372 Torn (4)
Erlong's strange sound woke the Stian sentry from his sleep, and the large raindrops knocked on the roof of the Caidong Tower, and the cold wind hit him with moisture.
His confused expression was slightly sober, and he looked at the heavy rain in front of him in confusion, trying to find out the source of the sound.
By the dim light of the fire, the sentinels could see nothing but the dark shadows of the mountains in the distance, and the rolling thunder still came from a distance, and the wind with moisture rushed in his face, and the cold freezing rain made him shiver,
"Hell!" the sentry scolded as he picked up his weapon from his side, looking for a glimmer of security from above, when suddenly, a cold flash flashed through the rain and mist in the distance, which drew his gaze, first one, ten, and then quickly turned into countless paths, like a glimpse of a moving wall of light
The sentinel turned pale, though he didn't know what it was. But from the slightly trembling ground, I could feel an unpredictable fear rapidly pressing in.
"Wake up......! There is a situation!" The sentry looked nervous and lay at the mouth of the sentry tower, shaking his arm in a panic as he shook his sleeping companion! The hand holding the spear was trembling, and his frightened eyes were fixed on the place where he could see in front of the camp, although it was pitiful, only a dozen meters away,
"Whew!" the torches at the camp gate shook violently in the wind, bursting into a string of red sparks. Lines of light were drawn in the wind, and a thick lightning bolt swept across the sky. A large rift was dragged out, and in the afterglow of lightning, the sentry finally saw what was in the rain and mist
"Oh, God!" the sentry's eyes widened, and his whole body shivered irrepressibly, and countless black cavalry rushed out of the rain and mist like wolves tearing through the space.
"Enemy attack!" shouted the sentry with all his strength. But this shout seemed so pale and weak before the rushing thunder, and the war horses were like thunder, and the roaring horses' hooves crushed the silence of the night.
"Bumping" the sawdust scattered, and the forward cavalry that served as the first wave of attacks slammed into the loose wooden camp gate like an arrow, and the Stien family did not expect that they would be attacked by a large group of enemy cavalry in their territory, and the loose camp gate was in front of the high-speed moving heavy war horses. Knocked into several pieces,
"Kill!, not one will be left behind!" shouted Lesky, the leader of the squadron of Samor's cavalry, brandishing his sword, and the first horse rode past the frightened-looking Stitian soldiers, "Ah" A crisp bone cracking sound mixed with a neighing came from under the horse's hooves, and the soldier's corpse was like a torn sack, trampled into a pile of mud in the flying horses' hooves
"Snap" Several Samar cavalry rushed in from the back of the tent, the tent crashed by the huge war horse collapsed, and there was a wail from the "ah", the "brush" war knife flew, and several Stitian soldiers who had no time to react were cut to the ground
"Array, array!" The panicked Stian soldiers rushed out of their tents without even putting on their armor and with only weapons in their hands, and were knocked out of the tent by a dozen Samar cavalrymen on the spot
The whole valley was littered with Stian soldiers running in all directions, and then the pursuing Samar Guards cavalry was like a cutting blade, cutting the entire camp into several pieces,
The galloping heavy war horses rolled up the muddy clods under their feet, the war knives in their hands were like lightning slashing in the sky, and the corpses of the Stitian soldiers were everywhere, stacked on top of each other, like straw harvested by a sickle,
The rudimentary weapons and scattered escapes made it impossible for them to organize a decent resistance, and the rain poured down, turning the entire ground into a blood-colored mud.
Hu Keqili led the main force of 3,000 cavalry to rush into the camp gate in the second wave, only to find that the entire camp was divided into two layers, the first layer was a relatively thin wooden platoon, and the Samar cavalry had achieved complete control.
The remnants of the Stian soldiers were running to the second floor, a medium-sized stone fort with a wooden fence that was hard to spot, giving Hukochili an explanation that the Stians didn't have scouts, if necessary. The Stians could have withdrawn their troops into the stone fort, several stone watchtowers were shooting down in a panic, the dense arrows were like a large net, blocking the entrance to the stone fort, the narrow gate was in the battle between the two armies, the first wave of Samor cavalry rushing in was fighting with the defenders inside, and the rapid cluster of arrows above the head hit the heavy armor of the war horse, making a crisp sound of jingling,
Although the damage caused was not large, it could also make the subsequent Samor cavalry feel a headache, and the dense formation appeared a little scattered, and from time to time a cavalry fell from the horse.
The entrance to the gate was already narrow, and only two or three horses could enter at a time, and the Stian soldiers inside piled up a simple barrier with miscellaneous objects, and concentrated most of the archers to shoot at the narrow hole, and the flying arrows were like locusts, shooting anything that tried to pass through the gate hole into a hornet's nest.
The cavalry stormed several times and did not reopen, which caused the whole battle to fall into a stalemate, and the blood of the soldiers on both sides stained the walls of the cave, and the corpses were piled up, which made the battle more and more unfavorable for the Samor cavalry
"If we continue like this, we will be dragged to death in this fortress!" Hukochili tried to lead the army himself several times
A bolt of lightning pierced the sky, illuminating the terrible gate ahead, and some of the Samor cavalry had dismounted, armed with shields and swords, and fought the Stians inside at the narrow gate
Hukochili saw that at the entrance of the second floor in front, hundreds of Stitian spearmen were gathering, if the formation of the Stitians was stabilized, it would not be so easy to storm this strong fortress, once the city gate was closed, his assault mission would be lost
Hu Keqili looked around angrily, now it is impossible to assault in front, only to find a way to kill through other gaps, sure enough, on the left side of the entrance to the second floor in front, I saw a small gap, more than a dozen spearmen were guarding dozens of archers to block there,
Because that section of the road is a flight of steps. It was not suitable for war horses, so the enemy did not have many men there, which made Hukochili look happy. He shouted to one of the Samour squadron leaders behind him, "Nat, you take a squadron and walk up through the gap on the left, open the gate for me!"
"Yes, my lord, look at how I clean up these Stians!" Nat, the leader of the first squadron who received the order, flipped off his horse and waved his arm to the subordinates behind him, "The first squadron dismounted, follow me!"
Hundreds of Samar cavalry on foot rushed forward along the wall with cavalry shields, and the Samar cavalry troops in front of them got out of the way, and countless arrows shot down from the gap in front, this is a small slope, the gray wall has already been splashed with bloodstains, and there are constantly Samar soldiers who are hit by arrows tumbling down the slope,
In order to complete the assault, all the Samar cavalry changed into heavy armor before the assault, just to use it as hoplites if necessary, and the shields of the dense arrows clanged, and the heavily armored Nat rushed to the front with a murderous gaze. I want to tear the archers who are shooting to shreds,
"Watch the back, hurry! Stop them!" The Stian soldiers above also noticed the attempt of the Samar army, and quickly turned around from the front shot, and more than a dozen flustered spearmen tried to block the gap "Get out of the way!" Because the rush was too fast, the unruly shield in Nat's hand slammed into the chest of a spearman, and the spearman fell to the side,
Through the gap, the hammer in Nat's hand smashed into the head of an unsuspecting archer, snapping "the spearman's head like a smashed watermelon." Bright red blood splattered out with brains,
This tragic scene made the other spearmen pale,
"Shrug the gun, shuffle the gun!" shouted the Stian man on the other side, not expecting such a powerful infantry assault. The already weak formation suddenly became chaotic
"Kill!" the Samar cavalry who followed up shouted, holding their swords and quickly tearing the gap open, blood flying, and the crying father and mother of the killed Stian archers, countless Samar cavalry dismounted. pour yourself in as infantry through the gap,
The front gate defense was quickly crushed by the Samar cavalry who were fighting inside, "Rush in!" More than a dozen heavily armored guards cavalry rushed in through the tore gap like giant beasts, and the huge war horses knocked the Stitian soldiers who were blocking in front of them into the air,
"Clear the walls immediately!" Hukochili saw the gate that had been broken open in front of him, and led a group of cavalry to rush in, the defense of the stone fort had collapsed, and there were Samar cavalry with shields as infantry everywhere, and the corpses of archers on the city walls kept falling,
In the main hall of the castle, more than a dozen Stitian knights in heavy armor were forming a circle, and a middle-aged knight in light chain mail stood in the middle of them, under the escort of more than a dozen knights, constantly shooting outward with the longbow in his hand, and the strong penetrating power brought a whistling sound in the air,
The middle-aged knight's arm was still covered with bloody wounds, and the hand that drew the longbow was still as steady as a mountain, and every time he pulled the bowstring, a Samorian soldier would fall.
"Bastard, let's go!" shouted a captain of Samar, raising the shield in his hand and leading the charge, a powerful arrow from the opposite side of the "lock" slammed into his shield, splintering sideways, and the heavy steel shield was shot through, and the bloody arrow peeked through his left arm
"Squeak!" The heavy armor of the hoplite knight squeezed together with the Samar cavalry who rushed up, the shields in their hands were against each other, and with a heavy "bump" sound, another Samar cavalry fell with an arrow in his chest, and the Samor cavalry on the periphery used the shields in his hands several times to form a wall. wanted to push the other party down, but they were pushed away by these dozen or so strong knights.
"It's not so easy to kill me if you want to kill my North Wind Longbow Aitkes!" The middle-aged nobleman in chain mail looked at the black-armored soldiers around him, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of contempt,
Aitkais is the most valued warrior of the Stien family, because he has long fought in the north to guide the Kujits, and is the best at night archery, the heavy compound longbow in his hand can pierce the two-layer chain mail of the heavy knight within fifty meters, and is known as the "dark night archer" across the northern grasslands.