Rewind to seven days ago.

Location, Elbuck Castle.

The Vigian army has begun to storm the city.

Maliga himself went into battle, commanded his men, erected siege ladders and siege towers, erected catapults, and stopped a large number of archers, and launched a rainstorm on Elbuc Castle.

He was so angry, for he saw with his own eyes that the captured sword of the family of Maliga was hung on the tower, and there was a child on the wall who peed on the sword! At the same time, someone shouted:

"Maliga lost his son in old age, Larcha lost his army, and Dorupoye couldn't sleep all night!"

"It's another delicate flower of a famous general, and it died without even touching a single Nord hair... Haha! ”

"Maliga will only surround thousands with thousands and bully more and less, but he can't even keep his own son, what face does he have to command this 10,000 army? Now that I have lost my son in old age, I am afraid that in the future, the Maliga family will be removed from the Calradia continent! ”

Maliga could only roar angrily: "Rush! Rush! Rush! Present the heads of Rudaboye and Iaya with a reward of 100,000 gold, be crowned lord of Elbuk Castle, be crowned with the rank of general, and be promoted to the rank of count! Everyone, give it to me! Kill them! Kill them! ”

One after another, Vigian soldiers rushed to the other side of the moat under the cover of rushing carts, first pushing in the soil and laymen to fill the river, and then approaching the walls with ladders and moving towers. And above Elbuk Castle, the crossbowmen bent their bows and arrows, concentrating their fire on the outcropping enemy and firing fiercely!

When supervising the battle, he found that Dorouboye's men were slacking off in attacking the city, and he was very annoyed, and then gave a death order to Doroupoye: "General Doroupoye, please take charge of the battle here, take this gate within three days, I am in the rear, waiting for the general's good news!" ”

Doruboye was shocked and excused himself: "What? General Mariga, though the enemy army is few in number and of uneven condition, but the fortified city of Elbuk Castle, the terrain is dangerous, and the garrison is so well guarded that I cannot take this gate in three days. ”

Maliga then smiled and said disapprerovingly: "Your soldiers are lax, so naturally they can't take it." ”

Dorupoye's face changed, and he said displeasedly: "What? General Maliga, are you saying that I deliberately slackened off in the war? ”

Mariga roared, "Look at your soldiers! The soldiers are not sharpened, the armor is not ready, the face is tired, and the sword is not raised, is this not a slack in war? ”

Doruboye was furious and said, "Elbuk Castle is already a strong city, if it is attacked, even with ten times the number of troops, we will not be able to take this city, not to mention that our troops are only three times that of our opponent!" Even though there is a steady stream of reinforcements coming from the rear, the Nords are born to defend the city, and if we attack, we will only double our losses... And you! If you don't listen to the advice, insist on going your own way, and forcibly go to the city to fight, our good Virgian Snow Boys will be buried under this city gate because of a simple order from you! ”

Maliga's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "General Dorouboye, are you questioning my orders?" ”

Doruboye smiled and said, "General Maliga, to be honest, I don't agree with your military command ability and your judgment of the battlefield situation at all. ”

Maliga then drew his sword and shouted, "Doruboye! Do you think the sword in my hand is not sharp enough? ”

Doruboye also drew his sword in his hand: "I don't know if your sword is sharp, but do you think that my sword cannot kill?" ”

Seeing that the two were about to fight, Lal was extremely anxious, and with a shield in each hand, he separated the two and shouted: "Your swords and knives are used to kill the enemy, not to attack your comrades!" The soldiers at the front are fighting bloody battles and shedding blood for the country, and you, the generals, are actually fighting among themselves! Are you still the generals of my kingdom of Virginia? Where did you put the great Majesty Yarogerke?! Hmph, that's chilling! ”

Hearing that Larcha moved out the name of Yarogark, Mariga snorted coldly, then put his sword into the sheath, and went to the front-line command post without looking back, and went to supervise the battle in person.

Doruboye looked at his distant back, snorted coldly, and put away his knife as well.

Ralcha persuaded: "General Doruboye, the lord of Maliga is a little impatient, his beloved son has just died, so he is eager for revenge, you don't want to be like him." ”

Doruboye said: "Hmph, this lord of Mariga, relying on his own 10,000 soldiers and horses, dares to be so presumptuous and ride on my head!" The situation in front of us is clearly to encircle the point and send reinforcements, wait for the enemy to run out of food, and then fight a decisive battle in the field. He pretended to avenge the death of his negligible son, and let the two good men under him charge forward to storm the castle of Elbuk, but the castle was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and how much did we lose for no reason with only rolling stones and wood? ”

Larcha nodded and said, "Yes, we have to find a way, if we continue to attack like this, we will only increase casualties in vain." ”

I saw that on the other side of the battlefield, one siege ladder after another was erected, and the Vigian army scrambled to climb it first. However, under the rain of arrows and oil, the siege ladders were burned, and the soldiers were either shot into hedgehogs or burned into fire men by the rain of arrows, and only two or three out of ten people were able to approach the city walls. But in front of the powerful Nord defenders, the other side was condescending, and the two sides were short-handed, and they could only die helplessly.

One corpse after another fell, and soon piled up into a mountain of the dead made of congealed blood and rubble.

Under the command of Lord Mariga, another battering ram reached the gates under the cover of planks and large shields, and the main composition of the battering rams was an incomparably heavy log, which relied on inertia to continuously hit the gates. But the gate was additionally reinforced, made of steel throughout, and behind the gate were countless stones and soil grains, and then poured cold water, and when the cold wind blew, the stones and soil particles froze together, so strong that even with the power of the battering ram, it was difficult to break through.

In this way, the Viggia army continued to attack for a day and a night, and failed to take Elbuc Castle, but suffered heavy losses of its own, but in the rear, there was a steady stream of Viggia troops to support it, so the combined forces of Ma, La, and Doru not only did not decrease, but increased some.

Despite this, morale is inevitably a little low.

That night, Mariga urgently summoned Larca and Doruboye to the tent.

"The castle city of Elbuk is strong and dangerous, and it is difficult to attack, two, can there be a way to break the enemy?" Maliga lowered her posture and pleaded.

When he said this, he was actually admitting his mistake for his erroneous command during the day.

Doruboye didn't appreciate it, but just stood by and watched coldly, with the attitude that I would accompany you as you wanted. Ralcia thought for a while, and then suggested: "General, you can send an elite army to open the tunnel with a shovel and go directly to the castle of Elbuc, so that you can bypass the defensive force in front of the opponent." ”

Maliga nodded and said, "This is not a bad idea, let's take advantage of the night tonight." ”

Soon, Mariga organized a spade army and dug overnight to attack the enemy's city from underground. The reconnaissance team of the castle saw this scene and immediately reported it to Lord Rudapoye, who hurriedly summoned Iaya to discuss countermeasures.

Iaya thought for a moment and said, "This Maliga attacked during the day, but he couldn't advance an inch, and when he saw that he couldn't break through from the front, he was ready to infiltrate from the ground. ”

Rudapoye asked, "Is there any countermeasure?" ”

Iyaa replied: "Gather all the people of the city, distribute hoes and shovels, and dig a trench around the wall, and the trench must be deeper, deeper than the moat outside, and if there is a mouth of the tunnel in the ditch, then attack the mouth of the tunnel, and it will be enough." ”

Rudaboye followed the plan, and then mobilized the people of the city, distributed digging tools, dug deep trenches around the city, and at the same time sent men and horses to look around the ditch to prevent the enemy from breaking through.

Sure enough, a certain section of the trench began to loosen the soil, and at the same time a hole was opened, and Rudaboye immediately gathered dozens of people to block the opening, which was very narrow and could barely accommodate two people to pass at the same time, so as long as there were ten Nord elite tree shields with guns, supplemented by bows and crossbow volleys, the digging troops could not break through, and could only return in disgrace.

Seeing that this ploy had not worked, Lord Mariga summoned his adviser and the other two lords to continue the discussion.

"Which of you has a workable solution?" Maliga asked with a grim face.

Ralcia just wanted to give advice, but Doruboye kept giving him a look, Larcia hesitated, still did not speak, he secretly glanced at Maliga, but saw that his face was cold, and his eyes inadvertently showed irritable emotions, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath, secretly glad that he couldn't give advice. Knowing that he had an original grudge against him, his son Hind can be said to have died due to his negligence. The previous plan to dig the ground did not work, but lost a lot of men and horses, if another failed plan was offered, then according to the character of this lord of Mariga, he might not say anything on his lips, but he would definitely be angry with him in his heart, so he simply did not say a word.

When Marika saw everyone talking, he was furious and said, "Why, are they all dumb?" Why don't you speak?! Yes?! ”

At this time, one of his staff officers hesitated, stood up, and said, "Men of Mariga, I have a plan, I don't know if it is feasible. ”

"Say."

The staff officer said, "I, the Virgia archer, am skilled in shooting and famous in Calradia. All we had to do was to gather around the perimeter of Elbuck Castle, build a mountain of earth with shovels, cut down logs, build temporary towers, and then distribute archers to the towers and aim them at Elbuk Castle, and fire a volley whenever anyone appeared. At that time, as long as I use the rain of arrows in my Virgia, I can turn Elbuk Castle into purgatory on earth! ”

Maliga felt that this plan was also a solution, so he began to arrange it according to his words. Within five days, twenty earthen hills were built, on which temporary towers were erected, and the Vigian archers climbed the towers, and when they saw the castle showing their heads, they rained down arrows. The Nord soldiers had to walk on their knees against shields, shields, or other obstacles.

Seeing this, Rudaboye consulted with Iaya again about a solution. Iaya replied with a smile: "This matter is easy to do, we have a lot of straw, ropes, stakes, etc. in the city, you can find someone to use these raw materials to tie into a scarecrow, cover the outside with clothes and armor, and erect it in the city, if the enemy wants to rain arrows again, use the scarecrow to attract firepower, and then we will not worry about running out of arrows." ”

When Rudapoye heard this, he laughed, but then asked worriedly: "Although this method is feasible, what should we do if the enemy shoots with rockets?" Wouldn't that scarecrow become the ignition of his Wiki Army? ”

"We can prepare catapults, ballistas and other defense equipment in advance, arrange them around the city wall, and if the enemy starts to shoot rockets, then use the equipment to launch a concentrated counterattack. ”

Rudapoye did what he wanted.

Sure enough, five days later, the other party built five dirt mountains, and at the same time built high towers, arrows rained down, and the city was basically shrouded in a rain of arrows, and soon, a large number of scarecrows were erected in Elbuk Castle, blocking the rain of arrows, and harvesting countless bows and crossbows and arrows out of thin air. At the same time, there was a loud voice in the city shouting: "Maliga has a clever plan, first send a son and then an arrow, Iaya am grateful!" Hahahaha! ”

Maliga was so annoyed that he immediately ordered all the soldiers: "Quick, prepare the oil and burn these scarecrows for me!" ”

Soon, barrels of oil were sent to the towers, and the arrows were bolted with fuel, impregnated with oil, and then ignited, and a series of rockets streaked through the air in a brilliant trajectory before being fired into the city. But after a rain of arrows, there were countless heavy cannon stones, long heavy crossbow arrows, and spears in the city like a meteor shower! They hit and pierced the makeshift wooden towers, and the archers on the towers were injurious. Seeing that this plan was ineffective, Maliga had no choice but to give up.

In this way, in the fierce battle between the two sides, a week passed in this way, and a messenger from the southeast also secretly entered the military tent of the lord of Larcia.