Zhao Hu looked at the soldiers who came up around him, and under the puzzled gaze of everyone, Zhao Hu suddenly kicked on the side of one of the large boxes, and the boxes "touched" and were kicked apart. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The contents of the contents tumbled and bounced on the ground, crowded with each other and made a burst of "ding" metal collision sounds, and the spilled glittering belongings made everyone's eyes straight.

"I am very pleased with your performance today, and as I promised, these belongings belong to you true warriors! Everyone will receive a bounty of one gold coin, and those killed and wounded in battle will receive an additional gold coin! ”

Zhao Hu's words made the whole camp completely boil, a gold coin is a farmer's income for twenty years, under the high degree of exploitation of the lord and landlord, many farmers have never seen what a gold coin looks like in their lives, and it is a thing worth boasting about in the village to see a silver coin.

These peasant soldiers didn't expect to get a bounty of a gold coin tonight, and the originally low morale was suddenly extremely high, and all of them shouted excitedly, "My lord, you are the most generous person in the entire empire!" ”

One of the wounded soldiers, who had to return to the village with his scars in the belief that he had not received a high bounty, even hid his face and wept excitedly.

But now the lord's generosity is enough to propose marriage to the richest woman in the village, and even to buy a large piece of land, and become a leisurely little landowner, and live a comfortable life for the rest of his life.

"If you're willing to follow me, I promise you'll get more than you can tonight!"

Zhao Hu was very satisfied with the excitement of the peasant soldiers, the army was like a bloodthirsty wolf, not only with sharp claws and teeth, but also with the desire to eat, and he wanted to train these ordinary peasant names into real warriors eager to fight.

I believe that if an enemy appears in front of these peasant soldiers now, these peasant soldiers will definitely pounce viciously and bite the enemy to pieces, and he will lead this army eager to fight tomorrow to completely tear the Marquis of Cato to pieces.

Lord Liu Ming's castle was not very far from the camp of the Cato family, and when the sky was just dawning, Zhao Hu could already see the low stone fort belonging to Lord Liu Ming in the morning mist of the village in the distance.

The entire castle was built on the low hillside behind the village, and the outer wall of the castle was randomly piled up from the surrounding mountains, large and small pieces of rubble, piled up into a low half-moon stone wall about 30 meters wide and 2 meters high, revealing a half-moon-shaped gap in the middle.

The castle was poorly defended and did not even have a moat, but a deep pit was dug along the city wall outside the castle, and only a wooden watchtower was set up at the gate around the castle, and a long wooden plank was hung from the deep ditch to be used as a drawbridge.

On the top of the castle fluttered a long swallowtail flag without a family crest, because the lord was not in the ranks of the imperial nobility, but only the title conferred by the lord on his subordinates or relatives, so he was not qualified to embroider the unique family coat of arms on the flag.

"My lord, the white tents on the right side of those castles should be the garrison of the Marquis of Cato, I heard that there is a large sheep farm in the territory of the Marquis of Cato, these tents are sewn from sheepskin, even if it rains, they will not leak, but they are all good things, and they can be sold for three gold coins on the black market."

Munda the leader of the hunters excitedly pointed to the dozen or so leather tents made of white sheepskin sewn in a circle outside the small stone fort, and looked at them as if he saw bulging money bags.

Last night's battle gave the hunters a gold coin each, and the hunters were excited to earn so much money so easily, and they only hoped that their lord would fight a few more battles, so that they could return to their women and children with a full bag of money and have a comfortable winter.

Originally, the hunter leader Munda was not optimistic about his employer's night attack this time, but he didn't expect his employer to be so magical, just relying on two hundred peasants who had just trained for a month, he easily defeated the army of the Marquis of Cato, known as the vultures of war.

In particular, when counting the spoils after the war, Zhao Hu not only announced that he had distributed all the looted goods looted by the Marquis of Cato from the village to the soldiers, but also added an additional gold coin to each of the three peasants killed in the battle and the eight wounded, which made all the peasant soldiers cheer and privately call his lord "the most generous man in the empire." ”

The trombone sound of "woo" came from the small castle in the distance, and it seemed that Lord Liu Ming's wishful thinking of trying to make peace was not satisfactory, and he saw dozens of soldiers running out of the white tent in front of the castle from a distance, gathering behind the tent with the eagle-beaked vulture flag fluttering on the top, and slowly moving out a large pile of wood like ants moving, and actually began to build things.

"It's a small siege catapult! I didn't expect them to carry this! As the general outline of the building gradually revealed, Starn, who had participated in the siege battle, whispered out.

On the side, Starn's words made the doubts in Zhao Hu's heart suddenly cheerful, "After a long time, this cunning Marquis Cato has no sincerity to negotiate at all, and this time he came with a small siege catapult, which is to completely swallow this restless "poor neighbor" around him."

Pity yourself that "grass on the wall" father-in-law is just a lord, not even a formal noble title, if he is really occupied by this cunning Marquis of Cato, no one will come forward to meddle in this idle matter.

"Giggles"

With the sharp grinding sound of machinery, a diamond-shaped stone found from a nearby dirt slope was thrown in an arc by a small catapult that had just been assembled, and landed on the outer wall of the gravel of the castle, smashing up a piece of rubble.

A large stone weighing dozens of pounds, whistling and rocking and smashing the front of the watchtower next to the trench, "pop" in the huge violent impact, the wooden tower body was smashed off the right half by the sharp water chestnut of the stone, the wood in the tower body was scattered and splashed in all directions, like a firecracker that was thrown into the sky and exploded, Zhao Hu who was ambushed in the distance secretly smacked his tongue, did not think that this temporary catapult would be so violent.

"There must be siegers down there adjusting the catapults, otherwise they wouldn't be so accurate." Starn, who had participated in the official siege battle, did not expect that this tattered catapult would be so accurate, but it took more than an hour, and after adjusting left and right more than ten times, he accurately hit the target.

"Siegers?" This is the first time Zhao Hu has heard this unfamiliar new term. Zhao Huguang felt that he should be a person related to siege when he heard the name, could it be that there are special siege engineers in this world?

"It's the people who are specifically responsible for manufacturing and regulating siege weapons, these people are very valuable, and the entire empire has only heard of them in the emperor's army, but I didn't expect to be able to find them here." Starn saw the puzzled look on Zhao Hu's face, and hurriedly explained.

Starn's words made Zhao Hu happy, Zhao Hu had already discovered this world, even the smallest lord had to find ways to build a stone "comfort nest" for himself.

If you can have a "siege warrior" in your hands, then these lords who like to hide in the "turtle shell" are the money bags in their hands, and they can knock whoever they want!

Seeing that the obstacle in front of them had been cleared, the soldiers of Sir Katohou, who were watching the bustle outside the castle, shouted forward with siege ladders tied up from the trunks of trees that had been cut down from nearby, and the first few soldiers used the long planks in their hands to set up the deep ditch outside the castle, and the passage to the interior of the castle was open.

"My lord, the castle should be about to be breached, should we also prepare to attack it?" Seeing that a dozen heavily armored knights in waistcoats had begun to move slowly towards the castle, the hunter leader Munda only rubbed his hands together when he saw that the troops of the Marquis of Cato outside the castle were all showing their deadly backs to him.

That's all money, as long as the lord gives the order, Munda thinks that he will definitely be able to shoot an arrow through the enemy's neck before the enemy on the other side has turned around.

"A soldier has a silver coin, a knight has a gold coin, and a lord, whoever catches it, I will reward him with a piece of land, everyone is ready to throw guns, let's go and kick the ass of these tocas people!" Zhao Hu lowered his voice and shouted to the soldiers lying on his stomach behind him, he had been hiding in this bush for so long, waiting for the moment when Marquis Cato's army broke through the castle.

As his bounty was thrown, Zhao Hu could clearly feel that the breathing behind him had obviously stagnated collectively, and when it sounded again, it was obviously much duller, but the red eyes of the soldiers behind him exuded a burning desire.

At this time, the Marquis of Cato would never have thought that the camp behind him had been taken overnight, and his defenseless back had been completely exposed to himself as a cheap "yellow sparrow".

Zhao Hu buried his body and quickly led the soldiers behind him to move forward quickly, constantly hearing the "rustling" friction sound of grass and trees around him, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he ran out of nearly 100 meters in one breath, and the luxurious sheepskin tent of the Marquis of Cato was only a dozen meters away from him, and the hunters who followed behind him had begun to draw their bows and arrows, aiming at the enemy with their backs.