Chapter 883 [0880] Cooperation and Sharing of Spoils

Dreven has no experience in commanding a large army.

But he has a natural cunningness as he grew up in the slums - specifically in this siege, he perfectly concealed the use of black gunpowder.

In Noxus, gunpowder has long been widely used in many fields, but for the Avarosans, this explosive is quite new.

In the previous siege, Draven ordered the earth dragon lizards to carry out a suicide attack, which was a test, suppression, and a sleight of hand, in order to make the Avarosan warriors with experience in defending the city tired and make the defending commander misjudge.

The real tool for breaking the city in Draven's hands is the black gunpowder that is continuously transported by logistics.

Now, the experienced soldiers in Fokarodna are exhausted, and they are also used to Noxus's attack method of using earth dragon lizards to attack the city walls during the day. In the middle of the night, even if there are still soldiers guarding the city walls, they will inevitably relax.

This is the best time to launch an assault!

That night, led by Draven himself, with the elite of the Trifarii as the vanguard, many Noxian soldiers quietly came to the walls of Fokarodna with pottery jars filled with black gunpowder and sealed with long fuses.

The night was deep.

Without the earth-shaking footsteps of the earth dragon lizards, the Avarosans on the wall were alert, but they were just simple patrols with fixed routes.

The direction Draven chose to attack was a direction where there had not been many battles in the past. It was far away from the military camp, and the people responsible for the defense here were all rookies.

In addition, after night fell, the vigilance of the snow sculptures that the Avarosans relied on to provide high-altitude vision also decreased. They also thought that the snow owls were too greedy and did not tame these gluttons like Demacia. They were not prepared for Draven's raid.

It was not until the Noxians reached the bottom of the city wall and began to bury gunpowder cans and cluster fuses at the targets they had chosen long ago that the Avarosan people on the city wall heard some movement and sent people to observe.

But unfortunately, it was too late.

When the sentry shouted "Who is there?" twice, and before he had time to decide whether to take a closer look or directly give the alarm, the gunpowder can was ready.

As a flash of fire lit up in the night, the clustered fuses were directly ignited.

The sentry who saw the fire under the city finally pulled off the whistle on his neck, puffed up his cheeks and blew it with all his strength.

The sharp whistle resounded through the night sky.

However, before the Avarosan warriors woke up to the whistle, a roar completely covered the whistle - more than 3,000 pounds of black gunpowder piled together exploded violently under the city wall under the ignition of the cluster fuse.

Because the Noxian engineers dug a certain distance downward when stacking the gunpowder cans, with the continuous detonation of these gunpowder cans, the city wall at the explosion site became noticeably loose, and there was a tendency to collapse.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the mages who followed the team after the military reform finally took action. More than 40 spellcasters cast spells together, and the power of the arcane gathered into a huge slap, and then pushed hard against the loosened city wall.

Although the wall of Fokarodna is relatively strong, it is far less strong and reliable than the general fortress wall in the frozen land without special protection magic.

When the black gunpowder explosion loosened the foundation, the hands of the mages pushed and squeezed without interference, and finally made the city wall top-heavy and collapsed.

Seeing this scene, the Noxian soldiers cheered excitedly - the engineers were right, these Avarosans didn't know how to build a city at all. Their walls didn't have an obvious trapezoidal structure with thin top and thick bottom, and the cross-section was close to a rectangle. As long as the force points were found, this kind of wall would be knocked down in minutes!

With the collapse of part of the wall, the battle quickly moved to the next stage.

The neatly-armed Noxian soldiers poured in from the gap, and after quickly occupying the surrounding wall sections, they opened the gate, and then more Noxians began to enter the city to wipe out the resistance.

During this period, the Avarosan warriors who were on guard in the city also picked up their weapons and rushed towards the aggressive Noxians, and a tragic street battle began.

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According to Noxus’ past combat experience, this kind of street fighting after the city was broken should be crushing. It is difficult for the enemy who has lost organization and morale to continue to resist after the city is broken. At most, a few remaining troops rely on the military buildings in the city to fight desperately.

However, what Draven and all the Noxians never expected was that although the walls of Fokarodna City have been lost, the Avarosans, who have no organization, still have quite amazing combat effectiveness.

In the process of clearing the defense, the Noxians paid a painful price far beyond their expectations-even Draven, who rushed to the front, was almost chopped in the abdomen by an Avarosan who rushed out from the corner.

It seems that without any organization, the Avarosans will not collapse, but will be extremely brave? !

In fact, the Noxians’ feelings are not wrong.

This kind of chaotic battle in the dark night is indeed the strength of the Avarosan people - or, if it is not a chaotic battle, then these Noxian soldiers who came from afar will find that most of the Avarosan warriors are actually not very organized even on the front battlefield.

Although for most armies, order and discipline are combat effectiveness, this is obviously not suitable for Freljord.

For the Freljord people who are used to solving problems with fists and swords, fighting is a daily activity for many people. On the one hand, it exercises their courage, and on the other hand, it also leads to a considerable degree of individualism in the Freljord army.

Even the Avarosan tribe under Ashe is no exception to this.

Specifically, even in a large battlefield that requires command, the Freljord people often act in small teams and fight on their own.

Therefore, this kind of melee after a sudden attack is actually the relative strength of the Avarosans. Even before Ashe, the Freljord people did not like to build cities. In addition to the lack of organizational ability, another reason was that the city's defense effect was not as good as other places. Anyway, street fighting depends on each person's ability.

Under the superposition of various reasons, although the Avarosan warriors were at a disadvantage after breaking the city due to equipment gaps and preparation gaps, the casualties caused by their counterattacks far exceeded the expectations of the Noxians, and even the entire street fighting had a tendency to be somewhat tragic.

Seeing that the Avarosan warriors in the dark were still quite combat-effective even after being scattered, Draven had to give up the idea of ​​taking advantage of the night to achieve success in one battle under the urging of Tamara, and instead occupied key positions along the wider streets to wait for tomorrow morning, and then concentrate superior forces to clear the area.

In any case, the Noxians now have the advantage of numbers and organization, and Avarosa has no city walls. Instead of fighting with the enemy in the dark, it is better to divide the battlefield and create a local superior force to complete the cleanup at the lowest cost.

In this way, the soldiers led by the Trifari warriors stopped advancing and began to clear the civilian strongholds along the main streets, and escorted the engineers to build barricades in the night, waiting for the dawn of tomorrow to defeat the enemies in each area one by one!

And when Noxus stopped advancing, the Avarosa warriors, who were still fighting desperately and relying on chaos to cause a lot of casualties to Noxus soldiers, suddenly became passive-they couldn't directly attack the Noxian army. They wanted to organize and act, but they couldn't effectively gather because the city wall was suddenly breached, the message was not delivered in time, and the commander couldn't be found.

The result was that some brave men attacked the Noxian army and were easily killed, while a few stayed in their own buildings, and their activity space was gradually compressed. They would only wait until tomorrow morning to usher in the end.

It seemed that Fokarodna was going to be finished.

However, what people never expected was that at dawn, the friendly forces of the Noxians - the teams composed of looters - came to Fokarodna and clamored to enter the city and loot it.

This is very shameless.

Although it was understandable that they could only sit and watch when Noxus attacked the city because of the lack of siege means, now that the city wall was breached, they jumped out impatiently to share the spoils, which was somewhat shameless.

So, facing the demands of the looters, Draven did not hesitate to use the Noxians to "gentle" output.

Fortunately, the translator spoke quickly at this time, otherwise if the conversation continued, the two sides would probably fight on the spot.

Draven, who was furious, started to speak sweetly in front of the translator, while the raiders on the opposite side acted as if they were not stingy. After both sides vented their emotions by greeting each other's ancestors (Draven felt that he was not at a disadvantage, because he grew up with his brother since he was a child, and he had never seen his parents since he could remember, let alone his ancestors), they communicated some useful information.

The raiders said very naturally that they were here to take "their share of the spoils".

They wanted the population, food, and supplies in the city!

When Draven heard the other party say this, he started to speak sweetly again.

"This is your spoils, why am I here to drink the northwest wind?"

These Freljord barbarians really don't care about their shame!

However, what Draven didn't expect was that the other party still looked as if it was a matter of course, and said, "You have taken the best, what's wrong with letting us drink some soup?"

Draven was stunned.

The best?

Is it the best to fight these Avarosans who are still like hedgehogs after destroying the city?

"But this city belongs to you!" Facing the angry Draven, the leaders of the raider tribe who didn't understand what he was saying were confused, "This is the witch's allocation, do you want to violate it?"

This time it was Draven's turn to be stunned.

It's not because he cares about the witch's allocation as much as the Freljord people, but he never expected that the other party meant to leave this city to himself and Noxus!

Although Draven is a political idiot, Darius told him from the beginning that he didn't have to fight for the Freljord people, and asked the engineers to build fortresses along the way. In other words, Darius had coveted Freljord from the beginning.

Even if Freljord is too barren for Noxus and there is no benefit in occupying it, it can reduce the pressure of Noxus in the north in the future by nailing down some nails while the two sides are cooperating.

However, what people never expected was that when Noxus was making its own calculations, the frost witch who facilitated the cooperation between the two sides generously offered a city - even if it was a city looted by Noxus, its strategic value was still immeasurable.

You know, this is Fokalodna, a key place connecting Drakstark in Central Freljord and East Freljord, and Tukurgul is to the south.

After the Black Forest Federation returned to Noxus, the supply line for Noxus to occupy the city of Fokarodna was not as long as imagined!

Draven was very sure that the Frost Witch had never put this city on the negotiation table in the past.

Now facing the demands of the looters, he now had to make a choice - should he accept this deal and let the looters go with all their might, or let the looters go away and continue to entangle with the difficult Avarosa people?

In Draven's view, this was a free question.

Without any hesitation, a hypocritical smile appeared on his face in an instant, and he turned to command the soldiers to go back and occupy the city walls and key streets. As long as these places were occupied, he believed that these looters would have no room to regret in the future.

As for whether the two sides would argue afterwards...

Hehe.

It is not so easy to spit out the places occupied by the Noxians!

In this way, Noxus and the looters reached a new tacit understanding after the fall of Fokarodna.

The looters could plunder the city and take away all the wealth of the Avarosans, while the Noxians would take over the city defense and become the new masters of the city. Because of their mutual fear, although they all disliked each other, they finally abided by the agreement.

Three days later, the looters drove the livestock, loaded the spoils, and took the hearth slaves to leave the city of Fokarodna, leaving only an empty city for Noxus.

Tamara took advantage of this time to strengthen the city defense of Fokarodna with engineers and sent messengers to urge for supplies.

At this point, the eastern gateway of the Laxtak Plain was completely under the control of the Noxians, and when Ashe, who had hurriedly gathered the tribal warriors and set off to support, got the news, the Avarosan war mother almost blacked out.

It was also at this time that the vanguard of Demacia completed an emergency assembly at the Greentooth Peak Camp.

Karya's small class on black powder:

The black powder in Runeland is not a pure chemical fuel. In addition to fuel, the active ingredients in this explosive also include various magical active substances. When it deflagrates, the high temperature will destroy the stability of the magical active substances and cause an explosion.