Chapter 261: Sneak Attack
Now the situation has suddenly cleared up, the gates have been opened, the walls have been occupied, and the Vandals army has had to retreat into the dense streets. Their tenacity far exceeded Luga's expectations, as Luga's army could not move an inch through the streets. They had to form tortoiseshell formations, in
The Vandals were stalling for time, because they were busy leaving the dozens of warships they were staying in the harbor, so that although they might lose the city, they would at least keep the warships and maintain their superiority on the sea!
"Luga!" Andrew turned to look at Luga and said, "Let me go, I have enough experience in street fighting." Like Luga, Andrew was also very anxious in the face of the soldiers who were slowly moving forward, and even drew his iron sword and clenched it tightly in his hand, waiting for Luga to speak.
"No," Luga said, shaking her head, "I'll go with you!" ”
After all, this is the commander of a legion, and Luga's safety at this time is no longer what it used to be, and if he is allowed to enter this uncertain Trapani again, no one dares to guarantee that nothing will happen to him. Andrew was the first to stand up and object: "After all, you are no longer the dispensable centurion, Luga, don't be willful!" ”
"I've thought it through, Andrew." Luga took a torch from the hand of the guard beside him and said, "The boys don't work well, and the person in charge always supervises them, of course, I'm the one I say!" As he spoke, Luga rode his horse to the gate of the city, which had been struck open, and saw him turn over and dismount, and draw his iron sword, holding his shield in his left hand and his sword in his right, and behind him were a group of hundreds.
"Follow-up troops, keep up! Replace all the spears with short swords, and now let's play a fun game of hide and seek! Luga sneered, picked up the torch, greased it, and lit it.
"Torches, torches!"
The soldiers followed Luga's example and lit the torches one by one, following closely behind him.
"Andrew." Before leaving, Luga asked Andrew: "If the city is burned down, will the higher authorities let us pay compensation?" ”
"Who knows?" Andrew shrugged his shoulders and continued: "It's better to burn than to fall into the hands of the enemy, we are not going to the docks to get the battleship, that is our compensation!" ”
"So, I don't think there are many people in this city, what if we hurt civilians?" Luga was still a little worried, after all, he was a Roman citizen, and he had to protect more or less, and he couldn't be a wanton massacre that didn't distinguish between friend and foe.
"Hi my friend!" Andrew said indifferently: "How long have they all been succumbing to the Vandals, not to mention how many people have become slaves of the Vandals and have been transported to North Africa to work, and those who have stayed, can you tell whether they are Vandals or Romans?" Besides, at the beginning of being involved in this war, no one was destined to be innocent! ”
"Good idea, my friend!" Luga had no worries at all, and he raised his torch and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "The Vandals are hiding in the house and shivering, and they will not come out no matter how much we knock on the door, they are really not hospitable!" The soldiers were amused by Luga's words, and they held torches and listened attentively to Luga's words.
"They are not hospitable, so we take the initiative, at least this is the greeting of civilized people! Of course, they are good at water, and if you think about it, if a fish in a river goes into the sea, he can't bake it? ”
"Burn them!" The soldiers were boiling, they roared, and they couldn't wait to see the Vandals struggling in the fire!
"Good!" Luga raised his torch and shouted, "Except for the docks, take care of the ships on it, it's the only money we have to pay for this party, all right, have a good party!" Kill those who have weapons in their hands, and all that you plunder will be yours! ”
"Roar!"
The soldiers went crazy, they cheered with torches aloft, sang really nasty songs, screamed, laughed evilly, and kept roaming the streets, raising torches, revealing their rogue nature! They have lost the last of their compassion for the city, completely ignoring the innocent civilians that may still be in the city. As Andrew said, when the battle begins, no one is innocent.
Soon, the angry soldiers roared and kicked open door after door, and the merciless slaughter began in earnest, screams spread throughout the streets, and from time to time bloody corpses were dropped from the windows of the second floor, and if they met stubborn resistance, the soldiers threw torches directly into the gas and burned them. Burn the resisters inside alive, but only halfway through the burning, the poor worm burst out of the room in pain, and of course they were greeted only by the blood-stained iron sword! Cruel soldiers would stab their swords through their chests and dump their burning corpses on the road. The corpses were burned beyond recognition, and it was impossible to tell if it was a Vandal, or a Roman!
Luga could not bear such a scene, but he gave the order, although it was a conspiracy of the Vandals who tried to sneak up on the people hiding in the houses did not succeed. But when the scene is out of control, I am afraid that Augustus may not be able to control it in person.
"Let's go, Andrew." Luga threw the torch to the ground, and with an iron sword in his right hand, he said to Andrew: "Let's go to the docks, there must be Vandals who want to escape, and we can kill them there!" ”
Andrew acquiesced to Luga's words, of course, he couldn't wait, after all, they all wanted revenge, and no one cared how much blood would be stained on the sword.
Luga and his men of more than 300 men groped their way to the docks following the signs along the way, where the Romans and the Vandals had already fought in the streets and alleys. Because of the flames, the Vandals no longer dared to cower in the dwellings, but instead rushed out of the room and fought with Luga's army in the streets, which were littered with corpses, and Luga ran over them.
The dock was not far ahead, and Luga did not guess wrong, there was really a large number of Vandals gathered there, their armor was messy, they lacked shields and swords, just to be able to board the fleeing ship earlier, they tried their best, but the battleships were all crowded together, and they couldn't be separated for a while, just like the dilemma that Luga faced at the beginning. There were thousands of them, both soldiers and civilians, and Trapani was no longer a new home for them, but a nightmare desperately trying to get rid of, but it was too late!
"It's game over, poor kids!"
Thinking that he would finally have fun, Luga weighed his iron sword and led his three hundred soldiers swaggering down the open space of the docks. Under the thousands of eyes of the Vandals fleeing, the soldiers behind Luga slapped their shields with iron swords and roared, approaching the Vandals in front of them step by step, just as Gessarik had approached Luga's army in the first place. But this time, Luga wasn't going to spare them!
"Do you go to the sea yourself, or will we give you a ride?"
Luga slapped his left hand with the sword in his right hand, and he stood at the front of the army to watch the deserters, although they were armed, none of them dared to come forward to confront them.
Not all of them were soldiers, but more of them were civilians who had come with the army, and when they saw that the tide was turning, they thought that the Romans would not let them go, so they wanted to flee, but it was a little late.
"Kill! Kill them all! Luga swung his sword forward, and three hundred soldiers roared angrily and rushed upward!