Chapter 201 Burning Dante
The commander of Port Dante felt that his men were really incompetent and were scared back by a few loud noises. He actually lost the two most important areas of Dante City. The warehouse area and the reserve area were piled with more than 100,000 troops of grain and fodder, spare weapons, as well as various new crossbow guns and more than 400,000 bows and arrows. How could they be lost? Question mark
I only heard the general shouting an order: "Cavalry troops, there is no need to gather! Bring it to me! Take back the warehouse area and reserve area!"
"Yes!" A young general rushed out and gathered some cavalry not far away, ready to rush to the area occupied by the Rome Marines. He didn't hear the general say that there was no need to gather. How could the cavalry charge if they didn't gather?
While preparing to charge, there was another burst of gunfire. The cavalry's horses hissed and fled, and more than half of the finally established offensive was scattered.
The cavalry did not dare to delay, so they had to stop gathering according to the order of the general, but rushed to Rome's army scatteredly.
However, as soon as these poor cavalry rushed to the position of the Romem Marine Corps, they were pushed back by a strong crossbow, and the rain-like arrow rain paid a heavy price for these hastily responding cavalry.
"Go to the nearby barracks and call the heavy cavalry. I need support! Hurry up!" The general guarding the city looked bad and hurriedly ordered.
When he was in a panic, the heavy cavalry entered the city all the way in the distance. While charging towards the position of the Romei army, he shouted, "Don't panic, the heavy cavalry of the Bello army has arrived! Fight back immediately!"
Just as the allied forces of the four countries saw their main force kill and were ready to rush to the position of Rome's army, some tall shadows on the position of Rome's army slowly rushed up.
These tall shadows are Rome Island's armored reconnaissance vehicles. These improved armored vehicles are equipped with Rome Island's improved crossbows and thicker steel plate protection, which can be said to be very terrible weapons.
If you are not forgetful, then you will know that Romai's armored car will not fall behind the orc wolf knights. Now that wolves enter the sheep pen, it is naturally very comfortable.
The heavy cavalry charged close to the Lomai position and found that the other side had a terrible steel defense line, and it was actually a moving fortress. These armored vehicles slowly pushed forward, waiting for the cavalry to hit the iron plate.
Rounds of arrow rain poured down on the heads of these cavalry, and the screams were endless. From time to time, with the sound of magic bullets exploding, the battlefield was in a mess.
"Retreat! Withdraw!" Finally, the cavalry saw that the situation was not good, and those steel monsters could not be dealt with by them.
came and went quickly. As soon as these cavalry urged the horse, they began to retreat, and this withdrawal lost the last chance to recapture the warehouse area and reserve area.
Romai's army began to set fire to the warehouse area and reserve area of Dante Port, lighting many houses and warehouses. The stubborn defenders and hoarded materials in it soon turned into burning flames and danced.
The fierce Romeck Marines even ignored the crying and begging for mercy of Lomek's defenders, did not accept any form of surrender, and directly burned the unfighting enemy and the warehouse together.
Although it is extremely cruel, it greatly saves incineration time, improves the efficiency of arson, and saves the trouble of accepting prisoners.
In a while, a blazing fire broke out throughout the dock area of Dante Port, and the fire lit up the surroundings like daylight.
The commander of the Romer Marine Corps is Bowker. His black beard stands upright like a gun, and his short beard on his cheeks does not fall in the wind. His face is actually a pair of mung bean eyes. At a glance, he knows that he is a tiger general.
He only heard his loud order: "All withdraw to the sea!" Our goal has been achieved, return!"
The marines of Rome Island took advantage of the fire and retreated into the sea. They were not chaotic at all. They were well-founded. At first glance, they were a hundred-war brigades. The remnants of the defenders of Dante Port tested it and gave up entanglement.
It was late at night, and the second main fleet of Rome Island actually bombarded the warehouse area and reserve area several times, completely turning the two blocks into ruins before covering the slow retreat of Rome's naval transport ships.
After the defenders of Port Dante and nearby troops who came to reinforce confirmed that Rome's army had been far away, they began rescue work in the warehouse area and reserve area.
By this time, the fire had almost burned the two areas, and most of the materials had been turned into ashes, and only a small part of the edge had been preserved.
But this fire cooled the coalition forces of the four countries from their heads to their heels. The tough Belo cavalry did not achieve any results. The light cavalry and infantry were also defeated by the Romer army. The terrible explosion made all the soldiers who participated in the war frightened and lost their courage.
What a terrible battle power can make a brilliant record. He rushed into the tightly guarded military port to burn supplies, and then retreated under the fierce attack of his opponent, which even hit the local defenders hard.
It's also bad luck on the other hand. In order to facilitate the management and prevention of Romai's spy infiltration, Port Dante actually moved the civilians in the warehouse area and the reserve area to other areas, completely turning these two areas into a military forbidden zone, but it also facilitated Romai's sneak attack. There is no need to worry about hurting innocent people, and you can do it directly. The fire has burned a hundred times.
The fire lasted all night and was not controlled until the next morning, and some of the fires were not extinguished until the next afternoon.
220,000 troops' military food was burned out in a month. In addition to grain, part of the big pots and utensils for cooking were burned.
The spare tens of thousands of long swords and all kinds of weapons and equipment have become a pile of scrap iron condensed into a ball after melting and cooling.
More than 20,000 defenders stationed in Port Dante were killed more than half of yesterday, and the heavy cavalry of the Principality of Bello who came to reinforce also lost more than 2,000 bodies. After convergence, no one found the body of a Romer soldier.
The only thing that can witness that I didn't dream yesterday is that there are craters everywhere, some of which are still emitting black smoke, and occasionally a smell of fat being turned into coke.
In fact, Romai's Marines also paid a considerable price. A total of more than 300 soldiers died in Dante. These casualties were basically caused by landing on the beach. Cold arrows in the dark night were indeed difficult to defend.
However, these Romem soldiers either sank to the bottom of the sea or were transported back to Romem as heroes, so there was no body of Rome's army.
On March 9 of the Gregorian calendar, Romer Marines raided Port Dante.
Anyway, the legendary Romer army's first counterattack won an unprecedented victory, and the four coalition forces are now evaluating their losses in frustration and sadly waiting for the news of victory brought back by the distant fleet.