readx; "The second echelon is ready, release the arrows!"

Viscount Wellington, armed with a long sword, was at the forefront of the Kainzburg defensive front, and was now directing the archers to shoot at the enemy who dared to break into the walls of Cainzburg. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Since he had long expected that the castle's magical barrier would be breached within this time period, Eliefils had the garrison on the city wall withdraw in advance, anyway, the ammunition of the artillery had long been exhausted, and even if it remained on the city wall, it would only become a ghost under the fire of Wendland's artillery, and it would not be able to play any role in the battle situation.

Aster's defenders left the walls early and set up a line not far from the walls, so that the three rounds of Wendland's artillery bombardment of the walls did not cause them any real damage, so that when the Wendland infantry poured into the city through the breach, the Aster's defenders could almost be considered to have met them with ease.

Viscount Wellington knew very well that although the tactics arranged by Elie Fils at the moment were effective, it was also a time lag tactic to take advantage of the poor communication between the Wendland vanguard army and the rear artillery units, once the situation on the front line was transmitted to the rear, then Wendland could completely let his infantry withdraw and continue to baptize this area with artillery fire.

In this way, although the progress of the siege will be much slower, but fortunately, there is no need to sacrifice too many soldiers' lives, if it were Viscount Wellington, there is a good chance that * would adopt such a tactic.

At that time, Aster's garrison could only abandon the defense line near the city wall and enter the central area of the castle to fight, otherwise it would be crushed by heavy artillery fire, if Viscount Wellington's experience was correct, such artillery bombardment would continue for a whole day, and the coverage of the artillery bombardment would gradually converge towards the center of the city, even if they could find cover to avoid the baptism of artillery fire, a long artillery bombardment would destroy the will of the vast majority of soldiers to fight.

Therefore, the battle plan formulated by Elivels is to lure the enemy deeper, let Wendland's soldiers enter the castle in large numbers, and then break them one by one by Aster's army, which can not only contain Wendland's artillery bombardment, but also pull the combat capabilities of both sides to the same level, after all, in terms of numbers, Astor still has an obvious advantage in the face of Wendland's infantry.

"The third echelon prepares, release the arrows!"

Viscount Wellington ordered again, and he saw that the other gaps in the wall were gradually being climbed in by Wendland soldiers, and a little farther away, the huge battering ram was slowly moving towards the gate that had not yet been breached, and he knew that their task had been accomplished, and the archers had been arranged to cover the retreat of the other soldiers, and now it was time to retreat.

"Retreat with all your hands, shoot on the move, fire freely!"

Moving to the rear, Viscount Wellington ordered, he let the herald blow the horn, under the long sound of the horn, Aster's troops quickly moved towards the position in the city, and at the same time continued to shoot arrows at the Wendland soldiers who gradually poured into the castle, due to the battle of the Misty Forest, most of the Wendlan soldiers had a considerable psychological shadow of the arrows of the archer, so they did not dare to advance rashly in this arrow rain, and could only pursue slowly.

"Astor retreated, and we pursued them with victory and crushed them in one fell swoop!"

Someone in Wendland's army shouted, unaware of Aster's tactics, and thought that it was the same as in the previous sieges, that the opponent could not hold it and retreated, and when Aster's archers stopped shooting because they had dodged into the alleys, Wendland's soldiers rushed up and ran towards the quaint city.

As everyone knows, this is exactly the death trap that was laid out for them.

With his back to the wall, his two swords ready to strike, Lord Manstein was in an alley in the central living area of Kainzburg, which was the only way to enter the area, the width of two carriages and flanked by three-story dwellings, ideal for ambush warfare.

He heard shouts of killing approaching, Asther's soldiers passing by his side, he even saw Viscount Wellington retreating hastily, and it only took a moment for the two to meet their eyes that Lord Manstein knew that the time had come.

Less than a minute had passed for Aster's archers, a series of heavy footsteps were heard, and Lord Manstein, knowing that this was Wendland's pursuer, raised a hand lightly to signal everyone to stand still, waiting for the moment when they rushed into the net.

Bang -

With a messy step, Wendland's soldiers appeared from the flank of Lord Manstein, but Aster's soldiers did not rush out directly, because they knew that if they showed up now, they would only make Wendland's soldiers turn around and flee and enter the city by another road, and they would need to wait for the enemy's vanguard to enter the city and cut off their flanks in order to maximize the effect of their ambush.

Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven......

Counting silently in his mind, Lord Manstein looked at the Wendland soldiers running around him with sharp weapons in hand, they did not realize that there were still a large number of Astor soldiers lurking in the shadows in the corner, and they only moved forward with all their might, trying to catch up with the archers who had made them suffer so much.

Six, Five, Four......

Lord Manstein looked at the windows of the buildings on either side, and in the half-hidden windows there were several figures moving, this was another wave of archers planted in the streets, armed with conventional crossbow arrows, in order to cut off the retreat of the Wendland soldiers.

Three, two, one!

At the end of the countdown, Lord Manstein also rushed out of the shadows at the same time, he had already regained a little strength, facing these rankless rookies, he was like a god of war, he knocked down a soldier with a backhand sword, and blocked the sword of the reacting soldier with the other hand, and then pushed it back, blocking the progress of the entire Wendland army in an instant.

The other Aster's soldiers also drew their swords from their sheaths, and the sudden enemy attack caught the Wendland army by surprise, and they tried to retreat to avoid the attack, but on the other hand, they were scattered by Aster's attack, and the coordination between the front and rear was quite problematic.

Just when the Wendeland commanders were entangled, from the residential buildings on both sides, countless arrows fell on the heads of the Wendland soldiers in the rear like a torrential rain, making the Wendland soldiers congested in this alley unable to defend, and the soldiers fell like autumn wheat, and there was no way to make a decent counterattack.

The tactic was quite successful, and Lord Manstein was about to eat all the Wendland troops in one fell swoop, when he heard a loud bang from the south gate. (To be continued.) )