The Amber Sword - 852. Chapter 852 Act Thirteen Sillman's Death

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The pages shook in the dark, and the cold autumn wind passed through the empty streets. The notice about the attack by unidentified bandits in the Tosan Ghat mine three months ago seemed to be pulled by an invisible hand. The wanted warrants flapped their wings like butterflies on the bulletin board. The militia and the garrison were running around the street like flies without their heads. The chaotic calls and sharp whistles resounded through the whole town in the dark. The bell on the spire of the central temple in the town finally reverberated, and the nightmare of midnight horror, like a panic and uneasy omen, immediately enveloped everyone’s heads. However, in the panic atmosphere, there are still people who are indifferent. Shanali is wearing the uniform of the white-winged cavalry regiment, with his hands leaning against the wall outside the city hall, looking indifferently at the young couple across the street not far away. The couple are parting.

“Lonnie, you take this. I heard that the places in Svenfano are cold, and you can use it.” The young man in the guard uniform put the thick fur coat on the carriage with concern. On hand. Most of the people sitting in the carriage looked gloomy and silent. Only the girl’s face was pale, and she stubbornly grasped the young man’s hand: “Aifan, won’t you go with us?”

The young man smiled: “Lonnie, I am a member of the guard team. I have been ordered by the princess to swear allegiance to this kingdom and the future king. It is my responsibility to guard this land and protect everyone. Don’t be capricious. I will come and join you soon. Besides—” He drew out his sword, the shining blade of the sword made everyone’s heart cold, “My swordsmanship is one of the best in the security team. Those bones are nothing. Terrible, you wait, Ronnie, and I will do something like the Bresson Knights and Count Tonigel.”

The girl pressed her lips tightly and looked at him. There was another hurried whistle on the other side of the street. The boy looked back and quickly turned his head and patted the back of the girl’s hand: “The instructor is urging us, you go to Svenfano and wait. I, don’t worry, it’s just a few scattered Madara troops, their main force is still on the other side of the mountain, but the knights of the White Wing Cavalry have already told us that this battle is no big deal.”

The girl nodded with tears.

Shanali looked back for a while feeling a little boring, and just caught a glimpse of his companion walking out of the courtyard of the city hall with her own horse and his horse. He immediately asked: “The captain persuaded them. Yes?” “Those shallow-eyed guys.” The female knight curled her lips and replied somewhat coldly. Shanali knows that this is persuasion, but I am afraid that the process of persuasion is not very pleasant-it is a group of shallow guys with only immediate benefits in their eyes-he agrees with this, but they themselves are not. In the same way, no one has ever said that all the heroes of the Vanmir Army are righteous people. On the contrary, they have a bad reputation in the local area. He grabbed the saddle, turned on the horse, and at the same time swept back, so that the cloak and the saber hanging around his waist were not on the side of the horse’s back. He turned his head and saw Rosa was doing the same action.

Both of them are veteran cavalry. Both have experienced the tragic war a year ago. Shanali still remembers the scene when he launched an assault on the endless sea of skeletons. There is only a flashing sea of phosphorous fire everywhere, such a spectacular scene, it makes people feel cold from the bones when they think about it. It is said that in that battle, many people were frightened and slowed down. Then he was stabbed to death by a spear. But after getting acquainted with the battle with Madara, people gradually discovered that the fighting power of the bone frame was no more than that. The thin bone frame was far less powerful than an adult.

It’s just that the army that is not afraid, tires, and never retreats still left a deep impression on him.

Shanali touched the scar on his cheek and asked, “Where to go?”

“Go and join our troops.” Rosa grabbed the reins, clamped the horse’s belly slightly, and trot out first. Shanali had to pat the horse to keep up, but suddenly, a scream passed over their heads, causing the roof tiles on both sides of the street to fall straight down.

He raised his head subconsciously.

Ai Fan grabbed his sword and turned and ran to the assembly point. The sudden scream made the young man stop. He looked up in amazement. In the vast night of the town south of the town, countless tiny bits of light are slowly rising. . These stars rose up in the sky, gathered into a cluster, and then suddenly dispersed, like a flock of birds turning down. At that moment, the young man finally understood what it was—

“hidden–!”

There was a shrill scream from somewhere, the sky full of rockets had fallen like raindrops. There were originally some pedestrians on the street who were fleeing north. At this moment, they fell down like pieces of wood in the arrow rain. The magic was tempered. The passing icy frontal arrow penetrated the fragile human body, and the soul fire attached to it burned like oil, turning the victim into a human-shaped struggling fireball in a blink of an eye. Only a small number of people who reacted quickly survived. Ai Fan was one of them. The long-term training of the security team eventually saved his life. He didn’t even know how he reacted, and waited until he recovered. , The body has been thrown down at the door of a pottery workshop. He raised his head somewhat stupidly, and saw that the hanging signboard at the entrance of the workshop not far away had been pierced by several arrows, and was slowly being swallowed by the faint blue flame.

“What’s wrong?”

He turned his head, and suddenly a weed appeared on the stone-paved streets. It was the tail feathers of densely erected arrows. The corpses, the residents who had nearly collapsed, and the burning wreckage seemed to instantly transform the entire town. For the hell scene, Ivan stared at all this in amazement. At this time, the second scream passed over the entire town, shaking the ground slightly. In his field of vision, a winged creature he had never seen before fluttered its wings and flew up. Above the spire of the central sanctuary in the town.

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The Knight Captain Geki of the Seventh Squadron of the White Wing Cavalry Regiment froze there. He tried to grab his commanding knife several times, but he caught nothing. Less than a hundred meters away in front of him, countless bones arms were lifting up the soil and protruding from the ground, then the skull with phosphorous fire in the eye sockets, then the collarbone, shoulder armor and the entire upper body, countless skeletons are all in one. One after another crawled out of the ground, they shook off the dirt on the dark steel chain mail, holding a long bow, one after another stood up, walked forward, walked to the predetermined position, and then lifted the long bow. Bow, the arrows on the longbow burned with faint flames, as if in an instant, a complete longbowman position appeared in front of him.

Almost all the knights looked at a loss by Gage’s side, because looking in all directions, the scene in front of them was not only happening in front of them, but everywhere in the front of the Silman Valley. Under the dark night, the phosphorous fire on the arrows of the skeleton archer formed a continuous band of light. This band of light runs from west to east, with no end in sight.

But the crux of the problem is, where did they come from? Where’s the scout, where did those guys die? How did these damn bone frames bypass the line of defense? Did it come from underground?

Such heavy doubts hung in everyone’s hearts.

But for Gage, these problems have now converged into one major problem-

How to do?

When the second wave of arrow rain fell from the sky, Walter, the deputy commander of the White-Winged Cavalry Regiment who was almost shocked, finally reacted, and he finally realized that this was definitely not a harassment. Even in the Black Rose War, he has never seen so many skeleton archers. The dark lords of Madara like to divide the army into small groups and command them separately. Generally speaking, a group of corpses usually command ten to ten. Twelve skeletons—depending on how many corpses and black knights there are under the Dark Lord. This kind of battle mode is like a knight leading their patrons to fight. Only in large-scale battles, you can often see hundreds of corpses driving tens of thousands of skeletons on the face like a tsunami. , That is the scene that the human army is most afraid to see, but fortunately, such an opportunity is very rare even for the black rose of the Bromanto. First of all, gathering thousands of corpses is a very important thing. Difficult things often require the cooperation of many lords-but this is precisely the most difficult thing to happen to Madara.

Therefore, when Walter saw thousands of skeleton shooters on the long front, his first reaction was that he was being tricked. There were at least three or four dark lords fighting side by side in front of him, and they were cooperating closely. At this time, even if he was stupid, he realized that Silman, this seemingly more difficult channel to attack, was precisely the main direction of Madara’s attack. After realizing this, he immediately thought: What should I do now? How to solve the current battle? Can it be solved?

The only thing he can be fortunate in his heart is that he is commanding the cavalry. Compared with Madara’s regular skeleton warriors, the cavalry has at least the advantages of mobility and impact. Although Madara also has black knights, the number is too large. Without it, it will not play a decisive role in this battle. The deputy commander calmed down quickly. Madara’s raid came too suddenly. These damn bone frames suddenly appeared from the ground and appeared in front of them almost instantly. There was no time to react. There was a person outside him. The cavalry of the brigade is over. Although the cavalry may not be completely annihilated at the beginning, they are scattered and dragged on the ground. They are hardly established with each other. They are not connected to each other. They will soon lose the will to fight. Walter is very familiar with his men. Therefore, Don’t expect any miracles to happen, but he still has two teams.

This is enough.

“Morning soldier!” He finally made up his mind and yelled.

一道道命令在一片混乱中被传达了出去，而当西尔曼河谷之中剩下两个骑兵大队正在汇聚起来对骷髅弓箭射手左侧侧翼展开攻击时，正如沃尔特的预料，白翼骑兵团第一大队已经彻底陷入了混乱之中。第一大队骑士指挥官，黄金中位的大骑士伽林在第一波箭雨中倒霉地被射中了眼窝当场丧命，其后骷髅大军从地下忽然爬出出现在他们面前时直接将正处于混乱之中的第一骑兵大队拖入乱战之中，战斗不过进行了半个钟头，第四中队即被全灭，第七中队骑士队长盖奇丧命，第八中队骑士队长奥帕姆重伤昏迷，剩下的最高指挥官落到第八中队的副队长波特兰头上，而此人一贯没什么主见，干脆率军退入猫头鹰镇上，于是玛达拉大军正面彻底失去阻拦。

剩下两个骑兵大队顿时暴露在攻击锋矢之下——

沃尔特在高地上看到这样一幕时气得简直要骂娘，在心中已经把奥帕姆拖出去砍了好多遍，但可惜他的愤怒在眼下无济于事，此刻要回收命令为时已晚，只能指望玛达拉的反应没那么快，不能在这么短时间内在战场上转向。或者是自己的手下更出色一些，能够顶住一两波攻击，只要杀进骷髅弓箭手的阵地上，那么接下来就好办了。他们是骑兵，而对方不过是步兵而已。

如果这是在黑玫瑰战争中，说不定白翼骑兵团已经崩溃，但好在距离那场战争已经有一年时间，这一年时间留给曾经经历过那场可怕战争的每一个人舔呧伤口。那些可怕的亡灵在老兵们心中现在又还原成了丑陋的骨头架子而已，而不再是死亡的代名词，它们除了呆板无畏之外，甚至还不如普通的人类士兵，没有了源自根源的恐惧，那朵布罗曼陀的黑玫瑰也就是一个稍微特殊一些的对手而已。

沃尔特想到这一点，抿住嘴唇，“玛莎保佑，时间改变的不仅仅是玛达拉。”他心中默默地想到。

事实也的确如此。

Masses of lighting magic exploded on the ground, illuminating the last distance between the hundreds of marching cavalry Fengya and the Madara skeleton army in front of them. Among the slowly marching cavalry team, the magician One by one, they are flying from behind the knights, leaving their horses, floating in the air. Although their spells expose the white-winged cavalry to the range of the skeleton archers, the cavalry is preparing for the final accelerated sprint. It is almost impossible to deploy such a tactic under dark conditions. Although there are legends that some cavalry may be able to do it, the commanders of the White-winged Cavalry Regiment thought about the ability of their subordinates.

Vance, the knight commander of the Second Cavalry Battalion, was feeling that the good boys on horseback were surpassing him. In fact, the entire Second Cavalry Battalion was accelerating. The distance between them was less than 100 meters. It was the No. 1 Cavalry Battalion. , The cavalry under Valerie’s command is a bit ahead of them. Their task is to open a passage in the sea of skeletons so that they can go through to slaughter the corpses who drove away the skeletons. He suddenly felt lightened. ——This is a symptom of the effect of wind magic on him and his horses. Thanks to all kinds of strange magic, their cavalry can initiate a charge under such rugged terrain at night. These tactics are all It was summed up in the Black Rose War.

Before that, the army of the kingdom had been following the experience gained from the first holy war. It was old-fashioned and rigid, and in fact was not suitable for wars other than people.

The war is fair to both parties. The Madara in front of you may be stronger than before, but they are not static. “Let’s see, damn bone frame!” He waved his long sword with some excitement, the cavalry. Tactics is the greatest invention in the history of civilization. When you personally participate in it, there are galloping horses and knights covered in armor and holding two-handed swords. All of these move forward to form an irresistible torrent of steel. , Every participant seems to be harnessing this extraordinary power personally, and that feeling is absolutely addictive.

For Vance, it makes no difference.

The arrow rain began to fall, and the clinking bells fell on the armor, with almost no effect. The horses of the cavalry were not close relatives of those workhorses, but the tamed monsters were closer to the close relatives of the unicorns in blood, but without them. The relatives in the forest are so powerful, but they are far beyond ordinary beasts. Therefore, the impact force on the arrows is reduced by thick armor, and then transmitted to them, causing minimal impact.

The knights rushing in the front had already begun to make strange noises.

At this distance, it is time to prepare for the spell, the spell of the corpse witch. However, the magicians behind are also ready to take action. This is the last level. Once broken, there will be an army of skeletons with no resistance in front. In the Black Rose War, few armies dared to attack the sea-like skeleton army in such a positive way, but today is different. The mysterious coat worn on this army has long since faded due to the accumulation of time after the war, especially in For the veterans who participated in the first war, there are just bones in front of them, new and old hatreds are in front of them, and they sighed and wanted to teach each other a lesson. The lower-level officers were also yelling, encouraging the recruits. Everyone knew one thing. They were a cavalry, and the opponent was just an infantry. No matter whether the impact failed or not, the infantry could not pursue the cavalry. .

The only thing to worry about is not to be held back.

And there is the Black Knight——

But fortunately, the skeleton army is scattered, and the opposing commander seems inexperienced. And Vance did not see the shadow of the black knight. The black knights and their nightmare horses are very conspicuous in such an environment, not to worry about where they will hide, the entire valley is wide open, and the nearest hills are also kilometers away. , Don’t worry about them appearing suddenly. Vance glanced around, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

The only thing that puzzled him was.

The expected spell strike did not arrive.

“What is the commander of Madara doing?” He was a little puzzled in his heart, and couldn’t help but raise his head and look in Valerie’s direction: “They have almost missed their last chance…”

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