Act XLII. Battle of Keynzburg II
Viscount Wellington was walking on the city walls, he saw Wendland's cannon fire fiercely, and then hit the magic barrier and exploded, he felt for the first time that the magic barrier was really one of the greatest inventions in human history, and he was even more glad that even in the heart of the Aster, the castle defense facilities were renovated and the magic barrier was activated. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
He is still very weak, his strength has not yet recovered, but at least he can walk normally, he commands the arch spirit envoys on the city wall, Wendlan's soldiers have not yet entered the range of the bow spirit envoys, so these heavy fire support units are still on standby, but looking at the current state, at most, at midnight, these bow spirit envoys will start to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
According to the herald's report, Princess Elyfils has managed to rescue Viscount Wimbble and Viscount Hartmann, both of whom are in poor shape, but should be able to join the battle after resting.
Needless to say, the Third Legion was the first to take control of the original garrison of Keyinzburg, which really surprised Viscount Wellington.
It seems that Prince Leotis does not have a high prestige in the army, perhaps because His Royal Highness the lazy prince has handed over the army to Geralheid for many years, and these armies lost control after losing Geralhide's management, and were soon absorbed by Erifels, after all, she is also the princess of the kingdom, and their original master is at the same level, and now with the whereabouts of Prince Leotis unknown, it is quite reasonable for Ephiels to take over the army.
However, their forces were still at a disadvantage, the garrison of the Third Army and Cainzburg combined was only 5,000 men, while the Wendland Army had at least 6,000 men, and the inferior equipment was difficult to compensate, and they could only rely on the fortifications of the castle to balance the balance of war a little.
Viscount Wellington's eyesight was so good that even in this night, he could see the Windland soldiers on the Swaddle, marching from three directions, south, east, and west, almost encircling the whole of Keynzburg.
Viscount Wellington is better at attacking than defensive, but this is not the occasion to fight for his life, he must reduce his consumption as much as possible, there is still a lot of food in the city, at least they don't have to worry about the army being broken due to famine, but the current situation is actually that they are very likely to be attacked before they run out of food.
Once the magic barrier is gone, Wendland's magic cannon will be able to break through their walls, and a baptism of artillery fire will be able to wipe out a quarter of the defenders, and then the heavy cavalry and infantry will flood into the castle, completely crushing the remaining Aster's army in less than twenty hours.
"Goddess bless, I hope Lord Strass will come back soon."
Viscount Wellington also began to pray to the goddess at this moment that if Vera Hill could come back in time, at least with her legendary strength, she would be able to fight her way out and break through with her army, and now, the ranger general was still in Fort Lothric, fighting against the Wendland Central Legion.
However, Viscount Wellington was more worried about enemies from within than enemies from the outside.
Gera Hidede's rebellion surprised Viscount Wellington, since the beginning of the war, there had never been a rebellion by a person with such an identity, and Gera Hide was originally a nobleman on Zedi's side, and he had not had much contact with Wendland before, such a person who was difficult to contact with the rebellion no matter how he surrendered to Wendland, so Aster's situation at the moment is even more difficult to guess.
Viscount Wellington didn't know if the other nobles had rebelled like this, and he didn't know if there would be higher-ups, such as the Earl, who had rebelled, which made him feel quite frightened.
But Viscount Wellington was more worried about this kind of Keynzburg than about such a distant thing.
He knew that most of the old castles like this had some secret passages and the like to allow the lords to get out of a siege like this, but he didn't know the structure of the castle, after all, this castle was built thousands of years ago, and all the design drawings had long been scattered in the years of war, and there were even many secret passages in this castle, even the owner himself did not know.
Viscount Wellington naturally didn't know where the entrances and exits of these secret passages were, and he couldn't send troops to garrison them, but he thought that Geralhide must know a few of them, and it was very likely that he would tell the Wendland army the information about these secret passages, and if the enemy followed these secret passages into the castle, then the Astor army would most likely face the dilemma of being attacked from the enemy.
Viscount Wellington concentrated his forces in the south, and several artillery guns on the west and east, and he knew that the main gate would be the most fierce part of Wendland's attack, so he kept an eye on the situation here.
"Report to your lordship, a scout has spotted an army on the plains to the north!"
The herald's report surprised Viscount Wellington, he did not expect that so soon an army would bypass the castle and come from the north, so that the entire Cainz Fort would be surrounded by Wendland, and it would be even more difficult to escape and break through.
"What about the artillery to the north, there should be three guns there."
Viscount Wellington shouted that he could only rely on artillery to slow down the enemy's attack slightly, but there were not many artillery in the city, and his forces could not be dispersed to every corner.
"But my lord, according to the scouts, they don't seem to be Wendland's heavy cavalry."
The herald said, a slight uncertainty in his language.
"What do you mean by that?"
Viscount Wellington is a little strange now, since it is not Wendland's heavy cavalry, what kind of army will it be?
According to Princess Elifils, most of the army led by Cainz has already left the north, and the only neighboring Fort Lothric is difficult to protect itself, so where will this army come from?
"Have you carefully confirmed, could it be that the Wendland Army forged it?"
Viscount Wellington asked, his voice muffled in the noise, but still clear.
"It should ...... Not impersonated by the Wendland Army. ”
The herald said hesitantly, then looked up.
"Because of the flags they had, the scout said he wouldn't be mistaken."
"What flag?"
Viscount Wellington knew that the flag of an army represented its commander, and by the coat of arms on the banner, he could know where the army was, so he asked eagerly.
"The banners of that army, the Star Banner and the Golden Lion Banner, are Prince Leotis' troops, and they are the garrison of the Kainz Domain!"
Word for word, the voice of the herald echoed in the ears of Viscount Wellington. (To be continued.) )