Chapter 681: Tentative Attack
The royal infantry on the walls looked down with blank expressions, despising these undisciplined enemies.
At such a time, they were still having fun with the chicken girl, and such an important camp dared to let people of unknown origin enter and exit at will, which was simply unbearable in the eyes of the royal infantry who were cruelly trained and had "strict" military discipline.
The two sides confronted each other for five days, and Maras County still had some property, and their "grain collection team" did "requisition" a lot of grain these days.
They received enough food from the inhabitants of Maras County to feed 30,000 people for a month, and their supply lines were relatively stable, so they had no food crisis for at least three months.
In the central tent, Grand Duke Vokkaran discussed the next move with the nobles of the coalition army.
"Then let's do it, let's test the enemy's defense Lilianhua first, until now we don't know what the enemy's defense strength is, I believe that none of you here want to continue to consume food like this, so we should take this castle as soon as possible and annihilate the enemy inside, and then the rich Principality of Maineke will be in our pocket!"
"Countless fertile lands, lots of gold are beckoning to us! As long as these guards are killed, then all the gold and silver treasures will be ours! ”
The Grand Duke of Vokkaran shouted impassionedly from inside the tent, and the voice was loud enough to be heard outside.
"Kill the guards!"
"Rob them of their treasure!"
Most of the nobles were rude, and they shouted in louder voices from inside the tent.
In this way, 10,000 soldiers were assembled in front of the walls of Marasburg, and their own military discipline was poor, and it took more than twenty minutes for them to form a chaotic formation.
Their siege equipment was relatively well prepared, whether it was a ladder or a well, all of them were very well prepared, standing in front of the city wall.
There were quite a few archers on the top of the well, and there were about 3,000 archers with longbows on standby.
Dressed in ordinary armor, Delseth hurried up the city wall, and even a few of his own soldiers barely kept up with him.
After all, it was also an inseparable role that could be played with William at the beginning, even though Delseth is now nearly forty years old, his physical fitness is still very good.
He was particular about wearing ordinary armor, and if he appeared on the city wall wearing ornate armor, he would most likely be hit by the enemy's concentrated fire.
After all, the western part of the continent is different from the eastern and central parts of the continent, although they have received the influence of the central and eastern regions, but in their thoughts, they still kill the enemy's commander or the nobles who command it first.
Instead of trying not to kill the other party's nobles like in the central and eastern parts of the continent, wearing gorgeous armor is a kind of talisman.
He gasped slightly, leaning his hands on the battlements and looking down, and when he saw the other party's deployment, he knew that it was just a temptation.
He breathed a sigh of relief that the enemy had not launched a fierce general attack on them like a marmot in a haphazard manner.
In this way, he began to deploy the soldiers on the city walls in an orderly manner.
A large number of troops could be deployed on top of the broad walls, and three thousand archers and crossbowmen stood in several columns.
One by one, the royal infantry stood on top of the city wall with short guns, and now it was not their home field, and the bed crossbow was on top of an arrow tower every ten meters, with ten archers shooting.
Sixty bed crossbows were divided into thirty arrow towers, and the archers were on standby, and the two men who operated the bed crossbows were also ready for everything.
The bed crossbow with pulleys added by the Institute of Science and Technology is no longer as difficult to reload as before, and can be easily operated by only two people.
Twelve hundred royal infantry waited on the walls for the enemy's arrival, and in addition to them, a thousand servants were left behind.
Grand Duke Vokkaran and a group of nobles appeared five hundred meters outside the city walls, and they didn't want to lose their lives here because of any accident.
Seeing that the soldiers had been assembled, Grand Duke Vokkaran opened his mouth and said to the nobles beside him: "Everyone, let's prepare to attack, I wonder which one wants to be the first to attack the enemy?" ”
The nobles present looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, no one wants to stand up and be the first to come out.
Grand Duke Vokaran frowned and looked at these nobles, and finally said helplessly: "Then, it is up to me and Duke Melinda to take the lead!" ”
As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Duke Melinda and asked, "What do you think?" Duke Melinda? ”
Duke Melinda was stunned when he heard this, he didn't seem to be leading the way with Grand Duke Vokcaran.
He was in a different situation from Grand Duke Vokkaran, although Grand Duke Vokkaran's control over his vassals was not extremely strong, it was still easy to suppress the vassals.
But he is different, his vassals have formed a posture of not losing their tails, and if they lose too many troops on the battlefield, they will no longer be able to maintain their deterrent power.
But if you refuse, it's not good, after all, there are only two dukes present, one duke volunteered to attack, and the other duke shirked, then he would become the object of comparison with Grand Duke Vokkaran, and his prestige plummeted.
For the Duke of Melinda, the current situation simply put him in a dilemma, and even he did not know how to answer.
Seeing that Duke Melinda was silent, Grand Duke Vokkaran then asked, "What do you think?" Duke Melinda? ”
"If you are afraid of losses, then I can attack the enemy myself!"
Duke Melinda was overjoyed when he heard this, and was about to agree to the proposal, but when he saw the disdainful eyes of the nobles around him, he reacted.
He had already scolded Grand Duke Vokkaran a hundred times in his heart, but he still said, "How so? I'm just thinking about something, and as one of the two most highly knighted people in the room, I'm certainly willing to take the lead with you, Grand Duke Vocaran! ”
Grand Duke Vokkaran smiled when he heard this, and then said, "That's really good, I just thought that you were afraid of the Duke!" ”
"How so!" Duke Melinda said with a smile, but in his heart, he scolded Grand Duke Vokkaran.
With that, the two of them stepped out of the array, and they began to slowly push the heavy well in the direction of the city wall.
The archers held the arrows in their hands and were ready to shoot.
The royal archers on the city walls also raised powerful recurve compound bows and held arrows made of high-quality iron in their hands.
The bed crossbow also made a creaking sound under the pull of the pulley, and it can be seen from this that the huge power of the bed crossbow can be seen.