Section 69 Final Decision

Taking advantage of the darkest hour before dawn, Baron Wendell led his family and soldiers, and under the advice of Arrod, did not light torches, and more than 500 people groped their way to the city wall of Göttingenburg, of course, this medieval army could not be as disciplined as the army of later generations, and there would be bumps and talking between the soldiers, but it was strange that the people on the city wall did not notice it at all.

A faint light appeared in the sky from the east, and at first it looked only the size of a fingernail, but in the blink of an eye, it gradually expanded to the entire sky, and the darkest hour passed, but for the people in Göttingenburg, the darkness had just begun, and the handymen of the escalator ladder under the Duke of Mason had put the ladder on the wall early, only to hear Baron Wendell shout, pointing his sword at the city wall, and the light infantry of the Duchy of Mason rushed to the ladder like a tide, and it was only at this time that the drowsy defenders in Göttingenburg found out, The enemy was so close to them that they hurriedly took up their weapons and prepared to defend the castle, but after a day and a night of fatigue, they were at their weakest moment, both mentally and physically, and the arm holding the weapon involuntarily trembled slightly.

"Whirlwind cannon, fire." At this time, Arold's ten whirlwind cannons also began to speak, and stone cannonballs smashed towards the most concentrated place of the defenders on the city wall, and adjusted the direction from time to time, where the resistance was fierce, it would be attacked by the whirlwind cannons.

And the day before, Arold let Baron Wendell and the elite troops in the family recuperate, but he tossed Count Ulrissi with a whirlwind cannon, and the attack power of his own side was of course extremely strong, this time it was almost effortless, and the light infantry of Duke Mason quickly occupied all the key points of the city wall, and suppressed the defenders of Göttingenburg at the entrance of the stone steps on the city wall, although the defenders of Göttingenburg wanted to reinforce the city wall, but the strength of the comparison has changed greatly, So Count Ulrich had to shrink his forces in an attempt to stop the attack of Mason's soldiers at the junction from the city walls to the castle streets.

"Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong." In the narrow passage, the soldiers on both sides were crowded together, and the soldiers in the front row could not even wave their weapons, and the people in the rear had to use their long-handled weapons to reach forward as far as they could from above, and the weapons of both sides collided overhead with a metallic sound.

The defenders of Göttingenburg resisted hard, but the general trend was gone, Count Ullisi led his troops into the castle streets, and fought street battles with Wendell's people, the soldiers on both sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat under the eaves of the streets, the sound of weapons clashing everywhere, on the stone steps leading to the castle tower stood five archers, these five archers were the most elite archers under the Count of Ullisi, they shot arrows with bows, and the arrows flew into the Wendell family soldiers like locusts, and there were no arrows, The arrow plunged into the body of the Wendell family's armed servant, wounding three and killing two.

"Damn archers." Looking at the archers who were shooting arrows at him from the steps, Yves picked up a shield from the ground and cursed under it.

"Jodo, lend me your crossbow." Arold also felt that these elite archers of Count Ullisi were a threat, but there was still a distance of thirty meters from the gate of the tower, and there were still many people from Count Ulrisi guarding in between, and if he wanted to get rid of those piercing elite archers, he could only use long-range weapons, and Arold knew very well that ordinary bows and arrows could not be proficient without long-term training, and at this time he saw Chodo hiding behind the crowd in fear.

"Good lord." The gray-haired Joe glanced at Arrod more, and without saying much, he handed Arrod the crossbow and bolt in his hand, and crouched himself behind the corner of the street tavern.

"Squeak~~." Arold put the leather pedal of the crossbow under his feet and stepped on it, pulled the bowstring apart, the tight bowstring creaked, a crossbow shorter than an arrow was loaded into the groove, Arold raised the crossbow and aimed it at the elite archer of one of the Earls of Ullisi, yes, Arold did not aim directly at the archer, because he knew very well in the simulated cold weapon shooting game he often played in his previous life that the arrow would fall down due to gravity during its flight.

"Whoosh~~~." Arold licked his lips, raised the crossbow and squinted one eye to aim, from the tail of the crossbow to the top of the groove, and used three points and one line as far as possible to the target, and then pulled the bracket, the bowstring popped out and shot the crossbow arrow, the crossbow flew over the head of the crowd, and landed on the archer's head in an arc, the archer let out a wail and covered his cheek, he lay down on the ground and rolled, the sharp crossbow shot through his cheek bone, and he lost the ability to attack under severe injuries.

"Kill those bastards." Yves saw Arold kill an elite archer, he roared excitedly, he held a shield in one hand, and a sword in the other to force his strong body through the defense of Sir Ulrisibe's soldiers, he rushed to the archers and brandished his sword, the sword cut off the arm of an archer, these archers were worthy of the most elite soldiers of the Earl of Ulrisi, they were not frightened by the casualties of their companions, an archer drew a short-handled axe from his waist and faced Eve, The other two pulled out their arrows and put them on their bows to aim at Ive.

"Do~~~." Yves hurriedly raised his shield in front of him, and two arrows were inserted into his shield, at this time the speed of the archer was reflected, a skilled archer could successfully shoot an arrow in three seconds, which had to deal with both the archer with a short axe in his hand and the enemy's cold arrows, which made an experienced knight like Yves scramble.

"Whoosh~~~." Of course, Arold would not let Yves deal with the archers alone, but the crossbow is powerful, but to reload it requires stepping on the string, then releasing the arrow, lifting the crossbow and aiming at a series of programs, at least five or six seconds slower than an archer.

However, Yves, an experienced knight, used his shield and sword to wrestle with several other archers, which bought Arold a lot of time, and soon Arold shot another archer with a crossbow, and when Yves was distracted by the axe-wielding archer, a sword stabbed him in the chest, and the leather armor on the archer's body could not resist Yve's sword at all, and was pierced through the chest.

"Rush~~~." At this time, the knights of Stan led the other knights of the inner palace to kill the soldiers placed here by the Earl of Ullisi, and the knights on foot in strong armor were unstoppable, and quickly cleared the scattered enemies in the streets, and the civilians in the castle closed their doors tightly, trembling in the house, wondering what the fate of themselves and their families was, while the remnants of the soldiers of the Count of Ullisi retreated into the tower, and the heavy wooden door of the tower was closed.

"Reinforced with a deadbolt, they must not be allowed to break in." The soldiers of the Count of Ullisi used thick deadbolts across the gate, and the soldiers pressed their bodies against the door, and the tower was a miserable scene of imminent defeat, women and children hid in the prayer room begging for God's help, civil officials ran around collecting parchment documents and other things, and some documents containing secrets were thrown into the fireplace and burned.

"How so, how so?" Count Ulrichy sat tired and numb on the wooden chair in the lord's hall, he seemed to have aged a lot, the sword in his hand lay on the ground, his eyes looked at the hay floor in front of him, everything happened so fast, he didn't even have any mental preparation, as if he was in a dream, he was defeated like this, and was besieged in this impenetrable tower.

"Boom~~~Boom~~~." There was a roar at the tower's gates, and dust fell like snow from the gates, and the soldiers tried their bodies against the gates, but each impact bounced them away.

"Lord Earl, they're attacking the gate with ramming wood, please be prepared." The adjutant looked at the gate with a sad face, the tower of this castle had no secret passage to the outside of the city, because Göttingenburg was a strong fortress built of stone, so the builders did not expect to be attacked by people to the tower of the inner city, and the defenders who were forced into the tower had no choice but to surrender to the death.

"How many of us are left?" Count Ullisi suddenly raised his head and asked the adjutant.

"Three archers, including me, three knights and fifteen infantrymen." The adjutant said with some shame, if he hadn't led the knights out of the city to fight, and more than a dozen knights would have been lost, otherwise he would still be able to support for a while under the defense of more than a dozen knights.

"That's enough, we've done our best." The Count of Ulrissi lowered his noble head, he bent down and put his elbows on his knees, the Duke of Saxony's reinforcements must not be able to wait, and he had indeed done his best, who knew that the cunning Masons actually had catapults that the Byzantines did not have, and the walls and knights of Göttingenburg could not withstand this kind of attack, and he was guilty of war, thinking of this, the count, who was not rigid-minded, gave an order.

"Bang, knock open this damn door~~~." Arold shouted to the ten soldiers holding a stake he had found from the street, his helmet removed and tossed aside, his forehead bruised from the Count of Ulrisi's archers, but he refused to go away to bandage his wound because of the joy of his immediate victory.

"Look, sir." At this moment one of the soldiers pointed upwards, and Arold looked up and saw that a window was open from the top of the tower, and he thought that the enemy was going to shoot arrows or stones from it, and hurriedly took a few steps back, and picked up the shield of one of the Sir Ulrichibeth soldiers on the ground, but, to Arold's surprise, a wooden pole stretched out from it, and on top of the pole was a white thin linen scarf, which looked like that used by a woman.