Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"Now is the time for arrogance and tyranny, and for disaster and hatred. Children! Now you must obey the law with zeal and sacrifice your lives for the covenant of our ancestors."

——Matathiya

Little Antipater couldn't sleep at all. He extinguished the lights in his own tent and sneaked into Glaucias' tent.

"Sooner or later we are all going to die here!"

Glaucias looked at little Antipater speechlessly. The young man was so energetic at night, but the old man couldn't stand it anymore.

Little Antipater lowered his voice and said to Glaucias: "Have you not seen who are the people who followed Philip? Why are we here? That old madman clearly wants to kill us all!"

"Stop!" Glaucias couldn't listen anymore. "Don't talk to me about these complaints. If you want to, just talk to your father, old Philip. I don't want to get involved in your Antipater family's troubles at all."

"Now you are here too! You too..."

"Wait!" Glaucias interrupted: "Is there any sound?"

The two looked at each other with wide eyes.

"Enemy attack!"

A shrill cry rang out in the camp!

Like a signal, countless arrows seemed to be shot from all directions in the night sky, and then the arrows turned into rockets!

**

Pyrrhus pulled up the torch from the ground and threw it into the camp wall. Then he and his friends climbed up to the foundation of the wooden palisade wall with their shield on their backs.

Behind him stood a row of large improvised wooden shields. Behind the shields, slingers and archers kept shooting at the wall. Light arrows and stones were struck so fast and dense that the enemy couldn't even lift their heads;

There were also some people who were blowing hoarse and unpleasant trumpets with all their might.

The vanguard reached the bottom of the wall. Some used big axes to cut off the outer supports of the wooden fence, and some threw nooses at it. With a chorus of shouts, a section of the camp wall collapsed!

The warriors holding large shields pushed directly in, followed by light infantry wielding long swords and sickle swords, fighting with the approaching enemy troops.

Pyrrhus and his friends rushed into the camp and dispersed several enemy troops with a chop.After a brief judgment, he let the rear team continue to go deeper, and he led the people to rush to the right along the camp wall.

I rushed to another gap nearby and saw that dozens of enemies had formed a shield wall and were fighting against the night attack soldiers.Pyrrhus pulled out a clay bottle from the cloth pocket under his shield. This was a simple arson bomb made of alcohol and animal fat.

Pyrrhus motioned to his friend next to him.The friends drew out their short javelins and fired a volley at the unsuspecting right side of the enemy array, knocking down several people immediately.

The opponent reacted and immediately shrank their formation and raised a shield towards this side.

At this time, Pyrrhus had already ignited the cloth strip blocking the mouth of the pottery bottle, and directly hit the arson bomb on the enemy's bronze shield, causing sparks to fly!

The blue flames seemed to be suspended in the air, spreading all the way to the heads of the soldiers behind the shield wall...

The night attack force on the other side was led by Scopas.

Unlike Pyrrhus who broke through at multiple points and pushed all the way to the center, this brave young man led his team to rush in from the breach and went straight to the center.

Along the way, they cut down everyone they saw and set fires everywhere, trying their best to increase the chaos.

At this moment, the inside of the camp was in chaos, with burning tents everywhere. Soldiers and civilians were running around, some trying to get weapons and others trying to put out the fire.

The Macedonian officers yelled loudly, and after a long time they finally gathered a team, but most of them were naked, with only weapons and shields.

Just in time to encounter Scopas who broke through all the way, he quickly formed a shield wall, and the two parties collided directly.

Seeing that the stalemate was no longer possible, Scopas asked his comrades to squat down, holding two curved blades. He stepped on his comrades' shoulders and roared over the shield wall, slashing and killing the unarmored enemy!

The shield wall collapsed instantly, and the soldiers fled in all directions...

**

When the three generals finally came together, little Antipater was furious.So many soldiers had been left on duty overnight, but when they came to attack, they still had no resistance!

The camp was attacked from the southeast and southwest. Although the north side was also in chaos, luckily there were no enemies.Thanks to the efforts of the officers, the soldiers finally calmed down.

After putting on the equipment and spending some time, they formed a simple formation to support the southern camp.

Now there are fires everywhere. The advantage is that they can no longer be seen. The disadvantage is that the troops cannot spread out. As soon as the enemy forms a formation, they will fall into a confrontation and no matter how many troops they have, they will not be able to advance.

Instead, some arson objects would be thrown from the opposite side, and even the bronze shields would catch fire in the affected area. Several teams were actually beaten back!

Veterans still have experience at critical moments.Glaucias ordered the soldiers to use their spears to knock down the tents regardless of whether they were on fire or not, and pushed them all the way to the side, finally clearing enough width.

The spears and shields formed several horizontal formations and advanced all the way towards the south camp. The situation was finally reversed.

At this time, a low horn sound suddenly sounded from somewhere.

The enemy also retreated when he saw the situation, and all of them ran away neatly.

Glaucias and Oplemous chased them to the edge of the camp and took a look. They saw two bonfires set up in the night, and there were still figures around the bonfires.

Obviously that was the retreat gathering point prepared in advance.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of horses whinnying from behind. Looking back, little Antipater was chasing after him with a group of cavalry.

Oplemous was shocked: "Do you still want to chase me out?"

"Is that all it takes?!" Little Antipater glared angrily.

"In case there is an ambush outside..."

Little Antipater obviously didn't listen to the advice and shouted angrily: "The other side has retreated, why don't you dare to pursue it? If you are a coward, just get out of the way!"

After saying that, he rode towards a bonfire.

In the dark night, the ground is deep and shallow, and people can't see the horses clearly.Although little Antipater tried his best to drive the horse, the horse was unwilling to run too fast. Little An was almost angry to death.

The guards followed the boss on horseback at night and were frightened, but they had no choice but to bravely rush in front of the boss.

Just chasing all the way, I can't run much faster than a human, but I can't even catch up, and people keep falling off their horses and falling behind...

Seeing that they had arrived in front of the bonfire, a thunderous shout suddenly sounded in the darkness on the opposite side!

It scared several people to the point where they were almost heartbroken!

Then I heard a dense whistling sound piercing the air, and I don’t know how many javelins were flying towards here in the night!The sound of the blade piercing the armor and entering the flesh was almost loud!

Little Antipater also understood what happened in an instant, and how reckless his night pursuit was!

In an instant, almost all of the guards in front were killed and injured, and Xiao An felt like he was being poured all over his face by some unknown warm liquid, and his back was covered in cold sweat.

Although the head was still there, the man was almost scared out of his mind. He leaned on the horse and turned the horse's head desperately, and finally escaped all the way before the second round of javelin arrived...