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Chapter 218

Although it was separated by a canal, the solemn aura seemed to be enough to overwhelm people. In the red zone on the other side of the canal, the defenders nervously guarded the bridge, and the horses were stacked at the end of the bridge, and the defenders and Dìdū's city guards looked at each other across the river.

It was as if both sides were waiting for something, and everyone knew that once that order came, it would be an inevitable fight.

The air at night was full of the smell of forest, the coldness of the metal, as if the nose could smell it, at the two ends of such a jumping beam, at least more than two thousand soldiers gathered, but at the moment there was no sound, no sound.

In contrast, the defenders of the Red Zone were more nervous, the city guards on the other side were still moving, in the dark night, the sound of soldiers running and horses' hooves was faintly heard in the distance, more and more city guards were rushing towards here, on the opposite side of the canal, many buildings had been occupied by the city guards, and on the high ground, those archers who had been waiting for them were faintly visible in the dark night.

At this moment, the air seems to have frozen!

The moonlight fell dimly and sprinkled in the city, and the moonlight on the water, like the shields in the hands of the soldiers, glowed with a cold cold light, and it seemed that the only thing that could be heard at this moment was the creaking sound of the bowstring being taut for too long.

Finally, at the end of the bridge in the red zone on the opposite bank, a low shout was heard, followed by the running defenders moving the horses on the bridge deck, the wheels rolling, and the two carriages slowly came out.

The rolling of the wheels made a creaking sound, as if the axles that had not been oiled for a long time were about to rust to death, and along the way, the sound was like the remnants of an old man, and the horses pulling the cart were covered with mud and their hooves were heavy.

In the atmosphere of almost a collision between the two sides, the two carriages slowly drove to the other side, and were stopped by the city guards under the aim of at least twenty crossbow arrows around them.

Several city guards stepped forward to check nervously before they breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's a water truck that delivers water. After inspecting the huge buckets in the carriage, a soldier turned over and jumped down, and made eye contact with the officer: "Two hours ago, these two cars went in to deliver water, and we searched it." ”

The officer leading the team hesitated.

Under the strict order above, the red zone has been surrounded for a few days, but because the last order has not come down after all, so in the past few days, the city guards have only carried out a blockade, and vehicles carrying food, vegetables and drinking water are still allowed to enter and exit every day, but they have been strictly checked, even if it is the firewood that is sent, there will be soldiers with spears to poke a few times.

The soldiers in the carriage had turned over each bucket, and it was empty, except for the layers of rust left on the iron sheets of the barrel walls.

The officer hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Let it go." ”

After all...... The order for a final offensive has not yet been given from above. Even many of the officers and soldiers of the city guard were hesitating in their hearts - perhaps, at the last moment, His Majesty would change his mind.

Everyone knows that the red zone is the last bottom line! Once this bottom line is crossed, it is the final declaration of war and rupture.

"Release!"

The soldiers shouted nervously, and then the ranks of the city guards parted, and a passage was made in the thick shield wall to allow the broken old carriage to pass slowly.

The leading officer watched the car pass slowly, and suddenly felt a little faint inappropriateness in his heart, and he suddenly grabbed his subordinates beside him: "Take today's record!"

He quickly flipped through the records of entering and exiting the bridge today: "How many cars have you had today?"

"Six times. The soldiers replied: "Three times they carried food, once they carried firewood and coal, and two times they carried water, and there were thirty-three vehicles in and out, and I checked that the number of vehicles that brought things in was the same as that of the last vehicles that came out, and the carriages were all checked, and there was nothing entrained or suspicious." ”

The officer breathed a sigh of relief, he shook his head with a wry smile, it seemed that he was too nervous. This damn situation is making people go crazy!

When will such a blockade be a head?

※※※ Span, with a group of cavalry, turned the road and galloped towards the aqueduct. The general in charge of the city guard army was full of gloom at the moment, and the heavy feeling in his heart almost overwhelmed him, even if he rode his horse and galloped, he couldn't alleviate the feeling of depression in his heart.

Chest tightness...... On this day, it looks like it's going to rain?

The placket of his cuirass was already soaked with sweat, and in his breastplate was a letter written by Emperor Kantos the Great!

At this moment, General Spann suddenly had a sense of historical mission in his heart!

He knew very well that the order he carried out might ...... No, not perhaps, but soon! to change the fate of this empire!!

"The one who rings the death knell......" Span, riding on his horse, suddenly had a tragic and ridiculous feeling: "A hundred years from now, when future generations record history, will they leave my name......?" Span, ring the death knell of this thousand-year-old empire with your own hands?"

Thinking of this, the general's mood was a little low, but then he bit the tip of his tongue hard, kicked the horse's belly hard, and forced himself to cheer up.

After all...... He's a soldier! He must carry out his orders!

Span's cavalry turned the intersection, and at the end of the street in front of him was the aqueduct bridge, and at the intersection nine, he saw the two empty water trucks coming slowly, and the two sides met head-on at the intersection, and the distance was only a few dozen steps, and the two water trucks turned around and slowly went in the other direction of the intersection.

Spann subconsciously slowed down the speed of his horse's run, probably the crunching of rusty wheels breaking his thoughts, and the general naturally glanced up at the two water trucks.

The cavalry behind him stopped.

On the street, there is only the sound of the creaking wheels and the horses pulling the carts, trampling on the bluestone-paved pavement, making a heavy "da-da" sound.

Suddenly, Spann felt a little envious of the two water trucks...... Because at this time, they can be lucky to leave the place where the fire is about to be lit!

The sound of horses' hooves came from afar, and the sound of heavy wheels merged into one, and Spann was a little distracted, and a faint strangeness flashed in his heart, he frowned, then shook his head, and then reined in his horse and slowly walked towards the canal.

Spann came to the canal, turned over and dismounted, and immediately summoned the officers here, and after listening to the officer's report, Spann nodded.

Everything, there seems to be nothing out of the ordinary.

There was no movement in the Red Zone, and the defenders inside were only tightly guarding the banks of the canals, which was also expected.

Span knew very well that although there were 1,000 jīng sharp defenders in the Red Zone, and according to the information he had in the past, the jīng sharp level of this 1,000 defenders far exceeded his own city guards, whether it was the opponent's weapons and armor equipment or the quality of individual soldiers.

However, after all, trapped in an area, in Dìdū City, his own city guards have an absolute superiority in strength, and no matter how powerful the opponent's 1,000 jīng rui is, they can fill in the opponent with people!

If only the Red Zone was captured...... Then this task does not seem to be too difficult at all.

But standing on the bridge and looking at the "red zone" on the other side, why is the feeling of oppression and uneasiness in my heart getting stronger and stronger?

Are you afraid, afraid of the imminent chaos of the collapse of the empire after the capture of the Red Zone?

It doesn't seem like ...... Hmph, no matter what it is, let's take this place first! Even if the empire is to fall in the end, we must first cut off the heads of those warlords and henchmen in El Salvador! The general will die, and the sword will be stained with the blood of those enemies!

Spann slowly drew his sword and shouted in a low voice, "Queue!"

Hearing this order, the officers under his command were stunned for a moment, and looked at General Spann with wide eyes: "My lord, is it ......?"

Span looked at his subordinates in a complicated manner: "Execute the order...... Line up!"

Seeing his subordinates wordlessly carry out the order, looking at the heavily armed soldiers around him, such as the spear of the forest, and the shield of the wall, all emitting a cold light in the moonlight, Span's mouth was bitter: At this time, if you can leave, how good would it be?

Leave...... Spann took two steps, raised his long sword, and was about to say a few words of mobilization, when suddenly, the thought in his heart expanded infinitely, faintly, and he saw that scene on the road, and fell into his heart, deeper and deeper!

In an instant, Span's face suddenly changed!!

From the way he came, his heart was full of weirdness and uneasiness, and when he passed the last street corner, that uneasiness suddenly increased several times, he originally thought that he was too nervous when it came to the end, but at this moment he realized that it was not!!

That...... The sound of horses' hooves!!

The sound of horses' hooves on the Nala waterwheel!!

In the middle of the night, on the long street, mixed with the rolling wheels, the sound of horses' hooves "clicking"!!

In an instant, General Spann realized where his uneasiness was coming from!

The sound of horses' hooves is definitely not what an ordinary horse pulling a cart should have!!

The sound of a horse's hooves is strong and full of power! And the sound of the clatter of falling to the ground can only be made by a thick shoe nailed to the horse's shoe! Moreover, Spann is an experienced old soldier after all, and he knows it very well! Only a new hoof that has just been nailed, a farrier of good texture, will make such a sound so crisp!

The kind of horse used to pull the carriage obviously had no need to nail that good brand new horseshoe at all!

Even in the cavalry troops, only before the cavalry large-scale war, the best farriers are nailed to the horses, so as to maintain the mobility of the horses on long marches!

Span, who had thought about this section clearly, suddenly became sei, he was already standing at the front of the queue, and suddenly rushed over like crazy, pulled his subordinates, and shouted: "What about the records of entry and exit!

The subordinate officers were a little stunned by Span's gaffe, and stammered an answer, and Spann suddenly broke out in a cold sweat!

"Bastards!!!, you idiots!"

Spann shouted, "Cavalry mounted!!!El Salvador has run!!"

"General, general......" His subordinates were still in a daze, and Spann had already whipped it with an angry whip, and shouted angrily: "What a fool! Those horses that pull the cart are all good war horses! Nailed the best horseshoe! They are already running away!!"

Before his subordinates could react, Span had already rushed to the side of the cavalry queue, mounted his horse and shouted: "The cavalry will follow me!

But at this moment, suddenly, on the opposite side of the bridge, in the red zone, a loud horn suddenly sounded!

In the darkness of the night, the defenders on the opposite bank pushed out a few ballistae that had been prepared, and the crossbow arrows had already been tied with a grease-coated leather layer, and after raising the torches and igniting the crossbow arrows, in a whistling sound, several rockets came towards the opposite bank!

The piercing crossbow arrows roared in, and immediately pierced a house next to the bridge! With a bang, the roof of a house collapsed on the spot, and the lime debris flew everywhere, caught in the exclamation of the archers hiding on the roof.

Qi shè, who had several crossbow arrows, suddenly knocked down the queue of the city guards who had already lined up at the end of the bridge, and more than a dozen soldiers were directly pierced by the powerful crossbow arrows on the spot, and a miserable scream rang out.

Spann was furious, and was stopped by the subordinate next to him and rolled to the ground, only to dodge a crossbow arrow in front of him, but the officer who pushed him down was directly cut off on the spot by a flying crossbow arrow!

Span's face was covered with blood, and as soon as he turned over and jumped up, there was a sound of shouting and killing in the red zone on the opposite bank!

A group of cavalry rushed out directly from the opposite side of the bridge, the horses' hooves trampled on the bridge, the soldiers on the horses brandished their long knives and shouted loudly, and a large number of infantry with red belts on their bodies rushed out behind!

"Meet the enemy!Meet the enemy!!The enemy has broken through!!Archers!!Block the bridge!!"

Spann swung his sword and roared! His loud voice vibrated in the night, and suddenly became the backbone of the soldiers of the city guard, and the archers on the houses on both sides reacted to the sneak attack of the crossbow arrows just now, and the dense rain of arrows covered the bridge deck!

From time to time on the bridge deck in the dark night, there were screams of cavalry falling from arrows and horses falling to their horses.

But in the dense rain of arrows, there were still many cavalry rushing out, roaring into the ranks of the city guards. Spann roared hard, his long sword had already ignited the light of fighting spirit, and in the midst of the roar, a sword split a cavalry company and horse that rushed in front of him in half, and the tiger roared in the rain of blood: "Queue!!Stop them!!Block them back!!"

After all, the city guards had an absolute advantage in numbers, the infantry lined up and blocked the bridgehead, although the cavalry that rushed over rushed to the queue, but it was only a few gaps that were forcibly knocked open, and they were soon replenished by more city guards, and more and more cavalry fell off their horses and died under the chaotic swords of the city guards, and even a complete corpse was not left!

The infantry who rushed out of the back broke through and were intercepted by the archers on the bridge deck and suffered heavy casualties, and the number of people who rushed across the bridge deck was less than half, and at this moment the city guards had completely gained a firm foothold, and the officers shouted one by one, and pressed forward step by step, and gradually overpowered the small half of the bridge!

More and more soldiers who broke through saw that the situation was not good, some ran back with a shout, and some threw their weapons in their hands and jumped into the ditch.

But the battle here has caused too much movement, there are already small boats arranged by the city guards on the canal, on the river, the city guards in the small boats brandished their spears, stabbed those who jumped into the water and tried to escape one by one, and a group of ready city guard soldiers took off their armor and bit their short knives and jumped into the water.

Spann had already rushed to the end of the line, grabbed one of his lieutenants, and shouted, "I'll leave it to you! Block the bridge, kill those bastards!"

He then turned over on his horse and shouted, "Cavalry come with me! Damn it! Salvador has run!!"

※※※ General Span's judgment was not wrong, but it was a little late.

It is true that El Salvador is no longer in the red zone at the moment.

In the past few days of the blockade, although the city guards have surrounded the red zone, the cunning El Salvador has already arranged a plan for himself to get out.

In the past few days, because the emperor has not given an order for a long time, the city guards have only besieged the red zone but not attacked, and the transport vehicles are still allowed to enter and exit every day, although the transport vehicles are inspected.

And the problem lies in these transporters.

There is no problem with the transport vehicles that come in and out, whether it is to transport grain, drinking water, or firewood and coal, but the problem is with the horses!

In the red zone, the horses were replaced with horses with the best endurance for long runs, and they were all nailed with high-quality horseshoes.

And every time I go in and out, the driver who pulls the cart is also replaced by the most sharp warrior in the red zone!

Although the soldiers of the city guard strictly inspected the carriages, they did not pay attention to the horses pulling the carts. Originally, these excellent war horses were deliberately painted with a lot of mud marks - in order to confuse the public, these high-quality war horses have never trimmed their manes, and they look sloppy and dirty. Even the coachman who pulled the cart was covered in smudges, and not many people paid attention to the coolies' mud legs.

For several days in a row, more than 30 vehicles per day, so quietly changing the sky, at least more than 100 jīng sharp cavalry have been quietly exchanged from the red zone!

At this moment, the people left in the Red Zone are the old subordinates that Salvador said will follow him for decades, and his only task is to lead the remaining defenders in the Red Zone to break through to the death, and try to make the most noise to attract the attention of the city guards.

This strategy is almost on the verge of success!

While there was a fierce battle at the canal, the last two water trucks had already lost their carriages in the alley after driving through the intersection!

Lian Rìlai, who had quietly broken away from the Red Zone, had already hidden in more than 20 strongholds in a residential area near a block west of the city.

At this moment, while the battle was raging at the canal, countless city guards heard the sound of military trumpets, and assembled in groups towards the red zone, and the streets were crowded with cavalry in groups, and the sound of the infantry's leather boots and the horse's hooves mingled together.

Then, in a street in the west of the city, quietly, a hundred and ten horsemen gathered, and these cavalrymen all changed into the clothes and armor of the city guards and standard equipment, took advantage of the chaos, swaggered onto the street, and then went in the opposite direction...... West City Gate!

In the middle of this group of rebels, it was El Salvador who was surrounded in the middle!

Salvador had just arrived, hiding in the buckets of the last two cars. The buckets were specially made, the height of the barrel was shallower than the barrel, and there was a hidden space at the bottom of the bucket, which was narrow but could barely allow a person to curl up in the most nervous position.

Salvador has been operating in dìdū for many years, and this strategy of escaping at a critical moment has been laid out by him many years ago, and those war horses that never cut their manes are all prepared in Pingrì. Even how to curl up in this special bucket in the most ingenious posture and save space is deliberately practiced by Salvador himself!

More than 100 riders, through the streets and alleys, quickly towards the west city gate! In the dark night, let the direction of the red zone behind him shout to kill the sky, and the most gratifying thing in Salvador's heart is that the front, the direction of the west city gate, is quiet as usual!

※※※ West Castle Gate.

In the darkness of the night, the torches on the city gate flickered as if it were day, and a four-horse horse-drawn black carriage had slowly come to the city gate, the body was parked under the city tower, and the guards had gathered to protect it.

The carriage window opened, and a crisp and pleasant voice rang out: "I want to see Master Giuseppe." As he spoke, a bright badge lit up quickly.

Soon, the officer guarding the west gate immediately ran out and stood beside the carriage, and the officer named Zhu Saipei saw the badge, and by the light of the torch, he could see the face in the carriage clearly, and was immediately startled: "Little, young lady......"

In the carriage, the cloak Daphany smiled faintly and whispered, "I'm going to send a friend out of town." ”

Although there was a strict order from the general of the city guard, Juseppe, who was born under the Minas family, did not have the slightest doubt, and without hesitation, he took two steps back, and then turned around and shouted in a low voice: "Open the city gate!"

Although some of his subordinates raised questions, the officer only stared over, and under his calm authority, no one dared to question his orders.

Daphany in the carriage dismounted, and the coachman untied the two horses pulling the cart.

Daiffany glanced at the officer and whispered, "I'm sorry for you." ”

"It's an honor to work for Miss. Giuseppe nodded without hesitation.

Dafani then stood by the window and said inside, "Be careful all the way...... Go straight north and don't stop on the way...... Well...... I ......"

Half of a poignant face was visible in the window, and Adeline had tears in her eyes: "Daphany......"

"Let's go......" Daphany sighed under his breath.