In the afternoon, the sun was just setting in the west.

Dean, a well-dressed knight of the palace guard, wearing a full helmet and leather shoes, stood in a daze behind the battlements of the towers of Wincheston Manor, and the two personal guards beside him held iron irises to protect him from the occasional stray arrow from outside the manor and hurt the owner.

As the holding side, in fact, the Dean family has not yet shown obvious disadvantages, after all, there is a high outer wall to block, in addition to the gōng nǔ arrows and stone fire oil and other sharp weapons to defend the city, there are fifty or sixty elite soldiers and more than a hundred peasant soldiers, these people are completely composed of three defensive echelons on the wall, so it is not easy for the people who besiege the manor to attack Wincheston Manor.

However, for the palace guard knight Dean, who has an average level of scheming and even more mediocre combat power, such a battle scene is indeed thrilling enough. It wasn't the first time he had fought against the black, bloody-eyed howling wolf heraldic burqa, and his memory of last year's battle on the southern border was still fresh in his mind.

To be honest, the strength of today's Wells Legion is far from the level of that time due to the rapid expansion of the army, but hundreds of people are rushing towards the outer wall, and Dean, who has always been accustomed to bullying more and less, is indeed afraid, he stares around at the battle on the outer wall, his eardrums are filled with the screams of wounded soldiers, and his thighs begin to tremble slightly.

The battle at Wincheston Manor was unusually tragic? Truth be told, it was a low-intensity war compared to the several battles of the Yates army against the Lombards in Provence.

The backbone of the battle on the defender's side was the thirty Dean Family {caravan} guards and the group of western frontier troops, but the main ones who really fought against the enemy on the wall were the hundred or so private soldiers of the lord who had just been formed. Because Dean and his son have regarded the elite guards as their last resort, these dozens of elites are acting as tranquilizers and overseers on the outer wall, and they will not be sent to death easily; This is especially true of the Western Frontier Army, they are neither the subordinate soldiers of the Dean family nor the locals, the fundamental motivation to help the Dean family defend the territory comes from the high remuneration after the war, they want money, but the premise is that they must live, so this group of people will not really work hard unless they have to.

On the other hand, on the besieging side, the offensive was not too violent. There must be no suspense in capturing Wincheston Manor, in fact, if it is really just to capture Wincheston Manor as the ultimate goal, Otto and Angus only need to gather the heavy infantry team as the vanguard, a few elite flag teams {first flag team} of the first and second companies of the legion to attack, and the rest of the soldiers feint to attack on three sides, if the battle damage is slightly ignored, the battle can be ended before sunset at the latest.

However, according to the plan prepared by Art in advance, the attack on Wincheston was just a real combat training for the Wells Legion, and since it was a training exercise, it was necessary for the new ordinary soldiers to fully feel the atmosphere of war with swords and spears and halberds. Therefore, Otto and Angus, who were sitting in the center of the regimental command tent, carefully distributed the deployment of troops everywhere, always paying attention to the battle damage on the wall, and immediately asked the standby flag team to come forward to exchange attacks if the battle loss was too heavy.

Did the Welsh Corps have any battle damage? The answer is yes, the soldiers of the Dean family are very weak, but the city defense equipment is not weak at all. Fifteen crossbows and thirty or so bows could kill even a lightly trained farmer. Therefore, the first Lún Gōng attack on the Wells Regiment was killed by a salvo of more than a dozen people, and the new officers who were in command for the first time were strong in their own combat skills, but now they were a little panicked when they needed to command their soldiers.

In the panic, some soldiers of the second flag team did not hear the horn of the flag team clearly, and mistook the charge of the other flag team for the attack horn of the flag team, and the twenty men ran out of the shield cover in the first volley of the defenders, and directly hit the arrows that rushed in the face, killing three people on the spot and shooting down five or six of them.

The first Lún Gōng hit the wooden wall, and the arrows and stones were thrown from the wooden wall, and all the teams of the Wells Regiment inevitably became afraid of battle, and even a few timid soldiers could not bear this near-death torture, and threw away their weapons and ran back amid the shouts of the officers.

During the war, the punishment for this kind of behavior was very severe, two deserters who were afraid of the battle were beheaded on the spot by the flag captain, and three soldiers who fled were grabbed by the guards who supervised the battle in the rear and chopped off their heads......

Returning to the offensive and defensive battlefields, the first and second lún gōng strikes had already given almost all the soldiers of the Wells Legion a chance to get close to the outer wall and feel the feeling of arrows flying and slashing slashes at close range. Therefore, at the beginning of the 3rd Lún Gōng attack, the regimental command tent was adjusted, and the regimental heavy infantry team, which had been watching from the rear, was transferred to the main gate of the manor to lead the general attack, and the four most elite banner teams of the 1st and 2nd companies of the regiment launched a feint attack on the four outer walls of the Wincheston manor.

Klaus has kept a low profile since he joined Art's team with Lusignan, a mercenary who is not afraid of death, almost unstoppable on the battlefield, but he is not good at interacting with people, and his mind is not flexible, and he likes to charge forward with a heavy sword with a page hammer.

After Lusignnan became the deputy captain of the Sentinel Cavalry, he tried to include this tough guy who went south with him into the Sentinel Cavalry, but this guy could not learn to ride and chop in the house, and after teaching him for a long time, it was ineffective, so Lusignnan had to give up and let him be an infantry squad leader in the army.

This time when forming the legion heavy infantry team, Art thought twice and decided to let this tough guy who has been unknown try it, and the result was that good steel was really used on the blade, Klaus has a special habit of white-knuckle fighting, and he has quite a lot of experience, he grasped the essence of the heavy infantry team to break the formation, and insisted on the principle of "offense is the best defense, simplicity is the best tactic" when training heavy infantry, all the heavy infantry must rush through the formation once they go into battle, and basically do not consider the problem of tactics and tactics, He firmly believed that since the heavy infantry was used, there was no need for tactics such as detours, encirclement, and decoy of the enemy.

The soldiers of the hoplite infantry are carefully selected, they may be mediocre in battle or simple-minded, but they all have one characteristic - they are strong, strong and not afraid of life and death, and if the officer gives the order, they dare to jump even in the sea of fire. To put it simply, it is a group of strong men with simple minds, well-developed limbs and stubborn personalities.

This group of strong men wore more than half of the armor of the Wells Legion, and the flag captain Klaus and the two squadron leaders wore imitations and purchased full-body plate armor, the helmet was a fully enclosed barrel helmet, the body was an impermeable iron plate, even the feet were iron boots, and the weapons in their hands were either a page hammer chain flail or a broad-axed heavy sword. The rest of the two dozen or so heavy armored infantry were also wearing half-body plate armor, shoulder pads, arm guards and leg armor, and they were all holding iron-inlaid round shields in one hand and heavy weapons in the other.

With a suit of armor and heavy weapons, ordinary people would be out of breath when they ran for a hundred or two hundred steps carrying these things, but these strong men were as easy as wearing a suit of cotton armor and holding a short sword in their hands.

"Heavy infantry, there is no advance or retreat!" As the horn of the attack sounded, Klaus raised his hand and raised his hand to raise his hand and raise his arm, then raised his iron-inlaid shield and rushed towards the four stairs under the front wall where the First Banner of the First Company had gained a foothold.

The defenders noticed the movement on the front, and Gōng Nǔ's hand hurriedly turned his crosshairs under the mobilization of the commander of the Western Frontier Army and several leaders of the Dean guard, and beckoned the arrows to the rushing hoplites, who were suppressed and could only crouch and raise their shields to withstand the dense arrow blows.

Klaus raised the shield diagonally, and the heavy arrows of the crossbow pierced the iron sheet and nailed it to the shield again and again, and the impact smashed the shield to pieces.

"gōng nǔ team concentrated cover!" Seeing that the heavy infantry was being suppressed, Kazak, the commander of the 1st Banner of the 1st Company, who commanded the frontal battlefield, quickly sent orders to the Gōng Nǔ team, which was scattered on the left and right flanks.

The flag bearer beside Kazak immediately held up a flag with a gōng nǔ pattern painted on it and waved it in a circle overhead.

Jason saw the flag waving on the frontal battlefield, pulled the bowstring and shot an arrow, and ordered the herald beside him: "Herald Smith, gather your hands and assemble for cover in the front." With that, he grabbed five or six arrows stuck in the dirt on the ground, and led seven or eight gōng nǔ hands to run towards the front.

The gōng nǔ team gathered more than two dozen gōng nǔ hands and rushed to the front towards the wall arrow tower and several battlements to cover and suppress densely, the arrows flying above the head of the heavy infantry team finally thinned out, Klaus decisively grabbed the fighter plane and led the soldiers to break through the last thirty or forty steps, approached the city ladder, and climbed up the city ladder against the falling stones and fire oil.

The hoplites were able to crush the light infantry in close combat, and Klaus and the three hoplites finally climbed the wooden wall, and several spearmen tried to stab them to death with their short spears, but the spear tip only scratched a white mark on their plate armor and was pushed to the side.

Klaus threw away the shield in his left hand and grabbed the edge of the plank at the battlement, and the weighted page hammer in his right hand was picked up from his right rear and smashed it behind the battlement wall, and the page hammer broke off and smashed straight into the spearman who stabbed him, only to hear a crisp sound of broken flesh and bones, and the spearman who defended the city was smashed to the ground with his nose and face smashed.

Taking advantage of the spearman's fall to the ground, Klaus turned over and jumped into the battlement, drew his broadsword at his waist, and crashed into the defenders who rushed to fill the gap......

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"Lord Odo, Lord Angus, Dean and his son retreated into the lord's mansion with a dozen or so guards to resist stubbornly, the rest of the private soldiers of the Dean family have all abandoned their weapons and surrendered, the first company is clearing the remnants of the enemy, and the second company is besieging the lord's mansion. But the army of the western frontier retreated to a house and neither fought nor surrendered, and they demanded to be interviewed by the Baron. A soldier of the Guards Law Brigade entered the Legion Command Tent outside the manor and reported the battle to Otto and Angus.

Before the sun set, the battle for the siege of Wincheston Manor was basically over, and the real battle part of the whole battle took less than half a day, when the heavy infantry team gained a foothold on the wall, the battle situation was settled, and the elite guards of the Dean family were extraordinary, they caused five dead and seven serious injuries to the heavy infantry team, but after all, they were not soldiers who often fought on the battlefield, and they were soon unable to support themselves in the case of a steady stream of inferior enemy troops.

Although the western frontier army also resisted desperately for a while, but seeing that the situation was not right, the leading baron Connor immediately ordered to fight and retreat, they thought that they belonged to the border army of the palace and were led by the lord, and the Wells legion did not have the courage to directly destroy them.

Dean and his son didn't leave a living mouth, and rushed directly into the killing. Doesn't that Western Frontier Army like to hide in people's houses? You sealed the door of the house for me, set up firewood and burned it, I see how hard it is! If they surrendered, the lords could stay, and the rest would be killed. ”

"Brother Odo, what do you think?" Angus consulted Otto.

"That's it! This breath suffocates me! ”

"Summons the army to execute!" Angus instructed the Guards Law Guard.

The soldiers of the Guards Law Corps received the order, turned around and ran into the manor.

In a few moments, two puffs of smoke rose from Wincheston Manor......