Conquest

    Chapter 218 [Night out of the city]

    Although there is a channel, the scent of the chill seems to be enough to make people breathless. In the red zone on the other side of the canal, the defenders nervously guarded the bridge. According to the horse being piled at the end of the bridge, the defenders and the Imperial City's city guards looked across the river.

    Both sides seem to be waiting for something, and everyone knows that once that order comes, it is an inevitable kill.

    The air in the night is full of the taste of the forest. The metal is cold and cold, as if the nose can smell. At the two ends of such a jump beam, at least two thousand soldiers are gathered, but at this moment, there is no sound, no sound.

    In contrast, the red zone of the garrison is more tense, the other side of the city guard is still moving, in the dark, far from the faint and constant sound of soldiers running and horseshoe, more and more of the city guard in the flow here, opposite the aqueduct, many buildings have been occupied by the city guard, in the high place, In the dark, the bow and arrow hands were looming.

    At this moment, the air seems to have solidified!

    The moonlight fell, and it fell into the city. The moonlight on the surface of the water was as cold as the shields in the hands of the soldiers. It seems that the only thing that can be heard at the moment is the creaking sound of the bowstrings being too tight. .

    Finally, from the end of the bridge in the Red Zone on the other side, a low-pitched scream came, and then the running garrison removed the horse on the bridge, the carriage wheel rolled, and the two horses slowly emerged.

    The rolling of the carriage made a squeaking sound, as if the carriage shaft that had not been oiled for a long time was rusting, and the sound came like an old man's breath. The horses of the carriage were full of sludge and heavy horseshoes.

    In the atmosphere of almost simultaneous impetus, the two horse carriages slowly sailed across the shore, and were stopped by the city guards under the aim of at least twenty ballista arrows.

    A few of the city guards had a nervous check before they got a sigh of relief.

    "It is the water carriage that delivers water."After a soldier inspected the huge buckets in the carriage compartment, he jumped over and jumped out and looked at the officer: "Two hours ago, the two cars entered the water, and we searched."

    The leader of the team hesitated.

    Above the strict, the red zone has been surrounded for a few days, but because of the last command did not come down, so these days, the city guard just carried out a blockade, every day still allow the delivery of food vegetables and drinking water in and out of the carriage, but have been strict inspection, even those sent firewood, There will also be soldiers with spears to poke a few times.

    The soldiers on the horse carriage have opened each bucket, and it is empty, only a layer of rust left on the iron wall of the barrel.

    The officer hesitated and nodded. "Let it go."

    after allThere is no order to release the final attack. Even the officers and men of many city guards are hesitating—perhaps, at the last moment, their majesty will change their minds.

    Everyone knows that the Red Zone is the last bottom line! Once this bottom line is crossed, it is the final declaration of war and break.

    Release

    The soldiers screamed nervously, and then the queue of the city guards separated, and a thick shield wall gave way to let the broken old horse carriage slowly pass.

    The leading officer looked at the carriage slowly passing, and suddenly there was something faint in his heart. He suddenly grabbed the man around him: "Take the record of today!"

    He quickly looked at the record of the entry and exit on this bridge today: "Is this the first few carriage today?"

    "Six trips.The soldiers in his hand replied: "Three times is to transport food, once is to transport wood and coal, and two times to transport water. A total of thirty-three carriages are in and out. I checked it, sent things in and finally came out of carriage. The numbers are the same, and the carriage is checked, there are no entrainments and suspicious things."

    The officer sighed, and he smiled and shook his head. It seemed that he was too nervous. This damn situation makes people almost become crazy!

    When is this blockade, when is it a head?

    Spence took a team of cavalry and turned to the sprint towards the canal. The Commander General of the City Guard, his face was gloomy at the moment, and his feelings in his heart almost suffocated him. Even if he was running wild, he could not relieve the feeling of depression in his heart.

    The chest is stuffy…It seems that it is going to rain this day?

    The placket in his breastplate has been soaked in sweat, and in his breastplate, he also has a hand-written slogan of Kontos!

    At this moment, General Spence suddenly has a sense of mission in history!

    He is very clear that this order he executed, perhaps…No, not maybe, but soon! Will soon change the fate of this empire! !

    "The person who rings the death knell…"Spence rides on the horse, and suddenly there is a tragic ridiculous feeling: "A hundred years later, when future generations record history, will you leave my name? I…Spence, personally ring the death knell of this millennial empire? ”

    Thinking of this, the General's mood was a bit low, but then he bit his tongue and slammed his stomach and forced himself to cheer up.

    after allHe is a solider! He must execute his own orders!

    Spence's cavalry team turned to the junction, the end of the street is the Aqueduct Bridge, facing, in the intersection nine saw the two empty water carriage slowly came, the two sides in the intersection face-to-head, the distance is only dozens of steps of the appearance, the two water transport carriage turned the direction, Slowly go in the other direction of the intersection.

    Spence subconsciously slowed down the speed of the horse's running. Probably the sound of the rusty carriage rim broke the thoughts in his heart. The General naturally looked up at the two transported carriages.

    The cavalry team behind him stopped.

    On the street, only the carriage of the carriage of the road, and the horses pulling the carriage, trampled on the pavement of the bluestone pavement, making a heavy "squeaky" sound.

    Suddenly, Spence’s heart envied the two transported carriages…Because at this time, they can be lucky to leave, leaving the place where the fire will be ignited!

    The sound of the horseshoes came from far away, and the sound of the heavy carriage was combined. Spence looked a little fascinating, and his heart flashed a touch of eccentricity. He frowned and shook his head. Slowly went to the canal.

    Spence came to the side of the canal and, after turning over, immediately summoned the officer who came here. After listening to the officer's report, Spence nodded.

    Everything seems to be nothing unusual.

    There is no change in the Red Zone. The defenders inside are only strictly guarding the coast of the canal. This is also the expected situation.

    (Perhaps, whether they are, or me…I didn’t expect that you would go crazy to this point. )

    Spence knows that although there are a thousand elite defenders in the Red Zone, and according to the information that has been mastered in the past, the elite of this thousand defenders far exceeds their own city guards, regardless of the other's weapon armor equipment. Still individual quality.

    However, after all, in an area of ​​imprisonment, in the City of Imperial Capital, their own city guards have the absolute superiority, and the other party's one thousand elite is even more powerful, and it can fill the other side with people to fill!

    If you only capture the red zone…Then this task does not seem to be much difficulty at all.

    You can stand on the bridge and look at the "red zone" on the other side. Why is the feeling of oppression and uneasiness in your heart getting stronger and stronger?

    Is it scared? After the fear of capturing the Red Zone, the end of the empire that is about to collapse?

    It doesn't seem like…

    Oh, no matter how much, take the lead here! Even if the empire is to perish, the head of the warlord henchmen of El Salvador must be cut first! General Even if you want to die, the sword will also be stained with the blood of those enemies.

    Spence slowly pulled out his sword and whispered: "Line up!"

    Hearing this order, the officer under his command first stunned and looked at General Spence with a big eye: "Lord, is it…"

    Spence looked at his subordinates intricately: "Execute the command…Lining up

    Looking at the commandless execution of the command, looking at the armed soldiers around, such as Lin's spears, such as the shield of the wall, all in the moonlight, the pain in Spence's mouth: this time, if How good is it to leave?

    Leave

    Spence took two steps and raised a long sword. He was about to say a few words of mobilization. Suddenly, the thought in his heart expanded infinitely, faintly, and the scene was seen on the road, falling into his heart, deeper and deeper!

    In an instant, Spence suddenly changed its face! !

    From the moment he came all the way, his heart was full of weirdness and uneasiness, and when passing the last street, the uneasiness suddenly increased several times. He originally thought that he was too nervous when he was at the scene, but at the moment he found that it was not ! !

    WellSound of hooves…

    The hoof of the water carriage! ! !

    In the middle of the night, above the long street, mixed with the rolling carriage wheel, the "hoof" horseshoe! !

    In the blink of an eye, General Spence reacted to where his uneasiness came from!

    That horseshoe, definitely not the ordinary pull carriage Hummer should have! !

    The powerful and short hooves of the horses represent the majesty and full of horses! And the sound of the sly that fell on the ground – only the thick hoof on the nail of the horse can make such a sound! Moreover, Spence is an experienced old solider after all, he is very clear! Only the new hoof that has just been nailed, the texture of the good hoof, the sound will be so crisp! !

    The kind of hummer used to pull the horse's carriage, obviously there is no need to nail the kind of new horseshoe!

    Even in the Cavalry, it will only be the best shoe for the horse before the massive war in Cavalry, in order to keep the horses on the long march!

    I thought about the discoloration of Spence in this section. He had already stood at the forefront of the queue. Suddenly he rushed past the same madness. He pulled his subordinates and shouted: "The record of entering and leaving!" In and out of the record! ! ”

    Some of the subordinate officers were stunned by Spence's grievances, stuttering and answering, and Spence suddenly sweated!

    Bad Ass You are this idiot! ”

    Spence shouted: "cavalry is on the horse! Fast El Salvador ran! ! ”

    "Yes, General…"The subordinates were still in a daze, and Spence had already whipped an angry whip and yelled: "It's an idiot! Those horses that pull the carriage are good horses! Nailed the best horseshoes! They are already running away! ! ”

    Not to reflect the subordinates, Spence has rushed to the side of the cavalry queue, and said: "The cavalry team chased me! Catch those logistic horse carriage! ! Fast

    But at this time, suddenly, across the bridge, in the red area, there was a loud horn sound!

    In the middle of the night, the defenders on the other side of the squadron have already prepared a few 弩carriage, and the smashed arrow has already been tied with a layer of oil covered with a grease. After lifting the torch to ignite the arrow, in the sound of a whistling sound, count The road rocket shot towards the other side!

    The penetrating arrow screamed, and immediately shot a house next to the bridge directly to wear a pair! With a bang, the top of a house collapsed on the spot, and the lime flew in the air, sandwiching the exclamation of the bow and arrow hands hiding on the roof.

    The volley of several arrows, suddenly smashed the queue of the city guards that had already completed the bridge. A dozen soldiers were directly shot through the powerful arrows on the spot, and the screams came.

    Under the wrath of Spence, he was caught on the ground by the side of his side, and he escaped the arrow of the head, but the officer who pushed him down, but his head was directly cut off by a flying arrow. Now!

    Spence's face was full of blood, just turned over and jumped up, and in the red area on the other side, there was a voice of shouting!

    A team of cavalry rushed directly from the opposite side of the bridge. The horseshoe trampled on the bridge. The soldiers immediately waved a long knife and screamed. There were a large number of infanttry with red bands tied up!

    "Meet the enemy! Meet the enemy! ! The enemy broke out! ! Bow and arrow hand! ! Block the bridge deck! ! ”

    Spence wields a long sword and screams! His loud voice oscillated in the darkness, and suddenly became the backbone of the city guards. The bow and arrow hands on the houses on both sides reacted from the sneak attack of the arrow, and the dense arrow rain covered the bridge!

    From time to time on the bridge in the night, the screams of the arrow in the cavalry and the screams of the horse fell.

    In the dense arrow rain, there are still a lot of cavalry rushing out, whistling into the queue of the city guard. Spence struggled and screamed. His long sword had already ignited the light of battle ki. In the middle of the roar, a sword would rush to a cavalry in front of him and even bring the horse into two halves. In the bloody rain, the tiger said: "Line up! ! Stop them! ! Block them back! ! ”

    After all, the number of the city guard occupied an absolute advantage, infantry listed the formation of the bridge, will be the head of the dead stop, rushed over the cavalry although the death of the queue, but only forced knock on a few gaps, soon by more the city guard to add up, more and more cavalry fall, Dead in the city guard under the sword, even the complete body has not left!

    The infantry that broke out from the back was intercepted by the bow and arrow hand on the bridge and suffered heavy casualties. The number of people crossing the bridge was less than half, and the city guards have completely stabilized their heels, officers. With a scream of screaming, the stepping forward step by step, and gradually passed the small half of the bridge!

    More and more soldiers who broke through the eyes saw that the situation was not good. Some shouted and ran back, while others threw the weapon in their hands and jumped into the canal.

    But the battle here has caused too much movement, the aqueduct has long been arranged by the City Guard boat, on the river, the boat of the city guard waving spears, those jumping into the water trying to Shui the guy one by one stabbed to death, and a team of ready City guard soldiers took off their armor and bit knife to jump into the water, After the flutter into the water sound, soon the water will turn up a body to come.

    Spence had already reached the end of the team. He grabbed a Deputy General and said, "Take it here!" Block the bridge and force the bastards! ”

    He immediately turned his own horse and shouted: "cavalry come with me! damn it! El Salvador ran! ! ”

    General Spence's judgment was not wrong, but it was a little late.

    El Salvador is indeed no longer in the red zone.

    In the past few days of the blockade, although the City Guard has surrounded the Red Zone, the cunning El Salvador has already arranged a strategy for getting out of it.

    In the past few days, because the emperor had not ordered it, the City Guard was only attacking the Red Zone and still allowed logistic carriages to enter and exit every day, although the logistic carriage was inspected.

    The problem is with these logistic carriages.

    In and out of the logistics carriage, whether it is transporting food, drinking water, or coal, there is no problem in the delivery of the goods, but the problem is on the horse!

    Every empty carriage that came out, the horses have been changed! In the red zone, the long-distance running endurance horses were replaced, and the fine horseshoes were nailed.

    And every time I go in and come out, the carriage of the carriage of the carriage is replaced by the most elite warrior in the red zone!

    Although the soldiers of the City Guards strictly checked the carriage, they did not pay attention to the horses that pulled the carriage. These excellent horses were deliberately painted with a lot of traces of sludge – in order to confuse them, these high-quality warhorses have never trimmed the mane and looked dirty and dirty. Even the carriage of the carriage is full of smudges, not many people will pay attention to these cool legs.

    For several days in a row, more than 30 vehicles per day, so quietly stealing the day, at least have already quietly exchanged more than 100 elite cavalry from the red area!

    At the moment, the red area left the town, El Salvador said that the next old man who followed for decades, his only task is to carry out the desperate breakout with the remaining defenders in the Red Zone, try to make the biggest momentum. To attract the attention of the City Guard.

    This strategy is almost ready to succeed!

    At the time of the fierce battle in the canal, the last two transported carriages had already lost the horse carriage in the alley after driving through the intersection!

    More than 100 rides that have quietly separated from the Red Zone in the past few days have been hidden in more than 20 strongholds in the residential area near a block in the west of the city.

    At the moment, just as the battleway was in full swing, countless city guards heard the voice of the military number, and the team formed a team to the red area. A batch of cavalry ran on the street, infantry The boots are mingled with the hooves of cavalry.

    Then, in a street in the west of the city, quietly, hundreds of rides gathered, these cavalry were all replaced with the city armor's armor and standard equipment, screaming in chaos, swaying to the streets, and then Going in the opposite direction…West Gate!

    Among the queues of this team of rebels, it is El Salvador who is surrounded by the middle!

    El Salvador has just arrived, he is hiding in the buckets of the last two carriages. Those buckets are specially made, the height inside is shallower than the barrel, and there is a hidden space at the bottom of the barrel. Although it is narrow, it can barely let a person huddle in the most nervous position.

    El Salvador has been operating at Imperial Capital for many years. This key moment to escape is a plan that he has been setting up many years ago. Those horses that never cut their hair are prepared on weekdays. Even in this special bucket, how to squat in the most ingenious position, the most space-saving, El Salvador himself has been deliberately practiced on weekdays!

    More than a hundred rides, wearing streets and lanes, quickly heading toward the west gate! In the middle of the night, let the direction of the red area behind him shout to kill the earthquake, and the most gratifying thing for El Salvador is that, in front, the direction of the West Gate is quiet as usual!

    Xichengmen.

    In the middle of the night, the fire on the city gate was as bright as a white, and a four-horse black horse carriage had slowly come to the city gate. The carriage was parked under the castle, and the guardian guards had gathered.

    The carriage window of the horse carriage opened, and a crisp and sweet voice came out: "I want to see Giuseppe Lord."Saying, a bright badge lighted up quickly.

    Soon, the officer guarding the Xichengmen immediately ran out and stood next to the horse carriage. The officer named Giuseppe saw the badge, and by the light of the torch, he saw the face in the horse carriage, and suddenly he was shocked. Amazed: "Little, miss…"

    In the horse carriage, Daphne with a cloak smiled a little and whispered: "I want to send a friend out of town."

    Despite the strictness of the General of the City Guard, Zhu Saipe, who was born under the Minas family, had no doubts. He did not hesitate to step back two steps, then turned and whispered: "Open the gate!"

    Although some people raised doubts, the officer only looked at the past. Under his usual resignation, no one dared to question his orders.

    Daphne in the horse carriage went down to Malay, and the carriage husband untied two Malays who pulled the carriage.

    Daphne glanced at the officer and whispered: "I am in trouble for you."

    "It is my pleasure to be able to work for the lady."Zhu Saipi nodded without hesitation.

    Daphne stood by the carriage window and said to the inside: "You are careful all the way…Go straight north, don't stop on the road…Mmm…Me

    In the carriage window, half of the beautiful face was revealed, and Adeline had tears in his eyes: "Daphne…"

    "Walk quickly."Daphne whispered.