OBS Chapter 645 Siege
Chapter 645 Siege
A Yoda officer ran desperately up the slope outside the city. When he reached Dester at the foot of the city, he was panting heavily from the exertion and his face was full of anxiety.
"We have already climbed the city wall."
The officer's voice trembled slightly, and before Dester could respond, he immediately added.
"But there was a Midlander on the city wall who wielded a two-handed sword. He was very difficult to deal with, and many soldiers died at his hands."
Dester stood below the city walls, his gaze fixed on them. After hearing the officer's report, a look of doubt appeared on his face.
He raised his hand to the flintlock pistol at his waist, skillfully opened the chamber, carefully poured in the gunpowder, then took out a lead bullet, precisely inserted it into the chamber, and finally pressed it down with a copper strip.
After reloading, he tucked the pistol back into his belt and turned to give orders to the soldiers beside him:
"Send the archers to the city wall immediately."
At this moment, the battle on the city wall was raging fiercely.
Guts gripped the heavy two-handed sword tightly with both hands, the muscles in his arms bulging slightly from the effort.
His body kept spinning and slashing, and each time the sword fell, it accurately struck a Yoda soldier.
A Yoda soldier charged at him with his shield raised, trying to force him back, but Guts showed no fear. He dodged the impact of the shield to the side, and with a flick of his wrist, the blade sliced along the edge of the shield, slicing open the soldier's throat.
Blood gushed out and splattered on Guts' face, but he paid no attention and continued to swing his longsword, reaping the lives of his enemies.
Meanwhile, in the distance, Yoda's crossbowmen kept firing arrows at the city walls, the arrows whistling through the air and heading towards Guts.
He ducked sharply, and an arrow grazed his head and embedded itself in the crenellation of the city wall behind him. Then, he rolled to the left, dodging another arrow that was aimed at his chest.
Every dodge was extremely dangerous, but with his rich combat experience and agile skills, he turned danger into safety time and time again.
Dester, accompanied by a few personal guards, climbed the steps of the city wall. As soon as he reached the top, he saw Guts standing in the center of the wall, surrounded by the corpses of more than a dozen Yoda soldiers. Blood was still dripping from the two-handed sword in his hand. He looked like a war god from hell, slaughtering his way through the enemy ranks.
Dester's eyes darkened. He slowly raised the flintlock pistol from his waist, held it with both hands, and slowly aimed it at Gus's head, his fingers tightly gripping the trigger, ready to fire at any moment.
Guts was focused on dealing with the Yoda soldiers who kept charging at him. He had just parried a soldier's longsword and was about to deliver a fatal blow when he suddenly felt a strong sense of danger.
This feeling made the hairs on his body stand on end, and his years of fighting instincts immediately put him on alert.
He abandoned the enemy in front of him, quickly turned his head, and scanned his surroundings, trying to find the source of the danger.
Soon, his gaze locked onto Dester not far away, who was holding up a strange iron object and pointing it in his direction.
Gus had never seen anything like it before; it was completely black, had a peculiar shape, and didn't look like a common weapon.
But he could sense a strong killing intent in Dester's eyes, and his intuition told him that the iron thing was definitely not a good thing and must be hiding great danger.
Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately swerved to the right.
Just as Gus turned to the side, Dester pulled the trigger.
With a loud bang, the flintlock pistol spat out a burst of fire, and a lead bullet whistled out.
Thanks to Guss's timely dodge, the lead bullet missed him and instead struck a mountain militiaman not far behind him.
Before the militiaman could even react, he was struck in the chest by a lead bullet, his body thrown backward, and he fell heavily onto the city wall, dying instantly.
Gus looked at the fallen militiamen behind him and his heart sank.
He looked around and saw that more and more Yoda soldiers were climbing the city walls, surging in like a tide, while his own forces were dwindling.
If we stay on the city wall, we will be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy sooner or later.
He immediately gathered his thoughts and loudly ordered the soldiers around him:
"All personnel, evacuate to the inner bunker immediately!"
Upon hearing the order, Guts' stormtroopers and the remaining mountain militia immediately began to retreat towards the city walls.
As they retreated, they fended off the pursuit of Yoda's soldiers behind them, trying to buy as much time as possible to cover the evacuation of the wounded.
After suffering several casualties, everyone finally retreated to the inner fortress and quickly closed the inner fortress gate, locking it with heavy bolts.
Yoda's soldiers followed closely behind, catching up to the inner gate of the fortress.
They tried to force open the gate, but the inner fortress gate was exceptionally sturdy and difficult to breach in a short time.
Soon, the Yoda soldiers who arrived later surrounded the inner fortress, forming an impenetrable encirclement that trapped Guts and the others inside.
"Sir, what should we do next?"
A centurion named Yoda approached Dest, looked at the tightly closed inner gates of the fortress, and asked Dest for the next course of action.
Dester did not answer immediately, but instead looked up at the night sky.
At this moment, the snowflakes in the sky had stopped falling, and a crescent moon shone through the clouds, casting a faint glow that illuminated the snow-covered earth.
He was silent for a moment, then his eyes hardened, and he gave the order to the centurion:
"Go and pile the hay around the inner fort, then light it with torches and use the smoke to choke them out."
The centurion immediately accepted the order and turned to arrange for his soldiers to collect hay.
Soon, bundles of hay were transported to the area around the inner fortress, where the soldiers neatly stacked them together to form a circular hay wall.
Then, several soldiers, each holding a lit torch, ran to the haystack and threw the torch into it.
The hay caught fire immediately, crackling and spewing thick smoke that billowed into the inner fortress with the wind.
After retreating into the inner fortress, Guts immediately summoned his men to take a headcount.
His assault team originally numbered over a hundred, but after the fierce battle on the city wall, only about fifty men remained, a loss of nearly half.
The mountain militia, which originally numbered in the hundreds, now number only a little over a hundred, suffering heavy casualties as well. In addition, there were many elderly, weak, women and children who had been evacuated from outside the fortress, most of them huddled in corners with fear on their faces.
Gus frowned deeply as he looked at the scene before him.
At the same time, thick smoke began to billow in from outside the fortress, causing people to cough incessantly.
As Gus watched the thick smoke pouring in, he immediately guessed Dester's intention.
"They wanted to smoke us out with thick smoke."
Gus knew very well that if they broke out of the inner fortress because they couldn't stand the thick smoke, the Yoda soldiers outside would surely be ready, and a brutal massacre awaited them. But if they didn't do that, his group would suffocate here sooner or later.
Outside the inner fortress, Dest stood on a high ground, watching the thick smoke rising from the direction of the inner fortress.
He waited patiently, wanting to see when Guts and the others would break out of the inner fortress because they could no longer bear the thick smoke.
Just then, a Yoda soldier ran up to him, panting and looking flustered, and reported:
"Sir, a large force is approaching from the northeast of the mountains and has already engaged our reserve soldiers."
Upon hearing this news, Dester's smile vanished instantly, and his expression turned serious.
He immediately deduced that the reinforcements must be the main force of the Hawk Brigade, who had come to provide support.
At this moment, the Band of the Hawk had no castle to defend it, and our side had a numerical advantage, making this a good opportunity to wipe them out.
Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately gave orders to the soldiers around him:
"Leave two hundred men here to guard the inner fortress and monitor the situation inside. The rest of you, move northeast with me immediately to intercept the reinforcements!"