Didn't you give the herald that the farm would be stormed in the afternoon? What do they do logging on top of the mountain? Otto sent the two wounded soldiers to the baggage team, then looked up at the busy group of people on the hillside, walked up to Art and asked. 77dus

Otto and Qazak's 3rd Squadron were the first to return to the north side of the hill where most of the outpost had gathered, and after conquering the small village to the northeast, they "accidentally" let go of a Lombard soldier, and then slaughtered the Lombards in the village, taking away the looted goods of the Lombards in the small village, along with their weapons and armor.

However, the Provençal women could not be saved, because when Otto besieged the Lombards in the village, the Lombards killed all the women and waited to be beheaded by Otto's soldiers.

"They're preparing siege engines to attack the farmstead." Art put down the wooden spoon and replied.

"Why did the siege equipment run up there?" Otto asked.

Art handed Odo the half-eaten broth and wheat paste, and replied, "I don't plan to storm the front of the farm directly, but we are going to swoop down the hillside and attack it by the wooden ladder and tree bridge, so I have the baggage team take people to make equipment from local materials, so that we don't have to carry them up the mountain in the afternoon." ”

Odo's hand that took the wooden bowl stopped, "My lord, attack from the mountain?" I heard you right??? ”

Art took half of the rye bread from his bosom, broke it into a wooden bowl in Odo's hand, and replied, "You will see the distance between the terrain of the farm and the hillside. However, I need to paralyze the enemy and attract their attention, so after a while, after you have a bite to eat, take the 1st Squadron of Mercenaries and the 3rd Squadron of Kazak to the open space in front of the farm, and then pretend to rush to make siege equipment, and when I give the signal, you also have to pretend to attack the front, the more defenders you attract in the front, the less difficult it will be for me to attack on the rear flank. ”

"Yes, sir." Otto said yes, and threw his head back from the wooden bowl and drank a large gulp of hot broth, cereal, and crumbs.

The sun was setting in the west, the sun was shining on the farm, and the south side of the hill was in the shade, and the blinding light from the watchtower of the farm was gray.

It seems to be in contrast to the tranquility on the hillside, in the open space south of the stream in front of the farm, the sound of killing is shocking.

Thirty or so soldiers of the 1st Mercenary Squadron and the 3rd Squadron of Kazak were attacking the farm in a formation of three wooden ladders that were hastily made, and a large group of people were screaming at their throats as if they were crazy, as if a desperate roar could cut off the stream and knock the stone wall down.

However, although the roar of the thirty or so "mad soldiers" did not stop the stream and shatter the stone wall, it really made the Lombards behind the stone wall of the farm extremely nervous, and they looked at each other, and the beads of sweat on their faces could not stop flowing down.

"This group of crazy people, attacking the city, attacking the city, roaring makes people panic." A small Lombard officer at the head of the wall looked at the troops coming in line outside the farmstead and swallowed his throat with a mouthful of spit.

"Archers let go of their arrows and let these beasts go to hell and roar!" As soon as the commander of the Lombard garrison gave the order, the archers began to throw arrows at intervals of more than 180 paces.

Whoosh~buzz~~

The air between the attackers and defenders resounded with the muffled or screeching sound of arrows breaking through the air.

"Shield Array Arrows!"

One hundred and fifty paces away, the bow and light arrows were basically powerless, but they could still kill people if they hit the vital point, so Odo ordered all the contradictory soldiers of the two squadrons to crouch down and raise their shields to resist the round of arrows from the stone wall of the farm.

The arrows of the Lombard defenders were not infinite, and after three rounds of arrows, the archers of the stone walls of the farmstead stopped their senseless diffuse firing when only one or two unlucky besieging soldiers were hit.

The rain of arrows has stopped, and it's time for the horn to sound again.

Woo~~Woo~~Woo~~

With three trumpets urging the conscription, more than thirty soldiers lowered their shields, picked up their weapons, and began to roar and charge towards the front of the farm......

The lion never makes any noise when it pounces on its prey.

On the north side of the hillside behind the farm, with the sound of three horns of urging, Art waved his hand at the soldiers waiting behind him, and the 2nd and 4th squadrons of the soldiers who had been hidden for a long time, as well as the crossbow squad, all followed Art along a path on the hillside to the other side of the mountainside, and they would attack the stone wall of the farm at the foot of the mountain from the mountainside.

In addition to carrying siege armor and weapons, the soldiers behind Art carried three fifty-foot wooden ladders, and the soldiers who did not carry them carried a fifty-foot-long tree trunk with the tip flattened in pairs.

Coming to the point of view of the Lombards, Art signaled a pause behind him, and then observed the battle from the mountainside:

Otto had already rushed to the edge of the stream with more than 30 men, and was trying to use a wooden ladder to make a bridge or jump directly over the stream under the attack of Lombard arrows. At this point, the feint team also suffered casualties, because the line of the stream was the best angle for the Lombard defenders to shoot with bows and arrows, and the Lombards did not know that the main battlefield was behind them, so they sent all the arrows to the "siege" army hovering along the line of the stream.

Art took off the fine infantry bow on his back, pulled out three diamond-shaped armor-piercing arrows and pinched them in his hand, and ordered the crossbow team behind him: "Jason, Smith, pick two soldiers with good archery skills to come with me."

With that, he bent down towards the mountainside under the cover of the sun's rays, and Jason ordered two crossbowmen with good marksmanship to follow.

Art chose a position with an excellent shooting range and crouched down, and then said to the few people who followed: "See, the enemy has been attracted by the frontal attack, they only left three sentries to guard the rear flank, in order to surprise the Lombards, we will kill these three sentries in a while." Remember, it's better to kill in one hit, the four of you are in charge of an enemy outpost, and I'm in charge of the one on the far left. I count three and release the arrow, understand? ”

"Understood~" The four of them replied in a low voice.

Arte nodded, and immediately held the bow and drew the arrow, and the arrow was wound, and several people around him also followed Art's movements to draw their bows and arrows......

"Ready!"

"One"

The bowstring begins to stretch.

"Two"

The bowstring is stretched to the extreme.

"Three!"

Whoosh~ Five armor-piercing heavy arrows or flat-headed light arrows twisted their bodies back and forth, two by two, and each of the three groups rushed to the target under the hillside......

On the stone wall of the rear wing of the farm, the three Lombard soldiers who defended the back wall had no intention of observing the situation on the rear flank, although they stood on the stone wall at the back, their minds had long been attracted by the earth-shattering battle due south, they were not only curious about the frontal battle, but also worried that the Provencal army would cross the stream and cross the trap to attack the stone wall, and every mistake of the frontal defenders could become the reason for their loss of life, although they thought that they should end their lives at the latest.

However, their worries were obviously not unwarranted today, but the enemy who killed them did not come from due south.

A Lombard sentry at the back wing of the farm was still tilting his head to peek at the hot scene of the frontal battlefield, and a companion next to him fell directly, and the Lombard sentry looked down, and the companion next to him was hit by an arrow in the eye frame and chest, and the two arrow feathers were still shaking, while the companion who was hit by the arrow on the ground did not make a sound for a moment, and he didn't even have time to twitch.

"Yes~"

Before the Lombard sentry could say a second word, a heavy arrow pierced his back and drove straight into his chest, blocking his warning in his throat, followed by another arrow into the back of his neck, knocking him straight to the ground......

Almost at the same time, two more arrows burst through the air.

The three Lombard sentinels on the rear flank of the farm were almost killed at the same time, but that was almost, because at the very moment when Art let go, a gust of wind burst out, and the arrow from Art's hand hit the shoulder blade of the Lombard, and the Lombard sentry instinctively collapsed after the arrow, hiding behind the stone wall.

Thankfully, the blow hit the sentry to the bone, and the pain was so severe that he went into shock the moment he fell.

"Missed~" Art said with some shame.

"Dead ~ Not dead?" Smith asked.

"I don't know, it doesn't seem to be moving. The archers on the watchtower didn't notice either. Jason replied.

"Leave it alone, do it!" Art no longer bothered with whether or not to shoot the Lombard sentry.

"Jason, you stay on the mountainside with your crossbow squad to find a suitable position, ready to suppress the enemy's crossbowmen."

"Tuba and Ron, charge down the hill and try to move as gently as possible before the enemy notices."

Art led thirty people to carry the wooden ladder, carrying the trunk of the tree and lowering the body towards the bottom of the mountain at a high speed, the hillside was full of thorns, shrubs and sharp gravel, more than 30 people carried the ladder and carried the wood all the way down, their hands and feet were hung and pierced, and even a few unlucky soldiers fell into the thorn bush and were hung by barbs and could not get out......

On the watchtower of the farm, an archer shot all the quivers in front of him, and was about to call the sentry who was idle in the rear wing to send a few more arrows, but when he found that the back wall was empty, he fixed his eyes and saw that three sentries were lying upright behind the battlements.

Looking back at the hillside in the direction of the rear wing, the archer exclaimed.

"Enemy ~ Enemy!! Enemy!! There are enemies in the back mountains!! The archer shouted to his companions.

The leader of the archers also noticed that a group of unknown figures carrying wooden ladders and sticks were moving down the mountain, and shouted loudly: "The archers turn and shoot at the enemy troops in the back mountain!"

Seven or eight Lombard archers turned around and began to shoot arrows at the men on the hill behind.

However, before the arrows of these Lombard archers could hit the figures swooping down the hill behind them, six or seven flat-headed light arrows flew head-on.

In a wide area of the mountainside, the crossbow squad was constantly drawing their bows and arrows, taking advantage of their absolute superiority to suppress the arrows fired by the Rumbardians at the farm outpost.

With the suppressive fire of the crossbow squad, the pressure on the diving team was much reduced, and before the Lombards could even notice it, Arter gave the order, and all the lowered bodies stood up, and then the slope of the hill was fiercely towards the place at the foot of the hill closest to the back wall of the farmstead.

100 steps away, in a blink of an eye.

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Chapter 187: Attacking the Village (2)