The Chivani knight looked at the listless and dispirited soldiers who wanted to cry without tears. It was so irritating. How could it be like this? As a knight, especially a golden knight, how can you give up halfway and never end? A few days ago, there were ten rockets every night, so we should have fired ten rockets last night. How could we not shoot seven rockets? The soldiers of the first battalion waited for more than two hours in vain, and were finally ordered to go to sleep. They couldn't feel at ease, for fear that the rocket would shoot over again and make themselves unlucky...
If he hadn't remembered his duty as a commander, Chevany Knight really wanted to go to the castle and propose a life-and-death confrontation with that golden archer by name. After all, I was experienced in many battles, but I have never seen such an outrageous thing. Thousands of people were disturbed by the three rockets, and their minds were in a trance. It's really horrible, what should I do? Judging by the state of the soldiers, it is impossible to attack the city again today.
Chevany Knight struggled for a long time, and finally decided to move camp! Move the barracks back two hundred meters. At such a distance, the golden archers of the Norton family should not be able to lob the rockets to the barracks. To save the soldiers from worrying every night, let the soldiers move the camp if they can't attack the city today, sleep well at night, and recharge their energy before settling accounts with the Norton family tomorrow.
Josk, Berunek and Pachiko stood on the top of the castle, looking at the camp of the Duke's army in the distance. The enemy built four bridge vehicles the day before yesterday, and had another day of rest yesterday. If there were no accidents, they would probably launch an attack today, and it would definitely be a bloody battle.
From the point of view of Fenglin Shanzhuang's defense, the terrain is indeed a big advantage. The entire villa is located on an extremely huge protruding rock. The enemy has no choice but to attack the front of the castle along a slope of more than 200 meters long and more than ten meters wide, because the walls on both sides of the castle and the drop of the rock wall below It's only more than ten meters high, let alone attacking, even the climbing ladder is not so long for attackers to climb up.
The front of the castle has no windows except for the city gate and the drawbridge, but there are densely packed shooting holes, so that the guards can safely hide indoors and shoot outside. The attack launched by the Duke's army last time failed at these shooting holes, and the nearby guards threw fire oil tanks from the shooting holes and burned the Sanjia siege equipment.
"Strange, why don't you launch an attack when it's almost ten o'clock? It's really slow..." Pachiko said.
"Yeah, didn't they come in the afternoon?" Josk also felt puzzled, he was ready to face the enemy but he was slow, enough to make people anxious.
Belunek looked at the enemy camp and thought: "It couldn't be intentional, could it be that we want to wait for us to relax and then come out by surprise? It's impossible. It would take a lot of time for such a tall bridge cart to reach the castle. We will be ready to fight by then.”
"Whatever, come and kill one, kill as many as you come, we only need to deal with four bridge vehicles. The enemy pushed these four vehicles up and blocked the sight of their longbowmen. I think this is a good thing." Josk said that they all used bows. He naturally knew how powerful these well-trained long-range soldiers are. Last time he was condescending against a squadron of longbowmen. Although he shot and killed about fifty of them, he was also tired. half dead.
"The enemy's commander is very discerning. After only one attack, he discovered the weakness of our castle's defense. The top of the castle is indeed the only weak point. He built four bridge vehicles just to compete with us. Look at the building The bridge car directly attacked the top of the castle, and all the shooting holes on the front of the castle were useless. Archery was useless. The front of the bridge car had thick wooden boards, and the shooting holes for throwing fire and oil tanks were too small to be thrown into the moat. They are now It is 3,000 soldiers, five or six times more than the guards in our castle. Even if we fight three times and one of us wins in the end. I only hope that their soldiers have low morale and no desire to fight. Otherwise, we will be in trouble today. Difficult to get through this," Berunek said.
"Our chance is to take advantage of the moment when the four bridge trucks approach to lower the suspension bridge, as long as we can throw these fuel tanks into the upper exit, and then Master Josk ignites the bridge truck with a rocket. It’s useless. If two bridge trucks burn, our pressure will be relieved, and more than 400 family soldiers should be able to help us defend the top floor of the castle.” Pachiko said, looking at the pile of kerosene cans beside him.
Steward Speer and Miss Baisha walked up to the top floor panting.
Miss Baisha asked: "Has the enemy not attacked yet?"
"Yes, Miss Baisha." Pachico bowed to Miss Baisha, there was no way, who told him that the woman who gave birth to a baby son was given to him by Miss Baisha.
Berunek nodded at Miss Baisha. They knew each other but had no friendship. One is Miss Baisha who used to be the fiancée of the young master, and the other is that he has been recovering from his injuries in Beiye Town for more than two years. I don't know much about the family affairs. I only heard that Lorist seems to dislike the young lady very much.
Josk simply ignored it and pretended he didn't see it. Reddy told him that this woman once wanted to climb on Lorist's head to be a domineering figure, and arrogantly took Lorist's sword and wanted to melt it down to make her own weapon, but in the end Lorist Learned a lesson. As a result, Josk had a bad impression of Miss Baisha.
"Miss, why are you here?" Pachico asked.
"Why can't I come? I'm also a knight of the Norton family. It's all the fault of Little Locke, who offended the Grand Duke of the Northland when he became the lord. Look, the Grand Duke sent thousands of people here casually. This is our family. Can it be defeated? It also caused Beiye Town to be slaughtered. I told Grandpa Kress that Little Locke should not be allowed to come back. The number of faces fell and Lorist rose.
"What did you say!" Josk suddenly changed his face, turned around abruptly, and glared at Miss Baisha.
"Am I wrong? Didn't Little Locke just recruit them when he came back? If he didn't go to steal the money from the Kenmes family, would the Grand Duke of the Northland come to us? If he didn't change some rules, it would anger Beiye Town Will they lead the Grand Duke's army into the family territory? If Little Locke hadn't become the lord, then we wouldn't have to go to war now, and the people in Beiye Town would be polite to us, as before, and they wouldn't will be massacred..." Miss Baisha was very reasonable.
Jost didn't expect Miss Baisha to say such a set of nonsense, and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while.
Berunek shook his head. He had heard that the young lady was savage, but he did not expect to be so forceful. However, he knew that this young lady liked Mrs. Kress very much, and her temper was out of habit. He didn't bother arguing with her, anyway, he knew that as long as Lorist won the war, Miss Baisha would definitely suffer.
"Don't pay attention to her, this woman's brain is not clear, don't be as knowledgeable as her, let the adults come back and deal with her." Berunek grabbed Josk's arm and persuaded softly.
"I don't know why, I don't understand why the lord didn't punish her. Last time she offended the lord, she should be stripped of her family's knight status, so as not to keep embarrassing the lord. I really wanted to beat her just now, and dared to accuse the lord... "Joske was really angry.
Pachico was very embarrassed, he didn't expect Miss Baisha to say such a thing. The steward Speer on the side smiled wryly: "Miss, how can the enemy talk nonsense right now, when the lord comes back and knows, he must teach you a lesson..."
When Lorist was mentioned, Miss Baisha closed her mouth with a very unconvinced "hum", walked to the city wall and looked at the enemy camp in the distance.
"Speer is in charge, what are you doing up here?" Berunek asked.
"Oh, it's like this. Manager Kress heard that the enemy built four bridge vehicles, so he asked us to come over and remind the three adults that we can use stone ball tactics to deal with the enemy's bridge vehicles." Steward Speer answer.
"Stone ball tactics? Are you referring to the eight big stone balls placed in the flower garden?" Berunek was taken aback, then came to his senses, and was overjoyed: "Damn, how could we forget this?"
"What is the stone ball tactic?" Josk and Pachiko were a little puzzled.
"Haha, brother Joe, Pachico, come and have a look, there are eight big stone balls placed there." Berunek came to the other side of the castle, pointing to the bottom and laughing.
Entering the gate of the castle is a flower garden with eight large stone balls placed inside.
Josk immediately understood: "The eight big stone balls still have such a function. I thought they were decorations for the flower garden. I always wondered why they didn't carve them into stone statues. I thought it was because you couldn't find a good carver. Woolen cloth?"
Pachiko still didn't understand: "What's the use of these eight big stone balls?"
Berunek said with a smile: "These eight big stone balls weigh several thousand catties, and they are all carefully carved. They can just pass through the gate of the castle and roll down the slope along the suspension bridge. You want to wait for the enemy to take the four towers away." When the bridge cart is pushed halfway, the stone ball rolls down, but it will be very beautiful."
Pachiko was stunned, and quickly jumped up: "Haha, our family still has this trick. I see how those bridge trucks died. We must teach that Northland Duke a lesson! We will win this war." it's..."
"You may not have imagined that these eight big stone balls have a history of two or three hundred years..." Berunek said to Josk: "After the first generation of Norton ancestors built the family's manor castle here, in the first few days He was often besieged by the mountain barbarians in 2010. The longest time was besieged for half a year. Although the mountain barbarians were repelled, the losses were heavy. So he came up with the stone ball tactic and carved a big stone ball. The barbarians released big stone balls during the siege, and the result was miserable. According to family records, the slope was full of human cakes, there were hundreds of them, and it was all blood mud when stepped on."
"After that time, the family spent more than ten years carving these eight big stone balls one after another and placing them in the flower garden. It would be the second time in two or three hundred years if we used them. We can witness this with our own eyes. The power of the stone ball tactic."
Josk thought for a while and replied: "I hope that this stone ball will not scare the enemy back to Beiye Town. In that case, the strategy formulated by the adults may change."
"The enemy has moved..." The steward Speer's voice came from the other end, and the three rushed to take a look, all stunned.
"What's going on, the enemy seems to be moving camp, moving camp to the back. What happened?"
The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, really wondering what the Duke's army was up to.
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Chevani Knight's bloodshot eyes stared angrily at the castle named Maple Forest Villa. If the anger in his eyes could be manifested and projected there, the castle would have been burned by fire...
On the slope leading to the castle, there were lying corpses of soldiers who had been crushed into patties. Four bridge vehicles that took several days to build were knocked into the air, two were scattered down the slope, and two fell down. On the slope, there is still a huge stone ball stuck in the middle.
Today is the tenth day since the Chivani knights led their troops to attack the Norton family's manor castle. After a good night's sleep last night, the soldiers were in high spirits, gearing up to capture Fenglin Villa in one fell swoop. Chevani Knight has made up his mind that as long as the bridge car is on the top of the castle, he will continue to attack no matter how many casualties the soldiers have.
After breakfast, the troops lined up step by step, and the Chivani knight commanded the soldiers to push the four bridge vehicles and began to attack Fenglin Villa. It took an hour and a half for the four bridge trucks to push halfway up the slope. It seems that the attack will start in the afternoon, but even if it is a night battle, the main castle of the Norton family must be captured. Chevani Knight thinks so of.
After resting for half an hour, the soldiers pushed four bridge vehicles and continued to move forward. After pushing more than ten meters, the soldiers shouted: "My lord, the city gate has opened! The suspension bridge has been lowered!"
This was something that the Chivani knights had expected. What else could the Norton family do except to send soldiers to rush over and burn the four bridge trucks? They should know that it will be over when the bridge car hits the top of the castle.
The Chivani knight waved his hands calmly: "The longbowmen stepped forward, the sword and shield soldiers took precautions, and the spearmen were ready to respond."
Soon the well-trained Northland Legion soldiers formed three phalanxes in front of the bridge vehicles. As long as the enemies in the castle rushed out, they would definitely be hit head-on.
The enemy did not rush out of the castle, but the Chivani knights and all the surviving soldiers will never forget the scene at that moment: a huge stone ball rolled out of the city gate, rolled over the suspension bridge, and rolled down the slope. Rolled down, and rolled faster and faster, faster and faster...
Everyone was stunned, seeing this stone ball, which was bigger than a four-wheeled freight carriage, just rolling towards them...
Finally someone shouted: "Run!"
The three phalanxes collapsed in an instant, and everyone turned around and ran back, but people were crowded, pushed, and trampled, especially the four tall bridge trucks blocked the way. Some sober-minded soldiers have already jumped off the slope five or six meters high regardless of anything, and they don't care about their injuries. And those soldiers crowded in front of the bridge truck couldn't help screaming tragically when they saw the huge stone ball coming...
With a "boom", the stone ball hit the two bridge trucks next to it with an unparalleled force. The fragments of the bridge truck and the soldiers' stumps flew up. The bodies of the two bridge trucks rolled down the slope together.
Before the Chivani knight could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the soldier exclaim: "There is one more..."
Looking up, another huge stone ball "Gulu Gulu" rolled down...
The Chivani knight was quick to wit, and shouted: "Push the bridge truck to block it..."
It's a close call! Before the stone ball rolled over, the remaining two bridge vehicles were finally pushed down by the soldiers and blocked the front. The stone ball smashed the first bridge vehicle, but got stuck in the middle of the second...
The soldiers who escaped from the dead cheered in unison, but the Chivani knight collapsed on his horse, covered in cold sweat. He could only stare angrily at the castle on the slope, knowing in his heart that as long as there were still these stone balls, he would not be able to attack the castle from the front.
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