When Richard arrived in Osmar, it was already late August.

After the military meeting, large clouds appeared in the sky early the next morning.

The autumn rain is falling, and the temperature is even lower.

Richard had just eaten breakfast when smoke was already billowing outside Osmar Castle.

Richard hurried to the city wall, looked up, and saw that the rebels had appeared ten miles away.

The ranks of the rebels were chaotic, many of them outcasts.

The homeless people carried ladders, farm tools, pigs and sheep, chickens and ducks, and cried all the way, slowly approaching the Osma Castle.

After waiting for about an hour, the outcast striker was already within range of the archers.

These displaced people are all natives of County Breenau, and many are relatives of the defenders of the city walls.

Listening to the shouts of their relatives in their hometown, the Breena city defense army was suddenly a little unable to do anything, and they were reluctant to shoot their relatives in their hometown.

The cultists are the main force of the rebels, and they are already well equipped, with an armor rate of more than 30%.

These people hid in the rear, constantly driving away the displaced people.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Richard shouted loudly and commanded the coalition of nobles of Heihe County to take the lead in releasing arrows, and led by the soldiers of Heihe County, the soldiers of Brena County also released arrows.

In an instant, arrows rained down, shooting and killing many homeless people who rushed forward.

These exiles have no weapons and armor, no war experience, and no organization.

At the slightest casualty, they panic and shout. A lot of people ran around, dodging the arrows.

Such an army of outcasts, even if there were 100,000 people, still did not pose a threat to Osmar Castle.

With the cultist army not in battle, the defenders easily repelled the rebels' first attack.

In the rebel camp, Cardinal Goleven stared at the city wall of Osma, observing the density of the rain of arrows, and said with great certainty: "Reinforcements have arrived in the city of Osma. ”

"Now that reinforcements are coming, can we still fight Osma?"

"We still have a lot of boiling blood potions left, and even if reinforcements come, we are sure to capture Osma City. First use the homeless people to consume the arrows and spirits of the defenders, and wait for the afternoon, distribute 200 boiling blood potions, and conquer the city of Osma in one fell swoop. ”

After the rebels suddenly laid siege to the city and repelled the first tentative attack, Richard immediately called a meeting of officers.

This time the nobles of Bryna County basically came, including a few who were late last time. Among them was Baron Franklin.

Baron Franklin had a business conflict with the Harling family.

The price of steel has been reduced by a third because of the massive sale of steel in Haaland's territory.

The price of iron has decreased, and Baron Franklin's family also has a mine, which also sells iron products, and his income naturally decreases a lot.

Harland's territory relied on 2,000 orcs for mining, and the output of the blast furnace far exceeded that of Franklin's territory, although the price of iron decreased, the output continued to rise, and the income from the sale of steel also increased.

By June this year, the production of steel in Haaland's territory was close to 30 tons.

The demand for the territory is only eight tons, and the amount of steel sold abroad has reached more than 20 tons every month.

Even though the price of steel has fallen to twelve copper coins a kilogram, the territory relies on the sale of steel, and the net income has reached 700 gold coins per month.

But to this point, unless more slaves are added and new blast furnaces are built, steel production capacity is basically at its peak.

Because of the competition for the steel trade market, the two families of Haaland and Franklin have had a lot of contradictions.

Yesterday Richard called a meeting of officers, and Baron Franklin did not give face and did not come.

Today, the rebels are besieging the city, which is already in a wartime state, and Baron Franklin does not dare to easily disobey military orders, even if he is unhappy, he still comes to Richard's military tent.

"I took a look at the roster of soldiers sent by everyone yesterday, and counting the allied forces of Heihe County, there are only eighty-three professionals in Osma Castle. The cultists have a blood boiling potion, and as long as one or two hundred soldiers use it, the pressure on our defense will increase dramatically.

The most important thing is that the rebels still have an elite army, if we rely on fanatics to use boiling blood potions, impact us to open the gap, and the elite soldiers will follow closely to expand the gap, and the city fortifications will be difficult to hold.

Therefore, this battle cannot rely on stubbornness, we must take the initiative to attack, disrupt the position of the rebels, and must not let the fanatics be consumed in the offensive and defensive battles.

According to your information, I found that after using the Blood Boiling Potion, the cultists become violent and impulsive, like wild beasts that are not afraid of pain. IQ will also be much lower for a short period of time.

We can take advantage of this weakness and rely on the Monster Cavalry to attract and pin down enemies who use the Boiling Blood Potion.

Then grab the fighter and crush the enemy in one fell swoop.

I now order, Baron Franklin commands eight squadrons of soldiers as the center, Baron Plani commands six squadrons of soldiers as the left flank, and Baron Sharp commands the Blackriver County infantry as the right flank. I personally led the Warcraft cavalry to find the fanatics who used the boiling blood potion in the raid of the warplane.

The remaining four squadrons, along with the city defense army under the command of the city governor Adlais, remained to defend the city. ”

Richard's orders were not problematic on the surface, but in fact they were secretly selfish.

In the morning, he observed and found that the rebel camp was the most elite in the army, and there were basically no elite soldiers on the left and right flanks.

Letting Baron Franklin command the Chinese army is actually letting Baron Franklin use his own strength to fight the rebels.

When Franklin heard Richard's military order, his face turned pale.

But military orders must be carried out.

In every battle, there are always people who have to gnaw hard bones, there are always people who eat meat, and there are always people who sacrifice for the ghosts of the dead.

Richard is the commander of the aristocratic coalition, so naturally he doesn't need to let his descendants gnaw hard bones.

Therefore, the task shared by the coalition forces of Heihe County is lighter.

Moreover, Richard also has to command the Warcraft cavalry to deal with the most dangerous fanatics. Richard, a foreign nobleman, has put himself in danger, how can you be a native nobleman of Breoner County, how can you not work hard?

After the military order was issued, the gates of Osmar Castle were opened, and groups of soldiers lined up at the foot of the city walls.

And the Warcraft cavalry commanded by Richard temporarily hid in the military camp in the city, and made a final decision at a critical time.

Incorporated into the subordinates of Baron Rice and others, there are more than forty Warcraft war horses.

The soldiers who fought with the Warcraft Knights all rode tall northern horses.

The Northern Xinjiang horse is a common horse breed in the northern part of the Dawn Continent.

This kind of horse is very suitable as a war horse, tall and powerful, and can easily carry a knight weighing three or four hundred pounds to gallop.

Northern Xinjiang horses are worth a lot of money, and a horse costs fifteen gold coins, which is almost as good as a slave in the prime of life. Feed the fine food on weekdays, and have plenty of physical strength in wartime, so you can move with the Warcraft cavalry.

The soldiers riding horses in the northern frontier, although they are the attendants of the Warcraft cavalry, their combat effectiveness is not weak at all, they are very well-armed, they have practiced the breathing method for many years, and their quality is also better than that of the infantry.

(End of chapter)