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Chapter 20: Enemy at the Gate
After saying this, Carsent immediately rushed to the military camp, followed by attendants and officers. But I felt something was wrong. I remember that on Earth, since there was no way to prevent and treat plague (plague, black death, malaria, etc.), all the ways to deal with these patients, even in the areas where the disease occurred, were to confine or kill them all. But most of them were killed and then burned, or even burned to death directly...
"Lord Carson, what will they do with those refugees?" The thought of killing everyone horrified me. There were thousands of refugees gathered at the gate of a military camp. It was conceivable how many refugees there were in this city. Kill them all? Han...
"Do you have any good ideas? If it's not too good or too safe, don't tell us. None of us can take the responsibility." Hearing my hurried voice and nervous expression, Carsent stopped immediately.
"Sir, as long as the dead are burned and buried, the sick are treated, and the refugees are given some food to ensure their lives, Legionnaires' disease will never occur." I said very confidently.
"How is this possible? You want me to treat those pigs? And feed them? Damn it, you idiot, damn it, how much food will be wasted on so many untouchables? They deserve to die..." This time, before Carsent could speak, the fat pig city lord immediately started yelling, his fat all over his body trembling, and his small eyes seemed to have a little light, although a little more like mung beans.
"Shut up, I didn't ask you to speak! Now I'll give you two choices. First, we all leave this city; second, you kill those civilians, and then I will arrest you for massacring civilians; third, you do what my subordinates say. Otherwise..."
Just as Carsent hadn't finished speaking, a sharp alarm sounded from the city near the direction we were retreating from, and everyone's expressions began to change drastically. According to this direction, the city would sound an alarm second only to the highest level, so there was no doubt that the pursuers of the Senke Federation were coming.
"What are you still doing here? Damn it, why did I raise you pigs? Gather the guards immediately and have them gather those untouchables... civilians together, separate the patients, and then send people to burn the corpses and garbage together. Damn it!" After hearing the alarm, the city lord's green eyes turned several times in an instant, and his thief's mind naturally moved a lot. Think about the current situation. If you lose the protection of the military, it will be difficult to guarantee your property, not to mention your life. This is why this scene appeared, but how many civilians can survive in the end is no longer something I can control. For them, I have offended a city lord, a hereditary noble with the title of earl. Although I eliminated the possibility of an epidemic, the price I felt was too heavy to bear. (Local outbreaks of plague are not a big disaster for modern technology, but here, I don’t want to die in obscurity. On Earth, I might even take the wrong cold medicine, so I definitely don’t know how to deal with highly pathogenic infectious diseases.)
After climbing the city wall, through my observation and the verification of the light cavalry, we are sure that the enemy is still our old rivals, the Black Wolf Legion and the Brown Bear Legion, with a total strength of about 80,000 people, half of them are infantry and half are cavalry. However, the enemy's magician troops did not show up.
"Hanlong, do you have any good ideas? Although the opponent's magician troops have not shown up, I think they must be in the opponent's team. Now all our troops added up are less than 70,000, and there are thousands of wounded soldiers and 20,000 local troops. To resist the joint attack of the magician troops is definitely not something we can resist now. When their magicians blast open the city gate, we will inevitably lose all our advantages. At that time, they will definitely be able to eat us up with their superior forces." Three times is the limit! This is what Carsent felt in his heart at this time. The first time he resisted the pursuit of the Black Wolf Legion, the second time he successfully escaped from the Waste Stone Canyon, but this time, he had no way out. If he abandoned this city, then he and all the senior officers would not be tolerated by the empire, and what awaited him would be endless wanted and hunted.
Without answering Carsent's words, I have been observing the actions of the Senke Federation Army. From the time their light cavalry arrived outside the city and formed a battle array, to the time their heavy infantry began to set up a second line of defense, and then their light infantry and reserve troops began to build a military camp.
What surprised me was that those guys who had suffered so much from the chevaux de frise actually set up chevaux de frise in the same way, and the materials were changed to wood instead of bamboo. It seems that there are still smart people among those guys who are called barbarians! But playing with this in front of me, isn't it just showing off one's skills in front of an expert
The telescope showed a distance of 1.2 kilometers. So I started to think about how to attack. I thought it would be great if there was something that could be thrown that far!
"Carson, what can we have here that can shoot that far? Well, the kind that throws rocks into their camps." Think about it, on Earth, I seem to have heard on the Internet that a few guys with nothing to do made an ancient catapult, and it's said to be quite effective. I wonder if there is one here
"What? So far? Apart from the Ares Line and the Wolf Line, most countries on this continent don't have such powerful weapons except for a few countries with strong magic that have black crystal cannons in their capitals that can shoot so far. Besides that, I have never heard of anything that can attack more than 800 meters. And here, our catapults can only project a distance of 500 meters at most, which is even worse than the distance of the catapults you made of bent bamboo. How can it attack those barbarians?" After hearing what I said, Carson looked incredible, as if I was a super idiot. If my previous actions had not convinced him, he would definitely not question it now, but directly rebuke it.
"So, sir, when do you think they might attack us? When is the earliest?" He gritted his teeth. It seemed that he had to race against time this time, otherwise there would be nothing to talk about.
"From their perspective, the earliest we can attack them is before noon tomorrow! I think it will take them much longer than us to build your defenses. Add to that the rest time and preparations before the siege, and there is no way they can attack us at night. Tomorrow morning will be the fastest."
"Then, I hope you can prepare some materials and manpower for me. I hope to buy some time with them, maybe there will be unexpected gains..." (To be continued)