Chapter 39: Actions after Rage
The defenders of Huangshi City sent out a team of soldiers pushing simple wheelbarrows to drag the corpses to a place more than 200 meters outside the city wall and discard them. Then they cut the throats of the dying and seriously injured soldiers one by one. . . . .
But these are not the reasons for my anger, because I know that in this world, these soldiers who are so seriously injured have no hope of survival except for being treated by high-level light or water magicians. Although we have so many light magicians (holy light magician troops), it is hopeless for the commander to use the magic power of the magicians to save the lives of those soldiers who may have been disabled. What's more, now those light magicians have almost been drained of magic power, and there is no possibility of saving those civilian soldiers who are dying at any time.
What really made me angry was that after those Senke Federation soldiers cleaned up the seriously injured and corpses, they gathered up the Imperial soldiers who had lost their ability to move and began to brutally slaughter them in front of all the Imperial soldiers...
Cutting with a thousand knives, hanging, skinning, bludgeoning, bleeding, disemboweling, burning…
"Damn barbarians, damn Senke Federation..." Matthew beside me couldn't stand the cruel scene anymore. He clenched his fists and smashed the tree stump in front of him hard.
With a grim face, I ordered an emergency assembly of the army, and began to order the soldiers to assemble giant catapults and move the positions forward. . . . .
"What is that guy going to do? Why is he moving the defense line forward?" Pavel's words attracted the attention of senior officers of the Imperial Army, and even the magicians who had just retreated from the front line noticed the changes here.
"Look, those seem to be catapults, but I've never seen such big ones. Is he preparing to attack the city?" Seeing several giant catapults with their disguises removed and slingshot arms installed, a magician exclaimed in surprise.
"That guy is really fooling around. Our infantry has suffered heavy casualties, and morale is at its lowest point. How can we cooperate with them in attacking the city? It seems that I have to stop him. Otherwise, with so few people, they will be killed by the light cavalry of the Black Wolf Legion before they throw a few stones." When the commander of the division, Murray, saw the stupid thing his deputy commander was about to do, he immediately prepared to stop my action. Although he didn't like me so much, I was his subordinate in name after all. If I was made a fool of myself, it would not be so glorious for him.
"Wait, let them go! The 1st and 3rd divisions go to his right side to guard, the 2nd and 5th divisions go to his left side. Murray, you prepare to grab people, the rest of the legions continue to retreat." When Murray was about to turn around to stop me, Thacker stopped him and unexpectedly assigned the Flame Legion a task to assist me and guard my troops. Maybe Thacker wanted to see if the so-called talents he brought back at such a loss were useful. If I could really give them a warning, that would be good.
When the bodies in front were completely cleared, it was already afternoon. Under everyone's gaze, the Flame Legion's burdens also deployed their battle formation 1,200 meters outside the city wall.
At 1,000 meters, a simple mobile pile driver converted from a horse carriage left a lot of horse pits. At 1,200 meters, a row of 500 crossbows surrounded the city gate in an arc. In front of the crossbows was a special horse-blocking defense line that I made, only half a meter high but more than 1 meter wide. And only 10 meters behind the crossbows was the giant catapult on which I pinned all my hopes (with a range of more than 1,500 meters).
"That guy is using this trick again? But can he protect himself? The crossbows used by his subordinates cannot guarantee their safety..." A division commander of the 103rd Legion muttered to his legion commander. But when he saw the actions of the Flame Legion and my soldiers untying bundles of crossbow arrows that were more than 2 meters long, he was speechless.
After placing the crossbow carts and preparing tens of thousands of crossbow arrows, more than a thousand soldiers began to debug the giant catapults and neatly stacked the prepared ammunition next to the catapults. Nearly a hundred pottery jars next to each catapult also represented my intention, which was that I would take advantage of the time when the enemy magician corps temporarily lost its combat effectiveness to completely turn the south gate of Huangshi City into a sea of fire.
But at this moment, there was one person who was already in a state of extreme panic. The appearance of those catapults made him feel that history was about to repeat itself. Would that terrifying, irresistible skyfire happen again here? Hegma felt extremely angry.
"Torches ready, mixed bombs ready..." Following my order, the loud-voiced messenger selected from the army shouted loudly, passing the order to all the catapult operators.
With his shout, 500 catapults were neatly tied with ropes, and a clay pot was placed on each throwing arm, and the seal of the pot was ignited with a torch. At the command, 500 fireballs were thrown onto the city wall like meteors.
At the same time, Hegma on the city wall frantically ordered the soldiers to block the fireballs with tower shields outside the city wall. Countless soldiers followed their commander's orders and erected tower shields on the city wall to wait for the enemy.
Unfortunately, the fuel tanks that Hegma expected did not appear. All the pottery jars were not filled with pure oil or other water-based burning materials, but were filled with stones. The powerful weight directly smashed the soldiers who blocked them from one side of the city wall to the other side of the city wall, and the burning stones in the broken pottery jars burned the nearby soldiers to death (this effect is achieved by filling the pottery jars with fist-sized stones, pouring fuel into them, then sealing the mouth, and finally lighting them and throwing them).
The second batch changed to throwing all incendiary objects, and then let the subordinates use the ammunition freely. . . . . . After only ten rounds of attack with 5,000 incendiary cans, the entire South Gate was engulfed in flames. There was no one on top of the entire city gate. The only ones left were those firemen who were trapped in the sea of fire and wailing and waiting to die. . . . . . .
"Extend the attack, project freely, and burn the entire area near the South City Gate!"
When the South Gate lost its attack value, I immediately issued the second order. I know that few houses of this era are built entirely of stone. Most of them only use a small amount of stone to build the foundation and then use wood to build the main body of the house. Many are even built entirely of wood. This order of mine will definitely cause heavy losses to the enemy.
A few minutes later, the soldiers on the tower where I observed the situation in the city and commanded the army were jumping up and down excitedly. If they had not been tasked with observing and commanding the army’s attack, I estimate that those guys would have jumped directly from the tower that was more than ten meters high. . . . .