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Chapter 422 [Darkness](2/2)

Most of the cavalry in the empire carried cavalry bows. Although they were civilians, many of them came from military academy. Although they had never really fought, they still practiced archery.

"After Wellington Gate, this block is their must-pass road. We must resist them here! Give General Span a gathering of troops to buy time! There are still tens of thousands of troops in our city! The rebels have just broken through the city gate and are unstable. As long as we block them here and let the brothers behind have time to gather and catch up, they can drive these bastards out of our homeland!!"

Although the city gate was broken and everyone was a little panicked, in the darkness, the majestic and majestic voice of this famous general of the empire shouted loudly, falling into everyone's ears, and they couldn't help but feel more at ease.

As soon as Adrick had assigned his men, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the street behind him! The rebel cavalry team had already rushed over!

"Prepare both wings!! Wait for the intermediate signal, do not shoot arrows without authorization!!" Adrick raised his broken long knife, raised it above his head, and shouted quickly: "Don't panic! Wait for them to get closer!!"

The temporary defense line organized by Adricks was too short, and the street used overturned carriages as fortifications. After all, they lacked depth, but they were only less than thirty steps in width. After standing on the fortification, Adrick and others heard the sound of horse hooves on the street getting closer and closer. As a black riding shadow appeared, the black cavalry line behind them immediately blocked the street!

"Don't panic!! Hold the bow! Hold the bow!!!"

The cavalry's front was getting closer and closer, so close that almost all the imperial soldiers standing on the houses on both wings could see the hideous faces under the helmets of the rebel cavalry sitting on horseback!

Finally, when the rebel cavalry rushed to less than fifty meters, Adrick shouted: "Rope!!!"

The soldiers hiding in the houses on both sides of the street immediately pulled up the tripping ropes that were crossing the street. In the darkness, the cavalry rushed rapidly. The cavalry in front could not see the hidden ropes on the dark ground. The several riders who rushed to the front row fell down and fell down.

"put!!!"

Adrick shouted, and in the dark, the defenders immediately launched a volley.

The two wings and the soldiers in the middle opened their cavalry bows, and sharp arrows were passing through the air. One of the rebels' fronts fell down immediately, and the charge of the cavalry team seemed to have been severely cut off.

The cavalry behind suddenly slowed down, and the front and back rows squeezed together, and a brief chaos occurred.

Seeing this, Adrick couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It's a pity that he doesn't have any extra troops in his hands. Otherwise, if he had two hundred cavalry in his hands and was frustrated by the opponent's charge, he would lead his people to rush forward and counterattack directly.

Although the rebels were frustrated in charge, they quickly rectified the order under the shouts of the officers. The rebels in front had already discovered the blocked streets. A shout came from the rebels opposite, and the rebel cavalry also took off their cavalry bows, and the two sides began to shoot at a distance of about a hundred steps.

In this kind of street fighting, both sides use short cavalry bows. This kind of bow and arrow is light, has a short range, cannot be shot, and can only be shot horizontally to exert its power. Because the defenders occupied the houses on both wings and the fortifications in the middle, the two sides shot for a while, and the rebel cavalry immediately suffered a small loss.

Many cavalrymen were shot and dropped, and the people behind them retreated and scattered.

The cavalry officer who led the team to chase was also quite determined and immediately ordered the team to scatter. On this narrow street, the cavalry had no cover and was too disadvantageous. At the same time, they ordered people to organize their hands and start to dismantle the door panels of the houses on both sides as shields. Then they organized people to hold the door panels and rush to the evening, trying to remove the obstacles accumulated by the defenders on the streets.

This kind of street fighting is the most cruel thing. The two sides are no longer fighting tactical strategies, but purely the mutual consumption of courage and human life.

Although the rebel cavalry conquered at the beginning, they soon organized their men. After all, they were large. After throwing dozens of corpses, they had already advanced twenty meters. The horses and broken wooden boxes and carriages that were blocked along the street were moved or cut open.

On the defenders, although Adrick was in charge, most of these people were inexperienced rookies. After a long battle, they seemed a little panicked. Some soldiers were shot too far away when they were shooting archers because they were too out of their bodies. There were many veterans who were shooting archers.

The two sides fought for a quarter of an hour, and the rebels advanced little by little. Seeing that the blocked things on the street had almost been removed, almost 70% or 80% of them were removed. There were fewer and fewer people around Adrick. He was still standing there tightly and refused to take a step back. He just pressed the sword sore on his waist with one hand. Blood kept flowing out of the gap in his fingers. Adrick's face became paler and paler under the constant blood loss, but he still shouted loudly from time to time.

The rebels were pressing more and more, and they had already begun to divide their troops into the buildings on both sides of the street. After they had divided the personnel, they began to press up from both wings at the same time. The houses and buildings on the streets on both wings also began to compete for them. From time to time, they heard the screams. Both sides suffered losses, but Adrick knew that his power was decreasing rapidly.

The arrows shot out from the left-wing houses were getting fewer and fewer arrows. After climbing the house, the left-wing people were seriously injured and several places were lost. Although the remaining people were still trying their best to resist, they could no longer hold on for much time.

Adrick's muscles in his eyes were beating, and his heart was just constantly calculating the time.

(Damn it, Span, you bastard! If you don’t bring people up, I really can’t stand it anymore!!)

The remaining guards who followed Adrick were naturally veterans who had experienced the situation. They had already judged the bad situation. Someone grabbed Adrick's arm and whispered in a low voice: "Sir! I can't stand it here! There are still horses here. Let's take the people to break the rear. You can retreat immediately! Retreat to the palace and organize resistance according to the palace. Here..."

Adrick shook his subordinates' hands away and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up! You don't understand! If you can't defend this place, the city will be really lost! If the city is lost, where can we retreat!! Push it! Push it to me!! Even if you all die here, you are not allowed to retreat!"

The rebels had completely wiped out the two wings and lost the cover of the two wings. The rebels' team began to push forward. Adrick's queue in the middle of the road was immediately in a dilemma. They not only wanted to withstand the rebels rushing upwards on the road, but also after the strongholds on the houses on both wings were taken away, the two wings were occupied by the rebels, and they were entrenched on the house buildings on both wings and shot at the defenders from high.

The situation has completely turned around!

The people around Adrick kept falling down. Although the remaining soldiers were still trying hard to pull their bows and shoot arrows, everyone was already waving the lottery. However, under Adrick's leadership, they could still not retreat.

There were less than twenty people under Adrick, and several of them were lying on the ground injured. The guards beside Adrick struggled to block the flying arrows, but the rebels were almost pushing away the last few obstacles in the streets...

Adrick sighed in his heart: Could the national destiny of the empire really end here?

He looked around him and his men had squeezed out all their strength. These guys who were just rookies before tonight were encouraged by him. They insisted on resisting with the rebels at a disadvantage. Many soldiers hiding on the wings were fighting with the rebels and even fighting to the last moment. Some of them almost died with their enemies in their arms, and none of them retreated or surrendered.

But at this moment, I can no longer squeeze out even a little more power!

He knew very well that both sides were fighting for time now!

When the rebels break into the city, they must seize the time to rectify and help more rebels come in outside. This takes time! And on their own side, it also takes time to gather troops from the city to organize a counterattack! Now the comparison is between the two sides, which moves faster!

Span! Span, you guy, don’t let me down at critical moments!!

Just when Adrick was almost desperate, the sound of horse hooves coming from the street behind him finally came from the sound of his expectant horse hooves!!!

The rushing sound of horse hooves came, and then there was the horn of the whimpering Emperor's team! Adric was shocked and shouted: "Our reinforcements have arrived!! The enemy is now! Brothers who can still move, fight with me and move forward!!"

He quickly raised his long sword, roared and rushed forward. The remaining defenders on both sides threw away their bows and arrows, grabbed their weapons and caught up. Adrick's two guards naturally had already caught up with Adrick and firmly protected their chief general from the left and right.

The sound of horse hooves behind him was so fast that he had finally galloped! In the darkness, I don’t know how many reinforcements were. These exhausted defenders heard the cavalry around him whistling by one by one, carrying a strong wind!

The two sides had been in stalemate for so long. Although the rebels had a large number of people, the cavalry had already stopped on the street. At this moment, the reinforcements of the defenders had arrived. In the darkness, only the dense sound of horse hooves were heard, and there were no idea how many cavalry rushed up.

Adrick rushed forward, and he had the most experience. He took the lead and pushed away the obstacles blocked on the road with his subordinates to clear the charge road for the cavalry behind him.

Seeing the cavalry team rushing up, they immediately rushed into the rebels' ranks! Although the rebels' ranks were also cavalry, they were all stalemates on the road, while the cavalry on the defenders were quickly flooded with cavalry. Once the cavalry rushed up, the impact force was more than several times?!

On the long street, the sound of people rushing up and overturning horses suddenly came, war horses neighed, people shouted wildly, swords and swords came and went, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The rebels had already dispersed, but were now rushed by cavalry. Although the officers still wanted to command and resist, the momentum had fallen. After barely fighting for a while, they finally retreated.

Corptoes and unowned war horses were left on the streets, and broken swords and crossbows were seen everywhere.

Adrick had already lost his strength and sat on the ground.

His face was originally excited, but as the reinforcements rushed forward, one by one, the horses whizzed past him, Adrick's originally hot eyes became cold little by little! His heart sank to the bottom of the valley!!

There are too few people! There are too few people!!!

The arrival of this reinforcement army finally repelled the rebel cavalry, but this rebel army was just a small vanguard force sent in advance.

Although the reinforcements killed the rebels, how rich is Adrick's experience?

He led the cavalry for almost his whole life! Although in the chaos of the night, he could only listen to the movements with his ears and immediately judged that the number of reinforcements would not be large! At most, it was only two hundred cavalry!

With such a few people, it is enough to kill the vanguard of the rebels in front of him, but to drive out the rebels who have entered the city, it is a drop in the bucket!

Seeing the rebels retreating, he jumped up quickly and shouted loudly: "Stop chasing!! Assemble! Assemble! Assemble! Assemble the assembly horn!!"

The number of supporters was not large. In the dark, the chaotic rebels retreated and chased them out of two streets. The officers leading the troops were obviously very wise, and immediately stopped, gathered their troops and ran back.

Adrick's face was extremely difficult to see. He could not even stand firmly. With the help of the two guards, he finally waited until the officers who led this small group of reinforcements came to the front.

Before the other party could speak first, Adrick shouted sternly: "How many people have you brought! Where is Span!? Where is Span!!"

The officer immediately knelt down, his face covered in blood, and lowered his voice and said quickly: "Sir! I am the battalion officer of the Left Battalion of the Fourth Banner Regiment of the City Guard... General Span organized a counterattack behind me. I only brought two hundred cavalry, half of which were the patrol cavalry gathered along the way..."

"I didn't ask you this! I asked you the Span people! I asked him to organize all his troops to catch up immediately! Why did you bring such a few people!!!"

Adrick was almost roaring!

The officer whispered with helplessness and depressed voice: "Mr. Span organized his troops and was about to catch up, but he got the news from the palace... and sent a flying cavalry to stop Mr. Span halfway... Say... Say..."

Adrick trembled, and a sharp light suddenly burst out from his eyes: "What are you saying!"

"It is said that the city defense has been broken, and we must gather all forces to protect the imperial city and protect His Majesty's safety... Lord Span tried to fight, but the person who came brought His Majesty with his personal military order... Lord Span could not resist and tried his best to do his best. He could only quietly ask me to bring these people to help you return safely..."

"Respond...I...return?" Adrick's tone suddenly became full of absurdity.

He stood shakingly and suddenly shouted loudly: "How can I retreat!!!"

He pointed to the front of the road and shouted: "The rebels have entered the city!! They are now unstable. If they can organize their troops to counterattack, there will be 50% chance to drive them out! Otherwise, Osgilia will be lost! Lost!!! Guard Your Majesty... Joke! If the city is here, your Majesty will naturally be without danger! If the city is lost, even if the army is gathered in the palace, it will be useless!!!"

He shook his body and suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, why did you give such a ridiculous order!! Impossible!!!!"

After saying that, the general spat out a mouthful of blood and finally fell backwards.
Chapter completed!
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