Section 131: Siege
The Bohemians were like a flock of sheep that had lost their shepherds, chased by the Mason knights and cavalry like tigers, the nobles rode on horseback and soon excelled in the race to escape, they swept into the castle like the wind, and the other Bohemians also converged on the castle, and as soon as they entered the castle, they sealed the gate with stone and wood to block the pursuit of the Masons, and they themselves cowered helplessly in the castle. Even the Duke of Bohemia locked himself in the tower.
"It's so sad that the Bohemian warriors of the past, who used to roam all over the world, are shivering behind the walls of the city at this time." Count Ottard, whose face was covered in blood, leaned against the thick battlements and watched the dozens of Mason cavalry swimming outside the castle, and behind the walls there were not even a few of the more than 600 Bohemians who dared to go out to meet them.
"Lord Earl, the soldiers have just retreated from the battlefield, and they need to rest." Julian stood beside Count Otata, who did not dare to show the ecstasy in his heart, and comforted Count Otard.
"These cavalry are just to spy on us, and it is estimated that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the noble alliance of the Duchy of Mason will besiege the city on a large scale." Count Ota knew very well what the Masons wanted to do, but now he and his knights were tired, and if it weren't for his Duke of Bohemia, he would have wanted to lie down and rest.
Count Otta was right, the Mason cavalry had no intention of attacking the castle, and they even allowed Bohemian deserters to keep fleeing to the city, and then dragged into the city by ropes thrown from the walls, but the Bohemians who tried to escape from the castle were hunted down. After a few times, the bohemians in the castle understood that this was only allowed in and not out.
"Why don't we stop the Bohemians from entering the castle, the more of them there are, the more difficult it will be for the Earl to storm the city?" The knight of Mason, who was outside the castle, curiously asked one of them, this baron was a vassal of the Earl of Prauun, because the territory was close to the town and this nimble nobleman had built a mill, so he relied on the income from the mining and the mill to buy chain mail and a few war horses, and when he received the order of the vassal of the Count of Praun, the baron gathered several of his knights, and he himself rode on chain mail and joined the army.
"I don't know, but Lord Count Praun said that this is an order from the palace minister, and we just need to do what we are told." The baron, a vassal of the Count of Prauun, shrugged his shoulders. Said to the other knights. However, when they heard that it was Arrod's order, the knights were convinced that this victory was entirely due to Arrod, although the knights did not take the young count's defeat of the Duke of Bohemia seriously at first. But when it's really on the battlefield. Whether it's Arjod's warriors or his older brother Yves. and Arold's miraculous tactics convinced these arrogant knights, who were always unstingy in their praise for the mighty Europa.
In fact, Arold knew very well that the castle of Count Lausitz was the culmination of generations of construction. Don't think about it lightly from the front, in the era when artillery has not yet appeared, medieval castles are actually rarely directly breached, even if Arold wants to build a large siege machine qì It takes a huge amount of manpower, material resources and time, although at this time the nobles of the Duchy of Mason made an alliance with him and made him a leader, but this alliance is temporary, if it exceeds three months, the vassals and soldiers in the nobles' army will have passed their service period, The entire seemingly large army will be scattered in a hurry.
Therefore, Arold thought of a more cruel method, that is, to drive the Bohemian rout into the castle as much as possible, and then besiege the entire castle with an army, this tactic Caesar used when attacking Gaul, that is, to defeat the enemy in the castle with hunger, Arold estimated that the Duke of Bohemia must have hoarded more than a month of food in the castle.
Just when the Bohemians had spent the night in fear, at noon the next day, the army of the noble alliance of the Duchy of Mason led by Arold marched unhurriedly along the path to the castle, watching the army of the Duchy of Mason waving the flag in full swing, while the Bohemians on the castle were sneaking around in the arrow tower behind the city wall.
"The order was to leave the knights and cavalry, and two hundred soldiers on guard, and the rest began to dig trenches." Arold wears a semi-enclosed helmet, a chain mail with a smock, bright gauntlets on his arms, a new black cloak behind him, a sword "Terminator" at his waist, and a clean spirit of the horse being tended by the horse boy under his crotch.
"Dig a trench?" Dressed in bright full-body plate armor, Ive, riding on his horse, asked Arold curiously, the armor on his shoulder was sunken, which was caused by Zipa of the three boar brothers with a mace, which made Yves heartbroken, but Arold promised that when he returned to Mecklenburgshire, he would ask the armor master to help him repair it, which made Yve, who couldn't put down this armor, smile.
"Yes, dig two, one to besiege the castle entirely, and one to prevent reinforcements from the Bohemians behind our back." Arold pointed to the rough trend of the trench, and soon the soldiers began to dig the trench according to Arrod's order, and the soldiers began to dig the ground with their spears, fortunately, most of the light infantry of the three counts were born as farmers, and they dug the ground very handy, plus the ground was very soft after the rain, and the actions of the Masons certainly attracted the attention of the Bohemians in the castle, and they looked curiously at the Masons who seemed to be venting on the ground, It was strange that they were digging trenches instead of coming to the siege, but the Bohemians shuddered at the sight of the Masons digging into the dirt like crazy.
"Look at the ruthlessness of these Masons." The Duke of Bohemia stood in front of the window of the tower with a pale face, he watched the mighty Masons digging desperately on the ground in front of the castle, and couldn't help muttering to himself, as a military nobleman, of course he knew what the Masons were going to do, and this was exactly what the Duke was most afraid of, he knew very well that if the enemy desperately attacked the city, then with the strength of the city walls, there would be a chance to turn defeat into victory, but now Arold actually chose the dull siege that the nobles didn't like the most, and it was also the most correct siege, The Duke of Bohemia was in utter despair. (To be continued......)