Chapter 296: Capture the City (I)

[The second is more likely to be tomorrow morning......]

"Brother Salin. Aren't you worried about the people behind these thieves?"

"What is there to worry about, in ten days, Rex's cavalry troops will arrive, and in a month at most, the city will be part of the Bitterwater Commandery. Salin replied very naturally, he was really not afraid, even people like Faka had seen it, and it was difficult for anyone in this plane to scare him.

If the people behind these thieves are really too strong to fight, they can go directly to Metatrin City, like Farka, and negotiate terms with Saleen or Rex, either obey or kill you.

Now the forces behind the thieves are obviously not so strong, and they will use this kind of unruly means to take advantage of the emptiness in the north of Phoenix to encroach on the land here.

The people of Side Star City didn't know that the reinforcements outside didn't plan to save them at all, and for three days in a row, the thieves frantically attacked the city. Originally, there was no need for this, but Saleen stabbed the thief in the back and disappeared, making the thieves panic and have to take the side star city down as soon as possible.

Not to mention that the thieves carried too little provisions. It can last for more than a week at most. When you enter the city, you have something to eat. There is a large granary in the side star city, which was built by the magicians sent by the Grand Duke of Phoenix back then. The grain in this granary can feed the people of the city for decades without starvation.

The thieves didn't dare not fight, there were very few people who restrained Mars City, and in three or two days at most, Mars City could send troops to come to the rescue.

The thieves had no trebuchet and had no choice but to set up a ladder and attack.

The thieves are not good at this kind of battle, but the regular army in the side star city is also more than a hundred, and counting the trained peasant soldiers, there are only more than a thousand. If they want to have a chance to rest, these more than 1,000 people will defend at most one wall. The rest of the vacancies will be filled by the young people in the city.

The buildings of the city north of Phoenix were mostly stone, and the defenders of the city demolished half of the houses and carried the stones to the top of the city to use as a defensive weapon. The other equipment in the city is sufficient, but the number of feathered arrows is too small. When the thieves attacked the city, they also blindly rushed hard, but they did not suppress the city with bows and arrows.

There was no possibility of replenishing the arrows in Side Star City at all, and they ran out on the first day.

The mage among the thieves did not make a move, Phoenix is still nominally a vassal principality of Qin Yin, and if the mage participates in the attack, the mages of Alchemy City will destroy it.

In general, there were no siege engines. It is difficult for a fortress with a wall height of about fifteen meters like Side Star City to be breached, even if the people in the city are not elite troops.

But the defenders of the city were too few, and more than 10,000 thieves were divided into four groups, and they repeatedly attacked day and night. The defenders could not rest, and on the third day, more than a hundred thieves came to the city, and although they were quickly defeated, it was obvious that the side star city could not hold it.

The defenders were extremely tired, and for three days and three nights, there was no one to rest. The thieves surrounded the walls on three sides, and let go of the southern gates and did not attack. But the people in the city knew that there were more than a thousand cavalry of the thieves outside the city, and if they fled out of the city, they would be quickly overtaken, and that would be faster than dying in the city.

Salin's party arrived outside the Side Star City, just as the thieves had breached the northern wall and opened the gates inside. The thieves, who were still feintifying on the east and west sides, immediately rushed to the northern gate, and the defenders collapsed, and the thieves swarmed in.

With Ani's fifty cavalry as the core, the caravan guards and slaves followed the thieves. Rushed into Side Star City.

The thieves were so organized and undisciplined that no one even discovered that the team of nearly a thousand people was not his accomplices. In addition to the goods on the cart, the goods transported by the two Baroness Guya and Ani this time also included the magic core transported with space equipment. The number of guards has reached this scale, and the guards of the caravan are generally about 100 people, which is just enough to resist the wandering thieves.

Before arriving in Side Star City, Salin had already reorganized his team, and according to the formation of the army, he had those servants as auxiliaries to help his own soldiers fight. The soldiers wore metal armor, and the slaves wore high-quality leather armor, which looked a bit like thieves.

The side star city is a square, one point and two miles long from north to south, the north gate is broken, where can the viscount of the side star city still take care of the dignity of the nobles, take more than 20 personal soldiers around him, and more than 30 slaves, and escape from the south gate on horseback.

There are just a few war horses in the side star city, and when they escape, the people in the city don't know yet, and the battle continues.

When the city was broken, it was evening, the remnant sun was like blood, and the cold wind was bitter. The thieves had no horns or war drums, and were connected by a metal whistle. The sound of the fight was muffled, and the sharp sound of a metal whistle tore through the sky and spread far away. When Salin and the others arrived, half of the thieves had already entered Side Star City.

The sound of swords slashing against armor was extremely harsh, and the thieves' crossbows began to wield their might, during street fighting. With the advantage of the speed of fire, the hand crossbow with a lethal range of more than ten meters suppressed the stubborn defenders in the city to death. The layout of Side Star City is the same as that of most Qin Yin cities, the streets are open, and the advantage of thieves in numbers is immediately reflected.

Often, three to five thieves surrounded a peasant soldier to fight, and the poor peasant soldier only trained for less than two months in a year, and although he wore armor with metal armor leaves, these armors were not as good as the leather armor of training. The leather armor is at least light and flexible, and the armor issued by these city lords can only be worn by at least a junior swordsman.

Unable to adapt to the weight of the armor and the twisting angle of the joints, the peasant soldier's movements were a little unbalanced, and the only way to slash at them was to rely on the armor to resist, and then use the spear in his hand to try to kill an enemy.

No matter how good the armor of these peasant soldiers is, it cannot withstand the crazy chopping of thieves, and it is often the weapons of peasant soldiers that are cut off first, and then the long knives of the thieves tear the armor through the gaps in the joints.

The braver thieves use their triangular swords to break their armor, and more often than not, two thieves hold down a peasant soldier and let the third thief plunge his short sword into the peasant soldier's throat.

Occasionally, thieves rush too fast and are surrounded by peasant soldiers, causing their own casualties.

When Sue entered the city, he saw a terrible scene, the thieves had blocked the south gate from another direction, and let the viscount go. The city was already in disarray, and the peasant soldiers, who had no one to command, were like dogs with their minions removed. And these thieves did not even want to take prisoners, regardless of whether the peasant soldiers laid down their arms or not, whether they surrendered or not, the thieves shot from a distance with their crossbows, and then rushed up to slash and kill.

The peasant soldiers without armor were directly killed by the crossbows, and the remaining peasant soldiers were weak and would be torn apart by thieves in the blink of an eye.

Su was born in an aristocratic family and valued the peasants very seriously, but this thief killed wantonly, but he provoked him, the silver sword saint. It's just that Saleen told him to keep an eye on the magician. At this moment, the magician did not appear, he did not know where he was hiding, and Su did not dare to go around to put out the fire.

Tracy has changed into a full-body armor, his armor was rerefined by Saleen, but the appearance is still hideous and terrifying, the black and gray armor has sharp long thorns, this long thorn itself is also a weapon, even if Trith fits into it, it will knock the enemy out of a few holes.

Demons are good at speculating on people's hearts, and seeing Sue's angry expression, Tris knows that it is the time to win hearts and minds for Saleen.

"Sue, you stare at the mage, give me twenty men, and I'll kill those fools for you. Tracy urged the horse to Sue's side, and Sue nodded and gave Tracy twenty cavalry with her fingers.

Instead of using his long whip, Trith took a giant sword and charged towards the most dense area of thieves. In the hands of the twenty cavalrymen behind him were the scimitars specially issued by Salin, which were imitated from the scimitars seized from the soldiers of the Inquisition, each piece of magic equipment, and could break heavy armor when wielded.

Triss herself rode a skeleton war horse with heavy armor, and the giant horse chopping sword was probably more than 200 catties. The giant sword of more than three meters was swung out, and with the impact of the skeleton warhorse, Trith directly fought a bloody path on the street, and the twenty horsemen behind only needed to stare at the side for Tracy.

Tris rose up and released a spiritual shock, his mental impact was not as good as Dorothy's, but the enemies were just ordinary thieves, most of them were low-level swordsmen, and their mental power was simply not enough to resist a powerful demon.

The thief who was hit by the spiritual impact staggered, and the slightly worse strength was that the facial features sprayed blood, and he was killed directly, and those who cultivated the sword qi couldn't stand, and Trisi excitedly used the skeleton war horse to trample on it, and only the skeleton war horse could attack like this.

Triss plus the weight of the war horse and heavy armor is more than 2,000 catties. The skeletal warhorse's hooves were wrapped in metal, and it trampled on the thief's body, and suddenly the flesh and blood were blurred. Triss didn't find it enjoyable, so she simply aimed at the thief's head and stepped on it. Now it's okay, the sound of puff and puff sounded, the blood was mixed with white brains, and with the giant chopping sword, the severed limbs flew around the street, and for a while it seemed to be purgatory.

The twenty horsemen who followed Tracy were chilled, and Tracy's madness made them all a little uncomfortable. And this woman is too strong, the giant horse chopping sword more than three meters long was originally used for show, under normal circumstances, weapon shops make this kind of equipment, but on the surface they have good forgers, not really for people to use.

Only Su enjoyed watching from a distance, and the nobles would definitely not have any sympathy for the thieves, under normal circumstances, when the thieves were arrested, the nobles would come up with many ways to torture and kill the thieves.

Su was refreshed, led the team and began to occupy the tall buildings near the city gate, and then arranged for the servants to go up with steel crossbows to occupy the commanding heights. Su didn't do it himself, he took off the longbow behind his back, ready to deal with that sixth-level mage at any time.

The thieves were still pouring into the city, and the servants who had occupied the heights were shooting down from a high position, and the thieves thought it was sporadic resistance from the city. The minions were not good at the point, but the shot was too close, and the thieves who rushed through the gates suffered heavy casualties.

After fighting for more than half an hour, the thieves realized that something was wrong, and someone followed them into the city!

Two hundred cavalry came around the flank road and rushed to the north gate. The servants shot condescendingly, this time the effect was much worse, these two hundred iron horsemen were the backbone of the thieves, although they were covered with leaf armor, but they were all wearing two layers, and the middle was lined with animal skins. Moreover, the helmets of these thieves are all cast in one piece, which is very strong, and the steel crossbow is basically slid away when it is fired.

In the blink of an eye, the two hundred thieves rushed to the opposite side of Sue.