Pendekar Batari Mahadewi: The Journey to Find Your Self
Episode 190 Victory
Finally the Swargabhumi army had arrived at the edge of the forest east of the Blue Pearl fort. The day had been night when they got there and they decided to rest before crossing the forest. They did not go directly to the city of Blue Pearls which was very close because Basuraga senopati hesitated. How not, some of the spy warriors he sent to the Blue Pearl never returned. That's a sign something's wrong.
Senopati Basuraga had been aware of this strange thing since long ago when they had not arrived at that place. But he never discussed it with other senopaths. He was worried that everyone who followed him would lose their spirit and faith.
Some of his subordinates had also asked the reason why the group did not go directly to the city of Pearl Biru, but Basuraga explained that he wanted to ensure security in the city. He sent some warriors to scout.
Too bad, in the dark forest, Swargadwipa warriors messenger Jalu was ready to finish off anyone who passed by. The Emissary warriors of Basuraga were killed without a sound and unprepared for the sudden attack and severed their necks.
Basuraga is getting worried. The feeling was not good since the group of his troops reached the edge of the forest. When morning came, he and his entourage moved slowly into the forest. The very long line of troops suddenly panicked when the forest began to burn. Some went back to the back and others continued to run through the forest. Not a few are trapped in the middle of the forest and burned. The troops who managed to penetrate the forest were greeted with arrows from the troops led by Jalu. They could only resign when thousands of arrows shot through their bodies.
Basuraga's fears and suspicions were evident. He could only be angry at the situation he was in at the time. Putting out the fire in the forest was definitely a very draining matter even though he had a lot of troops. There was no other choice but to wait for the fire to go out and clear a single path for all the troops to cross. They also had to shoulder to shoulder with the ground burning embers so that the path they passed was not hot and burned their feet.
The flames subsided in the afternoon. Basuraga was still worried between directly pounding the Blue Pearl city or waiting for another night. If they moved, his army was definitely exhausted. But if they delay, they do not know when Swargadwipa's troops chasing them will arrive.
Other senopati urged Basuraga to immediately storm the town of Blue Pearl, line up stone-throwing carts and bombard the fort with rocks as big as watermelon. One by one, the thousand remaining Swargabhumi stone carts were pulled through the forest that had been eaten by fire. The day was getting darker and once the Swargabhumi troops had entered the range of Jalu's army arrows, then in an instant thousands of arrows and stones again rained down on the army led by Basuraga.
Some of Basuraga's throwing trains were damaged before they were ready to be used. Jalu's army's arrow attacks were very troublesome and made it difficult for Basuraga's forces to retaliate, especially when it was getting dark.
Basuraga's troops retaliated with a rain of arrows, the number of which was of course much more than the Jalu troops had deployed. Slowly Jalu's troops withdrew towards the fortress and Basuraga's troops who did not know that there was a trap before his eyes eagerly wanted to get to the fort and destroy the troops who were it's in it.
As Jalu and his subordinates had predicted, Swargabhumi's forces really wanted to destroy the fortress with the stone throwing chariot they had. Some of the troops together pushed the carriage and most of the others flocked to storm the fortress.
The trench which had been disguised in such a way as to resemble the surface of the ground was collapsing as the Swargabhumi troops passed through it. Hundreds of stone-throwing carriages also fell. The dark night left the Swargabhumi troops unable to see clearly what they were passing. Gradually, the moat was filled with corpses punctured by bamboo and spiky wood planted underneath.
The hundreds of thousands of corpses eventually became a bridge for other Swargabhumi troops still in the rear. The stone carts they were carrying could not pass through the moat full of bodies so as planned, they were just barking. Even if used, the stone thrown is still far from reach and will never reach the fortress of Blue Pearl towering and haughty.
But the job is not easy. From the top of the fort, Jalu's troops rained down Swargabhumi's troops with ordinary arrows and fire arrows. They also poured oil down and burned anyone who tried to climb the fort. Meanwhile, the gate-breaking troops also desperately formed a turtle shell shield formation to withstand the attack of Jaku troops' arrows while continuing to move to break the gate.
The effort had to be done several times because they also had to be doused in oil and eventually burned and died and replaced by the next soldier.
Although many casualties have fallen, but the number of Swargabhumi troops is still large. They retaliated against the arrow from below. Although the attack rarely takes its toll, it, but the attack could stop Jalu's troops who eventually had to be busy taking cover under an iron shield or anything that could be used to shelter from the rain of arrows Swargabhumi troops.
When the arrow attack had subsided, Jalu and the warriors who were with him jumped through the fortress and started to act. They had to do it before the warriors from Swargabhumi who preceded him. Meanwhile, Jalu's army led by the senopati had prepared to kill or be killed once the gate of the fort had broken down.
Jalu and Niken chose to attack his opponents right in front of the gate. While fighting some warriors who came to attack, a pair of warriors could also finish off the soldiers who tried to break down the fortress. That was all they could do their best to slow down Swargabhumi's army to enter the Blue Pearl city before the army of Mahapatih Siung Tiger Beetles came.
The battle of the powerful warriors of Swargadwipa and Swargabhumi became a thrilling spectacle for the soldiers on both sides. They did nothing when the fighting arena was boisterous by the warriors who were fighting. One Swargadwipa swordsman had to deal with ten Swargabhumi warriors. A very unbalanced amount. The agility and inner strength of the warriors was even more jarring than the noise of the soldiers who had previously acted.
Jalu and Niken went on a rampage and took as many lives as Swargabhumi's warriors could, considering their numbers were overwhelming. They both danced like angels of life. Before the two were completely exhausted, the roar of the cries of the troops from the east led by Mahapatih Siung Tiger Beetles sounded echoing and earth-shaking Blue Pearls. The warriors and the troops brought by the coach were so eager to wipe out the Swargabhumi troops who were trembling in fear. Simultaneously, the Blue pearl fortress was opened, the entire Jalu army flocked out and attacked the enemy forces.
The war raged on that dark night. The sounds of screams and screams of death echoed all the way to the distant forests. When the sun began to rise, Basuraga was killed. The rest of Swargabhumi's surviving troops chose to surrender and surrender to the fate they would receive.
Swargadwipa and the eastern kingdoms had been victorious for a while. In the next few months, of course the troops from the western kingdoms will come again and of course with a more mature calculation of this stupid attack that left more than a million soldiers and very expensive war materials.
Well, up to here first the battle is yes. There are still more attacks from the west. Chapter for tomorrow and a few chapters after that, we will monitor the development of Tari and Nala until both of them return to their respective homes. PR both are still many in the world one month.
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