Chapter 418: Final Evacuation
"Bang!"
After suffering several successive blows, the gate of the General's Mansion finally collapsed overwhelmed, and the enemy troops outside the gate seemed to have cheered for their success when they saw that the gate had been breached.
You must know that the general's mansion is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the enemy thought that a large number of people would die before breaking the gate, but they didn't expect the gate to be breached so easily.
However, before the enemy soldiers who rushed to the front had time to smile on their faces, after seeing clearly what was facing the door, a look of horror immediately appeared in their eyes, and they hurriedly shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
"Bang!"
Before the sound of fear of the enemy soldiers could be heard, Li Yunyang let go of the mechanism of the ballista, and the black and bright crossbow arrows shot towards the enemy soldiers at the gate like meteors.
The shield soldier facing the gate raised the huge shield in his hand almost instinctively, trying to block the attack of the crossbow arrows.
However, how could a ballista that could shoot down even a city wall be blocked by a small shield!
Almost without making any sound, the large shield of the trait was pierced by the crossbow arrow, and then it left a terrifying wound the size of a bowl in the abdomen of the shield soldier
The shield soldier tried his best to keep his eyes open, and there was a clicking sound in his throat, trying to grab the crossbow arrow that passed through him, but he was directly carried into the air!
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
One by one, the enemy troops who had originally set up their formations and were ready to rush straight to the General's Mansion were strung on the crossbow arrows one by one in front of the crossbow arrows that no one could stop.
It was only after the crossbow arrows, which were more than three meters long, were hung with corpses that the ferocious momentum of the crossbow arrows slowly stopped.
However, although the power of the crossbow arrow has been exhausted, the deterrent power it creates is to make the enemy completely frightened!
The entire battlefield seemed to freeze in an instant, especially those peasant soldiers who had never seen the power of ballistas, and their legs were even weaker, and they couldn't hold the shields and weapons in their hands.
However, this was just the beginning, at the same time as the first crossbow arrow was fired, another crossbow arrow was loaded into a ballista by Li Yunyang, and then fired......
Compared with the enemy at the gate, the soldiers who attacked from the wall were no better, and when the first group climbed the wall, before they could stand firmly, they saw a few torches thrown up.
Then, the entire wall, a distance of hundreds of meters, was lit with raging flames, flames that soared into the sky, creating a barrier on the wall that was difficult to cross, directly blocking the enemy troops from the wall.
"Pay attention to cooperation, try to shoot all the arrows and javelins, and shoot all the ones that can be shot!" Li Yunyang ordered to all the soldiers while controlling the ballista.
With the precise cooperation of Li Yunyang and the soldiers of the death squad, the small gate of the General's Mansion turned out to be a gate of hell that was difficult to cross in the eyes of the enemy.
I don't know how many enemy soldiers died under the rain of ballistas and arrows. In front of the gate of the General's Mansion, a thick pool of blood gathered, which gradually turned into a pool of bright red mud under the trampling of the enemy.
Li Yunyang fired more than 40 bolts in a row, and the wound on his arm was broken again, but he continued to load the ballista and fired crossbow arrows at the enemy as if he had not realized it suddenly.
At this moment, Wagle reached out to touch the quiver behind his back, but he grabbed it, he angrily threw his bow and arrow on the ground, picked up a broken long sword, threw it out, and shouted at Li Yunyang: "Your Excellency Commander, my arrows have been shot!"
"I don't have many arrows!"
"The javelin has been thrown!"
The armament stored in the General's Mansion was too small, but the battle was too fierce, and the stored arrows and javelins had been exhausted, Li Yunyang estimated the time and felt that it was almost over, so he ordered loudly: "Carry out the last onslaught, except for the cavalry, the whole army retreats!"
Hearing the order to retreat, all the soldiers of the death squad breathed a sigh of relief, they were determined to die, but they didn't expect that they would have a chance to live.
Therefore, for the sake of this line of life, the soldiers did not relax, but became more and more crazy, the arrows in their hands kept shooting towards the door, and those who did not have bows and javelins directly picked up the gravel and threw it out.
There was already a thick layer of corpses piled up at the entrance of the General's Mansion, and the shield soldiers of the vanguard had not broken through the gate for a long time, but they watched their companions die tragically in front of them.
The fear continued to spread among the peasants and soldiers, and with the screams, even the veterans who had just been incorporated into the shield barracks were afraid.
Obviously, if he persevered a little longer, he would be able to break through the gate of the General's Mansion, but in the face of the last fierce counterattack led by Li Yunyang, the morale of the enemy army was finally crushed!
A shield soldier whose ears had been shot off by an arrow feather fell head-on in a pool of blood, and the thick smell of blood made his stomach churn. He was just about to get up, but he found that in front of him was a scarred head shot by an arrow.
"I'm not fighting! I'm not fighting! I'm going back to my hometown!"
The power that erupted out of nowhere, the shield soldier who had his ears shot off, twisted his face, screamed in horror, and fled to the rear.
Fear is contagious, especially when it has accumulated to a critical point. With the first person to take the lead in running, and the second soldier who broke down and fled, he was still a veteran!
The dramatic scene happened again, and the peasants and soldiers, who had been forcibly driven to the battlefield, began to flee again. Even those elite veterans were overwhelmed by fear, hesitated for a moment, saw that there were fewer and fewer people around them, and simply joined the fleeing team.
"Well done!"
Li Yunyang's frowning brows finally relaxed, he laughed loudly, and finally exhaled heavily. Li Yunyang had seen in history before, the battle where elite soldiers were dragged down by miscellaneous soldiers, but he didn't expect that he would also experience this kind of thing.
In comparison, the death squad led by Li Yunyang himself is all heroes who are not afraid of death, and fortunately, otherwise, the General's Mansion would have been breached long ago.
However, Li Yunyang didn't know that the reason why these soldiers who followed him were able to burst out with the courage to fight without fear of death was mainly because of his survival.
Li Yunyang could have avoided this battle and left with the army when he discovered the secret passage, but he still stayed and held on to the last moment.
Just ask, even a person like Li Yunyang, who has nothing to do with the town of Parvas, can fight to the death to protect the town. And how could they, the soldiers, who kept shouting 'For the glory of Parvas,' be such incompetent cowards!
As the saying goes, a soldier will bear a nest.
An excellent general has a tremendous influence on the combat effectiveness and morale of the whole army! No half of the people in the whole army will dare to disobey the orders of the generals, and there will absolutely be no such thing as disobeying the yang and the yin!
Obviously, Li Yunyang, except for the occasional ruthlessness towards his subordinates, has the essence of all excellent generals, and even if he is not clear about this now, it does not hinder the fact that he is a good leader.
After the soldiers of the death squad shot all the arrows in their hands, under Li Yunyang's arrangement, everyone except the cavalry began to retreat.
Although they didn't say anything pretentious, before retreating, they all looked at Li Yunyang, hoping that he would be able to go back alive. The soldiers felt that they needed such a good commander who took the lead!
"Wow!"
While the soldiers were retreating, more than 50 cavalrymen, including Li Yunyang and Wagger, poured a bunch of oil and liquor on the door, set it on fire, and mounted their horses one after another.
According to Li Yunyang's order, each carrying a pile of torches, was divided into two teams, led by Li Yunyang and Wagger, who were wearing Shierdeken's clothes.
However, Li Yunyang did not lead the army to leave as soon as possible, but waited for the next wave of enemy troops to charge, otherwise the soldiers who retreated just now would not have had time to retreat to the entrance of the secret passage.
The enemy army outside the gate of the General's Mansion had once again experienced great chaos, and this time their commander could no longer suppress these fleeing shield soldiers.
After killing a few deserters in a hurry, the enemy commander drew his long sword at his waist and shouted: "All cavalry lined up, target the general's mansion, follow me!"
"Click......
The sound of hurried horses' hooves sounded, Li Yunyang lit a torch and gestured to everyone, and then everyone lit the torches, holding the horse's back between their legs, ready to retreat at any time.
The commander of the enemy army who was charging ahead, when he rode his war horse and leaped towards the general's mansion, Li Yunyang instantly threw out a torch and instantly lit the fire oil and spirits at the door.
"Peng!"
The sudden explosion of flames actually produced a slight explosion, and a thick wall of fire directly blocked the cavalry behind the door, while the enemy commander who rushed in was all on fire.
Li Yunyang waved his hand casually, and a flying sword went straight to the head of the enemy commander, and the enemy commander who was still busy extinguishing the fire with fighting spirit was directly beheaded!
However, the few cavalrymen who knew how to fight in the back used their fighting spirit to isolate the flames and rushed straight in, and Li Yunyang saw that the time was ripe, and immediately rode his horse back.
"Catch them, Lord Sjölken is on the east (west) side!"
The two deputy commanders of the enemy army, one saw Li Yunyang in the lord's uniform, and the other found Wager in the lord's uniform, and at the same time gave orders to his subordinates, but shouted in different directions.
As for the dead Archon, they pretended not to see it, and instead caught Sterdken - the credit was to decide which of them would take over the throne!
The cavalrymen who rushed in behind heard the completely different orders of the two commanders, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
And the two commanders didn't mean to give in, they glared at each other, made a secret movement to wipe their necks, and then took their respective cronies, rode their horses and galloped, chasing Li Yunyang and them!