In the next few days, the situation at Fort Kalk became more and more bad, there were more and more scattered enemy troops in the villages around the castle, and every day a group of enemy troops would come to the fort gate to call for battle, although the soldiers in the city strictly guarded the military order and did not go out, but the enemy soldiers abused more and more every day, which was really hateful, and the defenders in the fort were holding their stomachs.

On the afternoon of the third day when the convoy arrived at Fort Kalk, dozens of enemy soldiers came outside the fort as usual, and this time not only the enemy soldiers who called for battle, but also a dozen old and weak women and children who had been taken captive from the surrounding villages.

More than a dozen innocent civilians were escorted to their knees more than 150 steps outside the fort gate, and behind them stood seven or eight shirtless soldiers with sharp blades on their faces, and the swords and axes were placed on the necks of the civilians, which only caused the frightened eyes of the peasants kneeling on the ground to scream.

Several enemy cavalry rushed to the front, and in front of the Kalkburg Gate, they kept showing off their might, throwing some stumps and severed arms around, shouting and insulting the people on the wall, and when they saw that there was no response on the wall, they ran back to the civilians and slashed the throats of the civilians one by one with short knives........

Outside the fort, there was a desolate and desperate cry, and the terrible screams were distressing, and everyone on the city wall had ugly faces.

Baron Berrion stood behind the battlements, his hands clenched.

"This herd! My lord, let me lead someone out of the way! "One of the knights beside Baron Berrion could no longer bear the shame in front of him.

The enemy army here today numbered less than thirty, none of them were heavily armoured, and there were only five cavalry, which seemed to be easily defeated.

"Evan didn't you notice anything wrong today?" Baron Berrion asked the knight beside him who was gritting his teeth.

The Knight of Ivan was only resentful of the enemy army slaughtering the civilians of Provence in front of them, and did not notice too much about the changes in the enemy army today, and looked up at the enemy soldiers.

"My lord, most of their cavalry is gone."

"Their cavalry must be hiding behind, and once you lead the troops out, they will definitely rush out, so we have to continue to hold back."

Knight Evan pointed to the civilians outside the city who were about to be killed, and then to the red-eyed soldiers on the city wall, and shouted, "Do you want those bastards to slaughter our civilians in front of us?" My lord, this is a great disgrace!! ”

Baron Berrion glanced at the knights beside him and roared in a low voice: "It is a great shame to lose Kalk Fort, if you go out now and are besieged by cavalry, will I bring troops out to save you?" If I'm ambushed, who else will guard the castle? Aosta is besieged by enemy troops, and if we can't leave a way back for Aosta, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city will be slaughtered. ”

"So we're just going to watch it?"

Baron Berrion lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "You go and quietly transfer all the crossbowmen, shoot them with crossbows, and count as many as you can kill......

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Inside Fort Cark, Art is training the soldiers of the Frontier Patrol, and of course he is also helping Baron Berrion train his new recruits.

The soldiers of the new curtain had to be almost all burghers before, and Art and Odoto had to teach them how to hold a spear and a sword, how to use a shield, and how to avoid swords and axes that stabbed them.

From the day the convoy arrived at Fort Cark to deliver the food, Baron Berrion and the patrol team terminated the employment, but at Fort Cark there were always enemy soldiers in the past two days, and the patrol team could not pass through the war zone smoothly with a dozen wagons and coachmen, so Art had to stay at Fort Carke and wait for the opportunity, Baron Berrion provided the food and lodging of the patrol team and the convoy free of charge, and in return Art promised to train recruits for the baron, so that the baron would not have to draw personnel from the city walls to train.

Seeing the knight of Evan quietly touching the city wall with seven or eight crossbowmen, Artra stopped the knight who hurriedly walked by: "Sir Evan, what happened?" ”

"Athe, Lord Baron asked me to bring a crossbow to the city and shoot the enemy soldiers outside the city."

Having been in Kalkburg for a few days, Baron Berrion had been turning a blind eye to the provocative enemy soldiers outside the city, but today he was going to shoot the enemy soldiers.

"Ron, put on your armor and follow me to the wall." Art decided to go up and have a look.

When they came to the battlements of the city wall, the killing outside the city had stopped, and the ground was full of pools of maroon blood, and more than a dozen corpses were paralyzed on the ground.

Seven or eight crossbowmen crept under the battlement wall and went out of the city through the battlement, a distance of one hundred and fifty paces and more than two hundred yards was not far for the crossbow. The crossbowmen crouched behind the battlement wall in a row, wound them with a winch, and placed the crossbow's special round-headed arrows into the arrow slot. Baron Berrion on the side took a bullhorn bow, tied a red ribbon to the light arrow, stretched the bowstring and threw it towards the direction of the enemy outside the city, the light arrow swooped into the sky and turned into a black dot, and after a while, the light arrow with the red ribbon was nailed to the distance of dozens of paces in front of the enemy. When the enemy saw that a fluttering arrow was fired at the head of the city, it caused a burst of laughter.

Behind the battlement wall, I saw the crossbow captain stretch out his head to look at the red ribbon fluttering in the wind outside the city, half-squatting, raised the crossbow slightly at an angle, and the seven crossbowmen beside him all followed the captain's movements to raise the bow and crossbow in their hands.

"Ready~"

"Put!!"

There was a loud bang behind the battlements.

Eight heavy bows and arrows suddenly burst out from behind the battlement wall and rushed diagonally into the sky......

The enemy camp is still laughing.

But when seven or eight black dots fell from the sky, they could no longer laugh, and eight heavy arrows knocked down three soldiers in an instant, and one of the horses was shot in the neck, and the knight on his back fell with a sharp back.

The show wasn't over yet, the enemy soldiers were still looking around for the attacking crossbowmen, and the crossbow behind the battlements had already been wounded and were putting the crossbow into the slot.

Bouncing~!!

Eight more heavy arrows flew out. This time the enemy soldiers scattered in all directions, and the crossbow arrows hit only one enemy soldier.

This time, it was the turn of the soldiers on the city wall to laugh, and the anger of the days was all shot at the enemy by these heavy arrows.

"Alright, the crossbowmen stop shooting and save some arrows."

Art knew that the crossbow had a powerful range, but it was rare for him to be able to maintain such accuracy beyond two hundred yards.

"Baron Baron Baron, your crossbowmen are truly powerful." Art was heartily amazed.

Knight Evan smiled and said to Arte: "Brother Art, these crossbowmen have been trained by our lords, and like those archers of ours, they are all marksmen."

Art had seen Baron Baron's marksmanship, and lamented that his marksmanship was still not as good as Baron Baron's.

Looking at the cavalry rushing out a mile outside the city, Baron Berion turned to Art and said, "Art, tonight is the time for you to leave, if you miss tonight, I'm afraid you won't be able to run away so easily." ”

Seeing that Art didn't understand, Baron Berrion pointed out of the city and explained: "In the past two days, the enemy army has begun to gather around the perimeter, and I guess that it is not good for them to besiege Aosta the day before yesterday, and they plan to storm Kalkburg. ”

"Before the enemy forces have surrounded Fort Kalk, you have to break out."

Art's face was full of sadness, the Lombard infantry was stationed around, the cavalry was patrolling, how could Arte with more than two dozen soldiers let a dozen carriages and many coachmen break through safely.

"You don't have to worry, I won't let you break out alone, yesterday I received an order from Aosta, tonight we will attack the enemy camp outside the city to disrupt the enemy's deployment. Then you will take the opportunity to escape through the gap we have torn open. ”

Atter understood what Baron Berrion meant, and replied: "Thank you, sir! ”

Baron Berrion waved his hand, "Let's go down and prepare, we will act before the full moon tonight." ”

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The humid heat of summer nights envelops this small town in central Provence. On the trade road outside the city, dozens of black-clothed soldiers and coachmen were carried in more than a dozen carriages.

About a mile ahead of the convoy, more than twenty cavalry cavalry were leading their horses quietly to a clearing next to the trade road on the north side.

The army in Fort Cark was mainly garrisoned infantry, so there was a lack of cavalry, but only this attack could cause chaos in the enemy camp, and the patrol team could take advantage of the chaos to break through the defense line of the Lombard army, so Art, who knew that the defenders were short of cavalry, took Ron and Jason to join the cavalry team of Baron Baron's raid camp.

It was the first time that Ron and Jason had participated in such a real battle, and more than two dozen cavalry were already a large cavalry battle for him, and Ron was still quite excited despite being nervous.

He led the horse's hoofed horse and followed behind Art, not daring to make a sound. Before leaving, Baron Berrion repeatedly told him that the key to a night attack was to win by surprise, and if the enemy detected and took precautions in advance, his 20 or so cavalry would have to leave a dozen corpses in the enemy camp.

Jason was about the same as Ron, sweat soaking through the linen lining, sweat-soaked leather armor grinding against it and making a slight creak.

"Chief Ron, I'll follow the adults and you in a while~" Jason was a little too nervous, he felt like he was going crazy if he didn't say something more.

"Shhhh Silence! Ron turned his head and whispered.

Jason swallowed a mouthful of saliva, patted the horse he was leading, and gripped the tomahawk pinned to his waist, striding after the group.

Five miles north of Kalkburg, more than two dozen military tents were set up under a hillside, and after a sentry point, more than 180 Lombard soldiers were stationed there. The silence at Fort Kalk for several days made the enemy let their guard down, and they did not expect that the defenders of the city would have the audacity to go out of the city and attack at night.

Knight Evan himself led four soldiers to crawl forward, and quietly touched the sentry on the hillside a dozen steps behind him, and with a shout, several people rose from the ground, rushed to the two sentry positions, and stabbed them to death with a sword.

The moonlight in the sky was large and a few people were not sharp enough, the sentry found the enemy attack, and screamed before dying, and the screams of the sentry were heard in the camp under the hillside~

"Everybody get on your horse and rush with me."

Baron Berrion gave an order, and more than two dozen horsemen stepped on their horses.

Art stepped onto his horse, and took advantage of the hazy night to look back at the business road behind him, where a faint group of dark shadows was hurrying north.

"Ron Jason, you two must follow me, rush through the round and run straight north."

"Yes!"

The three of them kicked the horses in the belly, and the horses neighed and rushed towards the hillside......