Chapter 785: Burning the Car
The goal of the death squad is to go out of the city and destroy the transports made by Ziyad, so as to ensure the safety of the moat, so that the moat does not fill with sandbags, which in turn makes it more difficult for Ziyad to attack the city.
These daredevils are all veterans, and they are all elites who defend the city, but such a difficult task can only be reassured by handing it over to veterans, and it is difficult for recruits to complete such a difficult task.
The process of this mission is very simple, that is, quietly send eighty daredevils, let them appear in the moat by surprise, and then suddenly appear when the transport vehicle approaches, kill all the enemy soldiers in the transport vehicle, and then, set the cotton bales on fire, and burn the transport vehicle from the inside, so as to achieve their strategic goals.
The enemy soldiers in charge of transportation, in order to complete the task faster, will definitely not carry weapons, so sending elite soldiers to sneak attack can easily solve the enemy soldiers.
Since the internal material of the transporter is still wood, if it is ignited from the inside, it is completely possible to burn the transporter, which is not stressful.
But the main problem now is how to quietly send the eighty death squads out of the city, this battle must be taken by surprise, if it is detected by the other party in advance, the effect of the surprise attack will be greatly reduced, and even the battle will be lost.
The reality was that the Khorasan cavalry was surrounded on all four directions, and it was easy for the attacking soldiers to spot them from any direction, thus adversely affecting their raids.
However, the moat is connected to a large river outside, and at the same time, the moat is also connected to the sewers inside the city, so as long as you enter the moat through the sewer, there will be no problem.
Because of the influence of a lot of domestic sewage, the sewer is not very clean, but it is okay and not too difficult to accept.
And after they enter the sewer, they can breathe with a reed tube and completely cover their bodies underwater, however, the cotton bales are not easy to hide, they can only be placed on the surface of the water, because there is a lot of oil in them, in order to prevent the cotton bales from getting wet, there is also a wooden board underneath, such a small thing, even if it is discovered by the soldiers outside, it will not attract much attention, in addition, eighty people only have forty cotton bales, if they go out of the city in batches, because the wooden planks are too small and scattered, they will not be found at all.
At the junction of the sewers and the city walls, eighty members of the daredevils are ready to make their final preparations, and they will leave the city separately, lurking in front of the moat, ready to leap out and take out the enemy transports.
The Lord made a lot of Zhuangxing wine, and asked every member of the death squad to drink a bowl, and after drinking this bowl of wine, maybe there will be no more chance to drink.
Eight groups of daredevils set off in batches, each batch was ten people, five cotton bales, because there was a certain distance, even if the enemy troops in the distance found these cotton bales, they would not pay attention to it, and they might think that it was garbage floating out of the city.
In order to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on the sewers, the sewers were set up close to the city walls, and dozens of soldiers were also sent to guard them day and night.
After the iron gates were opened, the eighty daredevils left in batches, and after they left, the iron fences were immediately closed, and they were not opened again until the warriors returned, to ensure absolute safety.
Because all the energy was attracted to the front of the battlefield, Ziyad did not consider that the defenders of the city would secretly send death squads out of the city.
At this moment, Qi Yade can be described as a spring breeze, his eyes are full of extreme confidence, he watched the soldiers under his command keep transporting sandbags, and his heart was very happy, as long as it continues to be transported like this, the moat will be filled sooner or later, and as long as the moat is all filled, then, the next attack will become very easy.
"How many rounds have you filled in?"
Ziyad asked excitedly.
"General, this is already the sixth round, and if you fill it at this pace, you can fill the moat in two or three days at most."
The subordinate said happily.
Qi Yade nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, very good, let the soldiers work harder and speed up the speed of filling the river." ”
"Yes, General."
The enthusiasm of his subordinates is also very high.
However, just as Ziyad was very happy, the eighty daredevils had already arrived at their respective battle positions, and from the city walls they could clearly see the cotton bales floating on the water, and because the river was not full and these cotton bales were close to the outside, the enemy troops outside the city could not see these cotton bales.
In this way, good conditions were provided for the attack of the death squads.
In order to reflect the grandeur of the river reclamation, the eight transports are all advancing and retreating together, which is more deterrent, and this also has a disadvantage, that is, once attacked, they will lose a clean one.
But Ziad has this self-confidence, he thinks that the modified transport vehicles have been completely free from the fire attack of the defenders, so that the eight vehicles go hand in hand, which can well reflect his self-confidence and style.
The generals of the defending army were keeping a close eye on the approaching heavy transports, and as long as they were close to the moat, the daredevils could attack.
The timing of the attack did not need to be specifically notified to the death squads, because it had been said in advance that they would attack as soon as they heard the opponent throwing sandbags into the moat.
Eight transports were approaching, and the soldiers on the city walls were watching, and none of the soldiers were going to operate the weapons of the city, because they knew that these weapons would not have the slightest effect on the enemy's heavy transports, so what was the point of attacking, it was simply a waste of energy and resources.
At such a time, everyone's eyes are watching the movement of the death squads, and only the death squads can finally take out the enemy's heavy transports, and nothing else will work.
As they approached the moat, the soldiers in the eight transports began to open the front flaps and threw the sandbags into the moat.
If the sandbag falls into the water of the moat, it will inevitably make a big splash and make a loud noise, so the daredevils who are ambushed in the moat will naturally be able to hear it, and it will be clear to hear it.
And this voice is the signal of action, the signal of their move, which means that they are going to make a move, to complete their real name.
"Whoa!"
Eighty daredevils suddenly jumped out of the moat, and with various weapons in their hands, they climbed directly from the moat to the shore and rushed to the transport vehicles they were responsible for.
In a group of ten team members, eight of them rushed to the transport truck desperately, and the remaining two were responsible for carrying flammable cotton bales, which were slower.
And because none of the enemy's twenty soldiers were armed, it was calculated that eight death squads rushed in, and it was relatively easy to cut down all the soldiers on the opposing side.
This is the advantage of weapons, under the premise that both sides are elite soldiers, one side holds a weapon, and the other side has no weapon in his hand, so the balance of power must be tilted towards the side with weapons, after all, weapons can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and soldiers without weapons are still soldiers.
When these death squads suddenly appeared, Ziyad, who was watching the battle from behind, was taken aback, he couldn't understand when these death squads left the city, why they suddenly appeared on the bank of the moat, and they also raised their weapons to kill the soldiers under his command.
The soldiers in the transport were still throwing sandbags desperately, and the death squad had already rushed over and killed them from behind.
These soldiers, who had no armor and no weapons, were obviously unable to parry in the face of the opposing side's bright weapons, and most of them were killed in a short time, and some of the soldiers used the corpses of their comrades as shields to barely hold on, but they certainly couldn't hold out for long.
The situation was so urgent, Qi Yad was a little flustered, but after all, he was a battle-hardened veteran, and when he saw what the situation was, he hurriedly sent a team of soldiers and horses to rescue him and kill these death squads.
However, they ignored the soldiers on the city wall in a hurry, since they dared to send death squads out of the city, the soldiers and horses defending the city were naturally fully prepared, all bows and crossbows and catapults were ready to fight, as long as the other party dared to send troops, they immediately attacked with all their strength, so as to cover the task of the death squad to completely burn the transport vehicles.
Ziyad sent a cavalry force of 100 men, and such a team could not be imagined to be able to resist the heavy crossbows of the defenders.
After a burst of crossbow fire, the cavalry suffered a third of the casualties, and the remaining soldiers had no choice but to flee back in disarray, even without Ziyad's order, they had to retreat, because the rain of arrows from the defenders was so fierce that they had no hope of rushing forward.
The cavalry was blocked, so the only way to do this was to send an infantry legion to attack, and soon, hundreds of soldiers with shields rushed forward, ready to take out the death squads defending the city and save eight transports.
However, it was useless for the shield soldiers to attack, and the catapults and bed crossbows on the city wall soon became powerful, and the shields could not withstand the attacks of the bed crossbows and catapults, and they were soon defeated, and the losses were extremely heavy, so they could only be forced to retreat.
"General, the enemy defending the city has been prepared! They prepared more bed crossbows and catapults, and our soldiers simply could not rush through. ”
The subordinate said helplessly.
Ziyad also saw this situation, his heart was very depressed, his heart was crazy, in front of the transporter were his soldiers, and he had no way to save his own soldiers, and the most serious thing was that these transports were also going to be destroyed.
The 80 daredevils quickly killed the 200 enemy soldiers in the transport trucks, and then set fire to the cotton bales and set all the transports on fire, but in the fighting, more than a dozen soldiers were wounded, and several of them were seriously injured, but fortunately they all survived.
The inside of the transport cart was made of wood, and it could not last long when it was scorched by the fire, and it soon burned, and the eighty warriors immediately retreated to the moat, and walked from the moat to the city wall, and the generals on the city wall immediately ordered to put the hanging baskets, so that the eighty death squad soldiers, all riding the ten hanging baskets that had been prepared, successfully ascended to the city wall, and not a single soldier was killed, which can be said to be very lucky.
This is also because the soldiers on the city wall cooperated well and successfully blocked the reinforcements of the enemy soldiers and horses, otherwise, if the enemy soldiers and horses were allowed to rush over, they would definitely not be able to resist eighty of them, and it was not impossible for the whole army to be annihilated.
After returning to the city wall, the wounded soldiers were immediately carried off the city wall and let the doctor treat them, and the uninjured daredevils were immediately surrounded by many generals and commended them, and all the daredevils who participated in the battle out of the city were each given a major reward.
It didn't take long for the eight transporters to burn completely, and the outermost layer of iron began to bend and crack because it could not withstand the intense heat, and even melted and burned red.
Looking at these burning transport vehicles, the defenders on the city wall were in a good mood, but Qi Yade, who was in charge of the siege, was so angry that he almost collapsed.
The eight tin transporters he had carefully prepared were burned down in such a way that he could not tolerate them, and he was in a terrible mood.
"Retreat, retreat immediately."
Ziad was very helpless, since these transports had been destroyed, the attack had become meaningless, and he didn't want his subordinates to continue to lose.
In this battle, all the 200 soldiers in charge of the carts were killed, the reinforcements were also killed, the cavalry and infantry were killed by more than 30 people, and more than 100 were wounded, and many soldiers were seriously wounded.
After such a defeat, Ziyad's mood was terrible, and when he returned to the camp, he didn't know how to report the battle to his superiors, and he was disgraced and went home.
"General, I'm defeated again."
Ziyad walked into the big tent and saw Abu ***, whose face was also not too good.
Although he did not personally go to the front line to watch the battle this time, Abu *** is the chief general of the whole army, so he will be the first to know anything that happens on the front line.
"I already know the situation, it is a group of dozens of death squads, they suddenly rushed out, killed all our soldiers, and then burned our vehicles, and the enemy on the city wall also blocked our reinforcements with heavy weapons, so that their death squads retreated, amazing! It looks like we've met some great characters. ”
Abu said gloomily.
"General, this is all my mistake, if twenty weapons are placed in the transport car, the soldiers will not be sent to death in vain, and the enemy's death squad will definitely be wiped out."
Ziyad was once again annoyed by his mistake, and it was too heartbroken.