226 Autumn Offensive (3)
Patong Beach is a shallow beach with a stretch of sand and coastline that stretches towards the deep sea, reaching almost half a person's height for 200 grams.
In order to accommodate the sea vessels, the Decic drove the San Jose captives and built four long pier passages leading to the deep sea of the long sea.
Viscount Slim, with the Guards, waited for the transport ship to approach the shallow water, and he couldn't wait to disembark, and the war horse rushed to the shore despite being wet by the sea.
At this time, the Desiks on the shore also spotted the enemy troops attacking from the sea in the rear, and a large number of warning horns were sounded. However, due to the severity of the situation in the Red Branch Stone Forest, most of the army was not on the beach at all, except for a small number of Desik infantry guarding the captives.
Of course, the two sides of the war will not be polite, Viscount Slim rushed to the beach as soon as he took the lead, and the sparse Desik in front of him, bending his bow and arrows, had no way to cause any damage to Viscount Slim, who was wearing knightly armor. The tall horse, rushing into the crowd as if it were no one, waving its wolf's fangs and hammer, bringing up a patch of blood.
The purpose of the Guards was clear, to destroy everything on Patong Beach. After landing, Arima's soldiers, following Viscount Slim, charged the Desik defenders on the beach, and the rest of the infantry began to throw all kinds of ignition objects they carried with them onto the cabins and decks docked on the shore.
The flames were quickly ignited, even by the sea,
These fires themselves were very flammable, and at night the sails of the ship were stored on the deck, and after being ignited by the fire, they began to spread rapidly, and soon spread to the cabins, and the sailors of several Desik ships woke up with screams, and many of the hatches were closed by the flames before they were even opened, burning all the sailors in the cabins.
Screams and shouts resounded across the beach without the slightest mercy from the arsonists. Viscount Slim was still frowning, his visor already stained with blood, but he didn't mind.
"Lord Viscount, according to the court magician's report, the mine cave follows this plank path, under the sea cliff not far ahead. A Guards officer leaned in and reported to Slim.
Viscount Slim looked down and saw that the eye-catching plank road on the beach was made of wood pieces pieced together one by one, and it seemed that a lot of manpower had been spent at that time, and there were no freight cars on the plank road extending into the distance at this time.
Slim looked back and saw that the battle on the beach had almost come to an end, the already small defenders had been slaughtered, and some of the Guards were examining Desik's body on the ground, stripping off the intact armor and weapons, and throwing the corpse naked into the campfire on the beach.
"Let them hurry up and get ready to go to the mines...", Viscount Slim was about to give orders to his officers, when he heard the sound of a horn again in the distance, and the direction was on the sea to the south.
The dimly lit beach bonfires don't shine far away, and there are no lighthouses like the Minethil Harbor, which is one of the reasons the San Josens were able to raid successfully. However, the people on the transport ship in the distance quickly sent a small boat to row to the shore and hurriedly reported, "The Desik Navy has broken through the interception of the Mýn-Harbor Navy, and now there are about fifty warships coming here, and the Royal Oak is still trying to intercept it." General Wellington means to let you continue, don't stop!"
Viscount Slim nodded, and put down the visor he had just put down again, "Everyone assemble and set off immediately." Leave a squadron, destroy all the temporary docks for me, there is not a single one left, and send a notice for the battleships and transports to leave on their own!"
"Ah!" exclaimed the officer beside him, "what about us?"
"Don't be surprised! We're not going back by boat!" After speaking, he kicked the horse's belly and took the lead along the plank road to the north.
The Guards, one after another, followed, only a few soldiers remained, and they did not have time to rest, so they took all the weapons on the ground that could be picked up, rushed to the sea, and cut down the wooden pillars supported by the pier with all their might.
One by one, soon the wooden pier on the water could not hold up and fell into the water, and these people couldn't take a break, so they hurriedly ran to the shore. At this time, the warship on the sea in the distance was revealed.
Dozens of Desik warships were approaching at a rapid pace, and the sailors on them were all carrying weapons and ready to disembark at any time, and the oarsmen were rowing the fast boats diligently. And behind the Desik warship, there were quite a few San Jose's warships in pursuit.
General Wellington's order was to do his best to prevent the De Sick Navy from influencing the battle here, so these San Jose Royal Navy soldiers were still fighting desperately.
Their efforts were not in vain, and by the time the Desik ships approached Patong Beach, the pier was already on fire. The warships docked at the temporary pier were burning, and a large amount of broken wood was floating on the sea. Some of the driftwood also had Desik sailor soldiers lying on top of it, dying.
The Desik had to stop their ships in the open sea and send the reinforcements ashore in small boats. By this time, Viscount Slim had already led the Guards soldiers to approach the sea cliff north of the coast, where a large number of Desik soldiers were guarding the mine behind him.
Viscount Slim's horse stopped at a distance of only three hundred and fifty degrees from the Desik line, which was just the limit of the range of the bow and arrow, and looking at his iron-clad knight armor, all the Desik archers did not want to waste the arrows in their hands.
"Are you ready?" Viscount Slim asked the Guards officers behind him, and none of them spoke, but patted the bag on the horse's back.
"Okay, prepare to charge, after throwing, immediately turn to the northeast, herald, ready to signal!" Viscount Slim commanded again, and rushed towards the opponent's defensive line with his horse.
Thousands of Guards cavalry followed, getting closer and closer to Desik's lines. Looking at the shiny weapons in the distance, a huge panic swelled up in the hearts of the Desik soldiers.
Behind them were fifty barrels of oil that had just been pulled out of the mine, and the miners were still at the bottom of the mine, with only a small number of guards guarding them. If the war above is unfavorable, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not rebel.
However, even more surprising things were yet to come.
San Jose's Guards cavalry was rapidly approaching the Desik Line, and the slightly thin defense line in front of the mine only shot a few waves of feather arrows, which could not hurt the San Jose Guards Cavalry who were extremely protected.
The cavalry was charging to about forty grams, and they could already see the heavy breath of the opponent's horse's head, who knows, the leader Viscount Slim actually made an unexpected move, he turned his horse's head and turned to the right.
All the Guards followed in Viscount Slim's footsteps and turned around, and at the same time threw the parcel on the horse's side towards the Desik line with great force, and then left to the side without looking back.
The package fell to the ground, and there was a "poof" sound, but there was no response. The Desik soldier stepped forward to check curiously, only to see that under the package, a black liquid was slowly flowing out.
"This, this, this—" The nearby Desik soldiers were speechless in shock, and some of them didn't react at all. Elsewhere, some of the Desik soldiers came to their senses, only to hear the screams, "It's the oil! Be careful!"
Before the words fell, from the San Jose charging group, a platoon of rockets "swished" through the air and fell into the formation. The fire oil on the ground instantly ignited, stained with the military uniform of the Desik soldiers, and exploded with "Peng".
"Ahh The power of the oil makes it impossible for these soldiers to escape, just a trace of spark, if it is stained, it will burn everything.
The San Jose Guards did not approach the mine at all, and the raging fire quickly ignited the fire oil mined by the Desik people piled up at the mouth of the mine, causing an even bigger explosion, and the violent roar spread for dozens of miles, and it was impossible for either the Desiks at sea or the defenders near the Chizhi Stone Forest not to notice the changes here.
Also paying attention to this is the San Jose Army on the front line of the Red Branch Stone Forest. The fire attack was basically planned in the "Nemesis Plan", and this explosion was the signal for the general attack.
In the "Nemesis Project", the San Jose Army, which completed the raid on the oil mine, will not return the same way, nor will it be possible. They will come directly at the Red Branch Stone Forest, and together with the San Jose attacking force in front, they will flank the Desiks one after the other.
The entire nemesis plan is only allowed to succeed and not fail, and the only retreat left for Viscount Slim is to rush through the Desik defenses. And Viscount Slim, with the San Jose Guardsmen, did the same.
The Desik defenders of the Red Branch Stone Forest were suddenly startled by the change from behind, and they were caught off guard without reacting at all. Viscount Slim led the cavalry of the Guards, and did not like to fight, and ran as fast as they could along the path between the stone towers, and they had to rush through the stone forest before the interception of the Bidsiks arrived.
On the other side, the San Jose soldiers were offering them assistance, and arrows and slings smashed into the heads of the Desiks as if they didn't want money. Count Mosik also pulled out some trebuchets from the warehouses in Nanhai County and transported them to the front, which came in handy at this time.
The two sides were fighting frantically in front of the Chizhi Stone Forest, and around the Long Sea and the rice harbor, the warships of the Desik and San Jose people were also fighting for every inch of the sea.
The Deciks, who had been burned to death by the fire oil, lay helplessly around the mine, the air filled the air with the stench of burnt rotting flesh, the shouts of killing had stopped, and only the crackling sparks could be heard in the silence around them.
However, in the red night sky illuminated by flames, there was still a faint voice coming from underground, "Help... Help..."The voice was so quiet, surrounded by dead soldiers, that naturally no one could respond.
The mine had collapsed in the explosion, and all of the Desik soldiers guarding it had died. No one remembers that in the mine, there were thousands of San Jose prisoners and a small number of Desik soldiers, and the explosion blocked the entrance to the cave, and these people, just like that, were buried in the ground.
The air was running out, the Decik soldiers with weapons were frantically digging holes, and the weakened San Jose captives were lying on the ground feebly, looking at the doomed Deciks. Here, a full eighty grams above the ground, the explosion just now shook the entire mine cavern.
"It's nice to have these Deciks buried with you...", the last thought on the minds of all San Jose soldiers.