In the city of Anguamuco, the legionaries were doing their routines to take care of the makes.h.i.+ft stone and wood wall that the soldiers finished thanks to the help of the refugees and reinforcement soldiers brought from the capital.
It was a quiet night when in the distance one of the fires of the watchtowers around the city was lit. The legionary who was on duty at the alert post looked at the light on the watchtower and took out his spygla.s.s to check the status of the soldiers.
What he could see saw make him felt disgusted, in the tower he could see a hairy beast that was biting the watchman"s arm while he was still alive.
Without wasting time he rang the alarm of the city, the refugees woke up with the noise but the legionaries controlled them to avoid panic among civilians.
Commander Corus listened to what the lookout he saw by the spygla.s.s had said, so he decided not to risk his soldiers and authorized the use of muskets to deal with any situation that may arise.
The legionaries took out some wooden boxes containing muskets, also opened barrels of gunpowder very carefully to avoid misfortune and filled leather bags with it to distribute to the legionaries on the wall.
The legionaries spent delivering muskets, ammunition, and gunpowder, without wasting much time the legionaries began to load their muskets and prepared to face anything that came out of the darkness.
The legionaries felt fear when all the watchtowers around the city were lit, that could only mean they were under siege.
The children and women within the city were worried since they did not know if the beasts could kill the defenders and then kill them, fortunately, the priests and priestesses calmed the refugees while they were made to sing songs to satisfy the G.o.ds.
The choir of children, women, and adults began to sound in the city and it was at that moment that hairy beasts ran from the shadows trying to enter the city.
The defenders used their muskets to shoot the beasts who fell dead after having some bullet holes, the snipers of the Roman inquisition did not stop firing and placing paper cartridges in their carbines.
The beasts were frightened with the sounds of the weapons but their intention to kill was even more powerful, they ran and reached the pit of the city where there were wooden stakes and tar spread throughout the place.
When Corus saw that the pit of the city could be surpa.s.sed he gave the order to burn the oil in the pit so the soldiers using arrows on fire they shot their bows in the pit, the pit was on fire at that moment and showed the cruel reality of the battlefield.
In the distance thousands of these beasts could be seen hiding in the dark, with the fire reflected in their eyes their position was discovered, Corus took out his pipe and smoked some tobacco and went to his trusted tribune "Order maximum alert, the Fire in the pit will not last long.
Ask them to send Nahual messengers with oil barrels to be launched from the air, conventional reinforcements will take a long time to arrive without mentioning that it is dangerous.
This is a tactical movement create for the emperor, he calls air support, we will have the honor of being the first to test it, bring the legionaries who know how to use arrows away for the walls and prepare themselves, as soon as the oil barrels fall, it is necessary they set them on fire. "
The tribune nodded and took the information to the nahual messenger of the city who prepared and undertook the flight to the defense line, for ten minutes he flew in the beautiful night sky until he reached the city of Ique Side Bia in sector C of the defense line.
The messenger took the information to General Aurelia who did not hesitate to prepare his messengers and the barrels of oil, thanks to the letter of days ago a large number of Nahual messengers were prepared in the city.
The process took an hour and more than 60 Nahual messengers left loading barrels of oil to the city of Anguamuco, after flying in the air for a few minutes they could see the city from afar.
Commander Corus was somewhat worried about the time the Nahual messengers were taking but they have successfully maintained the city although they have already begun to see casualties in the defenders.
Hairy beasts threw large stones at the defenders by hitting some tales and killing them immediately while others were wounded in arms or legs by the force in which the stones were thrown.
Fortunately, they could hear the sounds of eagles in the distance and some other birds that had barrels of tar hanging in their gigantic bodies, the soldiers in the city knew that the reinforcements had arrived.
The Nahual messengers separated from their flight formation and dropped their barrels at different points outside the wall, the oil permeates the bodies of the beasts while the most unfortunate beasts had their heads shattered because the barrels fell directly on them.
The archers did not waste time and get in the walls with their arrows in fire and threw where they saw the barrels falling, the oil was lit and hundreds of beasts as they screamed in pain and ran uncontrollably over their partners setting them on fire.
The air was impregnated with the scent of burnt hair and barbecue, for the soldiers it was a glorious scent that meant they would live another day but for the refugees, it was a foul scent that caused some to vomit from the smell.
The attack of the beasts ended at that moment because they ran to the woods or distant places, even some went into the water of the lake looking to put out the fire in their bodies but only watched in horror as the fire kept burning them in the water.
So some of the beasts were drowned in their desperation to try to put out the fire, Corus smiled and breathed the scent of the air and shouted to his soldiers to go out and kill any remaining beast around the city.
The angry soldiers left to kill the wounded beasts that were around the city, only some specimens were captured at the request of the inquisitors who wanted to send them to the headquarters to be dissected and find their weak points.
The reconstruction and killing work continued until the morning where the first rays of the sun showed a large number of dead beasts.
Corus ordered that some of the bodies of the beasts be placed in crosses and that the rest of bear bodies be burned to avoid disease.
While this was happening the Nahual messengers set off with the captured beasts towards the capital where their destiny would be left to the inquisitors ...