Chapter 255 Desperate Situation
The three of them hurriedly ducked and dodged, luckily, the flying debris did not take their lives. When Kyle looked up, he found that the three were still alive.
He breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to the basement, which was very close to the entrance!
But the captain behind him pulled him and pointed upwards.
Kyle couldn't hear what he was saying, but he saw what he was pointing at - it was a Banshee, her heavy armor already tattered. She had just been smashed into the house, and now she had fallen unconscious on the stairs, and it was unknown whether she was alive or dead.
The captain yelled something, and Kyle understood what he meant: they had to save the banshee.
The banshee's body was covered in blood and many scales on her tail had fallen off. The captain grabbed her arm and tried to pull her down the stairs, but the banshee didn't move at all.
When the Banshee stood up, she was more than three meters tall, and with several hundred kilograms of heavy armor and weapons, her total weight was nearly two tons.
The political commissar also came to help. Kyle rushed forward and grabbed the banshee's armor. He roared and his muscles bulged. With a strong force, he dragged the unconscious banshee a little! The three of them were anxious. Although they successfully dragged the banshee, it was too slow. The monsters' attacks were coming in an instant. How could they make it in time? Heads popped out of the basement. When they saw the three people and the banshee outside, they were stunned for a moment, and then rushed over.
These people were not in good condition, and most of them were injured, but as long as they could still move, they all came over. They hurriedly dragged the unconscious banshee into the basement, and then collapsed to the ground due to exhaustion.
With a few loud bangs, the fortress collapsed completely. The stairs above were completely blocked by rubble. The sea water had risen and was slowly pouring into the basement.
There was a commotion coming from the webway behind them. Everyone turned their heads nervously, and only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it was a team of Crusader Army.
This group of newly arrived crusaders were obviously at a loss. They were frightened when they saw the miserable condition of several people and stood there stupidly.
The captain dragged his tired body to his feet and directed the reinforcements to take the wounded for treatment.
It was not easy to take the unconscious Banshee away directly, so the captain asked them to give her a temporary bandage first and then go find a carriage.
The Crusaders began their work tremblingly. Although they were not very familiar with the battlefield, they were still highly organized and began the rescue in a hurry.
Castel's dispatches on the battlefield are often very timely, and the commander seems to be able to see every detail on the battlefield. It's not that the Banshees have never been injured, and they will soon come to support their own people, but today the webway is eerily quiet, and there is not even a second team of Crusaders coming.
Kyle's heart slowly sank.
A crusader helped Kyle up: "According to the order of the lord, abandon all the outer fortresses and defend the main cathedral!" After saying that, he led him to the rear, with curiosity and awe in his eyes.
"New recruits?"
"Yes, I was just called up today. I used to be a boiler operator on the steam engine casting production line!" He puffed out his chest with some pride, then hesitated for a moment and asked carefully, "Is the current war situation not good?"
Kyle glanced at the Banshee not far away. She was still unconscious and the Skitarii were bandaging her.
I heard that banshees can heal their injuries quickly, but the glaring wound on her snake tail looked hideous and terrifying.
"It's not very good, but we can hold on. Once we get back to the cathedral, everything will be fine. The terrain there is high and there is no sea water."
Kyle was halfway through his speech when he saw the fear on the recruit's face and couldn't help but change his words and try to comfort him.
Kyle had just arrived at the battlefield a day ago, but now he is already a veteran.
The war situation was deteriorating too quickly.
The sea water was still pouring into the webway, and the Crusaders retreated silently on the sea water.
In Castel Cathedral, Hughes moved the command room directly to his office. At this moment, people were coming and going here, various information was constantly being summarized, and instructions were issued one after another.
But at this moment, Zeus was lying on a narrow bed, his face pale and his voice weak, and everyone around him carefully avoided this place.
"Well, Alexei, how is the situation at the front?"
Alexei looked at Hughes lying on the bed, hesitated for a moment and then spoke: "Due to the rising sea water, the monsters on the outer battlefield gradually changed their forms. Your order was issued in time, and most of the troops were successfully evacuated."
"They are the banshees." Alexei's voice lowered.
All the Banshees have withdrawn from the combat sequence.
Zeus knew this better than he did. When the sea water flooded onto the battlefield, Castel's crusader army was caught off guard and several fortresses were breached in an instant.
The fighting power of sea urchin monsters is unimaginable. On land, they are just big targets, but once in the sea, it is almost impossible to confront them head-on.
The solid reinforced concrete was directly penetrated. It was a real permanent fortification. Hughes estimated that only the walls of Castel Cathedral could withstand the impact of those monsters.
At this moment, the Banshee stepped forward and blocked the sea urchin monster for a moment, allowing the main force of the Crusader Army to successfully retreat from the webway.
But the price was huge. The Banshees were blessed with heavy armor and symbiotic contracts. Although they did not die on the battlefield, their life pools dropped to a very dangerous level.
Almost everyone was seriously injured!
Just a moment of head-on confrontation made the banshees lose almost all their fighting power. The sea urchin monsters were too powerful, and their numbers were almost endless.
Some banshees even fell into coma. If the Crusaders hadn't tried their best to rescue them, there would have been casualties.
Zeus didn't even go directly to the battlefield. The vitality extracted by the symbiotic contract made him extremely weak, and he even had to lie down and listen to Alexi's report.
"Alexei, you have been commanding at the front line. Tell me, can the cathedral withstand the attacks of the monsters?" Zeus barely propped himself up, grabbed Alexei, and asked seriously.
"If it's fishmen and arm monsters, we should be able to resist them. Our machine gun firepower points are dense and we can repel their attacks. But if the sea water continues to rise and those sea urchin monsters appear on the battlefield..."
He swallowed hard and lowered his voice: "Bullets have limited killing power against sea urchins. Only explosive packs can cause enough damage. Banshees that throw explosive packs."
It is almost impossible to resist the sea urchin monster, and the rising sea water never stops, so they will eventually be submerged by the sea water.
"Really?" Xius lowered his head slowly.
"My Lord, we have another airship. If the situation is not favorable, please board the airship. You are a border earl appointed by the Queen, and you can go to the Empire for help."
Alexei's words were dry, he never thought he would say such words, the feeling of shame made him tremble all over, but he still gritted his teeth and stood still with red eyes.
Whether it was new weapons or factories, they were all things he could hardly imagine. He was a soldier and graduated with the first place in the Royal Military Academy. However, there were first place graduates every year, and a lord like Xus might not be able to appear in an empire for hundreds of years.
Alexei was extremely sure that Hughes could change this era and the world. He could climb up from an orphanage to a seventh-rank civil servant, but Hughes could make sure that there were no more orphans in the world who needed to be saved.
Castel is a miracle. Every factory and school has been planned and built by him. It is the result of the joint efforts of all the people on the island. If sacrifice can save it, Alexei is willing to give his life a thousand times for it.
But as long as Hughes is still here and his lord is still here, when one Castel sinks, a second Castel will be born. The island will sink, but the concepts and ideas will not. There will be the next Clerk-General, and more people will stand by Hughes and build one Castel after another together.
Alexei's eyes hardened.
(End of this chapter)
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