Chapter 242: Brutal Blood Troupe
No one would be kind enough to observe a moment of silence for Gales Rose, Earl of Rossby, at least not the Warriors.
Wag Holt rode on a country road, with the deputy head of the Warriors, nicknamed "Pious" Uswick on the right, and Shagvi, nicknamed "The Joker", on the left, and they led more than 300 cavalry of the Warriors Bloody Troupe to the outside of Rosby.
As the name suggests, Rosby City is the home fort of the Rosby family.
It is located less than thirty miles off the northern coast of King's Landing, and is a shortcut to King's Landing to the town of Twilight. The actual appearance of Rosby City is not as generous as its name.
It is said to be a castle, but in fact it is just a village surrounded by wooden fences, and there are huts made of wooden strips and mud everywhere.
Because the territory belonged to the royal domain and had not been affected by the war for a long time, the inhabitants of the villages and towns were relatively prosperous, and it is said that a lot of food for the winter was stored.
Wag Holt led the cavalry to the castle and shouted to the sluggish guard on the wooden door, "Let your count come out and open the door to greet you." ”
Gales was able to become an earl thanks to his second wife and the fact that the territory was close enough to King's Landing.
His wife's aunt was Lady Tanda Stockworth, who was also Tanda Smithworth's third representative, otherwise he would have been just a knight in a fiefdom.
Looking at the surging warrior group outside, the guard was frightened, and immediately retracted his head back into the wooden fence, and hurriedly reported to the lord's mansion.
But not long after the guard left, Wag Hott and his cavalry lost patience.
Wag Hoult saw that the wooden city gate in front of him was very fragile, and he also saw that the guards on the wooden city were all frightened.
He immediately ordered the deputy head of the regiment, Uswick: "Let the brothers all put on their helmets and put down their masks." Beware of stray arrows in the melee. ”
Uswick rode to the rear of the team to give the order.
The clown, who had never been accustomed to wearing helmets, quickly put on his helmet when he heard this, and grinned: "I like the location of this castle, it is so close to King's Landing, and I don't have to worry about not being able to afford a house and brutally stabbing snails passing by." ”
At this moment, on the high wall, a trembling old man poked his head out.
The old man's face was blue and red for a while due to the violent running, and he coughed violently for a while, and then shouted with difficulty: "Ahem...... I am the lord of Rosby City, don't fight, good man, we are willing to offer food, open the door for you to enter, and I ...... Ahem me...... Allegiance to Lord Tywin......"
With a whoosh, the crossbow shot out, and the Earl of Rossby was coughing and shouting, and the arrow was planted against the wall.
Wag Hult looked at the clown holding the crossbow in the direction of the arrow, and he scolded angrily, "Bastard, didn't you hear him say to open the door?"
The clown looked aggrieved and said, "I hate coughing." ”
And the deputy commander behind him, Uswick, had already turned back on horseback at this moment, shouting loudly.
"Long live the blood drama troupe, kill!"
Immediately after, a rain of arrows covered the high wall. Several crossbowers on the walls fell to the ground in shock.
The Warriors marched forward.
"Enemy attack! Return fire!"
The guards on the high wall had also recovered from their sluggishness, and someone began to shout.
Then came the whining of the trumpet, which came from the large wooden door.
The guards inside were still gathering in a hurry.
Outside, there was already the sound of horses' hooves, thundering.
More than three hundred war horses began to accelerate and sprint, and on the high wall, there were soon more than a dozen crossbow archers shooting outward, but they had just probed, and they were soon covered by the cavalry archers outside with a dense rain of arrows.
Another scream rang out.
The cavalry of the Warrior Regiment shot arrows while running, indiscriminately covering the high walls.
No one dared to venture out of the high wall, but there were still arrows shot from it, some from the shooting holes, some with bows and arrows to hear the sound, and different probes could shoot high arcs to hinder the siege cavalry.
However, this bit of firepower was like a tickle in a hole for the heavily armed cavalry of the Warriors, and the cavalry in the front row raised their kite oak shields, which could almost parry most of these stray arrows from a distance.
Soon, the vanguard of the Warriors in the front row had already rushed to the high wall.
All the men hung their bows and replaced their riding spears, and the long cavalry spears several feet long were clamped under their armpits, straightened into a row of guns, and the war horses galloped forward side by side.
The clown who followed the vanguard on horseback and shouted, "Aha! ”
Because of the mask, the clown's voice sounded a little out of tune, and his half-smiling voice was sharp and hoarse, very weird.
Uswick, the deputy commander who led the charge of the vanguard, held high the gun flag and shouted in front: "The wooden gate is not strong, the warriors will charge me, and the cowardly will die." ”
Amid the roaring sound of horses' hooves, the vanguard of the Warriors all had hideous faces and roared at the same time.
"Charge!"
The cavalry kicked their spurs together, and the horses were in pain and galloped forward.
When the horses were about to hit the wooden door, the vanguard of the Warriors shouted again with all their strength.
"Long live the Warriors!"
The shouts are used to strengthen courage, but they do not change a basic fact.
No matter how fragile the wooden door of the castle is, it cannot be broken by a few horses, so the moment the vanguard cavalry led by it hits the wooden door, people suddenly roar and neigh, spraying a stream of rich bright red.
First of all, the brains of the war horses burst, and then the huge cavalry spears in the hands of the cavalrymen, making a clicking and breaking sound.
Then, the vanguard cavalry of the Warrior Regiment encountered strong resistance, and instantly slammed into the wooden gate in all directions.
Under the first round of impact, the wooden door only shook violently twice.
However, the second and third impacts that followed, before the wooden door stopped from trembling, slammed forward again like a pendulum hammer.
After three rounds of impact, the fragile single-layer partition wooden door could no longer withstand the pressure of more force, and collapsed towards the castle.
Behind the wooden door, the guards of the Rosby family saw rows of cavalry roaring towards them, and none of the cavalry who rushed to them turned uncontrollably, and their bodies wrapped in iron armor slammed into the wooden door without fear.
Almost all of them were scared silly.
This cavalry, which did not talk to the end of the battle at all, did not want to die, shouting the slogan of the notorious warrior regiment, and hit their heads one by one in front of them, and I am afraid that anyone with poor mental quality will be frightened to the sky.
Bang!
There was a loud sound of a wooden door falling.
The ground at the city gate shook and the gray dust splashed, and dozens of horsemen and knights stepped on the corpses left by the vanguard without hesitation and rushed into the castle.
The cavalry spears had long been thrown away, the long swords were in hand, and in front of them was a chaotic slaughter field, and the small units patrolling and guarding were routed at the slightest contact, the wounded screamed, and the living fled for their lives.
The cavalry that followed behind quickly divided into several groups and began to gallop through the streets of the castle, and wherever the horses passed, the living were silent.
Some of the cavalrymen didn't even know where to light the torches, and they held swords in their right hands and torches in their left hands, slaughtering and setting fire to the city.
Screams rang out.
The clown led a cavalry team of the Warriors along the central avenue, and soon the straw roofs of dozens of wooden houses along the street were set on fire.
The flames were blazing and the smoke was billowing out.
As the horses neighed, the leader of the Blood Opera Troupe, Wag Hoult, led his personal guards and slashed off the head of a black shadow in front of him with a sword, and when the head flew up, his hand was already holding the reins of the war horse.
The war horse stopped, and he looked up at the gate of the tall lord's mansion in front of him, sneering.
Every time the vanguard of the warrior regiment survives in a siege battle, he has the right to share the most treasure in the slaughter and to enjoy the most beautiful women in the noble mansion.