readx;? Anyone with military knowledge knows that in a siege battle, the attacker must have at least three times as many troops as the defender to ensure victory. www.biquge.info No matter how much rhetoric the people talk about some of the brilliant battles and how they capture the city with very few troops through whimsy, the fact is that the vast majority of the battles are fought with boring sieges and various tactical trials that have gone back and forth for a long time.

It often lasted a month or two, and it was not uncommon for an entire season or even a year and a half, and one of the longest recorded battles in history came from the civil war of the Lamanite Empire, where the attackers even started building forts on the spot, and finally fought for six years - but let's get back to the point.

When faced with an army of 100,000 led by Edward, most of which were only militiamen, from the very beginning, Count Dowofberg never expected them to be victorious.

All the troops of Wolf Castle, including those recruited city defense archers, are only more than 1,700 people in total. Even if it had a reputation, Wolfsburg was at best a buffer point between the northern part of the kingdom and the central center of power, and it could not be compared with a border military fortress like Vavasika and a commercial center like Ashenir in terms of population or the strength of the guards。

And now, when the entire army of the northern part of Avenella is crushed in front of the mere normal county of Wolfsburg, their defeat is almost a matter of course—and even without the hesitation of His Excellency Count Adolf, it is doubtful that Ahibourne II's side will be able to persuade the Archdukes of Avenella, who are equally guarded no matter who they face, to join forces with Ottolo's secret forces to come and end the siege in time.

Count Adolf von Douwerfberg was one of the most prominent figures among the nobles of Avenella. Perhaps because of his proximity to an open mercantile city-state like Ashneer, he inherited the conservative and rigorous style of the Mami-Sivaliers, but he did not reject all that was "non-Sivalier" as the central aristocracy. He was kind to his people and always kept an eye out for news about them, which was why he was hesitant to deal with Edward.

Edward's prestige among the commoners was one thing, and he had a close relationship with the nobles of the Acasta Plains, and the support of the noble families of Ashinir, the commercial center, and Vawasica, a military fortress, but in fact had been snubbed by the royal capital. This prince has shown extraordinary skill since the beginning of the past, since the Kingdom of Luoan was destroyed by the Ottolo people 21 years ago, Vawasika has lost the meaning of existence, not to mention, even Asenir, who is an extremely important economic source of the kingdom, in the eyes of those royal families and grand dukes in the middle, is actually just "the place where the lower nine people should go".

It is true that they value the taxes and all kinds of good goods that this territory brings, but this does not mean that they will be willing to condescend to manage these merchants who seem to them to have no historical and cultural precipitation, and who go for profit, and who talk about people and ghosts, and hide knives in their smiles—it is enough to have a family that they better despise, and let them send money. This deep-seated discrimination caused discord between the northern and southern nobles of the kingdom to a considerable extent, and Edward, as a royal son of a fiefdom in Chester, frequently ran north since he was a teenager.

Count Adolf said that he watched Edward grow up, in fact, it is not an exaggeration, when the young prince is running around in Ashenir, as the most reliable and trusted shield of the royal family, the Dowofberg family is naturally the first choice of guards, although the earl himself will not leave his territory, but he has continued to pay attention to the prince's safety every time over the years.

Gifted and sociable, enthusiastic and passionate—young and adventurous—this would probably be the best king in the history of Avenella," thought Adolf, who had changed his mind one day.

Edward's revealed methods prove that he will definitely not be limited to this level, strategizing and making good use of talents. His future is long-lasting, far on the other side of the horizon, and it will be something that Maximime and Sivalier have never achieved.

The walls collapsed, and the Count could tell, almost instantly, from the collapsed ground, that the other party had hollowed out the earth below—this should not have happened, and if he had been more alert, he could have detected the commotion underground, but he had stayed in his Earl's Court and never went down to inspect it, and the defenders below had not paid attention to this detail due to the lack of rest and mental exhaustion due to the smell of corpses.

The walls fell, but at the same time, something similar collapsed in the count's heart.

Not far away, Edward's knights, who were out of range of the bed crossbow, attacked, and the defenders had not yet recovered from the sudden collapse, and those who had not been stoned to death clutched their heads in panic and screamed, "The Earth Dragon is coming!" Only a few tried to fight back, but the attacking troops on Edward's side aimed at the collapsed frontal wall more than ten meters long, many of them had a certain height, but the archers and bed crossbows above were completely destroyed, and it was extremely difficult to mobilize from elsewhere in the chaos, and a sergeant who had narrowly escaped the collapse was still shouting and cursing the archers hiding below, and a rickety boulder from the second floor fell from the top of his head and smashed the whole person into flesh.

"Bang-boom!" The collapse continued, and the multi-layered thick structure of Wolf Castle would not have broken into one place directly when the foundation suddenly collapsed, but the behavior of the front and rear walls tilting and supporting each other caused more collateral danger, after seeing the sergeant being smashed, watching the staggering huge stone archers refuse to rush towards this side, some of the remaining knights and sergeants shouted and even drew their long swords to force them up, and Charles, who rushed over, led a group of brave and fearless Vavasika knights to rush in directly on the rugged road formed by the collapse of the still unstable city wall。

"To the people of Vavasika, it's as flat as a stone road!huh!" the lord of the city shouted a morale-boosting cry, and the cavalry that marched with him replied loudly: "Huha!" They rode their horses and rushed into the first outer perimeter of the Wolfsburg, and the archers who stayed in the second layer of the walls immediately attacked, and a dense rain of arrows fell on the knights, but having learned the lessons of the battle with Sivalier more than a year ago, Charles and his party were equipped with plate armor even on their horses.

"Ding!boom-" "Dang!-boom!" Most of the arrows were bounced off the plate armor, and only a few were able to penetrate the plate armor because of the condescending extreme distance. But that's all, just the arrows that got stuck in the cushion of the cotton armor after passing through them, the knights looked like they were covered in devastation, but in fact they were still unharmed, they heroically broke the arrow with one hand, and then stabbed forward with their spears to hit the sergeants and archers who had not reacted because of the quarrel, and then released the long sword at the waist.

"For the Earl!" a knight who could only take a walk due to the lack of horses rushed up, Charles decisively commanded the horse to stand up and kick forward, the corner of the mountain horse of Avenella, which weighed 800 kilograms without a vest, was like a war hammer, and the knight who was not covered with armor was kicked in the jaw and flew backwards directly in the broken bones and blood foam, and after falling to the ground, his neck was weak and he was already lifeless.

"Sir Frederick!ahhhh

"A knight on his beloved warhorse and two men when he fought on foot. Such a proverb has been interpreted to the greatest extent at this moment, why the West Valiers can win the strongest position with heavy cavalry is also because of this, the best weapons of knights are their knowledge and the war horses under them, even the relatively thin steppe war horses can withstand the strength of a dozen or so adults, and the mountain war horses with such a majestic physique can easily pull a dozen or twenty people forward, and the infantry has almost no chance to counterattack when facing well-trained knights and war horses.

-- That's not all.

"Shoot high!" After dealing with a few knights and sergeants of the Earl's family who had stubbornly rushed forward, the archers began to flee to the interior of the castle in a hurry, Charles raised his long sword and pointed at the archers hidden in the cracks in the arrows inside, and said this to his own archers who had just climbed the ruins of the rugged walls, but before the words could be finished, one of them was hit and killed by the archers hiding in the safety of the arrows.

"Be careful! we have already won, do not be anxious, hold on and save your life!" The strongest outer walls have been breached, and although there are other defenses inside, it is only a matter of time in the hour-and the words shouted by Lord Charles to the militiamen in the Avenella dialect are the opposite of the Sivalier shouts of the knights under Dawofberg who have just rushed out of the inner circle.

"Go back! Go back! It's not over yet!" Because most of the sergeants were near the city gate and were in charge of commanding the archers there, and because they had all died in the previous collapse, there were no interpreters, and the knights shouted and cursed the archers and ran behind them, and when one of them was about to draw his sword at his waist and slash at his own militia, the earl, who had been rushing down from the fall of the city gate, slowly walked out from behind.

"Stop!"

Wolfsburg still has two layers of walls, and there are still a considerable number of remaining troops, and the clanging sound behind him, the sound of arrows from the release of the bowstring, and the screams and screams are intertwined, as if telling that the war is still not over.

But it's the end of it.

The Count understood this very well, like a fish caught from the bottom of the water and thrown into the sun, and when the outer walls collapsed and they poured in, Wolfsburg had no chance.

Or, perhaps, the fight had not been fought since the beginning—Adolf thought to himself, and the loyal knight beside him began to persuade his lord at this moment: "Count, Wolfsburg has been breached before, and we have not given up, please come back with me, we will deploy our archers in this long corridor—" "Look around you." "Uh-" The Count interrupted him faintly, and Charles, who had stopped in front of them, led the knights of Vavasika to confront them face to face in silence.

The knights turned around, and there were no more militias around them, only the remnants of the noble knights of the Dowofberg family were still here, and many of the archers who did not escape in time had loosened their weapons and crouched beside them to be arrested by Edward's militiamen, and more militia archers on Edward's side were pouring in from the gap in the castle that had begun to stabilize - the other side seemed endless, and they were the only ones left.

"I understand your determination to fight to the death, but I think we may have chosen the wrong Shulfaga to help. Adolf looked up at Charles: "I have always been a Mami, and even if the family is submissive to Sivalier, there will still be something that will remain." There's a word in Sivalyya called 'overwhelming,' and it's as incomprehensible to me as their romance. ”

"Until today. The Count turned his head to look at the collapsed section of the wall in front of him, and the expression on his face was mixed, both lost and relieved.

"The castle has been around for a hundred and thirty years, it has been burned and its gates breached, but never once, in less than a week. The Count sighed, then straightened up and said, "If this is what Avenella led by His Highness Edward, I don't think they will be any match for His Highness, no matter what awaits him." ”

"All men obey the order to surrender to His Highness Edward Chester Schulfaga, in the name of Count Dowoftberg, Adolf von Dowofberg. ”

"You've fought valiantly, but this battle was ridiculously wrong from the start, so don't let it go wrong again. ”

"The lives of the Avenela should not be taken by the Avenella!" said the Earl, his words resounding, and Charles unlocked his visor and lifted it.

"You are defeated, Count. The goatee-bearded commander said to the other man, and Adolf sighed, then raised his head: "Yes, Count. ”

"But Avenella won. (To be continued.) )