Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 79 Night Attack
Webber continued his story, "I took the dagger to another city after being robbed of the money. I wanted to use the dagger to open the wallets of those drunk people in the tavern, but I was afraid of being caught again. .Finally I decided to change my ways. I sit in the tavern every day to help catch the same pickpockets as I did before. Because of my experience as a pickpocket, anyone who wants to steal can't escape my eyes, and those who are drunk Most of the adventurers will thank me for giving me a few copper coins. In the end, I was beat up by those pickpockets..."

He went on to say, "Later, I embarked on the road of an adventurer. At first, no team was willing to accept me. I could only choose to fight alone. It may be because I have done some good things. My luck is not bad. The treasure chest buried in the wild, I sold the contents of the treasure chest. After getting this wealth, I decided to go to the mage academy to become a mage. Although my physical strength is not as good as others, it does not mean that I have no potential to become a mage.

After spending all my money studying for two years, people in the academy said that I was not talented enough, but I learned alchemy, especially poison making.Later, another adventurer was besieged by wild beasts, and I went up to help. When we were all about to be killed, I smeared poison on the dagger to keep us alive, but in the end I got the nickname of 'Viper', But if it wasn't for me, they would all die there..."

"It wasn't until a few years ago that my luck began to improve. In the tavern, I let go of a kid who wanted to steal my wallet. After that, I picked up the dagger I was wearing in the wild. With this short sword my life started to get better, I started to do good things, only kill the most sinful people, forgive the petty thieves... My life has been a little bit better since then. It's fine now, I have some savings, enough for me to return to my hometown to spend a comfortable old age..."

Rhodes listened carefully to Weber's story, and everyone hoped that there would be an audience to listen to his story.

"Okay, it's getting late, I'll go back and have something to eat first." Weber stood up from the ground and walked towards the tavern.

Rhodes looked up, and before he knew it, the sun was about to set, and time passed so quickly.

He picked up the sword and used the Baihong sword technique twice, and walked towards the tavern.

The atmosphere in the tavern today is still very strange, there is only this tavern in the town, and all the mercenaries are concentrated in this tavern, and in the hall are only the mercenaries of the Blood Ravens, Baron and the others, and a few idle mercenaries. Not as full of people as yesterday.

"What's going on? Why are you all down here?" Rhodes asked.

"The leader of the Blood Ravens passed away yesterday, and today they are going to elect a new leader. There was a fight before, and the other mercenaries were afraid that it would affect them, so they hurried back to the room after eating." Baron explained.

"Let's all go up after eating, and leave here tomorrow, there might be a big chaos here," Weber said.

Everyone agreed to his suggestion and did not want to get involved in irrelevant disputes...

At night, when Rhodes was practicing Shenzhao Gong in his room, he was woken up by the sound of fighting outside.

Could it be that the new leader of the Blood Ravens is also dead?
He felt that he should ignore his affairs and continue to practice Shenzhao Gong.Not long after, there was a knock on the door.

"Don't sleep, grab your weapon and get up quickly." This was Baron's voice.

Rhodes immediately put on the dragon scale armor, took a two-handed sword and opened the door, asking, "What's going on?"

"I won't be able to tell for a while. Let's go downstairs first." Baron said, there was still blood on Baron's body, he should have just fought.

Rhodes followed Baron downstairs, the tavern was full of blood, and there were many corpses and wounded on the ground.The outside of the tavern was full of flames, and Hamer and Weber, with blood on their bodies, stood in the hall with serious faces, and there were some ordinary mercenaries beside them.

"Has the army of the Roman Empire come?" Rhodes asked.

"Almost, they are members of the Dawn Knights. They cooperate with the Blood Ravens, and now there are battles everywhere outside." Weber quickly explained.

"The scum of the Blood Ravens wanted to come to our room and slit our throats at night. Now it's time for them to pay the price and let them know that we are not easy to mess with," said a mercenary next to them. , The sword in his hand was still dripping blood.

Rhodes still doesn't know what happened. It should be that the Blood Ravens pretended to be hired by Earl White of White Hart Castle. As a result, when the Dawn Knights attacked White Hart Castle at night with high mobility, the Blood Ravens suddenly turned against each other and made a surprise attack. A mercenary in his sleep.

But what makes Rhodes strange is, didn't White Hart Castle send scouts, why was it suddenly attacked at night like this?

"They killed my brother, and I will make these traitors pay with blood." Another mercenary said through gritted teeth. He left the tavern with a weapon and walked into the dark night.

Why didn't the lord send a commander to command these idle mercenaries?A mercenary without a command is definitely no match for an army.

"Let's go out too, get on our horses, and leave if the situation is wrong." Hammer turned and walked towards the stables after he finished speaking.

Rhodes was a little nervous when he got on the horse. He had no experience of fighting on horseback, but he had played a game called Mount and Blade before crossing, and felt that he should know what to do.

"Let's go to the gate of the town and see what's going on there." Baron rode his horse towards the gate of the town.

Near the gate of the town, Rhodes saw more than [-] cavalry in red armor massacring dozens of Nord infantry who had already been disorganized.

"What should we do?" Rhodes asked, the town has two gates, north and south, and they are now at the north gate.

"Damn it, why is there no one commanding the infantry? If we can make them stop panicking, they might be able to defeat the cavalry." Hamer said, looking at the gate.

Baron glanced at Hammer, "Don't talk about these useless things, let's turn around and look south now."

"The south should be more dangerous. Their large army must be in the south, but obviously they only sent a little force to block our back route. If we want to go out, we still have to go here." Hamer judged.

He rushed to the gate on his horse and shouted loudly, "I am Hammer Smith, son of Lord Smith of Forge City, soldiers, obey my orders now!"

While riding his horse and shouting orders, he smashed the head of a cavalryman with his warhammer, and the blood splashed on his face, adding a little more deterrence to him.

Hammer smashed the heads of several cavalry along the way. The Nord infantry watched Hammer rushing out of the darkness, and the battle became more organized.

"All soldiers move closer to me now! Form a circle!" Hamer ordered loudly.

The originally flustered soldiers calmed down a lot now, raised their shields to protect their chests, and slowly approached Hamer.

After the cavalrymen killed a few infantrymen who hadn't approached, they began to circle around the infantry formation in an attempt to find a flaw.

Rhodes roughly counted, there are more than a dozen cavalrymen, and there are more than 30 infantrymen around Hamer. Their chances of winning should be quite high.

After looking around for a week, Hamer shouted loudly, "All soldiers, hold on to your shields!"

The soldiers raised their shields after hearing Hammer's order, and they all looked very nervous.hammer yelled again
"Baron charge!"

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(End of this chapter)