Chapter 61: Crisis
Northwestern Fortress, Moza City.
Spark, the commander of the Third Legion and a former high-ranking officer of the Unsullied, was staring coldly at the Dothraki cavalry outside the city.
The sky can only see thick clouds, and the blue sky can no longer be seen, and the world covered by thick clouds has no night and no real day, but is constantly accumulating suffocating pressure.
Looking down from the city walls, there were Dothraki people everywhere in the distance, and even not far from the city walls, there were some Dothraki cavalrymen with superb riding skills, who galloped back and forth with great difficulty in riding at a distance of a stone's throw from the city walls, cursing, showing off, and shooting arrows at the city walls.
In the face of the provocation, the archers of the Third Legion on the city walls were not to be outdone, and a small number of elite archers with more arm strength than ordinary people, under the orders of the officers, began to aim at the cavalry outside the city shouting in the Dothraki language to launch a counterattack.
Ordinary archers can't shoot these Dothraki cavalry galloping back and forth, but the bows and arrows fired by these elite archers can still maintain a certain inertia at a distance of an arrow, and can occasionally hit several Dothraki cavalry.
The Dothraki were also unfazed by the oncoming bows, and the Dothraki who nimbly dodged often won a burst of cheers, while the Dothraki who were shot would draw merciless laughter and ridicule from their companions, whether they were seriously or lightly wounded.
This has been going on for quite some time.
Death, the Dothraki who grew up fighting since childhood are not strangers at all, it is a very normal thing.
In the past three days, they have attacked the city of Moza many times, the first time was to rush directly into the city, this is the first and only time almost successful, fortunately the castle guards reacted quickly, and when the ground began to tremble slightly, they drove the people into the city, closed the gate, and locked the Dothraki cavalry less than a hundred meters away from the city gate, you must know that a hundred meters distance for the cavalry, it may only take a few breaths to cross.
On the next few occasions, the Dothraki cavalry were confronted with the stern defenders of the city, and these Dothraki cavalry began to use their "tactics".
1. Wielding a hook rope to try to pull down the city gate, but as a northwest fortress of Moza City, its gate is not said to be very strong, but at least it is not a few hook ropes can solve it, and the gap in the city gate is relatively small, it is difficult to have a place where the hook rope can be borrowed.
2. With their mouths gripped by their scimitars, they carried a crudely made shield in their right hand and an even more crudely built siege ladder in their left hand, and quickly climbed to the city wall, and then they felt the power of the Unsullied spear.
3. Hook the edge of the city wall with the hook in your hand, and want to climb directly along the rope to the city wall like Assassin's Creed, of course, this method is stupider than the above two methods, so in the face of the heavily guarded city of Moza, the Dothraki on horseback are not stupid, after trying a few times, and finding that they can't quickly capture the city of Moza, they directly began to besiege the city that they are best at and began to sweep around.
Siege is the use of cavalry's powerful mobility to cut off supplies and besiege the castle, while dividing troops to annihilate enemy reinforcements until the enemy surrenders or starves to death.
The sweep has three purposes: to collect cannon fodder, to drive refugees away, and to spread terror.
Cannon fodder was collected to drive the people away for the siege, while the Dothraki cavalry maintained the order of prisoners behind the battle and did not engage in battle until the city was broken to reduce casualties. The intolerability of the localities to kill their compatriots and the brutality of the rear are the reasons for the success of this tactic.
The exorcism of refugees is what the lords fear the most, the Dothraki do not attack the city, but only harass the villages around the castle, the refugees in the villages will take refuge in the lord's castle, excessive refugees will lead to chaos in the castle, and food insecurity.
If the refugees are not admitted, it will inevitably lead to riots, and it is likely that there will be peasant uprisings, and in either case, it will lead to the inability to produce food normally, and the peasants' distrust of the state will have a great impact on the resistance to the enemy.
As for the spread of terror, there is a country where the Dothraki slaughtered the city, dumped the corpses into the waterways, and threw more than 100,000 human corpses into the rivers and the sea, and at the same time threw the corpses into wells, completely polluting the groundwater.
Occasionally, the Dothraki would leave behind hundreds of civilians who had witnessed the massacre and send them to other cities to spread terror.
Before the attack and defense, biochemical warfare and psychological warfare have begun, extreme fear will envelop the enemy, and unlike the nomads who have slaughtered cattle and sheep since childhood, and take killing living creatures as fun, farmers rarely see blood, so under the double blow of biochemical and psychological, the people of other cities are afraid before fighting, and fall into extreme fear.
This non-human method of warfare is the strongest tactic of the Dothraki, and the purpose of human warfare is usually nothing more than to occupy resources or plunder property. For civilian and other non-military personnel, it is usually to reduce casualties, after all, after the war, it needs to be rebuilt, but the Dothraki have never considered reconstruction in the war in various places.
They slaughtered all the animals that resisted, and took the remaining obedient as slaves.
Fortunately, it is also difficult to say how effective these methods will be for Moza City.
The city of Moza itself was close to the steppes, sparsely populated, and there were not many villages and towns, and even if the Dothraki had found some prisoners, who had only recently occupied the area and had not yet escaped their status as invaders, the soldiers of the Third Legion, who dared to approach the walls, would be killed.
At the same time, there was plenty of food and water in the city, and all these advantages made everyone in the Third Legion confident that they could hold the city of Moza.
But unlike the others, the Legion Commander Spark's heart was full of worry, no one is stupid, neither are the Dothraki, they just don't like to use their brains, once they find that they can't take Moza City at all...
"Hahahaha, Spark, what are you looking at, shall I give you a bow and arrows and let you shoot a few arrows at these birdmen. Heavy footsteps came from behind Spark, and Dimitri, a tall archer officer of the Third Legion in black armor, came over laughing, "If you want me to say, we don't need to ask His Majesty for help at all, these barbarians with only one horse and one scimitar want to attack the castle, it's as ridiculous as the sun in the sky will disappear." ”
"It's not ridiculous, Dimitri. "I saw a book that said that the sun had disappeared for a while on a certain day. ”
"You must have read it from some people whose minds were full of daydreams, Spark. Dimitri pursed his lips, intending to continue to say something, but when he looked up, he suddenly found that there was some commotion in the distance, and some of the cavalry began to leave in the other two directions, "These barbarians are about to attack the city again!"
"No, they're divided, Dimitri. Spark's palms clenched the stone walls tightly, his mouth was a little bitter, what he had been fearing finally happened, and the Dothraki cavalry found that they could not capture it for a while, and began to march around Moza City to the interior of the Stormwind Kingdom.
"We have to do something, we can't be stupid here!!" Looking at the Dothraki cavalry who were leaving in a hurry, the officer Dimitri also realized the seriousness of the matter, and shouted angrily, "Or I will take people out of the city to attract these bastards." ”
"Can't go out of town. Legion Commander Sparky replied without hesitation, "Look there, there are at least 5,000 of them." ”
Spark pointed to the Dothraki cavalry who stayed where they were and did not leave, "Once we are entangled, we will be finished, and those Dothraki who are not far away will return immediately." ”
"So what to do?"
"Send out all the cavalry and let them inform Your Majesty, the ministers, and all the cities behind us, the Dothraki have taken a detour, and let them get ready!"
"As for us. Legion Commander Sparky hammered the walls hard, gritted his teeth, and said, "Open the gates, give them a little hope, and see if there is a way to attract them." ”
"Okay. Without hesitation, Dimitri roared as he ran under the city walls, "Everyone on alert!!The first regiment of the Unsullied, the second regiment prepares!Open the city gates!!"