Chapter 280 [The fate of the invaders]
Chapter 280 [The End of the Invader]
The gap in the northwest corner of Mesta was destroyed when the Odins captured the city last time.
Although the Odins later tried to organize people to repair the city defense, it was not easy to rebuild the city walls? Moreover, the Red Snow Army's army left quickly, and the Odin army left in Mesta City only a few thousand, and later some were successively transferred away to guard other small cities.
Mesta's occupation forces also tried to recruit the civilians in the city, but the citizens here hated these foreign invaders who occupied their homes. Moreover, because of the death of the county magistrate Clinsia, the people who have been favored by Clinsia's ruler for many years were filled with resentment. Therefore, the work of recruiting civilians in the Odins has not been smooth. Even if the Odins forced the recruitment of people with butchers' knives, most of them were lip service when working. The gap in the northwest corner has not been repaired for a long time.
The rainy season soon arrived, and the heavy rains for days made the construction even more difficult. Seeing this, the Odin defenders in the city could only let it go.
Xia Ya and others were resting behind the hillside outside the city until midnight. The sky was filled with dark clouds, and a rumbling sound of thunder came faintly. Then there was a loud bang, and a lightning flashed through the darkness of the sky, just like a sharp photoelectric axe that directly slashed the sky!
With this thunder, the heavy rain fell again. Suddenly, the sky and the earth were covered by a thick rain curtain. The rain was extremely fierce, like a pouring splash, crawling on the hillside and looking out into the city walls. The Mesta City, which was not far away, seemed to be in a hazy state.
Such low visibility made Xia Ya feel happy.
As the heavy rain fell, most of the torches on the city wall were extinguished, and the light became darker and darker.
The visibility was getting lower and lower, so Xia Ya simply stood up on the hillside. Anyway, with such a thick rain curtain, he didn't have to worry about being seen by people in the city.
The crackling rain washed away Xia Ya's face, which immediately relieved his anxiety. Xia Ya simply raised her head, raised her head, closed her eyes, and felt the dense raindrops falling on her face. He even pulled open his clothes hard, exposing her chest to the rain. The rain flowed down his strong chest muscles. Although his whole body was poured through, Xia Ya felt an inexplicable pleasure.
The sudden heavy rain calmed the last touch of nervousness before the war. At this moment, Xia Ya opened her eyes again. Her originally anxious heart was calm, but two flames popped up in her eyes!
Another lightning flashed across the sky, and the bright light shone on the earth. At this moment, Xia Ya's figure standing on the hillside clearly fell in front of the eyes of many cavalrymen!
In the eyes of many cavalrymen, the young leader opened his clothes, opened his arms, clenched his fists, and his face was full of evil spirits. Looking at the thunderous sky, his glaring expression was so amazing.
"God is blessing us!!" Xia Ya clenched her fists and shouted loudly to the cavalry amid the sound of rain and rolling thunder.
Then, he raised a saber in his hand, pointed it at the sky, and shouted loudly: "I know very well that until today, there are still some of you who are not convinced! But it doesn't matter! I don't care about this! Today I will only give you one sentence here! I am not the other officials of the empire! You follow me to fight! I will only say 'Come with me' to you! I will never say 'Get me' to you!! In this battle today, I will rush to the front of you! You will only see my back!"
After saying that, Shaya strode off the hillside, turned over and jumped onto his war horse. He jumped under lightning, leaping his horse and yelled loudly: "The Odin people will remember this battle today!! You will also remember this battle!! Get on the horse!!"
As soon as the voice fell, he had already rushed out and rushed towards the city walls in the distance in the wilderness!
The cavalry of the brigade followed closely behind, and the heavy rain and the louder thunder sounded aroused the passion in the hearts of these men!
Nene stood under the hillside, looking at Xia Ya and rushed out like an angry lion. Looking at the back that was leaving, Nene clenched his fists.
(This is the man I chose!!)
The annoying "swinging" sound of rain filled the world, and the rumbling thunder sound that seemed to never stop... These sounds almost perfectly covered the sound of horse hooves. With the extremely low visibility caused by the thick rain curtain, the raided cavalry led by Xia Ya had almost rushed under the city wall and were not discovered by the defenders!
Odin people who live in the northern country all year round seem to be unable to adapt to this continuous rainy weather. Such weather seems to be full of moisture. For a month of continuous weather, people feel as if their bodies are almost rusted from the inside! Especially this damn rain! It rains! It rains! It's fucking rain again!! Most Odin people hide in their rooms on such nights, and are corroded by the moisture, as if they feel that their people are almost rotting.
Although the gap in the northwest corner of the city wall was not blocked, the Odin people still set up two rows of fences here. It was just because the rain was soaked and the soil was soft. Many fences had been washed away by the rain. Even riders with better riding skills could control the horses to pass through the gaps calmly.
The rain extinguished the torch, and the city wall was dark. When Xia Ya and others rushed to the city, he immediately stopped the war horse and whistled softly. An instant figure rushed out of the cavalry, climbing up the broken city wall as if a monkey. The figure was a little thin, and it almost climbed up the city wall in just a moment. Then, soon, the corpses of both Odin people fell off the city wall, and their necks were wiped in the darkness, and one of them had a broken arrow in his chest!
Then half of his body popped out from the city wall and waved his hand hard to the bottom. A flash of lightning flashed, illuminating the figure, the young and slightly tender face, was the young and slightly tender boy Acai who followed Xia Ya out of the mountain.
A Cai was holding a short knife in her mouth, with blood on the blade, her whole body was soaked, her clothes were pressed against her body, and her arms were waving her, which fell into Xia Ya's eyes. Xia Ya immediately laughed: "Get in!"
The horse's hooves flew, jumping through the air from a tilted fence!
Most of the Odin soldiers were concentrated in the city gate to shelter from the rain. Just as Chara led his people to approach from the northwest corner, a rapid sound of warlocks came from outside the city gate! The standard Byzantine army's warlocks immediately alarmed the Odins in the city gate. They rushed out one after another and looked out from the city.
Nene led only more than 200 cavalry and ran back and forth in the wilderness under the city gate. The cavalry whistled loudly, trying their best to make the most noise.
The visibility was too low. The Odins could not see clearly how many Byzantine troops were outside the city in the dark. Although they were shouting torches in a mess, it was not easy to make a fire in such heavy rain?
Nene rode on the horse and was watching the city. Suddenly, he grabbed a spear from his subordinate, jumped over to the city gate and rushed a few steps. With a loud shout, the spear in his hand threw it out like lightning!
A guy who looked like an officer Odin on the city tower was angrily scolding something, suddenly felt his chest lit up, and then his body flew backwards! Looking down, a spear had penetrated his body and nailed him to the city tower!!!
For a moment, the Odin defenders on the city wall started to yell. The drums were ringing, the horns were blowing, and warning signals were issued one after another, awakening all the defenders on the city wall. More and more Odin people rushed towards the direction of the city wall...
The cavalry brigade of Xia's cavalry rushed into the city from the gap in the northwest corner, and was almost unresisted or blocked. However, after rushing into Hawk, he saw two Odin tents in the city wall. The sound of horse hooves alarmed. Two Odin soldiers had just walked out of the tent and looked at the Byzantine cavalry that seemed to be falling from the sky. Before he could shout, Xia was already ahead of the front, and the savage raised and then fell. With a swish, the two heads flew into the sky!
Then the horse's hooves trampled on it, trampling the bodies of the two Odin soldiers into meat paste, and mixed with the mud and water on the ground...
After more than a thousand cavalry rushed into the city, they soon divided up a team of seven or eight ten people, scattered along the roads. The cavalry of these squads began to set fires on all sides of the streets as Xia Ya's previous instructions.
Although the heavy rain still did not stop, the cavalry all carried tincture oil. Once this tincture oil was lit, it would be difficult to extinguish the water. Suddenly, fire was everywhere on the streets!
Then there were bursts of shouts of killing coming from the city!
What surprised the cavalry the most was that their actions of setting fires were not only not resisted by the residents of the city, but also received strong help! Many residents in the city who were alarmed ran out, saw these cavalry dressed in the imperial team rushing in and setting fires everywhere, the residents of the city suddenly shouted excitedly, and some even turned around and rushed into the house. They soon ran out with torches and joined the team of setting fires! Some even set fires to ignite their own houses! Some even held the torches and followed the cavalry torches on the street, shouting loudly while running: "The Empire Cavalry has entered the city! The Empire Cavalry has entered the city!!"
Xia Ya led a large group of cavalry alone, but penetrated from a wide street into the depths of the city! In the previous plan, he would directly capture the county magistrate's mansion with the main cavalry!
They ran through several streets before they finally encountered resistance from the Odin people. Obviously, many Odin people gathered in the county magistrate's mansion in the city. Although the county magistrate's mansion here is not a luxurious building, it is much more luxurious than the simple buildings in the tribes where these Odin people live. After capturing this city, the Odin people unceremoniously regarded the county magistrate's mansion as their garrison.
But the problem is that they were too careless. The long street in front of the county magistrate's mansion was wide, and there was no defense fortification, and even the next one was not set up. Xia's cavalry almost rushed in. Although the Odins tried to resist, the cavalry could charge as much as possible on the wide street. Although the Odin soldiers were brave, they could not do it with their flesh and blood to fight the impact of the cavalry head-on.
The queue of several Odins who had temporarily gathered was quickly destroyed again and again! Xia Ya kept his promise and kept charging at the forefront of the team! He was always the first to rush into the Odins' crowd, and the saber was raised, and it was covered with blood!
Under the charge of the cavalry, the Odin people on the street were quickly defeated. Many people were even beaten by the galloping horses in one encounter and broke their bones. Some were knocked to the ground, and they were soon trampled into meat paste by the gang of cavalry following behind!
A piece of corpses were left on the long street, and soon the Odins were forced to the county magistrate's mansion.
But the county magistrate's mansion was originally just an administrative center, the courtyard wall was not high and the courtyard gate was not thick. More importantly, in such heavy rainy weather, the power of the crossbow was weakened to the lowest limit, and the Odin people could not even counterattack with the crossbow. The arrows shot in the face were soft and soft. Xia Ya rushed in front, relying on his dragon blood strengthened body, ordinary swords were not afraid at all, but just blocked the flying arrows at will to avoid hurting the horses.
The sound of fighting in the city and the firelight on all sides quickly made the Odin defenders at the city gate passive.
Outside the city, there were people inside and inside clamoring for feints, there were fighting sounds in the direction of the county magistrate's mansion in the city, and there were more than ten firelights in various places! This chaotic scene immediately made Odin's people at a loss.
What shocked the Odin people even more was... Where did the sound of fighting in the city come from? Did the Byzantines flew into the city?!
At this time, after hesitating, the Odin defenders on the city tower made a wrong decision: to distribute some of their troops to rescue the county magistrate's mansion, and then distribute some of their troops to go to various parts of the city to put out fires.
I have to say that this is a decision that cannot be wrong anymore.
If the generals of the Odins' army concentrated all their forces to rescue the county magistrate's office immediately, there might be a chance. However, they were distracted by the fires on all sides of the city, and only sent a part of reinforcements to rescue the county magistrate's office... This decision directly destroyed the last chance of turning defeat into victory by the Odins!
When the reinforcements sent from the city tower rushed to the Foreign Minister Street of the County Magistrate's Mansion, Xia Ya's large cavalry had already captured the County Magistrate's Mansion!
There were originally hundreds of Odin people in the county magistrate's mansion, but in panic and sneak attacked at night, many Odin people even responded naked, and had no power to fight back under the fighting of the cavalry!
It took Xia Ya just a moment to break the county magistrate's mansion, and hundreds of Odins were killed!
When the Odins were transferred back to reinforcements from the city wall, Xia Ya's cavalry had already left the county magistrate's mansion and arranged a charge line on the long street! Seeing the Odins running anxiously along the long street from the direction of the city gate, Xia Ya Chang laughed and raised the blood-stained sword: "Driving these Odins out of the city! Before dawn, this city is ours!"
On the wide street, the cavalry that had been lined up started charging again. Once thousands of cavalry rushed, how could infantry stop it?!
Soon, the Odin people who were waiting for news at the city gate were surprised to find that the reinforcements they had assigned were driven back from the street like ducks! The sound of fighting and yelling came from afar. The Odin soldiers retreated in a mess on the street in this heavy rainy night.
Xia Ya rushed to the front, and in the melee, he was also hit by two axes, but this ordinary attack only cut off his armor, but could not cause any harm to him. His courage had already convinced the rebellious horse thieves. At least the impression that this young imperial general left on everyone was no less than that of their former leader, Miss Nene.
Thousands of Odin infantry soldiers were driven back to the city gate, and at this time, the defenders were completely disorganized. The defeated Odins under the city wall tried to run back to the city wall, while the defenders on the city wall tried to come down to rescue. Both sides were crowded on the narrow steps of the city wall, huddling each other in the dark, and some people were even squeezed and fell off the city wall.
Xia Ya's horse had already rushed to the city gate. The saber in his hand had been thrown away. He pulled out the fire fork with one hand and tied the reins with the other. The war horse neighed and raised its front hooves, and immediately kicked an Odin warrior in front of him! Xia Ya's horse quickly slashed down!
Click!!
The iron pile on the thick city gate was cut down two pieces under the sharp fire fork!!
Xia Ya rushed up. In the darkness, everyone clearly saw a red light flashing suddenly on Xia Ya's body, and then he heard a roar. The roaring sound even overshadowed the thunder in the sky.
In the darkness, a shout was heard: "The city gate is open! The city gate is open!!"
The inner inside outside the city saw a huge hole suddenly blown open. In the red light, the door panel was split into pieces. Without hesitation, he shouted and led his cavalry to rush in quickly...
At this point, the Odin people's defeat has been decided!
Charia fulfilled his promise.
Before dawn, the battle was over.
There were originally more than 3,000 defenders in Mesta City. More than half of them died on the spot during the night melee. Most of them were confused by the iron hooves of the cavalry before they could react. There were also hundreds of Odin remnants scattered in various parts of the city. However, when the Byzantine army entered the city, they did not even need Charia to kill them. The citizens who were alarmed in the city spontaneously formed a large army of pursuit. Almost every street, there were different citizens. These people were holding their own kitchen knives or wooden sticks and chasing scattered Odin soldiers everywhere.
Even after the war, the leader of the Supreme Commander of the Odin army in the city of Mesta tried to escape during the chaos, but ended up trapped in a street and surrounded by hundreds of citizens. The five Odin people, including the Odin officer, were beaten by angry citizens with kitchen knives and wooden sticks. Even when the corpse was collected, they could not even piece together a complete shape.
More than a thousand Odin soldiers were captured, most of them were wounded. Intact, less than three hundred were left.
When asked how to deal with these Odin prisoners, Shaya stood inside the city gate and looked at the Odins who were driven together. He looked cold and glanced at the cavalry beside him: "What do you think should you do?"
Although these cavalry were all horse thieves in the past, they were not bloodthirsty people. For a time, some people suggested letting go of these guys, while others suggested keeping them as slaves and coolies...
After hearing the voices of the crowd, Xia Ya slowly walked to the front of the prisoners.
These prisoners were all Odin soldiers. However, after being defeated at this moment, they lost their fierce and vicious appearance as before. They were dejected and looked a little bit dull under the force of the sharp sabers of the cavalry around them.
"Everything was killed." Xia Ya said coldly.
The thieves around him suddenly widened their eyes. Unexpectedly, this young new leader was so cruel and ruthless!
Xia Ya snorted, and he pointed at the prisoners with the fire fork: "Do you think it's too cruel? Then let me hear it!"
It seemed as if fire was about to spit out from Xia Ya's eyes.
"The land under their feet is ours!! The air they breathe now is also ours!! The food they ate last night was originally ours!! But they appeared here! Standing on our land! Breathe our air! Eat our food!! Remember this for me! These guys are invaders!! There is no need to be any kindness or bullshit to the invaders! Kill all these scumbags! Let the latecomers understand that rashly invading other people's homes will cost a heavy price! If these people don't understand this truth, I'm afraid they will come back unscrupulously in the future!"
After saying that, Xia Ya glared fiercely at his cavalry: "If you don't kill them today, they will come back tomorrow to steal our land and eat our food, and by the way... take your life! The invaders must get the consequences of the invaders!"
Chapter completed!