Chapter 357: Weird Offensive
After realizing this, Josh immediately turned to look at another tall believer and asked, "How is the evacuation organization going?"
——Josh had no intention of engaging in a head-on confrontation from the beginning. He established the secret order for self-protection, and the believers had only undergone simple training. Although they were highly organized, they were not prepared for large-scale battles.
Besides, it is completely meaningless to fight with the believers of the Mother Goddess. Even if they win, they will gain nothing. Instead, Castel will lose a large number of potential population.
Therefore, for the Secret Order, avoiding battle became the best solution.
But the believer was embarrassed: "Master Priest, we have mobilized all the believers who can be mobilized, but it will take a lot of time."
Evacuation also requires a plan, otherwise leaving the protection of the barricade and being exposed to the monsters will only lead to death faster.
There are two evacuation directions decided by Qiao Xi. One is naturally the upper city area, which is protected by the port guards.
Although the prince escaped easily here, it would be impossible for him to do so in the upper city.
The garrison force in the Upper City is quite sufficient. As soon as the rebellion broke out, he mobilized the Port Guard to defend the Upper City. They can fight against the Mother Goddess Church head-on. Although he doesn't know how strong these monsters are, they are all flesh and blood. Can bullets deal with monsters?
Josh was unsure, but the Crusaders and the mother-in-law had actually experienced the deep-sea war and had fought against sea monsters themselves.
Therefore, when the mother-in-law came before, she told Qiao Xi very confidently that if he encountered a completely irresistible situation, he could come to the upper city for refuge.
The prince may not be trustworthy, but the musket in his hand is trustworthy.
For Castel's sake, the prince would not expel them and would even try his best to provide them with shelter. This had already been agreed upon.
In addition to the upper town, they can also evacuate to the docks.
There were no Skitarii or Harbor Guards at the dock, but there were ships.
Galahad came by ship, a foreign ship that Hughes had specially dispatched from Castres.
There were only a few hundred believers in the secret order, which far exceeded the ship's carrying capacity, but it was an ocean voyage.
If you just go to Castres, then it's not a big problem.
It only takes one or two days to get to Castres from here at full speed. You don't even need supplies for this journey and you can get through it if you just hold on.
And as long as you reach the dock, there will be support - there is a team of fully armed Banshees stationed near the coast of Blood Harbor.
Josh didn't know what kind of fighting power the Banshee had. He secretly asked Zoe, and the brown-haired girl answered without hesitation:
"As long as they join the fight, all problems can be solved and everything will be fine."
In other words, at least it can resist the monster's attack head-on, right?
There was no corresponding part in the holy book he got from his mother-in-law. These were the knowledge that was not passed on to outsiders in the Crusaders. Perhaps only when he went to Castel could he truly understand these extraordinary creatures.
But Qiao Xi doesn't have to worry about it now. No matter which direction they evacuate, the front line here will have to hold on for a while. There are many old and young people in the secret society, so they have to buy them more time. It is not urgent enough to abandon them now.
"Load! Remember to compact the gunpowder! Move quickly!" His companions were loudly directing the battle, while Josh arranged his believers to prepare for close combat.
The weapons here are not very standardized. In addition to muskets, some people use bows and arrows, some use crossbows, and there are a number of spears. Although the shapes are not very standardized, everyone has a use for them.
This was just a barricade after all. Although there were people standing on the roofs on both sides, not many people could stand together and fight at the same time in the narrow alley.
This is a good thing - the monsters and the Mother Goddess's followers can only crowd forward like this.
The loading speed of the muskets was too slow, and only the people on the roofs on both sides were still using them. The believers in the alleys raised their spears, and a few raised simple shields.
Another round of firing was fired, and the believers of the Mother Goddess Church had already rushed forward. Josh and his companions shouted loudly, trying to maintain order.
In a battle with cold weapons, morale is almost everything, especially in a narrow alley like this where both sides only have simple weapons. If morale collapses, the defense line will be breached almost instantly.
"Stab them! Stab them to death! Hold on!!"
As the first group of enemies approached the barricade, several spears suddenly shot out from the gaps between the bricks and stones, and several people above raised their spears and stabbed downwards.
Blood holes appeared on the bodies of the Mother Goddess's believers, and blood flowed down the handles of the spears. They fell down with numb faces, as if it was not their own bodies that were stabbed.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
"Why aren't they hiding at all!?"
"Ahhh he's skewered on a spear and still moving forward!!!"
The defense line became unstable almost immediately. Qiao Xi could only try his best to maintain order. The performance of the believers who did not have much combat experience was actually acceptable. After all, they had fled from the North and were accustomed to death. However, such a strange situation still made many people lose their minds.
“Hold on!”
"They can't get through. Behind us are our companions from the Secret Order! Hold on!"
Josh's voice became hoarse from shouting, but he managed to maintain the morale of the believers. Although he had no fighting ability, the act of standing shoulder to shoulder with the believers was an encouragement in itself.
Although the Mother Goddess's followers were in a strange state and fearless of life and death, they lacked real means of fighting. They simply walked over and smashed their flesh and blood against the spears, as if the whole meaning of their lives was to die here.
Wait, die here? Qiao Xi suddenly felt something was wrong. He suppressed his panic and climbed up to the house next door with his hands and feet. He stood on the high ground and looked down.
The bodies in the alley kept piling up, but the believers ignored them and just kept moving forward.
But the monsters mixed in with the believers were madly devouring the bodies of the believers. They had no idea how much they had eaten. Their body sizes were completely different from those of ordinary humans. The larger ones were even about to fill the entire alley.
Qiao Xi felt a chill in his heart, and the coldness went up from his back along his spine, and he felt like he was falling into an icy cave.
These monsters are constantly getting stronger. No wonder the believers neither attack nor resist. It turns out that these monsters are the real enemies! What should we do? !
Josh, who had never properly commanded a battle, was completely stunned. It took him a few seconds to react, but before he could come up with a solution, the first monster had already squeezed in front of the defense line!
(End of this chapter)
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