Act 26 Expansion (the first update, the recent mentality seems to be calmer, asking for a monthly pass)

Antitina clasped her hands over her chest, silently watching as more and more figures walked in the forest. Since the beginning of the Frost Moon, the temperature at night has become very low, although it is still a few days before the first snow in Eruin. A thin layer of white air exhaled by everyone in the cold air shrouded the lumberyard to form a cloud over the lumberyard, and the soldiers behind the female wall rubbed their hands to resist the cold, and the cold silence of the night carried a hint of solemnity and tension.

Almost all the mercenaries went to the wooden wall, leaving no reserves—though Juta and Clenthia were vehemently opposed, but Brando himself told her that she didn't need it, and that was the truth for the nobleman's daughter.

"What if there is an emergency*? It's a practice that puts everyone at risk"

In response to the indignant question of the female leader, Antitina suddenly had a playful idea in her heart for some reason; She thought that if Brando lied to her, she would become a ghost and haunt the young man when she died.

This sudden thought startled her, and even a touch of ruddy oozed from her face, and she was slightly hot. She let out a sigh of relief, shaking her head earnestly to banish the thought from her mind.

But Yuta blushed as if she was in a daze as if she was in a daze, and then shook her head again and only gave her a faint answer: "This is what the lord ordered-" and she couldn't help but lose all the goodwill towards the other party that she had accumulated so hard.

This irresponsible answer made Jutta turn away and go angrily to inspect her men, and before leaving, she secretly cursed in her heart 'self-righteous nobleman', but if it had been before, she would have said such things in front of Antitina and not behind her back.

In fact, invisibly, even she didn't realize that they had been influenced by Brando. Because on the other hand, at least she no longer objected to such a one-time investment of troops.

Since it was the young man's order, there must be a reason for him.

With the same thought, Clenthia also stopped objecting. It's just that he turned his head and saw a smile on the dark face of the tall Grand Master of the Fire Ground Battle Regiment, and the silver-haired middle-aged man was stunned.

"You already knew?" When he asked, he instinctively became alert.

But Fern seemed to see through what this scheming old fox was thinking, and he smiled and rubbed his nose indifferently: "That little girl is calmer than you and me, do you think she looks like someone who can command indiscriminately?" The only one who can command her here is the young lord......"

"You're observant." Clenthia snorted.

"Each other, each other." The thought crossed Fern's mind, but he didn't say it. There was a seasoned mercenary beside him who would roughly estimate the number of cavemen in the forest every once in a while, and he just listened silently to the sound of the same count, without saying a word.

There were soon thousands of cavemen, and they were roaming the forest, alerting everyone.

The stars in the night were unpredictable, but the first two hours after midnight had finally passed. At first, Antitina struggled with tiredness and Roman's endless whimsical questions, but just as she blinked her sleepy eyes to suppress a yawn, she heard a series of unusual noises.

It was the sound of the surrounding mercenaries raising their crossbows.

Our noble daughter was at once struck a spirit, and she looked up to see that the cavemen in the forest had finally moved, and they had come out of the forest in a row—at intervals between the queues were covered by one or two bear goblins with huge wooden shields.

"Do you have siege equipment?"

The sound of mercenaries asking each other can be heard from the top of the city.

"Nope"

"Didn't see"

The sound of the scout was immediately relayed from the tower. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "Your Excellency guessed again—" Antitina thought as she stood behind the female wall, her face as usual.

The cavemen began to accelerate at a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards, and from the wooden wall they were only trotting, but the sea of giant wooden shields was already flowing.

One hundred yards.

Fifty yards.

At this moment, Juta gave the order to shoot in unison with Fern and Clensia, and when the hundreds of crossbows were released at the same time, there was a trembling sound that made everyone's ears tingle, and everyone saw the dense crossbow arrows form a translucent white line and sweep forward—like a blade.

The blade swept across the troglodyte's advancing formation, and about two or three rows of underground creatures in the front froze in unison, and the caveman and bear goblin rolled down together, and a clear gap immediately appeared in the complete formation.

But everyone understands that the true lethality of the bow and crossbow to the caveman is known only to God. Before they could get on the second crossbow, they saw a crowd of people from behind rush up to fill the gap in front.

In an almost instant, the cavemen had been slaughtered one after another under the wooden walls on the outskirts of the lumberyard.

The wooden wall was made of four layers of logs, and was filled with earth between each two layers, and for a lumberyard to build such fortifications, the three Grand Masters thought that the cavemen were wasting raw materials; But when the bear goblins bumped into them with their wooden shields, they began to regret the idea.

The heavy creatures slammed into the wooden walls with the weight of their bodies and the weight of the wooden shields in their hands with their huge steps, and the wooden walls immediately made a tooth-aching sound, and in some places the logs even began to tilt backwards, considering that the logs had been driven deep into the ground nearly a third of the length.

Everyone heard the creaking and moaning of the wooden wall beneath their feet, and it was terrifying. Compared to this, the cavemen who jumped onto the wall with their wooden shields and relied on their strong hind limbs were simply harmless to humans and animals.

The mercenaries unceremoniously drove the uninvited guests off the wooden wall, but the cavemen's attack was clearly not over, and soon the mercenaries screamed from the top of the wall:

"They're digging tunnels"

The sparrow made Antitina back a little, and then the captain of the Lubis mercenaries leaned his hands on the female wall and looked down—and sure enough, he saw that the cavemen were digging at a high speed beneath the wooden shields raised by the bear goblins—they were so fast that they were worthy of the title of Underworld.

However, there was no oil in the lumberyard, and there were not even enough stones, so the mercenaries tried to drop the logs, but the 'sassals' were useless against the powerful bear goblins.

Luckily, they still have a plan. Some of them immediately left the city as originally planned, and withdrew to the edge of the trench dug in the afternoon.

The trenches were dug specifically to deal with the cavemen. According to Brando's instructions, each one was several meters deep, so when the caveman spent nearly half an hour digging the first tunnel, the one who walked first was immediately squeezed into the bottom of the ditch by the caveman who caught up behind.

Without exception, these cavemen were not thrown to pieces, and they subconsciously raised their heads to tell what was going on, but what awaited them was a human spear. Although the caveman has outstanding individual combat effectiveness, in the face of more than a dozen condescending spears, he can only be stabbed into a hedgehog.

After losing dozens of people, the cavemen realized that this was not the way out. So they had to retreat and choose a more direct and brutal way - the mercenaries on the wooden wall soon discovered with ugly faces:

These guys are starting to build ladders

This was a proven solution, with the only drawback being that they had to abandon the large bear goblins in their army. - The bear goblins crouched on the lowest level of the ladder and raised their wooden shields to build a platform for the troglodytes - so that they could reach the outer wall edge of the wooden fortress more easily.

When Antitina found out about this, she raised her eyebrows and immediately shouted.

Crenthia and Fern beside her immediately conveyed the order, and for a moment the sound of orders came from the wooden wall outside the lumberyard. The next moment, the mercenaries held up a huge net of wooden shelves, and stretched them out of the wall, covering the cavemen downwards like a giant beat.

The nets are simply woven from oil ropes, and the stakes that form the outer frame of the nets are made of local materials and are found everywhere in the lumberyards. This improvised net looks ridiculously rough in a battle between humans and humans, but it works well for cavemen who are not very good at sieges.

While the cavemen climbed upwards to deal with the difficult nets, the mercenaries were able to sit down and sit for their work, and the onslaught of the underground creatures soon suffered great losses.

Yuta and the other three couldn't help but be amazed when they saw this scene, it was simple but effective, different from the tactics of most regular armies; This is not like the method that a nobleman or a knight should come up with, but more like the 'emergency plan' of their mercenaries who have been in battle for the battle - but it is the 'strategy against the enemy' that the young lord has told them in advance, which makes them a little surprised, but they don't know that the player has invented these whimsical 'tricks' the most in the past games, large and small.

With the help of simple nets, the mercenaries repelled several attacks of the cavemen in a row. But the pace of the battle inevitably entered the white-hot stage, the great net woven by the oil rope was not unbreakable after all, and as more and more troglodytes broke through the barrage, the battle on the wooden wall finally began to see blood.

For the first time, there have been human losses, and the number of casualties is rapidly increasing. In the head-on battle, the caveman's single combat superiority was gradually revealed.

Step by step, the mercenaries retreated, and as more and more troglodytes poured into the city, they found that their previous advantage was no longer there, or even worse, and the defenders in many places were driven down, and the creatures from the underground of Jorgandegan seemed to be about to break through at any moment.

Although they are not good at siege cities, their numerical superiority has already masked a flaw.

Khan-drenched Clenthia and Fern set their sights on Antitina at the same time, knowing that the only key to turning the tide of battle at this moment might be this aristocratic girl. Of course, if she doesn't act, then they're going to have to end the fight in their own way.

The two regimental commanders made the same decision at the same time in their hearts.

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(PS. Strive to adjust your perfectionist mentality and ask for a monthly pass.)