With a "pop" sound, the torch lit up in the night.
At first there was only one, then several, and then a piece of Burn fire.
Each gun was held in the hands of the soldiers on horseback. They divided into several groups, rushed out of the military tent and camp, and ran into the night.
The fire lit up the dark ground and formed a long line, and then the soldiers who had completed their formation stepped out of the camp and walked south along the broad road along the river, heading towards the city whose flag had been changed.
Their speed is not fast, they just walk, because they want to save energy, their steps are neat, their morale is sufficient, and they don't have to worry about going too late and the other party is prepared, because they believe that they will definitely defeat the weak enemy.
This is Anti Kingdom's local elite, and it is also their capital to conquer all directions.
The sound of marching at night cannot be concealed at all. Even if the garrison in Valley City is not an elite, they still know the news of the enemy's dispatch through sporadic sentry reports.
Castle In the parliament hall, Prince Jabs hurried over in messy clothes, with some lip marks still on his face. He might have been sleeping with some noble lady just now. Since he gained the advantage in fighting the scouts, many young girls in the city regard him as the future king, trying their best to please him and actively courting him. And this young prince cannot bear the pressure of these days and accepts it without rejection.
"What's going on? Why did Anti's army move without warning? Didn't you notice anything before?" He asked several questions in a row. It was obvious that he got up in the middle of the night and was very angry.
"Your Highness, this has nothing to do with the detection personnel. The actions of those Anti Soldier were very sudden." The officer on the side explained, but unfortunately, Prince Jabs couldn't listen to these words at all.
"Don't give me these reasons. I just need to know that you didn't expect what happened tonight. This is your dereliction of duty." He knocked on the table, then put his hands on the table and looked at the map.
"How are they doing now?"
"Now their main infantry force is slowly approaching Valley City, but I don't see them carrying any heavy engineering equipment."
"As for the cavalry galloping out in the night, they are currently circling to both sides of Valley City, possibly preparing to outflank Valley City."
"Outflank? They only have horses and no wings, how can they still fly in?" Prince Jabs shook his head, but seemed to have thought of something else, and his face became solemn.
"Although Anti does not have any flying troops, Eagle-Scorpion's side..." He remembered that Wind-Cliff City's fortress was quickly breached because of the assistance of Eagle-Scorpion Khanate's giant eagle.
"Let the hunters on patrol go to the city wall and stand by. If they see any strange figures in the sky, shoot them directly."
"Yes, Your Highness."
After saying this command, Prince Jabs looked at the map again, feeling irritable.
"Do you have any plans now on how to deal with these people's attacks?"
"This..." The officers present could not figure out how the other party could attack the city without the assistance of engineering equipment, so they did not know how to deal with it.
"As long as we hold the city wall, the other side can't get through." Finally, an old officer said the right nonsense.
"Okay, keep the city wall." Prince Jabs also had no clue. When someone answered, he directly agreed.
The night was like a blazing fire, not only the elite Anti set out to march, but also people were running inside Valley City. There were running and noisy sounds everywhere. On the high tower inside Castle, warning bells kept ringing, waking up the sleeping residents in the city.
"Anti people are coming." Words like this were circulated on the streets, and many people closed their doors and locked the bolts in worry.
Some people also rummaged through the weapons and armor in the cellar and carefully prepared themselves.
An hour later, an array of torches appeared outside Valley City. Even at night, they marched in order, holding their spears high and standing in the night, making the recruits on the city wall tremble with fear.
Before these people could think too much, the attack horn sounded in the night, and then the army raised their shields high and approached the city wall step by step.
"Draw the bow and shoot the arrow!"
Under the command of the guarding garrison, the bows and arrows were thrown, and the arrows of varying density flew into the night sky, and then fell, Anti Soldier below Penetration.
Despite the shield defense, there were still many soldier casualties during the attack, but these casualties did not shake the morale of the Anti army. They were still approaching the city wall and getting closer.
"Knights! Follow me out."
A tall and mighty figure appeared in the night torches. He rode a tall red-brown war horse. The mane of the war horse was like flowing flames, which stood out in the night. This was the leader "Viscount Mighty Bear" Nokton.
About ten heavily armed Knight rode out, followed him, and then formed a triangular formation.
The silver-white plate armor had clear edges, and the firelight was tinged with a light golden color, reflecting the halo of these torches. As they rode faster and faster, their whole bodies were like flames galloping in the night, rushing towards the dark city wall.
Horse hooves vibrated, dust flew, and the Sturdiness mountain-like city wall in the field of vision was getting closer and closer. However, the speed of this flaming arrow did not slow down and moved forward indomitably.
The leader, Nokton, raised his war hammer high in the strong wind of night.
"Andatika!"
The angular war hammer bloomed with a white halo, and then the translucent giant hammer expanded and appeared, getting bigger and bigger.
When Nokton was only fifty meters away from the city wall, he held the hammer handle with both hands and swept down with all his strength.
The giant hammer shadow made roaring explosions in the night, and then the hammer hit the city wall, directly creating a gap.
The accompanying Knights also held their lances high, and white chess pieces appeared above their heads. Together with the Noktons in front, they formed a white city wall curtain. They jumped in from the gap and rushed into the city. The garrison and passers-by who were still running along the way were collided by these Knights, like being run over by a giant train, and directly smashed into pieces.
"Kill!"
The soldiers outside the city wall charged with torches, and the shouts of death rang through the night, like a burning flood, pouring into Valley City from the breach in the dike.
There was no lengthy siege with stones and giant hammers smashing into doors. After the powerful Knight smashed open the city wall, the battle directly entered the most intense stage of flesh-and-blood strangulation.
At this time, you can either go up against the tide and block the opening with a weak front, or you can break up and flee and be easily slaughtered by the pursuing troops.
On the high tower of Castle, Prince Jabs stared blankly at the scene in the distance, as Anti Soldier holding the torch high poured into the city.
The long-lost memory came to mind again, that was the day when White Cliff City was destroyed.
The tall and admirable father, in lamentation and helplessness, sent himself and his sister out of the city, and he and the other Knight figures disappeared into the blazing dark night.
"No... no, it can't be like this, don't be like this, okay." He covered his head, unable to accept this result.
The previous pride and elation, at this moment, disappeared like a candle flame in the night wind, leaving only fear and confusion in his heart, and he was afraid of going back to that night where he kept running for his life.
"Jabs!"
At this time, a figure hurriedly walked up the tower. Panting and anxious, she finally found Jabs. She walked over and grabbed Jabs's wrist.
"Quick, Jabs, let's leave from the mountain road south of Castle." Princess Musa pulled Jabs anxiously, and at this time, the prince was following behind his sister like a zombie.
Along the way, the delicate princess in a black dress ignored the danger and pulled Jabs through the extremely chaotic interior of Castle. She summoned the soldiers or Knight who could be called to follow along the way and asked them to escort Prince Jabs away.
Nokton and other Anti Kingdom senior officers who had invaded the city also knew that the prince must be somewhere in Castle, as the sound of galloping horse hooves kept approaching in the night.
Lacking a strong organization, the chaotic garrison and refugees are not much different. Even if some of them have good combat capabilities, they can only fight on their own. Anti Soldier, who are unable to resist the tide of attacks, turn into waves that are swallowed up by the front line.
"Kill!"
About ten spears pierced out at the same time. Penetration The sword-wielding warrior, as a former adventurer, had rich experience in fighting enemies, but even when he was in the most danger, he never imagined that he could block the piercings of ten spears at the same time.
Therefore, after cutting off five spears, the "First Order·Blood Law" soldier who was forced into a corner was surrounded, killed and stabbed to death by ordinary soldiers.
Faced with what happened to their companions, Transcendent who still had some strength to spare became disheartened. They no longer wanted to fight, but looked for opportunities to escape. The withdrawal of these backbones of the defenders caused the front to lose its backbone and disintegrate at a faster speed, being overwhelmed by the elite Anti Kingdom.
The city wall was broken, the battle line collapsed, and the backbone was evacuated. The balance of the entire Valley City battlefield completely tipped to one side.
Among the defenders, no one thought about resisting anymore and just wanted to escape from this Nightmare.
On the mountain road at night, a team rushed out of the city. They only lit a few torches, hoping to see the road clearly and hoping that no one would see them.
"Prince Jabs escaped!" Angry shouts rang out in the city, which caused the battlefield to stop for a moment, and then quickly returned to its original state.
No one in the city's garrison cares about the prince anymore. Survival is far more important than anger.
However, although the defenders did not care, the elite Anti Kingdom who entered the city did. Nokton led Knight and a group of cavalry beside him, rushed out of Valley City, followed the mountain road, and chased the escaping team deep in the night.
At first, they could still hear the shouts of killing from the Valley City behind them, but as they chased deeper and deeper into the mountains and forests, everything around them gradually became silent, leaving only the breathing of the war horses and the trampling of horse hooves.
Unknowingly, figures in robes stood on the slopes on both sides of the mountain road. They stared at the chasing team speeding below, and the eyes under the hoods showed an evil purple-red color.
Soon, several huge spheres with tentacles appeared in outline in the darkness, and their huge eyes opened in the darkness.