The bloody cross seems to be telling the people of Fort Sù Shireisug that the Masons are coming for real this time, and if they are not able to spread the church and the cross to the Vikan Peninsula, then the corpses of the pagans will be hung on the cross, so that the fear and authority of the Holy Religion can be spread, and it is also to warn the Viking warriors in the Fort of Schleisug about the fate of rebellion, in order to make these Vikings open the city and surrender, Duke Abel also sent a priest who can speak the Vikan language, Standing beneath the castle, he asked the Viking warriors to surrender and convert to Catholicism. However, the Viking warriors were apparently not interested in this tiyì, and instead of accepting the duke's offer, they shot the priest with a bow and arrow, much to the chaplain's annoyance.

"Attack, these uncivilized barbarians." Duke Abel looked at the priest who had been shot as prey by the Viking warriors, and gritted his teeth and ordered the knights of the duke's personal guard beside him.

"Prepare to attack, prepare to attack." The Duke of Abel's troops are commanded and handed over to the knights and barons, and the duke, after giving the order to attack, does not interfere with how these nobles command the battle, what he does is just wait for the result, the knights and barons ride on horses, wearing armor and come majestically in front of their soldiers, just like other principalities, the army of the Duchy of Mason is also divided according to the layers of seals, when a war comes, the knights and barons directly under the Duke of Abel lead the soldiers on their own estates, Go to Mason Castle and form an army with the soldiers of the Duke of Ebel, so they will also lead their own soldiers when attacking. Led by a higher class of nobles.

"The team of archers shoots and suppresses." General Ralph, who was in charge of the attack, drew his sword and ordered the knights and barons directly under the duke to immediately line up from the knights and barons, and together formed a temporary brigade of archers, who straddled the left thigh with a quiver full of arrows, and held their bows in their right hands, the quality of these bows was uneven, after all, the archers had their own weapons, as long as they could fire arrows. The nobility did not have any explicit demands on this.

"Archers. Launch~~~. General Ralph lined up the archers in three columns, and the archers raised their bows and arrows forty-five degrees, and then, under the command of General Ralph himself, fired a column of arrows at Fort Schreisug, with a whooshing sound of breaking through the air. Arrows rose and threw themselves at Fort Schleisug.

"Stay out of the way." Arson saw the archers coming out of the Masons. Immediately warned his companions standing on the wall. The Viking warriors, who had no arrow towers to dodge from, immediately covered their heads with their round shields, and then crouched down and curled up, so that the area hit by the bow and arrow was minimized.

"Whoosh. Whizzing~~~. The arrows fell from mid-air with a sharp cracking sound, accompanied by the sound of striking wooden shields aggressively, and the Viking warriors holding round shields felt nothing more than the sound of being hit by hail hitting their shields.

"Do you want to fight back?" The Viking warriors asked Arson that in fact, the range of the Mason archers was very short, and only the throwing could maximize the power of the arrows, but the power was also weakened a lot, after shooting three arrow arrays, only three Viking warriors were injured, and the longbows of the Viking warriors were the ancestors of the longbows of England and Wales, and the range and power of the longbows of the Masons were of course much stronger than the shortbows of the Masons.

"No, wait a minute, pay attention to the wooden bridge." Arsen shook his head, he was waiting for the best moment, the Masons did not fill the moat was their biggest mistake, in order to attack Schleisug Fort they could only pass through the narrow wooden bridge of Guò, and this will be the focus of the defenders of Schleisug Fort to counterattack, it is clear that Yarson is not only a brave Viking warrior, but also a clever mind.

"Oops, Lord Duke is too anxious." At this time, it was not only Arson who saw this, Arold also saw this at the same time on his horse, the moat is always the best first and most important defense of the castle, if you can't break through the moat, then there is no way to send siege weapons under the city walls, in the experience of repeatedly defending and attacking the castle, Arold deeply understands this.

"Do you want to remind the Duke?" Ser Ron followed closely behind Arrod with Arrod's black lion heraldic banner in his hand, and by this time the Duke of Able had moved to a higher mound of earth, and it was evident that the Duke wanted to revert to the nobles' impression that he was not good at war.

"Quietly let the van prepare, if the Duke is frustrated, we will not be too late to help." Arold felt that if he offered help at this time, it would definitely make Duke Abel lose face, thinking that Arold was finding fault, which would definitely cause Duke Abel to be unhappy, but this Duke was really inexperienced in war compared to the old duke, and when the attack of the archery team could not be effective, the Duke of Ebel, who could not bear it, issued an order for a general attack, only to see the square pennant of the Herman family wrapped around the blue ribbon, waving several times above the mound.

"Tsk, ladder men, infantry ready." General Ralph frowned when he saw the Duke's signal, but he could not disobey the Duke's order, so he asked the soldiers and infantry with wooden escalators to prepare for the attack.

"Woo~~~." A low trumpet sounded in Mason's army, telling the other vassals to prepare to attack, Duke Abel was going to take the city in one go, and the vassals and nobles also began to prepare escalators and infantry after receiving orders, and some knights also dismounted from their horses, sword in one hand and pointed shield in the other, ready to enter the battle.

"Kill~~~." With a roar, the Masons rushed to the wooden bridge over the river, trying to cross the other side of the river through the wooden bridge of Guò and reach the city walls of Schleisug Castle.

"Very good, archers shoot ~~~." With an excited smile on his face, he looked at the Masons who were rushing to the wooden bridge from the shooting holes of the arrow towers, and immediately gave the Viking longbowmen the order to shoot, and immediately shot countless arrows from the arrow towers and walls of Shileisug Fort to the wooden bridge, so many arrows fell on the heads of the Masons like rain, and the crisp sound of arrows colliding with arrows in mid-air could be heard.

"Ah~~~." Because of the lack of order in the organization, the Masons were crowded on the narrow wooden bridge, unable to advance or retreat, and the Vikings' longbows were like a mortal grim reaper reaping the lives of the Masons soldiers, the moat outside Fort Schleisug resounded with a fluttering sound, and the Masons who were shot or squeezed down by their companions fell into the water like dumplings, ordinary soldiers were a little better, but the bad thing was that if the knight in chain mail fell, he would sink due to the weight of the armor on his body, and if he was not rescued, he would be drowned alive, Screams hovered overhead.

"Oh God, oh God, what did I do?" Duke Abel was stunned to see the catastrophe caused by his wrong order, and he looked left and right in panic trying to find a savior, but at this time, the people around him didn't know what to do.

"Lord Duke, please don't panic, I will lead you to victory." At this moment, Arold's voice was like a heavenly sound from heaven, and I saw Arrod, Count of Mecklenburg, riding on a war horse, wearing a semi-enclosed round helmet on his head, the chain mail on his body was finely woven, and his two arms were wearing lobster-like gauntlets, and several side vans behind him were pushed up by the soldiers of the German mercenary regiment, although I don't know what Arold wanted to do? But the habitual Duke Abel actually breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lord Earl, what are we doing with the van?" John Berg asked Arold incomprehensibly.

"Immediately push the vans into the river, build a path, and order the archers not to stop firing, but to suppress the longbowmen at Fort Shireisug." From the war horse on which he mounted, Arold methodically gave orders to the German mercenary group.

The mercenaries of the German mercenary group pushed the side van to the river together, because the longbowmen of Schleisug Fort were all on the wooden bridge, so they did not notice the German mercenary group and the side box car that appeared by the river, but as the commander of the defense, Arson immediately noticed the movement of the German mercenary group the moment he raised his head, and he walked to the east side of the arrow tower and poked his head out.

"What do these southerners want to do?" Arsen watched the soldiers of the German mercenary regiment push the wagons down the banks of the river, and muttered to himself in confusion.

"One, two, push it down." Arold dismounted from his horse, it was actually a dangerous time to ride a horse on the battlefield, unless it was time to charge, otherwise when you stood still, the archers on the tower had a much larger goal than the infantry.

"Boom~~~." After the sound, several vans were pushed into the river, and the vans collided with each other with the flow of the river, and immediately blocked the river, and the interconnected vans filled the river, and Arold immediately ordered the handymen to throw the wood tied up onto the vans to make a temporary pontoon.

"Longbow, shoot there, can't let them cross the river." Looking at the bridge that had been erected again, Jarson immediately ordered the longbowmen to defend to the east and shoot at the German mercenary soldiers.

"The crossbowmen return fire~~~." The German mercenary group's crossbowmen also began to shoot at the castle of Schleisug, and the arrows and crossbows of both sides intertwined, sometimes colliding with each other with a crisp sound. (To be continued......)