Chapter 20: The Siege

"Teucer, don't be nervous, take a deep breath, fight and listen to my commands"

"Uncle John, are you really His Royal Highness's butler?" Traucer was one of the countless outcasts who flocked to Aldolph, but now stood atop the city walls dressed in Imperial uniforms and armed with gunpowder rifles. Teucer faced a rebel army of tens of thousands and dozens of artillery pieces beneath the city, and the tense atmosphere on the walls and the chill of the night made the young man shiver. The musketeers were almost all peasants, some of them were as frightened as Toucer, some were so excited, and they were all standing here under the command of the silver-haired Uncle John, regardless of their state of mind.

"Of course, I know you want to ask why I'm standing here like you, right? Teucer "Old John is old, and he has been an idiot prince for so many years, he has no momentum, in Toucer's eyes, he is a kind old man, if he hadn't seen Old John and the marshal talk together from afar when he was training in the barracks, Tork didn't believe that a steward of the palace stood with them in the middle of the night, after all, they were just a group of peasants who had never seen the world.

"Yes, Uncle John, I think you should be a nobleman, why are you still on the front line?" As long as the peasants are responsible for farming, as for the aristocratic class, the biggest official Teucer has ever seen is only the village chief, fortunately the village chief is not bad to them, and Teucer has no hatred for the nobility or anything, of course, this is at the foot of the imperial city after all, as for other places, it is difficult to say.

"Haha, Teucer, where has the brain of farming usually gone, he is just a housekeeper, even if he is the butler of the emperor's boy, he is just a housekeeper, and he is far from the nobles" It was Bini who interjected, and he was in the same village as Teucer, compared to Teucer's cautious subtlety, Bini is the kind of person who is very arrogant and has no scruples.

John only smiled, and ignored Bini's rudeness, if he really cared about it, Binny would definitely die if he dared to say such things in front of him, but John was old and not so murderous.

"Teucer, you know, I've seen the prosperity of empires, and I know what peace means, so I'm standing here."

"What is the meaning of peace?" Teucer whispered, "I don't understand"

"Don't listen to the old man talking to you there, he's old and likes to go to class, just listen to it, hey, by the way, old man, when will this rebel army attack the city, wake us up this night, and trap people"

"Binny, don't talk like that to Uncle John, let other adults hear it, and they will whip you hard"

"Hehe, it's okay" Old John smiled, not angry at all, "Little Bini, I think you are quite suitable to be a soldier, or how about coming to our prince's palace to be a personal guard for His Highness?" ”

"Me? As a guard? Old man, you are really confused, at my level, it is barely enough to be an ordinary soldier, and you must not be ridiculed to death if you go to your personal guard mansion, if you don't go, you can't go."

"Bini, the old man likes you very much, it's better to go to the prince's mansion than to farm, if you stay in the city, you will definitely be able to marry a beautiful girl, and give birth to a few big fat boys for us to play with when the time comes" Tork was obviously a little envious of Old John's invitation to Bini, but he was not jealous at all, and his simple feelings would only make Teucer bless Bini

", I'm not going, there are many rules, and it's dangerous, but I heard that none of the Prince of Glenberg's guards are left"

"Bini, shut your mouth, don't talk nonsense there......"

Old John watched them bickering, and didn't say anything, but just looked at the place where the sun rose in the distance, not knowing who he was missing.

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"Everybody check the equipment, the guns are oiled, the trebuchets are checked one last time, and if any of the trebuchets don't work, I'll put your heads on the trebuchets!" Hurry up, hurry up! The rough and eager voice, accompanied by the glimmer of the morning light, surrounded the entire rebel formation.

"Siege Towers Forward!" After hearing the order, the people at the bottom of the siege tower began to rotate the machinery in a circle, and the siege tower with a high wall made a "creaking" sound and slowly moved forward, and then stopped after pushing to the designated position.

Ten siege towers stood there like titans, and there were dozens of them behind the military formation. Hans rode his horse and slowly swayed to the front.

"Guys, what do you want? Money? Woman? Or do you want to be an official?! Hans's voice echoed in the ears of every soldier, and to be able to be supported to be the commander of the rebels, if nothing else, at least this person was properly armed with force.

"You've been ruled by House Roald for hundreds of years, don't you want to sit in that position? Don't want to feel what it's like to be an emperor? Do you just want to farm for the rest of your life and then die in the field?! There is never a free lunch in this world, if you want something, grab it! Just grab it!! With your hands, with your swords, with your lives! Break the city in one day, slaughter the city for ten days! Break the city in two days, slaughter the city in five days! Break the city in three days, and slaughter the city in three days!! The future will be glorious and rich, or will it be a field of old death! It's all up to your efforts!! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! "Slaughtering the city is the best reward for these robbers, and it is better to be the emperor, but burning, killing and looting, everything does not need to be handed over, this is the most real. At this moment, the soldiers' eyes are red, and this naturally includes the soldiers of Middenheim, the empire does not allow such a thing to happen to slaughter the city, and now they can finally experience this soon-to-be-legendary slaughter city, which also makes them excited.

"Ready!!" As soon as the order was given, the crossbowmen, artillery, and trebuchets all began to reload their ammunition.

"Shoot !!"

The crossbow arrows of hundreds of people are a little sparse for the wide city wall, but the mortar cannon and the trebuchet are different, the cannonballs of the mortar are along the parabola, with a continuous abnormal sound over the city wall, and smashed into the crowd defending the city, although the accuracy is not high, but as long as it hits, there will inevitably be a big pit in the crowd, scattered everywhere The severed arms and stumps of the soldiers in the center are scattered, which is also a great impact on the mental impact of the soldiers, where have the recruits around seen such a bloody scene, they have knelt on the ground and vomited, but they have not stopped, The boulder thrown by the trebuchet also came, with the sound of the whirring wind, and smashed into the city wall, trembling violently, so that the soldiers who had originally vomited soft legs fell to the ground at once, and the soldiers who were low in their hearts began to roll and climb down the city wall, but before they could take two steps, they were directly taken into the huge pit under the city by a boulder with an accurate angle against the city wall. War is always brutal, and even more so in cold-weapon warfare, where soldiers who ignore orders are often the first to die.

"Bow your head to me," Old John squatted on the edge of the city wall and shouted at the new recruits, "clinging to the wall, and not to rise without orders!!" ”

"About, about, Uncle John, why don't we fight back" Teucer leaned nervously behind old John, his hands trembling and even trembling as he spoke, and although Bini next to him was also a little trembling, his eyes were more excited.

"The siege is a melee game in the end, what's the use of shooting those crossbowmen, and then it will be the time for us to show our might, although our range is long, but the bullets on such a high wall are going to float, keep the bullets and put them in the fight, and now you all only remember one sentence for me, that is, listen to my command!! Got it!? Old John has put away the kind old man's face at this moment, and the breath of war has brought this former Sun Knight back to life!

"Hmm!" Teucer's hands clenched tightly on the rifle in his hand, and his face turned pale.