The first tentative attack consisted of about thirty enemy troops, carrying three crude ladders about thirty feet long. Judging from the weapons and clothing of the besieging enemy, the first wave of tentative attacks was mainly led by a small number of infantry leading about 20 peasant soldiers equipped with simple weapons, and their main role was to test the "height" of the fortress wall of Tal Fort with their lives.

Standing directly above the fort gate, Otto had never independently commanded and dispatched such a battle, he seemed quite nervous, when the enemy was still a hundred and seventeen paces away from the fort gate, he had ordered the archers on the wall to start shooting, when seven or eight arrows flew lightly in front of the enemy, it did cause fear to those farmers who were originally honest and dutiful, but when they saw that all the arrows did not fall in front of them more than ten paces away, the panic in their hearts immediately disappeared most of them~

Otto awkwardly glanced at the Inner Fort Tower behind him, and Art, who was standing at the top, only nodded in encouragement.

A moment later, the enemy rushed eighty paces, a distance that was within the range of the rifle, but the next few light arrows were all shot out of the air, and only one enemy had a skin cut by the shoulder.

"The archers wait for the enemy to land on both wings!" Odo saw that the crossbowmen who were temporarily serving as crossbowmen were really not very accurate, so he stopped shooting in time to avoid wasting arrows.

On the side of the besieging enemy, when the thirty or so peasant soldiers responsible for the first round of attacks arrived under the outer wall of Tar Fort, a dozen archers behind also followed closely and stood at the place where the light arrows shot from the wall just now.

The archery skills of the enemy archers are obviously much stronger than the crossbowmen in the outer wall arrow tower, and more than a dozen light arrows almost all fall against the breastwork, and these dozen or so flying deadly light arrows have caused a lot of confusion to the soldiers defending the city, and the soldiers who have been hit by light arrows on the wall have raised their wooden shields to block, and there is a sudden sound of "do-do-bang-bang" on the wooden shield.

As soon as Otto lowered his shield, a wooden ladder leaned against the battlement of the outer wall on the left.

"Cross Lever !!" Otto hurriedly ordered the soldiers behind the battlement to push down the wooden ladder that came up with a fork and a lever.

"Take the fork and slap the stick! Overthrow this bunch of mongrels!! The roars of Kazak and Tuba rang out.

Several soldiers behind the battlement picked up the fork lever placed on the battle position in the aisle, aimed at the wooden ladder sticking out of the wall and pushed it outward, but the enemy soldiers at the bottom of the wooden ladder pressed the bottom of the wooden ladder to death, and the guards on the wall could not push the wooden ladder away for a while; And the enemy soldiers on the three wooden ladders have begun to climb one after another.

"Throwing stones!! Bow and arrow with both wings shot straight!! Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Odo ignored the scattered arrows shot from outside the city, threw down his shield, lifted a clay pot-sized stone and threw it towards the bottom of the wooden ladder under the outer wall, and the soldiers beside Odo listened to Odo's order and quickly picked up the stone and threw it towards the bottom of the wooden ladder.

On the left and right sides of the outer wall, Kazak and Tuba stood near their soldiers, directing their soldiers to throw stones down, while removing their rifles and drawing light arrows to shoot in the direction of the enemy archers. They had practiced bows and arrows under the personal instruction of Art, although the archery skills were not good, but they were still slightly stronger than those temporary crossbowmen, and the two had shot four flat-headed light arrows in succession when the soldiers threw down the stones, and they stood on a high place and had the cover of the breastwork, so they had a certain advantage, and the seven or eight arrows shot out still hit the two enemy archers, but the light arrows at such a distance had lost their power, and unless they hit the vital point, they could only pierce a layer of skin on the enemy soldiers. However, the arrows flying from the height still affected the enemy archers, and after several rounds of arrows, the enemy archers retreated.

Under the outer walls of the Tar Fort, stones fell from the sky to smash the heads of the soldiers who tried to enter the city, and except for a small number of infantry equipped with skin round shields, most of the peasant soldiers had no shield armor. After the peasant soldiers who stabilized the wooden ladder at the bottom dispersed, the wooden ladder that lost its support was directly overturned by the defenders on the wall, and several enemy soldiers who had not had time to come down fell heavily to the ground with the overturned wooden ladder, and there was no sound for a long time.

With the sound of horns in the rear of the enemy army, the besieging enemy soldiers dragged the corpses to pick up the wounded soldiers and hurriedly retreated, and the first wave of tentative attacks ended in less than half a meal......

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On the outer wall of the fort, a cross-hatched soldier with a stray arrow in the cheek and a stone-throwing soldier with an arrow in his left forearm were carried down by the laborers who had been hiding in safety for treatment.

In the wooden hut at the base of the inner wall of the outer wall, the baggage officer Spencer was not only responsible for preparing food for the people of Tarburg, but now he also had to act as a "temporary healer".

Spencer held the thatched ground with one hand and covered the wounded soldiers with blood on their faces and kept screaming, and turned to the prisoners of war who were making food for the soldiers under the low eaves outside the house and shouted: "Slackers! Are you blind? What else are you cooking, hurry up and give me a hand! ”

This slacker, known as the Slacker, was captured by the Frontier Patrol during the recapture of Alsburg, and participated in the construction of roads in the Valley Wooden Fort, and was selected by Lawrence to serve as a servant in the army because of his good performance. Although this guy is called a slacker, he is quite honest and hard-working, and he has learned some simple wound treatment skills, and he has won the "weight" of the baggage officer Spencer, no matter how big or small the work is, he will always ask this guy to do it, but in the past few months with Spencer, this emaciated prisoner of war has eaten well and has begun to gain weight.

"Baggage officer, Lord Odo has made it necessary for us to provide hot meals to the brothers on the wall on time, I can't keep myself busy." The slacker ran into the cabin with an iron spoon and sweating profusely, and said to Spencer with a helpless face.

"Are you a pig? Do you know how to cook? Won't you go find two chops who are hiding under the eaves and watching the bustle to come over and cook? You pig-brained, no wonder the military caravan didn't choose you to be an attaché! ”

"Go find someone! Is the pestle waiting for me to kick your ass at the door? ”

The slacker quickly put down the iron spoon in his hand and went to another wooden house to find someone to help......

On the outer wall, Odo, who had just finished commanding the first round of defense, was still busy, and with the cooperation of Kazak and Tuba, he adjusted the position of the defenders on the front of the outer wall, strengthened the defense in several places where it was easy to set up wooden ladders, and asked the defenders to work in pairs: one person held a shield to resist the enemy's arrows before they entered the city, and the other operated a fork and a pole or threw stones.

Having just finished arranging the defenses of the fort wall, he ran to the bottom of the wall to organize idle laborers and serfs to transport stones to the aisles of the outer wall or collect arrows from the enemy army into the fort.

On the inner fort tower of Talburg, Art was holding his arms and carefully observing the enemy camp outside the fort.

The first wave of attacks was clearly just a pawn for the enemy to test the defensive strength of Talfort. After the attack stopped, the enemy troops at the bottom of the hill really began to get busy, and some of them were tying two wooden ladders together to increase the length of the wooden ladder to the city, so that the defenders' stones could not hurt the soldiers holding the bottom of the wooden ladder, and at the same time, it would also make it more difficult for the defenders' forks to knock down the wooden ladders; Some people are assembling the scattered parts into two huge wooden shields, and the soldiers under the wooden shields work together to carry the shields to advance, which can not only block the arrows that are constantly flying from the city, but also carry the falling stones; Others cut timber a little farther away, built military tents, and built barracks with fences.

The enemy did not make siege engines and rams, apparently they already knew the terrain of the fort, and the bulky siege rams and rams could not be pushed up the slope smoothly under the blows of the enemy, and the tall siege engines could easily tip on the slope.

A group of enemy soldiers left the rear and groped towards the small slope of the right flank of Tarburg.

The enemy apparently noticed the waiting platform on the hillside, and although the waiting platform did not fire a single arrow during the first attack, and the enemy did not see a single defender stationed in the waiting platform, Jeffrey, who knew a little about military affairs, guessed the role of the waiting platform and sent his soldiers up the small hill to try to investigate.

In the waiting platform on the hillside, the first squad leader in charge of garrisoning Bass was leaning against the wooden wall of the arrow tower of the waiting platform, looking through the small gap in the wooden wall at the bottom of the hillside five enemy soldiers who were cautiously approaching.

According to the pre-planned plan, unless there were three short horns sounded in the Tarburg, the waiting side would not easily fire an arrow at the attacking enemy.

There was only a very narrow and steep path leading to the hillside waiting platform, which only allowed two people to go side by side, and no amount of enemy soldiers could rush up at once, and the whole path was full of pre-laid traps, and the enemy would have to pay more casualties if they wanted to take the waiting platform.

Sure enough, an enemy soldier who had led the attempt to approach the hillside had just climbed halfway up the hill and stepped into the trap and died. The four soldiers who followed behind climbed to the edge of the trap to check that the hapless guy who had fallen into the trap had been pierced into a meat sieve by a sharp wooden stake in the pit.

"What the hell are these mongrels for! Such insidious tricks can be used, devil! Bastard!! "The enemy soldiers were completely enraged, and since they had entered the mountains a few days earlier, they had been confronted with such well-camouflaged traps, and several soldiers had been killed by such traps if they accidentally fell into the potholes.

After scolding, the four enemy soldiers no longer dared to be careless, and climbed towards the top of the slope step by step. Just walked less than ten steps, a few people really found a large piece of fluffy soil in front of them, a few people must be a trap, with the short spear in their hands poked, sure enough, a large area collapsed, this pit is much bigger than the previous one, everyone can not jump over, so they have discussed from the side of the ridge bypass.

But as soon as a bold guy jumped off the ridge, there was immediately a sharp pain on the soles of his feet, and when he looked closely, the dead branches and leaves under the entire ridge were full of small spikes inserted in the ground and smeared with human and animal feces, and there was no way to get off his feet. The remaining enemy soldiers refused to move forward, so they had to lift the enemy soldier who had pierced the left foot and retreated into the camp.

"Come on, come on, there are many traps waiting for you here." Bath, who was sitting under the wooden wall of the waiting platform, smiled and took a bite of the bacon in his hand, and several soldiers around him who were watching the excitement from the gap also laughed......

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About three hours after the first tentative attack, the sun was already setting in the west, and the enemy, who had eaten a hot meal and was a little ready, began a second attack with a long trumpet.

The enemy army of this attack was no longer as simple and hasty as a few infantry with peasant soldiers.

The attacking enemy army was roughly divided into three waves, the first of which were the soldiers carrying two wooden shields, each with twenty elite soldiers wearing chain mail and iron helmets, who would be the main force of the second wave of siege; Behind the wooden shield are four elongated wooden ladders to climb the city, each carried by five peasant soldiers with shields, who will set up wooden ladders on the left and right sides of the wooden shield, so that the soldiers under the giant shield can quickly climb up the wooden ladders; Behind the wooden ladder are a dozen archers, who will provide cover for the soldiers who have landed on the wall by firing several rounds of backfire.

Talfort faces a real battle......