Anina Boyer may have a talent for intrigue due to her temperament, but she is undoubtedly a novice when it comes to military strategy. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Therefore, although Count Magali sent her three Vigia cavalry and two Vigia knights as assistants, Annina could not apply them perfectly, so that when she was far from Djerbo Fort, Zhu Peng already knew her own troop configuration:

With a force of one hundred and seventy-two people, in addition to the original one hundred and fifty Vigian bow infantry, she actually succeeded in recruiting a sixteen-man pirate army on the way, plus herself and five cavalry.

One hundred and fifty archers, fifty archers, including thirty fourth-class Vigia archers, twenty fifth-class Vigia marksmen, one hundred infantry, thirty fifth-class Vigia guards, seventy fourth-class Vigia infantry, such a troop configuration, basically equivalent to a boulder crushing the turtle, from the siege and training to Anina's accumulation of military experience, brushing resumes, all of them are alive.

On the other hand, Zhu Peng's Fort Djerpo, with 130 troops plus 8 hired crossbowmen and 22 Cerberus that lowered the morale of the opposing side, were far inferior to the opponent in terms of quantity and quality, but fortunately there was a geographical advantage of the defender and morale was available...... However, it is still difficult to win against each other, and the difference in the quality of the two sides in terms of fighters is too great.

The main body of the 130-person lunge force in Zhu Peng's hand, including the ten third-level soldiers promoted by the extermination of the Haikou Army last night, is only 30 Vigia guerrilla shooters, 10 Vigian veteran soldiers, and 90 first- and second-class mixed "battlefield cannon fodder" Vigia recruits and Vigia light infantry.

With such a lineup, to meet the elite troops in Annina's hands, even if there is an arrow tower to assist in defense, it is just a mantis arm as a car.

There may be a master of strategy/tactics on this continent who can forcibly reverse this disadvantage in battle with his military talents, but this does not include Zhu Peng, who is a martial artist, even if he has read a few military books to introduce boxing and martial arts, the accumulation of all aspects is not enough.

There is only a little more than a day left before Annina leads the army to the city.

............

Artiman is worthy of being a man of luck, although he is far from being a son of the plane or a son of luck in the Calradia continent, but at least he can be regarded as a master of luck.

Zhu Peng dug him out of the tavern in Jeerbo Castle, consumed a little essentia energy to take over the task on him, and after completing it, he reaped a lot of rewards, not just the construction of the arrow tower that belonged to his own reward.

The addition of twenty-two Cerberus and the arrival of the three "strategic treasures" of Cerberus Treasure can be said to be indirectly related to Arteman, which has increased the strategic strength of Zhu Peng's side.

On the barracks training ground in the middle of the night, the sky was already so dark that not a single practicing boy soldier was gone.

Zhu Peng wore a red cloak and bent the bow to shoot arrows, although the strength of the arrows was not large, but still none of the arrows hit the target, the tip of the arrow had a faint spark-like red, Zhu Peng shot twelve arrows in a row after the strength was exhausted, but the arrows shot accumulated heat and ignited the entire arrow target in the distance, and the raging flames burned fiercely, illuminating a small piece in a short time.

The horse was made of Lou fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt.

In the ancient Chinese history books, it is said that a person's martial arts are exquisite, which is three words: good at arching horses!

Zhu Peng bends the bow and shoots arrows, but also uses the strength of the bow and arrow to shock himself, easy to improve physical fitness, this is a technique of practice, if he is really on the battlefield, he still uses the best crossbow arrows to shoot the enemy more powerful. Because Rod Custer's body can't pull a heavy bow at this time, and the arrows fired by an ordinary hunting bow on the battlefield can't penetrate high-quality armor, so it has no lethality.

The three strategic treasures of the Flame Cloak, the Stone Wooden Shield, and the Flame Gem were all worn by Zhu Peng at this time, feeling their effects:

The Flame Cloak, a magical item made of underground spider silk, is already quite extraordinary after being impregnated with the fire magic of the Cerberus Nest for many years:

The long-range fire attack blessing is +1, and Zhu Peng's twelve arrows shoot at the burning arrow target at this time, also because of its effect, the firepower is more powerful than the small one...... However, Zhu Peng didn't like it very much.

The reason is very simple, wearing a big red cloak alone on the battlefield is like a big red envelope for the New Year, isn't it kneeling and begging people to set fire and shoot them?

In contrast, the stone and wooden shield like an ancient log fossil is more in line with Zhu Peng's aesthetics, and the round shield is very inconspicuous tied to the left elbow, which is a little less practical in combat, as a shield is not the harder the better, on the contrary, the harder it is, the more brittle it is, and it means that there is no shock absorption effect.

A really good shield is resilient, and in the words of national art, it means that rigidity and softness are tenacious.

The stone and wood shield is really a stone shield with a dead body, if Zhu Peng really uses it to meet the frontal blow of heavy weapons on the battlefield, I am afraid that the heavy blow will follow, and his arm bones will be broken.

However, this is a full defense +2 strategic treasure, not to mention that it is only a little weaker in protection, it is not protective Zhu Peng also pinched his nose and admitted, defensive strategic treasures fit their own talent and expertise, Zhu Peng is currently a comer, and he can't wait to hang a defensive side strategic treasure to improve the comprehensive combat power of the side.

As for the Fire Gem (pseudo), in the words of the old butler John Watson, this is a heavy treasure that can be used as an heirloom, and it is of great value in the long run, but Zhu Peng is more concerned about the effect of its magic diffusion after "shattering", rather than the long-term value.

As Zhu Peng was breathing after the arrows, a warrior came to his side, saluted and whispered a report.

“...... I didn't expect there to be an unexpected gain, I know. Exhaling lightly, placing the wooden bow and quiver aside, Zhu Peng turned and followed the warrior to the prison in Fort Djerpo.

It's still the torture room I was in the last time, but Matthew, the Junior Army instructor who was originally locked up here, has been secretly hanged. Old John had already waited here first, and there was a man tightly tied to the cross-shaped wooden frame of the torture room, but he was one of the six pirates captured before, and at this moment he was also scarred and fleshy, and he was about to get out of breath.

Zhu Peng was not surprised by the scene in front of him, because the order he gave to Old John was: "Torture to extract a confession until death......

As for what torture extorted confessions? Zhu Peng actually didn't know.

Fort Gerbo is not too close to the sea, there is also an Albuk Fort in the middle, there will actually be a thirty-person sea bandit quietly touching it, Zhu Peng is quite puzzled by this, if it is usual, it may be nothing, but because it is directly related to Arteman's task, Zhu Peng, who is afraid of missing a certain branch, subconsciously pays more attention to it.

Caught six pirates, the war was imminent, there were no ransom merchants or slave traders in Jerbo Fort, and Zhu Peng didn't want to recruit a few of them to affect the morale of the party, so he gave Old John the order in the preface, anyway, the pirates have no human rights, and it is best to be able to force out any secrets, even if they can't be asked, and even if they don't have any secrets, for a nobleman, it is not a matter to torture and kill six pirates hidden in his territory.

In the Carradian continent, such a thing is not bound by law, nor does it constitute a moral defect in the individual.

However, after Old John personally supervised the torture and death of five pirates one after another, the sixth pirate who seemed to be a small boss completely collapsed under torture and death threats, and he said that he knew a big secret, a big secret that could change a castle in the Nord kingdom and even stir up the coastal situation!

"You want me to come, I'm already here. Say, what a secret. ”

In the torture room, walking in front of the man, naturally a cell boss moved a chair that had been wiped clean and placed it behind the lord, Zhu Peng sat down, and said so.

“...... Call...... Whew, I want a lord's pardon, a Virginian commoner, and three thousand dinars. The little leader of the pirates, who was tied to the cross, gasped for a long time and said, asking for a lot of money.

"Greedy enough...... Lord's amnesty, commoner, 3,000 dinars...... What secrets can you know as a little pirate and dare to ask me for this price?" Pulling off his leather gloves, Zhu Peng looked at his slender white fingers, but he was not angry, but asked with a slight smile:

"The legendary pirate treasure, the legend of the goddess, the mermaid with the peerless beauty of the deep sea, or the Treasure Island...... It can't be a chart of the Fountain of Eternal Life, right?"

“...... No, it's the Pirate King Nabar, the promotion system he found, the second sixth-level army in the entire Calradia continent...... It's no problem to hand over Nabar to the Nord royal family and change castles, we were going to use this secret to build a pirate kingdom...... Woooooooo At the end, the little leader of the pirates began to weep, and it seemed that he felt very remorseful and bitter for the fact that he had confided his secret.

However, he couldn't survive the torture, and after opening the bow and not turning back, after howling twice, he finally chose to continue:

"Give me my lord's amnesty, and give me the value of a Virginian commoner, so that I can go to Kulau and open an ironworks, and live incognito as a small boss...... Otherwise, if you kill me, I won't say another word, because I can't escape the pirate's sphere of influence, and I'm still a dead word after all, and I'm afraid it will be worse than dying at your hands. ”

(It shouldn't be fake...... ）

This was the first thought that popped into Zhu Peng's mind, because he noticed that the man in front of him had a very clear distinction between the words Haikou and pirate in his consciousness, but this was a word of agreement.

If it weren't for a more detailed classification, he wouldn't have been able to distinguish so clearly as a Haikou who had not received any training in writing.

This is similar to Huaxia in China, Ruierdian in the Swadia Kingdom, the words are different, the meaning is similar, except for literary and historical scholars, there is not much difference between these names on weekdays......

"I can't give you three thousand dinars, if it's normal, it's okay to sell your secret for three thousand dinars, but I've been short of money recently because of some things, I can give you five hundred dinars, you run all the way south, whether it's to Swadia or even to the Sultan of Saland, you can avoid the revenge of the pirates, and wander the world as a traveling merchant." ”

Rod Custer's words made the pirate leader very disappointed, but his heart also collapsed a lot, if the other party didn't say a word and agreed to all his conditions, he was afraid that the other party would break his promise. Now, you shouldn't have to worry about a nobleman breaking his promise for five hundred dinars, right?

"The Pirate King Nabal, who had fought a great battle with the lord of Fort Bruga off the coast of Virginia, suffered many casualties on both sides, and was kicked by another Virgian nobleman when he was at his weakest, and did not even run away. Luckily, however, the Virgian nobleman did not know Nabal's identity, and after a while, whether he was sold to a ransom merchant or a slave trader, Ramon, Nabal would return to the coast without any problems...... However, the Virginian nobleman suddenly got into a fight with the Nord noble, and Nabar was not released, so a group of pirates came to the Virginian nobleman's fiefdom to see if there was a chance to rescue the pirate king. ”

"Do you mean ...... That Virginian nobleman's name is William Custer?" At this moment, in the torture room, everyone from Old John to Zhu Peng was stunned, but the man on the other side nodded slowly, but he sat down.

The first-level prison can hold fifty prisoners, the second-level prison can hold a hundred prisoners, and the second-level prison in Fort Djerber holds eighty-eight prisoners, of which eighty-two are Haikou pirates, the reason why Zhu Peng knows that he is invincible to Anina's elite army but still holds it is because he plans to recruit all the eighty-eight prisoners in the prison if necessary and pull them out to carry a wave.

However, this is not an easy task, not to mention the damage to the discipline and morale of the Djerbo Fort army caused by the addition of a large number of pirates, that is, whether Zhu Peng can successfully surrender, and whether he can suppress this group of beast-like Nord pirates after the successful surrender, these are all two things.

The Nord Haikou is not inferior to the powerful combat power of the mainland's third-level infantry, and after they are well fed and equipped with armor and weapons, if they fight back and occupy Jeerbo Fort first, Zhu Peng may not even have a way to escape.

"Young master, everything he said is true, we will hand over the pirate king Nabar to the Nord royal family, and we will not ask for another city, as long as the Nord royal family admits that we will not pursue our occupation of Albuk Fort, it is enough, and even we can turn our backs on Virgia and join the Nord kingdom camp. Old John knew about the pressure of the Riwa Che army, and he had accumulated huge pressure in his heart these days, so he came to Zhu Peng's side at this moment and whispered softly.

"No, Castle Djerbo is the foundation that my father spent half his life and hard work to build, and if you want to take it in my hands, you can, fill it with enough blood and life. Standing up suddenly, Zhu Peng drew his long sword and cut the ropes on the krate leader's wrists, and then dragged him into the prison.

"Nabal, I am Rod Custer, lord of Djerborburg, and I can't imagine that a pirate king could have been wronged for so long in such a shabby and dirty place...... If you want to establish a pirate kingdom and be the king of the sea, do you refuse to show up after being called to break through the form? Do you have to identify you as this traitor in my hand?"

Zhu Peng glanced at the strong, dirty, unkempt and black-faced men in the prisons on both sides, these Nord pirates shouted angrily at the traitor who was dragged upside down, spitting, and smashing things, compared to the enemy, there was no doubt that the traitors were more resentful, and the cell bosses around him ran out to beat and suppress the riot with weapons, until a large and stout one-eyed man with a breath on his body like a lion stood up, he pushed aside the subordinates who were blocking him and looked directly at Zhu Peng, and the wild and untamable pirate riot in the prison fell silent.

This scene let Zhu Peng know that the man in front of him really has a very high reputation among the pirates.

"Aristocrat...... What do you want from Nabal? money, or power?"

"Poof......" Zhu Peng didn't answer the pirate king's question immediately, he turned around and grabbed the pirate leader's hair, and the long sword in his right hand swiped on his throat, killing the other party like a chicken.

"I ...... Just want to make a deal with you. With his left hand released and his right hand holding the blood-dripping sword, Zhu Peng's gaze looked directly at Nabal's one-eyed and said.

...... A scattered group is undoubtedly difficult to control without a head, but when the group itself has an organizational structure, everything becomes traceable, and the vacuum of human power must be filled after all, from ancient times to the present, in all times, in any plane, almost never without exception......

A day and a half later, Anina led her elite troops "belatedly" at Fort Derbor.

On the city wall, Zhu Peng noticed that the size of her troops was larger than the information she had obtained, and it seemed that more wandering forces had been suppressed and subdued by Anina, this woman's personal charm and persuasive ability must have been quite high, and she seemed to be proud, completely ignoring the actual loss of combat power caused by the inclusion of pirates and even robbers in the elite troops.

The number of troops under the general's hands is actually not as much as possible, and there is a military proverb that there are not many soldiers, and Annina is obviously not blessed to hear about it.

"Rod, let's have a good talk, your father took the Nord Kingdom's Albuk Fort without permission, this kind of thing will definitely cause a conflict between the two countries, you come to me, I will intercede with my uncle on your behalf, although you may be punished, I promise that you and Uncle William will not live...... Oh. ”

With a wave of Zhu Peng's arm on the city, a rain of arrows fell from the arrow fort stuffed on both sides, and the pale red light on the flame cloak flickered, and the sharp edges of the arrows where the rain fell ignited a faint flame.

One of the five knights behind Annina, the war horse under him was even directly shot by this large rain of arrows, and the group of six people retreated in embarrassment, looking at Annina's sharp swordsmanship of drawing her sword and slashing the fire arrows, Zhu Peng shook his head slightly, and put a question mark in his heart about many memories of Rod Custer.

At this point, there was nothing more to say on both sides, and the troops were arrayed to cut down and attack the city, and the tragic battle officially began.

Zhu Peng was followed by six two-handed swordsmen clad in full-body armor, and these were the strongest infantry in the tavern mercenaries: professional samurai.

Starting from a peasant, hiring sentinels, caravan guards, hiring swordsmen, all the way to a professional samurai, becoming a fifth-level soldier, the combat power is not inferior to the same level of troops in the mainland countries, just buying these six people cost Zhu Peng more than 2,000 dinars, and the 10,000 dinars saved by William Custer are all consumed today.

Even the first-level fire gem (pseudo), which was called an heirloom by Old John, was smashed by Zhu Peng, and the magic power that spread greatly increased the experience of one hundred first-level and second-level soldiers within the range of Fort Jerbo, and greatly increased the experience gain of one hundred first-level and second-level soldiers within Fort Jerbo, with an effect time of twenty-four hours.

With the spread of magic power after the fire gem was shattered, the main body of the 130-person lunge force in Zhu Peng's hand, the ninety battlefield cannon fodder bore the brunt, the forty Vigia recruits were all promoted to Vigia light infantry, and the fifty Vigia second-level light infantry were all promoted to the third level, Zhu Peng ordered them all to be transferred to Vigia guerrilla shooters, and after replacing with the large number of weapons and equipment in Fort Jerber, they finally barely reached the category of being usable.

Eighty Vigian guerrilla archers and eight hired crossbowmen were distributed on both sides of the arrow towers and city walls, condescending to pour fire to shoot opponents, Viscount William Custer was born in a mercenary, with a strong sense of distress, and the nobles usually enjoyed and did not care about pomp and circumstance, all the money saved was used to expand the army, and the entire Fort Gerber was extremely full of military supplies and food reserves, with the output rate of these eighty-eight archers, even if they shot for three days and three nights in a row, there would be no worries about insufficient supplies.

The siege war was at the peak of killing each other at the beginning, and Annina arrived last night, she actually asked her subordinates to build siege towers overnight, and then ran to the city to ask Rod Custer to sacrifice the city before the actual siege...... As soon as she was shot back, she pushed the siege tower bridge out of the forest the next moment, and she really didn't remember the overnight revenge, and she planned to report it on the spot if she had a revenge.

Before the infantry pushed the siege tower bridge to really build the city wall, it was originally the time when the defenders were slanting arrows to kill and injure the opponent with impunity, but the thirty Vigia archers and twenty Vigia marksmen behind Anina turned the situation into a mutual attack.

If it weren't for the two arrow towers that were slamming their big mouths at Arteman, these fifty elite Vigia archers would even be able to complete the reverse fire suppression on the lower gram, which means that their archery ability surpassed the geographical disadvantage and could forcibly suppress the defenders above the city.

However, the arrow tower itself has a reverse arrow defense design, and the shooters hidden in the arrow towers on both sides can shoot the enemy under the city "relatively" safely, while the shooters below are very awkward and difficult when they reverse shoot the invisible enemies in the arrow tower.

Although she was very surprised by this scene, Annina was only amazed by the wealth left by Viscount William to Rod, and she did not care about this small loss at the moment, because the siege tower bridge had already connected to the head of Fort Djerpo, and hundreds of elite infantry under her command would definitely be able to easily capture the castle, and when the time came, she would skin Rod Custer and soak him in a wine barrel to give to Viscount William to help her uncle sweep away this reckless hero who was faintly famous for his military talents.

However, the cards in Zhu Peng's hand gave Anina a blow.

More than eighty strong blonde-haired, blue-eyed Nord men, wearing heavy armor and wielding sharp axes, met the Vigian infantry on the narrow tower wall, flying axes and heavy javelins first smashed over like a crazy rainstorm, and then the wheel-like axes were wielded, especially the one-eyed and rugged huge strong man at the head, his strength was simply beyond Annina's understanding of pirates, and the heavy axe that tore through the wind and the sky broke the leather armor of the Viggia infantry like a letter, and easily killed them.

The fierce pirate king Nabar even killed the city so fiercely that he jumped onto the narrow wooden tower bridge for only two or three people to move forward, and after killing three or five Vigian infantry like a tiger, he retreated step by step back to the city defense, and the pirates mixed with the Riwa infantry saw Nabal with one-eyed hair, and turned around and fled in fear, and their confusion even squeezed some Vigian infantry off the tower bridge, nearly five stories high, after a collapse, even if Calradia was strong and lucky not to die, he definitely didn't have to continue to participate in this battle。

This is the disadvantage of mixing low-level troops in the elite, of course, there is nothing abnormal when fighting a tailwind war, and even the elite troops can slowly bring the low-level troops into elites, but in a deathmatch of equal strength, and even in a headwind war, the collapsed low-level troops will disrupt the elite formation, bring down morale, and even lead to rout and defeat.

Annina's vision is unmistakable, in Zhu Peng's essentia perspective, the pirate king Nabal is a veritable sixth-level class, a strong-level hero template.

The original pirates were the two levels of "Nord Farmers and Nord Bandits", and with the natural physique and excellent equipment of the Nord people, they became the strongest bandit organization in the Calradia continent, and even formed a certain degree of pirate culture in the Nord Kingdom, and the peasants were not ashamed of being pirates.

However, no matter how strong the pirates are, they are just "thieves", and the pirate king Nabal doesn't know where to find a new training and promotion system that is different from the Nord Kingdom: water pirates, pirates, pirates, pirates, pirate leaders, pirate kings, level one to six, in addition to the sixth-level "Nord" infantry of the Nord Kingdom, the second six-level troop system, although the actual combat power is probably similar to the fifth-level soldiers of other kingdoms, and it is more difficult to promote, but this is still a breakthrough change.

Nabal's dream of establishing a pirate kingdom in the open sea is not a pure unfounded fantasy, if he has enough luck, he may really have the possibility of watching the pirate kingdom be established for the rest of his life...... Unfortunately, this heaven and earth did not give him luck.

The tide of light and darkness, destruction and rebirth is about to come, and Nabal, the dream of a pirate kingdom, is as ridiculous as foam in the sea in the face of this tide.

Zhu Peng knew, but he didn't tell Nabar, but used it as a guide to persuade the other party to fight for himself.

Today, a very important reader told me that the plot was advancing too slowly, so I changed it all day, deleted some unnecessary plots, and updated it late, forgive me.

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