Chapter 178: Laughlinburg
With hundreds of soldiers with him, William rode his tall horses to Lenburg, where there was some standing water on the roads in the spring, but it had little effect on the speed of the march.
The nobles gathered again in Denlenburg, and during this time in the territory, William deliberately communicated with Chief Mutus, and he also gained a lot of benefits from trading with William, so he agreed to William's request.
Of course, William also paid a lot of money for this, a thousand cans of vodka, some honey and a lot of grain.
Chief Mutus then agreed to his request, but he was able to agree that it was probably related to the presence of the Centeceks on the border, after all, the Count had promised him some help when the two sides were in truce.
In short, the matter was settled, and the nobles finally embarked on a journey under the leadership of the Count.
The team was full of trained armed infantry, and the equipment was quite good, and with the people brought by William, it actually exceeded two thousand.
If nothing else, the capture of Laughlinburg is a foregone conclusion.
Since this was a surprise attack, it was impossible to replenish supplies on the spot, so the nobles also prepared food for the soldiers, as well as beans for feeding the war horses, alfalfa grass, and eggs.
War horses need to eat very fine things, beans and alfalfa grass have to stir eggs, and even need to put some meat foam in them to increase the physical strength of the war horse.
"This ...... The Chekers are even better off than our civilians? ”
A nobleman looked at the Cheker tribe passing by on the road and said in surprise.
"Yes, they are half-farming and half-nomadic, they can harvest crops and eat meat, and at the same time, their iron smelting technology is more advanced than ours, and they have a lot of iron mines, so of course their life is better than ours!" William explained.
"Ha, so what, aren't they still defeated by us, and when we can completely conquer them, these things will be ours!"
An aristocrat said in a high-spirited manner that conquest and plunder are always the main themes of the aristocracy, and that the researchers of William's previous life classified the aristocracy as an armed landlord, which is not entirely appropriate.
Perhaps the nobility of the peaceful region was some armed landowners, but most of the nobility was simply a military chieftain, or it could be called a warlord, and conquest and plunder were their beliefs.
While expressing their thirst for the wealth of the Chekels along the way, they finally entered the realm of Laughlinburg.
"My lord, there's a manor in front of you, shall we go around it or destroy it?"
A knight assigned to the pathfinder returned and reported to the Count.
The Earl looked at the nobles, and then said: "Just annihilate it, we can't hide it from such a large scale, and only by destroying them can we ensure that our whereabouts are not discovered by the enemy!" ”
Everyone walked to the manor, in fact, it was said to be a manor, but because there was basically no big aristocratic power here, the so-called manor here could not be compared with the manor in Denglenburg at all, and it could only be regarded as a small village with good defense.
"Who are you, I am a vassal of the Kingdom of Ribourne, Baron Nessar, please give a reasonable explanation for your invasion, otherwise I can regard your actions as a declaration of war against the Kingdom of Ribborn!"
The Baron Naisal looked a little young, definitely no more than twenty years old, a little second and childish age.
But the situation at this time did not allow him to be naïve, and the earl looked directly at William with an expressionless face, and motioned for him to take the manor.
William didn't nag him, and directly asked the heavy infantry behind him to put on heavy armor, take the one-handed combat uniform in his hand and match the iron round shield, and began to climb the low wall that was only more than two meters high.
There are not many defenders in the manor, and how many people can be under such a baron, more than twenty armed infantry is already the limit.
Not surprisingly, the heavy infantry and the Golden Lion Guards easily entered the manor, and the defenders inside looked at the tall and heavy infantry in heavy iron armor, obviously timid.
However, under the orders of their baron, they had to attack the heavy infantry.
Soon, the guards looked at the hoplites in despair, as they were horrified to find that their weapons were unable to do any damage to the enemy.
Their morale collapsed and they began to crumble, but at this time the heavy infantry also moved, and the one-handed battle axes in their hands began to swing around.
The armed infantrymen who could not dodge were dismembered by the tomahawks and became fragmented, and blood splattered everywhere, even falling on the little baron's face.
"Oh, damn it, it's unbearable that you dare to offend me like this!" As he spoke, the little baron drew his sword at his waist and charged at the hoplites.
It is a pity that the baron was so badly poisoned by the knights that he already felt that he was an invincible knight in the book, and he did not see the difference in equipment and powerlessness between himself and the heavy infantry.
The heavy infantry had already been trained by William, and they had already looked at him above the top, and the baron in front of him was too far from the baron they admired in their hearts, so they didn't take him seriously at all.
The same is true of Banstersk, no one will take such a little baron to heart, and directly a tomahawk turned on his head, splitting his head in half from left to right, and the brain slurry spewed out directly far away, and the scene was quite bloody for a while.
"Go and report to Lord Baron, the others will follow me to clean up the rest of the manor, don't leave any fish that slip through the net and cause trouble to Lord Baron!"
After cleaning up the manor, William did not enter the manor, and directly ordered the soldiers to take away the property such as silver coins inside, and then take away the logistics supplies such as food inside, and continued to march directly.
"Very well done, Banshtesk, but next time don't kill a nobleman like this, if you try to capture the other party as much as possible without threat, I don't want to bear the title of a noble slaughterer!"
"But if he threatens you and the soldiers, of course, you still have to kill it as soon as possible, and you can control the scale yourself!"
After following Bansztersk's advice, William left the heavy infantry sequence and returned to the small group of nobles.
After that, due to the scarcity of nobles in the Laughlinburg area, there were no armed forces such as nobles or patrols.
After six days of marching, William and his men reached the outside of Laughlinburg without incident.
Laughlinburg is not small, the height of the walls is about seven meters, and the thickness looks good, if you rely on ladders alone, it may pay a very large price for a long time.
Fortunately, there was another forest ten kilometers away from the castle, and the siege tower, that is, the well of the Celestial Empire, the parts of these instruments had been prepared long before they came.
As long as you cut down some trees, make ladders, and then build wells and assemble them, it is a complete siege formation, and with the help of these things, the five hundred defenders in the castle are nothing at all.