Black smoke blots out the sun and war drums ring!
With the bleak horn sound and the diffuse smoke on the grassland, after half a month, the Centaur army surrounding Qianzhang city finally launched an offensive around the city fortress again.
The roar of the iron cavalry broke the final tranquility and made the alarm bell in the city fortress full of fear ring for a long time; The nervous soldiers and heralds ran back and forth between the city wall and the tower. The disordered footsteps and the sound of yelling made the panic atmosphere a little heavier.
The bloody boi warriors sat silently on the wall, wiping the gun heads and sabres in their hands; The refugees hiding in the city fortress and cellar were terrified. The cries of children and the cries of the elderly and patients were mixed with the loud noise from time to time outside the city fortress.
"Are they... Here again?"
A young man in armor and scattered hair walked up the wall surrounded by guards. His blood stained face was deeply worried and afraid. He even had to hold the wall so that his legs would not fall down.
Nevertheless, the guards and warriors on the wall were still respectful to the young man.
"Any news about Uncle Seth... Master Halin van achamay, or my grandfather Laszlo Varna?"
"Unfortunately, none." a general standing behind him came forward and looked down at the lonely young man: "after count Seth braha successfully broke through, the Centaur completely blocked the last road, master belo Varna."
"Really?"
The young man nodded, which was not beyond his expectation; Belo Varna went to the edge of the parapet and looked out of the city with his tired eyes.
The billowing black smoke covered the sky and the sun, spread all over every corner outside the city fortress, and surrounded the thousands of tent cities; The Centaur warriors can be seen everywhere in the line of sight.
Looking at the scene outside the city that seemed to be seen only in hell, belo Varna suddenly closed his eyes, tried to restrain his fear and calm himself as much as possible.
Yes, this is a battle destined to lose.
Compared with the enemy outside the city, although he and the people around him have done their best, the atmosphere of despair is still uncontrollable in the city.
But this is not because the people in Qianzhang city are too weak, but they know how irreversible the situation they are facing!
Four people face 40 people, maybe they can exchange some advantages through cooperation and terrain; However, when this number continues to expand, it becomes 400 to 4000, 4000 to 40000... The situation can no longer be reversed.
Especially after Seth braha led the cavalry to break through the siege, Qianzhang city also lost the last 1000 Hussars. We can only watch the villages, towns and camps outside the city turn into bone laden ruins one by one in the flames and massacres!
After nearly three months of bloody battle, there were only more than 3000 wounded disabled soldiers left in Qianzhang city; Weapons are also seriously worn out, even when three soldiers can get a saber and five soldiers share a horn bow.
After talking to the veterans, belo Varna concentrated the vast majority of veterans under the city, leaving only a few sentinels and engineering soldiers operating city guarding equipment on each wall.
On the one hand, the surplus troops are useless at all, and scattered arrangements will only be broken by each one; In addition, once the city is broken, the main force of urban defense can have the chance to fight to the death.
"Woo - - -!!"
With the bleak sound of the horn, the smoke and dust rolled up by tens of thousands of people and horses rolled like a dark trend and approached the gate of Qianzhang city at an extremely terrible speed.
The black tide is getting closer and closer, and the dull roar is getting louder and louder.
Belo Varna was stunned and looked at the "waves" coming from all sides - the Centaur had never organized such a large-scale siege in the past two months.
Just a hundred steps away from the city wall, the Centaur has even set up dozens of stone catapults - in the past two months, half of the towers of Qianzhang city have been turned into ruins by these "huge toys".
Are you going to put all your eggs in one fell swoop and destroy the city?!
"They''re going to attack --!"
In the loud noise of shaking the earth, the general behind belo Varna quickly dragged him back from the wall and shouted: "prepare for defense, prepare for defense --!"
There was panic on the wall, and only the veterans could stand at their posts without delay; Waving fists and knife handles, they interrupted the recruits'' prayers and cries with the most brutal means.
In this chaos, belo Varna, who barely recovered his composure, also began to perform his duty as a blood relative of the Duke: "calm down! Boy''s warriors, don''t be frightened by the enemy''s momentum!"
"Believe in your robes, believe in your spears and swords!" swallowed a spit and belo Varna shouted:
"You stand on the wall of Qianzhang city. Our ancestors built her and our parents guarded her - are you going to throw down your weapons and run for your life, or like our parents?!"
"Count Seth braha has gone to Byrne to ask for reinforcements, the Hussars of Jonah''s family are assembled in daboi, and your Duke and my grandfather Laszlo Varna''s army are on their way!" his voice is not dignified, but full of enthusiasm:
"Brothers, hold on to the end! Let the Centaur barbarians who slaughtered our relatives pay for their blood!"
"Blood for blood -- -- --!!"
Amid the solemn and stirring cries, the soldiers on the city wall finally restored calm and order amid the roar of iron cavalry.
Belo Varna was finally relieved, although his expression was still a trace of loneliness.
Grandfather Laszlo Varna''s life and death were uncertain, and he didn''t know where he was; Byrne in the south is still in chaos. No one knows when a new Duke will be elected.
As for the Jonah family... I''m afraid that only when she is dead and the city is broken, will salika Jonah gladly come and take the thousand tent city back from the hands of the Centaur like a savior?
No one knows when the so-called "reinforcements" will come... Or even whether they will come.
Nevertheless, belo Varna gathered his troops under the city wall to fight the Centaurs.
Only by sticking to Qianzhang city can we wash away the humiliation that we were defeated by the hands of centaurs and plunged our grandfather and the whole Boyi into crisis.
"Catapult attack --!"
The scream of the sentry made belo look back suddenly, but before he could recover, he saw a huge dark shadow coming on his face.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The loud explosion shook everyone''s eardrums and sounded like the whole world was about to collapse!
The trembling walls made belo unstable and his feet tremble; If the generals behind him had not dragged him from beginning to end, he would not have been directly smashed into meat sauce by the oncoming stone cannon.
When he barely stood still, he saw a huge pit on the tower overhead behind him, and half of the parapet was crushed; The catapults and engineers on the wall disappeared, leaving only bloody ruins.
At the same time, there was still a more violent roar around; One after another huge white smoke kept rising on the wall, the solid wall was pitted, and the outermost parapet even disintegrated, exposing the mountains and rocks in the wall.
During the siege over the past two months, centaurs have also bombarded the walls of Qianzhang city with stone catapults, but almost all of them shoot indiscriminately without any accuracy, and there are more elements of threat and courage; The main thing is to throw earth and stone and build mounds so that centaurs can rush up the wall.
Today, although it is equally messy, it is bombarding in the same direction.
Are they going to use a catapult to blast the gate open?
As soon as this strange idea flashed through his mind, belo Varna suddenly woke up and immediately grabbed the shoulder of the general behind him:
"Let the army of the city gate disperse quickly. These Centaur barbarians want to..."
Between words, a loud noise accompanied by vibration suddenly rose from under the city wall.
The gate was smashed open!