《blood tax》Chapter VII Convulsion
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What should I do?Don't you want to try again?Griffith hid in the darkness and watched the silent darkness outside the village.
Goblin has good night vision. If they want to continue to fight after the first round of attack is defeated, they will not choose the main gate, but climb over the wall to attack. However, more than 100 goblin have died here. What reason does goblin outside the wall have to attack?
In order to plunder livestock, food and population, the attacked ethnic groups will definitely withdraw and will not take the risk of the rest of the people. Maintaining the survival of the ethnic groups is the first priority of biology.
"Griffith, they're moving!"Watching from the wall, galadiya suddenly whispered, "there are hundreds of them. They are going south. They may want to jump over the fence from the unprotected place."
What?How is that possible?
This is very strange. Goblins' oil like tactics will only cause casualties to the village and themselves. What is the significance of this?
Have they reached the point where they will destroy their families if they do not attack the villages?Or the size of the ethnic group is so large that it can ignore hundreds of casualties!
As there is no time to think about this issue for a long time, Griffith left some villagers to guard the main gate, and he and galadiya together with some of the militia blocked the way toward goblin.
The goblins were panting after running for a distance. They chose a small section of the wall, put up a ladder and began to climb over it. After crossing the wall, they put down the rope and slid down the wall.
They can build ladders!Griffith was more shocked when he saw goblin's action from the roof of the fence.
They moved very quickly in the dark, and in a flash a dozen of them crossed the wall of the village and entered the inner side.
"Don't move. Wait until they come in," Griffith reached out to stop the eager militia.His plan was to wait for half of the goblins to enter the village before attacking.
Over the wall of goblin did not even immediately start, standing in place seems to be waiting for something.
Waiting for the goblin warrior?Griffith looked back at the nearby roof, where Galatia was lying in ambush.
With the help of Sprite shooting, I can deal with even goblin warriors.Griffith looked at the beautiful bow and felt a little more at ease.
Just then, a lot of dark things were thrown in from outside the wall.Goblins picked up the objects they had thrown in and gathered under the corner.
Before Griffith could understand, several burning torches were thrown over the wall.The goblins immediately picked up and ignited the objects in their hands.
All the things thrown over were torches!
The goblins, unexpectedly armed in one hand and torches in the other, howled and scattered to set fire to the village houses.
"Stop it!"The militiamen jumped up and charged to the enemy with their weapons.
"Don't disperse!"Griffith cried out in a hurry, "the shield is pressed against the shield. Don't spread it!"
But no one listened to him.All we care about is that the houses in the village are on fire.
"Kill them!"Manisa's militia leader led the charge with a shield and an iron sword.The battle just now clearly shows that goblin's combat effectiveness is very weak. In the case of one-on-one, he is not the opponent of adult men at all.
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The militiamen wielded his iron sword and knocked down a goblin. He swung his shield half round like Griffith, smashing another enemy's brain.
No problem!I'm strong. These little monsters are not my match.The militiamen captain watched goblin's brain mixed with blood spatter, and his nervous heart relaxed a lot.
"Watch your step down!"
Before the militia leader could understand the meaning of this sentence, a small goblin had already jumped from his feet, with a sharp knife in his hand.
Griffith rushed to help and stabbed goblin.But the militia leader shook and fell to the ground, convulsing violently among the bodies of goblin.
It's hopeless. Griffith fought back and retreated under a wall.Over his head, galadiya was shooting plumes, knocking down goblin, who was pouring in like a cockroach.
More and more goblin reinforcements came over, over the fence to join the scuffle.Goblin, who joined later, didn't hold a torch. The arson just now seems to be a tactic of their own.
As the goblins had already thrown torches at houses in the distance, a dozen militiamen under the wall were besieged from all directions in the dim light.From time to time, someone was hamstrung or broken knee, fell to the ground, and then was beaten to death.
The obstruction of Griffith's plan went bankrupt.
"Come closer to me! Back to the wall!"The trainee Knights yelled, trying to save the impending collapse of the Manisa militia.
But the villagers quickly collapsed in the fierce fighting.After feeling that there were enemies running around him and his friends were constantly injured and fell to the ground, many of the militia lost their weapons and did not know where they had gone.
In this kind of scuffle, the bloodthirsty goblin became more crazy.After knocking down a villager, they rush in, cheering and pounding victims with sticks and stones.Some of them even started eating flesh and blood directly.
"Griffith, I have only three arrows left!"Galadiya took back the bow and announced a bad news, "the militia are broken. Let's run."
Goblin in the village is fighting in groups east and West, with only a few attacking Griffith.But as the battle progressed, sooner or later, the goblins would notice the trainee knight in the open field and kill him in an overwhelming number.
"No, you can't run, or the village will be ruined!"
"If you don't run quickly, we're finished."Galadiya jumped off the roof and stood next to the trainee knight.The houses in the village were so far apart from each other that she couldn't jump on the roof.
"Then let's shift the attack!"Griffith turned and ran towards the two besieged militia.
Several villagers have fallen down beside the militia. If they had not been surrounded, they would have fled.
"Follow me," Griffith cut goblin in two with a sword, "follow me, and you'll live."
The frightened villagers were convinced and ran with Griffith to another spot of scuffle.There, three wounded militiamen are being rounded up by seven or eight goblins.
"Give it to me!"Galadiya pulled out two sliver edged sliver blades from her waist. She appeared behind goblin in a flash, waving two knives and spinning.
Three or four goblins, like seedlings swept by a storm, fell to the ground in unison.The rest of the goblin has not responded, Griffith has rushed to kill them.
This attracted most of goblin's eyes in the scuffle.As soon as they saw that there were seven people gathered here, they screamed and killed them from all directions.
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"Go back to that alley and I'll cover you!"Griffith, who had gathered up five militiamen, held his shield against goblin's attack, covering their retreat towards an alley.
Unexpectedly, this retreat is out of control.Three of the militiamen who had just been rescued lost their weapons and fled without trace, waving their arms.The remaining two, with a look of trepidation and hesitation, obeyed Griffith's command.
"Don't run! This is your village, where can you run! ~" the anxious galadiya and Griffith kept a distance of two meters to cover his right side and gave a fatal blow to Goblin, who was encircling him.When the silver knife is wielded, it is as beautiful as dancing under the falling cherry trees.
For a moment, Griffith was attracted by the sword technique of galadiya's dancing steps, and was almost intoxicated with the beautiful picture.The effect seems to work not just for Griffith, but for goblin, who tried to besiege Galatia, he was dizzy and slowed down.
Griffith, with the two remaining militiamen, retreated into the lane before he could make a foothold.This lane is connected by the wall of many courtyards, which can only let two people pass side by side, and it will not be surrounded by goblin in a short time.
"Hold on here," Griffith stood firm in the direction of goblin's attack. In a flash, a large group of goblins, who had already tasted human blood, waved their long and short weapons and pressed down on the trainee Knights like a huge wave.
One by one, the goblin's eyes were red with blood, and their sharp teeth cracked open to make a itching sound.
"There are too many of them!"Galadiya was startled by the swarming enemy.The two militiamen who followed her saw the scene and screamed and ran away.
"Go to the roof, Griffith!""We can't stop it!" cried the elf Bowman
"No
Griffith was the last to step back to the entrance of the alley. He put his shield in front of him. He raised his right hand and put it on his helmet. He turned his head and said to the pale elf girl, "I'm sure I can win."
In galadiya's startled eyes, the black armor fell.The confident and firm face turned into a cold and ferocious monster.In the cracks of black iron, the blade like eyes are as strange and evil as the red moon soaked with blood.
The trainee Knight leans slightly to the left, leaving only a narrow gap on the left.His sword tilts to the right, which will be goblin's breach."Bang!"Goblin hit Griffith's shield in the narrow passage and made a dull noise.The trainee Knight's sharp sword stabbed like lightning, and killed the enemy that hit him with one blow.
Small monsters swarmed in from under the shield and the gap on the left.One of them hit his shin armor and fell to the ground. Before he could get up, his heavy iron boots were heavily trampled down. The goblin's chest collapsed on the spot.
Griffith bumps to the left, and goblin, who is just coming through the gap, is crushed into a meat pie.
Griffith, who has completed this set of movements, retreats one step backward and stabs the enemy on the right with another sword.
A large group of goblins in the back stepped on the bodies in front of them, shouting and jumping over.By this time Griffith had finished his retreat, and goblin, who had jumped up, had put his sword in the right direction.
A stone flew over and made a sound of "Dong" on the black iron helmet, which almost bounced to galadiya's face behind.The spirit saw that the trainee knight was stumbling, but immediately stabilized his body, swung his sword, and stabbed a goblin trying to get through to the ground.
The probationary Knight blocked most of the lane with his shield and broad shoulders. He hardly attacked with his sword, but kept thrusting at goblin who tried to get through the gap while retreating.
In the eyes of the crowds of goblin, although the tall man is vicious, there are gaps between his feet and his left hand, and there is a big gap on the right side. One squeeze can squeeze two goblins in, and as long as he rushes again, he will surely be killed.
Griffith fought and retreated. He bent over, his shield just against goblin's route, and even if these little creatures wanted to get in, they had to crawl down;The right hand keeps fast stabbing. When the blade pierces an unprotected body of goblin, he takes a small step back. He doesn't pursue killing on the spot, but leaves the enemy with blood splashing and screaming.
From time to time goblin was able to squeeze in and hit Griffith's leather armor or iron guard with his sharp or blunt weapon.But this kind of attack can't break through the double armor defense, and the unarmed goblin will soon be killed by the trainee Knight's counterattack.As the injured continued to fall to the ground, the narrow path was full of struggling and wailing goblin.
They screamed, grabbed the hands and feet of their companions and begged to pull themselves.
In this way, the roars of goblin are mixed with a strange sound.Goblin's attack became more and more difficult because of the wounded soldiers all over the ground.When Griffith's blade penetrated into goblin's thin body, it made a "poop" sound. As the battle went on, this strange sound continued,It's like someone is sawing wood with an old saw.
Jaradiya was stunned by the sight and couldn't help several times when she wanted to help.The trainee knight is like a reef in the strong wind and waves. He is not shaken by the endless attack.He maintained a mechanical and slightly twisted posture, and quickly reaped the enemy's life with small movements.His attack was like a millstone,There was a constant infusion of new life, and then one by one the broken limbs and thick blood smeared all over the place.
More and more goblins were attracted. They trampled on the dead or seriously injured goblin in front of them. They trudged in the blood with one foot deep and one foot shallow. They finally fell down in front of the enemy, and then they rushed to their left front and were knocked down by a sword;Or they drill into the space between the shield and the ground and the wall, and then they break the skull and smear the mud with their brains.
Once in a while, one or two goblins managed to pounce on Griffith's side, waving their weapons in disorder, and attacking the armored human beings.Griffith, unhurried, receives the attack with double armor, knocks them to the ground with his sword, and then continues to take a small step back.Although goblin was also wielding all kinds of weapons,But in the shield barrier, inferior machetes, axes and knives are difficult to penetrate the double defense of leather armor and lock armor.
In just a few minutes, Griffith was only slightly injured.He had retreated more than twenty steps into the lane, and goblin was covered with dead and wounded people all the way.Above these dead and wounded goblins, there were a mess of goblin troops.Goblin, who came up from the reinforcements, screamed as he stepped on the fallen and dying goblin,While you push me to the trainee knight.
All of a sudden, the crowded line stopped.Goblins, whose feet were full of corpses, saw the cruelty and madness in their eyes, and looked with horror at the road paved with corpses and the human beetles at the end of the road that blocked their view.
From just now on, the goblins have been pouring troops, momentum and flesh and blood here, and all the living ones have stood in the ground full of meat and blood.
"Hoo ~" a breath of hot air came out from under the black iron armor, and the goblins retreated nervously.
“Hurrah!”Griffith made a little effort, hit forward heavily with his shield, and then stabbed right in front.Two goblins fell down.Goblin, who was close behind them, fell like a fallen dominoes.
Goblin, jammed in the alleys, was shaken, and the dense ranks collapsed like rotten beams.The team that was just moving forward turned around and ran in the direction of coming.
The dense corpses and black bloodstains on the ground were just a little troublesome in the attack just now, and they have become deadly natural moats.Goblin's short leg tripped over the flesh and blood of his kind, almost unable to walk.
Griffith threw down his shield, drew out his axe from his waist, and waved it with his sword.Two storms of cold light swept over goblin's neck and smashed them to the ground one by one.
The corpse was stacked on top of it. The pus and brain were mixed.Goblin's brigade collapsed, and they ran for the exit of the lane.Many goblins tripped over the bodies on the ground, and the goblin in the back tried to climb over their heads and chests.Goblin, trampled under his feet, struggled desperately,Trying to push the same kind on top of him to escape from the pain and suffocation, he tripped more goblin to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, he blocked into a wall of flesh.
The goblin shaman saw it happen just outside the alley.He and the other lucky men were terrified.When Griffith appeared at the top of a man high corpse mound, goblin, who had not yet joined the battle, was paralyzed by fear.
"Who else?"Griffith stood on the corpse heap, panting, and drinking in a hoarse voice.At his feet, the few lucky goblins were desperately pulling themselves out of the body.
As soon as the words fell, the trainee Knight raised his iron boots and stepped on it. Goblin, who was trying to get out of the corpse, opened his mouth and spat out a mass of viscera and died on the spot.
"Who else? Is that you?"Griffith held up his bloody sword and pointed to a paralyzed goblin in front of him. His blood red eyes projected through the dark mask onto the little monster.
"Or you?"Griffith raised his axe and threw it at the stunned shaman.
There was a flash of blood, and goblin Shaman's head was split in two.The other goblins sprang up from the ground like a spring and galloped toward the village wall.
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