498 Castle Siege
In the castle, an officer pressed his sword and walked up to his commander, and reported dejectedly: "Your lord, there are soldiers of Iran Hill everywhere, and we are already surrounded. ”
"How is this fought? How was this battle fought? The lord in charge of the defense of this castle had a sad look on his face and asked, "How can so many people suddenly fall from the sky of the enemy?" Well? ”
He still didn't understand why he was in the rear, and the enemy had already come to the door before his forces were fully ready for battle.
"I have gathered all my soldiers to the top of the city...... But how long they will be able to hold out, I don't know. The officer thought about the so-called soldiers standing at the head of the city, and his heart was full of despair.
Most of the soldiers standing at the head of the city did not even wear all their armor, and most of the weapons in their hands were old and old, and some were even obsolete and rusty equipment.
However, due to the tight front, many troops were in urgent need of equipment, and all the reserves of military supplies in the castle were withdrawn, and now only these old equipment are left.
To add insult to injury, most of the soldiers with outdated weapons were untrained farmers. If it weren't for defending the city, they wouldn't even be able to do a basic formation in the field, let alone fight in concert with each other.
The only thing in the city that can be called combat effectiveness is him and some serious city guards, plus some magicians - these people add up to less than 80 people, and they can rely on the city walls to fight against ordinary enemies, but against the troops of Ellan Hill, it is difficult to say.
"Gotta hold out until dark! Close all the gates! The lord knew that the calamity was coming, but he still opened his mouth and ordered: "Hold until tomorrow morning, and our reinforcements should arrive." ”
According to his estimates, reinforcements should be in action by now. Everyone could see the parachutes flying in the sky, so the Empire's reserves should have begun to rush in from all directions to reinforce them.
His idea was actually not wrong, the reserves of the Kasik Empire were indeed being mobilized, and they also wanted to reinforce these troops surrounded by paratroopers.
But they really couldn't do it, they couldn't even make the slightest advance in the face of the defense line of the paratroopers, let alone penetrate the defense line of the Iran Hill paratroopers and reinforce the recalcitrant troops of their own forces.
Although he didn't believe his lord's dream words, the officer also knew that he could only rely on these dream words to persevere.
So he bowed his head slightly and respectfully exited the room where the lord was. Then he looked at the sky worriedly, and found that it was still a good cloudless day.
Outside the castle, the Airborne Troops of Elanhill are freeing a landed infantry fighting vehicle from the buffer.
They cut the rope on it, and then the driver started the engine, and the new infantry fighting vehicle was in motion.
With the roar of engines, the light infantry fighting vehicle, equipped with a cannon and armed with anti-tank missiles, accompanied the three men to rush to the selected target not far away.
At the place where the three soldiers landed, light air defense combat vehicles carrying field anti-aircraft missiles began to be on alert, and many paratroopers gathered into a unit and carved out a flat land at the landing site.
Engineer units set up various tents next to the open space, and many officers helped the communications units set up high-frequency communication antennas.
The signal soldiers, who were carrying a large number of communication equipment, began to work, and communication soon became unimpeded.
Also fixed on the buffer device to the ground, there are also construction vehicles. There were tractors and various vehicles used to level the land, and a large amount of quick-drying cement was also airdropped.
The construction troops are already busy, and they are using these machines, as well as sapper shovels and other equipment, to build a temporary field airfield in the area occupied by the paratroopers.
At the same time, the soldiers of Elanhill, who were close to the castle, had already begun to attempt to launch the first assault on the castle, trying to eliminate the resistance in front of the castle and capture the target that threatened the field airfield under construction.
At least 400 meters from the city walls, the paratrooper sniper of Iran Hill adjusted the scale of his scope to match the tested wind speed and locked onto a Kashik Imperial soldier standing behind the battlement.
"I'm already aiming for him." The sniper said to his comrades: "You can shoot at any time......"
The sub-shooter observed the enemy situation in the vicinity with a telescope, and then opened his mouth and ordered: "Fire!" Suppress the head of the city and let our troops get down to the city! ”
"Phew!" The sniper, who had been impatient for a long time, immediately pulled the trigger, and a bullet flew over the distance and directly into the head of the Kasik Imperial soldier behind the battlement at the head of the wall.
The Kasik soldiers, who did not even have a steel helmet, fell in response, and before they could even scream, they collapsed in a pool of blood without a sound.
Still, a soldier suddenly fell down, which still attracted the attention of those around him. His comrades on the left and right immediately looked at their friend who had fallen to the ground, and then fell to the ground in fright by the hole in the corpse's forehead.
"Enemy, enemy attack!" Trembling, a poor Kasik Imperial soldier finally shouted what he wanted to shout, but he was too late for another soldier to fall.
Just two shots made the army in this castle dare not show their heads. They lay behind the battlements, pointing at the distance through the narrow gaps.
Then, with another gunshot, another hapless guy collapsed behind the battlement, and the bullet flew in through the tiny slit and pierced his throat.
Completely different from being hit in the head, the person who was hit in the neck had no way to die immediately, but could only lie on the ground and struggle, and finally lost his breath and suffocated to death.
The man who was hit by the bullet covered the bloody hole in his neck with both hands, and before he opened his mouth to call for help, a large amount of blood flowed out, which made people feel frightened to watch.
"Ahh Yes! Damn it! He's dead! Damn it! He's dead! A farmer with only a nail rake as a weapon was frightened by the bloody scene before him, and he couldn't stop shouting.
And with his shout, taking advantage of the gap on the city wall where everyone dared not show their heads anymore, just below the city wall, the Irlanhill paratroopers with M4 assault rifles and hunched over their waists had already glued plastic bombs to the heavy wooden doors of the castle.
They stuck the detonator on the C4 explosive, then began to pull out the lead and mounted the other side on the detonator.
When everything was ready, one of the paratroopers gave a thumbs up to his companion who was pinching the detonator.