Alma3 Demon Queen
Akarmani 17: Night Attacks

*Fire in Jintamani Kingdom (Akarmani)*

“You from the duchy led by the Husk Handheld Swordsman?” duke Lalang Lengir asked the messenger soldier.

“True, Gusti Adipati,” replied the soldier and then thrust a nice hairpick. “Skin Handheld Swordsman gives this.”

Duke Lalang Lengir became absolute confidence after receiving a hair prick belonging to the Queen Colour Mekararum.

“Where are your troops?” duke Lalang Lengir.

“After that hill!” point the soldier towards the hill that is still visible in the afternoon.

“Which duchies joined?”

“The Duchy of Blokuk, Duchy of Pitikilang, and Putulowa.”

“So your troops will ambush the cavalry heading here?” ask the beautiful Duke again.

“True, Gusti.”

“Come back, your message I have received!”

“Good, Gusti.”

After that, the soldier saluted and turned to go towards his horse.

Meanwhile, Duke Lalang Lengir immediately gathered all the leaders of the army.

“From Three Waters Base there are hundreds of Jintamani horsemen who came back here. Swordsman of Heavy Scepter with the troops of three other duchies will ambush the troops behind the hill there.”

Duke Lalang Lengir pointed towards the hill which was barely visible to the darkness of night.

“It could have been the cavalry that escaped the ambush and got here. Immediately arrange for troops to disappear from the streets. We prepare for a follow-up ambush!”

“Good,” reply all dukes.

At that time, the cavalry led by Panglima Gigir Sluduk just ran relaxed, even though the night had arrived. Some of the horsemen were carrying torches.

Initially when leaving the valley north of Alas Tiga Air, the cavalry troop was galloping. However, not long after leaving the valley, Commander Gigir Sluduk ordered his troops to run leisurely.

“Commander, shouldn't we hurry?” ask the head of the soldier who accompanied the Commander, his name is Pajrit Bling Joko.

“For what to hurry? I'm thinking of an answer if Gusti Senopati asks why we're the only ones coming home. If I answer that our army of five thousand was killed by one warrior, woman, still young, does that make sense?” panglima Gigir Sluduk.

“Iya, Gusti. But, what if there's an enemy army up ahead? Wasn't the rebel who claimed the Old Queen was going to attack us?” pajrit Bling Joko.

“No enemy troops. We left this morning and on the same day we returned. If there was an enemy army, we would have met on the road. It's called fan satay strategy, the enemy that has no troops just breathes news of the threat, but the fact is only a few swordsmen rebel. The goal is only to make the Palace not calm and feel threatened,” said Panglima Gigir Sluduk.                                                                                             

The set! Ceb!

“Akk!” pajrit Bling Joko's screams when he knew about his neck had stuck an arrow.

It was very surprising Panglima Gigir Sluduk. Not to mention he shouted giving command to his troops ....

Ceb ceb ...!

“Akk! Akhs! Akk ..!”

There was already the sound of the screams of the soldier who followed, along with the fall of the soldiers riding and torches.

Arrow attacks coming from two opposite directions were barely visible in the darkness.

“From the kencaaang! Hea!” shouted Commander Gigir Sluduk.

“Hea hea!” shouted the panicked riding soldiers so that his horse ran quickly to leave the road at the foot of the hill.

Ceb ceb ...!

“Akh! Akk! Akh ...!

After the first wave of arrow attacks, back came the second wave of arrow attacks. More and more soldiers were falling from the back of his horse when their bodies got the dart souvenir.

Amongst the noise of death, there was suddenly a clear sound of friction rotating objects with air. That made Commander Gigir Sluduk tense in his horse race.

Glad! Blugk!

“Ukh!” panglima Gigir Sluduk complained when he fell down with his horse on the street ground.

It happened after in the dark there was an object that flew low, circled around and hit the front leg of the commander's horse. The thing that was an iron rod broke the strong bones of the two front legs of the horse.

Bdak!

“Akkh!” screeched Commander Gigir Sluduk as he rose up to be dragged by the horses of his own troops.

Commander Gigir Sluduk who is confused because he does not know the direction anymore, still trying to rise in the dark.

“Fukr!” Commander Gigir Sluduk spewed blood from his mouth.

Ceb!

“Aakh!” the commander's scream for the last time when his neck was stuck through an arrow. I don't know whose arrow gave him the death sign.

Meanwhile, out of the hundreds of cavalrymen, roughly half of the number managed to escape leaving that death path.

Approximately one hundred and fifty-one mounted warriors managed to escape leaving that path.

“Seraaang!” shouted the Duke of Argopuro first to his troops.

“Seraaang!” the screams of hundreds of soldiers instantly sprung up from the right side of the road and attacked the soldiers who had not died with a single arrow, but were left behind by his horses.

“Aac! Akk! Akk ..!” the screams of the soldiers who had already suffered from arrow wounds, as swords and spears pierced their bodies gave death.

Apparently there were also duchy soldiers who came out to catch horses without riders.

Eventually, the incident on the hillside was over, which killed many soldiers and captured more than twenty horses. Several torches were lit to clearly see the situation.

“Gusti Adipati, order a reliable soldier to exchange his warrior clothes with Jintamani warrior clothes according to the number of horses we can. I will bring the troops infiltrate into the Capital City,” Handheld Husk said to the three dukes who had already come out of the reconnaissance site.

After retrieving his iron baton, Handheld Husk grabbed a corpse of the Jintamani warrior and began to strip him of his clothes.

Meanwhile in the eastern fortress of the Capital City.

“Commander! There is a torch light in the distance!” shouted a soldier above the fort to Commander Galagap who was eating warm red bean porridge below.

“No one takes my porridge!” the message of Commander of Galagap to the pajrit of his meal companion.

Commander Galagap then walked to the stairs to climb to the top of the fortress.

Upon his arrival at the top, he and the soldiers looked far ahead at the fortress where the darkness was. At a great distance, they saw some slow-moving hotspots of fire. The darkness and the great distance left the commander and his men unable to see anything but a few points of fire.

But then, they only saw those fire points extinguish all.

Actually what happened in a place far ahead was the rest of the cavalry, who managed to escape the ambush at the foot of the hill must stop all. At one point, on a road flanked by two high ground, horsemen carrying several torches were blocked by a pile of two tree trunks.

The road that was closed instantly became a bad premonition for the cavalry soldiers.

“Arrow!” suddenly one female voice commando sounded out loud.

Ceb ceb ...!

“Akk! Ak's! Akh ..!”

So the soldiers screamed when they got the arrow attack like before. The existence of two tree trunks that closed the road made them unable to advance. The condition of those who could not see the enemy because it was dark, could only hear, made them topsy-turvy, unable to fight and only became soft prey. The arrows that they could not see knew already stuck in their bodies.

The horses became chaotic and confused about where to run, except to run around without bringing the master again.

The position of the ambush far from the fortress made Commander Galagap and his troops could not see what was happening in the darkness there, even the sound of the death screams of the mounted soldiers was not heard in the slightest.

Indeed, Duke Lalang Lengir had ordered his troops to retreat further from the fortress by moving without any illumination of fire. It made them seem to have retreated and was no longer in their original position, where until the afternoon they were still on standby facing the fort.

Thus, the cavalry of the Jintamani Kingdom was exhausted. (BH)