"Kill!!!" The fighting had been going on for almost ten minutes before Kai arrived at the west gate. At the gap in the west gate city wall, hundreds of soldiers, led by several Camelot knights, blocked the gap, fighting and fighting repeatedly around the gap of less than five meters.
This is also a better aspect of the knight system. Any knight with a square flag has the power to command troops. When necessary, they can take over the command. The chain of command is very flexible. After the explosion, the knights who were originally stationed around immediately used their power to organize the surrounding soldiers to block the gap, otherwise they would have been killed by the Sennods and entered the city.
After Kai arrived with his people, he did not immediately ask everyone to rush forward to add more troops. He only asked Gawain to bring some people to support him.
"Perino! Lead the troops to set up defenses around here, set up barricades, and arrange archers and crossbowmen!"
The current situation is that the morale of the Sennods has greatly increased because they opened a gap in the city wall. On the other hand, Camelot's side, the reason why they were able to temporarily stop Sennod's advance was entirely due to their bravery.
As a commander, Kai naturally cannot rely on this momentary outburst. He needs a more stable and long-term plan. The city wall was broken, and he had to resist the attack and then find a way to block the hole. Currently, the entire regular force of Camelot does not exceed 5,000, but the enemy number exceeds 30,000. Unless the gap is gambled, they will be exhausted and unable to stop the Sennods.
With the addition of fresh troops, the Camelot soldiers who had been blocking the gap immediately boosted their morale, and even pushed the Senodians back for a while. This gap is only that big. No matter how large the number of Sennodians is, they can only invest the same amount of troops as Camelot at one time. Kai is not afraid of the gap being breached in a short period of time.
Kai stood at the back and watched coldly as the Sennods were suppressed back. Behind him, countless temporarily recruited people began to carry sandbags, stones, and wooden boards under the arrangement of the soldiers to build temporary structures. Barricade.
Further back, longbows and hand crossbows began to be distributed to countless men, and these people began to set up positions under the leadership of professional soldiers. The houses around the city wall were used, and people continued to climb on the roofs to form an all-round long-range attack position. On the city wall, the defenders who had suffered heavy losses due to the explosion also quickly completed their reinforcements with support and began to block the enemy troops from the city wall.
About half an hour later, Perino led someone to Kai's side.
"Your Highness, the positions and barricades are ready."
Kai then looked away from the battlefield.
"Very well, tell Gawain to have them retreat and let the enemy in."
Someone said, you are talking nonsense. You are defending the city. The enemy has opened a gap in the city wall. Instead of closing the gap, you let the enemy in. This is a counterattack!
It would be wrong to think so. In fact, Kai has his own reasons for doing this. The gap is only that big. Even if Kai opens the gap, the number of troops the enemy can invest is actually very limited. On the contrary, if the gap is opened, it will be liberation for Kai and others. This means they have more space.
Kai's position at the gap was in the shape of a fan with the gap as the center. The space becomes smaller toward the gap. Kai let people evacuate the gap and enter the position, which instead liberated their own forces and gave them an advantage in strength and space in local areas.
What's more, with so many people crowded together, Kai's long-range attack advantage cannot be used at all. Once the restrictions are relaxed, the archers and crossbowmen prepared by Kai can do their best. Since the enemies are crowded in the gap, as long as the arrows are shot through, there is no fear of missing people. And what's even better is that because of the city wall, the enemy's long-range support is almost non-existent!
You can only hit people, but others can't hit you. Is there anything more enjoyable than this?
Of course, this situation is also based on Kai's immense confidence in his own strength, and he can turn the tide at critical moments. If someone else dares to play like this, it will be very easy for him to capsize!
Perino immediately sent the signal after receiving the order.
Gawain was killing happily at the front, but after getting the signal, he immediately abandoned his enemies and began to shout to the surrounding soldiers and comrades: "Everyone immediately cross cover and retreat! Quick! Quick! Quick!"
He didn't dare to delay. Kai had made it clear to him before that once the time was up, it wouldn't matter if they retreated or not, the rain of arrows would arrive on time.
Gawain doesn’t want to be shot into a hornet’s nest by his own people!
Following Gawain's order, all the fighting knights immediately and consciously began to direct the surrounding soldiers to retreat in an orderly manner. With the knights here, there is no need to worry about the lack of grassroots command. They have a natural suppression of soldiers. Any soldier knows that he can definitely hear the knight's command when he hears it on the battlefield!
As Camelot's troops began to withdraw, the Sennods thought that their offensive was working, and they began to rush into the city one by one. Perhaps it was because Camelot's previous resistance was so tenacious that the Sennods were suffocating, so everyone wanted to rush into the city to make those Camelot people look good.
The gap is too small, there are too many people, and everyone is vying for the first place, which directly leads to congestion at the gap!
Watching Gawain and the others lead the soldiers back to the prepared position. Kai hesitated no longer.
"Fire arrows!!!"
"Fire arrows!!!!!!" The herald kept repeating Kai's orders in various positions.
Bang!
A neat sound of bow strings vibrating sounded like thunder in the dark night.
The Sennod soldiers who had just rushed into the city from the gap were overwhelmed by the overwhelming rain of arrows before they could clearly see the enemy's layout. The rain of arrows densely blocked all light.
The archer uses the power of the bow to send the arrow into the sky from bottom to top. When it reaches a certain height, the potential energy gradually disappears and draws a parabola. Adding the acceleration of gravity, from top to bottom, it shoots the arrow with all its strength to the target. The standard leather armor worn by Senod soldiers could not block this attack at all.
The Sennod soldiers who rushed into the city were like harvested wheat, falling dead in pieces on the ground. After the first round of arrow rain passed, the ground was filled with arrows as if ears of wheat had grown again. It was so densely packed that there was no place to set foot.
The Sennod soldiers at the gap who watched helplessly as their companions were shot into a hornet's nest had no time to react before they were pushed into the city wall by their companions behind them who couldn't wait any longer.
At this time, the knights on Camelot's position were very tacit and stopped their own shooting. This was not out of sympathy or anything else, but simply to let more Sennods rush in before harvesting.
About ten seconds later, the Sennods once again piled up in the encirclement of the position.
"put!!!"
Another burst of arrows! Completely went through the process just now. The Sennodians were once again dead. Such a dense rain of arrows, coupled with the small space for the Sennods to move around, meant that even if they raised their shields, they could not defend themselves against such a dense rain of arrows.
This time, the Sennods outside the city wall also began to notice something strange inside the gap. But the huge inertia still allowed a steady stream of Sennods to continue rushing into the gap. But what followed was still cold killing. Most of the Sennod soldiers were shot to death without even having a chance to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
