The rumbling drums of war shook the sky, and the rapid trumpets mixed with the shouts of the soldiers almost dispersed the clouds in the sky.
On the plain, groups of soldiers rushed forward one after another, rushing forward like a tide, and then struggling to move forward in the dense rain of arrows covering the sky, like a frenzied tide one by one, slapping towards the tall city wall.
On the walls of Osgilia, ballistas among dozens of towers fired at the same time, thousands of arrows were fired on the walls, and the catapults hiding in the walls also roared and roared.
After seeing the rebels rushing to the riverbank like a wave, there were already corpses left behind them In the direction of the rebels' main attack, there were three gates on the southwest wall of Osgilia, and three bridges that originally crossed the river, after many fierce battles, almost the bridge deck was now full of corpses, and the water on the river almost turned a faint red, and there were hundreds of corpses floating on the river From a distance, the majestic walls of Osgillia were already in flames, and even the strongest walls had finally been blasted out of some mutilation after the rebels had concentrated almost all their catapults and bombarded one section of the wall for many days.
The rebels who were surging up like a tidal wave forced their way across the river, braving their crossbow bolts to make their way on the bridge, and the soldiers, holding their shields, hid underneath and barely crossed most of the bridge, then set fire to rockets, and set fire to the city gates with arrows tied to oil bags.
A large flame soon burst into flames at the gates, but the soldiers on the towers immediately leaned out and poured buckets of water down to extinguish the flames, and occasionally the defenders leaned too far out of the walls and were immediately shot dead by the rebel archers hiding below The rebels invested more than 10,000 troops in the direction of the siege, but on the northwest side of the battlefield, there was a phalanx of 10,000 Armenian hoplites, waiting for the battle, watching closely to the northwest of the battlefield.
To the northwest of the battlefield, a large battalion had been stationed on a low plateau, and the Imperial Eagle Banner was flying high Just a few days ago, two central standing corps finally broke through the occupied areas along the way, and came to the city of Osgilia after hardships, these two armies were the Second Corps and the Ninth Corps of the Imperial Central Standing Army.
In the last war with the Odin on the Wildfire Field, the Second Corps was attacked by Hasting, and the whole corps was almost defeated, and the general Perizoli was also killed.
Although the Second Corps had just undergone the analgesia of reconstruction, too many new recruits in the army were far from being able to regain their combat effectiveness.
But the new general Sosia was originally the top general in the Rodria cavalry corps, and he used to be Adric's most admired subordinate, and even had the idea of letting him take over as the general of the Rodria cavalry.
Sosia fought bravely, and when he trained, he also took the lead, and when he trained, he ate and lived with the soldiers, led by example, and was a famous fierce general of the empire, and soon established his prestige in the army, so this new army has him in charge, although he is still inexperienced, but the morale has recovered most of it.
And the new general of the Ninth Corps is also the silver-haired man Butler, the general of the original Rodria Cavalry Corps.
Butler was an old man, bold and loyal, not as brave as Sosia, but he was more experienced, and the losses of the Ninth Corps were not too great, and Butler took over and quickly regrouped his forces.
Both corps had arrived in Osgilia a few days earlier.
Speaking of the arrival of these two corps, there is also an episode before the Armenian rebels attacked the city, Adrik led a mixed local garrison corps of the corps rushed to help, Adrik deliberately let people blow the trumpet of the Rodria cavalry, confusing the rebels, so that the rebels mistakenly thought that the Rodria cavalry corps had arrived, and the rebels had to retreat because of the prestige of the Rodria cavalry, and as a result, Adric's more than 20,000 tired mixed infantry took advantage of the rebels' retreat to have the opportunity to enter the city calmly.
Hughes, who only learned the truth afterwards, was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
If he had seen through Adric's tricks, the more than 20,000 troops that Adric brought were all mixed regiments temporarily drawn from the local garrison, and they were exhausted from long distances.
If the rebels had sent a fresh force to attack at that time, they might have been able to defeat this support army in a battle But once Adric's reinforcements entered the city, and after the city's supplies were available, the city was relieved, and the city was replenished with such a batch of troops, and it was even more difficult to break through Osgilia.
Funnily enough, just three days after Adric entered the city, the 2nd and 9th Corps also arrived on the battlefield almost at the same time.
Sosia and Butler were very coincidental, and their armies appeared in the northeast and northwest corners of the battlefield successively, almost coincidentally choosing the same strategy as Adric, blowing the horn of the Rodria cavalry corps to try to confuse the rebels.
Hughes, who had already been fooled once, could not be fooled again and directly divided a team of 10,000 people, wanting to take the opportunity to attack.
This strategy worked, after all, Sosia and Butler's army had also made a long journey, exhausted, unable to break through the resistance of the rebels, and did not get a chance to enter the city, so they could only join forces and camp in the northwest of the battlefield.
However, fortunately, both of them were generals in the army, and since they could not enter the city, the two immediately discussed and made a decision, and divided their troops to attack an acropolis in Osgilia in the northwest.
The Acropolis had originally been occupied by the rebels, but after it was recaptured by the imperial team, a batch of food and ordnance had been stored in the Acropolis, and it was reowned by the emperor.
The two joined forces, and the strength reached about 40,000, which was enough to deter the rebels, so that when the rebels attacked the city, they had to divide their forces to prevent their sneak attack, which could be regarded as relieving the pressure on Osgilia.
Coupled with the two corps of Sosia and Butler, as well as Adric's reinforcements, and the original city guard in the city, at this moment in Osgilia, the emperor's strength has reached about 80,000, and the strength has been greatly strengthened.
However, the situation is still not encouraging.
Because the emperor received reinforcements, the strength of the rebels outside the city was also greatly replenished, and the number of troops still greatly exceeded the emperor's number.
After the Armenian rebels attacked the city unfavorably, Hughes gave up the plan to attack the city on the one hand, and only maintained two or three feints a day to maintain the pressure on the city's defense, and in addition, he continued to mobilize troops from the Armenian Military District, and mobilized more than 10,000 people, and the number of rebels in Armenia exceeded 50,000 at this moment.
And in the past few days, rebels from all over the country have also sent troops to come.
El Salvador really did not break his promise, and issued a call as the speaker of the "Red Round Table", calling on the governors of the rebellious military districts in various places to raise troops in response, and for a time, the twenty-one military districts in the north of the empire all raised troops at the same time, and El Salvador also wrote very clearly in the order: At this moment, there is no room for ambiguity, and we and the royal family have only one way left: either you die, or I live, if you can't destroy the royal family in a war and get rid of the aftermath forever, everyone will have no way to live in the future You must know that the Byzantine Empire's Tema Military Region system has a history of 100 years, and there are a total of 46 Tema Military Districts in the Empire, most of which are in the northern part of the Empire.
Just because in the early days, the Tema military region system of the empire was set up to resist the Odin, so most of the military region was naturally set up in the north of the empire to counter the Odin.
For a time, there were many rebellions in the northern military districts, and the governors of all the provinces raised their troops to gather towards Osgilia.
The twenty-one military districts in the north all led their troops under the call of El Salvador, and the strength of each family varied, ranging from a few thousand to two or three hundred thousand, and El Salvador himself, after running back to his own territorial military district, brought 40,000 troops, including a cavalry corps of 20,000 men By this time, the rebels outside Osgilia had more than 300,000 men.
And Hughes was also shrewd in the past, taking out all the armor and equipment that had been hoarded in the treasury of the Armenian Military District for many years, and selling them to the rebels who came from all over the country at a low price.
With the sophisticated armor and equipment produced in Armenia, the fighting power of the rebels was greatly improved, and the two or three surrounding counties had fallen, and a large amount of grain was requisitioned.
Food and grass are worry-free, the soldiers are well-armed, the strength is several times that of the enemy, and the cooperation of the various families is in a honeymoon period, more than 20 rebel governors have gathered together, and even Salvador, who has always been cautious, believes that with the current strength comparison, even if Osgilia is the first heroic city on the main road, with its own strength, it is enough to break through this majestic city within half a year At that time, as long as the royal family of Krenma is wiped out, then although the city defense of Osgilia is majestic in the future, no matter how strong the city is, it will always be impossible to defend it for a lifetime.
And Osgilia's biggest problem right now is food As the capital of the empire with a population of more than one million at its peak, Osgilia could not meet its needs if it was produced only by the villages and towns outside the city.
In normal times, Osgilia's grain had to be transported from the surrounding areas, as well as trafficked by the great chambers of commerce.
On the one hand, this caused the city to develop trade routes, but on the other hand, it also made the city have a fatal flaw: it needs to supply blood Once the external blood supply is cut off, such as at this moment, Yanjing is besieged, the trade route is naturally cut off, and the surrounding areas have indeed fallen.
The food in the city can only be used from the previous reserves, and if you eat a little, you will have less, and there will be no replenishment And a large city with a population of more than one million, coupled with the fact that the cost of the army in wartime exceeds that of such a huge population in peacetime, the daily consumption is a huge number, even if the royal family has been very careful to hoard materials in the past, but how much can they hoard That's more than a million mouths, each person eats two catties of grain a day, two million catties a day, a thousand tons a day, although there are also a small number of farmland, gardens, and some livestock, but just rely on these, how long can they last The only thing to worry about is the shipping lines at sea.
Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Osgilia is a city with a peninsular topography.
When the land roads were blocked, the only route that could supply the city was by sea.
But in the past few days, the rebels have divided part of their forces and collected a number of ships to blockade the sea.
The Byzantine Empire was not without a navy, but the empire's navy had been suppressed by the Landis for decades, especially the outlet of the inland sea was occupied by the Landis, and the empire's navy could only cruise in the inland sea, and naturally could not develop and grow.
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The number of warships and the number of the navy were not large.
At that time, the best opportunity was to take away the sea mouth, but Merlin, the powerful man of the world, forcibly intervened, so that the Byzantine Empire could not seize the opportunity, and the navy fell more and more.
And there is another delicate situation in the empire: from the obvious eye, the military power of the empire is divided into two factions: the royal family and the warlord party, but in fact, when you look closely, the empire's navy is a system of its own.
The navy of the Empire has always been a strange phenomenon: it is not completely loyal to the royal family, nor is it in the company of the warlords.
Investigating the reasons for this, it is a bit laughable: if the navy wants to grow, it must invest a lot of material and financial resources.
For many years in the empire, in order to compete with the warlord party, the royal family could only use its limited financial resources to support the central standing corps that were loyal to the royal family, and the consumption of just one Rhoderia corps was already very huge, where did the central empire have the extra financial resources to build a large number of navies As for the warlords, they have too late to expand their strength, and naturally they will not spend money on the navy.
The interest groups of the navy have always been the biggest victims, and they have no financial support from the central government, and their annual military spending is extremely limited, which has caused deep resentment among the navy from top to bottom.
It's not that the empire doesn't want to reorganize its navy, it's not that it doesn't want to regain sea supremacy.
But if the warlord party is not eliminated for a day, the royal family itself is in danger, and where can there be energy to take care of the problems of the navy As a result, the navy became more and more disillusioned with the center of the empire, and more and more centrifuged.
Although he did not directly stand on the side of the warlord party, his loyalty to the imperial family was only based on a little face-saving official correspondence.
Osgilia was besieged at the moment, and it was not for nothing that the rebels gathered a group of improvised boats and dared to block the sea.
Just before the war, El Salvador sent a letter to the naval headquarters stationed at the southern end of the inland sea, and sent someone to hand it to the current Admiral Llorente of the Empire.
The letter stated: As long as you do not help each other, all the members of the Red Round Table after the war will recognize the status of the navy as a separate family.
El Salvador's letter used both hard and soft words, and it clearly explained the current situation: the current strength comparison, the royal family has almost no chance of victory, if the navy is on the wrong side at this time, then it can only accompany the royal family to be martyred together, when the warlords win the war, all parts of the mainland are the territory of the warlords, even if the navy is dominant on the sea, but you also need to have a foothold on the continent after all, and a military port base to survive, if you offend the heroes on the mainland, In the future, they would have to be robbers at sea, and El Salvador even promised that after the war, it would be able to cede three coastal cities from the territories of two warlords on the northern coast of the Inland Sea to establish a military port base for the navy, as long as the navy did not move.
The three cities and the surrounding land were given to the navy, which was almost half the size of a county, enough for the navy to stand on its own in the future.
Sure enough, after the letter was sent, the navy has been silent to this day.
Listening to the sound of horns and war drums outside, and the sound of shouting and killing came one after another, Salvador, who was sitting in the tent, looked calm.
Although he could tell that today's siege seemed to be a failure again, he was not worried at all.
Osgilia is the first male city on the mainland, there are almost no weaknesses to take advantage of, to break this city, it is impossible not to spend some time, the only way, is to fight consumption, take human lives to fill the city until the city is exhausted, the ammunition is exhausted, take the best chance to break the city.
Don't use any tricks, and don't think about opportunism, just use your own multiple opponents' forces to press the front in a dignified manner until the opponent is crushed At this point, the Byzantine royal family has no chance of winning at all, and the overall situation has been decided, even if that guy in Kavihir is still alive, there is absolutely no way to turn the situation around El Salvador also got the news that the Odin had moved south.
But he wasn't worried that the Odin would take advantage of the fire.
Just because, this time the Odin people went south, and it was simply an agreement between El Salvador and the Odin Empire.
He even had a letter written by Emperor Odin himself, in which the two sides agreed that Odin's army would go south and only take the four counties of the central administrative region in the north of the empire as territories, and that Odin's army would also arrive under the city of Osgilia and join forces with the rebels to attack the city of Osgiria So, from any point of view, this time the Byzantine royal family had only a dead end.
It's dead In the tent, Hughes looked at El Salvador coldly, El Salvador at this moment is no longer the embarrassed appearance that escaped from Yanjing, and El Salvador at this moment, as the speaker of the Red Round Table, is in high spirits In fact, not only El Salvador, but even the governors in the big tent, and some of the governors did not come in person, and the generals sent by them were all satisfied.
At this moment, suddenly, a loud trumpet sound came from afar, the sound of the trumpet was short and rapid, one faster than the other, and the rhythm was unique and distinct The sound was obviously very different from the sound of the trumpets on the battlefield, and it immediately aroused the minds of many of the rebel leaders in the tents.
Immediately, a rebel officer of the Armenian army ran in and shouted: "Your Excellency, the trumpet of the Rhodrian cavalry is sounding from our rear."
"Rodria" Hughes stood up, he smiled coldly: "Rodria cavalry is still blocked in the central and northern regions, hmph, which reinforcements must be there, and this kind of trick came to do it again Adric deceived me once, and then Sosia and Butler played this trick for the second time and I saw through it."
Now someone is using the military number of the Rhodrian cavalry to trick me into letting the rear battalion transfer 10,000 men to see the situation, and there is a chance to give me this support army."
After letting his subordinates out, Hughes laughed: "Come on, everyone continue to drink and hum these guys, always scare people with the name of the Rhodria cavalry, I really think that the Rhodria cavalry is invincible in the world, even if it is really the Rhodria cavalry, let us have more than 300,000 troops, and I am afraid of the 20,000 cavalry" A moment later, the trumpets of the rebels outside were heard, the war drums in the rear of the camp shook the sky, and the sound of shouting and killing could be heard from afar.
Even in the big tent, you can hear the sound of the fighting of the golden iron horse in the direction of the rear camp like a wave And in the tent, many people changed color, just because everyone saw with their own eyes that the wine glass on the case in front of them was vibrating gently Horseshoe is horse's hoof is a massive cavalry charge that can cause such a huge shock In just a few moments, someone outside rushed in, threw himself on the ground, and shouted: "My lord, it's really Rodria cavalry, it's really Rodria Our rear camp of 10,000 people has been routed head-on."
Hughes only felt a "buzz" in his head, and immediately rushed out with a scream, and the leaders of the rebels behind him also ran out.
Hughes rushed to the nearest lookout and climbed frantically, looking in the direction of the back camp.
I saw that in the wilderness outside the rear camp far away, a group of military horses had been fighting to the death A large area of cavalry poured down like a dark cloud, the gray-black outfit is the color of the armor of the Rhodria cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry galloped on the battlefield, and the 10,000 people in their rear camp were cut into several pieces, which had already been washed away, and the opposing cavalry calmly kept impacting on the side, cutting the defeated rebels into small pieces one by one, and then engulfing in the gray-black cavalry wave Hughes picked up the monoculars, and saw that in the distance, on the hillside, under a group of cavalry, surrounded by a tall red war horse, immediately a burly and huge body, a golden hill armor, a face like a disc, a wide face and big ears, with a smug and cunning smile on his face, his spirit was flying, it was the famous rabbit general of the empire, Ruhr And just behind him, a huge war drum was being beaten and under the war drum, holding a double hammer, the upper body, revealing strong and strong muscles, the cape was scattered, and the one who beat the drum vigorously was not the drummer in the army, but the blonde hair fluttering, it was the crown prince Garcia, who was recognized as weak and old-fashioned and restrained in the past To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: