Chapter 23 Under the Burning Bay
"Hold on, hold on!" On the sea wall, the already somewhat panicked Latin soldiers were still trying to block the Vadarita people who rushed up. They originally thought they were very safe from the direction of Nicea's invasion, but they never expected to meet a group of lifeless madmen.
This level is the most important place in Golden Horn Bay, because the iron chain mechanism connecting the waterway is here. Once it is lost, the original natural danger will immediately turn into a thoroughfare and useless. This is why the garrison commander Joseph arranged them here. Therefore, even though the Vadaritae people in front of him were coming in full force, the Latin soldiers were still holding the control of the sea wall and dared not take a step back.
"Shoot the arrow!" the Latin army commander on the city wall shouted loudly.
The Latin soldiers were aiming at the Vadarita who rushed up like a desperate Vadarita. The powerful crossbow arrows instantly tore through the first steppe warriors. There was no doubt that this new war weapon invented by the Italians had strong lethality and suppressed the Vadarita's attack at once. However, this crossbow also had a fatal weakness. It was the complexity of loading. When the first round of design blocked the whistling attack, the next second, the nomads who stepped on the corpse of a companion and blood rushed up again. This time, the Latin warriors on the sea wall finally entered the range.
Although the range of the short but strong horn bow in the Vadaritae people's hands is not as good as that of the crossbow, it has the same terrifying lethality, especially for Latin soldiers wearing only a layer of chain mail.
"Swoosh swish swish"
After only a few sharp sounds that cut through the air, the arrowhead wrapped in strong wind penetrated through the Latin soldiers who were poking out of the wall to shoot again. They were steady, accurate and ruthless, and the sniping without any hesitation, so that the Vadarita did not waste a chance to shoot feather arrows.
This scene directly scared the courage of the defenders on the sea wall, because in their opinion, the bows and arrows shot by the grassland peoples would be so fatal if they were cursed. And why did these wolf-like and tiger-like people appear on the Genoese ships even more chaos in the Latins, causing the Sea Wall defenders, which clearly had an absolute advantage in numbers, were directly suppressed by the Vadaritae team led by Justinian.
But obviously, the Latin army, which was deliberately arranged by Joseph to stay here, was not vulnerable. Although they were already at a disadvantage, they quickly formed a formation to deal with it, using the wooden shields in their hands to form a shield wall to rely on each other, standing like a wall to resist the fierce rain of arrows, and at the same time fired crossbow arrows behind the shield.
"Sweep", Justinian's cheek was swept by a rapid airflow, making his skin sore, and a warm liquid flowed down his ear. It was the smell of blood, and the other party almost hit him directly. However, Justinian ignored this, still took an arrow, and at the same time accelerated his pace, and soon rushed to the Latins who were holding a shield to take an arrow. This scene naturally inspired the rest of the Vadalite warriors, and saw that the momentum was like wind, and they instantly followed Justinian's pace.
The Latin soldier in the front was about to wave his shield, and when the first one was cut off half of his head by Justinian's broadsword. Then Justinian pushed the shield and used the weight of his body to overturn several Latin soldiers behind him. Justinian, who was crossing the wall, waved the sword in his hand and forced the Latin soldiers around him to retreat, and immediately opened a gap in the original Latin defense. This completely defeated the last fighting spirit of the Latin defenders on the sea wall.
"Retreat, retreat!" Seeing the crossbow archers in the front collapsed, the Latin soldiers who were disguised their armor fled towards the small boat behind them, but were killed by the Vadarita who were waving a scimitar like harvesting straw, without any resistance.
A total of 300 fully armed Latin soldiers were wiped out, and Justinian and his Vadarita guards were killed and killed by only more than ten people and captured the sea wall on the side of Golden Horn Bay. Looking at the blood-soaked city and the corpse that fell to the ground, Justinian couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. Justinian was here three years ago, here the Latin Crusaders climbed the sea wall and captured the eternal city belonging to Rome, dragging the empire into the abyss of eternity. Now he led the former imperial guards back here but had to choose to leave again. The smell of blood filled the air and made Justinian feel not nauseous, but extremely sour and helpless.
"Master Justinian..." The voice of the Vadarita guard came from behind. At this moment, the youngest warriors in the grassland tribe looked at the thin figure of the boy in front of him, but his expression was filled with great solemnity and respect. There was no trace of suspicion when he was in Bulgaria. If anyone in this world could lead them to return their hopes from the darkness again, then they believed that only the young man in front of them could do it.
At the same time, Justinian also felt the eager gazes behind him... And the smoke filled the dim sunlight under the sky, but the young man didn't say a word and slowly walked towards the iron chain beside the sea wall. Suddenly, Justinian waved the sword in his hand and fell down and slashed heavily on the iron chain. At the moment when the crisp sound sounded, the iron ring that blocked the entire waterway also broke and sank into the sea stained with blood.
At the same time, the sonorous and powerful voice of the young man suddenly rang in the ears of the warriors of Vadarita. "The evil enemy made the righteous people feel entangled with their tyranny and tyranny. The cowardly and foolish master is even more desperate in the name of fraternity and kindness. You were confused about who will be protected by God, and I tell you now. He is the true guardian of his fellow countrymen and the rescuer of lost children. He is also the one who will destroy any enemy who seeks to poison and massacre my fellow countrymen. Now, follow me out of here, in order not to survive, but to make our enemies pay blood in the future!"
At this moment, the sea breeze blew on Justinian's shabby ragged battle robe.
On the top of the city, on the bay with flames, only makes people feel that a flower of winter is coming to his enemies with a fierce cold wave.
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Chapter completed!