Chapter 519. The slaughter that followed the siege
At this time, it is to rush into the city as quickly as possible, and before the 3,000 South City Gate garrisons react, they will be directly blocked in the barracks.
Surround and kill!
The 3,000 garrisons at the south gate of Lionheart City are all Simon, the top nobleman of the southern county leader of the Lion Principality. The elite private army of the Counts of Puran.
Of course, the most elite can't be talked about, and that part is in Simon. Among the castles of the Counts of Puran.
The 3,000 Lionheart South Gate garrison, 1,000 infantry, 1,000 archers, and 1,000 heavy cavalry.
In the barracks on each side of the south gate, there are three types of troops, each with 500 troops.
In fact, eleven years ago, Simon. When Earl Puran joined forces with three other top nobles of the Southern County Lords to wrest control of Lionheart City from Archduke Cameron, the Lion Duke, the 3,000 soldiers sent could be worthy of the name of the elite.
But today, eleven years later.
This name is already very undeserved.
Prosperity is intoxicating.
Not to mention the most prosperous Lionheart City in the entire Lion Principality.
Among the four major gates of Lionheart City, they helped garrison the south gate of Lionheart City, which has the most oil and water.
For eleven years, there was no war.
Spending the day dealing with caravans, ruffians, thugs, and paupers, most of the soldiers were regulars in the taverns of the southern part of Lionheart, and spent many nights in those inns.
They are the head snakes of the entire Lionheart South District.
Life is moisturizing.
Eleven years of such nourishing days, except for the number of the legion has not changed, where can you still find the elite breath of the past.
It stands to reason that there should be 3,000 soldiers stationed in the barracks at this time.
But, in reality, there were no more than two thousand, five hundred.
The few are pitiful, or the commanders.
They either spent the night with the ladies and ladies in the aristocratic district of the eastern district, got drunk in the taverns of the southern district, or enjoyed the tenderness of the pauper's girls in the small inn.
For Simon. As far as Count Puran was concerned, this army was not very important.
As long as it exists, it's fine.
This would ensure that he would continue to occupy Lionheart's quota of interests.
Anyway, his lair isn't Lionheart.
Lionheart City is just a place where he earns Golden Eagles and Big Silver.
As long as this garrison can collect enough wealth for him every month, does he care if they fall or not? He did not rely on this army to guard his castle and estate.
Therefore, when Bestur besieged all two barracks with his army.
Not only were the soldiers in their early 1,200s in each of the two barracks, but they were also chaotic and disorganized.
After all, most of the commanders were missing, and they were awakened from their sweet sleep.
After more than ten years of comfort and enjoyment, they have forgotten how to deal with such a terrible mutation calmly.
In the neat soldiers' barracks, disheveled soldiers ran out from time to time.
Some soldiers saw the terrifying army surrounded by thousands of torches, and they were even so frightened that they went incontinent.
Really, the bows and arrows of those archers, the cold glow that flashed under the firelight, was too terrifying.
Many soldiers desperately hid in the barracks and became ostriches.
Self-soothing may have escaped the catastrophe.
Maybe you can become a captive, although the fate is miserable, but you will always be alive.
However, they were all naïve.
Bestur, there was no intention of leaving prisoners behind.
Of course, this is not that Besture is particularly cruel and ruthless, of course, it is not too much of a problem to say so.
It's because he brought too few soldiers.
Yes, there are too few soldiers.
Although they were all elites, there were only more than 3,000 soldiers present at this time.
Bestur's strategic goal this time is to take the entire Lionheart.
After taking the South Gate, there are three other gates.
Even if the four gates are taken down, there will be a noble district, as well as the Mage Guild and the Temple of War.
How can there be more troops to guard the captives?
"It's worse than what I detected!"
"Looks like we don't need to use fire attack anymore!"
"These guys are waste, but their barracks are still good, and they can be left for us to leave the soldiers stationed there."
Seeing such a situation, Besture had a plan in his heart.
Bestur said loudly with some excitement:
"Sergeant Rhodok, keep the encirclement posture and advance slowly, shrink the encirclement!"
"Crossbowmen, shoot freely! Anyone who dares to show their heads, let them go to hell! ”
"Svadia royal knights, guard the main roads in the city, and kill anyone who wants to cross the line!"
"The Lion Knight of Saarion, guard the city gate, if there is a rout and escape, it is a naval army, all of them will be killed directly!"
Afterwards, Besture lowered his voice and said, "Don't leave your mouth alive!" We don't need captives! ”
This voice was only heard by his own troops, but no one heard the soldiers at the southern gate barracks of Lionheart, which was in chaos.
The manner in which Besture and Fatis gave orders was markedly different, and his orders were extremely personal and not too elaborate.
Besture didn't care about such details, he just needed to make sure that his orders were understood and carried out correctly by his soldiers.
He didn't bother to issue orders, and he still needed to think about concise and smooth wording.
Those things, again, do not guarantee victory in the war.
The garrisons of the southern walls of Lionheart City paid a heavy price for their fall.
They ran around the barracks in a chaotic manner, and even the Virgil archers did not waste arrows by firing salvos, but fired them in the same way as the Rhodoch sniper shooters and Ravenston rangers.
Occasionally, a small group of soldiers, dressed in neat armor and wearing round shields, tried to break through the encirclement formed by Sergeant Rhodok.
But Rhodok's siege crossbows taught them how to be ghosts in minutes.
With an iron round shield, at a distance of tens of meters, the siege crossbow in the hands of Rhodok sniper shooters can shoot through 5 pieces with one arrow.
Those who broke through several times were all dead.
The soldiers in the male gate barracks of Lionheart City fell into despair.
It also completely crushes their courage.
No one dared to come out of the barracks at will.
Because they found that the people in the same barracks would be killed by an arrow through the skull as soon as they showed their heads at the barracks door.
It's horrible, it's a bit excessive.
The smell of blood permeated the entire barracks.
Some of the soldiers of the garrison cried out in despair, but they still could not escape the fate of death.
Sergeant Rhodok had already pressed to the barracks door.
On either side of the south gate of Lionheart, both barracks each had five rows of barracks, each with fifteen barracks.
Usually in each barracks, twenty soldiers live in it.