The Lombards panicked, they could not have imagined that the enemy would swoop down from the back hill to attack the farmstead, a tactic they had never seen before. 77dus

"Fooled! The front is just a feint, leaving a few people to defend the front, and everyone else going to the back wall to defend against the enemy! When the commander of the Lombard garrison learned that the enemy had rushed out of the hillside of the rear flank, he realized that the frontal "frenzied attack" was only attracting the attention of the defenders.

The Lombard defenders defending the front immediately split up their twenty men and turned to the back wall, but two wooden ladders had already been set up on the back wall.

The Lombard guards who had reached the back wall first tried to lift the wooden ladder that had been put up at the top of the wall, but the wooden ladder had come down from a high place, and there were already several soldiers standing at the other end of the wooden ladder, and it was impossible to lift it easily.

In an instant, a third wooden ladder and several long tree trunks were erected side by side, forming several wooden bridges connecting the hillside to the stone wall.

The Lombard defenders hurriedly raised their weapons and prepared to meet the enemy who rushed from above......

On the hillside on the other side of the "wooden bridge", Art used his round shield to fend off the occasional arrows from the farm's watchtower, and at the same time ordered his soldiers to rush to the wooden ladder and wooden bridge.

Klaus, the leader of the 3rd Squadron, was the first to rush up the wooden ladder, holding a round shield in his left hand to resist the arrows diagonally above, and a heavy axe in his right hand, and moving carefully and quickly towards the stone wall with his feet on the wooden ladder.

Thirty feet were fast in coming, and Klaus soon reached the stone wall at the end of the wooden ladder, where four Lombard defenders were waiting for Klaus to strike him with their spears and axes in their hands.

Klaus paused for a moment, hoping to find a flaw in the Lombard defenders behind the stone wall before jumping over and fighting.

In this short moment, a soldier of the fourth squadron rushed through the wooden ladder next to him, and without thinking about it, he directly shielded his chest, and a charge jumped, smashing into the Lombard defenders, and immediately the crisp sound of swords clashing sounded.

The soldier who rushed into the Lombard garrison was also brave, and although he was stabbed in the thigh and abdomen with a short spear, he single-handedly forced four or five Lombard defenders back a step.

Seeing that the rushing soldier was about to be surrounded by the rushing defenders, Klaus took two steps back and rushed forward, jumped up with the momentum, jumped behind the soldier, and slashed at the enemy with the heavy axe in his hand while defending the soldier from three sides.

The powerful Klaus stabilized a small gap behind the stone wall, and the siege soldiers on the hillside immediately seized the opportunity to rush in, and the five or six siege soldiers who jumped on the wall widened the small hole that the seriously wounded soldiers and Klaus had torn together.

The good times did not last long, and just as the opening was about to tear, the commander of the Lombard garrison rushed with three hoplites in heavy half-body plate armor.

These Lombard soldiers hiding in the "iron can" did not dodge the swords and axes of the siege soldiers, and carried heavy weapons such as page hammers and battle axes to smash left and right at the breach, and the two siege soldiers were smashed to the ground on the spot, the breach was compressed little by little, and the siege soldiers on the wooden ladder and wooden bridge behind them could not jump into the wall as smoothly as before, so they could only stand on the wooden ladder wooden bridge and hold their shields and wait for the soldiers in front to jump into their vacancies after the battle, desperately maintaining the width of the gap.

On the other side of the hill, there are still many siege soldiers standing, after all, the wooden ladder and wooden bridge have limited bearing, and the people in front can't fill in, and the people behind can only wait in a hurry.

For a time, the unexpected backwall main offensive battlefield fell into a stalemate......

In front of the farmstead, two squadrons led by Otto stopped on the south bank of the stream.

There were no arrows on the watchtower behind the stone wall of the farm, and the number of defenders at the head of the wall was suddenly reduced.

Although it is impossible to know the situation of the main attack on the battlefield on the back wall, Odo also guessed through the number of defenders in front of him that the Lombards have transferred most of the defenders to the back wall defense, and there must be a lot of pressure on his own adults.

Odo pushed aside the two soldiers who were holding their shields in front of him, and shouted to the officers of Kazak and Tridorkroger on both sides: "The enemy has moved his forces to the rear wall, and their resistance must be very great. Guys, our mission is to feint to attract the enemy's attention, and now that the enemy is ignoring us, we need to make a real move to get the Lombards to pull their forces back to the front. ”

"The Lombards have set a trap in this clearing, and I need to take someone to lie down for safety, who wants to go with me?" Odo expected that since the Lombards dared to draw most of the defenders from the front to the back wall, in addition to concluding that the front was a fake feint, they must also have left a plot in mind, although the sentinel already knew the general arrangement of the traps in the clearing), so he planned to personally take a few warriors who were not afraid of death to take a road.

There was silence for a moment, and then several soldiers stood out, all of whom were from the Kazak squadron.

Triduok was a little ashamed when he saw that no mercenary beside him came forward, and quickly stood up, and Roger was not to be outdone.

"Kazak and Tridok stayed behind to command the follow-up soldiers, Roger took two people to go around from the left, remember to bypass the traps and potholes that the adults said, I don't know if the Lombards have other traps, you should be careful."

"Wei Yu, take your men and follow me through the middle, and you two will cover me with shields."

After saying that, Otto asked the soldiers carrying the wooden ladder to build the wooden ladder on both sides of the stream, forming several small wooden bridges, and the two groups of Otto and Roger crossed the stream from the left and middle respectively, and then led their own team towards the farm......

As soon as Odo Roger's group and his group left, the remaining soldiers on the other side of the stream immediately followed the wooden ladder to the other side.

Thankfully, Art and his sentry cavalry squeezed the farmstead in advance and wrote down the possible safe route between the main gate of the farm and the stream of the Lombards, and when Otto and Roger slowly moved towards the main gate in the face of the arrows fired from the sentry tower of the farm, they found no less than five traps and stake traps.

Otto and his group walked through the trap without danger, and the Lombards at the head of the wall began to throw stones and spears, and Otto and his group could not go any further.

"Frontal assault on !!" Otto raised his shield and turned his head to yell at the army by the stream.

Kazak led more than 20 soldiers and carried three wooden ladders along the road from which Odo's men had traveled, and rushed towards the main entrance of the farm.

This time, the soldiers who were besieging the city no longer screamed and howled, and they had to use all their strength to fight on the city later.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers, who had only feinted on the other side of the stream, rushed under the stone wall in a blink of an eye, several Lombard soldiers who remained on the defensive front panicked, and while they lifted the stones behind the wall and threw them under the wall, they shouted loudly for the rear wing defenders to reinforce the front.

The commander of the Lombard defenders was even more panicked at this time, the appearance of enemy troops on the back wall had already frightened him, but fortunately he brought a few close elite plate armor infantry to suppress the gap and was stalemate, and at this moment he heard that the enemy in front of him directly bypassed the trap and began to attack, and the Lombard commander was also powerless.

"Knock the enemy off the wall for me!" The commander shouted orders to his soldiers.

The Lombards knew that there were also strong enemies attacking the city from the front, and they could only withdraw to support the front if they had eliminated the enemy who had reached the city from behind.

At this moment of crisis, the Lombard defenders also showed their due combat effectiveness, and the brave Klaus also retreated under the pressure of several Lombard plate infantry.

Art also did not expect that the Lombards would suddenly send out plate infantry just as the gap was about to burst, and almost no one of these plate armor infantry could be harmed.

Art had already stood on the side of the hill and shot all the arrows in his quiver, and he could see that the Lombards were about to extinguish the fire in the gap in the back wall, and if they couldn't get a foothold, they would be thrown off the wall, "Ron, don't you like to charge?" It's your last chance, rush up with me to open the gap!! ”

Art pulled out the knight's sword at his waist, jumped on a wooden ladder, ordered the soldiers waiting to jump over the wall on the wooden ladder to retreat, and then held the shield in his left hand and raised the sword in his right hand, ran from the side of the hill to the wall, and then jumped violently, crossed the wall and smashed into the middle of the Lombards~

Ron and Tuba followed closely and smashed directly at the Lombards from different places, completely ignoring the swords, spears, knives and axes that the Lombards stabbed in the air.

This is also a last resort, since the battle with Swabia and the attack on the outpost was shot, Art has rarely put himself in the most dangerous situation, but at this time, it is not the time to worry about this.

I saw that Art threw away the round shield pierced by the tip of the Lombard spear, and before the man could get up from the ground, the knight's sword in his hand had already slashed around, cutting the calves of several enemy soldiers beside him, and then he was desperately blocking weapons from all directions......

In front of the farm, three wooden ladders have been firmly set up on the wall, the soldiers under the wall supported the wooden ladder in pairs, when the wall guards pushed away, on the wooden ladder Tridok and Kazak had climbed more than half, the Lombard guards above their heads were throwing stones on their heads, several people quickly stopped climbing and protected the top of their heads with a round shield, the stones were blocked by the shield, but they fell and hit the escalator mercenary without an iron helmet under the wall, and their brains exploded on the spot.

Triduok glanced at the mercenary who had fallen to the ground and was twitching, gritted his teeth and climbed a few steps, jumped into the wall, and took the lead in the city......

"Everyone retreats to the inner fort, and the plate infantry breaks off and takes cover!" When Tridok appeared at the head of the wall, the commander of the Lombard garrison knew >> the outer wall had fallen

Naturally, he did not lose the wisdom of a warrior in a hundred battles at the critical moment, and took advantage of the small number of enemy soldiers who landed in the city, and decisively ordered all Lombard soldiers to stop resisting the outer wall and retreat to the inner fort to defend it.

The Inner Fort was a stronger place than the outer walls, and he had already had all the baggage needed for survival and battle, such as food, water, arrows, and weapons, moved into the Inner Fort, and as long as they held on to the Inner Fort and did not come out, they could still survive until reinforcements arrived or the besieging enemy army retreated on its own.

Maybe Art will have to hit his head and bleed at the gate of the inner fort of this farm......

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Chapter 188: Attacking the Fortress (3)