Chapter 506: Capture the City
Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate!
This was Soros's order, and the soldiers he led were also extraordinarily under this whipping, and they rushed to a few kilometers away from Kaiyan City in the evening of the same day.
At this point, Soros stopped urging, he ordered everyone to lie down and rest, eat all the remaining rations, regain their strength, break the boat, and wait for the next battle.
At this point, the soldiers also understood where their destination was, and they were all in disbelief.
They couldn't have imagined that these people of themselves were actually here to fight Kaiyan City! Originally, they thought that they were going to the front line to reinforce the patriarch, but now it seems that the truth is obviously more exciting.
After all, this is Kaiyan City, the nest of the strongest family in the mainland, if you can conquer here, it will be able to boast to others for the rest of your life!
Of course, at the same time, many soldiers expressed their worries and fears.
After all, the Lannisters are prestigious, and it is impossible not to be afraid of attacking their nest at this time. In particular, some people also found it difficult to defeat him, but when asked why, he couldn't say why, only said, "This is Kaiyan City!"
This shows how indestructible the city is on the mainland.
Of course, both Li Lingyi and Soros understand that there is no unconquerable city in the world, and if there is, then double the number of soldiers. If it doesn't work, then multiply it tenfold.
This is the case now, with the defenders of Castle Rock at most only 2,000 men, while Soros has 15,000 men and some improvised siege engines.
It wasn't ten times as many, but it was about the same, and unlike Harrenhal or the Eagle's Nest, Castle Rock didn't have tall walls or the dangers that were almost above the sky.
With such an ordinary city, Soros has the confidence and determination to storm it!
So, in the anticipation and nervousness of the soldiers, night quietly fell.
If you want to successfully capture the city, a surprise attack is an indispensable part, and if you attack in broad daylight, it will only make the enemy fully defensive, so even if you attack it, you will not be able to bear the casualties.
Soros couldn't have done such a stupid thing, so even though he knew that time was urgent, he waited until the night came.
And today's God is also very cooperative, the sky is quite cloudy and foggy, the moon is not very sparse, although it is not to the point where you can't see your fingers, but the visibility is only about twenty or thirty meters.
This situation was undoubtedly more conducive to a surprise attack on the city, so Soros immediately ordered the whole army to advance quickly, and under the cover of night, 15,000 people rushed towards Kaiyan City.
There is nothing to say, the army rushed to the city and immediately began to attack, the ladders were already ready, Soros ordered nearly fifty ladders to slap on the city wall, and then the soldiers climbed up directly and rushed up!
It was so sudden that it took a minute or two for the defenders of Kaiyan City to realize that someone was attacking the city, and the guards on the walls immediately shouted for an enemy attack while destroying the ladders that had been put up!
In fact, compared to other cities, the guards of Kaiyan City were already quite strict, there were forty or fifty guard sentries on the city wall, and they immediately showed excellent combat qualities after discovering that the enemy was coming, and immediately destroyed almost thirty ladders.
This has been done very well, but there are still twenty ladders that have not had time to be destroyed, and the soldiers of the Bannerless Family have already climbed the city wall, and the battle between them has suddenly begun!
For such a thing as a siege, as long as the vanguard troops climbed the city wall and held the ladder, it would be easy for the soldiers behind to climb again. Especially now that the soldiers of Kaiyan City are not at all prepared, and the soldiers in the barracks are still wearing armor and running towards the city wall, but it is obviously too late.
"Click!"
Soros had also climbed to the city wall through a ladder at this time, he drew his sword and stabbed two Lannister soldiers to death, and then shouted and led the flagless soldiers who had climbed up to rush towards the city!
Climbing the city wall is not the end, it is necessary to wipe out all the enemy's living forces in the city! Otherwise, once the enemy reacts back and organizes an attack, there may still be a possibility of being defeated.
After all, although the number is superior, Soros deeply understands that the overall quality of his 15,000 people and the 2,000 Lannisters is incomparable, and if they hold the regiment, it is really difficult to say who wins and who loses.
So after killing the defenders on the city walls, he immediately led his men to charge into the city, and ordered separate actions to intercept and kill the Lannister soldiers who appeared from all the roads!
10,000 people against 1,000 people, the winning rate is not necessarily 100%. But if ten people fight one, then basically you won't lose!
This is the difference between fighting and fighting, the former relies on numbers and the latter on morale, and now Soros is using his strengths and avoiding weaknesses, and the soldiers he brought are scattered in groups, specifically to fight those scattered Lannister soldiers, so that most of the enemy's living forces are quickly wiped out.
But even so, the defenders of the city were gathered together, and they were originally in a military camp, and if something happened, they came out together in armor at the same time, so they formed a small army of about 800 people.
In the face of these 800 people, Soros did not dare to be careless, and directly sent 5,000 people to besiege them! And let the 300 elite archers who accompanied the army snipe at a distance, and try to eliminate this group of people as quickly as possible.
5,000 infantry plus 300 elite archers, against the 800 defenders who were in a hurry, it stands to reason that they should be crushed casually, but as soon as the infantry on both sides fought, the flagless soldiers fell in a hurry.
There is no way, the quality of the soldiers on both sides is too poor, and these reservists brought by Soros have not even fully mastered the group formation, so they are naturally killed and wounded at this time.
However, under the shooting of elite archers, the Lannister defenders are also constantly decreasing. And even so, the battle was extremely fierce, and by the end of the 800 men who were dead, only about 1,000 of the 5,000 besieging men remained.
Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Soros was still speechless in shock, but as a general, he knew that now was not the time to be sad.
Now that the main living force of the defenders in the city has been wiped out, the next step is to clean up deeply! Soros directly ordered to find those scattered soldiers who were hiding, search the whole city, and wipe them out!
He also captures a few of the city's Bachelors and asks them to write to Tywin, informing him that the city has been taken over by the Bannerless Family.
As for whether Old Tywin would continue to fight Ivey on the frontal battlefield or come back immediately to rob his home, the problem was left to him to solve. As for Soros, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, knowing that the task given to him by Ivey was completed, although it also paid an extremely painful price.