860 Break An Arm Firs (1/2)

Chapter 860 – Break An Arm First

Rabat City, Kasbah of the Udayas.

War would not stop because of outside events, nor would it slow down because of personal ideals. Just as the Mediterranean Lords were deep in discussion, Rabat was on fire.

The first to fall was the Kasbah of the Udayas.

Facing a planned and carefully designed sneak attack, the Kasbah of the Udayas appeared powerless. The 20 odd cannons on the castle only fired twice before they were destroyed.

With that, they had lost their only way of fighting back.

Cannonball after cannonball crossed the city wall and exploded within the castle.

The vicious cannonballs seemed like they had eyes as they aimed at the Guards Soldiers in the city. Before they could even react, they suffered heavy casualties.

What happened next was mass chaos.

The narrow castle was sieged from all directions and surrounded by numerous cannonballs, and there was no safe place yet.

This was a totally one sided battle.

The Mediterranean Squadron had planned it out too well. Before the battle started, Alvaro used the intel, so he knew which ship was where and which cannon should shoot at where.

The castle defending troops were in terrible shape. Helplessly, they could only give up the castle and retreat to the imperial city. If they stayed, they would only be buried together with the castle.

In less than an hour, the Kasbah of the Udayas, which was viewed as the iron castle of Rabat, had fallen into a sea of flames and was burned to ruins.

War was merciless and so was fire.

Less than 40 thousand guards retreated out of the castle, and each one of them was smoked black. But to them, the catastrophe had just begun.

The Kasbah of the Udayas was built at the cape, and there was only one narrow path leading them to the mainland.

For them to retreat, they had to go past that path. How could the Mediterranean Squadron give up such a chance to strike them?

The moment they walked out of the castle gates, the cannons followed and changed their targets.

'Hong! Hong! Hong!'

Pretty much at the same time as they charged out, cannonballs exploded amongst their formation. The unlucky ones were hit head on, while the lucky ones fell down injured.

”Oh sh*t!”

How was this a path of retreat? It was more of a path to hell.

”Charge, let's just try to survive!”

The defending general decided to test his luck when he saw that there was no way out. The bold ones would charge in front for that chance to survive, while the cowards could only die.

”Charge!”

A group of Guards Soldiers with no way out braved the cannon fire and stepped on a path that was destined to be bloody. On their path, cannonballs continued to fall and blood and flesh flew all around.

Occasionally, one could see soldiers blown into the air and blood splattering all around.

Even if one jumped into the ocean, it was hard for them to escape. The Mediterranean Squadron was not only equipped with cannons, but there were tens of thousands of soldiers in wait with their arrows.

The less than five kilometer cape was covered in blood and corpses were strewn everywhere. It seemed like hell on earth. Even the nearby ocean water was dyed a deep red.

Only one out of ten were lucky enough to survive.

When the Guards troops broke away from the shooting range, less than five thousand of them had survived. Even then, many of them were injured, and even their general had died.

The two sides had not even met in a head on confrontation yet, but the Moroccan Guards had already lost 20% of their numbers.

The strength of the cannons was as such.

The faces of the remaining soldiers were all ashen white, and some of them looked back at the path they came from. Seeing the corpses of their friends, they all vomited.

What they regretted the most about now was probably eating breakfast.

Even experienced generals had never seen such intense battle scenes. This was not even on the same level as a massacre; it was simply a merciless killing.

The Moroccan Guards had no way to fight back, so they could only take it and use their bodies to block it to try and get out.

Even so, the soldiers felt truly fortunate.

”At least we survived? This itself is a miracle.”

After resting up, the Guards troops moved out once more.

”Move, to the city gate!”

The remnant forces did not dare to get close to the north city gate as it was still covered in cannon fire. They decided to take a long path to the west gate. The Great Xia Dynasty War Fighting Legions had not arrived, so they had it lucky and managed to get into the city.