Section 84 Horse Urine and Dead Bodies
Since the first day of repelling the attack of the Rostock, after a few days of strong attack by the leaders of Rostock, but because they did not think of how to effectively resist Arold's defensive weapons, the attacking Slavs still fled in a hurry after throwing down dozens of corpses, and the two sides gradually entered a stalemate stage, and the castle actually returned to its former calm, but it was like the calm before the storm, and both the attackers and defenders racked their brains to think about how to defeat the enemy.
"Chieftain, we must change this method of assault, the enemy's strange things will kill our warriors." A Rostock chieftain sat around a campfire, slicing a slice of beef with the knife he had brought with him, putting it in his mouth and chewing as he spoke.
"But the damned Germans have burned down all the villages along the way, and we can't find a grain of food, and we need to go far away to get the water we drink, and if we don't conquer the castle quickly, those who don't need the Germans to fight us will be scattered." The other leader angrily stuck his dagger in the grass, and he wiped his beautiful red beard with his hand to express his worries, and the other leaders nodded their heads at his words.
"So we're going to have to think about what to do with those abominable weapons of fortification." Chief Rostock rested his chin on the top of the stick, he sat on a piece of dead wood, draped in a woolen blanket, Mecklenburg County near Northern Europe was very cold at night, even close to the campfire did not help, but it was much better to wrap a woolen blanket, after all, Chief Rostock was very old.
"Stuff with smoke. We can use horse urine. Xavier spoke to the crowd that he was wearing a leather armor in the shape of a short vest, revealing his strong shoulders and bulging biceps, as if to show off his strength to the others.
"Horse urine?" Chief Rostock looked curiously at his first warrior and asked him.
"Yes, the barn in my father's village was on fire when it was filled with hay and smoke could be seen for miles, and to extinguish the fire, one of our captive Magyars slaves had taught us to soak in linen in horse urine. Then cover your mouth and nose. This allows us to continue to put out the fire in the smoke, and I believe that this trick will also be used against the tricks of the Germans. Xavier took a piece of shriveled fruit from the other leaders and chewed it in his mouth, but soon he had to spit it out. Shriveled fruits are astringent and have little meat. Their food supply is already under pressure. No fresh food could be found at all.
"Good idea, we can surprise the Germanic people by their smoke as it does us harm." Chief Rostock's eyes lit up. He felt that he had found the key to attacking the castle, and perhaps a breakthrough was there.
In the night there are many stories, in the bard's mouth that the noblewoman is secretly dropping her handkerchief on the terrace, and the knight is waiting for Fangze, and the princes and dukes, who seem to be honorable, are enjoying a sumptuous dinner, but their minds are thinking about how to get rid of their smiling neighbors in order to expand their territory, while the peasants at the bottom have not so much thought, and they are usually falling asleep after a hard day's work.
But Arold and his warriors began to fight for survival at this time, and in the middle of the night it was pitch black, and the guards of the castle carefully shone their torches under the castle, and they seemed to be checking something, and at the same time looked in the direction of the Slavs' camp, everything was as usual, and at this time they turned around and walked into the city walls, and at the same time it was dark under the castle.
"Squeak~~." The iron gate of the castle opened gently, and several black shadows carefully touched out of the castle, they had to make sure that there would be no enemy hiding at the castle gate, at the castle gate a long army of spear slaves was on standby, if there was any accident they would seal the gate with their spears, so that when the accident happened, it would delay enough time to put down the iron gate, and after a while, the black shadow dragged a few dead Slavic corpses under the city into the castle, and the iron gate was put down again, as if nothing had happened.
For several days, both the Rostock and the Germans in the castle of Mecklenburg remained calm during the day, but secretly both seemed to be planning and trying to carry it out, both convinced that they could catch their opponents by surprise, but before they performed their tricks, they both tried to restrain their impulsive emotions, even if they were eager to plunge their swords into their opponents' stomachs at once, stirring his intestines and internal organs, so that their opponents' wails could be heard. to be able to satisfy and calm the anger of several days.
"Woo, woo~~~~." The morning sun once again dispelled the fog with its own brilliance, and the Slavs' trumpets sounded again after a few days, this time the trumpets seemed to be different from the past, and they were full of confidence in victory, and the hordes of Slavs raised their shields, clenched their spears and swords in their hands, and they embarked on the familiar path of death, but this time their leader assured them that this time they would not be sacrificed in vain, and the brave and clever chieftain of Rostock had found a way to defeat the Germans, All they had to do was do what the leaders commanded.
As in the previous attacks, everything went according to plan, the Slavs attacked the hills, the stones thrown by the whirlwind cannons and the arrows on the arrow towers rained down on their heads, the people who were hit fell like wheat cut in autumn, the old and new corpses under the castle were stacked on top of each other, and the ladders were erected on the walls again, the rotating iron rods and wolf tooth beats were still sharp, and the heads of the attacking Slavs were bleeding, However, this time the deployment of the Slavs' forces quietly changed, but the Germanic people on the city walls were so ignorant that even Arold did not predict the Slavs' plans.
"Up, climb up." When the ladder was finally put on the city wall in the Rostock chieftain's careful concealment of his intentions, the elite shield warriors of the Rostock chieftain took off their leather armor and put on the clothes of ordinary low-level soldiers, which made them look like ordinary cannon fodder as unobtrusive, deception is always the main theme in war, and only successful deception of the opponent is a good military strategist.
When the Great Shield warriors climbed the ladder, the burning smoke attack came as scheduled, and the Germans defending the city wall thought that under the attack of poisonous smoke, the Slavs would fall down the ladder like the previous time, but the smoke obscured their vision, and even the archers and crossbowmen on the arrow tower turned their attention in other directions because they could not aim, which suddenly reduced the pressure in this direction, which became the biggest and most fatal mistake of the soldiers defending the city.
"I think something is wrong." The Germanic peasant soldier, who held the top of the wooden pole of the smoke machine, said to his companion on the other side.
"What's wrong, don't you know how to flinch when you look at those Slavs? How could such a strong castle fall, they are asking for their own hardship. The Germanic peasant shrugged his shoulders, unlike the manipulators of the crankshaft and the wolf's tooth racket, who only had to hold on to the wooden pole and set it on fire, so that they had time to look around and watch the Slavs who had been smashed in the head and fallen from the wolf's tooth beat.
"I didn't hear the sound of falling to the ground, I could hear it the last few times." The peasant soldier frowned and whispered to his companion.
"That's because the corpse on the ground hasn't been cleaned up yet, and it's also fallen on it, look, ah~~~~Oh." The peasant soldier who had explained to his companion poked his head out, as if to confirm his thoughts, but suddenly a sharp sword tip stretched out from the smoke, and the tip of the sword pierced through his jaw effortlessly, tearing his throat with a single swing, and the peasant soldier fell from the wall in a terrible howl, and the smoke machine in his hand also fell, and the peasants who defended the smoke cleared were surprised to see the Slavs covered with flax holding the battlements with one hand, jumping over the battlements into the wall, the lack of armor also means that the body is more flexible, As soon as he jumped into the city wall, the elite shield warriors brandished their swords, and the unsuspecting peasant soldiers had their limbs cut off and their stomachs were cut, but fortunately, Arold's armor protection system played a little role, and those who had received some basic training in the armor immediately threw away the smoke device in their hands and picked up their spears, and several people huddled together on the narrow city wall to aim at the attacking Slavs, but this was only a slight delay, if the Slavs continued to jump in from this wall, it would definitely make the peasants flee in all directions, And the walls of this place are so close to the city gates.
Just as the Slavs were desperately trying to climb up the ladder here, they seemed to have seen the goddess of victory open her thighs, and the promise of the chief of Rostock kept echoing in their minds, but they did not notice that the corpses of their former companions moved slightly, but only raised their heads and shouted, and suddenly the corpses stood up, and this sudden change surprised the people who were holding on to the ladder and preparing to climb up the mountain, and they looked at the bloodied corpses in amazement.
"Ah~~~." Just when the Slavs were stunned, the corpses suddenly pulled out their swords and slashed at the Slavs on the ladder, and immediately screamed among the Slavs, and even some timid people hugged their heads and scurried, completely ignoring the orders of the leaders. (To be continued......)