bookbashuk Chapter 1015 - 295: Overwhelming War (10,000) (Part 4)
Chapter 1015 - 295: Overwhelming War (10,000) (Part 4)
When they saw the ground covered with dense, innumerable corpses, and smelled the stench in the air.
Their expressions changed, their eyes filled with terror.
Many of the guards and peasants couldn’t suppress their vomiting, retching up the acid from their stomachs.
Even though they were guards, trained physically, they were merely Free People.
Even if they occasionally fought in small skirmishes with bandits and had experience in killing the enemy,
they had never seen such a large-scale battlefield of flesh and blood.
The dense corpses numbered in the hundreds at least.
They nearly covered the entire clearing in front of the manor house!
Walter widened his eyes, looking straight at the guards and peasants, almost shouting as he spoke.
"Anyone who doesn’t want to die, immediately organize the defense line!"
Hearing Walter’s thunderous voice, the dazed guards and peasants finally snapped back to their senses.
They quickly responded, "Yes, Captain of the Guards, sir."
Seeing the trembling guards and peasants, Walter’s heart was full of helplessness.
Despite his strong demand, the guards and peasants began to take action.
But under that rain of arrows, the defenses in their hearts had already been breached.
At this moment, they were on the verge of collapse.
This was the oppression brought by formidable military power!
They hadn’t even attacked yet, nor engaged in close combat.
Just a high-density volley of arrows was enough to annihilate a large number of the enemy’s living forces!
As the guards and peasants were reorganizing the defense line.
Boom~ Boom~ Boom~
Loud and orderly sounds of footsteps running and the clashing of metal armor once again appeared in the distant darkness.
However.
This time, it was so clearly audible compared to the previous distant sounds.
All the guards and peasants in front of the manor house turned their gazes toward it.
Listening to this powerful and terrifying sound.
Their expressions changed, and the pressure and terror in their hearts reached a peak in that instant.
Squads of soldiers, wearing black and gray standard armor, iron helmets, and holding strange long spears several meters in length, stepped out of the darkness into their view.
With their faces obscured by iron helmets, their appearances were unclear.
Under the illumination of distant bonfires, the squads of black and gray armored soldiers looked like steel ghosts emerging from the abyss of darkness!
Marching with orderly and heavy steps, the armor reflecting cold glimmers in spots...
A voice like the command of the master of these steel ghosts sounded in the darkness.
"Charge!"
As the shouted command fell.
The steel soldiers, who had been marching uniformly, immediately quickened their pace, running towards the guards and peasants ahead.
Excited shouts and killing cries kept emanating from beneath the full iron helmets worn by the steel soldiers.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"For the Lord’s honor, for the victory of war!"
"Kill..."
Shouts, one after another, gathered together, rushing skyward like thunder.
Echoing continuously in the night sky!
Feeling that almost tangible terrifying momentum, Walter’s expression became stern.
He gripped the hilt of the longsword at his waist with his right hand, drew it sharply with the force from his arm amidst the sound of metal scraping.
Walter swung his arm suddenly, raised the longsword high, and shouted loudly.
"Everyone, follow me to meet the enemy, defend the manor!!!"
As the words fell.
Walter, without any hesitation, stepped forward, heading towards the steel soldiers charging at them.
The guards and peasants at the back showed hesitation on their faces.
The next second.
A voice full of unwillingness rang out in the crowd.
"Rather than waiting for death, let’s fight them!"
"They killed my brother, I’ll fight them to the end!"
"..."
Amidst words filled with righteous indignation.
The hesitant guards and peasants gripped their weapons and iron farm tools tightly.
They followed Walter, running towards the defense structures ahead.
But after a short while.
The two groups converged in front of the defensive structures of the manor house.
Iron weapons collided continuously, emitting crisp sounds amidst sparks flying.
At the forefront of the crowd.
They constantly wielded their longswords to fend off the nearly four-to-five-meter-long spears held by the steel soldiers!
Walter wanted to stop the steel soldiers from dismantling and removing the barricades.
But under the number and range of the steel soldiers’ spears.
The sharp and sturdy spears, thrust and retracted by the soldiers, resembled a densely growing forest.
With his lone strength, he couldn’t approach.
Moreover, in the steel soldiers’ offensive, guards and peasants kept falling.
Until the rows of barricades were removed by the steel soldiers in front.
The black and gray armored steel soldiers surged into the clearing in front of the manor house like a black flood.
In the steel soldiers’ advance.
Under the dense pressure of the spears, the guards and peasants subconsciously retreated in fear.
Despite this.
The four-to-five-meter-long spears remained deadly weapons to them!
Every time the steel soldiers thrust their spears, a circle of guards and peasants screamed and fell.
Only to be trampled underfoot by the advancing steel soldiers in the end...
Walter’s heart was full of despair; he wanted to change the situation.
But under the overwhelming numbers of steel soldiers, under the pressure of the spears, he couldn’t think of any way to change the situation!