CHAPTER XXXI
() Three days, three whole days.
Xu Shouyi led his men and the residents of the city to resist more than a dozen attacks by the Atterbury army day and night. As long as you look at the nearly half-human-tall corpses piled up under the city walls, you can understand the tragic Cheng dù of the three-day offensive and defensive battle. Nearly 10,000 Atterbury soldiers were killed or wounded, and more than 6,000 of them fell forever under the pass.
Similarly, nearly 4,000 Carol soldiers and youths paid with their lives. At this moment, there are less than a thousand people who can resist the entire Bollinger Pass Tower, but everyone is still holding on. Now everyone knows that Bollinger Pass, which has not fallen for a hundred years, will not be able to support it for much longer, and the city is already a doomed ending.
But once the enemy attack begins, every soldier will pick up their weapons and defend every inch of territory. Now they no longer fight for victory, but for the blood in their chests, for the comrades who fell in front of them, for the fathers and fellow villagers who have always supported them behind them.
The horn of Atterbury's attack sounded again, striking deeply into the chest of every Carroll defender, and at the same time, making the attacking Atterbury soldiers feel trembling. Yes, they simply can't believe it. Three days, three days! Carroll's defenders worked tirelessly against a dozen times the enemy's attacks. Until now, they believed that the moment they ascended the tower, they would still face the fierce Carol defenders. They even have the illusion that Bollinger is simply a devil who eats their lives and hopes.
As the commander-in-chief of the Atterbury Army, Remel and his generals were now riding their horses and standing in formation. Looking at this city that had been drenched in blood for three days, he also had an inexplicable shock in his heart. Yes, before the engagement, he expected that this would be a bloody battle, a bitter battle, and he also gave full consideration to the difficulties of this offensive and defensive battle. But I never expected that it took so long and sacrificed so many soldiers, and until now, Bollinger Pass is still firmly in the hands of the enemy. Even if he won the final victory, would it be worth it to pay such a great price and sacrifice?
At the moment when the horn of Atbury's attack sounded, Xu Shouyi supported his tired body and stood on the tower to observe the enemy's offensive formation. Seeing that the city guard was already going up to the castle tower, the Carol soldiers who had been resting against the battlements of the city wall also stood up.
It's time for the decisive battle that follows!
The attack on Atterbury mobilized nearly 10,000 fresh troops, 3,000 light infantry in front, 7,000 heavy infantry in the rear, and nearly 50 siege equipment. And at this moment, the trebuchet on the tower of the city, next to the giant ballista, standing next to Carol's soldiers, but the old and young residents of Bollinger Pass, all the young and middle-aged people are now holding their swords in their hands, and are stationed at the battlements of the city wall, ready to fight the enemy in close combat.
At the moment when the Atterbury army approached the city wall, stones and sasswoods poured down from the city wall. The stones are regular squares and are paving stones on the streets of Bollinger Pass, while the sassals are beams removed from the houses. The city is in the people, the city is ruined and the people are dying, which has become the only belief in the hearts of everyone in Bollinger Pass at this moment.
At this time, Bollinger Pass was already an empty city, and all the people had withdrawn from the south gate to the mountains of the Bollinger Mountains, except for the young men who resisted the Atterbury army on the city walls and the residents who volunteered to stay.
The Atterbury army finally climbed the tower, and Xu Shouyi shouted:
"Brothers, it's time to hit the road!"
Then he swung his sword and rushed to the enemy who ascended the tower.
And the original mentally decadent Carol soldiers, the moment they saw the figure of the Atterbury Army appear on the city wall, their eyes were red for a moment. One by one, they slashed forward as if they were going crazy. Many residents also picked up weapons from their neighborhoods and joined the warbands.
The first Atterbury soldiers to reach the tower were simply stunned, and they were faced not only with the mad Carroll soldiers, but also with old men, women, and even children. What kind of war is this!
Although Carroll's warriors were not afraid of death, due to the disparity in size and numbers, and the rain of arrows on the enemy's arrow carts, Atterbury gradually took control of the initiative on the battlefield. The whole offensive and defensive battle has undoubtedly come to an end.
Xu Shouyi felt that he was back to that rainy night forty years ago, with endless killings and blood all over the earth. Holding the sword against the three enemies, he rolled on the ground, and the blade slashed through the waists of the three Atterbury soldiers, and the three corpses fell with a bang. Just as he stood up and was about to rush at the enemy again, his heart ached, and a sharp arrow hit him in the chest, pierced through the armor on his chest, and pierced into his heart, and blood poured out. The old general, who had fought all his life on the battlefield, finally fell, on the wall that he had held all his life. The moment he fell, he seemed to see his hometown, his relatives, and his grandson running towards him
As soon as he saw the city guard fall to the ground, several Carol soldiers quickly ran over and protected Xu Shouyi. But it wasn't long before their young lives were swallowed up by the surging tide of Atterbury troops.
Yu Ming in the distance also killed all the way at this moment, leaving behind him the corpses of nearly a hundred Atterbury soldiers. And when he broke through the enemy's encirclement and came to Xu Shouyi's corpse, three green feather arrows hit him almost at the same time, and one of them passed through his chest. After drinking the blood of the enemy, Yu Ming's sword fell to the ground, and he also fell beside Xu Shouyi.
After clearing the last resistance from the city walls, 2,000 Atterbury soldiers climbed over the city walls along the ladder and took nearly half a day to clear the sand and gravel piled up inside the north gate.
When the commander-in-chief of the battle was put for the victory of this battle, Rimel Tsema passed the north gate of Guò Brin Pass, and did not revel in the cheers of the city wall like a landslide and tsunami, but was shocked by the scene of Bolin Pass in front of him, and felt a slight chill in his back.
It was a completely empty city, and there was not a single person, and there would never be a grain of grain left. Many houses collapsed to the ground, and many more were torn down by beams and pillars. The originally neat and smooth road surface is also potholes, and the clear stone slabs that were originally paved on the ground have been lifted out for city defense.
Perhaps, he can conquer this century-old Xiongguan, but can he conquer the people here?