Göttingen Castle is located in the north-west of the entire Paderborn region, just over ten kilometers from the Saxon-controlled territory of Braunschweig, which is one of the reasons why Baron Bird dared to come here with the remnants of his army to join forces with the local Staden family to defend against the attack of the Duke of Hesse.

Another reason is that Göttingen is a castle perched on a sandbar with a long diamond-shaped shape that is almost 100 metres away from both sides of the river.

The Rhine, a tributary of the Rhine, flows beneath the 10-metre-high stone walls of Göttingen Castle, and the water in the river is not very deep, but only a metre high, and can only be submerged to the height of an adult's belly.

However, the tragedy of Wang's leading army in the Battle of the Trident River is still vivid, braving the enemy's arrows to wade across the river, no matter how you look at it, it is an act of looking for death.

Originally, the castle had two wooden bridges leading to both sides, but by the time the Hessians arrived, all that remained was charred stakes. As a result, the Hessians had to wade across the river to reach Göttingen.

And Göttingen Castle is 100 meters away from both sides of the river, which is just enough to ensure that things like catapults can't threaten them. It can be said that Göttingen Castle is definitely a well-deserved dangerous place like "one man is the gate, no one can open".

Even when Han Xing saw this castle, he was very troubled, and his first thought was to build a dam upstream to intercept the flow of water, so that he could cross the river without wading through the water. But after thinking about it, if one doesn't get it right and drowns his own people, it will be too oolong. Or being seized by the enemy, isn't this equivalent to giving the enemy a knife to cut himself?

It's a good idea to repair the bridge urgently, but the problem is that the defenders won't watch you fix it, right? It is necessary to use the rain of arrows to obstruct the laying of your own bridges. If you want to avoid their attacks, you have to smear and carry out construction at night, isn't this asking for trouble?

Besides, even if the bridge is successfully repaired, it is only a matter of allowing your own army to pass smoothly, and whether you can take the city wall or not is still two words! The other party is on fire, got! One night in vain!

The most important thing is that there are still thousands of defenders in the city, gathering all the essence of the entire county of Paderborn. And time waits for no one! If you wait for the reinforcements from Saxony to come over, the Hessian army will be finished! After all, it has been nearly a month since the troops were dispatched, even if the Saxon lord Shaoguo is suspicious, the nobles are arguing all day long, and after arguing for a month, it is time to come up with the charter and react!

It can be said that the situation of the Hessian army today is no different from that of Jon Clinton at the beginning, if he gives up at this time, the Duke of Hesse is categorically unwilling, and if he holds on, he doesn't know how many casualties he will have to pay.

However, the Duke of Hesse obviously didn't realize this, probably because the previous battle was too easy, and almost all the problems were solved by Han Xing. Coupled with the sudden collapse of Goslar Castle, there is a blind optimism in the Hessian army, as if they really believe that God is on their side!

Of course, the nobles were also very energetic, but their starting point was completely different from that of the soldiers, and they were more concerned with military merit. In the previous series of siege battles, they did not reap enough benefits, and the Göttingen Castle in front of them is the capital of the entire Paderborn region, where the essence is, and the wealth in it is naturally unimaginable!

So the Count of Pomerne, who had been silent before, came out, and he also had 1,500 men under him, and the reason why he was not very energetic before was largely because his father had supported the younger brother of the Duke of Hesse, so their family was not popular in front of the Duke of Hesse. Naturally, I just want to fool around and save my strength.

But wealth is moving! Seeing that the other nobles were making a lot of money one by one, his small eyes the size of mung beans immediately showed a greedy gaze. The Pomernes and the Sāo family have always been at odds, and for many years, the Pomernes have been holding the Count of Sāo by virtue of their nobility and status. However, due to the wrong team back then, the sāo family has completely fallen from behind. So he had to find a way to take the Count (sāo)!

In his opinion, Göttingen Castle is just another delicious piece of cake. After all, Count Sāo had already made a lot of gains before, and as his competitor, he certainly didn't want to let go of this good opportunity to have both face and lining! After all, there are only 1,700 Earls of Na (Sāo), and his 1,500 is not much less than that of Count Na (Sāo)!

The Fritzlar army led by him began to wade towards Göttingen Castle with a ladder, and Han Xing felt a pang of amusement in his heart as the high-spirited Fritzlar soldiers followed Count Pomeen's shēn with their nostrils upward, and swept his gaze with contempt over Count Sāo and his troops.

"This Count of Pomeron is too self-righteous, I'm afraid he's just an old brainless second generation!" Count Na (sāo) was able to perform miraculous feats repeatedly, because of the support of Han Xing, a "high-level player", for Han Xing, a person who has seen a large-scale battle of 10,000 people, the battle of these thousands of people is almost a game.

The proud Pomerian army soon suffered, for the archers at the head of the city were raining down arrows on them, and they were on the river beach, and could hardly find any shelter, and they simply wrote on their faces, "(shè) I! "Live target.

What's more, there seemed to be a large number of archers at the head of the city, and within 100 meters was the most powerful range of bows and arrows, plus the entire Göttingen Castle was in the shape of an elongated diamond, like a boat. The attacking Pomernean army was exposed to the widest sidestring of this "ship", and unsurprisingly was covered by a dense rain of arrows, and hundreds of archers stood at the head of the city and condescendingly (shè) to attack the enemy troops in the hundred-meter river beach, which was a massacre.

The leather armor on them (shēn) is of little use, and it has little effect against bows and arrows within a hundred meters. The final result was that the Pomerian army had not crossed the river more than halfway, but more than half of the casualties! Even the mount of the Count of Pomerne himself was thrown off by a bow and arrow (shè).

So when the Count of Pomeron returned to the Duke of Hesse's tent, his armor was still dripping with water. Each step left a damp footprint, and the hair was wet, and as soon as he entered, he collapsed on the ground, like a fish on the shore.

Seeing Count Pomeron coming in like a chicken in soup, Count Sāo had to taunt him, "My Count of Pomerne, why did you fall into the water so carelessly?" No, you're wearing this (shēn) outfit, and if you fall into the water, you're never going to come back alive! Could it be that it's raining? Count Sāo pretended to come forward and pick up Count Pomerne, and said with a look of "concern".

The Duke of Hesse snorted and looked displeased when he saw that the Count of Pomeron had come all the way and left a long stain of water on his precious carpet. Not to mention, maybe it was God that the old man couldn't look past it, and in order to save some face for the Count of Pomeron, it really rained.

When Count Pomeron heard Count Sāo's false sarcasm, his face immediately turned red, and when he left just now, he deliberately showed off in front of Count Sāo, but now he came back so embarrassed, isn't this tantamount to a slap in the face?

The defeat of the Count of Pomeron was self-evident, and the Duke of Hesse had no choice but to convene an emergency meeting of his nobles again.

"Which of you has what you can do to take this city?" Duke Hesse's words, combined with the dull thunder outside the tent and the electric light that flashed through the tent, made the nobles present tremble in fright.

Just kidding, there is Count Pomeron doing a "shēn" demonstration in front of him, who doesn't know that this is a hard bone! If the Duke of Hesse asked them: "Whoever wants to go to the siege must take a step forward!" Most of the nobles present would take a step back.

Seeing that no one responded, the Duke of Hesse rightfully set his eyes on Count Sāo's face, which frightened him. "Don't look at me, I can't either! I knew, I knew, sooner or later there would be this day! It's all my ability before, now it's okay, just look at the end of the Count of Pomeron, where can I be better? If you go once, it's normal to lose half of the people! If you're unlucky, you won't be able to come back! ”

As a result, the good spirit is not the bad spirit, the black duke really spoke, "Count Na (sāo), what good plan do you have?" As a result, Count Sāo simply lowered his head even lower.

"None? None of them? Even you don't? The Duke of Hesse became inexplicably furious, paced in front of the nobles with the support of his servants, and then roared, and kicked the Count of Sāo.

"Oh well! I have decided that whoever can take Göttingen Castle will be the future Count of Padraun! It doesn't matter who it is, what (shēn) portion! The Duke of Hesse finally calmed down, and in order not to shatter his dream, he threw out an offer that no one could refuse.

The faces of the nobles present flashed with a hint of longing, the two counts wanted their territory to be bigger, and many barons hoped that they could move up to become counts. To the knights, I'm sorry, but the knights are not qualified to participate in meetings of this level!

But as soon as they thought of that damn city, they immediately wilted, and no matter how big an official is, it is not as important as his own life! Don't eat from the bowl and look at the pot!

"Go back, all of you!" As if despering at the situation in front of him, the Duke of Hesse sat down. Just as the nobles were about to leave, the Duke of Hesse suddenly spoke: "Count Sāo, you stay!" When Count Sāo heard this, he was immediately stunned, as if he were a student who had heard that the teacher wanted to stay in the classroom at the end of school.

Count Pomeron glanced at Count Sāo with a gloating expression. When all the nobles had left, the Duke of Hesse spoke: "Go and get that oriental!" That's what Sir Seyd! Don't think I don't know, how can you have the ability to siege the city? I know best what you're going to be! The Duke of Hesse poked Count Sāo in the heart with his cane.