Chapter 704 The Wonderful Battlefield
In Sauron Castle, the leader Count Terman, who was standing in the arrow tower to direct and supervise the battle, saw that the enemy troops were dispatched in batches with a clear goal. He immediately ordered people to go to the southern city wall to light the beacon that had been prepared to notify the two camps outside the city to prepare for the enemy.
At the same time, faced with the approach of thousands of troops from the Welsh Army, after some instigation by Terman, the defenders in Solenberg began to move to their fighting positions in an orderly manner according to the pre-war deployment.
In addition to the hundreds of defenders on the city wall, the rest of the troops have already gathered in the church square, ready to take up the battle positions left vacant due to casualties.
Standing on the city wall and looking not far away, thousands of people outside the city were approaching Solonburg step by step. The siege team of more than 3,000 people managed to outlast tens of thousands of people.
Terman held the fence with both hands and stared at the siege team getting closer and closer to the castle.
突然，对方前沿阵线上的人马在离坑洞陷阱不足一百步的地方开始往两边分流·.
「」.—伯爵大人，他们这是要干什么？ "The subordinate Rhodes next to him looked a little panicked.
Terman's face darkened, he stood up on his tiptoes and looked up at the Burgundians who began to line up along the city wall.
He quickly came to his own conclusion and said with a contemptuous smile: "They want to block our retreat and trap us here~"
But Terman was only half right. Art's purpose of trapping them here was only to eliminate them, rather than to use siege as a means to fight a war of attrition with the Sauronburg garrison.
The seemingly ordinary encirclement tactics of Burgundy's army actually hid an unknown purpose. A moment later, the three thousand troops of the Welsh Army had surrounded Sauron Castle as airtight as an iron tunnel. It seemed that not even an ant could escape.
The defenders of Sauronburg, who were standing on the four city walls and had already prepared for a fight, could not help but shudder in their hearts when they saw the enemy troops approaching menacingly below the city.
They have never experienced such a big scene in their entire lives. If they say they are not nervous, no one would believe it.
When everyone was on high alert, a soldier on the wall suddenly said, "Look!"
This sudden voice made everyone suddenly nervous, thinking that the Burgundians had begun to attack the city.
However, the enemy soldiers under the city wall walked towards the city wall unhurriedly, not even paying attention to the tower. It doesn't look like they are coming to attack the city.
Terman, who had already noticed this strange behavior of the other party, was puzzled.
When the soldiers in the front row accurately lifted up the turf on the ground, and then picked up a thick wooden board to cover it, Terman suddenly realized~
"Quick, shoot me an arrow! Don't let them get close to the city wall!"
When the crossbowmen received the order, the Burgundian soldiers under the city opened up several pieces of turf one after another, and covered the trap holes that Terman secretly arranged with pieces of wood. As a hail of arrows poured down from the city wall, the soldiers of the Welsh Legion who were pulling grass to fill the holes a second ago quickly lowered their bodies and raised their shields above their heads~
Master Harbin, look at that bullshit Count of Lombardy, who is so angry that his eyes are as big as copper balls~"
More than 600 steps directly in front of the north gate of Solonborg, the center of the Welsh Army is located.
Angus pointed at the angry Terman on the arrow tower and couldn't help laughing loudly.
Att looked in the direction of Angus's finger, and Terman also happened to cast his eyes on Att, who was riding on horseback. The two people looked at each other, one was as calm as water, and the other was full of anger.
Seeing that his carefully laid trap was so easily discovered, Terman felt that he had been greatly insulted, gritted his teeth, and wished he could kill Art with his own hands.
Then, there was another burst of arrows, whizzing towards the soldiers below the city with their tail feathers screaming. "
This time, a dozen soldiers who had no time to react were shot, and were quickly dragged to the rear city wall by the soldiers who came up from behind. Seeing the Burgundians approaching step by step, the arrows fired by their crossbowmen seemed to be in vain.
Terman immediately turned around and walked down from the arrow tower, quickly walking towards the giant crossbow set up at the crenel. He decided to teach the Burgundians below the city a lesson.
"They are all a bunch of trash, get out of here!"
Terman was full of anger and cursed at these useless crossbowmen. Then he lifted the crossbowman standing next to the crossbow with one foot, climbed up on the console, pulled the bow string forcefully, took the arrow handed over by his own soldiers, and inserted it into the arrow slot. Then he adjusted the angle of the crossbow, searched for the target, and aimed it at Art, who was supervising the battle six hundred steps away.
A moment ago, when Terman disappeared from his sight, Art did not pay attention to him, but looked at the battle line that was advancing step by step.
And Ron, Angus and Odo didn't pay attention to the tower. As everyone knows, it was this careless move that almost cost Art his life.
"Be careful, Earl!"
Just when Art felt that the forward speed was too slow and was about to turn around and tell Odo on the right to send an order to speed up the progress, a urgent warning came from behind.
The moment Art turned his head, a huge impact came from his shoulder, and Art felt his upper body being hugged tightly.
The moment he lost his balance and fell off his horse, a giant crossbow arrow passed by Art's ear with its tail trembling and a low roar—"
Boom!
With the sound of cracking iron bucklers, a member of the Earl's Guard guarding Art was carried more than ten steps away from his horse by the huge penetration of the crossbow. He fell under the base of the trebuchet. A burst of dust was swept up, and the hole left on the guard's head kept splattering with blood. The shocked Art fell on his back, and a violent impact made him lose consciousness instantly.
"Sir!"
Angus and the others were frightened by this unexpected turn of events, and hurriedly jumped off their horses and came to Art's side~
"Sir!" Ron quickly helped Art up and kept calling him.
"My lord! My lord! Are you okay?" Odo called Art anxiously and checked whether he was injured.
“Quick, it’s dangerous here, send me behind the trebuchet!” Angus ordered while looking at the position on the wall behind him where the crossbow arrows were fired.
"Guards, escort the Lord to retreat, quickly!" Odo gave the order, and everyone in the guards raised their swords and shields, surrounded them layer by layer, and retreated step by step behind the trebuchet.
Colin, the captain of the first company, and Weitz, the captain of the second company, who were organizing their companies to clean up the traps and potholes, quickly summoned the soldiers of the two squadrons and moved closer to the direction of Art. They saw that the city was in chaos, and the Sauron Fort defenders on the city wall cheered thunderously, as if they were going out of the city to compete.
For a time, the situation was extremely critical. "Sir, are you okay? Sir!" Odo held Art's upper body with one hand and kept calling Art's name.
"Master! Master!" Seeing Art's unconscious state, Ron kept shouting in a crying voice.
Angus glanced at Art, who was still unconscious, and at Terman, who was standing at the crenel with a smile on his face. He punched the ground angrily, grabbed the hammer on the ground and walked to the north wall of Soronborg behind a trebuchet facing the north gate. Manshou had a somewhat gray beard at the corner of his mouth and smiled lewdly~
"You have seen it, this is how the crossbow is used!"
Terman was extremely satisfied with his archery skills and scolded the men around him.
When he aimed at the Northland earl and pulled the crossbow, he planned to end the other person's life. See with your own eyes the giant crossbow roaring as it flies towards the enemy and shoots it under the horse. At that moment, he thought he had succeeded -
Just when he was about to add another arrow to destroy the enemy's majesty, the men of the Earl of Northland quickly dragged him behind the trebuchet and lost the target. Reluctantly, Terman had no choice but to stop.
When he arrived at the crenellation, he saw that his arrow had caused quite a commotion among the soldiers below the city, and Terman's confidence greatly increased.
Slowly, when the picture emerged in his mind of the Burangdians losing their commander and their army being demoralized, and the Sauronburg garrison counterattacking out of the city to expel the foreign enemies, he would never have imagined that the other side's revenge would come like this. So fast·
"...Load!"
Outside Solenberg, behind the trebuchet facing the city gate, Angus shouted loudly at the two strong grenadiers,
After receiving the order, the two people immediately walked to the iron-lined carriage filled with stones, worked together to lift an eighty-pound stone, and walked slowly towards the direction of the magazine...
The moment the stone entered the magazine, the connection of the trebuchet made a harsh sound due to friction.
"The ammunition is loaded and ready to fire!"
The observer in front of Angus immediately gave the order.
Looking back at Art, who was still in a coma, Angus gritted his teeth, shouted angrily, raised the hammer, and slammed it against the latch with all his strength~
Bang!
When the heavy hammer fell, the stone in the magazine drew an arc and rolled towards the giant crossbow at the crenel·
At that time, Terman, who was standing on the city wall, was so proud that he was completely unaware of the danger coming.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
Viscount Rhodes, the leader of the army on the side, rushed towards Terman and tried to pile him aside, but he was still a step too late.
The flying stone hit the crenel where Terman was. When Rhodes just touched his arm, the stone just hit the wall. The huge impact knocked the walls on both sides of the crenel away instantly, and a piece of it hit Terman's left shoulder, knocking him to the ground.
Another angular stone was inserted into Rhode's chest, and the man and his armor were nailed to the base of the giant crossbow behind him.
Before the soldiers on the city wall could figure out what was happening, several rocks flew again outside the city. After a "bang bang bang" sound, the battlefield was so strange. Before thousands of soldiers between the two armies started fighting, the commanders of both sides were already covered in wounds~