I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 38 Failed Night Attack

At the same time, outside the city, the barbarian camp.

The morale of the barbarians who had experienced a disastrous defeat was low, and the entire camp was full of oppressive atmosphere. Looking around, everyone was downcast, without the usual hustle and bustle.

In the main camp of the coalition commander, dozens of chiefs gathered at the invitation of Aktrick. Most of them had a lot of dust on their bodies, as if they had just been withdrawn from the battlefield.

"The cunning of the Macedonians exceeded our expectations, so that we lost many soldiers in two consecutive sieges."

Aktrick's deep voice sounded from the main seat, and his sharp eyes like eagle eyes swept over every chief, and then said: "Only attacking the city twice, we killed no less than seven hundred soldiers, love The chief of the Loli tribe also died in the flames, the morale of the army is low, and the follow-up siege will be delayed for a few days."

"When morale recovers, we will continue to attack. Do the chiefs have any different opinions?"

"No."

"No."

"No……"

The chiefs echoed one after another, obviously frightened by the huge casualties. It only took two sieges to kill no less than [-] soldiers. How many [-] soldiers in their army can continue to die?

However, among the crowd, an inappropriate voice sounded.

"Aktrick, I have other ideas."

"Oh? What do you have in mind, Askewgast."

Aktrick looked at the person who spoke, and asked, this man named Ascogast is the chief of the Malarizi tribe, although the Malariqi tribe is not considered powerful among the Salo people, but Their night raid group is also one of the best.

"The Macedonians repelled our offensive today and will definitely relax their vigilance. Then we can launch a surprise attack at night and teach them a memorable lesson!"

"I am willing to personally lead the night raid group in my family to launch an attack. I dare not say anything else, but in terms of night raids, my night raid group is definitely one of the best in the entire Ograre Peninsula!"

Looking at the confident Ascogast, the chiefs couldn't help but look at each other, and lowered their voices to discuss with each other. As the nominal commander of the coalition this time, Aktrick also seriously thought about it. After a few minutes, He raised his head, looked at Chief Malariqi, and said.

"Ascogast, how many people are there in your night attack group?"

"There are 600 people, Aktrick." Askogast replied, he patted his chest, "I brought most of the night raiders from our tribe."

"600 people..." Aktrick nodded, but then shook his head again, "Is your number too small? As far as I know, there are at least 2000 defenders in Hot Spring Pass."

"If it's just a surprise attack and you don't plan to seize the city gate at night, these 600 people are enough." A chief next to him said suddenly, and Aktrick followed the sound, and it turned out to be a chief of the Maliki people. .

"That's right, it's not realistic to rely on my 600 people to take Thermopylae Pass. At most, I can only sneak in and cause damage, kill some Macedonians, and restore the morale of the army." Ascogast echoed, he is not Fool, if you are really ordered to seize the gate of the city to welcome the army to enter, I am afraid that you will risk your life inside.

Seeing that they killed his fantasy with a single sentence, Aktrick curled his lips, but still nodded, and said: "In this case, then Chief Ascogast will act tonight, the Macedonians just won Great victory, vigilance must be at its lowest level."

"I'll send the order down."

……

That night.

The [-] night raiders of the Malarizi tribe gathered outside the barbarian camp under the leadership of their chief, Ascogast. These night raiders did not wear armor, but were hidden in black war robes. , Their skins are smeared with special black paint, and various patterns are drawn, especially their faces, the thick beards and the beast patterns painted on the faces, it looks like a myth at first glance in the dark The monsters in the book are generally scary.

They were equipped with two tomahawks. This kind of tomahawk could not only kill and steal goods, but also climb mountains and forests, which was extremely practical.And in order to facilitate their actions, they did not carry shields. It can be said that they did not have any protection on their bodies.

……

clang clang-

On the city wall of Thermopylae, the Macedonian heavy infantry patrolled the long wall corridor in units of ten people. Everywhere they looked, there was bright light from torches, illuminating the area of ​​the city wall like daylight. .

Although they had just won a battle during the day, they did not dare to relax after receiving orders from His Majesty the King. They still raised their vigilance to the highest level, walking on the city wall while observing the darkness outside the city.In the huge area outside the city, the only light source was the fire in the barbarian military camp opposite. The moonlight falling from the sky was obviously too dim to illuminate everything on the earth.

Tread-tap-

A patrol team had just passed a corner when the soldier walking behind suddenly heard a slight sound behind him, so he turned his head reflexively to look at it, which almost made him cry out in shock.

"what is that?"

He yelled in a low voice to his comrade who had walked a few steps in front of him. The latter turned his head and looked over when he heard the words. When he saw the tomahawk with a rope tied to the end that the soldier was pointing at, he hurriedly uttered a cry. Warning.But the moment he yelled, he saw the rope tighten in vain, and then, a black figure suddenly jumped out from the wall, and under the terrified eyes of these soldiers, he slashed his head and threw a weapon. The ax directly split the skull of the soldier who made the sound.

"Enemy attack—"

A dying scream of a soldier coming from not far away broke the tranquility of the night, and also brought several stunned soldiers around the soldier who was killed on the spot back to reality. They did not care to look at the soldier. The corpse of his unlucky comrade roared angrily, and he thrust his spear at it.

No matter how good the attacker's skills were, he was powerless when he was attacked from two directions. He reacted extremely quickly and avoided the spear stabbing at his side, but was pierced into the waist by the spear from the other direction. The attacker immediately fell to his knees with a scream, and before he had time to fight back, he was kicked over, and then two spears were inserted into his chest together.

On the city wall, because the warning was timely, the Saloan night raiders who climbed up were all chased and intercepted by the patrols who heard the news. No matter which direction they wanted to escape from, they had no choice but to find that there were enemy soldiers in any direction—— Unless they turned around and climbed down the rope again.

(End of this chapter)