The horses galloped on the ground, the charge of hundreds of knights stirred up puffs of smoke and dust, and the sound of horses' hooves trampling the ground made people feel a little tight.

The walls of Laughlinburg are seven meters high, but the gates are less than three meters, and the castle and even the town are constructed in such a way that space and spaciousness are sacrificed for better defense.

Knights can also pass at this height, but they can't hold a cavalry gun, and if they have to charge with a cavalry lance, they must lay the cavalry gun flat.

It was not expensive, because it was a battle to capture the city, so the knights did not use their cavalry guns, but rushed towards the city gate with the common mace in their hands.

The defenders on the city wall were still those people, and their reinforcements didn't have time to climb the city wall at all, so they couldn't recapture the gate gate gate for a long time.

"Hold on, our reinforcements are coming!" William pointed to the knights running outside the city walls and shouted loudly to the soldiers.

"Attack! We must close the gates! The leader of the guards on the wall shouted hoarsely at the soldiers, and even broke their voices.

The knights moved quickly, and in a few minutes they ran to the gates of the castle, and then poured into the castle like a tidal wave.

At this time, the defenders of the city were about to support the city walls, and they happened to load the knights who rushed in.

The knights did not hesitate at all, the speed of the horses had not completely decreased, and at this time, the knights crashed headlong into the enemy's reinforcements.

For a while, the sound of broken bones, screams, and bloodshed was endless, and people were completely unable to resist the high-speed march of the war horse.

The enemy was either knocked out or trampled under the feet by the galloping war horse, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the scene was very bloody and cruel.

The twenty church knights were not spared at all, although they were also knights, but they were not on war horses, and the impact was not of a grade at all.

If they don't ride on a war horse, they are no different from a group of heavy infantry, and heavy infantry is also infantry, and the infantry knows what happens to the cavalry.

More than 200 knights annihilated them all, and then the infantry waiting outside also entered the castle.

As a result, Laughlinburg, the entire grain-producing area in the southeast of the kingdom of Ribborn, was captured.

"Hurry, hurry! Take control of the towers, clear the walls, and find out all the defenders in the castle and the fish that slipped through the net! ”

The count commanded the soldiers, and the nobles also took their own men on their missions.

"Thank you for coming, Lord Earl!" William walked down from the city wall, still carrying a lot of blood, all of which were on the body of the enemy.

"Needless to say, without you and your plan, we would have paid some price to capture Laughlinburg, and we should be grateful to you!"

The count's old face showed a tiredness that could not be concealed, his physical condition has not been good since the battle of Luo Mi Valley, and the physical exertion of leading the knights to charge just now is even greater.

The nobles sat in the meeting room of the town hall, and there were still some unwiped blood stains in the meeting room, which had been done by the soldiers while they were cleaning the remnants of the castle.

However, the nobles did not mind, and the matter discussed now was very important.

"Our messenger to His Majesty has been dispatched, but according to this route, it will take at least twenty days for His Majesty's reinforcements to arrive!"

One of the squires beside the Count looked at the nobles and said, this squire was a subordinate of Clerk Ruggie, and the Count had taken him out on a campaign.

The nobles nodded, indicating that they already knew.

The Count put his hand on the corner of the table and said, "Now we are going to discuss how we can hold these twenty days, the enemy will definitely send a huge army to attack us during this time!" ”

So, I'd like to hear from you what you think we should do to hold on to enough time until reinforcements arrive.

"This ...... Isn't it easy to hold on to the castle, mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized, and stock up on enough supplies, isn't it? ”

Seeing that no one spoke, Baron Bair said what he meant.

"Well, it's a good way to do it, and it's safe, but if the enemy is much larger than us, it's going to be hard for us to hold on!"

With that, the Earl turned his gaze to William and asked, "Do you have any suggestions for our famous Fox of Denlenburg?" ”

"I ......" William hesitated, he was not a god, he had an idea about everything, and many things were also a fluke or happened to have a way.

In his opinion, isn't Baron Bayer's tactics normal, and he doesn't have any good solutions.

Just as William was about to speak out in favor of Baron Beyer, a tactic popped into his mind.

He seems to have heard of such a tactic at one time, in the early Middle Ages in his previous life, there was a traditional knight-centered tactic of land grabbing.

The infantry and logisticians set out first, and then set up one small fortress after another on the enemy's territory, leaving a small number of infantry to garrison to attract the enemy to attack.

The number of troops required to attack a fortress is very different from the number of troops required to defend a fortress, and when the largest number of towns are built at the same time, it can attract large numbers of enemy forces to besiege it.

Then the infantry will go out of the fortress and plunder everywhere, which can cause the enemy to divide his forces to encircle and suppress.

The knightly troops, on the other hand, were organized separately and gathered from one fortress to another, resting in the fortress before setting off again.

These knights often encountered no more infantry than they did in the course of their movements.

Or because there are too many fortresses to attack, and the siege troops are scattered everywhere, which creates an absolute superiority in forces on the local battlefield.

This method is essentially to divide a campaign into dozens of smaller battles, and in each battle a knightly unit is committed.

This not only protected most of the infantry, but also allowed the knights to be trained in combat, and although the fortresses used to attract enemy forces were usually conquered eventually, the enemy's living forces were largely wiped out in the process.

This caused a stupid king or nobleman to wear down his army in such battles, and to lose a lot of troops, which not only consumed a lot of time, but also consumed a lot of troops.

And William didn't read many books here, but he was not unheard of, anyway, he had never heard of such a battle, and there may have been people who used this tactic, but it did not spread elsewhere.

If William had used this method and succeeded, it would have been a classic example for a long time, and it would have been praised and learned by future generations.

Thinking of this in his heart, William's face couldn't help but show a bright smile.

"Hahaha, it seems that our Denlenburg Fox already has a way!" The Earl looked at William's bright smile and said with a smile.