Antitina clasped her hands on her chest, silently watching more and more people walking in the forest. Since entering the frosty month, although there may be some days before Eruin's first snow, the temperature at night has become very low. A thin layer of white air from everyone in the cold air enveloped the sky above the logging yard and formed a cloud. After the female wall, the soldiers rubbed their hands to resist the cold, and the silence under the night carried a sense of solemnity and tension.
Almost all the mercenaries went to the wooden wall, and there was no reserve. Although Uta and Clencia strongly opposed, Brando personally told her that it was not necessary, so that is the truth for this noble daughter.
"What if you encounter an emergency|Situation? This is a practice that puts everyone at risk!"
When answering the angry question of the female head, Antitina somehow suddenly came up with a playful thought in her heart; she thought that if Brando lied to her, she would become a ghost after she died. Pester that young man.
This sudden thought shocked her, and even a touch of ruddy permeated her face, and she was slightly hot. She let out a sigh of relief and shook her head seriously to drive the thought out of her mind.
But Yuta looked at the noble girl and blushed as if in a daze, and then shook her head, only to give her a faint answer: "This is what the lord ordered—" he couldn't help but accumulate the hard work before. The goodwill of the other party was completely lost.
This irresponsible answer made Uta couldn't help turning around and leaving, and went to inspect her subordinates in angrily. Before leaving, she still cursed in her heart secretly "a self-righteous nobleman", but if it was before, she must be in front of her. Antitina said such words in her face, not behind her back.
In fact, invisible, even she herself didn't realize that they had already been influenced by Brando. Because thinking about it the other way round, she at least did not oppose such a one-time investment of troops.
Since it was the order of the young man, there must be some reason for him.
With the same idea, Kerencia also stopped opposing. It was just that he turned his head and saw a smile on the dark face of the tall leader of the Firefighter regiment, and the silver-haired middle-aged man was taken aback.
"You knew it a long time ago?" He instinctively felt a sense of alert when he asked.
But Fern seemed to see through the thoughts of this scheming old fox. He smiled carelessly and rubbed his nose: "That little girl is calmer than you and me. Do you think she seems to be someone who can command indiscriminately? The only one who can command her is the young lord, right..."
"You are observant." Kerencia snorted.
"To each other." Such a thought flashed through Fern's mind, but he didn't say it. There is an experienced mercenary next to him who will estimate the number of cavemen in the forest every once in a while. He just listened silently to the sound of the same number reporting, without saying a word.
There were thousands of cavemen soon, and they were about to move in the forest, arousing everyone's alertness.
The stars on the night are changing, but time finally passed the first two hours after midnight. At first, Antitina finally fell in love with fatigue and Roman's endless weird problems, but when she blinked her sleepy eyes to suppress a yawn, she heard a series of unusual noises.
That was the sound of the mercenaries around raising the crossbow in their hands.
Our noble daughter immediately struck a spirit. She raised her head and saw that the cave dwellers in the forest finally moved. They lined up out of the forest. Every distance between the queue and the queue, there were one or two bears and goblins. Put up a huge wooden shield for cover.
"Are there siege equipment?"
The voice of mercenaries asking each other was passing through the city.
"No!"
"did not see!"
The scout's voice immediately passed back from the tower. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "My lord guessed again—" Antitina thought as she stood behind the female wall.
The cavemen began to accelerate at a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards. Looking down the wooden wall, they just started to trot, but the sea surface formed by a giant wooden shield was already flowing.
One hundred yards.
Fifty yards.
At this moment, Uta, Fern and Krencia issued the shooting command at the same time. When hundreds of crossbows were released at the same time, they made a trembling sound that made everyone’s ears tingling. Everyone saw the dense The crossbow arrow formed a translucent white line and swept forward-like a blade.
The blade swept across the cavemen's advancing formation. At the forefront, about two or three rows of underground creatures were stagnant. The cavemen and bear goblins fell together, and there was an obvious gap in the complete formation.
But everyone understands that only the gods know the true lethality of bows and crossbows for cavemen. Before they could get the second crossbow bolt, they saw the crowd from behind rushing to fill the gap in front.
Almost in a moment, the caveman had already smashed one after another under the wooden wall on the periphery of the logging yard.
The wooden wall is composed of four layers of logs, and the space between each two layers is filled with soil. For a lumber yard to build such a fortification, the three leaders once thought that the cavemen were simply wasting raw materials; When they hit the wooden shield, they began to regret the idea.
Those cumbersome creatures took huge steps and hit them with their bodies and the weight of the wooden shield in their hands. The wooden walls immediately made a horrible noise, and the logs in some places even began to lean back—be aware of these logs. But it was deeply driven into the ground for nearly one-third of the length.
Everyone heard the creaking, groaning|groaning sound of the wooden wall under their feet, and it was frightening. Compared with this, those cavemen who stepped on a wooden shield and leapt onto the wall with their strong hind limbs are simply harmless.
The mercenaries unceremoniously drove these uninvited guests off the wooden wall, but the caveman’s attack was obviously not over yet, and soon the screams of mercenaries sounded on the wall:
"They are digging tunnels!"
The Tiger Sparrow made Antitina back a little, and then the captain of the Rubis mercenary put his hands on the female wall and looked down-he really saw it under the cover of the wooden shields raised high by the bear goblins. , The cave dwellers were digging the soil quickly underneath—they were so fast that they deserved the title of an underground nation.
But there was no kerosene in the logging yard, and even the stones were pitifully few. The mercenaries tried to throw the logs down, but unfortunately these "loins" were of no use to the infinitely powerful bear goblin.
Fortunately, they still have a plan. Some people immediately left the city according to the original plan and withdrew to the side of the trench dug in the afternoon.
Those trenches were excavated specifically to deal with the tunnels of cave dwellers. According to Brando's instructions, each one was several meters deep, so when the caveman spent nearly half an hour digging through the first tunnel, the one who walked in the front was immediately squeezed by the caveman who came up behind. Bottom of the ditch.
Without exception, these cavemen were not thrown into pieces. They subconsciously raised their heads to tell what was going on, but they were waiting for them with human spears. Although the caveman alone has outstanding combat effectiveness, facing the more than a dozen spears condescending, he can only end up being stabbed into a hedgehog.
After losing dozens of people, the caveman realized that there was no way. So they had to go back and choose a more direct and rude way-the mercenaries on the wooden wall soon looked ugly and found:
These guys are starting to take the ladder!
This is an effective method, the only flaw is that they have to abandon the huge bear goblin among the army. —Those bear goblins squatted at the bottom of the human ladder and raised a wooden shield to build a platform for the cavemen — so that they could reach the outer wall of the wooden fortress more easily.
"Net!" Antitina raised her eyebrows and shouted immediately after discovering this situation.
Kerencia and Fern around her immediately conveyed the order, and suddenly there were voices on the wooden wall outside the logging yard. In the next moment, the giant nets built up by wooden shelves were propped up by the mercenaries and extended them out of the city wall, covering the cavemen down like a huge racket.
The net is simply woven from oil rope. This thing and the wooden stakes that make up the outer frame of the net are made from local materials and are found everywhere in the logging yard. This simple net looks absolutely ridiculously rough in a battle between humans and humans, but it is effective for cavemen who are not good at siege.
While the cavemen were climbing up and dealing with these difficult nets, the mercenaries were able to sit down and wait for work, and the underground creatures who launched the storm quickly suffered huge losses.
Uta and the three others couldn’t help but be surprised when they saw this scene. It is simple but effective, which is different from the tactics of most regular army; it’s not like a noble or a knight should come up with a method, it’s more like The'emergency plan' of these mercenaries who are old in the battlefield-but this is exactly the'strategy to defend against the enemy' that the young lord had ordered in advance, which made them a little surprised, but they did not know the size of the game in the past. In small wars, the most invented are these whimsical'techniques'.
With simple nets, the mercenaries repelled the number of cave dwellers in succession. However, the pace of the battle inevitably entered a white-hot stage. After all, the big net woven by oil rope was not unbreakable. As more and more cavemen broke through the barrier, the battle on the wooden wall finally began to see blood.
For the first time, humankind has suffered losses, and the number of casualties is rapidly increasing. In the frontal battle, the caveman's single-handed combat advantage gradually emerged.
The mercenaries retreated step by step. As more and more cavemen rushed to the city, they found that their previous advantages no longer exist, and even worse, the defenders in many places were instead driven down. Creatures seem to be breaking in at any time.
Although they are not good at attacking cities, their quantitative advantages have concealed all flaws.
Krenthia and Fern, who were sweating profusely, turned their eyes to Antitina at the same time. They knew that the only key to turning the tide of the battle at the moment might lie in this noble girl. Of course, if she does not act, then they will use their own methods to end the battle.
The two heads made the same decision in their hearts at the same time.