Chapter Seventy-Five: The Four Soldiers of Ashtiton
There was a seemingly calm scene under the city of Ashtidon.
Li Tianhao ordered that unless the Yaji army took the initiative to attack, it was not allowed to attack easily, let alone attack the city.
150,000 Dils besieged the city from three sides, and the defenders of the city could only confront the enemy quietly, although there was no siege of the Dils army in the north, but Usub did not allow any civilians to flee, so as not to affect the morale of the army, on the other hand, the Dils army also mobilized cavalry troops to the northeast to prevent the Yaki army from escaping, and there were 8,000 Kanno people waiting for the Yaki army to escape at a greater distance.
So the days passed in this seemingly calm atmosphere, and nothing happened during this time, and everyone's only entertainment was to watch Li Tianhao single-handedly inspect the whole of Ashtiton every day. Li Tianhao circled Ashtiton as usual every day, and if there was a Yaki army on the head of the city, then he would show his bow and arrow skills by the way and shoot the Yaki soldier to death. While the Dils army was amazed by Li Tianhao's terrifying archery skills, the Yaji army in the city was suppressed by this naked provocation and threat, but they did not dare to attack rashly.
One thing is the same, Li Tianhao is waiting for the results of Brooks' negotiations, and the city is also waiting for rescue from all over the city. The outcome may affect the outcome of the war.
Of course, within the Diles army, Li Tianhao also had to withstand the fierce fighting emotions of the soldiers, and the two toughest of them were Xenas and Alam. These two people are very dissatisfied with Li Tianhao's hunting-like attacks every day, and they can only watch from the sidelines, and they pretend to ask for everyone's life. For himself to be able to stretch his muscles and bones, every day and Li Tianhao grind hard bubbles, but unfortunately every time they fail to do so.
In the end, it was the Yaji army in the city who couldn't help it first. They almost coerced Yaqui's general Blamp out of the city to attack the Dils army. To be honest, Lamp didn't want to attack at all, he had suffered a big loss in the battle against the Dils army before. He has a more objective evaluation of the enemy army, that is, he will never be the opponent of this group of tiger and wolf divisions led by demonic generals. But fate was so unfair, for the troops assigned to him by Usubu were almost all newly recruited and forcibly recruited militiamen, who had no idea what the horrors of the battlefield were, were carried away by the rage and forced him to attack. Blamp walked out of the gates of Ashtiton almost with the determination of death.
Like the enthusiastic Yaji Army, the Dill Army has long been holding back their grievances, and finally waited for the Yaji Army to take the initiative to attack, how could they easily let go? The battle between a pack of hungry wolves and a brave rabbit begins.
Unlike the chaotic formation and excess fighting spirit of the Yaki Army, even if the Dilc Army had a high fighting spirit, they still adopted the tactics of encirclement and interspersing the Yaki Army under the command of many generals. The men at the front were Aram and Xenas. With each flash of Aram's lightning-like swordplay, one of the Yaki soldiers fell to the ground with blood sprayed out, and the greatsword of Xenas tore the Yaki army in front of him like a windmill like a broken rag, and was so shocked by the horror that many of the Yaki soldiers were so frightened that their legs went limp and could not move, and before they could react, they became corpses in the wilderness.
"You're getting more sophisticated, boy." Xenas commented on Aram as he attacked.
"Of course, uncle, you have to be more careful next time." Alam replied.
The two men still had room to joke with each other at the very front of the attack, which undoubtedly showed that the enemy could not pose a threat to the two of them at all. The opposing Yaki army is like a sheep exposed to a pack of wolves. Quickly divided into several pieces by the Dils army, unable to support each other, in the face of the other party's thunderous attack, these soldiers who experienced the horror of war for the first time regretted it, but now how easy is it to escape back? At this time, they remembered that the general Lamp who was dragged out by them was forced out, but unfortunately at this time, Lamp was already trapped in the siege and took care of himself. Where is the room to take care of all the people?
In order to seize a way out, the Yaqui soldiers rushed towards the gates of Ashtiton like a school of fish backtracking, completely ignoring the fact that the flanks were already completely exposed in front of the point. Let the unfortunate colleagues continue to be killed by the enemy, just to find a way to survive for themselves. Of course, the Dils army would not confront such a will to survive head-on. It was only a deliberate attempt to release a narrow passage in order to further aggravate the confusion of the Yagi army, under this tactic of the Diers. More of the Yaqui army fell under the sword.
By the time the remaining remnants of Yaqui had managed to escape from the Ghost Gate and prepare to flee back to Ashtiton, the experienced Gernas had already formed a steel wall in front of them. Faced with this iron wall, the Yaki Army let out a desperate wail, but now they had no way to survive but to move forward.
At this moment, the gates of Ashtiton were opened again, and an army was drawn from within, none other than the Yaqui general Licuenis and his three thousand elite troops.
Usubu regretted when he learned that the soldiers had rushed to attack, but he had no choice but to close the city gates, and now he sent troops to the rescue, not because he cared about these soldiers who did not care about the seriousness, but for the sake of Commander Blamp, who really could not afford to lose more generals with actual combat command experience.
At this point, the tide of battle changed slightly, and the flanked Gernath was temporarily thrown into disarray, but he was not unprepared for this situation, so his line quickly restored order, stopping the attack of the Yaqui army from both front and rear at the same time.
At the same time, Li Tianhao reacted quickly, and Agobar and Jimda each led a force to flank the Likuannis troops from the left and right, turning the tide of the battlefield in an instant.
In the midst of the chaos, Lamp led his withering subordinates in an effort to find a chance to break through the Gernus array, and Lamb was hit by four arrows and two stab wounds, but he still gritted his teeth and continued to command, he had to use all his strength to survive. At this moment, an arrow pierced his throat, and Lamp fell off his horse without even saying a word.
The Yaki army, which had lost its commander, was even more overwhelmed, and even the focus of the attack collapsed in an instant, and Gernus immediately seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and the rest of the troops also cooperated, and finally completely wiped out the remnants of the Yaqui.
Seeing that the rescue mission had failed, Licuenis had to retreat with his troops, and in this way nearly half of his 3,000 men were killed or wounded.
The first battle of the attack on Ashtiton came to an end, in which more than 21,000 soldiers were killed and 19,000 were killed, while the total casualties of the Dilces were less than 1,000, most of which were caused by the later Licuenis troops, and it can be said that it was a complete victory. This battle came to be known as the "Ashtiton Massacre".
The reason why Li Tianhao did not persuade this Yaji army to surrender was that in addition to not having additional food to feed these prisoners, more importantly, he took these nearly 20,000 people as an example. After the battle, he loudly announced to the Arquis that anyone who dared to attack the Tyres would be reduced to corpses like the attacking Argi, but that those who were willing to surrender before the Dirs began to attack the city would be given preferential treatment.
The corpses everywhere and the blood stained the red earth deeply shocked the inhabitants and garrison of Ashtidon, and Li Tianhao's shock made the whole city appear an atmosphere of unease, and this was also Li Tianhao's purpose - it was not so easy to break through Ashtidon, but it would be different if it began to disintegrate from within.
At this time, there was another good news, and that was the return of Brooks. (To be continued.) )