Chapter 216: The Capture of Fort Grey (4000 words to be delivered)
Stones can be said to be everywhere, so the stones needed for trebuchets are easy to find, large and small, large and small, and after finding enough stones, the drums and trumpets of the attack sounded again, and the First Army was again arrayed at Fort Grey ready to attack.
At this time, many of the officers stationed on the walls of Fort Grey were sweating on their foreheads, they were not blind, they could see the huge trebuchet three hundred meters away, many of these officers had also experienced large-scale battles, they knew the horror of trebuchets, and even many soldiers who were not desperate to follow Augustine to rebel had already made up their minds to surrender.
However, regardless of the soldiers on Fort Grey, the First Army below is indeed going to attack, and the trebuchets are in the final stages of adjustment.
"Attack when the trebuchet is adjusted, target the upper wall of Fort Grey!" Dreyus ordered.
"Yes, Your Highness!" The herald answered loudly at the order, and then walked quickly to the trebuchet in the rear.
"His Royal Highness the Prince ordered, the trebuchet is adjusted, and the attack is immediate, targeting the upper section of the city wall."
"His Royal Highness the Prince ordered, the trebuchet is adjusted, and the attack is immediate, targeting the upper section of the city wall."
"Put the stones, adjust the angle, prepare... Put!"
After receiving the prince's order, I saw that the four trebuchets with a sitting area of nearly twenty meters were slowly moving for the first time, and with a slight creaking sound, the boulder held by the three people in the net pocket was thrown out.
Seeing the four boulders that seemed to be very slow, but the actual speed was not slow, many soldiers on Fort Gray panicked, many of them were just guards of the home before, when had they experienced such a scene.
I saw that the speed of the four boulders was getting faster and faster, and finally they fell with a bang, but maybe it was the first test shot, and the distance was not good, two stones fell outside the city wall, and one flew directly into Fort Gray, only one of them happened to hit the city wall, and this one smashed two battlements, and killed and injured more than a dozen soldiers.
After the first round of boulder throwing, the officer in charge of the trebuchet hurriedly asked four or five soldiers with big shoulders and waists to put another boulder into the net pocket of the trebuchet, and after a few minor adjustments, threw it again.
And the defenders of the Northland on the city wall have no way to throw stones from the First Legion, if they have cannons, even if it is the same trebuchet, at least they can play a sparring, but unfortunately they have nothing, they can only stare dryly.
"Whew... Boom! Call... Boom!"
With the sound of boulders slamming on the city walls, cracks began to appear in the walls of Fort Gray, and the battlements were destroyed countless times, but under Augustin's compulsory orders, the Northland soldiers had to hold on to the city walls, like a condemned prisoner waiting for execution.
"My lord, it's too passive to go on like this, the walls of Fort Gray won't last long, and the soldiers on the walls are almost unable to hold on, they must destroy those four trebuchets, my lord, order the knights to attack!" A relatively safe position, a middle-aged officer who seemed to be at the level of commander, said to Augustin.
Listening to the words of his subordinates, Augustine's face was gloomy as water, of course he knew that it was not a way to go on like this, but it was also unwise to engage in field battles with Darius's troops, the cavalry troops were his last resort, to know how many knightly troops of 3,000 people were raised in a place like the Northland, which was extremely short of water, but now the only way seemed to be to send cavalry to destroy the trebuchet.
In the middle of the ring, just when the middle-aged officer beside him looked more and more anxious, Augustine snorted angrily, waved his arm violently, and said loudly:
"Open the gates! Let the Knights of the Northland attack! ”
After receiving his lord's order, the middle-aged officer was overjoyed, and he hurriedly waved his hand to let a few soldiers and heralds around him run down the city wall to convey the lord's order.
"Open the gates! The Knights are ready to strike! ”
"Open the gates! The Knights are ready to strike! ”
With Augustine's order, the city gate solidified by special magic slowly opened, and the three thousand knights that Augustine had spent a lot of money to raise immediately got on the horse, and then put down the mask armor and poured out of the open city gate in an orderly manner!
"It's a cavalry team, and it looks like the training is still good!" Saric was standing beside Dreyus, snorting softly at the scene, a look of disdain in his eyes.
"Sarich! Bring all the royal knights! They must never be allowed near trebuchets! The eldest prince Dreyus said that Augustine actually sent cavalry to take the initiative, which played into Drius's hands.
"Royal Knight, meet the enemy with me! Let the so-called cavalry in front of you see what a real knight is! Saric quickly stepped onto his horse, pulled the reins of his mount and roared angrily, and then rushed out of the phalanx of the First Legion, raising his weapon and shouting:
"For Darius!!"
"For Darius!!" Nearly nine hundred royal knights roared and followed Saric out of the phalanx of the First Legion, and then gathered into a group of Northland knights who thought they were more than three times their number and launched a charge.
The loud shouts and roars resounded throughout the four fields, and for a while, the two knights suddenly became the protagonists of the battlefield.
The first legion of Darius and Fort Grey were only more than three hundred meters away, and the distance of three hundred meters could be said to be a few seconds away from each other under the mutual charge of the knights of the two sides.
"Brothers, follow me through it!" Seeing that the first legion of a thousand people dared to attack his own three thousand, the commander of the Northland knights roared and brandished his spear.
"Kill ......," the three thousand Northland knights roared, driving the horses to sit down and speed up a point.
Soon the two knights had collided head-to-head, and suddenly a group of people turned on their backs, only to see the royal knight with the ninth-order Saric and Setis as the arrow stabbed into the center of the three thousand Northland knights in an instant, and then pierced through the formation of the Northland knights, leaving behind the corpses of the Northland knights.
Although the first wave of confrontation suffered losses, the Northland knights were obviously well trained, and they did not panic when they suffered losses, but began to turn the horse's head to continue the royal knight under the leadership of their respective leaders, and the same royal knight also pulled the reins and turned the horse's head again.
This time, because of the short charging distance, the speed of the war horse could not be lifted at all, and the two sides began to stick together, at this time the knight's spear used in the charge on the battlefield lost its effect, and I saw that the royal knights suddenly blossomed and all dispersed into the team of the Northland Knights, pulled out their swords and began to slash wildly at close range!!
If it is two cavalry of equal strength, this kind of dispersion is definitely an act of seeking death, but the royal knights do it, and they are so capricious, not only because their strength is higher than the strength of the fifth order on average, but also because their equipment is forged by the dwarves through special means, and the defense and resistance are two grades higher than the equipment of the Northland knights.
At this time, it seems that the Northland knights are besieging the royal knights, but it is the royal knights who are really constantly creating blood and death, compared to the hammer of justice that is both offensive and defensive, the royal knights are more ferocious and more desperate, they are calm and calm, but they are not afraid of life and death, and it can even be said that they can face their own death coldly, because their lives have long been the royal family of Danas.
Among the royal knights, Twilight can feel this the most, only to see a fifth-order royal knight being besieged and simply no longer resisting after being unable to block the attack from the surroundings, it is directly a lifeless attack, and the defense of a qiē is handed over to the set of armor on the body, blocking it, blocking it is nothing more than injury or death, and the same is true for other royal knights, this is a knight who can ignore death, no wonder the Death Knights who were able to achieve the undead disaster later were fierce.
However, it is not the royal knight who is the most ferocious on the battlefield, but Setis in front of Twilight, and even Saric is not as good as Setis in this regard, as the strongest royal knight.
I saw that Setis, who was rushing in front of Twilight, simply swept with a killing tomahawk in his hand, and the three human cavalrymen in front of him fell off their horses and fell to the ground, and the spears and swords in their hands were all broken, while Twilight behind him was holding the Blade of Vengeance and picking up the leak behind Setis, resisting possible attacks from behind for Setis, which has always been the routine of Twilight and Dumb.
Seeing the ferocity and abnormality of these nine hundred knights, the commander of the Northland Knight was shocked and immediately thought of the two strongest armies of Darius, the Hammer of Justice and the Royal Knights, although these knights in front of him did not play the flag, but the Northland Knight Commander still guessed that these should be the Royal Knights, because the Hammer of Justice must wear a large cross embroidered on his chest and a sign of the cross between the sword and the hammer on his chest every time he fights.
It can't go on like this, these Northland knights are all trained by him, and he has fought many battles with him from birth to death! Thinking that the Northland Knight Commander set his eyes on Twilight, who was protected by Dumb, Setis was too prominent, and in the Lord's opinion, the person who was protected by the big man must be the leader of this team, and immediately the Northland Knight Commander drove his horse towards Twilight, and he wanted to decapitate him.
I saw that after the Northland Knight Commander approached Twilight, he kicked his horse his heel and rushed in front of Twilight alone.
"Suffer death!"
Twilight looked at the rushing knight commander without a trace of panic on his face, just quietly waiting for the knight commander to rush up, and just when the Northland knight commander was about to rush to Twilight, a roar like dry land thunder suddenly sounded from the knight commander's ears, the northland knight commander thought that the Setis on one side was so fierce, and he was caught off guard only to feel a buzzing explosion in his ears, and his whole head was stunned, and the war horse under his crotch was also frightened, and his front legs were weak and lay on the ground during the run, Just flung the Northland Knights in front of Twilight.
Seeing this, Twilight laughed, and hurriedly drove her horse to meet her, and the blade of revenge in her hand was also cut down.
At this time, the knight commander whose strength was around the eighth order fell to the ground, and his brain had just recovered from the seven dims and eight elements, and he saw Twilight's sword swinging, at this time, the knight commander had just landed, and he couldn't dodge it at all, so he could only raise his long sword with one hand to block Twilight's condescending slash.
With a bang, the knight's sword flicked off, and Twilight rode over the knight's command, the horse's front hooves stomping the knight's chest.
Click! The Knight Commander's eyes widened instantly, and he felt his sternum being crushed, thanks to the armor, but the next moment Twilight had already returned his hand, and a sword was slashed at the Knight Commander's neck.
"There are so many people who want to kill me, how old are you?" Twilight asks lightly as she looks at the knight commander with blood spurting his wide-eyed neck.
A dignified high-ranking warrior ended his life in this aggrieved way.
With the death of the Northland Knights, the advantage of the Royal Knights became more and more obvious, at this time on the walls of Fort Grey, the Northland Lord Augustin's face was ugly and abnormal, he did not expect that the knights he had worked hard to cultivate would be easily defeated by a team less than three times as many as them, and the casualties of the other party were obviously not large.
Hmph, what can you do if you are proud for a while?
"You're here for a while." Augustine instructed the middle-aged officer beside him, and then Augustine glanced at the direction of the eldest prince Dreyus from a distance, snorted secretly, turned around and walked quickly down the wall of Fort Gray, at this time most of the soldiers in the north were paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, and did not find that their lord had quietly left the city wall when he saw that the situation was not good.
Looking at Augustine who left, the middle-aged officer who stayed in place did not look good, but he had no other choice, who let himself follow such a master!
Looking at the battlefield at this time, as time passed, the disadvantages of the Northland knights became more and more obvious, and there were more and more casualties, and when the number of the Northland knights finally dropped to less than a thousand, some knights who were afraid of death gave up, and in order to survive, they chose to escape, and for these escapees, the royal knights did not chase, but concentrated on dealing with those who did not run.
Soon the Northland knights were killed and wounded at the hands of the red-eyed royal knights, and the royal knights did not consider leaving any prisoners, since His Royal Highness the eldest prince did not order that they should be captured, they would not consider these, and fundamentally the royal knights were killing machines.
The defeat of the Northland knights made the morale of the Northland soldiers on the walls of Fort Gray extremely low, but fortunately, the supervision of the middle-aged officers shook the feelings of these Northland soldiers, but when a section of the wall collapsed under the bombardment of trebuchets, many soldiers were already in despair.
At this time, the First Legion attacked the city again, only to see that the trebuchet net pocket that was originally filled with large stones was replaced with a stone the size of a football, and with each swing of the trebuchet's arm, countless stones smashed into the Northland soldiers on the city wall like a goddess scattering flowers, and once hit by a stone, even if there was a shield, it would be useless.
Finally, some soldiers couldn't help but throw down their weapons and run down the city wall, this is as if it was an effect, more and more soldiers ran under the city wall, the middle-aged officer couldn't stop if he wanted to, seeing this middle-aged officer sighed but also followed down the city wall, the soldiers of the first army climbed the city wall effortlessly, and there was no decent defense in the city, most of the northland soldiers who had no way to escape chose to surrender. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support. That's what motivates me the most......)
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