Chapter 421: Sneak Attack Plan
Early the next morning, García's veteran Canari, who was standing guard at the city walls, woke up from his hangover from the previous night when he heard an uneasy shout coming from beneath the walls.
He opened his eyes and found that his companions were hiding behind the battlements at this time, as if they were hiding from something.
"What the hell, huddled there like a turtle early in the morning, did you look for a maid last night with weak legs?" Canary laughed at his companion, then poked his head out to see what was going on down there.
He first glanced at it, and then thought that he must have drunk too much, otherwise how could he explain that a large black oppressive army would suddenly appear under the city wall that was empty yesterday?
"Damn profiteers, they sold me fake wine, and I hallucinated. Canary leaned out to see if it was true.
But before his companions could stop it, he was hit in the head by a beam of purple light, which then inflated and exploded like a balloon.
"How many are these?" Under the city walls, Stannis was holding a rabbit with his sword to barbecue there, and Robert next to him was about to smell his saliva.
"It should be the thirty-first, I said, boss, you leave me with legs!"
The two of them crowded there for an open-air barbecue, but Anya stood fifty feet in front of them and kept casting her magic, she relied on the strength of one person to suppress the Garcia defenders on the city wall, and it was difficult to raise their heads, as long as anyone dared to raise their heads, they would be immediately hit by her magic missile upgraded version of the Hellfire, and then the heads would be separated.
Sure enough, in the fantasy world, mages are the same as strategic troops, Anya actually blocked an entire city wall by herself, while the others began to dig tunnels not only slowly, of course, they were just for show, and it was impossible to successfully dig a tunnel under such a large city wall in any case with only six days left, but Stannis just wanted to show them under the noses of the enemy, so that they knew that they were going to attack the city here.
At the same time, Stannis suddenly attacked the city, so that the royal city did not have time to evacuate the civilians, these citizens who could not fight and could only complain were in great trouble during the defense of the city, not to mention how many 'remnants' of the previous dynasty were mixed in it, their loyalty to Griffin has never changed, so they took the initiative to carry out the second front, and all the information about Garcia's defense was drawn and leaked.
Behind the scenes, Stannis had drawn a rough map of the city through the information sent from the city by those old Griffin subordinates, and the defenders were really overstretched because of their strength, so they had to place the main force in the southern walls and palaces next to them, and the garrisons on the other three sides were extremely empty.
At the same time, this thousand-year-old city hides countless secret passages, catacombs and cavities for him to lead a small force to secretly infiltrate the city, Stannis decided to use the large army to attract the attention of Garcia's side as before, and then send his henchmen to personally lead a small force to infiltrate the city through the secret passages, and then wipe out the enemies on the city walls in one fell swoop under the guidance of the inner city in the city, and finally open the gate, let his own people in, and occupy the outer city of the royal city in one day.
This plan is as dangerous as Stannis's previous adventures, but Stannis is confident that this time it will be carried out smoothly by God's favor as before.
Finally, Anya outside the tent finally bottomed out after a morning of continuous magic, and when Stannis saw that she was tired, he hurriedly helped her in distress and snatched the rabbit leg that Robert was about to put in his mouth, and gave it to his lover with both hands.
After losing the magic suppression, Garcia's army on the city wall also leaned out and launched a counterattack with the bow and crossbow in their hands, but to their disappointment, the army that came to attack them did not come to attack the city with a ladder and a siege tower as before, but still dug the tunnel there happily, and they were very clever in digging beyond the range of the bow and crossbow, but the defenders on the city wall could only watch them work hard and had nothing to do.
They also lacked the manpower to wield the massive war machines on the walls, such as the catapults and ballistas, and the impressive hit rate of hitting a moving target was a dream.
All the defenders could do was to keep adding to the other side of the wall, and they seemed to want to block the excavation of the tunnels from inside, even though this was only a drain on their strength by the Stanis.
The siege plan was now halfway through, and Garcia's vast number of troops and attention had been drawn to the southern wall, and Stannis could begin his plan for a sneak attack.
After selecting another hundred death squads and appointing Robert as the death captain, Stannis couldn't wait to see the common people of the city feasting on the king's syrup when the gates were opened.
The sneak attack path he chose this time was a drain that had dried up, this ancient building was still a relic left by the Holy Light Dynasty, and it had already collapsed after hundreds of years of wind and frost, but Stannis got the exact information of the inner line, although it had collapsed on the surface, but in fact, the core of the canal was still intact and could let one person pass through at a time, which was undoubtedly an excellent route for a sneak attack.
"Turnip, this glorious and arduous task is entrusted to you, and I wish you a smooth journey!" said Stannis, patting Robert on the shoulder, in an exaggerated tone in front of the whole army.
But Robert responded to him with a face that was more depressed than a dead man, saying that he did not want to complete this task that seemed to be a death.
"Boss, what if we go in and find ourselves surrounded by enemy forces that have been in ambush for a long time?
This Stannis didn't think that in his conception this time the death squad would be successful if it didn't succeed!
Just as he was about to send Robert on his way, suddenly the gate in front of them slowly pulled up, and a cavalryman came out of it and quickly crossed the moat and rushed here.
The knight held a white flag in his hand, indicating that he had come to negotiate.
Stannis immediately motioned for his younger brother and his death squad to stop, he didn't want the messenger to see through their true intentions.
"Who's coming, stop!" it was Charlie who was still in charge of stopping the strange knight and moving on.
At this time, a man's voice came from the helmet, "I have come to negotiate on the orders of the Duke of Garcia, and I invite the Count of Justin to come out and see me!"