by Reja
Casca said, “Get back to your tent and I will overlook this ”.
And all of them started to go from there after apologizing to Casca except Corkus. Corkus was still trying to convince her for the plan. After seeing a failure of his plan cause of Casca.
Corkus argued Caska “Casca ...Why do you always take his side ??”. Casca strayed silent.
Corkus continued “You got a grudge against him too right ?? .. you had to act like some cheap whore for him for two nights...or did something happened then?..... don’t tell me u liked it .... being his bitch.....”.
After hearing this Casca instantly took out her sword and pointed it on Corkus and said “Say that again .... and I will take your head off ”
Corkus “Don’t get so riled up...it was just a joke ...”And after seeing the serious look in her eyes they all flew from there. After they left Kaal came out from the tent and meet Casca. They both saw each other for a sec and after that Casca also started to leave from there.
Seeing Casca leaving Kaal tried to talk to her “That makes two I owe you ...so I will say thanks for now”.
Casca replied, “Don’t get me wrong .. I m just following Griffin’s orders ...if I don’t ... who would bother with you ?!” Kaal didn’t reply.
Casca “Go on and get yourself killed in battle!”.
Kaal came inside the tent but like always he was unable to sleep in a bed so he just took his sword with him and sleep in a corner of a tent holding his sword tightly.
CHAPTER 4
FIRST BATTLE WITH BAND OF HAWK
A few days passed just like that, after that the band moved to its next battlefield. This time the battle was a little different from the battles before. This time we didn’t have to fight the battle from the front line but we just have dodged the enemies and give the support to our ally’s.
But the problem was that the ally’s fort was surrounded by the enemy’s main force. The ally’s castle was located near the river and a dense forest with only one way to enter through its gate but the enemies are blocking it with their main forces.
Band of Hawk reached the location and started to observe the situation and for this, they scattered their scout through the area. Scout started reporting back to the main base of the band what they saw and making a plan.
“The enemies main forces are on the top of the hill, about 2000 strong ”.
Griffin “Hmmm... Our job lies behind the hill ...setting the fire to enemies rations and supplies ....and to reach that end we will take a roundabout route along with river and lunch a sneak attack from the behind .....once we have done our work every one ride back to full speed .....and after that we will make our way through the center of the enemy base and move towards the castle gate ”.
Kaal thoughts
Through the enemy’s center...it’s ...
Discussion continues
Member “What our support ?”.
Griffin “None ..... I was told that there’s no mighty to spare for in night strike on the enemy ”.
Members “*phs*...Cowards ”.
Kaal thoughts
They didn’t miss a beat.....they got that much confidence in Griffin...
Griffin continues “And for last ...the rear guard will be ..... Kaal you will see to it ...”.
Griffin’s sudden announcement surprised everyone even Kaal and they started to look at each other faces for answers.
Griffin continued “It’s a tough job ... you have to keep enemy busy and protect the escape of allies ... you know it’s a direct forest road but still, you will have to keep several hundred horsemen at bay while fleeing .....there is a high risk of death” Kaal didn’t say anything.
Griffin asked again “Can you do it ??”.
Kaal “It’s an order... Right ?”.
Griffin replied with a smile “...Right ”.
Members started discussing
“What’s Griffin trying to do ?”.
“Bet he’s just testing him ...anyway it’s a shame”.
“Won’t he just run off?”.
Casca thoughts
No ...it’s dangerous work, but also an important duty... He’s not just doing this in order to test him...Griffin ....trusts him... that bastard!!... Damit !!
Corkus with a low voice “That’s the end of him ”.
And after that everyone stared preparing for a raid. After the preparation is done they set off to raid through the riverway, they crossed the river with the help of horses.
Kaal thoughts
This is like in the river then along with it ....enemies ..... I bet the enemies don’t think anyone could lunch sneak attack from a swift current like this ....and also this wind ... it is hiding our sound of movements .....in a wind like this ....if we’re attacking from their rear, we will be dropping fire on them from windward to boot... Is this all coincident or ....all of it was taken into account?
The band crosses the river and when they were about to land to its bank Judeaus signaled everyone to stop. One of the enemy’s men was near, one of the enemies was there for taking water. Judeaus silent sneaks near him to a certain distance and attacked him with his throwing knife and killed him with it. After confirming he is dead Judeaus signaled everyone to continue. The band took the place on land and hid in the forest.
In the enemy camp, the rations and supplies are on the backside of camp right through the forest with only a few guards cause it’s hard to believe that anyone can come there by crossing the river.
Guard on duty “So cold... What a crummy night to be on sentry duty... I swear there would be not even any forest wolf on a night like this .... ”.
When he suddenly notices the light in the forest after carefully observing for a second he saw the band army moving with the torch in their hands.
After realizing it the guard started shouting “Hey!!!.....en.....enemies???”.
Band members started their attack riding on the horse. The guard started running from there but the band’s horseman killed him.
The second guard “Why’s the enemy behind us ??”.
The other guards “Enemy raid ??”.
But until they all realized the band started their attack and mercilessly started killing them. In only a few seconds all men who are guarding rations and supply died.
Griffin “Throw... Now”.
And all ration and supply were set on fire. Within a few seconds, everything was burning and fire spread everywhere in the camp and sound of scream and explosion started to come from all over the places, band member somehow managing to escape from fire and explosion.
Griffin ordered his troops: “Discard the enemy breakthrough in one !!!” Everyone got in-formation and started their attack to breakthrough.
Enemy men’s “Hey ...its night raid !! ...its attack from behind??....block them ..”.
The band was easily able to break through the enemy line cause of the panic situation. And rumble down the whole enemy base to dust. After seeing the satisfying destruction of enemy camp Griffin orders his troops again “Ride double-file!!...now escape !!!”.
Enemy’s troop’s man reporting to its commander “General !! It’s disastrous! The provision, the powered, magazines are burning ...!!”.
General “I can see that... Fool !! ....hurry and carry them out of there !!”.
Man “But ..sir ...the wind is too strong ......it’s carried the fire faster than we expected .....if we aren’t careful then tailwind will spread it to men’s tents too ...”.
General “*fuck* ...dispatch the cavalry !! ..if we let a bunch of mercenaries do this to us and get away without payback .....then our knighthood will be disgraced !! ”.
The band is escaping through the forest
Kaal’s thought
They are amazing... I have never seen a sneak attack that quick ...!!!....that skillful!!
Kaal was still in though when he noticed enemies
From here on it’s my job !!!
And with this, the battle of esc
ape started. In the narrow forest road, there was not enough space to run many horsemen at the Same time but still, it is pretty hard to defend with the speed. But still, Kaal was managing it somehow. The enemy horseman is continually attacking one after another but Kaal somehow able to block them by killing them or making their horse fall on the road to gain some time.
At the end of the band, Kaal was alone blocking several enemies without slacking. After knowing it’s hard to defeat Kaal in sword fight the enemies started attacking with a crossbow, but still, somehow Kaal defends himself from it and continued attacking the enemies swordsman and their horses to block the road.
With this, he was able to gain a little distance from enemies. Then he suddenly notices a few enemies are able to cross him and are now attacking the Rickert and he was hardly able to defend himself. When Kaal saw he was going to get hurt Kaal killed the enemy by his bare hands and order Rickert “Get the hell out of from here ”.
Rickert understood the situation and replied “Okay ..”.
And increased his speed.
Kaal thought
That’s it.....come at me...bastard
And Kaal lures the enemies toward him to make the band escape a success and continued his fight with enemies.
After a while every member of the band who was able to successfully escape started to get inside the castle. And in a few minutes, most of the band members were there except Kaal.
After seeing their Griffin’s plan success the subordinate of castle lord comes to congratulate him “ahh!!! What a success .......well done, Griffin!!! ”.
But Griffin didn’t reply to him and started to move outside the castle gate to know about the situation. Casca called his name “Griffin?”.
But he didn’t reply so she also went to the gate with him to see it. At the gate, Griffin saw the Corkus and asked him “What’s our loss ”.
Corkus “Well, it doesn’t look too bad ...that new guy that you got that day ...he has done better then I thought! The rear guards are holding out so well, so the enemies didn’t get much of chances to snap at from behind !!......on a straight forest path with that many opponents at once .....for that I must say he got some ball”.
Griffin “Where is he now ?”.
Corkus “Don’t know ...i .. I just lost sight of him ...... The battle line’s got too stretched out ....so you know ....kinda miss him ...hopefully he didn’t buy it though” Griffin didn’t reply anything to him.
On the other hand, Kaal was still fighting with the enemies on the forest road. He was just killing enemies one after another who got too close to him but ever after that, the enemy’s numbers are not decreasing and Kaal started to get tired. Now its tiredness started to show the enemies who are not able to touch Kaal now there attack stared to reach Kaal. One of the enemies attacked Kaal’s head cause of headgear it didn’t injure him but still, it nearly took him out from the horse.
In that position, the second enemy came to finish the job but Kaal somehow attacked him with his kick and defend himself. But it still didn’t change it that he can fall from horse any moment but Kaal was an expert raider with the help of the nearby tree he somehow managed to get on the horseback and saw his bandmates.
Kaal thought
Now my chance to... Escape
And increased his speed but the enemies started shooting from the crossbows. But this time they aimed at his horse and hit it with arrows. After getting hit from arrow the horse lost his balance and started to fall.
Oh crap..... What bad luck...!!
The horse felled on the ground but Kaal somehow saves himself from it by pushing his hand on the ground and jumped forward with it. But now his luck ran out the enemy’s horseman is in front of him.
Kaal
Shit !! ...they got me !!
But suddenly a few arrows came from Kaal’s behind and killed the horseman who was near Kaal. Kaal was surprised with arrows he turns around to see who fired it. He saw a few men coming toward him.
Griffin?!
It was Griffin, Rickert, and pippin. Griffin suddenly throws his crossbow, extended his hand and said: “Grab and hold !!”. Kaal instantly understood the situation and grabbed his hand and instantly got on the horse. In this process, few enemy’s horsemen were able to get close to them but pippin took care of them instantly.
Griffin ordered again “Let’s go”.
Enemies started shouting “D... Don’t let ...any of them flee !! ”.
And everyone started to retreat.
Kaal was still not convinced with Griffin’s action so he asked Griffin “Why did you come back??”.
Griffin “Don’t talk or... You will bite your tongue ..