Chapter 20: Night Attack (2)
As the convoy got closer and closer. The Seabreeze City soldiers guarding the city gate had been able to see the entire convoy clearly with the help of the bonfire at the city gate, and one of the soldiers roughly counted and found that there were almost 20 carriages in this series of convoys, and the carriages were covered with thick linen, and they couldn't see what kind of goods they were carrying, but the mercenary at the front of the convoy was Andy, the leader of the Seabreeze City Lightning Mercenary Regiment.
The Lightning Mercenary Group has been established in Seabreeze City for many years, and over the years, Andy, the leader of the Lightning Mercenary Group, has been very generous every time he escorts goods in and out of the city gate, not only paying the corresponding taxes, but also giving everyone some extra benefits in private, which makes the relationship between the two sides closer and closer.
And tonight, the generous Commander Andy is here again, which makes the soldiers guarding the city gate very much looking forward to it, in the recent period, due to the impact of the Northern War, the caravans coming and going to Seabreeze City have shrunk significantly, which not only makes Seabreeze City's taxes greatly reduced, but also makes these soldiers who work hard to guard the city gate lose a lot of extra money.
"Huh, Commander Andy, haven't you only been gone for more than ten days, and you're back so soon?" a soldier asked casually, and the Commander Andy walked over with a smile, took out a money bag from his arms, and said, "Come on, are you really worried about me? I'm afraid you're worried about this, right?" After saying that, Andy threw the money bag at the captain of the soldiers guarding the city gate.
The captain smiled and reached out to pick up the money bag, but he took an empty one, Andy seemed to throw out the money bag with a little more strength, the money bag hit the captain's wrist quickly and urgently, and fell to the ground at once, and the mouth of the money bag did not seem to be tightened, and all the gold coins in it spilled out at once.
"Ahh
Andy was still standing there with a smile on his face, but behind him, more than a dozen black shadows slowly outflanked from the surrounding shadows, and soon surrounded the dozen or so guard soldiers, after these black shadows were revealed, they were all mercenaries wearing the costumes of the Lightning Mercenary Group, but at this time their faces were very serious, and everyone stood silently behind a Seabreeze City gate guard, staring at their target.
The Seabreeze City soldiers guarding the city gate didn't notice this at all, they were all busy bending down desperately to pick up the gold coins on the ground, and from time to time someone quietly stuffed the gold coins into their pockets, and the captain lowered his voice and cursed: "A group of bastards, listen to me, no corruption, otherwise, I will break his hand." As he said this, the captain quietly put two gold coins in his pocket.
The captain of the gate guard team of Seabreeze City was fantasizing about where to go after the change of guard, when suddenly a pair of big hands reached out from behind him and strangled his throat hard, the captain didn't understand what was going on, he felt a sharp pain in his throat, he struggled desperately, but his vital point was cut open by the dagger, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shout, but he lost his mind because of suffocation in more than ten seconds.
The dozen or so black shadows worked together and quickly killed all these money-hungry guards. Andy looked at the corpses of the guards all over the ground, waved his hand lightly, behind him, the coachmen who were driving the carriage immediately took out daggers from their bodies, and forcefully cut the linen covering the carriage, one by one big hands stretched out from the gaps in the linen, and then tore the whole linen hard, and one by one strong mercenaries got out of the linen, it turned out that there was no cargo behind the carriage at all, and it was simply a hidden person.
These mercenaries jumped out of the carriage one after another, and they didn't need Andy's command at all, they started to divide labor very tacitly, every two people lifted the corpses of the guards on the ground and walked to the dark corners of the wall, and a dozen people quickly cleared the obstacles outside the city gate, and then opened the city gate of Seabreeze City to the maximum.
It took only two minutes to do all this, and the commander Andy climbed the wall with a few of his men, holding a torch high and drawing circles on the dark wall. A moment later, there was a flash of fire in the distance, echoing the torch in Andy's hand.
Seeing that the connection had been made, Andy breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, all he had to do now was to wait for his backup to arrive and completely occupy the gates of Seabreeze City. The walls of Seabreeze City are not very high, but Andy and the others also lack the necessary siege equipment, and if they attack hard, they will definitely lose a lot, so they can only find a way to capture Seabreeze City, the only gate.
Seabreeze City is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and only there is a city gate in the west, and more than ten kilometers outside the city gate are flat hills, which can be seen through at a glance, and there is no way to hide the traces of the large army, so Andy and his master chose to start late at night after careful planning, because the hazy night is the best cover for the army to march.
Now that everything is ready, all Andy has to do is wait anxiously, his backup is still several kilometers away at this time, and it is impossible to march at full speed in order to conceal his whereabouts, so he must hold on here for enough time, otherwise tonight's plan will not be successfully executed.
Andy walked down the city wall, and saw that his men were moving the weapons off the carriage and distributing them to everyone, the members of his mercenary group were originally the elite soldiers of the lord of Senate, Andy was ordered to lurk here a few years ago, and the business in the past few years was all for tonight, as long as he can successfully capture this port city, then he can completely cut off the connection between the north and the south, and he can also monopolize the north-south shipping, so as to obtain huge benefits.
However, Andy always felt some doubts in his heart, it stands to reason that such an important operation, how could he send more warriors, but the Lord of Senate only sent 5,000 people, and these troops could not be compared with the garrison of Seabreeze City in terms of numbers, but fortunately, it was Lord Raphael who presided over this operation.
Andy of course knows that this Lord Raphael has the soul eater of the master Senat in his hands, which is the number one killer organization in the mainland, Andy secretly speculated that he estimated that Raphael would let the soul eater kill the important people in Seabreeze City while launching a surprise attack to seize the city gate, as long as the other party loses command and becomes a mess, then even if there are fewer enemies and more enemies, it is not impossible to win, and although the training of the soldiers in Seabreeze City is good, but it lacks actual combat, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as Andy's mercenaries.
Just when everything was silent, Andy heard the sound of the door opening from the resting place of the soldiers guarding the city gate not far away, due to the suddenness of the incident, Andy and his men did not have time to hide at all, and were completely exposed to the Seabreeze City guard soldiers who came out of the room.
The guard soldier of Seabreeze City was actually just in a hurry, so he reluctantly walked out, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw hundreds of strangers occupying the city gate, and his companions who were on vigil were nowhere to be seen, the soldier stayed for a moment, he never dreamed that he would encounter such a situation, seeing that those strangers saw him, they all ran towards him quickly, he suddenly shouted loudly: "Enemy attack!"
The sound came far and wide in the silent night, but it stopped abruptly, and a throwing knife slammed into the soldier's throat, taking his life. Andy hit the target with a single sword, but because the distance difference was too great, he had to run a few steps to get into the range of the throwing knife, so he was a little late when he hit the Seabreeze City soldier, and he couldn't stop the other party from shouting a warning.
A middle-aged man's voice immediately came from the room where the soldiers of Seabreeze City were lazily resting: "You idiot, can't you just sleep honestly...... Ah, enemy attack!" another Seabreeze soldier stepped out with his pants strapped, screaming when he saw his companion lying in a pool of blood.
Andy was very angry in his heart, he could have secretly planned to capture the city gate quietly, but because of such an unexpected situation, it turned into a strong attack, but Andy immediately made a decision, and immediately issued an order to hold on, and at the same time let people contact the backup to speed up.
In fact, there is no need for Andy to contact anything, just a few screams just now are enough to make the backup who is still several kilometers understand that this surprise attack plan has failed, and the commander who led the 5,000 warriors gave the order to move forward at full speed almost at the same time as the screams sounded, and the 5,000 Senate warriors immediately abandoned all their disguises, and the footsteps of Qi Brushing were particularly noticeable in the secluded night.
The soldiers of the Seabreeze Barracks finally understood what was happening outside, and they immediately became a mess, and the sleeping Seabreeze soldiers rushed out of the houses, and due to the tight time, these soldiers were not able to dress at all, and some were even barefoot. Under the command of the barracks commander, the warriors of Seabreeze City began to run towards the city gate, they did not have a neat formation, and many of them did not even have the necessary weapons, so they ran towards the city gate with empty hands.
The game of racing against time unfolded between Senate's army and the army of Seabreeze City, the lightning mercenary group under the leadership of the regiment leader Andy, relying on horse-drawn carriages to garrison the city gate, the lightning mercenary group is not large, but it has rich combat experience, these years of adventure career let them develop a very good tacit understanding, and this time the battle is equipped with excellent weapons, which makes Andy and his men very confident to stop the Sea Breeze City army, for their main force to arrive to buy time.