Chapter 171: The Battle of Doret IX
By the time the Potato Mercenary Regiment and the other three mercenary groups entered the walls of the main city of Doret City, the southern sub-city had been basically breached, and the defenders on the walls were constantly withdrawing to the north. Fidel could already see with the naked eye that three huge siege towers were approaching the edge of the wall, and a large plank passage was laid down above the towers, like a large toad sticking its tongue out and spreading it on the edge of the wall.
The hoplites of the East Oguna Empire, dressed in heavy armor and armed with steel swords and swords, jumped out one after another, tangling with the defenders who were still holding the walls. The enemies who entered through the city gate had also begun to spread into the sub-city, and around the defensive trebuchet closest to the city gate, many hoplites of the East Oguna Empire and the soldiers guarding the place could already be seen, and the defensive trebuchet was forced to stop and suspend its operation.
At this moment, a soldier who had delivered the order ran up the city wall and came to Fed, "Commander Fed! The chief of the general staff has given an order, and this wall connection must be defended!" Feder looked at the other party and panted and said, he didn't expect Stanley to make a decision so quickly, "Because things have changed! So Lord Ludwig will come here in a moment and meet with the captain! Please make sure that this place is not breached!"
Fidel understood what Stanley and Ludwig meant. They certainly didn't expect the enemy to break through the gates that were supposed to be blocked, and they didn't expect that the "devastating change" expected at the beginning did not happen, but instead allowed the enemy to attack the southern sub-city in one go.
"We must defend this place! Wait for reinforcements!" Lord Möngke also stood by his side, and he ordered his men to lean against the walls, keeping an eye out for possible siege towers, while he also picked up a longbow and aimed at distant enemies, trying to kill them.
After Fid had found a place for his men to be on guard, he noticed that the walls shared by the main and secondary cities were already full of crossbowmen who had been transferred there. Some also carried their relatively heavy crossbows onto the battlements, aiming for the sub-city to the south.
And under the northern wall of this sub-city, there have also been many defenders of the Western Oguna Empire, who first gathered together to form a squadron, and then were ordered to march into the city, wanting to recapture the area of the sub-city that had been taken. A large number of soldiers who had fallen into a coma due to food poisoning were also transferred to the junction between the sub-city and the main city, ready to be transported to the hospital in the main city.
But even so, the invading army of the East Oguna Empire still firmly controlled the area of the southern sub-city gate in a very short period of time, and the continuous influx of enemies into the sub-city also made all the mercenaries who saw this scene feel desperate - as long as the sub-city is completely lost, then the next target of more than 200,000 invading troops is the city, and the defenders of the West Oguna Empire have already lost the advantage of the high wall, and the next roadway battle will only be more difficult. And from the current situation, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the sub-city is lost.
"Captain Field, it seems that the eastern sub-city has also been under fierce attack," Lord Möngke did not look at Fed's words, he just watched many defenders on the southern side of the sub-city wall retreating towards the junction of their walls, "If there are enemies on my back, please help me kill them, Captain Phyll!" said Möngke and left the junction of the city wall with hundreds of his own soldiers, and instead advanced towards the south wall area.
The rest of the defenders were retreating, and only Möngke rushed forward. None of Fidel's subordinates were moved, but neither they nor the leaders of the other three mercenary groups dared to let their subordinates follow Möngke towards the area of the city wall that might become a battlefield.
"Captain Field, do you think we should think about the way out of Doret City," Charlie, the leader of the mercenary regiment, whispered in Field's ear. And Jasmine and Hei behind him also showed with their eyes that they did not intend to live and die with the Theoguna Empire, which was at a disadvantage.
Fei De looked at Meng Ge's distant figure, he originally thought that the other party was just a gentleman of a noble family, but these two battles side by side made him see the courage of the other party. "No, it's far from time to admit defeat," Fielder's tone was firm, causing his men to immediately focus their attention, "Let's defend this place first, so that the defenders who intend to retreat will retreat, while your ranged attack forces will all stand on high ground and cover Lord Mönggo's soldiers." ”
With that, Feder went to the junction of the walls himself, commanding the retreating defenders. There were also some regular troops of the Western Agouna Empire who saw that Lord Möngke was not retreating, and they picked up their weapons again and ran towards the walls of the sub-city to the south. Fei De knew that there were soldiers of the Marquis of Montres and some of them, they were all regular soldiers who defended their homes and country, and retreating without receiving the order to retreat was originally an act of escape, but it was also rare to have the courage to continue to resist in the face of a overwhelming enemy.
Over the next half hour, half of the massive siege towers were destroyed by the defending side, but five more siege towers approached the walls. One of the siege towers had already "mounted" the walls of the eastern sub-city, but under the supervision of General Glenn's front, the enemies who poured out of the siege tower were instead cut down by the brave defenders, and the upper part of the siege tower was also occupied by the defenders. Although many of the invading troops at the bottom of the tower tried to rush up, the fearlessness of the defenders led to a stalemate between the upper and lower parts of the siege tower.
The gate of the eastern sub-city was not breached, and it is estimated that the gate here was indeed blocked, so that the enemy's siege troops could only rely on long ladders to climb the city wall, but this siege method was extremely costly, and even if a lot of money was paid, it was not able to break into the city wall.
The western wall was not too threatened, and I heard that there were troops rushing from the west of the capital's defense line, and together with the light cavalry troops of the Western Oguna Empire outside the city, they were flanking the siege troops in the west, so that the invading troops of the Eastern Oguna Empire could not pose much threat to the city gate and the city wall for the time being.
Only here in the sub-city to the south, even Fei De, who was standing on the city wall, could see that more and more areas of the city had appeared in the invading army of the Eastern Oguna Empire, and it was estimated that six or seven thousand invading troops had already attacked the sub-city. The well-trained hoplites were clearly a little better than the soldiers recruited from the various territories, and because of the fierce battles taking place on the walls, there was not enough long-range support from above.
Even Ayana, who had not fired a single shot, picked up a short wooden bow and shot several enemies who rushed under the city walls, trying to rush up.
Fei De looked at the land under the city wall, outside the sub-city, a large area of black oppressive enemy was still approaching, and the more than 200,000 invading troops had no intention of slowing down. It was as if they regarded this siege as their only chance, and they would not give up until they attacked the main city and the inner city, and seized the regent Xiumo and the little emperor Manfret.
"Captain Feide, you didn't take a step back as I expected. Ludwig didn't know when he appeared not far behind Fed, and even Ayana, who had always been wary and sensitive, didn't notice.
"Lord Ludwig, the devastating blow you spoke of did not materialize, and now the defenders of the Theoguna Empire are almost unable to withstand the invading army. As Feder said, he knew that it was not yet possible to talk about losing everything, after all, there was not a lot of pressure on the eastern vice city, and Xiumo and Stanley must have thought about defending the city.
"Really, since there are no devastating blows from within the enemy, it means that the Lord Regent and the Chief of the General Staff have misjudged," the four guards behind Ludwig were all dressed in inlaid armor, and they either had two scimitars strapped to their waists or longbows on their backs, and they looked quite strong, "but my judgment will not be wrong, that is, there will still be devastating blows, but not inside the enemy." Can Lord Feder understand that?"
Feder looked at the other man's seemingly kind smile, which forced him to compare it with Andre's ambiguous smile. Andrei's ambiguous smile has long since disappeared from his face because of the injury, but the former Andrei seems to have a kind of confidence that makes women fall for it, and makes his subordinates calm and confident. Ludwig's smile has a different meaning, as if he knows everything, but never intends to tell you what he knows. This smile with a little contempt and a little pride was annoying to Fidel's subordinates, but Fei De believed that Ludwig really knew something, or that he really controlled what to smile like this.
"You and I have been to most of the military meetings, what do we have in our holes?"
"Captain, please recall the defense meeting you attended in that secret place," Ludwig stood there, and several times arrows from a distance missed him, "do we really have that little in our hands?"
Fidel's men had already picked up their weapons or picked up the defenders' fallen shields to block the battlements, and they ignored Ludwig's words, and even Ayana was busy attacking the enemies who were about to storm the walls. All the mercenaries and soldiers were fighting the enemy who had already stormed the southern sub-city, but Ludwig looked unconcerned.
"And," Fielder recalls the Defense Conference. The seven nobles were all placed under house arrest and surrendered their military powers: Stanley, Chief of the General Staff, Count de Barlo, who had escaped, Gabrihaus, the merchant, Fuller, the head of the Wave Mercenaries, Myra, the deputy head of the Widow Mercenaries, and Commander Satnam and Ludwig standing in front of him.
"You mean, the widow mercenary group of the Mercenary Guild?"
"No, I mean, the ruler of the Theoguna Empire, the Virgen Golia, who didn't appear in the Defense Council," Ludwig continued to smile, "she is the master and guardian of the so-called St. Oguna Empire. ”