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"Sabina, run towards the camp!" Gawain turned around and struck the black mare on the butt with the back of his halberd. The other party yelled and ran towards the forest.

Then, the horses followed Sabina's footsteps and started running wildly in the forest. Under the arrows flying around, this unlucky team that acted as a scout also left behind the corpses of the two men and horses and left the trail one after another. , holding up the shield, crouched and stood at the edge of the jungle, not fleeing randomly.

Under the helmet's nose guard, Gawain's eyes kept moving nervously. It was so quiet that he could hear their own breathing, but both he and Diognis heard that on both sides of them, people shouting in Turkic languages ​​were speaking. Quickly detouring, "Don't touch Gawain. They are testing us and waiting for us to be exposed automatically. In this fog, it is difficult for their bows and arrows to hit." The guard warned in a suppressed voice.

"They're coming from the front too!" Erikson pointed and gestured about ten feet away.

There was only one path between them and the Turkic soldiers who were coming from Erikson's mouth. The path was gray and white like a line across the middle, and it was still extremely silent at this moment.

Swish, swish, another storm of arrows flew across the path from the woods in front, some hit the tree trunks, some passed over the heads of Gawain and others, and fell into the depths of the dense forest behind. Some of them hit the shields he and his colleagues were holding.

Twenty or thirty Turkic soldiers, all from the Roma country, carrying small shields on their backs, quickly holding axes, swords and scimitars, emerged from the bushes on the opposite side and rushed over, almost keeping pace with the arrows they had just shot. same speed. The warriors beside Gawain faced him with their spears raised. Four or five of them were immediately pierced in the head in the charge, spurting out blood. Diogenes immediately stood up from behind his shield, and his arrows were fired in a lightning-fast succession. Pull the string and shoot down the Roma soldiers behind one by one.

"Bang bang bang", the other Roma soldiers rushed forward uncontrollably, jumped up one after another, swung their swords downwards and struck down, trying to suppress and defeat the shield wall protection of Gawain's scout team. There was no shouting from either side, fierce and fast Most of the battles were carried out in silence, and sometimes there was only the sound of weapons clashing - and soon all three or four people were gathered in front of Gawain.

Gawain's halberd stretched out and penetrated the throat of the first guy. Then he pulled it out and quickly cut off the opponent's left leg. The opponent jumped to the ground - the second person rushed over again, Gawain swept across, and the long blade of the halberd Lao passed his neck and took his head flying out.

The third and fourth people threw the big man Gawain onto the tree trunk at the same second. They recognized that this was the core figure of the enemy team and they must deal with it as soon as possible.

Gawain threw down the kite shield, pulled out the dagger before the opponent, and stuck it on one person's neck. Then Erikson came quickly, swung the battle ax in his hand, and hit the back of the other person's head. , and then pulled back, the body of the Roma soldier was dragged backwards several feet by the ax in his hand, and then rolled to the ground.

"Commander Earl, go quickly!" The Varangian warrior holding a spear knocked Gawain back and let him get out of the tree trunk. Then Diognis also took two steps back and shot him over. Two enemies continued to run towards him.

A wave of arrows was also shot from the opposite side, and the spearman was immediately nailed to the trunk of the tree by several of them at the same time, roaring and struggling.

"Gawain, look over there!" Diognis yelled, pointing to a huge rock between old trees on their left - about seven or eight Roma archers had climbed on it, lighting up the fire. Torch, constantly drawing the bow and shooting arrows, another warrior was shot in the knee while running, and rolled to the ground, "Here you go", Gawain He directly picked up the kite shield and threw it to him. Then the warrior took it and put it up, blocking more than a dozen arrows from the bows that followed. Erikson carried the battle ax and crossed over in three steps and two steps. Behind the warrior and Yuan Dun, one of them climbed, the other lowered his waist, and continued to use the cover of Yuan Dun to move towards the huge rock.

And Gawain was about fifteen feet away from them, leaning against a big tree - the second group of Roma soldiers attacking from the front had already killed the two servants who were behind. , and also cut off the head of the Varangian spearman who was shot on the tree trunk and could not move, hung it on his belt, made a noise, and rushed towards this direction under the leadership of two horsemen on the left and right,

Obviously, they wanted to cooperate with the friendly forces on the giant rocks to surround the few remaining enemy patrols and kill them all.

Behind the tree trunk, Gawain held the sword of phosphorous fire in his left hand, and held up the Macedonian halberd in his right hand, crossed across his chest. Arrows kept flying past him on both sides, and the hoofs of the horses made the leaves under his feet float.

"Ugh!" When the Turkic cavalry on the left rushed past the big tree, Gawain suddenly turned around, stretched out his phosphorus fire sword and short halberd, and directly tore the galloping man on horseback into three pieces. The horse continued to run forward with only half of its body on its back. Strange flames continued to spurt out, hitting the Roma infantry behind it. Many of them dropped their weapons and fell upside down on the ground in fright.

The cavalryman on the right turned his horse's head in panic, trying to find out what was going on. A short halberd flew from Gawain's hand and hit him right in the face. With the short halberd, he quickly fell backwards and fell upside down. Fall from horse.

Then, Gawain strode over with a phosphorus fire sword and a sharp scimitar in his two arms. He waved it left and right, slashing down the frightened Roma infantry one after another. The flames continued to fly and rise along the woods, accompanied by various A shrill scream.

The little leader on the boulder saw Gawain and shouted a few times. The archers beside him abandoned Erikson, who was walking around, and began to change the direction of the arrow clusters, aiming at Gawain who was killing people over there. .

Suddenly, the little boss saw a figure passing through the woods behind, and then a cluster of arrows flew towards him, piercing from his left ear to his forehead, and then he fell down with a cry of exclamation, causing a lot of blood. Fog and dead leaves. All the archers turned around in panic. Diogenes jumped out from behind and knocked over several of them with his flail. He then placed the flail between his hands and pushed the rest of them off the boulder.

Erikson held up a big ax and swung it up and down one by one. In a short time, all of them were chopped into pieces.

In the end, a middle-aged man wearing a pendant with the title of Turk Atalberg slumped beside the scattered corpses. Seeing Gawain walking toward him with a sword, he was so scared that his feet felt like lead, and then he groped Then he raised the sword on the ground.

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With a "bang" sound, Gawain swung his sword, and his sword flew out of his hands and slid far away from the ground, leaving him unable to fight back.

So Attaberg raised his throat that was shaking violently, closed his eyes, silently recited the prayer verses, and prepared to welcome the piercing of Gawain's sword.