Da Da Da ......

The dense sound of military boots on the ground sounded in the castle hall, and groups of soldiers dressed in Russian-style armor smocks, armed with various weapons, swarmed into the Yaroslav Grand Duke's castle, and it was clear that the castle guards, who had been scattered earlier, had brought reinforcements from the camp of the Yaroslav city defenses.

Soon, the empty Grand Duke Yaroslav Castle was crowded with dense soldiers, and Shu Zifeng looked at the two columns of Russian musketeers who were the first to rush into the main hall of the castle with their guns pointed at him, and the short blade in his hand gently scraped the stubble on the chin of Grand Duke Yaroslav.

"Grand Duke Yaroslav, it seems that your army did not go to support the fallen gates, but they came just in time to order them to lay down their arms and surrender, and we are real 'friends'."

With a bang, Grand Duke Yaroslav's eyes swayed back and forth with the blade in Shu Zifeng's hand, and he kept praying in his heart that the other party would not tremble in his arms, otherwise he might die young......

"Good...... Eun, I'd love to make you a friend. While staring at the blade next to his neck, Grand Duke Yaroslav shouted at the belated group of soldiers in front of him: "Lay down your arms! This Kaba. Mr. Torovsky is my 'friend' and a distinguished guest of my Grand Duke Yaroslav! ”

The Russian soldier holding the arquebus glanced left and right, put away the musket stupidly, and it didn't take long for a Russian strong man wearing a knight's full body armor with a mask and a knight's sword hanging from his waist to the main hall, he lifted his mask and frowned at Yaroslav who was coerced in front of him and said openly: "No matter who you are and what your purpose is, let go of Grand Duke Yaroslav, we can guarantee your safe departure and take away the ransom that belongs to you." ”

Shu Zifeng ignored the threat of the captain knight of the guard named Alibachi, and instead put the blade against the Grand Duke Yaroslav, who raised his neck, and warned: "Your Excellency, your captain of the guard doesn't seem to see the current situation clearly! ”

Grand Duke Yaroslav felt the cold edge on his neck, squinted at Alibachi and shouted: "Don't you see the current situation?!" Tell everyone to lay down their weapons and get out of the house at once!! ”

Before Ali Bach could respond, a herald suddenly ran up behind him and reported loudly to Ali Bach, "My lord, there are hundreds of 'mobs' on the periphery of the castle approaching us in a formation with weapons. How can we respond? ”

This report immediately put Alibachi in a dilemma, his own Grand Duke was put on the neck with a knife blade against the other side, the perimeter of the castle was blocked, and most importantly, Grand Duke Yaroslav ordered everyone to lay down their arms!

These city defenders did not have the concept of honor as life as a formal knight, they were almost the private army of Grand Duke Yaroslav, eating Grand Duke Yaroslav's and wearing Grand Duke Yaroroslav, and now Grand Duke Yaroslav ordered them to lay down their arms, and the soldiers naturally had no desire to continue fighting.

The reason why the soldiers of the city defense army who are now pouring into the castle have not really thrown away their weapons and surrendered on their knees is just that they are afraid that the other party will kill all the unarmed soldiers with a deadly hand.

After all, these city defense soldiers didn't know anything about Shu Zifeng's people, and God knows if this group of people would torture and kill the prisoners.

Now these soldiers of the Yaroslavl city defense army who are blocked in the castle are just subconsciously protecting themselves.

At this moment, Shu Zifeng's words extinguished the desperate fire of these city defense soldiers in front of him.

"You can rest assured, I have reached a secret agreement with your Grand Duke Yaroslav, if you don't trust me, you can keep your weapons and exit the castle first, trust me and your Grand Duke, we will give you a satisfactory answer.

Captain Alibachi, do you still need to ask Grand Duke Yaroslav to give you an affirmative answer? ”

Alibachi took a deep look at Shu Zifeng, gave a knightly salute to Grand Duke Yaroslav, waved his hand and ordered, "Let's get out." ”

Half an hour later, the school yard of the Grand Duke's Castle was clearly divided into two parts.

On one side were a phalanx of 100 infantry led by Leonidas, a phalanx of more than 500 men in number, and even random soldiers of the city defense army, with more than 500 men in number, and at the forefront were the captain of the Alibati Guard, the knight, and a few living castle guards.

It's just that although the column of the city defense army of Yaroslav City is very chaotic, the weapons and equipment are much better than Shu Zifeng's direct troops, almost everyone is wearing a standard nail armor smock, and the weapons are also very complete, including musketeers, crossbowmen, pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, etc., most of the soldiers are equipped with the signature long-handled axes of the Russians.

The soldiers of Muscovy seemed to have a strong preference for axes as weapons, and many of the pikemen even held a long-handled axe with a sharp head and a sharp blade that could stab and slash people.

Most of the Russian soldiers' short weapons were scimitars and maces.

Scimitos, maces, axes, axes, arquebuses, and a small number of crossbows were the standard equipment of the Muscovy army at this time.

Naturally, there can be only more than 500 city defense troops in Yaroslavl City, and these city defense troops brought by Alibachi belong to the 'essence' part of it, and they are the most combat-effective one, fully equipped with weapons and armor, and most of the remaining city defense troops ran away when there was chaos in Yaroslavl City, because they were out of the shortage, and some of them deserted when Alibachi transferred troops......

In the end, the only people left were the more than 500 people who were brought to the castle by Alibach.

The loss of so many personnel of the Yaroslav city defense army was inseparable from the fact that Leonidas and others occupied the city gate and broke the city, and many patrolling city guards dispersed in a hurry after being told the news of the breach of the city gate by the running civilians......

The morale of the army in this era was far inferior to that of the later modern army, and the city walls supported the courage of the soldiers.

Moreover, the characteristics of the army in this era are that it contains a large amount of 'water', and when commanders and monarchs calculate the number of troops, in order to create momentum, they often include non-combatants such as logistics people, miscellaneous servants, retinues and auxiliaries......

Directly in front of the two opposing forces was Shu Zifeng and Grand Duke Yaroslav, who stood side by side, and then it was the moment when Grand Duke Yaroslav 'broke the cauldron and sunk the boat'.