Chapter 308: Goblin Siege
Although the Paris Empire did not have enough troops to control the entire territory of Lorraine, and even many important cities were unable to defend it, it was obviously extremely important to the royal city of Lorraine. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThis is the spirit of the entire kingdom of Lorraine, although the magical defense towers in the city of Lorraine are unable to function due to the lack of high-level mages, and although the city is almost uninhabited, it is absolutely impossible for the Parisians to give this place to Leo.
The Knights of Thunder, formed by Captain Karl, entered the city of Lorraine before Leo and officially took over the magnificent magical city. The first thing Commander Karl did when he took over the city's defenses was to gather all the Paris soldiers stationed in Lorraine to assemble in the royal city, where he was to fight a defensive battle.
Although the Thunder Knights were born out of the original Knights of Glory and are best at attacking fortifications, Captain Karl doesn't want to fight Leo face-to-face in the field at all. Even if it was blown in front of Emperor Paris, Captain Karl himself had this self-knowledge. Leo was the best at stirring people's hearts, and his two royal griffons restrained the cavalry, and it was better to rely on the superiority of numbers to defend the city than to meet his strengths.
The Thunder Knights are still an establishment of 3,000 knights, composed of the remnants of the two knights of the original Glory and Wind, all of whom have undergone arduous and rigorous training, and their combat skills and coordination are far superior to those chaotic and motley armies under Leo, plus nearly 2,000 ordinary Paris soldiers gathered from the surrounding areas in the past few days. Commander Karl has a total of 5,000 soldiers under his command, and I believe that even Leo and the Lorraine Janissaries will be daunted.
As for the goblin soldiers under Leo, Captain Karl had completely ignored them. Although the goblin was far from being as bad as it was rumored, it had been lost in repeated battles, and it was said that there were at most about 2,000 left, and it was not even necessary for the Thunder Knights to move around, just ordinary Paris soldiers could sweep them away.
The asymmetry of information made Captain Karl make a wrong decision, he did not expect that the Goblin Legion would once again be restored to the full size of 10,000. If it weren't for Leo's fear that the number of goblins would be too large to control, maybe Caraxiu would have pulled up 20,000 or 30,000.
In the eyes of the goblin clan, following Leo's master on the expedition is the rhythm of grabbing and robbing all the way to make a fortune, and almost all of them are fighting for their heads when recruiting, and only the strongest goblins can be selected to join the goblin legion. As for the extremely high death rate, this problem is completely ignored by the goblins in front of those loot. Besides, when he struggled to survive in the Badlands and Wastelands in the past, he could die at any time, so instead of living so humblely, it was better to follow Leo's master to the south and fight for a glimmer of hope for himself.
When it comes to goblins, no matter which race on the road is confident enough to despise them, not only for their weak bodies, but most importantly for their cowardly nature. One goblin is bound to defeat an adult human, and ten goblins dare to try to kill that human, but if one goblin is killed in the next fight, then the courage of the other goblins will suddenly disappear and flee in panic, which is a recognized fact on the mainland. Goblin races can only rely on numbers to bring each other courage and security, which is why there is a goblin disaster, they try their best to survive and grow their own race, in order to barely survive.
However, Leo's appearance changed the situation, and he gave the goblins a stable life, so that they did not have to struggle in the Badlands wasteland, and even the most ignorant goblins knew that Leo had brought it all together. Not to mention the armor, swords, clothing, food, various domesticated animals, and other trophies that the goblin soldiers brought back after returning from Lorraine with Leo gave hope to the goblins who did not worry about eating and drinking.
No matter how weak the goblins are, they are also orcs, and they also have cruel and warlike genes in their blood and bones, and under the inducement of interests, they forget their fears and muster up the courage to join the goblin legion, and they want to follow King Caraxiu and Master Leo to rob!
When the Goblin Legion appeared at the foot of King Lorraine with a relatively neat pace, the boundless goblins scattered all over the mountains seemed to turn the earth into a sea of green, and the spears stood up like a dense forest. Looking down from the walls of the royal city, the dense goblins only make people's scalps tingle when they look at it.
"This ...... This...... How could there be so many goblins, where did that Leo get so many goblins!" Captain Karl's mouth trembled a little, and he stammered to himself. None of the defenders on the city walls cared about Captain Karl's question anymore, and they all looked at the goblin army below the city in terror.
In order to accumulate strength, the Grand Dukes of the Principality of Paris announced to the whole continent that the Principality of Paris would become a permanent neutral country, with no army and no participation in any wars and disputes. After successfully diverting the attention of all nations, Archduke Paris secretly trained his army, using the wealth accumulated by generations of Grand Dukes to establish the Three Knights, and in doing so, took over the Anderheitsen Merchant League and the entire kingdom of Lorraine.
However, since he had never experienced war, Paris's soldiers lacked the training of blood and fire, and it was still possible to guard against civilians, but when they actually entered the war, they were completely chaotic. If it weren't for the knights of the Thunder Knights to stop it in time, I'm afraid that those ordinary Paris soldiers might have really thrown down their weapons and turned around and fled.
Don't look at the goblins under the city forming a huge army approaching the royal city, in fact, those goblins are also uneasy in their hearts, but when they see the human soldiers standing on the city wall with earthy faces, the brutal blood in the hearts of these goblin soldiers is instantly ignited.
It turns out that we are afraid, the enemy is more afraid than us, and what is there to fear from the enemy who is less timid than us?
The Goblin's perception of the enemy is very simple, if the enemy is brave enough to fight the goblin, then the goblin may be scared away even if he has a slight advantage in numbers, but if the enemy is overwhelmed by the goblin's momentum and shows a fear that is more afraid than the goblin, then the goblin will let them see the ferocity of the goblin clan.