vstars Chapter 306 Offensive and defensive reversal
Chapter 306 Offensive and defensive reversal
Just as Alonso was about to order the artillery to fire at the rebels below, a soldier next to him whispered to him:
"Sir, our artillery is facing outside the city wall, and it is already fixed on the city wall. We cannot turn it around and fire inside the city wall."
It was only then that Alonso remembered that a week ago, the parliament was afraid that the soldiers in the city would rebel and use the cannons on the city walls to attack the military buildings in the city, so it ordered the muzzles of the cannons to face outwards and be fixed directly on the city walls.
"Damn it! Crossbowmen, shoot my arrows!"
For a moment, arrows fell into Paulino's team like raindrops, but because Paulino had the foresight to stop the team farther away from the city wall and ordered the team in front to maintain a defensive shield formation, they were able to calmly evacuate to a safe place under the rain of arrows.
Alonso breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the rebels retreat, but he was still very worried because at this moment he could only command about 500 men, and he would definitely not have an advantage if he went down the city wall.
"I hope those mercenaries can come."
At this moment, he could only look towards the direction of the East City Gate and place his hopes on those mercenaries.
……
"puff!"
As the last mercenary leader fell in a pool of blood, the centurion of the 300-man squadron of the city defense army walked down from the city wall and met the pursuing patrol army head-on.
The centurion pointed at the corpses and asked:
"I have already submitted my letter of surrender. Don't send me to the gallows if I lose the battle."
The officer leading the patrol army looked at the bodies and immediately said after finding several familiar looking mercenary leaders:
"As long as there is no outside help, you will be able to see Lord Paulino at the City Hall early this morning."
The Basque port was still very lively at night, with a constant stream of merchant ships coming and going, and the nearby pubs were crowded, but this time people were not discussing the festival.
"Have you heard? South City seems to be under martial law, and the streets are full of soldiers."
"What's that? There was a loud noise just now. It seemed to be from the East City Gate."
"Hey, hey, hey, is something wrong with you?"
"It shouldn't be a big deal. It's probably the gang or the spy who discovered Lana. Otherwise, if there was a war, the port guards on the other side would have left long ago."
A drinker said as he motioned everyone to look at the soldier not far from the door. The soldier was leaning against the wall, yawning sleepily, leaning on his spear.
At this time, a soldier on horseback galloped past the street. Seeing this, the pedestrians on the street dodged one after another, fearing that they would be knocked away.
The soldier rode all the way to the port garrison's stronghold, and when he entered, he found only a few officers gambling with dice.
"Excuse me, is Lord Sander here?"
"Lord Xander has gone home a long time ago, but our deputy centurion is still here."
The soldier saw this and said:
"I am the follower of the city defense captain Alonso. The patrol troops have rebelled, and I need you to help Captain Alonso."
Upon hearing this, the officer dropped the dice in his hand, but they soon sent someone to inform the deputy captain. After a while, the deputy captain came downstairs with his trousers pulled up. After the soldier told him the general content, the deputy captain was very shocked, but he just said:
"I will send troops immediately, you go back first."
After the soldiers left, the deputy captain called his subordinates who were still at the headquarters to discuss the matter. He said to them seriously:
"Now is the moment of life and death for us. If we fail to take sides, we will go to the gallows tomorrow. Of course, if we resign now, we can still keep a chance to survive. So I want to ask everyone, should we send troops or wait and see?"
His question was quickly answered by the officers with different opinions. Just as they were discussing the matter intensely, a soldier ran in from the door and asked:
"Oh no, sir, the mercenaries who attacked our Lord Sander before are back again!"
Upon hearing this, the deputy captain thought for a while, then suddenly slapped his thigh, as if he understood something, and said:
"So that's it!"
Seeing the puzzled expressions of the crowd, the deputy captain slowly said:
"The patrol army dared to rebel because they had someone behind them to help them, and this person must not be a local. Now this person has arrived."
"You mean to say that this group of mercenaries is the reinforcements invited by Paulino?"
"Wrong! It's Governor John who is behind this mercenary group. Otherwise, why would they come here so late at night?"
The deputy captain said with confidence:
"So now, let's not worry about anything and just stay here and see what the final result is."
At this moment, looking at the empty port, the leading Black Watch mercenary officer couldn't help but ask in his heart:
"Where have all the people at the port gone? Isn't it said that there will be a lot of people during the harvest festival? If there are no porters, who should I give Sir John's goods to?"
……
"Now this is the only one left to be searched."
Looking at the mansion in front of him, the patrol officer was about to go up to check it out when a soldier next to him reminded him:
"That's the house of the Mitlan people. I heard that the owner of the house is related to Lord Hoss who was here before."
"Even if he is related to the king, he must abide by Basque law. Go in and search him."
Inside the mansion, the general was shivering while drinking black tea in the living room, and next to him, the Midlander was earnestly advising:
"General, why don't you go and command the army at this time?"
"There are rebels everywhere outside. I don't dare go."
The Midlander was about to go out to see what was going on outside when he heard a violent knock on the door and a voice shouting from outside:
"Open the door! Or I'll break your door down!"
The Midlanders who didn't want to buy the door immediately opened it, but were pushed aside by the soldiers who rushed in.
"Oh, so it's here. Take it away."
"Wait a minute!"
The Midlan man stood in front of the general and asked:
"What you are doing now is an act of rebellion. Aren't you afraid that you will be punished by others in the future?"
The officer stared at him with wide eyes and said:
"This is our own Basque business. Just get out of here and don't make trouble. I'll burn your house down as well."
Two soldiers quickly stepped forward, carried the general and rushed outside. After a while, they brought the general to Paulino.
Looking at the bewildered general in front of him, Paulino patted him on the shoulder and said:
"If you want to live, you must do as I say..."
On the city wall, looking at the sky that was about to turn white, Alonso was just about to take a nap when suddenly a soldier woke him up:
"Sir, the rebels are coming again!"
Rubbing his eyes, Alonso quickly looked towards the city and saw the rebel troops advancing towards the city wall with shields raised. Just as he was about to order the soldiers to shoot, he saw an old man suddenly appear from the rebels' shield formation.
"who is this."
The soldiers who had been guarding the city wall all night were now blurry-eyed and could not see clearly who was on the other side, but the old man's voice quickly made the soldiers understand his identity.
"Listen, soldiers on the wall. Alonso is planning to lead his troops to rebel and join the Lana people for power. Now you have no reinforcements. If you don't surrender, everyone will be sentenced to death by hanging for treason."
"It's the general. How come he is in the rebel army?"
"Didn't you hear? Now we are rebels!"
The soldiers on the city wall looked at each other in bewilderment. Overnight, they went from being the ones suppressing the rebels to being the rebels themselves. This was something that no one would accept.
At this time Alonso clearly felt that the nearby soldiers were keeping a certain distance from him, but he could not refute it at this time. After all, the generals were on the opposite side, and he could not say that the generals had betrayed him, which no one would believe.
"We still have one last chance. If you don't evacuate from the city wall, we will use artillery!"
As soon as the general finished speaking, a cannon was pushed out from the rebel army, with the black muzzle pointing directly at the soldiers above. Soon, some soldiers went down the city wall as the general had said.
The general, who was already at the end of his tether, sighed and said, looking at the attendants who were still by his side:
"Come with me down the wall and surrender."