Chapter 39: The Plan Begins

"Hmm...... What you say makes sense, even if you don't succeed, it doesn't matter, you should cover your way out of the city! The Count pondered for a moment, then said.

This was not a small fight, the Count gathered more than 3,000 people to go out of the city to fight, he was a relatively enlightened and adventurous nobleman, after all, once the enemy was prepared, then how many of the more than 3,000 people could come back is unknown.

Although the risk is great, but the benefits are greater, if it succeeds, then at least it can cause thousands of losses to the enemy, if it is lucky, it will directly lead to the rout of the opponent, even if it is not successful, as long as William and hundreds of people are taken out of the castle, the task will be completed.

After the three thousand men were assembled at the gates, the count began to lecture, and gave an order to some of the armed infantry and knights to obey William's command.

The city gate was officially opened, William was fully armed on his horse, and even the heavens were helping William to cover the moon in the night sky with clouds, which was the best time for a sneak attack at night.

Out of the city gates, the knights slowed down their horses in order to take care of the infantry, and the footsteps were kept to a minimum.

Half an hour later, William followed the army to the outskirts of the Cheker camp, where they had learned wisely, and arranged for many people to keep vigil, but it was normal to arrive, and it was not enough to pay such a heavy price if they were not smart.

Although there were many people in the camp of the Chekers who kept vigil and patrolled, the night attack did not need to be all out of sleep at all, as long as there was a minute or two of time to react, it was enough, and by the time they reacted, the night attack would have been over long ago.

William did not follow the large army to prepare for a night attack, but took with him several barons and their knights, as well as the knights under the earl and the armed infantry under the earl, as well as the armed infantry in the hands of other nobles, including two hundred knights and five hundred armed infantry, a total of seven hundred.

Although the earl gave an order, but if these small nobles did not cooperate, William was helpless, fortunately, the earl had already taken this into account, and the nobles and soldiers sent were basically under Viscount Raul and Viscount Winston, which ensured that the nobles would not disobey, so that the plan could have the greatest chance of success.

William took one last look at the large army, and then said to several nobles around him: "Ladies and gentlemen, although the earl asked me to command the battle, but after all, I am inexperienced, and I still need the cooperation of all my lords, so please cooperate with me as much as possible, thank you!" ”

Several nobles around him expressed their attitudes: "No problem, even if you command the battle, we will definitely cooperate with you!" ”

After all, these nobles have no conflict with William, they are all Viscount Raul and Viscount Winston, and the remaining soldiers under him also followed, not to mention, even if they fail, they have no responsibility, and if they succeed, they will take the credit, which is of course a clean promise.

William nodded, and ordered the nobles to direct their men to start walking into the forest so that they could hide.

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At the tent of the Chekels below, the count led the army and began to trot slowly, and when he was almost at the tent, the count officially began to give the order to charge, and more than a hundred knights let out a roaring sound of horses' hooves, like heavy tanks, and charged towards the enemy.

The cavalry spears in the hands of the knights were not leveled, and the speed of the horses alone was enough to cause heavy losses to the enemy, so it was better to leave the cavalry for the enemy's cavalry to react and use it.

No one could hear the roar of the knight's charge, but all they wanted was a minute or two, after which they would retreat.

The infantry charged long before the knights charged, so they didn't fall too far from the knights, and they were responsible for replenishing their swords and slaughtering the enemy who had been scattered in formation.

"Listen, what's the sound?" A young Cherkel man woke up from his slumber and quickly said to the people around him.

"Not good! It's the sound of horses' hooves! Enemy sneak attack! An experienced veteran heard the sound of horses' hooves and gave a poignant warning sound.

"Enemy Attack !!"

Just after he issued an early warning, the knights arrived at the place where the sentries were, and the sound of the warning suddenly stopped, and these dozens of sentries were all trampled to death by the horses under the knights' crotches.

The knights, under the leadership of the Count, went on a rampage all the way around in a circle, and drew a half-circle in the camp of the Chekels, during which many enemies reacted, riding on war horses and confronting the knights, but after all, there were not many people, and they were killed one by one by the cavalry spears left in the hands of the knights.

The infantry were responsible for mending the swords in the back, although most of them were low-fighting levies, and the speed was not as fast as the knights, but they were still able to follow the knights, because they knew that if they could not return to the castle in time if they fell behind, then what awaited them was death, so everyone ran desperately to keep up with the pace of the knights, and the knights also slowed down a little under the Earl's order to wait for them.

In the big tent of Chief Mutus, he was woken up by the sentry with a sad face, hugged the girl in his arms, and said to the sentry menaceously: "If you don't give a reasonable explanation, you will die today!" ”

The sentry was frightened by Mutus's appearance, and said with a wince, "This is the chieftain, the Lordes took advantage of the night, after we attacked them at night, and attacked us by surprise, and now the camp tent in the west is in chaos. ”

"What! You repeat!! Didn't you launch a counterattack even after being attacked by night! Mutus roared loudly when he heard this.

"I ...... We were attacked by the night! "Pity the sentinel, who is not very emotionally intelligent, this time really angered Mutus, he picked up the golden lampstand next to the bed, threw it at the sentry's head, and then said, "Get out!!" Get out! Call someone else to come and see me!! ”

The young sentry, who had been beaten on the head and bleeding from the head, had no choice but to cover his forehead and report it to the other chiefs and ministers.

After the sentry left, Mutus pushed away the girl in his arms and got dressed angrily.

"Why was it attacked again!! Yes! Tell me! What do those sentinels eat? Pig brain!! Kill them all!! "Chief Mutus was in the big tent, angry at the others.

Forced by the authority of Mutus, they did not dare to speak at all, and they were all silent.

Mutus also knew that this was not good, he was just a little short-tempered, not stupid, he suppressed the anger in his heart, and said: "Tomorrow, tomorrow we will launch a general attack, I must break this castle, kill everyone inside, and the earl!" ”

As soon as he spoke, the others swore a curse, saying that they would break the castle for the chieftain.

Early the next morning, the Chekers were preparing to attack the city with several siege towers and more than 9,000 men, and in the past few days, two night raids and one or two sieges have caused them to lose more than 3,000 people, and the defenders in the castle are estimated to lose less than 1,000, which makes Mutus feel disgraced, in order not to lose more manpower, he decided to launch a general attack today.

Just when he was fantasizing about how much wealth there was in the castle and how many slaves he could get, an accident appeared.

They walked to a place more than 400 meters below the city wall, where they could clearly see the situation of the castle, and the wide open gate of the castle made Mutus a little puzzled: "What kind of trick is this that the Loalds are doing?" ”

"Hahaha, the Lordes are scared, they have taken the initiative to open the city gates, Grand Chief, let's storm the castle in one go!" The leaders and ministers around Mutus said happily.

Sure enough, these barbarians have never seen such a profound scheme, and with their little war experience, they are pediatric compared to the Celestial Empire.

The fact that these people are not knowledgeable does not mean that Mutus is not knowledgeable, to be the big chief of a clan, how can it be a simple role, he feels that the scene in front of him is not so simple.

Although he felt that something was wrong, he didn't know what the problem was, and he couldn't object when he looked excited, so he had to say: "We should be careful when we enter the city, let some soldiers use the siege tower to climb the city wall first, and then we will go in." ”

Seeing that the Great Chief did not object, everyone began to gear up, and the Chekers followed the siege tower with nearly a thousand men to the wall, but found nothing unusual.

Seeing this, the other soldiers also began to rush into the castle from the city gate, and two or three thousand people entered the castle, while the soldiers behind were still crowding inside.

The civilians crowded on the other side of the castle in horror, fearing that a mistake would cause the enemy to rush here.

William stood on a high place and looked down, and when he saw this scene, he hurriedly gathered all his troops and hurried to the castle.

plan, it's already half the battle!