At noon, the sun has just set in the west.
Wearing a fine plate armor, a full-face helmet, and military uniforms, Dean, the palace guard knight, stood blankly behind the stacked walls on the top of the tower of the Wincheston Manor Mansion. The two personal guards around him held iron kite shields to protect the rightful owner.
As the defensive side, the Dean family has not actually shown an obvious disadvantage. After all, it is blocked by a high outer wall. In addition to defensive weapons such as bows, crossbows, arrows, and stone kerosene, there are fifty or sixty elite soldier guards and more than a hundred peasant soldiers on the wall. These people form three defensive echelons on the wall. Therefore, it is not easy for those who surround the manor to invade Wincheston Manor.
However, for the palace guard knight Dean, who has an average level of strategy and average combat power, such a battle scene is indeed thrilling enough. This was not the first time he had fought against this army wearing the black blood-eyed howling wolf heraldic robes. The battle on the southern border last year was still fresh in his mind.
To be honest, today's Wells Army is far less powerful than it was back then due to its rapid expansion, but hundreds of people roared and stormed the outer wall with great force. Dean, who was always used to bullying the smaller ones, was really afraid. He stared around at the fighting on the outer wall, his eardrums were filled with the screams of the wounded soldiers, and his thighs began to tremble slightly as they refused to obey.
The attack on Wincheston Manor was extremely tragic? To be honest, compared with the several fortified battles fought by the Art army against the Lombards in Provence, this was just a low-intensity war.
The backbone of the battle on the defender's side is the thirty Dean family (caravan) guards and the group of western border troops, but the main ones who actually fight against the enemy on the wall are the hundreds or so newly formed private soldiers of the lords. Because Dean and his son have regarded the elite guards as their last resort. These dozens of elites on the outer wall serve as tranquilizers and supervisors, and they will not die easily. This is especially true for the Western Border Army. They are neither subordinate soldiers of the Dean family nor locals. The fundamental motivation for helping the Dean family defend the territory comes from the high rewards after the war. They want money, but the prerequisite is to stay alive, so this group of people will not really fight until they have to.
Looking at the siege side, the offensive was not too fierce. There is definitely no suspense in capturing Wincheston Manor. In fact, if they really only set the ultimate goal of capturing Wincheston Manor, Odo and Angus only need to call the heavy armored infantry to attack as the vanguard and several elite flag teams (the first flag team) of the first and second companies of the legion. The remaining soldiers will pretend to attack on three sides. If the battle damage is slightly ignored, the battle will be over before sunset at the latest.
However, according to Art's pre-prepared plan, the attack on Wincheston was just an actual combat training for the Wells Army. Since it was a military training, the newly recruited ordinary soldiers must fully experience the bloody atmosphere of war with swords slashing and spears piercing flesh. Therefore, Odo and Angus, who were sitting in the middle of the legion command tent and commanding, carefully allocated their troops everywhere, always paying attention to the battle damage on the wall. If the flag team suffered too much battle damage, they would immediately let the flag team on standby come forward to exchange attacks.
Did the Welsh Army suffer any battle losses? The answer is yes. The soldiers of the Dean family are very weak, but their defense equipment is not weak at all. Fifteen crossbows and more than thirty foot bows can kill people even if they are operated by farmers with a little training. Therefore, in the first round of the attack on the Wells Army, more than a dozen people were knocked down by a volley of crossbows. The new officers who were commanding actual combat for the first time had strong combat skills, but now they were a little panicked when they needed to command their soldiers.
In the first round of attack, the 2nd Flag Troop of the 2nd Company led by Treddock was responsible for the offensive on the two walls. In the panic, some soldiers of the 2nd Flag Troop did not hear the flag troop's horn clearly and mistook the charge horn of another flag troop for the attack horn of their own flag unit. Twenty or so people ran out of the shield cover during the first wave of salvoes from the defenders and directly ran into the incoming arrows. Three people were shot to death on the spot and five or six others were shot down.
In the first round of attacks, faced with arrows, rocks and kerosene constantly being thrown at the wooden walls, all the teams of the Wells Army inevitably showed fear of battle. There were even a few timid soldiers who couldn't bear the torture of dying and threw away their weapons and ran back amidst the scoldings of the officers.
Wartime military law punished this kind of behavior very strictly. Two deserters who feared war were beheaded on the spot by the flag captain, and three other soldiers who escaped were caught by the military law team supervising the battle in the rear and had their heads chopped off with a sword...
Looking back to the offensive and defensive battlefield, the first and second rounds of attacks have given almost all the soldiers of the Wells Legion the opportunity to get close to the outer wall and feel the feeling of arrows flying and swords slashing. Therefore, at the beginning of the third round of attacks, the legion's command camp adjusted its deployment. The legion's heavy armored infantry team, which had been watching from the back, was transferred to the main entrance of the manor to lead the general attack. The four most elite flag teams of the legion's first and second companies launched feint attacks on the four outer walls of Wincheston Manor.
Klaus has been very low-key since he followed Lusignan and joined Art's team. This mercenary is not afraid of death and is almost unstoppable on the battlefield. However, he is not good at socializing with others and is not flexible enough. He likes to charge forward with a hammer and epee.
After Lusignan became the deputy captain of the sentry, he tried to recruit this tough guy who went south together into the sentry. However, this guy couldn't learn how to ride and cut on foot, and he taught him for a long time without any results. Lusignan had no choice but to give up and let him be an infantry captain in the army.
This time when setting up the legion's heavy armored infantry team, Art thought twice and decided to let this tough guy who had always been unknown give it a try. As a result, the good steel was really used on the blade. Klaus had a special hobby for hand-to-hand combat and was quite knowledgeable. He captured the heavy armored infantry team's ability to break through the formation with a sharp edge. When training heavy armored infantry, he adhered to the principle of "offense is the best defense and simplicity is the best tactic." All heavy armored infantry will break through the formation once they go into battle, and basically do not consider the issue of tactics. He firmly believes that since the heavy armored infantry team is used, there is no need for detours, encirclement, annihilation, luring the enemy and other tactics.
The soldiers of the heavy armored infantry team are all carefully selected. They may have mediocre combat skills or simple minds, but they all have one characteristic - they are strong in body, strong in limbs, and not afraid of life and death. Once the officer orders, they dare to jump even in the sea of fire. To put it simply, they are a group of strong men with simple minds, well-developed limbs and stubborn personalities.
This group of strong men wore more than half of the armor of the Welsh Legion. Flag Captain Claus and two squadron leaders wore imitation and purchased full-body plate armor. Their helmets were fully enclosed barrel helmets, their bodies were made of airtight iron plates, and their feet were even made of iron boots. The weapons in their hands were either hammers, flails or broadaxes and epees. The remaining twenty-odd heavy armored infantry were also wearing half-body plate armor, with shoulder guards, arm guards, and leg armor. They all held iron-studded bucklers in one hand and carried heavy weapons in the other.
With a suit of armor and heavy weapons, ordinary people would be out of breath after carrying these things for a hundred or two hundred steps, but these strong men were as easy as wearing a suit of cotton armor and holding a dagger in their hands.
"Heavy infantry, advance or retreat!" As the attack horn sounded, Klaus raised his specially made weighted hammer and shouted, then raised his iron-inlaid buckler and rushed towards the four climbing ladders under the front wall where the first company's first flag team had taken a firm foothold.
The defenders noticed the movement on the front, and the crossbowmen, under the mobilization of the commander of the Western Border Army and several Dean guard leaders, hurriedly turned their aim and directed their arrows at the charging heavy armored infantry. The heavy armored infantry were suppressed and could only squat down and raise their shields to withstand the intensive arrow strikes.
Klaus raised the buckler at an angle, and the heavy arrows of the crossbow pierced the iron sheet and nailed it to the buckler again and again, and the impact smashed the shield into pieces.
“The crossbow troops are concentrated for cover!” Kazak, the captain of the first flag of the first company who was leading the frontal battlefield, saw that the heavy armored infantry was suppressed and quickly sent orders to the crossbow troops scattered on the left and right wings.
The flag bearer beside Kazak immediately raised a flag with a crossbow pattern and waved it in a circle above his head.
Jason saw the flag waving on the battlefield in the front, yanked the bow string and shot an arrow, and ordered to the messengers beside him: "Call Smith, gather the crossbowmen and gather the front cover." After that, he grabbed five or six arrows stuck in the soil on the ground, and led seven or eight crossbowmen to run towards the front.
The crossbow team gathered more than twenty crossbowmen and rushed towards the arrow towers and several crenels on the wall to cover and suppress them intensively. The arrows flying above the heavy armored infantry team finally became sparse. Klaus decisively seized the opportunity to lead the soldiers through the last thirty or forty steps, approached the city ladder, and climbed up the city ladder against the falling stones and kerosene.
Heavy armored infantry can almost crush light infantry in close combat. Klaus and three heavy armored infantry finally climbed up the wooden wall. Several spearmen tried to stab them to death with short spears in their hands, but the spear points only left a white mark on their plate armor and were pushed aside.
Klaus threw away the shield in his left hand and grabbed the edge of the planks of the crenel. He swung the weighted hammer in his right hand from the rear right and smashed it towards the wall behind the crenellations. The hammer took off his hand and hit the spearman who was stabbing him. There was only a crisp sound of broken bones and flesh, and the spearman who defended the city was hit with a broken nose and face.
Klaus took advantage of the gap when the spearman fell to the ground, turned over and jumped into the wall, pulled out the broadsword from his waist, and rushed towards the defenders who rushed to fill the gap. The elite guards of the Dean family and the western border troops no longer retained their strength, and rushed towards the breached outer wall...
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"Lord Odo, Lord Angus, and Dean and his son retreated into the lord's mansion with a dozen guards to resist. The rest of the private soldiers of the Dean family have all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. The first company is clearing out the remaining enemies, and the second company is besieging the lord's mansion. Mansion. But the western border troops retreated to a residence and asked to see the Baron for an interview." A soldier from the Guards Corps walked into the legion command camp outside the manor to report the battle situation to Odo and Angus.
The sun has not yet set, and the battle to siege Wincheston Manor is basically over. The real fighting part of the entire battle took less than half a day. When the heavy armored infantry team established a foothold on the wall, the battle situation was decided. The Dean family's The elite guards had extraordinary combat capabilities. They caused five deaths and seven serious injuries to the heavy armored infantry. However, after all, they were not soldiers who often fought on the battlefield. They were quickly unable to support themselves when the enemy troops were at a disadvantage and were coming in a steady stream.
Although the western border army resisted desperately for a while, but seeing that the situation was not right, the leader Baron Connor immediately ordered to fight and retreat. They thought that they were the frontier army belonging to the palace and were led by a lord. The Welsh Army did not have the guts to directly destroy them.
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"Just do it! This breath is killing me!"
"Send the order to the army to execute it!" Angus ordered to the soldiers of the Guards.
The soldiers of the Guards Army received the order, turned around and ran into the manor.
After a while, two plumes of thick smoke rose from Wincheston Manor...