Realm of Power

"What's going on?"

Benisaf, the Dunker commander who crawled out from the dust and rocks, held up half of his pants and stared at the situation in front of him in amazement. Soldiers were running everywhere, like falling stars in the sky. There are fireballs like meteors falling from the sky,

The thatched-roof houses in the castle were ignited in large areas. The wind helped the fire, and the fire took advantage of the wind. In almost ten minutes, the Sher Sand Castle, which was built of strips of stone and hard soil, was instantly filled with the smell of burning heat. ,

"Wow!" Huge tongues of flames rose into the sky from inside the castle, making crisp and scorching sounds of cracking wooden planks and stones. A series of explosions came from both ends of the city wall. A stone sentry tower with a height of more than ten meters, After being hit by several huge burning fireballs, it turned into a huge ignited torch. A minute later, "rumbling", spider web-like cracks appeared in the position of the tower body that expanded with heat and contracted with cold.

These cracks expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally there was a shocking sound of movement. The huge tower body, which was more than ten meters high, began to tilt inward, and finally broke into four sections. At the same time, it fell heavily from a high place. The soldiers jumped down despite the flames, and the soldiers below fled in panic like the end of the world. There was a roar, dust was flying, and the hot flames were violently moved.

Benisaf heard a shrill scream falling from above his head, and finally it hit a place less than 3 meters away from him. Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and the armor wrapped in it looked like it had been squeezed and exploded. ketchup,

No one knows how many people were not buried in the sudden collapse of the sentry tower just now. It was visually estimated that there were at least 20 people. And those soldiers who escaped did not have a hard time, with rubble falling on their heads like raindrops, and The terrifying flames that cannot be extinguished when ignited, and the broken stone bars with sparks falling intermittently, are also the deadly enemies of the Dunkirk soldiers. Many soldiers were caught off guard and were crushed into bloody cakes by huge rocks weighing several tons.

"No, the entire fortress is a trap. I must report it to the Marshal immediately!" Benisaf ran angrily towards the position where the Marquis of Ushuaia had been in the chaos.

As an old rival of Normandy, he knew the fortress in front of him very well. In terms of scale, it might not be considered big. But it is definitely considered strong. Even if a heavy trebuchet is used to throw more than half a ton of rolling stones, it is absolutely impossible to collapse a specially reinforced barrier in such a short period of time. The only possibility is the opponent's footing in the fortress. He moved his hands and feet,

This terrible guess made even this brave guy shiver deeply.

The opponent retreated step by step to lure him here, and then used the entire castle as bait to set up an ambush. Is it just to block yourself in the castle?

No! The other party's true intention should be to drive all their troops out of the castle, and take advantage of the chaos to open a huge slaughterhouse in the open space outside the castle. If the army goes out now. It's a dead end,

From the very beginning, his 20,000-strong army fell into the trap that the Falcon Army had designed long ago. Just a moment ago, the momentum was like a rainbow, sweeping across the earth, but now they are running around with their heads in their hands. The heads that were caught in the fire made many soldiers look like a rooster that had been plucked and had its wings lit. The armor on their upper body was covered with black dust. In their hands, they were holding various kinds of weapons from nowhere. Farm tools, struggling to hit the ignited position,

The entire narrow inner area of ​​the castle is a huge death zone, with corpses lying all over the ground. The flames are burning happily on the corpses, making a crackling sound, like a group of leaping red elves, everywhere. They are soldiers running back and forth, surrounded by huge and solid fortress walls. It collapsed on three sides, with intermittent gaps like the teeth of an eighty-year-old woman falling off. Under the piles of rocks, there were shocking red streams of human blood flowing. The injured were rolling in the muddy blood. He screamed for help in a stern voice, but soon became silent under the burning flames.

"Baron! Have you seen the Marshal?"

Among the scattered soldiers, Benisaf saw a familiar figure with keen eyesight. He quickly ran up and grabbed the marshal's guard captain, Baron Alvin, with a war horse hood woven with golden silk thread, and pulled the horse to a stop from the front.

"Assholes, you damn commoners! Let me pass, I'm a noble!"

The marshal's guard captain still had a frightened look on his face, and his cloak was covered in dust. Among a group of running soldiers, he, the captain of the guard on horseback, was so conspicuous that he raised his whip in anger, Prepare to give this ignorant commoner a hard slap. Don't these untouchables know that respecting the nobles is the first rule of their lives? If there are no nobles, where will they find land? If there is no Nobles, where do they go to obtain grace!

"Baron, where is the Marshal?"

Benisav raised his head, pressed the horse's head tightly with his thick hands, stopped the frightened horse, and asked eagerly again. He saw that the person holding his horse was the legion commander Benisaf, and Baron Irvine raised his head high. The riding whip was slowly lowered,

"Although it is unfortunate, this is the fact." Baron Alvin said with a very ugly look on his face. There is no need to look any further. The marshal has already died for his country! Although I am also trying hard to find the Marshal's body, judging from the current situation, it is completely impossible!

"What! The Marshal has died for his country!" Benisav's body trembled, and his face suddenly turned pale. As a confidant and close minister of the Grand Duke, the Marquis of Ushuaia has served the Principality of Dunkirk for thirty years, regardless of He enjoys a very grand reputation at home and abroad. No one would have thought that this important minister, known as the evergreen tree of the principality, would actually fall into such a small castle.

"Take me there immediately! No matter what, we must find the marshal's body!"

Benisav shouted hoarsely, with a hint of luck in his eyes. Although the current scene was very confusing, since the baron responsible for the marshal's safety could escape, why couldn't the marshal escape? And the entire military community knew it. , Baron Irwin, the captain of the guard, is completely hereditary by virtue of his status, so this is Baron Irvine's first time on the battlefield. How can a rookie on the battlefield trust him!

"Well, take a look for yourself. That's where the entire city wall collapsed. The marshal was on top of it at the time!" Baron Irwin turned his horse's head again very unhappy and pointed to a huge collapsed section not far away. There are piles of rubble on the surface, even as high as several dozen. rice, several tons of stones were covered with shocking bloodstains, and a soldier exposed outside the rubble had lost most of his head, leaving only a row of terrifying lower molars that looked like blood scum, stained with plasma. The minced meat was sprayed onto the wall a few meters in front.

"Unless we can mobilize a hundred people now and need the largest hanging stone, there is nothing anyone can do!"

Baron Alvin shrugged on his horse and said with some luck, "I escaped this disaster because of some discomfort in my stomach. At that time, I only heard a series of huge explosions, and then countless huge fireballs filled the sky. , the hot explosion shock wave ripped off the thatch roof above my head on the spot. To be honest, at that moment, I felt like I saw hell coming.

"Then I saw that the section of the city wall where the marshal was standing was like a broken fence that had been pushed down. It was already like this when I ran over!" Baron Alvin's words were half true and half false. In fact, he At that time, he went straight to the treasure room of the castle, but unfortunately there, he only saw empty walls.

"How did you survive?"

Looking away from the stone pile full of minced meat and blood, Benisav's eyes full of angry flames looked at Baron Alvin who was talking nonsense on the horse. "As a guard appointed by the Grand Duke to be responsible for the safety of the marshal, at the most critical moment You are derelict in not living and dying with the marshal! "

"Are you questioning me? You have to understand that I am a high-ranking noble of the principality, a hereditary baron, and you are just a second-level general who was promoted this year." Baron Irwin was frightened by Benisaf's anger. Jump, but when I think about my identity, my face His expression suddenly turned gloomy, and he said with a hint of disdain, "If I make a mistake, the duchy's Senate will naturally judge it, and you, a second-level general who is just a lower-class noble, are not qualified to replace the noble senator." The hospital questioned me!

"Okay, don't block my way. I will go back to the marshal and report everything here truthfully!" Baron Alvin shook off Benisaf's hand holding his horse, and said angrily, "As for you, still Think about how to bring the army back intact! Don't say I didn't remind you that the responsibility for losing an army of 20,000 is not just as simple as beheading!"

"Asshole, you coward!" Benisav let go of his hand angrily,

Baron Alvin quickly rode his horse and ran through the chaotic group of soldiers in front, hitting several nearby soldiers and tumbling to the ground.

"Get out of the way! What is the person in front doing!"

"Asshole, you're squeezing me."

"Brothers, rush out!" Chaotic shouts came from the fortress gate at the same time. The fire spreading inside the fortress forced the soldiers to gather frantically toward the exit. There were scorching flames everywhere, and the city walls There are still gravels rolling down from the top. Anyone who continues to stay is waiting to die!

The narrow entrance to the fortress was only ten meters wide, and nearly ten thousand people crowded through it at once, making it completely impassable.

"Everyone, please don't mess up. I am the legion commander Benisav!" Benisav quickly jumped onto a huge stone next to the exit and shouted towards the black crowd of heads below.

"If you go out now, the only outcome is death. Please believe me, everyone, hold on!" To be continued