Chapter Twenty-Five: What Should Come Will Come
Tonight, the city of Adri, except for the torches on the city walls, is naturally as silent as the other cities of Elta.
The manor stronghold outside was continuously captured by unknown troops, and the serfs were released...... And the volunteers who came out of nowhere and carried the banner of Doniva also used crowd tactics to capture a number of southern strongholds.
The defenders of Adri did not take these two groups seriously, and only the guards were the sentry posts on the city walls. They kept the city fortified and well-fortified, and as long as the gates were closed, they would be foolproof......
And the Volunteers are even more of a rabble, so there is nothing to worry about. Attacking a manor defended by a hundred-man army was able to divide the troops into three lines, but it collapsed one of them, and it took at least 500 casualties to repel the defenders, and more than a dozen of them escaped alive, and even crawled to report the news to Adri.
In the dark, even the starlight is not enough for siege warfare. And holding a torch undoubtedly exposes the target - this is the logic of the defenders of Adri, simple and straightforward.
Inserted into the torch in the eastern corner of the city, Flame Heart shook slightly. But no one can see what is more or less around them.
Despite the recent tensions, all the soldiers could see when they looked up was the stars. The walls of the site were not fully earth-fortified, but were only about six meters high stone bricks and earth walls for siege warfare. For Yadri, the real "wall" is the stone wall of the fortress in the heart of the city.
No suction cups, anchor hooks, all of them are needed. A dozen blackened figures flashed to the city wall, carrying the ladder back to back.
If it is a three-meter floor slab, these paratroopers can directly grab the edge of the board and pull themselves up easily. The assaulters, who are now carried to the top of the ladder like acrobats, need to climb to the edge of the city wall with the last jump of the whole team.
The movement at the base of the wall was not as loud as the chirping of insects and the roar of gambling in the city. The summer nights also made the soldiers tired, and they gathered on the edge of the city wall to be able to lean back, pulling and pulling the usual things.
"One, two, three, up!" The young man from Lingnan suddenly exerted his strength, and his hands successfully climbed the real thing. With a shake of his waist and a bend of his arms, his military boots were firmly on the city wall.
Alertly, he flipped his night vision goggles down, covering his eyes. It's good, it's not just pitch black, there's hardly anyone visible within range of the night vision goggles. Once he was safe, he stretched the rope ladder out of the city walls, and kept an eye on everything around him with his rifle in hand.
After lowering the rope ladder, the two squads of task forces climbed the wall with ease. Such a scene is also being played out at the same time at multiple other breakthroughs.
Not only does the task force have to take down Yadri, but they also have to shut down the door and fight the dogs. The specific clearance can be handed over to the Volunteers who are rushing here after dawn, but they must take out the main enemy force that is still fishing before the enemy finds out.
The three rebel soldiers on the gate were smoking and exchanging homemade cigarettes - I don't know what kind of grass was in them.
"You, the one on the left. The one in the middle of me, the one on Natsu's right. Three shots each, go! ”
A pistol with a silencer spits out flames and bullets with precision from the darkness. Two of the rebels were killed on the spot, while the other clutched his neck but couldn't make a sound...... Blood and air gushed out of his neck, but unfortunately no one but the task force could see it.
Puff - The leader of the team emerged from the darkness and raised his hand to give two shots to the still struggling smoker. Seventy or eighty decibel noises could not be transmitted into the city.
"Team Tan, the southern group has taken control of the city gate." He pulled out the magazine to check the remnants as he stood in a pool of blood and reported as if nothing had happened.
"Well, that's good." Tan Shijian also personally went into battle at this time, responsible for the attack and clearance of the East Gate. "Continue to keep an eye on the city gates, your group's task is not to let any fleas go out of the gates, and you will be notified of any changes."
There are still civilians in the city of Yadri. But how did these civilians survive the threat of the enemy? Tan Shijian didn't need to know. He was not interested in risking the gambling soldiers around the campfires dotted around the city, and he was not interested in taking the risk of clearing them one by one. To be exact, he just had to get rid of one of them.
In front of Tan Shijian were the corpses of five soldiers of the gambling army, Chinese-made playing cards scattered all over the ground, and an oil lamp that flickered on and off. "Just rely on this to burn down the house? It's still too inferior. ”
Tan Shijian, who motioned for all the soldiers to come out of the room, slammed the oil lamp on the bed. At first the flames seemed to be gone, and in an instant the entire sheet became a wick, and the oil was absorbed into the wick. The raging fire began to devour the bed board, and the coffee table ......
"Team Tan, you set the fire, right?" When Tan Shijian pretended to be panicked and walked out of the door, he saw Malcolm's somewhat colored face.
"What's the matter, I just knocked over the oil lamp by mistake. Let's not delay, let's go to the next enemy stronghold. This Tan Shijian was not in a hurry, pretending to be a landslide in front of him and not changing his color - in fact, he did not panic at all.
Malcolm wanted to say something, but when he saw the whole team rushing east, he had to sigh. Creating a fire and allowing the rebel army to concentrate on extinguishing the fire and extinguishing it in a centralized manner -- how could he, who had read a lot of military books, not understand. Tan Shijian pretended to be confused, just to let himself pretend to be confused.
The two classes led by Tan Shijian had just reached the corner of the small square, and the small house was hopelessly burned, spreading heat and flames around it. If mercy is really to be spoken of here, then the city of Adri does not need to be beaten. Malcolm was a little relieved when he thought of this.
The pain now is for a better life in the future...... Although the truth is brutal. But hopefully they will never know the truth. Malcolm trotted forward with his bow and arrows on his back, wishing the innocent inhabitants of Adri. If he also helped to conceal the truth, then in history it was a gambling gathering where the soldiers accidentally knocked over the oil lamp - bah, where did there be so many reasons - this was an accidental fire caused by the defenders of Adri, and by the time the Volunteers came to the rescue, the city of Madrid was barely alive. Well, it's that simple.
Tan Shijian didn't go to the next stronghold at all, he led his troops back to the city wall and waited quietly for the flames to devour a few houses to half a block. God knows if those walls of fire that suddenly broke out were props that Tan Shijian had arranged before he entered the sentry house? Malcolm suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, wondering if it was because he was not trusted.
"Report sir, there's a fire near the east gate!" By the time the herald rode to deliver the message to the defenders of Adri, the fire had grown to the point where it was impossible to control. But the herald still only knew that half of the block had been burned—and now the whole neighborhood was buried in flames.
"Bastards, rebels who can't do anything!" When the Adria defender heard the news, he immediately gave the herald a horizontal horizontal movement plus a large slap in the face of a 360-degree turn. "You can't save the fire, you let the East Gate guard come to see you!"
The defender of the city of Adri is a retired officer from his former direct area, who has been cleared from active service because of the struggle to stand in line. He still faced everything as if he were a regular soldier in Elta. In front of his eyes, most of these rebels who were halfway monks were all waste snacks. "Herald!"
With a wave of his hand, several heralds trembling in the distance hurried to him.
"Go and inform the guards of the north and south west gates, and take out troops to help the east gate put out the fire!" The defenders of Adri, with their grayish temples, also felt that this was a precursor to the enemy's siege - but just let the fire burn all the cities east of the river to the ground? Or is it the transfer of troops to create gaps in the defenses of the various gates? No, as long as the city gate is not lost, it is possible to mobilize as many troops as you want. If you really burn down the city, what will you do as a city guard?
It's a pity that the city gate has long been lost. The four gates are not a pass to protect the enemy's life, but a prison gate that is firmly guarded. What's even more regrettable is that up to the city guards and down to the gate guards, they were all kept in the dark.
From the nearest wells to the fire, there were sweaty and shirtless rebels. If there is a time when it is best to concentrate fire, of course, it is now that they are all unarmed.
Outside the fire, rebel soldiers are also working hard to demolish wooden houses - if they can't stop the fire wall from advancing, then removing the fire is the only option. This trick is widely used to extinguish forest fires at the other end of the portal and here, and is often used by Elta against fires in rows of wooden houses.
"Wait." Tan Shijian lay on the edge of the inner side of the city wall, responding to the urging of his subordinates. "The fish haven't filled the net yet."
He had to see people joining the firefighting from other directions, and he would stop the fire before he could pick peaches. From this point of view, his approach was no different from the first time he set fire to the Demon Powder Field.
Recite the mantra of rebirth first, and then jump out and shout, "Snakes and scorpions should be liberated, and my Buddha is merciful and punishes evil." That's the reason.
The east side of the gate is a good place, while the north side of the gate is in small trouble. The scout horse team that tried to leave the city to call for help was strafed and wiped out in front of the city gate street. After that, the defenders of the north gate, who couldn't wait for the return of the horse team, directly noticed that something was wrong at the city gate and launched a fierce attack on the gatehouse.
But how could the remaining troops of three or four hundred men be the match for two infantry squads with automatic weapons? Leaving the corpses on the street, the remaining few soldiers who reacted quickly, rolled into the corner of the roadside and the soldiers who shivered at first and did not set foot in the middle of the street were able to escape.
Seeing that three doors couldn't get out, one of them was on fire, and the whole city was in chaos, and Tan Shijian's department pulled the bolt and opened the insurance. Malcolm was also ready to go......
Seeing that the end of the rebel army in the city of Adri is coming.