The site was empty for the time being, with timber, bolts, nails, and tools of all kinds, and servants and craftsmen erecting sections of wooden grates and brackets, on which were hung curtains and leather to protect against arrows and flying stones, and the stone-throwing machine that was about to be built was aimed at the weakest point of the walls of Alalmanburg.

When Wright had previously been on his way to the city as an emissary, he had observed the shape of Alarmán's castle up close, not a central rectangle, but an uneven dumbbell shape, with the large city located at the end of the headland and the small city on a hill half a mile away, connected by a mezzanine double-sided curtain wall.

This curtain wall is the key, once the enemy captures and destroys this section of the wall, it will be enough to cut off the big city and the small city, so that they do not rely on each other. Callegos also hoped that after taking over this fortress, he would rebuild new walls and towers to include both the big city and the small city, but on the spot, the area that needed to be started was mostly a low-lying river island with damp and waterlogged water, and the foundation could not be laid, and the area through which the old city wall passed happened to be in the dry land raised in this area, and he couldn't help but sigh that the natural geography could not be easily changed by man, plus the five heirs, some went to Muth, and some went to the city of Sith, which were also not connected to each other, and each branched out. Therefore, the idea of renovating the city wall of Alalaman was faded. In the end, Nika only strengthened the old curtain wall, built sloping masonry under the pedestals, making it impossible for enemy siege engines and ladders to get close to it, and added several archery towers, which stood tall enough to overlook the battlefield that controlled the west.

At the venue, Gawain was already there, observing the situation of the castle. The siege of Fort Mut was not lifted, and the three Callegos brothers of Sith were imprisoned by Anna. In this way, it seems that there are no conditions for peace with Nika. Gao Wen sighed and said to Melo who was accompanying him.

Then he saw the little sunfish coming with the box, and greeted her warmly. Agnes quietly and quickly whitened the eyes of the lewd bear, and then made a submissive expression, and stood beside him, "Little sunfish, the curtain wall and tower on this side, the battering ram cannot resist the destruction, and under it is all a sandbar swamp washed by the sea water, very soft and damp, like the strategy of digging tunnels to break through like the city of Nicaea. It doesn't work at all. ”

"It is not possible to let Andreev's galleys, transporting soldiers, go around to the other side of the castle. It was also a swamp, and the soldiers who came ashore were in danger of being isolated, and it was almost equivalent to entering the territory of the Pamphilia Tema. The attack on this city is in a lawsuit with Prince John and Constantinople, so it is not appropriate to give the truth at this time. Over there, Merlot also raised concerns with the little sunfish. She was also begged to settle the matter, and Samuelfa's Ordnance Division and the "Unicorn" Craftsman Company would fully support her.

"Your Royal Highness, your financial and military strength are not good now, and the blind veteran of Alarman has less than five hundred guards. Directly take this section of the curtain wall first, and then cooperate with the blockade fleet to take down the big city, and the small city will naturally not be able to support it. Agnes shrugged. Saying that the plan only needs to be like this, she then handed over the drawings in the box she was carrying to Gawain. "Chop down rafts and cover the soldiers across the swamps. Take cover with a catapult and a stone thrower, these techniques are mastered by your craftsman. ”

Gawain unfolded the drawings, skimmed them, and then returned them to the little sunfish, "I can't understand these Latin words and data." ”

"Oh, don't you understand?" Agnes said this intentionally.

Gawain nodded innocently, looking very sincere.

So Agnes could only say that as the deputy director of the Department of Agriculture, she could only do it herself.

Over there, Nika in the curtain wall tower, with cloudy eyes on the side, sat on the edge of the shooting window, his ears twitching, and his hoarse voice said, "Is it going to start at last?" I heard that my two youngest sons have been given the surname Ducasse by the princess in purple. Now that Gawain is besieging us, I am afraid that there is no longer any fear, they want to erase the glory of Callegos on this land, almost all the forty rebellious Genat nobles in the Mut River Valley were killed in battle or captured and executed by Gawain, and the wheat fields in the coming year will be very lush because of the blood staining and irrigation, by the way, the siege equipment built by the enemy, you should be able to see it, right? ”

"Yes, Your Excellency General, it seems that you are building ladders and building catapults." Hu Servant reported after carefully looking along the window opening.

"It seems that I want to approach first, destroy the foundation of the city wall, and then use the ladder to climb, this tactic is very simple" Nika leaned on his back, so and so arranged, and then he sighed, "When I was young, my reputation for bravery and good warfare also resounded throughout the plateau, and I once participated in that great and terrible war on the shore of Lake Van and broke through under the arrows and iron hooves of the Turks and Kurds. Now let me witness the rise of the heroes of the new era, and ask Prince John for reinforcements again, which in itself is also the first duel between Gawain and John, the two glorious ones of the future era! ”

The next day, the Italian veterans and German Germans who had been selected from the two brigades were lined up along the outside of the siege equipment field along the position, and under the sun, Gawain personally handed over the "Red Hand Seven Ridges Banner" to Diem's hands, and the golden banner swayed in the wind under the attention of all the soldiers, "Capture Alalaman Castle, everyone's holy sage will increase, and the spoils of war will be taken by themselves!" Bramson, who oversaw the war, was outspoken and morale-boosting.

The soldiers, who had half forgotten their oath to go to the Holy Land, scrambled to follow Bramson's shouts and shouts in various languages, they were already Gawain's Praetorian Guard.

Trumpets and trumpets sounded agitatedly, "Drink, drink!" The lightly armed military servants imitated the experience of attacking the fortified city of Nicaea, erected bundles of wooden strips, formed a large anti-arrow bar, and began to step on the mire one after another, advancing towards the curtain wall, "Woo oh, woo oh", and then above their heads, there were constantly stone bullets with strange whistling sounds, with various straight tracks, rumbling and smashing on the curtain wall of Alarmán, and there were dull sounds, which were done by several Gawain army stone shooters.

Agnes. Prani, with a golden headband and gray hairties, stood side by side with Gawain, on the high base of the field, silently and intently watching the siege battle ahead.

"Gawain, that's not right." Suddenly, the little sunfish, who is naturally sensitive to data and length and width, stretched out his slender fingers, squinted his eyes, and gestured a few times at the wall of Alarmán, "Nika must have secretly raised the city wall last night!" ”

"What?" Gawain's heart sank slightly, it stands to reason that the defenders usually add wooden fences to increase the "height" of the curtain wall, but Nika actually used the same color of masonry to strengthen the height—in this way, the integrated city wall would not be able to be distinguished by ordinary people unless it was glimpsed by a skilled hand like Agnes.

"All the pre-built ladders are failing! Damn it. "Agnes hate. (To be continued.) )