With the sound of the horn on the flagship, the horns in the Landis fleet responded back and forth, and the entire fleet immediately began to mobilize nervously. Several small assault ships had already swam to the forefront of the fleet, bypassing Heidi's Azimuth, heading towards the port at a high speed.
"Before dawn, I want my soldiers' feet to stand on the beach of Osgilia!"
Ghisrent ordered coldly.
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The battle at sea started with the roar of ballistas!
In the port area of Osgilia, the rows of huge arrow towers built along the coast and mountains were originally a coastal defense system built by the Byzantine Empire for several generations. It was originally designed to deal with the invincible fleet of the Landis Kingdom. for the imaginary enemy.
A large number of heavy ballistas and small catapults are arranged on the arrow towers in the forest. In the direction of the sea, two sea ridges blocked the entrance of the sea port, leaving only a narrow entrance for ships to travel.
Once an enemy ship breaks in, the dense ballistas of the harbor arrow towers will completely cover the narrow entrance to the sea!
Although the coastal fortifications have not been occupied by the rebels for a long time, the rebels have not had enough time to become familiar with these ballistas and coastal defense operations.
However, these coastal defense fortifications in the port have been in operation for many years, and almost all the ballistas and catapults have already adjusted their coordinates and projection orientations. When shooting, you don't even need to aim deliberately - just shoot towards the narrow estuary at sea.
As soon as the two medium-sized assault ships of the Landis entered the seaport, they were immediately covered by the dense ballistas of the harbor fortifications.
The launch of giant ballistas, which are made of thick ballistas, and even some hammer guns with chains! Once you hit the main mast of the hull, you can immediately break the mast directly!
The entry of the two assault ships was almost only within a quarter of an hour. One of the assault ships was interrupted by the main mast and staggered to the side. On the big ship, countless small boats were put down, and the navy of Landis began to row. Dash toward the coast with the boat.
Above the arrow tower, the archers started to act, and the dense rain of arrows fell towards the sea!
The advance of the Landis people paid a considerable price, and they put down the assault boats. Under the attack of the dense bow and crossbow on the coast, Landis' soldiers were killed or injured by arrows at every moment, although the soldiers of Landis had already been killed. They raised their shields to resist, but the giant ballistas and chain hammers that roared over often smashed those boats into the sea with a single hit.
In the distance, Landis's naval battleship finally opened its stance, the hull was in a line, and the ballista on the battleship also began to fight back.
The navy of the Lantis people is invincible in the world. The manufacturing process of the warships is far better than that of the Byzantine mainland country. The ballistas on the ships have a longer range and greater power. More than a dozen gigantic warships responded, and the attack point was the arrow towers on the shore, with howling ballistas and chain hammers, whistling back and forth over the heads of both sides. The Landisians dispatched several assault ships and put down a hundred or ten small boats, but they were never able to break into the estuary.
Although the impact of the fleet has caused a lot of losses to the arrow towers on the shore, there are even two arrow towers, which were hit by the ballista and chain hammer of the navy in the melee. The army seemed to be very determined to resist, so they stubbornly guarded the coastline, refusing to take a step back.
Ships come and go, and assault boats are densely laid out on the sea.
Standing on the bridge of the Freelander, looking at the sea of blood on the coast in front of him, Ghisrent looked hard and cold.
"Hmph, it really is a very good defense system." Gissrent listened to the shouts and screams of the soldiers, and the roar of the ballista, but suddenly turned around and glanced at the several lieutenants behind him, and said lightly: " When we were at home, we always heard about the coastal defense system of Osgilia, and we did countless deductions. If one day, I lead a fleet to attack this city, what should I do... Gentlemen, Right now, this fact has already happened! The coastal defense of this city is indeed very strict, but I believe that the navy of Landis is truly invincible! No matter how tough a shield is, it will never be able to overwhelm a sharp spear. Sword! Send orders! The drums don't stop, the bugles don't stop! I'm going to use this storm to destroy this so-called most stringent coastal defense system! Even if it doesn't end after the war, I'll let the Byzantines know that what they call This piece of coastal defense system with us as an imaginary enemy is not worth mentioning at all!! Gentlemen, the significance of this battle is not only in the present, but also in the future!"
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"Keep up! Hurry up!"
The movement in the direction of the sea has completely awakened Osgilia at night.
On the streets near the harbour, the rebels are mobilizing nervously, some are running desperately from the harbour area to the city, and some are beginning to gather men and horses to gather towards the harbour area.
The streets were full of rebel contingents.
At night, especially in this cold winter, except for Hughes and Salvador's men who were still insisting on attacking the palace and the Arc de Triomphe, the other rebels seemed to have lost their aggressiveness. In the past few days, the robbery has been full. In this cold weather, everyone is more willing to bake a fire in the house of the wealthy family that has been occupied, drink wine, and hold the robbed girl.
Let's put it this way, after entering the city, the level of chaos in the rebels, even Salvador and Hughes themselves were so angry that they vomited blood!
No one expected the Landisians to come so fast and so resolutely! Many people even think that after the imperial capital is broken, the Landis people will give up their previous position. The next step is nothing more than the end of the war. When will the palace be broken, and then the Byzantine Empire will be officially destroyed. The Landis sit at the table and negotiate to end the war.
Who would believe that the Landis would risk running to the rescue when the city of Osgilia was captured? If the Byzantine Empire is still there, the Landis people will naturally benefit, but the city is broken, the empire has been destroyed by 99%, and the Landis people will naturally not come to join in the fun...
This kind of thinking is true of all factions within the rebel army. Even Hughes and El Salvador, although they were worried about Landis' movements, were helpless about this scene.
The two of them, El Salvador, have lost their prestige because of what happened before. Hughes, on the other hand, was severely damaged by the bloody battle of the night when the Rodriguez cavalry attacked the city. The leaders of the two rebels were unable to control the situation. Although there were many rebels, both of them were unable to command.
When the sea started at the first moment, outside the palace, Hughes, who was speaking to the generals in the tent, suddenly rushed out, looking at the direction of the sea, and was stunned for a while. The governor of , immediately launched a frenzy with a twisted face!
"The order! The whole army is attacking! At all costs! The palace must be attacked immediately! Bastard! Bastard!! Let those guys get up for me!!!"
In the direction of the Arc de Triomphe, El Salvador naturally heard the movement at sea, but unlike Hughes' reaction, at the first moment when the movement at sea came, Salvador did not seem to be too excited.
He just sat on the horse, looked in the direction of the sea, and sighed deeply. El Salvador was not young at first, but at this moment it seemed that he was suddenly ten years old. He gritted his teeth hard and whispered to himself: "I missed it... I missed it, I missed it... Alas, what a pity, how wonderful. Chance… "
He turned his head, looked in the direction of the Arc de Triomphe, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "Adric... You are waiting for this moment!"
The old man cheered up, and suddenly ordered loudly: "All troops, turn around! The Arc de Triomphe will not be fought! The entire army is heading for the palace! We join forces with Governor Hughes! Attack the palace with all our strength! Hurry up!! The Lantis people have come! We must break the palace and destroy Byzantium before they go ashore! Only then can we earn a chance of survival!!”
The whole army had already assembled, and they were preparing to gnaw down this bone of the Arc de Triomphe at the last moment of darkness. Everyone knows that, no matter how tough the guys at Arc de Triomphe are, Finally reached the limit.
Perhaps, another charge will be able to defeat them.
El Salvador suddenly changed the order. The rebel soldiers up and down could only obey the order. The whole army lined up to turn around.
El Salvador ordered and urged again and again, and the order was passed to the army at all levels as quickly as possible.
The entire army's rear team had already begun to move, but at this moment, suddenly, in the direction of the Arc de Triomphe behind him, there was a terrifying sound of fighting!
Salvador's face changed, and soon his generals came to report.
"Lord Governor... The Arc de Triomphe! The defenders under the Arc de Triomphe suddenly gave up their camp and fought back!! The team behind them has already fought with them!"
Salvador's face changed, he sat on the horse, but shuddered, and then took a deep breath.
"Okay! What a good Adric!! It's really ruthless! He came out at this time, and he wanted to bite me so hard that he wouldn't let me help Hughes fight the palace!"
El Salvador's mind turned several thoughts in an instant, and then he finally clenched his teeth and shouted: "The rear team is ordered to resist on the spot! The former army continues to advance! Let's... go to the palace!!"
The generals under him listened and shouted in discoloration: "Sir! Adric has done his best! Since they are out of the camp, let's turn around and kill them all in one or two hours! After so many people, this is the last chance to destroy the enemy!!!”
Salvador's face was fierce, and he suddenly shouted: "Idiots!! A bunch of idiots! Don't you understand! An hour or two! Where did I get an hour or two!! If you wait for the Landis people to land, even if Killing all Adric's men is in vain!! The Palace! Only by breaking the Palace at this moment is the chance of survival! Order! The back team resists on the spot, and the whole army goes to the Palace!
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"quick!"
Ruhl shouted loudly, and the hundreds of soldiers behind him all lined up and ran quickly behind him.
On the street, Ruhl swaggered and ran in the direction of the harbor with more than a hundred people. They were wearing the costumes and armor of the rebels. At this moment, the rebels in the city were no less than dozens of roads, and they were in chaos. , who can tell which family they belong to
The battle in the harbour area started, and the rebels were alerted along the way. Some gathered towards the harbour area, and some mobilized their troops to withdraw. The streets were filled with teams of rebels wearing armor, and the fat man ran all the way with people swaggering like this, but no one stopped him!
Finally, after running to a block outside the harbor area, I finally encountered a checkpoint. The rebels blocking the road were about to stop it. Ruhr ran in front and shouted loudly: "As ordered by Governor Hughes, help the harbor area!"
Hearing this, the rebels who blocked the road naturally gave way.
The huge seaport area used to be the gathering place of the empire's maritime trade. At this moment, when the city was broken, the huge market in the past was already empty.
Fatty's more than 100 people rushed in, but no one took a second look at this small group of people.
"Leave ten people." Fatty gritted his teeth: "Go to the warehouse at the dock, set fire everywhere, create chaos, the louder the noise, the better! If you encounter rebels, you don't need to fight, the goal is one: set fire and create chaos! Let them You've messed up!"
Immediately, a few men took orders, quickly picked people out, and dispersed.
"The rest... follow me to the port terminal! First, build an arrow tower!" Fatty held a horizontal knife in his hand, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "Damn! The coastal defense system of this port, but we built it ourselves, is In order to deal with the Landisian fleet! Today, I have to help the Landisans to destroy their own coastal defense... Thinking about it carefully, this is a bit of a fucking taste!"
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More than half an hour has passed since the fierce battle.
The Lantian navy is still struggling to bleed.
The sea near the beach has already become a sea of blood. Many Landis's assault boats were overturned and floated on the sea, as well as the dead bodies of Landis soldiers who were shot by arrows. Just floating on the sea, being washed by the waves, some have already drifted to the beach.
The arrow towers on both sides of the strait are still roaring, and the ballista chain hammers are desperately bombarding the direction of the estuary. Landis' fleet has mobilized several assault ships. Those assault ships are specially built ships. Covered with iron armor, it is a special ship used to collide with enemy ships at the top of the attack or at sea. At this moment, it rushes into the seaport. Under the defense of the strict coastal defense, the Landis people have already sunk three assault ships directly. One was smashed to the mast, unable to advance or retreat, and lay across the sea at the estuary.
Ghisrent was still in command on the Freelander, watching his fleet bleed and suffer huge losses, but the famous naval admiral of Landis did not change his face, just passed on one order after another. During the frequent mobilization, the two wings of the fleet continued to use ballistas to counterattack and suppress the coastal defense arrow towers on the shore, and kept sending assault ships to land.
There is no room for tricks in this kind of landing operation, all that is needed is to fill the lives of people, and the tenacity of the mutual coaches!
"They can't stand it for long." Jislent even had room to talk to his subordinates: "These rebels are not real navies, they are not familiar with this coastal defense, and they cannot make full use of these fortifications to the greatest extent. The effect. Moreover, the rebels are not united internally. We only need to push them up and put pressure on them, and they will collapse sooner or later! Before dawn, we will definitely be able to land!"
A lieutenant behind him sighed in a low voice: "My lord, the soldiers of the Landis were killed and wounded, fighting for the Byzantines, and it was our people who died... In my heart, I still don't understand."
Jislent smiled, not angry, looked at this subordinate, and said lightly: "If you don't understand, you don't need to think about it. These things... You don't have to think about it. This overall situation is always between me and me. In the heart of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince... Winning this battle is the biggest gain for the empire in hundreds of years! Lords, fight hard!"
After a pause, Ghisrent suddenly said, "Where's Your Highness?"
Someone next to him said: "After getting on the ship, Your Highness went into the cabin to rest. It seems that you have no interest in coming to the bridge to watch the battle. A while ago, the Lord sent me to invite His Highness. All taken down, he just rests in the cabin and waits for the victory."
Jislent's heart moved, and he thought: This His Highness is really a wise man, he is not good at power in battle, he does not compete with the generals, and he knows how to advance and retreat. This is extremely rare. Conquering Osgilia, what a great achievement this is, but this young His Royal Highness is not greedy for the limelight, he deliberately backed down and let himself enjoy this great achievement alone. He is a powerful figure in the navy. Inheriting the throne, I naturally serve with all my heart to repay this kindness... The cleverness of His Highness is admirable!
Seeing the fighting on the sea, Ghisrent suddenly felt happy!
"The luck of the three major powers has always been the mainland countries who have always fought for power. We Lantis people are just foils. But now, the Odin people are savage and ignorant of civilization. Even though they have enough destructive power, they do not understand business construction. Byzantium It has always been the largest empire of mankind, but now the country is troubled by internal and external troubles, and this national fortune has come to an end! We Lantis have a wise king and a group of wise ministers and generals. Tees!"
Just as Jislent was thinking about it, suddenly, he heard a general exclaiming beside him.
"Lord! Look at it!!"
As soon as Gislent turned his head, someone put a single-lens telescope in his hand. When Gislent looked around, he saw an arrow tower on the coast and a raging fire!
In the darkness, the huge arrow tower seemed to have turned into a huge pillar of fire.
"What's going on?" Ghisrent was surprised and delighted.
"I don't know... while it was hitting, the arrow tower suddenly burst into flames, and it wasn't our ballista hit..."
Then, something even weirder happened.
On the coast, there was another arrow tower suddenly. The original ballista was shooting at the sea, but it suddenly turned around and fired at a nearby arrow tower! The ballista fired three times in a row, directly smashing the top of an arrow tower next to it!
For a time, there was chaos on the harbour beach!
In the chaos, I heard the horn of the rebels coming from the pier!
When Ghisrent heard this, his face suddenly became strange.
"Did you hear that? It's... like..."
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"Blow! Blow hard for Lao Tzu!!"
Fatty's face was covered in blood, and he stood on the arrow tower with his knife sideways. There was chaos and fighting under the steps. The elites under him were holding on to the stairs and steps. The rebels below reacted and wanted to attack and retake the arrow tower, but they all failed. He was crushed under the stairs by his people.
The narrow stairs, with only such a square-inch entrance, can't be opened by many people. In this small scene, Luer's subordinates are all elites in a hundred battles. After reaching the steps of the Arrow Tower, hundreds of rebels below could not get up.
Ruhl stood at the entrance of the steps, when he was free, he picked up two stones and smashed them down the steps, and suddenly heard a few muffled noises and screams.
"Keep blowing! Don't stop! Hahahaha!"
Beside him, a subordinate was holding the horn of the rebels that he had snatched from nowhere, and was struggling to blow the bugle...
That bugle was clearly the trumpet tone of the rebel army, but... this tone was clearly the bugle to withdraw!
It has been an hour of fierce battle. Seeing that Landis's navy has suffered a lot of damage, it is still coming up step by step.
After fighting for such a long time, everyone in the rebels was afraid. Originally, they were rushing to fight, and they had not been guarding the coastal defense system for a long time, and there was really no cooperation between them.
At this moment, in the midst of the melee, you suddenly heard the horn of your own army's withdrawal? !
This time, the rebels are really in chaos.
In some of the arrow towers, the defenders had long lost their desire to resist, and after hearing the horn, they rushed down the tower and ran away.
For a time, in the arrow tower forest in Haiphong, the roar of the ballista seemed to slow down.
Just as the rebels were watching each other, the generals of the rebel army in charge of coastal defense angrily dispatched personnel to find out what was going on...
Several warehouses on the dock were originally abandoned places. The materials in them had already been looted and transported by the rebels. Naturally, no one was stationed in those abandoned warehouses. But at night, a raging fire suddenly broke out in several warehouses!
For a time, the fire on the pier was blazing into the sky, and everywhere there were rebels running like headless flies. Run, some are busy putting out the fire, some are busy searching and chasing the arsonist, some are heading towards the arrow tower to rescue, and some are withdrawing from the front after listening to the horn of retreat.
Countless people and horses are so mixed together...
At sea, Jislent put down the monocular in his hand, and suddenly smiled: "Ha! It seems that it must be the work of a few old friends in the city! We can't waste this kindness! , all the assault ships go up to me! Take this port, right in front of you!"