Chapter 392: The Mountain Barbarians Attack

After the rainy season passed, April began to be busy harvesting winter wheat, and the whole Northland began to get busy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just as Lorist set out from Rock Castle to inspect the family domain, Princess Celivia and her party also set off from Huju Castle in the Eastern Wilderness Province to the Northlands, where she was given the important task of envoy to the Norton family by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

Because the invasion of the mountain barbarian army was imminent, Lorist specially issued an order for this, requiring him not to forget to prepare for war while harvesting winter wheat, holding a sword in one hand and a sickle in the other, always ready to fight back against the invasion of the mountain barbarian tribe on the family territory.

But it wasn't until the winter wheat harvest was completed and the spring plowing was halfway through the spring ploughing that the news came from Liangshan Town that the mountain barbarian army was about to go down the mountain after the assembly was completed. According to the pre-planned arrangement, the residents of Liangshan Town began to evacuate backwards, and deliberately left a phenomenon of rushing away before they had time to pack up, so as to confuse the mountain barbarian army coming down the mountain.

On April 21, the vanguard of the mountain barbarian army occupied Liangshan Town, and the large number of fine wine and rich daily necessities deliberately left behind by Liangshan Town made the vanguard of the mountain barbarian army overjoyed, and all the mountain barbarians thought that with their military strength they would definitely be able to sweep the entire northern land, and they all rushed to be the vanguard, for fear that they would fall behind and lose the opportunity to plunder.

Lorist arrived at the Crouch Cow Gang Fortress on April 23, where the long defensive wall leading up to the Turtle Mountain Fortress was about to be attacked by the mountain barbarian army, and Lorist had to come and take the town. However, in the afternoon, he received an urgent messenger from Knight Vasimma, the acting head of the Hunting Legion in the eastern region of the Northlands, that the Fisabrun family had sent Princess Silevia to the Northlands to discuss the redemption of prisoners of war and the trade of goods with the four alliances of the Northlands.

Lorist was delighted and embarrassed at the same time when he received the news from the messenger. Glad that the old fox of Grand Duke Fisabrun finally admitted that the tide was over, defeat was inevitable, and that taking the initiative to send an envoy to the north meant bowing his head and admitting defeat. The embarrassed messenger was Princess Celivia, and Lorist was now too weak to go to meet her. After thinking about it for a long time, he could only send guards to inform Shi Fatzi, who was sitting in the Rock Castle, to go to the eastern region of the Northland to welcome Princess Celivia to the Rock Castle instead of himself, and he would go back when he defeated the mountain barbarian army.

To tell the truth, Lorist felt the most sorry in his heart that he didn't know how to face Princess Celevia, he knew very well that he had turned against the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, led the family to destroy the Duchy of Iberia, wiped out several legions of the Fisabrun family, caused the Fisabrun family to suffer huge losses, suppressed the prosperity and rise of the Fisabrun family, and it can be said that he has already become the life and death enemy and thorn in the side of the Fisabrun family.

Because of this, Princess Celivia, who has always been in love with her and does not marry herself, must have suffered a lot of grievances and criticisms in her family. Just like Duke Kenmais, an unobtrusive guy, joked, this time the Iberian Kingdom strategy is actually the four alliances of the Northland to vent for Lorist, who is called the Archduke of Fisabrun, the old man who rejected Lorlist's proposal to Princess Celevia. Now the folk rumor is that the Norton family destroyed the Iberian Kingdom in a fit of rage because the family heads of the family, the Grand Duke Norton and Princess Celevia, were rejected, and the Fisabrun family was chased and beaten fiercely. Princess Celivia is about to become synonymous with red face and trouble.

Alas, Lorist sighed softly, and could only wait for the end of the war with the barbarian tribe here to compensate for the simple girl Celevia, let her suffer for herself, and bear the infamy of a red face in vain. In fact, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and himself knew in their hearts that even if Princess Celivia and his family were promised at that time, this war would not be avoided. Because this is the Fisabrun family and the Norton family in order to compete for dominance and dominance of the entire northeast of the former empire, there is always a family that has to fall.

"Your Highness, the mountain barbarians are coming. ”

Lorist looked up, and saw small black dots appear in the dense mountain forest in the distance, and these small dots soon gathered into a large area, and the black crows rushed towards the defensive wall like a tide. Picking up the monoculars, I saw that the mountain barbarian warriors who appeared in the round frame were dressed in various colors of animal skin armor, and even some of them were bare-chested, with strange patterns of blue and black painted on their bodies and faces, holding bronze axes and other various weapons with unique shapes and rough shapes, and rushing towards this side with their beards and hair.

At about 4 p.m. on 23 April, the vanguard of the Shanban army launched its first assault on the defensive wall of 60 or 70 miles between the Woniugang Fortress and the Guishan Fortress. It's just that these mountain barbarian warriors have never seen such a tall and long defensive wall, and they often have to stop when they charge to the trench in front of the defensive wall, looking at the trench with sharp wooden thorns and wolf teeth three or four meters deep, and then they are easily killed by the chariot steel crossbow on the defensive wall.

In the first attack, the vanguard of the mountain barbarians left four or five hundred corpses behind and turned around and fled. Until it was nearly dusk, about five or six o'clock, the vanguard of these mountain barbarians once again launched a tentative attack, this time the mountain barbarian warriors held crude wooden shields tied with vines and moved to the front of the trench to fill in a road to the defensive city wall first, but under the fire of the chariot steel crossbow on the city wall, it was quickly wiped out, and nearly a thousand brave mountain barbarians who were not afraid of death fell, and those crude shields were also shot by Gangnu, and the mountain barbarian warriors who lost their cover had to retreat again.

"Haha, it's so easy. It was like shooting a turkey on the city wall, it was so easy. The archers who rode the chariot steel crossbow back and forth on the spacious city road were very excited, and the mountain barbarian warriors standing in front of the trench under the city wall were like arrow targets, and they were stubborn and stubborn and refused to retreat, and the brave were strung into a gourd string by the crossbow arrows......

The defensive wall between the Woniugang Fortress and the Guishan Fortress is 72 miles long, eight meters high, and five or six meters wide. And it was not a long straight wall, but a tower and tower protruding from the city wall every five or six miles, which served as a resting place for the patrol guards to rest and be on duty. As the battle raged, these towers and towers could be divided into sections to be responsible for the defending squadrons of guards. Ten meters in front of the city wall, a trench five meters wide and three or four meters deep was dug, turning the flat ground into a moat.

"It's boring...... Lorist yawned. These barbarians did not put any pressure on the Norton family's forces, and compared to the threat posed to them by the alliance of the four central principalities and the Fisabrun family forces in the second half of last year, it was simply a world of difference. It was these soldiers of the Guards Battalion who had never been on the battlefield that were so excited.

However, it is rare for these soldiers of the Guards Battalion, who have always trained all year round, to see the blood, and Lorist decided not to give any guidance on this defensive battle, to see if the commanders of the two Guards Battalions can be qualified to command the operation. He sat in the Woniugang Fortress this time, firstly, to reassure the soldiers of the Guards Battalion who were defending the battle, and secondly, to prevent the surprise attack of the master equivalent to the Great Sword Master in the Mountain Barbarian Tribe. The army of 100,000 mountain barbarians should also have several sacrifices equivalent to the level of the Great Sword Master. Lorist's main purpose is to deal with them.

The vanguard of the mountain barbarians, who had only touched the nail twice, finally remembered the lesson of defeat and knew that they could not break through this defensive wall, and for the next two days, they camped in the mountains and forests in the distance, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up army.

Two days later, the mountain barbarian army arrived. Lorist found that the news was right, the arrival of the mountain barbarian army was more than 100,000, only more than less, although the mountain barbarian army lacked materials and did not set up tent barracks, but at night when the bonfires all over the place covered the sky, looking from afar like a sky full of stars, the entire mountain forest up to the sky, are piles of burning red bonfires, boundless......

Many of the guards had never seen such a shocking scene, and the joy of the victory in the first battle two days ago had long been lost. They unconsciously lowered their voices to talk, and their words revealed the question of whether we could hold it, how could so many mountain barbarians be killed, we couldn't win......

The nervousness and lack of self-confidence before the big battle were left behind by all the soldiers of the Guards Battalion after the mountain barbarian army launched a large-scale attack on the defensive wall the next day, and in the face of the endless crowd of attackers, the defenders were just mechanical winding, firing, continuing to wind, launch. They had forgotten everything, and only knew that with their long training instincts, they were numb to launch a counterattack like a wooden man at the command of their commander.

"Release!" An order was given, and the longbow brigade once again shot out the feather arrows in their hands by throwing them into the dense mountain barbarian tide under the city, and the feather arrows fell like a torrential rain, emptying a small area, and countless mountain barbarian warriors who were hit by the arrows began to scream miserably, but soon another group of mountain barbarian warriors rushed over and filled the gap. The lightly wounded were quickly carried down, while the seriously wounded were sent to the mountain god's soul kingdom in a battle song in praise of the mountain god......

The trench has been filled in several sections by the corpses of the mountain barbarian warriors, tree branches, mud, stones and other messy things, countless mountain barbarian warriors have passed through these filled areas and forced under the city wall, but they soon encountered a very difficult and embarrassing situation, the long ladder they carried could not reach the eight-meter-high city head, some of the impatient and grumpy mountain barbarian warriors angrily threw their weapons on the city head, but caused very slight casualties to the defending guards battalion soldiers.

Some of the bright-minded mountain barbarian warriors were already shouting and preparing to connect the two long ladders, but the work site of the connecting long ladder was quickly targeted by the steel crossbow shooters on the city wall, and the mountain barbarian warriors who were connecting the two long ladders were immediately killed by the crossbow arrows shot from the city wall. Even if the mountain barbarian warriors went forward one after another, as long as they were targeted by the steel crossbow shooters, none of them could be connected.

On the contrary, several long ladders farther away were connected to the city because of the lack of care for the steel crossbows, but the mountain barbarian warriors wielding weapons were smashed down by large stones thrown from the city wall before they could climb halfway. The guards of the sword and shield brigade who were idle and panicked finally had a place to use, while throwing stones from the city, while throwing oil cans and torches, not only the long ladders were blazing, but also under the city walls, and soon the wind was filled with the smell of burnt human flesh, and many of the guards vomited nauseously.

The mountain barbarian army's massive attack lasted from morning to afternoon, and the only danger was that before the retreat in the afternoon, the mountain barbarian army concentrated a group of warriors to attack the defensive wall. When these mountain barbarian warriors who had climbed the city wall were chopped over the city like melons and vegetables by the angry bear knight, all the mountain barbarian warriors who were still bravely attacking were as if they had been punched in the face, and they let out a burst of mournful howls, and their movements seemed to hesitate.

The horn of the retreating soldiers finally sounded, and the sound of whimpering horns echoed in the heavens and the earth, watching those lost souls of the mountain barbarian warriors retreat backwards, leaving corpses all over the ground, covering the entire battlefield, and even in some places the corpses were piled up in several layers, and there was almost no place to step on. Lorist showed mercy and ordered that there was no need to continue shooting, just let those mountain barbarian warriors who had lost their souls retreat, the corpses under the city wall are estimated to be more than 10,000 or nearly 20,000, today's battle has given a profound lesson to the mountain barbarian army, the attack of more than 50,000 people, the casualties are nearly half, I believe that the mountain barbarians will never want to attack this defensive wall again.

At Lorlist's order, the longwall soon fell silent, but then bursts of cheers erupted: "We have won! We have won! We have defended the wall!"

Many of the exhausted steel crossbow shooters collapsed directly on the ground, and when they fought, they were numb and only knew how to fire crossbow arrows mechanically, and when they received the order, they found that they were tired to death, and they didn't want to move, their voices were dumb, and they only knew how to cry with joy, watching their partners cheer and celebrate there......

Compared with the jubilant here, there was a sad cry in the mountains and forests in the distance, and the cry became louder and louder, and it became one, and it looked even more sad and sad in the dark night......

Lorist looked at the mountains and forests in the distance, looked at the corpses all over the battlefield, shook his head and said to Telman, the leader of the Angry Bear Knights beside him: "Maybe this defensive wall of our family will be called the Wailing Wall by these mountain barbarians in the future, and they will remember how many mountain barbarian warriors have died under this long wall." But I don't sympathize with them, and if this wall is breached by the mountain barbarian army, then it will be the hardworking and good people of our realm who will weep. ”

After the failure of this attack, the mountain barbarian army had no intention of trying to break through this defensive wall, and for the next three or four days, the mountain barbarian army only sent people to collect the corpses of the soldiers who had died on the battlefield. And collected all the crossbow arrows fired by those steel crossbows. In the end, Lorist ordered the soldiers of the spear brigade and the sword and shield brigade of the two guards battalions to go out of the city wall under the cover of chariots, steel crossbows and longbowmen on the city wall, and moved the corpses of the mountain barbarian warriors under the city wall and in the trench to the middle line of the battlefield and handed them over to the mountain barbarians who collected the corpses.

After another six days of confrontation, Lorist was woken up early in the morning by the loud voice of Telman, who rushed to the outside of the bedroom: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the mountain barbarian army has moved, and they have divided their troops!"

...... (To be continued.) )