Chapter 9 The King Dies (Part 1)
"Now, the military camp should be ready." Cons said in a plain tone while tearing off his clothes and bandaging his wounds.
The soldiers also cleaned their wounds, and they were still immersed in the joy of victory, without answering Cons's words.
Cons was just talking to himself, and didn't care whether they had any answers. As soon as Cons finished bandaging, he immediately went to check if the fallen subordinates still survived.
Treat your wound first before checking your fallen teammates. This is the law of the battlefield, because if you check your teammates first without treating the wound, what if another enemy suddenly appears? And if your teammate dies again, even your ability will be reduced due to the wound, and it is easy to die.
In order to save yourself, you must do it in this order.
Cons checked several teammates, but there was no hope. Looking at the soldiers around him who were also checking, they shook their heads at Cons disappointed.
Cons sighed and was about to speak when suddenly the earth trembled and a muffled sound came from a distance. The enemy's vanguard cavalry came. This time it was not a squadron of dozens of people, but at least it was a team of more than a thousand people.
Cons looked at the place where his barracks were still dark and there was no movement at all.
Cons's face changed. It seemed that the news had not reached the military camp. What was going on? Thinking of this, he immediately shouted, "Get on the horse!" and said, pulling a horse and riding it up.
However, although Cons' words and deeds were very neat, he still rode several times before he rode on the horse. This was the one who rode on it very gentle.
The same is true for other soldiers. Good ones can ride on the horse, but bad ones will fall off the horse. After a while, all of them will ride on their backs. At this time, the shadow of the enemy behind them has already appeared with the sound of horse hooves.
Without Cons' order, everyone rushed to gallop. Although they had never rode a horse, they had also seen the cavalry riding horses. The sound of horse hooves that were getting closer and closer to the back, and the factors that had no response from their own camp deeply stimulated them, making them beat the horses desperately.
In critical moments, humans can easily stimulate hidden abilities and strengthen their original abilities. This phenomenon can be found by any thinking creature.
Of course, those who are suddenly crushed to death by danger will not be able to perform. But it is different for Cons and others. The enemies behind seem to have to catch up but not catch up, which makes them desperately drive the horses to run faster and naturally change their movements so that the horses can gallop more freely and lighter.
Humans are really strange. When they don’t want to escape and are ready to die calmly, they will have great courage to face the enemy. But once they start to escape and start to live, they will completely lose their courage and just want to escape to a safe place as soon as possible, although that safe place cannot be safe for long.
In this way, under the dangerous cultivation, the remaining members of the Fifth Brigade quickly became riders. Although they could not be said to be proficient in riding, they could at least run wildly.
When he was about to arrive at the military camp, Cons, with sharp eyes, found a corpse lying not far away under the moonlight. Judging from the clothes, it was certainly the soldier who went to report. Because except for his own group, no soldier would come to this place.
Cons didn't have the chance to check how the soldier died, because he couldn't stop now.
There are still a hundred meters away from the military camp, and you can see the swaying figures of the soldiers guarding the gate of the camp. Cons has no time to think about how the soldiers guarding the gate can walk around at will, and why the gate of the camp is wide open. Instead, he shouted at the camp at the first time: "Prepare quickly! The enemy is coming!"
The other soldiers also shouted, hoping to prepare the people in the barracks. Although the enemy will attack soon, it would be better to be a little prepared, at least they would not be killed in their sleep.
As if responding to them, just as Cons and the others finished shouting, there were also shouts in the barracks.
Cons exhaled: "Finally..."
But they didn't say anything anymore, because the shouts from the barracks were not "The enemy is coming!" but a shout that made them chill all over their bodies: "The king is dead!"
Looking at the military camp gate that was opened in the darkness like a devil's mouth, Cons was chilling all over his body and letting the horse run towards Yeri.
He was not chilling because of the death of the king, and he did not give much loyalty to the person he was loyal to. He was chilling because of the fate that his friends who had just lost their leader and had to face the raid of powerful enemies.
As soon as Cons and the others arrived at the gate, they saw a squadron of guards and cavalry, suddenly rushed towards them from the battalion.
A small team leader next to Cons quickly rode his horse forward a few steps, and just shouted, "Everyone, the enemy is here..." The voice broke.
Cons and others widened their eyes in disbelief and looked at the scene in front of them.
Because the team leader was pierced by a long spear by an imperial guard cavalry who rushed up, and raised it and fell to the ground hard. The horse riding on the team leader was quietly staying in place just like not long ago after the new owner fell off the horse.
"What the hell is this? We are our own people..."
The angry captain didn't finish his words and was killed by an imperial guard cavalry. But his death was much worse than the first person. His head was stabbed by a spear, and his whole head was like a watermelon that fell to the ground and broke.
"Kill!" Cons rushed forward without thinking.
He knew that if he didn't give orders, his group of people would be killed in a short while. Although he didn't know why his people killed him, he didn't have time to explain the misunderstanding, and he wouldn't listen to his explanations, and now he can only fight for survival.
After Cons issued the order, a guard cavalry had already stabbed him with a gun. Cons, who was on the horse, immediately jumped up and turned over, and the spear passed by his feet.
Cons took advantage of the man's head to stab the man's face without being covered by his helmet by his sword. He knew that he had no hope without looking.
Cons drew his sword and turned over and jumped off the horse's back. His subordinates dismounted and attacked when they heard the order. Infantry and cavalry fought with horses, and they were simply ignorant of life and death.
Cons had just squatted on the ground and had not yet stood up, but a shadow of sword was slashed under the moonlight. Cons jumped up and turned, and the sword in his hand was cut up. The jaw of the guard cavalry was broken by the steel sword, and blood flowed down the sword. At this time, the sword fell from Cons's hand. Cons' arm, which was shot through by the arrow, was so painful that it was extremely moving.
Several screams sounded, and at the same time, several heavy objects fell to the ground. This was the sound of Cons' soldiers and the guards fighting each other.
Just as the two sides were about to fight further, a muffled sound of horse hooves came from the distance behind Cons and the others.
The rest of the people at the scene heard that the guards did not show any horror as the soldiers of the Cons brigade, but seemed to stop the attack with great pleasure.
At this time, a small team leader stepped forward to Cons and whispered: "Captain, go back to the camp quickly! This team must be a spy to the enemy." Seeing Cons shake his head, he couldn't help but be anxious: "Do you want our brothers to be killed without any resistance?"
When Cons heard this, he was shocked suddenly, nodded slowly, stood up with difficulty, pulled the horse beside him, and turned over the horse.
When the dozens of guard cavalry saw Cons' actions, they hurriedly wanted to ride a horse to stop Cons. The soldiers of Cons' brigade did not need anyone to command, and immediately rushed towards the guard cavalry.
The captain who asked Cons to leave quickly, although the sword in his hand pierced the neck of the spear.
In this life-for-life battle, the infantry blocked the cavalry.
Cons, who had already run out of the distance, turned around and saw this scene. He couldn't help but gritted his teeth and grabbed the horse rope hard, and desperately whipped the horse under him.
For the first time, he felt sad, and for the first time he felt that he had some fate: "I can't die now! My life does not belong to me!"
At this moment, Cons's original indifference and indifferent concept of his life and death began to change.
The arm was no longer felt, and now he could only rely on his left hand. Cons rode his horse to the passage when he led his team out. He didn't dare to pass through the gate. Who knew if there was any question about the spy hiding there.
Cons had only a dozen men under his command, and only fifteen and six cavalrymen were left, and everyone was confronting each other.
Although the infantry wondered why they didn't attack, they didn't think about it. Just let the captain escape farther, so the infantry did not take the initiative to attack.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves came from behind, and the infantry were startled. Could it be that the enemy had already caught up with him?
But if it were an enemy, the sound of horse hooves could not be that loud. Could it be the spy lurking outside the camp? I couldn't help but feel anxious when I thought of this. I was about to look back and watch, but suddenly I saw the cavalry running away.
Looking back at this moment, the cavalry behind him had appeared in sight. Under the moonlight, you could clearly see the person in front of the group of cavalry, his golden hair and scarlet cloak, so dazzling in the moonlight.
Everyone, Sango, had seen him, and he was Masenno, the commander of the Imperial Guards.
At this moment, he rode a horse expressionlessly. Maybe the king's death had a great blow to him, but his heroic posture was still the same.
Although the soldiers of Cons brigade breathed a sigh of relief, they also felt a little strange. How could the commander of the Imperial Guard appear outside the camp?
They did not suspect that the commander of the Imperial Guard was a spy, because the Imperial Guard was the king's most loyal subordinate, which was recognized by the people of the entire kingdom.
More than a hundred Iron Guards, led by Commander Masenno, came to the Cons brigade soldiers and surrounded them as if they were protecting them.
After the fight, the only remaining squad leader of the Cons brigade took his knife and led the remaining soldiers, saluted Masenno, and said, "See the commander of the Legion, sir, the enemy is coming!"
"That's right, for you, the enemy is coming." Masenno responded in a calm tone.
Before the infantry could react, he waved his hand. The guards and cavalry surrounding the infantry immediately stabbed their spears into the infantry's bodies. The infantry fell down with an incredible expression without even screaming.
After the guards drew their guns, they immediately lined up behind Masenno.
More than a dozen guards who had just escaped were back. As soon as they arrived in front of Masenno, they immediately turned over and dismounted, bowed their heads respectfully and knelt down.
Masenno glanced at the bodies of the guards on the ground, and said in a plain tone: "Why have you stopped them until now? Moreover, there are only a dozen people left in your squadron."
Although Masenno's tone did not contain a trace of anger, it made the more than ten kneeling guards shake their bodies. They immediately put their heads on the ground and said in panic: "Your Highness, I deserve to die! I deserve to die!"
Masenno sighed: "Well, get up and talk about the passing."
Masenno didn't believe that the heavy-armed Iron Cavalry subordinates he trained would be so exhausted when they faced the same number of light infantry. He thought that something was unexpected, so this result occurred.
"Yes, thank your highness for forgiveness."
The dozen guards stood up and stood still without moving.
One of the guards with the position of squadron leader hanging on his arm, bowed and said, "Your Highness, after receiving His Highness's order, his subordinates waited outside the camp gate. Unfortunately, they had been waiting for them for a long time but had not waited. In this vast grassland valley, it was too difficult to find someone at night.
"So the subordinates waited near the camp gate, because they would definitely come back.
"Sure enough, an infantryman ran back soon. After stopping him, his subordinates knew that they had met the scout cavalry, and he was about to come back to report. Of course, the subordinates could not let the news leak out, so they silenced him."
Although Masenno frowned when he heard such long-lasting words, he still held back his sex and continued to listen.
The captain of the Imperial Guard continued to say: "The subordinates thought that they would not be able to come back after encountering the scout cavalry, so they returned to the gate of the camp. However, they all came back on horseback, and the infantry did not have horses. In this way, our scout cavalry department was killed by them.
"My subordinates stopped them, and although they killed dozens of them, their subordinates also..."
When the man said this, he peeked at Masenno in panic. Seeing Masenno's face cold, his feet softened, and he knelt down and kowtowed to apologize.
Masenno sighed again: "Forget it, it's not that you don't have enough abilities, but that the other party's captain is not an ordinary person.
"I didn't expect to kill the light infantry of a mere team. Not only did I pay the scout cavalry of a squadron, but I also paid dozens of heavy-armed cavalry. The remaining dozen people still had to be killed by conspiracy."
Looking at the infantrymen who were dying with their eyes on the ground, Masenno ordered: "Buried them, after all, they regard us as their own people."
Just as he was about to ride his horse and leave, Masenno turned around and asked the squadron leader of the guard: "No one escapes, right?"
The squadron leader of the guards responded quickly, "No, they are the only ones who come back. The others are either killed by us or killed by scouts and cavalry." As he said that, he pointed to the corpse on the ground.
The other ten imperial guards also nodded quickly to agree. They did not dare to say that one person had escaped, because they had enough sins.
Masenno nodded, glanced at all the subordinates present, and said majesticly: "Anyone who is familiar with this fact shall not say what happened tonight in his lifetime."
"Abide by the order!"
Chapter completed!