Chapter Ninety-Four: The Siege
"Prepare for the siege!" the next day, Grand Duke Cameron ordered in a deep voice as he looked at the imposable and imposable fortress in the distance.
The lion's heart was now full of rage, and none of his subordinates dared to come forward to comfort him, and recently the male lion had become moody, and even his servant had been killed for a trivial matter.
Even Princess Gwendrine didn't go to talk to him about the war at this time, he had become insane.
Yesterday their catapult had already projected all the oil and boulders onto the walls of the Great Stone Fortress, and except for a few unlucky towers that were destroyed, the casualties of the entire Great Stone Fortress were actually less than a thousand.
"Woo~Woo~Woo~"
The sound of the horn of war, the sound of death and blood, will bring endless smoke of war and the displacement of countless people.
"Let the Slave Legion go first. The Andean knight whispered in front of a cavalry unit in the distance.
For this war, they gathered nearly 30,000 slave legions in the Duchy of Lion and Lopez, with the aim of depleting the enemy's strength in siege warfare.
Originally, the war was very smooth, and Archduke Cameron once thought that this group of slave troops with low combat effectiveness was no longer useful, but he did not expect to send them to the battlefield in the end.
The task of this cavalry regiment led by the Andean knights was to oversee the war, and all slaves who tried to escape would die under the iron hooves.
"Forward!"
After receiving the order of the Andean knight, the adjutant held a large banner and pointed forward and gave a loud order, his voice hoarse, and with his movements, the entire slave army began to move.
Members of the cavalry regiment roamed around on horseback to supervise the war.
The main reason for this group of slaves to work so hard was an extremely tempting condition given by Grand Duke Cameron, that after the end of this war, those who survived would be freed from slavery.
There was not a trace of timidity on the faces of all the slaves, except for numbness and exuberance.
The numbness of this cruel world, the excitement of the possibility of living as a civilian, or even being rewarded.
Dressed in rudimentary protective gear and armed with inferior weapons, they rushed up with a few siege engines and hundreds of ladders up hundreds of meters long.
The Duchy of Lion does not expect them to kill many enemies, but only to be able to drain their physical strength and provide a chance for victory for the armies that follow.
Gwendlin rode and led a force of archers in the rear, and they were not needed at this time, and when the slave legions were exhausted, it was up to the regular army to suppress the archers on the Boulder Fortress.
"It's cruel. She watched calmly as the wretched slaves rushed to the fortress one after another.
Above the fortress, Count Inger looked at the army of slaves who came from the chrysalis with heavy eyes, his right hand raised high, and behind him were rows of archers.
Keno found him this morning, first with a false flattery, and then told him the purpose of his visit, hoping that the Earl of Inge could lead his troops on the walls of the fortress to defend against the attack of the Duchy of Lion.
Earl Inge, who had long expected this scene, had a calm expression, and agreed to this rude request, just like now, because he knew that even if he avoided it today, it would be difficult to avoid it in the future, because in this fortress Thatcherch held absolute power, and it was better to save trouble on both sides.
Dying on the battlefield is also a good destination for him.
"Shoot the arrows!" Seeing that the enemy under the city walls had entered the firing range, Count Inger slammed his right hand down and roared in his mouth.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A rain of arrows shot down from the walls, like a swarm of locusts that covered the sky.
The slaves in the front row fell in pieces like wheat harvesters, and their rudimentary armor did not provide them with much protection against the arrows.
However, the death of their companions did not stop them from moving forward, because if they stopped, they would be trampled to death by those behind them, and they had no choice but to retreat, and they could only rush forward and rush forward until the last man fell, or the last of the enemy fell.
"Shoot freely, shoot all the arrows!"
Count Inger looked at this group of cannon fodder troops who were not afraid of death, and his expression was solemn.
"Inform the First Legion that they will attack as soon as these slaves have climbed the walls!" Archduke Cameron stood on a high slope far from the battlefield, his eyes gloomy as the slave legions fell in pieces under the rain of arrows.
"Yes!" a knight behind him bowed and saluted, then rode away quickly.
"Your Majesty, please don't worry, even if these slave legions fall, we still have the legions of the guilty. Master Orin stepped forward and looked at Grand Duke Cameron's gloomy face and comforted him.
But the number of guilty is too small. Grand Duke Cameron's eyes lit up, but immediately dimmed: "They are only suitable for use as a surprise army, and the losses in the siege are too great." ”
"Then we'll find a way to lure them out. A mournful laugh came from under Master Orin's cloak, and it made people shudder.
"Do you have any solution?" asked Grand Duke Cameron with a slightly expectant look in his eyes when he heard this.
"The villain is stupid, and last night he thought of a not-so-clever solution. Master Orin said humbly.
"Tell me about it. ”
"Yes,......"
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"How's the preparation?" asked softly on the other side, a knight walked up beside Gwendrine, and she didn't look back.
"It's generally ready, there are some flaws in the details, but in my opinion it's enough. The knight was shrouded in armor and could not see him, and his voice was distorted by the iron armor.
"I want nothing to go wrong, and we can't afford to lose this war. Gwendlin's eyes flashed with a hint of anger, and she said dissatisfied.
"The amount of manpower and material resources that will be required to attack this fortress will be incalculable, and no matter what the outcome will be, we will not be optimistic about our situation afterwards, so I want this plan to be foolproof, not to be generally prepared!" she stared at the knight in front of her with her big charming eyes.
"You, do you understand?"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
The knight lowered his head and said in a deep voice, he felt a tremendous pressure under Gwendrin's gaze, and his body wrapped in armor was instantly covered with cold sweat.
"I don't need to teach you what to do. Gwendrin withdrew her gaze and looked at the battlefield in the distance, and the walls that kept shooting arrows.
As well as the giant crossbow in the arrow tower that has not moved, and there is no way that there is no trebuchet in this fortress, and it definitely has hole cards against foreign enemies.
And these things have not appeared until now, and they must want to keep them to deal with the regular army next.
If the Duchy of Lion wants to conquer this place, it is impossible not to pay a terrible price, and even after paying a huge price, it still can't shake this megalithic fortress that has stood for thousands of years.
"I understand, my subordinates quit. The knight swallowed, replied with a slight nervousness, and bowed and left.
"Boulder Fortress, Lopez, Lion, ......" Gwendrin put on her knight's helmet, and an inaudible voice came from inside, dissipating into the wind and sand.