to make the freshly baked fallen man lose his fighting power, but instead caused the brave archer to lose his life.

The fallen man grabbed the archer, easily broke his neck, then pulled out the dagger from his chest, and stood up again.

Adarian swung his two-handed sword with all his strength, and was blocked by the fallen man with one-handed dagger. This block had no technical content, and sparks flew everywhere, but Adarian's great sword flew out of his hand instead—power The gap is too big, it is equivalent to cutting into a wall.

Godric deftly turned around, and barely cut off the back half of the fallen man's neck with a sword from behind.

The sword was indeed blunt, and the sword with all its strength did not even break the throat.

But fortunately, this sword was cut from the back, at least it still cut off the fallen man's neck bone.

The fallen man shook his bloody head and fell down.

Next to this fallen person is a nearly complete piece of skin.

At this time, Godric heard the chanting that made him remember deeply-the prayer of the Lady Justice.

"Three Prophets!...Quickly retreat! The whole army retreats!"

Godric turned around and took a look, shouted to retreat, then pulled Adarian and began to run wildly down the mountain to the place where the horses were tied.

Around them, in various places on this hillside, corpses that had just died stood up one after another.

There are the corpses of the enemy, and there are also the corpses of our own people.

These corpses all started tearing apart their bodies crazily and silently!

"The whole army retreated to Amir Village!"

Godric yelled as he ran.

He knew that the Silver Hand was resting there.

But Godric's heart has completely sunk, because Klose sent someone to pass the news to him before. He knew that Li Ang's troops would not be able to come to the area of ​​Cliff Bay in a short time, and there were large-scale degenerates in Lion Lake City.

And now, Cliff Bay also appeared...
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In the forest east of Fox Town.

Sir Roland led a team of two hundred people silently through the woods.

These are troops trained by Roland in Dark Falcon Castle, and most of them were recruited by Roland in Ravencrow Realm.

It doesn't look like a top team as they aren't well equipped and don't look strong.

Well-trained, though - 200 people were walking through the dense forest with almost no sound at all.

Roland is a strict person. His subordinates lived a poor life in Darkfalcon Castle, so the equipment was naturally not very good.

Moreover, Roland's recruitment mainly depends on character, he will not accept individuals like An Dongjia.

So his troops are not many.

At the same time, Roland is a person who always leads by example. He is generous, upright, fair and selfless. He will definitely take the lead in the charge when fighting, and always put himself last when sharing supplies.

Such a person can naturally win the respect of his subordinates.

Therefore, the actual combat effectiveness of Sir Roland's troops is far from being measured by equipment and physique.

At this time, Roland was thinking about how to deal with Frey's Oswood.

Roland had already fought against Osswood's troops a day ago, and the two sides were in equal numbers. After a brief confrontation, Osswood retreated into the woods—this is a troop that cannot be measured by equipment and physique.

Maybe justice and evil can bring people equal faith...

Sir Roland already knew that Osswood had caused countless tragedies in this area. When he met Godric before, he knew Osswood's habits from Klose.

What this army has done is even worse than what the heretics have done-almost everyone, men, women, and children, has been tortured and killed.

Therefore, he took the initiative to take over the task of hunting down Oswood.

In the past few days, Roland saw countless tragedies in the surrounding villages.

All the female corpses were naked, with traces of abuse all over their bodies; while all the male corpses were mutilated.

This behavior deeply angered Roland.

It is difficult for him to understand why a human being has such a perverted hobby.

Roland is a paladin, and he will not participate in any wars related to power struggles. He does not intend to get involved in the battle at Cliff Bay, but he will never let Oswood go.

Even if he had to give up his horse and venture into the jungle to fight, he would kill Osswood.

In the eyes of this paladin, it is far more evil than heresy for human beings to commit such evil deeds out of personal preference or desire.

Because this is an anti-human thug who specializes in tearing down the ladder of the Lady Justice.

Roland slowly searched forward with the troops.

"careful!"

A female soldier walking beside Roland suddenly stopped Roland: "There is a trap here!"

Roland didn't see any traps here at all, but he believed in his partners, especially those recruited in Ravencrow Realm.

One meter in front of him, there is a small vine lying under a tree.

The female warrior squatted down and broke the vine with a short spear.

"Swoosh... thud thump!"

From a tree on the side, two sharp wooden spears flew out from the dense leaves, and pierced into the ground where the vine was with a whistling sound.

"Ilano, thanks to your carefulness..."

Sir Roland looked around in the direction where the wooden spear was fired, then pointed to a big tree in front of him, and shouted loudly: "People from Oswood, right? Don't be sneaky and hide! Come down and join me!" Fight! I am Roland!"

Although he couldn't see the trap, he could see the ambush--Roland was already the best at dealing with those young people hiding in the shadows.

The troops started to move quickly, quickly surrounded those big trees, and the efficiency of their actions was surprisingly fast.

The female warrior named Ilano also raised the crossbow, but instead of aiming at the big trees, she turned around and aimed at another place tens of meters away.

"Sir Roland? Are you Paladin Roland?"

A voice came from the tree: "This is a misunderstanding! Don't do it! Misunderstanding!"

Afterwards, a man in black slowly climbed down from the tree.

This person turned his back to Roland, and deliberately crawled slowly. After landing on the ground, he stretched out his hands and raised them above his head, apparently without any hostility.

Roland put down the sword in his hand: "Who are you? Are you not from Oswood?"

"My name is Leonard... from Fieldsville, we have been looking for you, Sir Roland."

The man in black turned around slowly: "My partner and I used to be members of the Knights of the Dawn."

As he spoke, he slowly reached out and untied the belt of the black hoodie, revealing the white knight robe inside.

This is indeed the burqa of the Dawn Knights, but it is not the same as Roland's - this is a new style that only appeared after the Dawn Knights settled in the Light Howling Bay in Fieldsway.

In the past, the Dawn Knight of Buckley Continent wore a black and white plaid burqa;
After the Dawn Knights were expelled from the Buckley Continent, the Twilight Knights separated from it. After that, the Dawn Knights used pure white robes and armor, while the Twilight Knights used pure black equipment.

On several other trees, five same men in black also slowly descended from the trees, one of them was even outside Roland's team - he was tens of meters away, and was not spotted by Roland's large army, only the man named The female warrior named Ilano pointed at him with a crossbow.

"We have heard that there are many tragedies here, so we came here to deal with Osswood. But I didn't expect...ha, I almost accidentally injured-Sir Roland, you are also here to deal with him, right?"

Leonard explained with some embarrassment: "You are indeed a real paladin!"

"No, it's not just Oswood, there's even more terrifying...'Elgram the Devourer'."

Roland nodded: "But Oswood must be dealt with first, otherwise that Egrem will keep getting dead souls and corpses full of hostility."

"Wait, ser...I don't believe he's a Dawn Knight like you..."

Irano spoke suddenly.

This female soldier looked very young, at most 20 years old, but she looked at Leonard with a bit of cold eyes, or said coldly: "I think you smell like a thief!"

"Your senses are sharp, ma'am... I did steal."

Leonard glanced at Ilano in surprise, then slowly knelt down on one knee facing Roland, then took out an object from his arms with even slower movements, and handed it to Roland: "I stole it out , Your Excellency Paladin, please allow us to follow you!"