Sir Art ~ Sir Art ! Seeing that Art, who was in a trance, he ignored Viscount Geoffrey's words and hurried to remind him. 77dus

"I'm sorry Legionnaire, what did you just ask me?" Art quickly shifted his gaze from the burning wood in the brazier in the tent to Viscount Geoffrey.

Viscount Geoffrey looked unhappy, "If you like that brazier, I can give it to you, but now it's for you to discuss the siege strategy, not for you to think about the brazier." ”

The officers in the tent couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Legionnaire, I'd like to ask where all the firewood in the city of Thorburg is piled up?" Art asked suddenly.

Jeffrey was annoyed by this inexplicable question, "I'm asking you to think about countermeasures, where do you care about the Lombard firewood?" Are you going to borrow firewood from them—"

Jeffrey had just finished saying the word "firewood" when he stopped.

"Sir Art, do you have any ideas?" Jeffrey's face softened, and he asked in a tight voice.

Art thought for a moment and took a step from the end of the tent, and replied: "Legionnaire, we are outside the city, so naturally we are not worried about the lack of firewood, but it is different in the city of Solburg, there are no woods and shrubs in the small city of Solburg for the Lombards to cut down, not to mention the firewood needed to make food every day, and now that the cold winter is coming, the city will definitely need a lot of firewood to make a fire for heating."

Jeffrey's eyes lit up, and he got up and walked quickly to Art, "You mean burning the firewood in the city!" ”

"That's right! The Lombards could have expected that we might sneak in and burn the grain baggage, but they probably didn't think that we would burn their firewood, and they couldn't have even hid it in a stone house, right? At that time, there was no firewood in the city, even if they had stored food for ten years, it was useless, not to mention that the Lombards still needed to use firewood to keep warm, they couldn't use fire oil for heating, and most of the houses in the city were made of stone, and they just wanted to tear down the planks as firewood. ”

"Once there is no longer material support in the city that can hold on for a long time, the Lombards may surrender or go out of the city to fight against us in the field. Either way, the result is much better than it is now, we really don't have time to spend it outside of Sarburg, and after a while the snow will close our baggage line and be blocked by snow......"

Everyone in the room listened to Art's words, they had never thought of burning the firewood of the Lombal defenders in the past, for them the firewood that could be cut everywhere was really not in sight, and to be honest, Art was also a whimsical way to stare at the burning brazier in the tent just now.

"It's the cavalry that stabbed the situation in the castle, do you know where the firewood is stacked in the city?" Jeffrey asked the cavalry captain.

Everyone focused their eyes on the cavalry captain.

The cavalry captain was looked at uncomfortably by everyone, and replied: "Legion Chief, this~ I didn't say when I first spied on the Lombards to pay attention to where the Lombards put the firewood~ Besides, who will pay attention to where those worthless things are placed for no reason~"

There was a look of disappointment on everyone's faces.

"There are two places in the city where a large amount of firewood is piled up, one is the Dongcheng Free Market is less than eighty steps away from the outer wall of the Dongcheng, and the other is the wasteland next to the church in the North City. By the way, there is also a lot of firewood piled up in the open space next to the stables in the lord's hall, but not much compared to the other two. While the crowd was silent, the knight of Challus spoke.

Why did he know where the firewood was stacked in the city, because the two missions of infiltrating Solburg to burn down the granary and poisoning the well water were both the tasks of the knight of Czaris, and in order to find out the location of the granary and the well in the city, he would of course know much more about the layout of the city.

"But it's useless to know where the firewood is stacked in the city, even if the Lombards can't send someone to guard the firewood, but now the entire Thorburg is very tightly guarded, and it's not so easy for you to sneak into the city and set fire." Charis presents a very difficult conundrum.

"yes, after the first two infiltration, it's unlikely we'll be able to set fire to the Lombards." The mood that Viscount Jeffrey had just mentioned was low again.

Finally, a good idea was blocked again, and everyone sighed again.

Just when everyone was about to give up this plan, the legion officer who had never spoken, spoke, "Legion commander, ladies and gentlemen, you don't need to sneak into the city again. ”

Everyone turned their attention to this inconspicuous "gang and miscellaneous leader".

The lieutenant of the legion in charge of the baggage team encouraged him as if he had picked up a treasure: "If you have any good way, say it quickly, if you can really do it, the legion leader will definitely reward you!"

"Yes, yes, what's a good way to say it quickly." Jeffrey chimed in.

The baggage officer has a fat waist and a round belly, the top of his head is bare, and he has drunk a lot of oil and water at a glance, and everyone's attitude is not very good on weekdays, but at this moment, everyone looks at the baggage officer with expectation and approval.

"Legion Commander, ladies and gentlemen, although we can't enter the city, we can throw the fire into the city through the trebuchet."

"The trebuchet can't shoot that far." An officer questioned.

"Of course, you can't throw a stone ball that far, but it's different if you change it to something lighter than a stone ball."

"You mean the oil canister?" Art said to the baggage officer.

"Lord Art is really resourceful, that is, he uses a trebuchet to throw the oil pot, and the oil pot can definitely fall on the firewood, but we need to find a way to ignite the oil, and we can't expect the oil to burn itself or ask the Lombards to help light it." The baggage officer encountered another dilemma.

"It's not difficult, I have a way." Art picked up the conversation and replied.

Three people, you and I have solved one problem after another in front of everyone.

"Good! Good!! Since the three of you came up with this brilliant plan, I will leave it to the three of you to complete, and if it succeeds, I will definitely take credit for you! A smile finally hung on Viscount Jeffrey's face.

For the next few days, Art stayed in the Legion camp outside the northern city, where he, the Knight of Challus, and the Legion's Baggage Officer spent the day around trebuchets and canisters.

"Sir Art, you say I didn't think of using fire velvet with charcoal grains as tinder."

In the open space next to the camp, the baggage officer held a sealed clay pot in his hand, and the clay pot was filled with fluffy velvet, and the velvet was a charcoal grain that remained in a burning state in his heart. Within a certain period of time, as long as the closed clay pot outside is broken to allow the velvet charcoal particles to come into contact with the air, it will not take long for the open flame to ignite.

Next to the velvet clay pots, there are more than 40 closed clay pots filled with fire oil and tinder.

"Your Excellency, have you tested all the trebuchets? Can you hit it? Art asked.

"I asked the Throwers to choose two more reliable trebuchets for their test throws, and the Throwers practiced according to the distance provided by Sir Challus, and it should be fine."

"Okay, let's go and report back to the Legion Commander, we can start tomorrow."

On the third Sunday of December, the sun shines down on the land of the South Continent. The battle of Fort Thor's defense, which had been silent for many days, broke out at a time that was supposed to be a retreat.

More than 700 people from the 1st Company, 2nd Company, 2nd Company, 2 Banners of the 4th Company, and crossbow teams of the Eastern Army Corps began to "storm" Thorburg again from the east, west, and north.

However, this "strong attack" was only for the Lombards, in order to attract more Lombards to the city to prepare for the war, and to create better conditions for the conspiracy of the Ates.

Then again, even a feint against Viscount Jeffrey is true. The first company of the elite legion, pushing the battering towers and the rams, under the cover of trebuchets, attacked the northern city again; The attacking teams from the other two directions were also huge.

In the rear outside the north and east cities, six trebuchets kept throwing stone balls into the city, and the walls of Thorburg were smashed and rubble flew everywhere.

Two of the six trebuchets threw in different directions and the projectiles in their pockets.

The two trebuchets were not aimed at the outer walls of Solburg, but beyond the walls of the free market in the eastern city and the wasteland outside the church in the northern city.

The throwing property in the trebuchet's cartridge is not a normal stone ball, but a small stone block of similar weight to a fire oil tank and a tinder tank.

Of course, these are two trebuchets in test firing. Since it was a test launch, of course, it was impossible to directly use the fire oil tinder canister, because if the test shot used fire oil and fire, once it failed to hit the firewood pile, it might arouse the alarm of the Lombards. The second reason is that the Eastern Legion is not a Lombard, and such things as fire oil are quite valuable, and there are not many stocks in the corps' arsenal, and it is impossible to directly use them for test firing.

Paired with the two trebuchets were two tall siege towers, which were pushed to a safe distance by the siege party and slowly approached the walls.

Soldiers were sent to the siege tower to observe the landing point and correct the direction, holding a flag to serve as the "eyes" of the trebuchet.

Outside the northern city, the legions attacked the rear line, and a stone was well tossed by a trebuchet and flew over the wall into Thorburg.

Art put his hand on the siege tower and observed the soldiers, seeing the soldiers waving their flags to the right a few times, Art turned to the dozen soldiers under the trebuchet and ordered: "Move the trebuchet half a step to the right." ”

A dozen soldiers shouted a trumpet to lift the side of the trebuchet's base and moved the heavy trebuchet half a step to the right.

"Launch!"

The Grenadier put the stone in the pouch and slammed the hammer to break the lock.

The stones were thrown out by the trebuchet and flew in an arc towards Thorburg.

After a while, the soldiers on the siege tower waved their flags upwards a few more times.

"TMD, it's flown again!" Art cursed, and then ordered the cavalry beside him: "You guys, take down a small weight bar stone." ”

The soldiers removed a piece of the weight bar stone from the weight frame at the front of the trebuchet and repeated the action again.

After another moment, the soldiers on the siege tower finally lowered their flags and waved them with their hands crossed.

"That's it! Come on!! Art excitedly bypassed the trebuchet and ordered a cavalryman on standby behind the trebuchet: "You hurry up and go to Dongcheng to see if the baggage officer is ready." ”

The cavalry leaders jumped on horseback and ran in the direction of Dongcheng.

Seeing that the feint team is about to approach the city wall, if this side cannot complete the projectile, the feint team will have to retreat.

Just as Art was waiting anxiously, the cavalry finally returned, "Lord Art, ready, ready!" ”

"Throw all the oil canisters out of me!!"

At Art's command, more than two dozen canisters of fire oil were all thrown out by trebuchets, followed by seven or eight clay pots containing velvet charcoal grains flying over the wall............

"What's wrong with the people outside the city today? The rocks all fell to the side of the church, and they wanted to smash God out? ”

Watching the stones fall near the church in the northern city, several Lombard defenders on the outer walls of the northern city couldn't help but mutter.

Another soldier sneered a few times and teased: "Who knows, it may be that they have not been able to take Thorburg, those mongrels are in a hurry, but it is useless for them to smash the church, God will always be on the side of the great Lombardy." ”

"Haha~" A group of Lombard guards burst out laughing.

While the soldiers were amused by the stupidity of the enemy outside the city, the Lombard officers at the head of the city who commanded the defense stared at the broken clay pots that had "been missed" and fell on the pyre in the wasteland next to the church.

"That thing doesn't look like a stone!" The commander exclaimed.

However, the velvet and charcoal particles in the broken clay pot came into contact with the air and ignited a flame. The flames were soon connected to the black oil spilled from the oil cans, and the firewood was ignited, and the fire broke out rapidly......

"Oh no! The firewood pile in Dongcheng is on fire!! Another soldier caught a glimpse of the firewood pile at the East Side Free Market, where the fire was raging, and exclaimed an alarm.

"Extinguish the fire! Fire suppression!! Hurry up and put out the fire!! The Lombard commander yelled at the soldiers beside him.

Woo ~ woo woo

Just as the soldiers at the head of the wall were about to extinguish the fire that had just been raised in the pyre next to the church, three horns sounded from outside the city, which was not a clarion call for retreat......

In the Eastern Army, Viscount Geoffrey had already seen the smoke rising from the east and north of the city, but Viscount Geoffrey did not let the feint team withdraw as planned, he chose to take the opportunity to launch a new round of substantive attacks on Fort Sol, anyway, the death of soldiers is inevitable, maybe he can take advantage of the chaos in the city to take the outer wall of Fort Sol in one fell swoop.

This made it difficult for the army, which was originally only a feint, and they were not ready to fight at all, and the retreat horn that should have sounded became a reminder.

No matter how unwilling you are, you don't dare to disobey orders, so you can only rush forward......

The legion's siege team did not take the outer wall that day, but the two firewood piles in the city of Thorburg were burned to two large ashes, and the ferocious fire also spread to the perimeter of the two firewood piles, burning more than a dozen wooden houses to charcoal......

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