My Empire

My Empire Chapter 508

2020-11-03

Chapter 508 509 Shack Ben's Death

"Assemble! Assembly!" In their barracks, the soldiers who went to the hospital to help heard the shouts ordering them to gather.

After a few minutes of rest, everyone can only start to organize their armor, stuff the sheets and messes into the chainmail, hoping that the thin thickness can save it at the last minute. own life.

The soldiers of the Fourth Legion are recruits, armed only a few days before the battle begins. These soldiers have little combat experience, so their task is not on the city wall to fight demons.

As light infantry they are not equipped with shields and only carry a long sword as their weapon. Their task is actually not easy, because they are responsible for carrying bows and arrows for the archer on the city wall, and also delivering projectiles for the ballista, similar to the porters on the battlefield.

Don't think they are lucky, they actually do the most dangerous job, because they are constantly moving, so without the protection of the shield hand, they are easily attacked by the weapons thrown by the demons on the city wall. In the middle of nowhere, bows and boulders could kill these light infantry at any time.

"I want to make sure that you all appear where you should be! Everyone confirms that their companions are by their side! I don't want any deserters! After reaching the city wall, look for cover...

"In the distance, Corps Head stood tall, constantly shouting to his soldiers what to pay attention to.

Unfortunately, there are too many things to pay attention to, and there are bound to be new situations on the battlefield. How many of these recruits will survive, no one can know.

In fact, the commanders above did not intend to pin their expectations on these recruits. Their requirements for these recruits are: send spare bows and arrows and stones to the city wall, and then they can be sacrificed.

"You can pick up the shield next to the corpse to save your life, or you can squat behind the boulder that the demon threw on the city wall! But you must complete your mission! Understand?" Loudly doing pre-war mobilization: "For your family!"

"Fight! Fight!" All the soldiers shouted loudly, trying to cheer up their nervousness. Then these recruits, who had never experienced combat, rushed up the city wall in groups like this, passing by the withdrawn troops.

The recruits who walked up the city watched in horror as the blood-covered soldiers walked down the city wall and supported their slightly injured comrades. Everyone seemed to be a corpse crawling back from hell. Same as terrifying.

"Try to find some boulders as cover for a while! Don't listen to the nonsense of those officers, remember one thing, that is, sending ammunition will always come after dodging the opponent's bow and arrows! We don't have heavy armor and shields, I didn't have those things in my hands." The Captain, who had experienced the battle, told his squad soldiers as he walked forward.

Before they got to the top of the city, they heard the sound of the horn on the city wall. When they walked to the top of the city, they saw the densely packed heavy armored infantry holding shields and long swords, lined up in a neat line.

Those officers, carrying long swords, shuttled back and forth in such a heavily armored phalanx, loudly shouting precautions and orders.

After a while, the boulders fired by the demon's trebuchets smashed into the crenels of the city wall, and the cracked rubble splashed around, hitting the heavy infantry's shields with a bang.

The bright red ground seemed to be eroded by the fresh red liquid before it was completely dry, which made these light infantrymen who had just walked to the top of the city looked terrified.

"The ballista over there is running out of ammunition! Send a batch right away! Hurry up! Let's replenish it too! It looks like they don't have enough!" An officer saw that he walked into the city The recruits at the wall immediately shouted loudly.

The veteran Captain who led the team immediately replied: "Yes!...You guys, send the stone bullets you are carrying!"

The soldiers who heard the order each said Before the individual walked on the city wall, he was assigned a cloth bag, and inside the cloth bag were five rounded stone projectiles the size of a fist.

<>These soldiers slid their hands and walked along the direction of the officer's fingers on the city wall with those cloth bags on their backs -- they couldn't run, they were all wearing light armor and five solid bullets. The weight is not light, and it is really not easy to run.

The rest of the people followed their Captains to the towers built every other section. These towers are the firepower nodes of the city wall defense, and also the place to store the ballistas and arrows.

Before they could put down the bows and arrows they were carrying and piled these supplements on the piles of bows and arrows, the fierce attack of the demons over there began.

It didn't hold up for even an hour. When this came up, the squad was full of 51 people, and there were only three soldiers left.

Few of the soldiers who went to deliver ammo and bows have returned - almost none, because at least the captain of the squad came back alive.

It's a pity that even he, when he came back, his arm was burned by the magic fired by the devil, and he was like a half-baked wild boar.

When he came back, his face was very ugly, he didn't speak, and no one knew what happened to him.

In fact, he saw a demon infantry in armor on the archer's position on the top of the city. The opponent killed 11 human soldiers in one breath, and then was barely killed and pushed down as a rolling stone. It hit the city wall and smashed into the strong demon soldiers under the city.

The difference between the individual battle strengths of the two sides is too great. A strong demon is at least 2 meters tall. It wears heavy armor, and several human soldiers cannot get close.

If it weren't for some southern kingdom soldiers armed with Mauser 98K rifles on the city wall, the city wall defense line of Shackburn would have been broken by demons long ago.

Before the three-man squad was removed, the Corps Head of the four Legions came to the tower where they were, covered in blood, and an officer behind him had a bandage on his arm. Hanging on the chest, this image makes the two of them look unseemly.

"I want you to choose 5 soldiers to report to the Fifth Army regiment! The demons almost broke through their defense just now, and the Corps Head of the 5 Legions has been killed! Their regiment has suffered heavy losses now! Need manpower! ' Corps Head yelled as soon as they entered the door.

After he finished speaking, he wanted to go out, but when he saw that there were only three people left in the tower, he stopped and turned halfway, his expression a little embarrassed.

He was going to the next tower to find people, but he could only give up his plan temporarily. He looked at the only three people left in the room, and reorganized the language: "There needs to be able to fight. Soldiers from the army! Choose one of you to go to support."

"Yes!" Captain stood up and saluted, picked up a twisted shield from the few arrows left beside him, and asked: "Did anyone volunteer to go there? As you can see, there are only three of us left, and it's not safe here."

It's a shame that they haven't made a choice yet, devil The troops have already attacked the city wall not far away.

In the battle against demons, human beings really have no chance of winning by relying on cold weapons. Even with some artillery pieces, it was still unable to keep Shakeben City going until the afternoon.

There was chaos on the city wall. Before Corps Head got out of the city wall, they saw a giant Archfiend with a height of at least three meters on the city wall not far away, carrying a weapon and smashing the broken crenel. , stepped on the city head full of corpses and rubble.

"Shoot them out!" Corps Head didn't have time to think, he pulled out the sword from his waist, and the veteran behind him, Captain, also pulled out his long sword - there was no choice now. , in order to survive, you can only go out and work hard!

Because, if you put the devil in the city, then you only need to look at the opponent's figure and strength, you will know that Shake is finished!

The officer with a bandage on his arm also clumsily drew out his saber, and two light infantrymen followed behind him, the short sword in his hand trembling.

The surrounding human soldiers gathered into a team, holding a shield and a long sword in front, and the soldiers holding a long spear attacked in the back. These troops are fairly well-trained, so despite the chaos, they still maintain some rules.

But seeing another demon rushing towards the city head, the scene went out of control all of a sudden. The Corps Head, who took the lead in the counterattack, was quickly hit by an axe, and was thrown off the city wall, and the veteran Captain, who was standing beside Corps Head, was already gasping for breath.

The sound of gunfire in the distance has begun to sparse, and the riflemen on the city wall are estimated to have fired all their bullets. The densely packed human soldiers have no way to take the demon in front of them for a while.

"Ah!" The desperate veteran Captain took his long sword and charged at his opponent who was three heads taller than him. The strong demon soldier did not dodge and used the iron armor on his shoulders. He took the Captain's slash, and then slashed the human Captain in two with a backhand.

The Captain vomited blood and fell at the devil's feet. He couldn't rest his eyes, because he couldn't hold his position, and he couldn't leave alive...

On the city wall of the port where gunpowder smoke is everywhere, Commander Roisac count knew that his defense line had been broken .

He could clearly see the demon jumping over the city wall, and he could also clearly see that a city tower in the distance was collapsed by the demon's huge siege machine, and the rubble rolled and scattered with the soldiers' flesh and blood. .

A few minutes ago, he also saw a huge fleet showing its hideous fangs on the horizon not far from the port.

The demon's fleet surrounded Shakeburn, and there were at least 100 devil battleships on the sea. The magic guns on those battleships, and the buildings in the strikes port, the whole Shakeburn was full of smoke and misery. Cries came and went.

"Let all troops fight back! If we can't repel these demons today..." The old count coughed lightly, and continued: "Then we will all die here."

His tone barely fell, and in the sky in the distance, hundreds of demon bats flapped their fleshy wings, sending out a chilling and terrifying howl.

(end of this chapter)