The next day. Early in the morning.

On the walls of the northeast gate of Hump Fort, Kasha stood quietly, looking out at the camp of the Birgard family that stood a few miles away.

On either side of her, the knights of the Rog Order stood in two columns. And Li Xiang and the others also climbed the city wall to look at the camp opposite, and at the same time they chatted in low voices.

"Wyndham Knight, looks like you're recovering well." Li Xiang accosted a knight beside him who was in his forties with a mustache and was staring at the enemy camp opposite.

"Oh, this is really a spell that Mr. Li Xiang casts." The Wyndham Knight with a mustache replied as he raised one leg and reached out to pat it, "Look, the wound at the point of the arrow has now completely healed, and it doesn't affect the movement at all." ”

"Congratulations on that." Li Xiang smiled: "It's also thanks to Wyndham Knight, you were just shot in the thigh by an arrow, if the arrow was shot in the knee, I'm afraid you can only go to be a doorman in the future." ”

"Huh? Why? The Wyndham Knight asked when he heard that he was confused.

"Because ......" Li Xiang was about to say something, but he suddenly stretched out his two hands and covered Li Xiang's mouth tightly, blocking the words he hadn't finished speaking. Then I saw Xu Wenjie and Liu Tianyu, who were covering Li Xiang's mouth, quickly put Li Xiang up and pulled him back.

"What is this?" Wyndham stared at everything that was happening in front of him, not knowing what was going on.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, Wyndham Knight." Fu Bin, who was accompanying him, smiled and came forward to play a round. "Well, our boss drank too much wine before going to bed last night, and he hasn't woken up yet, so he talks a little nonsense. Don't mind, don't mind......"

Wyndham: "......"

Lord Wusak, who was talking to Yang Qianyu, heard the commotion made when Li Xiang was dragged away, and looked at it suspiciously. "Huh? Mr. Yang Qianyu. Your people seem to be quarrelling. ”

"Ahh We often do this between us, and it is possible to break the head and bleed when we have a lot of trouble. Yang Qianyu shrugged helplessly, and saw Lord Wusak with a 'Are you kidding me?' looked at himself with a look on his face, and couldn't help explaining: "But this is just simple nonsense, nothing out of control will happen, so don't worry - Lord Wusak, let's continue to discuss the matter of deployment." I still strongly recommend that the troops brought by our Xuanyuan Adventure Regiment serve as the main defensive force against the first wave of the enemy's offensive. ”

"That's not going to work." Lord Wussack categorically objected, "We are grateful that your family is willing to send troops to help fight the enemy when our Prailly territory is invaded by foreign enemies. Now, if you want the Xuanyuan family to take the lead in the battle, not to mention that this time it will tarnish the honor of my Rogge Knights, if it is spread so that outsiders hear this kind of thing, and think that I Prelley will treat the guest army harshly and use my allies as a cushion (cannon fodder), this is really ......."

"Your concerns are understood." Yang Qianyu responded when he heard this: "But the situation in this battle is not optimistic. Although our side has the advantage of city defense, the enemy army also has large-scale siege weapons. Moreover, the number of troops is outnumbered, so I judge that the first round of enemy attacks will not be a test but a formal attack. That's why I insist that the troops of the Xuanyuan Adventure Regiment take the lead. It's not that I underestimate the strength of your army, the soldiers under the command of the Rogge Knights are called elite, and they are worthy of the name. However, this victory is decided, and there is really no need to pay too many unnecessary sacrifices. ”

"Winner decided?" Lord Wusak was stunned when he heard this, and was about to open his mouth to ask Yang Qianyu what he meant by this, when something seemed to sound in the enemy camp in the distance.

"That's the horn of the assembly." "Get ready, the enemy is ready to attack the city," Kasha shouted. ”

On the walls of Hump Fort, after hearing the sound of trumpets coming from the enemy camp, everyone immediately lifted their spirits.

"Lord Woosak." Kasha spoke.

"Your Excellency, please." Woosack turned to Kashya and saluted.

"Inform the troops to get ready to go to the city!" Kashya ordered.

"Yes." Lord Woosack nodded and turned to leave.

"Lord Woosak." Yang Qianyu followed Lord Wusak after he left the city. "On the issue of arming ......"

"This ...... Why don't you do it like this? Lord Wusak was really entangled by Yang Qianyu, so he had no choice but to compromise: "Then ask Mr. Yang Qianyu to send troops to take charge of the defense of the east side of the northeast city wall." ”

"Thank you very much." After the goal was achieved, Yang Qianyu nodded to Lord Wusak and thanked him, and then went to dispatch troops to the city to set up defenses.

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Outside the northeast gate of Fort Hump. The two hundred-man infantry phalanxes of the first siege force slowly advanced towards the walls of Hump Fort, and there were more than a dozen ladders in their ranks, and more than a dozen well-armored sergeants behind the two phalanxes served as overseers. In the rear of the first troops, five erected trebuchets were putting the finishing touches, while behind the trebuchets were two more reserve infantry phalanxes. If the first two hundred-man teams still can't end the battle, then they need to make up for it without hesitation. Obviously, Earl Bilgard had already made up his mind, and at the beginning of the battle, he used half of his combat strength, intending to capture Humpback Fort in one fell swoop.

The defenders' Prairly army had already taken out all the arrows in the Hump Fort and distributed them to the defenders of the city, because the Hump Fort was a key stronghold on the border between the two families' territories, so it was quite well armed. Through last night's inventory, there were a total of 5,000 arrows with wooden poles and iron arrows. The standard bundle of arrows is 20 (the maximum capacity of the quiver), which is a total of 250 bundles. However, although this amount sounds like a lot, it is actually not enough in a large-scale battle. Some scholars have studied this, and in the history of the Tristram Kingdom, an average of twenty to thirty arrows were able to kill an enemy.

In other words, even if the Prairie Army, as the defender, has time to use up all the arrows in its hands and achieve the optimal kill value, it will theoretically only be able to completely destroy the two phalanxes in the first round.

And the Manchado army, which lost two phalanxes, still had about two-thirds of its strength. At the same time, the comparison with the strength of the Prairly Army is still about five to one.

The disparity in force is still wide.

In the Manchado army, a tall banner embroidered with the family crest is unusually eye-catching.

"Forward ——!"

Under the loud reprimand of the warlords, the two hundred-man phalanx at the front began to slowly move towards the city wall. However, the two advancing phalanxes had not yet traveled fifty meters, and the entire phalanx had gradually dispersed, and the formation at the beginning could no longer be seen.

"This military formation really doesn't look good." Ma Jun looked at the phalanx of the enemy army under the city, which was beginning to look scattered, and pouted with disdain.

It's just that neither Count Bilgard of Manchado's army nor Count Cassha of Prarell's army have changed their expressions in the slightest. Both were well aware that the main purpose of the first round of siege troops sent out was to consume the resources of the defenders, and these soldiers were veritable fillers (cannon fodder).

"Raising the Shield ——!"

The heralds galloped around the phalanx, loudly giving new orders from behind.