Chapter 132: The Falling Stone Ball

As a knight, especially a golden knight, how can he do things halfway and have no beginning or end? A few days ago, there were 10 rockets every night, so he should have shot 10 last night, how could he not shoot 7 arrows? The soldiers of the 1st battalion waited stupidly for more than two hours, and finally they were ordered to go to sleep and could not rest assured, for fear that the rockets would come and make them unlucky......

If he hadn't remembered his duties as a commander, the Chevani knight would have wanted to go to the castle and offer a life-and-death duel with the golden archer. No matter how you say that you are also experienced in a hundred battles, you have never seen such an outrageous thing, thousands of people were made by three rockets to sleep on the pillow, and their spirits were in a trance, which was simply a great shame for themselves. It's really too hateful, what should I do? Looking at the state of the soldiers, we can't attack the city today.

The Chevani knight struggled for a long time, and finally decided to move the camp back by two hundred meters, so that the golden archers of the Norton family should not be able to hoist rockets into the barracks. Save the soldiers from worrying every night, anyway, if you can't storm the city today, let the soldiers move to camp, sleep well at night, and settle accounts with the Norton family tomorrow when you have enough spirits.

Joske, Bérunek and Pachko stood on the top of the castle and looked at the large camp of the duke's army in the distance. The day before yesterday, the enemy had built four building and bridge cars, and yesterday they rested for another day, and if nothing else, they would probably attack today, and then it would definitely be a bloody battle.

From the point of view of the defense of Maple Grove Villa, the terrain aspect is indeed a big advantage. The whole villa is located on an extremely large protruding rock, and the enemy has no other way but to attack the front of the castle along a slope more than two hundred meters long and more than ten meters wide, because the city walls on both sides of the castle and the drop of the rock wall below are more than ten meters high, let alone attack, even the climbing ladder is not so long for the attackers to climb up.

The front of the castle has no windows except for the gate and drawbridge, but there are dense shooting holes, so that the defenders can safely hide indoors and shoot outside. The last attack by the Duke's army failed at these holes, and the nearby guards threw oil canisters from the holes and burned the three siege engines.

"It's strange, it's almost ten o'clock, why don't you attack? It's a grind......" Pachko said.

"yes, are they only here in the afternoon?" Chosk also wondered, he was ready to meet the enemy, but he was slow enough to make people anxious.

Berunek looked at the enemy camp and thought: "It can't be deliberate, is it because we want to wait for us to relax and then make a surprise?" ”

"Whatever, kill one by one, kill as many as you want, we only need to deal with four bridge cars. I think it's a good thing that the enemy pushed these four carts up blocking the view of their longbowmen. Josk said that they were all bow-wielding, and he knew the power of these well-trained ranged troops, and the last time he condescended to deal with a squadron of longbowmen, although he shot about fifty of them, he was also half tired to death.

"The enemy's commander-in-chief was very discerning, and after only one attack, he discovered the weakness of our castle's defenses, and the castle was indeed the only weak point on the top. He built four bridge cars just to fight with us. You see that the building bridge car directly attacked the top of the castle, the shooting holes in the front of the castle were all useless, the archery was useless, the front of the building bridge car had thick wooden planks, and the shooting holes of throwing fire oil cans were too small to throw the moat. They now have 3,000 troops, five or six times more than the guards in our castle, and even if three of us fight for one, he will win in the end. I just hope that their soldiers are not highly motivated and have little desire to fight. Otherwise, we will have a hard time getting through this today. Belunik said.

"Our chance is to take advantage of the moment the four bridges come over and lower the drawbridge, as long as we can throw these canisters into the exit above, and then Master Josk will set the bridges on fire with rockets. If two of the building and bridge cars burn up, our pressure will be relieved, and more than 400 family soldiers should be able to help us defend the top floor of the castle. Pachko said, looking at the pile of cans of fire oil beside him.

Steward Speer and Miss Betsa came up to the top floor out of breath.

Miss Baisha asked, "Hasn't the enemy attacked yet?"

"Yes, Miss. Pachko saluted Miss Bertha, but there was no way, who called his mother-in-law who gave birth to a precious son a gift from Miss Bertha.

Bérunek nodded at Miss Besa, they knew each other, but they didn't have much friendship. One is that Miss Baisha used to be the fiancée of the eldest young master, and the other is that he has been raising injuries in Beiye Town for more than two years, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of the family, but I heard that Lorist seems to be very unkind to see the eldest lady.

Josk didn't pay attention to it at all, as if he didn't see it. Reddy told him that this woman once wanted to climb on Lorlist's head to make a fortune, and arrogantly took Lorlist's saber and wanted to melt it to make her own weapons, but was taught a lesson by Lorlist. As a result, Joske had a bad impression of Miss Betsa.

"Miss, why are you here?" asked Pachko.

"Why can't I come, I'm also a knight of the Norton family. It's all to blame for Little Locke, who angered the Grand Duke of the Northland as soon as he became a lord. You see, the Grand Duke casually sent a few thousand people, is this our family something that can be defeated? I told Grandpa Kress that little Locke shouldn't have come back, he wasn't the material to be a lord at all. "Miss Baisha actually counted Lorist up in front of everyone.

"What are you talking about!" Josk changed his face and turned around sharply, glaring at Miss Bertha.

"Am I wrong? Didn't Locke come back to recruit these things? If he didn't rob the Kenmax family's money, would the Grand Guild of the Northland find us? If he didn't change any rules and angered the people of Kitano Town, would they lead the Grand Duke's army into the family territory? If Little Locke hadn't become a lord, then we wouldn't have to make a big move now, the people of Kitano Town would be polite to us, and as before, they wouldn't have been slaughtered......" Miss Baisha was very reasonable.

Jost didn't expect Miss Baisha to say such a set of crooked reasoning, and she was so angry that she couldn't speak for a while.

Belunik shook his head, he had heard that this eldest lady was rude, but he didn't expect it to be so forceful. However, he knew that the eldest lady was very fond of the old manager Kress, and this temper was habitual. He didn't bother to argue with her about anything, anyway, he knew that as long as Lorist won this war, this Miss Baisha would definitely suffer.

"Ignore her, this woman doesn't know what to do, don't be like her, let the adults come back and clean her up. Bérunek grabbed Joske's arm and whispered.

"I don't know what's wrong, I don't understand why the adults didn't punish her, the last time she offended the adults, she should have cut off her family's knighthood, so as not to always block the adults. I really wanted to beat her up just now, and I dared to accuse the adults..."Josk was really angry.

Pachko was very embarrassed, he didn't expect Miss Baisha to say such a thing. The Speer steward on the side smiled bitterly: "Miss, how can the enemy talk nonsense at present, the adults have to teach you a lesson when they come back......"

At the mention of Lorlist, Miss Baisha "snorted" unconvinced, closed her mouth, walked to the city wall and looked at the enemy camp in the distance.

"Steward Speer, what are you doing here?" asked Berunek.

"Oh, that's right, Old Chief Kress heard that the enemy had built four bridge cars, so he asked us to come over and remind the three adults that we can use stone ball tactics to deal with the enemy's bridge cars. Steward Speer replied.

"Stone ball tactics, could it be that you mean the eight big stone balls in the flower garden?" Berunek was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and was overjoyed: "Damn, how could we have forgotten this." ”

"What is the Stone Ball Tactic?" Chosk and Packo were a little puzzled.

"Haha, Brother Joe, Pachko, come and see, there are eight big stone balls placed there. Belunik came to the other side of the castle and pointed down with a smile.

The castle gate leads to a flower garden with eight large stone balls.

Josk immediately understood: "It turns out that those eight big stone balls still have such a function, I thought it was the decoration of the flower garden, and I always thought it was strange why not carved into stone statues, and I thought you couldn't find a good carver?"

Pachko still didn't understand: "What's the use of these eight big stone balls?"

Bérunek laughed: "These eight large stone balls weigh thousands of catties, and they are all carefully carved, just enough to roll down the slope along the drawbridge through the castle gate." You want to wait for the enemy to push the four bridge carts halfway down, but the stone ball will be beautiful. ”

Pachko was stunned, and quickly jumped up: "Haha, our family still has this trick, I see how those Louqiao cars die, we have to teach that Northland Grand Duke a lesson! We have won this war......"

"You may not think of it, but these eight large stone balls are two or three hundred years old...... "Berunek said to Josque, "After the first Norton ancestors built their family's manor castle here, they were often besieged by the mountain barbarians in the first few years. The longest one was besieged for half a year, and although the mountain barbarians were repulsed, the losses were also heavy. So he came up with the stone ball tactic and carved a big stone ball. During the last siege of the mountain barbarians, a large stone ball was released, and the result was miserable, the family record said that the slope was full of human cakes, hundreds of corpses, and all blood and mud when stepped on. ”

After that time, the family spent more than ten years carving these eight large stone balls one after another and putting them in the flower garden, just prepared. If we use it, it's the second time in two or three hundred years. We can see for ourselves the power of this stone ball tactic. ”

Josk thought for a moment and replied, "I hope that this stone ball will not scare the enemy back to Kitano Town, in which case the strategy formulated by the adults may change." ”

"The enemy has moved...... " came the voice of Speer's steward at the other end, and the three of them rushed to see it, and they were all stunned.

"What's going on, the enemy seems to be moving camp, moving camp to the back. What's going on?"

The three of them looked at each other, and they really couldn't understand what the duke's army was doing.

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The Knights of Chevani stared angrily at the castle that had been named Maple Grove Lodge with bloodshot eyes. If the anger in his eyes could have been manifested and projected, the castle would have been burned by fire......

On the slope leading to the castle, the corpses of soldiers who had been crushed into meatloaf lay horizontally, four bridge cars that had taken several days of painstaking work to build were knocked off, two were scattered under the slope, and two were lying on the slope, with a huge stone ball stuck in the middle.

Today is the tenth day of the Knights of Cavani's assault on the Norton family's manor castle. After a good night's sleep last night, the soldiers were in good spirits and ready to storm Maple Grove Villa in one fell swoop. The Chevani knight had already made up his mind that as long as the bridge car was on the top of the castle, no matter how heavy the casualties of the soldiers were, they would always maintain the attack, even if it was a desperate attrition of human lives, and the Norton family would be brought down.

After breakfast, the orderly formation of the troops was formed, and the Chevani knight commanded the soldiers to push the four bridge carts and began to attack the Maple Grove Villa. It had taken an hour and a half by the time the four chariots had reached the halfway point of the slope, and it seemed that the assault would begin in the afternoon, but even a night battle would have to take the main castle of the Norton family, so the Knight of Chervani thought.

After resting for half an hour, the soldiers pushed the four Louqiao cars and continued to move forward, and after pushing for more than ten meters, the soldiers shouted: "My lord, the city gate is open!

This was something that the Cavalls had predicted, and what could the Nortons do but send the Death Warriors to rush over and burn the four chariots? They should know that when the chariot hits the roof of the castle, it will be all over.

The Chevani knight waved his hand very calmly: "The longbowmen step forward, the sword and shield soldiers are ready to protect, and the spearmen are ready to respond." ”

Soon the well-trained Northland legionnaires formed a three-way phalanx in front of the chariot on the bridge, and if the enemy in the castle rushed out, they would be met head-on.

The enemy did not break out of the castle, but the Chevani knights and all the surviving soldiers will never forget the moment: a huge stone ball "gurgling" out of the city gate, rolling over the drawbridge, rolling down the slope, and rolling faster and faster......

Everyone was stunned to see the stone ball, which was bigger than a four-wheeled freight carriage, rolling in their direction......

Finally, someone shouted: Run!

The three phalanxes collapsed instantly, and everyone turned around and ran back, but people were crowding, pushing, and trampling, especially the four tall building and bridge cars also blocked the way. Some sober-minded soldiers have already jumped directly from the slope five or six meters high without caring about anything, and they don't care about falling injuries. And the soldiers who were crowded in front of the building bridge car couldn't help but let out a miserable scream when they saw the huge stone ball coming......

With a "boom" sound, the stone ball hit the two building bridge cars next to it with an incomparably huge impulse, and the fragments of the building bridge car and the stump of the soldier flew up, and the blood-stained stone ball and the body of the two building bridge cars rolled down the slope together.

Before the Chevani knight could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the soldier exclaim: "There is one more ......"

When I looked up, I saw another huge stone ball "gurgling" rolling down...

The Chevani knight was in a hurry and shouted: "Push the bridge cart to it and block it......"

Before the stone ball rolled over, the two remaining bridge cars were finally pushed down by the soldiers and blocked in front, and the stone ball smashed the first bridge car, but got stuck in the middle of the second one......

The soldiers who had survived the death shouted in unison, but the Chevani knight collapsed on his horse, and he was already in a cold sweat. He could only stare angrily at the castle on the slope, knowing in his heart that as long as there were these stone balls, he would not be able to attack the castle from the front.

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