Three days later, Lorist set off with more than a thousand family members to attack Beiye Town.
It took less than an hour to ride horses, and the large group of people walked for more than three hours to reach Beiye Town. Lorist could only shake his head and smile wryly.
As expected before dispatching troops, Beiye Town is ready for battle. Swords and guns were shining on the city wall, and there were a lot of people. It seemed that the four major families in Beiye Town were also ready to turn their backs. From time to time, a few members of the defense team pointed at Lorist's troops and shouted loudly.
Lorist sent Pat to the city gate to deliver an ultimatum, demanding that the four major families and the garrison in Beiye Town lay down their weapons, open the city gate and leave the city to surrender. In order to forgive the rebellious behavior of the four major families, as long as the current regulations and regulations are followed, Lorist promises not to punish a single person.
As a result, before Pat rode his horse to the city gate, he was shot back by a burst of arrows, and the mount was shot into an arrow target. Pat saw the opportunity quickly and ran back unscathed.
Lorist and the crowd were furious, which meant that the people in Beiye Town didn't take the Norton family seriously at all, they didn't even want to talk to each other, and directly used arrows to greet the messenger. There was no worse rebellious act than this.
Suppressing his anger, Lorist rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to attack the city immediately, and asked them to direct the troops to set up camp and cook.
There are only two gates in Beiye Town, one in front and one behind. It stands to reason that Lorist should set up two camps and seal off both city gates. It's just that Lorist's troops were only a thousand, and if they were divided into two parts, the force would be too thin. Lorist joined forces and set up camp at the front gate, and sent a team of cavalry to monitor the back gate, just to prevent the garrison from Beiye Town from sneaking out from the back gate and attacking the camp.
If the garrison team from Beiye Town really came to sneak attack on the camp, Lorist would also wish for it. He is looking forward to using field battles to wipe out all the sneak attacking enemies. Not only will it give Beiye Town a head-on blow, it will greatly reduce their morale, and it will also reduce their defense. The strength of the army made the siege more smooth. It's a pity that the garrison team of Beiye Town is worthy of the name of a turtle. They watched the siege troops busy setting up camp on the city wall, and there was no sign of going out of the city to attack.
By the time all the chores were arranged, it was already dark. Lorist checked the arrangements for patrolling camps and secret sentries, and also rested early, recharging his energy to prepare for tomorrow's siege, and the first day of the expedition passed like this.
On the second day of the expedition, after breakfast early in the morning, Lorist led his troops and began to form troops in Beiye Town. The plan in the morning was that Josk would lead a team of soldiers capable of riding and archery around Beiye Town for a few rounds, find out the weak points of the defense, wait for the opportunity to launch a strong attack, and Lorist would lead people to occupy a city wall or a city gate. From the point to the surface, wait for the follow-up people to come immediately and then slowly expand the advantage, and finally win Beiye Town.
Josk led his men to run around Beiye Town twice, and only four soldiers were injured, which was very lucky. After returning, Josk reported: "No, I found out that the original moat had been deepened and widened when I got to the front of the city wall. There is no way to go under the city wall without filling the moat. I shot at the other two gates. It took an arrow to find that the inside was blocked by something. They seemed to be determined to defend and never thought about attacking. We can only make up our minds from the city wall. Just ran around twice and shot down the city wall There should be about a hundred bows and arrows, all of which are hunting bows of different types, and they are not a big threat to us."
Lorist was very annoyed. When he went to Beiye Town last time, he noticed the moat in front of the city wall. It was just a very shallow ditch. Unexpectedly, he found that the moat had been deepened and widened this time. According to Josk It is said that the distance from the city wall is less than one meter, the depth is more than two meters, and the width is about three meters. Because of the terrain, it can only be seen from the front, and it cannot be found from here.
Lorist himself rode around Beiye Town on horseback. It was strange that the soil dug out of the moat had disappeared, but the moat was really as Josk said, and there was no way to fill it up first. Attacked the city wall.
While ordering Reddy to go back to Maplewood Villa, and asked Steward Speer to deliver a batch of straw bags and shoveling tools for soil, Lorist sent his soldiers to cut wood and make large wooden rafts to block arrows. and boxcars for filling trenches.
On the third day of the expedition, today's plan is to fill up the moat on the left side of the city gate by tens of meters. Lorist is going to attack from this position. Josk commanded a squadron of family soldiers to hold dozens of large wooden rafts used to block arrows and advance to a place less than 50 meters away from the city wall to erect the wooden rafts, and then ordered a small group of longbowmen to rely on the wooden rafts for shelter Shoot arrows at the walls and suppress the archers on the walls.
The longbows of this team are all simple longbows. These longbows for practice are made of a kind of dense yew wood. The craft is extremely simple, and a yew wood with a thick mouth of a bowl can be made A longbow can be used as long as the shape of the longbow is cut out and then dried. This simple version of the longbow is one foot longer than the official longbow, and the direct threat range is only about 70 meters, which is about 30 meters behind the official longbow, and it is not as good in accuracy and strength. Generally, after shooting one hundred and eighty arrows, you have to change the string to check whether the longbow is deformed. As a training bow, it is okay, but now it is used to attack the guards on the city wall. It can only be said to drive ducks to the shelves.
The official longbow uses a kind of wood that is tougher than yew. After this kind of wood is cut, it must be left to dry for a period of time, and it will be soaked in a special oil for up to three months. Allow to dry slowly. In the process of soaking and drying in the shade, it is also shaped, and then it is wound, trimmed, shaped, and polished. Finally, several coats of paint are required, and a leather sheath is wrapped around the bow body. It takes a year and a half to two years to make a formal longbow, and such a longbow can even pose a threat to a golden rank knight within a direct shooting distance of one hundred meters.
The shape of the boxcar is also very simple. To be precise, it is just a few wooden rafts built into a pointed wooden shed, and then four wheels are installed. The roof is also covered with a thick layer of wet soil to prevent it from being burned by rockets. The soldiers pushed the boxcar in the boxcar to the edge of the moat, and opened the front baffle to throw the grass filled with mud from behind into the trench.
Everything went well in the morning. Under the suppression of the longbowmen team and Josk's arrows, the defense team on the city wall couldn't even raise their heads. They could only occasionally shoot arrows down from the sawtooth shooting ports on the city wall. Needless to say, they were accurate. There is no way to pose the slightest threat to the attackers below, and there are even more casualties than the attackers. The trench is half filled and should be ready by afternoon.
Lorist put most of his heart down. Judging from the strength of the defensive counterattack on the city wall, this time the siege was not difficult, and he might be able to win with a small casualty.
Unexpectedly, just after lunch, a wooden raft was also erected on the wall of Beiye Town. The garrison above also relied on the cover of the wooden raft to launch a counterattack against the longbowmen and soldiers filling the trench below, and when the rockets failed Clay pots filled with kerosene were thrown down the city wall, eventually burning the boxcar...
Josk showed great power and shot down several large wooden rafts on the city wall. It's a pity that it didn't work, he shot and destroyed one, and more rafts were erected at the top of the city.
"Six longbowmen died, and twenty-one were injured. In addition, more than half of their longbows have been deformed and useless. Fortunately, we have prepared more than a hundred more this time, and there are still replacements. Fill in Eight family soldiers in the trench were burnt to death, and twenty-six were rescued from the wounded, shall we continue to build boxcars?" Suedkamp reported to Lorist the casualties of today's failure to fill the trench.
"Send a squadron of family soldiers to log, let the people in Beiye Town see us continuing to build boxcars with great fanfare, let them think that it will only be tomorrow for us to attack again, and reduce their vigilance. We will prepare at night. Once The moon in the sky was covered by clouds, so we took the opportunity to approach the moat with straw bags on our backs, and filled the moat overnight." Lorist ordered. .
Lorist's arrangement was beyond the expectations of the Beiye Town garrison, and when they noticed the movement under the city wall, most of the moat had already been filled. Seeing the startled guards on the city wall and the torches thrown down constantly, Lorist smiled: "Let's go, let's go back. It's almost okay. When we attack the city tomorrow, we can fill it with a few straw bags of soil. I hope Tomorrow we can go down to the city in one fell swoop and win the first battle."
On the fourth day of the expedition, the weather was fine, with clear skies.
Lorist's entire army was dispatched, and seven squads of family soldiers held seven long ladders and charged towards the city wall of Beiye Town.
Lorist took Pat and Reddy and approached the city wall behind the charging soldiers. As long as a long ladder was close to the city wall, Lorist believed that he would be able to charge up the city wall and kill all directions, and occupy a position on the city wall , as long as the follow-up people keep up, it will be a matter of time to win.
One hundred meters, eighty meters, sixty meters, when it was almost in front of the city wall, suddenly the wooden rafts at the top of the city were lowered neatly, revealing a row of archers, crossbowmen...
"Let go!" Following the order from the top of the city, the rain of arrows poured down, and the family soldiers who charged ahead were smashed to pieces like waves hitting a rock...
One by one family soldiers fell under the rain of arrows. Lorist's eyes were shattered, and he hurriedly shouted: "Retreat, retreat quickly..."
The green longbow in Josk's hand made a thunderous sound, and green lightning flew to the top of the city, and the archers and crossbowmen who were shooting arrows on the city wall fell down one by one. There was a panic on the city wall, the archers lined up dodged around, and four black siege crossbows behind them were revealed.
"Boom boom boom boom" four loud noises, four huge crossbow arrows flew straight towards Josk...
When Josk saw four siege crossbows appearing at the top of the city, he felt that something was wrong. He didn't care to ride his horse and rolled over from the horse's back. With a "chi la", a huge crossbow brushed Josk's back. However, he took away a large piece of armor and inner clothing, leaving a deep bloodstain on Josk's back. The blood spurted out, and in a blink of an eye, Josk was dyed like a blood man.
Josk's mount had been divided into several pieces by the three crossbow arrows, and the ground was bloody.
Josk rolled twice on the ground, jumped up, endured the pain on his back and opened the green longbow in his hand again. With a flash of light, a long green arrow hit a black plane on the top of the city. The crossbow for defending the city, the crossbow burst, smashing the heads of several guards who were busy winding up the string next to them. The guards operating the other three siege crossbows hurriedly pushed the siege crossbows away from the city.
After Josk shot the arrow, his whole body froze. Lorist rushed over with him on his back and rushed straight to the camp.
With a "bang", Lorist punched the long table made of logs in half, leaving a deep fist mark on the table.
So hateful, so irritating. No one expected that the defense team in Beiye Town was so old and treacherous. They used hunting bows to fight back two days ago, and watched Lorist's siege troops fill up the moat, making Lorist think that Beiye Town had no He didn't have much long-range defense and counterattack power. It was not until today when Lorist was about to attack Beiye Town in one fell swoop that he suddenly launched his strength, which caught Lorist by surprise and caused heavy casualties.
There were several sheets of animal skin paper on the long table, which were the casualties list calculated by Sedkamp. In just a quarter of an hour, there were nearly 300 casualties, of which 83 were killed and more than 200 were injured. Even Reddy was shot in the shoulder when he went to rescue. If it weren't for the family soldiers charging at the front all wearing iron chain armor, the number of casualties would have been doubled.
Josk was fine, his back was grazed by crossbow arrows, and he was fine after taking the medicine, but he shot an arrow and destroyed a siege crossbow. The last arrow pulled the blood on his back, making the wound Burst, it won't get better after ten days of recuperation.
"My lord, the morale in the barracks is very low now. We will not be able to continue to attack the city tomorrow. We are really surprised today. How come there are so many crossbows and longbows in Beiye City? There are even four siege crossbows?" Pa Special said.
"Maybe I know where these bows and crossbows come from." Pachiko said with his head down: "Four years ago, the young master led his family's iron cavalry to fight for the second prince. At that time, there were hundreds of people in the Beiye Town garrison following him. Young Master, they are responsible for escorting the logistics for the young master and the family's iron cavalry. They are the ones who clean up the battlefield after each battle. When I was captured by the young master, I also cleaned the battlefield with these guards. At that time, I found these guards They pay great attention to collecting weapons and equipment, and put them together even if they are damaged. I know that they handed over armor and money, but I didn’t expect them to hide long-range weapons such as longbows, crossbows, and even siege crossbows... "
"Thinking hard, they started preparing to rebel at any time four years ago, no wonder the family has become less and less important in the past few years, do they think they can keep Beiye Town with these long-range bows and crossbows? It’s impossible to pull out this cancerous tumor.” Lorist said through gritted teeth.
"But we can't get close to the walls!" said Pat.
"Night Raid, as long as you let me go up, you can take Beiye Town!" Lorist said, looking at Beiye Town in the distance.