Chapter 1566: The Second City Gate

"Close the city gate!" Seeing the slaves rushing towards the city gate, the captain of the guard guarding the city became anxious. If the rioting slaves entered the city, would he lose his official?

But the captain of the guard obviously thought too much. After the slaves entered the city, he couldn't save his life. How could he care about being an official?

"Boom..."

"Crunch..."

With a toothache churning sound, the jammed city gate noose finally lived up to expectations and closed the city gate.

"Huh..." The captain of the guard here just breathed a sigh of relief and was about to be reported to his superiors, but suddenly there was a loud noise in his ears!

"Boom!" With the loud noise, the guard captain standing at the top of the city felt like an earthquake, and the entire city wall was shaking.

Looking down the city, I saw dozens of strong slaves holding a huge log and smashing into the city gate, and there were more than one group of slaves doing this work, and there were several groups of slaves holding a log behind them charging !

"Damn it! Shoot me arrows! Shoot these dirty slaves!" The captain of the guard yelled loudly, because he knew that in recent decades, the generals in charge of guarding the imperial capital have embezzled military expenses, so there are already countless city gates. It has not been strengthened for ten years. Although the surface is painted every year, it looks like a new one, but the interior has long been decayed. Under such a violent impact, the city gate will not last long at all!

"Swish, swish..." The soldiers at the top of the city immediately fired arrows, and the sharp arrows easily shot through the slaves without any protection, and one after another the corpses fell down. The fear of death is an instinct!

"Follow me! Marat's wealth and beauties are waiting for us!" Gironde knew that it was time for him to perform. For the sake of his brothers, let alone the rain of arrows ahead, he would fight even if it was a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire. !

"Go! For freedom!"

"I want to live a good life, go!"

"Beauty! Here I come!"

"I want to be a rich slave owner too!"

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Don't look at the simple words of Gironde's incitement, but for the slaves, they are very effective. Freedom is what they desire most. At home, there is no beauty and wealth. At this time, there is nothing to stop the slaves from attacking the imperial capital. Horse drawn, not even death can scare them off!

"ah!"

"ah……"

"Kill!"

During the charge of the slaves, there were shouts of killing and screams one after another. The slaves fell in waves of arrows, but more slaves rushed up. They stepped over the corpses of their companions and hugged them. Logs that fall to the ground, and charge on!

The slaves kept being shot down, but there were always new ones coming up, and soon a log arrived under the city gate!

"Boom boom boom..." The sound of the logs hitting the city gate became more intensive, and the two logs hit the city gate at the same time, which caused more damage to the city gate, and the time to break the city became shorter and shorter!

"Shoot me! Shoot those slaves to death!" The captain of the guard is already red-eyed. Although he has sent troops to ask for help, the city gate is really in disrepair for a long time, and it is already riddled with holes. Constantly using wooden sticks to support, and even finding wooden boards and nails temporarily for repairs,

But it doesn't help at all, the slaves outside the city are already crazy, their attacks are stronger than waves, this dilapidated city gate can't last long at all!

"My lord! We are running out of arrows!" Youdao said that the room was leaking and it was raining overnight. The captain of the guard hated his immediate superior at this time. There are very few defense equipment in reserve, only some piled up on the surface for inspection, and the rest have long been sold for money.

"Damn!" The captain of the guard cursed secretly, and then he shouted loudly: "Brothers, I don't care what you do, you must guard the city gate for me, think about your family wealth, think about your wives and daughters , must not let these hundreds of thousands of demons enter the city!"

Obviously, the captain of the guard is a sensible person. He knows that these slaves have been oppressed for too long. They usually look like harmless sheep, and anyone can even bully them.

But because of this, once the slaves who have been suppressed for too long are liberated, they will become ferocious beasts than demons. Once they are released into the city, the entire Mara will suffer a catastrophe!

"Yes! Your Excellency!" The soldiers agreed, and then desperately guarded the city gate. When the arrows on the top of the city were used up, the soldiers moved stones from below the city, and then threw stones at the slaves below the city.

After the stones were used up, the soldiers had to forcibly demolish the houses near the city gate. Although the people scolded them, the soldiers knew that if they didn't make every effort to stop the slaves, the losses the people would bear would be huge. bigger!

"My... my lord, it's not good, my lord general ran away..." A soldier came running out of breath, but he brought a piece of news that made the captain of the guard almost die of anger.

It turned out that when the slaves attacked the city, the general who guarded the imperial capital received the news. This fat old guy drank too much blood. He knew very well how empty the guards of the imperial capital were under his crazy exploitation!

In order to eat money, this general arbitrarily cut four-fifths of the army. The entire imperial capital claims to have one hundred thousand defenders, but in fact there are only less than thirty thousand, not to mention all kinds of equipment and armaments. It's okay, but if there is a real war, there may not be a big wooden stick to use.

It was precisely because he knew what he was doing that the general concluded early in the morning that Mara would surely fall, so he did not wait for the captain of the guard to send someone to inform him, so he collected some gold and silver by himself, and then took the thirty-seven concubines, secretly Leaving the city through a secret passage, the whole family fled towards the north.

In fact, like this general, there are not a few nobles who escaped with their families through secret passages. Corrupt officials are often wiser than honest officials, but they don't use their wisdom in the right place.

There is a saying called the three caves of the cunning rabbit, and these corrupt officials and nobles are no exception. They have already dug secret passages. Although the original purpose was to escape with their families when the emperor wanted to punish them, when Mara City was in crisis, this Secret Road also saved their lives.

"Damn it! These damn moths!" The captain of the guard beat and cursed, and then asked the soldiers to go directly to the palace for help, but in a short time, he obviously had no reinforcements.

"Brothers, the city of Mara depends on us now! We will fight to the death today, not for those hateful nobles, nor for that fatuous emperor, but only for our parents, wives and children not to be harmed by demons. Today we will Fight to the death!" The captain of the guard saw that the city gate was about to be breached, so he made the final mobilization!

"For parents, wife and children!"

"The bloody battle to the end!"

The soldiers roared, and then lined up in front of the city gate, because the city gate was about to collapse, and after that, they would be the second city gate made of flesh and blood!