Chapter 29: One Shot Destroys a Country! Barbarian Civil Strife

On the city wall.

When Deng Ken took the initiative to ask for control of the ballista, the Duke of Tintagel agreed without hesitation.

As everyone knows, the Roman legions are best at using ballistae.

Deng Ken looks like he came from a regular army, and his request for control of the ballista must have some certainty.

The Duke of Tintagel had almost pulled all the farmers nearby at this time, and with hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers, it added up to a scale of 1,500 or 1,600 people.

The island of Britain was only a province of the empire after all, and the scale of the battlefield would be much smaller. Basically, it was a regular army battle of the thousand-person level, plus auxiliary miscellaneous farmer troops, occasionally claiming to have tens of thousands of people.

When the British province was abandoned in the early days, a legion of the empire could suppress the four barbarian tribes.

Later, the empire withdrew its troops, and the British also wrote letters to the empire many times to request rescue. The Gaul province sent troops three or four times to beat back the barbarians of Ireland. But at that time, the small Germania could not hold it, and the imperial legion had to withdraw after fighting the Picts. It was really impossible to run all the way, so they could only completely abandon Britannia.

It can be seen that the empire had actually tried its best at that time.

Unfortunately, this huge empire is now setting sun, and such a marginal province cannot be guarded at all. (The background era of Artoria is that the Kingdom of Camelot lost the protection of the empire, and she had to draw her sword and fight.)

In the era of the Scourge of God, barbarian invasion, imperial collapse, struggle of faith, and war of pantheons, King Arthur was just a small person struggling to protect Britain.

Deng Ken didn't mind carrying the burden on the Knight King's shoulders.

The ballista was left behind at that time.

The early British legion was even trained by imperial officers. Some Sarmatian mercenary riders remained in Britain and trained the subsequent heavy cavalry, one of the predecessors of the Knights of the Round Table.

Sarmatian cavalry had a prestigious reputation in the current era and were foreign mercenary forces that were the backbone of the empire.

In early legends, although their women were beautiful, they often needed to kill enemies as an adult ceremony, and they could not get married without a certain record.

During the Trajan period, the empire defeated the Sarmatians, and the other party was forced to hand over 8,000 cavalry as hostages to make peace.

These cavalry were sent to serve in the British region and became the Sarmatian legion that went to the local area earlier.

Their dragon-head flags, kontos lances, and scale armor all became the standard configuration for the early imperial armored cavalry.

King Uther's cavalry unit inherited the heritage of these Sarmatians, including the very striking dragon-head flag.

His nickname was "Great Dragon-Head Uther."

(The imperial dragon flag of Mount and Blade also came from this.)

"If I could have a heavy cavalry, it would be better to charge and kill than to rely on the ballista to wait for the rabbit."

Deng Ken has the blessing of God's-eye view.

If he led a powerful imperial armored cavalry to charge, he would charge wherever the morale collapsed, directly locking the enemy's general, and he would have a chance to take them away in one wave.

Heavy cavalry is the hammer on the battlefield, which can smash the enemy's line to pieces.

As long as the frontal legion can hold, Deng Ken leads the cavalry unit to attack, any weakness exposed by the enemy can be grasped by him, and it is not difficult to fight the record of Alexander the Great.

Killing all the way from Europe to Mesopotamia!

Of course, only heavy cavalry can fight like this in this era, and light cavalry charging is almost like sending death.

Good news.

The enemy did not attack for the time being.

Bad news.

Saxon barbarians learned some siege techniques of the empire.

There are basically no decent cities on the island of Britain. The so-called castles are actually early military fortresses. Only the Kingdom of Camelot has a fortress close to the early Middle Ages, so it is known as the most impregnable place on the entire island of Britain.

The Raven Queen Su Lisi appeared on the city wall and said softly: "The reinforcements requested by the Duke of Tintagel did not come."

"It seems they have turned to King Uther."

The era of kings on the island of Britain is a bit like the feudal system, and local lords and nobles have a very high degree of autonomy.

Anya also walked over quickly, her expression slightly nervous: "Can you hold it?"

"If not, let's find a way to retreat."

Don't look at her confident appearance yesterday, she was nervous immediately when she saw the Saxon army pressing on the border today.

In the end, she was just a noblewoman, a bit high-minded and low-handed, and panicked when encountering war.

If this place is lost, the Duke of Tintagel can only flee to the mountains to fight guerrilla warfare. King Uther is also being forced to the Wales area by many Saxon barbarians.

From a strategic point of view, if this battle can be won today, it will be much easier for Deng Ken to gain a foothold on the island of Britain.

Deng Ken pondered for a moment and said: "There is still a chance."

This is a city defense battle.

If it was a field battle, he would have taken the witches and others to retreat long ago.

The Raven Queen Su Lisi had almost blind trust in Deng Ken. Seeing Deng Ken's confident appearance, she immediately nodded and said: "I will make some preparations. In case we can't resist, we can find a way to retreat."

She should be preparing some ritual magic.

Deng Ken thought for a while and said: "Can you do a blinding trick?"

The Raven Queen Su Lisi nodded lightly: "What plan do you have? I can try."

Deng Ken pointed to the ballista next to him and said in a deep voice: "Find a way to use a blinding trick to help me hide this."

Give the enemy a surprise shot.

Deng Ken put all his chips on his God's-eye view and the ballista.

The Raven Queen Su Lisi immediately said: "No problem. Let me prepare."

At this time, Anya said: "I will find a way to persuade the Duke of Tintagel to hand over the army to you for command?"

Hand over military power?

This is probably very difficult.

Deng Ken pondered: "No need. You find a way to persuade him to hand over the archer unit to me for command."

Anya said immediately: "Good."

The witch left in a hurry. She found the Duke of Tintagel who was in a hurry, and didn't know what she said. In a few words, under the God's-eye view, the archer unit of hundreds of people became a green marked unit. Anya's negotiation ability was very strong, which reminded Deng Ken of the Roman noblewoman in Spartacus. These political noblewomen had some means.

—Welsh Archers (One-star).

—British Shooters.

—Militia Auxiliary Archers.

Although the Duke of Tintagel only had some miscellaneous soldiers left, there were still troops that could fight. Welsh archers, the predecessor of English longbowmen, the Wales area is a forest mountain area, producing excellent shooters, but unfortunately they don't have English longbows now.

There were 26 of them in total, and Deng Ken took them directly by his side, while other archers were scattered on the city wall defense line.

The army pressed on the border.

By the time the Saxon barbarian troops were ready to siege the city, their troops were even more numerous than expected, surging to nearly 6,000 people. The main combat power of the barbarians did not change, but there were a large number of slaves and servant armies, who were driven to push the siege engines over.

—British Slave Army (Low Morale).

Saxon barbarians slaughtered a large number of British people after invading, killed adult men, and robbed British women. From the beginning of their invasion to the present, the British population has decreased by about one-third.

In the future, only the Wales area will have British people, and the England region will be almost blood-exchanged.

"Shoot!"

The British slave army had no morale at all, it was just cannon fodder to consume firepower, easily defeated, and then the barbarian soldiers slaughtered a bit, and drove them up again.

Soon, there were corpses everywhere outside the city wall.

Deng Ken didn't know how many people he shot and killed, estimated to be dozens, and there was no obvious improvement, because these cannon fodder combat skills were very low. Basically, he shot and killed more than ten people in a row, and a team of slave armies collapsed, and then brought other slaves to flee together.

—"Intimidation (Special Ability): You have cast your reputation with the white bones of the enemy. When you look at the enemy, they will feel fear. When you appear on the battlefield, your mere existence will shake and hit their morale."

Until the slave army completely collapsed, Deng Ken discovered that he had a new special ability.

This was piled up with the heads of the harvested enemies.

Undoubtedly, the battlefield's improvement to him was huge. In the case of quantitative change causing qualitative change, Deng Ken's basic combat style basically became a deep blue mark.

This is accumulating, and the other basic combat styles have also been improved a little bit.

Saxon barbarians also seemed to realize that they couldn't take the city wall by relying on these slave armies, so with the movement of the two wings, the real combat troops began to advance toward the battlefield.

Siege engines (battering rams), ladders, siege towers, etc.

The slave army pushed these siege engines to approach again. Britain had no high and strong city walls, so the siege towers didn't need to be built too high, at most six meters was enough.

Fortunately, the barbarians didn't have trebuchets, otherwise this battle would be impossible to fight.

Deng Ken's figure began to move, and a team of Welsh archers followed behind him.

—Saxon Spear and Shield Soldiers (Morale Wavering) (Encountered a Strong Enemy).

This special ability cast by slaughter seems to have begun to take effect.

When Deng Ken's figure appeared on the right side of the city wall, those barbarian soldiers hiding behind the siege tower actually had the mark of "morale wavering."

The barbarian officer gave a loud shout to boost morale.

About three minutes later, the morale wavering mark disappeared, but "encountered a strong enemy" was always there.

I don't know when it started, probably after Deng Ken harvested more than 100 "heads of real warriors," the enemies he encountered would have the mark of "encountered a strong enemy."

Well, although the strong enemy is just one person.

The Duke of Tintagel led a small team of British legions to press up.

At this time, he could only fight for his life!

If the commander doesn't go into battle himself, where does the morale come from?

Saxon barbarians launched attacks in three directions at the same time amidst the horn sound. The Duke of Tintagel was obviously unprepared and a bit flustered, directly sending militia and farmer troops to resist the enemies climbing the city wall.

At this time, enemies had already attacked.

The city gate below was shaken violently by the battering ram, and the British militia under the city tower gripped their weapons nervously.

—British Mixed Legion (Morale Wavering) (Returned from a Crushing Defeat) (Enemy Many, We Few).

—Town Militia (Morale Wavering) (Enemy Many, We Few).

—Farmer Mixed (Morale Wavering) (No Training).

Damn!

Why are there so many morale wavering?

Deng Ken observed the battlefield and his expression became extremely solemn.

"Why is morale so low?"

"Is it because the Duke of Tintagel suffered a crushing defeat first?"

Deng Ken has been shooting and killing enemies to inspire morale, but he didn't expect that the first wave of melee combat, at least several hundred-man teams, had morale wavering marks, and almost raised the white flag and collapsed.

The British mixed troops all had the mark of "returned from a crushing defeat."

"This is really a bear leading a nest of bears!"

The morale of the army is so low, the Duke of Tintagel must be at least half responsible.

Deng Ken no longer saved his physical strength.

He directly picked up the Northern battle bow, commanded the Welsh archers behind him, and concentrated fire on the position marked by the enemy officer.

Continuous shooting!

First kill, second kill, third kill!

The stamina bar dropped section by section, and then slowly recovered. Deng Ken didn't use his full strength before, and the slave army was not worth his great effort.

Sharp arrows broke through the air!

Welsh archers followed Deng Ken to shoot a wave of arrow rain, directly shooting the centurion of the Saxon spear and shield soldiers to death.

—Saxon Spear and Shield Soldiers (Morale Collapse) (Officer Killed) (Encountered a Strong Enemy).

This wave of point shooting.

The enemy was continuously shot and injured more than 30 people, a hundred-man team collapsed immediately, allowing other troops on the city wall to breathe a sigh of relief.

But soon a wave of arrow rain struck.

Puchi!

A Welsh archer beside Deng Ken was blown up on the spot, an arrow shot into his eye socket, another arrow shot into his neck, scaring others nearby to raise their shields to hide.

—Saxon Forest Hunter.

—Saxon Elite Forest Hunter (One-star).

Under the cover of shield-holding warriors, Saxon archers also joined the battlefield. The barbarian forest hunters had higher skills than ordinary archers, and they were numerous. A wave of arrow rain completely suppressed them, directly shooting down dozens of people. If it weren't for the cover of the city wall, it is estimated that they could shoot these militia troops to collapse head-on.

"If this is won."

"In Total War, it should be at least an epic victory, right?"

Dozens of meters away.

The Duke of Tintagel's helmet was hit by an arrow, scaring him into a cold sweat, and he hurriedly picked up his shield, his figure retreating under the protection of his personal attendants.

A gap appeared in the southwest defense line of the city wall.

Deng Ken's figure flew forward, picked up a javelin, and his whole body's strength exploded, as if he were a legendary figure of the ancient Greek era. In the moment of flying, the javelin whistled through the air, directly piercing the chest of a barbarian elite warrior, and knocking his corpse down from the city wall.

There was an uproar all around!

The first elite unit wearing full heavy armor was killed, and the barbarian warrior who first climbed the city was stabbed to death by Deng Ken with a javelin.

He stood on the city wall, and actually dared to climb first?

—Shield Bash!

Deng Ken picked up the shield from the corpse, waved it fiercely, and hit the enemy's head with a heavy blow. His arm was slightly numb, and the burly barbarian warrior in front was directly overturned, and then surrounded and hacked to death.

—Combat Style; Beheading!

Oathkeeper drew a cold light, the Saxon axeman who rushed onto the city wall again stiffened in place, leaving only a headless corpse, and blood scattered like a fountain.

Roar!

Deng Ken roared to the sky! The sound was like thunder!

This extremely bloody scene shocked the enemy and also allowed the nearby friendly troops whose morale was wavering to reorganize.

Kill!

A mountain-collapsing and sea-tsunami-like cheer erupted on the city wall.

Fierce general peerless!

Deng Ken inspired morale with his own strength!

Even the Duke of Tintagel, who retreated under the protection of his personal guard, couldn't help but poke his head out, reorganize, hold his sword and shield, and lead his personal soldiers to drive the enemies rushing onto the city wall down again.

"Melee combat is easier to inspire morale than long-range shooting."

Deng Ken personally charged and killed, beheading more than ten people in a row, and finally stabilized the defense line in the southwest direction, and also made the pile of morale wavering marks disappear.

Under the God's-eye view.

The projection screen seemed to have some changes.

—"Inspiration (Special Ability): Your bravery greatly inspired the morale of others. When you appear on the battlefield, friendly units will have the courage to continue fighting because of you."

Deng Ken's own marks changed, topped with two special states, namely "Intimidation" and "Inspiration."

Killing all the way to the present.

His own existence seems to have some strange supernatural characteristics because of the slaughter. Almost visibly, the soldiers nearby became high-spirited.

"No wonder the fierce generals of ancient times dared to charge several times the number of enemies with dozens or hundreds of people!"

Morale is too important.

Wherever Deng Ken's figure goes, the morale there rises!

He almost saved the defense line that was close to collapse with his personal martial power.

But the enemy's offensive did not stop.

Under the cover of Saxon forest hunters, teams of elite soldiers approached the battlefield.

This was a brutal slaughter of flesh and blood.

Not far away, the Saxon King Hengist stared at Deng Ken's direction, his expression very shocked, and asked left and right: "Who is that person?"

"When did the Duke of Tintagel have such a brave knight?"

He was waiting for the moment the enemy grew exhausted to launch a full-scale offensive, but the appearance of Deng Ken had abruptly held off three waves of attacks from the Saxon barbarians, causing the situation on the battlefield to reach a stalemate.

Those militia whose morale was close to collapse fought to the death because of his personal martial power!

If Britain had such a fierce person earlier.

They probably wouldn't have been able to establish the Kingdom of Kent here.

"They are already exhausted!"

Horsa came to his brother's side on horseback, pointed to the northwest of the city wall and said: "That place is full of mobs composed of militia and farmers. As long as you concentrate your elites, you can take it in one wave."

Although Deng Ken's martial power was amazing, the two brothers were not panicked at all.

Fighting until now.

The elite troops of the Saxon barbarians have not all entered the field. Their siege habit is to wait until the enemy is exhausted before letting the elite troops launch a strong attack.

This way, casualties will be smaller.

During the conversation.

Surrounded by barbarian chieftain guards and noble riders, the two brothers gradually approached the battlefield front, seemingly observing and looking for the enemy's defense flaws.

This distance was far beyond the range of the bow and arrow, and there was no need to worry about the threat of archers at all.

There were too many farmer militia on the Duke of Tintagel's side.

As long as a gap appears in a section of the city wall, it is a comprehensive collapse.

"Coming!"

Deng Ken's figure began to move, locking the target tightly, waiting for the moment when the other party's speed gradually slowed down.

Just now!

Looking down at the battlefield from the God's-eye view, the enemy leader was marked, the Raven Queen Su Lisi's blinding trick disappeared, and in the eyes of the panicked crowd in the distance, a ballista suddenly appeared on the city wall, like a spear-like arrow had been loaded, and the straight-line distance from the enemy was only more than 300 meters.

Aiming cross star in place!

Deng Ken took a deep breath. In an instant, the spear whistled through the air, and the enemies in the distance were in a panic, almost turning their horses to retreat.

Bang!

The spear-like heavy arrow swept across the battlefield.

This moment.

Diana of the Ancient Roman pantheon is watching!

Artemis of the Ancient Greek pantheon is gazing!

Plop!

The enemy wanted to escape, but it was too late.

Next second.

The figure of the King of the Kingdom of Kent, Hengist, fell from his horse. The heavy arrow of the ballista pierced through his chest, nailed two people, and directly nailed a warhorse behind him.

There was dead silence on the entire battlefield!

Everyone stood in place in shock, and only in the next second did they erupt into a earth-shattering chaos and cheers.

In the dark, Deng Ken performed extraordinarily!

Those barbarian chieftain guards panicked and hugged the king's body to retreat. As a two-star gold hero unit, the ballista pierced through the chest, but he didn't die on the spot. He just sprayed blood, and when he was dragged away by the chieftain guard, he was already out of breath.

"The enemy king is dead!"

"The enemy king is dead!!!"

On the city wall, the British issued desperate cheers and shouts, and the situation of the entire battlefield instantly reversed earth-shakingly. Those invading barbarian troops were panicked and panicked, and were soon completely repelled by everyone.

On the high tower not far away, the Raven Queen Su Lisi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She had been kneeling and praying, holding the badges of Goddess Diana and Goddess Artemis in her hands at the same time.

This time, the Raven Queen Su Lisi also fought a wave.

She forcibly lifted a corner of the coffin lid of the Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek pantheons that the Church had pressed to death.

Deng Ken felt his chest slightly hot; that was the badge rune stone given to him by the Raven Queen Su Lisi.

And the Witch Anya was breathing rapidly. She didn't know what happened, but hearing those cheers, she already realized that Deng Ken had reversed the entire situation.

Not a man I fancy!

Anya secretly glanced at Su Lisi, feeling that she had already won a move over the other party.

Saxon barbarians began to retreat.

At the rear of the army, Horsa grabbed the witch doctor who walked out of the tent, his face iron-blue: "How is the king's injury?"

The witch doctor's expression was terrified, shaking his head slightly.

This means there is no rescue.

The ballista arrow pierced through the body and lungs. Unless a miracle appears, it is bound to die. Now it is just a flash in the pan hanging a breath.

Horsa's expression was gloomy, not knowing what he was thinking.

Although the two brothers led the barbarian troops to invade Britain together, there can only be one king. His brother is the king, which is enough to convince the public, and he himself is convinced, but now his brother is not going to work.

Who should be the next king of the Kingdom of Kent?

Hengist has only one son with a reputation, Aesc. This newly established Kingdom of Kent has only him and his nephew qualified to inherit the throne.

The founding monarch died suddenly!

The chain reaction caused by this is very terrible, and other barbarian chieftains are estimated to be eager to move.

It's okay for everyone to rob together, but if you want to be my king, I'm not happy.

A change appeared in the sky over the battlefield.

I don't know when, a Valkyrie with silver wings and silver helmet appeared over the battlefield. She turned her head and looked at Deng Ken's direction, and flew directly to the position of King Hengist.

Valkyrie appears.

Looking at her appearance, she is going to take away that barbarian leader unit, the founding monarch of the Kingdom of Kent, Hengist.

Barbarians retreated.

The king died suddenly, morale was hit hard, and Horsa had no intention of staying, directly leading the army to retreat. Now the most important thing is to decide the next successor to the throne.

He worked hard with his brother to lay down a foundation on the island of Britain, and obviously didn't want to hand it over to his nephew who didn't have much military merit.

The position of this king.

Why can't I sit?!

On the battlefield.

That Valkyrie with silver wings and silver helmet wandered for a long time. After taking away the soul of the warrior, she looked deeply at Deng Ken and disappeared out of thin air.

Deng Ken didn't know when he found an extra mark on his body.

—Odin's Gaze: Odin only appreciates the bravest warriors. You have attracted his attention now, and Odin, the main god of the polytheistic Norse pantheon faction, has become interested in you.

Valkyrie (Valkyrie) has spread your reputation to Valhalla.

You have opened the legendary status of the polytheistic Norse pantheon faction.

……………… ===== CHAPTER 30 =====