Chapter 15: The Sword and the Arrow and the Night

"Lord Gungnir----, can we really defeat them ---------"

Looking at the approaching fleet of Saxons, the leader of the soldiers standing beside Qing. A young man named Ake asked with a little trembling a little that in front of him, the person he regarded as an idolatrous, a man like a giant, a hero who had caused countless legends since five years ago

"Yes! Yes! We can beat them, and we can beat them up and tell their mom to go back home! ”

Qing patted the young soldiers around him heavily, although Qing's age may be much younger than these soldiers, but the kind of old-fashioned and cheerful he exudes, talking and laughing, will make people feel that the person in front of him is the same feeling as a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, it is because this temperament is well covered, Qing is actually just a teenager who has almost just passed the coming-of-age ceremony

At this time, Qing Zheng used jokes that could make people feel light, encouraging the nervous soldiers in front of them, cheering them up, and the atmosphere of the soldiers was also relaxed because of Qing's infection, so that they would not cause too many casualties due to panic caused by excessive tension in the battle after the meeting!

"That's it! That's the end of the joke. Ake, are you ready for everything I asked you to prepare? ----“

Qing clapped his hands to end the soldier's laughter, replaced it with a high momentum, and asked the captain of the soldier beside him

"Yes, sir! For the blessing of the people of the city, the two thousand arrows you asked for have all been wrapped in sackcloth, and now let the soldiers light them? “

Young Ake obviously has not been baptized by war, and he still has no good control of tactics

"No, not now, wait for them to get closer-----"

Qing looked at the fleet slowly approaching in the distance, his left hand grasped tightly, the sword hanging on the left side of his body, a trace of sweat came out of the palm of his hand, this is also the first time Qing led a soldier to fight

The Saxon fleet is approaching! 400 yards, 300 yards, 200 yards, 150 yards. It's time! This voice appeared in Qing's heart

"Soldiers! The time has come! Light the arrows on fire for me, and let them know how cool the waters are in the early spring! ------“

Saying that, the 100 soldiers beside Qing immediately picked up the ignited arrows and released them, then took a step back, let the 100 soldiers behind him take a step forward and release the arrows, took the arrows that had been lit behind him, took the bow, and just finished shooting the first 100 soldiers, and started forward to continue shooting. The first 200 men are divided into two rows and continue to fire arrows, while the last 100 people light the arrows and hand them to the soldiers who have finished firing the arrows

The Saxon soldiers who were exposed to the rain of flames and arrows, because they were sitting in small boats and had a small movable area, had to take out their shields to block the arrows fired from afar, but they might be able to block the arrows fired at themselves, but they could not block the rockets fired at the boat, maybe they could pull out the rockets tied to the boat, but the continuous rain of arrows only made them take care of themselves

The fire in the boat is getting bigger and bigger, and they have no choice but to either burn with the boat or jump into the sea to survive. But after jumping into the water, they faced a huge crisis, in the early spring, the ice and snow had just passed, and the still cold sea water stimulated their nerves, and they could only sadly watch their comrades slowly sink to the bottom of the sea because of foot spasms-----

However, soldiers who were able to swim because they were in good health and avoided spasms would have to retreat again by taking off their armor and weapons because of the heavy burden of wearing them and hanging their weapons, which would make them swim to the shore again

Now, the arrows in Qing's hands have been used up as soon as possible, on the other hand, there are less than 1,000 Saxon soldiers left from the original 2,3,000 people, and the rest are some people who have discarded their weapons and armor in the icy water, and they are swimming towards this side under the [desire] of survival, and they basically have no strength to fight when they go ashore, so Qing did not order the soldiers to release arrows at them

Looking at the extremely depressed Saxons in front of him, Qing knew that in this landing battle, the balance of victory had tilted in favor of the town defenders, if nothing else, this town should be defended!

"Ak, you go and get a few people to bring those surviving Saxons, and remember not to hurt them if it's not necessary!"

Seeing that the Saxon soldiers who had fallen into the water had swam to the shore and fell to the ground, the 1000 Saxon soldiers in the distance stopped at sea and hesitated, Qing turned to the Ake soldiers and commanded

"Yes! Lord Gungnir! Sur, Mako, Edge, Steot--- come with me-----"

Now the soldiers guarding the city beside Qing, looking at Qing's eyes are full of high respect, a great knight who only led 400 of them and wiped out nearly 2,000 Saxon soldiers on the enemy, his legend can't be made up casually by others, only after really seeing it, I know that this is not a dream, our homeland is defended! I can show off my glorious achievements in front of my wife and children

"Ahem! Get me serious! Although we have just won a small victory in this war, the real battle is yet to come. Behold, the Saxon fleet is coming here, we have run out of arrows, and we will face a bitter battle of varying numbers. We can't go back! Because our relatives are in the rear, we will be the last bulwark to protect this home-------"

Qing slowly drew his sword and pointed it at the intruder who was coming quickly, telling about the upcoming battle, the light of the sun had sunk, and the moonlight began to appear------------------------------------------------------------