The brutality of the Lombards beheading the scribe sent by the Eastern Legion to persuade him to surrender made Viscount Geoffrey completely angry, and Viscount Geoffrey knew that it was impossible to take Fort Sol by giving money to persuade him to surrender.

Still, Viscount Geoffrey was looking forward to a glorious and warm winter in the southern city of Vilno.

Early in the morning of the fourth day after the defeat of the first attack, the Eastern Army began to launch a strong assault on Thorburg.

This assault used the forces of the entire corps.

Three of the four gates of Thorburg were under attack by the Eastern Legion, with only the southern gate missing.

The attacking team was divided into four parts of different sizes - the north gate was still the main direction of attack, and the elite first company of the legion and the crossbow team were in charge of a total of nearly 300 people, and the auxiliary siege equipment included four counterweight trebuchets, a top-covering ram, and twenty climbing ladders; The east and west gates were each in charge of a flag team sent by the second and fourth companies, both equipped with two trebuchets and a city-breaking hammer, a ladder and other equipment; In the rear outside the northern city, Viscount Geoffrey personally led the remaining banner teams of the second and fourth companies, as well as the cavalry team, a total of 240 people, as a reserve team, and if a certain attack surface tore a hole, these people would pounce on it and tear the gap.

The commander of the Chinese army sounded three horns to urge the conscription, and attacked simultaneously from the east, west, and north.

This was not a tentative attack, so the trebuchet was the main attraction before the soldiers charged, and almost all the suitable stones for throwing in the manor villages around Solburg were moved to the back of the trebuchet and stacked.

Eight trebuchets kept swinging their long and short arms to smash the head-sized stones into the outer wall of Solburg, the outer wall of Solburg was flying in the sky, and the Lombard guards behind the battlement wall were smashed to the point that they did not dare to raise their heads, dozens of rounds were thrown down, the arrow towers on the outer wall of Solburg were smashed and collapsed everywhere, the wide ditch on the inside of the outer wall was splashed with stinky water, and occasionally one or two stones that flew far away rushed to the inner city and smashed the houses in the city out of a big hole......

Behind the battlements of the northern wall, a Lombard soldier squatted under the battlements and held his head trembling, and four trebuchets outside the city flew continuously towards the wall to throw stones, and the stones smashed on the city wall and shook the whole wall.

"The Provencal trebuchet is really powerful, and it is so powerful at such a distance." A slightly older veteran beside the Lombard soldier said.

The little soldier was already half frightened to death by the loud noise and tremor of the stones, how could he hear the words of the veteran.

"Talk to you, little bastard." The veteran stretched out his foot and kicked the creep.

"I~I~ am afraid of death." The soldier replied on tiptoe.

"Useless things, such a thick wall, they can still smash through?"

The veteran glanced at the soldier with disdain, and then was about to look up at the outside of the city, when a stone ball smashed through the wall, and the veteran's head was instantly severed off......

"Yes, just smash it for me, all four trebuchets will nail that section of the city wall to me and smash it intensively, and it won't collapse the entire northern city, can't I still smash a gap in the battlement?" In the Northern City assault team, the commander of the first company shouted orders to the soldiers operating the trebuchet.

The trebuchets did little to the hard stone walls, so he simply stopped sending stones to the Lombards everywhere, but concentrated all the trebuchets to attack one battlement. No, the four trebuchets kept throwing, and the gap in the battlements of the northern city was quickly smashed.

After smashing at the gap for a while, the commander ordered: "The trebuchet will continue to smash it for me until the soldiers rushing to the bottom of the city."

"The City Breaker Squad, attack the gates of the North City."

"The shield soldiers cover the bow and crossbow squad near the city, and the bow and crossbow cover the infantry to enter the city."

"Infantry Banner, Attack!"

In the evening, the offensive and defensive battle of Solburg, which lasted all day, continued.

The 1st Company of the Legion of the Northern City, which was attacking during the day, almost occupied the outer wall of the Northern City, but when a dozen elite infantry had just gained a foothold at the head of the wall where they had been smashed out of the hole, more than 20 Lombard heavy infantry wearing half-body armor rushed up to the wall through the door hole and drove all the attacking legionnaires back.

These hoplites, dressed in half-plated armor, were the best of the Lombards, and their armor was made by the armourmakers of the Southern Continent, and ordinary swords and hammers could not have dealt them fatal damage.

In the two years since the invasion of Provence, the Lombards have relied on these hoplites hiding behind iron plates to turn the tide in battle after battle.

The siege lasted from morning to evening, and the iron-beaten men could not stand the intensity of the attack, so when the sun set on the horizon, the commander of the Eastern Army sounded the clarion call for retreat, and the siege soldiers who had been smashed by the Lombards were finally redeemed, and they jumped off the city wall along the ladder and fled back to the rear.

The main attack on the Beicheng battlefield is still like this, the feints on both sides of the battlefield are even more unbearable, the mercenaries are all people who lead the army to eat military rations, they do not have the slightest sense of honor in their eyes, if it were not for the Eastern Army to give them sufficient and stable military pay and the promise of allowing looting after the siege, these mercenaries may not even work hard in the face of the fortified city.

The first day's assault was a failure, and the Eastern Army paid the price of forty-eight dead, thirty-two seriously wounded, and more than eighty lightly wounded.

Viscount Jeffrey touched the ashes again, and his mood was very low.

Over the next few days, the Legion largely abandoned the strategy of ascending the ant, and switched to creating siege towers and gathering rams.

But the Lombards were also well prepared, they used a large number of trebuchets, fire oil and other long-range weapons to attack the legion's battering towers and rams and other equipment, long before the eastern legions entered the castle, they had already marked the points outside the city, and the trebuchets in the city of Solburg could always accurately smash the canisters of fire oil into the battering towers and rams made by the siege team.

After several days of attacking, almost all the siege equipment made by the Eastern Army was destroyed by the Lombards, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

The Duchy of Badi was the main source of trade in oil, and they had a large reserve of oil, which was a treasure in the Northlands......

In mid-December, the exterior wall of Solburg, which had been bustling for more than a decade, finally quieted down.

First, because the Eastern Army experienced nearly half a month of hard fighting, the consumption of armaments and baggage was too large, the soldiers were too tired, and the morale was very low, and the outer wall of Thorburg seemed to have become an insurmountable gap between the Eastern Army.

The second reason is that the sky began to snow, and the snow covered the entire inside and outside of Thorburg, and the ground outside the city was slippery, which was really unfavorable for the besieging side.

The Eastern Legion Camp north of Solburg.

Except for a few patrolling and sentry sentries, there was hardly anyone moving, and the soldiers were sheltered in their tents to escape the cold, and the whole camp was cold.

In stark contrast to the silence and coldness of the camp, the tent of the Chinese command camp was full of noise and heat.

All the officers of the Eastern Legion, including the commanders of the other three castles, gathered in Viscount Geoffrey's tent, surrounded by braziers with firewood, and the officers sat around and argued.

Viscount Geoffrey slammed his glass to the ground.

"Give me all peace! I asked you to discuss how to take Solburg, not to listen to you cry and cry for profit! That's all there is left for the legion's armaments, and I'm going to concentrate my forces on the battlefield of Fort Sol, where can I distribute supplies to other places? The defenders of your three castles will find a way to raise them yourself, and then replenish them when you have taken Solburg. "Viscount Geoffrey pacified the camp and the officers chattered over the supply of armaments.

Seeing that the tent finally fell silent, Viscount Jeffrey turned his head to the Knight Challus, the commander of the first company, who was sitting on the side, and said, "Challus, tell everyone about the recent attack of the legion."

Charis raised his head and glanced at the people in the tent, and said: "Since the beginning of December, the legion has launched six strong attacks on Thorburg, and the most promising victory is that we have taken the outer wall of the northern city, but when we stand on the city wall, the Lombards ignored the defenders who were fighting on the city, and threw a large amount of fire oil directly at the head of the city, and together with the Lombard defenders at the head of the wall, more than 30 people were burned alive, and more people were burned."

"A week ago, we stopped the assault and sent an elite squad of soldiers to infiltrate the city of Thorburg through the West City Water Knife, intending to burn the enemy's grain baggage, but the Lombards had long been prepared for our sneak attack, they hid and stored the grain in the city in more than ten places, and they were all stone houses, our infiltrated soldiers only burned two places before the Lombards found out, and the six elites who infiltrated the city were all killed."

An officer asked, "If you can't burn the grain, can't you cut off the water in the city?" The river outside the city is brought in by a canal dug by man, and it will not take long for us to fill in the canal directly from the outside? ”

"We have tried, and we have poisoned the water of the river into the city, but it has not had much effect, and the Lombards have already dug several deep wells in the city, and there is no shortage of water. We've sent people into the city to poison the wells, but the Lombards have dug a few wells in several of the houses where the army is stationed. We poisoned the deep open well in the city, and the Lombards directly switched to the deep well hidden in the house to get water~"

"After two sneak attacks, the vigilant Lombards have sealed off the river and several places that can be infiltrated, and there are a large number of military patrols and sentry in the city every day, not to mention an outsider, even a strange rat entering the city will be caught by the Lombards." Knight Challis looked helpless, and they had almost used up all the tricks they could think of.

"According to the information we received from the captured Baron Schmidt, the city of Tholburg has been stockpiled with grain baggage for eight months, and after his capture, the Lombards have successively transported several batches of grain and grass baggage into Solburg, and if we count on the siege of Solburg, I am afraid we will not have so much food and supplies. Moreover, the Lombard army in Vilno will not sit idly by all the time, and once our friendly army in Provence in the hills cannot contain the Lombard army in the south, the eastern army will have to face the threat of Lombard reinforcements~"

Knight Challus gave a brief introduction to the current situation of the Eastern Legion, and everyone in the tent shook their heads when they heard it.

"Okay, the battle situation is understood, the situation is clear, now you can talk to the commanders who can talk about your thoughts."

"Don't talk about bitter nonsense, just talk about useful things." Viscount Jeffrey looked around at the crowd.

All the officers fell silent and bowed their heads one after another.

Jeffrey sneered, "Usually everyone is extremely brave and wise, but now I need you, you are humble." ”

"Sir Art, you don't have to hide in the back, you are an outpost of the Chinese army, not an ordinary flag captain."

"Aren't you very good at surprise? Tell me what you think~"

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Chapter 196: The siege is not good