Chapter 250: The Peerless General
readx;? A fierce horn suddenly sounded from inside the city, and the jack gate on the city gate fell with a bang, and the defenders of Marin Pass, who were hiding in the shelter, quickly appeared on the city walls, rooftops, and everywhere, and most of them were long-range troops armed with longbows and hard crossbows, murderously aimed at the rebels who had become caged birds. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
About 2,000 rebel cavalry were surrounded by the defenders of Marin City in a small space, and it was almost difficult to turn the horse's head, and they could not give full play to any charge advantage, they jumped off their horses one after another under the order of the commander, and several people formed a defensive formation using the cavalry log shields and horses in their hands as cover, preparing for the upcoming positional battle.
However, the rebels were not waiting for the defenders' positional attack, but a large amount of flammable materials such as fire oil thrown from a distance in the city, which were packed in leather bags in advance and sprayed everywhere after falling to the ground, covering almost the entire area where the rebels were. The defenders then began to fire rockets at the rebels.
When the fire oil was thrown, the rebels had already realized that something was wrong, and they were so frightened that no matter how good the defense was, it was impossible to stop the engulfment of the flames, so the rebels abandoned the formation they had formed and prepared to hide in the houses to start street battles. But the defenders had apparently anticipated their movements, and all the doors and windows of the houses facing the street had been blocked from the inside with rammed earth stones.
Just when the rebels were like headless flies, chaotic and chaotic, a one-sided massacre of extreme brutality began.
Hidden behind the roofs and walls, armed with long-range weapons, one side attacked the enemy, accompanied by sappers with water hoses ready to extinguish the fire, while the other was completely annihilated by the flames, screaming in the flames and running in all directions, trampled to death by frightened horses, shot by enemy crossbow arrows, and of course burned alive at most.
The one-sided battle lasted less than an hour before it ended, and after an hour, all the soldiers of the rebel vanguard wing who entered the city, along with their horses, were reduced to charcoal, except for a few high-ranking swordsmen in the rebel army, who were captured by breaking through the rooftops.
It took an hour for the defenders to wipe out the invading enemy, but it took half a day to extinguish the fire, and even after a week, there was still a disgusting smell of burnt barbecue floating in every corner of the entire city of Marin, causing all the residents of Marin to lose their appetite for a long time to come, and even want to vomit at the smell of barbecue.
In addition to the 2,000 cavalry who entered the city, there were 1,000 cavalry outside the city who did not have time to enter the city, and as soon as they realized that they were in a plan, they launched an attack on the city, but before they could abandon their horses and climb the wall, the defenders had already appeared at the head of the city, and the rebels fired only one round of bows and arrows before being repelled by the defenders' dense arrow counterattack. Retreating to a safe distance, they stopped to negotiate how to rescue their comrades trapped in the city, but before they could discuss a solution, the rebels in the city had been completely wiped out, the skyrocketing fire in the city and the thick smell of burning in the air made the rebels outside the city frightened, they only then realized that their companions in the city had no chance of survival, so they did not dare to continue to stay, hatefully left to report the defeat to the main army in the rear.
The news of the defeat in the first battle made Bols shocked and angry, of course he knew the prestige of the Trorens family, and even respected the old Trorence, and even he knew the leader of the new generation of the Trorentine family, Bolton Trorence, but the old Trorens should have been in Triumph City at this time and a group of politicians about sending troops to fight against him, Bolton Trorens had also died in the Bauhinia War, so there should be only one nerd in the Trorens family in Marin Pass, but it was this nerd who was weak since childhood that actually gave his proud soldiers a blow to the head, although this stick did not hurt his muscles and bones, but also made him dizzy。
For this nerd, Bols didn't pay attention to it, but now it seems that he is very wrong, but the general situation has not changed, with the 6,000 defenders in Marin Pass, no matter what, they can't stop the 30,000 elite soldiers led by him.
Unbeknownst to Bols, the defeat of the vanguard was only the beginning of Moses Trorens' plot against the Rebels, and that an even more terrible plan was waiting for him, the leader of the Rebels, to take the bait.
When the main force of the rebel army led by Pols reached eighty miles outside the city of Marin, they began to be harassed by the cavalry sent by the defenders of Marin Pass.
It was only in this way that the speed of the march was slowed down, and it was originally planned to arrive at noon outside the city of Marin and set up camp, and launch a round of attacks before dark to test the strength of the defenders, but this delay, when the troops arrived outside the city of Marin, it was almost dusk, so they could only take advantage of the time before dark to set up camp.
The defenders of Marin City did not carry out the work of clearing the walls, and there were still a large number of woods on the outskirts of the city, which not only made Bols happy, at least the raw materials needed to make siege equipment did not have to go far, but it also brought a problem, the 30,000 troops could only choose a flat sand area along the woods to camp.
That night, in order to prevent the defenders of Marin City from attacking the camp at night, Bols not only arranged for his soldiers to strengthen the guard of the woods next to the garrison, but also sent two little magicians to take turns to release lighting magic on the watchtower, so that the enemy who might launch a sneak attack had no chance.
In the middle of the night, it was uneventful, until the second half of the night, when Bols, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly felt a slight vibration from the ground, and this vibration felt stronger and stronger, and the great swordsman's keen sense made him wake up suddenly.
At first, Bols thought it was enemy cavalry attacking the camp, but he burst out of the tent and found that the sentries on the watchtower were working properly and did not find any signs of an enemy attack.
But instead of disappearing, the shaking of the ground became more and more violent, and many of the soldiers were woken up, and everyone panicked and got out of the tents, looking around in a daze, not knowing what was happening.
At this time, there was a sudden whistling sound from the northwest direction of the barracks, which at first sounded a bit like a strong wind, but when you listened closely, the whistling sound was more dull than the sound of the wind, and corresponded to the shaking of the ground, and became stronger and stronger.
Bols finally realized that a strong crisis was coming, although it was not yet known what such a crisis was, and quickly analyzed the herald and raised the alarm. But just as Bols was preparing to gather his forces and deal with the mutation.
The soldiers at the watchtower suddenly pointed to the northwest and shouted in despair.
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