Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 81
Rhodes didn't have time to check the wounds on his body, so he kept slashing and slashing towards Hamer with his two-handed sword. When he reunited with Hamer, there was no enemy left around, and Hamer, who had injured his shoulder, stood next to him. Seeing Weber who was bleeding from his left arm, apart from the three of them, only four wounded Nord infantrymen survived.

"Long live Nord!" they shouted in unison, standing on the heap of corpses.

Rhodes was in a complicated mood. The people he killed had no grievances against him, and they became his enemies only because they were loyal to their duties. If they met them in a tavern, they might have a few drinks with them.

But after killing them just now, he actually felt a sense of joy in his heart. Has the primitive desire to kill slowly break through the shackles of morality?

From Hamer’s point of view, it is to defend the country, but for him, a traverser, there is no difference between the Nords and the Imperials, it’s just that he has traveled to the Nords. People might become enemies with Baron Hamer and the others.

Baron was still riding a horse to deal with several cavalrymen. He didn't have much experience in immediate combat. It would be fine if it was a frontal charge. In this kind of battle, he could only rely on his fairly skilled riding skills to deal with it.

Rhodes used the mage ball to control the scattered weapons on the ground and slashed at the hooves of the horses under the cavalry. The horses felt the danger and stopped and stood up, but were accidentally injured by the cavalry behind them. Got it under control.

Baron turned around, turned around and charged at the cavalry. After a few rounds, all the cavalry were eliminated by him.

"Let's mount the city wall and attack the enemy from behind!" Hammer ordered loudly, and he took the lead towards the siege ladder.

The fighting movement above the city wall was no less than that below the city wall. The imperial people above were all focused on the battle in front of them. They didn't know what was going on behind them. They quietly climbed up the city wall from the siege ladder and squatted in the darkness.

Baron picked up a two-handed single-edged battle ax on the ground. The three-meter-long mo knife was inconvenient to use on the city wall. Rhodes took it back into the system space. Baron didn't find it particularly strange, maybe he thought Rhodes Also wearing a space ring.

"Let's keep our voice down." Hammer said in a low voice. Now there are only eight of them and most of them are wounded. Even a sneak attack from behind is very dangerous.

The defenders of the castle are fighting fiercely with the dismounted cavalry of the empire on the stairs of the city wall. Above the stairs are the defenders of the castle. The soldiers of the empire are using shields to protect themselves from the Nord bows and arrows below. Hand shot dead.

Under the cover of their companions, the imperial soldiers picked up the longbows on the city wall and shot back at the scattered archers on the castle grounds. They killed those Nord archers after paying a dozen lives.

The imperial soldiers at the front stairs are fighting hand-to-hand with the castle defenders, and the imperial soldiers behind are constantly rushing forward, trying to rush down the stairs to form a formation. After training in battle formation, they all believe that if they can form a formation to fight These castle defenders who can only defend the city and have not fought much in the field can reduce a lot of casualties.

They thought there were cavalry guards below, and they were focused on breaking through the castle defenders on the stairs, but no one paid attention to their backs.

As for Rhodes, the sound of them fighting the cavalry under the city wall was covered by the sounds of slashing and roaring that were closer to them.

"This kind of time should be left to me." Weber said in a low voice. He made a gesture to stop the others, approached the imperial army like a ghost and mixed in, and kept using the short sword to harvest the unsuspecting people behind him. The lives of imperial soldiers.

But not long after an imperial soldier screamed when Weber cut his throat, others found Weber behind him, and Hammer shouted "Long live Nord!" and rushed to Weber's side.

Baron and Hamer rushed to the front with an axe. Baron held a two-handed single-edged battle ax and could split the imperial soldiers in front of him in half with every attack. The stairs were so narrow that only two people could stand side by side. .

The city wall was very narrow, and Rhodes was squeezed at the back and couldn't attack the imperial soldiers in front. He suddenly felt something, looked back and found a group of people climbing the siege ladder, and then looked down on the faint fire on the city wall, he Finding that these people looked familiar, he thought about it carefully.

These are the mercenaries of the Blood Ravens. Could it be that they have already solved the battle at the south gate of the town and came here to support these imperial people?
Rhodes didn't think about it any more. He walked towards the siege ladder with his two-handed sword. The blood crows had already climbed halfway. He tried his best to push down the siege ladder, but found that he couldn't push it down at all. , if they could be pushed, the castle defenders would have pushed them down long ago.

Rhodes stabbed the sword at a mercenary who was about to climb to the top. They were so close that Rhodes could see the leaves on the teeth exposed by his grin.

People can walk on these siege ladders without using their hands and feet to climb. The mercenary blocked Rhodes' attack with a shield, and attacked Rhodes with the mace in his right hand. Rhodes dodged .

He looked back and saw that the people on the other siege ladders had also climbed up, and people were constantly climbing up the city wall. Originally they wanted to flank others, but now they were flanked instead.

Rhodes retreated and blocked the entrance of a passage. Behind him were Baron and the others who were fighting against the imperials on the city wall. A Nord infantry who had been unable to intervene before also turned around and started fighting with Rhodes. Together, deal with the Bloodraven mercenaries climbing up the wall.

I just need to hold them back temporarily, as long as I persist until all the imperial people on the city walls and stairs are dealt with.

Rhodes used the white rainbow swordsmanship to resist the attack of the mercenaries in front of him as much as possible. Even though the wounds caused by the cavalry were constantly hurting, he was confident that he could stop them all here before his physical strength was exhausted.

While defending, he could also find an opportunity to cause some injuries to the mercenaries on the opposite side. Their current position can only allow a person of Baron's size to pass alone. He and the Nord infantry can perfectly block it.

The Nord infantryman next to Rhodes soon couldn't resist the fierce attack of the mercenaries, and was hacked to death by chaotic swords. Rhodes could only stand in the middle of the passage door to stop using the Baihong Sword Technique, and kept using it wide open and closed. The two-handed sword forced away all the mercenaries who wanted to get close to block here.

When using the Baihong swordsmanship before, the mercenary's weapons couldn't touch his body, but now their weapons kept hitting Rhodes' body.

Even with the protection of the dragon scale armor and the iron cloth shirt with golden bell cover, Rhodes was still a little sore from the constant attacks of the mercenaries.

Unless they can charge me straight up and squeeze me with their bodies, and push me out of this narrow entrance when my two-handed sword is full of corpses and I can't pull it out, otherwise they won't be able to attack me until tomorrow afternoon. Breakthrough here, Rhodes thought in his heart.

The mercenaries faced the attack for a long time, but Rhodes was a little physically weak, and his morale weakened a little. Rhodes felt that when Baron and the others resolved the battle, these mercenaries would definitely run away.

"If you put down your weapons and surrender, we don't have to kill you later." One of the mercenaries said fiercely, trying to break Rhode's fighting spirit.

Rhodes under the knight's helmet gritted his teeth and persisted. He felt that his basic swordsmanship and the iron cloth shirt with golden bell cover were constantly improving.

"Aren't you awake yet? Are you still dreaming?" Rhodes replied.

The mercenary swung the mace and hit Rhode's chest heavily. The huge force made it difficult for Rhodes to breathe. If he hadn't been an ordinary person to suffer this blow, his entire chest might have been dented. .

Rhodes looked at his arrogant smile, resisted the urge to rush forward to kill him, stood still and blocked the passage, and used his two-handed sword to separate all the weapons, but he was still being attacked by the mercenaries in front of him. They attack the body.

After hitting Rhode's two-handed sword with a shield, a mercenary wanted to stab Rhode with his own one-handed sword. In desperation, Rhode concentrated on the infusion into the two-handed sword, which actually triggered a sword attack. In a fit of anger, he directly cut off the mercenary's sword.

However, because of this, his internal energy decreased a lot. He held back his curiosity and did not inject internal energy into the two-handed sword. Instead, he continued to concentrate his internal energy on his two arms. He found that the strength of his arms would increase a lot, even if he bumped into a few mercenaries. Weapons can also block them all back.

Rhodes was very fortunate that none of the mercenaries in front of him used long spears. There seemed to be cavalry with long spears behind them, but they were blocked behind the crowd and couldn't get through.

Some mercenaries wanted to play tricks, they wanted to push the mercenaries in front of Rhodes directly, and they wanted to break through Rhodes with the sacrifice of a few people.

However, the mercenary with the vegetable leaves on his teeth seemed to have a high status. After being pushed a few times secretly, he turned his head and glared at them, and the mercenaries behind him didn't dare to act rashly.

Fortunately, they didn't swarm up directly, so many people, even trolls, would be pushed back by the power of the crowd.If they really dared to come directly, Rhodes would definitely be knocked to the ground and trampled to death.

Just as Rhodes was silently thanking the mercenary in front of him with his teeth stained with vegetable leaves, he felt a pair of big hands patting his shoulder. "You can get out of the way now, and we will be there next."

Rhode stepped aside, and Baron, who was covered in blood, came out from behind him. With an axe, he split a mercenary in two. The splashed blood sprinkled on his bald head, making him look like he came out of hell. the devil...

The blood-red sun rose, and the battle on the city wall was finally over.

Rhodes rested exhaustedly against the wall stack. Beside him were corpses and blood. The tense battle all night made his arms a little sore.

Without taking off the dragon scale armor, he knew that there must be bruises all over his body, but the most serious injury on his body may be the desperate blow of the cavalry under the city wall, which stabbed his waist, but it probably only pierced him skin and some muscles.

He took off the helmet with his blood-stained hands, the sun was shining on his blood-stained face, and now he just wanted to close his eyes and sleep...

(End of this chapter)