Chapter 258: The Battle for the North Gate
Standing at the head of the city, Verina watched as Hyypia was trampled by horses and chopped by scimitars right under her nose. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info until the whole person was turned into a lump of meat that no one recognized by the horse's hooves and blades.
She also saw the last glance that Hypia had given her before she died, and she didn't care what the man's eyes meant, and she didn't care.
There was only one thing on her mind at the moment - how to keep the northern gate of Shawan Harbor safe and secure before the support team led by Lord Dain arrived.
Verena was not a cold-blooded person, and in fact, the fact that she had pushed the three hundred bloody soldiers outside the city gates into the cliff with her own hands also made her heartbroken, and she felt bitter for the death of these soldiers, as well as the good officer Hyypia.
But it was just heartache, she didn't regret it at all, and she didn't even feel guilty.
The reason is also very simple, she knows that what she is doing must be right.
War is not a game, and there has never been a war of the undead. If the enemy takes advantage of the opportunity to storm the city, this battle will be won or lost this afternoon, and it will be a defeat for your side. At that time, there will be more than two or three hundred people who will die, including the 1,000-strong garrison battalion in the original Shawan Harbor, including the more than 700 soldiers who have entered the city before, and it is estimated that there will be no one in ten who will survive.
In fact, when Hyypia and the more than 300 soldiers who were locked out of the door rushed in front of the Red Turban Sand Pirate Cavalry, it meant that they had gone to hell.
Without continuing to focus on this matter that had already settled, Verina looked at the infantry who had been killed, and did not retreat in the vicinity, and were showing off their unique whistles of sand thieves, and the continuous whistles made the soldiers on the city wall both angry and a little frightened.
"Have you adjusted the angle? Give me fire at those cavalrymen under the city! ”
The order was decisively given, and the two gunners, who had begun to turn the muzzle at the request of Verina earlier, decisively ignited and opened fire.
The explosion of two shells still had some effect. A dozen or so triumphant sand pirate cavalry were unlucky enough to be within the explosion range of the shells, and were killed on the spot without incident.
In fact, where can the artillery shoot so accurately, but those sand pirate cavalry are too close, turn the muzzle of the cannon, put two cannons into the crowd, and the blind can also hit people.
Of course, the sand pirate cavalry who had been bombarded could not just continue to stay under the city walls stupidly and be beaten, and the explosive power of the artillery was secondary, mainly the soldiers of the garrison standing at the head of the city, who also raised their bows and crossbows and began to shoot downward.
The commander of the Red Turban Sand Pirate Cavalry Regiment, 'Bald Dog' Darvel, was quite unhappy and retreated with his men. He had a reason to be upset, he had thought that after defeating the soldiers of the garrison under the city, he would take advantage of the situation to fight inside the city gates. But even he didn't expect that Verina would be so decisive and directly order the city gate to be closed and send his family outside.
Running wildly on the horse, she couldn't help but look back at Verina, who was standing at the head of the city, and had an obscene thought in her heart, and a hideous smile appeared on her face: "This girl is a little spicy, enough to taste, when the city is captured, I will let you know how 'powerful' I am, hehe." ”
Verena, of course, didn't know what was going on in Darvel's heart. After using her artillery and crossbows to drive away the sand pirate cavalry under the city gates, she immediately ordered the gunners to adjust the angle of their muzzles and prepare to launch an artillery attack on the six guns of the Marlon Legion that were placed in the distance.
Shelling down from the top of the city would have a much farther range than the six guns below striking the city with their heads up. In order for the enemy's artillery to pose a sufficient threat to their own side, they had to advance the shelling position at least two hundred meters, but by this time Verina's artillery could already bombard it.
Artillery, a heavy weapon of war, is not very convenient to move. The artillery of the Marlon Regiment is all hung on wheels, and a cannon must be dragged by at least two war horses in order to maintain a certain degree of mobility. This is still on flat terrain, and if it is a rough terrain, it is difficult for this powerful war equipment to play any role.
Braving artillery fire, twelve warhorses and six guns began to gradually approach the city gate.
If Verina had that kind of experienced high-level sharpshooter under her command, the opponent's six guns would definitely have to seize the opportunity to destroy more than two in the process of advancing. But it's a pity that the gunners of Shawan Harbor, not to mention rushing ducks to the shelves, are not very experienced people, and even ordinary training cannot be guaranteed.
As a result, the accuracy of the shelling is difficult to say.
Three rounds of artillery were fired, and six shells blew out, but only two horses were killed.
At this time, the opponent's artillery was also in position. The gunners under Ma Long's command are also half a catty, even if the number is three times more, but there are special fortifications in front of the cannons defending the city, and it is not so easy to hit and destroy. On the contrary, field artillery is very easy to be hit by key hits, and if it is hit accurately by one shot, at least it can directly reimburse a gunner group.
The two sides have begun to shell each other, which also opened the climax of the whole war - the large forces of the Marlon Regiment, after the artillery positions are in place, and at the same time, under the urging of the war drums, began to stride forward, which is to start a full-scale siege!
Verina's mood finally began to tense. The shooting between the artillery is actually not a very important part of this battle, anyway, the left and right are rookies pecking each other. But the 3,000 elite soldiers began to pose for an all-out siege, that is, a competition in hard power.
To make matters worse, at the same time, behind the North Gate, the Port Guard led by Bills also began to attack the defensive line that Verina had placed on several streets from within the city, as if they had received the news.
Under the attack from both sides, how can even a confident paladin with a master of defense not feel nervous?
The garrison she had placed at the head of the city was less than a thousand men, and the ranks of the garrison corps that had just entered the city, as well as some of the soldiers of the garrison battalion, totaling about six or seven hundred, had been sent to the rear by her to deal with the attack of the port guards.
In the midst of artillery fire and shouts, the battle for the north gate of Shawan Port, which had nearly 5,000 participants on both sides, began! (To be continued.) )