When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 557: Battle of Black Lettuce Village (Part )

"Who said this road can't be walked? This road is very walkable."

Whipping the staggering mountain cat with a whip, a leading Temple Knight couldn't help but boast.

More than 500 knights formed a long line and moved slowly along the road sandwiched between farmlands and ditches.

At the end of the long line, axes, spears and halberds were shaking, and guards in chain mail or armored suits were swaying their bodies and following listlessly behind the horses' tails.

As the captain of the Imperial Order Company, Elad walked in the front and glanced at the noisy Temple Knights with disdain.

This time, he could be said to have deployed all his military strength to attack the Salvation Army that had landed in Suimi Town from the main camp.

Not only did he call back all the knights who were having fun in the city, but he also paid the mercenaries full wages, which was rare.

Although the reconnaissance results showed that the enemy had only 3-4 squadrons, and they were all infantry, who dared to underestimate them?
If they were normal infantry, Elad was confident that he could wipe them out with two hundred Temple Knights.

But these were the devilish black-clad soldiers, a mad army that remained motionless in the face of hundreds of charging knights.

The disastrous defeat in the Battle of Rapid City forced him to be extremely alert, and he wanted to bring his entire family with him to charge forward.

In order to prevent the Saviors from gaining a foothold, Elad attacked lightly this time.

He specially mobilized donkey carts, not to load food, but to load weapons and armor, to prevent the infantry from slowing down.

They had originally planned to go through Perfors Manor, but unfortunately one of the guides was from Perfors Manor.

He leaked the secret to the farmers overnight, causing everyone in the manor to cross the Nauan River with their money and food and run to the grove across the river.

After walking for a whole morning, we couldn't even get a bite to eat. Isn't this an insult to our honorable knight?
Fortunately, another guide named Tam or Sak pointed out another way, which was through a place called Black Lettuce Village.

Although this route is not as flat as the one to Pfors Manor, it also has no forests or hills.

In this way, the Salvation Army cannot take advantage of the terrain, but has fewer people, so it is estimated that eating and fighting will not be very comfortable.

It’s only half a day’s journey anyway, and it will take a day or two at most. If you feel uncomfortable, then so be it.

Elad felt that he already had the qualities of many famous generals and knew how to use the terrain to restrict the enemy.

"Captain, the Huanggu Bridge is ahead."

Black Lettuce Village is located next to the Nauan River. Like most villages in Hotam County, it has built small artificial rivers and ponds to irrigate farmland.

On the artificial river is the Huanggu Bridge, a wooden bridge that is level with both banks. The other side of the Huanggu Bridge extends to the Black Lettuce Village.

There were dozens or even a hundred households living in Black Lettuce Village, but due to floods and war, most of the residents fled.

Riding on horseback, Elad looked around and saw nearly a hundred stacked earthen and thatched huts surrounding both sides of the road.

There were flags and sheds on the road, and the houses and sheds were stacked together, looking quite crowded and chaotic.

Looking at the Yellow Mushroom Bridge in front of him, Elad frowned. He called the guide nicknamed Mountain Cat and said, "Oh, what's going on with this bridge?"

"This bridge is very strong. It won't collapse if too many people pass through it at once." Tucker said calmly with whip marks all over his face. "There used to be fairs here, sometimes with thousands of people, and the bridge was fine."

Elad stared at those numb and calm eyes for a long while before waving his whip: "The Temple Knights go first."

The horse's hooves landed on the bridge, raising clouds of dust.

Soon, more than 200 Temple Knights lined up and successfully crossed the Huanggu Bridge.

Seeing that the Temple Knights were fine, Elad then ordered 300 knights to cross the bridge.

Not until all the knights had passed the wooden bridge did he finally feel relieved.

The moment he saw the bridge, Elad felt a palpitation, but now it seems that he was worrying too much.

This street is so quiet, there are no villagers or members of the Holy Sun Righteous Army...

Walking on the street lined with houses, Elad led the knights slowly forward while glancing at the ruins of the houses on both sides.

Apart from the birds, there was no one in sight.

It was quiet, so quiet that he couldn't even hear the chirping of insects.

Sometimes, he even felt that it was too quiet, so quiet that he could even hear a low whisper.

A low murmur? Elad yanked the reins.

No, no! It's not hallucination!

"Something's wrong, go back, go back!" It was too late when Elad shouted while pulling the reins. The hot wind blew on his back, and tremendous heat and flashing light came from behind him at the same time.

As he turned his head, more than a dozen fireballs exploded in a row on the flat bridge on the river, and half of the bridge was burning.

Amidst the thick black smoke, dozens of guards on fire screamed and jumped into the river.

The flames rose and leaped, and the entire bridge turned into black charcoal. The burning wooden components fell into the water with a crash, and wisps of blue smoke rose up.

With a crackling sound, the flat bridge broke in the middle and slowly collapsed into the irrigation canal that was more than half a person deep.

The artificial ditch was seven or eight meters wide, and the guards in chain mail could barely swim across it, but Ellard had a bad feeling when he saw the crowded houses and streets.

"The entire army should speed up and pass through the village. Don't worry about the guards!" Making a prompt decision, Elad stood up on the saddle and shouted anxiously.

However, amidst the roar, he heard a strange whooshing sound.

The knights looked up subconsciously.

Under the pale white clouds, dozens of black shadows flew into the sky from behind the house.

Then, it rolled all over the ground with a ping-pong sound, like rain.

"Fireball! Raise your shield, raise your shield!"

"Priest, interrupt their magic!"

"What is this? Where did the iron ball come from?"

Cries of surprise rang out everywhere, and the knights who had witnessed the red dragon's breath in Rapids City immediately raised their shields subconsciously and lay prone on horseback.

Among the knights present, only the Temple Knights were still standing there stupidly.

“Tick-tick-tick-tick—”

The imagined flames did not appear, and the balls just made a strange ticking sound.

There was even a Temple Knight who picked up the ball with the tip of his spear. He looked at the dial on it and put his ear against the ball in confusion.

"Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick--click!"

"Don't panic, keep your formation, this is not a fireball!"

As soon as the leading Temple Knight finished shouting, he heard a series of subtle buzzing sounds.

What is this sound? As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, the buzzing sound in his ears suddenly amplified tenfold.

Then he lost all consciousness.

Ripples appeared in the air, the dust on the ground surged and dispersed, and an invisible shock wave swept across the crowded street in an instant.

"Xilulu——" the warhorse made a mournful sound.

The previously noisy street suddenly became several decibels quieter. Almost all the low-ranking knights froze on the spot, and some even fell off their horses.

Even the war monks at the edge of the impact range had painful expressions on their faces.

The Knights of the Imperial Order, who were immune to the dragon bone shock waves, suppressed their nausea, shouted loudly, and used their lances to wake up their companions who were knocked unconscious by the dragon bone whistle shock waves.

"Clear a path and ignore those fainted knights."

Looking at the crowded tin cans in front of him, Elad, the company captain, wiped the blood from his nose and shouted.

Since almost all the Temple Knights in front were hit, the way forward was blocked.

The knights behind were moving forward subconsciously, their horses rubbing against their armor, their helmets vibrating with neighing and shouting, and hundreds of knights were almost crowded in this area.

Elad saw it all and was worried.

Beads of sweat caused by the helmet flowed through the corners of his eyes, his heart suddenly began to beat violently, and an indescribable sense of familiarity came over him.

Suddenly, before even the other knights of the royal guards around him could react, he slid off his horse's back and fell to the ground with a whoosh.

Horse legs passed by in a disorderly manner, and Elad's guards were still asking what happened.

The bewildered knights did not notice the black gun barrels sticking out from behind the roofs, from behind the lattice windows, and from the cracks in the alleys.

"Praise the Holy Wind!"

(End of this chapter)