Chapter 10: Big Cities and Small Towns

When the Seleucian mounted knights mounted their horses one after another, waiting for the arrival of the vehicles carrying their men's armor, the wall of Alalmanburg in front of them had been heavily bombarded by five "large prani cannons", densely covered with bullet holes like the mouth of an old woman, and there was a section of 180 feet long, which was directly bombarded and collapsed: the connection between the big city and the small city of Alalmanburg was completely severed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

In the towers of the city, the bleak candle flame flickered, and Taylor's body was gathered and shrouded, lying in front of the blind Nika, and the sound of panicked people outside.

"Sure enough, Gawain came prepared this time, and they used a powerful new stone thrower, which destroyed the city wall and killed my third son." Nika muttered, "The morale and morale of the city have been badly wounded, and the Emperor's reinforcements have not yet arrived?" ”

"Father, now that the enemy has collapsed the wall, there are still 300 soldiers stationed in the small city, and less than 400 in the big city, we have temporarily requisitioned 300 strong men from the residents to assist in the defense. As long as they hold out for two more days, the prince and the emperor's reinforcements will arrive. Ace is still very confident in the whole battle situation, "At that time, we will launch a counterattack to avenge the death of Taylor." ”

"You guys, what is the situation of the enemy troops that you saw on the corner tower of the big city beforehand?" Nika didn't hurry.

So Saiwen and Ace reported to their father together: They saw that the people's army team on the front line of Gawain had begun to push the wooden fence forward and shrink the siege front, and Gawain's Red Hand Qiling Banner and the Silver Spike Battle Banner of his brigade had already walked down the original mountain and stood among the villages in the wilderness, and saw many soldiers on war horses clustering in front and behind the villages.

"Gawain is preparing to divide his troops into two or three fronts, and after destroying the wall, he is close to attacking our big city." Before Ace's words landed, the whole room shook violently, as if there was an earthquake - it was five large Prani cannons, and they did not rest at night, and began to continue to throw stone projectiles at a long distance towards the fortress's big city, killing and injuring soldiers and residents, and creating an atmosphere of panic.

However, Nika sighed and said, "That's just Gawain's trick, the target of his attack tonight and tomorrow must be the small city on the ridge over there, as long as he captures the small city, he can really besiege this big city, and can withstand the emperor's reinforcements." ”

Hearing their father's judgment, the remaining two brothers looked at each other and hurriedly asked their father how to deal with the deployment.

"There are so few troops in the city, and the walls that are interconnected have been blown down, how can it be a situation of powerlessness. First, I want to blame the prince, I failed to listen to the correct opinion in advance, and assigned the main force to me to command; Second, we have to blame ourselves for not having enough knowledge of Gawain's power. The only thing that could be done now was to pray, and pray that the three hundred defenders of the town would hold out long enough, which would be the key to the survival of Alalmanburg. Nika was simply astonishing, and instead of going out to fight, he asked all the soldiers in the big city to stay closed, and entrusted the fate of the small city to the ethereal God to decide.

In the village where Gawain's banner and camp were located, eight huge bonfires illuminated the passages around the camp as bright as day, and the soldiers and servants with weapons and luggage did not dare to speak loudly, but whispered orders in front of the guards with axes and halberds at each sentry, and went to their destinations.

In the village, there were four hundred Pauline archers, and Gawain's guard of about eighty men (supplemented by heavy recruitment from Sven's Danish soldiers), and the cavalry company of St. Cyril, which were grouped together as a reserve for the entire offensive against Alalmanburg.

In the first two guli, the cavalry company of the newly baptized acted as a second line, taking turns to monitor the gap in the wall: as soon as the city soldiers moved behind it, they rushed through the gap to intercept and kill.

At the forefront were 2,000 soldiers of the garrison, each relying on a total of five villages, under the command of the head of Billel, to divide their own defense areas, forming a siege of the castle, and strictly preventing the defenders of Callegos in the big city from raiding out of the city.

In front of the tent symbolizing the status of the Grand Duke, the Turkic military servant with a scimitar muttered dissatisfiedly, watching a few Syrian cooks enter with steaming food and wine, "Hahaha, since you are pretending to be the Grand Duke to confuse the enemy, you have to pretend to be a little bit like it, right?" Sitting at the table, enjoying this food, it was the camp officer Wright who had just recovered from his injury, this hippie smiling face ate all kinds of delicacies, looking very happy, in order to be able to act as a pseudo-king for a day, his heart was numb, and he couldn't wait to bring Gawain's pillow person, the graceful female consul, to also bring in, in order to make the play more realistic.

"According to the legends of Persia and Syria, the elders of our tribe have said that anyone in the ancient kingdom of the East can be chosen to be a puppet king for a day, and enjoy the glory and supremacy of that day, and even share the bed with the queen. But when the sun rose the next day, the puppet king had to be put to death as a sacrifice. At this moment, Muzafiadin seemed to see what Wright was thinking, and unceremoniously shouted the Greek words.

Wright suddenly felt a chill on his back, so he lowered his head, didn't dare to laugh anymore, and only cared about eating.

On the mountain, in the camp of the Gemagis, Gawain reclined on his seat, holding the horse's head scepter in his hand, Giovanni holding the terrain sand table in front of him, Cabeamia and Agnes were separated from each other, and Gregor and other Dugelius commanders were lined up in front of the Grand Duke.

"I will take the town in front of me by the second hour of to-morrow morning, so that I can achieve complete victory." Gawain said very clearly.

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"Let my brigade besiege the small city of Alalmanburg in a roundabout way, and then I will personally supervise all the soldiers to storm it." Gregor, fearing that Gawain would not be at ease with his brigade, hurried to ask for instructions.

"How?" Gawain asked.

"With ladders, hooks, and iron-clad battering rams, the officers and men of our brigade are good at using these equipment." Gregor beat his chest.

Cabeamia immediately bent down and pressed it on Gawain's shoulder, wanting to say something, but the little sunfish over there raised her eyebrows, stretched out the slender wooden pole in her hand to drive the mule, and blocked the lips of the female archon, and the expression on her face was, "By the order of the princess in purple, stay away from this brown bear!" ”

The consul turned her face sideways, smiled awkwardly at the little sunfish, and then stepped back a little, reminding Gawain, "At the suggestion of General Temachi of the Geemagis Brigade, it is absolutely too late—the soldiers and horses of the Emperor or the prince will come to join the warband by night, or early in the morning." (To be continued.) )