Dane is okay, his income is not very dependent on these merchants or chambers of commerce. But Malone was a traditional Schindler warlord, and extremely dependent on the financial support of merchants and chambers of commerce.
Therefore, in Shawan Port, a place where commerce is flourishing, whoever dares to raise the butcher's knife to the civilians and completely disrupt the order of the city is the enemy of the merchants.
Although Dane was not afraid, he didn't want to cause such trouble. And Ma Long, who was supported by money from the business group, dared not do so.
That being the case, the only targets for the harbor guard led by Beards towards the inner city were the people in the guard battalion.
Although, I don't know why the other party dares to push up so swaggeringly when they are clearly at a disadvantage in terms of numbers and strength, but Verina has no intention of taking people up to try their cards for themselves. She decided to take Some safer options - occupy the northern gate of Sandy Bay Harbor.
The port area of Shawan Port is close to the ocean, and there is no obstruction from the port area to the inner city. One side of these two areas faces the sea, and the other three sides facing the land are protected by the built city walls. Outside the city wall, there is also the city's outer city, relying on the messy market and residences under the city wall, this area outside the city wall is called the outer city.
From the inner city of Shawan Harbor to the outside of the city, there is only one city gate—the North Gate.
No matter what kind of conspiracy Malone had or what kind of ideas he had in mind, Velina didn't care about it at all. All she wanted to do now was to control the city gate and join the other thousand men stationed in the outer city. The soldiers of the two thousand garrison corps gathered together, and she really didn't believe that Ma Long could do anything to snatch the city gate and city wall back before Dane came to support him.
Occupy the city gate and take the initiative.
The northern gates of Sandy Bay Harbor were not defenseless either. Nominally, the garrison battalion should be stationed here, but in fact, both the port guard and the garrison battalion jointly defended—after all, Malone couldn't be so stupid as to give up the gate.
But it doesn't matter. According to the agreement between the two parties, there are four squadrons of soldiers stationed at the gate and the city wall, with about 240 people, and 120 people on each side.
It is true that neither side can take advantage of the city gate. But, then again, it is obviously much closer to the North Gate from the inner city than from the port area.
For Verina, this is an advantage. She can guarantee that she can arrive at the gate of the city more than half an hour earlier than the other party, and half an hour is enough for her to take the north gate firmly. At that time, all the subordinates from outside will also be brought into the city, and then the gate will be closed, no matter what tricks you Ma Long has, as long as you firmly guard the city wall and the city gate.
She thought so, and she did so.
About half an hour later, Velina, with a thousand people under her command, appeared not far from the city gate. The hundreds of port guards who were chasing after them, although they also quickened their pace after discovering the intention of the guard battalion, but because the distance between the two sides was already a bit far, even if they were in a hurry, they wanted to It will take at least twenty minutes to half an hour to get under the city gate.
At the same time, the good news doesn't stop there. Soon, a soldier from outside the city brought news from Hypia, the first captain of the garrison regiment:
"The soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Hypia have arrived at the city gate. The port guards in charge of guarding the city refused to open the door. Our people at the gate guard have already fought with those port guards. At the same time, Lieutenant Colonel Hypia is also ready to attack the city and is ready to launch an attack immediately."
Verina nodded, this Hypia is quite decisive in doing things. Earlier, what she gave him in the order was to authorize him to use any means to enter the city, the so-called 'any', which of course included siege.
"Then let's go faster." Velina said while talking to Palan next to her.
"Move faster!" Palan yelled, and then all the officers at all levels who heard his voice yelled the same four words, and then the whole army began to repeat this order. This is exactly one way of sending orders in the army, and no regular order can be passed on faster than this continuous sound.
Soon, with the shouts, the entire team moved several minutes faster. In less than five minutes, they had arrived at the gate of the city. At this time, the battle on the city gate and the city wall was actually on the verge of ending.
There are only more than 100 soldiers of the Port Guard. Facing the attack of the same number of guard battalion soldiers, they are just half a catty, not to mention that the team led by Hypia has already launched an attack on the city wall. The soldiers The soldiers were climbing up the ladder, and at the same time, some organized light infantry equipped with short bows also pressed under the city wall, throwing bows and arrows at the port guard soldiers on the top of the city.
Under this double pressure, the soldiers of the port guard obviously couldn't bear it, not to mention, when Verina arrived with her people, these port soldiers guarding the north gate wisely chose to surrender .
Since the opponent surrendered, Verina didn't intend to embarrass them too much. She didn't waste any time, and asked Palan to take some of the dozens of enemy soldiers who were still alive to confiscate their weapons and equipment, find a random place to guard them, and then sent someone to open the gate of the north gate. The city gate is ready to welcome Hypia's team into the city. At the same time, she herself took most of the soldiers to the city wall and began to set up defense lines on both sides of the city wall.
Facing the outside of the city, there is basically no need to prepare too much. After all, the very purpose of walls and gates is to guard against enemies from outside the city. However, the city wall has no defense against the enemies coming from the city. Under the city gate, there is a mechanism that can open the city gate; on the edge of the city wall, there are stairs that can go directly to the city wall.
After all, there are six or seven hundred port guard soldiers in Shawan Port. Although the number is not large, they still need to be on guard.
Therefore, under Verina's command, the soldiers blocked the streets leading to the city gate with roadblocks, and arranged corresponding manpower control. At the same time, several distant stairs that could go up to the city wall were also blocked, narrowing the defensive area to a small area near the city gate.
In this way, the defense line at the north gate of the entire Shawan Port can be basically foolproof if it is arranged in this way. (To be continued.)