In the face of the commander's inquiry, Lieutenant Beecher thought for a long time, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid there isn't much, and even if there is, it won't help much." ”

Tracy shook his head when he heard this: "I'm not trying to find them to do internal response, but to find out who my own people are in advance, so as not to be injured by mistake." ”

After speaking, he looked in the direction of Edgar City, and said in a relaxed tone: "With such a weakly defended city, it can be broken in two hours at most." ”

Indeed, despite the large size of the city of Edgar, the walls were only six meters high, which was very easy to climb, and most importantly there was no moat around it, which greatly facilitated cavalry raids.

As long as you break through the city gates, taking the whole city is just a matter of turning over.

Lieutenant Beecher pursed his lips and said, "Needham has followed the coalition army to fight the so-called rebellion, and now there is no backbone in the city, so I'll see if I can open the city gate later." ”

Edgar City was his former home after all, and Beecher didn't want it to be ravaged by war.

Tracy looked at the other party and smiled, "Don't force it, we don't burn and loot anyway." ”

Lieutenant Beecher nodded: "I won't delay a big thing because of selfishness." ”

In fact, he still has something in his heart that he hasn't said: I can't delay even if I want to!

Half an hour later, two cavalrymen sent to listen to the information rode back and handed Tracy a few crumpled notes.

Apparently, they were able to connect with the spies in the city.

Tracy finished reading the note and handed it to Cripple beside him, and immediately smiled: "What a godsend, Earl Needham has taken away most of the strong people in the city, and now there are less than four hundred old, weak, sick and disabled people left to defend the city. ”

It is a fool's dream for 400 men to defend the nearly eight-kilometer-long city wall, unless all the old and young in the city are transferred to the city.

Now that the truth has been discovered, Cliver didn't bother to listen to the nonsense, and said, "We will directly send a large army to cover up and kill it." ”

Tracy nodded: "As planned." ”

The so-called plan was actually very simple, first besieged the city with a large army, and the spies in the city spread rumors to arouse the fear of the inhabitants of the city, and then took advantage of the chaos to blow open the city gates with gunpowder and lure the cavalry into it.

Such tactics have been tried and tested, at least not a city has been under their hands for more than four hours.

The order to attack was conveyed, and more than 4,000 cavalry rushed towards Edgar City.

In the distance, a majestic trumpet sounded, and the gates of Edgar City quickly closed, and the iron-clad gates also fell with a bang.

If you only use normal means to fight, it will be extremely difficult to break through this city, but the army of the Earl of Meredith just doesn't like to play according to the routine.

Under Renard's teachings, they learned to dig tunnels, fight guerrillas, use gunpowder, behead them, and so on.

Now Captain Beecher has begun to use the persuasion method again, but judging by his disgraced appearance, the strategy must have failed.

Sure enough, when he returned, he had a black face and raised his knife to indicate that he was going to kill the officer guarding the city.

The army besieged the city for less than fifty minutes when two deafening explosions rang out, and the two gates to the west and south of the city collapsed, and the defenders were in an uproar.

Seeing this, Cliver drew his long sword without hesitation, and shouted excitedly: "Meredith Cavalry Regiment, charge with me." ”

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled.

Cleaver led the men straight to the West Gate, while Trollope and Coverdale led the Duke of Duncan's cavalry straight to the South Gate.

The two groups of cavalry were like two torrents, frantically pouring into the city, and even the defenders could not stop their advance even if the arrows rained down.

If there is fire oil, it may be able to kill and injure some people, but unfortunately the cavalry came too quickly, and the fire oil has not yet reached the city wall, and the fire oil that was originally used to resist the sneak attack is not known to be lit by which bastard.

Now the city is full of goods, but there is no below.

The highest officer in charge of defending the city was almost crying, only to feel that the sky was falling, and he regretted very much that he did not open the city gate directly when Captain Beecher persuaded him to surrender, but it was too late to say anything.

Seeing that the big thing was not good, the more than 400 defenders obediently raised their hands and surrendered, and the thousands of people who had been temporarily conscripted also collapsed.

Two hours later, the riots in the city were quelled.

Standing in front of the castle, Tracy commanded the heralds, "Pass the order, and the army will rest here for eight hours." ”

Everyone did not raise objections, after all, Earl Shelley would not get the news so quickly, and even if he got the news, the other party would not directly wave his troops to rescue, at least for a few hours, or even a few days.

He guessed correctly, now the master of the Viscount of Reims, Viscount Deple, was in a rage, and most of the lords around him had a look of amusement on their faces.

The news of the fall of Viscount Reims reached the coalition this morning, and when the lords learned the news, they all expressed sympathy for Viscount Deple, and then disappeared.

Of course, there are still a few people who are worried, and they don't know if the group of cavalry that sneaked up on them will enter their territory.

Viscount Deple was in a hurry in the conference hall, and he always looked at Earl Shelley with a look of pleading: "Earl Shelley, I beg you to send someone to rescue my territory immediately. ”

He didn't know how many times he had said this, but he felt like his throat was about to smoke.

In the same way, the ears of the surrounding lords were about to hear the cheeks.

Count Needham looked at Viscount Deppler, who was jumping up and down like a monkey, and couldn't help but show a mocking look on his face: "Viscount Depple, you better sit down with peace of mind." ”

He held back a smile, spread his hand and said, "Now that the wood is in the boat, it is useless to be anxious. ”

When Viscount Deppler heard this, his face turned red, but he knew that the person in front of him couldn't afford to provoke him, so he had to swallow his anger and say, "Count Needham, if it were you, would you still be able to sit here safely?"

Count Needham shrugged his shoulders and said in a relieved tone: "Isn't it just that we have lost the territory, and when we defeat the county of Meredith, there will be a lot of land waiting for us to divide up." ”

Viscount Deple clenched his fists desperately when he heard this, trying to suppress the anger in his heart, and he couldn't help but secretly curse the other party for being shameless.

If you lose your land, you will become a rootless duckweed, and you are not qualified to compete for interests with these tigers and wolves.

Maybe it's because of this that these sanctimonious guys in front of them are sitting here and talking.

He couldn't help but feel a little sad, and at the same time surprisingly angry.

Seeing this, Earl Shelley sighed and said, "Viscount Deple, it's not that we don't want to help you, but now that the decisive battle is imminent, we can't say that we will divide the troops." ”

He pretended to be embarrassed: "Have you ever thought that if this is the other party's plan, I am afraid that as soon as we send troops to the rescue, the enemy will take advantage of our unpreparedness to bite us." ”

Count Needham nodded and agreed: "That's right, if the other party is ambushing in the middle of the road, then the reinforcements we sent will probably be wiped out." ”

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