Alien Knights

"Am I dreaming?!"

Garcia, standing on the top of the mountain, looked at the black dragon slowly falling from the sky, his legs were weak, he knelt down on the ground, and murmured, "This is the messenger of God!"

Eleanor pressed her chest lightly, her face flushed, and she whispered, "What a beautiful creature, this is my dream!"

On the plain of the mountain behind Lonely Rock City, Cumberland, who was riding on a war horse, slowly lifted the mask on his head, pointed his bloodstained lance at the ground, and let the corpse hanging on it fall to the ground.

Seeing the figure in the sky spread out its dragon wings, and listening to the thunderous roar of the dragon, he opened his mouth wide and said to himself, "My God!"

The giant dragon flicked its tail and hit the watchtower of the royal city. The towering building broke from it and fell to the imperial army below.

The soldiers who woke up like a dream, cried and dropped the weapons in their hands, desperately dodged the collapsed buildings, fled the royal city in a swarm, and ran towards the inner city on the mountainside.

With a pale face, Yilam took out the musket in his waist and shouted at the deserters: "Don't run away! Come back to me!"

No one obeyed his orders, even the most loyal soldiers, faced with the behemoth in front of them, the only choice they made was to survive.

The black dragon flapped its wings, flew from the top of the royal city into the air, then swooped down, and began to circle around the edge of the city.

There was a bang.

A solid cannonball suddenly flew into the air, drawing a trajectory in the sky.

The black dragon, which was not injured at all, looked at the direction of the artillery shells, leaned slightly, spread its dragon wings, and flew towards the direction of the artillery.

On the artillery position outside the inner city walls of the Ayub Empire, an imperial artillery captain who had just fired and fired, looked at the huge black shadow getting closer and closer in the sky, and his whole body trembled like chaff. He hastily dropped the torch in his hand, and wanted to turn around and run away, but found that his legs seemed to be growing on the ground, and he couldn't take a step no matter what.

The black dragon's golden pupils reflected the terrified face of the offender.

The dragon's mouth opened, and a one-meter-thick white pillar of fire flew across the sky and directly bombarded the artillery position.

The human body was instantly burned into black charcoal in the flames; after the piled gunpowder was scorched, it caused an earth-shattering martyrdom.

The artillery positions of the empire turned into a hell on earth in a blink of an eye. The flying debris and the soaring flames brought death to hundreds of soldiers around them. The weight collapsed completely.

The black dragon rested for a moment, then turned its gaze to the other enemies in sight.

One after another, pillars of fire spewed out from its mouth, hitting any enemy army with weapons in the city, and the entire Guyan City suddenly became a sea of ​​flames.

Under the protection of the royal guards, Saladin, who was hiding in the ruins, watched the dust-covered Elim stumbling towards him, and said to him with a wry smile: "Bring your troops, we're afraid we'll have to give up this battle." a city."

Elim still seemed unwilling to believe everything in front of him: "How could there be a giant dragon here?!"

Saladin seemed much calmer: "On the battlefield, anything is possible. However, no one would have expected what happened today..."

Yilam nodded with a bitter expression: "Caliph, this is not a place to talk anyway, please leave on horseback first, don't go through the city gate, there is already a sea of ​​fire."

"The horse can't be ridden." Saladin smiled bitterly and looked at the trembling war horse lying on the ground not far away, and said, "We must find another way to retreat."

Watching the giant dragon passing overhead fly away, Elim lowered his body, got into the shadow of the building, and crawled backward carefully.

He looked into the distance through the gap in the building, and crawled back later and said, "There is a collapsed city wall in the southwest direction. I will organize the remaining troops and leave Lone Rock City from there."

Saladin nodded and said, "Go, may Allah bless you and me."

Elim walked out of the ruins, took a last look at the huge black shadow flying wantonly in the sky, gritted his teeth, and said bitterly: "One day, one day I will let you fall at my feet!"

The fire in Lonely Rock City burned for a whole day and night. When the last ray of flames in the city turned into light white smoke, it marked that the war initiated by the Southern Empire had officially come to an end.

In just a few days, more than 30,000 people lost their lives in this small place called Guyan City.

As for the Ayyubid Empire, the army with more than 12,000 soldiers when it went out had less than 2,000 soldiers when it returned.

Among them, the imperial troops that landed on the northern plains totaled 4,000 troops. When they lost their main general and their siege was frustrated, their rear formation was suddenly attacked by the Muxi Knights. They were thrown into chaos, and within an hour of the battle they were locked in a defeat, and finally their entire army was wiped out. As for the imperial fleet consisting of thirteen warships of various types, six were sunk, and the life and death of the commander-in-chief Latib was unknown.

Among the subordinates led by the emperor Saladin, only a few hundred soldiers died because of the battle. The direct cause of death of the remaining 5,000 soldiers was the fire that burned the city, but the real reason can be said to be the black dragon that suddenly appeared.

As for Lonely Rock City, there were more than 20,000 casualties.

Among them, the 3,000 reinforcements stationed on the Yuexi Plain were all defeated in Saladin's siege and reinforcement tactics, and less than one tenth of the survivors survived; the 800 defenders in the city, including the kingdom's regent Janning Si, in the battle with the imperial army, chose jade fragments, and no one survived; in addition, there were more than 20,000 people in the city. After experiencing the war, only a thousand or so escaped.

As for Muxi City, there were two troops that actually participated in the battle. They were the "Team Troupe Guard" led by Knight Commander Horn, with a total of 20 knights and 150 soldiers; Leading and responsible for lifting the siege of Lone Rock City, the main force of the Knights, a total of 300 alien knights.

The former faced dozens of times the number of enemy troops on the mountain road behind Guyan City, and persisted for two full days and two nights. At the end of the war, 17 out of 150 soldiers survived, while only 3 out of 20 knights survived, Knight Commander Horne... was not among them.

The main force of the knights mentioned in the latter also lost nine knights under the attack of the imperial guns.

In addition to the casualties of these forces mentioned above, there are two key roles.

One is the guard of the Gold Skylark Troupe - Randall.

The knights led by Cumberland waited for the fire to be extinguished. With the cooperation of the surviving people, they entered Lone Rock City and searched for several days, but they have not found the whereabouts of this person. In desperation, they can only announce the news of Randall's death. .

As for the other character, it is the mysterious black dragon.

After appearing suddenly and inflicting a devastating blow on the imperial army, the black dragon hovered over the city for half a day, then flew into the clouds, and disappeared without a trace, leaving only unlimited imagination and various rumors for those who came after.