The rain of June, hitting the face of a rare cold, Murphy Boone rode his war horse like a sharp blade cutting through the rain curtain, galloping towards the direction of the sub-fort of the capital, the horse's hooves raised the muddy water on the ground, behind him, more than a dozen Murphy dragon armored cavalry followed, in the direction of the sub-fort, the Murphy cavalry with a red strip of cloth representing the idea of revenge on their heads, was driving their war horses, stepping on the temporary pedals that had been set up and swarming up, the red streamers on their heads were flying behind, and miraculously using cavalry to storm the city wall, which had completely caught the Praetorian Guards guarding the east wall by surprise,

led to the tragic war that later historians called the "Southwest Disaster",

The reason why it was tragic was not only because of the battle, but also because the war had a profound impact on the southwest and even the whole of Gaul, like the sound of the twilight bell in the twilight of the empire, and the siege war launched by cavalry also made the name Murphy Boone rarely add a strong stroke to the military history of the empire.

"Whoa"

The wind of war burst out, the Praetorian Guard on the city wall was moving as many troops as possible, Stanley Spencer gave the order to gather the heavy cavalry was still a little late, so he could only transfer the three thousand infantry as a reserve first, and the Praetorian Guard soldiers ran between the city roads, if they didn't see it with their own eyes, who would dare to believe that the cavalry could also go up the city wall

"Command to resist with all your might, there are those who flee without permission, kill!"

A regular Praetorian Guard officer felt the turmoil of his subordinates, drew his sword at the front of the queue, and shouted hoarsely, "Everyone steady! Those who dare to flee will be killed! Those who survive the war will join the Praetorian Guard!" But his inspiring voice, and the Murphy Dragonarmored cavalry that was densely pressed up in the position of the sub-fort below, seemed so small,

"Raise the battle flag, and the commandos will enter the city!"

The Murphy Boone's steed stopped beneath the secondary fort and raised its head, its vengeful gaze flashing like blood. He sent people to storm the east, in order to cause the lack of strength of the Janissaries at the east gate, 2,000 heavy armored cavalry rushed to the four sub-forts in four directions, and he directly ordered his subordinates to erect their battle flags within the range of the enemy's arrows

"Stanley Spencer, you coward, dare to come out and fight!" Murphy Boone's voice shook the entire battlefield through the rain curtain, and the Praetorian Guards above turned even paler. The long sword in his hand fell, as if cutting through the rain curtain and pointing at the city wall, the sharpness of each team of 200 heavy armored cavalry, raised the horse's hooves, like a tsunami landslide, stepped on the thick planks of the sub-fort and the city wall and rushed to the city wall, the Janissaries on the city wall hurriedly erected dense bayonets, the rain hit the face of every soldier, and the white and afraid people "For the empire, kill!"

In order to muster momentum. The pikemen in front shouted in unison, and the dense spear tips stood up at the same time, as if a forest of spears had suddenly appeared on the city wall, and the cavalry in front of them completely ignored the array of spears in front of them. shouted "Murphy broke the formation" in his mouth, and even people and horses crashed in like a whirlwind.

The sharp weapon pierced into the armor, sending out a sharp metal friction, and the spear pierced into the abdomen of the war horse in front of him. With a rain of blood, the cavalry above found themselves hindered and bravely jumped off their horses. Use your body to hold down the spear that is erected towards the front for the companion behind you,

"Resist, must not be shaken!" the voice of the commander of the Praetorian Guard rose and fell on the city wall, and in the white hazy rain curtain, the heavy armored cavalry flashing like a monster crashed into the battlements of the city wall, and the huge war horse was like the tail of a beast, and hit the Praetorian Guard soldiers fiercely,

"Bang, Bang, Bang!" "The disparity in strength, the infantry is a natural disadvantage to the cavalry, although the gun wall is temporarily erected inside, but in the face of the strong sink, like the heavy cavalry crushed by the top of the mountain, the pikemen in the battlement position were hit like a kite with a broken line and flew out, and the successive slapping on the east wall defense line, almost without blowing ash, the city wall has shown a one-sided situation,

Without the support of large infantry clusters, relying only on one or several thin gun formations, it is completely impossible to block the continuous impact of heavy cavalry.

Once the heavy war horse in metal armor breaks through, the opportunity to squeeze into the crowd behind it strongly, and the Praetorian Guard wants to make up for it, not only the blood and corpses of the soldiers, but also the first to rush into the city wall are the death squads in the cavalry, all of which are the most elite "Murphy Dragon Spear"

30,000 Murphy heavy armor, only 500 dragon spears, enough to see its elite

Although in the gamble of the southwest and northwest, the Murphy Legion lost one hundred and fifty dragoons, but the remaining three hundred and fifty dragoons were enough to make the Praetorian Guards on the city wall pay a heavy price, these dragoons are all elite in a hundred battles, not afraid of death, the heavy melee weapons in their hands are three-ball flails, as long as they rush into the crowd, a sweep is a cold light flicker, the Praetorian Guards fell a piece, everywhere there is a crack of broken spears and broken bones, the armor on the dragoons is also thicker than other cavalry, the weapons of the Praetorian Guards are cut on it, and you can only see the sparks colliding out, but the cavalry above is still alive,

"Damn, monster!"

Great fear hung over the hearts of the Praetorian Guards, and in front of these monster-like heavy cavalry, the infantry arrays formed by the Praetorian Guards in a hurry were as vulnerable as paper paste, and the soldiers fell one after another like ripe ears of wheat swept by a strong wind.

The rain mixed with blood exploded from the bodies of the soldiers on both sides, and the heavy armored cavalry, who were not afraid of the death and slammed into it, also began to suffer casualties, as if the cavalry had been hit by a heavy blow, and fell from the horse, but behind this cavalry were more heavy cavalry,

"Forward, crush them!"

The Murphy dragoons behind the dragoons were stirred up by the scene in front of them, and the blood in their hearts was stirred, kill!" The spear broke, and the pikemen rolled to the ground, like a purple storm flashing in lightning and thunder, and the Murphy cavalry who jumped into the city wall on the prancing horse broke the defensive line like a wave,

"Hold on, or everyone will die!"

The Praetorian Guard was already in chaos, the officers were frantically driving the soldiers, the pikemen scattered in formation, and the oncoming heavy war horses collided together, the collision of steel and steel, the spears pierced the heavy armor of the cavalry, and under the rapid impact, the spears were overwhelmed and made a crisp breaking sound,

"Ahh Then came the second row behind, the third row crowded together with the Praetorian infantry out of fear, the horses passing by, the corpses strewn across the battlements,

"Bastard, forget that the Murphy Dragonarmored Cavalry is also known as the Formation Breaking Cavalry!" Stanley Spencer angrily scolded himself for being stupid, his eyes were bloodshot and he looked at this scene very helplessly, and at this moment he remembered that the Murphy Dragonarmored Cavalry was famous for its fierce melee ability in the eastern battlefield, and Murphy's ability to break the formation. Even the heavy Changge soldiers, whom the Central Belgians are proud of, have been defeated in the past, and now they are attacking with light infantry, which is simply sending sheep into the tiger's mouth, and the other party is bloodied all the way, and it is only a matter of time before the eastern wall is captured.

"Lord Stanley, I think we should abandon the walls!" said Algernon Julia with a grim face suddenly beside him, a pair of beautiful pretty eyes, which seemed to be dyed red by the fierceness of the battlefield at this moment. It's so tragic,

"Give up the walls?" Stanley Spencer took a deep breath and shook his head when he heard her words

"Don't be so pessimistic. I admit that although the opponent is attacking sharply, the main force of our army has not suffered much damage, and it is entirely possible to continue the battle with it! Moreover, our heavy cavalry has not yet been dispatched, as long as it is assembled. We can launch a counterattack, and then the enemy will be tired and the opposing cavalry will go up the wall. You can't go down!"

"Your Excellency's idea is good, but I must say, if that's the case, then we're really finished!"

Algernon Julia said slowly and calmly, "Although the Lord temporarily issued the order to assemble the heavy cavalry, it was too late, didn't the Lord find that the four sub-forts were dealing with the lowest part of the eastern city wall, and the other side's cavalry was like four endless lines of attack.

However, in just ten minutes, the Praetorian Guards who we hastily responded to the battle fell 2,000 people, and the four corresponding battlements were all broken without exception, if we continue to hold on, there will be more and more routs, and our army's general will really go, to put it mildly, the other party has completely dominated the battlefield of the city wall, as long as the number is enough, sweep all the way along the city wall, even if we have tens of thousands of troops, it is useless!"

Algernon Julia's voice stopped, pointed to the city under his feet, and said slowly, "I don't know if the adults have observed the width of the city walls!" The city of the southwest capital under our feet is really not ordinarily wide, I just visually measured it, the width of a full twenty meters, completely inconsistent with the general city wall of only eight meters, the southwest capital is not a military fortress, but it has enough for ten horses to run in parallel, there is no doubt that this city road must have been specially built by Murphy Oone, from the secondary fort to the city road, he has long had such a plan," Now he is accumulating troops, and he seems to have the advantage in his strength, but in fact he is not advancing very quickly, and he is basically trying to crush us all like beans on this city road! The soldiers who are constantly scattering will make it impossible for us to launch a counterattack even if we gather heavy cavalry, unless we both crush the rout army in the middle."

"If we really care so much about the lives of our soldiers, and the current unfavorable situation of the war, I am afraid that the army will immediately collapse!

"Then what should we do? Give up the walls, and we'll be in a position where we're in no danger to defend!" said Stanley Spencer with a hesitant expression

"Rather than go on like this, we might as well drag the enemy into the quagmire of urban street fighting" Algernon Julia said in a cold tone, "There are 20,000 people in Murfeoh Boone, and we have 40,000 people, and there are more than 200,000 southwesters who can be used, if we want to show our advantages, is there a more favorable terrain than the countless vertical and horizontal streets in the city,

"Bringing in the streets?" Stanley Spencer paused for a moment, and said with a hesitant face, "Even if we lead the opponent's cavalry into the city streets, our army has nothing to stop, even if there are streets to disperse the opponent's troops, it's useless!"

"Who said there is no obstacle," Algernon Giulia said without hesitation, "What do you mean, Miss?" Stanley Spencer looked confused, he had not imagined the street battle after the city was broken, and naturally he was not prepared, but Algernon Giulia had a confident look on his face, which made him feel puzzled

Algernon Julia sneered at the corner of his mouth, "Your Excellency forgot, we control the entire southwestern capital, we can completely drive all the southwesterners into the streets, these untouchables are our natural blocks, and it is perfect to block the iron hooves of the Murphy cavalry, and we only need to send troops to launch a surprise attack in the rear,

Faced with a large number of civilians blocking the road. Hehe, I also want to see if he, Murphy Boone, has the ruthlessness to order an attack! If he orders to attack civilians, he will be ruined in the southwest, and if he hesitates, ......" Algernon Julia showed a cruel sneer on the corner of his mouth, "As long as the morale of the other side is not maintained, or there is turmoil in the morale of the army, our heavy cavalry will have the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow, and the proud Murphy cavalry will be crushed with a wave of anger!" "Blocking with civilians and sending troops to attack, isn't it too ......" Stanley Spencer smacked his tongue as he listened. His face was slightly pale, his lips trembled a few times, and his eyes looked at Algernon Julia beside him with a little fear.

This woman's heart is really not ordinary ruthless!, that is a full 200,000 southwesterners, if the corpses are piled up, they can be built as high as the city wall, this woman actually thought of using 200,000 southwestern civilians as a barrier to contain Murphy's cavalry, this kind of cold-blooded strategy has reached a certain level. Thinking of the tragic night attack on Long Street launched earlier, the scene where this woman drove her subordinates to fight to the death, even Stanley Spencer, a veteran of the battlefield who was accustomed to seeing mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, felt a chill down his spine. But he also can't deny that this method is really quite good.

Whatever Murphy Boone chooses, the scales of this war have tipped in favor of his side.

"Master Stanley. His Majesty the Emperor has given you a heavy responsibility, and the northwest is no longer possible, if the southwest is ...... That's just 200,000 untouchables. Do you need to be so attentive?" Algernon Giulia looked at the hesitant Stanley Spencer, her autumn eyebrows were slightly pruned, and her tone was cold and chilling, like the confused rain in front of her, "Okay! Now that's all there is to it" Stanley Spencer finally nodded affirmatively, after all, he was a person who came out of the sea of corpses and blood, when he put down his pity and completely replaced it with an arrangement for the enemy, the ruthlessness of this famous general in the east was not lost to Algernon Giulia,

After all, this is far from the southwest of the core area of the empire, and Murphy Oone has already torn his face in the empire, if he can pacify the southwest this time and pull out a thorn in the eyes of the emperor's majesty, the credit is not much compared to pacifying the northwest, but the two don't know that their selfish heart has triggered the fire of war that ignited the entire Gallic Empire.

"Report, our army has occupied the eastern wall!"

The report from the front, so that Murphyo Boone's face finally showed a hint of joy, the rain in the sky was much lighter, the sky was dark, the air pressure was very low, so low that people couldn't breathe, the raindrops hit the high city walls, stained with the blood of the soldiers on both sides of the battlements, the white raindrops were swaying, ups and downs in the wind, stretching their lonely posture to the fullest, just two hours of offensive and defensive battles, so that Li had become a sea of blood, under the washing of the rain, the red water flow fell from the city wall, and the whole city seemed to be crying

"Let's go to town!"

Murphy Boone waved his hand excitedly, and led his subordinates to step on the plank leading to the battlements, his face was filled with the excitement of regaining control of the situation, and on the other side, the Janissaries who had been ordered were entering the city in a rout, and they rushed into all corners of the city like wolves, driving all the southwesterners they saw out of their houses. None of the children were spared, and soon the streets and alleys were crowded with southwesterners, and the Praetorian Guards drove them all to the east and west of the city, which was the direction of the city gate, and for a time the streets were crowded with people.

Orfeo Boone, who had just climbed the city wall, had already dismounted from his warhorse, he had just received a report that most of the Praetorian Guards on the city wall had broken down, and now the entire city wall had fallen into his hands, he ordered the gates on the east and west sides to be opened, so that more Murphy cavalry could enter the city, he looked at the majestic city houses in front of him with deep eyes, and was thinking about how to find that bastard Stanley Spencer

"My lord, the approach of the third squadron is blocked!"

"My lord, the entrance of the seventh squadron is blocked!"

Just when his heart was surging, the sudden report made his heart cold

"What, you said the Praetorian Guards drove civilians to block the road?" Orfeoone grabbed the collar of the reporting soldier with his angry hand, and the excitement on his face was unexpectedly interrupted, he has been in charge of the southwest for 2 months, and he is used to thinking of himself as a southwester, he didn't expect the Praetorian Guard to break up from the city wall and play such a hand, what does the other party want? If the road blocking can block his iron hooves, it will be a joke

"Yes, my lord, all the roads into the inner zone are completely blocked!" reported the soldier's face pale with fright,

"Take me to see it!"

Orfe Oone took a deep breath and ordered with a gloomy face, and the soldiers hurriedly took him there, and at a distance of five hundred meters from the inner area, Orfeo Boone had to stop his horse, and the whip in his hand even snapped and fell to the ground

The sight in front of him made his eyebrows completely twisted together, it was too despicable, and the anger in Orfeo Boone's eyes could kill

I saw that the street in front of me was already crowded with people, not the fighting Janissary infantry, but countless southwestern civilians, many of whom were old people, children, women, and many young adults, who were crying and wailing while huddled together

"Don't kill us!" a cry and wail rang out, and his own cavalry could only stare at the civilians. (To be continued......)