Chapter 139: Dato's Counterattack (3)
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Seeing the fire burning on the fortress wall, the fat man felt a burst of eyeflocks, the fortress commander's hand "please enter the urn" played beautifully, if he was the fortress commander, in the case of insufficient military strength, he would also take this trick to frustrate the spirit of the noble army first, but this trick made the fat man feel familiar, as if he had seen it there.
"No, this trick seems to be the one he played in Vizan to burn the cavalry of the left guard at night" The fat man suddenly came to his senses, and at that time he had only sent the captain of the guard, Salon, and a few guards to carry out this matter, and it seemed that the commander of the fortress should be one of them.
The fire on the city wall burned for nearly an hour before gradually weakening, the thick black smoke covered the sky, the air wafted with a disgusting scorching smell, and the low fortress wall had been cracked into more than a dozen sections due to the high temperature, like a row of crooked teeth, Toda Fortress exchanged its outer defense line for precious time, and also demoralized the raiding noble army
"How many more people do we have!" Zidani, the commander of the fortress, looked at the enemy who was gathering at the foot of the mountain,
In the afternoon, two more noble armies appeared in the woods outside the fortress of Toda, and now the entire fortress was surrounded by nearly 20,000 enemies outside, and the drums gathered under the city sounded as if they never stopped.
Bands of hoplites lined up in neat squares outside the city walls, and their spears even covered the woods outside the fortress.
If it weren't for the raging fire of the city wall that could not be extinguished for the time being, the 3,000 people who defended the fortress would have been torn to pieces by the tens of thousands of noble troops with red eyes outside.
"Three hundred and eighty-six killed and eight hundred and thirty-one wounded, and now we have only one brigade of people!" replied Adjutant Guto, with a pale face.
Wrapped in a white cloth in his left ear, he grinned slightly in pain when he spoke because he pulled the wound in his ear.
While defending the city wall, a stray arrow shot his left ear, and the white cloth that wrapped the wound was soaked with blood, which was shocking to see, but Guto didn't care about it.
For him, the sword on his waist that represents the identity of Samor's guard is much more important than his ears.
The practice of burning the city wall this time was the adjutant Gutotiyì, as a former captain of the guards, Guto was one of the executors of the fat man's arrangement to burn the left guard army at night.
That night, the flames on the city wall of Vizan were raging, and the tragic image of thousands of left guard cavalry being burned to charcoal left a deep impression on him, and he has always kept it firmly in his mind.
It happened that a batch of crude oil was transported from the corps headquarters this time, which was originally transported as important military supplies, but because of the raid on the Taku Pass by the noble army, this batch of materials was delayed, and the adjutant of the Toda Fortress, who was short of troops, used the fat man's tricks.
The Tiger Legion of Helisatus also deserved to be unlucky, he didn't come early, he couldn't play, but he came at this time.
"A brigade!"
Zidani's face was a little ugly, the outer city wall of the fortress had become a slag, only this thousand-meter-long winding mountain road was the last support of the fortress, and the tens of thousands of enemies gathered outside the fortress had begun to move slowly, and it was almost impossible for him to hold the mountain road firmly with the strength of a large army.
"Has the signal of the enemy attack been sent?" Zidani asked in a low voice, and Adjutant Guto could only nod slightly because of an ear injury, "Yes, Commander, as soon as we received the warning signal from Thorn Wazu this morning, we immediately lit the wolf smoke of communication, I believe that at this time, the legion headquarters should have received the news!"
"That's fine!" Zidani nodded, with a smile on his face,
"In this case, our task is also completed, now we delay the enemy for one more minute, we will win one more weight for the gathering of the legion's large forces, the enemy's most important time for this raid, the legion reinforcements also need the most time, and this most important weight is in our hands! We are the last line of defense in the north of Frendi, if we withdraw, the whole of Frendi will fall into the hands of the nobles, the northern gate of the whole of Samori will be opened, our relatives, brothers, sisters, lovers may face the enemy's butcher's knife at any time, we have no choice but to stay here, crucify the enemy here, brother, you said, do you understand!"
"Yes, my subordinates understand" Adjutant Guto nodded with a little surprise, Zidani had given a death order, and the commander of the Zhivading merchant actually blocked Samor.
Soon, three black wolf smoke ignited on the top of the mountain, and all the Samor crossbowmen stationed in the mountain road guard tower watched the three black smoke rise into the sky with complicated faces, which was the last order issued by the commander of the fortress, the billowing wolf smoke under the three-legged falcon battle flag, which represented the meaning in the Samorian army
"Long live Samar!"
The crossbowmen checked the number of arrows in their quivers once more, wiped the bright arrows with a cloth, fastened the strings of the crossbow to make sure it could shoot all the arrowheads, and finally tied the crossbowman's dagger to his waist, and whoever tried to get through the mountain road in front of the watchtower would have to step on his corpse.
At the same time, before the fire of the fortress that was about to be extinguished, Helisatus also saw three black smoke rising into the sky.
"The Samors are going to die!"
Helisatus sighed, and the distance from Kyoto Clasto to the fortress was only half a day's journey, and the Tiger Legion, which he was proud of, suffered heavy casualties.
At least nearly 3,000 people were killed in battle,
More than 2,000 people were wounded, the three infantry regiments and the archers brigade under his command were all wounded and sick, and the combat strength was greatly reduced, and the soldiers were even more panicked by this fire
Therefore, the Tiger Legion temporarily transferred out of the attack sequence, and this time it was responsible for the first wave of attacks in another second-rate force in the aristocratic private army, the Lingda July Mercenary Regiment, which is a legion mainly composed of mercenaries, with a number of 8,000 people, and four flag regiments under its jurisdiction, because of poor military discipline and weak combat ability, most of the time it is just a garrison task, this time the aristocratic private army is desperate, and even this non-main battle corps is also sent.
Behind the Lingda July Mercenary Legion is one of the real main forces of the private army, the famous Egangfen Heavy Infantry Regiment, numbering 10,000, all well-armored and shielded spear infantry, most of whom come from the Egangfen area near Kyoto, which is the domain of the Marquis Duakri family.
As the fire became smaller and smaller, the dense drumbeat sounded like a torrential rain, and the long-waiting mercenaries flocked to the winding mountain road, this time the nobles gave a big bounty, whoever rushed to the top of the mountain first, gave a reward of 100 gold coins, and whoever cut off the head of the commander of Samore and was directly named a knight of glory.
"Whoosh, whoosh" The mercenaries just approached the entrance of the mountain road, and the arrows on the sentry towers on both sides rained down, and the mercenaries who rushed to the front fell a dozen, but this did not affect the people behind to continue to rush up, many people even rushed to the top of the mountain with arrows above their heads in order to get the first bounty, but what was waiting for them there was a strict Samore army formation, and the dense spear array of the Samors and the crossbow arrows that kept shooting made the mercenaries fall one by one,
Each guard tower is equipped with 20 crossbowmen and 10 shield soldiers, the gate of the guard tower is with two layers of iron doors, the crossbowmen even have people squatting directly in the iron window door ** hit, many mercenaries who tried to smash the door, were shot to death by the crossbowmen on the head, the corpses rolled down from the mountain road, although the more than ten guard towers of the mountain road are like a small boat swaying in a storm, gradually flooded by the tide......
"Shoot you!" the crossbowman Darishi howled bloodially, shooting the last crossbow arrow in his quiver into the enemy's chest, and the mercenaries swarming outside had smashed open the gate of the watchtower, and the ten shieldmen were like a wall blocking the enemies in the corridor, and the crossbowmen in the back kept shooting at the enemies crowded in the corridor, and the corpses were piled up on the steps of the tower
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