The Last Soldier Left Behind

An archibas ball pinged off the side of Jean's open-faced helmet, knocking him senseless for just a moment. When he came to there was a Janissary on top of him sliding a dagger through a gap in his armor. Burning pain erupted in his armpit. That was when Jean saw the first soldier make it up under the walls. It was a corsair he thought curved blade in hand. The man gutted a Maltese militiament in the moment just before Jean took his arm clean off with a blow of his own sword. Two more attackers had come up in the corsairs place. A man wearing expensive looking red silk stood on the