"Your Majesty, I would like to ask the logistics craftsmen to recreate the siege ladder according to my design."

With permission, I took a charcoal pen from the table and scribbled it on the parchment, and the dukes next to me leaned their heads to see what kind of idea I could come up with, better than the well-informed nobles of theirs.

In fact, I designed a kind of detachable siege ladder with reference to the aircraft soft ladder, and each soldier was responsible for carrying one of the sections, which greatly reduced the weight and difficulty of carrying, and when it reached the city wall, these parts were connected by mortise and tenon joints and rope buckles, and the top iron hook was used to hang the city wall, and the soldiers could climb along the ladder.

Duke Henry applauded and admired, his eyes blazing: "God! What a clever design, with it, the soldiers no longer have to carry a heavy siege ladder and brave the enemy's arrow rain to fight desperately, everyone can flexibly rely on the shield wall to protect themselves, genius idea, Viscount Randy! ”

The Grand Duke of Swabia sat calmly in his seat, gulping down a valuable wine like a heavenly object, as if he were using it to extinguish the evil fire that was burning in his breast, and muttered:

"Isn't it just a ladder that is easy to carry, and it's worth all the fuss? The real problem has not yet been solved, and our soldiers still have to climb the hill while panting and carefully dodging the enemy's arrows. ”

As he spoke, he slammed his glass on the table, and the spilled wine spilled onto the map, blurring a scarlet trace, as if the blood of the smock of a soldier killed in battle, and then began to feel compassion.

It's really an anxious and childish old guy, who insists that others can't be better than him, what a stubborn guy, which makes people look a little crying and laughing.

I smiled indifferently and said my true thoughts to His Majesty: "After the siege ladder is built, I need His Majesty the Emperor to issue an order!" ”

His Majesty Otto looked at these Grand Dukes with great interest, and jumped up and down in anger like a kitten whose tail had been trampled on, and when he looked at me, he could not help but give me a hazy approving look, which made my back rise with goosebumps.

"Say it! What are the requirements? ”

"I need an edict from Your Majesty, ordering all soldiers to carry a bag of soil per person before going to battle, the weather is getting warmer these days, and it should be easy to dig up the thawed soil,"

"A bag of dirt?"

His Majesty Otto was really confused by me this time, he really couldn't understand what the inevitable connection between each person carrying a bag of soil and attacking the castle was, and the other nobles were also talking about each other, and the two monks were puzzled.

Ay! A group of simple superstitious men who believe in force always think that if they shout at the two armies, whoever has the most numbers and whose number of knights is superior, they will be able to win, but they don't know that China in the same era has already popularized countless military books, and even the heroes of Liangshan who robbed their homes and houses still respect the strategies used by Zhiduoxing Wu, poor muscular men!

However, Germany's efficiency is still quite commendable, and it is no wonder that under the leadership of just three generations of emperors, they quickly rose to become one of the leading feudal powers in Western Europe, not only involved in the appointment and dismissal of the papacy, but also able to stand firm in the face of countless strong enemy attacks.

The craftsmen cut down the trees and worked day and night, and finally two days later they made a portable siege ladder of my design, equipped with three attacking phalanxes, and the soldiers, in accordance with the edict of His Majesty the Emperor, carried a large handful of dirt in their shirts before going to battle.

At this moment, I am riding on a tall horse specially given by His Majesty the Emperor, watching the two thousand citizens of Ravenna who came with the army, organizing their phalanx in an orderly manner, they will be the main force of this siege, and everyone will use ropes to tie a section of the ladder to their backs, so that they can free their hands and not delay the attack.

"The whole army is ready, my lord!"

With his right hand clenched into a fist, Modiunas gave me a Roman military salute, and his men all held large square shields and discharged a turtle-shaped siege formation that the German nobles had never seen.

With a shallow smile on the corner of my mouth, I felt that I had finally traveled through a thousand years of time and saw with my own eyes this legendary Roman phalanx in later generations.

I still remember when I was a child, CCTV had a program dedicated to introducing the lost Roman Pubrius in Gansu, the Lixuan Village built by the descendants of the First Legion, and I have been fascinated by the Roman fish-scale turtle-shaped array told in it for a long time, and now I have the opportunity to personally command such an army, which really makes me excited.

"Let's get started!"

I rode my horse to His Majesty the Emperor, and he nodded at me from afar, and when the herald saw this, he immediately ordered the drummers to beat the drums of war, and the soldiers with the dirt in their arms marched forward in an orderly procession, and threw their shirts full of mud on the ground at the edge of the archers' range in the castle, and the enemies on the walls shot their arrows in vain, but found that we had no intention of attacking, and they all laid down their weapons and watched us suspiciously.

The dukes also stared at the soldiers who came and went with disdain, waiting to see what tricks I played, only Duke Henry seemed to understand my intentions, and his face was admirable.

As the dirt bags piled higher and higher, the action of 100,000 people was amazing, and slowly a man-made hill appeared in front of everyone's eyes, its height was even higher than the Engels Castle built on the hillside, and the nobles who were waiting to see my joke just now all changed their expressions of astonishment, and it was estimated that the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield could easily collect hundreds of jaws.

It's time to open your eyes!

When the last soldier climbed to the top of the hill and threw the dirt bag in his arms onto it, a group of miscellaneous soldiers quickly rushed up the dirt hill and leveled the ground at the top of the hill with the tools in their hands, clearing a shooting range for archers to line up, and briefly reinforcing it.

The enemy on the ramparts finally understood our intentions and went crazy attacking the soldiers on the dirt hill with all kinds of weapons, but no weapon could threaten us except for the sporadic ballistas.

I rode on my horse to give the order for the next battle, and the Venetian compound archers ascended to the top of the hill to line up, their bows and arrows could cover almost all corners of the city, and still under the condescending geographical advantage, Ravenna's pikemen discharged three tortoise-shaped siege formations, distributed in a zigzag pattern, and slowly but neatly began to advance towards the castle.

"What a miracle!" Duke Henry praised Emperor Otto, and his mouth was almost closed in astonishment.

"Viscount Randy is a genius, and now that I am more and more impressed by him, I think the name of the despicable reflects his cunning and flexibility in the use of soldiers, not the disparagement of our shallow understanding."

His Majesty the Emperor took the nobles to a position where they could observe the battlefield situation more clearly, and said to Duke Henry on horseback: "This man does have two hits, we can call him a little fox or something in the future, the despicable is too ugly, it is an insult to the wise, and I finally understand why His Majesty the Pope values him so much." ”

The zigzag siege array slowly entered the uphill slope, and the enemy archers on the city wall fell to the upper hand in the confrontation with the Venetian archers, and were beaten to the point of being powerless, and they were looking for a place to dodge, which greatly shared the siege pressure of the infantry phalanx, in fact, the five ballistae of the rebels at the beginning, became the focus of the archers, with a dense rain of arrows, all the ground within five steps around it was nailed, and there was no place to plug in, but under the suppression of this firepower, no one would want to operate the ballista to fight back, After all, life is at stake.

"My lord! It's amazing! ”

Khloe and the bull followed me and said in unison, their eyes full of adoration like that of the Star Chaser, eager and terrifying.

"Everywhere, it's God's will!"

I scratched the back of my head and laughed, and quickly gave the credit to God and his old man.