Chapter 275: Dusk Again
It wasn't until early the next morning, when Leon launched a formal assault from the frontal walls, that Bridget realized that he had been fooled.
So he immediately closed the secret door and rushed to the front wall with his men who were ambushed here to re-arm.
But his men, who had been squatting all night in the field and in various corners, had been kept on a high level of tension, and now they were exhausted, and only then did they urgently move the defense area, and the group was basically like a lost soul.
Even the most elite troops will not have much combat power left in this situation, after all, people need to rest - so Risa Dilan is hanging around at night with those miscellaneous recruits, because they don't have to fight during the day......
But Bridget was clearly not prepared for this.
Plus, Bridget's men, along with Bridget himself, are all addicts.
Although it is true that these addicted guys will be very crazy when they fight after weaning them off the drugs, the problem is that they didn't fight at all that night, and they only fed the mosquitoes......
The biggest problem for addicts is here – they get sleepy and tired easily.
They may still have great combat skills, but the poison has long since eroded their stamina and weakened their sharpness and will as warriors.
Even in a normal state of work and rest, these guys are in a state of yawning all day long, let alone sleepless all night?
Therefore, this group of weak addicts now have to fight without fighting spirit, have no physical strength, and have stopped taking medicine for a day and a half more than expected, and most of them are now in a state of mixing garlic with green eyes.
In fact, Bridget made a seemingly right wrong decision at this point......
This is probably a small mistake that most people don't realize - he shouldn't have let these addicts who had been in ambush all night and were in a state of exhaustion go to the city wall to set up defenses.
Because there were originally some defenders on the city wall, and they were the elite troops under Cardin, the Dexia Wind Resistant.
Although Cardin took most of his troops with him, he still left dozens of Wind Protectors in Toba City, as well as more than 300 'Dexia Dust Breakers' led by the Wind Resistors.
'Wind Resister' is a title that can only be obtained by those who are good at mounted archery, this is Cardin's personal guard unit, and this pro-army unit is also called 'Wind Guardian Warband'.
This was the result of Cardin's implementation of his system of hereditary lordship in Dexia.
The status of the Wind Protector in Dexia is roughly equivalent to that of the knights of other countries in the Pander Continent.
Like the average knight, these Wind Protectors have their own retinues, or co-operative sergeants, and the sergeant units they lead are called 'Dust Breakers'.
However, the Dust Destroyer is not a mounted archer, and it is much more difficult to mount and shoot accurately in a desert environment than in the plains, and not everyone can learn it.
The Dust Breakers are fast cavalrymen who usually use swords, shields, or spears, just enough to match the Wind Protectors, who are good at riding and shooting.
In their familiar desert environment, the Windbreaker Warband is quite impressive.
Although they were defending the city rather than a desert that was more suitable for them to exert their combat effectiveness, the skilled Wind Protector Warband was still very reliable, and even if there were only a few hundred people, they had set up the city defense very well, and it seemed that it was very likely to cause considerable trouble for Leon's army.
But by this time, Brigi sent his exhausted troops to the city walls......
This did replenish the manpower of the city defense, but after those weak addicts occupied the positions that were originally guarded by the wind resistors, it caused all kinds of problems in the city defense......
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These guys, who had stopped taking medicine for two or three days, were physically and mentally exhausted and confused, disrupting the original reasonable deployment of the Wind Resisters.
The yawning creatures didn't even know when to put the thorns, they didn't know when to plug the gaps, and they were all scurrying around the walls like headless flies......
Not only that, but these guys from Zingal also had a conflict with the Dexia Wind Protectors - the Dexia Wind Guardians actually realized that the city defenses were being disturbed, so they kept cursing people, and were anxious to drive those Singar people or witches who were in unreasonable positions to the right positions.
Of course, the wind resistors will be anxious, and Leon's army has already begun to attack the city, but this group of addicts is here to get in the way, so of course their actions are more rough - they even wish that this group of addicts would die quickly so as not to get in the way.
The Wind Protectors are of different beliefs and ethnicities from the Singars, and even in normal times they are prone to conflict, and Brigi's men are now tired and crazy......
As a result, they actually fought among themselves!
Defending the city requires sanity, and relying on a bunch of guys who are crazy because of the withdrawal of drugs will not work......
Moreover, the more the army is not the better.
If Cardin himself was in the city, he would have been aware of the problem.
And Cardin is also able to make everyone completely obedient.
But the problem is that Cardin is not there, he did go to Singar.
Brigitte was unable to command Cardin's personal guards, and the Dexia Wind Guardians simply did not look down on this magic stick who relied on poison and deception to control the troops.
At this time, there was no reasonable defense of the city, there was no unified commander, and there was even a fight, a group of Singar spearmen and the Dexia Wind Protectors fought at the head of the city......
At this time, Leon was leading a large army to try the first wave of tentative attacks.
He did not send the main force in this wave of attack, because it was originally only to test the strength of Toba's city defenses, and at the same time, it was also to keep the attack continuous, so that Brigi's troops in the city were more tired and unrepaired.
But what Li Ang didn't expect was that this tentative attack with the second-line troops composed of other lords and knights actually succeeded in reaching the city wall and gaining a foothold on the city wall......
The enemy was not even able to push down the troops who had attacked the city, and this second-line army actually occupied half of the city wall, which also included two arrow towers and a military station......
This means that the army can go up to the wall in a steady stream, and the military station on this wall is captured, but in fact, the defenders in the city can not go up to the wall - each wall has a military station, which is not only a place for the troops to be stationed, but also a passage for the people in the city to go up the wall.
The city's defenses were much lower than expected, and the enemy forces in the city were still fighting each other at this time......
And it certainly wasn't a joke, for Leon saw with his own eyes that several of the Singar spearmen had been cut down from the walls by the Dexia Wind Protectors and landed on the ground outside the city. Two of them were not dead, rolling under the city with moans of pain.
The lord felt quite unreal at this time—was it child's play?
Toba City is also the capital of Dexia! In the face of the siege of the city, you still have the mind to fight?
Do you look down on me?
"My lord, this is a good opportunity, let's attack directly!"
Even Klose realized that something was wrong with the city and began to take the initiative to ask for help.
So Li Ang simply didn't try it, and he could show his 'bravery' as a marshal in this situation.
Of course, the most important thing is not to let those small lords take the second-line troops to capture the city, and it must be Li Ang himself who breaks the city, otherwise it is easy to rip off because of the spoils......
So Li Ang drew his sword and decided to personally lead the army to attack the city: "Silver hand, follow me!" ”
"Kill!"
Klose shouted, and led his brothers to follow Leon and began to climb the siege ladder.
The army began to clamor, and Leon's own elite troops were dispatched, and the siege was much stronger than just now, and the entire wall was fully conquered in ten minutes.
The Wind Breakers no longer fought with Bridge's men, and abandoned the walls and retreated into the streets and alleys of the city.
But Bridget's men weren't that sane, and the addicts didn't back down, but they did show a certain amount of combat effectiveness at this time - when they no longer needed intelligence, they just needed to fight, and these people who went crazy because of the drug withdrawal did have good lethality.
It's just that it's too late by this time.
After occupying the city walls, Leon's troops instead condescended to inflict damage, and although the addicts under Brigitte were crazy, the fatigue and terrain disadvantages were irreparable.
The Silver Hand continued to advance, and after creating hundreds of corpses, it was quickly cleared of the vicinity of the city walls.
Leon's griffin banner had been planted on the walls, the gates had been opened, and large armies from outside the city had begun to enter the city.
Toba City, it looks like it's about to fall?
At this time, the sun was only half-hanging in the sky, and it was only less than two hours before Leon launched his attack.
"Your Excellency, you'd better not rush into the city...... I'll just plant your flag on the inner fort. ”
Behind Leon was Jocelyn, the former Knight of Dusk, who was now the official flag bearer, and it seemed that he valued this honorable position and behaved quite dutifully.
"That's right, my lord, you can just watch the battle from the city wall, and we'll take care of the rest...... These people are not worth your hands. ”
Klose expressed the same opinion.
Of course, Leon did not refuse the kindness of his subordinates, but he instructed: "Klose, you are responsible for occupying the storehouses of supplies in the city, especially the treasury of Cardin...... Jocelyn, you are in charge of taking the inner fort of Toba, but I need to take over the royal court of Bahad Khan in its entirety, and don't destroy it. ”
The two men each led their troops into the city, Klose went to the treasury with the silver hand, and Jocelyn took Leon's non-commissioned officer unit to the direction of the inner fort.
Leon remained in the garrison on the city wall.
Risadiran also returned with the recruits who had harassed Brigi for the night, and they were now the remnants of the camp outside the city—they had to catch up on sleep.
It seemed that everything was going extremely well, but at this moment, Leon heard an unusual voice.
"Rebellion! Death! ”
It was a sound coming from the streets of the city, and it was normal to have this kind of roar on the battlefield, but the problem was that it was not too loud, but it was very clear - it was obviously very unusual to be able to drown out the shouts of the whole city in the chaos and noise of the battlefield.
This is exactly the same shout that Sir Roland had uttered at the beginning.
Moreover, after this voice was heard, Leon saw that his handsome flag had fallen!
The distance was far away, and the streets and alleys of the city blocked the view of the street, and Li Ang could only see a conspicuous handsome banner on the city wall, which was also Qiao Celin's position.
Shuai Qi fell, this is a big deal.
Under normal circumstances, the flag bearer or the flag bearer next to the flag bearer will quickly raise the flag again in this case, so as not to delay it for a long time and cause the troops in other positions to think that the front army has been defeated.
If the control is not good, and the flag is not raised again, it is likely to cause the rear army to evolve into an inexplicable rout.
But Li Ang waited for a full minute, and the handsome flag was still not raised again.
Something happened to Jocelyn!
Leon immediately descended the wall and rushed to Jocelyn's place with Wendy.
Jocelyn was really in trouble at the moment.
He was still wearing two layers of heavy armor, but he didn't ride a horse—in the streets of the city, his Gato beast came in and did nothing but get in the way.
Anyway, he didn't plan to fight with the banner, and the heavy armor on his body was enough to block the sabers of the Dexia people. His two-layer composite armor was really thick, and although it was quite difficult to walk after wearing it, the Dexia people who didn't ride a horse really couldn't cut him......
So Jocelyn didn't care about the Descha saber all the time - if it didn't have the speed of the horses, it would be scraping him.
However, when a group of knights wearing demonic horned helmets and dressed in black armor suddenly appeared from the alley, Jocelyn didn't dare to do that anymore.
It was his former comrade-in-arms.
Twilight Knight.
Jocelyn ...... Rebels must die! ”
The leading Twilight Knight was extremely skilled, holding a knight's sword and stabbing the two non-commissioned officers beside Jocelyn in succession, quickly cutting off the team in the street battle.
The other Twilight Knights also swarmed up to block the soldiers behind. These Dusk Knights were well-armed and skilled, and Jocelyn was already in the alley, with the troops behind him
They would not be able to break through for a while, and for a moment Jocelyn was besieged.
The handsome flag must not be able to be raised, and the double heavy armor on his body restrained Qiao Celin's skills at this time - the Dusk Knight Knight's sword is not the same as the saber.
Jocelyn blocked left and right, but the weight was too heavy and not flexible enough, causing him to be quite passive.
"Alistay, you're actually going to fight for the Dexia people?!"
Jocelyn shouted angrily.
"I'm just chasing rebels......"
The Dusk Knight, known as Alista, shook his head and raised his sword again to stab at Jocelyn.
"Fart! Rush into the battlefield of the army to hunt down the rebels? Alistay, you treat me as a fool? ”
Jocelyn struggled to hold Alistay's sword, and the two Dusk Knight swords clash at the swords.
"You're a fool by nature...... What did the rebellion of being a knight bring you? It seems that you don't know what you've given up......"
Aliste glanced hard at his two swords, dodged and drew his swords, got out of the wrestling state, and relaunched the attack.
Jocelyn stopped talking, he was probably on par with Aliste's martial arts, but he was carrying too much weight, and his consumption was obviously greater than Alistay's, so he didn't dare to be distracted anymore.
And there were several Twilight Knights behind him, but instead of making a move at Jocelyn, these knights stared at the back of the alley, as if maintaining this one-on-one battle.
"Jocelyn, if you surrender and come back to Singal with me, I may be able to give you a chance to live......"
Alistai was still chattering and attacking, but it seemed that he didn't want the other Dusk Knights to interfere in the battle between him and Jocelyn - or he would have had the other Dusk Knights swarmed up to settle the fight.
"Alistay...... Are you going to tease me? I know what to expect when I come back to Singar......"
Jocelyn panted as he struggled to hold on for several minutes in this situation, the heavy armor draining him so much strength that his steps were no longer flexible.
At this time, Jocelyn could no longer stop Aliste's sword.
Alistay's sword did stab Jocelyn's neck as well.
But just then, a Noldor arrow fell from the sky and pierced Aliste's sword-wielding arm.