Chapter 416: Attack from the north and south
The darkness before dawn was out of sight, the night was eerily quiet, and a drizzle lingered around everyone.
Three fireballs rose into the air at the south gate, which was particularly conspicuous in this dark night. Just as the officers and soldiers who were guarding the city at night felt a little uneasy, the south gate of Masilt City resounded with the sound of fierce fighting......
"Enemy attack!"
"Woo-"
A horn woke up the tense city, and then a series of flares lit up in the sky above the south and north gates......
The gates of large cities have military camps nearby, such as Maslett City, there are at least 1,000 city gate guards, but they are generally in three shifts, only 300 people really guard the city gates, and the 300 people who are ready to take over must be on duty at any time in battle armor, only the 300 people who have just been replaced can unload their armor and rest, and the other people are on call as a mobile at any time.
Although there are only two hundred people, but these are all elites selected from the guards around Elva, Acorin himself has personally stepped on the south gate several times, made full preparations, and suddenly attacked the unsuspecting enemy with lightning speed, the three hundred people defending the city, basically did not have the opportunity to make much resistance, they were killed in an instant, and the remaining twenty or thirty people were blocked in the doorway, trying to block the city gate hole with their bodies to prevent the enemy from opening the city gate, but after a bloody battle, they were all killed quickly.
The Acorin soldiers were divided into two groups, 100 men went to the barracks at the gate to intercept the reinforcements, and another white man opened the gate, lowered the drawbridge of the gate, and then guarded the gate to prevent the enemy from counterattacking from the gate tower to retake the gate.
In just two or three minutes, two hundred people had almost done all the movements, just waiting for the army to enter the city.
Guayada had not yet entered the city according to the battle plan negotiated with Simak, and in response, hundreds of catapults began to pour stone bullets into the city, and countless infantry carried ladders and poured towards the city walls.
The first to enter the city gate were 2,000 cavalry, divided into three inferior columns and quickly poured into the city gate, reinforced Acorin to expand the defense of the city gate, followed by 3,000 infantry, as soon as they entered the city began to kill the city wall. Although there are not many soldiers who can squeeze in at one gate at the same time, after more than ten days of no fighting, the city of Masirt has been somewhat neglected in defense, and only 20,000 people are arranged to be on duty on the entire city wall, which are divided into four gates and the city wall, and most of the other people are scattered in the two military camps in the city, and the troops are relatively scattered.
Soon, the entire south gate was completely controlled, and the follow-up main army began to pour in, and the main forces of Sampu and Carlos also quickly activated the emergency plan, assembled in the barracks, and prepared to go to block the gate, fighting to the death.
Acorin and his more than 100 warriors guided the cavalry entering the city, and began to advance in all directions of the city, preventing the enemy's build-up......
Higg, who attacked the north gate alone, was much more embarrassed, and the three fireballs at the south gate rose into the air, and he immediately launched an action, and the enemy's horn alert spread throughout the city, so that the officers and soldiers defending the north gate immediately defended to the death, and Higg could only enter the enemy formation, enter the door hole, and use the narrow space of the door hole to defend. The enemy desperately pushed into the doorway, leaving Higg with no chance to open the gate.
Seeing that the defenders of the city gate could not be suppressed, Higg knew that if this stalemate continued, the enemy's reinforcements would soon arrive, and even if the city gate was opened, it might be blocked again. In a fit of rage, Higg gave the enemy a total sluggishness technique, and then braved the enemy's arrows and swords to directly use the third-order earth-based magic skill to shake the mountain. Boom, the earth of the entire north gate trembled, and the enemies besieging Higg were also shaken, and the bricks and stones in the gate cave fell one after another, but the gate was only slightly loosened, which made Hig extremely embarrassed.
The earth spirit bead was borrowed by the old man Tang of the Valley of Flowers, which greatly reduced Xige's earth-shaking mountain shaking technique, and he couldn't take care of it much, because this was the only way to open the gate, so he took advantage of the enemy's unsteady standing and sent out five or six earth-shaking mountain shaking techniques in a row, because it was just in the door hole, and the energy emitted by the entire earth-shaking mountain shaking technique almost hit the city gate, and the gate finally crumbled, and even several arrow towers on the city gate tower collapsed one after another.
With a bang, the heavy iron gate finally fell outward, and together with the suspension bridge hanging on the city gate tower on the ground, it also collapsed with a bang, and landed steadily on the moat in front of the city gate.
Thomas, who was riding a small white cloud, took the lead and led three thousand cavalry to rush into the doorway, and instantly broke the defense of the city gate. With a lunge step, Higg turned over on the back of Little Baiyun, sat behind Thomas, and said loudly, "Follow me!" ”
Immediately, a ball of light flashing with a strong light rose into the air, like a full moon, illuminating the entire North Gate, and the battlefield situation of the entire North Gate was clear at a glance.
Higg endured the severe pain and pulled out all six arrows on his body, and suddenly blood gushed out, splashing Thomas and Xiao Baiyun all red.
The enemy used it from all directions to surround and intercept Thomas's cavalry, and the cavalry following Thomas became fewer and fewer, and most of them were entangled in the reinforcements that poured from all over the other side, and fell into street fighting. Thomas wields a spear in front of him, while Higg uses magic to kill enemies in his way.
Higg and Thomas knew very well that the soldiers pouring in from the north and south gates alone could not pose a threat to the city's more than 200,000 troops, and if they wanted to win and reduce casualties, they had to immediately intersperse and divide the city, disrupt the enemy's deployment, so that the enemy in the city could not be effectively assembled, and wait until the armies of the Fifth Army and the Second Army were completely driven into the city, so that the enemy could be eliminated in the city according to the superiority of troops.
Guayada's cavalry target is first of all the enemy's military camp in the southeast of the city, as long as you quickly occupy several important passages of the enemy's military camp, you can use a small number of troops to surround the enemy near the military camp, and buy more time for the subsequent army to enter the city, therefore, the second army first entered the city from the south gate of the 3,000 cavalry, divided into two roads, one way 1,000 people in the same place to guard the gate, and the other 2,000 people led by the headquarters of Acolin, went straight to the southeast corner of the military camp. The south gate opened earlier than the north gate, and it went very smoothly, so when the second army entered the city, the enemy had not yet had time to react. The cavalry, which went straight to the barracks, encountered almost no resistance, and soon rushed into the barracks, leaving half of the men and horses to guard a few passages, and the other half of them rushed directly into the barracks and slashed and slashed, causing the sergeants of the third and fourth war zones, who were gathering in full force, to suddenly become a mess.
This point of men and horses into the military camp stationed near seventy or eighty thousand people, like a small stone thrown into the pond, although the stone is very weak, but the whole pond ripples, the army that is being assembled, by the impact and interspersed by the thousand cavalry who rushed into the barracks, for a time at a loss, had to rise up to resist, stop the cavalry's intentions.
The part of the 1,000-strong team that had been assembled quickly rushed to the outside of the barracks, but in several important exit passages of the barracks, they were repeatedly rushed back and forth by the cavalry at the gate. Many of the civilian houses outside the barracks had begun to be set on fire by the cavalry of the Second Legion, but in this continuous drizzle, the fire was not too big, but it could stop and confuse the enemy, and also provide positioning for the subsequent troops entering the city.
As more and more people poured into the city, the main battlefield began to move from the gates, walls, and gate towers to the barracks, and there was a fierce struggle for control of the various exit passages of the barracks. Mastile City is a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands, the distance from the north gate of the South Gate Road is nearly ten kilometers, in the center of the city, there is an inner city, although the wall of the inner city is not a strong one, but there is no baggage army after entering the city, even if there are many troops, it is not easy to take down, so Higg took Thomas's 1,000 cavalry and rushed towards the direction of another military camp in the northwest of the city.
Simak led the main army to also begin to enter the city, quickly fighting for the outer city walls and the city, after the gate was completely stabilized, Mevo and Corincha led the Chinese army guard battalion straight to the inner city, hoping to enter the inner city before the enemy reacted and adjusted, where the core of Sampu and Carlos and the most elite Chinese army were located, if they could capture the inner city, they could basically complete the battle situation in Maslett City.
"Marshal Samp, tell me, what the hell is going on?" In the inner city's mansion, an angry Carlos angrily asked, "Why did the two gates open?" Your third theater of operations is simply incompetent, there are traitors, and now that the enemy's army has entered the city, we have become a turtle in an urn! I can't imagine that your third war zone is full of loopholes, no wonder you will be beaten by the Fifth Army and have no power to fight back, and 700,000 people have been lost in more than a month! ”
Sampu was even more furious, he was a dignified marshal of the third war zone, and he was in the honor of a count, and he was accused by a deputy marshal of the fourth war zone in person, and he could hardly bear it. But now there is no way, Carlos has 200,000 soldiers and horses, and he only has 50,000, in this extraordinary period, whoever has the strength can speak, so he had to say coldly: "Deputy Marshal Carlos, it's useless for you to blame me for the third war zone now, we are in the same boat now, let's think about how to deal with it and recapture the gate!" ”
"So what do you say?" Carlos also calmed down a little and asked, "Now that the Second and Fifth Legions are pouring into the city like a tidal wave, how can they be stopped?" ”
"You and I each lead the headquarters of the army, I am in charge of the north gate, you are in charge of the south gate, you must recapture the city gate!" Sampu said, "I really can't get close to the city gate, even if I use a catapult, I have to block the city gate first!" ”
"We both go out, what about the inner city, who will be in charge?" Carlos asked in surprise, "Who will collect and deal with the military information that has come back from all over the country?" The marshal wants to fight in person, the courage is commendable, I have no opinion, I will send the general of the Chinese Guards Battalion to lead the troops to the south gate, and the inner city will be temporarily guarded by me on behalf of the marshal, I wish the marshal a victory, if nothing can be done, we will at least have an inner city that can hold on to help! ”
"Hold on to help?" Sampu was about to curse, but he knew that the situation was critical, and now was not the time for a dispute, so he hesitated for a while, and had to say, "Okay, let the deputy marshal sit in the inner city, and the marshal will personally recapture the north gate, as long as the gate can be blocked, the enemy's troops entering the city will be at most 10,000 people, so there is no need to be afraid!" ”
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