Chapter 178: Night Attack

In the dark streets, the knight straddled the war horse, taking heavy steps, the sound of the horseshoe hitting the ground, like a slow war drum, the riding spear pointed straight ahead, the sharp riding spear was intimidating, any enemy who dared to block in front of the knight would definitely receive the most heavy casualties, but the barbarians would not!

Nearly fifty knights formed a cone formation and rushed towards the city gate, the originally extraordinarily wide main road made the knights feel that it was still too narrow at this time, so that only fifty of the two hundred knights could charge, the fifty barbarian warriors in the city gate wore extremely heavy armor, after completing the initial small-scale industrialization, these barbarian soldiers no longer had to care about any production capacity and cost, their armor was extremely luxurious, this was not the luxury of style, but the luxury of materials.

Rather than being an ironclad soldier, it's more like a humanoid tank, or a small Gundam like **.

Looking at the knights who rushed towards them, they were not afraid, but roared angrily, and then exposed their right shoulder, which was a heavy and thickened shoulder armor, on which shoulder armor, there was a hideous convex angle, which made people equally daunting, the barbarian roared, and rushed towards the knight with sharp horns, the barbarian never liked to defend, the barbarian only liked to attack.

The moment the two ironclad brigades collided together, there was no flesh and blood, only endless steel clashing and dazzling sparks, and the barbarians received a lot of damage, and the sharp cavalry spears pierced their armor with great force, and the violent friction brought violent sparks to fly, and then, the wooden hilt cracked with a click, and became in half.

The barbarians in the front row flew upside down, but the barbarians in the second and third rows swung their weapons out of their hands, and with that ferocious swing, they directly knocked the knights on the horse into the air and crashed into the knights behind them.

Absolute power head-on collision, the strong duel makes people's blood boiling, although there are only a hundred people, but it reflects the momentum of no less than a thousand people, under a wave of hedging, the knights in addition to knocking out the front of the few people, but actually pushed back by the barbarians, the knights behind them looked at this scene in disbelief, their cavalry, and it is a powerful existence in the hoplites, was actually rushed back by the infantry!

In fact, this is also because these northern knights have never seen a real battle with the barbarians, their understanding of the barbarians is a powerful physique and terrifying bear cavalry, but when Lelouch's steel creativity is combined with these giants, it sends out a horror that absolutely refreshes the three views of the human knights.

This is not to say that the barbarian heavy infantry is no longer afraid of the knights, the knights are also the knights of the northern realm are relatively poor, if it is the knights of the three major knights under Lelouxiu, they will be able to defend these terrifying steel giants head-on, and they can not fall behind, and even have a big advantage, and the current performance can only be said to be that Lelouxiu's development has surpassed these primitive northern nobles by much.

There was a loud battle at the gate of the city, and the frightened noise of countless soldiers swept through the city, and the soldiers resting in the rear hid in their houses, listening uneasily to the sounds outside the house, and they were waiting in a daze at the moment, waiting for their lords to come and bring them orders and directions, but the nobles were in the big houses in the rear, and they did not have time to arrive.

The nobles didn't have time, but the 25,000-strong Baicheng army outside the city could arrive!

After finding that their side has been completely exposed, they finally stopped covering themselves, they lit the torches, the rapid expansion of the large array, formed a sea of fire in an instant, to be honest, the lower people are not as many as above, but the low troops, more can be completely looked at, the defenders in the city can not see their own nearly 100,000 people, but can clearly see the opposite 25,000 people, so they were shocked, especially under the cover of the night, the fire shines on the smooth surface of the armor, Reflected a faint light.

The light was faint, but when they joined together, it gave others a divine light.

"They are the army of the Son of God, and they are blessed by the Light!"

After one of the local people shouted these words in fear, the peasant soldiers who had been unintentionally against Lelouch retreated, and they fled towards the back, without the restraint of the nobles, a small number of knights could not stop such a large-scale rout.

"The walls are lost! The walls are lost! ”

The black-clothed people mixed in the crowd and began to shout at the right time, and the frightened peasants and soldiers began to shout in blind fear under this drive, and the sound of the loss of the city wall soon spread throughout the city, and the people who did not know the truth in the rear listened to this voice in disbelief, from the sudden loss of the city gate to the loss of the city wall, less than half an hour in between, are the army of the Son of God really all gods? Captured Northridge City so quickly?

Fear is contagious in the dark night, especially when fear is put on a veil called 'unknown', it brings endless panic to people, the crowd of people in the rout continues to expand, and the rear line troops who originally developed the city wall also start to flee under this drive, believe me, when you are in a crowd full of fear and crying rout, even if you are Lu Bu, the only thing you can think of is to run along.

The snowballing rout exceeded the expectations of the nobles behind him, and even if a large number of knights arrived and began to try to stabilize the troops, they were unable to return to the sky, and the crowd ran uncontrollably towards the inner city.

Lu Lu Xiu and the others were also surprised by the situation in the city, they didn't expect it to be like this, although the rout was also expected, but they didn't expect it to be so big, and the entire outer city was directly lost to Lu Lu Xiu.

Although this scene seemed incredible to Frank, Lelouch suddenly reacted and smiled extremely self-deprecatingly:

"This is so familiar with the dispute between the Ming and Qing Dynasties!"

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a small group of Qing soldiers who went down to five cities, not because the Qing soldiers were strong, but because the guards and officials of the Ming Dynasty had been filled with uncertainty and fear for a long time, and the Qing soldiers in their hearts were invincible, even if they had never seen these Qing soldiers themselves.

Although the current situation in Northridge City made Lelouch have some associations, but he did not let go of this good opportunity at the moment, he immediately asked the troops to speed up the march, the original plan was just a surprise attack to capture the White City, and now Lelouch began to think, whether to expand the fruits of victory, maybe the inner city can also take advantage of the situation to dodge?

Twenty-five thousand Baicheng troops continued to enter from the city gate, they spread non-stop, the individual combat ability of the garrison soldiers was much higher than that of the northern peasant soldiers, and the northern peasant soldiers had long lost their fighting spirit, Lu Lu Xiu even only needed to climb the heights to shout, he could have many peasant soldiers, and this was also a part of Lu Lu Xiu's plan.

Surprise attack to capture the city gate, and then call on the defective peasant soldiers in the chaotic crowd, the original plan did not have such a large-scale rout, so I didn't expect how many defective peasant soldiers he could have, but in the current situation, it seems that Lelouch will be able to defect a large number of peasant troops in the chaos.

Therefore, after entering the city, the garrison soldiers spread out in a group of five people, and the five of them together are not less than ten knights besieging on the opposite side, otherwise it is impossible to defeat them, maybe there are really more than ten groups in Northridge City, and there are also knight squads with fighting spirit, but their numbers are too far from the huge garrison squads.

The inhabitants of Northridge City were not sleepy at this time, they hid in their houses, begging for the curtain of heaven to ensure that they could avoid the horrors of the night, not far away the fire had begun to appear, it was the destruction caused by the defeated peasant soldiers, the peasants were not law-abiding citizens, and they believed that no one would care about them doing anything out of the ordinary.

More than twenty peasant soldiers gathered together, and they ran through the deserted streets, with some knocked down pots and jars on the ground, and the burning flames not far away brought a faint light to the place.

"This is this, this is the businessman who doesn't give us some black bread on credit during the day!"

A peasant soldier suddenly stopped, pointed to a gate and said loudly, and the partners around him stopped invariably after seeing it:

"Are you sure it's here?"

"Yes, this is it, I am absolutely not mistaken, I watched the fat pig walk in, and I saw his daughter, whose skin was white!"

The peasant soldier's words made his companions let out an inexplicable inhalation, and they looked at each other with a slight blush, and then looked slightly shyly at the door that had become mysterious, and a strange and ambiguous aura wafted in the air:

"Brothers, today we are going to let this unkind merchant know our anger, big guy!"

After receiving this encouragement, the peasants put aside the last hesitation in their hearts, and took a large stone they had picked up from the ground and threw it at the wooden gate, which was more of a funny thing for the walls and gates than a siege weapon, but for the wooden doors of the people, it was a real weapon of great destruction.

Under the bombardment of two of the strongest peasant soldiers, a large hole was smashed open in the wooden door, but behind the big hole was not the interior of the empty house, but all kinds of furniture piled together, where could the merchant still sleep? As early as when these peasant soldiers appeared at the street corner, the merchants who saw them on the roof had already organized their whole families to defend their homes, and blocking the doors with furniture was the first step.

The furniture fulfilled their mission, but it angered the peasants outside the door, and they bombarded the door even harder, and the thud was like a hammer striking the hearts of every house in the street.

The time did not last long, maybe because the door of the shop was relatively wide, maybe because the furniture was not solid wood, and with the efforts of the peasants, with the door roaring to the end, the shop was displayed in the eyes of the crowd at a glance, and the peasants who had been waiting for a long time rushed in with cheers, they may not know what they would do next, but it did not hinder their excitement, because they at least knew that after they entered the store, they would become the god of the family, Do whatever they can to them.

The shop was full of goods, bread, bacon, dried apples, and even some delicious cream and canned food from the garrison, which aroused the hunger of the peasants, and they did not have time to go to the wicked merchant, but to those who they had hardly had a chance to eat, and the delicious, the largest amount of black bread could no longer arouse their **, and they would not even eat much white bread, but would take bacon and canned meat and eat it wherever they wanted.

The tight food on the front of the store was quickly eaten by more than twenty men, and the merchant on the second floor, who saw all this through the crack, almost jumped up in distress, but looking at the frightened wife and almost desperate daughter behind him, he did not dare to make even the slightest sound, at this time he could only beg the peasants and soldiers to choose to leave after eating, instead of continuing to stay.

But the peasants did not think so, they burped when they were full, touched their stomachs and looked around, and when they saw the stairs on the side, they seemed to suddenly remember that behind them, a strong man walked uncontrollably towards the stairs, with the first man taking the lead, soon there would be a second, and they followed together, and everyone seemed to know it.

But when they stood in front of the staircase, they found that the staircase was broken, and they did not know how the fat merchant had done it, but this did not seem to stop the enthusiasm of the peasants, and they looked around, and then brought the wood from the counter and put it directly on it, although they could not stand several people at the same time, but they could walk to the door.

"Bang!"

"Bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The peasant soldiers knocked on the door so drunk, the huge sound was terrifying, the fat merchant took his wife and daughter and pressed the big wardrobe behind the door, they resisted the invasion of the peasant soldiers in fear, the huge shock made them painful when they were usually pampered, but at this time, even if it was a painful thing, they had to grit their teeth and persevere.

As the minutes ticked by, the fat merchants didn't know how long they had been holding back the peasants, and they even felt that the door outside was almost about to disintegrate, and even the wardrobe had some cracks, and now they were separated from the peasants by three thin planks rather than a single door.

Just when the fat merchant was about to despair, a voice sounded from the street outside the window, which had nothing to do with the fat merchant, but made the fat merchant feel that his prayer had finally been answered.

"His Majesty the Son of God has an order, all the peasants and soldiers who have been coerced can immediately abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and His Majesty will not be guilty of the past!"