The siege had been going on for five full days, and I could not even remember how long it had been if it had not been for the glass of wine that had been carefully preserved by the attendants at dinner every day, and the mood of the people had become numb as the sun rose in the east and set in the west, and the sky changed from a blue to a deep darkness.

The only work that Nijmegen had to do for the siege during the five days was to send out men to dig a deep trench on the side of the castle near the river, which was used to cut off the water supply in the city.

Of course, the knights would not do the menial work with the dirt themselves, and how could the noble hands wielding the sacred sword of the defense of God be tarnished by the work of the peasants?

Before being favored by the nobles, they were the peasants who had been facing the loess for generations, and their poor parents and brothers lived a rotten life without a meal, what is it to dig soil and dig pits?

The Speyers who made small moves in Nijmegen sent troops to block and resolutely defend their lifeline at first, but unfortunately there were not many knights in the city, and the ordinary soldiers shouted to kill them, and when they saw that the other party was full of tall and mighty knights, they were so frightened that they were scared and urinated, and how could they still have the strength to charge in their legs and stomachs?

After a few rounds of back and forth, the enemy left a dozen corpses in disarray, fled back to the city in disarray, pretended to be a turtle and closed the door, helplessly hiding behind the battlements and watching the trench widen and lengthen day by day, and finally cut off the entire underground water line.

"Lord Duke, how long will it take us to do this, the knights have been waiting impatiently, and they are all clamoring for a siege."

The leader of the knight of Volhessen, unable to hold back his fiery temperament, asked loudly like a bell, and his temper was the same as that of a bull.

I handed the wet towel on the door of my head to the attendant next to me, lazily stretched my arms, the sweltering weather instantly steamed precious water, the attendant re-washed the warm towel in the cold water, I couldn't wait to open it and spread it on my face, enjoying the comfortable feeling of the moist breath penetrating into every pore.

When this kind of dry person is dry, I always miss the air-conditioned room with the air conditioning on and the ice cream with ice ballast.

"You are in a hurry, and the enemy will only be more anxious than you. Think about it, thousands of people huddled in such a pigsty-like stone wall to eat, drink, and Lazar, what kind of air must stink? Can you stay in such a place for five days? What about ten days? Believe me, the day of the decisive battle will not be long in coming, or the Speyers will not be able to resist the pressure and obediently run out and surrender, and there is no doubt that God will abandon them from the moment the gates are closed. ”

I playfully winked at the knight and turned over the wet towel on my face: "How easy is it to attack the city, let your knight take a ladder up?" You also know that our team on this expedition is full of cavalry, without any engineers or infantry, brute force and sword alone will not be able to tear down the stone walls, that kind of stupid behavior will only make you a living target for archers! ”

Knight Wall pouted in frustration, I put a wet towel in his hand, and emphasized with relief: "Don't worry, there will be results in three days at most, the water source in the city has been cut off, the sun will help us, hunger and thirst, no matter how strong a warrior is, he can't withstand their joint attack." ”

Seeing the tall Hessian knight walking away with a puzzle that seemed to understand whether he understood or not, I ordered the squire to call Hans over, this kid was in charge of the distribution and transfer of the siege troops on the front line in place of me, and he was too busy to see the figure every day, but fortunately he was attentive and passionate enough, and he was happy to take care of the petty officer, a typical donkey character, and he ran away riveting when he fed a carrot, and his vanity was very easy to satisfy.

"Your Excellency, you called me?"

Hans jumped off the horse in a dashing manner, bringing up a puff of dust, to be honest, he has done a solid job all these years, the braggart squire who used to run the train has gradually matured, and has become steady and responsible, a knightly title that is not salty and not light is indeed sorry for his hard work, thinking of this, I looked at Hans and couldn't help but look at it a lot gentle, pointing to the seat next to him and signaling him to rest quickly.

"After besieging the city for so long, how is the morale of the knights, is it a lot tired?" I pushed my glass in front of him and asked casually.

Hans seemed surprised that I asked such a question, and raised his eyebrows for a long time, the duke's tent was only a few hundred paces from the front line, and he could see it clearly when he poked his head, but since the lord said this, he had to answer honestly.

"Some of the complaints are about the sweltering weather and poor food, which are still within reasonable limits, and everyone is still confident in taking the castle."

He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and the corner of his eyes fell enviously on the bucket of cold water at the squire's feet.

"The trenches outside the city have dug up the enemy's water veins, and the city must be breached soon."

"I have just used this excuse to persuade Hesse's donkey, who represents the idea of most knights."

Noticing Hans's gaze, I handed him a freshly washed towel, which he took with trepidation, holding it in his hand and not daring to move.

"I'm afraid that things are not so simple, the drinking water of thousands of people is so huge, and the enemy should be about to bottom out by storing water alone, but it seems that they are not panicked at all, and they look calm and relaxed, I judge that there must be a backup water source in the city, or a very deep manhole is struggling to maintain it, and it will not break out into civil strife in a short time because the water is exhausted."

"If that'......"

Hans squinted his eyes at the tent door, which seemed to float in the heat of the castle, and muttered in a very small voice: "Only look at Rollo and them......"

On July 24th, the night after the feast of Santa Maria Magdalene, I was gently pushed awake by the attendants in my sleep, and in a daze, I only felt that someone whispered something in my ear, until I put on the armor on my body mechanically, and then I connected the fragmented words into a concrete message, and the signal came!

"Signal, can you be sure? How long ago was that? ”

I asked questions in a burst of rage, startling the attendant, who was on his knees concentrating on tying the leather rope of his boots, and forgot what to answer.

"Speak, what's the situation?"

Hans, who had lifted the curtain and came in, helped him out, and the attendant, who had been with me for too short a time, had not yet adapted to the Duke's habit of thinking out of his mind.

"Just now, less than half of the time of the sand leakage, we confirmed that it was a signal from our own people."

He crouched down and tied the squire's unfastened leather rope to the snap: "I sent someone to quietly wake up our knights, and did not alarm the Hanoverians and Hesses stationed on the left flank of the camp, and the Hesses between the two armies. ”

"Well done!"

I nodded approvingly, Hans was very thoughtful, informing too many people to control the details, if the action made a noise to make the enemy appear in advance, the efforts made would be wasted, and it would also threaten the safety of the undercover agents in the city.

"We still have to inform our allies, after all, we need their support for our follow-up, just let people inform the Wall Knight and Baron Kusage Hannover to know, they naturally know it."

Rollo was not with me from the beginning of the division of troops and plundering, and everyone thought that he had been assigned an important task to lead the troops out, and they were accustomed to it, but in fact, he and a few attendants with local accents disguised themselves as refugees, and went undercover in the castle with the crowd, which is why I was confident in breaking the city.

In order to minimize the loopholes and distract the enemy's attention, Nijmegen's 300 knights were reduced to zero, and went out quietly in units of five, feeling an ambush by the moat under the cover of night, and quietly waiting for the second signal.

Rollo and they are too affected by me, and they also like to act while the people are sleeping in the deep sleep before the early morning, and besides, it has been seven days since the siege of the city, and the enemy's tense nerves are always loose, and it is difficult to catch him off guard at this time.

The moon did not sink behind the jungle at some point, the heavens and the earth fell into endless darkness, not even the insects and birds chirped, the horizon was like a black hole devouring all things, biting the edge of the canopy and chewing greedily, the tears left by the goddess of the dawn in the mortal world fell silently.

I shuddered down my spine, blowing away the dew that hung on the tip of my nose, resisting the tiredness that hit me in the depths of my mind, and staring at the movement of the castle with round eyes.

In the second half of the night, the city wall was still brightly lit, but the torches that were about to burn out were not replaced, and the light gradually weakened, and several soldiers standing guard dozed off with their spears, their chins knocked on their chests, and they were estimated to be sleeping soundly, and on the scorpion crossbow with sharp spear tips lay on two sappers wrapped in turbans, snoring loudly, and the unconscious hanging arms dangled around the trigger of the shot, and a little movement could touch the cardinal.

"Thank God you don't have to stay in the sun for another seven days." I sniffed at my frozen nose and thought to myself.

Suddenly, a cluster of fire flashed in the corner of the city wall, which was very conspicuous in the dark night, and I saw it flickering and flickering out three long and two short signals, and then disappeared like a ghost, which was the agreed response signal!

"It's Rollo!"

Hans's suppressed voice was full of excitement, it was the indescribable warrior's thirst for blood, and the knights who also saw the signal also came out of the lock ring to collide with the slight sound, Nijmegen played the role of a patient hunter, calmly confronting the beast with fangs, quietly waiting for the other party to show its flaws due to sleepiness and carelessness, and this fleeting weakness is precisely the lifeline that determines life and death, no one has one chance, I clenched the mace in my hand without looking back, this thing is shorter than a long sword and is not reflective with a smooth hand.

"Tell everyone to prepare ......"

Time seemed to stand still, as slow as a frame-by-frame film projection, the shadow of the castle in the picture slowly elongated and seemed to never end, the sweat in the palm of my hand was slippery and slippery so that I could barely hold the weapon, so I had to switch to my left hand again, holding my breath for fear of making a little movement and missing a certain detail, Hans arched his body, stretched his back into a string, his legs trembled unconsciously, he was even more nervous than me.

At the moment when my hanging nerves were close to the critical point, the joints of the bolt of the gate machine made the rust of the roots of the teeth ache, the heavy iron gate left the ground little by little, the suspension bridge that had been cut off the rope fell sharply, the slightly open gap revealed a swaying light, and a black shadow with an unclear face poked out its head and threw out the torch in his hand with all his might.

"Up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Hans rushed out for the first time, and before the gates could be opened, he shrank and slipped in, and the other knights of Nijmegen followed him, one by one, and the awe-inspiring roar of the defenders wakes up in the distance, but it was too late......

(End of chapter)

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