Chapter Eighty-Six: The Battle of the Siege
The proud Viscount Garth had a dream on the night of the siege, dreaming that Snow White finally agreed to marry him under pressure, and gave him the scepter that symbolized power, so that he could take charge of the Kingdom of Saxony, so he took Snow White and went to Hanover, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to accept the emperor's canonization......
As if to verify his dream, the day after the confrontation, Viscount Garth received a letter from Snow White to negotiate, which stated what kind of treatment Snow White would be given if she surrendered, and whether the knights who followed her would be suppressed, and how to fulfill the promise?...... There are more than 20 of them. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Viscount Garth is overjoyed, the dream has come true, it seems that Snow White can't bear the pressure, yes, this is the last place she can go, as for Viscount Garth of Rock County, he didn't think about it at all, is there a poorer place than Rock County? Lev Knight's Castle is already the last reliance of Snow White, and there is no other way to go except surrender.
Viscount Garth was naturally willing to negotiate, and the conditions given were that after marrying Snow White, she would be crowned queen, and she would still live in the former royal city, and all the taxes in the royal city would only be used by Snow White alone, and all the knights who followed Snow White would be exempted from punishment and would be given due respect, and their territory would never be deprived......
The letter was sent back, Viscount Garth waited anxiously, waited until the evening and did not reply, the next day when Viscount Garth just wanted to send someone to ask, Snow White replied, and praised the promise on Viscount Garth's reply, but Snow White said that she wanted a decent and huge wedding, and asked Viscount Garth how to hold this wedding?
Viscount Garth replied excitedly that he would invite a venerable magician to officiate at the wedding, and that all the knights of the country would attend, and that he would pluck all the flowers of the kingdom of Saxony to decorate their wedding scene, and promised ten beautiful dresses, noble crowns, and precious wedding rings.
The letter was sent back, and it was another day of waiting, and on the morning of the third day, Snow White sent another letter, which said, if she and Viscount Garth had children, were their children the heirs of the Kingdom of Saxony?
Viscount Garth hurriedly stated that their first child must be the legitimate heir of the future Kingdom of Saxony......
The letter was sent back, and after another day of waiting, Snow White came with another letter, asking Viscount Garth if he could marry another woman after marrying her......
No matter how stupid Viscount Garth was, after several days of meaningless negotiations, he also knew that Snow White was stalling for time, and the angry Viscount Garth gathered his army, came to the castle, and shouted loudly to the soldiers defending the city: "You must surrender at noon, otherwise I will attack the city......"
The letter was delayed for four days, which was already one more day than Yang Yi expected, and now that the soldiers are coming to the city, it will not work if they use the previous tricks, so let's fight, Yang Yi secretly prayed that Jones's movements would be faster, and at the same time gathered all the soldiers, as well as the attendants and servants in the castle, fully armed, and went up to the city wall.
The bow and arrow have been prepared, the oil in the cauldron on the city wall is burning, and Yang Yi's use of burning oil has caused many people to be surprised, and Yang Yi is also very puzzled, don't people in the fairy tale world know about boiling oil to defend the city?
In the backward era, the people's kitchens were still dominated by lard, the nobles ate olive oil and some flaxseed oil, and the royal family and the big nobles ate a kind of camelina oil, which is an ancient oil crop with a history of more than 1,000 years, but due to factors such as low yield, too small grains, and difficult processing, camelina seed oil was only used as a privileged food for the royal family and nobles.
Oil is a very precious thing in the fairy tale world, so no one has ever thought of using boiling oil to defend the city, but in Yang Yi's memory, boiling oil is an indispensable weapon for defending the city, how can such a good weapon not be used? In order to obtain oil, Yang Yi not only killed pigs, but also killed ten horses to refine oil, and even wanted to use manure everywhere to add to the oil, but it was too disgusting, so he did not implement it, but he still put some messy dirty things in the boiling oil.
The stones were stacked on the city wall, the dry dry grass was tied into bundles and placed neatly, people were busy coming and going, no one paid attention to Viscount Garth, Viscount Garth was trembling angrily, and the feeling of being played made him very unhappy, Viscount Garth rode on his horse, his blood was angry, his head was hot, and he ordered the siege of the city.
The same feeling is that those knights and soldiers who followed Viscount Garth to fight under Lev Castle are already a sure thing, and many knights began to wonder how to get more rewards, plus they rested for four days, resting lazily, and fighting when they said they would fight, it was really a little unrefreshing.
Viscount Garth asked the attendants to raise a blue flag, and all the soldiers moved, the knights were field charges, and of course such a dangerous thing as a siege would not bear the brunt, so the knights were in command of the siege, and the real siege was all the attendants and people, two or three thousand people attacking the city, and it seemed that it was also densely packed with human heads.
Yang Yi was very nervous, told himself to be calm, and waited for the enemy to get close to the arrows, nervous for a long time, Yang Yi found that he was nervous a little early, the soldiers of Viscount Garth did not rush to attack the city, but a group of people who looked like people first came to the moat outside the castle and began to dig to fill in a piece.
Followed by hundreds of people, the ground is guarded with siege ladders, waiting to fill the moat first, Yang Yi wants to take the opportunity to hit a guy, but the distance from the moat is a little far, the range of the bow and arrow is barely enough, but the target is too small, the archer who draws the bow also needs manpower, and it is impossible to consume it indefinitely.
Yang Yi waited patiently, waited for almost an hour, and finally filled in a piece of the moat, but there were potholes dug next to it, and it was necessary to fill the moat, because the siege of the city could not be carried out and it was necessary to retreat, and he was afraid that the people in the castle would take the opportunity to kill him, and it would be too dangerous to build only a plank.
Yang Yi is not a military enthusiast, he doesn't know so much, he can only study while directing the battle, and when the moat is filled, the people retreat, and then the horn sounds, the archers appear, and there are some troops with javelin-throwing guns, the number is not much, more than two hundred, came to the castle and aimed at the castle to release arrows.
Usually at this time, the archers on the castle are about to release arrows, but Yang Yi still held back, damn it, there is an advantage in releasing arrows from a high position, and there can be an advantage from the bottom up? The arrows shot by the archers below are all crooked, and they can't make much of a threat, and the kind of overwhelming and obscuring arrow rain that was played in the movies in the past will not appear at all.
The archers can't shoot accurately, the javelin throwers are more like they come to join in the fun, and some can't throw them at all to the castle, think about it, whether it's the archer or the javelin thrower, it is impossible to get too close to the castle, and if it's too close, it's within the range of the archers above the castle.
Under the protection of archers and grenadiers, the siege began, four or five hundred soldiers rushed up, carrying seven or eight ladders, attacking the city from various points of the castle, at the same time, the main gate of the castle also appeared soldiers who broke the door, dozens of soldiers pushed the city breaker, and they were about to rush to the city gate, and the upper part of the city crash car was covered with a sharp angle baffle, which could effectively protect the soldiers of the cart.
At this time, it was necessary to fight back, Yang Yi shouted: "Release the arrow!"
The archers who were ready to shoot arrows, condescending is to have an advantage, a round of arrows down, suddenly more than a dozen people were hit, screaming and falling to the ground, don't underestimate only a dozen people were hit, you must know that there are only five or six hundred people who are attacking the city, not like in film and television dramas, there are pieces of dead and wounded, and there are no fatal sieges.
After all, there is still a difference, the total total is less than 4,000 siege battles, that's what it looks like, but the shock to Yang Yi is still great, after all, it is a real war, he forced down the tension in his heart, commanding the soldiers on the castle, what Yang Yi didn't expect was that the soldiers who climbed the ladder were very fast, and their movements were also very agile, and some of them were even about to climb to the top of the city.
The first siege soldiers are usually selected, and the main criteria are to be agile, agile and steady. Because the key to capturing the outer city is speed. Then let's do it, Yang Yi shouted loudly to pour boiling oil, smash stones, use bows and arrows, and throw burning straw......
Other weapons have limited effect, but the boiling oil gave the besieging soldiers a heavy blow, the boiling oil poured down, poured onto the body and the skin was rotten, screaming and wailing and rolling down the ladder, and what is even more fucking is that after the boiling oil cooled down, it increased the degree of lubrication to the city wall and the ladder, and it was difficult to climb, many soldiers were climbing and slipping, climbing and slipping, and even sticking to the spark is difficult to extinguish......
Many of the besieging soldiers slipped out and fell, the balance of victory began to tilt towards Yang Yi's side, the condescending advantage was highlighted, the battering ram was also lit, the fire was burning, but the soldiers on the city wall also had losses, the siege archers approached to shoot, there was a scream everywhere, and the people who were ignited by the fire wailed and fled in all directions, and then fell to the ground, and there was no more sound......
This reached its peak when two knights under command were killed, one knight in light armor fell down the ladder and was burned alive by the soldiers defending the city, and the poor knight was burned alive, and another knight could not be attacked for a long time, took off his helmet and was shot through the head by an arrow......