Chapter 11 Methods of Siege
Night soon fell. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It's not a good idea to spend the night in the wild, rather than at home, and even now, when supplies are abundant and wildlife is on the verge of extinction, they are constantly being harassed by waves of mosquito bombers, which was much more than just mosquitoes in the Middle Ages.
Wolves, wild bears, and bloodthirsty hounds, the medieval wilderness was definitely not a place for the solo traveler - even if you ignore these dangers, the biting cold wind that howls through is always there, reminding passing travelers not to forget to sacrifice to it - cold, snow, and death.
Fortunately, Count Xiao Tang is not alone now, and there are many knights who are proficient in martial arts by his side.
These knights all took out their bows - although there were crossbows at this time, and crossbows were several times more lethal than bows, but in order to prevent a young child who had just learned to walk from killing a knight who had been training for twenty years with a crossbow, the merciful God decided: 'There will be no crossbows between the brothers of Christ.' ’
These knights are armed with bows, their eyes scanning the prey that may be there, and they will not easily use an arrow, which is much more expensive than a man and more than a prey!
It's like King Edward I, the 'long-legged' (also called beautiful man) in "Braveheart", said: "Let the Irish go first!" Arrows are much more expensive than theirs!"
To build a qualified military arrow, you need an arrow, an arrow shaft, and a feather. The arrowheads should be made of iron, and the iron should be ground into a shape that conforms to the standard; The shaft of the arrow should be made of long and solid wood, cut into long strips one by one, and then flatten it; And the arrow feather is more particular, it requires the feathers to be hard and long, the best is the wild goose feather, followed by the eagle feather, the lowest is the goose feather, as for the chicken feather, this thing can't be used at all, it's too powerful.
It is no wonder that Edward I said such a thing, the most important thing is that he has to pay for the arrows himself, but the Irish are just a group of conscripted cannon fodder, he doesn't have to give money!
By the way, the brave heart seriously beautifies Wallace, of course, I'm not saying that Wallace is anything bad, the problem is that this thing's habit of slaughtering cities and prisoners every time he finishes a battle is really unbearable for his own people. In addition, Edward I was not as wasted as in the movies, the king was the most prominent of the Plantagenet dynasty, and his nickname was the 'Scottish Hammer', and the Wallace revolt was a success, but the result was that the king almost conquered all of Scotland - if he had lived for another two years.
Another thing to mention is that I also want to rehabilitate Edward II, who accidentally brought a thousand-year-old green hat, this second king is indeed a homosexual, yes, but he is still a two-way plug! The English crown princess in the movie who has an affair with Wallace came to England three years after Wallace's death, and her son Edward III was born seven years later, so even if Edward II was cuckolded, there was nothing to do with Wallace, it was pure nonsense in the movie.
The topic was a bit off, but after some effort, soon the knights and their minions had enough prey, lit a fire, and began to roast meat.
The smell of meat wafted through the air, and even without salt and spices as flavors, this fresh meat meal was already a rare meal in this day and age - but at the moment, no one was seriously tasting the deliciousness, but they were all looking intently at the dancing fire spirits.
What are they thinking? Soon, in a few hours, they were going to have a real battle to the death, and maybe some of the people who were here tonight would never see each other again tomorrow. So are they praying to God? Or are you dreaming about how many good things you can grab?
But time is the fairest, and he will not stop because you are a prince or a poor commoner. Soon, when the moon rose above the very top of the sky, when the bells of the distant monastery rang faintly twelve times, everyone knew that it was time.
Each of them went to the toilet first - do not laugh at this, there are many examples in history of cavalry being suffocated on horseback while fleeing, and then each of them got on horseback, intending to ride forward to a place two or three miles from the monastery, and then to the monastery on foot - to tell the truth, two or three miles is too close, and ten thousand horses galloping, even if there are only fifty horses now, it is an earthquake that can be stepped on. But considering that the armor on the knights and the weight of the weapons are at least twenty kilograms, two or three miles is already the longest distance, and then maybe the physical strength will not be enough.
Fortunately, no trace of this small army had been found until the convent.
Is it because Desmond is so poor that there are no robbers? Or do you think you have God's blessing and sit back and relax? Or was it just that the clergyman who kept vigil drank two more glasses?
Count Don doesn't know what the reason is, but if it is the blessing of God, it seems that this god is just a guy who bullies the weak and fears the hard: his own pious priests do not bless him, but now he blesses this group of knights who are about to kill and set fire! And isn't it the greatest irony that this group of knights is still about to rob his house?
After that, the knights and their servants dismounted, tied their horses to nearby trees to prevent them from running around, and then formed a long snake formation, without torches, starting with a few servants with the best eyes, three knights in the center, then the servants pressed in formation, and the other nine knights were behind.
In this way, they walked silently to the door of the monastery, which, as we have said before, was very poorly guarded, with a railing only two meters high, and a gate made of wood - of course, in this era, even if it was a thousand-year-old city or the Promised Land of God, the gate was made of wood, and at most it was covered with iron, as was the case in Jerusalem in the Heavenly Dynasty.
Such a fragile wooden door, if a few knights wrapped in iron would rather suffer a little flesh and skin, they only had to fight forward, and the wooden door would be knocked open. But this time they said that if they want to pretend to be a pagan, then they must do it exactly in the way of the infidels.
Two sharp-armed minions, who had no armor on them and were very agile in their movements; Another one, they have been trained in martial arts since they were young, and their hands and feet are much more flexible. They climbed the two-meter-high railing with ease—it was a railing, or a low fence wall, or at least there was no way to stand on the railing, and there was no pressure for two people to squat on it!
The two men jumped up, looked down, and then turned back and made a gesture that there were two men keeping vigil underneath - but don't worry, these two men were just ordinary peasants - the priests were all 'praying all night' in their warm beds, and there was no time to see the door.
These two peasants, firstly, were caught poorly, so naturally they had no enthusiasm, and secondly, the monastery had not been attacked for too long, and the people inside had long since relaxed, so both of them were dozing off half-awake and half-asleep, and the two servants took out a knife from behind, and each looked at the terrain, and then jumped down, and the dagger in his hand stabbed the throat of the night watchman along the falling momentum!
- Although they were not professional Assassins, they did have been trained in this way since childhood.
"Goo-Goo......
The sound of blood coming out of the throat.
The two peasants tried their best to struggle, but their throats had already been pierced, and death was already beckoning to them in front of them, how could they break free, they couldn't even shout a reminder!
Soon, the boundless color of blood and darkness overshadowed their vision, and they left this unfortunate earthly world, unable to struggle to survive any longer.
The two servants sensed that the peasant in their hands was no longer struggling, so they slowly lowered the body that had become a corpse in their hands without making a sound, and then walked to the wooden door, where they encountered the last problem, a large iron lock.
This was unexpected! A big iron lock! He was not melted down to make armor but hung on the door, and ordinary nobles still locked their treasures with a small lock!
However, this is not difficult for these two servants, the iron of the West, to be precise, the iron of the early and middle Middle Ages, has not been quenched or very little, and the European blacksmiths at that time did not even know that there was such a thing as quenching! The iron or steel beaten in this way is often made of more hardness and less toughness - this is why we see that most of the swords in the Middle Ages were thick and heavy - not heavy or thick, he cut it and broke it directly!
Even the sword used as a military item is like this, so the quality of this lock can be imagined, the two servants simply put the knife into the clasp in the middle of the lock, and then twist and buckle, and it is directly warped!
The lock that had fallen to the ground made a 'snap' sound, and the servant who was close to him immediately picked it up and put it in his pocket with a smile on his face, and the slow one could only glare at the lucky one—the large piece of iron alone was worth a few silver coins anyway!
The last obstacle had been removed, and the two servants opened the wooden door, and the long-awaited cloud of bloodthirsty jackals poured in, having sharpened their claws and loaded their fangs, eager to bring bloody rain to this peaceful place!