The rainy season is over, and the harvesting of winter wheat begins in April, and the whole Northland begins to be busy.
Just as Lorist set off from the Rock Castle to inspect the family territory, Princess Silvia and her party also set off from the Huju Castle in the Eastern Wasteland Province to the Northland. family.
Because the invasion of the mountain barbarian army was imminent, Lorist specially issued an order to harvest the winter wheat while not forgetting to prepare for war. He held a sword in one hand and a sickle in the other, and was always ready to fight back against the invasion of the family territory by the mountain barbarian tribe.
But it wasn't until the winter wheat harvest was finished and the spring plowing was halfway through that the news came from Liangshan Town that the army of mountain barbarians was about to go down the mountain after it was assembled. According to the pre-planned arrangement, the residents of Liangshan Town began to evacuate backwards, and deliberately left a phenomenon of fleeing in a hurry before they had time to clean up, so as to confuse the army of mountain barbarians descending the mountain.
On April 21st, the vanguard of the Shanman army occupied Liangshan Town. The large amount of fine wine and various daily necessities deliberately left behind by Liangshan Town made the vanguard of the Shanman army overjoyed. With their military strength, they will definitely be able to sweep the entire Northland, and everyone is scrambling to be the vanguard, for fear that they will fall behind and lose the opportunity to plunder.
Lorist arrived at Woniugang Fortress on April 23rd. The long defensive wall leading directly to Guishan Fortress was about to be attacked by the barbarian army. Lorist had to come and sit in command. But in the afternoon, he received an urgent message from Knight Vasimma, the acting head of the Chasseur Cavalry in the eastern part of the Northland. The four local alliances discussed matters related to the redemption of prisoners of war and material trade.
Lorist was very happy when he received the news from the messenger, but at the same time he was very embarrassed. The happy thing is that the old fox, Grand Duke Fesabrunn, finally admitted that the situation is over and failure is inevitable. Sending envoys to the Northland on his own initiative means bowing his head and admitting defeat. The embarrassing thing was that the messenger who came was Princess Sylvia, and Lorist was unable to go to meet her now that she had no resources at her disposal. After thinking about it for a long time, he could only send his guards to inform Fatty Shi, who was in charge of the Rock Castle, to go to the eastern part of the Northland to welcome Princess Sylvia to the Rock Castle instead.
To be honest, what Lorist felt most guilty about was that he didn't know how to face Princess Sylvia. He knew very well that he had fallen out with Grand Duke Fesabrun and led the family to destroy the Principality of Iberia with armed forces and wiped out Fesabrun. Several legions of the Feisabrun family have caused huge losses to the Feisabrun family and suppressed the prosperity and rise of the Feisabrun family. It can be said that he has already become the life-and-death enemy and thorn in the side of the Feisabrun family.
It is also because of this that Princess Sylvia, who is so devoted to her and insists that she does not marry, must have suffered a lot of grievances and criticisms in her family. Just like Duke Kenmes, an incomprehensible guy, joked that this time the Iberian Kingdom Raiders is actually the four alliances of the North to express their anger for Lorist. Princess Sylvia's marriage proposal. Now the folk rumors are that the Norton family destroyed the Kingdom of Iberia in a rage because of the rejection of the marriage between the head of the family, the Grand Duke Norton and Princess Sylvia, and stared at the Fisabrun family with armed pursuit. Princess Sylvia has almost become synonymous with beauty and disaster.
Alas, Lorist sighed softly, he can only wait until the war with the mountain barbarians is over here, and then go there to make up for this innocent girl, Sylvia, and let her suffer for herself, for nothing Bearing the infamy of a confidante. In fact, both the Grand Duke Feisabrun and himself knew that even if they agreed to marry Princess Sylvia and him at that time, this war was still unavoidable. Because this is the Feisabrun family and the Norton family competing for the dominance and dominance of the entire northeast region of the former empire, one family will always have to fall.
"Your Highness, the Shanman is here."
Lorist looked up, and saw small black dots appearing in the dense forest in the distance. These small dots quickly gathered into a large area, and the black crows rushed towards the defensive city wall like a tide. Picking up the binoculars, you can see that the mountain barbarian warriors appearing in the circular frame are covered with various kinds of animal skin armor, and some even have their chests exposed, with strange blue and black patterns painted on their bodies and faces , holding a bronze ax and other unique and rough weapons in his hand, rushing towards this side with loose beard and hair.
At around 4:00 pm on April 23, the vanguard of the Shanman army launched its first attack on the sixty to seventy li long defensive wall between the Wonigang Fortress and the Guishan Fortress. It's just that these mountain barbarian warriors have never seen such a tall and long defensive city wall. They often have to stop when they charge to the trench in front of the defensive city wall, and look at the sharp wooden thorn wolves that are three or four meters deep. Ya's trench was in a daze, and then he was easily killed by the steel crossbow of the chariot on the defensive wall.
In the first attack, the vanguard of the Shanman turned around and fled after leaving behind four or five hundred corpses. Until it was almost dusk, around five or six o'clock, the vanguard of these mountain barbarians once again launched a tentative attack. This time, the mountain barbarians held crude wooden shields tied with vines and moved to the front of the ditch to think. First fill in a road leading to the defensive city wall, but it was quickly wiped out by the shooting of the steel crossbow of the chariot on the city wall, and nearly a thousand brave and fearless mountain barbarians fell down, and those crude shields were also shot by the steel crossbow. The mountain barbarian warriors lost their cover and had to retreat again.
"Haha, it's really too simple. We're like shooting turkeys on the city wall. It's really easy." The archers driving the steel crossbow in the chariot and galloping back and forth on the spacious city road were all very excited. The mountain barbarian warriors in front of the trench were like arrow targets, stubbornly refusing to retreat, bravely strung into gourd strings by crossbow arrows...
The defensive wall between Woniugang Fortress and Guishan Fortress is seventy-two miles long, eight meters high, and five or six meters wide. And it's not a straight long wall, but a tower and tower protruding from the city wall every five or six miles, as a place for patrolling guards to rest and be on duty. During the war, these city towers and towers can be divided into sections and assigned to the guard squadrons who are defending one by one. Ten meters in front of the city wall, a trench five meters wide and three to four meters deep was dug, turning the flat ground into a moat.
"It's kind of boring..." Lorist yawned. These mountain barbarians did not bring any pressure to the Norton family's armed forces. Compared with the threat brought to him by the coalition forces of the four central principalities and the Feisabrun family in the second half of last year, it was simply a world of difference. It was these guard battalion soldiers who had never been on the battlefield that were so excited.
However, it is rare for these Guards Battalion soldiers, who are always training all year round, to see the flesh and blood. Lorist decided not to give any guidance on this defensive battle, to see if the commanders of the two Guards Battalions can conduct it qualified. command operations. The reason why he was sitting in the fortress of Woniugang this time was firstly to reassure the soldiers of the Guards Battalion in defensive operations, and secondly to prevent surprise attacks by the masters of the mountain barbarian tribe who were equivalent to great sword masters. The 100,000 mountain barbarian army should also have several priests equivalent to the level of a great swordsman. Lorist's main purpose was to deal with them.
The vanguard of the mountain barbarians, who had just hit a wall twice, finally remembered the lesson of failure and knew that they could not break through the long defensive wall. For the next two days, they camped in the distant mountains and forests with self-knowledge, waiting for the follow-up The arrival of the army.
Two days later, the Shanman army arrived. Lorist found that the news was correct. There were more than 100,000 mountain barbarian troops coming, only more or less. Although the mountain barbarian army lacked supplies and did not set up a tent camp, the bonfires everywhere at night covered the sky and the earth, and looked from a distance. Like a sky full of stars, the entire mountain forest to the sky are piles of burning red bonfires, boundless...
Many guard soldiers have never seen such a shocking scene, and the joy of victory in the first battle two days ago has long been lost. They unconsciously lowered their voices to talk, and the words revealed the question of whether we can hold on, how can we kill so many mountain barbarians, we can't win...
The tension and lack of self-confidence before the war were forgotten by all the soldiers of the guard battalion after the mountain barbarian army launched a large-scale attack on the defensive city wall on the second day. Facing the endless attacking crowd, the defenders just Mechanical winding, firing, continued winding, firing. They had already forgotten everything, and only knew to rely on their long-term training instincts to launch a counterattack numbly like a wooden man under the commander's password.
"Let go!" With an order, the Longbow Brigade once again shot the feathered arrows in their hands towards the dense tide of mountain barbarians below the city. The feather arrows fell like a rainstorm, clearing a small area. The part where the arrow hit began to scream, but soon another group of mountain barbarians rushed over and filled the gap again. The lightly injured were quickly carried down, while the seriously injured were sent to the soul kingdom of the mountain god in the battle song praising the mountain god...
The trench has been filled several sections by the bodies of mountain barbarian soldiers, branches, soil, stones and other random things. Countless mountain barbarian soldiers passed through these filled areas and forced them under the city wall, but they Soon they encountered a very difficult and embarrassing situation. The long ladder they carried could not reach the eight-meter-high wall. Some impatient and irritable mountain barbarians threw their weapons into the city However, it caused very slight casualties to the defending Guards Battalion soldiers.
Some mountain barbarian warriors with brighter minds have already shouted and prepared to connect the two long ladders, but the work site of the long ladders being connected was quickly targeted by the steel crossbow shooters on the city wall, and they were connecting the two long ladders. The mountain barbarian warriors were immediately killed by the crossbow arrows shot from the city wall. Even though the mountain barbarian warriors went forward one after another, as long as the steel crossbow shooter aimed at the long ladder, none of them could be connected.
Instead, several long ladders farther away were connected to the top of the city because the steel crossbow could not take care of them, but the mountain barbarian warriors wielding their weapons were thrown by the big stones from the city wall before they had climbed halfway. Let it fall down. The guards of the Sword and Shield Brigade, who were too idle to panic, finally had a place to use. While throwing rocks down from the city, they threw fire oil cans and torches at the same time. It was also burned, and soon the wind was filled with the smell of burnt human flesh, and many guards vomited disgustingly.
The massive attack of the Shanman army lasted from morning to afternoon, and the only danger that occurred was when the Shanman army gathered a group of warriors to attack the defensive city wall before the troops retreated in the afternoon. Lorist did not have time to make a move. These dozens of mountain barbarian warriors were rounded up by the knights of the Angry Bear Knights who went up to the city wall to watch the battle. When these mountain barbarian warriors on the city wall were chopped up on the top of the city by the angry bear knights chopping melons and vegetables, all the mountain barbarian warriors who were still attacking bravely felt as if they had been punched in the face. There was a burst of mourning, and the movement seemed to hesitate.
The horn of retreat finally sounded, and the sobbing sound of the horn echoed in the sky and the earth, watching those desperate mountain barbarians retreating, leaving corpses everywhere, covering the entire battlefield, and even piled up several layers of corpses in some places, There is little foothold. Lorist showed mercy and ordered that there is no need to continue shooting, and let those mountain barbarian warriors who have lost their souls retreat back. There are estimated to be more than 10,000 to 20,000 corpses under the city wall. Today's battle has already given I learned a profound lesson for the mountain barbarian army. The attack of more than 50,000 people caused nearly half of the casualties. I believe that the mountain barbarians will never want to attack this long defensive wall again.
After receiving Lorist's order, the long wall fell silent quickly, but then burst into bursts of cheers: "We have won! We have won the battle! We have defended the long wall!"
Many steel crossbow shooters who were already exhausted directly collapsed on the ground. During the battle, they were numb and only knew how to fire the crossbow arrows mechanically. After receiving the order, they found that they were so tired that they were dying. I only know tears of joy, watching my partners cheering and celebrating...
Compared with the joy here, there were mournful cries from the distant mountains and forests, and the cries became louder and became one piece, making them look even more sad and mournful in the darkened night...
Lorist stared at the mountains in the distance, looked at the corpses everywhere on the battlefield, shook his head and said to Terman, the head of the Angry Bear Knights beside him, "Perhaps this defensive wall of our family will be destroyed by these mountains in the future." They are called the Wailing Wall. They will remember how many mountain barbarian warriors died under this long wall. But I don't sympathize with them. If this long wall is broken by the mountain barbarian army, then we will be the ones crying Those hardworking and kind citizens in the territory."
After this attack failed, the Shanman army had no intention of trying to break through the long defensive wall. In the next three or four days, the Shanman army only sent people to collect the corpses of the soldiers who died on the battlefield. And collected all the crossbow bolts fired by those steel crossbows. It's just that the mountain man who came to collect the corpses did not dare to approach the ditch and the long wall. In the end, Lorist ordered the soldiers of the spear brigade and the sword and shield brigade of the two guard battalions to stand under the cover of the chariot steel crossbow and longbowmen on the wall. After leaving the city wall, the corpses of the mountain barbarians under the city wall and in the trench were moved to the center line of the battlefield and handed over to the mountain barbarians who collected the corpses.
After another six days of confrontation, Lorist was woken up early in the morning by Terman's loud voice, who rushed out of the bedroom excitedly: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the mountain barbarian army has moved, and they have divided their troops!"
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