Built on a slightly raised terrace, Herusbeck Castle overlooks the flat riverside fields beneath the foothills, where a trade route from the Low Countries runs through the city, and merchants who travel long distances usually choose to stop here for information before choosing whether to head northeast to Hamburg or southeast to Aachen and Cologne.

Over time, it became an important transit point between the mainland of Germany and the Low Countries, and the economy gradually prospered.

Legend has it that when Emperor Otto I led his army to conquer the Low Countries, it was once subjected to stubborn resistance from the lord's army, and the army besieged the castle for a long time, and finally used heavy trebuchets to capture the castle protected by the thick walls and open the way to the lowland plains.

The local lord was executed for refusing to surrender, his family was extinct, and the nobles who raided were his in-laws, and in order to prevent the place from becoming a bridgehead for the rebels again, His Majesty ordered the soldiers to tear down most of the walls and smooth the slope of the hill in front of the city gates.

The current castle was only rebuilt and strengthened in recent decades after Hrushbeck was taken under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family, so the seemingly impregnable city wall actually has a fatal weakness, and this weakness I learned when I watched the suspected bad movie "Heavenly Dynasty".

The section of the wall facing us to the northwest, which had been demolished and rebuilt, had been so exposed to the wind and sun that I could no longer see the difference in color and stone between the new part and the original wall, but I knew very well that beneath its seemingly impregnable façade was a crumbling foundation, which would be the point of passage for the castle.

Kohler, under my orders, recalled all the nightingales who could be rushed back yesterday overnight, and began to dig tunnels not far from the castle, and after a night of high-intensity work, he finally completed the set task, and now the soil layer under the city wall has been hollowed out, and it is only supported by wooden frames, as long as one or two horizontal beams are removed, the weight of the thousands of pounds on the ground will surely crush the pillars below, causing the collapse of the new city wall on this section of the old foundation, and then things will be much easier.

The bull was still fighting with the enemy knight, but judging from the agility of the two of them, the other party was obviously a little unable to withstand the bull's life-threatening offensive, and retreated step by step, only barely catching the slash of the weapon to ensure that he was not fatally injured, but he couldn't launch even one counterattack, and he was about to be captured.

"When did this guy be so obedient, let him put away the fight and really shy back and not use all his strength, the other party's knight is quite pitiful, being played with like a toy." Kohler set up the pergola with his hands and watched the battle between the two men in the center of the battlefield, nodding and commenting.

"If I hadn't had a waist injury, I would have liked to go up and try my skills, I was known as a brave lion back then, and I would take the lead in every battle!" I triumphantly boasted to Kohler about my proud past achievements while making the cushion on my back more comfortable.

"The timing is about the same, and you can signal Modiunas to follow the original plan."

"Yes, my lord."

Kohler took the reins of the horse handed by the squire and jumped up, and before leaving, he suddenly said to me: "I sometimes really think that you are an unborn genius, and there is always a way to survive in danger, and every idea is amazing, but sometimes it is ......" Before he finished speaking, Kohler left my head full of cranky thoughts and ran away......

"Hello? But sometimes, when you're done, I don't know if it's going to keep me awake! ”

I shouted at Kohler's back, but was overshadowed by the noise on the battlefield, and I pursed my lips and rubbed my face and muttered, "It's called listening to thunder in the silence, and it sounds so tacky and scary." ”

In the cheers of the crowd, the bull fought with the enemy knight a few times as if playing a game, and finally couldn't bear to shout, and ended the battle with a powerful slash that slashed Huashan, and cut the poor opponent with a long sword into two pieces of flesh and blood blurred on the ground, and the enemy camp let out a terrifying scream, and our soldiers struck the shield mountain with their weapons and shouted a tsunami, paying the highest respect to their heroes.

Just when the enemy hesitated and did not dare to send people to fight again, the ground under his feet suddenly began to tremble slightly, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping quickly, and the soldiers on both sides stopped to see which side of the reinforcements had arrived, but apart from the frightened flocks of birds in the woods and the occasional small beasts that popped up, there was the slightest sign of the arrival of the army.

"What's going on?"

Several soldiers asked each other in a low voice, and they were faintly uneasy in their hearts, and the war horses were also reflexively trampled on their hooves, and no matter how comforted the riders, they couldn't control it.

I was in a different mood than most people, anxiously staring at the section of the city wall, and in my heart I cursed my father and mother, why I didn't collapse for a long time, and the bull stood alone in the open space, and also felt something strange, and cast an inquiring glance at me.

The enemy soldiers ran to collect the bodies of the dead knights, and the archers on the walls refilled their bows to protect the soldiers outside the city as they retreated into the city.

"It's too late, we have to act now."

Seeing that the long-awaited scene did not appear for a long time, I clenched my fists and slapped my palms as if determined, and the herald on the side commanded: "Order the trebuchet to prepare, and the archers will come forward and start the siege!" ”

Following my command, the engineers methodically tightened the ox tendon springs on the trebuchet, lit the clay pot filled with asphalt and placed it on it, and test-fired it once to correct the crosshairs.

I saw that the clay pot with boiling flames was impartial, and it just fell into the enemy formation that was coaxing to shrink to the city gate, and the hot asphalt splashed everywhere, and it would burn violently when it touched the body, making the enemy cry and shout for their mothers, pushing and trampling and scrambling to flee to the city gate, as if it was a paradise that could make them jump to the sky.

The engineers simply adjusted the angle according to the landing point of the clay pot, and then reloaded and fired, this time the clay pot landed on the city wall accurately in a perfect arc, leading each thin flesh and blood, and instantly ignited many screaming and rolling fire men on the ground, but because we only have one trebuchet, whether it is the density of ammunition or the consistency of the attack, it is difficult to achieve the effect of destructive power, at most it causes a little chaos to the enemy, covering the archers and infantry carrying ladders quickly approaching the city wall to attack.

The infantry with heavy shields in the front row immediately plunged the tip of the kite-shaped shield deep into the dirt to form an impermeable shield wall, covering their own archers to keep the range of the bow and arrow, and suppress the enemy's fire with a short bow with strong strength but a slightly worse range.

After a few rounds of firing between the two sides, neither side inflicted any casualties on the other side, but we more or less had the upper hand in momentum, so that the enemy hid behind the city wall and could not raise his head.

The two sides fought back and forth, and the enemy's attention was basically drawn to the front, and only a few soldiers remained on the side walls.

The long-awaited moment finally came, and when the cracks in the northwest side of the city wall were covered with confused dust, and the enemies above were swaying from side to side wondering why they could not stand steadily, the hollowed-out soil layer finally could not withstand the tremendous pressure, and collapsed like the building blocks of a child's game.

The two groups of people who shot Zhenghuan were stunned by this sudden change, and they forgot to attack for a while, and they all stared at the smoke and dust in the sky and grinned.

"These bastards!"

Seeing the stunned appearance of my soldier, I was so angry that I stamped my foot and kicked the herald's ass firmly.

"What are you still doing in a daze, immediately send an order to continue the attack, with the blessing of the Lord, you will be disappointed by God's hope if you can't take the castle!"

As soon as the words fell, the Ravenna pikemen who were ambushed in the woods and grass huts not far away, appeared like divine soldiers under the leadership of Modiunas, Kohler calmly aimed, and the enemy soldiers who had just stood up and had not eased up their gods accurately took their lives, and found themselves on the back of the enemy's enemies, hurriedly dividing their troops to defend, but the army's heart was scattered and defeated, and I didn't expect that I would capture the castle in such an unconventional way, or that I chose a strong man with a broken wrist in a sense.

You must know that in this era, it is not an easy task to build a castle made of bricks and stones, it often takes a huge amount of manpower and financial resources, it takes several years, and it takes a long time to form a complete defense system, but I directly dismantled it myself without even blinking an eye, which greatly surprised the enemy.

Seeing the soldiers rushing into the castle from the collapsed foundation and fighting the enemy in the dark, the bull took the lead in killing, like a mad leopard, like a god descending from heaven to crush the enemy's confidence, and with his own strength, he broke through the encirclement and opened the way for the follow-up troops.

"It's time to take a good rest, when the decision to execute Knight Robert was made, where would you have thought of this series of serial sets, but thanks to my **** luck, I have turned danger into a disaster again and again, but the day when good luck is always used up!"

I don't know why, looking at the castle that is about to arrive, I can't be happy at all, maybe because I hastily fell into the trap that others have prepared at that time and blame myself, or maybe I am afraid that one day, the experience of the traverser that is superior to that of his contemporaries will no longer work, and when I encounter tricky things, the outcome is really difficult to say.

"I'll sleep for a while, and wake me up when it's over, and don't bother the rest even if the sky falls, you know?" I instructed my attendants to put me in a safe place away from the battlefield and rest quietly.

By the time I was woken up by Kohler's soft call, the battlefield had been cleared, and the asphalt-lit fire in the castle was still smoking, but it was about to be extinguished.

The captives were tied to a long rope in droves, and their heads were bowed in frustration, and the rescued Wangcai had no time to suppress the shock, and was in charge of counting the number of prisoners of war, while Hans was interrogating the families and titles of the surrendering nobles, in order to provide preferential treatment in accordance with their status, and to negotiate the amount of ransom.

The bull saw me being carried into the castle by his attendants, and approached with a knight with a big tie.

(End of chapter)