Volume 1 The Chaotic Order Chapter 77 The Drainage Raid
Fed and Greif, who was slightly wounded, waited until the main force of the Lunar Shield Mercenaries had moved to the rear of Desha Castle before they set off, heading in the direction of the drainage channel that Feder was pointing to.
The two-handed sword squadron led by the brothers Marcus and Matthews was ambushed in the distance of the main entrance, and they commanded a total of 400 two-handed swordsmen, based on the signal of Fed and Greif to stand on the arrow tower, and after lowering the drawbridge, they attacked directly from the main entrance.
Fei De saw that the soldiers patrolling the city walls were attracted by the main force of the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment moving behind the castle with great fanfare, but in the arrow tower at the main gate, he could still clearly see the heavily armed archers, patrolling the front of the castle without the slightest slackness.
"I mean, how big is that barrage?" Greif touched his chest, there was a visible scar on his shoulder, but he was lucky compared to the hapless mercenaries who either broke their hands and feet or lost their lives, "Are you sure I and you can get that piece of iron open?"
The "black flash" on Feide's body was taken off and handed to his brother Marcus, after all, wearing heavy plate armor and going into the water is equivalent to locking a large iron ball on his feet, and it is impossible not to sink to the bottom of the river.
"That barricade is about the size of your open hands and feet," Feder didn't take off the chain-covered glove in his hand, and he had a short dagger at his waist for any eventuality, "I think you can take it off alone." β
The two leaned down and slowly approached the place that Fide was pointing at, and the main force of the Moon Shield Mercenary Group was already standing outside the range of the trebuchet's attack, and many mercenaries began to shout and curse according to Fidel's orders.
The soldiers in Disha Castle had been woken up, and many of the soldiers who had just fallen asleep ran to the walls at the back gate of the castle and responded with curses, but the trebuchets and the crossbows in their hands did not start.
Fylde and Greif touched the edge of the wall and stood by the moat, unloading their shoes and other useless items and preparing to go into the water, "It's already scolding over there!" Greif reminded Feld that although he couldn't hear clearly, there was a lot of commotion coming from there, and even the soldiers of Desha Castle who were walking above them moved in the direction of the back door.
"Alright, get in the water," Fed jumped into the moat first, gesturing to the giant harpoon on Greif's back, "Are you sure you're going to take it down?"
"Sure, Lao Tzu can never go into the water without it. Greif has been "playing" with the sea and wrestling with sea creatures since he was a child, and this giant three-pointed harpoon has long since become his best friend and never leaves his side.
Fed took a breath and dived to the bottom of the river, followed by Greif, his harpoon helping him sink to the bottom faster than Fed. The bottom of the river was deeper than Fidel had imagined, and the rusty iron gate was in front of them, blocking the entrance to the drain.
Greif stretched out his hands and tried to pull the striped bar, but the dirty, slippery iron streaks didn't move, only some of the garbage scraps were ripped off by Greif. And Feder also tried to pull the iron bar with the enchanted glove in his hand, but it was obvious that his enchanted glove was not powerful at all, and the iron bar door was there quietly watching the two men take turns pulling him, but he did not make a "concession".
Fid and Greif swam back to shore and gulped for air.
"That's not going to work, thousands of people don't sleep, waiting for us to open the door for them!" Greif's sweat mixed with the river's water, and slowly flowed to the ground, and he pulled the iron gate under the water almost thirty times, but it showed no sign of loosening.
Fidel swam to the edge of the wall and listened to the concussions above.
"There are no more guards walking on the walls, and it is estimated that there are only archers and sentries stationed on the towers now, so we must hurry. β
"But we can't get it open!"
Fed looked at the giant harpoon behind Greif's back, and he suddenly thought of a good idea.
The two of them, who swam to the bottom of the river again, put the tip of the three-pointed harpoon into the gap in the iron bar, while they both held the lower half of the harpoon, and together pressed hard against the edge of the wall, prying the iron bar.
The two of them used all their strength under the water to pry the iron gate open, and the two tips of the three-pointed harpoon were slightly bent and deformed, obviously the result of mutual force.
Feyd and Greif immediately shrank and swam into the crevice, swimming above the sewers.
"Ahh
And Phyll swam out with it, and his head was covered in black garbage residue, but compared to his black hair, it was not black at all.
"Look ahead, there's a lock on the bar. Feder pointed upwind, and in addition to some small waterway openings that I didn't know where to connect and where sewage was dripping, there was an iron gate with a lock on it.
Greif and Fed approached to see that there were no people walking outside the bar, and the walkway outside the door was very dark.
Fidel pulled the short dagger from his waist, softly sliced the lock, and slowly pushed the iron door open. The rusty iron door made a "clang" sound, and the two of them immediately crouched down, but after waiting for a while, no guards came over.
The two slowly walked out of the iron gate and looked around. This was supposed to be the vicinity of the Kosai Kingdom soldiers' quarters, but most of the soldiers who had just fallen asleep had already climbed out of bed and ran towards the back door of the castle.
Just when Fidel and Greif thought there was no one around, Fylde suddenly bumped into a man in the darkness.
"Hey, who's there..."A soldier who was rubbing his eyes thought he had touched his own person, but Fei De immediately touched the other party's neck with the enchanted glove, and the soldier's neck felt a burst of coldness in the next second when he felt the numbness, and the blood and numbness in his throat increased together, and he died in Fei De's arms before he could react.
Feder gently lowered his corpse, took the opponent's short sword, and continued to grope forward.
And Greif didn't see what Fyld was doing, he only knew that Feder had dealt with a lost lamb in an instant.
The Moon Shield mercenary group at the back gate of Disha Castle spread out horizontally, and except for the archer squadron led by Alain, the other mercenaries were constantly shouting and scolding. Not to be outdone, the hundreds of Kosai Kingdom soldiers standing on the city walls roared in return to each other.
AndrΓ© said to Alain: "It's almost all right, you have the archers set fire and shoot at each other." β
This was one of Fidel's tactics - mainly to keep the enemy's attention from returning to the castle's main entrance.
Alain's thousands of archers began to slowly approach the castle, and the arrows on their bows were ignited and shot in the direction of Disha Castle. It's just that since they are standing outside the range of the trebuchet, it is impossible to shoot at the soldiers on the city wall, and even if they want to shoot into the moat, there is still some distance.
The Kingdom soldiers on the city walls began to laugh loudly when they saw the mercenaries outside the city wasting arrows there, and they also pulled the trebuchet and threw thick logs at the side of the Moon Shield mercenary group. A few logs were still rolling quickly towards where the archers were standing, and many of the archers were knocked to the ground before they could dodge.
Fed and Greif found a way up the walls, but there were a few soldiers returning to patrol the walls, which forced them to stop.
"In this case, let's go to the soldiers' quarters and steal a few clothes to change into, and then sneak into the tower. "Feder sensed that he had to go to the place where the drawbridge was lowered, and this was the only way to do it if he didn't kill him with one or ten.
Greif nodded in agreement. The two sneaked into a soldier's quarters in the dark, took out a few soldiers who were sleeping soundly, and then took their leather armor and put it on. Greif placed his massive harpoon under one of the soldiers' beds, only the bed still exposed a third of the harpoon.
With the daggers of the Kosai Kingdom soldiers pinned to their waists, infantry-style helmets on their heads, and torches in each hand, they swaggered up to the city wall like soldiers who had just woken up and wanted to come out to see what was going on.
"Hey, you've been woken up too?" a kingdom soldier yawned as he leaned against the battlements, his hands crossed over his chest, and he glanced at Feld and Greif with a helpless expression.
"yes, we're going to check it out. Fidel replied immediately.
"Hehe, I heard that those idiot mercenaries actually wanted to attack us with bows and arrows, but their stuff is a little too 'short'...", a lewd smile appeared on his lips, and Feyd and Greif immediately understood what he meant. The soldier shook his head, smiled and yawned again, unaware of the true identities of the two men in front of him.
"That's true. Feyder nodded, and continued with Greif towards the main entrance drawbridge switch.
The two found that there were less than ten people on the arrow tower at the main entrance, and they were all scattered, and Fed decided to let Greif lower the drawbridge while he took out the guards.
Fett approached each of the guards with an unusual smile, and ended their lives with cold chain-covered gloves and daggers, as if everything was so skillful that there was no rustiness in the slightest. When he encounters two people standing together, he will first break away from one of them, or make them look elsewhere, and then immediately deal with the other - lying without blinking, killing without mercy.
When he had eliminated all the guards on the tower, he found that he was neat and neat, and did not attract anyone's attention in the slightest. At the same time, he was surprised at how ruthless he was, if it was a killer for him to kill those bandits in a bandit stronghold, then tonight he was a night assassin and a disguised assassin.
At this point, Feder looked down from the wall, and Greif easily eliminated the half-asleep guard, obtained the right to open and close the drawbridge, and immediately burned the corpse of a soldier with a torch, and then threw him off the arrow tower.
When the brothers Marcus and Matthews, who were lying in ambush outside the main gate, saw the falling fire corpse, they immediately stood up and shouted, "Little ones, follow Lao Tzu!