Early April.

As Suman the Cook said, Jimmy led an army of 35,000 to the city-state of Koster, the Duchy of Oslo.

Among them, there are more than 5,000 cavalry, more than 4,000 firearms, and the rest are all infantry.

However, the coalition forces of the city-states of Oslo did not gather their forces to meet the battle as agreed, but instead chose to close the city and defend themselves after learning of the attack of the army.

Although they behaved like ostriches, they did not commit any offense when the army passed by.

This made the lords of the Duchy of Oslo feel extremely surprised, and at the same time, their worries were alleviated a lot.

In this way, Jimmy led his army to the city-state of Koster without any problems.

Upon arriving at his destination, he did not order his soldiers to attack immediately, but chose to set up camp in a flat clearing.

At the same time, messengers were sent to convey ultimatums.

Surrender or perish.

To be honest, the Grand Duke of Halifax at this time was already starting to be afraid.

If it weren't for the constant cheering of Earl Pullan and Earl Judson, he would have surrendered long ago.

He calmly rejected the emissary's request for surrender, and then slumped in his chair and waited for the war to come.

The Grand Duke of Halifax did not wait long, to be precise, the army was already under siege in the early morning of the second day when he refused to surrender.

An army of 35,000 besieged Koster, the main city of the city-state of Koster.

Even though he had more than twice as many troops as the invading enemy, the Grand Duke of Halifax still did not dare to summon up the courage to go out of the city to face the battle, but chose to retreat in the city, preparing to rely on the city to fight an offensive and defensive battle.

In the past, Jimmy might have chosen to besiege rather than attack in order to reduce losses, and wait until the other side ran out of ammunition and food to surrender on his own initiative

However, now that the situation in Arthur's kingdom is dire, and the demon can break through the weak defense line formed by the natives and attack the province of Gannan at any time, he must quickly settle the battle so that the army that has come to support can quickly return to prepare for the war.

Therefore, there is nothing to talk nonsense, just start fighting.

Accompanied by the roar of the starter: "Fire!"

In an instant, hundreds of small-caliber guns and dozens of large-caliber guns were fired in unison, so that the hillbillies of the Principality of Oslo, who had never seen the world, tasted the sweetness of the covering blow.

After just a few rounds of shelling, the houses in Koster near the city walls were reduced to rubble.

Yes or no

A few cannonballs exploded at the head of the city, igniting the oil barrels placed at the battlements, directly turning dozens of meters of city walls into a sea of fire.

The nearby defenders were swept away, and with the smoke billowing up, they let out terrible screams and scurried around the city, eventually being killed by their companions or jumping off the walls to their deaths.

Some of them didn't deserve to die, and after falling from the city, they only broke their legs, and they screamed in despair while crawling, and finally lay on the ground and died in agony.

It's a human tragedy.

However, this is just Jimmy's dismount for the other party, and the real battle has not yet begun.

At noon, the envoy returned to the Grand Duke's Mansion in Halifax.

This time, instead of showing the respect he had received before, the messenger asked commandingly: Do you want to surrender?

The general meaning is this, but I don't know the specifics.

The Grand Duke of Halifax was entangled in his heart, and he didn't know how to answer at all.

In fact, if he had known that the enemy was so strong that he would have surrendered a long time ago, where would he have gathered his forces to fight it?

However, now it is difficult to ride a tiger, even for the sake of his own face, he has to hold on to the end.

He once again rejected the emissary's request, saying that he would live and die with the city-state of Koster.

Since the other party was going to resist to the end, Jimmy felt that he did not need to be polite to the other party, so he gave the order to the firearms army: "As long as there are defenders in the city, give me a hard beating until they dare not take the lead." ”

The order was given by the supreme commander, and the soldiers immediately spared no effort to carry it out, and the sound of artillery continued throughout the afternoon.

At dusk, Jimmy Fang ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The Grand Duke of Halifax spent the day almost in fear.

In the past, when the lords of the Principality of Oslo fought between each other, everyone came out with their own teams and put on a posture of hand-to-hand combat, where had you ever seen this kind of fighting?

This...... Is it war?

The same situation lasted for three days, each day starting with frequent shelling in the morning and regrouping in the evening.

The two sides seem to have formed some kind of tacit understanding, and neither of them broke it easily.

However, late on the third night, when the Lord of Halifax was asleep, he was suddenly awakened by the rumble of a cannonball.

His first reaction was that the enemy army had attacked the city at night.

The Grand Duke of Halifax panicked and jumped up from the bed and pushed away

The mistress beside him ran out of the castle.

As he ran, he shouted, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

His shouting woke up many people, including Earl Pullan and Earl Judson, who were resting.

After the three of them met, they hurried to the herald to inquire about the situation, and the answer they received was very consistent: "The enemy fired a shell and then did not move." ”

However, the three of them still did not dare to let their guard down, and sent many scouts to investigate the situation.

Until early in the morning, the scouts reported: "There is no sign of a major attack by the enemy, and the army has not even left the camp." ”

Only then did the three of them relax and prepare to go back to rest.

But before they could lie down, the sound of artillery began, and the herald came to report: "The enemy is once again surrounding the city, and there are signs of siege." ”

As a result, the three of them had to cheer up and supervise the battle.

The rest of the day was no different from the previous day, with Jimmy's army firing a cannonball at intervals, alerting them to the presence of the army outside the city.

When the time came in the evening, he again called in the army.

The three Earls of Puran were so exhausted by the tossing that they didn't even have time to eat dinner, so they hurried to the bedroom to catch up on sleep.

But before they could fall asleep, the cannon rang out again.

They began to repeat the actions of the previous night until dawn.

In the early morning, perhaps frightened by the power of the artillery, or perhaps tossed, half of the defenders could not be seen on the city wall.

This made the soldiers of the firearms army feel that their interest plummeted, there was no way to fire artillery without the enemy, and what was there to play if there was no artillery to fire?

However, although their interest plummeted, some were in high spirits.

The infantry built a large number of long-range trebuchets and began to throw oil bottles and gravel into the city.

The trebuchet has a much lower attack range than artillery, but it also has a lot of advantages.

First of all, it is cheap to build, almost no money is required, and it can be easily made by finding a craftsman with relevant experience.

Secondly, the trebuchet can shoot many things, such as fire oil bottles, alcohol bottles, rolling wood, boulders, and gravel, anyway, how capricious it is.

A lot of things can be found everywhere, and it saves a lot of money compared to firing shells.

On this day, there was still no major war between the two sides.

However, many people know that a storm is brewing, and when it comes, the heavens and the earth will change color.