: Three Thousand and Forty Aden's Death Bell (14)

The dark clouds swept, as if they were rolled up from the sky by a pair of huge and invisible ships, piled up, and turned into a monstrous and strange shape in the Aden people's amazing sight, and the wind gradually blew hard, blowing the surface A piece of popular grass is standing. Wooing across the mountains, rivers and rivers of this land, under the strong winds, the camp of the Adenese, who was a few miles from the Adenites under the city of Bersad, was full of panic.
It has not rained for five months in the south of the Gulf of Aden, and the composition of the more than 100,000 Aden troops gathered under the city of Bersad at this moment is even more complicated
The fourth army of Aden, one of the well-known kings of Aden, has a garrison army of various provinces with a total of nearly 50,000 people, and a slave army with a population of more than 90,000. It is complete for the abundant tents of the fourth army of Aden. , Put the oil cloth on the top of the camp tent quickly, even the heavy rain will not be poured into the tent
The location of the tents of the Fourth Army of Aden is not only set up on a high ground, but each tent is generally five to eight people, which is not spacious, but it is definitely not crowded.
The next point is the local garrison army where supplies are scarce. The tents are many years old leather, not only one-fifth smaller than the fourth army tents, but each tent has more than eighteen Aden soldiers. Sleeping on the ground, and finally the tent of the Aden slave army, the cheapest fabric, and many holes, you can smell a strong musty smell when you are close, people lying down, and a tent is often stuffed with more than thirty A slave cannot find a place to settle down. Even in this case, the tent is seriously inadequate. There are more than 30,000 people exposed to the slave army without the tent. They can only rest in the open space in this way.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't rain. At most it's colder at night. Now the rain is coming. The most tragic thing is the camp of the slave army. Once the rain falls, they will only sleep in the mud tonight!
But at this moment, the slave army has no say. They must first settle the regular army before they can start to strengthen their camps.
"Come on, what are you rubbing about, put all the water in the tent of the uncle, and as soon as a drop of water falls on the head of the man, the man will cut off the head of all of you." An Aden officer scolded and commanded the slaves to stabilize His own tent was absolutely afflicted by a heavy rain in the wild. All campsites are tinkering with reinforced zhaizha, and the drainage ditches under the campsite will be dug deeper. Those Aden officers roared with screams under the strong wind, waving whips in their hands, and violently beat the slaves who delayed the progress. The camp can avoid the rain is already the standard of the Aden regular army, and it is the slave army that struggles to survive. During the war, they had to move forward to fill the ravines of the fortified villages, and usually rely on these camps to give a little soup to the cold.
Seeing that a heavy rain was about to fall, I ran back to the tent in a panic, shrunken and gathered together, and then the cold rain topped up, and the food was also suspended on the ground of weak offense. I don’t know until the rain stops. No food was given above, but the ground was muddy and there was no dry place, but the rain stopped the Aden’s offensive temporarily, and there was no need to consider the issue of death. Aden under the city of Bersad The corpses of the slaves are just like that. The slaves are also nagging in their hearts. The rain is stronger than the ones that were pushed up to die before. Anyway, the people are still alive. If they live, there is hope. Head, there is a chance to get rid of slavery
Aden Fourth Army Camp,
Compared with the chaos in other camps, the Fourth Army, as the kings of the two armies, had a well-organized camp and also improved its military equipment as much as possible. Encamping with this, it's hard to fight, even if it sees heavy rain, it will fall down, and there is no such thing as the other camps. Still meticulously dispatched patrol rides to patrol around, the sentries on duty on the wall still guarded their positions, and did not move around arbitrarily. The siege equipment was also placed here, and the tall siege towers were already installed in front. Fire protection
As the chief person in charge of more than one hundred thousand Aden army in front of him, Tobras has a red armor and stands above a watchtower, looking at the front of the eyes like a spider web, spreading the camp from the center to the surroundings, and watching the dark clouds in the sky. , Looking at the outline of Bessard’s yellow walls in the distance, he could not help frowning slightly. From yesterday to today, there have been no more than two days of convoys transporting food and materials from the back to the large army camp. The quartermaster has just started. The emergency report shows that the army’s military food is only enough for three days, and more than 100,000 people have to eat. The food consumed is not a little. At first, Prince Sotorosu did not expect to expand to such a scale.
At the beginning, Prince Sotorosu only led the Aden army of about 50,000 people to Bersad, so the military food was carried according to the amount of 50,000 people fighting for half a month, but he did not expect that Tobras The Fourth Army of Aden suddenly arrived, and the number increased by 30,000 people. Then, the major Aden nobles sent slaves one after another, and the number of people in a sudden swelled to as much as 160,000 or 70,000. To make the army's grain tense, in order to prevent the embarrassment of the army's command and the two generals, Prince Sotorosu invited the rear to supervise the grain, and Tobras agreed that the army's command became a Tob Russ
The Xingyue Banner hanging above the tower was crackled by the strong wind, and the flag slammed on the face of Tobras.
If it was not the report that a large number of rebellious slaves had attacked the logistics convoy, Tobras would have suspected that Prince Sotorosu deliberately delayed the transport of military food in order to retaliate against the fact that he had seized the command of the army. I hope this Soto Prince Luo Su didn't make trouble inside, otherwise even the royal prince, I can allow His Majesty to deprive him of everything, including life! Tobras pressed his fist against the mouth of the cold battlement with a somber face and grunted. The heavy rain in front of him delayed his attack, but Tobras believed that the real impact of this rain should be the Imperial Army. Yes, the imperial army smashed the blood on the defense of Bessad City, and the scalp of people with all kinds of ordnance that is densely seen is numb, like an open blood basin that devours life. Anyone wants to board the cypress The wall of Sade must feed these murderous weapons with flesh and blood,
But now, weapons such as Thor, Crossbow Cars, Fire Tanks, etc., will inevitably be greatly reduced in power after the rain, and this is definitely a good thing for themselves.
A pro stepped up to the lookout and bowed to Tobras. "Master, the slave army sent someone to ask, saying that the slaves haven't sent food for a day and a half." Tobra With a move, Si turned around and looked at the pro-general who led his own. Instead of answering his inquiry first, Shen Sheng asked, "How are the other armies prepared for rain protection measures?"
"Basically completed, the camp was moved to a higher location in accordance with the requirements of adults," the pro replied.
"That's good. In any case, you must ensure the strength of the soldiers." Tobras nodded in satisfaction, and then waved his hand. "Those slaves will be sent as cannon fodder tomorrow. There is no need to waste military food for them. Save The military food that comes down must be used by the army,
"Yes, get it"
The pro nodded and turned back to the lookout. And Tobras still stood straight above the watchtower, and hasn’t moved for a long time. As Aden is currently the largest number of people in China and the only heavy soldier, Tobras is very clear about what he shoulders, if he fails In the short period of time in the south of the Kingdom of Aden, I am afraid that it will be difficult to gather a military force that can block the imperial front, but with hundreds of thousands of people to the 20,000 imperial forces, Tobras still has some confidence.
But on the battlefield, all kinds of strange things will happen, and no one knows what will happen. These days, his unique battlefield hunch as a commander-in-chief feels more and more wrong. He always feels that the Imperial Army is still arrogantly trying to fight himself under the city of Bersad under such a disparate strength. This is completely Does not meet the most basic military command
But the victory in front of him is too obvious, so obvious that anyone can reach it. With each day, his strength is one point thicker, a large number of siege equipment has been completed, enough to breathe 500 The elite force sent the city wall of Bessad, but this rain made the large siege tower in the middle of the water and it was difficult to advance
Under the cold rain, Tobras tightly held the railing of the watchtower. At this moment, even Tobras, who thought the winning ticket was being held, could not help but sigh in the bottom of his heart. Obviously, there has been no rain for nearly half a year, but I encountered heavy rain at this moment. I only hope that the rain will not be too long. In my contemplation, suddenly a drop of rain fell on the Tobras helmet that could not help but lean out. On the sound of a soft raindrop breaking. Then more raindrops fell, and in a blink of an eye, there was a piece of white. The heavy rain was pouring down from the beginning. The wind blew the raindrops diagonally, and the flag above the head was quickly soaked, flapping the flagpole in the wind.
In the early morning of the Issam’s house, the Issam’s servants awakened the sleeping adjutants Jerome and Jelos Ferro
two adults, please go to the lobby to gather immediately
The two put on their pajamas And rushed to the lobby. There was a blaze of fire, and armed soldiers were everywhere.
A servant pushed the door of the meeting hall for him, and nearly three hundred large candles illuminated the whole hall. A group of people gathered together near the seat of His Majesty.
Gerlos Ferro burst out of his head, not knowing what was happening. Icarto, who had seen him two days ago, came to this side surrounded by several family officers of the Issam family. Icarto said solemnly, "Now Lord Gerlos Ferro can leave with satisfaction. You have successfully completed the task. Now we will not only urgently repair the castle, but will also face a life and death battle"
"What does this mean?" Gerlos Ferro looked stunned.
At this moment, a tall and burly officer of the Iqam family walked quickly into the hall and saluted Icarto. "These rebel slaves have just ransacked the castle of Baron Tolin. Lord Baron Tolin died in battle. The castle is now full of flames, the slaves did not find much food, and now they are coming towards here, which is less than thirty miles away."
"What, even Baron Tolin blocked them, Baron Tolin has two thousand private troops."
The news was so shocking that all the sounds in the hall were exploding,
"Slave rebellion!"
Gerlos Ferro understood it, his eyes flashed, and it seemed to reflect. The long black smoke seen in the previous two days could not help but the "how many slaves participated in the rebellion" Ikato was brought to the map, his eyes on the map Asked
"According to Captain Lafield's conservative estimate, there are about 50,000 people," the officer replied.
"Five thousand people!" Icarto's body shuddered obviously, and after a few seconds, he said to himself, "How come there are so many, the day before yesterday, didn't you say that there were only a few thousand people, and it took two days to turn Ten times, we can’t even reach 5,000 people. How can we fight 50,000 people?
The whole hall also sounded a breath of inhalation, and some nobles of the Iqam family who gathered urgently after hearing the news Is crazy
Icarto suddenly raised his head and looked at Geros Ferro with a deep and complicated look, and ordered the officer behind him, "I did not escape from the Icam family, and now I will not escape, but we do not need to let outsiders come Bleeding and sending these two people away from the castle immediately, I don’t want to see them again!"
Several officers quickly came over and could not help but tell Gerlos Ferro and the red-haired adjutant away from the hall
"Sir, you shouldn't be an outsider," the red-haired adjutant whispered to Gerlos Ferrol as he walked
Gerlos Ferro's face was solemn, and Icarm Castle was definitely over. Although Icarto said no, he must have sent his family away. Icarto's look seemed like It is saying that if all the men in the Iqam family were killed tonight, please come to yourself later, Iqam Castle, this famous strong wall in the southern part of the Gulf of Aden, at this moment also seems to be a sleeping behemoth waking up. The light of the torch shines on the solid Mia marble column, staining the entire column with a scarlet color. Between these cylindrical decorations, the wide corridor echoed the footsteps of soldiers running empty
Gerlos Ferro seemed to smell a killing and smell.
Eighty years ago, on the white marble steps, the Iqam family and the invading enemies were fighting desperately. It is said that all the adult men of the Iqam family were killed in battle. Even the women were armed with weapons, and the bodies were full of eyes. The hallway is more than one meter high. Every wall here has echoed the moans of those dying people and the grunts made when they died. The back of each gorgeous stone was once soaked with human blood. The soldiers of the Iqam family were standing on torches, and the shaking light shone on their solemn granite-like faces. The fire was swaying, the iron armor was clashed, and the glory of the Iqam family seemed to return from its original days.
The red-haired lieutenant Jerome asked with a sigh of relief when he stepped on the horse-drawn carriage, "Adult, can the Ikham's family block the rebellion of 50,000 slaves"
'I don't know,' Gerlos Ferro shook his head blankly~EbookFREE.me~ He was even more dignified in his eyes, he knew the outbreak of slave traitors in the South, but even he did not expect it to be so rapid that it had already To the extent that it invaded a baron's castle, it was not a small rebellion, a slave rebellion. This was only the situation in the Iqam family's territory, and the situation of other nobles...
Gerlos Ferro's fingers clenched tightly, his complexion could not help but change
But he knew that Tobras, the fourth army of Aden, as the second minister of the military department, transferred an alarming number of slaves from the major aristocracy in the south, and in order to control the private army composed of these slaves, the major families also took their own territory. The private army in the inside is tuned up
Now that there is a slave rebellion in the South, these family territories may be the first to bear the brunt.
The slave rebellion broke out in Aden, but in such a short period of time, when it was expanded to such a scale, there must be some force behind it, and the slave rebellion that was launched was the most affected. The southern noble territory, but more than one hundred thousand Aden army fighting with the imperial army in Bersad! You know, this is more than one hundred thousand Aden army, with more than 80,000 slaves!