Although Ma Li promptly ordered a cavalry battalion to meet the cavalry wing of the Eastern Roman Empire that was attacking out of the city, by the time this cavalry battalion was outflanked, the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire had already split into two and inserted into the two sides of the dozen wells that were protected in the middle.

The siege camp soldiers under the well saw the cavalry of the Eastern Empire killed, and everyone was a little panicked, but they still drew their swords to meet the battle, but unfortunately the cavalry of the Eastern Empire had already rushed to speed, and the siege camp soldiers who were preparing to protect the well along the way were all cut down to the ground by a column of Eastern Imperial cavalry, and then they threw out iron hooks and hung them on the pole of the well and dragged them down.

As the wells were dragged down, the Hun archers on the wells also fell down in the screams, and those who did not die were also crippled, although the archers on the wells had caused great casualties to these cavalry before the Eastern Imperial cavalry rushed over, but the Eastern Empire cavalry rushed over with a rain of arrows, and dragged more than a dozen wells to the ground at the risk of being encircled, most of the Hun archers on the wells were not spared, only a few fell and injured their arms and legs.

"Bastard, bastard!" Ma Li saw that the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire still dragged down more than a dozen of his wells, and immediately became furious, he did not expect that the defenders of the Eastern Roman Empire would have such courage to send a cavalry wing out of the city to destroy his wells, and he had not sent heavy troops to protect them at all, so there was a result that all the wells were dragged down and destroyed.

Ma Li was furious and shouted, "Order the infantry to stop the siege." All retreated to the two flanks, and the two cavalry regiments of the 16th Division were all outflanked, and the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire was completely wiped out by General Ben! ”

There is no long-range fire support from the wells. The casualties of the siege will be much greater, and Ma Li knows that the siege battle will not be able to continue after all the wells are destroyed, and what he can do now is to leave all the cavalry wings of the Eastern Empire behind, and not put one back.

The sound of the golden gong sounded, and the infantry quickly retreated, and after hearing the sound of the horn, they withdrew to the left and right flanks. The cavalry quickly intervened to block the way back of the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire, and from the time the order was issued, the Hun cavalry only took a short time to complete the encirclement of the cavalry wing of the Eastern Roman Empire. After a lot of fighting, up to now, the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire can only be half of it now, more than 300 people. They were surrounded in the middle by the Hun cavalry.

The lieutenant general of the legion was covered in blood. He took a breath and found that half of his men and horses had been lost, and more than a dozen wells of the Huns had been destroyed, but only half of the cavalry wing he brought out was still besieged, and he could only forcibly break through if he wanted to escape.

Something was wrong with the situation, and in the middle of them were the Hun light cavalry, and behind these two circles of light cavalry, there were a large number of Hun cavalry who took out bows and arrows and aimed at them, which were the Hun archers.

There can be no further delay. It is necessary to force a breakthrough, even at the cost of heavy casualties. It's always hard to be buried here, "Kill with me-" After a roar, the deputy general rushed to the northwest with a broadsword, and more than 300 cavalry behind him also followed him to the northwest, and now the hope of escaping into the city is not realistic, and it is impossible to open the city gate to meet them, if the Hun cavalry follows and rushes into the city, Sveron Castle will completely fall.

The commander of the Hun cavalry regiment looked coldly at the remnants of the Eastern Empire cavalry wing that broke through in the northwest direction, snorted coldly, and then shouted: "All the outer archers obey the order and launch hunting tactics, and the inner circle light cavalry is ready to fight!"

After the order was issued, the archers who were surrounded by the periphery moved instantly, they rode their horses around the encirclement, and at the same time took out arrows and shot with bows, and the rain of arrows in the sky shrouded the heads of the remnants of the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire who were surrounded in the middle from all directions, and the arrows were wave after wave, without the slightest intention of stopping, and the Hun light cavalry in the inner circle all raised their sabers and prepared to meet the enemy who rushed over.

In a short distance, less than 50 meters, the remnants of the cavalry wing of the Eastern Empire could not rush over, they fell down in a circle, until the last cavalry in the middle position was shot to death, only two breaths of time, these more than 300 cavalry were all nailed to the ground by the impenetrable rain of arrows, and none of the cavalry could rush to the front of the Hun light cavalry in the inner circle of the encirclement.

Regardless of whether it is a person or a horse, there is no longer any one standing in battle, and the living war horses are also dying of arrows, and the scene is silent, but the sound of war horses from time to time among the surrounding Hun cavalry is heard.

"My God, what the hell have I done? Why let them go out of the city and destroy those wooden towers? All dead, all dead, none of them came back alive! "The lookout hole of Tongguò Castle, the guard of the Sveron Castle of the Eastern Empire, howled in pain after seeing a large group of human and war horse corpses surrounded by the Hun cavalry and the arrows densely nailed to the corpses.

Since Ma Li ordered the infantry to retreat, the siege battle was over, and the soldiers on the walls of Sveron Castle had time to rest, and the captains of the various wings were standing in the commander's command room covered in blood.

A wing commander advised: "General, their death is worth it, if they hadn't sacrificed their lives to go out of the city and destroy those wooden towers, the archers on those towers would have cost us even more, and the defenses on the walls would certainly not last long, and now they have used their lives to buy us time to rest and ask for reinforcements from Edirne!" After their wooden tower was destroyed, the ranged support was reduced to zero, and it was not as easy to storm the city as before, and it would definitely take a lot of time for them to rebuild it, and we could use this time to rest the soldiers and send someone to Edirne to ask for reinforcements! ”

The guard nodded gloomily and said: "How can General Ben not know this, alas, now it can only be like this, the Huns offensive is too fierce, General Ben has always thought that the Huns only have cavalry, but I didn't expect that this time their infantry attack the city is so powerful, if it weren't for our army desperately resisting, the city walls on both sides of the castle would have almost been captured by them, and General Ben also saw those Hun infantry fighting, their infantry almost had almost no Huns, they were all patchwork by other barbarians, But their combat tacit understanding is very high, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is very strong, all of them are extremely fierce and eager to fight. The desire is very strong. The heavy infantry that our army is proud of are a little overshadowed in front of them, and if they continue to be beaten like this, it will be difficult for us to support it for a long time, have the casualties been counted today? What about the approximate number of casualties of the Huns? ”

A clerk stood up at this time and said: "General, this way of fighting the Huns is completely lifeless, just today one day, not counting the cavalry wing that died outside the city, our army killed 814 infantry defending the city, and more wounded, estimated to be more than 1,500 people, and the Huns died on the city wall and under the city, after statistics about 800 people, the wounded can not be estimated, but there should not be much, because they are the besiegers, they can go back alive, basically did not suffer any injuries, Or just a little bit of minor injury! ”

The ratio of battle losses between the besiegers and the defenders is about one to three, which is really annoying, and the defender said angrily when he heard this: "What is this? The battle losses of the besieging side are even less than those defending the city on our side, are we all dead rice buckets and waste? ”

The captains present all bowed their heads in shame when they heard this, and the guards scolded and scolded, but he was still very aware of the current crisis on his side, thought about it and sighed: "According to this, I am afraid that the more than 6,000 people of our army will not be able to withstand ten days and will all fight out, this will not work, we must immediately send someone to Edirne for help, let them send reinforcements to reinforce, this matter cannot be delayed, go and do it immediately!" ”

"Yes, General!"

At this time, outside the city, Ma Li saw that it was getting late, and it was going to be dark soon, and after the sun went down, there were more mosquitoes, and he was guilty at that time, so he quickly collected his troops and returned to the camp, and then made plans tomorrow, so he ordered the army to withdraw to the camp.

The next day, Ma Li did not lead a large army to attack the city, the well has been completely destroyed, and if the city is attacked again, it is purely a fight for attrition, although there are two divisions around him, a total of more than 25,000 people, but more than two-thirds of these people are cavalry, only two regiments of the 16th division are infantry, it is really reluctant to use it to siege the city, and the cavalry cannot be used for siege.

In desperation, Ma Li remembered the 17th Division deployed on the north bank of the Densar River in the Petro Mountains, and he didn't know what the situation was there, whether the 17th Division could all go down the river through the large rafts to Edirne, the rear of the Eastern Empire, and after thinking about it, he decided to send someone to inquire about the situation to see if he could use the large rafts to send all the soldiers of the 17th Division to Edirne.

A day later, the man who had been sent to inquire about the situation came back and brought back the news that it was not possible to send the soldiers to Edirne on a raft now, because it was July, and it was the season of flooding, and the flow of the Densar River in the territory of the Hun Empire and the Greek province of the Eastern Empire was too rapid, and the river was twisting and turning, and there were many waterfalls with great water levels, which could not be crossed by raft, because the 17th Division had already sent advance personnel to explore the way on rafts in order to find out the situation of the river channel. But there was no news at all, and they must have all drowned in the river.

Ma Lizhi, who got the news, felt that the battle of the Eastern Expedition was not so easy to fight, originally he thought that he could take the 17th Infantry Division on a raft and float downstream along the river to Edirne, only inserting it into the rear of the Eastern Empire, but he took it for granted, he ignored the problem of his army itself, the 17th Division is an infantry division, but all the soldiers in them do not know how to be water-based, if they get to the raft, it will be a problem to be able to stand firm and sit firmly, let alone drift to Edirne downstream.

In desperation, Ma Li had to write a battle report on the battle situation in the past few days, send someone to send it to Saidika quickly, and he himself found another way to attack the city, and at the same time ordered the 17th Division to be rebuilt. (To be continued......)