rise of empire total war

Chapter 371 Surrounding Pross

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On the straight stone paved road, uniform footsteps sounded, and echoed in this open small plain. From a distance, it looked like a big snake with a long body, slowly advancing on the earth, and this big snake moved forward. On the route, there is a prosperous city - Pros City.

However, this bustling city has fallen into a state of martial law, and all residents of the city are required to stay at home. Except for soldiers who have been conscripted, they are not allowed to walk on the streets without authorization. Slaves, all property confiscated.

The reason for this situation is very simple, that is, the assassination that shocked the whole city last night. When Winston's army was about to approach the city, the Speaker of the Parliament was assassinated while bathing at home. His thin body was stabbed fourteen times in a row. The knife and blood stained all the hot water in the bath red. When the servant found his body, there was no chance of survival.

At this critical moment, the assassination of the speaker who advocated making peace with the Winster people was assassinated, and it was hard not to cause an uproar (even in peacetime, such a vicious incident would cause quite a shock), and the suspicion of the mastermind behind the scenes was directly suspected The leader of the advocate faction is on the head, but because there is not enough evidence, no matter how suspicious it is, it is impossible to search for a distinguished member of parliament, so the parliament can only order martial law throughout the city, hunt for assassins, and search for murder weapons.

However, everyone knew very well that perhaps the so-called murderer and the murder weapon would not be found before the Wenster troops came to the city.

The speaker was assassinated and killed, but the parliament still had to maintain it as usual. After the joint vote of the members, the advocate leader Edel Valencia was finally elected as the new speaker with a slight advantage. Amid the cheers of his supporters, the central Member Nian held his head high, walked slowly up to the high platform, and sat on the speaker's seat.

The first thing he did after he was elected as the new speaker was to issue a general war mobilization order to conscript male citizens from the entire city-state up to the age of 50 and down to the age of 12, and those without weapons would be uniformly issued by the city-state.In addition to recruiting citizen soldiers, a large number of free citizens were also mobilized. A small number of young and strong people were distributed with weapons and fought side by side with the citizen soldiers. Cut down trees and hand them over to craftsmen in the city to make arrows and javelins for defending the city.

For a while, the assassination of the former speaker was forgotten by people. Under the mobilization order for a full-scale war, everyone in the city-state will become a soldier and fight the enemy to the end.

On May 1119, 5 in the continental calendar, the vanguard of the Winster Expeditionary Force broke into the outskirts of Puros City and started a small-scale battle with the Pros city-state army. The battle lasted only about 23 minutes, and the Puros were forced to leave dozens of The corpse retreated.

The victory in the first battle brought the already high morale of the Winster soldiers to the peak. When they saw the tall city wall of Pross City, they couldn't help but think of Tarossos City in their hearts. If they can vent their energy after conquering the city, they don’t know how much loot they can get—many of their soldiers have earned a lot of wealth just by destroying the city of Tarossos.

Charles was also thinking about whether to repeat the tragedy of Tarossos City in Pross City, but the rationality in his heart told him that enough should be enough, blindly massacring the city would only make the countries of the Osa Peninsula more hostile to Wen. The Kingdom of Sturt is not conducive to their development of power here.More importantly, massacring every conquered city will only make his army bloodthirsty and bloodthirsty, and eventually it will gradually evolve into an uncontrollable situation.

Even so, he did not intend to let go of this ultimate goal. He ordered the entire army to allow looting after the city was broken, but massacres of civilians were not allowed. If anyone dared to massacre civilians recklessly, what awaited him would be war After the ruthless approval-although they were told not to massacre civilians, the soldiers cheered for being able to sack the city. They looked at the tall city wall and were eager to try, looking forward to the future siege battle.

The siege of the city was launched against such a background. With covetousness for the wealth contained in the city of Prouss, the Winster Expeditionary Army surrounded the city and used local materials to build a wall around the city to prevent Pros from The army broke out of the city.In order to facilitate the use of artillery, the soldiers, under the guidance of the craftsmen accompanying the army, built one wide platform after another on the wall. Two artillery pieces were deployed on each platform, and they bombarded the city directly on the platform called the fort. .

In addition to the artillery bombardment day and night, the soldiers also dug tunnels in the soft soil inside the wall, intending to dig a tunnel to make an internal bloom in the city of Pros, and cooperate with the frontal assault troops to cooperate internally and externally.However, they underestimated the time-consuming of digging the tunnel. When the city wall was bombarded by artillery for days and was crumbling, the tunnel was just about to be dug to the position of the city wall.

Faced with the cross-age weapons equipped by Winster's army, the defenders of Pros City were shaken. Almost every day, many soldiers died under the bombardment of artillery, and their deaths were miserable. Few people could keep the whole body—— The power can directly smash the hit human body to pieces, even if it is just barely brushed, it will cause serious damage.

Under such circumstances, talk of surrender gradually emerged. Although the tragedy of the Tarosos people was still vivid in their eyes, they still did not want to suffer such tremendous pressure all day long, and the soldiers also knew that the Tarossians The Rossos people suffered such an end because of their tenacious resistance. The city-state of Cartonita, which had surrendered despite the fact, had been safe. The price they paid was only to surrender to the Winsters.

Although the Ossa people are very similar to the Greeks on Earth, they do not value freedom and democracy as much as the Greeks (democracy is another matter, after all, there are many countries and city-states in the Greek world that practice monarchy and tyranny), so for It is not impossible to save your life and submit to a strong enemy.

However, even if the soldiers below want to surrender, as long as the parliament does not agree to surrender, they must continue to resist. After all, in this city-state, the power of the parliament is supreme.

Under the bombardment of artillery for days and days after the siege No. 20, a city wall of Pros City was finally bombed down. A large number of stones were engulfed by the smoke and dust that was raised in the sky with a deafening roar. When the smoke and dust dispersed , the original tall city wall has disappeared, replaced by a pile of messy ruins, and dozens of corpses of soldiers buried under the ruins.

After the walls were blown down, the morale of the defenders finally fell to the bottom.

(End of this chapter)