CHAPTER ELEVEN THE PACE QUICKENS（第4/4页）

“Oh well done. Well done!”shouted Jill. The King’s party were cutting their way right into the enemy. The Unicorn was tossing men as you’d toss hay on a fork. Even Eustace seemed to Jill (who after all didn’t know very much about swordsmanship) to be fighting brilliantly. The Dogs were at the Calormenes’ throats. It was going to work! It was victory at last-With a horrible，cold shock Jill noticed a strange thing. Though Calormenes were falling at each Narnian sword-stroke，they never seemed to get any fewer. In fact，there were actually more of them now than when the fight began. There were more every second. They were running up from every side. They were new Calormenes. These new ones had spears. There was such a crowd of them that she could hardly see her own friends. Then she heard Tirian’s voice crying：

“Back! To the rock!”

The enemy had been reinforced. The drum had done its work．