Unknown Knight

Chapter 365 All previous efforts were wasted

With such a big commotion, it was impossible for the Cang Lang Guards to move quietly. However, they were no longer afraid of being exposed. There were already more than 20 Cang Lang Guards climbing up the city wall, and more of them were using grappling hooks to climb up the city wall directly.

These Canglang Guards who climbed up the city wall were not the same as the ordinary twenty or so people. Their arms were like linked mechanical arms, constantly moving back and forth between the quiver and the bowstring, quickly and accurately. Every time they linked, a deadly black arrow was fired. The twenty or so people could shoot arrows with the power of a hundred-man archery team.

Immediately, the sentries on the city wall were shot to death in large numbers. Even if the sentries with quick reactions raised their shields for defense, they were like fallen leaves in the cold wind. After a few breaths, the shields filled with arrows could not bear the weight and shattered with a "bang". The sentries hiding behind them were also killed instantly.

Under such a fierce attack, there were no living soldiers of Leader Aix on the city wall in a moment. The leader of the Wolf Guard was very satisfied with the current results. Although the night attack had been exposed in advance, with this momentum, he was confident that he could take down the two checkpoints in front of Fort Sajiche in one go, and seize a position that could be covered for the large force behind to attack the castle. This was also a great achievement, so he asked his subordinates to send a signal to let the subsequent 500 senior Kugit cavalry archers follow up quickly.

However, just as the leader of the Canglang Guard had his men send out a signal, teams of fully-armored infantrymen in shining armor suddenly rushed out from the barracks inside the checkpoint. These infantrymen cooperated well with each other, and the shieldmen in the front row raised their iron shields to clear the way and quickly rushed towards the city wall.

This kind of shield is not an ordinary shield. Ordinary arrows can only leave a small hole on the shield. Even armor-piercing arrows can only penetrate the iron covering on the surface and cannot cause substantial damage to the shield. The infantrymen in the array cooperated tacitly, holding this kind of shield and climbing up the stairs, and soon they reached the city wall.

Seeing that he was about to be hit in the face by the iron shields of the infantry in the array, a 1.8-meter-tall man from the Canglang Guard was confident of his bravery. He jumped up and hit the iron shield in front of him hard with the heavy iron bone ball in his hand. With a loud "bang", the shield bearer was forced to retreat half a step.

Just as he was about to raise the heavy iron bone sword with both hands and launch an attack, a crack suddenly appeared in the shield formation, and a long spear suddenly came out from it and hit the Canglang Guard in the ribs, immediately turning the Canglang Guard, who was as powerful as an angry bull, into a deflated ball, and he withered all of a sudden.

Seeing this, the shield bearer in the front row swung his shield forward with all his might, as if to avenge the previous attack, and knocked the skewered Cang Lang Guard out. Then he took a step forward, pressed the bottom of the heavy iron-covered shield on the Cang Lang Guard's neck, and stomped hard on his chest with his foot, sending him off.

At the same time, in the darkness, many small cans of incendiary oil were thrown onto the city wall and landed in the crowd of Canglang Guards. A rocket was shot, and five or six Canglang Guards who were covered with incendiary oil immediately turned into roaring and mad firemen. Unable to bear the torture, they jumped directly out of the city wall and quickly ended their suffering.

The leader of the Canglang Guards gasped in shock, he could not have imagined that the situation would be reversed so quickly. He had just imagined leading his troops to rush down the city wall, wantonly hacking and killing those panicked defenders with crooked helmets and armor, or even without a single piece of armor, then easily taking this place and quickly marching towards the second checkpoint to accomplish the outcome he had just imagined.

'Are all these defenders sleeping in their armor? Or do they know there will be a night attack tonight? Otherwise, why would there be so many fully armed soldiers?'

There was no time for the leader of the Canglang Guard to guess. The infantrymen in close combat began to shout in unison and used their iron-covered shields to push the Canglang Guard on the city wall forward.

Archers on the four arrow towers of the outpost also began to shoot arrows from above. Although the Canglang Guards who climbed to the top of the city wall were highly skilled in martial arts, they had no way of dodge on the crowded city wall. Moreover, in order to facilitate sneak attacks, they generally wore light soft leather armor with limited protective capabilities. After a burst of "puff, puff, puff", the Canglang Guards were shot by arrows and fell to the ground one after another.

However, the follow-up 500+ experienced Kugit horse archers had already arrived at this time. While they were shooting upwards from under the city wall to support the Canglang Guards on the wall, they placed the simple ladders they carried on the wall and began to climb up.

The leader of the Cang Lang Guard seemed to see hope of victory again. These senior Kugit cavalry archers were wearing thick leather armor. This leather armor unique to the Kugits was made of hard leather into scales, which were then strung together one by one to make armor. It not only had good defensive power, but was also very light and conducive to close combat. It was just right for them to fight in the front instead of the Cang Lang Guard, who were regarded as the Khan's favorites.

Just as he was about to order the Wolf Guards on the city wall to retreat so that these experienced Kugit horse archers could lead the way, he suddenly felt a light above his head, followed by three burning fireballs flying over his head.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

The three fireballs landed precisely in the dense crowd outside the city wall, instantly turning dozens of experienced Kugit archers into firemen, causing the Kugits who were rushing towards the city wall with great momentum to pause, and then "boom" and flee in all directions, no longer daring to rush forward fearlessly. It turned out that the catapults in the new outpost on the mountain had begun to work.

Although the accuracy of catapults in this era was very poor, the catapults of the territory were not one of them. The reason why they could shoot so accurately was not only because they were equipped with the territory's unique lookout, but more importantly because the catapults had been practiced against enemy sieges in advance, and the shooting parameters of this area outside the city wall had long been calibrated clearly. With the adjusted parameters for shooting, unless there were strong winds and rain or snow, the stone bullets and incendiary oil tankers fired by the catapults would land very accurately, probably within the 500-square-meter area in front of the checkpoint, and this area was exactly where the enemy was gathering to attack the city.

Before the raging fire had abated, a second wave of three incendiary oil tankers were fired, expanding the burning area. Combined with the previous burning range, it seemed that the retreat of the Kugits on the city wall was blocked.

At this time, the leader of the Canglang Guard on the city wall was very conflicted, but he was also a very decisive man. He immediately asked his subordinates to blow the horn of retreat and end this battle that had all been in vain.

Upon hearing the horn, the Wolf Guards did not hesitate at all. Some slid down the city wall along the grappling ropes, some clung to the battlements and slid down. Those with good skills even flipped over and jumped down from the nearly six-meter-high city wall. They retreated completely in just a few breaths. Only a few senior Kugit horse archers were slow to react and were hacked to death by the swarming array infantry.

Sir Fatis, who was on duty, was very unwilling to see the enemy withdraw, and shouted angrily on the city wall:

"Crossbowmen, shoot hard. Don't let them get away."

However, it was dark, and the archers who had hurriedly arrived on the city wall could no longer distinguish the enemy after each of them shot a few arrows, and did not achieve much success.