Volume II: Chapter 22: The Duke is Killed

It was late afternoon.

Several carts drove into the coalition camp from a distance, and it was Peck who was the first of the twenty assassins who had been beheaded by the assassination failure.

At this time, they were still neatly dressed, it seemed that they were newly redressed, and they also put the deceased's hands together, showing great respect for the deceased's faith, in fact, doing a qiē was arranged by Fan Ming, and what he wanted was to let the coalition forces be fooled.

The cart that came to the camp immediately attracted a group of soldiers to watch and discuss, and soon Duke Mateas and a group of nobles arrived, and when they saw Peck and the others who died on the cart, they knew that the plan had failed, and seeing that they were all greatly respected, Mateas was in a noble upbringing, and suddenly had a good impression of Fan Ming.

"It seems that this countryman is not ignorant of etiquette!" said Mattas, and then turned to the man who brought the body, and said, "Thank you for taking care of the dead!

"Oh, my lord, we are the merchants of the footsteps, it was the Emperor of Viruga who asked us to bring them! and gave us some money to transport this, and now that we have completed our mission, it is time to go!" said the leading merchant, dressed as a man.

"Of course, thank you, and thank you to the enemy!" Duke Mattas did not suspect too much, and let them go, "Oh! by the way, my lord, when he came, His Majesty the Emperor said that they all had the precursors of the plague, so please burn them as much as possible, so as not to infect the soldiers and delay the confrontation between the two armies!"

Hearing his words, Mattas was stunned: "I didn't expect it." This Fan Ming can be so gentlemanly!" Then he said to the soldiers: "Give the order to burn these corpses." All the nobles are invited to pray for our warriors!"

Melny's barracks.

"Lord Baron, the Duke has told all the nobles to attend Sir Peck's funeral!!" said a herald to you, Baron Mel.

Originally, Baron Melny was about to get up and go, but suddenly thought of the words in Fan Ming's heart, and thought of Peck's funeral, and he suddenly realized! There must be something greasy in this, but I don't know what means!

"Tell the Duke that I'm not well. If you want to rest early, you won't go! I'll pray for the warriors here!"

At this time, the baron thought to himself. Since such a secret plan had to be known to him in advance, it meant that he had already regarded it as his own!

At night, a large pit was dug outside the camp of the coalition forces, and twenty corpses were placed inside. With the Duke giving the order began. Several torches were thrown at the corpse. In an instant, it became a sea of fire.

Just as the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the crowd gathered around to pray for the dead, suddenly there was a loud bang, the sound shook the heavens and the earth, and a violent explosion followed, blasting the people praying around them into several sections.

Duke Mateas died on the spot, and other minor nobles also made a funeral.

The surviving soldiers and the nobles who were not yet dead screamed. Exclaimed, "Oh! no! It's Thor! Thor is angry!"

And at this time, in the woods in the distance. A pair of eyes are looking at this qiē, this is the group of foot merchants, in fact, their real identity is Fan Ming's guard, and the leader is naturally Carl!

Seeing the explosion, Carl exclaimed excitedly!, "Haha! Let them taste the power of Thor!" and then said to the guards beside him, "Let's go!

Veruga, after learning the news that the plan was successful and that Mateas and the other lords, large and small, had blown up many people, Fan Ming almost jumped for joy!

"Karl, you kid did a great job! Say what you want, give what you want this time!" said Fan Ming.

"Where! It's all well arranged! I'm just acting according to the plan, how dare I ask for a reward" and then said: "Since the emperor has to reward me, then reward me."

Before he could say anything about the reward, Fan Ming continued to grab: "Hahaha! Good young man! Since you don't want a reward, then forget it! Just be loyal and commendable! Haha" Fan Ming's stinginess was well-known among his companions in his previous life!

At this time, Karl was on the side, he didn't expect that as an emperor, he would be so cheating, at this time he was already a black line of the head The next day, the leaderless coalition army, under the unified command of the palace minister, slowly recovered its calm, although the morale plummeted, but still marched towards Viruga.

At this time, Viruga also got the news and quickly prepared for battle, arrows and crossbows piled up beside the arrow tower and the wall projectile, and the soldiers stood at the head of the city, holding a huge shield in their left hand and a hoe in their right hand, ready to fight.

The crossbowmen were also in place under Green's command. All five trebuchets in the city were assembled, and the projectile stands on the city, and the guards are responsible for the column.

Bush's 1,000 recruits also put on heavy helmets, armed with sharp knives, and stood by at any time along with the original 200 heavy armor soldiers of the regiment. Although these heavy-armored soldiers cannot be called the first in the mainland like the 200 veterans, they have also undergone Bush's devilish training day and night, and have become elite heavy-armored troops, which can be described as tigers and wolves on the battlefield.

At this time, Lem's pikemen and Rogoth's scythes were nowhere to be found.

Van Ming stood at the head of the city, with Resarit and Karl behind him.

"Well, there's murder in the air!" said Karl.

"Haha, the soldiers have been longing for a battle for a long time, so now it's murderous!" said Resarit.

Fan Ming didn't seem to be able to hear their conversation, looked at the dust and smoke in the distance, and said secretly: "This battle, if it is successful, I will unify Rhodok!

On the other side, the coalition army was marching towards Viruga, because when he was stationed, the duke cut down trees in advance and made siege ladders, so now he had to carry these siege tools, so the march was not fast.

A team of 7,000 men, with more than 2,000 tattered militiamen in front, armed with weapons of all colors. This is exactly the army of the royal family, which is ridiculous, followed by the Rhodok sergeants and pirates of various nobles. There are more than 3,000 people in total, the team is quite neat, and finally there are 1,000 heavily armored walking knights, although they are called knights, but they don't ride horses, so they are walking knights, don't underestimate them. This is another elite unit of Rhodok.

followed by the 500 cavalry escorting siege equipment, and it can be seen that Cheng Dù, who was not taken seriously, was arranged to be a bodyguard.

A few hours later. Only then did the coalition troops come to the city gate one after another and set up a formation.

"Hurry up and assemble the catapult!" Miyashi ordered, and a group of soldiers began to unload the messy parts from the cart and begin assembling their catapults.

This kind of siege catapult. Very different from a catapult for defense. The distance and power of its attacks have been greatly increased, and the boulders used can only be carried by two or three people together, but the speed is slow.

But distance, which is the strength of this siege vehicle, allows him to hit the city wall, but the trebuchet on the city wall cannot reach it, which is called bullying people for a while. The trebuchet was assembled, "Let the soldiers hide behind the battlements!" Fan Ming saw at the head of the city that the trebuchet was assembled. He shouted loudly to the soldiers defending the city.

As soon as Fan Ming lowered his head, a boulder flew over his head, "Damn!

Boulders either hit the city walls, flew over the walls of the city and hit the buildings, or fell on the streets. And by this time the pedestrians and vendors on the streets have long since run out (nonsense, who would risk their lives to buy something).

In this way, it lasted for a full half an hour, but the strange thing is that the boulder smashed on the city wall but could not be broken, and only dropped some broken stones, which could not hurt itself at all.

At this time, the palace minister was shocked, "I didn't expect the walls of this Viruga to be so strong, I really underestimated these mud-legged people!" Then the palace minister ordered: "The trebuchet stops attacking! The militia stepped forward to fill the moat!"

With the order, 2,000 militiamen were driven forward to fill the river, carrying cloth bags full of earth on their backs and marching towards the moat, and these poor peasants knew that they were here to work as coolies, and that they were the ones who carried the river!

At the head of the city, Fan Ming saw that the trebuchet had stopped bombarding, so he looked up and saw more than 2,000 militiamen carrying cloth bags to the moat, which was just like what Fan Ming thought at the beginning, he made a gesture to Carl, indicating that it was okay to start, so Carl and thirty guards at the same time took out the simple horn that Fan Ming taught them to make.

With all their strength, they shouted to the bottom together: "Peasants and soldiers, listen, we are instructed by the Holy Son of Freedom, the Holy Emperor of the Holy Rhodok Empire, St. Fanming! We are all Rhodok people! Why kill each other for those hateful lords! Don't worry! Your Majesty the Emperor is merciful, he will not use force against you, no matter what you do, he will not harm you, you attack the city, we will arrange a place for you to come in and rest, our enemy is the nobles of Rhodoc, not you!"

Sure enough, when the militiamen heard this, on the way to the moat, not a single arrow was fired at them, and all the militiamen were stunned, they did not know what to do, when one of the militiamen suddenly shouted: "Brothers, the people of Viruga do what they say, and would rather fill the moat defending the city in vain than hurt us! How can we still do such a shameless thing!

With his shouting, the other militia also ran back, and the situation instantly spiraled out of control, "Haha! Your Majesty, it worked!" Karl said happily when he saw the situation in the city out of control.

And at this moment, the palace minister stepped forward with a sharp sword, and a sword gave the leading militia a heart-chilling: "Give me all back! Fill in the moat for me! There will be a retreater! It will be the same as his fate!"

Seeing that the leader was killed by a sword, the militia were afraid, after all, these were a bunch of honest peasants, how could they not be afraid of death.

The militiamen again took up their bags and marched towards the moat. Fan Ming, who was at the head of the city, saw this qiē and was secretly shocked in his heart. Ressarit reminded at this time: "Your Majesty, let go of the arrows, the moat will be filled!"

"No, let them fill it in, our goal has been achieved!" said Fan Ming to Resarit.

And just as Resarit was about to ask the reason, Fan Ming just pointed to the militia who retreated after filling the river: "Look! They don't dare to use the militia! They are afraid that if they let the militia attack the city again, they will turn them into our strength! This is my purpose!"

Sure enough, the moat under the city had been easily filled by 2,000 militiamen, and the palace minister also ordered: "Let the militia go to the back, and the sergeants and siege ladder......s will come forward!