Chapter 16: Defending the City
Looking at the soldiers who were shot to the ground, the team suddenly became scrambling. Viscount Haile shouted, "Drag him down and guard the place you should be guarding!"
As soon as the words fell, the people around the wounded soldier hurriedly hid themselves under the battlements, without the slightest awareness of helping their comrades. Carter, however, saw the cowering people, and his head was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and cursed, "Bastard!" and ran over and dragged the wounded soldier to the wall.
"Hey, can you still talk?" shouted Carter.
However, no one answered his question, and Carter looked at the soldier and realized that he was already staring and not breathing.
"Damn!" Carter slammed his fist to the ground, his body trembling slightly with anger.
Russell and Bauer ran to him, and Russell asked, "What's wrong with you, you suddenly took the risk to save him, and it scared us a lot." Carter exhaled deeply, shook his head and replied, "Russell, Ball, don't worry about me, I'm fine." ”
Russell saw that he didn't seem to want to say more, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Go back to the city wall, we will continue to defend the city!"
As soon as the three of them returned to the city wall, a guard ran over and said to Russell, "Your Excellency Russell, the viscount asked you to go and talk to him. Russell looked up at the Viscount and saw that the Viscount was waving to him from the castle tower.
Russell stepped forward, Viscount Haier looked at him for a while, and asked, "I told you to leave quickly, why are you still in the city?" Russell smiled and said: "We saw that the viscount was very prosperous, and we couldn't help but want to enjoy the scenery here, but who knew that it was delayed." ”
"Hmph, Flim, soldier, give them some better gear!" "Yes!" replied the guard.
After a while, the viscount saw that the three of them had changed their equipment and was about to continue to say something. There was a shout from outside the city, and he hurried to face the outside of the city, for it meant that the enemy was about to attack the city.
The sound gradually approached, and the number of enemies that could be seen clearly was also increasing, Russell carefully observed the enemy's equipment, and couldn't help but be a little worried, most of the enemies were light infantry, and they were only equipped with leather armor, but the enemy had a scarce number of archers and crossbowmen, and even Russell found that there were cavalry in the rear of the team. Is this really a rogue's weapon? It's better than the Viscount's equipment!
Viscount Haier and his non-commissioned officers also discovered this problem, and with a worried look on their faces, they could only forcibly calm down and shout orders.
"Archers, crossbowmen ready! Aim at the enemy rushing in front and fire!" shouted the non-commissioned officer. I saw that a few arrows were shot intermittently from the city wall, but they all fell on the field in front of them in a twist and turn, and only a few arrows hit the ranks of the rogues, but they were all blocked by the prepared robbers raising their shields.
The counterattack was not long in coming, and some arrows were fired from the enemy ranks, and unlike the soldiers, the robbers were quite accurate in their arrows, and the guards were constantly being hit by arrows and falling miserably, and a few unlucky soldiers fell from the walls with their throats or thighs pierced.
Seeing that the defenders of the city were so vulnerable, the rogues carried the ladders to the city wall with a tsunami, and the ladders were set up on the wall in a short time.
Although the non-commissioned officer saw that the rogues had been attached to the city wall, they shouted, "Shoot arrows, throw stones!" But the soldiers were already frightened by the enemy's precise archery skills, and one by one they cowered under the battlements, not daring to start a counterattack. However, the mercenaries and thugs in the city still had the courage to brave the rain of arrows to fight back against the rogues.
Carter shouted, and with a sword he slashed over a robber who had climbed the wall, trying to kick away the ladder in front of him, but was forced back by the enemy's rain of arrows. The number of enemies in the city walls is growing. Russell was very anxious, and looked at the enemy team, and suddenly, he noticed that the cavalry behind the bandit team was also approaching the city wall, and a very well-dressed rogue, who seemed to be shouting and directing them. By the way, capture the thief first and capture the king, if only there was a weapon to kill him! Russell thought of a proverb from his previous life.