Chapter 57: Breaking the Fortress

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Ever since a thousand cavalry had been ambushed outside the city and almost completely wiped out, Earl Bennard no longer dared to send his soldiers out of the fortress, and the defenders were accustomed to the noise and harassment of the crusading army for several days, from the initial fuss to the habit of ignoring it, and sleeping with their heads covered with quilts every night.

After five days of continuous excavation, the crusading army's tunnel was finally dug into the fortress, but it was not dug through to the fortress before the time came to attack.

In the evening, about an hour before dawn, the elite soldiers of the crusading army of hundreds of people under the fortress were waiting for them.

"Tom, tom, tom. "The sound of digging was perfectly muffled by the drums and shouts of killing outside the fortress, and did not attract the attention of the defenders.

"Tom, whoa....... ”

A hole appeared on the ground in a barracks, and then a black head appeared at the mouth of the hole, looked around and retracted into the hole, and after a while the hole widened quietly, and one after another crusaders came out of the hole, and they pounced on the sleeping soldiers in the barracks with daggers.

"Whew. "A soldier was covered in his mouth and pierced through the heart in his sleep, and his comrades followed him one by one.

More than forty sleeping soldiers in the barracks were neatly dying, and the captain of the raiding force said to his men: "Change into their clothes and armor at once." ”

After changing his clothes and armor, the captain swaggered out of the barracks and looked at it, and found that he was very close to the fortress gate, and there were two barracks where the soldiers rested.

In less than ten minutes, all the elite soldiers of the crusading army who infiltrated the fortress changed into the clothes of the defenders, and waited for a while before appearing in the fortress on the way to the gate, and in the dug tunnels, there were still soldiers of the crusading army, they were the second insurance, if the elite soldiers failed, they would storm the gate.

The barracks and the fortress gate were less than 100 meters apart, and the elite squad of the camouflaged raiders soon approached the gate, and an officer who was guarding the gate saw the visitor and asked suspiciously: "Who are you? What are you doing here at this time?"

The team leader pretended to be sleepy-eyed and yawned and said, "We are from the 3400th team, and we were ordered to change shifts with you. ”

The officer looked up at the sky and said again, "It's time to change shifts yet?"

The team leader complained: "Where did I know that our commander dragged our team of 100 out of the bed and asked us to change shifts, don't you want to? The team leader turned around and said, "Brothers, let's go back and get some sleep again, and come back when it's dawn." After saying that, he made a gesture to leave.

"Don't, don't. Joking who doesn't want to go back to rest early, the officer grabbed the captain and said with a smile: "I was joking just now, hand over shift, hand over shift." ”

"Really a shift?" the squad leader squinted at the officer.

"Delivery, delivery, hehe. ”

"Okay, then let's hand it over. ”

"Brothers, go back to sleep!" the officer exclaimed.

Hearing that the soldiers in the vicinity could be handed over early, they began to assemble in a hip-hop manner, and soon lined up, and the officer counted the number of people and said hello to the squad leader before leading the team away.

"A few of you go to the castle tower and activate the winch to open the gate, a few of you go to send a signal, and the others pay attention to vigilance, hurry, hurry, hurry!" As soon as the defenders walked away, the squad leader immediately ordered his men to start moving, and the defenders who went back would definitely find out that they had been deceived, and there was not much time.

Ten soldiers came to the city tower and threw down their weapons and grabbed the huge winch, shook it with great effort, and the heavy fortress gate opened to the city little by little, and several other soldiers came to the city wall and lit torches and drew three circles in the air, which was the signal of the agreed agreement, and then lit several torches and fixed them on the city tower as a guide for the attack.

Duke Simon, who had been in a tense state outside the city, finally let go of his heart after seeing the signal on the city tower, and ordered with a wave of his right hand: "Start attacking immediately!

"Yes!"

The 30,000 army began to quietly move towards the gate of the fortress, the first was the 10,000 regular army, followed by private soldiers and mercenaries, and the last was the armed farmer, and at the critical moment, Duke Simon did not hesitate to take out the strongest combat power.

As soon as the gatekeeper who had returned to the camp from the city wall entered the camp he was seen by his superior officer, "Why did you bring the team back?"

"My lord, there are thirty-four hundred people who took over early, so I will lead the team back. ”

"Thirty-four hundred?" his superiors felt that something was wrong, "Idiot! Where did the thirty-four hundred-man team come from in the fortress! If there really is such a hundred-man team, wouldn't there be more than thirty-thousand-person troops in the fortress?"

"Huh?" the gatekeeper was dumbfounded, he was just a minor officer from a civilian background and could not do arithmetic, only counted from one to twenty, because he had ten fingers and ten toes, and he didn't know the way of 34×100=34000, (so no matter what he did, he had to be educated, even if he was a soldier.) )

"You take someone with me right away!"

"Yes!" the officer at the gate led the men and hurriedly ran towards the gate with their superiors.

The leader of the elite squad of the crusading army was anxiously watching the door open little by little, when suddenly he heard a rush of footsteps coming from a distance, and then saw a small group of people running towards him quickly in the dark.

Signaling to his subordinates to be on guard, he took two steps forward and said, "Yo, why are you back again?"

The answer to him was not the officer guarding the door, but his superior, "You are the one of the lord's men? hmm? What are you opening the gate for?!"

The team leader glanced back slightly, and Zhilu Dao couldn't hide it, but he didn't panic, and said with a smile on his face: "We are Master Kamath's subordinates, as for opening the door for Lu, it was opened by order." ”

"Lord Kamath, I know all the commanders in the fortress, none of them are named Kamath, whose subordinates are you, and how do I not know that Lord Bennard has an order to open the gate?" The senior officer still didn't realize that it was his enemy standing in front of him, but it was no wonder that he didn't think about it, after all, the tactical thinking of this world was still very backward, and he couldn't imagine that someone would dig tunnels.

"Huh...... If you don't know him, Lord Kamath, he is not the commander of the fortress at all, and it was not Lord Bennard but Lord Simon who gave me the order to open the gate. ”

"Poof!" a dagger stabbed into the heart of the senior officer, who looked at the smiling squad leader with wide eyes in disbelief before falling to the ground in anger.

"Do it!"

"Poof!

"Ah...... Ah......h

The comers were quickly annihilated, but still two of them ran away.

"Send a signal to the Duke that we have been discovered, you, go to the barracks where we came, and the people who want to hide inside will come out and help us defend the gate!"

"Yes!"

"My lord, they've been discovered!" said a sharp-eyed soldier beside Duke Simon.

"What? Order the troops to stop marching covertly, and speed up and run towards the fortress gate!"

"Yes!"

"Kill!"

The defenders, who had escaped by chance, reached Bennard with the news that the gate had been attacked and occupied and was being opened, and Bennard was shocked and immediately led his guards to attack the gate, and at the same time ordered the adjutant to all the soldiers to enter the battle at once.

As he led the guards halfway through, he was attacked by the crusaders who came in through the tunnels, and in the pre-dawn darkness, Earl Bennard had infiltrated the fortress with an unknown number of crusading soldiers, and he could faintly hear shouts of death coming from within the city walls.

"It's over!" said Count Bennard, instinctively aware that the fortress was about to fall.

30,000 soldiers of the crusade army poured in from the gate of the fortress that was opened in time, and the unsuspecting defenders were caught off guard, many of the defenders were killed before they could even figure out the situation, and more soldiers lost their fighting spirit and knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender, and the majestic fortress of Kara Pass was easily breached.

In this battle, the crusading army was killed and seriously wounded more than 3,000 people, but most of them were armed farmers, the defenders of the fortress were killed and seriously wounded more than 4,000 people, and 6,000 surrendered including Earl Bennard, who had no time to escape.

After two days of rest, the crusading army of nearly 40,000 men left the fortress and marched towards the next goal.