Chapter XXVII: The Siege of Kulundin
Mingo took down the note tied to the talons of the messenger eagle, and carefully read the contents of the letter with another high-ranking knight beside him, which was the latest order from the imperial capital of Kaos.
The letter was not very much but a few sentences, and Mingo and his companions quickly read the order on it, then burned the letter paper and released the messenger eagle.
"What do you think?" asked the high-ranking knight, who had known Mingo for a short time.
Mingo set his eyes on the crowded main gate of the city of Cullendin, and pressed his right hand on the saber at his waist, "It will be noon in another hour, and we will attack again by then."
"Okay" nodded, and the high-ranking knight turned and returned to the grass, where five hundred stubborn Imperial soldiers lay in ambush, and at the slightest order, they would charge towards the city of Cullentine at any cost.
Standing on the edge of the grass, Minggo looked at the civilians of the kingdom who were entering and leaving the city, many of them were peasants who had entered the city with flat poles to sell agricultural goods, and they were unaware of the impending danger, and these people were Mingo's "vanguard" who broke through the city of Kulundin.
Although General Byrne's instructions did not require him to take the city of Cullentin completely, Mingo, who had always demanded himself as a soldier, would not be satisfied with only fighting one siege battle at a time, and he wanted to enter the city, preferably to go straight to the city lord's mansion, kill the city lord of Cullentin City, and force Northwell to negotiate with San Kaos.
Although the current San Kaos has risen up and established a state, and no longer belongs to the Kaos Empire, these are just official statements, and the hatred precipitated by the people and the people through the war will not be easily resolved because of the simple words of the royal family, and the most "unbreakable" relationship in the world is only hatred in addition to interests.
As long as the civilians at the city gate are besieged and forced to storm the city gate themselves, the soldiers who do not have the order of the knight to defend the city will not dare to kill the fleeing people without permission and forcibly close the gate.
As for the killing of innocent people, it would be false for to say in his heart that there is no burden at all, but this is war, and it will not be shaken by the will of the individual, and more often than not, it is not right or wrong, but position.
Mingo observed the guards of the city of Kulundin standing guard at the head of the city, all of them were sweating in the sun, Changge didn't know where to throw them, and surrounded the shadow of the city to enjoy the coolness, in the face of such an unbearable enemy, Minggo was confident that he could take the city gate in half an hour.
"Is the disguise all done?" After making sure there were no major problems at the city gate, Minggo returned to the ambush and asked the high-ranking knight.
"It's all done, the armor of the soldiers of San Caius and some items pointing to San Caius are ready," the High Knight whispered, pointing to the five hundred soldiers behind him.
The armor of the soldiers of San Caios is of course different from that of the Kaos Empire, and this is also a move made by San Caios to distinguish the two countries, and Mingo took a fancy to this and disguised it.
These disguises are not high-end, and it is incredible, and it is difficult for San Caius to attack Northwell at this time, and it is difficult to stand up to scrutiny, but these disguises are not for those high-ranking people in Northwell, they only want to deceive the civilians of Cullendin.
Civilians, since ancient times, have been the foundation of a country, and at the same time, they are the best people to fool in a country, they don't think too much about things, and civilians have a characteristic, that is, listening to the wind is rain, lack of assertiveness, as long as the three knights who are in the opposite direction insist that the attacker is San Caius, then most of the civilians will involuntarily target their hatred at San Caios, the impact is bad, but it is also what Caios is happy to see now, which is why they use heavy money to oppose the knights in advance。
Even if the opinions of the civilians cannot determine the attitude of the upper echelons, the news of San Caius's attack on Northwell will spread among the people, and the civilians on the outskirts of the kingdom will become more and more afraid of the "Kaos" The unwarranted exclusion is already predictable, after all, in the eyes of these people, the split San Caios people used to be part of the Kaos Empire, they are all brutal and ruthless, these butchers should get out of their own country, when the resentment of the people reaches a certain point, and the squeezing out of other country's merchants occurs one after another, the relationship between the two countries will take a sharp turn for the worse, not to mention the breakdown, but at least negotiation is necessary.
Even the people who were responsible for spreading the rumors in the various parts of Northwell were prepared by the Kaos Empire, and this plan was said to have been formulated by the young Majesty, and Mingo's heart was full of awe for the other party, and he firmly believed that under the leadership of this wise emperor, the Kaos Empire would be reborn.
The time was almost up, Minggo who was half-lying in the grass pulled out the sword at his waist, and the others also picked up their weapons with cold faces when they saw this, as the deputy of this operation, the high-ranking knight came to Mingo's side to standby.
"Do it!" Looking at the civilians lined up at the gate of the city waiting to enter the city, Mingo's eyes flashed with fierceness, and he rushed out of the ambush grass first.
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Rak went to hunt on the outskirts of the Valley of the Giants today and caught a lot of prey, rabbits, chickadees and other small animals filled a basket full of backs, and at this time he was full of anticipation and was preparing to go into the city to sell these prey, so that he could get money to go back to his wife.
Looking at the line in front of him with some impatience, the lazy soldier was still interrogating a young girl, his obscene gaze swept over the girl, the girl looked scared, but this was the soldier of Cullentin, Lark sighed helplessly, when there was no war, he would only oppress their civilians.
There were more and more people in the queue behind, and Lack did not dare to reprimand the soldier, so he had to wait honestly in place, but suddenly, the line behind Lack began to be noisy.
"What's going on?" Luck, who was carrying a horned bow, turned his head and saw a large amount of dust raised not far behind him, and the ground was constantly shaking.
"Quick, run, it's the Kaos, the Kaos !!" A voice resounded near the city gate, and the next moment, Rak's face turned pale.
What is that man talking about?Kaos?! Didn't they have a truce with them for a long time, why did the soldiers of Kaos suddenly appear here?
This time, however, he was met with the man's cry of despair, and in the smoke and dust, led by a knight in armor, a large group of soldiers in the armor of San Caios rushed towards him.
"Kill!" the knight was so fast that Luck's hunter's eyes couldn't catch the trail of the other man, and he could only see civilians running forward one by one dying under his sword.
One by one, the skulls rolled to the ground, the ruptured visceral intestines fell to the ground and turned into a mass of flesh, and Rak found himself unable to move, and the intense fear left his body with only the strength to tremble.
"I'm going into the city, damn it, don't stand in my way!" More and more civilians rushed in the direction of the city gate for survival, and the soldier couldn't care about bullying the girl anymore, and shouted in panic, "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
Throwing away all the civilians who fled for their lives, you pushed and squeezed under the city gate of Kulundin, and some even fought violently, and the soldiers who were pulling the noose and closing the city gate at the head of the city were all sweating profusely, "Quickly drive the civilians away, quickly!"
"Go and tell me what we are going to do, Lord George!" shouted the soldiers below the gates.
"Lord George is not here, you hurry up and drive the civilians away, wait any longer and the enemy will enter the city!"
Looking at the large number of civilians whose eyes were red under the pressure of death, the soldier swallowed his saliva, he, he didn't dare, if he slaughtered civilians without instructions from his superiors, he couldn't bear this responsibility.
Minggo quickly killed under the city gate, and several Kulundin soldiers holding Changge immediately surrounded him, but in the face of overwhelming strength, their resistance was soon suppressed bloodily, and a dozen soldiers under the city gate were not Mingo's opponents even if they went together, and Mingo's long sword pierced through their hearts one by one.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"
"Burst Fire!" A huge fireball flew out from the red circle and flew out of the red circle, hitting the head of the city of Kulundin, and the dozen or so archers who had been organized with great difficulty turned into flaming fires and fell to the heads of the civilians.
"The whole army obeys the order, for the sake of His Majesty Wilhelm, for the sake of St. Caios, kill!"
"For His Majesty Wilhelm, for St. Kaos!!" 500 soldiers responded with a bang, armed to the teeth, holding Changge high, and killing all the civilians who blocked the city gates.
"Don't, please don't kill me"
"My lord, my lord, I only..."
Plop, plop, plop, one, two, three, I don't know how long, until all the civilians who remained outside the city fell in pools of blood, and these soldiers did not stop, all of them killed the city of Kulundin inside the city gates.
Mingo's armor was already covered with blood, and he stepped into the city with his sword in hand, and now the noose of the city gate was under his control, and the first stage of the battle was perfect, and in less than a quarter of an hour the defenders at the head of the city of Kulundin fled, and died to the death, and captured the city gate.
Perhaps Northwell really hadn't experienced a war for too long, and the soldiers had forgotten how to fight, and their combat effectiveness was outrageously low.
"Go and burn down all the houses in this area," Mingo instructed the three second-level mages, who nodded and used a fire spell to set the surrounding houses on fire, and in an instant, the houses around the city gate were in flames, and the inhabitants inside screamed and rushed out of their homes, and then died at the hands of the Imperial soldiers.
"Don't kill me... Woo, don't kill me" A young girl's sobs rang out, and Mingo looked in the direction of the cry, only to see a dirty girl sitting in the corner, her face full of helplessness and panic.
Minggo walked over expressionlessly, still holding the bloody sword in his hand, and stood in front of the girl who was huddled in a ball, looking down at her.
"Please, don't kill me, I'm just a civilian, I don't know anything..."The girl saw that it was Mingo, who was wearing the armor of San Caius, and immediately knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
The "captain" was escorted by Mingo's side as a high-ranking knight guard of the deputy, and his eyes were faintly worried.
Seeing that Ming Ge did not respond, the girl's body shrunk tighter, her emotions completely collapsed, she buried her head on the ground with her hands, the liquid on her face couldn't tell whether it was tears, saliva or snot, and kept repeating "Mom, woo, I'm so scared, I want to go home..."
Flutter, flesh tore under the blade, and the girl's voice stopped, and a stream of blood splattered diagonally on the wall, as well as Mingo's body.
The body of the maiden, who had lost her head, fell to the ground, and with her fear of death, she truly died.
"Gather all the soldiers," Mingo's cold voice was filled with indifference, and he ordered the deputy knight.