Mesta City, County Moore.

The smoke was pervasive, and fires were set off in many parts of the city. Above the tower, the smoke from the beacon towers into the sky, and the huge plume plummets into the sky! This black wolf smoke has been around for three days. The sound of killings on the walls has gradually calmed down. There were screams of crying fathers and shouts everywhere, and all the soldiers alive looked desperate, and some of the injured leaned in the corner and rolled with pain, while others who were not injured were all in panic.

Although Mesta City is the capital of County More and it is also the largest city in County More, it is different from Denzel City. After all, Denzel City is a lock of the Frontier Army and has always been the location of the Guard House. During the war with Odin, as a theater command post, the city walls were built in accordance with the criteria of the Imperial Fortress.

Although the city of Mesta is a palace, the walls are shorter than Denzel! Moreover, Emperor's preparations have been abandoned, and the city walls have not been repaired for many years, and many places have been damaged.

At this moment, I have just experienced the baptism of war, and the unpretentious city defense is already crumbling! Clincia was standing on the wall. The 46-year-old Morr County Sheriff was a civilian official, but at the moment was wearing a suit. The armor he was wearing was pressed against a slightly weak body. It seems a bit overwhelming.

But the forty-six-year-old Junshou looked absolutely dead. He still stood upright, waving his sword barely in his hand, and desperately urged those soldiers around him who were already trembling. Clincia ran a few steps back and forth The soldier shrinking in the corner kicked and shouted again, "Stay! Keep on !!!! Those who retreated!"

Although there are some sharp and weak voices, it now shows a bit of majestic taste.

At the urging of the county defender, the collapsed garrison reluctantly reorganized. There were fewer than two hundred people left on the wall. Although the Odins had repelled the two sieges, they were clear in their hearts: Yuncheng, can't keep it! !! The city of Mesta lies on one side and the plains are flat on three sides. The fertile soil around it is fertile land.

In the wilderness outside the city, the banner of the Red Snow Army flew, the huge barracks have been set up, and the soldiers of Odin have been around the city for three days. The trumpets, little by little, destroyed the last hint of hope on the walls of the Imperial Guards! !! Standing on the wall and looking around, the dense Odin barracks outside the city had already surrounded the city of Mesta.

But Klinsia knew better that she could hold on to the city for three days, not because of how well she defended, nor because of the courage of the soldiers. The real reason is "These Odins didn't bother to attack the city at all! Manninger's Red Snow Army and Puppet: Go ahead, give up Denzel City and not attack, and go south all the way, the biggest goal is naturally Mesta City! This county of County Moore is where the county's wealth lies! There are countless businesses in the city, and the hoarding of grain, taxes, wealth! There are tens of thousands of people! However, when the Manninger army came, it only surrounded the city outside, but they immediately attacked the city, but they separated one by one to disperse outside the city, searching from one road to another. Search for a village feed one village feed! Odins are asking for food! Already used up all the food, they have fallen to the Red Snow Army that slaughtered the mounts. Under the leadership of Denninger, they did not immediately attack the rich city that made them jealous, but they distributed almost half of their troops around. The nearby villages of the village spread out to collect food as quickly as possible, while Manninger continued to besiege Mesta City with the remaining force of the leucorrhea to prevent the garrison from escaping.

His strategy was successful.

As early as Green in Denzel got the news that the Odins went south, Green had already sent people to Mesta City to report. Even the reporters brought Green's suggestion: self-scorching strategy! But Klinsia rejected Green's suggestion. After all, he was a sheriff of Moree County and a civilian official. After all, he was not as fierce as Green! He hesitated again and again, he couldn't do such a fierce strategy of scorching the soil by himself, but just ordered all the defensive forces in the concentrated city to prepare for the battle.

However, even though Manninger ’s army was delayed for a few days in the city of Denzel, but after all, tens of thousands of troops were intact. Once he came under Mesta, Klincia immediately understood that he could not keep it. !! There is only one garrison in the city. Although the armaments are relatively neat, even if some of the young people are temporarily mobilized in the city, even some wealthy officials in Klincia and the city send all their servants in the house. After the city, it still looks sparse, but there are only a thousand people. The Odins were busy searching for troops. In the throne of the Seal of God for three days, the Odins' squad swept across the countryside. At night, when Clincia was standing on the wall, she could see far away from the city, many The direction of villages and towns is faintly glare! These Odins were raging like locusts. For three days, they could see the small units of Odin who were scouring around, pulling carts, and returning to the camp outside the city.

There are also many rural farmers who were fed by the surrounding villages. They were also driven away before the Odin's iron hoof swords, serving as labor, cutting woods around, arranging ordnance for Odins, digging trenches, and building camps ...

Miserable crying can be heard outside the city at night.

The Odin's three siege operations were just like doing things. The Odins would not really attack the city until they waited for all the small troops to search for it. They simply kept the pressure on the city.

But even if it was only three siege pretends, there were less than three hundred soldiers in the city who had temporarily assembled together! And the people who are alive are obviously dying! Klinsia is not Charya, nor is it Green.

He does not have a personal bravery, nor does he have a strategy to inspire morale. He just ordered the taxes collected in the spring of the city's treasury, carried more than ten boxes of ruthenium coins to pile up under the city, and collected the city's youth with a reward.

There were still some effects at the beginning, and many people signed up for the rewards. But after the Odin attacked the city three times, they saw the first batch of dead seven or eight in the city, and the rest were trembling. Even if the coins were piled up in the mountains, there were few registrations.

The Odins outside the city were not eager to attack the city, but just clamored every day, and then raged around.

Standing on the city wall at this moment, Klinsia was exhausted. Although he was not injured under the protection of several guards around him, the shock in his heart made him almost blank.

Just when the Odins attacked the city just now, a streamer almost killed him. If it wasn't for a loyal guard hurriedly pushing him away, he would have been shot through by an arrow! But the faithful guard was penetrated by an arrow and was nailed alive on the tower of the Odin people. The bow and arrow actually had such power, which made the living people tremble.

In the evening, the Odin camp was full *, and numerous smokes were rising. Seeing the road and road in the distance, a team of Odin returned with a full load, and many farmers and villagers who drove the captives to cry Shouting sky ...

Klinsia's lips had been bitten, and with great perseverance, she forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart.

"……grown ups……"

With a slight voice behind him, Klinsia turned back and saw the speaker, the tax officer in the city's county guard house, and the transporter was pale, if not forcibly holding on to the wall, I'm afraid I'm already sitting on the ground.

"... Master Odin may ..."

"Perhaps?" Klinsia's voice was hoarse.

"Perhaps, they will not attack the city tomorrow." The official face looked terribly: "I see that these days, the teams they sent out have returned. Even if they are collecting food, they are almost collecting it. Seeing the fire on all sides, I am afraid that the villagers in the vicinity are caught in the flames of war. I heard that they did not attack Denzel ... Maybe if they have enough food, they may go straight south or maybe ... "

Klinsia shook her head: "No, they will definitely attack the city and they will not let us go."

The county guard looked terribly, with a bitter smile: "Although I don't understand the military strategy, the reason the army needs food supplies is still understood. They did not attack Denzel because the guy Green was so fierce that he burned himself out. The village outside the city was feeding land and food! The Odins had to rush south to raise food.

But we are different ... Look at the outside, what these Odins have been raging in these three days! We are now a piece of fat, how could they not bite! A few days ago, they didn't bite because they had to recover their vitality first. Our piece of fat was trapped by them anyway, and it couldn't be thrown away in the trance. "

After a pause, Clincia lowered her voice and said, "Moreover, I'm the county guard! I knew very well that the Odin must have broken our city! The taxed grain in the spring was collected a few days ago, so These days, at the farmer's homes in the villages and towns, everyone's family's food is not much. Even if all the Odins have been searched out, how many days can they sustain with tens of thousands of troops? We are different! The city now reserves the taxed grains of the county that have just been collected! If it falls in their hands, it will be enough for this Odin to consume more than two months! How can they let us go? " Klincia smiled abruptly: "Even if they were to rob these supplies, they would never abandon us southward."

The county guard sighed softly: "It's a pity that I am too pedantic, and I haven't been cruel, and I haven't learned Green's strategy of scorching soil ... Well, in fact, even after learning Green, Odin people go south and have given up Denzel City, when they came to us, they had reached an end, and they would grab the food to attack the city anyway ... "

The tax official said angrily: "It's all that Green! If he didn't mess up, the Odin wouldn't abandon them, so come to us so soon! He's fierce enough, but he killed us together!"

"Closed!" Clincia sighed sharply, angrily: "What is this! Denzel is the county ’s armament! Keeping them is more valuable than keeping us! As long as Denzel is still there The defending army in our county is still there! It is a nail pierced behind the Odins! Green's approach, instead of hating him, I am grateful to him! I only hate myself for being too pedantic and without the courage to take the initiative ... I have that courage. The Odins don't even want to grab this food now! "

The tax official sighed; "Sir, it's too late to say anything ... our city may not be able to stay until tomorrow ..."

"It's going to be dark tomorrow?" Klincia sneered. "Tomorrow morning, the Odin will be able to break the city.

The tax official was still talking, but suddenly he heard the cry from the city behind him: "It's on fire! The warehouse is on fire!"

Looking back, deep in the city, a distant blaze of fire soared into the sky, as if it was the direction of the Treasury! The tax officer suddenly changed color; "Sir! Treasury !!! It was the Treasury on fire! Oops! All our reserves are there! Is it possible that the Odins have spies in the city ?!"

He was anxiously going down town, but Clincia caught him! Seeing the face of this county guard absolutely, his eyes flickered, and it was obviously a weak face, but at this moment there was a bit of shyness.

"Don't go, not the spy of the Odin ... I sent some of my guards to do it!"

Klinsia stared like a blade, and stared back at the fire in the city. The warehouse in the city is the county's tax reserve. Once it is burnt, the fire will be soaring and almost half of the sky will become red! The thick smoke billowed up, and it was scary to see! The tax official took a moment's notice, and he could see the look of Clincia, and his heart shone suddenly! Whispering now: "Master ?!"

"Hm." Clincia bit her lip, letting blood flow, but sneered: "I won't burn it. Is it left for the Odins to eat after the city breaks!"

Then he suddenly yelled, raised his hands, and looked up at the sky! "I hate it! I hate it! I hate the treacherous people in the empire! I hate the decline of the National Games! Byzantine founding the country for thousands of years, have you really reached the end of the road !!!

Hissing exhausted, crying blood! In the camp of the Odins outside the city, Manninger was having dinner, and some of his generals came in to ask: "Patriarch, let us attack the city early in the morning! The warriors are full, rest! The defenders of Mesta are too weak, these Byzantine sheep, I can break the gates at most an hour! "

Manninger smiled softly: "Of course, it's time to slap this fat!"

He was laughing, and heard someone rushing in anxiously outside, as soon as he was his guardian, he knelt down in front of him: "Clan! There is a sky-fire in the city!"

Manninger's look changed suddenly, he rushed out, looked up and saw the direction of Mesta City, a red light in the city ...

Manninger only glanced at him and immediately shouted, and immediately turned around and screamed, "Transfer! Siege immediately! Quick! Let the warriors siege immediately! At all costs, be sure to rush in as soon as possible !!!! Odin The siege of the people was indeed rapid, and the general who had bragged about Manninger did not lie. The gate of the Seal of God was broken in an hour, and the Odins drove straight into the city, and received almost nothing decent. The resistance was only when they rushed to the treasury, but stopped helplessly.

Where the warehouse was, the whole street turned into a sea of ​​fire! The fire is overwhelming. Where can humans extinguish it? !! Although Manninger had ordered his men to fight the fire, the fire was so large that even if the Odins tried their best, they could not control it.

The fire burned until the next morning, and there was no extinction! The Odins did their best and could not grab much food.

But at dawn, in the large account of Suininger, several Odin fighters pushed one in.

"Patriarch, this guy led someone to fight near the fire, and eventually everyone around him died, but at last he suddenly shouted that he was a county guard and wanted to see our general. Hmm, we looked like he was a collar, I was born to give it to you. "

Manninger looked at the man in front of him, his body was torn, blood was everywhere, his armor was taken off, but his robe was black and red, and his head was burnt in many places. Just in the eyes of Manninger, it was clear at a glance that this man was not a warrior at all.

He moved in his heart, stood up and walked to the front: "Who are you?"

This man was of course Klinsia, and he looked up, staring proudly at Manninger: "Kingsia, the keeper of the Byzantine Empire, Moore County!"

"It really is you." Manninger did not look harsh, but was somewhat polite: "I am Odin Basak patriarch, Red Snow Army commander Manninger. His Excellency Klincia, since the defeat, why the need to see me?"

"Huh, look at what an enemy chief who dares to invade my territory looks like." Krincia sneered.

Manninger's face remained unchanged: "Is it your order to burn my food?"

Klinsia was furious and yelled: "Mixed gangsters !!! What your food! It's all my Byzantine Empire! When did it become yours! What a gangster speech!"

His words made the surrounding Odin fighters furious, and he immediately got two feet on his body, but Manninger waved to let others walk away, standing in front of Klinsia and smiling slightly: "Well, it doesn't matter who it is, anyway now It's all burned. Hum ... "

He groaned for a while, and said, "Clincia, I know your name. I have already become seven books as a county guard in Morel, right? You have been in Morel in two wars between your country and us. The county's governor is responsible for assisting in the preparation of ordnance. In this way, you have been credited with retreating our troops in the first two times. Hey. "

"Huh!" Krincia sneered: "Unfortunately I didn't do well enough to help our country kill more Odin thieves!"

Manninger sighed: "You Byzantines just like to talk. I don't quarrel with you, I just ask you, you have worked in More County for seven years, and I heard that you managed it very well. The richness and fertility of More County is all your credit. Unfortunately, you have n’t moved your **** and promoted for seven years. You can see that the Byzantine Empire is incompetent, and such talents will not be used. I think you are a capable guy Since the Byzantine Empire is incompetent, why don't you help me! This is my territory after the war in Moore County. Why don't you help me manage this place, I see ... "

When he said that, he saw that Klinsia was only sneering at him, and Manninger knew to himself, "Why, wouldn't you?"

"What do you say?" Klincia rolled her eyes.

"... Okay." Manninger sighed. "If you are the kind of person who is willing to surrender, you won't know the food in the city. But ... why should you refuse? The Byzantine Empire cannot use you, I But I can reuse you! The Byzantine Empire knows no one, why are you loyal to these stupid people? "

Klinsia shook her head: "There is nothing why. When the empire was founded for a thousand years, how could there be one or two loyal men who died to death! Hum, sir, please kill me."

Manninger's look was a little complicated. Looking at Klinsia, there was a little more respect in his eyes: "Do you have any more requirements?"

Klinsia laughed, "Thirst, that bowl of water."

Manninger waved his hand, and immediately someone sent a bowl of water, and Klincia drank it, and said, "Cool! The night's fire was set aside, the mouth was dry, this water was refreshing! Never The thought of drinking water would be so refreshing! "

He threw the bowl and looked up at Manninger: "Thank you in my hometown! The second request, be sure to cut off my head and hang it on the wall!"

"Why?" Manninger sighed. "His respect to me, even if you are going to die, I will leave you all dead."

"No! Please hug me!" Klincia smiled proudly: "My head is hanging on the wall, because I want to see with my own eyes the Odins in the future ... whatever they get in, how they will lose out! Don't you Don't you dare! "

Manninger froze, haha ​​laughed, a look of shame, and waved, "Go! Cut him off and hang his head on Mesta's gate!"

A few Odins rushed over like wolves and tigers, and Clincia smiled boldly, without fear, turned around, held her chest, and strode out! After Klingsia went out, Sunninger turned around and walked back a few steps, sat down heavily, the evil spirit on his face converged, but gradually revealed a trace of complexity and emotion.

Within a few moments, someone would return. Clincia had been chopped, and her head was hung above the gate.

Did he ... have anything to say before he died? "

The respondent whispered: "No ... it's just ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ He cut his head down, but his eyes were glaring."

Manninger looked indifferent and waved, "I see, go out."

After a while, the Pashak patriarch sat alone in his tent, but suddenly sighed.

... When the country was founded for a thousand years, how could there be one or two loyal men who died to death! He savored the sentence carefully, and sighed in a low voice. "Good! Hmm ... I'm afraid this is not the easy way. "

A few years later, Ms. Authy, a disciple of Kavisir, an imperial generation, wrote a description of the war of Odin's invasion. In an article "The Afterglow of the Last Dynasty", she wrote about Odin The first heavy city that was broken during this invasion was written like this:

"... The Red Snow Army, Kemesta City, the Imperial County defender Klinsia burned all the food in the city, fought hard and was captured, the enemy fell, the Lord Klinsia refused, and died generously, hanging her head on the gate for ten days The adults in the seven years in power, the people of More County deeply felt their virtues, and wept tears. At that time, the grassy eagles flew, and the adults' heads hung on the towers. There were birds pecking. No, then the people in the city stayed behind the city, staying day and night, shooting birds with a slingshot, and not pecking at adults for a few days. Later generations heard tears. "