Chapter 464: Attack on the City

The royal city of Federiga was a majestic city in the southwestern region of the former Krisson Empire. Geographically, it is bordered by the Yunduan Mountains to the north and the Sunset Mountains to the south, and the Royal City www.biquge.info of Federiga is located in the Great Plains Valley between these two mountain ranges. It is a blessed land, fertile and abundant, and rich in mineral resources, and the province of Puerto Org, where the royal city is located, was one of the most important economic provinces in the pre-Cresson Empire.

The royal city of Federiga has a radius of nearly ten miles, and the city wall is more than nine meters high, only about half a meter lower than the imperial capital, and there is a tower every 100 meters, which is known as the strongest defensive city wall in the former Krisson Empire. However, in that year, His Royal Highness led his troops to climb over the Yunduan Mountain Range and the Great Snow Mountain, and attacked the Feideli Royal City on a snowy night, and it only took one night to capture the whole city, telling people a very simple truth, the level of defense does not lie in the perfection of the defense facilities such as the city wall and tower, but in whether the garrison soldiers are responsible.

There were no secret passages leading to the city, no infiltrators from inside and outside, and the garrison of the city defense did not slacken, patrolling the walls of the city walls, no matter how heavy the wind and snow. There is a tower every 100 meters, and each tower has four floors and three garrison crossbows on each floor, which means that twenty-four garrison crossbows every 100 meters can form an effective long-range covering fire on the area of two hundred meters in front of the city wall. Perhaps the defensive combat power of the soldiers guarding the monument on the city wall can be underestimated, but the threat of the crossbow in the tower cannot be ignored.

Three days later, Lorist made the same decision as Bodfinger and Marek, but there was no way, winter and heavy snowstorms did not make the garrison of the royal city of Federiga relax their vigilance and vigilance. They also have good winter clothing to keep them warm and go out, and it seems that the Vesia Chamber of Commerce has done a good job in terms of the treatment of the Chamber of Commerce's armament.

However, a strong attack does not mean rushing forward, it is a manifestation of not having the brains to give people their heads. Lorist did not want to wait another dozen days for the catapult to be loaded on a sleigh and transported before proceeding to the siege. It's already January 25th, and when the catapult comes, it's time for the snow to melt in February. Attacking the city at that time when the ground was muddy and cold in the spring was cold and muddy, whether it was a painful torture for both the attackers and the defenders, it was better to storm and capture the royal city of Fedeliga earlier, maybe the casualties of the family forces would be smaller.

Lorist prepared to launch a surprise attack in the early hours of the morning, when it was the darkest and most relaxed spirit of the city's defense troops who were keeping vigil. It would be better if there was a cover of a blizzard, one was to cover the attack line of the crossbow firing group of the defender in the tower, and the other was to cover the approach of the attackers. As long as he could get close to the city walls, Lorist was sure to take a section of the city wall and a few towers. As long as the Norton family forces invade the city, the fall of the royal city of Fedeliga is a foregone conclusion.

The biggest difference between Lorist and other territorial nobles is that they like to take the lead, and this time it is the same, refusing the persuasion of Bodfinger and others, Lorist said that with his skills, he believes that he can use the fastest way to destroy the enemies in the two towers on the left and right of the city gate in the shortest time, and seize the city gate to enlarge the troops into the city. And if you let others play, you are afraid that you will be discovered by the enemy, and even form a see-saw offensive and defensive battle, which wastes time and increases casualties......

All the family leaders present bowed their heads in shame, but they were speechless. This is a fact, except for one of the great swordsmen of Xius and Reddy, who can parry dozens of moves under Lorlist's men, no one else is Lorlist's ten enemies. And for a knight of the family, it is a shame for him to let the head of the family charge ahead. It's just that the skills are not as good as others, and everyone can't do anything, so they can only let Lorist go on an adventure.

The first wave of four, Lorist, the Great Swordsman of Hughes, Reddy and El. Lorist and Archswordsman Huth were tasked with taking the two towers on the left and right sides of the North Gate after ascending the walls, while Reddy and Elle were tasked with receiving the second wave of Joost and the guards to the city. After the guards were in the city, Elr led the men to open the city gates, Jost stood guard on the city walls, and Reddy led the guards to continue the attack along the city walls, striving to capture the west gate, the south gate, and the east gate in turn.

The three legions of the Rock Legion were already lying in ambush outside the remaining three gates, so the Tiger Rose of the Flying Tiger Legion won the honor of being the first to enter the city, and he was triumphant about it. After El opens the north gate, the Flying Tiger Legion entering the city will immediately attack the barracks in the western district and strive to force down the enemy. And a corps of the Rock Legion will occupy the entire city wall under the leadership of Malek, and come to close the door and fight the dogs.

Bodfinger was unlucky, and he was assigned to dispatch the remaining three directions of the corps to maintain order or as a follow-up reinforcement after Malek took over the walls. Lorist is ready to ignore the inner city and occupy the surrounding four areas before launching an attack on the inner city, perhaps without attacking the enemy, and will surrender when he sees that the general situation is gone......

On the evening of January 30, there was light snow, the sky was dark, and the cold wind was howling.

All the Norton soldiers had rested early to recuperate, and they were going to launch a surprise attack on the royal city of Fedeliga in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Lorist was woken up by Genolio at three o'clock in the middle of the night, and first ate a bite to eat, fill his stomach, and then began to put on his gear. Soon, the Grand Swordsman of Theseus, Reddy, and El entered the tent, all fully armed, with gray-white one-piece leather coats and hats, blindfolds made of black gauze, white face masks, and a white cloak on their bodies.

Walking out of the big tent, the sky was dark and dreary, the snowflakes danced wildly in mid-air, and the cold wind let out a terrible whining roar across the white fields. With a gentle breath, a cold chill refreshed people's hearts and lungs, and the whole body began to tremble involuntarily.

Lorist stomped his feet twice, took a few deep breaths, looked at the restless barracks and a few dark figures around him, and asked softly, "Are you ready?"

Lorlist, who received an affirmative answer, nodded: "Then, let's go." ”

There was no need for any heroic and passionate words to mobilize, and four figures on skis and poles waved silently across the snowfield like ghosts, and rushed straight to the royal city of Fedeliga. If you hike more than 20 miles on such knee-deep snow, it will take a long time, and you may not be able to walk it for half a day. But with the assistance of skis, in less than half an hour, Fedeliga Wang Cheng appeared in front of the four of them.

The greatest advantage of the winter raid is that the cold freezes the wide moat, and the heavy snow connects it to the whole field. If it is summer and autumn, then the moat with a width of ten meters is a moat that lies in front of the attackers, and it is not known how many casualties the attackers will have to pay to touch the edge of the wall.

With a slight push, the skis crossed the flat moat with four gray-white figures, and in a blink of an eye, they touched the bottom of the city wall. Lorist pricked up his ears and listened, there was no movement on the walls, only the whirring of the wind. With a slight gesture, the four of them lightly took off their skis and moved their wrists, and Lorist pulled out two black daggers from a wallet behind his back, ready to go to town.

In winter, a thin layer of ice condensed on the surface of the city wall is unusually smooth. But the dagger that poured into the dark energy was like a defeat, and the slightest press was gone, and the handle left outside became a small ladder that winded upward. The nine-meter-high wall is beyond the reach of twelve daggers, and Lorist clings to the wall like a gecko, and El behind him takes off the wallet he is carrying and hands it to Lorlist.

As we approached the top of the wall, there was the sound of snow and flickering fires, and it was clear that a patrol was coming from guarding the wall. At five o'clock in the morning, it was the darkest hour, and none of the soldiers of the patrol wanted to look down at the city, they only shrank their heads and followed the torches at the front, and no one even wanted to speak......

After the patrol passed, Lorist silently emerged from under the city walls, landed lightly behind the last patrolman, and walked forward to the sound of his footsteps. The patrolman seemed to feel something, and turned his head to look back. As the last of the group, he should have seen the pale snow-covered walkway of the city wall faintly visible in the dark night, but he didn't expect it to be a black figure almost behind him......

The four of Lorist went up to the city on the left side of the north gate, the patrol passed by on the city wall, Lorist followed behind the patrol, the patrol was only forty meters away from the tower on the left, and when the soldier holding the torch at the front of the patrol and the captain next to him walked to the small gate of the tower, Lorist almost one step by one, cleaned up the more than thirty patrols behind him, and lay on the aisle of the city wall.

This level of the tower is divided into two halves, one with an aisle leading to a small door to the other wall, and the other half with a semicircular staircase half up and half down. Originally, there were supposed to be two sentinels on duty on this level, but it was cold, and these two sentinels didn't know where the cat was sleeping. The patrolman with the torch and the captain next to him were not impressed, and when they entered the small door, they walked to a brazier burning next to the aisle, ready to roast the fire and warm their bodies.

The captain turned around and said, "Roast it too, rest here for a while and continue patrolling ......."

The captain froze, for there was no patrol behind him, and only a figure standing distinctly dressed differently from them.

"You ......" The sword flashed and disappeared, and the captain and the team member who was holding the torch planted themselves on the ground. Lorist stepped forward, holding the two corpses in both hands and gently placing them on the ground, so as not to wake the enemies above the tower.

The figures of Reddy and El flashed through the small door behind him, and Lorist asked softly, "What about the Great Swordsman of Theseus?"

Reddy didn't say anything, but pointed to the tower to the right of the gate, and motioned for the Great Swordsman of Theus to take the tower.

Loris nodded: "Go according to the plan." ”

Reddy and El nodded, picked up the torch on the ground, and walked out with El, holding the torch in their hands and making two circles, and two more after a while. Soon, there was some slight movement under the city, and figures emerged from the darkness and came under the city walls. El threw down the rope ladder that brought him to the city, and the figures under the city began to go up the city, Jost was the first to go up the city wall, and then the two guards who came up also carried rope ladders rolled into a large bundle, and soon, three rope ladders hung on the city wall, and more and more guards came up.

Lorist had already killed all the garrisons on the upper and lower floors of the tower, perhaps because he had been on the ground for a long time, and the defensive guard of the city wall was very tight from the outside, but when he went up to the city and entered the tower, he found that this was purely the surface of sheep dung and eggs, whether it was the patrol or the garrison on duty in the tower, his vigilance had long been lax. The twelve garrisons on each of the three floors of the tower slept like dead pigs, and the windows of the crossbows of the garrison were covered by thick wooden boards, and Lorist suspected that even the thunder outside could not alarm them.

There were no sentinels on the top of the tower, and the lower level of the tower was crowded with fourteen guards, and it seemed that the two sentinels who were supposed to stand guard on the aisle of the city wall were also crowded here to sleep, and they happened to be served by Lorlist's nest. Half a squad of fifty garrisons was sent to the kingdom of the god of war by Lorist in his sleep. This can't be blamed on Lorlist's ruthlessness, but there is no way to catch it alive, and as long as one of them raises the alarm, it is likely to alarm the enemy. The best way to avoid accidents is to kill them, and the dead enemy is the best enemy.

Reddy prepares to take the guards to capture the next tower, and El prepares to take the gates with the guards. Lorist appeared in front of them with the smell of blood and murderous aura all over his body: "Wait, let me come at the city gate, you and Reddy will go together to capture the towers on the city wall, and you can echo up and down." Also, you can set off as a patrol. ”

Reddy's eyes lit up, and he quickly gathered more than forty guards, lined up in two rows, and swaggered to the next tower with torches and El. There were still more than thirty guards on the walls, and Lorist motioned for them to enter the tower first so as not to be discovered by the enemy. The guards under the city are still climbing up. However, all the guards who had ascended the walls remained silent, silently ascending the city, and then flashed into the towers.

A figure appeared at the small entrance of the tower to the right of the gate, with the torch in his hand in two semicircles on his chest. Lorist breathed a sigh of relief, and the Great Swordsman of Theseus also took the tower over there.

"Go to the thirty men and defend that tower, and ask the Great Swordsman of Hus if he attacks the next tower, then we will continue to send people here to support. Lorist said.

Thirty guards ran as fast as they could to the tower to the right of the gate. Lorist felt that the speed of relying on the three rope ladders was too slow, he looked at the more than 20 guards around him, and said to Jost: "Joe, you are guarding above, I will go down first to seize the city gate, you can watch me signal from above and then let the guards go down the city." ”

Although his guards were better suited for special operations than the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Legion and the Rock Legion, and had undergone special training such as ambushes, raids, stealth assassinations, etc., Lorist was still worried that taking them down the city would alarm the enemy garrison. That's why I'm going to go down and take a look by myself.

Lorist walked down the stone staircase at the entrance of the city wall, and the stone staircase up to the city was not far from the city gate, less than fifty meters away. It's just that when Lorist got out of the city, he found that there was not a single garrison at the gate of the city, and only a huge fire was lit there. As the sky dawned, there was no more open flame in the fire, only a pile of ashes and a few wisps of smoke curling upward.

"Hey, what are you doing, coming down from the city wall and looking around?" came a shout from the doorway of the city gate.

"Ah, nothing. Lorist hurriedly walked to the city gate: "The captain asked me to come down and get some food for him......

"Oh, you go look in this fire, and maybe there's a few leftover cassava from last night. The voice said. It was clear that he had taken Lorist as a garrison on the walls.

Lorist walked to the fire in front of the city gate cave, peeked in, but saw that there were more than twenty garrison members lying in the city gate cave sleeping, and the outermost one should be the one who spoke, and at the moment he was wearing a sheepskin and continued to lean against the city wall and squint and nap.

This idea is really good, burn a lot of fire in front of the city gate hole, and the garrison can hide in the city gate hole and bake the fire so warm that they can sleep a lot, and do not delay the garrison's errand, it is really a double win.

"Don't take them all, save me a few. The soldier who was leaning against the wall and napping said with his eyes closed.

"Okay. Lorist replied, approaching the gate step by step, and grasped the handle of the sword with his right hand.

At this moment, a sharp and hoarse trumpet sounded suddenly from the city wall, tearing through the pre-dawn silence, and then the sound of the trumpet was immediately interrupted, and a miserable scream was heard in the distance.

The garrison member leaning against the city wall jumped up at once and shouted loudly: "There is a police, everyone get up quickly!"

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