Laughlinburg is a tall wall, guarded by a few soldiers all year round, and even though it is in a peaceful area where there is no war, the guards here are still strong, and past merchants and travelers are also subject to checking.

Because Laughlinburg is a grain-producing land, there are no lords and nobles to exploit here, so the citizens and commoners here are quite wealthy, so it attracts many merchants from other places to operate here, so the business here wants to be prosperous.

The troops stood in the middle of the forest, and the guards on the walls did not notice them, and although the caravans were also subject to cross-examination, they were still easy to pass.

Obviously, although they received the news that they might receive an attack, they did not take it seriously, and did not take any action other than to add some cross-examination.

Therefore, William plans to sneak in, if he storms the city wall, he will have to pay some price, and it is still cost-effective to kill fewer people.

If the sneak attack is unsuccessful, the use of the shaft and engineering ladder will not affect anything.

After talking to the Earl, William's proposal was approved by all.

"Baron William's idea is very good, I think it can be implemented!"

"I think so too, the armed infantry also needs to be trained, and I don't want too many losses!"

Seeing that the opinions of the others were so unanimous, the Earl did not object: "Well, I agree with your plan, but who are you going to send to do it?" ”

"It's such an adult, I plan to take the soldiers in person, after all, it was my proposal that I put forward, and I don't feel at ease if someone else does it!"

With permission, William began organizing soldiers to disguise themselves as caravan guards.

However, because they were too well equipped to attract the attention of the enemy, William found two dozen armed infantry of other nobles and asked them to take off their leather armor and let the Manders infantry put it on.

"Put on these leather armor, bring your weapons, and follow me to pretend to be a caravan for a while, you all act like me a little, don't be discovered by the enemy!"

William told the soldiers, after this battle, I will give you a bounty of five silver coins each, in short, you will give me a hard fight, do you hear? ”

William wanted to be vulgar about the tone of this group of soldiers, he never put on a noble stand with these soldiers who he had established and often trained himself, without them, would the nobles still be nobles?

"I heard you!"

"Don't worry, sir!"

"We'll do our best, even for the silver!"

"Haha, very good, remember, even if you die in battle, I will give you a pension of ten silver coins as promised, enough for your family and children to live for more than ten years!"

"Do you really want to go in person, I can do it with two people, is it too dangerous for you to go in person, I don't agree with you to go!"

Norwen grabbed William with a serious face and a somewhat unhappy expression.

"That's right, what if something happens to you, I'm still waiting for you to help me retake my father's tribe, what if you die here?"

Yu Limu is still as flamboyant as ever, even if he was scolded by Nuowen more than once, he didn't get rid of this stinky problem, and now he has committed it again.

"Don't worry, don't you know my strength? What's more, you two are acting with me, what kind of accident will happen to me? ”

"There are only more than 30 defenders at the city gate, and there are not many people on the city wall, there won't be much danger, we have to make a big enough contribution, and we will be able to share more things when we distribute them after the war, otherwise we can't distribute more things in such a big, prosperous city, how unhappy I am!"

Norwen frowned, pondered for a while, nodded and agreed with William's decision: "However, you must also pay attention to safety!" ”

"Of course, I know!"

Of course, there is no need to say more about paying attention to safety, William cherishes life quite a lot, and this kind of thing will never happen to him.

"Ready!"

"Ready!"

The soldiers patted the leather armor on their bodies, they were a little unaccustomed, and they were usually wearing heavy and thick iron scale armor.

This scale armor has a lot of protection against stabbing damage and slashing, and as long as it is not a battle axe, basic swords and spears cannot damage them.

If the mass and armor can be finer, the protection can even exceed the chain mail worn by knights and heavy cavalry.

The advantage of chain mail is that it has unparalleled protection against slashing, and it also has protection beyond the scale armor on the stabbing attack, and the only disadvantage is that it has no resistance to blunt hits.

The lined cotton armor and leather armor are to make up for this shortcoming, of course, in terms of comprehensive protection, chain armor is still stronger than scale armor.

The greater advantage of scale armor is that it is easy to make, don't look at William's blacksmith is a bit slow to make chain mail, but that is the result of William's request for encryption.

If it is a normal, ordinary strength scale armor, it can be woven by a peasant woman alone, and generally speaking, it only takes more than a month to make one.

In the case of full-body chain mail, it was more than two months, and the only reason why the other lords could not expand production was the high cost of iron.

Not to mention the extreme iron shortage of Denlenburg, even in other areas, iron is not casually distributed to every commoner's home.

Therefore, if William is willing to give up the encrypted scale armor with amazing defense, the production of scale armor in his territory wants to be high.

The iron he had gotten back from where he had used only one-fifth of it had now been used, and it was worth 30,000 silver coins after all.

"Very good, caravan guards are not uncommon for you, now I am the leader of the caravan, you have to follow me into the town, lurk in, and then wait for night, control the city gate, and let our people in!"

After William had all his soldiers ready, he prepared to set off, but before he could go, William found the Earl.

"Lord Count, you know my plan, we will open the gates of the city at night."

"However, if we fail to infiltrate and are found at the city gate, we will climb the city wall as fast as we can and forcibly control the city gate!"

"When the time comes, I hope you can rush into the city gate in time with the knights, after all, we won't last long, and when we set off, please gather the knights immediately!"

William said solemnly to the nobles, and then turned his gaze to the count's face.

"Okay, I will!" The Earl nodded, and then said: "Now, you go and gather the knights, once Baron William fails, we must support him as quickly as possible, and start assembling now!" ”

"Well, I'll go!" William nodded, glanced at the nobles, and then mounted his horse and led the soldiers in the direction of the city gate.

The speed of the inspection of the defenders was not very fast, so there were a lot of convoys hoarded at the gates of the city, because of the prosperity of commerce here, so the size of the convoys varied, and there were caravan guards on the sides of the convoys, as few as four or five people, and as many as twenty or thirty people.

William's twenty men were considered medium in the convoy, that is, quite a few, not remarkable, and completely like an ordinary caravan.