Power and Empire Chapter 1488: The life and death battle in Rwanda Akka (7)
The sea in Atwood Sea City is not deserted. Since the last attack, the Atwood people have used all the ships that can be driven out. The 50-mile range on the sea is tight. Is monitoring,
The tops of the masts of these ships have braziers. Once they find the Falcon Navy approaching, they immediately light the wood piled up in the braziers, and the smoke goes straight into the sky, on the vast unobstructed sea, even if it’s twenty miles away. It can also be seen that if it is night, the fire can be seen from the location of the sea city. It was through this kind of original use to prevent pirates from attacking, that the Atwood people invented the most primitive, and built a sea area outside the port. Cordon
In the dark night, there are no stars in the sky, but it does not affect Statunko’s observation of the city full of lights in the distance with the looking glass in his hand. Atwood City is indeed a city as its name suggests, and the whole city is built in one. On the alluvial plain formed by the mouth of the big river, surrounded by water on three sides and connected to the land on one side, the entire city is like a huge port. Constitute the basic outline of the entire city,
This is a city extending from the port. It looks like a giant foot-shaped from the high hills. The dense urban buildings spread from the back of the port to the flood plain.
Through the lens of the observation mirror, Statunko can vaguely see the southwest corner of the city. It is obviously missing a part, and there are remains after burning. This should be the last time it was shelled by the Falcons. Yes, the Atwood people cleaned up part of it, and there was obviously no time to move away all of it. In the port that was once full of wreckage, there were faintly several new docks under construction. The spire of the port was inserted by the Southwest Army. The flag flutters listlessly in the night breeze,
Atwood Sea City has always been used as a naval port because of its special status. It belongs to the empire, not the northwest coast, and the northwest and other regions are separate states. Because of the separation of military and government, military and urban areas The division is very obvious,
The investigators sent by Statunko almost effortlessly found the target of this operation in the military camp on the east side of Atwood City. More than thirty temporary grain warehouses were located in this area. On the plain that can be seen clearly, there is really nothing that can block the line of sight,
The news brought back from the previously sent spy personnel, the local garrison has 4,000 defenders, belonging to the Seventh Army of the Southwest Army. On the way to the camp, there are also two infantry regiments with a number of 7,000. , One left and one right, guarding the road leading to the granary,
This is what needs to be considered. The Southwest Army is also a battle-tested unit. It has not been numb to the point of being completely undefended. In order to avoid being detected by Atwood Sea City, the attacking unit was only fifty miles away this time. Disembark from the fleet and ashore,
Then he ran for fifty miles during the night, unconsciously hitting the target. This time, 3,000 cavalrymen from the Southern Army and 1,000 cavalrymen directly under Fatty’s Zhongliyang Guards were dispatched, totaling 4,000. An elite cavalry unit,
This is already the limit that the transport fleet can carry at one time. War horses are different from people. The size of war horses does not take up the size of two people. Although there are only 4,000 war horses, it occupies the carrying area of 8,000 people, plus the cavalry. , The carrying capacity of 12,000 people actually transported this time,
The Fatty’s order to Statunko was to set fire to the Southwest Army’s garrison in Atwood Sea City at any cost and to burn the food in Atwood Sea City at any cost. Leaving the battlefield, the cavalry clearly has the advantage of being blessed,
"I hope everything goes well!"
Statunko looked at the sky and said inwardly,
It’s midnight, the dew is heavy and the ice is biting, most people’s armor is stained with a layer of frost, tiredness is pressing on every face, the military camp that must pass is quiet, only A few sentinels were sitting by the fire talking about something,
"It seems that the opponent did not notice! Order the squadrons to prepare!"
Statunko ordered in a low voice, the dense falcon cavalry behind him jumped up to the mound in front of him. The night was like a shadow, almost completely obscuring the line of sight. No one noticed, a faint long black line appeared in the distance. On the mound more than 2 kilometers away from the barracks,
"Go forward!"
The black cavalry began to be like water flowing in the dark night, countless black lines slowly advancing towards the barracks, the air filled with a kind of pre-war slaughter, Statunko was also a little nervous Tighten the reins of the horse, the surrounding quiet and terrible, suddenness is the main factor of this raid. Whether the food of the Southwest Army can be ignited before completely alarming the enemies on both wings has become the key to the success or failure of the entire battle, because the weather is cold. , Plus here is the big rear,
Most of the sentry towers in the southwest military camp are empty. The sentry inside are either sleeping or heating up, so that when the cavalry force advances to 100 meters away from the camp, a sentry to the south is sent out. Ringing the bell quickly
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Statunko suddenly drew out the sharp saber from his waist, and slowly raised it up, the sharp light of the blade was like a raised battle flag
"Raise!"
With a loud shout, the sword fell, like a landslide-like cavalry, like a cluster of flying arrows, the entire row rushed out of the linear queue. At 6 o'clock in the morning on December 3, it was a little weak. In the morning light, the Falcon Cavalry rushed into the barracks of the Southwest Army as if they had fallen from the sky.
"Enemy attack!"
's stern shout is not over yet, the horseshoes of the Falcon Cavalry have rushed into the camp of the Southwest Army,
The cracking of horseshoes was like a storm sweeping over the earth. At the moment of contact, the tents of the Southwest Army Camp were blown down like weak grasses, and the heavy horseshoes stepped directly over the sleeping Southwestern soldiers. ~IndoMTL.com~ The soldiers of the Southwest Army were killed and fled. Some just ran out of the tent and saw a piece of war knife like snow. Spiked cavalry hung on the front of countless horses, swooping from the front like an avalanche. Then, the companions fell to the ground one after another, crawling on the ground with scared farts
"Go ahead!, rush over at all costs!" Statunko shouted,
Passing through the camp is the granary. The Falcon cavalry who heard the order forced their way through the front of the Southwest Army’s camp. The Southwest Army’s camp was like a sieve shot through by countless arrows. The impact of 4,000 cavalry was enough. The camp was messed up for a while. While the Falcon cavalry rushed to the granary behind the camp, they took out the leather bag containing crude oil from the horse weapon slot and threw it to the granary. The leather bag slammed heavily on it and exploded like foam. Open, black crude oil sputters inside,
Statunko stopped the battle abruptly in the rush, drew out his crossbow, lit the white cloth wrapped at the top of the arrow cluster with flint, and shot it at one of the granaries,
boom, a fierce flame exploded in the granary wound, like a carnival of flames,
The flames burned from one to the other. There were more than 30 grain silos. In a few minutes, it was like a domino that was toppled down. All the slaps were ignited.
The scorching flame burned half of the sky red, and even Statunko felt an anxious pain 30 meters away from the granary
"The whole team evacuate!" Statunko turned and shouted to the other cavalry (to be continued) [] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is My biggest motivation. )