Chapter 615: Breaking the City (Part 2)
“Kill!!!”
Although the number of troops was small, it did not affect their momentum at all. The Centaur soldiers led by Drogo were skilled and brave. They maintained their advancing speed all the way and quickly rushed towards the enemy's broken city gate!
At the moment when the three-bow crossbow blew up their city gate, Long Zhantian, who was standing on the top of the wall, felt the wall under his feet shaking.
Until the terrified shouts came from below the city gate, he could hardly believe that their city gate was blown up in an instant.
"Quick! Move the barricades and cooperate with the spearmen to block the passage to the city gate!"
Inside the city, defensive equipment such as chevaux de frise were basically placed beside the city gates for easy access.
Now that they had received the order, the soldiers below quickly moved chevaux de frise to block the city gate, while the spearmen, holding their spears, pushed forward in rows.
Before they got close enough, Drogo and the others had already seen the other side's actions from a long distance, but they were not panicked at all.
When Drogo and his companions were about a hundred meters away from the city gate, another series of muffled sounds were heard.
The giant crossbow arrows exploded with power again and penetrated directly into the city gate passage, blasting the barricades that blocked their way, and even the spearmen who were holding spears and blocking the barricades were ruthlessly killed.
There was no time to even let out a scream, as blood filled the air and pieces of flesh and internal organs splattered everywhere.
In the blink of an eye, the area near the city gate passage had turned into a hell on earth because of the continuous firing of three-bow crossbows!
Faced with this situation, the cavalry troops led by Drogo were not surprised at all, as this was a plan they had already determined.
Therefore, when the cavalry attacked at the beginning, they did not lock the position of the city gate and rush in a straight line, in order to make room for the attack of the three-bow crossbow in the rear! Now, a scene like hell on earth appeared in front of the soldiers guarding the city.
They had experienced fierce battles before, but none of them had been as shocking as the enemy's attack just now.
At this moment, the city gate was wide open, but the strange thing was that not even a single soldier dared to block it.
"Anyone who retreats before the battle will be killed!!"
With an angry roar, Long Zhantian rushed down from the top of the wall holding an iron ring sword. Seeing a retreating soldier in front of him, he killed him with one blow without saying a word!
Intimidated by Long Zhantian, the soldiers defending the city had no choice but to clench their spears tightly and rush towards the city gate.
At the same time, a burst of rapid horse hoof sounds could be heard from the city gate passage! In a flash, a cold light flashed from the shadows in the city gate passage. The crystal iron spear that stabbed out with the momentum of the cavalry charge burst out with terrifying power and instantly pierced through the body of an enemy soldier!
With this shot as the lead, the cavalry troops that filed out of the city gate passage rushed into pieces with just one encounter.
The morale of the garrison troops, which had suffered continuous attacks at the beginning, was already in jeopardy. This charge by Drogo and his men was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
The soldiers, who were deeply terrified of death, collapsed in an instant and immediately fled in all directions into the city.
Long Zhantian, who saw the whole scene, was shocked and angry. He never expected that in such a short time, the garrison troops under his command would end up in such a situation.
At this point, the soldiers had lost their will to fight and were only concerned with escaping. Even a fool could see that their situation was hopeless.
As one of the four dragon generals personally appointed by their Majesty the First Emperor, Long Zhantian is not a fool.
As soon as he saw that the situation was not right, he simply ordered a retreat, giving priority to preserving his strength and waiting to make a comeback later!
"The enemy will die!"
Just as he was thinking this, seeing Long Zhantian's armor which was completely different from that of ordinary soldiers, Drogo picked up his gun and killed him without saying a word.
Faced with such a scene, Long Zhantian was shocked. He swung the iron ring sword in his hand and forcibly swept away the stabbing spear. Then he did not want to fight anymore, but mixed in with the chaotic army and quickly fled to the rear.
Although they had intelligence information provided by Shang Xijun, the other party was still more familiar with this border city than they were.
Looking at Long Zhantian who escaped into the city amid the chaos, Drogo really didn't have much to do with him for a moment. In the end, he simply put all his energy into clearing out the remnants of the defeated troops around.
"Surrender and you won't be killed!"
I don't know when this slogan started to come out of their mouths.
The enemy soldiers had long been frightened by the killing, and when they heard the slogans of surrender, many soldiers, knowing that there was no hope of escape, simply threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Don't think there will be many soldiers at this side of the city gate.
A city usually has four gates and four walls that need to be garrisoned by soldiers. In addition, the 300 soldiers previously arranged in the garrison camp at the edge of the world were probably also withdrawn from this city.
So after this division, there were actually not that many soldiers responsible for one side of the city wall.
Relying on the defensive advantages provided by the city walls, this amount of troops is actually enough under normal circumstances.
But as the general in charge here, Long Zhantian would never have thought that their city gate would be blown up so suddenly.
This is also the main reason why Drogo and his men were able to take this side of the city wall so easily.
Of course, the battle was not over yet. The task of detaining the prisoners was handed over to the infantry troops that arrived later. The cavalry of the two tribes, led by Drogo and Silk, rushed out of the city and rushed to the other three city walls as quickly as possible to confirm the situation.
Along the way, every household kept their doors closed and no one dared to show their heads, which saved them a lot of trouble.
When they arrived, the garrison soldiers on the three city walls had disappeared. At that time, Long Zhantian directly ordered people to blow the retreat signal.
The other party really didn't hesitate at all, abandoned the people in the city and retreated very cleanly.
This is a troublesome thing for them.
This wave of surprise attack is very important to them. If they can severely hit the enemy's troops, the subsequent battles will be much easier.
Now it seems that the situation is obviously not going as they wish.
But no matter what, with the help of the power of the three-bow crossbow, they have achieved their first goal of capturing this border city in the shortest time possible.
This was decided by Zhou Xu and Shi Lei from the beginning.
With such limited military force, if they were to go to someone else's territory and fight face to face, it would definitely not be enough.
But what if they have a city here that they can defend? With the advantage of the city's defense, nothing else matters, at least they will have no problem gaining a foothold here.
(End of this chapter)
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