Power and Empire Chapter 18: Missed Opportunity
"Aim at the city gate and let me go!" Following Statunko’s violent shout, dozens of soldiers operating the trebuchet winch violently loosened the noose of the trebuchet, infesting the original tar. The incendiary bomb drew a bright arc and slammed on the wooden arrow tower above the Kasha city gate.
"Boom" The incendiary bombs exploded on the surface of the arrow tower. The scattered sparks were like bursting fireballs. Several soldiers who could not dodge nearby were contaminated on their bodies. The unquenchable raw tar quickly changed several soldiers. Become a burning man, screaming and rolling down from the top of the city,
Under the blazing light of the burning arrow tower, the Dusmore soldiers guarding the castle looked pale and looked at the huge army that appeared in the darkness in the distance.
"The enemy, there is an enemy! There is at least one legion!" The panicked garrison hysterically pointed to the crowded enemy outside the castle. This is the largest number of enemies this soldier has ever seen in his life. The wriggling ant colony, the erected spear shimmering and shimmering cold, murderously encircled the entire Kasha City like an iron barrel.
"Woo" trombone whistles one after another in Kasha City, the entire Kasha City is like a wasp barreled into a nest, the fire is soaring, and the voices are boiling like the day. It is a quiet enemy outside the city.
"Your lord, attack the city! Now the city is in chaos. The entire Kasha City has only 150 soldiers. With our 1,400-man army, we can easily break through the city wall defense in just one shot! At dawn, we can be there. Kasha City has a celebration banquet!"
Hunter leader Crolithart looked ruddy at Du Yu next to him, and excitedly licked his slightly dry mouth with his tongue. All the hunters in the mountains knew that Crolithart would feel excited when he was excited. Until the lips are dry,
When hunting in the mountains, Crolitsat always wets his lips with blood that kills the prey, so Crolitsat is also called "mountain bloodthirsty" by the hunters.
In the previous battles with Du Yu to conquer Lord Kestola, due to the outstanding performance of Crolitsat leading the hunters, Du Yu also specially rewarded Crolitsat with ten gold coins. The leader of the hunter was even more devoted to Du Yu. After returning to his tribe, he not only publicized Du Yu's generosity and benevolence, but also took the hunters of the entire tribe after receiving Du Yu's levy order. After that, there were more than one hundred people, and Du Yu organized them into a hunter brigade.
"Order the whole army to camp on the spot, dig pits to cook, I'm hungry!" To everyone's expectation, Du Yu was stunned when everyone thought Du Yu would give the order to siege the city. Sitting on the ground, he took off the heavy knight's visor, looking hungry.
"My lord, if you miss such a good opportunity, it will be difficult to meet it again!" Statunko looked at his lord anxiously, his throat dry, and a kind of excitement of vomiting blood,
Statunko feels that Kasha City is like a beautiful young woman who has been stripped of her clothes, twisting her waist gracefully in front of her, but she finds herself impotence, this kind of speechless stubbornness almost made Statunko Not depressed and fainted.
"At this time, if you don’t take advantage of the chaos to attack Kasha City, it will be difficult to think of such a good opportunity after dawn. Although Kasha City has only 150 defenders, there are still 20 garrison knights who can conquer the battle. Guarding Kasha City for one day, Kuhn’s reinforcements will be able to rush to "Statunko tried to get the last chance."
"I'm hungry, how do you make everyone hungry to attack the city! Let's have breakfast first." Du Yu looked at Statunko's anxious and already scorched face without seeing him, just blindly urging him Tunko went to arrange breakfast, and seeing the resolute color on Du Yu's face, Statunko could only stomped his feet in annoyance and couldn't help it.
The hustle and bustle in Kasha City continued until dawn, and the knights discovered that the enemy outside the city did not start a siege war against Kasha City at night, but weirdly began to camp on the spot, putting on a trapped posture. , Watching the city's defenders were confused, and quickly sent the knights who stayed behind in Kasha City to ask Lord Dussask for help, but they rushed out of the encirclement without being blocked.
"My lord, why don’t we attack Kasha City directly at night, but encircle Kasha City? For the knight who just ran out to ask for help, the lord also ordered not to stop. If Dussack sent troops to rescue, this time I’m afraid it’s going to be very difficult. After all, they still have a squadron of knights in their hands!
Outside the city of Kasha, Statunko, who is directing the soldiers to encamp, looked at Du Yu with a full face of indignation, angrily that his lord gave up such a good opportunity last night.
Du Yu smiled slightly at the suspicion on Statunko’s face, stood up, pointed at the 1,400 soldiers who were camping, and asked Statunko, “I have 600 spearmen under my hand, no Do you know if you can resist the charge of a heavily loaded Cavaliers squadron?"
"Absolutely impossible, let alone 600 lancers! Even 1000 lancers may not necessarily resist a squadron's full-armed knight charge. The simple iron-headed long wooden rod also wants to pierce the knight. Heavy armor? What a foolish dream!"
Statunko’s face was uneven and denied, for Du Yu wasting such a good opportunity to capture the sand city last night, Statunko was still upset, and naturally there would not be much respect in his tone.
If it were not for Du Yu to be his loyal lord, Statunko would definitely believe that he would have jumped up and pointed at the fat man in front of him and cursed "You are a pig!"
"What about 400 iron cone shield soldiers? Those are all triangular iron cones specially equipped to deal with heavy armored elite infantry and knights" Du Yu continued to ask disapprovingly
"Only when the knight is entangled, the iron cone shield soldier can threaten the heavy armored knight by getting close to the knight. For the knight who has already charged, the iron cone shield soldier can only be slaughtered. The adults don’t even know this truth. For the reloaded knight team that has already charged, only another reloaded knight can contend with it!"
Statunko feels that his lord is an idiot who has a serious lack of common sense of war. Like a naughty child, he fantasizes about relying on hundreds of lightly armed infantry to compete with nearly a hundred heavily armed knights.
"You are so right, I think so too! That's why I didn't attack Kasha City!" Du Yu slapped Statunko on the shoulder with satisfaction, taking an angry Startu Enke's foggy head.
"It is precisely because our light infantry can't face the knights in front, so I ordered the soldiers not to stop the knights who ran out of Kasha City. From Kasha City to Kuhn Castle, it would take half a day to run without stopping. , One round trip is the whole day,
When night falls, and desperately rushing to rescue, the exhausted Dusask’s army will head into the "death trap" we have already woven for him,
This time I not only want Kasha City of the Dusmore family~IndoMTL.com~ I want to eat the entire Dussask Territory! I want these side branches to spit out the territory they swallowed! "Du Yu's gleaming eyes flashed with a blazing war spirit.
"Those heavy knights, how are you going to deal with your lord? Our light infantry is very capable of contending with them!" After listening to Du Yu's words, Statunko's originally decadent face suddenly became energetic.
Statunko did not expect that his lord had such a grand plan in his heart. As long as the two big families that split the northern territory were recovered, the other weak side branches would certainly submit to the power of the patriarch, the family The day when the territory returns to the Falcons is just around the corner.
"Those knights? Haha, I really didn’t pay attention to those silly knights who only know how to charge. We have a whole day to prepare. I have ordered the hunter leader Crolitsat in Kesto Canyon. Prepare a gorgeous meal for those self-righteous knights!"
Du Yu took out a piece of parchment from his arms with a face full of pride, and slowly spread it out in front of Statunke, revealing that the mountains were painted with blue thick wormwood juice on it. The current landform is obviously a map.
"This is a topographic map of the territory drawn by the patriarchs of the Falcon family with great effort. Only the patriarch of the family is eligible to inherit it. I found this map of the territory a few days ago when I was gathering my father’s belongings. It, the plan this time is really difficult!"
Du Yu's left five fingers hold the map blown by the wind, and his right finger points to a canyon sign in the northwest outside Kasha City. His face solemnly looked at Statunko, and the words he said made Statu Enke felt a chill in the vest.
"As long as Dusask dares to enter this gorge, I will be sure to let his bones disappear!"