Chapter 150

The sound of the horn reverberated over the port of kossia, and all the horns were sounded at the same time. Peace and tranquility are broken in the harsh and sharp sound of the horn, and an ominous omen is shrouded in the head of the city. Blacksmith, sailor, carpenter, man, woman, old man, child Everyone is in the center of the shrill horn.

"What happened?"

The woman who managed to put away the clothes before the rainstorm asked her husband in panic.

"Something's wrong."

As a member of the city self defense force, the husband's face suddenly changed. As soon as he grasped the sword hanging on the wall, he was about to walk outside.

"Ruth

The woman gave a cry.

"Close the door! Hide

The rumbling sound is like the thunder before the rainstorm. In these loud noises, mixed with do not know where the roof was crushed by boulders sound. Outside the window, it was suddenly bright and dark, and arrows with long tails roared past.

"Mom! Mom, I'm scared! "

The little boy with an apple face was crying and holding on to his mother's clothes.

"Anthony, don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

A little girl a few years older than her younger brother has understood the meaning of the horn. With red eyes, she hugged her brother tightly and held his head in her arms to prevent him from seeing the rocket outside the window.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."

A firebomb thrown into the city by a catapult crashed down. In her mother's scream, the girl raised her head, the roof was broken, and the burning stones fell in the dust.

"Sally!"

"Hold on! Hold on! No one is allowed to go back! "

The Dawson clan leader ran on the wall and screamed.

He looked at the countless fleets that appeared on the surface of the sea, and could not count how many. The front warship was flying a white cross flag. He was once one of the leaders of the five port alliance and now the director of the free chamber of Commerce. He knew ships as well as a woman knows her face.

The tonnage of each of the leading warships is more than 600 tons, and the three leading warships are likely to reach 1000 tons.

That's the legendary holy ship.

No other country has the ability to build such a large ship except the Holy See, which has a thousand years of savings!

Three masted and multi sailed warships came through the sea, full of armed soldiers.

"What the hell is that?"

After seeing the installation on the warship, the head of Dawson couldn't help scolding.

In front of those holy see warships, there are huge crossbows, and those mechanisms are shining in the sun. More than a dozen soldiers turned it, and the Rockets almost equivalent to the city crossbow roared out, with a range far beyond human imagination. Among these iron spears, the strong wall collapsed one by one, not to mention the ordinary merchant ships whose tonnage was far less than that of the imperial warships!

"We can't hold it!"

Mrs. spider's face was scratched by the rocket. She found the head of Dawson clan who was directing the soldiers to fight back.

"We can't hold it!! We Let's surrender

Outside the wharf, in the harbor, the Warwick pirates rushed up with their warships, and the large tonnage merchant ships also rushed out with them. The number of the two sides was nearly 100 times different, and the flames continued, and one warship after another began to burn. Warwick's agility lost its meaning at this time.

The whole sea was full of enemy warships, just like the ships of the whole world gathered here except for Legrand.

This is an overwhelming contrast in numbers.

The first three ships with a tonnage of more than 1000 were like a tiger shark rushing into a school of fish. Wherever they passed, all the merchant ships of kossia were easily knocked over by them. Little by little, the sea engulfed the merchant ships, and the lugrand sailors struggled and cried on the sea, some waving flags and crying for help.

They were met by raindrops of arrows.

Warwick pirates sprang up from the sea, climbed on the enemy's warships, roared and fought with hundreds and thousands of enemies. On the deck, the knights in full gear raised their bows and arrows.

A body was thrown from the ship, a ship burning, the sea turned red, can not tell whether it is fire or blood.

"Surrender! If you don't surrender, the whole kosiya will die! "

Mrs. spider called to Dawson and the mayor.

According to the practice of war in this era, if the defending party surrenders without resistance, the winner will not plunder. If the defending party is desperate to resist, the winner will plunder after the city is broken, or even Butcher the city! [2]

a fireball flew over their heads and hit the tower on the city wall.

Dawson clan leader pulled the poisonous spider lady, raised the shield in one hand, and blocked the stones falling from the top of his head.

"Surrender?! Damn it, these sons of bitches don't want us to surrender at all

He dragged Mrs. poisonous spider to a safe place and cried out in a loud voice. He pointed to the warship in the harbor."They are here to plunder! They don't accept surrender at all

The mayor turned pale.

After realizing that it was absolutely impossible to resist such a huge army attack, he hung a white flag on the tower.

A huge stone blew down the tower.

They don't accept surrender at all!

………………

"Kosia, the golden city of Legrand."

On the sea, in the rear of many warships, count Verdun on a command ship looked out at the city of kosiya in the light of the fire and saw that the tower with the white flag was collapsed.

Wilduan is the leader of the abyss alliance countries for the maritime transportation of the holy army. He knows very well why the alliance of small countries in the abyss took part so enthusiastically in this holy army movement. It's just a high sounding excuse to say "restore the glory of the Lord" and "cleanse the heresy".

The reason why the abyss alliance is willing to make great efforts to transport the holy army is that the Legrand merchants have always been strong competitors of the abyss alliance in the trade of the abyss from the hopeless inland sea. At the beginning, before the five port alliance was replaced by the free chamber of Commerce, the five Port Alliance relied on the secret support of the Holy See, and almost pushed the abyss alliance out of the hopeless inland trade. [3]

for this purpose, will Duane is certainly not willing to accept kosiya's surrender.

However, he was slightly surprised to see kosiya's flag down.

He is not qualified to make the order.

On second thought, will Duane soon understood why - none of the troops who arrived here wanted to accept kosiya's surrender.

Fanatics will come from far away because of the instigation of the Holy See and the so-called will of the Lord, but more people come for the benefit of the Holy See. The abyss alliance is eager to attack its competitors, and other countries are also trying to tear a piece of flesh and blood from the Legrand empire. Landless knights and poor peasant serfs were trying to make a fortune by plundering.

No one will accept kosiya's surrender.

Three of the main battle ships of the Holy See sailed into the harbor, followed by more ships. The gate of the city was knocked open, and the soldiers rushed down from the ships and flooded into the city of kosiya, which was opened by the war.

"Go! Kill

The carnival of villains.

………………

"Sally

The boy, Anthony, curled up in the cupboard of the room, closed his eyes tightly.

Mother holding the boy hidden in the cupboard, through the crack of the cupboard door staring at the floor of the room, blood flowing away, dyed a pair of small gray shoes red. That's her Sally. Her Sally pushed away her brother subconsciously at the moment when the fireball fell.

"Sally

The boy cried out his sister's name, and his mother put her hand over his mouth.

The wooden door was kicked open. Soldiers in armor and swords rushed in. Pots and pans were thrown on the ground and smashed. All valuable things were collected and scraped clean.

A soldier stepped on the girl's blood on the ground, went to the cabinet and pulled it open.

Blood.

There's blood all over the place.

In order to protect his wife, a blacksmith drew a red iron bar from the fire and inserted it into the enemy's abdomen. Another holy knight of the abyss alliance stabbed him in the chest with a backhand. A half year old boy awkwardly raised a board to protect his sister, and an old blind man hugged his granddaughter

The world is full of blood.

Crazy, crazy, the world is crazy.

The elegant and handsome Dawson clan leader was dressed in ill fitting armor, holding a sword in both hands and fighting hard in the street. He went through the streets and yelled at all the men in the city:

"guard kosiya! Guard our brothers and sisters! Guard our wives, children and parents

"Guard Legrand!"

People were fighting in the streets, and the enemy was pouring into the city like sand and sea.

All the merchant ships on the wharf have already been ignited, and the fire has burned from the sea to the city wall. Millennium kosiya, once a city with endless merchant ships and gold flowing in the merchant ship net, is burning in the flames.

A street full of corpses, children holding dolls standing in the middle of the street.

Dawson passed by with blood all over his body. He stopped his horse and yelled to the child, "hide! Hide

The sound of bowstring pulling.

The child looked up and saw the arrow coming out of the throat of the man who was speaking to him in armor. She began to cry. The man fell from the horse, and blood gushed from his throat. He looked at the child and said vaguely: -- Hide from Hide... "

In the distance, there are still people shouting:

"guard Legrand!"

"Guard Keya..."

"Here's what they say: let those who have recently been hired on meager wages get eternal rewards. Let those who are exhausted go to work and get eternal rewards. What else can I say? Misfortune on this side will turn into joy on that side, and poverty on this side will turn into wealth on that side [4]So tens of thousands of people armed, came here, came to kossia.

…… Now I'm here, and the people who were killed drown my bare feet.

What else can I say?

They don't even let go of women and children! [5] "

the last kosiya poet wrote his last words on the wall with blood and indignation.

The world is crazy.

………………

In the Gulf of kosiya, on the command ship of the sea holy army.

The captain's reception room was decorated magnificently, and the silver candlesticks were misty. Senior officers and nobles sat down on both sides of the long table, and musicians played in the roar of gunfire.

The storm just passed. Everything went well. It was a fine day.

All the people on both sides of the long table hold their glasses high:

"to the Lord, cheers

"To the glory, cheers!"

Cheers!!!

The author has something to say: [1] Note: in the middle ages, the catapult was not only used to launch boulders, but also used to launch "fireball", "fire bottle" and "fire pot". In addition, the use of gunpowder in the middle ages and other related issues are discussed in the previous chapters 41, 115 and 116. The relevant bibliography is put out in the above chapters. If you are interested, you can look forward to find it, and there is no explanation here.

[2] "It was customary at that time that if one side of the garrison surrendered without resistance, or surrendered with a little resistance, the winner would not plunder. If one side of the garrison fought to death, the winner would plunder after the city was broken.". Xu Jin. On plunder and its disappearance in the modern European war history [J]. Military history research, 2009 (04): 62-73.

[3] wars aimed at attacking competitors are everywhere in history. In the Fourth Crusade, Venetian merchants provided maritime transportation for the Crusaders partly because they wanted to use the Crusades to attack their competitors.

[4] [5] Xu Jin. On plunder and its disappearance in the history of modern European war [J]. Military history research, 2009 (04): 62-73.

in the early 20th century, the author of this paper holds that plunder is the main reason for its disappearance