Chapter 9: The Expected Ambush
Looking at Klose on the back of a spider, Jessica, the consultant spy, already felt that her brain was not enough.
Why does this bastard always bring back some "surprises" everywhere he goes, oh no, it would be more appropriate to use "scare".
Could it be that this illegitimate son has been pretending to be a pig when he was in the imperial city?
Jessica bit her lower lip and quietly emitted a ray of white light from her sleeve when others weren't looking.
This is the magical spirit she uses exclusively to deliver messages.
No matter where they are, this kind of elf will find a way back and return to its master.
At the same time, intelligence and information are brought back to the owner.
It can be said that it is a means of transmitting news that is more commonly used by the upper echelons of the Lane Continent.
Only this time, not long after the news elf flew out of Jessica's cuff, it was glued to a spider web, and no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free.
"Hehe~ Dear Klose, I didn't expect you to be a master of space magic? It's amazing! ”
King Huboru rode a long-haired fanged pig and walked beside Klose.
Klose's old face flushed at the compliment, but then he returned to normal.
"Hehehe~ I've learned a little, it's a little meaning~ It's you, King Hu Bolu, your mount is really... It's different. ”
"Hey friend, just call me Poru, since we're friends now, there's no need to see each other so much~"
"Okay then, Poru~ I have a question I've been wanting to ask you."
"Ask."
"You... How did he become the king of this group of black iron dwarves? That's abnormal, isn't it? ”
Yes, how can a dwarf become the king of the dwarves? It's weird enough.
Hu Bolu pointed at himself and said proudly: "That's because I brought them advanced technology and tools~ Although the black iron dwarves are rude, there is one thing that is good, that is, they advocate the strong!" No matter what, as long as they think you are better than them, they will obey you, even if you are farther away than them~~"
"It's... What a bunch of unpretentious dwarves..."
Klose said.
Passing through the fireside mines and groves, Klose's growing group once again reached the flat carriageway.
Klose thinks that he is already so far away from the imperial city, there shouldn't be any danger, right?
But the reality is often so unexpected, the day after they left the furnace mine, they encountered their first ambush since their departure!
It was a sunny day, and the cloudless sky was blue like a backdrop, which made people feel unreal.
Klose lay flat on Meloyd's back with his hands on his back.
Night Breeze and Little Lisa are on the left and right, the former gently shaking the folding fan for him, and the latter clenching his little fist and pounding his master's legs.
That cozy appearance, it's almost dragged home!
But suddenly, the Dark Elf's Night Wind pointed ears twitched slightly, and then she straightened up alertly.
Immediately after, Meloyd the Spider also stopped, and then Captain Kreit.
"No... There was a tremor from the ground..."
Krett jumped off his horse and prostrate himself on the ground with his ears on the ground.
After a while, his face changed greatly, and he immediately shouted, "Young master! There is danger! All of them! Defensive formations! ”
As soon as Krett gave the order, the twenty-man convoy immediately went into action.
The soldiers turned their horses' heads and surrounded their masters in the center with their horses.
A team of ten of them knelt on the ground with a shield in hand, while the spear in the other hand protruded far from the gap in the shield, forming a simple gun formation.
Klose hid behind Meloyd, looking around a little confused.
"It's... What happened? ”
Night Wind frowned and looked at the far end of the road, and said softly: "It's cavalry, cavalry with a murderous aura.... My dear, I'm afraid this is for you. ”
"Huh?"
Klose slowly crouched down with his teeth gritted, he only came back to his senses now, and the queen didn't seem to be ready to let go of herself at all.
But this time Klose guessed wrong.
As the sound of horses' hooves in the distance drew nearer, Captain Krett shouted, "Attention, everyone! Gold crocodile emblem! That's Duke Philip's cavalry! ”
Duke Philip?
Klose recalled in his mind that it turned out that he wanted to stab himself to death in the first place!
It turned out that after Philip was driven away by the king in the imperial city, he took advantage of the mobility of his cavalry and made a detour to the place where Klose's fiefdom must pass.
In fact, he had already pounced twice in a row before this, and he didn't expect this damn bastard to enter the Whispering Forest and the Fireside Mine, which also made his ambush plan more than ten days later than originally planned.
"Boom Boom~"
The sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground was getting closer, and Klose could already see that it was a cavalry of about two hundred men heavily armed!
"Everyone is ready ~~~"
Captain Krett dropped the visor from his helmet and joined the ranks of the soldiers with a spear.
But the defensive formation of more than 20 people, in front of more than 200 cavalry, is really like a flat boat, and it feels like a wave will capsize.
Beside Klose, the Dark Elf Nightwind had begun to whisper a spell.
Meloyd, the demon spider, also spat out some spider silk and didn't know how to defend it.
King Huboru, who was riding a pig, leaned against the spider with two dwarves beside him.
Since the Black Iron Dwarves still had a lot of scraps and equipment to be removed from the furnace mine, Hu Bolu only took two people to set off first, and the large army did not know if they had left or not.
Duke Philip's cavalry team was menacing, and he didn't even have the intention of saying a word, so he directly turned on the charge mode.
Klose felt that such a move did not seem to fit the routine operation of a villain, shouldn't the villain be forced for two hours before the fight?
"Raise the gun~!"
At Kret's command, the twenty-man escort stretched out their spears forward again and lowered their center of gravity, ready to meet the cavalry attack.
Although the spear formation will have some natural advantages against cavalry, at this time, the difference between the number of the enemy and us is large, and the role of the spear formation is very limited.
"Boom~"
The enemy cavalry continued to accelerate, and the knights running in the first row suddenly raised their long knights' spears!
"Oops!"
Kreit cursed because he saw that the other party's knight's spear was longer than his own!
That's pretty damn!
The cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers in charge of the defense couldn't help but shout loudly to cheer themselves on.
However, just ten seconds before the cavalry was about to crash into the defensive formation, the magic that the Dark Elf Night Wind had been gathering momentum had already taken shape!
"Zangaralu~~~ Spirituality!"
"Hum~"
With the dark elf's movements, a black ripple began to spread rapidly forward in the air!
These black ripples also piggyback on the other party when they passed by the local knight, causing the other party to lose his mind for a few seconds.
Despite the large number of cavalry on the opposing side, the effect of area control magic is limited.
But on the battlefield where the two armies are fighting, these seconds are crucial!
The cavalrymen in charge of the charge lost their minds for a moment, and their spears hung downward.
The cavalry, which had lost the advantage in the length of its weapons, was also fierce in terms of charging speed.
Yes, this dementorship works on horses as well.
The cavalry in the front decreased sharply, but the cavalry in the back continued to advance at full speed.
What will happen in this case is already obvious.
That's "tail-gating".
The formation of the "golden crocodiles" was chaotic, and several cavalrymen even fell off their horses in the crowd.
At the same time, Meloyd the Spider also moved.
I saw that she spit out a lot of spider silk, and with eight spider legs, she braided those silk threads slightly, and processed them into simple tripwires.
"Puff puff~"
Spider silk was sprayed out one after another, specifically at the legs of the horsemen.
This also made the already somewhat chaotic cavalry phalanx even more crowded.
"Now is the time! Spike! ”
Seeing that the cavalry charge on the opposite side was greatly reduced, and the man fell to the ground on his back.
As the captain of the Guards, Krett would not let go of such a good opportunity.
The twenty-man escort, under Kret's command, pierced their spears into the enemy's body.
The cavalry that fell to the ground was not even as good as the infantry, and they were all turned into lambs to the slaughter, and they were skewered into "lamb skewers" one by one.
On the enemy side, after the failure of the cavalry charge in the front row, the enemy decisively abandoned the frontal breakthrough and split into two instead, outflanking Klose's squad.
"Ten people! Go and protect the young master! ”
Kreit left ten men behind, and he himself led the other ten towards Klose.
The enemy's cavalry wanted to surround Klose's squad, and at this moment the cavalry running in front of the two wings had rushed to Meloyd's front.
But Meloyd is the existence of a former demon king no matter what, and he is still at ease in the face of a few cavalry who have not charged.
Meloyd's spider silk kept being thrown, and the cavalry that surrounded him fell off their horses, unable to move by the tough spider silk.
The dark energy in the palms of the night wind also flickered, and black energy balls were fired by her like cannonballs.
Once these black energy balls hit a knight or a war horse, they will instantly disintegrate the opponent's defense and mobility, and the disability rate is terrifying.
Klose hugged Meloyd's waist tightly and looked at the battle scene with some horror.
He had never seen a dead man before, let alone so many dead in front of him!
The knights, who were crushed under their horses or companions, were pierced into a sieve with spears by the soldiers of the convoy.
He also saw a soldier of the escort team, who was unable to dodge, and his entire arm was cut off by the opponent's cavalry with a sword!
There was blood everywhere, there was roaring everywhere.
Only then did Klose slowly realize that the world he had traversed was not a fairy tale world, it was as cruel and realistic as any adult world!
"Stop.... Stop it.... Stop.... Stop it.... Stop it!!! ”
A hysterical, deafening roar emanated from Klose's throat!
Both sides of the battle were frightened by the thunderous voice.
Everyone stopped and turned their gaze to the source of the sound.
Klose gasped, trying to straighten his body.
He gritted his teeth and said, "That's enough.... Enough of this pointless fight! What about Philip? If that coward has a kind, let him find me to fight it alone! Don't cower behind the soldiers, like a parasite between the teeth of a sperm whale! ”
"Whew~"
Klose adjusted his breathing to try to get his voice to everyone's ears.
"Listen to me! My dwarven allies are on their way here! I don't want to have any more senseless casualties among soldiers on both sides! You go back and tell Philip.... I'm waiting for him in Eagle Stream Canyon, and if you want to take my life, I'll be with you at any time! ”
After Klose finished speaking, he didn't care whether the knights on the other side could understand it or not.
He just jumped off the spider's back and took little Lisa with him and began to bandage the wounds of the wounded.
He took out a lot of hemostatic medicine and bandages from the supermarket and tied the stump of the soldier whose arm had been cut off.
He's not a doctor, and that's all he can do.
Luckily, Nightwind followed in time, and this dark elf mage was not only a natural dark magician, but she also used some of the more common healing techniques.
The knights who were still on their horses looked at me and I looked at you, and at last they all looked at the same person.
The knight was clearly the leader of the cavalry.
The man was wearing a helmet and visor, and he couldn't make out his expression.
But after a few seconds of silence, the man gave the order to retreat.
This group of knights was unexpectedly well-trained.
They retreated no more slowly than they had attacked.
What is even more commendable is that they did not leave behind any of their dead or wounded comrades, but took them all back.
When Hu Bolu saw that the enemy had really retreated, he thought it was incredible.
But the majesty that Klose exuded at that moment just now cannot be faked, it is the domineering spirit of a king that only the king of the Mandate of Heaven can have!
"Tut-tut... It's amazing... An illegitimate child with the air of a king? This world... It's going to be lively again..."