Leon raised his hand, and was about to give the order for a second wave of the offensive, but Alan stopped him.

The previous 1,500 people were almost wiped out just by putting the ladder on the city wall, and how much more would it take to fill it in? A thousand? Two thousand? You must know that at this time, it is not the serfs who are consuming the scum, but the regular army. It is obviously unwise to spend your strength in vain for a city that must be conquered.

Allen understands that the protagonist of this expedition is Charles II, and no matter what the plans of the two declining people Bashir and Manuel have, Charles II is the well-deserved core. Whether in terms of status, strength, or prestige, Charles II is the first.

Then, this first battle is naturally inevitable for Charles II. Since this is the case, it is natural that there are people who are willing to contribute to Charles II. Anyway, no matter who it is, it's not Allen after all.

In this way, Alan firmly implements the core policy of paddling in the team. Of course, it is impossible to say such thoughts, and in order to make a show, Alan still did some actions.

For example, he sent thousands of people in batches to pretend to besiege the city, but each time he made a circle under the city, and then conducted a drill outside the range of the bow and arrow, and then changed the batch after the end. Although the shouts of his soldiers were shocking, not a single soldier launched a siege. Allen called it a tired soldier's plan.

Every time the soldiers in Lower Lorraine thought that Alan was going to attack the city, they were just about to get nervous, and found that the soldiers had retreated, back and forth several times, and they were confused. However, the generals defending the city did not dare to be careless, who knows if this is deliberately to let us relax and then take the opportunity to attack.

In short, Alan was just like this thundering and raining small paddling water.

However, although Alan was happily paddling in the water, there were still people who were attacking with all their might. The Duke of Manuel was like that.

As the third oldest duke among the four dukes of the Anmuxi Kingdom, he is twenty-eight or nineteen years old this year. It has only been ten years since he succeeded to the throne, which is about the same time that Alan inherited the title of duke. Speaking of which, this decade happened to be a period of peace for the Kingdom of Ammusi.

Therefore, the Duke of Manuel, as the Duchy of Cott, did not actually fight several wars himself. However, he continued to drink the power of Duke Bashir, and in one fell swoop squeezed out Duke Lawrence and Allen, successfully ascending from the last duke to the second duke. It is said that his political operation is famous in the kingdom, but in terms of strength, he has not been recognized by many people.

Now to be able to follow Charles II is naturally to perform well, and the first to take Lower Lorraine City can not only get a lot of loot, but also greatly enhance his prestige.

Prestige is not an easy thing to obtain. And this thing is intangible and intangible, invisible and intangible, but it is a necessity that is inseparable from daily life. Alan has inherited the duke for ten years, and before the capture of Tulga, his prestige has always been in a state of zero, and the attitude of his nobles towards him has always been two words, ignorance. If it weren't for the support of Duke Lawrence, maybe Andrew would have rebelled with a group of Allen's vassals.

Similarly, Duke Manuel succeeded in forcing out Duke Lawrence with his ********. But after that, it was not as authoritative as he imagined, but it was resisted by some nobles. Although he was the number two man in the court of Ammousi, there were no nobles who obeyed his orders.

On the one hand, there is the resistance of the Duke Lawrence's faction, and on the other hand, the Duke of Manuel is young after all, and he has no merits. In this era, even an ordinary knight is desperately striving for merit, and the second duke of the dignified Anmuxi Kingdom has no record of success, so he naturally cannot convince the public.

Therefore, this war to invade the Moslian Empire was very important to Duke Manuel, and he was ready to establish himself completely in this war.

And this first battle, the first merit, you have to take it. Duke Manuel said to himself in his heart.

Already in the first wave of the offensive, the Duke of Manuel sent a team of two thousand men. A team of 1,000 serfs was responsible for attracting firepower, and 1,000 heavily armed soldiers carried ladders and rushed to follow behind.

However, the south gate was the responsibility of Charles II and the Duke of Manuel, and the Duke of Lorraine naturally placed the main force at the south gate. There were two thousand crossbowmen in total, and there were a thousand at the south gate.

Seeing that Duke Manuel's troops had entered the range of bows and arrows, the Duke of Lorraine immediately ordered the arrows to be released.

The rain of arrows rained down on the 2,000 soldiers like locusts in transit, but in the past, the locusts took away the crops, but this time they took away the lives of people one by one. The serfs at the front did not resist at all, and were shot into a sieve in batches and fell, and although the hoplites in the back had excellent defense, the dense rain of arrows could always find one or two loopholes and pierce the soldiers' bodies through the gaps in the shield wall.

Soon the 2,000 men had already lost before they could pass through the trench, and the rest generally did not have the courage to hold on and retreated. These retreating people will not be able to go to the battlefield again for a while.

The Duke of Manuel couldn't help but be furious when he saw that the first group of 2,000 men had not even crossed the trench. With a wave of his hand, there were two thousand more, and this time it was a full two thousand heavily armed soldiers, no longer the serfs.

Charles II looked at Manuel's vigorous performance, nodded with satisfaction on the surface, but in his heart he scoffed at Manuel's command.

Faced with this situation, the most important thing to do is to constantly send serfs to consume the opponent's arrows and physical strength. Generally, an ordinary archer can only shoot about 20 times when he draws the bow full, and the power of the arrow shot more than 20 times is much smaller, and once the bow is drawn continuously, it will also cause damage to the bow and arrows. The same is true when attacking a city, relying on the regular army to consume the physical strength of the opponent's defenders, and then looking for weak points, and using elite soldiers to break through in one go, you can break the stalemate to the greatest extent and expand the results of the battle. A general with little experience knows this truth, but it is conceivable that Duke Manuel is indeed a stunned young man who has never fought a war.

Again, this is a principle that is easy to say, and has been used in countless battles throughout the ages. However, the core thing is the quality of the soldiers, the pre-battle planning, the judgment of the battle, and the determination to win. These things are the most important indicators of victory.

Therefore, as long as the serfs are used to consume the opponent's physical strength, and then the main force attacks again, a large part of the losses can be reduced, after all, serfs are free labor for the nobles. These barbarians, like Allen, did not regard serfs as productive forces.

The second wave of heavy soldiers lived up to the expectations of the Duke of Manuel, and with far more efficiency than the serfs, they quickly built a pontoon bridge and passed through the trench, but this also paid the price of five hundred years of heavy soldiers. By the time the ladder was successfully erected at the head of the city and the attack began, the second wave of soldiers was already powerless.

Manuel gritted his teeth and sent two thousand heavily armed soldiers for the third time. If you don't send it, if you relax the offensive at this time, then none of the ladders you just erected will be left. Only by strengthening the offensive can it be possible to crush the opponent's defense line by constantly applying pressure.

The Duke of Lorraine, who was the defender of the city, was also taken aback by Manuel's actions, and saw that Manuel had sent 2,000 heavily armed soldiers to fill the trenches, and he could loudly laugh at the ignorance of the other party. But now the other party is desperate to fight hard, which the Duke of Lorraine did not expect.

This is not a routine! The Duke of Lorraine cursed in his heart. According to the usual way of playing, shouldn't it be consumed by serfs? Then the two sides have two or three rounds of mutual A, how to make a wave of the whole family. Damn, I'm going to hold out until Paul's bastard comes, is Charles II perverted after his failure ten years ago, and if you want to go crazy, you have to wait for Paul to come.

Anyway, Manuel's heavily armed soldiers had already climbed to the top of the city under layers of pressure and huge casualties, and were fighting with the defenders at the head of the city. The Duke of Lorraine had no choice but to send his heavily armed soldiers to resist.

Manuel laughed happily when he saw that his soldiers had successfully climbed to the top of the city, and was about to lead a thousand men to completely occupy the city wall, when the attendants around him quietly told him that all his five thousand heavily armed soldiers had been dispatched. At present, only 2,000 serfs and 1,000 archers could be used, and a thousand noble knights could only fight on land, and the heavy armor could not allow the knights to climb the ladder.

By the way, at this time, the ladder was still built of simple wooden ladders, and had not yet developed into the kind of giant siege ladder wrapped in iron sheets.

Manuel almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood when he heard the news, and it was only a few hours that he had spent all his main force. And if it is not increased, the position at the head of the city will soon fall again.

Forced to have no choice, the Duke of Manuel could only come to Charles II's side and say: "Your Majesty, you have already grabbed the city for Your Majesty, and Your Majesty only needs to take the city of Lorraine with one blow."

Charles II naturally understood the situation of the Duke of Manuel, and now that the Duke of Manueline's mistake has created an opportunity for himself, of course he will not let it go.

So Charles II said to a young general beside him: "Jupiter, take two thousand two-handed swordsmen and take the gate for me!"

The young general was dressed in a gorgeous plate-chain composite armor, similar to Fiona's battle armor, with a greatly reduced area of protection and greatly improved mobility.

Hearing the horn of the attack, Jupiter led two thousand two-handed swordsmen to step on thousands of corpses, and leaped to the top of the city by means of a ladder that had been erected. Soon, the power of the two-handed swordsman was brought into play. These elite soldiers, with their superb swordsmanship, were able to maneuver in the narrow area of the city. Once the Duke of Lorraine's hoplites burst into battle, they were quickly killed and wounded.

The general named Jupitt was even more extraordinary, and no one could get close to him by two meters. A hand of swordsmanship poured like ink on the soldiers of Lorraine. Ordinary Lorraine soldiers had seen this kind of exquisite swordsmanship, often three or four people besieged and killed a person, but only one looked at him, and his head was cut off by a sword.

In the face of this threat, the surrounding Lorraine soldiers no longer had the desire to fight, and they threw down their weapons and fled.

The Duke of Lorraine was still resisting on the city walls, but when he saw Charles II dispatching elite two-handed swordsmen, he no longer had the heart to resist, he knew very well the strength of these soldiers. Now he has to think about whether to go head-to-head with Charles II and block all his efforts to prevent Charles II from attacking the city, or whether to preserve his strength and wait for the army of bastard Paul. Thinking of this, he decisively sounded the horn of retreat, gathered his guards, and fled quickly from the north gate with the remaining troops.

"Tell the Duke, a group of defeated soldiers came out of the north gate and went straight north. Do you want to pursue?" As soon as Guderian received the news of the scout's report, he immediately reported it to Alan.

When Alan heard the news, he guessed that it must be the Duke of Lorraine who had escaped, but he didn't expect that this battle would take Lower Lorraine City in just a few hours. Could it be that Charles II had any famous generals there? Alan muttered to himself.

However, Alan didn't think about it for long, since the Duke of Lorraine had escaped, he was about to start attacking the city, and he couldn't let people know about his paddling.

So Eren pulled out the knight's sword at his waist and shouted, "Assault the whole army!"

The desolate sound of the command spread more than ten kilometers away, and Allen's seven thousand soldiers roared at the same time, and the roar went straight into the sky, and those who didn't know thought that this was the main battlefield.