Chapter 257 Chapter 227 Riding alone into the camp!

After galloping for a day and a night, Du Wei ordered the whole army not to rest. Such an order seemed a little unreasonable to the soldiers who had just experienced a small-scale battle, but the cavalry of Tulip's family still strictly implemented it. He obeyed the Duke's orders. "I know you are very tired! I am even more tired!" Du Wei said loudly unceremoniously: "You are knights who have received strict training, and I am a weak magician. To tell you the truth , Lao Tzu is sitting on the horse now, and the pain in both thighs makes me almost angry. However, my warriors... there are 20,000 wolves in front of us, and they are about to devour our brothers and sisters and ravage our people! We must Hold on! Hold on!"

Du Wei's energetic voice spread to the ears of every tulip cavalry.I have to say that Du Wei's words are really full of water.Not to mention that Du Wei's body is far from being "weak" after practicing star fighting spirit. Moreover, as a magician, he has quietly used a wind magic to make his body much lighter. The real pain was Muse, who felt like his whole body was falling apart.But he knew that as long as he showed a little bit of being unable to hold on, then this cruel duke would definitely leave him on the way without hesitation—he probably wanted to do this a long time ago!

"My lord!" A scout cavalryman who ran at the front reined in his horse and came back: "Cross the hill ahead, and you can see the city of Giliat!" "Order the whole army to slow down!" Du Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead. It's exhausting.Although he had tried his best to reduce the bumps on the horse's back, the inner thighs still hurt badly after rubbing against the saddle all day. Along the way, I have to say that Du Wei's luck is really good!The "Golden Wolf Head Guard" on the prairie led people to attack Gilliat City. The 20,000-strong army must have been surrounded by scouts, but Du Wei and his party did not meet the prairie people again.

I have to say he was lucky. Du Wei is racing against time!The most ideal result is to be able to reach Gilliat City before the prairie people!If it doesn't work, the next best thing is to hurry up before the prairie people launch an attack! This is a small hill, or to be precise, it is just a small hill.Du Wei stopped the horses below, and took a few people to climb up the mountain bag.From a distance, Gilliat City is just around the corner! The sky is full of stars, and the dilapidated city walls of Giliat City are in the distance. It is built on the mountain, with the Kilimaro Mountains as its back.Although the city wall underwent simple repairs after Du Wei established it as his production base, its function was mostly to prevent outsiders from prying eyes and to prevent the slaves inside from escaping.

To put it bluntly, if it is from a military point of view... Longbottom once made an unceremonious comment, "If I lead troops, I can hit the city wall with a single charge!" Du Wei and a few of his men had just climbed up the hillside, looking into the distance, his first reaction was to gasp! ! ... The city of Gilliat is backed by Mount Kilimaro, but under the city walls, there are large open areas!This is a large wasteland with an area of ​​about ten square miles. Apart from gravel on the grassland, there are shallow shrubs with withered yellow color all year round. It can be said that there is no battlefield more suitable for cavalry than this place!On the flat wasteland, when the cavalry charged up, there was no obstruction!

But at this moment, under Du Wei's nose, on the wasteland under the city of Gilliat, it has been occupied by grassland people! The army of these prairie people is completely different from the army of the empire. They don't have the habit of camping, they don't even build camps, and they don't use fences for any protection. Probably because this time it sneaked into the territory of the empire for a surprise attack, and did not bring a convoy of supplies. However, looking around, the tents on the wasteland are like mushrooms growing out of thin air on the ground. People shouted and neighed, and there was an uproar.Around those tents, savages in leather jackets on the prairie were busy.Live, feed the horses.Countless huge torches burning with turpentine stand in it, shining like daylight.

The tents, the prairie wolves holding machetes, were murderous. What relieved Du Wei was... the tulip flag was still erected high above the city wall of Gilliat! The city is still there, Robert has not lost the city! A gleam flashed in Du Wei's eyes, he looked back at a few of his men, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that we have to find a way to get through the enemy's tent first." ... The prairie people had no plans to rest. They seemed to have already known that there were not enough troops in Gilliat City.After all, it was a capital city in the past, and its scale was not small.For such a large city, if it is to be completely defended, the strength of Robert Knight's troops is really stretched.

For the long city walls, four thousand people are too few, too few! Robert stood on the city wall, looking down at the prairie man swaggering his scimitar, his resolute face was full of worry. These prairie people arrived this evening.The opponent seemed to have planned for a long time to take the city of Gilliat in one fell swoop, and launched a very swift and violent surprise attack as soon as they came up. If other generals had been replaced, they might have been suddenly attacked by this prairie army that descended from the sky, and the city defense would have been lost long ago.However, Robert Cavalier, who has always acted calmly, has always kept in mind Du Wei's instructions when he handed over the city to him.

At that time, Du Wei took Robert's hand and said in a low voice: "This factory in the city is all my property! Robert, there should be no accidents about the things here, let alone let outsiders see or know! I put my I have given you my life and wealth!!" The loyal and steady Robert felt the pressure on his shoulders, and he made a set of extremely strict defensive regulations, dividing the limited force into shifts on duty on the city wall, without letting up at any time. Fortunately, there is nothing else in this abandoned city, but a lot of stones.The soldiers demolished many houses without any consideration, and moved the stones to the top of the city.This is also Robert's order, and he requires that he be ready for battle at all times.

There was once a soldier who dozed off while on duty, was whipped twenty times by Robert, and lay in bed for three days.Such harsh requirements made many soldiers dissatisfied—they believed that there was no need to be so strict in guarding such a remote and abandoned city. The city is just a group of laboring slaves. There is no gold, silver or treasure, but just workshops one by one.Who would come here for trouble? And such a move finally paid off. The first round of raids by the prairie people was quickly discovered by the soldiers defending the city.Robert was the first to go to the city.

In the first battle in the afternoon, the plan of the prairie people to attack the lower city of Gilliat failed in one fell swoop.After leaving behind 300 corpses, they retreated temporarily. As for Robert, he lost 200 people, plus 300 wounded soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness. In the case of insufficient troops, Robert made a decisive decision. He issued a batch of weapons and mobilized a thousand young and strong slaves in the city to guard the city. He didn't mobilize these slaves too much, he just pointed at the prairie people on horseback wielding machetes under the city, and said coldly: "You see, these guys are wolves on the prairie! If they come in, then You will all be killed! These people will not keep their hands! I am not asking you to help me defend the city, but to fight for your own survival." Fortunately, Du Wei has always treated these slaves kindly, eating and drinking well, and promised them freedom in the future.Most of the slaves participated in the battle consciously. In the afternoon, the prairie people launched a total of three attacks, each of which was repelled with the cooperation of the defenders and slaves. But the problem lies in front of Robert: the regular army in his hands has lost a total of 800 people, and almost lost a quarter of its combat effectiveness.The slaves also suffered nearly a thousand deaths and injuries due to lack of equipment, especially the bows and arrows of the prairie people, which were especially deadly to slaves without armor and shield protection. Taking advantage of the enemy's temporary retreat again, Robert ordered the demolition of the door panels and walls of a large number of abandoned houses to serve as shields. The prairie people seemed not to give Robert a chance to breathe. Although they pitched tents outside the city, they did not rest.Instead, two thousand-man teams were separated to harass the city all the time.Round after round of arrow rain, the people in the city did not dare to relax at all times. Robert looked at the night, at the hideous enemies below the city, and the knight was worried. "Is the city gate blocked?" Robert looked at one of his men beside him. "Okay, my lord." This is an officer with the rank of commander: "We blocked the city gate with stones!" Robert sighed, without any relief on his face. Blocking the city gate is a last resort. The way the prairie people attacked the city in the afternoon made Robert Knight from the interior of the empire frown greatly. Because the Northwest is an arid region, there are usually no moats around cities.Therefore, the prairie people can rush to the city unscrupulously and directly pose a threat to the city gate. These prairie people can send hundreds of death squad cavalry to brave the falling stones and arrows from the top of the city, and rush to the effective distance in one breath, and then they will use a special tool they carry with them: a kind of iron Quality arrows with sharp hooks and thick, extremely strong ropes on the arrow body.Dozens of specially selected cavalrymen with strong arms shot arrows at the city gate from a distance at the same time. The other end was hung on the horse, and he ran back at high speed! In the first battle in the afternoon, the opponent was like this. With the power of dozens of horses, they pulled down the city gate in one fell swoop! At that time, Robert personally led a group of heavily armored heavy infantry to block the gate of the city desperately, and finally blocked the swarming prairie cavalry who wanted to rush into the city in one breath.However, his only team of heavy armored infantry was also lost in that battle. In the end, a scene that made people want to cry without tears was formed: the gate of the city was blocked by the corpses of soldiers from one's own side and the horses of the killed prairie cavalry, which resolved the crisis. Afterwards, Robert ignored the two wounds on his body from the machete, and immediately ordered someone to block the city gate with stones! In this way, it seems to be safe, but it also cut off hope! If reinforcements from one's own side arrive... then if you want to take reinforcements into the city, you... Make a decisive decision, but if you don't block the city gate, I'm afraid the city will be lost before sunset today! ... Under the starlight, a strange horn sounded suddenly from among the tents of the prairie people, and the sound seemed to have a faint astringency.All the prairie people who were galloping under the city and shooting arrows at the top of the city from time to time, heard the horn, turned their horses and retreated at the same time. "What are they doing?" Robert frowned. The commander next to him is from the Northwest. He thought for a while, looked at the night sky, and said, "My lord, it may be midnight. The custom of the prairie people is to save the souls of the dead when midnight is reached. They believe that midnight is the The best time for the undead to ascend to heaven. At this time. They will burn the bodies of people who died during the day together, and only at this time will they stop everything... about an hour or so." "One hour." Robert breathed a sigh of relief: "So, we can rest for an hour." "I don't think so. My lord!" The commander's face was ugly: "I think we are in trouble... My lord!" "why?" The commander whispered: "I have been to the grassland, and my father participated in the war with the Northwest people more than 20 years ago. If during the war, the grassland people would choose to stop fighting at night to save the souls of the dead... ...then there is only one explanation!" "Oh?" The commander's face was ugly: "In their army, there are shamans accompanying the army! Only shamans are qualified to appease the souls of warriors who died in battle. This is their custom... Sir, shamans, equivalent to The magicians of our empire! They are a group of people with terrible abilities." Robert was silent for a while. He looked at the prairie people's tent in the distance, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Magic...shaman...Damn! Since shaman has skills comparable to magic, why don't they let shaman attack us?" The leader shook his head: "My lord, I don't know what I know. However, I vaguely heard that the rules of the grassland people are different from ours. Their shamans generally don't take action easily. Especially in a war, only one side will go first." The shaman will only shoot after the blood is drawn. It seems to be said that the shaman abides by a strange rule. If the shaman kills first, it is a sin for them. If they die first, the shaman shoots If it is revenge, then it is not considered a violation of the precept." "Weird rules." Robert clenched the sword in his hand. "My lord." The commander suddenly smiled, his appearance was not outstanding, but there was a firmness in his eyes at the moment: "I think their shaman will make a move at dawn...can we It is still unknown to live to see the sunset of tomorrow... No matter what, it is my honor to fight side by side with you! It is also my honor to die under the tulip banner!" Robert was silent for a while, looking at this subordinate who usually doesn't like to talk, he took a deep breath, raised his sword, and said in a deep voice: "All for the family!" "For the family!" The leader also pulled out his sword, tapped Robert's sword lightly, and then performed a knight's etiquette. ... This hour seems to be very long, but also seems very short. But Robert knew in his heart that he was probably in danger this time!There was no sign of the prairie man's sneak attack, and he couldn't even deliver a letter to the young master.On the plain, there are grassland cavalry everywhere, and it is wishful thinking to send scouts to deliver letters or ask for help... In the prairie man's tent, horns rang out one after another. The horn was melodious, as if to appease the dead souls, with a hint of softness.But in Robert's ears, the sound seemed to be a movement to urge death! Because once the sound of the horn is over, it is certain that the prairie people will launch the next attack!And this time... a shaman will join the battle! Finally, when the horn ended, Robert suddenly puffed up his chest. The wound on his left shoulder was still painful—maybe the bandage wasn’t tight enough, it was a little loose, and Robert could feel the blood soaking through I took off the bandage, it was sticky and wet, and it was very uncomfortable. But... they are all dying people, so why bother so much. Knight Robert sneered, he put his sword lightly on the city wall, and a trace of death erupted in his eyes. A drum sound like thunder came from the depths of the prairie people's tent, and then horseshoes sounded, and a group of prairie cavalry rushed out of their barracks in a row. Ten strong men with bare upper body, they carried a few huge sharp wooden stakes, and then took turns with hammers to drive these sharp wooden sticks into the ground. These wooden sticks as tall as a person stand just outside the range of bows and arrows under the city, with the upper end sharp.Robert didn't understand what these people wanted to do. What happened next made Robert suddenly furious! ! ! The prairie people began to carry out the corpses one by one!From the appearance of those corpses, Robert immediately recognized that they were his own people who fell from the top of the city after being killed or injured in the battle this afternoon! Has its own soldiers, and those slaves! ! Now, the armor and clothes of each of these dead warriors have been stripped off!And the armor that originally belonged to his infantry was worn on the grassland man!These prairie people who lack minerals seem to have a natural desire for armor, regardless of whether it fits or not, they just wear the armor of the imperial infantry crookedly and sit on the horse. The corpses were placed in a row, and the dead soldiers lay straight on the ground.A prairie man slowly stepped out of the queue, holding a scimitar in his hand, pointed at the city wall, and drank a few words loudly. In the distance, Robert couldn't hear the prairie man's words clearly, but when this guy finished speaking, the prairie man next to him immediately roared and shouted. They seemed to be crazy, holding a scimitar, as if Howling like a beast! "What do they want?" Robert said sullenly. "My lord! They are announcing...the massacre of the city!" The commanding officer next to him gritted his teeth and said word by word. "Massacre!?" "Yes!" The officer suddenly slammed his fist hard on the city wall. Tears welled up in his eyes: "They...they want to put a head on!!" Before Robert could ask again, he suddenly heard the prairie man yell, and the dozens of brawny men with naked upper bodies behind him seemed to have heard the order. Under the eyelids, they chopped off the heads of the dead Tulip family warriors one by one! Then, these heads were all pierced on those sharp wooden stakes!Row after row of stakes were covered with bloody heads! ! This action immediately made all the soldiers standing on the city angry. The soldiers roared loudly and drew their weapons. The crowd was so angry that some people even wanted to jump off the city to fight each other with their lives.If it wasn't for the city gate being blocked, someone would have rushed out desperately! ! Even Robert, who has always been calm, has bloodshot eyes and distorted face at this moment. He roared suddenly in anger, and jumped onto the city wall. In his anger, he almost jumped off the city on the spot to face the enemy desperately. Suddenly, he was surrounded by The commanding officer hugged him tightly and pulled him down. "My lord! My lord!!!" The officer's eyes were red: "My lord! This is a common trick of the grassland people! When they attack a city, they often use this method to provoke the defenders and lead them out for a decisive battle! You can't be fooled by them!!!" Robert roared angrily, turned around and pointed at the prairie people and yelled loudly: "Bastards! A group of brutes! If there is a chance! I will definitely turn all the people on your prairie into human heads!!!!" ... Du Wei stood on the hillside, looking ahead. The subordinates behind him felt the Duke's body trembling faintly. Du Wei used the eagle eye technique. Although he was still a few miles away, he could still clearly see what was happening under the city.Especially when those prairie people chopped off the heads of those corpses and stuck them on the stakes one by one, Du Wei's fists were clenched tightly, and his nails almost pierced his palms.The subordinates behind him couldn't see this, but they could clearly feel a terrible chill suddenly erupting from the Duke's body! ! "My lord...you..." Ziggy tried to speak. Du Wei turned his head, he looked at Zieg's face, and at this loyal magic student, he gritted his teeth suddenly: "Unfortunately, you couldn't see that scene... I don't know if it's luck or misfortune!" After finishing speaking, he settled down: "Go down and let everyone gather, we are going to rush over!" "No!!" Zieg objected immediately. "What did you say?!" Seeing Du Wei's angry eyes, Zieg suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and hurriedly said: "My lord! I have been in the army. In this situation, the army is besieging the city, and the defenders in the city are outnumbered. According to the usual practice, most of them have died. Blocked the city gate! Our number is too small, more than 800 riders, whether we can break through the opponent's formation of 20,000 people or not... Even if we rush through, the city gate is blocked, and we will not be able to enter the city ! At that time, if you are forced to die under the city by the enemy..." Du Wei was silent, he thought for two seconds, and immediately made a decision. "That's it! I'll go into the city alone! I'm a magician, I can fly in from the sky..." As soon as he said this, Zieg seemed to object, but was forced to dare not speak out by Du Wei's murderous eyes , Du Weicai continued: "Zig, all of you retreat temporarily, this place is too close to the enemy camp! You retreat two miles! At dawn, Al Qaeda should arrive with our people! You wait for all the teams to arrive! Then ...I will give you the signal! As long as you see the flames rising above the city gate...you must gather all your troops and rush in! Do you understand?" Zieg looked at Du Wei and was about to desperately disobey: "My lord! But you are alone..." "I ask you if you understand!!" Du Wei suddenly drank, his eyes fixed on Zieg, and he gritted his teeth: "I am the Duke, I have made a decision! Execute it!!" "My lord! You are the coach! You are the Duke!" Zieg still wanted to stop him. "Zig, remember my words." Du Wei took a deep breath, and then said word by word: "There are some things in this world that you don't need to do...but some things you must do!!" ... Just next to the head frame under the city, when the prairie wolves were laughing and shouting unscrupulously, they didn't realize that a thick dark cloud had already drifted over silently above the sky. Suddenly, there was a thunderous roar from behind! boom! ! ! With a loud noise, a bolt of lightning burst out from the dark clouds above the sky, and it struck down suddenly, directly hitting the hinterland of the prairie man's camp! Immediately there was flames, and in the prairie people's camp, many alarmed people exclaimed, and the fire that was stirred up immediately burned three or five tents into a ball of fire, and the people inside had not had time to If you rush out, you will be buried in the flames! Du Wei rode alone, facing the camp of 20,000 prairie people, and launched an attack! The thunder summoning magic just now is the most advanced level 5 spell that Du Wei can use at present. The summoning of such a magic spell almost took out half of the magic power of Du Wei's whole body immediately!But relying on the ring made of multicolored stones on his finger, Du Wei replenished his magic power in a moment! In the light of the fire, the prairie people had already noticed that such a rider was charging towards their camp.Biaohan's prairie wolves immediately separated dozens of horses and rushed towards them, and the rain of arrows was also flying all over the sky! Du Wei was on the horse, and suddenly slapped the saddle hard, and the man immediately flew up from the saddle!The magician's robe on his body fluttered in the sky, with his arms outstretched, Du Wei chanted a spell loudly. His whole body was wrapped in a mass of silver magic light, and his outstretched arms seemed to embrace the entire sky!As the dark clouds in the sky became lower and lower, lightning bolts flowed in the dark clouds. Du Wei looked down at the grassland people densely packed like ants on the ground, and his roar came from the sky. "Die!" With a single finger, as if guided by the gods, in the dark clouds, another bolt of lightning struck fiercely towards the densest crowd! All of a sudden, the flames shot up into the sky! ! Du Wei is like the incarnation of Thor at this moment, his ten fingers are as dexterous as a musician, and his fingers are flying, as if directing the thunder in the sky to turn into a gorgeous movement, one after another lightning, under his command, It hit the ground like a series of thunderbolts! The roaring sound was mixed with the screams and terrified cries of countless people. The running crowd and horses often turned into charred corpses after the lightning passed! And after more than ten consecutive thunderbolts in one breath, a long and deep ravine was immediately plowed out on the ground, two meters wide and tens of meters long! ! The Thunder Summoning of the fifth-level magic was performed by Du Wei relying on the massive magic power stored by the five-colored stone, so crazy and intensive, it was indeed infinitely powerful! !But it is also extremely mana-consuming!Such a series of thunder calls almost drained all the magic power in Du Wei's body!If it wasn't for his ring with multicolored stones, if he was an ordinary magician who was at the same level as Du Wei, he would probably be pumped out after two or three mines were released due to the transition of magic power extraction! ! Seeing the round of magic attack on the ground, almost thousands of prairie people had been killed or injured, but Du Wei felt his body collapse for a while.With a thought, he drew the last trace of magic power in the ring, and then flew towards the city wall of Gilliat against the wind! ! The prairie people on the ground were startled and angry, and they were roaring and shouting. Some people tried to take up bows and arrows and shoot at Du Wei in the sky, but Du Wei was full of wind, and any arrows shot into the sky were immediately swept away by the wind. Open, where can I shoot Du Wei? Just when it seemed that no one could stop Du Wei, a strange voice suddenly came from the prairie man's tent above the ground.The voice seemed to be a magician from the Roland Empire chanting magic, but the tone was extremely slow and strange. This sound fell into people's ears, and people couldn't help being upset for a while, and Du Wei was suddenly shocked! In front of him, a huge blood-red banner suddenly appeared in the sky. The blood-red banner was extremely huge, fully tens of meters wide, and printed on it was a blood-colored skull! Bloody skull flag? Du Wei hurriedly stopped dead, so that he barely crashed into the big flag. There was an intermittent voice below, which seemed to be a little weak, but it overwhelmed the noise on the ground, like a ray of sharp needles, gently piercing Du Wei's ear! "May I ask which mage from the Roland Empire is coming!" Before he finished speaking, he saw a man in a white robe soaring into the sky, and he was already at the same height as Du Wei in an instant. He was faintly standing on top of the blood-red blood-colored skull flag, with his long gray hair fluttering, Almost the entire face was covered, but the exposed skin was so pale that it was not human! This person just fluttered on top of the bloody skull flag, the place where he stood happened to be between the skull's eyebrows.Unlike the magicians of the empire, this guy has no magical light all over his body. He looks almost lifeless, which is extremely weird! "I am Wu Ya, a white-clothed shaman under the Holy Spirit of the Grassland Witch King. Respected Mage Roland, please state your name!" Sign up? "Fuck you!" This was Du Wei's only answer! !