The rumbling sound of the war drums shook the sky, and the hurried bugle was mixed with the soldiers' shouting and killing, and the sound almost dispelled the clouds in the sky.
On the plain, groups of soldiers rushed forward one after another, frantically surging forward like a tide, and then marched forward in the dense rain of arrows that covered the sky, like a frenzy, beating towards the tall city wall. .
On the city wall of Osgilia, ballistas from dozens of towers fired salvos at the same time, thousands of arrows were fired on the city wall, and the slings hiding in the city wall also roared and roared. After seeing the wave of rebels rushing to the river, there are already corpses left behind!
In the direction of the rebels’ main attack, the southwestern city wall of Osgilia has three city gates and three bridges that originally spanned the river. All turned pale red, and there were hundreds of corpses floating on the river!
From a distance, the majestic city wall of Osgilia is already full of fireworks. Even the sturdy city wall, after the rebels concentrated almost all the slings and bombarded one of the sections for many days, it was finally destroyed. A section of the city wall blasted some incomplete.
The rebels rushing up like a tide forcefully crossed the river, braved the crossbow arrows to march on the bridge with difficulty, and the soldiers holding the arrow shields, hiding below, barely dashed over most of the bridge, then ignited the rocket, Arrows with arrows tied to oil bags ignited and shot at the city gate.
A large flame soon ignited on the city gate, but the soldiers on the city tower immediately risked their lives to lean out and poured buckets of water down to extinguish the flames. Immediately shot to death by the rebel archers hiding below!
The rebels invested more than 10,000 troops in the direction of the siege, but on the northwest side of the battlefield, there was still a phalanx of Armenian heavily armored infantry of 10,000 people, ready to stand, watching the northwest side of the battlefield.
In the northwest of the battlefield, a large camp has been stationed on a low ground, and the Imperial Eagle Flag is flying high!
This is the reinforcements that came to help the imperial capital. Just a few days ago, the two Central Standing Corps finally broke through the heavily occupied areas along the way and came to the city of Osgilia after hardships. The two armies are the Imperial Central Standing Army. Second Corps and Ninth Corps.
In the last war with the Odins on the Wildfire Plain, the Second Corps was attacked by Hastings in the first place. The entire Corps was almost defeated. General Perizzoli was also killed in the battle. The senior flag officer of the cavalry regiment, Sosiah, was transferred to take over. Although the Second Corps has just undergone reconstruction and pain relief, too many recruits have been recruited in the army, and it is far from being able to restore combat effectiveness. But the new general, Sosia, was originally the top general in the Rodriguez cavalry regiment. He used to be the subordinate that Adric admired the most, and even had the idea of letting him take over as the Roderian cavalry general.
Socia fought bravely and took the lead during training. She ate and lodged with the soldiers during training. She set an example and was a famous general of the empire. Inexperienced, but morale has recovered for the most part.
The new general of the Ninth Corps is also the silver-haired man Butler, the former general of the Rodriguez Cavalry Corps. Butler is mature, prudent, forthright and loyal. Although he is not as brave as Socia, he is more experienced. Moreover, the previous losses of the Ninth Corps were not too big. After Butler took over, he quickly reintegrated the troops.
Both regiments had arrived in Osgilia a few days earlier.
Speaking of the arrival of these two corps, there is an episode...
When the Armenian rebels attacked the city before, a mixed local garrison corps led by Adric rushed to the rescue. Adrick deliberately let people blow the bugle of the Rodriguez cavalry, confuse the rebels, and let the rebels Misunderstood that it was the Roderian cavalry regiment, and the rebels had to retreat because of the reputation of the Rodriguez cavalry. As a result, Adric's more than 20,000 exhausted mixed infantry had a chance to calm down while the rebels retreated. into town.
Hughes, who learned the truth later, was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
If he had seen through Adrick's tricks earlier, the more than 20,000 troops that Adrick brought were all mixed corps temporarily drawn from the local garrison, and they were exhausted from long distances. If the rebels directly sent a new force to attack at that time, they might be able to defeat the support army in one battle!
But once Adric's reinforcements entered the city, and after the city's supplies were supplied, the city was relieved, and the city was replenished with such a group of troops, and it would be even more difficult to break Osgilia.
The funny thing is, just three days after Adrick entered the city, the Second and Ninth Corps also arrived at the battlefield at the same time.
Socia and Butler were very coincidental, and the old trick was repeated. The two armies appeared in the northeast and northwest corners of the battlefield. Almost all of them chose the same strategy as Adrick at the beginning. Blow the horn of the cavalry regiment of Rodriguez in an attempt to confuse the rebels.
How can Hughes, who has been fooled once, be fooled again? A team of 10,000 people was directly dispatched, and wanted to take the opportunity to attack. This strategy really worked. After all, Sosia and Butler's army came after a long journey, exhausted, unable to break through the rebels' block, and did not get the opportunity to enter the city, so they could only join forces and stationed on the battlefield. Northwest. Fortunately, both of them were veterans in the army. Since they could not enter the city, the two immediately discussed and made a decision to split up and attack an acropolis in Osgilia in the northwest. The Acropolis had already been occupied by the rebels, but after it was recaptured by the Imperial Army, a batch of food and weapons was originally stored in the Acropolis, and it was returned to the Imperial Army. After getting the supplies, the two simply stopped. Not wanting to rush into the city, An Xin settled down on the northwest high ground outside the city, confronted the rebels, and kept the pressure on the rebels.
The two joined forces together, and their strength reached about 40,000, which was enough to deter the rebels, so that when the rebels were attacking the city, they had to divide their forces to guard against their sneak attacks, which could be regarded as a relief for Osgilia. pressure.
In addition to the two corps of Sosia and Butler, as well as the reinforcements of Adric, and the original city guards in the city, at this moment in Osgilia, the strength of the imperial army has reached about 80,000, and the strength has been greatly improved. strengthening.
But the situation is still not optimistic.
Because the imperial army received reinforcements, the strength of the rebels outside the city was also greatly supplemented, and the strength of the army still greatly exceeded the number of the imperial army.
After the Armenian rebels attacked the city unfavorably, Hughes gave up the plan to attack the city, but kept two or three feint attacks every day to maintain the pressure on the city defense. In addition, he continued to mobilize troops from the Armenian military region and mobilized more than 10,000 people. At this moment, the number of rebels in Armenia has exceeded 50,000.
And just in the past few days, the rebels from all over the country have also sent troops to come.
As expected, El Salvador did not renege on his promise. As the speaker of the "Red Round Table", he issued a call to summon the rebellious military district governors from all over the country to respond. For a time, the twenty-one military districts in the northern part of the empire all raised troops at the same time, and El Salvador also wrote in the order. It is very clear: there is no room for two at this moment! There is only one way left between us and the royal family: either you die or I live! If we can't destroy the royal family in one battle and eliminate future troubles forever, there will be no way for everyone to survive in the future!
You must know that the Byzantine Empire's Tema military district system has a history of a hundred years, and there are a total of 46 Tema military districts in the empire, most of which are in the north of the empire. Just because in the early days, the empire's Tema military district system was set up to resist the Odins, so most of the military districts were naturally set up in the northern part of the empire to compete with the Odins.
For a time, there were rebellions in the military region in the north, and the governors of each family raised their troops and gathered towards Osgilia.
The twenty-one military districts in the north all came under the call of El Salvador. After the territorial military region, it brought 40,000 troops in one breath! There is also a cavalry regiment of 20,000 people! !
At this time, the strength of the rebels outside the city of Osgilia had exceeded 300,000.
And Hughes was also as savvy as before, taking out the armor and equipment that had been hoarded in the warehouse of the Armenian Military Region for many years, and sold it to the rebels who came from all over the country at a low price.
With the excellent armour and equipment produced in Armenia, the fighting power of the rebels has been greatly improved, and two or three surrounding counties have been occupied, and a large amount of food has been confiscated.
There is no worry about food and grass, excellent armour, and several times the strength of the enemy. In addition, the cooperation of each family is in a honeymoon period. More than 20 rebel governors have gathered together. Even the always cautious El Salvador believes that with the current strength In contrast, even if Osgilia is the No. 1 hero city on the road, with its own strength, it is enough to break this hero city within half a year!
At that time, as long as the Karenma royal family is wiped out, then in the future...
Although Osgilia has a majestic city defense, no matter how strong the city is, it is impossible to defend it for a lifetime.
And Osgilia's biggest problem right now is: food! !
As an imperial capital with a population of more than one million at its peak, Osgilia's daily food supply cannot meet its needs if it only relies on the production of surrounding villages and towns in the region. In normal times, Osgilia's food needs to be transported from surrounding areas, as well as trafficked by large chambers of commerce around the country. On the one hand, the city's trade routes are developed, but on the other hand, it also makes the city have a fatal flaw: the need for blood supply!
Once the external blood supply is cut off...
For example, at this moment, the imperial capital was besieged, the trade routes were naturally cut off, and the surrounding area had indeed fallen. The food in the city can only use the previous reserves, eat a little less, and there is no replenishment!
And a big city with a population of more than one million, coupled with the wartime army's consumption is more than usual - such a huge population, the daily consumption is a huge number! Even if the royal family has paid great attention to hoarding supplies in the past, how much can they hoard
That's more than a million mouths! Everyone eats two catties of grain a day, which is two million catties a day! A thousand tons a day! ! Although there are a small amount of farmland and gardens and some livestock in the city... But how long can we last with these alone
The only thing to worry about is the shipping line by sea.
Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Osgilia is a peninsular city. After the land roads were blocked, the only route that could supply supplies to the city was the sea route.
But in the past few days, the rebels have divided a part of their forces and recruited many ships to blockade the sea.
The Byzantine Empire is not without a navy, but the navy of the empire has been suppressed by the Landis for decades, especially the inland sea outlet is occupied by the Landis, and the navy of the empire can only cruise in the inland sea, Nature cannot develop and grow. The number of warships and the number of the navy were not large. In the past, the best opportunity was to seize the sea port. As a result, Merlin, a powerful man in the world, forcibly intervened, so that the Byzantine Empire failed to seize the opportunity, and the navy also declined more and more.
There is also a delicate situation in the empire: From a clear perspective, the military forces of the empire are divided into two factions, the royal family and the warlord party, but in fact, if you investigate it carefully, the navy of the empire is self-contained.
The imperial navy has always been a strange phenomenon: neither fully loyal to the royal family nor affiliated with the warlords. Investigating the reasons for it is somewhat ambiguous: if the navy wants to grow, it must invest a lot of material and financial resources. In the empire for many years, in order to compete with the warlords, the royal family can only support the central standing corps loyal to the royal family with limited financial resources. The consumption of just one Rodriguet corps is already huge! Where is the excess financial resources in the center of the empire to build a large number of navies
As for the warlords... They are too late to expand their strength, and naturally they will not spend money on the navy.
The Navy's interest groups have always been the biggest victims. They do not receive the support of the central finance, and the annual military expenditure is extremely limited, which makes the Navy gather deep resentment.
It's not that the empire doesn't want to reorganize the navy, it's not that it doesn't want to regain control of the sea. However, if the warlord party is not eliminated in one day, the royal family is in a precarious situation. How can they still have the energy to take into account the problem of the navy
The result of this is that the navy has become more and more disappointed with the center of the empire, and it has become more and more alienated. Although he did not directly stand on the side of the warlord party, his loyalty to the imperial family was only exchanged with official documents for a little face.
Osgilia was under siege at the moment, and the rebels gathered a group of temporarily recruited boats and dared to block the sea, not without reason. Just before the war, El Salvador sent a letter to the Naval High Command stationed at the southern end of the Inner Sea and handed it over to Llorente, the current admiral of the Empire. The letter stated: As long as you don't help each other, all members of the Red Round Table after the war will recognize the status of the Navy as an independent and independent department.
El Salvador's letter used both hard and soft words, and clearly explained the current situation: the current strength comparison, the royal family has almost no chance of winning! If the navy is in the wrong team at this time, then they can only be buried with the royal family! When the warlords won the war, all parts of the continent were the territory of the warlords! Even if the navy dominates the sea, you still need a foothold on the mainland and a naval base to survive! If you offend the heroes on the mainland, you will have to be a robber at sea from now on...
And El Salvador even promised that as long as the navy did not move, after the war, it could cede three coastal cities from the territories of the two warlords along the northern coastal line of the Inland Sea to build naval port bases for the navy. The three cities and the surrounding land were given to the Navy, and it was almost half the size of the county, enough for the Navy to stand on its own in the future.
Sure enough, after the letter was sent, the Navy has died down to this day.
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Hearing the sound of horns and war drums outside, and the sound of shouting and killing, Salvador, who was sitting in the tent, looked calm. Although he heard that today's siege seemed to have failed again, he was not worried at all.
Osgilia is the No. 1 hero city in the mainland. There are almost no weaknesses to take advantage of. It is impossible to break this city without spending some time. At the end of the day, the city is exhausted, and the ammunition and food are exhausted. Taking it is the best chance to break the city.
Don't need any tricks, don't think about opportunistic, that is, use your own troops several times the opponent's strength to press the past in a frontal manner, until the opponent is crushed!
When things got here, the Byzantine royal family had no chance of winning at all! The big picture is set! Even if the guy Caviehir is still alive, there is absolutely no way to turn the situation over again! !
El Salvador also received news that the Odins had gone south.
But he was not worried that the Odins would take advantage of the situation.
Just because, this time the Odins went south, Salvador and the Odin Empire reached an agreement.
He even had a letter written by the Emperor Odin himself. The two sides agreed that Odin's army would go south and only take the four counties of the central administrative region directly under the northern part of the empire as territories. At the same time, Odin's army would also arrive in Odin. Under the city of Sgilia, join forces with the rebels to attack the city of Osgilia!
So, from any point of view, this time the Byzantine imperial family has only a dead end.
Dead!
In the tent, Hughes looked at El Salvador coldly. At this moment, El Salvador was no longer the same as when he escaped from the imperial capital. At this moment, El Salvador, as the speaker of the red round table meeting, was in high spirits!
In fact, this is not only the case in El Salvador. Even the governors in the big tent, and some governors did not come in person, and the commanders and generals they sent were all satisfied.
At this moment, suddenly, a loud bugle sound came from far away. The bugle sound was short and rapid, and the sound was faster than the sound, and the rhythm was unique and distinct!
This sound was obviously very different from the trumpet sound on the battlefield, and immediately aroused the idea of many rebel leaders in the tent.
Immediately outside, a rebel officer from the Armenian Army ran in and reported loudly: "My lord! The bugle of the Roderian cavalry is ringing from our rear!!"
"Rodia?" Hughes stood up, and he smiled coldly: "The Rodia cavalry is still blocked in the north-central area! Hmph... It must be some other way of reinforcements to engage in this trick again! Ke lied to me once, and then Sosia and Butler played this hand for the second time, and I saw through it. Now someone is lying to me with the bugle of the Rodriguez cavalry? Let the rear battalion transfer 10,000 people and see In this case, I have the opportunity to eat this support army for me!"
After letting his subordinates go out, Hughes laughed: "Come on, everyone continue to drink! Humph! These guys always use the name of Rodriguez to scare people, do you really think Rodriguez is invincible? Even if it is true The Roderian cavalry is here, and with our army of more than 300,000 people, are you still afraid of the 20,000 cavalry?"
After a while, the trumpets of the rebels outside were heard, the battle drums in the rear of the camp were shaking, and the sound of killing was heard far away.
In the big tent, the sound of the fighting of the golden horses and iron horses in the direction of the rear camp can be heard like a tidal wave!
And in the tent, many people have changed color! Just because everyone saw with their own eyes that the wine in the wine glass on the case in front of them was shaking gently! !
Horseshoe! It's a horseshoe! It is a large-scale cavalry charge that can cause such a huge shock! !
But after a while, someone from outside rushed in, threw himself on the ground, and shouted: "My lord! It's really a Rodriguen cavalry! It's a Rodriguez!! Our rear battalion of 10,000 people was routed head-on! !"
Hughes only felt a "buzz" in his head, and he immediately shouted and rushed out, and the leaders of the rebels behind him also ran out one after another. Hughes rushed to the nearest lookout and climbed up frantically, looking up in the direction of the rear camp.
I saw that in the wilderness beyond the rear camp, a group of military horses were already fighting together!
The large cavalry was pouring down like a dark cloud. The gray-black attire was exactly the color of the armor of the Rodriguez cavalry. Tens of thousands of cavalry were galloping on the battlefield, and the ten thousand people in their rear battalion were cut into pieces. After a few blocks, they had already been washed away. The opponent's cavalry calmly kept charging from the side, cutting the defeated rebels into small pieces, and then engulfed them in the gray-black cavalry wave!
Hughes picked up the binoculars, and saw in the distance on the hillside, under a team of cavalry, surrounded by a tall red warhorse, with a burly and huge body on it, a golden hill armor with a face like a disc. , with a broad face and big ears, with a smug and sly smile on his face, he was in high spirits, it was the famous rabbit general of the empire, Ruhr!
And just behind him, a huge war drum is being banged loudly! And under the drums, he held two hammers in his hands, his upper body was naked, showing his majestic and sturdy muscles, his hair was disheveled, and he was struggling to beat the drums. It was not the drummer in the army, but the blond hair fluttering, it was... It was...
It is impressively the well-known old-fashioned and reserved Crown Prince Garcia!