Chapter 139: I'm the Strongest!
Just like the Duke of Hesse, Count Sāo, after "contracting" the siege mission from the Duke of Hesse, came to his troops and then sent the specific task to his nobles again.
"Which of you wants to take the lead?" Count Sāo looked at his "big cats and kittens", and his two barons, Baron Glenn Enwald and Baron Albrecht of Bamberg, were silent, and the other knights were silent.
Siege is not a joke, if a castle is really so easy to fight, then why should the nobles build castles to protect their lives and property?
Sir Glenn, from Bamberg, had an army of 300 and was the most heavily armed of all the people present. It stands to reason that he should be the first to rush forward, but he (ài) cherishes his wings! Although the defenders in the city are only a few dozen people at most, he is only 300 people, and if he fights this one, he will have to die dozens of people, and it is possible to get a hundred people in if he is unlucky. You must know that too many people have died, and it will even affect the development of his territory.
Everyone understands this truth, of course he refuses to be the wrongdoer! When the time comes, not to mention the castle in front of you, you will have to fold in dozens of soldiers, not to mention, if you let someone else pick peaches, it will really be "stealing chickens and rice"!
For this lord's lack of face, Count Na (sāo) is not surprised, after all, it is not his own cronies to him. The two had been inseparable all these years, because Sir Glenn Enward's family had always been at odds with that of Baron Albrecht.
The two families are pinched all year round, and the Enwald family feels that the Baron Albrecht family is an upstart, because they are the mayor of the town (shēn), originally just a merchant family, relying on the tactics of money to open the way, mixed with the mayor, and then occupied the position of the mayor for several generations, and then directly by sending money to Count Na (sāo) (the current grandfather), became a baron, and played the hereditary system.
The surname of Baron Albrecht's family is Smith, which means that his full name is Baron Albrecht Smith, and he looks scary! So just call him by his first name, Albrecht. The surname Smith actually means "blacksmith", which is really untouchable, so Baron Albrecht rarely uses it.
It was precisely because of Baron Albrecht's family that the noble Enwald family looked down on them, mocked them as an upstart family, and even repeatedly rejected the Smith family's proposal to marry.
The Smith family is very sincere, not only willing to pay a bride price of 5,000 gold coins, but also promised to give them enough new weapons and armor, enough for them to equip 500 people, and the marriage partner is also their own heir, this proposal can be said to be full of sincerity! It's a pity that I was slapped in the face!
"What more do you want? If you are not happy to marry the young master, do you want to be the continuation of our master? So the Smith family was also on fire, "Enward? Is Enward amazing? The ancestor of the "noble Enward family" is just a fighter, a melee reincarnation? Isn't it the one in your family who is good at cutting people, and the one in mine who is good at repairing and building equipment? What a point of arrogance! Give the shameless poor sour! ”
So the two families began a full-scale war, which was so bloody that it ended up with Count Sāo. The Enwards even complained directly to Count Sāo, arguing that the Smiths were not qualified to be nobles. Wetzlar should continue with the mayoral election system!
Count Sāo doesn't care whether a mayor is hereditary or elected, the most important thing is to be "powerful" when fighting and collecting taxes, and the Smith family is very "powerful", not only "powerful" but also "profitable", so the Count of Sāo is happy from the bottom of his heart that the Smith family can control the entire town of Wetzlar and be their loyal dog.
If you go back to the town mayor election system in the past, God knows whether the elected mayor will listen to him or not, and when the time comes, he will go against himself and play the role of the spokesman of democracy, wouldn't that be shooting himself in the foot?
Therefore, the complaint of the Enward family was naturally dismissed, and the Earl of Na (sāo) secretly supported the Smith family and the Enward family behind the scenes, engaging in competition, because every time there was a big quarrel, they needed to arbitrate themselves, so as to ensure that the two families could contain each other and have to compete to be dogs (tiǎn) to curry favor with themselves.
So this time Count Sāo again shifted his gaze to Baron Albrecht's head and gave him an encouraging look. Baron Albrecht secretly complained, "You still don't know about these people under me, Lord Count? The people in this city are different from the countrymen, they are used to eating, drinking, and having fun, and they have lived in the world of flowers for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is naturally poor, and they are all tricky and selfish, and they are used to bully and bully the common people to collect taxes. ”
So Baron Albrecht directly secretly made a gesture of invitation, and said: "Boss, will you change someone?" I can't afford it! ”
Seeing Baron Albrecht's appearance, Count Na (sāo) suddenly became a little angry, "Raising a dog thousand (rì), using a dog for a while, no, it is raising a soldier thousand (rì), using a soldier for a while, if I hadn't been (tǐng) your family for so many years, you would have let the Enward family be eaten alive!" How? Wilted when it's time to contribute? Count Sāo immediately glared at Baron Albrecht with a knife-sharp gaze.
Sensing the unkindness in Count Na's eyes, Baron Albrecht suddenly felt his scalp tingle. Before Count Sāo could attack, Baron Glenn Enward took the lead, "Baron Albrecht, your Smith family is a well-known craftsman, and the richest family in the entire Earl of Sāo, I heard that your soldiers are wearing chain mail, and when you encounter this kind of attack, isn't it the time for your elite troops to play a role?" ”
Hearing this, Baron Albrecht's head was already sweating, but Baron Enward still had to kill them all, "Could it be that you still cherish yourself at such a critical juncture, and don't want to contribute to the Earl?" Do you want the Earl to lose face in front of the Duke? With that, Baron Enward sat down, and then looked at Baron Albrecht with a frightened look on his face.
His words can be described as heart-wrenching, first deliberately pointing out that the ancestors of the Smith family were jiàn blacksmiths, then circled them as the richest families in the county's domain, and finally said that their troops were the elite of the stubborn and stubborn, but they were unwilling to stand up for the Count of Sāo, which can be described as ill-intentioned.
You must know that the Piff is not guilty, and the Smith family was able to gain a firm foothold in the court of Count Sāo, which was entirely based on the support of Count Sāo, and once Count Sāo had a bad feeling for them, the only way to wait for them was "RIP". (RIP, commonly found on tombstones, restinpeace means rest, and by extension, it means to finish, to finish.) )
Looking at Baron Albrecht, who was sweating profusely and his clothes were wet with sweat, (shēn) as his hardcore ally, Han Xing couldn't sit idly by and watch his guide end like this, after all, among the nobles in front of him, Baron Albrecht was the most "close" to him, and most of them had been classified on his side, which was a relationship of both glory and loss.
So Han Xing stood up and said loudly: "I am willing to lead my subordinates and Baron Albrecht to take the lead!" Hearing Han Xing's words, Baron Albrecht immediately threw a grateful look at Han Xing as if his soul had returned to his body.
Those veteran knights who had long seen Han Xing's discomfort immediately snickered, in their opinion, Han Xing was simply a fool, and this kind of thankless work was also taken over by himself (shēn)! Even if his troops were one against ten, two would die in one battle here, and two would die in one battle there, and it would not be long before they would be exhausted. Siege is to fight consumption, why bother to fill the pit with elites!
"Alright! Sir Segard, you are commendable for your loyalty, and I hope you can win your first battle! After Count Sāo had said a few innocuous words, Han Xing and Baron Albrecht had already led their troops towards the town.
"How are you going to attack this castle? Sir Segard? I am willing to lead my men to obey your command! Baron Albrecht said to Han Xing, he is very self-aware, although he is a qualified internal affairs official and businessman, he knows nothing about fighting, it is better to simply give power to Han Xing!
Han Xing just smiled mysteriously and said, "Mountain people have their own tricks!" Then he waved his hand and sent a few of the "Devil Terminators" to the nearby forest to cut wood.
Han Xing's tactics are actually simple and crude, for such a small city, it is better to attack it directly than to bother with any strategy. It didn't take long for the "Devil Terminators" to return with the trees with soil and leaves. This was specially instructed by Han Xing, in order not to scare the other nobles, otherwise they would be able to lift a tree with one hand.
The three trees were hastily processed, and the branches and roots were removed, which were three simple city-breaking hammers, and then Han Xing let his "Terminator" troops march towards the city (tǐng) and directly use the simple city-breaking hammer to hit the city gate.
The soldiers at the head of the city were aiming at them, but their bows were so bad that the "Devil Terminator" who did not wear plate armor at all only heard the sound of "Ding Ling Dang Chang", but none of the "Devil Terminators" fell.
What if they had to wear the armor of the "Devil Terminator"? How many arrows will the macho man who is not afraid of bullets be afraid of how many arrows?
The castle gate, which was not sturdy and thick, was eventually reduced to sawdust under the furious destruction of Han Xing's elite soldiers.
Seeing that the enemy's gate was breached, Baron Albrecht's troops immediately burst into cheers, and then rushed forward, joking, having a city gate and not having a city gate are completely different things, since there are macho men under Han Xing's command, why don't they rush up to get military merit and gild themselves?
Han Xing took the lead in entering the city gate, took out the "broken heart" and rushed to the arrow tower, cutting people when he saw them, almost one sword at a time, after all, this group of archers was pasted (shēn) by people is a dish! Han Xing even felt a little bit of Darth Vader's pleasure in "Rogue One" to torture and kill the rebel soldiers.
The "Devil's Terminators" are even more ferocious and violent, they don't even want to pull out their swords at their waists, they just pick up a person like a commodity and throw it into the "shopping cart" as if they were going to a supermarket. Of course, they don't have shopping carts, so usually they just throw those people off the walls.
"Good! Good! Very good! I want to reward you, Count Sāo! In an hour, in just an hour you took the castle! When Count Sāo told the Duke of Hesse the good news, the old man jumped up from his chair with joy.
If Han Xing heard this award, he would probably smile disdainfully. You know, the reason why it takes an hour, of which a full 40 minutes is wasted on their arguing, the real siege is only 20 minutes!