Chapter 1567: The Second City Gate
"Close the city gate!" Seeing the slaves rushing towards the city gate, the captain of the guards guarding the city was also anxious, if the rioting slaves were allowed to enter the city, his officials would not be lost?
However, the captain of the guard obviously thought too much, his life could not be saved after the slaves entered the city, where could he care about what officials were not official?
"Boom ......"
"Crunch Squeak......"
With a tooth-aching sound of gears churning, the jammed gate noose finally lived up to expectations and closed the gate.
"Huh......" The captain of the guards here had just breathed a sigh of relief and was about to report to his superiors, but a loud bang suddenly sounded in his ears!
"Boom!" was accompanied by a loud noise, and the captain of the guards standing at the top of the city felt as if there was an earthquake, and the entire city wall shook.
Leaning down to the city, I saw dozens of sturdy slaves holding a huge log and hitting the city gate, and there was more than one group of slaves doing this work, and there were several groups of slaves holding logs behind them were charging!
"Damn it, shoot me arrows, shoot these filthy slaves!" the captain of the guard shouted loudly, because he knew that in recent decades, the generals in charge of guarding the imperial capital had embezzled military funds, so the city gate had not been reinforced for decades, although the surface was painted every year, and it looked like new, in fact, the interior had long been rotten and rotten, and under this violent impact, the city gate could not last long!
"Whoosh...... The soldiers at the head of the city immediately released their arrows, and the sharp arrows easily pierced the slaves without any protection, and one by one the corpses fell, and in an instant, the slaves' attack stalled, and people's fear of death was an instinct!
"Rush with me! Marat's wealth and beauty are waiting for us!" Gironde knew that his time had come, for the sake of his brothers, not to mention the rain of arrows in front of him, even if it was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, he would break through!
"For freedom!"
"I'm going to have a good life, rush!"
"Beauty! I'm coming!"
"I'm going to be a rich slave owner too!"
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Don't look at Gironde's incitating words are very simple, but for the slaves, they are very effective, freedom is what they desire the most, beauty and wealth at home, there is nothing to stop the slaves from attacking the imperial capital of Marat, even death cannot scare them away!
"Ahh
"Ah......h
"Kill!"
As the slaves charged, shouts and screams came and went, and the slaves fell in waves in the rain of arrows, but more slaves rushed up, stepping over the corpses of their companions, then picking up the logs that had fallen to the ground, and continuing to charge!
The slaves kept being shot down, but there was always something new to add to them, and soon a log reached under the city gates!
The sound of "boom, boom, boom ......" logs hitting the city gate is more intensive, and two logs hit the city gate at the same time, which causes more damage to the city gate, and the time to break the city is getting shorter and shorter!
"Shoot me! Shoot those slaves!" The captain of the guard was already red-eyed, although he had already sent troops to ask for help, but the city gate was really in disrepair, and it was already full of holes at this time, even if he had people constantly use wooden sticks to support, and even temporarily found planks and nails to repair it, but this was useless, the slaves outside the city had gone crazy, their attacks were stronger than waves, and the dilapidated city gate could not last long!
"My lord, our arrows are running out!" There is a way that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the captain of the guard hated his top boss at this time, this old guy was greedy for military spending at all, and the arrows and other equipment on the city wall were very little in reserve, only some were piled up on the surface to deal with the inspection, and the others had already been sold for money.
"Damn!" the captain of the guard scolded secretly, and then he shouted loudly: "Brothers, I don't care what method you use, I will definitely guard the city gate for me, think about your family wealth, think about your wives and daughters, you must not let these hundreds of thousands of demons enter the city!"
Obviously, the captain of the guard was a man of understanding, and he knew that these slaves had been oppressed for too long, and that they usually looked like harmless sheep to humans and animals, and even anyone could bully them.
But because of this, the slaves who have been suppressed for too long, once liberated, will become more ferocious beasts than demons, and once they are released into the city, the whole of Marat will suffer a catastrophe!
"Yes, sir!" the soldiers agreed, and then desperately defended the city gates, and when the arrows on the city ran out, the soldiers carried stones from under the city, and then stoned the slaves under the city.
When the stones were used up, the soldiers had to forcibly demolish the houses near the city gates, and although the people were scolding, the soldiers knew that if they did not do everything to stop the slaves, the people would suffer even more losses!
"Big ...... Oh no, my lord, the general has run away...... a soldier came running out of breath, but he brought a piece of news that made the captain of the guard almost angry.
It turned out that when the slaves were attacking the city, the general guarding the imperial capital received the news that this fat old guy had drunk too much soldier blood, and he knew very well how empty the guards of the imperial capital were under his crazy exploitation!
In order to eat empty salary, the general disarmed four-fifths without authorization, and the entire imperial capital was claimed to be 100,000 defenders, but in fact there were less than 30,000, not to mention all kinds of equipment and armaments, all of them were like goods, and it was okay to deal with the emperor's inspection, but if it really started, it might not be as good as a big wooden stick.
It was precisely because he knew what he had done that the general had already concluded that Marat would fall, so he did not wait for the captain of the guard to send someone to inform him, he took some gold and silver, and then took the thirty-seven concubines and secretly went out of the city through the secret passage, and the family fled towards the north.
In fact, like this general, there are not a few nobles who fled from the dark passage with their families, and corrupt officials are often wiser than clean officials, but they don't use their wisdom in the right place.
There is a saying called the three caves of the cunning rabbit, and these corrupt officials and nobles are no exception, they have already dug a secret passage, although the original purpose was to escape with their families when the emperor wanted to deal with them, but when the city of Mara was in crisis, this secret passage also saved their lives.
"Damn, these damn moths!" the captain of the guard scolded, and then told the soldiers to go directly to the palace for help, but for a short time, he was clearly out of reinforcements.
"Brothers, now the city of Mara is only on us! We will fight to the death today, not for those hateful nobles, not for the mediocre emperor, only for our parents, wives and children from the devil, today we will fight to the death!"
"For the sake of parents, wives and children!"
"Fight to the end!"
The soldiers roared in rage, and then lined up in front of the city gates, for the gates were about to crumble, and after that, they would be the second gate made of flesh and blood!