Section 118: Wrong Decisions
The bolts were like raindrops falling from the sky, and it was impossible to tell where they had been fired, but Jeffrey's sergeants had no way back, and if they did, their backs would be completely exposed to each other's field of vision, so they had to cross the river with their shields raised.
"Rush over, only by rushing over and defeating the enemy can you live." The junior officers among the sergeants desperately encouraged their comrades-in-arms around them, and they finally arrived at the shore with the constantly falling crossbow arrows, and the serfs who had been waiting for a long time hurriedly stepped forward to receive them.
"Well, our men have crossed the river." Phoebe looked at the soldiers crossing the river and said happily to Jeffrey.
"Ugh." Jeffrey raised his head and looked at the sky, at this time, a golden sunlight in the sky pierced the sky, gradually sprinkled on the ground, when the sunlight touched the dense fog, those fog that originally looked as dense as thick cloth, immediately disappeared.
"Haha, it's really the Lord God bless, now we have won." Phoebe looked at the misty sunlight and excitedly took off her helmet and waved it overhead.
"Attack, attack." Jeffrey's soldiers, who were by the river, immediately rallied, and they began to launch a fierce attack on Glinton, completely ignoring the crossbowmen fired by the crossbowmen overhead.
When Jeffrey's soldiers stormed the village, they saw towers of arrows built of planks all around the village, each with several crossbowmen shooting at the enemies below.
"Whoosh~~." The arrow towers are all built on a relative basis, so the crossbow bolts fired are all crossfire, and the condescending shots make the crossbow bolts very lethal.
"We can't get close to those towers." Jeffrey's soldiers, who were hiding in the village under the crossbow fire, couldn't even lift their heads, let alone get close to the tower to eliminate the Glinton crossbowmen above.
At this time, the crossbowmen on the arrow tower aimed at the enemy from the shooting hole and pulled the trigger, and the crossbow bolts flew out of the air with a sharp sound.
"Crunch, crunch." After shooting a crossbow arrow in his hand, the crossbowman immediately withdrew from the shooting hole, he put the crossbow head down, with the strength of his abdomen, he grasped the two crankshafts at the rear end of the crossbow with both hands and shook it, and the hook was twisted under the force of the twisting, stretching the tight bowstring to the rear, and the crossbowman immediately put on a crossbow arrow, and when his companion retreated from the shooting hole, he immediately made up for it, so that the two shifts kept changing randomly, so that the rate of shooting was very fast.
"Ping~~, oh." A sergeant, relying on his iron helmet, tried to venture forward and run closer to the turret, but a crossbow bolt flew through the air and pierced the iron helmet, and the sergeant fell to the ground with a grunt.
"How many pounds of bow and arrow is this?" The junior sergeant major behind the sergeant looked at the sergeant with an arrow in his head in surprise, he couldn't believe his eyes to know that an ordinary iron helmet could definitely withstand the arrows fired by a fifty-pound single bow.
When Jeffrey saw that his soldiers were blocked in the village, he immediately became furious and immediately ordered the noble cavalry to cross the river to attack, Jeffrey's cavalry was an army composed of low-ranking noble squires, who not only had good horses but were also equipped with leather armor and sharp iron swords, which could be said to be the backbone of Jeffrey's army in addition to the knights.
"Cavalry advances." The noble cavalry held their flags proudly, and almost every one of them carried a small triangular flag symbolizing their family, the colorful banner looked like a rainbow sea, and the tall war horses made a noise when they stepped on the river.
"This is already the full strength of my family, Lord God bless." Jeffrey looked at the noble cavalry attacking, and he silently prayed in his heart, hoping that victory would favor him.
"Lord Bruce, Jeffrey has dispatched his elite cavalry." Edward watched the noble cavalry crossing the river from the tower of the city wall, and hurriedly said to Bruce.
"Oh, let them come." Bruce, who was sitting in the tower wiping his sword, paused, and after a moment's thought, he decided to go ahead with the original plan.
Jeffrey's sergeants erupted in cheers when they saw the noble cavalry crossing the river, and the strength of these elite cavalry was almost comparable to that of the heavy cavalry, and they believed that the end of Grington was imminent.
"Let the serfs advance immediately, and those who disobey the order will be put to death." The noble cavalry was led by one of Jeffrey's retainers, who gave orders to the sergeants as soon as he crossed the river.
"Understood, sir." With the order of the nobles, the sergeants immediately drove the serfs who were hiding around, and let them take the lead to attract the crossbow arrows on the arrow tower, and sure enough, these unarmored serfs were simply sent to death in vain, and the crossbow arrows were almost an arrow through their bodies, and some of the frightened serfs ran back in a daze, either from the back, or by the sergeant holding a shield behind them.
"Okay, we'll be there right now, chop down these wooden towers." The sergeant major commanded his brothers.
Because the outside of the watchtower was wrapped in wooden planks, the sergeants thought that it was a simple plank that could be toppled down by slashing with their knives and swords.
"Ping Pong Ping Pong ~~." The sergeants ventured to the bottom of the tower, raised their knives and swords and slashed, and there was a ping-pong sound, and the swords slashed and broke the planks outside the tower.
"Ha, ha, ha." The sergeants waved their weapons desperately, slashing and smashing the planks to pieces, but before they could cheer their victory, they saw the gray wall under the plank.
"What's, what is this?" The sergeants looked at the exposed stone-like walls in amazement, because they had thought that Glinton had built a rudimentary wooden guard tower so quickly, so they had made a plan to storm it, but first found that under these wooden planks were solid stones, and their morale was immediately discouraged.
"Whoosh~~." At that moment, the crossbowmen on the tower fired crossbows at the soldiers below, and the opposing firepower flew in the air, and the crossbows took life one by one like death.
"Oh woo~." The sergeants raised their shields in fear, fending off the crossbows in all directions, and retreated, but this time it was not as smooth as usual, and they almost threw the corpse of a companion before they took a step back.
"Retreat, retreat." Finally, some people could not withstand such a brutal battle, they threw down their shields and fled desperately, but the crossbow bolts roared at them.