Unknown Knight

Chapter 364 Attack the city wall

The Canglang Guard is a Khan's guard directly under the command of Saiga Khan. Its members are all pure Kugits. They are not only loyal and reliable, but also have to be warriors in strength. Everyone has superb archery skills, and the archery level of each Canglang Guard is close to that of a eagle archer.

As long as one is selected as a Cang Wolf Guard, it means that this Kugit will rise to prominence from then on. The Khan will allocate an exclusive pasture to each Cang Wolf Guard, and the generous salary is enough for every Cang Wolf Guard to live a rich life. It is no exaggeration to say that the economic strength of each Cang Wolf Guard is close to that of a Nayan from a small tribe.

Therefore, every Kugit is proud to be a member of the Canglang Guard, especially those Kugit families from poor families. Their children have been practicing martial arts and archery since childhood, just to be able to join the Canglang Guard, get rid of poverty and reach the peak of their lives.

However, the selection of the Cang Lang Guard is too harsh, and each member is close to being a genius. In addition, such high salaries are also a considerable burden. As a result, the overall number of the Cang Lang Guard has always been small, always maintaining a scale of more than one hundred people. Each generation of Khan regards these Cang Lang Guards as their beloved ones and the most reliable support, and generally they will not use them easily.

But today is different. Today, Saiga Khan is facing a situation of internal and external difficulties. The failure of the previous two expeditions to the Kingdom of Vigia has made many Nayans complain about him. Now the Sajche Fort guarded by his confidant has been easily lost again.

This time, the members of the Toju Nayan family were even more hypocritical, either claiming to be sick or using the appearance of grassland bandits in the territory as an excuse to refuse to send troops, or simply sending a few old, weak and sick people to deal with the matter. They wasted his precious day and made it clear that they did not take him as the Khan seriously.

Therefore, Saiga Khan urgently needed a victory to prove to the Nayans in his country and the surrounding countries that he, Saiga Khan, was still a powerful Khan, and the Khergit Khanate under his leadership was still a powerful Khanate that made neighboring countries tremble in fear, and not everyone could touch its power.

After the exploratory attack during the day, Saiga Khan was quite surprised. After only a dozen rounds of exchange of fire, he lost most of the catapults that he had built at great expense, while the number of the enemy's catapults was less than half of his own. Obviously, a frontal attack was not feasible, so he thought of a night attack.

Night battles were rare in this era, for a simple reason: productivity was low. Most people were malnourished and suffered from night blindness. People with this disease would not only be completely dark at night, but in severe cases would be almost as blind as a person. Who would dare to take such a group of people to war? Wouldn't that be tantamount to sending them to die?

In addition, the army at that time generally had not received formal training, and military discipline was lax. Various situations were inevitable during night marches, making it difficult to conceal their whereabouts. Once exposed, all previous efforts would be wasted. In serious cases, chaos would occur, and there was even the possibility of infighting.

Therefore, the armies of this era generally would not choose to fight at night. Even the weaker side would not easily use this method to break the deadlock, and there were very few armies capable of fighting at night. Of course, Khan Saiga’s Canglang Guard was not among them.

This is a guard composed of the elites among the elites. The generous treatment makes every Canglang Guard very healthy and strong. Those with malnutrition will not be selected. Moreover, their combat skills are very high, and it is not difficult for them to carry out night battles.

So this beloved unit of Saiga Khan was pulled out to carry out a night attack that concerned Saiga Khan's face and dominance.

Half a mile behind the more than one hundred Cang Wolf Guards, there were more than five hundred experienced Kugit horse archers following. One reason was that they could quickly follow up and carry out subsequent attacks after the Cang Wolf Guards succeeded, and the other was that if the Cang Wolf Guards' night attack failed, they could provide timely support. This thorough and thoughtful preparation showed how much Saiga Khan cared for and cherished this beloved army.

They set out in the middle of the night and quietly moved to a place less than a hundred meters away from the first checkpoint, but they were not in a hurry to attack. Instead, they lay in ambush on the spot, waiting for the best opportunity to come.

At about three or four in the morning, the Cang Lang Guards began to act. By this time, the moon had set and the sky was dark. A night was about to pass, and the soldiers on duty on the city wall were extremely tired. It was the best time for the Cang Lang Guards to launch a night attack.

Although Aix had strengthened the night guard, after a day of hard work and a night of hardship, how many people could resist dozing off? In the first half of the night, the sentinels could still stay awake by chatting and gossiping, but in the second half of the night, they fell asleep while chatting. Even if some people were not asleep, they kept nodding sleepily.

When the Canglang Guards reached the bottom of the city wall, the sentries on the wall still didn't notice. They were so tired that they didn't know that death was quietly approaching them.

The Canglang Guards did not use the harpoon or auxiliary equipment such as ladders, which would only produce extra noise and increase the risk of premature exposure.

They used the stacking method, first building a two-person human tower along the base of the wall, then a Canglang Guard took a running start not far away, stepped on the shoulder of the first-level human tower, and was pushed upwards by the two Canglang Guards on the second-level human tower with their fingers interlocked. The Canglang Guard who took a running start used the momentum to push his soft boots on the wall twice and stretched out his hand to grab, and he had reached the battlement nearly six meters above the ground, and then he pulled and flipped upwards and easily reached the city wall.

The whole process was like an acrobatic performance. The sound made was so slight, like the flapping of a night bird's wings, that it did not alarm the sentries on the city wall at all.

Then the Canglang Guard drew out the short knife with a pitch-black blade from his back and easily took out the two sentries closest to him, followed by two, three, four... More and more Canglang Guards jumped onto the top of the city wall, and more and more sentries died silently.

Until the Canglang Guards killed the ninth sentry, the sentry whose throat was cut was still conscious. Unwilling to give up, he kicked his feet a few times before he died, hitting the long sword of a sentry opposite him, causing the counterweight ball on the sword handle to hit the wall tiles with a "bang" sound, which woke up two nearby sentries who were dozing off. One of the sentries overreacted and stood up all of a sudden.

"Enemy attack..."

Before the sentry who stood up could utter the word "attack" completely, a pitch-black arrow shot directly into his throat, interrupting the word "attack". The sentry who was also awake and sitting on the ground screamed in fear, covered his head and rolled on the ground while running away, shouting:

"Enemy attack, oh my god, enemy attack! Help! Help--!"

“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.”

In just a moment, five or six arrows were shot at the sentry at the same time. When he looked at him again, four or five arrows had already pierced his buttocks and legs. However, the sentry was already overwhelmed by his adrenal hormones and had no time to care about so many things at this time. He rushed forward more than ten meters in a few breaths, just like a guinea pig suddenly rushing out of the bushes during hunting.