The pirate leader Sakru walked at the front of the team, with fifteen warriors of the tribe distributed in a fan shape behind him.
Following the forest path, I stepped into the unfrozen soil, and my boots made a crackling sound as they stepped on ice shards and gravel.
Sakru suddenly raised his right hand, signaling his team to stop. He knelt on one knee, half squatting on the ground, looking at the sunken but not yet frozen puddles on the road, and fell into deep thought.
A sudden arrow flew from the bushes of the forest and was inserted diagonally into the tree trunk less than three meters away from him.
"Enemy attack!"
With a low roar, the pirates took off the cross shields on their backs and took out their swords and axes. They lowered their bodies, lowered their center of gravity, and raised their shields to their chests. The warriors in the rear stepped forward,
The warriors on both wings spread out, forming an iron triangular "shield wall" in just a few seconds.
Huggins punched the dirt under him hard and looked behind him angrily.
An underage soldier in the militia regiment stared blankly at the vibrating bowstring in his hand, feeling uneasy.
In the inexperienced troops, once the tension and chaotic emotions are ignited by one person, it is like a drop of ink falling into a glass of water, and the entire team will lose control in an instant.
The sound of bow strings being released one after another exploded in the militia; arrows one after another flew towards the pirate formation in a chaotic manner.
The arrow drew an arc in the air, and part of it collided with the shield, making an irregular bang-bang sound, just like water droplets dripping on the umbrella on a rainy day, but more of them were shot.
It veered off course and landed somewhere else.
Half a minute later.
After several rounds of bows and arrows were fired, the only damage left to the pirates were the small holes on the shield surface.
Sixteen pirate warriors were not injured at all.
The first domino has been toppled.
The second group of believers holding halberds jumped out. Under the leadership of the leader, they rushed out of the bushes, formed a nondescript "one-line formation", and launched a second round of attacks on the pirates. And at the same time,
At the same time, seeing the melee between the believers and the pirates, the militia group, worried that it would accidentally injure friendly forces, stopped the attack and looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
Todd was a little dumbfounded. This was completely different from the battle he had imagined. Looking sideways at Huggins, he asked uncertainly: "This doesn't seem to be the tactic discussed at the combat meeting?"
"I made a mistake." Huggins raised the sword in his hand and pushed aside the bushes in front of him: "A huge mistake!"
The halberd hit the shield, splinters of wood flew across, and the sound was loud.
These believers who were inspired by Heavenly Father to voluntarily join the church and take on the task of protecting the church are a group of devout believers, but they are by no means a group of soldiers who are good at fighting.
From the surface, it seems that the triangular formation formed by pirate warriors is retreating steadily after being attacked by the believers.
But the gaps in the shield wall are getting smaller and smaller, the warriors are getting closer and closer, and the pirates' formations are getting closer and closer; on the other hand, looking at the believers, the halberdiers, who were stunned by the battle, are scattered and disorderly.
The attacks are getting weaker and weaker.
Sakru put his left foot on the ground and observed the situation outside the shield wall through the gap. Suddenly he roared and hit the shield surface with the double-edged ax in his right hand.
Fifteen soldiers shouted in unison.
Sixteen shields flipped forward from bottom to top, and the closest member of the believer group was instantly knocked to the ground. Then the long sword and ax blade fell from the air, their stomachs were disemboweled, and their bodies were separated.
"Hoim!"
There was another loud roar.
The shield wall moved forward one meter, and there was another shield attack and slashing, and limbs and blood were splashed again.
The morale of the believers began to decline. Some people were still holding on, while others chose to retreat.
Realizing that the halberd array in front of him had become sparse, the pirate leader raised the huge double-edged ax in his hand and slashed with all his strength. An enemy standing in front of him was cut in half from the waist.
The morale of the believers completely collapsed. Everyone dropped their weapons and fled deeper into the forest. This move caused the militia to join the escape team.
"Orha!"
Thakru moved his shield to his side, and the ax blade in his hand pointed straight forward.
The fifteen soldiers wiped the blood from their faces, removed the shield wall, stood in a row, and began to attack forward.
The roles of attack and defense were suddenly reversed. The attacker a few minutes ago became the target of slaughter. The battlefield was like Shura Purgatory, a mess.
Huggins and the Holy See Knights stood up.
A knight wearing plate armor put down the visor on his helmet, holding a heraldic shield in one hand and a one-handed hammer in the other, and faced the pirate. He first resisted the opponent's long sword attack with his shield, and then
A sudden kick forward, the steel greaves hit the pirate without any defense.
On the knee of the protective measure, the opponent screamed and fell to his knees. Then, the knight turned the one-handed hammer over and hit the injured person's chin with force, smashing the opponent's mandible into the skull.
.The other party didn’t even make a sound and turned directly into a corpse.
Seeing this scene, Saklu let out an angry roar, the sound was so loud that even Todd, who was a hundred meters away, was frightened.
I saw the pirate leader taking off his helmet and clothes. His body was covered with scars and was glowing with a strange red color.
A few seconds later, something happened that shocked everyone.
The blood vessels on Saklu's body became thicker and pulsating, the muscles of his body expanded rapidly, and his limbs, hands and feet gradually became larger. His originally tall figure actually grew larger again. The originally enlarged double-edged ax seemed to be in his hands.
Shrunk to normal size.
The remaining pirates backed away in fear, shouting that the evil spirit was coming.
Huggins turned back and looked at Todd, both of them with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
The latter used the power of perspective to look at the pirate's body. Sure enough, a leech-like parasite was entrenched in his adrenal gland, just like the situation with Little Jerry, except that the parasite in the pirate's body was larger.
It grew a lot, about thirty centimeters long, and even evolved vertebral spines and tail needles.
Sakru kicked off his feet hard, and the ice cubes on the forest floor flew into the air with a huge force brought by his heels.
His body was like a cannonball, hitting the knight's shield. The latter was directly knocked into the air, and the shield came out of his hand. Sakru took a step forward, and the giant ax in his hand struck head-on, and the knight's single
The hammer was sent flying far away. Seeing that the second attack was about to fall, the knight closed his eyes in despair.
A crossbow arrow accurately pierced the pirate's chest with the sound of piercing the air.
The attack that should have passed through the body was stuck directly inside due to the swollen muscles.
Walton slowly put down the crossbow, looked at the violent giant in the distance, and said to himself in surprise: "Is this... is this body still a human being?"
Alfonso De Cabo was wearing heavy chain armor, holding up a two-handed sword, and jumped up from the ground, looking like an eagle about to pounce.
The sword blade and the ax body struck together, and the sharp and piercing sound of impact spread throughout the forest, causing the resting birds to flutter their wings and scatter.
Sacru turned the handle of the ax and made a horizontal slash. The wind pressure from the ax body knocked away the snow several meters away and started to flutter. Alfonso kicked off the tree trunk with his heel, bending his body to form an inseparable shape.
Possible arc, in a way that completely violates common sense of physics, to avoid this attack.
The two of them fought together, and every time their swords crossed each other, sparks flew everywhere, and every time their figures crossed each other, the ground shook and dust rose.
Sacru represents the ultimate strength, while Alfonso possesses perfect combat skills.
Todd opened his mouth wide and looked at the battle in front of him. He could only think of four words in his mind: "Fairy fight."
Taking advantage of this gap, Huggins cooperated with several other knights to resist the attacks of the remaining pirates and gradually took control of the situation. The militia groups and believers who retreated in disarray saw the balance of the battle tip to their own side.
Also returned to the fight.
Finally, the battle is over.
From start to finish, it lasted a full hour.
Twenty-seven people from the church died in the battle and 11 were seriously injured. The casualties were mainly members of the believers and militia groups. Only one of the Holy See knights was seriously injured. After treatment, fortunately, he was not seriously injured.
Six pirates were killed in the battle and ten were arrested. Among those arrested was the pirate leader Sakru, who fell to the ground after the rampage period ended and the parasite fell into sleep.