Chapter 623: August's Fate (Part I)
"Brothers, rush! Capture August alive and take him back to worship General Asal and General Sherman! Under the cover of hundreds of scorpion crossbows and 40 new dwarven centurions, the army of more than 300,000 formed a torrent of steel intersecting with silver, red, and yellow, and smashed into the walls of the Qilin City defenders under the numb and desperate gaze of the defenders of Qilin City.
Due to the existence of the Sun Never Sets Killing Order, more than 100,000 citizens of Qilin City, who knew that they had no way out, stood on the streets one after another, holding various weapons, even including kitchen knives for chopping vegetables, and cooperating with the hands of Qilin City beside them to form a human wall, watching the soldiers who showed bloodthirsty eyes in the distance.
Long before the offensive and defensive battle of Qilin City began, many officers who never set the sun had asked Sun Lin if he would use a kill order on Qilin City as he did with other cities of the Water Qilin Empire, all of which was not the mercy of the soldiers who never set, after all, the soldiers of the Second Expeditionary Force in the Central Continent had already used a period of time to solve all the negative mental and emotional effects caused by that period of crazy slaughter after the previous crazy slaughter. In addition, the propaganda team in the Sunset Army began to publicize a lot of the persecution of the Sunset Empire and the Atlantan people in the Battle of Twin Starfall, and the casualties caused by the Water Qilin soldiers and Aihuasha soldiers to the soldiers of the Second Expeditionary Force in the Central Continent when they broke through the defense line before, the soldiers of the Second Expeditionary Force in the Central Continent are actually holding their breath and want to vent now, and they think that the best target to vent this anger is Qilin City. In the eyes of the soldiers who helped the sun never set, they indirectly killed the two generals of the Qilin City.
The reason for all the instructions of the officers who never set is because Qilin City is the capital of the Water Qilin Empire, and there are already as many as 300,000 citizens and tens of thousands of floating population in the capital of the Water Qilin Empire in normal times. Now, even if some of the old people in the Qilin Territory City are subtracted, they can't pick up arms. In addition to children and wounded soldiers, there are at least nearly 400,000 enemies who can fight the soldiers with various weapons.
In the eyes of the officers who never set the sun, they could not use the sharp weapons of street warfare such as Greek fire and throwing can bows, and could not use the way of pushing to the buildings to slaughter the citizens and defenders in the city, so they could only use the weapons in their hands to fight with those citizens who were armed with all kinds of strange weapons, including iron spoons, scissors, etc., and the defenders of Qilin City with ordinary equipment, although for those citizens The soldiers who never set the sun could do 1 to 10, and Sun Lin himself did not ask the soldiers who did not set the sun to save arrows, but 300,000 people fought against 400,000 people, This will inevitably cause casualties on the side on which the sun never sets, after all, the current era is dominated by hand-to-hand combat. It is not the era when a gun in hand can directly take down the enemy from a long distance, or even rush forward with a submachine gun to strafe a shot.
Sun Lin Zhilu said that the reason why these officers in front of him did this was because these officers were all influenced by themselves, and they thought that on the battlefield, they should rather spend money or use other methods to save the lives of the soldiers as much as possible, because every veteran is the wealth of the empire on which the sun never sets. However, Sun Lin still used the extermination order as an excuse to reject the proposal of the officers who never set the sun, and used Greek fire weapons to quickly slaughter the enemies in the city. Or by not using the lore order, the 300,000 water qilin citizens can't be turned into combat power.
As for the reason. The former, Sun Lin had already said when he attacked Qilin City before, what Sun Never Sets needs is a relatively well-preserved Qilin City, which will become the capital of the Qilin Territory in the future, not the ruins of a Qilin City, as for the latter, on the one hand, because Sun Lin thinks. Now that the lore order has been used before, it is now necessary to use Qilin City as a stop to the lore order to make the lore order have a beginning and an end, only in this way will those potential enemies of the Great Empire where the sun never sets understand. What a wrong decision it was to go against the great empire on which the sun never sets.
Secondly, Sun Lin thought that even if he stopped using the lore order, the people of the Water Qilin Empire, who had been slaughtered by the army of the sun never setting before, would not put down their weapons, and there was still Auguste in Qilin City, the biggest enemy in the history of the sun never set. Although the Water Qilin Empire has basically collapsed, Auguste has reached a peak of his reputation in the Water Qilin Empire because of the previous purge, even if it is almost the case now, and as the enemy of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, Auguste of course knows that he will end up with a tragic end after the defeat, so Sun Lin believes that no matter whether August is driven crazy or not, as long as the sun does not set the army enters the Qilin City to attack, August will definitely choose to let these people of the Water Kirin Empire be buried with him, after all, from any point of view, August cannot be a compassionate ruler who is willing to sacrifice himself to surrender to the army on which the sun never sets, in exchange for the lives of the more than 300,000-year-old Qilin Empire people in the city.
"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Looking at the people of the Water Qilin Empire who were launching a decisive charge towards him in front of him, the grassroots officers who were in command at the front line immediately ordered the Sunset Crossbowmen and Longbow Guards who had run onto the walls of Qilin City, which had been cleared by the dwarven centurions, and who had lost even the battlements, to tilt their arrows towards the crowd of water Qilin surging below the city walls.
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And the same soldiers who never set the sun will not stop harvesting the lives of the people of the water unicorn and the soldiers of Aihuasha, because the dogma of the army that the sun never sets has made it clear that soldiers must obey their superiors and commanders as their duty, especially when the supreme commander of the soldiers is Sun Lin, the soldiers who have been imported by Sun Lin into the concept of the supremacy of imperial power will definitely meticulously carry out the tasks assigned to them by Sun Lin. Even if this task is to slaughter more than 300,000 Qilin City citizens who are almost unable to resist.
The resistance of 400,000 can indeed cause great trouble to the soldiers who never set, but it is only a certain amount of trouble, these so-called armed Qilin city citizens are actually a group of hooligans who fight with others with burning sticks, and their combat effectiveness is not even 1, and they don't even know the vital points of the big soldiers when they fight, they only know how to smash the guys in their hands on the soldiers who don't set the sun.
Although as the saying goes, it is said that the master is killed by random punching, but that is because the people who are beaten are only one person who is beaten in groups, and now it can be said that "a group of masters against random boxing" So how can this random punch kill a group, and not just a group, but a full number of 300,000 masters?
"Line up the Macedonian phalanx!" Because it was a street battle, and the water unicorn side did not have any decent long-range weapons, so after the army of the sun never set entered the unicorn city, it was none other than these Atlantan crescent spearmen who knew how to use the Macedonian phalanx of the sun never set, and it turned out that this was the most correct choice.
Although the defenders and citizens of Qilin City fought against the soldiers with a decisive mentality, the effect was not good.
The former is unable to train (as the Watt clan is out of the control of the Water Qilin Empire, the Water Qilin Empire has also lost the hoplites and elite hoplites, which are extremely important on the battlefield of infantry battles, and currently only those Barnum militia and Imu short spearmen who were originally the second-tier troops of the Water Qilin Empire), plus in order to make the citizens of Qilin City play a better combat effectiveness, the soldiers in Qilin City, whether it is the soldiers on the side of the Water Qilin or the soldiers on the side of Avasha, are disassembled and scattered into the crowd, went to lead and command the citizens of Kirin City to launch a decisive charge towards the soldiers who never set, so that the Barnum militia cluster, which was the only one that could give the Atlantan Crescent spearmen a headache, disappeared, so the defenders of Kirin City were not troubled at all.
As for the latter, although there are many of them, the problem is that the improved Macedonian phalanx of the sun does not set on the enemy's side, and the two sides are in the battle area of street fighting, where the enemy can almost only attack from the front.
In addition, although the citizens of Qilin City are not afraid of death, this does not mean that the citizens of Qilin City will forget their instinct of fear of death because they are not afraid of death, when the bright Atlantan crescent spear forms a Macedonian phalanx like the back of a hedgehog, even if the citizens of Qilin City have great courage, they will stop in front of the Macedonian phalanx because of their instinctive reaction, and try to dodge these crescent spears, and slowly move forward from the gap to have close contact with the soldiers who never set, This pure practice of sending people to death also eventually led to the soldiers and citizens of Qilin City rushing towards the side of the sun never setting very bravely, but they fell in front of the Atlantan crescent spearmen one by one when the soldiers who never set the sun even touched their bodies.
Although this style of play made the advance of the Sunset side extremely slow, it was in line with Sun Lin's request to carry out the extermination order for the citizens and soldiers in Qilin City, and it was in line with the hope of the officers that the Sunset could save the lives of the soldiers as much as possible in the war. Therefore, in response to this situation, both Sun Lin, who commanded outside the city, and the officers who commanded the sun, chose to acquiesce, and let the Atlantan crescent spearmen slowly advance in the direction of the Qilin City Palace. (To be continued......)