Chapter 30: The Siege

Winter is a long time for everyone, but after all, there is an end to it, and the continent has ushered in a new spring, and of course, it has also ushered in a new round of military operations in various countries. Needless to say, the alliance between Kugit and Salander was about to launch an attack near the border of Chen Bing Rhodok, and Saiga Khan held his breath for a winter and brought out a semi-elite army of about 220 people, which can be said to be fighting for his own old book to regain face, and the other lords did not show weakness, and brought out their elites to join the battle group. Virgia and the Nord Kingdom will fight first to try their luck this year, and the major factions of the Svadia Kingdom are still divided, Prince Harungos wants to fight the Nords, King Harauth wants to take revenge on Virgia, Marshal Kraggs wants to defend the central part of the continent against a possible attack by the Kusa coalition army, and Lord Dirina says that he can fight everyone alone.

Leaving the others aside, Hu Bin and his wife Ben and Gerry slowly advanced towards the border fortress of Rhodoc, Amera, which had become Salander's new thorn in the side since Fort Garmici was lost to Salander by King Griffos and became the territory of the Sultan, it was too close to Salander. Hu Bin very much hoped that the coalition forces would capture Amera, after all, his fiefdom of Gamichi was nearby, and if it weren't for Rhodok's fear of being ambushed, it might have been looted as soon as spring began.

Nearly three months of raising troops has greatly increased Hu Bin's strength.

Berserk Crusader (Beginner): Kugit Rider 21 (level four), Hire Rider 14 (level four), Mercenary Swordsman 47 (level four), Salander Archer 12 (level four), Hire Crossbowman 36 (level three), Strength 130/130.

Muradine City Garrison: Mamluks 26 (level 5), mercenary cavalry 21 (level 5), Salander Defender 2 (level 5), Salander elite archer 32 (level 5), professional samurai 17 (level 5), Sentinel 32 (level 2), Salander light infantry 42 (class 2), strength 172.

Gree Army Lords: Kugit Guerrilla Marksman 14 (2nd class), Kugit Cavalry 21 (3rd class), Kugit Lancers 18 (4th class), Kugit Archers 11 (4th class), Kugit Senior Archers 8 (5th class), strength 73/91.

A large number of mercenaries were deployed to Hu Bin's ranks, and these warriors almost drained Hu Bin's taxes in the winter, and in addition to cultivating Mamluks, the Salander light infantry officially withdrew from Hu Bin's legion. Because there may be siege warfare, Hu Bin simply brought out all the hired crossbowmen who were used to defend the city in the early stage and had no development potential to enrich his ranged troops. Then there is the cavalry, which occupies a quarter of the proportion, and Hu Bin hopes to create a corps composed of pure cavalry, which can play the maximum role of the military flag. Hu Bin has never forgotten how the cavalry of the Swadia Kingdom slaughtered their own infantry.

Just as Hu Bin was hopeful, the army rushed to the outside of the walls of Fort Amera to organize the army, and then pounced on, well, the village of Chelez in the southwest. Hu Bin and his friends were stunned, decisively accepted the gifts from the nearby village of Selen and delayed the morning, and chased after the large army with the drooling Gerry who shared the spoils, and found that Chelez was still alive, so he had to spend the afternoon again, well, receiving gifts.

After a delay for half a day, Hu Bin and his friends finally found their big partners, and the capital of Rhodok, Jerqila, was surrounded by a team of more than 2,600 people from the coalition army. "Is the Saga Sultan going crazy for that guy from Griffos, even if the city is captured, it can't be defended, the Saga Khan is also crazy, and the most important thing is what the Hakim Sultan is doing, is everyone crazy? There are still villages over there that haven't been robbed, and no one has done it? "Hu Bin is going crazy, the big army is besieging the imperial capital, and he doesn't care about anything else. Seeing the Marshal of Salander, Muhai Yiboye, he was just in need of him to reconnoiter the nearby enemy, and before Hu Bin could ask the reason for the siege, he was taken away by the anxious Grela, and it seemed that it was not easy to maintain so many troops.

Gerry received the same task as Hu Bin, which was to reconnoiter the enemy in the direction of Viruga in the north, in fact, after setting off, Hu Bin understood the intentions of the two countries, the huge coalition army sought a frontal decisive battle, while the Rhodok army was an expert in fighting mountain guerrillas, and was led to the ravine to abolish the cavalry, which was not what Kugit wanted to see. Simply attack the enemy and save it, encircle the point and send reinforcements, what is there that Rhodok can't give up, the result is obvious, if the national capital is captured, it is estimated that the tomato is not red yet, and King Griffos's face will be green. The terrain chosen by the two countries is also quite good, a river cuts off the plain north of Jergarla, only one bridge is erected on the river, which is very eye-catching for the besieging troops, of course, whoever dares to come will be killed, surrounded by mountains in the west, there is only a lonely fort in the north by the sea, Fort Epadelle and a looted village of Epadler, and the east is the direction in which the army came, and a long mountain road waiting for Rhodok to detour over and not know the year of the monkey. The capital of Rhodoc has become a lonely city.

The more I thought about it, the more I admired the maker of the plan, but it is estimated that Hu Bin didn't expect that this plan came from his own planning, and Su Jia coveted a family heirloom jewelry to please his father, and as a result, he calculated such a desperate strategy. explained to Gerry, and Gerry sighed again and again that the battle should be fought like this.

Gerry and Hu Bin, who split up, divided the reconnaissance area, and from Gerry to the northeast, ransacked the village of Rudi in the lower reaches of the river, then bypassed the mountains at the end of the river and continued to explore eastward, reaching his mission point Serenmis, sacking it if possible, then returning to the vicinity of Viruga to complete the reconnaissance point, and finally returning to the warband to join the siege. Hu Bin's task is much more dangerous, first of all, to sack the village of Pavron on the south bank of the upper reaches of the river, cross the river from the bridge to the northwest to reconnoiter the movement of enemy troops near Fort Etsco, and at the same time threaten to harass the three nearby villages, but the looting is estimated to be impossible, unless Hu Bin wants to be torn apart by ten times the enemy, and it is obviously difficult for the Rhodok legion without cavalry to capture Hu Bin. After completing the diversion investigation, he also went east to reconnoiter the reconnaissance point near Viruga, and finally joined up with the main force.

In fact, Gerry, who has no station, is more suitable for Hu Bin's work, not to mention that his backpack is almost full, even if he loots two villages, it is estimated that he will have to throw away a large number of cheap items, which is very wasteful, and the whole cavalry corps is faster, which is obviously suitable for detecting the movements of the enemy army, Gerry also knows, but since Hu Bin has put forward a proposal that is beneficial to himself, he naturally has no opinion.

Is Hu Bin the one who makes himself suffer, after analyzing the situation, Hu Bin found an interesting place. If Rodok did not expect that the coalition forces would directly surround Gergila, then where would they think the coalition forces would attack? It is obviously the Fort of Amera, the east of Rhodok, which is closest to the coalition forces, so where will Rhodok's army go, apparently near Amera in the east. And Gerry's route is to the east, and he will meet an undefended village there, whether he will loot or loot, this is a question, the dead friend is not the poor road, I hope the backpack is full of Gerry not too greedy.

Hu Bin, who deliberately took a slow step, saw the figure of Gerry in the distance at the bridgehead, and ordered the vacancy on his body, and the food he had stolen was left by him for the besieging troops, and the marshal accepted his suggestion to return to the east to drive the cattle left in place after the looting to the besieged site for the army to consume. Hu Bin looked behind him, and then cautiously touched the northwest direction.

In front of Fort Aitesco, Hu Bin swaggered and ransacked Dumai Village, the lord of the fort was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, but he just didn't dare to come out, the intelligence showed that there were 130 people on the other side, although there were a lot of his troops, but the number of troops was really urgent, I don't know if there was an ambush behind, the large army was still rushing to Viruga, and he might not be able to come back as soon as he left. Seeing that the time was almost up, Hu Bin interrupted the looting, took a moment to forcibly requisition the belongings of the three villages, and unexpectedly obtained a silk horse, and in a good mood, he drove the stolen cattle back to Jerqila slowly, instead of going to Viruga to investigate, and the personal guard named Ryan had already helped him with the affairs of Veruga.

Back to the siege camp, everyone warmly welcomed Hu Bin, to be precise, the cattle brought back by Hu Bin, the camp was already full of the smell of beef, roasted and boiled, and there were many people who sprinkled salt on the beef leg meat and marinated the jerky on the spot. Hu Bin served a bowl of beef offal soup, accompanied his meal with bread and wine, and comfortably reported his investigation results and speculations to the marshal.

Gerry returned to the camp in the middle of the night, looking disgraced, and as soon as he returned, he screamed for an enemy attack. The soldiers on duty welcomed him into the camp in horror, and the army of at least 2,000 men chased him all night behind his ass, narrowly missing the pointed-nosed spears of the madmen.

Hu Bin ignored the commotion in the camp, slept beautifully until dawn, and saw Gerry, who had not slept all night, and also saw the super-large war group of Rhodok across the bank.