Chapter Ninety-Three: The Templar Bell Rings, the Prologue of the Great War!
"Pay with one hand and deliver with the other? Are you kidding? That's 500,000 gold dragons! "Jon? Earl Clinton's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, if he did ordinary business, he could pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, and this business was a full 500,000 gold dragons! As the highest value currency, the golden dragon is beautifully made, light and easy to carry, but it can also be for a golden dragon. This is a full 500,000, assuming that a golden dragon weighs 10 grams, 100 is 1 kilogram! 100,000 is a full ton! 500,000 is five tons!
You let Jon? Where did Earl Clinton find so many golden dragons at one time? What's more, his old man's wishful thinking is to resell the "turnip" to Mace? Tyrell is playing empty-handed (tào) white wolf for profit! What's more, even if he has so much gold, it is wishful thinking to ship it in a short time, assuming that a car with 200 kilograms will need a full 25 cars! What's more, there is still a war now, if someone cuts off the beard, isn't it a loss?
"Well, let's attack the city directly!" Jon? Earl Clinton completely abandoned the idea of a peaceful solution. Then he ordered his men to go to the cutting of wood and make siege equipment.
See Jon? Like Earl Clinton, Han Xing had no choice but to continue to play his role responsibly and said, "Let's discuss it again!" Why don't you pay half of the deposit upfront! A third of them will do! If not a tenth! You're back! "And Jon? Earl Clinton is a bull temper, and he will never compromise on what he has decided (qíng), so Han Xing has no intention of turning back.
In fact, this trick is extremely effective when shopping, pretend to give up and leave, the general seller will be willing to accept your price, as long as it is not really a loss, it will definitely accept, otherwise, if you can't do this business, you won't get anything, and it's better to make less money than the backlog, isn't it? Anyway, if you can't sell it, it's not the buyer who will suffer when the time comes, right?
In fact, Jon? Earl Clinton heard the hoarse cry of the damn greedy "guard" behind him, and felt a secret feeling in his heart: "Let you get along with me, insatiable, right?" Toast without eating and eating penalty wine! If you don't play with you, you'll regret it! Hahaha! ”
"Are you sure you don't want to buy this Robert? Baratheon? This is your last chance! Han Xing was still playing the role of a greedy guard, and then pretended to cry and scream, towards Jon, who was gradually moving away? Earl Clinton said in his back. Actually, Han Xing was telling the truth, but Jon? Earl Clinton has decided to use another simple solution.
It took the army nearly a few hours to build the siege machine, which is not true, because it was just a dozen ladders and a rude ram. Obviously, Jon? One of the reasons why Earl Clinton considered a peaceful solution to the problem was that his troops were tired from a long distance and had to travel for several days, and they did not want to engage in new battles, but to repair them. So much so that Jon? When Clinton gave the order to siege the city, they all complained about him, and one by one they muttered unwillingly, and then slowly cut down a few trees and made a few siege equipment that had not even scraped the bark clean.
Of course, there is also a reason that they think that there are not many people to attack this town, so there is no need to make a lot of sophisticated siege equipment, "Just the few defenders at the head of the city, a few hundred people can easily handle it!" "The king has already slacked off when he leads the army from the bottom of his heart.
In the tower at the head of the city, Han Xing asked people to help change his armor while saying to Robert, who was also wearing armor, "It seems that we can only delay it for so long, at least Jon?" Clinton dragged his feet under the city for half a day, hoping only that Horst? Reinforcements from the Duke of Tully could arrive in time. ”
"It's not easy, Jon? Clinton! Just let me weigh your pounds! Robert roared so much that the servants beside him (shēn) who were helping him tie his armor belt were startled by him.
When the servant dressed him, Robert lifted the hammer and flipped it in his hand, "I really want to see that guy know that I am the Robert he was looking for?" What will be the qíng when Baratheon, defending the city is much more interesting than the field, and whoever dares to come up will be smashed under the walls with a hammer. Or head him in the head before he even climbs up! Hahaha! Han Xing thought to himself, "Wouldn't that be like whack-a-mole?" I didn't expect Robert to have this kind of (ài) good! Han Xing even made up the appearance of Robert wearing this (shēn) equipment but holding a small plastic hammer to smash the gopher in the game hall, which made people look unbearable! But I'm afraid the gopher machine can't withstand Robert's "destruction"!
"Seven Layers of Hell! There are so many of them! Robert looked at the dense army of the king's army about 2 kilometers outside the city, and suddenly felt his scalp tingle, and sighed.
"Don't worry, they know very little about us, in fact, they don't even know if you're really Robert or not, and they don't know that we still have tens of thousands of horses, which is where our advantage lies; Moreover, our soldiers are far better than they are, and we not only have walls to defend, but also to work at ease. What's more, reinforcements will come sooner or later! Ann! Han Xing patted Robert on the shoulder and comforted him.
"In my opinion, let's just have a refueling tactic, only a few hundred people standing at the head of the city, and then let the other side take it lightly, and even play wheel warfare, so that they think that we really only have a few hundred people, as long as there is damage, we will add new troops to enter. And the troops are rotated every two hours, leaving 2000 troops on standby, and the rest of the troops taking turns to rest. Han Xing came up with a bold idea.
(shēn) Robert, who was watching the royal army in a daze, nodded immediately after hearing this, he also liked this kind of "obscene" tactics, not to mention, foot combat is his strong point, and defending the city is even simpler, he doesn't need to smash the enemy to death, he just needs to smash him out of the city wall, and he can choke him enough!
The king's army will soon be in Jon? At the urging of Earl Clinton, an assault force was prepared, and in view of the sparse "siege equipment" they had made, only nearly a thousand men took part in the attack, after all, those rudimentary wooden ladders were no more than a dozen at most. If tens of thousands of people go up together, they won't have time to climb the city wall, but they may suffer a lot of damage because the queue is too dense, and it is not as efficient as a thousand people to attack!
They were in groups of five or six carrying the wooden ladder, which was no more than three or four meters long, and then trotted towards the city wall. This is just one of the teams, and there are more than a dozen other teams. Behind these siege echelons were neatly lined up spearmen, dressed in leather armor, chainmail at vital points, and round helmets on their heads, although they were indeed metallic, but they looked gray, and I don't know if the metal was not pure enough or the blacksmith did not bother polishing it in order to save energy.
Even at the head of the city, Han Xing could hear the neat footsteps of these soldiers as they advanced, both sounding and looking extremely intimidating, no wonder the Romans liked to step heavily, making very loud and neat footsteps, so much so that they were described as "stepping like elephants", and all this was just to make the enemy fearful.
When the enemy army entered within 1000 meters, Han Xing began to put the archers in position, the archers were the most complete unit of the Robert army, whether it was the previous battle of Cen Shutan or the subsequent ambush in the canyon, the archers almost did not suffer any damage.
When the enemy army entered 250 meters, Han Xing ordered: "Draw the bow!" A few seconds later, he gave a random order: "Shoot the arrow!" Suddenly, the city was filled with the sound of "boom~boom~" when the tight bowstring was released, as well as the "whoosh~whoosh~" sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air.
A rain of arrows (ròu) was visible and flew towards the besieging troops, and even for a moment it was as if there were dark clouds covering the afternoon sun, and the soldiers of the besieging troops were still very idle (qíng) bowing their heads or whispering to each other!
In an instant, the rain of arrows fell on them (shēn), and the fate of this rain was definitely not as simple as catching a cold or hair (rè), several people led the soldiers to die on the spot, and these unlucky people were hit by the throat (shè). More often than not, they were hit in the torso and immediately lost their combat effectiveness, and some were pierced through their limbs, so they had to wail there.
In just one wave of arrow rain, Wang Lingjun fell more than 200 people, obviously, they paid a terrible price for their light enemy! Before the survivors could raise their shields to defend themselves, another wave of arrows followed, and they were like flowers blooming in a torrential rain, and they were suddenly brutally destroyed.
You must know that the speed of the archers (shè) is already fast, let alone the archers who occupy the commanding heights of the city? They hardly needed to aim, this was because the king led the army to be careless, and they didn't think that there would be a few archers in the small Shitang town at all, so they crowded the team densely, and deliberately made a neat stride, probably trying to scare the enemy in this way!
There were a little fewer people who fell in the second wave of arrows than in the first wave, mainly because the casualties caused before caused the formation of Wang's army to become a lot looser, and the other is
Since most of the archers of the Robert army were hunters in the mountains. (They offered permission to hunt in the liege's lands by promising to join the archer troops in the war in exchange.) Poaching and logging were criminal in the Middle Ages, Jorah? Mormont was deposed by Ed for selling a few poachers to slave traders. The aristocratic lord is so domineering, the forests on the territory are his own family, and it is a crime for a poor man to cut down two trees and fight two deer, and it is really bitter to be a poor man in the Middle Ages! )
The bows in their hands are mainly hunting bows, this kind of bow (shè) is fast, but not very powerful, Wang Lingjun only bows his head, and his helmet in the arrow (shè) is basically unable to inflict fatal damage on them, at most leaving a pit in their skull, so that whether it can have this effect usually depends on the quality of the blacksmith (qíng) who beats the helmet. If he had a bad heart (qíng) when he built the helmet, then he probably didn't even have a chance to break his head and bleed, and he was directly wrapped in his head.
However, they are all good players, and they all use bows and arrows to "move targets" in the forest (shè), and now (shè) these targets are almost untechnical, so they are not hand-to-hand?
Therefore, although the second wave of arrow rain was slightly less effective due to its power, there were still a full hundred and fifty people lying on this nameless land outside Shitang Town forever.
"Knock~~~Knock~~~~~Knock~~~~" At this moment, the solemn bell rang in the Stone Shrine, as a historic church, the sound of the bell ringing in the Stone Shrine was enough for the residents of the entire Stone Hall Town to hear clearly.
The bell was a warning to the inhabitants of the city not to go out at will, but what the monks didn't know was that one of their habitual actions actually made the impending battle "The Battle of the Bells" by mistake (yīn).