Chapter 35: The Siege

While the castle was reveling, there was silence in the Cheker camp, and Chief Mutus of the Cheker was furious in his tent.

The Chekels were divided into three tribes, not hostile, but by no means friendly, and the three royal families hated each other and competed for the chieftain of all the Chekers.

This time, the people who came to fight in Denglun County were the western Chekers, who were much weaker than the eastern and central Chekers, and if they were replaced by the eastern and central Chekers, I am afraid that this war would be lost.

"Shit! Cow dung! Is your head stuffed in your ass? Don't know how to arrange a sentry vigil? Something that pigs and dogs are not as good as! Chief Mutus shouted hysterically.

He threw the pottery, the goldware, and the lamb roasted on the fire in the tent to the ground, and the wine was sprinkled on the stall, and the whole tent was a mess.

The ministers and generals below the Sicekel people and some of the smaller chieftains were silent below, not daring to speak, although there was some slander in their hearts, but the strength of the chief of Mutus was too strong for them to resist, so they had to be silent below.

"I've lost all my face to you! Give you a chance and say what you think you should do next! Chief Mutus said with a sigh of relief.

"Chief, I think we should attack immediately, we have no food, there are only more than 10,000 cattle and sheep left, the rest are either burned to death or fled, milk alone cannot feed the people, if we can't find the village of the Loerdes, we must kill the sheep!" Said a man who looked similar to a minister.

"Yes, chief, these sheep we have left are only enough to feed for seven or eight days, and the peasants of Loald must have fled to the castle before we came, for we have only seen three empty villages for so long, so we must attack at once, and besides, the castle of these Loald lambs is too strong to be breached! If we haven't breached their castle in seven or eight days, we'll have to retreat!" Another said.

Everyone else nodded in agreement, and their situation is really not optimistic.

"In that case, tomorrow at noon, let's start the siege, and prepare the siege equipment." Chief Mutus commanded.

William rubbed his aching head, sat up from the bed, got dressed, and wandered around the castle.

"My lord, the Count has asked you to gather in the hall, and the other knights have also received the news." A valet said to William

William's heart moved: "Could it be that the Shuchekers are going to attack the city?" That's right, they only have enough baggage left for them to use for seven or eight days, and if they don't attack the city, they will have to retreat! ”

Thinking of this, William's face relaxed a lot, for seven or eight days, there was basically no risk, but what William thought about then made him unable to laugh.

In seven or eight days, they will inevitably attack the castle desperately, and the intensity of the war will definitely be very high, and the act of burning down the enemy's granary has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is to hit the enemy's morale, make them panic, and let them retreat early

The disadvantage is that without food, the enemy's top brass will definitely order the soldiers to desperately attack the city, and his life will be greatly threatened at that time, but in general, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages.

When all the knights had arrived, the Count of Loire said, "The Ceckels are ready to attack the city, their engineering machinery is ready, get ready, knights."

All the knights returned to their rooms, let the servants dress themselves in armor, the knights in their early 200s were scattered on the city wall of more than a kilometer, more than 5,000 soldiers and 6 or 700 armed infantry added up to more than 6,000, except for more than 3,000 soldiers who could not be deployed on the city wall, the rest were led by the knights to guard the city wall, and the inhabitants were crowded into the street dwellings like cans.

William and the soldiers who had been trained for more than two years sat on the city wall to recuperate, in addition to the real soldiers, there were also untrained soldiers recruited in front of the station, a total of seventy or eighty people, guarding here, he and Nuowen and Hulimu were all full body armor, and they had to save their physical strength before going to war.

Although the soldiers are well-trained, they have never been on the battlefield, although the usual hunting also makes them see blood, but it is definitely different from killing, and the results of their usual training on the battlefield can play fifty percent, William is satisfied.

The sun went to the center, it was already ten o'clock, the auxiliary soldiers brought black bread and some bacon and water, under William's order, the soldiers were only sixty percent full, and the feeling of fullness would make people's sense of crisis and reaction speed slower, which is what William saw from the novel.

William was actually a little nervous, although it was not the first time he had fought a war, but the battle he had participated in before was at most a weapon fight, and the battle of twenty or thirty people could be compared to the tens of thousands of wars on both sides combined?

Individual combat strength plays a great role in small-scale battles, but such a big battle of tens of thousands of people has no effect, and there are many generals who die at the hands of small soldiers.

"Uh......h Woo......"

A mournful bull's horn sounded from below the city, and William knew that it was the horn used by the Chekers to give orders, but William did not know the specific orders.

William, supported by Vidal, stood up, leaned on the battlements and wanted to look down, only to see that the Chekel people below were marching towards the castle in Uyang, William's pupils suddenly shrank, his heart beat, and there were three siege towers in their ranks!

However, when William saw it clearly, he was not so afraid, this kind of siege tower was very rudimentary, in William's opinion, it should be a combination of a well and a ladder, the archers could stand on it to design, and the infantry could also use the planks on it to attack the city.

Once the main body is destroyed, it will immediately lose its effect, and the structure is not strong, anyway, William knows a lot of ways to destroy him, gasoline...... Trebuchet ...... can destroy it very easily......

"Rise up, soldiers, the enemy is about to start the siege!" William called all seventy or eighty of his men up and lined up the formation for his usual training.

William and the three of them are in charge of the left side of the main gate of the castle, and it can basically be confirmed that the enemy is going to attack here, and the left side of them is the arrow tower, and the archer troops led by the earl's officer are about more than a hundred, and the other side is also deployed like this, an arrow tower and archers, compared to William's more than 500 infantry on the city wall, it is really a bit small.

William observed for a while, and saw that the enemy below did not react, so he asked the soldiers to sit down and rest first, and their physical strength should be saved as much as possible, so that they would have more chances of surviving on the battlefield.

"My lord, the Chekers look like they're about to start a siege!" Vidal said.

William called all the soldiers, and the other knights called out to the soldiers, and there were more than forty knights on the wall who were heavily armed and trained since childhood, and it seemed foolproof.

At this time, a phalanx of Cheker, numbering more than a thousand people, came out, with three siege towers, and a dozen ladders, carrying more than twenty archers on the planks on both sides of the siege tower, approaching the castle.

"Shoot!" It was the roar of the officer in charge of the archers, and the archers on the other side were also shooting at the orders of another officer, and more than two hundred arrows on the left and right were fired at the Chekers below.

A round of arrows rained down on the Chekers, who lacked some shields, and they killed and wounded forty or fifty people, and the archers on the planks on both sides of the siege tower were also killed and wounded, and they fell from the siege tower, screaming, and fell directly to the ground

More than 10,000 people attacked the castle of more than 6,000 people, I don't know if the Chekers were too conceited or what, anyway, William knew that it would take more than three times the force to besiege a well-equipped military fortress.

As far as Denglenburg and its defenders were concerned, it would take at least fifteen or six thousand soldiers to take them, and they still suffered heavy losses.

The Chekers below hurriedly raised their shields, so in the second round of shooting only a dozen enemies were shot.

At a distance of more than three hundred meters, the archers on the wall fired five rounds of arrows, which directly caused more than a hundred enemies to lose their combat effectiveness.

The enemy finally reached the bottom of the outer wall of the castle and lowered the planks suspended by ropes and set them directly on the battlements, from which the soldiers could rush up the walls.

One by one, the ladders also leaned against the city wall, and the enemy began to shout to start climbing up from the ladders, and William assigned the untrained levies to carry stones and smash them down, and these strategic materials were stocked in the castle.

The armed infantry, on the other hand, set up their formations and pointed their spears at the battlements, giving them a sense of the sharpness of their spears as soon as the enemy came up.

More than 30 people kept throwing stones, the size of the stones was not large, most of them were the size of a head, one person could lift him up, and the weight was not small, and after the acceleration of gravity, it was easy to smash the enemy's basically unprotected head.

William's side killed and wounded dozens of people again, and the enemy began to rush up along the siege tower, and the enemy on the ladder began to slowly advance upward.

A scream rang out over the walls, and two of William's armoured levies were shot dead by the archers on the siege towers, and the splatters of blood cast a shadow over the hearts of all the soldiers.

William noticed the change in the soldiers, felt that he drew his sword, and shouted loudly under the helmet of the urn: "Soldiers, behold, the Chekers are not invincible, and before they have even reached the wall, we have killed two hundred men!" What's so scary? Our ancestors of the Loerd people have fought against us in the east and west, and we have conquered even the most ferocious enemies, we have no need to fear them, cut off their heads, and the enemies who kill you will be rewarded by me! ”

After saying that, the soldiers began not to panic, but the black pressure of the enemy surged under the city wall like a tide, even if he was inspired by William, the tension of facing the enemy for the first time could not be eliminated, which William had no choice.