Twenty miles east of the Vaal, in the village at the foot of the hill, three bannermen with short swords at their waists led six or seven Welsh legions to requisition grain baggage in the village, and there were three such levy teams, each within ten miles of the barracks.

"As long as you can mouth, take it all for me!"

A man in a short robe with a sword in the appearance of a leader shouted orders to the laborers who were scavenging for food in the house, picked up a small apple from the broken table in the wooden house, stuffed it into his mouth, and then spit it out, "What kind of rotten apple is this, it soured my teeth, right?" ”

"Sir, sir, please, we have already handed over military rations twice this year, and there is really no food to hand over." A thin old man who looked like a farmer kept tugging at the leader's armor, pointing to the old woman and children trembling in the corner, and begging the leader to spare his family.

The leader pushed the old farmer away and glared at him, "Since you have paid it twice, why don't you pay it a third time?" ”

"I said, you old thing, don't you look down on our Wells legion? No food? How come you didn't starve to death without food? I've been a mountain bandit, I've seen a lot of cunning old things like you, and besides, we buy them at a high price, don't you know what to do, you are a master, and the short sword on my waist is to cut apples? ”

This soldier was transferred from Ledogan's bandit team to the second company of the infantry, and he was still a bandit in his bones, but this kind of person was the most suitable for this kind of work, so Otto temporarily appointed him as the commander of this grain convoy.

This task was a trivial task for him, and under his leadership, the grain collection team was familiar with scavenging grain from farmers' homes. In less than half a day, his grain convoy had scraped the grain of the two villages, the two wagons assigned to them had been filled, and he had "borrowed" an ox cart from the village to haul the baggage.

"You bandits, steal my food and kill us all!" The old farmer kneeling on the ground was obviously also a stubborn donkey, and he had to fight for his life.

With a stabbing sound, the leader pulled out the short sword at his waist and was about to cut it down, but the old farmer on the ground closed his eyes and didn't dodge at all.

The leader almost cut it off, but the half-fallen dagger stopped, and before he set out, Adjutant Odo's repeated orders not to kill civilians indiscriminately stopped in his ears.

"You damn old bastard!" The leader cursed, put down the short sword in his hand, and roared.

"If it weren't for the fact that my family confessed to killing innocents, you would definitely see ...... today" The leader suddenly found himself pursed and quickly shut up.

Sure enough, as soon as the old peasant on the ground heard that he would not kill innocents, his courage immediately grew again, and he clung to the leader's leg and refused to let go.

"Old thing, you get out of the way for me, I'll really take you if I'm in a hurry."

"You black-robed soldiers are robbers at all, unless you return my food, I won't let go of anything."

The leader was really provoked, he put his short sword back into the sheath, kicked the old peasant away, and then rose up and kicked the old peasant again and again, kicking the old peasant and begging for mercy, and the old woman who was huddled in the corner of the house and the little child who could not recognize men and women also knelt down and begged for mercy.

The leader kicked again before he stopped and gasped, "I have to let me, sir, teach you how to be a good person." ”

Seeing that his subordinates had rummaged through all the grain hidden in the house and loaded it into the ox cart outside the door, the leader took out a dozen copper fennigs from the money bag on his waist and threw them to the old farmer, "My lord is merciful, and he will not take your family's grain for nothing." ”

After speaking, he added, "Don't pretend to be pitiful, there must still be food hidden in the soot under the fireplace, but we are not bandits, so we will leave you a little ration, if we are defeated and the western army pours in, you will not have a chance to eat this ration." ”

The old farmer subconsciously glanced in the direction of the fireplace, lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything again.

"Oh~ that's right."

"Let's go, guys, there are still two families left, let's hurry up and go back to the camp to catch up on some sleep after lunch." The leader beckoned a group of men to leave the hut.

Screams abounded in a village in a valley between two low mountain ranges south of Vaal as a dozen Western soldiers in shabby cotton armor slaughtered in the village.

These Western Army Miscellaneous Soldiers were ordered to plunder food and grass around the enemy territory of Vaal City, and they also undertook the task of guarding against enemy attacks in this valley, because the Western Army commander had already sensed that a reinforcement from the Eastern Army was approaching Vaal City.

This group of miscellaneous soldiers is weak, but these guys are invincible in front of civilians.

The Western army miscellaneous soldiers harvested the heads like chopping melons and vegetables, tortured and killed innocents, and then loaded bags of old wheat and precious goods soaked in brain and blood into horse-drawn wagons and transported them back to the camp, and then burned the stinking demon hell to the ruins......

"There are still two households left, a few of you hurry up and kill me, master, I am in a hurry to go back to the camp to make up for sleep." A miscellaneous soldier officer who looked like a squire shouted orders to several henchmen around him.

The four soldiers who had been assigned the massacre were smiling, and the two houses in the easternmost part of the village looked to be newly built, and the owner of the house should be a wealthy man.

The four soldiers tightened their belts, drew their notched daggers from their scabbards, picked up their curved spears against the wall, and grinned as they walked towards the two houses to the east of the village......

Humming a lewd rustic tune, the four Western Army soldiers turned around the corner to the first wooden house in the easternmost direction.

Kicked open the door of the wooden house, the expected screaming and howling did not appear, and just as the four miscellaneous soldiers were curiously probing to check, several short knives with a metallic luster stabbed straight out, followed by four or five black shadows rushed out of the wooden house, and threw the four miscellaneous soldiers to the ground, and the short knives cut the throats of the miscellaneous soldiers and pierced their hearts.

The three miscellaneous soldiers did not even see the appearance of the enemy and went to hell with a whimper, and the remaining miscellaneous soldier was covered with a large hand and a short knife against his chest.

"Don't scream, or you'll be sent to hell with them!"

The miscellaneous soldier who was covered in his mouth widened his eyes and nodded in horror.

The big hand covering his mouth let go, but the miscellaneous soldier suddenly yelled for help, and kept struggling to break free.

"Bastard!" The black-robed man who held down the miscellaneous soldier grabbed him by the hair and cut the throat of the miscellaneous soldier alive with a short knife, and warm blood spurted out.

The black-robed man pulled over one of his subordinates, "You, hurry up and report to Lord Kazak, just say that there are only a dozen enemy miscellaneous soldiers in the village, and I will lead people to drag them down, and let Lord Kazak immediately lead people to attack and annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop." After saying that, he led the rest of the people towards the village......

In the open space between the dense forests, eighteen cavalry have been assembled and standby, and several cavalry are cruising outside the dense forest, and two cavalrymen have lost two cavalry in the battle sentry and battlefield shielding in the previous two days.

With the help of a handyman, Lusignan put his plate armor on his body, tied a cowhide rope, and hung a knight's sword.

After finishing his clothes and armor, Lusignnan glanced at the two deputy captains beside him and ordered: "Jafar, in a while, you will lead the first squad alone to the left and clear the enemy soldiers on the left flank. ”

"Sir Reyeke, you lead the second squad to follow me on the right flank;"

"Our two teams advance from the left and right flanks to the middle, and if there is a small force of enemy cavalry, we will fight, and if there is a large force of enemy troops, we will withdraw, but under no circumstances can we allow the enemy to cross this dense forest, and most of us are expected to be able to enter the battlefield before sunset."

"Yes!" Both Jafar and Reyek were ordered to return to their respective squads to check the horsemen's armament again.

The cavalry of the Welsh Legion was rebuilt from the original Sentinel Cavalry, with twenty-five cavalry, the deputy company captain, the apprentice knight Lusignan, the flag team deputy captain, the knight Rejek, and the knight squire Jafar; The cavalry team was divided into two cavalry squads, four ordinary cavalry plus two squadron-level sergeants and six cavalry as a small team, two deputy captains also served as squad leaders, and the cavalry team was assigned to three full-time grooms, a veterinarian, and six miscellaneous servants, a total of ten subordinates, which were personally managed by Lusignnan.

Due to the fact that the Wells Legion was not financially abundant when it was formed, and the location was not suitable for the play of heavy cavalry, the cavalry team was temporarily positioned as only light cavalry, and its main tasks were still to stay in the field sentinels, battlefield shielding, cavalry raids, flank cover, and interference with enemy positions, and only in a few cases would it play the role of opposing charges.

Ordinary cavalrymen wear nose guards and half-helmets (including chain mail lining), throat guards, armed clothing (lining) long-sleeved chain mail, and leg chain mail stockings; Weapons: spears, swords, daggers, hammers/maces, cavalry shields, and a crossbow and two quivers on the saddles of several sergeants;

The weapons and armor of the three captains and deputies are more sophisticated, and they are basically knightly equipment: head hood (lined) chain mail with throat guards, barrel helmets, long-sleeved chain mail (lined with armed clothing), hands and elbows protected by small pieces of iron or whole pieces of iron, a plate armor coat, leg chain mail stockings (iron knee pads), and a flis shield; Weapons: cavalry lances, knightly swords, maces, battle axes, daggers, and a heavy leaning bow and quiver.

In a short time, the twenty or so horsemen who straddled the tall war horses left the cover of the dense forest and advanced westward in a longitudinal line, and after walking out of the mountain edge and forest area, the team divided into two parts, and each rode away towards the left and right wings......

The offensive and defensive battle of Vaal City has entered the most tragic stage, more than 1,000 western troops from the east, west and south of the three sides of the ant attached to the city, six giant roller trebuchets and more than a dozen small and medium-sized catapults keep throwing stones into the Vaal City, the defenders at the head of the city will throw stones from the battlements down, arrows and fire oil are also pouring towards the western army under the city.

In just ten days, more than 1,000 Western troops launched five large-scale attacks on the city of Vaal.

It is also a county town, but due to its location in the rich Northland, the Vaal is more than twice the size of the county town of Tignets, which is surrounded by double stone walls and has two gates on each side.

Yesterday, in the fifth offensive and defensive battle, the western army had already attacked the outer gate of the southern city, and the southern city wall was also smashed by a giant trebuchet to make a two-person wide gap, but fortunately, the outer wall was breached, at least the defenders brought all the defending troops from the north and more than 100 young and strong laborers to barely drive away the enemy troops who rushed in.

Today is a continuation of the fifth attack of the Western Army, and although the attack has been much smaller, the defenders are still ready to put pressure. The enemy's combat effectiveness was fierce, and the attack of ten consecutive days of non-stop attacks caused the 1st Regiment of the Jonah Army defending the city to lose more than 180 soldiers in battle, and dozens of others were stabbed and cut down by stone arrows and short spears and swords of the western army in the city, and lost their combat effectiveness.

Baron Walter, commander of the 1st Regiment of the Jonah Legion, had already personally engaged in the defensive battle, and he shot an arrow from his bow at a head that had just climbed up the battlement, and the arrow grazed the round helmet on the head and was bounced off.

Walter missed an arrow and drew his arrow again, and was about to draw his bow when a herald climbed the tower and shouted a warning.

"Legion Chief, the outer wall of the southern city has been broken again, and the breach has not been blocked, the enemy has rushed in along the breach, and the second company can no longer support it!" The herald's ears were bleeding, and when he ran over the wall, he was cut by a flying arrow that had been grazed against his ear.

Walter put away his bow and arrows and shouted, "Let the guards go up!" ”

"My lord, the rearguard has gone to reinforce the east wall, and the enemy has concentrated the trebuchets outside the east gate to storm it!"

"Bring the guards to the rescue!"

As soon as Walter's words were finished, the baron's guard, who had been waiting for the second echelon of the Western Wall, had already rushed to the battlement wall and drove away the hoplites of the Western Janissary Legion who jumped on the wall, and it would be difficult to drive them away once they had gained a foothold.

"Fuck off! Bastard! Walter scolded.

"Order all the miscellaneous servants in the city and the wounded soldiers who can barely pick up weapons to come up for me, and plug the gap in the southern city first!"

"Yes~" The herald covered his ears and jumped off the arrow tower in a few steps to deliver the order to the city.

Walter glanced in the direction of Dongcheng, "The reinforcements that I said were good, why haven't you arrived~"

As soon as he said a few words, two more heavy infantry of the Western Army climbed the wall, and Walter threw away the bow and arrow in his hand, drew his long sword at his waist, jumped off the arrow tower and rushed over......

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Chapter 315: The Battle of Vaal City (2)