Chapter 324 You can panic now
Flames shot up into the sky one after another as if they had been promised. At a glance, there were dozens of them, spread all over the open city.
These places that were set ablaze were all military facilities such as watchtowers and guard posts, or shops or residences of nobles in the city. People who had been prepared to light the fires together.
Melanie's resistance organization didn't have many people, but it was really efficient. They started lighting up the fire immediately.
Most of the houses in the city with open doors are made of wooden boards, stone walls and a layer of wooden boards. The stone walls and wooden boards are filled with straw as a sandwich structure as a thermal insulation layer, which not only ensures comfort, but also ensures sturdiness and thermal insulation properties.
The only small problem is that it stays on at one point.
In order to deal with the risk of fire, it is rare for cities to have fire departments dedicated to dealing with fires. In other cities, guards usually work part-time.
But the fire was clearly burning, but no fire department was dispatched.
What's the reason?
It's the city lord.
The people in the fire department are basically retired soldiers from the city.
When the city lord surrendered to the Demon Kingdom of Subia, some of the soldiers from the Demon Kingdom of Avarus in the city either ran away to the Sailing City, or they went somewhere and became bandits.
The remaining ones were asked to retire by the Demonic Kingdom of Subia. After all, Kaimen City was their own territory, and it would definitely not work to retain other countries' armies.
The city lord only retained a thousand soldiers as city guards patrolling the streets, equipped with less-lethal clubs. Even their armor was stripped away and they could only wear conspicuous guard uniforms.
In this wave of retirements, the fire department, where veterans were rehired, has also been retired. So now there is no one running to put out the fire.
The fire had begun to spread in all directions. People in the city ran into the streets regardless of the curfew. The guards responsible for patrolling could not catch up. It was only a drop in the bucket to expect them to run to put out the fire. The whole city was plunged into chaos in the fire.
Of course, the fire in the city could be seen from the city walls. The defenders in charge of the night shift were whispering, and they didn't calm down until they were scolded by the officers.
They were even more confused. They had no idea what was happening in the city, but they were certain that there was an unpleasant premonition lingering in their hearts.
"Report! The enemy is advancing!"
The scouts on horseback shouted all the way while getting in through the small door near the city gate. This made all the defenders immediately have no time to pay attention to the fire in the city and had to focus on the outside of the city.
Although some officers and staff officers went to attend the city lord's banquet, it was impossible that they were all. When the enemy troops are outside and so close, if they all go to a banquet, that's just plain cerebral palsy.
The remaining middle and lower-level officers and senior command levels were still enough to maintain the operation of the army. Under the word-of-mouth military orders, defensive weapons such as ballistae were quickly cocked. The huge mirrors placed on the city wall also swept the reflected bonfire light outside the city. The direction of enemy forces.
At the same time, they also sent fast horses to the city lord's palace to call back all the officers who were eating.
It's just that the enemy's advance was slower than expected. It took almost a quarter of an hour to find the shadow of the neat formation with the help of the 'searchlight'. What's even more damning is that the messenger sent to the city lord's palace at this important pass still failed. Didn't come back.
The generals and staff stationed near the city wall immediately had a bad premonition.
Damn, could this be planned?
Viola's army marched in neat steps, approaching the city wall step by step, but strangely, they did not set up a siege formation, and they did not even push up simple siege equipment such as ladders. They were still behind. Leave it alone.
When the army advanced to the point where it was about to enter the range of the ballista, it suddenly stopped advancing.
For a moment, the defenders thought that Viola was going to use some secret weapon. After all, what the soldiers who had escaped from the City of Sailing said were too weird.
Poison rains down from the sky, fire rains down from the sky, huge chariots emit ear-piercing roars, it feels like Viola has mastered black technology and can do anything. With a loud horn sound, the defenders who thought they were about to start attacking the city immediately saw Viola's army beating their shields neatly on the spot.
Even those without shields stamped their feet vigorously.
The voice of one or two people is very limited, but if 20,000 people do this together, the voice will be earth-shattering.
The defenders initially thought it was a war dance to boost morale, and that a fight was about to begin. However, it seemed like they were going on endlessly, just making noise but not getting close.
The defenders won't be able to handle this. Are you here to hold a percussion concert?
While the defenders were wondering, someone inadvertently glanced into the city and saw that the fire in the city had rapidly spread in all directions during this period, and gradually became uncontrollable.
What surprised the defenders even more was that there seemed to be some commotion in the direction of the military camp in the city, and colleagues who were resting in the military camp could be vaguely seen scurrying around like headless flies.
The staff officer and the general immediately thought that this was another fucking mental battle.
There were only 20,000 defenders responsible for defending the open city, but they accommodated more than 90,000 defeated troops who retreated from the front line.
Since their morale, especially their mental state, is hardly normal, these people have just been resting in the military camp in the city recently, and they have not been allowed to do anything.
But such a loud noise outside the city must be heard inside the city.
To put it simply, it may have aroused the PTSD of these guys.
Viola has indeed taken Sun Tzu's Art of War into account, and has always focused on attacking the heart, rather than killing living forces.
After all, I am weak now. Even if I want to kill someone, I don't have the ability. Instead, I will suffer serious losses.
There is definitely no chaos on the city wall, but the chaos inside is enough. The defenders standing on the city wall can't help but look into the city, which greatly distracts them.
This is of course also very detrimental to the defense of the city.
And there is something to add insult to injury.
There was a rumble of cannon fire from the west, and the number was like thunder in the sky.
The guard raised his telescope and saw a large black shadow floating on the sea in the light of the lighthouse, with the opponent's flag vaguely visible.
It was the Navy of the Demon Kingdom of Avarus that came from the Sailing City.
However, no damage from the shelling was found in the city, and the fleet only fired blanks. However, the sound further aggravated the chaos in the city, and even the soldiers on the city wall were somewhat unable to bear it.
The attack now was an empty one, but there was no guarantee that there would be an attack from the waterway in the future. The defending generals had to quickly dispatch manpower to reinforce the defense.
Although they were a little panicked, they actually still had a sense of luck.
After all, neither the navy nor the army launched a real attack, they were just building momentum. This in itself shows that they have no confidence in forcibly breaking through Kaimen City. As long as they sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, they will definitely be fine.
Then they saw a beam of bright light pouring down from the night. The columnar light almost pulled the night in the city into daylight, and the light seemed to come from the end of the distant sky. It was slowly moving, from the city lord's palace. , began to rotate along the direction of the city wall.
Okay, now you can panic.
(End of chapter)