half an hour ago.
Vesemir curled up and hid in a small pit outside the castle.
The pit is not big and can barely accommodate an adult man.
The pit is camouflaged so that no one can detect anything unusual from the outside.
The other twenty-two demon hunters were also hiding in the pit like him.
They had been hiding in the pit for several hours.
If discovered, it will definitely be a dead end.
There is no way to react in this position.
As long as one witcher is discovered, the other soldiers will realize that there is something wrong with the ground beneath their feet.
By then, no demon hunters will be able to escape.
Vesemir doesn't believe in gods, but he still prayed to Melitele devoutly this time.
Maybe it's good luck, or maybe it's Melitele's mercy.
Kaedwen people did not notice the abnormality underground.
They were like a flock of quacking ducks, all noisily flocking to Kaer Morhen.
Next, it was just as the great master and the resident warlock had rehearsed.
The mages stationed in the fort first released Grease on the trench and the ground outside the trench, and then connected with Fireball.
The flames ignited the earth and swallowed countless lives.
Kaedwen people's wails and screams are the best signals.
Vesemir pushed aside the camouflage board and jumped out of the pit. He saw the soldiers around him, whose expressions gradually changed from stunned to horrified.
Without any words to slow down the movement, Vesemir's figure flashed past a soldier like a ghost.
A cold light flashed across the soldier's neck.
The next second, the soldier's head flew high into the sky, and blood spurted out.
This is not over yet.
Vesemir pushed his left palm forward, and a stream of fire shot forward like a fire dragon. The flames penetrated through the gaps in the armor, and several soldiers were burned until they wailed.
His figure flashed.
The steel sword in his hand quickly harvested the lives of the burned soldiers.
While he was fighting, the other twenty-two demon hunters rushed out of the pit one after another and launched a surprise attack on these panicked soldiers.
For a moment, there were screams everywhere.
Kaedwen people are in huge chaos.
In fact, to be fair, twenty-three versus thousands, unless all the twenty-three people on this side are Astartes, it is impossible to kill all the thousands of troops.
Due to the mutation, the physical fitness of the demon hunters is stronger than that of ordinary people, but it is still far from reaching that of a space warrior.
But the difference between reality and games is that the army in reality is composed of living people.
Human emotions are very complex and cannot be simulated by a morale bar in a game.
These soldiers, who were lucky enough not to die in the sea of fire, were attacked by the demon hunters again before they could react.
They don't even know where the enemy appears from.
In such a chaotic situation, it is really a luxury wish to expect humans to remain calm.
Why are armies in the Cold Weapons Era prone to collapse once they are attacked from a flank?
In addition to the fact that the armies of this era were not as well trained as the armies of later generations, there is another very important reason, and that is the lack of information.
When a soldier is in an army, there are people around him. In this case, his behavior is actually influenced by the people around him to a large extent.
When people around him fall into panic and even flee, few people can calm down and understand what is going on.
And when they flee with others, they will lead more soldiers to flee.
Until finally, it affected the entire army.
Now is the best example.
No one knows what happened, and no one knows how many mutants are attacking them, or whether they have received help from other mutants...
Or is it actually a trap: the mutants have actually known their plan for a long time, and mutants from other parts of the world have secretly rushed over and prepared a trap, just waiting for them to stupidly sneak into it.
This idea of inflating other people's ambitions and destroying one's own prestige may be really ridiculous to onlookers, but the authorities involved can only use this idea to explain what is happening to them now.
What happened next seemed much more logical.
More and more soldiers joined the escape, and they receded like a tide, leaving only a large number of corpses slashed with swords.
As for those who died in the trenches, there were more burnt bodies.
Even though the flames were extinguished by the warlocks stationed in the fort, the remaining thick smoke still shot straight into the sky.
In the military camp in the distance.
Vadislaus and the nobles under his command seemed to have fire shooting out of their eyes.
Staring at the still standing Witcher Castle in the distance.
The flames engulfed at least hundreds of lives, and it is estimated that hundreds of soldiers died under the sword of the demon hunter.
You must know that these are not ordinary farming, but temporary recruitment of farmers and soldiers when war is needed.
These are all his and other nobles' standing troops, and they are not used for production at all.
Just one confrontation cost so many lives here.
Vadislaus and the nobles' hearts are bleeding.
Lynn also didn't expect that the original siege of Kaer Morhen would be fought like this?
But why did it turn into a castle that a sorceress incited a mob to break down in later records?
No one could answer his question, and he didn't need anyone else to answer it. He came up with the answer himself:
The reason is simple, because meat eaters have no face.
History is a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone.
Take Saint Joan for example. In France, she is undoubtedly a saint.
Even during World War II, Vichy France and Free France borrowed the deeds of Saint Joan to increase their legitimacy and legitimacy.
But in England, Joan are considered to be witches.
If the Hundred Years War ended with the victory of England, then Joan might become the second King Arthur - the one who fought all his life while alive, but was considered the hero of Angsa after his death.
By the same token, Vadislaus definitely doesn't want the truth to be known to the world.
So he will definitely let the clerk distort the facts.
Anyway, the right to speak is in the hands of the king. He can distort it as much as he wants and slander as much as he wants.
As for the survivors, like Vesemir, why don't they choose to clarify the truth?
Of course, it is useless to clarify one aspect. On one side is the king, who is aloof, and on the other side is the demon hunter with a low social status. Who will people believe?
On the other hand, since then, perhaps the king and nobles thought that the demon hunter was no longer useful, so they ignored it. Vesemir took Geralt and the others back to the ruined castle.
Compared to living, the truth is naturally unimportant.
(PS: Vesemir when he was young)