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Chapter 161
Chapter 161: Forced Assault
The battlefield situation changed abruptly. The right side of Sea-Watching Town had already been swallowed by the sandstorm. No one knew what was happening inside; they could only hear wave after wave of galloping hoofbeats.
On the left side of the town, the arrival of the heavy-armored soldiers finally changed the defenders’ expressions. Perhaps this was the Northern Army’s true killing move.
Seeing those dark figures armed to the teeth charging toward them, every defender on the city wall felt his heart tremble. It was not until the commander’s voice rang out that they were dragged back to reality.
“Meet the enemy! Do not let them set up the scaling ladders!”
Е̊ n úm̊ а̀. іd̆
“Prepare the fire oil! Archers, wait until they are within fifty paces before attacking!”
Facing a powerful enemy, Sea-Watching Town’s garrison displayed extraordinary resilience. Kate held up her telescope, bit down on the cigar in her mouth, and her expression gradually turned solemn.
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The Young Lady’s attack direction had created a sandstorm, just as planned. However, the heavy infantrymen led by Federico had already been forced back by a sea of flames and were regrouping to launch their next feint.
“Third echelon, frontal assault. Pin them down.”
She calmly issued the order. Banners fluttered in the wind, and the three thousand recruits of the third echelon, led by two thousand veterans, slowly marched out and headed for the battlefield.
The moment that enormous force of five thousand appeared before the main gate, the last shred of hope in Sea-Watching Town’s defenders finally died.
W е̊ b n о̆ v ė l̄ Еñūm̈ а̌
There was no need to cling to luck anymore. The Northern Army truly intended to fight them to the bitter end!
Reinforcements… would arrive by tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
The war drums beat out the rhythm of life. The two thousand veterans immediately quickened their pace, and with only two ranks of sword-and-shield infantry shielding them, they launched a fierce assault.
Both sides fired volleys of arrows one after another. The pressure of an attack from three directions still affected the outnumbered defenders. Although they held the advantage of terrain, they were far inferior to the Northern Army in the density of their arrow rain.
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Flowers of blood bloomed across the town, and casualties on both sides soared sharply. With alternating cover, firing every three steps, the Northern Army soon charged to the base of the wall and suppressed the defenders atop it with round after round of arrow rain.
The recruits carrying the scaling ladders suffered almost no losses before completing the work of setting them up. The moment the iron hooks latched onto the battlements, both sides changed formation and, as if by mutual understanding, began the next phase of the siege and defense.
Ẇ ė b̊nо́vе l Е́ ṅ ü m̌_а
Once the recruits built the shield wall, the sword-and-shield infantry responsible for defense immediately rushed forward and swiftly climbed up the scaling ladders.
Rolling logs and stones were thrown down by the defenders, and the battlefield instantly reached a fever pitch. Arrows shot through the air faster and faster. Beneath the wall, the densely packed Northern Army showed no fear of casualties and continued to assault the wall under the cover of arrow fire.
Bodies fell to the ground one after another. Behind the shields, the frightened recruits looked at the veterans whose eyes had not closed in death. The thick stench of blood flooded their noses, and yet a conviction called courage rose in their hearts.
From beginning to end, the veterans had shouldered the most dangerous tasks alone. Compared to real combatants, the recruits were more like logistics personnel tasked with moving equipment…
“On the right! They have made it onto the wall!”
A sharp-eyed archer cried out in alarm. Everyone looked toward the voice, only to see a figure with long blue hair standing proudly atop the right-side wall of Sea-Watching Town, leading her personal soldiers in a furious assault.
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Luna and her personal soldiers’ tactics were even simpler than the defenders had expected. They had merely taken advantage of the gap when the enemy’s vision was obscured and continuously used the sound of hoofbeats to interfere with the enemy’s judgment.
In truth, they had dismounted long ago and quickly built a human ladder beneath the wall, all for the sake of sending the hundred strongest fighters onto it.
And so, at that moment, the soldiers of the Second Regiment and the recruits stared blankly at the goddess of war atop the wall, finding it almost unbelievable.
The radiance of her sword erupted into countless wind blades, and her figure flickered like a ghost. The sword in her hand seemed to move slowly, yet in the next instant, as if the very process of killing had been skipped, it stirred up storms of blood and gore.
Enemy heads dropped one after another. Luna had already killed until her eyes were red, but more and more defenders were now swarming toward them in a pincer attack from both sides.
“Hurry! Hurry! Get up there and protect the Young Lady!”
Ӗn_u̇ m̊ a
The troops attacking from the front suddenly erupted with immense combat strength. At that moment, who still cared about life or death? The recruits even threw their shields aside and followed tightly behind the veterans, climbing upward in a frenzy.
It was the Young Lady who had killed the nobles who enslaved them. It was the Young Lady who had distributed land to them. It was the Young Lady who had given them and their families enough food to eat.
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Without the Young Lady, even now they would still be tools in someone else’s hands, used only to make money!
“Protect the Young Lady! Protect the Young Lady!”
By the time Sea-Watching Town’s defenders recovered from the shock of losing the right side of the wall, the dozen or so scaling ladders at the front were already packed with people.
Their eyes burned like raging flames. In less than half a minute, a bloody battle had likewise broken out atop the front wall.
Е̂ n ũm ӑ
There was no longer time for rolling logs and stones. When the veterans leapt onto the wall and hacked down the defenders rushing to surround them with just a few slashes, firmly seizing the exits of the scaling ladders, the defenders finally understood why people always said that the Northern Army was the strongest army in the entire kingdom.
The tempering of blood and iron had begun. No one on this battlefield would avoid the fight. Both sides did not even bother to parry each other’s attacks. Even if they died, they would still use steel to pierce the other side’s flesh.
The veterans paved the way with their corpses. When the recruits climbed over the wall and stepped onto the thick layer of veteran bodies, they almost instinctively charged toward the enemy, roaring as they thrust out the spears in their hands.
“The front has fallen!”
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The defenders finally had no choice but to retreat. With the battle fought to this point, they had already lived up to the Duke’s training.
There was nothing they could do. Whether in troop numbers or combat strength, they were inferior to the enemy.
En̊um̌а̇
“The regiment commander has ordered us to abandon the wall and fight the Northern Army to the death inside the town!”
The battle entered its next phase. The defenders retreated into the town as quickly as a receding tide, apparently intending to engage in street fighting.
Panting heavily, Luna had no time to rest. She immediately ordered the soldiers to open the town gate, occupy the wall and the gate at once, and then had her personal soldiers ride out to deliver the news that they had broken into the town.
For the first time, Federico, whose eyebrow had been half burned away, felt embarrassed. Of the three attack directions, one had failed to make it onto the wall, and it had been the heavy infantrymen, the elites, no less.
Humiliating. This was no ordinary humiliation. In order to recover his dignity, after learning that the enemy was still putting up stubborn resistance inside the town, Federico quickly walked up to Luna and knelt on one knee in salute.
“Young Lady, next, allow us to…”
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His voice stopped abruptly. Seeing the Young Lady suddenly shift her gaze away, Federico panicked. Following the Young Lady’s line of sight, he saw the soldiers of the Second Regiment serving as the reserve force, as well as the seven thousand Royal Capital Guard who had finally arrived at the battlefield.
Luna patted Federico on the shoulder, ignored the sound of his heart breaking, and said in relief, “All of you should go rest. Division Commander Kate will take over the next stage of the battle.”
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