Chapter Eighty-Four: The Battle of Sackin

At dawn on December 10th, when Amilenor and his army left the Letin-Saktin Academy of Magic, the battle for the Truth against Saktin had already begun. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After receiving orders for the uprising, the members of the Truth Society in each town gathered in the direction of Saktina City at night. By dawn, outside groups outside of Saktin had gathered about 5,000 men outside the city. The 5,000 men, all armed and armoured, were scattered around the city, awaiting contact from the city of Sakkin.

After several riots, the city of Sakin has been put on full alert, and the magic flares in the sky have not stopped. Last night there was a constant flow of troops into the city, making quite a stir and causing panic among the people, so much so that a considerable part of the population did not intend to go out the next day. When the rebels in the city were almost wiped out, Moriddin ordered the outermost gates to be sealed and no one was allowed to enter or leave except the troops of the House of Koldnet.

The Truth rebels outside the city had already been discovered by the Bright Army, and Moritin was ready to cast a long line to catch big fish, ready to wait for the enemy to gather before killing them. However, the Truth Society rebels in the city did not have that patience, and they were once again panicked because they could not get in touch with the rebels outside the city.

Amireno's biggest mistake was not to hand over the command of the rebel army in the city to a team leader. But there is no way around it, there is no one in the Order of Truth who can fight with soldiers except Amileno. And Amilaino himself has no command experience, only knows how to talk on paper. He always assumed that his men would do exactly what he wanted, forgetting that they had already staged several riots without permission, and that they could not be trusted.

Amilenor shouldn't have gone back since he came to Saktin, and if he gave an order, he just had to send someone back to the Academy of Magic to spread the word. But he went back anyway, he regarded the Letin-Sakin School of Magic as the headquarters, and the city of Sakin as the battlefield, and he felt that he should return to the headquarters as a commander, instead of staying on a dangerous battlefield.

At the end of the day, Amelino was scared. He didn't want to go to war -- he didn't want to be wounded on the battlefield, or even more so to die on the battlefield. He felt that as the president of the Truth Society, he should fight under command in the safest place possible. This idea seems to be not wrong for a commander, but it is very wrong.

Commanders want to ensure their own safety, but this does not mean that commanders must stay in the safest place to direct the battle. The safest place is often the most difficult to understand the situation and changes on the battlefield, so generally speaking, the commander will choose a relatively safe place where it is easy to understand the situation and changes on the battlefield as the headquarters, because only in this way can he grasp the situation on the battlefield as soon as possible and adjust his own deployment.

After he left Saktin, Moridin was able to cut him off from the outside of Sakdin by blocking the gates. The loss of contact between a commander and his subordinates is very fatal on the battlefield. Not everyone can withstand the pressure exerted by the enemy, and if the disconnected subordinates take it upon themselves to fall into the enemy's trap, it can lead to the defeat of the entire battle.

The Truth Society rebel army in Sakin City revolted in advance because it could not withstand the pressure exerted by the Bright army. According to the battle plan formulated by Amileno, they wanted to seize the outer city gate as soon as possible and join the rebel army outside the city. Moriddin had expected this to do so, and he set up an ambush near the outer gates, and as soon as the rebels in the city reached the gates, the crossbowmen who were lying in ambush on the roofs of the buildings near the gates rained down the arrows.

As the crossbowmen attacked, hundreds of infantry were slaughtered from the buildings lining the streets. Armed with broad shields and spears, they lined the streets and advanced slowly. When the infantry was finished, several more groups of men and horses came out from behind the rebels, cutting off their retreat.

This time, the Bright army did not use the tactic of encircling three without one, because Moritin had brought in a sufficient number of broad-shielded spearmen from the outside, and their battle formation in the urban environment would be deadly for the light infantry. Once the rebel army, which has extremely poor military quality, is surrounded by such a battle formation, there is almost no possibility of breaking through.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the broad-shielded spearmen of the Bright Army had compressed the rebels attacking the city gates into a small space. At this time, the crossbowmen on the roofs of the buildings on both sides of the road stopped shooting, and the Letin magicians, escorted by some broadshield soldiers, came to the roof and began to snipe the rebels with Lighting magic.

The rebels tried to tear through the encirclement of the Bright army, but every time they rushed to the shield wall, they were killed by spears that suddenly pierced through the gaps in the shield. After a round of spears, the broadshield spearmen would collectively retreat, wait for the rebels to chase after them, and then suddenly move forward and stab the next round of spears.

The rebels were also armed with shields, and they tried to form a battle formation like the Bright's army, but in a matter of minutes, they were in disarray, and some of their companions were killed by the Bright's broad-shielded spearmen.

By this time the battle had begun, the losses of the Bright army were negligible, but more than half of the rebels who attacked the city gate had already suffered more than half of the casualties. At this time, the gates outside the third arrondissement were also attacked by the rebels. This was the second step in Amileno's battle plan, and he felt that it would not be a problem to take down the outer wall with the cooperation of the inner and outer teams in the city, so he quietly gathered outside the third district and asked them to attack in the direction of the Cornate family castle.

After Moridin defeated the rebels, he did not give any order to close the gates of the outer walls, except for the sealing of the outer gates, so that only the outer walls of the third district and the outermost gates were now closed. Among the wide open gates, the gates outside the first and second districts were heavily guarded, and the rest were left undefended.

Moritin did this in order to bring together the rebels outside the Third Sector so that he could eliminate them together. As for the rebels in the third district, they can be dealt with slowly after eliminating the rebels outside. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd districts of Sakdin are all areas where the rich live, and Moriddin will be distressed if it becomes the worst battlefield and scares the rich who can pay a lot of taxes.

Like the rebels who attacked the outermost gates, the rebels who attacked the outer walls of the third district were ambushed by the Bright army. At dawn, the rebel army in the city of Saktin was almost completely surrounded by Bright's army, and the situation was very critical.

At this moment, the rebel army attacking the gate of the outermost wall of the city of Sakin made a new move. This rebel army is the strongest in the city, and the leader of this rebel army is the leader of the Truth Society, who was appointed by Amileno to direct the uprising in the city of Sackin.

When people can't bear the pressure, they tend to make extreme choices. The psychological quality of this group leader was really bad, and when he saw that his troops were surrounded by Bright's legion, he actually had the idea of burning jade. Ignoring the obstruction of his subordinates, he rushed alone to the enemy army in the direction of the city gate.

He charged despite the spears stabbed by the Brights, and after several spears in his body, he actually grabbed one of the spears and stabbed the shields of the Brights with the spears in his hand. His desperate posture frightened the Bright Army, causing a little confusion in the formation of the Bright Army in the direction of the city gate.

As the saying goes, one soldier will be a nest, and now the commanders of this rebel army are all taking the lead in rushing up, how can the soldiers below be watching from behind? I don't know who shouted "By the will of the god of light", and the rebels went crazy and slaughtered in the direction of the city gate.

The rebels in the front row were all stabbed by the spears of the Bright Army, but they did not fall, but grabbed the enemy's spears like the group leader and desperately attacked the enemy's shields with the weapons in their hands. The rebels behind didn't care about being stabbed with spears, and continued to charge forward even if they hit the tip of the spear that peeked out from behind their comrades.

The Bright's battle formation was attacked, advanced, retreated, and changed through the officers' orders, and because the rebels were clinging to their spears, the soldiers could not follow the officers' orders to retreat after stabbing their spears. As a result, the rebels rushed up directly on the bodies of their companions and jumped into the battle formation of the Bright army.

The spears used by the broadshield spearmen were more than three meters long, and they formed a battle formation like hedgehogs, and normal people would not even think to jump in, because doing so would only be worn on the spear. In fact, seven or eight of the dozen or so soldiers who jumped into the battle formation of the Bright Army were pierced with spears, but a few managed to jump into the battle formation. The Bright soldiers in the battle formation were not ready to engage in battle, and they did not react until the rebels had slashed and killed a dozen people, but it was too late by this time.

The spears of the Bright army were not suitable for close combat at all, so the soldiers in the back had to abandon their spears and draw their daggers from their waists to engage the rebels in close combat. But in this way, a gap appeared above the battle array, and more and more rebel troops jumped into the battle array, and the pressure on the Bright army in the direction of the city gate was increasing, and it was about to collapse.

The battle formations in the other three directions wanted to come to the rescue, but it was too late. The insurgents' decisive charge was too sudden and too ferocious, and by the time the other three formations were charging, they had already broken through the battle formations in the direction of the city gates—the enemy in that direction had already been routed by them, to be exact.

The outer gates of Sakdin were too cumbersome to open with manpower. If you want to open the gate, you have to go inside the gate tower and turn the lever. The rebels were all natives of Saktin, so they naturally knew about it. After breaking through the battle of Bright's army, they immediately slaughtered the city gate.

The defenders of the gate tower saw the rebels fighting for their lives when they fought, and without this awareness, their morale fell by half before the battle. The rebels broke open the small wooden door of the gate tower with their long axes, and rushed in with a roar, but they only slashed a dozen people, and the defenders inside the gate tower screamed and dropped their weapons and scrambled to flee.

The Bright knew they wanted to open the gates, but they couldn't stop the rebels. The rebels who did not enter the gate tower fought desperately to block the attack of the Bright army inside the city gate, so that the companions who entered the gate tower could turn the control stick and open the city gate little by little. The rebels outside the city had already heard the shouts from inside the city, and they wanted to go into the city to support the friendly forces, but according to Amireno's battle plan, the city gate had to be opened by the people inside the city, so the people outside the city could only pray silently, hoping that the god of light would perform a miracle and help them open the city gate.

As the gates of the city were slowly opened, the rebels who were ambushed outside the city erupted in cheers. Believing that their prayers had been heard by the God of Light, they shouted "By the will of the God of Light" and went to the gates. The Bright army on the city wall fired arrows at the rebels, but the number of crossbowmen was too small to inflict much damage on the rebels.

The news of the breaching of the East Gate soon spread among the rebel army outside the city, and by this time the rebel army gathered outside the city had exceeded 8,000 people. They quickly rushed in the direction of the East Gate, and from the East Gate they entered the city of Saktin.

At first, the defenders in the direction of the east gate were able to withstand the rebel attack with their superior training, but over time, the rebels had captured the wall near the city gate and could condescendingly shoot the Bright army below. Several Rytin magicians had already been shot by arrows, two of whom died on the spot, and the losses of the soldiers were even more severe.

At this time, Moritin's heralds arrived at the east gate. He ordered the defenders in the direction of the east gate to retreat in an orderly manner and join the defenders of the south gate. Moridin did not let them retreat to the next wall, and then closed all the gates and locked the rebels outside. In order to secure access, the rebels had already captured a gate in each district, and it was pointless to let them retreat to the next wall. Instead of doing this, it is better for them to support other battlefields, destroy the encircled rebel army as soon as possible, and free up more combat power.

However, the rebels were in the same mind. This was not Amileno's plan of action, these men were genuinely trying to rescue their comrades who were surrounded by Bright's army. So after the troops at the east gate retreated, the rebels immediately pursued them. Under the guidance of the rebels in the city, the rebels who arrived from other towns quickly came to the aid of other battlefields in order to free their fellow Truth Society.

The breach of the East Gate by the rebels was completely unexpected by Moritin, and also by all the great families of Saktin. By the time Moriddin surrounded the main rebel forces in the city, these men had already decided to abandon the Truth Society. Some families are even preparing to raise an army against the rebels of the Truth Society, showing their loyalty to the Cornate family and Moritdin.

However, the only family that actually did this was the Cutis family. Because they were threatened by Amileno, they were afraid that they would make Moridin suspicious if they were late, so they organized the family's private soldiers as quickly as possible and went to the battlefield at the east gate of the outer wall. But before they could run to the battlefield, the rebels broke through the east gate.

When the people of the Kiddes family arrived at the east gate, they happened to see the Bright army retreating in a hurry, and the rebels were chasing after them with great momentum. When the rebels saw that another unit was coming, and it didn't look like the Bright's army, they sent someone to inquire about the situation. Seeing the strength of the rebels, the people of the Quides family did not dare to say that they were here to deal with them, so they could only lie and say that they were here to support the rebels.

As soon as the rebels heard that these men were coming to their aid, they immediately asked them to follow them to fight the Brights. The people of the Kides family could not tell what they were suffering, so they could only be dragged forward by the rebels and became a member of the rebels. (To be continued.) )