Temple Sword

Chapter 100

"They are coming!" William exclaimed, he fought side by side with Hector's son Saipan and the hospital knights, and clearly saw the soldiers rushing down from the mountain. "Their goal is also the king! Protect the king!"

The old knight held high his ancestral sword and leaped onto his steed Sharuel, and a small group of soldiers followed behind his fluttering black cloak and rushed to the king's place.

Antal, who was beside Charlie, saw his adoptive father leading a group of soldiers rushing towards the soldiers killed from the mountain, but then Sharuel fell, and the Lily Knight could not see the lion.

"Hold on!" he heard the king's voice. "In a moment it will all be over!"

Suddenly, a burly man appeared in front of him with an old and rusty pot helmet on his head.Antal didn't hesitate at all, he swung the battle ax with his left hand, and slashed the weapon deeply on the giant's shoulder. The man roared like a monster from another world, and threw away his spear. The Lily Knight held The sword lunged forward, piercing the ancient helmet's throat not half a finger away.

"We can't last long!" Antal shouted to Charlie, "If we don't retreat, we will all die here!"

"Hold on!" roared the King, and, ignoring three bleeding wounds on his hand, he took another life with his spear. "Hold on a little longer!"

At that moment, Jack fell off his horse, his chest slit open, and he never moved again.

The royal standard-bearer was dead, and the banner of Anjou fell into the dust.

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Janos Aba couldn't see the battle in the center of the chaos clearly, but he could clearly see that the lily banner disappeared above the heads of the crowd and never reappeared.

"The king's banner is down!" he cried frantically, with a surge of excitement he had never felt before. "My brothers, the royal standard bearer is down! Let us attack!"

The sons of Ahmad Abba, who had been fighting only on the flank so far, raised their heads when they heard the shout of their elder brother, kicked their spurs and rushed in the direction of the king, trying to catch up with Charles Anjou before his head fell to the ground. Get there and witness the fall of a king and a family.However, the sons of the Abba family were not first-rate fighters, and their tight formation was blown apart in the blink of an eye amidst the flying massacres.

Second son Nicholas was horrified to find he was completely alone after stumbling into enemy lines on his horse.He was surrounded by a group of knights in mail, and a hand clamped around his arm, dragging him to the ground.He looked up as the old Templar charged at him with sword in hand.

The man's helmet had been stripped off, and the scarred, gray-haired knight, covered in blood, knocked the sword out of Nicholas' hand in one blow, then raised his own above his head.Nicholas Abba instantly pulled out the dagger, and stabbed it between the ribs of the old lion with all his strength. The man's face was distorted, but his movements did not stop at all. He split Nicholas' head in half with one blow.

Only three brothers made it to the center: Janos, David and Ladislaus.But before them came the Hospitallers, who mowed through the surrounding soldiers like rice paddies, and then protected Charlie and his exhausted and battered knights within the walls like a fortress.The banner of Anjou was still on the ground, and a new battle standard was hoisted over the king's head: black background, white cross.

"I'm going to kill him!" David shouted when he saw the king among the hospital knights, and rode away.

"David, don't!" Janos yelled in horror, but he couldn't stop his brother's stupid behavior, because he had to dodge the slashes and stabs from all directions.When he turned his head again, David had disappeared into the crowd.

Among the six sons of the Aba family, David, who has always been the most powerful in combat, dodged left and right, quickly broke out of the encirclement, and skillfully fended off the attack of the hospital knights.He ran straight into Charles, in his plume helmet, and with a roar he thrust his lance at the king.Charlie raised his shield just in time to block the attack, but the spear pierced through the cowhide wooden shield and tore his forearm.

Charlie didn't care if his arm was broken, and he thrust the spear again with his right hand, through the chain mail, and pierced David Abba's chest.

Then, the living walls of the Hospitallers closed again, and something broke in Ladislau, who had been watching this terrible scene.Crying like a child, he dropped his weapon, only to be saved by a frightened horse.When he came back to his senses, he had already escaped from the battlefield and came to the top of the mountain, watching the bloody battle at the foot of the mountain alone.

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Balasar Demeter could not tell which army was retreating.In the back of his mind, he was already cursing the day the Abba sons confronted Charlie Anjou for the first time, thinking that if they hadn't done that, he wouldn't be in this hellish place, Waiting for one of them to be slaughtered to ashes.They will all die here, becoming headless corpses on mass graves that are unburied and unclaimed.

Suddenly, a deep and thick horn sounded, and hundreds of infantry and cavalry rushed out from the two wings.Balasa Demeter had never been a coward, but now his eyes widened, letting fear overwhelm him.Sepes' Saxons and cavalry flanked the oligarch's army and routed them in a single charge.

Balasa didn't know whether Abba's family and Mate Chuck really lost the battle, because at the next moment, he was pierced by three spears at the same time, trampled by the warriors above, and swallowed his last breath tone.

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Antar found that the enemy had turned their backs on them, trying to flee the battlefield as quickly as possible.A few people were still fighting, but they were quickly and easily dealt with by the reinforcements who came to outflank them.With Commander Highlord Abba and Balasa Demeter killed and Abba's sons down to two, the rebels gave up the fight.

The sounds of battle slowly died down, but this time there were no cheers.The survivors of Charlie's army greeted their victory in silence.

There wasn't a single person in the center where the King was who didn't have a dozen fresh wounds, or a few broken bones.The hospital knights held their positions, and although they held off the second charge, their numbers were greatly reduced, and they protected the king at the cost of most of their lives.

Around them, as far as the eye could see, were the dead, frozen in their own blood, with twisted or missing limbs.Some people were beaten beyond recognition with a mace, and some people used their last strength to stuff their intestines back into their cut stomachs.A terrifying scene of inhumanity unfolded in front of Lily Knight's eyes, with blood, excrement and human fragments everywhere.

He dismounted from Caesar and staggered on foot to find the survivors. He saw a few familiar faces, his own soldiers, trampled to the ground, and he wondered, and thought with some certainty in his mind, that none of them One survived the heavy cavalry charge.

He finally found William.

His uncle, his master, who was not his father but more than his father, lay quietly next to the corpse of a soldier bearing the arms of Abba's family, his face was pale, his hands were on his ribs, and the blood flowed from there. It keeps flowing.

"Father!" Antal screamed in pain, throwing off his nose helmet and kneeling beside William.He took the old knight's head in his arms and stroked his long gray hair.

William turned those weary eyes to the knight, and Antal could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes.He wanted to say that everything would be fine, but he knew that William didn't like his adopted son lying to him.

"My dear child," the old lion smiled lightly, "my only child..."

"Here I am," Antar moaned, almost choking on the lump in his throat, "here I am, Father."

"So we won," said the old man, blood starting to drip from the corners of his mouth. "I won't live long, but don't cry, it's okay. See how clear the sky is? Today is a good day to die."

"Yes." Antal nodded, but he couldn't say another word.He began to sob, shaking his shoulders, and William stroked his cheek with his right hand.

"It's all right, my dear son," he kept reassuring, "I've lived long enough. There's just... one thing I haven't done yet."

"What?" Antal asked hoarsely, "If I can do it for you..."

William closed his eyes, and slowly, taking as deep a breath as he could, he reached for his belt with his back hands and unbuttoned his weapon.

"The sword of our ancestors," he said, opening his eyes again, "is yours now. Take it, accept it and guard it as I did, and one day it will be your son's, and then... his son's .It...has to be."

These are the last words of William Barto.The old crusader finally lays his head on the sky, offering his soul to eternity, and like all the heroes before him, he is finally able to ascend the bridge of stardom.There was a calm and happy smile on his face.

"Lord Barto!" A voice came from behind Antal.

"Lord Barto!" cried another voice, but the Lily Knight did not answer them.He felt that soon people would realize that William Bartow was no longer around.

But the people behind him didn't stop, and Antal turned around angrily, staring at them with bloodshot eyes.But just as he was about to attack, he suddenly realized that these people were not calling William, but him.

"Lord Barto!" said a young knight again, "The king ordered us to pursue the scattered enemy army. Will you go with us?"

"No," Antal shook his head, "I've had enough of war."

The Cavaliers left, but he stayed.He smoothed William's eyelids, then prayed silently for his immortal soul.

After a while, Laszlo appeared next to him, and then old Saipan.They squatted beside him and watched silently, knowing that any words would be of no avail, so they prayed quietly with him.Finally there was Andronica, who also survived the battle, though his sword hand hung limply at his leg and his body was covered with cuts.

Antar looked at William who fell asleep in his arms, and slowly opened his dry lips.

"You are the noblest knight I have ever seen."

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