Chapter 432: Penglin City Fortress

Over 10,000 acres of lake, hundreds of ships are moored, from huge merchant ships flying the flag of the Dawson Federation Red Mountain Chamber of Commerce, like a metal monster, to fishermen's boats without even sails. However, compared with the prosperity of merchant ships in the past, Penglin Lake today undoubtedly seems quite deserted.

At this time, the lake was covered with a hazy mist, and when you looked from the boat to the northeast corner, you could see a suspended white castle - could this be a city in the sky? Or a ghost city? But in fact, this castle was just an ordinary fortress, built on the top of a lonely peak, and because of the clouds, it made it look as if it was hanging in the air!

The tallest round tower in the fortress has a huge stone sculpture of a hero on the top, in front of which is a long, two-handed sword, the hero's hands crossed on the end of the hilt of the two-handed sword, and he looks intently at the Hewlett River, as if he is watching, or watching.

Overall, however, the fortress was not very large, not even a small city, and in fact, it was originally only a military fortress for garrisons, and there were not even caravans to enter the city except for the army!

And here, it is the Penlin Fortress, a military fortress guarding the eastern junction of Valhalla Cross Canyon, and it is also the innermost castle on the Hewlett River across several large counties of the Roland Empire!

In fact, according to the unique geographical location of the Penlin Fortress, it can almost 100% become a prosperous city, but the first lord of the Penlin Fortress, the first patriarch of the Penlin family, Marquis McCarthy, once set up such an ancestral motto: "The Penlin Fortress is a shield of the royal family, and there is no need for anything else here except the garrison." ”

The stone sculpture at the top of the round tower of Penlin Fortress is McCarthy!

For 10,000 years, the Penglin family has always kept this in mind, they have never expanded the Penglin Fortress, and even the subsidiary settlements that have sprung up in the surrounding area under the economic drive have been forcibly demolished by the Penglin family again and again - this area, only one Penglin Fortress is needed!

The strength and stubbornness of the Penglin family will undoubtedly attract the dissatisfaction of many forces, especially those caravans who want to complete the water 6 conversion here, they need a foothold. But since the Penlin family refused to allow caravans to enter the city, and even more so did not allow other buildings to be built around the fortress, it made the consignment horses have to come from farther away!

The stubborn Penglin family is destined to have little popularity in the aristocratic circle of the Roland Empire, and those big nobles who do not deal with the Penglin family have also stumbled on them in front of the Roland Emperor, but no matter what means these people use, the position of the Peng Lin family in the Roland Empire has never really been shaken!

In the "Tenth Romanian-Arab War", because of the unfavorable initial battle, the army of the Roland Empire was defeated by the army of the Kingdom of Abidjan, and in the face of the great victory of the Kingdom of Abidjan, many cities along the way were unexpectedly surrendered! And soon, the army of the Kingdom of Abidjan was about to arrive at the city of Penlin, and the number was more than fifteen times that of the defenders in the city! What's more, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Penlin at the time also made a private agreement with the son of the commander of the army of the Kingdom of Abidjan for life - this almost showed that the city fortress of Penlin was going to change its flag!

In such an urgent situation, the military minister at that time suggested to Emperor Roland that he send an envoy to secretly go to Penglin Fortress to arrest and dismiss the Marquis of Penglin and control the garrison of Penglin Fortress to prevent changes in the Penglin family!

In my heart, the military minister's suggestion was a safe move, but as a result, the military minister was reprimanded by Emperor Roland: "Even if all the nobles betray me, the Penglin family and the Beiluo family will never betray, they are the shield and sword of the empire!"

Then, the then Emperor Roland even dismissed the military minister for this reason, in the name of ignorance and fanning civil strife!

And in the end, the Penlin family did not live up to the trust of the Roland royal family, and with the 20,000 defenders in the city, they dragged the 300,000 troops of the Abidjan Kingdom under the city, and finally waited for the arrival of reinforcements!

Since then, the sword and shield in the Roland royal family's exclusive heraldic scale have been given a new definition - the North Luo family is the sword that charges into battle, and the Penglin family is the indestructible shield! They have the greatest trust of the Roland royal family in them!

But in the Red Demon Rebellion a few months ago, the Northern Luo family rebelled, and the Penglin family was destroyed! This means that since then, the Roland royal family has lost its sword and shield, and only a bare tray is left to sway weakly!

The current takeover of the Penrin Fortress is the Order of the Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre, which has only arrived recently, numbering about 5,000 people, and the lord of the city is said to be from the Order of the Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre, a night watchman named Monroe (Sixth Order).

Looking at the city wall that was temporarily enclosed with wooden fences, as if it was plastered with patches, Marcus couldn't help but be secretly frightened - although he had not experienced the battle of the Penlin family's destruction, but judging from the broken walls of Penglin City, it was not difficult to imagine the fierceness of the battle at that time!

But think about it, it is a full 5,000 tower shield infantry, plus 15,000 shield infantry (quasi-tower shield infantry), known as the strongest infantry in the Roland Empire only weaker than the royal infantry, and its reputation is even above the sworn shield infantry! And in the battle of the destruction of the Penglin family, in the end, the Beiluo family also paid a huge price of 1,000 Beiluo knights, 5,000 Beiluo knights, plus 30,000 ordinary soldiers, and this is still in the case of the Beiluo family's mental calculation and the Penglin family's surprise attack! It can be seen that the strength of the Penglin family's tower shield infantry is worthy of being called the indestructible shield of the empire by successive emperors!

Looking at the broken and somewhat unspeakable city wall of the Penlin Fortress, Marcus couldn't help but feel a little entangled in his heart—not that he was worried that he would not be able to defeat the Penlin Fortress, but suddenly felt that after the Penlin Fortress was defeated, His Majesty the Emperor really rewarded it to their Bunian family, and he would only get a big piece of chicken ribs and even a huge trouble in the end! He finally understood why such a piece of fat, whether it was the Inquisition or those powerful nobles, had never bothered the idea here- It's not that they're not tempted, it's that this place is a quagmire now, and whoever comes will fall into it!

Of course, after taking this place, you can repair the city walls - but do you think the enemy will give you time to repair them? Even if the empire has not officially sent troops to attack the Penlin Fortress before, once the defenders in the city show signs of repairing the city walls, they will definitely be attacked by the army, which will cause the project to be forcibly interrupted!

Perhaps there are only 5,000 defenders in the Penglin Fortress now, because the Red Demon Empire also understands this, and knows that they will never be able to hold it, so they just symbolically put a little garrison here!

"Damn, after Lao Tzu knocks down this place, I will directly show His Majesty the Emperor that I have no intention of claiming the territory, maybe this will give me a good reputation - those guys in pigskin, don't they like to eat this set?!" Marcus squinted at the Penlin Fortress, and finally sneered in his heart.

Judging from the geographical location of the Penlin Fortress, it seems that attacking from the waterway along the Hewlett River should be a better option, but this is actually not feasible, because the thousands of miles of waterway in the territory of Beiluo County have always been controlled by the Beiluo family, and there are wolf smoke towers set up along the river to warn them. It was originally used to prevent the Kingdom of Abidjan and the Holy War against the Kampra Empire, but now, it has become an alarm against the Roland Empire, and I have to say that this is really a huge irony.

What's more, among the 30,000 soldiers led by Marcus this time, there are 5,000 sworn shield cavalry, and the cavalry is not good at taking water routes......

Under the orders of Adjutant Marcus, five thousand soldiers hid in the clouds and began to slowly approach the Penrin Fortress.

The 5,000 soldiers, all armed with swords and shields in front, were not heavily armored sworn infantry, but light infantry in leather armor—these were Marcus's private soldiers, originally mercenaries recruited by Marcus through various channels. After all, Marcus has only been an earl for more than ten years, and he is far from having the background of other counts, and in terms of the elite of the soldiers, Marcus's private soldiers are not even comparable to those viscounts and barons!

But Marcus doesn't care about this, what he has now is money, and when the soldiers die, they will recruit them again - the most important thing in this world is these inferior people who exchange their lives for money!

Because he knew that the wall of the Penglin Fortress had been greatly damaged, so this time Marcus did not carry a large siege equipment, but only brought some ladders, as long as they were temporarily assembled, the soldiers could attack the city wall! And this is also where Marcus's confidence lies in taking the initiative to ask for his life - he does not have the experience of commanding troops, but in his opinion, the almost undefended Penglin Fortress, as long as he relies on the advantage of numbers, directly rushes into the city and kills all the defenders, he is not afraid of being blown up by the enemy's reinforcements because of the bitter battle!

The soldiers carrying the ladders soon rushed to the city wall, and it seemed that the soldiers in the city were obviously unaware of their arrival! But just as the ladders were erected, countless fires suddenly appeared in the dim night sky, and then these fires fell to the ground like meteors!

Then the sound of "bang bang" explosions continued to sound, mixed with the indistinct screams of soldiers! Immediately after, countless torches lit up on the city wall, illuminating the city wall for thousands of kilometers!

Seeing this scene, the adjutant next to him immediately said solemnly to Marcus: "Lord Earl, it seems that the enemy has already been prepared!"

Marcus wasn't an idiot, he certainly understood what this scene meant, and the five thousand infantry he had sent out had obviously suffered heavy losses, but he was still very calm, and at the same time he was even more complacent that he had sent five thousand miscellaneous soldiers!

Marcus shouted to the adjutant on the side with a straight face: "Of course I can see that the enemy has been prepared for a long time! But so what? It's just 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers, with the strength of the Oath Shield Corps and the superiority of the troops, we will rush in and kill them all!"

I have to say that Marcus looks really powerful with a face and angry eyes.

"Yes, my lord!" Although the adjutant looked down on this old man who was a businessman and relied entirely on his daughter to ascend the throne, he felt that there was nothing wrong with what Marcus said - in this situation, the battle was full of people!

Soon, the heavily armored Shield Infantry and Knights were holding their shields and forcing them towards the city wall—although the javelins projected from the city wall were dense and violent, they still couldn't penetrate their heavy shields! What's even more strange was that even after the shields in their hands were shot down, the bodies of these Shield Infantry and Knights would light up with a yellow halo! And this yellow halo completely blocked out many javelins!

Soon, the Shield infantry pierced through the crumbling walls, and the defenders of the city were retreating, and the Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre, who had no time to retreat, were soon reduced to cold corpses!

In the end, it only took less than an hour, and the defenders in the city were all forced into the city lord's mansion and became a turtle in an urn!

Looking at the City Lord's Mansion in front of him, Marcus's eyes couldn't help but show a fiery gaze - the alchemy materials and magic potions he wanted were in this City Lord's Mansion!

However, the adjutant's gaze was a little puzzled, as the commander of the Oath Shield Corps, he had not fought with the Holy Sepulchre Guardian Order, in his impression, the opponent's melee combat ability may not be as good as the Oath Shield Infantry, but it was not as vulnerable as before!

Shrinkage?

The adjutant's face changed in shock, and although he still didn't understand the purpose of those Holy Sepulchre Guardians' voluntary contraction, he was almost certain that there was definitely some trap hidden behind it!

The shouts of killing in Penglin City had already alarmed the boats moored on the surface of Penglin Lake, and these boats had withdrawn for several miles, and some even left directly, so as not to be affected by the pond fish.

At this time, the crew members who were watching from miles away suddenly saw an incomparably dazzling magical light lit up in the direction of Penglin City Fortress, accompanied by a shocking loud noise, countless people saw a pillar of magical light soaring into the sky, spectacular and gorgeous!

(End of chapter)

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