Chapter 2277 - 1620: Surrender! Warriors of Cuba!
The night is like the ash of tobacco leaves on a turtle’s back, heavily pressing down on the blood-soaked village. Wooden houses and thatched huts dance with fire tongues, the acrid scorch blowing towards all directions. The scent of blood and fire together, this is the battlefield of death and sacrifice in the Divine War.
The corpses of the Kingdom’s Warriors in cloth armor overlap with the corpses in breastplates of the Castilian veterans, all soaked in blood. The bright eagle feather bronze crowns of the warriors resemble parrots that have lost their eyes, while the shiny iron helmet heads of the veterans appear like dead silverfish on a coastal reef.
Thirty Dog Descendant Shooters and fourteen Kingdom’s Warriors stand together in the center of the farm, panting heavily after the deadly battle. Not far away, the remaining twenty Dog Descendant Shooters are retreating while shooting arrows and shouting. They strive to distract the attention of the Castilian reinforcements, but these reinforcements have already seen the large group of barbarians in the farm.
Warrior Captain Tai Giant Eagle’s eyes are red. He looks at his remaining brothers and pleads with Red-haired Mique.
"Dammit! Mique! I have fourteen warriors left, four are injured and can’t run! I must take them..."
"No! No delays! Chief Divine witness! Not just the wounded, even your cloth armor has to be left here!"
"Chief Divine witness! I still have strength, I can fight in armor!..."
"Nonsense! Throw away this heavy armor, quickly! Everyone else, help the warriors remove their armor!..."
Red-haired Mique also has red eyes, but his actions are incredibly decisive. He grabs a dagger and rushes to Tai Giant Eagle’s side, swiftly cuts the ties on both sides of the cloth armor. Then, he quickly strips off the damaged and blood-stained armor and throws it heavily into the blood water.
"Go, don’t feel bad about your armor! We’ve buried some good armor from the Evil Demon around the supply point! Enough for ten of you to put on!... Hurry!"
Tai Giant Eagle removes the cloth armor, revealing the war clothes inside dyed red with blood and sweat. He bites his teeth, looking at the remaining warriors. Ten men like him have removed their cloth armor, ready to retreat. But there are four injured, still neatly armored, and even picked up the iron shields left by the Evil Demon.
"Chief Divine! My brothers! My brothers!"
"The Evil Demon is coming! Go! Quickly!"
"Captain Tai! You go! We stay for the rear guard!..."
Veteran Warrior Luo Shixi limps with an injured leg, tightly holding the iron shield, sweat from pain on his forehead. He calls out to Tai Giant Eagle with a smile, waving his hand.
"Chief Divine’s protection! We’re going to the Red Divine Kingdom! Captain Tai, don’t block our way to the Divine Kingdom!"
"Yes! Captain Tai, we are the rear guard! Don’t block our way to the Divine Kingdom!"
The four injured Kingdom’s Warriors all smile and shout like this. And the iron-dressed Evil Demon is already within a hundred steps. Previously responsible for setting fire and distracting, all thirty Dog Descendant Shooters have retreated nearby, leaving only about twenty. And Tai Giant Eagle bites his teeth, holding tears, looks at Luo Shixi and his brothers one last time, finally shouts two sentences!
"Go! We leave!"
"Chief Divine’s protection! Brothers, fare well!!..."
Ten Kingdom’s Warriors wearing war clothes, fifty Dog Descendant Shooters wearing light armor, finally retreat westward, quickly fleeing into the darkness. The raiding team initially with a hundred and twenty people, now only half remains. And among the fifty Kingdom’s Warriors in heavy armor, only ten remain, fifty down to ten!
"Holy Mother! How is this possible?!"
Church Knight Captain Thomas de Montejo, wearing knight plate armor, leads four plate armor knights, twenty church followers, and more armed sailors here. Then, he sees the barbarians quickly retreating west, with four shield-bearing barbarian warriors at the rear guard, and a ground full of blood and bodies!
"Damn it! The veteran battalion of the Kingdom’s Holy War, wiped out in face-to-face formation battle by the Cipangu barbarians?!"
Knight Captain Thomas unbelievingly, widens his eyes, watching the brutal scene entwined and dead in the farm center! Layer upon layer of indistinguishable corpses all died wearing heavy armor, the density extremely shocking. And the veterans’ heads rolled everywhere, counting carefully, it’s the entire twenty-man veteran squad, plus eight church followers! Undoubtedly, this is the troop just arrived for support!
He never thought, these raiding Cipangu Natives, could in such a short time, devour an entire formation veteran squad in battle, leaving none! And if this veteran squad was all killed, then the original twenty-four veterans stationed by the fence, must also be completely wiped out!
Damn it! Two veteran squads, completely dead in a barbarian raid, never before! And what does such heavy casualties mean?
"Almighty! Even the Divine Son will cry! One barbarian raid cost forty-four veterans and eight followers, also who knows how many armed strong men died! If the barbarians launch several more raids... Damn it! This Saint Isabella’s Queen’s Castle we’ve built on San Juan Island simply cannot continue!"
In the raging fire, Knight Captain Thomas has a face like water. He does not immediately pursue those retreating light-armored barbarians, but with the knight’s sword in hand, silently watches the four rear-guard barbarian warriors, letting his equally shocked followers surround the opponent!
"Almighty witness! Do not attack! Everyone stop! Follow my orders!"