with five yards to go , he threw himself into the air as the bridge fell away beneath him , sailing forward and landing on one guard , knocking another flat , plunging the flint blade into the first man 's neck and trying to bring it out again fast , but it broke off where it must have snagged on bone-then finding his feet , spinning around as he hauled the second guard , not yet recovered , roughly toward him , and swiftly drawing the man 's own sword , he pulled it back and ran him through with it .