The situation in the castle was even more chaotic than I had imagined, with crowded shacks and refugees turning the courtyard into a kindergarten entrance after school, and peasants frightened by the sudden enemy screaming and slamming around, weaving an impenetrable wall of people that not only would we not be able to kill for a while, but also the reinforcements in the castle would be difficult to rush out.

"Go back quickly, and let the friendly forces hurry up and come to the rescue!" I grabbed one of my attendants and yelled loudly, the only way to drown out the noise around me.

"Run, run hard, a slow step means that the danger on our side is aggravated, this thing is beautiful, I will make you a knight!"

The attendant, who was still flustered at the beginning and couldn't figure out the situation, instantly widened his eyes when he heard the word knight, as if he had taken a large dose of stimulant, and the whole person went crazy, and without saying a word, he rushed back, eager to help planing with both arms, and disappeared in the mist that gradually rose in the early morning in the blink of an eye.

Turning his head, the hand-to-hand combat on this side was in full swing, some of the knights of Nijmegen chased the refugees who were running around and cut a bloody path, and some relied on the cover of obstacles to aim at the enemy on the city wall to shoot arrows, as far as possible to eliminate the living forces, Rollo led a few squires dressed in tattered mud and mud to finally come to my side, panting and saying: "My lord, Count Speyer is in the room of the main tower, come with me!" ”

Nodding to follow him, we immediately encountered some difficulties, the panicked refugees did allow the knights of Nijmegen to take advantage of the chaos to control the city gates, but also gave the enemies stationed in the towers time to reinforce each other, and when the knights cleared a way to attack, the enemy rushed from all directions with a howl at the same time, and many of them condescendingly set up their bows and arrows, wounding several knights in the open place, and the attack was temporarily blocked.

"Shield Wall!"

I raised the shield above my head, and the cat's waist dragged the knight back to the doorway with the bloody wound on his calf, and the rest of the people also erected their shields one after another, forming a tight defense, and the arrows clanged down the iron-clad shield edge, and there were also a few sporadic sporadic hits that accidentally drilled into the gaps where the shield was indirectly closed, and shot the knight hiding behind, but fortunately the key points were not injured, and the shield wall remained unmoved.

"Hold on, move forward!"

I leaned close to my companion's shoulders and took solid steps to push slowly.

Javelins and arrows thrown by the defenders rained down on the shields, and the knights on the edge kept falling, but those behind quickly filled in to ensure that the shield wall was not broken.

The high level of tactical literacy that the Nijmegen warriors had usually exercised was vividly displayed at this moment, relying on mutual trust and high synchronization, our formation steadily advanced more than ten steps, along the city wall to the stables, not far from the steps leading to the tower.

The arrows and javelins thrown by the Speyers killed many refugees regardless of the enemy, the wounded who were not killed by the arrows wailed hysterically, the old people and children were already inconvenient in their legs and feet, and they had never seen such a bloody scene, there were more than a dozen lying on the ground, and the refugees who had no heads and flies were completely frightened, and they could only run to the place where they thought they were safe by instinct, and then rushed to the guards who had gathered slightly.

Seeing this, I had an idea, beckoned Luo Luo to come over, and while pulling the chain mail on my body, I instructed the attendant who did not know who was in the middle of nowhere:

"Quick, help me take it off, call a few more people, let's take the opportunity to mix in the refugees and go to the tower, the rest of the people attract the attention of the enemy, don't let that Henry run!"

Rollo, who suddenly realized, pulled my arm out of the chain mail, grabbed a handful of horse manure and wiped it on his face without saying anything, a fishy smell and a little grass smell filled my nostrils, choking me coughing again and again, almost vomiting out the small inventory in my stomach, and angrily squeezed the waiter who was not big or small: "What are you doing, bold!" ”

Luo Luo looked at me aggrievedly and explained: "There is not much time, since you have to put on makeup, you have to be like a little ......."

As he spoke, he smeared a handful of horse manure on the robe lined with my chain mail, and threw it in his face as well, while the rest of the squires followed our example, and the group crept out from behind the shield wall, rolling into the shadows beneath the wall.

Covering our heads with our shirts over our heads, we slowly approached the stairs following the refugees' escape, and five or six guards, kneeling or standing, shouting in a thick local dialect, drew their bows and shot at the shield wall of Nijmegen, and among them there were two warriors with crossbows, and the attack was not ordinarily powerful.

I made a look, Luo Luo understood and pushed the refugees around him, the old man who had long been lost his soul opened his arms and screamed and pounced on the guards who were shooting arrows, and the other party obviously also noticed that this group of refugees running towards him, although most of them were old people and women, but out of their duty to guards, they still turned their weapons and pointed at the crowd and shouted:

"Stop, for God's sake, I command you not to go any further!" It seemed to be a small head who spoke, and he grabbed the trigger of the crossbow arrow, aiming at the vicious threat of the old man who rushed towards him.

Seeing that the guards were moving, the old man understood that there was a lot of bad luck and bad luck, and immediately stopped in place and said to forgive: "Don't kill me, master, don't kill me, we are all villagers outside the city, please let go of these orphans and widows, let us go into the castle and hide!" ”

The head of the guard pushed the crossbow bolt forward viciously, and refused the old man's request: "Get out of here, this is not the place for you, ignorant pariahs!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Rollo and another attendant disguised as a refugee, set up the old man who was trembling with fright and left and right, and suddenly burst out, and the frightened guards hurriedly released their bowstrings and shot, and the sharp arrows that came down pierced the poor old man into a thousand holes, and when the enemy reacted, Rollo and they had already thrown away the soft corpse like a broken bag, and approached the guards who had no time to rewind with their weapons!

"Kill!"

With a loud shout, I pulled out my hidden mace from my sleeve and led the rest of the warriors to cover and engage the enemy.

I pulled the tip of the hammer out of the head of an unlucky man who spat blood from his mouth, who staggered two steps as if the world was spinning, rubbed the blood gushing out of the fountain to the side in disbelief, and his weeping face was about to turn into a chrysanthemum, and he fell backwards and knocked down several soldiers who were fighting each other, and finally exhausted all his strength, and his convulsive face was unwilling, staring at the opponent who had put him to death, squirming his lips, and not saying anything.

By the surprise of the enemy, and by the courage of my attendants, five or six guards were reduced to motionless corpses on the ground in a matter of minutes, and the defenders of the city walls were all drawn to the Nijmegen shield wall, and had not yet noticed that the stairs leading to the tower had been lost.

We tiptoed up the steps into the castle, the corridor was empty, but there was a hurried footstep, judging from the sound should be coming from this side, the number was also considerable, it was estimated that the knight of Speyer guarding the castle, was sent by the earl to support the defense of the city gate, I scolded my mother in annoyance, waved my hand and beckoned everyone to find a hidden place.

The enemy in front stopped shooting, and when they saw the knights rushing from the castle, they immediately burst into a deafening cheer, as if the Nijmegen soldiers who had erected a shield wall in the stables had become fat meat in their mouths, and all that remained was to open and close their teeth a few times to chew it up and swallow it, which was very simple, so the enemy rushed to surround them, and their hideous faces were like jackals coveting their prey.

Not to be outdone, the knights of Nijmegen behind the shield wall roared, the tight defenses exploded like puzzles, the knights thirsty for blood and glory threw away their burdensome shields and fiercely knocked down the enemies who rushed to the front, the two sides fought and scuffled inextricably, and everywhere were beasts that fought and died by instinct, painting this dawn destined for killing with their own lives a blood-red color.

Hiding in the shadows, I nervously observed the battle situation, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the unmanned scorpion cannon on the city wall, and suddenly had an idea, patted Rollo's shoulder and pointed at the wall, he made a knowing gesture, and led a few people to climb up the city wall along the steps, I picked up a shield painted with a red cross on a white background from the hands of the stiff corpse whose face was buried in the dirt, and protected my body to follow the attendants who ran away.

Because Speyer's defense system is very special, consisting of concentric circular walls, capturing a circular wall similar to a small fortress does not mean that the entire wall can be occupied by a vine, so the steps inside the castle are intricate, leading to different places.

Rollo and the others rushed to the city wall only to find that they had made a mistake, and had to turn back the same way and go up another step, the enemy on the city wall sensed the danger behind them, and stood guard at the staircase with their weapons, and some people came up and stabbed them indiscriminately, and a few unlucky attendants groaned and fell down the steps.

"Damn it!"

I clung to the city wall and panted, and cautiously poked my head out, only to see the excited cheers of the enemy who had just won the battle, eager to rush down and kill us, but they were not numerous, relying on the geographical defense is the best choice, and the only way to rush forward is to send us to death.

Just when I was at a loss, I heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the city.

Reinforcements from Hanover and Hesse are coming!

The enemy on the city wall understood that the loss of the outer city was irreparable, and they covered each other's retreat while calling on their comrades who were fighting under the city, and the tower, which was only one step away from the outer wall, was an independent defensive fortress, several stories higher than the city wall, and the dense shooting holes made it easy for the defenders to attack the enemy who surrounded them from all angles, as long as the thick gate was blocked, the impregnable tower was completely invulnerable, and the enemy could hold on until the stock was exhausted, and if it did, the rescuers from the farthest corners of the empire would be able to climb to Speyer.

I simply gave up chasing the guards who fled into the tower, and it was imperative to conquer the outer city first to consolidate the results of the battle, and the Count of Speyer, who was hiding in the shell of the turtle, although it would be helpless for a while, it was also equivalent to blocking all the ways to escape, and it was difficult for him to fly with wings, and before we set out, we brought enough secret weapons from Nijmegen to attack, and if the enemy was determined to be a turtle with a shrunken head, I would not mind a grand barbecue feast.

"Warriors, kill them, get them!"

I fiddled with the heavy scorpion cannon, and Rollo and another squire struggled with a tightly clamped winch, turning the thing toward the huddled enemies in the courtyard.

"Come on, it's time for you to taste despair......"