Arold's plan is to use his strong castle to ensure his own strategic security, and then gradually expand his power, and if he is lucky, in the case of civil strife among the Slavs, he will take the opportunity to attack the gathering place of the Slavs. Although it is a stupid way to do it step by step, but with the manpower and material resources in the hands of Arold, there is no way to do it, but the Slavs did not have the idea of shutting down the outside, when Arold had just established himself, the mayor of the town of Visma in Mecklenburg County, Jakesh, invited the hero Kang Tuoyi, gathered five or six hundred noble private troops, and marched towards Arold's angry lion castle.

There is only a short distance between the town of Vismar and the Angry Lion Castle, and the morning departure can be reached close to noon, and the flags of the Slavic nobles flutter outside the Angry Lion Castle, and the flags are mostly simple and monotonous red and white colors, or very old looking like graffiti on the rock wall, which represents the ancient lineage of these nobles, some of which can be traced back to the ancient Roman era, and the ancient lineage makes the Slavic nobles full of pride. In their view, these pagans who profess to believe in God are arrogant and rude.

"This is the infidel castle?" Behind the leader of Upton is thirty men dressed in leather armor, armed with swords and wooden shields, and wearing helmets made of boar teeth, with black animal mane decoration on the top of the helmet, this is the elite heavy warrior of the leader of Upton, who is usually his loyal escort.

"Yes, look at the moat, it is not wide, but it is enough to stop the attack of our goal-breaking team." Kang Tuoyi pointed to a moat like a jade belt on the periphery of the Angry Lion Castle and said to the leader of Upton.

"Then get rid of the river. I see what use their moats are of any use to order the light infantry to build earthen dams upstream, and to cut off the river. "The leader of Upton is worthy of being a veteran of the war, and he quickly saw the key point of solving the moat, cutting off the river upstream, making the moat a source of water, and it is much easier to break it at this time.

"Good idea." Kang Tuoyi agreed, and soon ordered the hundred light infantry in his team to move upstream, while the people in the Angry Lion Castle looked at the Slavs hiding in the forest, neither attacking nor provocative. It seems to want to besiege the people in the Angry Lion Castle. But they weren't afraid of that, for what? Arold had left a lot of live poultry and cultivated land in the Lion Castle, as well as enough food and supplies to last for a year, and the starving siege did not work for them at all. The Lion Castle is a castle facing the river. Therefore, the people in the castle are not afraid of going without water to drink. As long as the defenders of the city cannot be defeated in hunger and thirst, then it is basically impossible for a castle to be breached by itself.

"Lord Count, do these Slavs seem intent on besieging us?" Julian accompanied Arold in the Arrow Tower. Arold looked at the flags looming in the forest, and the figures of the Slavic soldiers that appeared from time to time, and his mood was relaxed, and he always came back. However, he thinks that the Slavs will not use the method of long sieges, because Jeff's intelligence is very clear that a succession war is brewing within the Great Emirate of Mecklenburg, so although Kang Tuoyi is unwilling to get involved, but the power struggle is not willing to fight, so a protracted siege is definitely not what Kang Tuoyi wants.

"Let our men be on guard, the Slavs may have to play some tricks." Arod inspected the city walls and saw that all preparations were sufficient, and the soldiers respectfully took off their hats and saluted when they saw him, and when the eclipse was approaching, Arold was calm and calm, so that the soldiers had great confidence in their lord.

"Wow~~~~." At this moment, twenty or thirty Slavic warriors, dressed in thick linen tunics and trousers, wearing a cloak and felt hats or nothing on their heads, with bows and javelins in their hands, shouted and threw their bows and javelins at the guards of the walls as they approached the moat of the Angry Lion.

"Whoosh!!" Not to be outdone, the archers took advantage of the provocative Slavs, and their arrows and javelins weaved between the walls and the ground, but the walls of the Angry Lion Castle were tall, and the towers on top added a bit of height, and the condescending fire took advantage of the defenders, and soon the Slavs left several corpses behind and retreated into the forest.

"Lord Earl, the enemy is testing the strength and weakness of our defenses." Dressed in Don leather armor, he and his men had climbed the city walls ready to fight back against the Slavs, but he could see that the archers and javelinmen were only tentatively attacking, and the Slavic generals were very cunning.

"It doesn't matter, they can't imagine what's waiting for them in the future." Arrod said to John Berg nonchalantly, and the corners of Johnberg's mouth also smiled, and his eyes looked beyond the city wall to the four whirlwind cannons placed in the open space inside the castle, these whirlwind cannons were as majestic as proud guards.

"Kang Tuoyi, the enemy has three arrow towers on the city wall, but the arrow towers are blocked by wooden planks, and there are small shooting holes on them, so it is difficult for our people to use bows and arrows or javelins against the people inside from below." One of the leaders in charge of the tentative assault reported to Kang Tuoyi and the leaders of Upton.

"And what about their walls, how thick are they, and can they be pierced?" The leader of Upton then asked.

"No, it looks like wood, but a javelin can't pierce it."

"So how about putting a tarpaulin on the arrows and burning those walls with rockets?" The leader of Upton touched his chin and suggested to Kang Tuoyi.

"It doesn't work, I've seen it from the inside, their walls are rammed dirt inside, and the planks are smeared with mud and sand. Besides, there is a river outside the castle, and they can quickly extinguish the rockets, and they can't destroy the city walls at all. Kang Tuoyi shook his head, thinking that the advice of the leader of Upton was not advisable, and the only way now was to cut off the water source of the moat, and he could not let the people in the castle find out about his actions, so he needed to constantly feign attacks to divert the attention of the people in the castle.

After the Slavs tested the castle's defenses with ranged soldiers, they began to order a small number of light infantry with spears and shields to approach the castle, but once they were fired at by the archers on the castle and quickly retreated, they were like endless flies harassing endlessly, this kind of battle was very boring, John Berg was afraid that the enemy was trying to consume the arrows in the castle, so he ordered the archers to reduce the number of shots, and they were not allowed to shoot arrows continuously until they had to.

"Something is wrong." Arold was keenly aware of the abnormal rhythm of the Slavs' attack, and usually in order to avoid demoralization, they either attacked with all their might, or held their troops still, but this kind of constantly repulsed attack only weakened the morale of the soldiers, and they were not worried about this at all? Arrod was puzzled, and time passed little by little, and the attack and defense under the castle went on mechanically and monotonously, and the sun gradually sank, and night fell on the earth, and the two sides stopped fighting.

The people who did not participate in the battle in the castle still maintained the normal order of life, although they were deeply worried about the fierce Slavic pagans outside the castle, but looking at the tall and thick city walls and the strong Swiss mercenaries on the walls, people were relieved, except for the monks who prayed under the cross from time to time, their production and life were not greatly affected.

But in the early morning of the next day, people suddenly found that the water level of the river around the Angry Lion Castle had dropped a lot, and in some places even the higher riverbed could be seen, and Arold, who was woken up by Julian, did not have time to put on chain mail, and walked up to the city wall to look at the moat that had lost its protective effect, and secretly complained in his heart that he was actually placed by these Slavs, which explained why they kept harassing themselves, so that their attention would not be focused on the falling water level, At this time, the water level of the moat can be waded on foot.

"Woo~~~~~." From the forest came the sound of the Slavs' horns, and three hundred Slavic light infantry armed with spears and shields came out of the forest under the leadership of their respective leaders, and it seemed that this time the Slavs were ready to come to the real thing, and some of these light infantry carried heavy stakes, which were the goalkeepers who attacked the castle defenses, and most of the members of the doormen's teams were strong men.

In addition to this, after every fifty light infantry, there was a Slavic leader who wore tough leather armor, an iron helmet on his head, a green cloak, and a sharp iron sword at his waist, who was both the officer who led the soldiers and the overseer who supervised the prevention of the soldiers' escape.

"In the name of the gods, give you strength~~~." In addition to the leaders who raised their swords among the Slavic soldiers and made pre-battle mobilization speeches, there were also the Lomwa priests wielding golden scythes who agitated the people with religion.

However, their actions also angered the monks in the Lion Castle, who believed that these heretics who believed in false gods dared to speak out in the name of God, and the monks immediately raised the small cross in their hands, spitting and cursing at the priests of Lomwa, and assuring the warriors of the Lion Castle that their souls would ascend to heaven against the infidels.

"Attack~~~." Kang Tuoyi, who was a little impatient with the performances of these religious fanatics, frowned and nodded to the leader of Upton, and with the sound of a low trumpet, the Slavic soldiers, led by the leaders, rushed towards the Angry Lion Castle, and in an instant the open space outside the castle seemed to be full of Slavs with shields and spears.

"Julian, them with a whirlwind cannon." Arold's face was calm, and he tried to suppress the anger in his heart, and turned his head to Julian in the open space of the castle and ordered that he would let these Slavs who dared to play tricks on him taste the power of the traverser. (To be continued......)