Alien Knights

On May 9, 1172, Beishi Fortress, Yin.

"I've never seen so many enemies in my life..."

Hearing the discussions around him, Huggins tightly grasped the stone stacks of the fortress wall with both hands, without saying a word.

Dark clouds blocked the light, and strong winds kicked up dust. On the plain less than three kilometers away from the gate of the fortress, there were densely packed barbarian soldiers and the Silver Ring Allied Forces, like a dark carpet covering the land, and it was impossible to see the end at a glance.

On the city wall, Huggins and several commanders of the Muxi Knights stood on the top of the tower with the best view, observing every move on the battlefield.

The Longbows and Crossbowmen squatted behind the battlements, taking out the arrows soaked in horse manure one by one and placing them neatly. The heavy infantry finally confirmed the reliability of the equipment. They hammered the rivets of the shield handles, checked the hooks at the armor joints, and repeatedly rubbed the handles of longswords, flails and other weapons with lime.

The "Successor Scout" team responsible for detecting the enemy's situation returned. There were three people who went out, and only one person when they came back. Moreover, this survivor lost his left eye and was covered in blood.

"My lord, I'm back..."

Huggins frowned at the scout's horror: "What's going on? You were discovered by the enemy?!"

The scout leader, who lost one eye, relied on the support of his companions to keep him from falling. He said weakly, "We were not found when we were outside the enemy's camp. When we passed through the front line of defense and approached the central army, we suddenly heard the howling of wolves. The next second, bows and arrows covered where we were. The enemy saw through our "mimesis" camouflage and chased us for a full six kilometers. I was the only one who came back alive."

Huggins looked solemn, and asked again: "Tell me all the information you have found."

The scout said intermittently: "The enemy army has a total of about 5,000 people. In addition to the Yinhuan North and South Legion, there are also twenty-six barbarian tribes... I heard the enemy repeatedly mention their commander, a strange name-"Kuran's Vicious Dog". Apart from this, we have not found any more information...

Huggins nodded, and said to the monk accompanying the army behind him, "Take him down to heal his injuries."

He watched the scouts leave the city wall with the support of the monks. Huggins looked at the bloodstains left on the ground, thought for a while, and then refocused his gaze on the enemy camp in the distance.

A wing commander walked up to him and reminded: "The original intelligence said that the enemy army had 3,200 soldiers, but now it has become 5,000. The ratio of the number of enemy soldiers to our soldiers has become 3:1. This is not a good thing."

"'Kulan's Vicious Dog', have you heard of this man?"

Huggins' sudden question stunned the wing commander, who shook his head and replied, "I was under Cumberland, and I fought against the barbarians in the north for six years, 'Kuran's Vicious Dog'? I have never heard of this man. Maybe he is a crown prince from the barbarian kingdom who came to the battlefield to gild the battlefield. After all, he is just a nobody."

Huggins, who had been away from the northern battlefield for a long time, naturally couldn't refute after hearing this. He was just about to persuade the other party to be careful when a warning call came from the watchtower, which attracted his attention.

"The enemy is approaching!"

Huggins withdrew his gaze and looked towards the enemy formation in the distance.

The front line of the enemy army, about 400 people, adopted a loose formation, raised their shields and weapons, formed a "long line of formation", and slowly marched towards Beishi Fortress.

Huggins put his finger in his mouth and dipped it, then raised it above his head, and the wind pressure in the air made him nod.

The wing commander looked at him and said, "Northern wind, coupled with this wind speed, our arrows will shoot farther and have stronger penetrating power because of the wind! The enemy is just a group of uncivilized barbarians. They don't even understand such a simple principle as observing the wind direction on the battlefield."

Huggins looked at the distance between the soldiers in the front line of the enemy army, and using the ability of "Honeycomb", he ordered to the wing commander behind the city wall: "The Longbow Regiment cancels the lob fire and uses flat fire, and the "Successor Sniper Crossbowmen" can freely lock the enemy commander, give up the outer attack line, and put the enemy on the middle attack line. Pay attention to the hit rate, save ammunition, and wait for my order!"

As the enemy's front line gradually approached, Huggins felt more and more uneasy.

The enemy's actions completely violated the basic tactics of the attacking side.

Common siege troops are generally divided into several batches, with heavy infantry covering in the front row, light infantry setting up ladders and climbing ropes, and crossbowmen shooting in the rear for cover. However, since the 400 people in the enemy's front line left the formation, the Chinese army has never followed up with any reinforcements. This is completely alone.

When the enemy got closer, Huggins finally saw the enemy's true face.

What kind of army is this? It's just a group of villagers wearing simple leather armor, holding wooden shields and rusty swords!

There are old people with white beard and hair who can't even walk steadily, women who don't cover their clothes with only despair in their eyes, and even half-grown children who are a little ignorant and timid.

"The people in front are civilians from the Holy Acropolis, and the people behind them are the barbarian warlords... I finally understand where the extra 'soldiers' from the enemy come from!" A group leader standing beside Huggins said dumbfounded.

Someone scolded loudly: "Treat civilians as human shields! These monsters are inferior to beasts! Heavenly Father, send down the Holy Judgment!"

At this moment, the sentinel on the watchtower loudly reminded: "The enemy has entered the attack line in the middle circle!"

Huggins was stunned, his eyes under the steel helmet stared at the "enemy army" who was getting closer and closer, but the order to attack was delayed.

"Sir, open the city gate and let our knights attack! As long as we eliminate those supervising troops, we can save these civilians!"

"Look at the cavalry from the enemy army in the distance. As long as we dare to open the city gate, they will be able to swarm up and attack the fortress while taking advantage of the chaos!"

"We can only defeat the enemy's supervisory team, and then disperse these civilians, so that there will be enough time to close the city gate!"

"Don't be kidding! During the melee, these civilians must want to enter the fortress, how to disperse them then?!"

While everyone in the Muxi Knights was arguing endlessly, Huggins found the captain of the "Successor Sniper Crossbowmen" and asked him, "If you only snipe and kill the barbarian warlords without harming civilians, can you do it?"

The latter shook his head: "It's hard to tell the difference. If you really do it, there will definitely be accidental injuries."

While Huggins was still weighing, the sentinel shouted again: "The enemy has entered the inner circle attack line!"

There is no time to hesitate anymore, the wall-breaking hammer carried by the enemy will soon approach the city gate, Huggins ordered to the "Successor Sniper Crossbowman": "Attack!"

The sniper crossbowmen set up long crossbows on the city wall, and the iron bolts pierced through the attackers in front of the enemy army, and one enemy after another fell under the city wall. The civilians started to run away, and the supervisor team jumped out and yelled loudly while swinging their axes to maintain the front line, but they didn't know that such actions just made themselves a target.

Soon, after the warlords in the enemy's front line were exhausted, the remaining civilians dropped their weapons and fled around the fortress's walls into the distance.

At this time, Huggins finally breathed a sigh of relief, smelling the lingering bloody smell at the foot of the city wall in his nose, but thinking about a question in his mind.

Why did the enemy send these 400 people forward when the north wind blows? Such a small number of troops can't pose any threat to the fortress at all, the only thing they can do is one thing - die.

Isn't that weird?

While he was still thinking hard, there was a new change in the enemy's formation.

"The enemy has retreated!"

What? !

Hearing the call of the watchmen, the first thing Huggins did was to doubt his ears. He hurried to the edge of the city wall and looked out, and saw a scene that he couldn't understand.

It's not to lure the enemy, nor is it to run away. The enemy is indeed retreating in an orderly manner.

However, although it was a retreat, the enemy chose to leave lightly, and the camp stayed where it was, without moving supplies, tents, and fortifications.

Things are getting weirder.

Huggins clearly understood that there must be something wrong here, but no matter how hard he thought about what the problem was, he was at a loss.

The enemy retreated very quickly. In the blink of an eye, apart from the dozen or so soldiers left in the enemy camp, the most conspicuous thing was a row of huge iron cages covered by canvas.

Huggins found the "Successor Scout" with "Eagle Eyes" and asked loudly, "Tell me, what's going on there?!"

The scout tried his best to look far away, and while looking at the enemy's camp, he said, "Those who stay behind don't look like barbarians or Silver Ring soldiers. They don't have armor and weapons, and their clothes are worn out. They look a bit like captives...Hmm? Wait, they seem to have walked to the door of those cages."

An anxious Huggins urged, "What's next?"

"Father above!"

The scout, who was greatly frightened, fell to the ground, pointed at the enemy camp in the distance, and said incoherently: "Monster! The monster is eating people!"

Huggins grabbed the scout by the collar and shouted, "What's going on?!"

"Those people opened the iron cage, and many terrifying monsters came out of it! They tore those people into pieces and swallowed them in an instant!" The pale-faced scout slowly moved his gaze from Huggins' face to the distance, his lips trembling, his teeth chattering: "Look... look... Those monsters finished eating people and looked at us! They are coming!"

Huggins let go of the scout, allowing him to fall to the ground. He didn't need the other party to speak, he could already see those "monsters" approaching in the distance.

A five-meter-long strange bird with bat-like wings; a crocodile with two horns on its head and a steel armor that emits poisonous gas; a giant wolf covered in bone spurs that can easily smash into rocks.

Attack at the time of the north wind, send troops to die, smell the blood of the dead, temporarily retreat the barbarians, leave behind strange iron cages, and finally, release these bloodthirsty and cannibal "monsters".

I see.

Huggins drew out the long sword at his waist, and the anxiety and fear in his voice were unprecedented.

"Music Knights! Meet the enemy! 』