Chapter 62: The Battle of Ram Gate
The USS Manchester United set sail with the first rays of sunlight rising from the sea.
The battleship sailed north along the coastline for a day and a night.
On the morning of the next day, arrived at the South Widow Wangnan Bay waters,
The United docked in a deserted village on the coast.
The sentinels sent out successfully connected with the Knights Templar who had fallen from Lovren at the entrance to Ram Hill behind the village.
After everyone rested for a while, the Manchester United continued to sail, sailing from the mouth of the Severed Limb River to the direction of the Ram Gate Fortress.
The Knights Templar, who had advanced by land, halted their rapid march under the leadership of Lovren.
They marched as stealthily as possible, slowly interspersed through the dense forests of Ram Mountain, and gradually approached the target as undetected as possible.
The Battle of Ram Gate officially began in the evening of the same day.
The Manchester United slowly sailed into the harbor outside the Ram Gate, and the castle guard prepared to board the ship for a routine check.
Duncan used the knight's sword to get them to put an end to this stupid decision.
The moment the guard's head was cut off.
On the port wharf, the bronze bell of the guard was sounded.
And on Lynn's battleship, a horn sound also spread throughout the port city.
The soldiers of the Cavalry Regiment did not hesitate to reload their crossbow arrows and skillfully set the thick and sharp arrows on fire with torches.
Whoosh!
The sound of constantly firing crossbow arrows resounded through the harbor waters.
Some of the castle guards, who arrived at the sound of the alarm bells, became the souls of the first ballista to be killed.
The rockets flying out of the crossbow quickly ignited all the large and small ships moored in the harbor, and the billowing black smoke quickly drifted in the air, and then by the sea breeze, it diffused into the castle inside the sea gate of the ram gate.
Soon in the city, a louder alarm bell sounded.
Lynn's sudden attack caught the Ram Gate garrison off guard.
Nearly 100 city defense troops in the city were all mobilized.
At first they thought of supporting the harbor guards from the direction of the Sea Gate, but they were soon intimidated by the tremendous power of the cross-ballistas.
Then, the only way to retreat was to defend the wooden walls of the tall water gates erected by the inlet port.
They tried to organize some sporadic counterattacks.
However, even the strongest archers will have a hard time hitting the United in port.
On the contrary, it was the Manchester United that came prepared, and the battleship had fierce firepower.
Twenty fully loaded crossbow guns, firing non-stop, completely forced the enemy to hide behind the wall, not daring to move.
The local lord, Baron Rammen, was an old farmer who had always been indisputable, 50 years old, but with a silver-white goat's beard on his chin.
His family has been running the castle for generations, making their main livelihood from fishing and animal husbandry in the area.
During the last crisis at Ram Gate Castle, he was a vassal of the Mandalay family in White Harbor.
The ships of the Fettling family launched a major attack on his territory.
The old baron with a goatee did not hesitate to raise the white flag and chose to join the Fitling family.
The baron, who did not overly participate in the battles between the northern families, thought that he would spend the rest of his life in such a peaceful way.
However, the battleship led by Lynn launched a swift and thunderous attack.
The Ram Gate walled city was directly blinded.
The goatee baron, who climbed the tower of the sea gate with an anxious face, looked at the extremely sharp warship outside the walled city, this menacing posture, as if he and the other party had a deep blood feud with eight generations of ancestors.
But the Baron Lord of Ram Gate swore that on the tall flagpole of the battleship outside, there was a huge half-eagle and half-lion flag tied up.
He hadn't seen it at all, or even heard of it.
"Who knows where these people from outside came from? My family has been on the east coast of the North for hundreds of years, and they haven't heard of this coat of arms, is it a new pirate force?"
The Baron of the Ram Gate scolded through gritted teeth.
Because of his excitement and indignation, the handful of white hair under his flushed cheeks looked even more silvery.
One of his attendants, who was busy with an iron helmet, glanced out of the walled city, then quickly retracted behind the battlements.
He snorted,
Then he held the iron helmet and whispered to the lord beside him, "Lord Baron...... I looked... How is it like the coat of arms of the Rothschild family in Biting Bay, a recent minstrel passing by said that the Rothschild family in the south of the East Coast inherited the power of the ancient falconry and lion, and for this reason changed the family coat of arms to the shape of a winged lion.
It is said that his family has a huge lion in his family, bigger than a dragon and more ferocious than a wolf. ”
"They? I remember, they're the same people that Fitling's Fort attacked and killed a while ago.
These people are crazy, they are here to provoke, damn it, the widow wants to kill the soldiers of his house. It's not me, damn it, the vassals of the Fitlin family don't mean I'm involved in this.
Listen, gather all the garrisons in the city at once, and if you disembark from the other side, give me a fierce counterattack with bows and arrows. ”
The commander in charge of the city's defense asked in a low voice, "But my lord, what if they don't get off the ship?"
"What do you think you can do? The Baron of the Ram Gate glared, blew his beard and cursed and retreated from the city wall.
On the USS Manchester United.
Since the ram gate in the harbor was guarded and the crossbow arrows were emptied, he had never seen a single figure within a radius of two hundred meters from the harbor.
So everyone shrank behind the wooden village.
Crossbows couldn't threaten the thick wooden walls, and the arrows of the opponent's bows couldn't reach Lynn's ships.
After a big fight, Lynn, who was in high spirits, could only go back to the cabin to drink and give Duncan the task of monitoring and threatening.
As long as the other party dares to take a step out of the walled city, what awaits them is the service of at least ten crossbows.
Lynn rejected all offers for peace talks.
It's useless to come out with a white flag, and the cavalry group is right to kill.
The siege lasted for more than an hour, and the soldiers defending the city of Rammen could only remain on guard at all times, fearing that a siege army would come out of the bilge of the terrifying warship in the harbor at any time.
When all the defenders in the city of Ram Gate were mobilized to garrison the side of Haimen, it was natural to think that the other party could no longer actually reach the city defense.
Suddenly!
The guards in the city rang the bell of the battle, and the commander in charge of the front-line troop dispatch suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
It was the bell of Simon.
The officer in charge of the city defense command shouted in panic: "It's not good, all the staff are ready to go to the west gate immediately!"
One of them spoke up, "But... What should we do here?, Lord Baron, let us stay on the wall of Haimen for half a step and not leave. ”
"Damn, are you deaf? The battleships outside the sea gate are just bait, they must have other reinforcements, ready to attack the city from the west gate. ”