Chapter 104: The Story of the Eagle in the North and the South 10
The Kugit soldiers executed a militiaman that day and threw his head into the city. On the second night, the soldiers found two more that had been dropped in by the Kujits. On the third day it was four.
General Clyde stood by the wall and cursed and said to Dimitri, "These stupid pigs want to torture us slowly, he doesn't know that these soldiers are used to the dead." Killing two or three a day is enough for them to kill for two or three months. ”
Dimitri shook his head sadly, "General, if this situation continues, in five days, those people below will die." ”
General Clyde was surprised, "How so? There are nearly 200 people down there? ”
"If we were still alive after the war," said Dimitri, "I would teach you some mathematics, because being uneducated is a terrible thing".
Clyde had become accustomed to eating and living with junior officers these days, and was often ridiculed by several close officers for not being able to learn and not learn. At this, both Clyde and Dimitri laughed scoffingly.
"You bastard, how am I going to believe you?"
"General", Dimitri ended with a wry smile on a miserable expression, "eight heads will fly in this time tomorrow".
The next evening, Clyde announced his plan for the night to dozens of dead men among the eight bloody flesh masses: to get out of the city at night and then set fire to the militia.
"Remember," said Clyde, "when you return to the city, I will only keep the gates open for ten minutes, and you must hurry." ”
The noisy and unprepared Kugit were blinded by the night attack, and after more than an hour more than seventy militiamen and death squads broke through to the city, and after these men entered the city, General Clyde ordered the gate to be closed. More than twenty minutes later, when the other team had fought and retreated to the goal, the Kugit had already rushed over.
That night, the screams under the city gates were heart-wrenching, and the Kugit waited for the Swadiya to relent. But in the end, the Svadias did not open the door either. Soon after, more than forty people under the castle tower died.
Dimitri knew the final moment was coming.
Although there is still food in the castle, it has begun to mold and rot. In the fall, the water supply is even more inadequate. The city was littered with corpses, and the Swadians were on the verge of collapse. Flames were still burning every seven days, and by that time Amir, a hundred miles west of Lundia Fort, had fallen, and the only thing left of the Kugit on the way to Dehrim was Fort Lundia.
When King Kugit looked coldly at Mayor Amir, who was shivering, he suddenly saw a flash in the old man's eyes, and when King Kugit turned around, he saw the dark end of the horizon, and a cluster of fire was shining.
Daddy Amir let out a coughing laugh, and the weak-looking old man suddenly turned into a man, "Emperor of Kujit, look over there, our fortress is still safe." The empire will not collapse, you barbarians! ”
The warriors of the Khan's guard drew their blades, for they saw the old man suddenly pounce on King Kugit, and father Amir died at the feet of King Kujit.
Frightened and furious, King Kugit decided to inspect the front line of Fort Lundia****. At the front, King Kugit was shot in the thigh, and the morale of the army was greatly damaged. In retaliation, the Kugit launched a series of attacks, but once again the fort of Lentia performed a miracle. King Kugit, who slept in his tent, could not understand why a small fortress was so insistent.
"Those who don't want Middle-earth to be cured like this," was the remark of King Kugit as he looked gloomily at Fort Lundia, which almost killed him. Behind this sentence are the painful memories left by the Kujiit people in Swadia's rebellious thousands of villages. Once the Swadians are threatened with a place of their own size, they will be as violent as the murderous gods of war.
In winter, the outer city of Fort Lundia was lost. Two hundred remnants of the army retreated to the inner city.
At that time, the land that should have been golden was bleak, full of ruins, the laughter that had been there was no more, and the wilderness was barren.
Dimitri knew that the final moment had come. General Clyde was mortally wounded while retreating to the inner city, and he knew he would not survive the night, so he did not flee again.
When the Kugit rushed in, General Clyde, dressed in white armor, limped quietly to meet him, and the Kugit soldiers in black helmets drowned him like a flood swallowing up a blank piece of paper. Clyde's roar came at the end: "Isn't there a single Kugit who dares to give me death?!" ”
After a commotion, a Kugit man lifted General Clyde's head.
Two hundred soldiers and more than three hundred men took to the streets of the inner city. The bishop of the diocese erected the relics and put on his full costume, and his retinue had long since died in battle, except for a few women who helped him pull the hem of his white robe. The people followed the bishop and made a final procession in the inner city. The bishop had not drunk water for two days and had set aside his allotment for today's ritual. He dipped his fingers in water and sprinkled it on the soldiers and civilians who were kneeling down around him.
That night, the inner city gates were breached.
General Clyde's adjutant approached Dimitri: "Follow me".
They reached the deepest part of the inner fortress and opened the door to a cellar.
"General Clyde has been ordering the craftsmen to dig this tunnel, but unfortunately we failed before it was finished. It is connected to the cellars of some of the surrounding vineyards, which are now only accessible to one person. Only rats can get out, you must survive, take the battle flag of the Eastern Front, and return to Dehrim! Tell people that Fort Lundia didn't miss and that Fort Lundia is impregnable! Get inside, and we'll destroy this tunnel. ”
The soldiers had retreated to the outskirts of the bunker.
Dimitri refused to retreat. General Clyde's lieutenant saw Wright, who had been standing to the side, his eyes glinting with grabbing.
As Wright crawled through the dark tunnels wrapped in the flag of the Empire's New Eastern Army, the soldiers rushed out of the bunker with shouts behind him.
Wright crawled underground for a long time, sometimes touching the droppings of rats and the carcasses of some dead animals. The stench in the tunnels is terrible. Nearly a year of defending the city drained Wright and reminded him of the carriage from years ago. Are your efforts destined to be in vain?
The air in the tunnels was muffled and smelly, and Wright quickly fell into despair, and a wall appeared in front of him. He could only dig and grasp the wall, but there was nothing he could do. Can't die! Can't die! Wright pounded against the brick wall, his fists bleeding and his head frayed. After half an hour of effort, Wright rolled out of the wall with two bloody hands and collapsed into a warm wine cellar.
In the past, farmers would store their sake underground, but the cellars of each family gradually expanded and connected to each other, and it was not impossible to stretch for miles underground in exaggerated times. The cellar had apparently been looted and had long since been left unattended. Wright staggered to his feet and walked down the cellar into the depths. From time to time, the sound of rats squeaking could be heard, and in the darkness, Wright fell asleep and woke up, woke up and fell asleep. Until sometime, Wright suddenly saw a dim light, and he rushed over, and when he looked up, he saw the stars in the sky.
When Wright stood on the plain again, he finally saw Fort Lundia, and he was surprised that he had left Fort Rendia so far. Just as Wright was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly found something, he turned his head and squinted carefully, and saw the sky above Fort Lentia, which seemed to be burning with flames: "Fort Lentia is impregnable!" Lentia Fort didn't give up! ”
With tears streaming down her face, Wright turned and fled into Ohara.
It was Dimitri who set the fire. All of Dimitri's comrades were killed, and Dimitri was the last man, but instead of destroying the tunnels as ordered, he hid inside and lurked inside like a ghost.
The Kujits, who had occupied the castle, gathered the surviving peasants and showed the men the miserable condition of the defenders, "You have brave soldiers, because of them, you saved yourself from being slaughtered, and you should be grateful to these people".
When the Kugit finally breathed a sigh of relief, they suddenly discovered that every seven days, flames were burning on the guard tower at Fort Lundia. The superstitious soldiers of the Kugit were frightened, believing that it was the Welling of the Svadian soldiers. It is often said that in the bunker you will hear the chatters and trumpets of the Swadia soldiers, and some people will even see the dead Svadia soldiers taking it again.
Rumours swayed the occupation forces at Fort Lundia, and King Kujit's younger brother, General Buchi, was determined to find out. During these months, people closely observed the decrease in food and the darkness of the night. During a raid, the Kugit discovered the cellar, poured boiling water into it, and screams were heard from inside the tunnel.
The two warriors climbed down the tunnel and pulled out something that was not a ghost, this man was dressed in the cotton clothes of a Swadia soldier, dirty, unkempt, and full of gray hair. Months of life in the tunnels had left his eyes extremely fragile, and when he was pulled out of the bunker to meet General Buchi, the strong winter sun blinded him.
Outside the castle, he was thrown in front of Buchi. General Buchi looked coldly at the recalcitrant Swadia, and the people around him questioned the culprit who had been lighting the fire and stealing all these days. But the man was only laughing and crying, and he could no longer see, and could only feel pleasure in the anger of the Kujits.
General Buchi motioned for silence to the people around him, and then asked the man in standard Swadia: "Brave Swadian, what do you have to say?" ”
Fort Lundiya was only a mile from the border, and the Kugit lost more than 2,000 men under the city and were delayed for nearly a year. What the hell makes these Svadians so strong. General Buchi had to re-examine the Swadians, whom he had traditionally regarded as a weak people.
"General", Dimitri stopped laughing and asked quietly,
"Now you know Svadia, how long a mile is."