"Today doesn't seem to be anything special. ”

Fatis walked up to the wall with a plate of roasted meat and dried fruits, and saw Lorna leaning against the wall and looking into the distance.

"Yes," the girl replied without much motivation.

"According to the plan, King Yarogark has already sent an envoy, and may have made contact with the Saiga Khan," the middle-aged man tore off a piece of rabbit meat and chewed it, a roast rabbit meat that he casually fished out of the barracks was not yet fully cooked, but Fatis was too hungry to bother to care so much, "Haraus doesn't seem to have too many people here. ”

"The climate on this side of Vicchia is harsh, just like the Rhodoc Mountains in the south," Lorna took a walnut kernel from her plate and put it in her mouth, "It takes a lot of manpower, material resources and time to conquer such a place, compared to Kugit in the east is the first choice for using troops, and at the moment he only intends to use a small number of troops to block the movement here, which is similar to the reason why he occupies Viruga." ”

"But Svadia's partial division alone can block the main force of Vecchia's army, and the Northern Kingdom can be considered weak. Bestur came up at some point, and without saying a word, he tore off a rabbit leg.

Fatis shook his head: "It can only be said that it was a mistake for Yarogark to put his royal city in such a place. ”

"By the way, are our scouts back?"

The girl gently brushed her hair, and looked like she was about to go back to the house.

"The deployment of the troops of Disping and Dale William has not changed much from the previous day, and most of them are stationed outside the forest. The scouts also killed three Swadians who had come to spy on them. Bestur gave a general picture of the situation.

"Then it's going to be nothing to do today," Lorna sighed and left the wall

However, at the other end of the Fort from La Dogir. The great armies of the Svadia kingdom are rapidly gathering together.

The Swedish lord of Tyrburg, the Count of Reis of Déchiosburg, and Prais of Lendia Castle each led their troops on the outskirts of Aiko, which had been reduced to ruins, and the leading cavalry brigade held up a large banner of black lions on a red background, and the commander was fully armoured, and his eyes under the gaps in his giant helmets were fixed on a green coniferous forest covered with snow in the distance.

"Do you really want to use force against Virgia at this time, my king. ”

Earl Reys was blind in one eye during the war when he was young (as you'll know after the sword skin), and now the only eye left is looking at his king with concern. Of course, the lords who had been mobilized in a hurry did not know at this moment that their monarch had found an important person.

"I don't care" Plais, of Fort Lundia, was a conservative aristocrat who usually lived on taxes in his small fiefdom. It is rumored in China that if it weren't for the fact that he had a beautiful sister Joanna to help him take care of things outside, he wouldn't even be a second-rate nobleman.

The Swedish family has been loyal to the Kingdom of Swadia for generations, and has faithfully carried out the orders of the royal family, and so far he has stood on the king's side without saying a word. Wait for the king's next instructions.

"Take Radogil. The process of reunification of Calradia will be coming to an end"

Harlaus's words are more like his own words than his explanation of Reis

"No matter how you look at it, everyone feels weird"

Jamila has learned a little swordsmanship from Alleyne and Fatis in the past few days, although it is a little difficult to learn without martial arts skills, but the two have to admit that she has done a good enough job to at least put on a decent posture with a long sword.

"Miss Lorna has always thought more than anyone else. "Although Rudy Boye is a lord, he also likes to sneak into the kitchen at night to steal some supper, and he meets Jamila and Ellen who have just finished practicing their swords and are eating.

"We shouldn't have any flaws, right?" said Alleyne, looking back.

"There should be nothing. After all, we didn't make any big moves, and Svadia's army was attacking as usual. The usual defeat and retreat are not visible at the moment. The lord of the city casually scooped a bowl of borscht from the pot and drank half a bowl in one go.

"Eat first, I'll go and bring some food to Sister Lorna and Uncle Fatis," Jamila watched as the two men talked more and more speculatively, and made an excuse to leave the kitchen with a basket of bread, jam and bacon

"Huh??"

Pulling open the kitchen door, Jamila saw a figure in a fox fur standing in the square not far away

"Lock the kitchen and go straight upstairs to Mr. Fatis. ”

The girl reminded in a whisper.

It seemed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and Jamila's brain didn't think much about it, so she did as Lorna said.

The girl was the only one left in the square, with a fine snow and a rustling sound of needlework leaves in the breeze

"You should show up, whoever you are, come out of the shadows under the watchtower to the southeast, I know you're there. ”

Although unable to identify the comer, Lorna, with nearly a decade of hard training as an assassin and spy, instinctively sensed danger, and with her right hand through the wide hem of the fox fur, two throwing knives came out of her waist

“！！！”

A little chill that could barely be caught by her eyes flashed by Lorna's instinctive response, leaving a whistling sound in her ears as the passing object slammed into the wooden wall behind her

A crossbow bolt "How's it going?"

When Rudy Boye and the others came to see Lorna's injuries, Jamila walked out of the room with a tired face.

"She's not badly injured, and now she has a little fever, but she hasn't woken up yet. ”

"Then we can't rely on her. The lord of the castle had a grim face, and the faces of Aren, Fatis, and Bestul who were present were all solemn.

Jamila looked at the expressions of the crowd. asked in a whisper:

"What's wrong?"

"According to the scouts, a large army of Swadia appeared outside the forest of Radogil, and according to the details of the feedback, it was revealed that the Swedish lord of Tyrburg, the Count of Reys of Deqiosburg, and Prais of Lendia Castle numbered about four thousand. Led by King Harlaus himself. ”

Rudy Boye spoke calmly, but the look on his face showed how bad his mood was now. At present, there are only 800 regular soldiers in the entire Fort of Radogir, counting the civilians and the old and weak women and children who fled into the city before, barely enough 1,000 men to defend the walls and fortresses, and if Harlaus comes to attack the city with four times as many men, with the support of the wooden Fort of Radogir, the odds of victory for the Vicchians are very low.

"I did my best to defend myself against the next wave of attacks. Some of the walls were filled with stones, and the ballistae on the towers were put in place. Atiman walked over with a disgraced face, and it looked like the deployment on the site had just been completed.

"There is no other way. Only the hard one did. Ellen patted the sword hanging from his waist, "May God take care of us." ”

Throughout the day, both the lords and the soldiers were busy with their heads down, and just a few days ago the fortress was full of boredom and laziness. At this moment, the tension is suppressed.

Lorna suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. Jamila, who had been waiting by her bedside, fed her some water. Wrapped in a thick fur blanket, the girl sweated a little, and the symptoms of fever subsided a little. But for now, she was still very weak, there was not a trace of blood on her face, and her lips were parched and chapped from dehydration caused by fever.

There were no other women in the fortress, so Jamila was the only one who could clean up Lorna's wounds. The dart that shot the girl hurt the bone, and the wound infection led to a high probability of the injured person's death.

When Lorna asked how she was doing, Jamila lied to her, which Fatis had told her in the evening

King Svadia led his army into the camp of Disping and Dalewilliam's legions and did not meet the two commanders, and it was clear that he had seen the incompetence of the vanguard legion, and Haraus did not want to pay too much attention to it at this time. A large number of craftsmen began to instruct the soldiers to cut down the forest trees. Start building simple ladders and stone throwers. The three lords who came with the king each counted their ranks and arranged for the next day's decisive battle.

The opposing sides prepared themselves through a high wall that was not strong

In the early hours of the next morning

At the same time that the first stone bullet of the Swadians hit the walls of Radogil. The ballistas at the head of the city whistled through the thin morning mist, and returned color to them.

Rudiboye and Ellen led the best guards and knights to garrison the city walls, and the head of the city was divided into two areas, with Fatis and Bestur commanding the first line of battle, while Artiman guided the trebuchets and ballistae on the walls based on his experience. The Vycians had a large number of high-quality archers, and their long-range firepower was superior from the outset in terms of rate of fire and accuracy, repelling the approach of several Persvadia crossbowmen, while the infantry lacking fire cover could barely put the ladder up the walls. Harlaus, in the rear, seeing such a situation, very decisively withdrew his troops and directed trebuchets to constantly ravage the walls and towers of Vykia. Although the siege machinery here was rushed to complete the workmanship, it was not easy to operate under the attack of the well-made ballistae and trebuchets on the opposite side, and the huge number of people finally collapsed several walls of Fort Radogil, and part of the army began to advance towards these gaps, and the Vicchian infantry regiment behind the wall resisted these invading enemy troops to the death, and the two sides entered the most common state of stalemate in siege warfare.

"That's all there is to it, a conservative estimate is that more than 2,000 people will be lost. King Swadia sighed.

The Svadia soldiers on the front line with the Wikibians' axes and guns were completely caught in the dilemma of exchanging their lives for advance, the Wiki's army lacked discipline but never lacked courage and technology, and under the shape of this kind of great melee, the moon-bladed axes and various heavy weapons were tiger and tiger in the hands of their masters, and many Swadia soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time saw their comrades falling bloodily under such a terrifying weapon, and the Wikiians saw the Swadia troops behind them pouring out of the forest, and the psychological burden was not much lighter。

On the city walls, Fatis wore a suit of scale armor and shaved off half of the head of a Swadian soldier who had just emerged from a ladder with a sword. Half of the wall he was standing on had collapsed, and the Svadians had tried every means to rush in. After kicking down the entire ladder, Fatis grabbed a quick-witted soldier and told him to send a message to Rudy Boye to prepare for the inner fortress.

Most of Bestur's men had already lost most of them, and seeing that they could not hold the city walls, they fought and retreated back to the main fortress, and Fatis retreated with a few soldiers to cover the retreat. Within three hours of the battle, the Wiki side had lost nearly 700 men, and the Swadians had paid even more, with more than 1,300 killed and about the same number seriously wounded. Seeing from afar that the opponent's team had retreated into the city's main fort, Harauth also ordered the team to be pulled back, replacing the wounded warriors with new recruits, and arranging positions along the outer walls

(To be continued......)