The opposite of love is not hatred, but indifference.

- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)

This sleepless night was a completely different mood for Yoki Yamashita and the others in the camp and Gregory who led the army to surround the camp: the former was sleepless because the excitement in his heart was uncontrollable, and the latter's sleeplessness was because of the defeat of the East Route army.

An army of 20,000 Lucy soldiers and 25,000 Lucy second-line soldiers could not defeat 100,000 rebel civilians in a whole afternoon of bloody fighting, and such a result was simply a shame in Lucy's history!

Although the commander of the Eastern Route Army who commanded the battle at that time was not Gregory himself, but the Lucy Warrior who was trained by him, and he himself was the supreme commander of the army, he did not bear this responsibility, who could?

Of course, Gregory is more concerned about the amazing fighting will of the rebel people than his hatred of his confidants, and as a famous general of the Luxi tribe, Gregory is still very familiar with the characteristics of the Lucy people.

The crux of the matter is, why do so many people follow the rebels who should not be recognized by the people? Shouldn't the people in southwestern Luxi treat the rebels with an attitude of disgust and resistance to death?

No matter how much confusion and confusion Gregory had in his heart, the fact now before him was that the people who followed the rebels were not only numerous, but also had an unusually firm recognition of the rebels, otherwise their will to fight would not have been so strong!

The thought of this made Gregory's head ache violently, for the rebel camp that had been surrounded by his army contained six hundred thousand southern civilians, a number that frightened him.

Gregory shook his head desperately, as if trying to rule out the most unlikely possibility in his mind, but the reality was that no matter how much he tried to avoid the thought, it just lingered in his mind.

Early the next morning, Gregory arrived at the camp of the army on the west road early, and today will be the first day he will command the counterinsurgency army to attack the rebel camp, and the 10,000 cavalry who are not suitable for attacking the camp will shoulder the task of encircling the north and south sides of the camp.

Dividing 10,000 cavalry into two and encircling the north and south sides of the rebel camp was one of Gregory's established arrangements for attacking the rebel camp.

With 38,000 elite Lucy warriors and 46,000 ordinary Lucy warriors, he attacked a camp held by a rabble of 40,000 or 50,000 rebels, and Gregory was confident that he would be able to capture this impregnable camp and destroy this mysterious rebel army in three days.

At six o'clock in the morning, the 45,000 counterinsurgency fighters of the Western Route Army began to eat breakfast; at half past six the army that had eaten breakfast had already assembled outside the temporary barracks; at half past seven, the East Route Army rushed to the east of the camp; and at nine o'clock, the Eastern Route Army had breakfast and assembled.

At 9:20 a.m., ten minutes before the time for the two armies to attack at the same time, Gregory, who was still sitting on the side of the Western Army, asked the commander of the Western Army to first transfer 5,000 ordinary soldiers as the vanguard to test the distribution of the defenders' defensive forces.

This is followed by the main attacking force composed of 10,000 ordinary soldiers and 10,000 elite soldiers; just waiting for the 5,000 vanguard soldiers in front to test the defensive reality of the defenders, the main attacking force of 20,000 in the rear will enter the battle and attack the weak points of the defenders' defenses.

Don't think that the barbarian generals have the word barbarian on their heads, which means that they don't know strategy; in fact, many barbarian generals are not much worse than the generals of the Tianlong Empire in the use of some basic combat strategies, because cruel wars can always make people progress.

At 9:31 a.m., the counterinsurgency forces on the east and west sides of the Kirkwall camp sounded the horns of attack at the same time; the sound of one horn may not be majestic, but the sound of thousands of trumpets was absolutely resounding throughout the world, and with the sound of majestic horns, the enemy's attack began.

The 5,000 enemy soldiers carrying improvised wooden ladders were no mortal threat to the 10,000-strong defenders defending a single wooden wall, and some hunter-turned-defenders began to shoot with their bows and arrows as soon as the enemy came within range.

The defenders, who were barely half archers, could inflict very limited casualties on the attacking enemy with arrows fired in twos and threes, and even some enemy soldiers, after being hit by several arrows, could still scream and rush forward, without even slowing down their running speed!

It is undeniable that the lethality of the barbarian bow and arrow is too far from that of the Leng Huai longbow in the Roman city; the defenders who lack long-range attack power give up this attack method when they see that the archery is ineffective, and sure enough, the war between the barbarians is won by hand-to-hand combat.

As soon as the defenders gave up archery, the enemy vanguard put the long wooden ladder on the top of the wooden wall, and looking at the wooden ladder on the wall of these towers, the well-armed defenders easily pushed down the wooden ladder in groups of two and three.

After knocking down more than a dozen wooden ladders one after another, they learned to attack the enemy shrewdly, and used the method of lowering the angle of the wooden ladder so that the defenders could not push their wooden ladders at all.

The speed at which the tomahawk sword slashed the wooden ladder was far less than the speed at which the wooden ladder reached the top of the wall, and in less than three minutes, the attacking enemy troops followed the wooden ladder and successfully killed the wall, and engaged in an extremely fierce battle with the defenders defending the wooden wall.

In the siege of a civilized country, once the attacker captures the city wall, it can basically be judged that the defender has lost half of the battle, but in the barbarian world, this assertion is obviously wrong, because the siege of the city wall is the beginning of the real battle in the barbarian siege battle!

The numerically superior defenders were also better armed and equipped than the enemy troops attacking the wall, and in addition they were more familiar with the terrain of the wall, the first hundreds of enemy troops to attack the wall did not last long before they were killed by the defenders on the wall.

At the same time, the second group of hundreds of enemy troops and the third group of thousands of enemy troops also took advantage of this opportunity to attack the wall; without Natsukawa Heigong and Gregory using their main forces, the battle on the wooden wall seemed to be fierce, but in fact it was only a first battle to test each other.

The reason why Yamashita Yoki did not use the trick of shouting to the families of the southern soldiers before the enemy attack was to test the enemy's combat effectiveness with a controllable battle, so as to make more adequate and targeted preparations for the next defense.

The thoughts of the commanders of both sides were meaningless to the soldiers of the two armies who were fighting to the death on the front line of the battle, and their only thought was to kill the enemy in front of them with the weapons in their hands as much as possible, and then let themselves live.

The fierce and brutal battle, which lasted for about an hour, was still a scorching battle, as the defenders were unable to drive the enemy forces that had attacked the wall, and the attacking warriors, who had barely remained undefeated, could not stand their ground, but struggled to resist the defenders' counterattack.