As night fell, on the driveway under the bright moonlight, Art and Angus led four squads of soldiers, one squad of sentries, and two squads of trained peasants and soldiers, a total of forty people, riding four horses and eight carriages. Under the leadership of the sentries, they advanced toward the Swabian border in the east in the dark.
Ron, who was scouting the way in front of the group, rode back to the team, "Master, I met two sentry riders who were staying behind. They said there was no enemy situation and no enemy sentry ahead."
Art looked back at the team behind him through the moonlight, and the figure of Angus, who was following the team at the rear, was vaguely visible.
"Ron, take the sentry team and keep a distance of three miles from the main group."
“Bas, Kazak, Pats (the leader of the first team of the third team is temporarily leading the third team), Tuba, are each team following up?” Art called the four warrior team commanders in turn.
"Yes." The four captains of the soldiers replied.
"Are the peasants and soldiers following?" Art continued to roar.
ˆ “Following.”
ˆ “No problem.”
ˆ The two temporarily appointed peasant and soldier captains answered in turn.
"Okay, speed up, everyone follows."
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The eastbound team ran quickly on the carriage path shrouded in moonlight, and the team had stopped at the edge of the mountainous area when the moon set.
Att and Angus put on the robes captured from the Swabian baggage train, and the six elite soldiers behind them also put on the clothes of the enemy soldiers. All the soldiers participating in the battle hid in the carriages. The carriages were covered with a layer of hay and then covered with felt cloth for camouflage. Each carriage had a Swabian flag.
After all preparations were made, Art and Angus rode on horseback and led six "baggage guards" around the villages and settlements along the way towards Builtenburg. Ron quietly followed up around the convoy with three sentry cavalry in different costumes.
It was daylight, and a baggage convoy on the southern avenue of Bültenberg was slowly moving towards the castle gate.
On the wall of the fort, the knight in charge of guarding Biltenberg was yawning incessantly. After Baron Jeffrey led most of his troops south to suppress the bandits yesterday, he had the highest military position in Biltenberg. When the tiger leaves the mountain, the monkey will naturally become the king. Last night, he invited several professional women in the city to eat, drink and have fun in the Lord's Hall all night long. When his subordinates came down to report that a baggage convoy had arrived from outside the city, the inner knight who had been working on the women's bellies all night was still sleeping soundly with two naked women in his arms.
The inner knight, who was disturbed from his sweet dream, got up and kicked the messenger hard, then wrapped himself in clothes and carried the wine glass on the table to the fort wall.
"They disturbed my sweet dreams, they are such a bunch of bastards." The inner knight stood on the fortress wall, picking at the corners of his eyes, and then drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.
A young man stepped forward and glanced at the approaching convoy in the south. It took him a long time to answer: "Sir, it seems to be our army's baggage convoy~" Looking at the blurry military flag to the south, he muttered: "It's true~ Let's go down and see if they have any private goods with them this time. If so, we can get some money for drinks~" The inner knight hummed a little tune and prepared to go down to the outside of the castle gate.
The little man thought for a while and pulled the inner knight, "Sir, before the baron left, he asked us not to let anyone enter Biltenburg. We'd better be careful."
The inner knight stopped, and then he remembered that the army had gone south to suppress the bandits, and now Biltenburg was an empty city.
"Well, you reminded us well, we can't be careless. Tell the gatekeeper to guard the gate for me, and no one can be allowed into the city without my permission."
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At led the soldiers disguised as the enemy's baggage convoy and slowly approached Biltenburg. He could already see Bilten's closed gate. Biltenburg is an important border castle on the southwest border of Swabia. It is much smaller than Tyniec City, but much larger than Andermatt Castle. Because it is located in a fertile plain area, Biltenburg's wealth cannot be compared to Andermatt Castle. Also because there has been no war for many years, Biltenburg's city defense is not tight. There is neither a drawbridge nor a gate outside the only castle gate. There are only two giant iron-oak wooden doors that separate the inside and outside of the castle.
Att led the motorcade closer to the fort gate and saw a guy holding a wine glass standing on the fort wall.
"Hey, man, no one is allowed to enter Biltenburg now, leave quickly." The guy on the fort wall shouted at Art.
Yat turned his head to signal the convoy to stop, and then said to the fort gate: "We are a convoy transporting weapons and baggage from the south to the north. We don't have to enter the city, we can just camp outside the city. But we want to We have been repairing here for half a day. Can we buy some drinks from the city to reward everyone? The guys have been traveling for seven or eight days, and it is really hard.”
"Sir, I can pay you some more silver coins, and you can help me buy drinks and deliver them. The remaining money will be regarded as your hard work." Art said, taking out a money bag containing silver coins from his arms and holding it up.
The inner knight heard the strong southern accent of the leader of the convoy below the city, and saw that the baggage convoy had begun to move to the open space beside the road, as if setting up camp on the spot. He thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, then I will go hard and get you some drinks." After that, he got off the fort wall and came to the fort gate.
"Open the fort door, I'll go out for a moment." The inner knight asked the guard to open the fort door.
Six guards who pretended to be unloading livestock had been watching the castle gate for a long time. Just when the castle gate opened a crack, they suddenly pulled out the long swords at their waists and turned around and rushed towards the castle gate.
The felt cloth of the eight carriages "full of goods" was suddenly lifted, and twenty or thirty soldiers holding round shields and sharp blades jumped out of the carriages and rushed up behind the six soldiers who were seizing the door.
As soon as the castle gate opened a crack as wide as a fist, the knights in the inner palace saw six figures running towards them. Before they could react, the strong bodies of the six guys slammed into the castle gate. The castle gate was hit hard and opened half as wide as a man.
The inner knight took a step back and pulled the castle door with both hands, desperately trying to close it, but a battle ax whizzed towards the front door...
Angus did not let the castle door close this time. After several soldiers who captured the door stabilized the width of the crack in the castle door, he rushed to the castle door and flew over the unlucky guy who was hit by a flying axe.
After a while, the gate of Biltenburg opened, and dozens of soldiers armed with sharp swords poured into the city.
Hate held the long sword unsheathed and entered the fort gate on horseback. Seeing that the gate was firmly controlled by Angus, he ordered the thirty or so soldiers around him: "Tuba's fourth team stayed to occupy the fort wall and stabilize it. At the gate of the fort, the others should be divided into small groups or combat groups to kill them. Don’t let go of any potentially dangerous corners.” After saying that, Art led Tuba’s team up the fort wall and cleared away any enemy soldiers who might still be resisting...
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“Hurry, hurry, there’s a guy hiding in the tavern.”
Colin, the leader of the second combat group of the first team, discovered an enemy soldier hiding in the tavern in the city. Carrying a bloody long sword, he kicked open the wooden door of the tavern with his two soldiers and rushed into the tavern to search for the remaining enemies.
Before it was time to eat, the few drinkers in the tavern fled immediately. Colin and the others threw tables, kicked benches, and reached the wine cabinet of the tavern. The owner of the tavern was frightened by the sudden intrusion of the sword-wielding man. He stood blankly behind the wine cabinet and stared at Colin.
"Where did the guy who escaped go?" Colin shouted.
The tavern owner couldn't understand Colin's words at all, and just kept shaking his head.
"I'm asking you where the guy who escaped is hiding?" Colin was a little anxious when he saw that the guy in front of him didn't answer his question at all.
The shopkeeper kept shaking his head, his face full of fear.
"Bastard!" Colin said and was about to chop him down.
A soldier next to him quickly said to Colin: "Team leader, team leader, he can't understand us!"
It was only then that Colin reacted.
"Disarm without killing!" Colin remembered a Swabian saying that the officer had taught them before, and the two people behind him also shouted "Disarm without killing."
This time the tavern owner finally understood and quickly nodded and knelt down obediently.
After searching the tavern for a long time, they finally caught the enemy soldier among the groceries in the back kitchen of the tavern. In this situation, they did not have the extra personnel and energy to guard the enemy soldiers and prisoners. The so-called "disarm without killing" only targeted civilians, so Colin ignored the enemy soldier's constant pleading and directly raised his sword to cut the guy who was crying and urinating to the ground. Then he led the soldier out of the tavern and continued to run to the next place where the enemy soldiers might be hidden...
Half an hour later, the fighting in Biltenburg gradually stopped. After clearing away the scattered enemies in the fort, in addition to a few soldiers guarding the streets and avenues, more than twenty soldiers gathered in front of the lord's inner castle in Biltenburg. Because in the chaos, three enemy soldiers and several fort residents retreated into the inner fort. At this moment, the gate of the inner fort was tightly sealed by them. Angus and Baskarzak were organizing soldiers to try to use a thick piece of wood to break open the inner fort gate. However, the arrows that kept flying from the arrow stack of the inner fort disturbed them. Angus had to organize other soldiers to cover the soldiers who hit the door with bucklers.
After stabilizing the fort gate, Art also came to the inner fort. Almost every castle has an inner fort. The inner fort is usually the living place of the lords, and it is also the last line of defense of the entire castle. The lords' treasury and valuables warehouse will be located in the inner fort. If not, Capturing the inner fort will reduce the amount captured in this battle, and the troops who penetrate deep into the enemy's territory cannot slowly search for money from house to house in Biltenburg, so they must capture the inner fort and collect the property as soon as possible before the "bandit-suppressing army" can react and turn back for rescue.
"Stop knocking, go find a bigger piece of wood." Art yelled at Bass who was leading someone to knock on the door.
Bath asked the soldiers to withdraw to a safe distance, and then took people to the castle to find thicker and heavier wood to use as a breaking hammer.
Yate glanced at the arrow stack in the inner fort, and then ordered Kazak: "Kazak, you go find some hay, and use some water-soaked thatch to make thick smoke, and cover the entire gate with thick smoke, so that their bows and arrows cannot aim properly." Zach also brought a soldier to pull down the thatch from the huts of the houses around the inner fort and sprinkle some water...
After a while, several people from Bas ran back carrying a twenty-foot-long thick log. It was obvious that Bas had led the people to remove the beams of other people's houses. Kazak lit several piles of hay outside the inner fort gate and then threw the water-soaked thatch up. Several large plumes of thick smoke rose up, and soon the sky above the inner fort gate was shrouded in thick smoke.
"Two shields cover one person, come on!" Art shouted at the soldiers around him.
The soldiers of the four combat groups worked together in groups of three to lift the thick wooden beams, passed through the thick fog, rushed for more than ten steps, and hit the wooden door of the inner fort.
Biltenburg has not been in war for many years, and Baron Jeffrey did not expect that anyone would actually attack his inner fort, so the inner fort gate was only a thicker wooden gate. Under the heavy blows from the heavy wooden beams, cracks began to appear in the door bars of the inner fort gate.
"Bang!!!" There was a loud noise, and the gate of the inner fort finally could not withstand the heavy blow, the door bars broke, and the door opened...
Biltenburg was completely captured.