Chapter 301: A Child's Play of Siege Warfare
Chapter 301: Child's Playful Siege Battle
"My lord, it is still half an hour away, and there is a brook ahead, and after passing the brook, turn the woods and turn the valley of the wolf, where is the Barony of Diner. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 There is a small hill in the middle of the valley, on which the castle of the barony is built, connected to a village......"
The guard who was reporting to Lorist was called Kumod, and he had been with El the commander of the guard battalion last time.
Lorist nodded: "Let's go, get some delicious food and rest when you get to the barony." In this weather, it rains when it is said to rain, and the mountain road is a little slippery, so be careful. ”
The weather in July, thunderstorms, Lorist just encountered a while, said to change, the rush went fast, most of the guards did not even take out the poncho was drenched like a soup chicken, and when the poncho was draped, the rain was gone, and it was a toss in vain.
This is a mountain road, although the road is very wide, but after a while of rain, the ground is muddy, all yellow mountain mud, the horse's hooves step down and bring up a large cloud of mud, now can only slow down, can no longer gallop horses. The wheels of the two carriages were also covered with a large mass of yellow mud, which suddenly looked very heavy.
Lorist had gone to the Barony of Dina to take the two girls and their young aunt away. The year before last, I went to the imperial capital to attend the paradise party, met the girl named Dina Aridori, and spent the night with her aunt named Tracy. I remember that the girl said that she liked Lorist very much, and that she would go home and wait for Lorist for three years if she stopped attending the park party, and if Lorist was willing to marry him, she would marry her with her sister.
Last year, Lorist asked Elle to make a trip for him, sending a thousand goldfords and a batch of gifts. When El returned, he told Lorist that the girl was very sad to learn that Lorist was an earl, and that she and her sister did not have a title, so they would not be able to marry Lorlist, and they would have to be together as concubines. And this is what the girl does not want, she originally thought that Lorist was just a knight, so that she and her sister could become the knight's wife, and if Lorist was to be promoted to baron in the future, then their sisters would be baroness......
Lorist was reluctant to force the girl, but the situation in the Kingdom of Antinac was not very good right now. The girl's family territory is close to the northwest region of the Ridley Kingdom, once the Second Highness is defeated, the northwest region of the Ridley Kingdom will turn to the Business Alliance, and if the Business Alliance sends troops north, the Barony of Dina, the girl's family territory, will bear the brunt of the bad luck, Lorist doesn't want the girl and her family to fall into the hands of those mercenary groups of the Business Alliance, which he can't bear.
Turning through the woods, the eyes suddenly opened up, and in front of me was a valley that gradually flattened downward, and at the foot of the mountain were patches of cultivated fields, and several small streams meandered through the fields, and in the distance there was a small hill, and on the small hill there was a small castle, and next to the castle was a small village around a log wall, which was the Barony of Dina.
"My lord, the Barony of Dina seems to be under siege......" Reddy said, putting down his binoculars beside him.
"Huh?" Lorist took the binoculars and looked in front of him, really, there was really a messy camp at the foot of the castle in the distance, blocking the front of the castle, and there were a few horseback riders shouting at the castle in the open space in front of the castle, and the castle was ...... In Lorlist's binoculars, a petite girl appeared, dressed in brass-colored armor and wielding a long sword, standing heroically at the top of the city and the scolding of the horsemen below.
"Puff...... "Loristre was happy, the girl at the head of the city was Aridori, I really didn't expect this girl to have such a strong side, and she went into battle in person, the problem is that she is petite, but she is dancing with a two-handed sword that is one meter and four meters long, which looks extraordinarily happy.
"My lord, it looks like it should be a territorial war between nobles, you see that there are only four or five hundred people in the camp below, and they are all holding farm tools and sticks, and now I really feel like child's play when I see this. Reddy held the telescope and sighed.
Lorist looked back, and this time he had brought more than two hundred guards, all of them light horses, and two four-wheeled carriages.
"Reddy, take the guards to relieve the siege, break up the camp, and arrest the horsemen in front. Also, tell everyone not to die, those are farmers who have been forced to fight by the lord, and if you can catch them alive, you can catch them alive. Lorist commanded, and as for the people in front of him, he was not even interested in doing anything.
"Yes, sir. Reddy answered, and gave a few simple orders.
The guards began to dismount to clean the mud from the horses' hooves, tidy up their bags, and get ready to wait for the order to charge.
Reddy waved his hand, and the guards began to ride their horses forward, and they didn't need to charge immediately, otherwise they would not have much strength even if they rushed to the mounts under the camp. In the procession, following the command of the two squadron leaders, the two hundred guards had been divided into four fifty-man cavalry teams, and seeing that they were only more than three hundred meters away from the camp, Reddy appeared in the front, "drove", and began to gallop on horseback.
The people in the camp had already spotted the incoming light cavalry, and the girls and several guards on the castle also had stunned expressions, and the horsemen in front of the castle were hurriedly turning their horses and running back, waving their hands and shouting.
It's a pity that the camp is too simple, not even digging a trench, just like slow motion, Reddy grabbed the horse's belly, the mount jumped in the air, jumped over the wooden fence more than one meter high, waved the big sword in his hand, did not cut, but slapped the sword body in front of a big man who was stunned and watched the cavalry rushing over, the big man flew out more than three meters away, and fainted directly on the ground. He had to thank Reddy, if Reddy hadn't slapped him away with his soft strength, he might have died if he was hit by a galloping horse.
When the cavalry rushed into the camp, this small-scale raid was over, and the few horsemen led by the horse did not let Reddy Fei much strength, basically a sword was smashed down, Reddy took a heavy sword, don't look at the style of a one-handed sword, but the weight is twice as heavy as a two-handed sword, that is, he has a strange power, can make such a heavy sword as light as an embroidery needle.
As soon as a few horsemen fell, the peasants in the camp surrendered, and a dozen or so guys wearing leather armor and holding swords and shields immediately lost their weapons when they saw the situation in front of them, and obeyed the orders of the guards very honestly with their hands raised.
The girl on the top of the castle suddenly cheered, she must have recognized from the standard armor on the guards as friend and foe, El had been here once last year, and I think the girl should recognize this armor as the standard equipment of the Norton family. Sure enough, the girl quickly disappeared from the castle, and was supposed to open the castle gate and prepare to lower the drawbridge.
By the time Lorist had galloped into the camp with ten guards and two four-wheeled carriages, the girl had lowered the drawbridge in front of the castle and walked out with five or six armed guards, and was talking to Reddy, who was guarding the captives on horseback.
A captive lying on the ground shouted what meanness, sneak attack, undeclared war, no words like knightly honor, Reddy didn't speak, the girl had already pointed at him and scolded something, the guards behind her swarmed up, and began to use their fists and feet to let the knight master on the ground know what knight's honor was, and even the girl secretly came up and kicked a few times......
Lorist looked sweaty, he really didn't expect that the girl who was so delicate in his arms in the past would still be so boyish. He rode up to him, jumped off his horse, and smiled heartily at the girl, "Hey, should I call you Daisy or Aridori?"
The girl was stunned, watching Lorlist's eyes slowly turn red, she threw away the two-handed sword she was dragging in her hand, and then pounced and kept hammering Lorlist's chest: "You just remembered to come and see us now, you scoundrel......"
Lorist grinned and grabbed her little fist: "I'm sorry, I'm really busy and can't spare time, so I only asked my subordinates to come and see you last year, and I only have time until now this year, isn't this coming to see you right away?"
The girl remembered something, and her mouth pouted: "You lied to me, you said that you were a knight, and your subordinates have already told me that you are all Earls, so why are you still here......"
"There was a silly girl who said that I couldn't rest assured when I waited for three years, so I wanted to come and take her away. Lorist stroked the girl's long brown hair.
"Hmph," the girl shook her head arrogantly, dodging Lorlist's hand touching her hair, "You are the Earl of Honorable Status, and we are only the sisters of the Baron. In your eyes, we are similar to those village girls, and you can't tell the media that we are marrying our sisters, why do you want to take us away? Let our sisters be your concubines? I won't agree......
Lorist just looked at her with a smile: "Okay, don't make a fuss, let's deal with this mess in front of you first, what the hell is going on with you? Who are they? Why are you attacking your castle?"
It soon became clear that Barony Diner actually only occupied half of the valley, and the other half was the domain of an old man lying on the ground, Baron Andrew. His Royal Highness sent troops to the kingdom of Ridlis, and Baron Andrew's two sons joined the Second Highness's command. The eldest son, Pricht, was the one who was beaten up and participated in the second highness's surprise attack on the royal city of Fedeliga, and his life crossed the Great Snow Mountain of the Yunduan Mountains without accidents, but he was also frozen to the point that only half of his life was left. After occupying the royal city, His Royal Highness officially crowned these noble children who had followed him and made great achievements as royal knights.
Later, the soldiers of Cambona Province surrendered to His Royal Highness, and the new royal knight was escorted home by his younger brother to recuperate from his wounds, and was lucky to avoid the subsequent defeat and trapping of His Royal Highness. After half a year, most of the injuries were healed, and the two brothers were also frightened by the cruelty of the Second Highness, and they did not want to go to the front line to serve the Second Highness, so they hid at home and continued to be at ease under the pretext that the injury was not healed.
Barony Andrew's and Barony Dina are not much different, and both are down-and-out territorial nobles, and they used to have a good relationship and helped each other. Now Baron Andrew, seeing that his eldest son has become a royal knight, feels that he has a backer, so he moved his mind and started the idea of Barony Dina.
The old man had a wonderful idea, he wanted to marry the family of Baron Diner, his family had two sons, the family of Baron Diner had two daughters, and his wife also died early, and it happened that Baron Diner's dead ghost also had a widow's sister, who looked so beautiful...... is only in his thirties, and he drools when he thinks about it, and it happens to be a litter, and the father and son are all groom's officials. As for the teenage boy of the Dina family, he would either adopt him as an adopted son himself, so that the Barony of Dina could be annexed......
However, the old man's wishful thinking was shattered after he personally came to the door to propose, and the eldest lady of the Barony of Dina scolded the old man in front of him and almost had a heart attack, and he had never seen the scolding so damaged, the two families were adjacent, and everyone knew the details of the old man, Miss Diner had a good memory, and brought up the old man's past mistakes and scolded them one by one, the old man never felt that he was so embarrassed and conspicuous, especially those lowly farmers and servants were watching from the side, this feud was big, and he did not swear to be a man.
When the angry old man returned home, he mobilized the peasants in the field and gathered four or five hundred men to declare war on the Barony of Dina. Well, Baron Andrew had twelve garrisons, and Barony Dina had eight. Baron Andrew's vindictiveness is a two-star black iron, the eldest son Pricht is a new royal knight with a silver star, and the younger son is a three-star black iron. The Barony of Dina has a family knight with two stars of silver, who is the guard of the former Baron of Dina, and has always been loyal, plus Miss Dina has awakened her fighting spirit, and now she is a black iron star, and the two sides are armed with half a pound and eight taels.
In terms of troops, Baron Andrew had the advantage, and there were more than 400 peasants in his territory, plus some homeless people recruited and servants, while Barony Diner had only more than 200 young men and women, half less than the enemy. However, there was a castle as a defensive battle, and the two sides were leveled again.
The war has been going on for more than a month and seven days, with casualties on both sides...... Well, in total, less than ten people were wounded, and not a single one died, and the most seriously injured one of the unlucky ones was trampled by his own master, the Prichtian knight's beloved horse, and broke two ribs...... It was a battle of words, Andrew and his son shouted and scolded under the castle, and Miss Diner responded from the castle, basically shouting "There is a kind of coming out!" from below, and scolding "There is a kind of coming up" and something like that......
Well, this war is indeed child's play, no wonder Reddy, who has seen the big scene, thinks that they are playing like children pretending to be family wine.
"What do you think is going to do with them, Ally, or hang them all. "Lorist has been a bit angry lately, and he wants to kill the other person if he doesn't like it.
The three captives were scared to death, how could they kill people at every turn, we are nobles, nobles are exempt from death in war, especially the nobles of a kingdom, as long as they don't die on the spot, they can be redeemed if there is a dispute over the territory. Why, how can you not follow the rules?
"I, I'm a royal knight, His Majesty's horseman, you, how dare you kill me......" The blue-nosed and swollen Pricht was still stiff-mouthed.
"Oh, a royal knight is nothing. I participated in killing a viscount of him in front of His Second Highness, and then the Viscount's brother was an earl who brought 10,000 horses to me for revenge, and I also killed him, and there were many royal knights killed at that time, I can't remember exactly, but His Royal Highness didn't treat me well......" Lorist said lightly.
"You, you're the Norton, Earl Norton?" the furious bear of the Northlands...... "Pricht was shocked. The matter of the two brothers, Viscount Aslan and Count Aslan, was a taboo in front of His Majesty the King, and no one dared to mention it to his face. However, it was widely circulated in the army, and Pricht was under the command of His Second Highness, and when he had nothing to gossip, he heard many versions of the two brothers, Earl Norton and Aslan.
"Lie spare us, you were the eldest sister of our two brothers when we were young. After all, Pricht had followed His Royal Highness II to participate in the battle of the surprise attack on the royal city of Federiga, and he had a little knowledge, and immediately changed the object of his plea.
"Bah, you will remember what happened when we were children, didn't you father and son be very embarrassed some time ago, and you still want me to be your wife......" The girl smacked his face.
"But Ally, I really like you, it's you who have always looked down on us brothers, so my father said yes, after all, if I win, I will fulfill my wish......," said Pricht, very annoyed.
The girl was silent, then became depressed, looked up and said to Lorlist, "Forget it, let them go, it's really boring." ”
Lorist waved his hand, and several guards returned the weapons and horses of Andrew's father and son, and to be honest, these things were really unsightly for the guards.
"Am I really never going to see you again, Aricht?" asked Pricht, who led his horse a few steps out of the camp and turned back.
The girl ignored him, but took Lorist's hand and walked towards the castle.
...... (To be continued.) )