Chapter 92 The black snake swallows the hedgehog
“Captain Hakuto, Lord Berard is going to have a problem with us now.”
On the side of the mountain road, fifty mercenaries slowly march.
"We are from the Bai Feng mercenary group, and we are not Berard's private property. He is just our employer, and he is not the leader of the mercenary group." Hakuto looked around nonchalantly.
"What should we do now?" A younger soldier casually chopped off the long-leaf grass on the ground with a dagger.
"Looking around, I always feel something is wrong." Pushing aside the bushes in front of him, Hakuto turned to the person behind him and said, "That Cleonte is not such an unreliable person, our baby..." < br>
"Captain, be careful!"
A cold light appeared in the corner of Hakuto's eyes, and he immediately retreated, while the spear narrowly missed his lips.
Hakuto took two or three steps back, but his body still fell on his companion. He covered his mouth and nose, and blood flowed from his fingers.
"Whistling and arraying are short-haired."
Before the other mercenaries could react, soldiers in black cloaks had already filed out from behind the bushes.
They were in a panic, and their faces were obviously nervous, but they still formed an almost neat queue.
The mercenary team leaders immediately blew their whistles, and the rainwater poured into the whistles, distorting the sound.
The mercenaries in white robes who were originally scattered immediately began to gather in the center as the whistle sounded, and quickly formed a square formation.
The black hat troops flying black and red flags also blew whistles, and the small open space was instantly filled with orders and whistles.
The black hats of the three brigades formed a neat queue. The black hats standing in the first row had been equipped with four-meter-long forged spears. The two brigades still held a six-sword spear. Meter long forged spear.
The rain fell on the ground, and the rapid whistle stopped for a moment.
In this moment, the Black Hat Army and the Bai Feng mercenaries looked at each other.
The next second, the straw sandals splashed the puddles on the ground, and the muddy water stained the pants rolled up to the knees.
Three brigades of black hat troops simultaneously launched a charge against the fifty men in front of them.
The friction of the gun blade made a crackling sound, and the footsteps were as regular as the sound of rain.
The first row of Bai Feng mercenaries also raised their kite-shaped shields, and long spears passed over their shoulders and were placed on the shields, facing the direction of the Black Hat Army.
The spears were exposed in the rain, and the entire phalanx looked like a porcupine covered with spikes.
"Stand firm, stand firm." Hakuto's upper and lower lips and the tip of his nose each had a gap, and his speech began to leak.
Before he finished speaking, the black hat soldiers had already started charging in the wind and rain.
This made Hakuto couldn't believe his eyes.
The infantry who can run and attack on the battlefield are all top-notch veteran elites. They need not only discipline and trust, but the most important thing is morale that is not afraid of death.
These black hat soldiers actually, actually...
Before he could finish, one of the first row of black hat soldiers had already slipped to the ground.
On the slippery ground, like dominoes, all the black hat soldiers in the first row slipped to the ground one by one.
The black hats in the second and third rows had to stop their charge first, and then carefully pass over the fallen people.
At this time, Hakuto discovered that these black-clad soldiers would tie a rope around their waists so that they would form a neat charging formation when they charged.
But this seemed extremely stupid to him.
Because in this way, if one person falls, everyone has to help him, and it is easy to bring down the entire audience at once.
Similarly, as long as one person wants to run, everyone will be implicated, or even run together.
It was indeed an ignorant mob, and they were actually frightened at first.
Past the first row of black hats, twenty companies of black hats from the two brigades behind raised ten spears and rushed towards the spear phalanx.
"Don't move! I said don't move!" Hakuto shouted loudly, and the six-meter spears were getting closer and closer.
In the eyes of the first row of Bai Feng mercenaries, the enemy's spears were about to hit their eyeballs.
"Stab!"
Hakuto gave a leaky command, and twenty spears immediately thrust forward, one row straight and one row diagonally upward.
Two rows of spears instantly penetrated the chests of five or six black hat soldiers. Blood spurted out from the wounds, and screams immediately rang out.
The shield soldiers in the first row took out their short swords and began to deflect the spears and stab the black hats in the front row. Of course, the black hats were armed with six-meter spears, which were much longer than these spears. Two or three of them were pierced from the side of the shield or simply pierced into the shield.
In front of these veterans, they only injured their arms and other unimportant parts.
The blood immediately mixed with the rain, and flowed on the mountain road wrapped in passwords and screams.
Groups of black-clad soldiers emerged from the bushes, most of them armed with long spears or short spears, and some even only had wooden sticks, flails and pitchforks.
Among the waves of black-clothed soldiers, Hakuto even noticed with sharp eyes a group of black-clothed soldiers with red cloth tied to their arms, and even had chainmail and leather armor on their bodies.
The soldiers in black bypassed Hakuto's phalanx and tried to double-team them from both sides, but Hakuto immediately ordered a retreat and tried to retreat to the main road.
Damn the weather, there’s no way to fire an arrow to notify the people down the mountain.
Hakuto's spear phalanx fought and retreated. Neither the Black Hats nor the Guards were able to break through their spears.
Facing the hedgehog-like phalanx, from time to time someone rushed forward and tried to force a breakthrough, but in the end they could only be dragged back by the commanders of other brigades.
The soldiers in black surrounded Hakuto on three sides, moving slowly with the spear phalanx, and constantly trying to coordinate with charges and feint attacks.
Trying back a handful of gray hair that blocked his vision, Hakuto fell into anxiety.
His understanding of the tether tactics was correct, but his understanding of this group of black soldiers was wrong.
This was very different from the mobs he had seen. With these fifty people, he had killed and wounded thirty of them, but there was still no sign of defeat, not even a single deserter.
Even faced with such a scene, they actually still tried to attack instead of shrinking back.
The most important thing is that although they have insufficient training and experience, their array is very neat. This must be guided by specialized officers.
“Throwing axes, pay attention to the flying axes, avoid them!”
Hakuto’s dazed moment, two brigades of Guardsmen had already surged up, and they threw them out of their waists of throwing axes.
Twenty hatchets were spinning in the air, like moving wheels crashing into the array of these soldiers.
Hakuto raised his arm and used his small shield to deflect a hatchet, and right in front of him, a White Maple mercenary fell straight down.
The back of a flying ax hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious.
Most of the other people around me are like this, and some axes even fall on people.
Hakuto looked around, but fortunately he only injured three or five soldiers, and only the man in front of him lost his combat effectiveness.
"Drink the potion! Prepare to break out!"
Seeing more and more soldiers pouring out of the bushes, even reaching 200 people, Hakuto immediately made up his mind.
The Bai Feng mercenaries immediately took out the potion from their waists.
This is a potion specially formulated by the Kingdom Pharmacist Guild for the Bai Feng Mercenary Group. It has the effects of improving morale, stopping bleeding and relieving pain.
Under the command of Hakuto, the fifty mercenaries who were surrounded by nearly two hundred people took the potion from their waists one after another and poured it into their mouths.
Soon, their skin began to turn slightly red.
But at this moment, the besieging soldiers in black suddenly gave way to the road, and then a girl with electric light all over her body walked out from behind them.
“Witch!”
“Sun Goat, there really is a witch!”
“I thought it was some refugee rumor.”
The Bai Feng mercenaries began to curse, but Jeanna did not give them a chance.
Normally, Jeanne's lightning was always deflected by the armor, but now it was a rainy day, and these mercenaries were almost soaked to the skin.
“Zila——”
The sound of electric arc beating was heard in the air, and a pale lightning flashed across the hedgehog square.
The subtle electric arc smelled like rotten eggs. When the white light disappeared from the front of the array, centered on the lightning strike point, all five people in the radius fell heavily to the ground.
Their eyes were white, their faces were covered with bloodstains and pustules from lightning, and their hands and feet were still shaking.
When Jeanna's palms condensed with lightning again, Hakuto squeezed into the first row.
“Wait, we surrender!”
(End of this chapter)