Chapter 133: The Fall of the City

The Chevani knight put down the vellum paper in his hand and circled around the big tent with his head down, he didn't expect that in just ten days from Kitano Town, the troops of more than 3,000 people had already lost more than 500 people in a squadron. The establishment of the Northland Army is a five-five system, that is, a brigade has five squadrons, and a squadron has five squadrons, each with more than 100 people.

On the vellum paper are statistics handed in by the logistics officer, the scout light cavalry lost 83 soldiers, 120 soldiers went out on patrol, 40 soldiers were killed who cut trees and cut wood, 74 soldiers died in the first siege, 103 people were killed in the night attack, and 131 soldiers were killed by the stone ball this time, the total number has reached more than 550.

"Is there anything else you need?" the Chevani knight asked the logistics officer standing in front of him.

"Well, my lord, there are nearly two hundred soldiers wounded today, and dozens of them are likely to be disabled, plus the previous seriously wounded, there are more than three hundred. The subordinates thought that letting them stay in the camp any longer would have a bad effect on the other soldiers. In order to avoid a drop in morale, I implore my lord to send troops to escort them to Kitano Town to recuperate and treat their injuries......" said the logistics officer.

"Not bad...... Chevani Knight stopped wandering, "You're right, the Norton family is worthy of two or three hundred years of inheritance, and the bones are very hard. Our war with him is likely to be protracted, and it is not appropriate for these wounded soldiers to stay in the barracks, so let's send them to Kitano tomorrow. Now Kitano Town is our most reliable logistics supply base, and with the abundant supplies captured in Kitano Town, it is enough to support us in besieging Maple Grove Villa for a year and a half. ”

The logistics officer said: "My lord, if the siege is long, let the troops who escort the wounded bring another batch of grain and grass when they return, we brought fifteen days of grain and grass when we went out, and now the rest is enough for five or six days." ”

Knight Chevani nodded: "Be prepared, it's good to prepare more waves." As for whether to besiege or not, we have to think about whether there are other strategies. “

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"What you said is true?" Lorist was surprised.

"Yes, my lord, it will be about twenty minutes before they get here, forty carriages, all wounded, escorted by three spear cavalry squads, and more than three hundred and fifty coachmen. We kept an eye on the barracks, and as soon as they had left, I came back to report the news. A panting guard reported.

Lorist immediately decided: "We eat them, and after seven or eight days of nesting, it's time to move." Paul Binns, you go and tell the four mercenaries that if they want to come with me, follow us, don't alarm the enemy and don't get spotted by the enemy. ”

"Vasimma, let's be ready in ten minutes, follow me. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

It was a very short journey for these soldiers of the Northland Regiment who returned to Kitano Town, arriving in an hour and a half. This is a beautiful trip, but there are many women in Beiye Town, although there are three or four hundred women who can't move, because they are virgins, and the Duke has to sell them for a lot of money, but there are still five or six hundred married women who can let them do whatever they want. After going on the expedition for more than ten days, it is time to go back and relax, and I really envy the thousand brothers stationed in Kitano Town.

Seeing the unsuspecting soldiers of the duke's army getting closer and closer, Lorist shook the reins, clamped his legs, and the spurs on the heels of his boots struck his mount's belly, and the horses under his crotch surged forward.

"Kill!" was the first to rush out of the woods.

Throwing spears like electricity, from the woods to the avenue is only more than 60 meters, from Lorist throwing the spear to killing the pikemen escorting the wounded in only a dozen moments, more than 20 spear cavalry have been in the field, Lorist has been holding spears in all directions.

Followed by Lorlist, Vasima and Paul Binns led three squads of guards and family soldiers, the guards used throwing spears, and the family soldiers used training longbows, and they did not enter close combat under the command of Paul Binns, but only roamed around the perimeter, using throwing guns and arrows to kill and wound the enemy.

The convoy was in disarray, and the escorting spear cavalry realized that it had been attacked, and nearly a hundred spear cavalry surrounded Lorlist, and another hundred or so spear cavalry charged the spear-throwing guards and archery-shooting family soldiers who surrounded them......

The sound of fighting, the sound of horses, and the screams are endless.

The spear in Lorlist's hand flashed with cold stars in the sky, enveloping the three-meter-wide heaven and earth, and where he rode his horse and rushed through, there were constantly spear cavalry covering the wounds of the wound planted from the horse.

Vasima chased after Lorist with a white spear flashing with a white sword, shielding his right flank. The two of them were like the wheels of a gallop, crushing any resistance that stood in their way.

From the middle of the convoy to the end of the convoy, there was no enemy around who were still resisting, except for the dozen or so spear cavalry who were fleeing in the distance. Lorist turned his horse's head, but saw that the spear cavalry escorting the convoy was still fighting desperately, and only a few dozen people were killed, and the rest were either lying on the ground or running in all directions, followed by shouting mercenaries.

A cavalryman of spears fell from his horse, and four or five mercenaries pounced, and by the time they dispersed, all that was left on the ground was a slick headless corpse......

The spear cavalry, who were still resisting, did not last long before they were killed by the besieging mercenaries, who were left without the enemy and quickly turned their attention to the wounded soldiers in the carriage, and they rushed over, screaming......

Lorist turned to look at Vasimma, who was silent.

"I thought you'd stop them from hurting the wounded soldiers...... Lorist said.

Vasima shook his head: "No, maybe I will somewhere else, but I won't here. ”

"Why?" Lorist wondered.

Vasima let out a sigh of relief: "They are wounded soldiers, and they are also butchers who slaughtered the unarmed inhabitants of Kitano Town. Now being killed by mercenaries is retribution......"

Lorist "......"

Paul Binns came up with his guards and family soldiers.

Lorist asked, "How many casualties?"

Paul Binns replied, "My lord, only three fools were stabbed by the spears that were thrown at them. We attacked from a distance on the perimeter, there was no melee combat, no one died. ”

Lorist is satisfied, it is one thing to destroy the enemy, but the most important thing is to preserve one's own living force. The family lives in the far north corner of the Northland, and what they lack most is manpower.

"More than a dozen escaped, and it took them about 20 minutes to run back, and then it took more than 20 minutes for the enemy to send reinforcements. I'll give you ten minutes to clean up the battlefield. Those mercenaries were fairly well-behaved and didn't touch our loot. We're going to have mounts, purses, and weapons. Lorist said.

After the battle, the battlefield was littered with corpses, and the corpses of the enemies killed by the guards and family soldiers were stuck with spears and arrows, and the signs were obvious, the mercenaries did not touch these corpses, and the corpses of the spear cavalry that Lorist killed with his spears were not moved, but the dozens of enemies he and Vasima killed later did not know whether they could not tell the difference or someone was greedy and stripped six or seven corpses, leaving only a headless corpse.

"Yes, sir. Paul Binns agreed to take command of the guards and family soldiers to collect the spoils.

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It was an hour later when the Chevani knight arrived with five hundred leather-armored cavalry, and what he saw was headless corpses everywhere and more than forty four-wheeled carriages that had been completely destroyed, whether it was the wounded soldiers, the coachmen, or the escorted three squadron spearmen, all stripped naked and decapitated......

Six or seven hundred people! Except for a dozen or so spear cavalry who had fled, the rest were lying here. The Chevani knight exploded in anger, and the five hundred leather-armored cavalry he led with him all had red eyes. Enduring his grief, the Chevani knight commanded the leather cavalry to dismount and dig a large pit, bury the corpse, and then took five hundred leather cavalry to Kitano Town.

Discussing the unsmooth battle with the golden knight Henned, who was concerned about the safety of the camp, the Chevani knight, who was worried about the safety of the camp, only stayed for an hour, leaving two hundred leather cavalry in Beiye Town to prepare to transport grain and grass tomorrow, and he himself took the remaining three hundred leather cavalry back to the camp first.

After noon the next day, the gate of Beiye Town was opened, and more than 20 four-wheeled carriages relaxed out of the gate. The wagons were piled with tall grain and grass, enough for the camp of the Chevani knights for twenty days. Two hundred leather-armored cavalry were divided into two teams to protect the left and right sides of the grain cart. Because of yesterday's attack, Knight Henned of Kitano Town specially dispatched 300 longbowmen from Kitano Town to escort the grain and grass to ensure the safety of this batch of grain and grass.

Lorlist, Wasimma, and Paul Binns rode on a small hill and looked at the column of men and horses carrying grain and grass in the distance.

Paul Binns finally couldn't help but ask, "My lord, aren't we going to attack them? They are carrying grain and grass! If they do, there is still time to rush to the front and ambush ......."

Lorist shook his head: "We're not going to attack them, because we're going to attack over there, Kitano Town." ”

"Kitano Town?"

"Yes, do you know why I ordered you and the four mercenary groups not to go near Kitano Town, but to monitor from afar?" Lorist asked himself, "Because I'm afraid you've alarmed them." Originally, there were only 1,000 defenders in Kitano Town, and we could attack it, but those four mercenary groups were not in line with us, they were for money, and they would not fight to the death. We and them together are about 1,200 people, and what I am most afraid of in the storming of Kitano Town is that the four mercenary groups will not be able to do their work, and then the pressure will be all on our family forces, and I am worried that even if we capture the enemy's expeditionary troops in Kitano Town and counterattack, we will not be able to hold Kitano Town at all, and we will be driven out again. ”

Pointing to the enemy's team transporting grain and grass in the distance, Lorist smiled: "Now that the enemy has finally been mobilized by us, we have sent three hundred longbowmen to assist in transporting the team. In this way, there are only 700 defenders left in Kitano Town, and if we use a night attack, even if those four mercenary groups refuse to take the lead, our family armament of more than 300 people alone will take Kitano Town, and the loss will not be too great. As long as we attack the city walls, those mercenaries will not be far behind. They had already made a fortune from these soldiers of the duke's army, and they wanted to make another one. ”

The convoy and men escorting the grain and grass arrived at the camp in front of the Maple Grove Villa safely, and the Chevani knight was very depressed. He led 300 leather cavalry to lie in ambush in the woods at the corner of the road for eight hours, and quietly arrived and lurked before dawn, but the enemy who did not come to kill the grain and grass as he expected, had to follow the grain and grass convoy back to the camp.

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"You know the rules, right? Whose members will break it by themselves if they make a mistake, don't dirty my hands, do you know?" said Lorist unceremoniously.

The leaders of the four mercenary groups standing in front of him all nodded, and the leader of the Cromwell mercenary group, the golden mercenary Richard, said, "My lord, please rest assured, we all know the rules. Everything we kill on the enemy belongs to us, and other people and stored materials are adults, and we will not move. ”

Loris nodded: "Our family soldiers will follow me to occupy the city wall and open the city gate, you can just kill through the city gate." Pay attention to the signals we send. Paul Binns, it's time for us to go. ”

The glow of the silver moon in the sky was obscured by a gray cloud, and Lorist rushed out of the grove, Paul Binns following him, and the two of them held the front and back ends of a long wooden pole in their hands, and ran swiftly and silently towards Kitano.

Lorist climbed the city wall like a big black bird, and the two guards who were napping suddenly woke up, and were about to open their mouths to scream and sound the alarm, but they felt their throats sizzle like they were leaking, and their whole body was weak, and a black sharp pain came in front of them, and the two guards fell straight to the ground.

Lorist stepped forward, grabbed the shoulders of the two guards whose throats had been severed, and gently leaned them against the corners of the wall, even if they were seen as lazy sleeping.

The garrison on the walls of Kitano Town was even more lax than Lorist had expected, and at a distance of nearly eighty meters from the section where he ascended the city to the city gate, Lorist had only killed fourteen soldiers who were guarding, and these soldiers were still dozing, not caring at all about the movements around him. Six guards lay beside the drawbridge above the gates, and Lorist didn't hesitate to cut their throats.

While raising the torch and circling three times in mid-air, Lorist sighed, thinking that when he attacked Kitano Town, the city wall was full of human heads, and every time he attacked the city wall, he was faced with a swarm of garrisons, which was as easy as shopping in the city today.

Six patrolling soldiers who were scolding and complaining about something came from the other side of the city wall, and Lorist quietly covered it, and suddenly burst out, and the sword flashed a few times, and the six patrol soldiers fell one after another......

With a soft "bang", three stairs were placed on the walls, and Vasima was the first to climb up, followed by Paul Binns and the guards in double iron armor, and finally the family soldiers......

Seeing that there were dozens of people on the spot, Lorist whispered, "Paul Binns and I will take the guards to open the city gates, and Vasima you will be responsible for placing the drawbridge and guarding." ”

Vasima gently slapped his left chest: "Yes, my lord." ”

There were more than a dozen sleeping Zhengxiang guard soldiers lying in the cave of the city gate, Lorist stepped on a person without seeing it clearly, the soldier sat up and just scolded half a sentence of "blind ......" was stabbed to death by Lorlist, behind Paul Binns and the guards rushed up to clean up the remaining guard soldiers.

There was a lot of movement just now, and two soldiers let out a scream before they died.

Lorist urged, "Hurry up and open the gates and let the mercenaries in......"

The gates were opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and the mercenaries in the woods in the distance were rushing towards them......

But the movement finally caught the attention of the enemy, and a voice shouted: "Who opened the gates?"

Then there were cries of terror: "Enemy, enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy ...... city."

The trumpets sounded, the sirens of an enemy attack, and the mercenaries who rushed through the city gate rushed towards the enemy guards who were rushing in twos and threes......, with a cry of "Kill, kill, kill!"

Kitano Town was in chaos, and the corners of Lorist's mouth hooked an arc, Kitano Town, it's here......

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