Everyone in the military tent was in a panic. They did not expect Athui to suddenly criticize him. No wonder he wanted to transfer all the elites directly under him back to Genenebourg. Now the entire garrison was under the control of Athui's blade. No one dared to confront him here, even if he was just a frontier baron.
Everyone in the camp has been passive and lazy to varying degrees. If Art wants to behead because of this, I am afraid that there will not be many heads left in the camp until tomorrow.
Heavily armored soldiers were still standing around the military tent, and the sound of soldiers unsheathing their swords could also be heard outside the military tent.
Everyone in the tent sat motionless, fearing that the heavily armored soldiers would suddenly smash their heads with a hammer.
Viscount John was also very embarrassed for a while. He was the nominal commander of the siege army. The reason why Geneneburg could not be captured for a long time was also related to his poor command and dispatch and lax rewards and punishments.
Viscount Jorn broke the silence, "Art, there are Swabian elites stationed in Geneborg, and there are a large number of crossbows, arrows and kerosene in the city. It is really difficult to attack for a while..."
At interrupted Viscount John with a wave of his hand, "Viscount John, it is a fact that Geneborg is difficult to defeat. If Geneborg can be captured as easily as the Swabians from our frontier army, why should I spend a million pfennigs to recruit various armies?"
"And after taking my money, you should do things for me. I don't expect everyone to be as strong as the Swabian army, but at least it can't be like this now! Morris is just the most excessive. Sir Nathan, from half a month ago to now, you sent a total of thirty soldiers to the city, and the rest are all here Help build and propel the siege equipment. You have fifty elite frontier troops, fifty! You are doing miscellaneous soldiers with the salary from me! In the battle ten days ago, because you did not follow the order to increase the number of troops on the Western Wall, all the soldiers who had climbed up the Western Wall were massacred by the Swabians."
"Six days ago, the defense of the south city of Geneborg was empty. Sir Odo ordered your troops to immediately climb the south wall, but you were too late to climb the city and missed the opportunity to break the south city."
"If it weren't for the fact that you dropped a few corpses on the front three days ago, you would definitely be beheaded today!" Art said sharply.
At this time, the screams and howls of Maurice before he was killed were heard outside. The screams stopped abruptly with a loud roar and the crisp cracks of a heavy ax chopping bone and flesh.
Cold sweat broke out on everyone's foreheads, and Viscount John became increasingly uneasy.
Beheading the general in front of the formation is really a last resort.
Matt looked around and saw that everyone was terrified. No one in the tent had any intention of resisting. He drove away the heavy armored infantry standing around the military tent, leaving only a few guards.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the heavily armored soldiers who had killed Teng Teng exit the camp.
Att also calmed down and walked to the side of Viscount Yohn, the leader, and loudly said to everyone: "Tomorrow, I will personally command the attack on Geneborg. The army under my command will be the main attack on the west wall, and the border troops will be divided into two parts, the north and south, to pretend to attack the north and south walls."
"Military order, the army that ascends the city first can take half of the spoils captured after capturing Geneborg!"
"Military order, soldiers and officers will be rewarded with a hundred pfennigs in exchange for killing an enemy soldier's head in the battle tomorrow."
As expected, it worked. After saving their heads, everyone in the tent was immediately aroused by Art's heavy reward. They clenched their fists and squeezed their palms, and shouted.
At turned his head and raised his cup to clink a glass with the silent John, "Viscount John, one hundred ordinary soldiers under your command will be included in the army of the southern wall. In addition, I would like to ask you to lead twenty elite soldiers under your command to supervise the battle at the rear of the south city tomorrow. If anyone retreats in fear of the battle, kill them on the spot from the baron down!"
John looked at Art for a long time. Seeing that Art had a firm attitude, he nodded helplessly.
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On the fourth day of January of the Christian New Year, the snow suddenly stopped and the wind was freezing.
Dozens of flags of various colors were flapping in the cold wind outside the important border town of Genenebourg on the eastern border of the Count of Burgundy.
The three sides of the castle are already filled with the Burgundian troops who are about to attack the city. The west city is the main attack. Ater leads two infantry regiments of the directly affiliated army, heavy armor, crossbows, dead servants and a few miscellaneous soldiers. Two soldiers have gathered outside the west city. A large trebuchet, six small trebuchets, two siege towers, twelve climbing ladders and a battering ram. The cost of these siege equipment surrounding Geneborg alone exceeded 100,000 pfennigs. These siege equipment were operated and operated by some low-level officers commanding miscellaneous soldiers.
Southern City was composed of 500 eastern border troops, under the personal command of Viscount John, Lord of Bramont, as a feint attack.
Northern City consists of five hundred eastern border troops, jointly commanded by two local barons. One of the barons is the most powerful and has the strongest commanding ability among all frontier army commanders. The elite cavalry in the light and heavy mixed cavalry team is under this baron. Therefore, he is the actual commander of Beicheng. Because of the presence of this baron in Beicheng, he can serve as a auxiliary attack and can also switch to the main attack at critical moments.
On the gentle slope of a hill three miles east of Genebourg, nearly a hundred light and heavy cavalry were walking through the snow to guard against the unlikely enemy from the southeast. The hot air exhaled by the horses instantly turned into white mist and the mist in the rider's nostrils was dispersed in the cold wind.
This is the entire deployment of Ater's troops in the decisive battle of Geneborg. He gathered almost all the forces he could use here.
Before launching the attack, Ater sent people as usual to persuade Swabia in the city to surrender. Facing an enemy that was ten times their size, the Swabian defenders were obviously scared. They did not expect that the Burgundians would attack the castle after heavy snowfall.
Facing Art's persuasion to surrender, they were moved, but Count Randy had already sent an order. Once they lost Geneborg, all the officers and soldiers in the city and their families who stayed in Swabia would be killed. For the sake of his wife Young and old, the Swabians in the city had to resist desperately, hoping that Count Randy's reinforcements could come over before the Burgundians captured the castle...
After failing to persuade them to surrender, Art ordered the entire army to attack.
The trebuchet appears first.
A total of fifteen or sixteen light and heavy trebuchets from three attack directions threw stones of various sizes at the broken outer wall of Geneborg.
The sixty-pound boulder was carried by two soldiers into the giant trebuchet's magazine that was pulled down by the winch. A strong man holding a heavy hammer nodded to several soldiers, and banged the hammer on the trebuchet lock pin with a loud roar. The magazine swung rapidly under the drive of the counterweight bucket. After reaching the top, the magazine was detached and thrown, and flew towards the city wall of Geneborg in a famous long arc.
Bang!
The huge boulder smashed against the high stone wall and broke into several pieces. The broken stone powder exploded into a cloud of white mist.
The boulder failed to penetrate the outer wall of Geneborg, but the rubble exploded from the boulder hit a Swabian soldier who was hiding behind the wall and tried to look up, smashing his ear into a piece of flesh.
The soldier kept wailing while covering his right ear that was smashed by gravel, and rolled around on the battle path behind the crenellated wall, causing several semi-crouched Swabian guards beside him to become panicked.
A man who looked like an officer heard the sound of a pig being slaughtered, rushed over and kicked the wounded soldier in the stomach, pointing the broadsword at the wounded soldier, "If you keep yelling and yelling, I will chop off your other ear!"
The soldier with the injured ear was so frightened that he gritted his teeth and did not dare to make any more noise. The blood on his ear was still flowing out from the gap between his fingers.
"Listen to me, Master Randy has sent a message by flying pigeons. Three thousand Swabian troops are on their way to the border. As long as we hold on for a few more days, the army will come to rescue us."
“Your Majesty the Count has said that as long as we hold Geneborg, the land around Geneborg will be entrusted to us. After this battle is over, you will all be land-owning lords and squires!” (Note: A squire is a land owner under a knight. In the traditional sense, a sergeant belongs to a squire. A kind of. )
Nothing can make the defenders more determined than powerful reinforcements and generous rewards. The biggest motivation for the defenders in Geneborg is their desire for land. The flat terrain and fertile soil near Geneborg is the most ideal territory.
As soon as the Swabian officer finished speaking, the next boulder miraculously hit the same place. This time, the wall stack was instantly smashed down. The two Swabian soldiers behind the wall stack were knocked to the ground with a huge hammer. Their internal organs must have been injured. After struggling for a while, they began to spurt blood from their mouths and noses and screamed to death.
The Swabian defenders behind the wall had just dragged away the bodies of two of their companions who had been killed when a third boulder hit them again. This time the boulder was slightly lowered. The boulder just hit the ridge of the wall and was broken by the ridge. It shattered into dozens of pieces and exploded towards the wall stack, killing and injuring several Swabian defenders... .
"Good! Good shot!! Matthew, go see who is the captain operating the trebuchet in the rear formation, and give him military merit! These cannons were thrown so accurately that they almost caught up with the rifles and were thrown at close range." Art rode behind the siege soldiers on horseback, looking at the section of wall on the west wall that had been hit three times by the company, and praised him repeatedly.
Seven or eight trebuchets threw several more rounds of stones. The top of the wall of Geneborg was smashed into rubble and dust exploded. The defending Swabian army was buried behind the wall and did not dare to attack back.
“Herald, blow the trumpet! Start attacking!” Art gave the order to attack.
With the sound of the trumpet, the two siege towers came out. More than forty soldiers working under the siege tower began to push the siege tower towards the west wall of Genebourg under the orders of their respective commanders, shouting slogans in unison.
The siege tower is divided into two floors. The height of the topmost layer exceeds the battlements of Geneborg. A dozen crossbowmen hide in it and shoot arrows towards Geneborg to suppress it. Below the top arrow tower, which is flush with the battlements of Geneborg, is a troop storage platform. There are more than thirty people wearing armor and holding heavy hammers. Ax's elite soldiers are crowded here. In front of the troop storage platform, a wooden plank bridge (tower bridge) that doubles as a baffle is fixed to the pillars of the siege tower. Once it is ten steps away from the city wall, the tower bridge will be lowered to set up the wall stacks of Geneneburg, and the elite infantry on the troop storage platform will rush to the top of the wall.
Below the troop storage platform is a wooden ladder. Once the elite soldiers board the city, a steady stream of soldiers from behind the siege tower will climb up the wooden ladder to the troop storage platform, tearing apart the gap opened by the elite infantry.
In the middle of the two siege towers is a battering ram. This battering ram is very simple. More than forty large shields are spliced into a ceiling shield. The solid wooden wheels of five or six ox carts are removed and used as wheels for the battering ram. A thick solid heavy wood is hung on the vertical beam. Twenty or so soldiers with weapons hanging on their waists push the battering ram and roll through the snow step by step towards the west gate of Geneborg.
Between the three large-scale climbing equipment were more than a dozen wooden ladders for climbing the city. Soldiers from each squadron carried the wooden ladders and ran in long lines towards the base of the Geneborg wall...
I found that one chapter could not finish a battle to attack the castle, and the next chapter continued.