Chapter 102: The Last Soldier
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At dusk, the city of Patna was bathed in blood at sunset.
Patna City is the second strongest city in the southern part of the Fire Cloud Empire after Roland Fortress. Ten years ago, the Asman army invaded the hinterland of the Huoyun Empire and fought all the way to the Imperial Yanyun Province. After the end of the war, the Huoyun Empire invested a lot of manpower and material resources to comprehensively improve the defense of Patna City, and at the same time dispatched elite soldiers to be stationed here to ensure that when the Asman army attacked, the defenders of Patna City would hold on and wait for reinforcements.
Ten years later, when the Asman army attacked, the prince of the empire rebelled and fell into the siege of 300,000 Asman troops. The city of Patna fought hard for a month, and did not wait for reinforcements to arrive, and once again became a lonely city.
On the head of the city and on the walls, there are blood stains and long blood stains everywhere, like a painter using a pen dipped in blood, gently splashing and pulling down one stroke at a time. These living colors, combined with the porous walls, are the best picture of the stubborn resistance of the defenders of Patna.
This is the thirtieth day since the siege of Patna. As dusk fell, the Asman army finally stopped attacking. The battlefield fell silent for a while.
On the city wall, the tired soldiers defending the city leaned softly against the wall, or lay directly on the ground, so that the nerves and ** who had been nervous for a day could relax temporarily. Many soldiers had wounds on their bodies, but at this moment, tiredness had kept the pain away from their numb bodies. The bodies of the war dead have been taken away, and those who survive await endless fighting and death. A veteran leaning against the city wall turned his head to look through the arrow stacks at the Asman army camp in the distance, his eyes sad and desperate.
Under the city walls, there were the corpses of Asman soldiers everywhere. Some of these people fell from the city and broke their bones, some were poured boiling water on their bodies, and some were thrown out of the city by the soldiers who defended the city when they climbed the city, and their deaths were extremely horrific. Bands of enemy soldiers, traveling between the battlefield and the wilderness beyond, carried the corpses out and burned them. Some of the wounded, supported by their comrades, groaned in pain and slowly left the battlefield.
In the wilderness, the flames that rose into the sky, like the monstrous mouth of the Grim Reaper, carried away those young beings who were alive and kicking not long ago, leaving only ashes and wisps of light smoke. Each of them was once the son of their parents, the husband of their wife, the lover of their girlfriend, the father of their children, and the most important person in the eyes of their relatives. But here, they were nothing more than a weapon in the hands of General Assman, a splatter of blood splattering from the head of Patna.
General Green stood on the city wall, silently looking into the distance, and the heart of this veteran of the empire swelled with the sadness of the hero's end.
Green was born in a civilian and did not have any support, and completely relied on his military exploits to go from a soldier to a general. In his thirty years of military career, he has experienced countless wars, crawled out of the pile of dead man again and again, and has long been accustomed to death and bloodshed. In the first battle of Yanyun ten years ago, he followed Yantian for thousands of miles to break the enemy, and he was also seriously injured, but he still killed countless enemies with his wounded. After this battle, he was promoted by Yantian to be the defender of Patna City.
"It seems that it is impossible for the Empire to come to our rescue again!General, your subordinates are about to come after you!" Green couldn't help but let out a long sigh as he looked at the enemy camps surrounded on all sides outside the city.
After Prince Joseph's army mysteriously disappeared, Patna was besieged by the Assman army that night. From then on, Green knew that something unusual had happened in the Empire. However, due to his lack of contact with the outside world, he still does not know that the prince has rebelled, and Yantian has been resurrected and served as the marshal of the empire. As a veteran, he knew that it was a matter of time before the battle was broken, so his heart was full of pain and confusion. The pain is because it is a shame for a soldier to watch the enemy's iron hooves pass over him and ravage the land and people behind him. Confused, because in the history of continental wars, there were many generals who defended the city and forced the people to the battlefield, and the city fell and was slaughtered by the enemy, and he was worried about the residents of Patna.
"General, there are less than 3,000 defenders in the city, and 1,000 of them are wounded. The inhabitants of the city have run out of food. Lieutenant Lester walked over to Green's side and reported in a deep voice.
"How much more does the rations have?"
"The rations will last for another three months. ”
"Then open a warehouse and put grain on the people. ”
"This ......," Lester hesitated. For the defenders of Patna, this food would keep them going longer. Once the grain is released to the people, it will inevitably affect the time of defending the city.
"Do what I say. We don't have many soldiers left, and it's useless to keep them. We held on to the city of Patna for a month, believing that we had bought time for the Empire to prepare. Green smiled wryly.
Lester took the order and left.
"I am a soldier, and I am protecting the land and the people. Maybe the city will be taken, but sooner or later the Empire will regain it, and I must preserve a little bit of life for the city. Green sighed.
Over the next two days, the Asman army launched a fierce assault on the defending forces. The 3,000 officers and soldiers defending the city are still fighting on the front line, and the casualties continue to increase. On the third day, General Green was mortally wounded by a stray arrow, and Patna fell.
When the gates of the city slowly opened, the city, which had been hated by countless Asman soldiers, finally bowed its noble head to the enemy.
When General Langton, the commander of the Right Army, walked into the city of Patna with a victor's smile, he was about to pick the fruits of victory, but he was surprised to see four soldiers standing quietly on a stretcher on the street behind the city gate. On a stretcher, a man in a neat military uniform lies face down. There was not a trace of the frustration and pain of the losers on the faces of these soldiers, and everyone looked calm.
One veteran didn't let the other three put down their stretcher, and then walked up to General Langton.
"Your Excellency, General Green left his last words before he died: 'Patna has fallen, and I will not be able to see the heavens again after my death. You put me on a stretcher and carry me out of the city face down, and if the enemy generals do not give up their hatred, they can take my corpse out of their anger, but beg that they do not harm the people of the city. War, after all, is a soldier's business. 'The four of us are the general's own soldiers, and the last soldiers of Patna!
After the soldier finished speaking, he raised his knife and killed himself. The three soldiers standing behind him also raised their swords at the same time and killed themselves.
General Langton looked at the scene in front of him and was speechless for a long time.
"Pass on my military order, don't disturb the people after entering the city! At the same time, bury General Green and these four people!"
In the battle of Patna, General Green led 30,000 defenders, isolated and helpless, to defend the city for one month and three days. The Asman army also paid the price of 60,000 losses in this battle. However, General Green did not know until his death that the Empire did not abandon them. The Fifth Army of the Roland Fortress twice sent reinforcements to the city of Patna, but was stopped by the troops of the Right Army. If General Green organizes the inhabitants to resist desperately, he may be able to wait for reinforcements to arrive. However, for the sake of the lives of the population, he abandoned this effort.
Patna fell, and General Green was controversial for not organizing the people for a final resistance, which led to a hotly debated topic later: in the face of a powerful enemy, which was more important to protect the people or defend the territory. But the tragic title of "Bartna's last soldier" has forever entered the history books of the Fire Cloud Empire.
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