There were bonfires burning in the dense forest all night long. The sounds of felling trees and making wooden ladders to climb the city, as well as the shouts of officers scolding lazy soldiers, could be heard far away in Alsburg. The bandits huddled in the fort were a little nervous, but they were not worried that the weaklings who had failed several times under the fort gate would have the courage to face the huge battle losses. Over the course of one winter they had turned Alsburg into a strong fortress.
In the open land between the dense forest and Alsburg, nine figures were walking in the dark and winding towards the right side of Alsburg.
According to the plan agreed upon by Art and Baron Antayas, Art will lead the elite soldiers in the patrol to carry a light wooden ladder around the side and rear of Alsburg under the cover of darkness. Baron Antayas will storm the front with a large group of men and quickly made wooden ladders before sunrise in the early morning when the enemy is most sleepy. Of course, the frontal attack only requires a desperate attack posture to allow the bandits to concentrate all their forces on the front for defense. And Art will lead the lurking soldiers to force their way in from the wooden wall on the right, penetrate into the heart of the enemy, disrupt the military center of the fort, and wait for an opportunity to open the door to allow a large group of people to attack the wooden fort.
Matt selected Odo, Bass, and Ron from the patrol team, as well as three members of Tuba's combat team and two other soldiers who had participated in the ambush at Winston Manor and were injured. A total of nine people were temporarily formed to form a raiding team. This was the most combat-effective soldier in the patrol team. Each of them was a person who had experienced battles, with strong attack power and good defensive capabilities.
In order to facilitate the sneak attack, except for Art who carried a riding bow, the others only carried a round shield and an armed sword or a battle ax, hammer, iron flail and other handy weapons. Baron Antayas also took off several pieces of leather armor from his city guards and temporarily distributed them to several people participating in the sneak attack, so that each of them had at least one piece of leather armor for protection.
Sneaking behind a huge boulder, the wooden wall of Alsburg has appeared in front of Ate and the others. Through the night, they can even see the outline of the bandits standing guard on the wooden wall.
Arrived here, Art and the others could no longer walk in a bow, so under Art's order, everyone lay down on the ground and crawled towards the wooden castle step by step. They were very cautious in every move. Once they made a noise and disturbed the sentry on the wall, their plan of sneak attack would be useless.
Less than a hundred yards away, the group of people crawled for nearly a meal. Maybe Art and his group's voices were indeed very low, or the noise in the dense forest was too loud, until the nine of them reached the corner of the wall, and the bandits standing on the wall on guard did not notice many of them. So everyone lay down in the grass under the wooden wall and rested breathlessly, not daring to make a sound...
Spring nights will not be too cold, but the evil spirit of late winter still lingers in the air. Waiting is the greatest torture. The few people who had been lurking under the wooden wall for most of the night had their hands and feet numb with coldness. They prayed that dawn would come soon.
The sky finally began to turn vaguely bright, and as a flash of fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky, the bandit-suppressing army in the dense forest finally began to move out. Eighty or ninety soldiers roared toward Alsburg, carrying five or six rush-made wooden ladders.
The sentries on the right wall of Alsburg were attracted by the loud noise coming from the front door. They all turned their heads and looked at the main entrance. After a while, a guy who looked like a small leader ran up and asked the bandits guarding the right wall to send half of their people to the main entrance to defend against the enemy's attack.
"Sir, should we take action?" Odo said softly to Art.
Ate pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the sounds coming from the frontal battlefield. According to the agreement, once the Baron led the team to bypass the pit obstacle and reach the gate, he would blow the horn. On the surface, he ordered the troops to attack the city, but in fact, he sent a signal to Ate and the others.
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At this time, there were still two bandits standing guard on the wooden wall on the right side, and the rest were all transferred to the front to resist the "tidal wave" of enemies.
The two bandits holding crude long knives and wearing linen short clothes on the wooden wall glanced at the flank from a distance, and after confirming that there was no possibility of the enemy attacking the right side, they turned around and stood on tiptoe to watch the lively scene in full swing in the front direction, listening to the loud cries of the enemy under the wooden wall.
Suddenly, a deep horn sounded, and the general attack on the main gate began.
The two bandits on the right wall were worried. They prayed in their hearts that the brothers on the front would defend the enemy's offensive.
The two people on the wooden wall did not notice that a wooden ladder had been quietly set up on the edge of the wooden wall behind them...
Art jumped up the wooden wall first, holding a dagger in his mouth, along the ladder, and jumped He walked behind a bandit and took out the dagger from his mouth and wiped his neck with a knife. The thick blood spurted out from the deep wound on the bandit's neck with a "sizzle" sound. The other sentry post was also pressed to the ground by Odo who followed closely and stabbed him several times and died.
What happened on the wooden wall battle path on the right was partially blocked by the thatched roof against the wall. Unless you stretched your head and stepped on your feet, you could not notice what was going on here from other directions.
After clearing the sentry posts on the fort wall, he checked his feet and looked around, confirming that the main force of the bandits had been attracted by the massive frontal attack. Art got out of the narrow battle road, and several people on the wooden ladder also climbed over the wall, jumped onto the battle road, and sneaked into Alsburg along the wooden ladder.
Ate led a few people behind him to avoid several groups of bandits who were reinforcing the front. Under the cover of the fort wall and thatched shack, he moved from the right towards the main entrance...
Time moved forward, and the shocking noise outside the main entrance before the trumpet sounded had already awakened the bandits in the fort. They had been waiting for this day for a long time.
In front of a two-story lord's wooden house in the center of Alsburg village, the ferocious-looking bandit leader was wearing a chainmail suit stolen from the previous owner, a barrel helmet on his head, and standing at the door of the wooden house holding a knight's heavy sword, commanding and dispatching his minions to defend against the enemy. There were already more than twenty bandits on the wall less than 150 feet in front of the wooden castle, so he felt that those who were desperately attacking the city would be defeated and return home.
The fact is that although the frontal attack planned was just a feint, Baron Antayas still invested the main offensive force. His inner knight Druid personally led eighteen city guards holding spears and axes. The bucklers tried their best to attack upwards, but the bandits concentrated their forces to defend the front. Stones and arrows were flying all over the sky. The siege soldiers were wounded by arrows as soon as they approached the wall. After two soldiers were killed on the spot, the druid had to drag a few wounded soldiers back under the wall.
The first attack failed.
At the back of the siege team, Baron Antayas on horseback knew from the first round of attacks that a strong attack was impossible to succeed, and he had no choice but to rely on Art's surprise attack to succeed. Without further ado, he nodded to a guard beside him. The guard took out the horn from his waist and blew a low sound...
After a short period of repair, the second round of attack by the army outside Alsburg began. This time it was a real feint attack, so the second round of siege team was personally led by knights and retinues. Several knights wore heavy and thick armor and helmets. Although this outfit was not suitable for attacking the city, arrows and rocks could not easily hurt them.
The frontal battlefield was in a deadlock. The attackers could not get to the top of the wall, and the defenders could not get down the wooden ladder.
While the front wall was being fiercely beaten, Art, who was inside the castle, had just reached the back of a wooden house about twenty steps away to the right of the main entrance. Behind him, Odo and his entourage, holding swords, axes and shields, crouched against the wall of the wooden house and tried their best to hide their figures.
There is an open space diagonally in front of the hiding wooden house. In the open space, five or six bandits are carrying stones and boiling dung water to the wooden wall. The bandits on the wall then take the stones and carry the boiling dung water to greet the enemies who are encroaching on the city.
The wooden fort gate of Alsburg is just in front of the open space where the water is boiled and the stone is built. The inside of the fort gate is supported by a thick wooden pole, and five mountain bandits armed with spears guard it.
Hatta, who was holding a riding bow, turned to look at the people behind him, nodded, and then pulled out a heavy arrow and put it on the bow string to aim at the target at the castle gate.
Whoosh~
The heavy arrow flew over the head of a bandit who was bending down to lift stones, grazed the ears of a gangster who was pouring dung into an iron pot, and penetrated into the back of a small leader at the fort gate.
"Ah!" A sharp pain came from the sudden heavy blow on his back, which made the little leader's feet weak and he stumbled to the ground, vomiting blood at the mouth.
One of the minions next to the little boss looked sideways at the fallen guy next to him. He was confused and just as he was about to turn around, another arrow shot straight into his face. With the crisp sound of the bridge of his nose breaking, the minions looked up to the sky and fell to the ground with a plop.
After being shot down two people in a row, the bandits at the fort gate just woke up, but seven or eight guys holding swords, axes and bucklers had already rushed out from behind the wooden house.
「Scatter and kill!」
With an order, Art drew back his bow and drew his sword, leading the charge toward the wooden door. When he passed by a bandit who had just put down the stone and was about to pull out the dagger from his waist, he suddenly swung his knight sword across the bandit's waist. He heard a "tearing" sound as the sharp blade cut into the skin. The bandit's belly was cut open at the waist, and the yellow and green intestines fell out instantly. Before the screams of the broken-belly bandit could be heard, Art had already knocked down another bandit who was attacking with an axe.
At this time, several Odo people also rushed over with shields and swords and axes, joining in the fight for the fort gate.
Bas, who was nicknamed the "Heavy Hammer", performed very well in this raid. He held a round shield in one hand and a hammer (iron-headed flail) in one hand and rushed into the enemy army with a roar. He swung the hammer left and right in his hand and smashed the bandits' noses and brains, causing blood to fly everywhere. Due to the special structure of the chain hammer, the shields in the bandits' hands were unable to withstand it. Bass, who had mastered the technique of using the chain hammer, always raised it half a foot. The wooden handle of the chain hammer hit the upper edge of the enemy's shield, and the spiked heavy iron ball at the other end of the chain smashed into the enemy's head under the huge inertia, smashing out a head of red and white things...
Whether prepared or unprepared, the party that makes the surprise attack can always take advantage. After a sudden attack, four or five bandits have fallen in the open space in front of the fort gate. However, as the battle continued, the bandits who had survived the initial panic reacted under the leadership of the bandit leader. Five or six bandits came one after another on the fort wall and in the wooden fort. In addition, the few surviving bandits at the fort gate resisted desperately, and there were casualties among the soldiers who participated in the raid.
Seeing that more and more reinforcements were coming from behind, but the bandits at the fort gate were still resisting, Art felt anxious. After blocking a tomahawk coming from beside him, he shouted to Odo and Bas who were fighting with the bandits at the fort gate: "Group Form a contradictory line formation to block the enemy behind, and leave the fort gate to me."
Odo kicked a bandit away, pulled Bass back, and directed Tuba and others to shrink into an arc-shaped shield formation, separating the fort gate from the bandits reinforcing behind.
At also turned around, took off the round shield on his back and charged towards the remaining enemies at the fort gate. Ron, who was hit by a sword in the chest, saw that Art was fighting one against three at the castle gate. He quickly pulled a soldier next to him to his shield position and took his place. Then he turned around and joined Art in the battle to seize the door.
More and more bandits were being reinforced in front of the shield formation. The shield formation commanded by Odo was compressed again and again, and soon the shield formation and Atron were crowded together.
Knowing that once the fort gate was lost, the bandits showed no fear of death. They slashed repeatedly with the knight sword in Art's hand, but the bandits at the fort gate took advantage of the length of the short spear in their hands to block the sharp thrusts...
The sound of retreating troops sounded outside the castle gate, and the knights and retinues who had boarded the city began to lead the peasant soldiers down the wooden ladder. As the pressure on the top of the wall decreased, the bandits on the wooden wall began to surge down the wall, and the pressure on Ate and the others suddenly increased dramatically.
If the fort gate cannot be captured, several people in the fort will surely die here.
At the critical moment, Art ignored the tip of a spear that was thrust diagonally. He took half a step back and raised his shield to block his body. He jumped towards a bandit in front of him and pinned him down. When the other bandit saw Art's back exposed, he raised his short spear and stabbed upward. At the critical moment, Ron, who had just forced back a bandit, dropped his sword and shield, stepped forward with open arms, hugged the bandit who was about to stab him with his spear, and fell back to the ground.
After Yate knocked down the bandit, he swung his right hand fiercely towards his opponent's door. Soon after, the bandit's nose and face were dripping with blood.
Ignoring Ron who was fighting with another bandit on the ground, Art picked up the buckler that rolled to the ground and threw it at the bandit who had just been forced back by Ron...
In the shield formation, Odo's roar sounded, and as the bandit leader in chainmail joined in as reinforcements, their shield formation had already Unable to resist...
Outside the fort gate, Kazak, who had finished the escalator to cover the siege, did not retreat to a safe distance. He commanded a dozen patrol soldiers around him to brave the falling stones and arrows from the fort wall and huddle at the fort gate with their shields raised, because he had already seen through the gap in the fort gate the Yate people who were fighting hard to seize the gate.
Baron Antayas also noticed the strange movement at the fort gate. He quickly ordered the repaired city guards, led by the druid, to once again raise their shields over the top and rush toward the fort gate.
At the same time, Art had already stabbed to death the last standing bandit in the fort gate with a short spear he picked up. He bypassed Ron who was on the ground and strangled the enemy's neck with his arms, and went straight to the fort gate and raised the wooden pole on top of the gate.
Kazak, who was waiting outside the fort gate, saw Art's movements through the crack in the door. He opened the gate and led a dozen patrol soldiers to rush in and join Odo's shield formation...
The fort gate was already open, but the large group of people could not all enter, because the bandit leader had led nearly twenty bandits to block the entrance of the wooden castle and formed another "human wall".
Success or failure depended on this. Art, who was already a little exhausted, took a breath, grabbed the sword and shield on the ground, picked up Ron, who was suppressed by the corpse of the strangled bandit, and joined Odo's shield formation.
The fort gate once again reached a deadlock. At this time, half of the defensive forces on the wall of the wooden castle were drawn to form a "human wall" at the fort gate. Baron Antayas, who was centrally dispatched outside the fort, did not continue to add troops to the deadlocked fort gate. He seized the empty defense gap of the fort wall and decisively ordered the knights and retinues on standby to remove their armor and go into battle lightly to win the fort wall with all their might.
"Kill a bandit and get a reward of fifty pfennigs!" Baron Antayas' roar like a torrent sounded outside the castle.
攻坚队伍跟着响起了震天的冲锋呐喊......
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As the Knights of Chloe successfully climbed onto the fortress wall and stabilized their foothold, the battle for Alsburg basically became one-sided.
When Chloe and another knight led their followers to jump off the fort wall, the bandit leader who was fighting in front of the fort gate with his iron barrel helmet realized that his defeat was certain. He left his men who were guarding the fort gate and secretly retreated behind the wooden fort under the cover of two henchmen.
Ron, who was thrusting his short spear forward, glanced at the bandit leader's hurried away figure. He shouted loudly to Art, who was standing alone: "Master, run away, run away."
Art turned his head and shouted: "What ran away?"
"Bandit leader, bandit leader," Ron said anxiously, pointing his short spear at the bandit leader who turned the corner of the room.
In the battle for the fort gate just now, several members of the patrol team were defeated by the bandit leader. Moreover, the bandit leader's head is also the most valuable. How could Art let him slip away like this? Anyway, the situation at the castle gate was decided, and it was only a matter of time before Als was captured. Art then withdrew from the battle and pulled Odo, who was still fighting, out of the battle formation.
When Art, Odo and Ron chased them to the wall behind the wooden castle, the bandit leader had already climbed up the wooden wall and was about to escape over the wall.
At saw this, he stood up, took his bow, and quickly shot a light arrow. The light arrow penetrated the bandit leader's calf. The severe pain and spasm caused the bandit leader to fall from the wall to the battle path, and then fell to the ground with a "plop" and fainted. One of the gangsters originally planned to go down to rescue the bandit leader, but when he saw Art and the others chasing after him, he turned to look at another companion who had climbed over the wall. In the end, he gave up the plan to save people and followed him over the wall to escape towards the mountain.
“Stop chasing, the prey is here.” Art shouted to Ron, who was about to run up the wall and climb over the wall to chase after him.