At the narrow mouth of the canyon on the west side of Sapbourg, a high wall of ninety-six feet wide, thirty-two feet high, and about ten feet thick rises, and this high wall is almost all made of stone, and the base part of the base part is dug with a deep pit base and buried with stones, and there is a large iron gate in the middle of the high wall, and the head of the wall is equipped with wall battlements, battle positions, arrow towers and anti-arrow baffles, and there are guard towers and arrow towers on the steep cliffs on both sides of the high wall.

Ten paces before the high wall there was a ditch ninety-five feet long, twenty feet wide, and fifteen feet deep, which was clean except for some human and animal droppings, and in the middle of the ditch there was a drawbridge leading to the city gate; Further on, the trench suspension bridge, is the flat turf, the dirt and the unknown "surprise".

Behind the high wall was a barracks, but now it had begun to evolve into a military fort, and the first tents became a dozen huts with grass huts, and near the side of the canyon there were even a few stone huts built with the remaining stone from the high wall, all but one of which was used to store food and armaments.

This high wall, along with the barracks behind the high wall, is named Tiaoshi Fort, which is simple and easy to remember.

The stone fort was simple but strong, and it took a year and a half for Barony Sapp to levy a total of 400 young and strong laborers, and it was stopped for two months due to Baron Galvin's lack of funds, and then Art sent Baron Galvin 200,000 pfennig before continuing to build.

On weekdays, the caravans of passing caravans often stopped to rest, and some of the quick-witted Sapp lords had begun to set up wooden huts at the back of the barracks to sell alcohol, and to provide food, drink, and escort girls to the caravans and garrison soldiers.

Today, however, the Stone Fort is a scene of slaughter.

On top of the high walls of the stone castle, Felix, the first knight of the Sapp barony, the son of the lord Baron Galvin, and the commander of the Sapp army, was looking gloomily into the distance.

Behind Felix, the first standing soldiers of the Sapp army had been assembled, all standing behind the high wall battlements.

This army numbered more than sixty and was an elite army directly under Felix, consisting of five light cavalry, six heavy infantry, fifteen crossbowmen and thirty-six light infantry, they were considered the field army of the entire Barony of Sapu, mainly responsible for foreign operations (including the suppression of bandits), Felix divided this army into cavalry, heavy infantry, crossbow and three squadrons of twelve men according to the establishment of the Wells legion, with Felix as commander and two other adjutants.

He did not have a special baggage brigade, because there were many serfs in his domain, and those serfs would be regularly conscripted to serve the army.

Felix has been stationed at Fort Tiaoshi with this army since the Battle of the Successors, because Felix's father and brother-in-law have repeatedly told him to pay attention to the enemy from the west, and now the enemy from the west has indeed arrived.

Eighty defenders were sufficient for a wall of less than a hundred feet, but like all defenders, Felix did not feel the slightest relief. Because the Kodor army at the mouth of the valley to the west of the stone fort has exceeded four hundred.

The sapper collar is a fat piece of meat, the kind that is so fat that it is bubbling with oil.

Not to mention the flat, fertile farmland and abundant forests and rivers surrounded by the mountains of the Sap, the rich castle villages and rich lords and lords of the Sapp Territory alone are enough to make the greedy wolves salivate, not to mention that the Barony of Sapp is a natural shortcut to the western border of the Count of Burgundy and the trade of goods from the south of Provence.

Such a position has an absolute reason for the border lords of Kodor, who have become hostile forces, to organize an army to conquer before they come.

And this time, in addition to the 300 private soldiers of the border lords and the peasant soldiers who were conscripted, there were also more than 100 armies (caravan guards and mercenaries) formed by the merchants, whose purpose was very simple, to seize the trade route from Sappan to Provence.

An army with evil intentions is coming towards the Barony of Sapp.

Felix was still holding the hilt of his sword and looked at the enemy troops at the mouth of the canyon outside the city, and Mar, the captain of the bow and crossbow captain and adjutant of the Sapp army, Hunter Mar, took three steps and climbed the high wall to the battlements to report the military situation to Felix, "Your Excellency, the cavalry has been dispersed to all parts of the Barony of Sapp to warn the warn, and the thirty defenders of the Sapp Fort will be able to arrive at the Stone Fort with emergency rations before noon tomorrow." The remaining 100 lords' private troops in the territory can also be assembled within two days. ”

"In addition, the old lady took her to take refuge with Miss Lottie, and she said that she would accompany you in Sapsburg to guard the territory. Not only did the old lady not leave, but she also ordered all the women in the fort to be gathered to make food for the army of the stone fort, saying that she would send someone to eat it for the soldiers defending the city......"

"Although the old lady does not go to the Wells Valley, I have also sent the servants of the Inner Mansion to ride horses to warn the Wells Valley."

Felix nodded in agreement, "Since Mother doesn't want to take refuge in my sister's territory, forget it, anyway, it is impossible for the enemy army to cross this high wall for a while. ”

Felix turned his head to look at the barracks behind the high walls and the scattered houses behind the barracks, "Are the people settled?" ”

Marl took off the bow from his back and straightened the bowstring, swallowed a large gulp of saliva, and replied with some nervousness: "The men of the several families have stayed behind to assist us in defending the city, and the women and children have let them return to Sapsburg." Grain and forage were also transferred to stone huts for storage. ”

"Don't be nervous, Mal, just assume that these guys are a group of bandits and outlaws who have been hunted down by us and have no place to hide. In a moment, you command the crossbowmen to pick a section of the wall with an open range and fire a few rounds, then climb up the turret to shoot each. Don't be nervous and wait for the enemy to get close to aim before firing. "Felix has followed Yat through a big battle at the bottom, and he still remembers to stabilize people's hearts at critical times.

At this time, the lieutenant of the Sapp army, dressed in a slightly old plate chain armor, slowly ran to Felix's side from the side of the high wall, this adjutant was one of the soldiers that Felix had dug from Art's army, Felix gave him the important position of adjutant and army instructor, and another soldier from the Welsh regiment served as the captain of the heavy infantry, although the number of heavy infantry was small but very strong.

"Your Excellency Commander, the things on the top of the mountain on both sides are ready, and I have sent three soldiers on each side, ready to do it at any time."

"So they don't have to worry, they don't need those big killing weapons for the time being."

"It's almost noon, let the three sheep in the sheepfold be slaughtered and stewed in a few pots of mutton, and the food will be ready and sent to the city wall so that the soldiers can all eat and drink, and the enemy will definitely launch a tentative attack this afternoon, and we must break the enemy's spirit, and let them know how hard the walls of the stone fort are, and how sharp the blades of our Sapp army are!"

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After lunch, the Kodor army outside the stone fort began to move, and they sent a mercenary army of sixty men to rush towards the stone fort with three or four hurried wooden ladders to climb the city.

The mercenaries' shouts of killing shook the sky, full of momentum, the crossbowmen pulled their bows and arrows and threw them at the high wall, the line of charge was tight and tight, and the attack and defense were measured, but the speed of these sixty or so mercenaries was very slow, and they were almost pacing step by step at a distance of about two hundred paces.

Mercenaries survive by fighting wars and know how to fight the lowest intensity of war with the most shocking scenes.

In the face of the earth-shattering enemy army, Felix did not give the order to release arrows to resist, he knew that this was just a temptation of the enemy army, and he did not want to waste the soldiers' physical strength and arrow reserves too early.

Besides, those people don't get close to the walls so easily.

Sixty steps in front of the drawbridge at the root of the wall, a Kodor mercenary holding a large wooden shield, carrying a short-handled broadaxe, walked steadily towards the suspended bridge that had risen step by step, this is a mercenary squad leader, he has been fighting everywhere all the year round, he has found an abnormality, according to common sense, how can he walk into this range with one or two rounds of arrows, and he can sink this breath, which shows that the road leading to the suspension bridge is not as simple as his phenomenon.

The leader of the mercenary squad snatched the short spear from the hand of a mercenary next to him, and was about to use the tip of the spear to probe the ground to trigger a possible trap, when suddenly the guy who had just snatched the short spear jumped and rolled on the ground holding his feet.

When I looked at it, the mercenary had just stepped into a small wooden skewer inserted in the hay, and the yellow hay in winter was similar in color to the wooden skewer, and it was difficult to find it roughly.

"Shut up, you bastard, a wooden skewer won't kill you, if you tell me to chop your head with an axe!" The mercenary captain yelled at the guy on the ground, and then swept his short spear left and right on the turf......

Behind the battlements of the high wall, Felix saw that the group of tempting enemy soldiers had slowed down their speed, and almost stopped in the trap area and groped their way forward inch by inch, so he picked up a foot bow leaning against the battlement, took out a flat-headed light arrow from the quiver, put it on the bowstring and rounded it, and aimed it at an enemy soldier holding a short spear into the ground to test it.

Collapse! Sou~

A light arrow flew over the wall in a slight arc, Bang! The sound of being nailed into the enemy's shield frightened the enemy soldier quickly retracted his body behind the shield.

"Marl, let the crossbowmen release their arrows, and all of them will be aimed at me before they are released!" Felix beckoned to the arrow tower next to him.

Then, a dozen light arrows came out one after another, and the enemy soldiers were so slow that they almost stopped in place, so the arrows on the high wall shot accurately.

Of course, most of the arrows are only used to scare enemy soldiers, and their shields take almost all of the damage from the arrows......

Under the accurate fire of the arrows on the high wall, the first wave of tentative attacks quickly retreated, but for these people, retreating is not a shameful thing, their pay is paid on a daily basis, and one more day of offensive will pay and a few less damage, no matter how good it is.

It's just that the lords and merchants who paid for it have to blow up their lungs again.........

The battlefield of Fort Rene, far northeast of the Stone Castle, in the eastern part of the Bo Kingdom, also happened to Art......