Chapter Fifty-Six: The Ancestors' Tactics
(This chapter is coded out during the break, and the funeral of the elders will be held for three days according to my custom, and there will be a big feast, which is so tiring.) )
In the fortress where human beings resisted foreign invasions in the past, the two human armies were killing each other, shouting and killing resounded in the sky, and the bows and arrows, boulders, and fire oil on the fortress walls continued to fall under the city walls and take the lives of one after another.
One hundred of the crusaders' catapults threw boulders at each other with the trebuchets on the walls, and the other sixty were filled with rubble to kill and wound the enemies on the walls.
As soon as a rushing car approached the city gate, it was burned by a fire oil tank thrown from the city wall, and the soldiers who were set on fire ran out with a strange scream, and the rushing car was soon shot to the ground by a bow and arrow.
A private soldier just showed his head on the city wall and was pierced in the cheek by a spear and fell down from the siege ladder, another private soldier behind him seized the opportunity to rush up the city wall and hacked the pikeman to death, and then he was also cut into pieces by the spearman's comrades, the tragic siege battle has been going on for two hours, the city wall and under the city wall are full of corpses, more and more soldiers of the crusading army climb the city wall, and the Duke Simon in the back looked at the battlefield excitedly and clenched his hands and did not dare to take a breath.
Unfortunately, the soldiers who had just climbed the city wall were wiped out by the enemy's rushing reserves, and the crusading army was once again driven off the wall.
"Stop the attack!" Duke Simon shook his head helplessly and gave the order to retreat.
The soldiers of the raiding force, who had been given the order, took their wounded comrades and retreated back to the camp like a tide.
In the evening, a military meeting was being held in the main general's camp, and Ouyang Yu was wearing a set of white armor with golden patterns and a red cloak behind it, but she was not the protagonist of this meeting, the protagonist was Duke Simon sitting on her left.
Duke Simon coughed and said, "Everyone, now that the fortress of Kara Pass cannot be attacked, you may as well say what suggestions you have." ”
There are more than a dozen powerful nobles sitting in the military tent, these dozen nobles look at me, I look at you, all of them shake their heads and don't have any good ideas.
In addition to the dozen or so nobles in the military tent, Andy, Toris and others were also invited to the meeting, Andy opened his mouth to speak, but just opened and closed back.
Ouyang Yu, who had been quietly staring at him, said, "Young Master Andy, I saw you just now that you seemed to have something to say, but what did you say when the words came to your lips?"
As if he had found a savior, Duke Simon said through Ouyang Yu's words: "Yes, if Young Master Andy has any good suggestions, you might as well say it, so that we can refer to it together." ”
Andy glared at Ouyang Yu fiercely before he spoke: "I do have an immature idea, just say it and ask everyone to hear it." ”
After seeing Simon nodding, Andy continued: "My plan is like this, night raids and digging tunnels. ”
"Night Raid?Tunnel?" The nobles at the meeting looked at each other again, and one of the nobles asked, "Young Master Andy, how do you attack at night?" You must know that our soldiers basically have night blindness, and they can't even distinguish between the southeast and the northwest when they leave the camp at night, let alone attack. ”
"yes, yes. The other nobles chimed in.
The productivity of the otherworldly world is low, and most of the means of production are owned by the nobles, and the average civilians and soldiers can eat well, even if it is good, but there is no nutrition, basically all have night blindness, so after dark, except for adventurers and mercenaries with higher income levels and better nutrition, everyone else rarely goes out.
Andy smiled confidently and said: "Don't worry about this, we can place some torches, and line these torches in two straight lines to indicate the direction of the fortress, and then the soldiers will walk along the torches, as for the time of the attack, I chose the time when it is almost dawn in the early morning, so that the soldiers will rush to the battlefield from the camp to the battlefield just dawn, so that they will not be able to see the enemy." ”
"Oh...... I see, what about digging tunnels?" another nobleman asked.
"In the past few days, I have carefully observed, the land near the fortress is relatively soft soil, there are few stones, my plan is to start digging tunnels in front of the fortress five hundred meters, digging all the way to the inside of the fortress, and then arrange the elite soldiers who will be vindictive to open the gate of the fortress from the inside, and then the army in ambush outside can easily capture the fortress of Kara Pass. ”
"Wow...... it turns out that the battle can still be fought like this!" Many nobles expressed their sincere admiration for Andy's plan.
"All right, that's it!" said Duke Simon, standing up excitedly.
"Wait. Andy stopped Duke Simon, who was about to give an order, and said, "There's another problem here. ”
"What question?" asked Duke Simon.
"That is, when digging tunnels, the sound of excavation is likely to be heard by the defenders of the fortress, and if it is heard, it will be impossible to carry out the plan I just mentioned. ”
"What then?" finally came up with a plan that was not only feasible, but also could greatly reduce casualties, and Duke Simon didn't want to give up like that.
"Easy to do. Andy stood up and walked to the middle of the military tent, glanced at Ouyang Yu provocatively and said, " Just don't let the defenders hear it, Lord Duke, you can arrange some military musicians and soldiers, and at night ask them to beat the war drums in front of the fortress, shout loudly to harass the enemy and shoot arrows from time to time, each time to harass them for an hour or two, three or four times a night, and attack as usual during the day, so that not only can you hide the sound of digging tunnels, but also effectively exhaust and paralyze the enemy army, and when they get used to it, we can catch them off guard when we really attack!"
"Good!"
The nobles in the military tent all gave a standing ovation, and Andy's plan was an eye-opener for them, and the method of using human lives to pile up in the past was weak.
"Young Master Andy is worthy of being the eldest son of Marshal Victor of the Vigel Empire, and such a wonderful tactic can only be thought of by you!" Duke Simon shook Andy's hands excitedly and praised him again and again.
All the people in the military tent except Ouyang Yu looked at him with adoring eyes, including Bishop Toris, who had a personality like an iceberg, and looked at Andy with a little more brilliance.
Ouyang Yu pursed his lips and thought in his heart: "It's all the leftover things used by the ancestors, and I'm embarrassed to treat them as my own." Although he was disdainful in his heart, judging from Andy's various performances, Ouyang Yu could be sure that he should be a Huaxia traverser.
Tea and porcelain, silk, which is smoother and softer than silk, cement, glass, and a whole host of other new things have popped up one by one over the years, and the newly opened entertainment club "Heaven and Earth" in the royal capitals of the world and the membership system, all of which have an inexplicable relationship with this Andy, and effectively restrain his play in the battle with Francis, after the war, Queen Cullen was given the title of earl with a fief, and the fief is just at the border of Higra and Vigel, it stands to reason that Queen Karen will never knight a noble son of an enemy country, but she did seal it, and Andy did not hesitate to accept it, and the Tao in this is really puzzling.
However, although it was determined that Andy was a traverser of Huaxia, Ouyang Yu did not have the slightest idea of wanting to reveal his identity to him, he lived his own life, if Andy dared to conspire against her, Ouyang Yu would not mind beating him.
The crusaders began to get busy according to Andy's plan, and then under the cover of night, a thousand mercenaries protected all the military bands and quietly came to the fortress not far away, and another team of soldiers carrying digging tools was also in place.
"Go!" ordered the officer leading the team.
"Knock knock knock ......!"
"Kill!
The sudden sound of drums and shouts of killing in the middle of the night, and the occasional arrows fired at the wall, only made the defenders very nervous, and all the soldiers in the fortress grabbed their weapons and ran towards the city wall without even putting on their clothes and armor at the urging of the officers.
What made the defenders depressed was that they were nervous for a long time, except for the sound of drums, shouts of killing, and a few arrows that were not painful, there was no other movement under the city, and after an hour the sound of the city died down, and the commander of the fortress ordered to strengthen the vigilance, and then let the rest of the soldiers go back to rest.
But in less than two hours, there was a shout of killing outside the fortress, and the defenders of the fortress hurried up the city wall again, but there was still no movement except for the shouting of killing, four times in a row, and at dawn the defenders of the fortress were red and swollen with red eyes, and the corners of their mouths were on fire, yawning for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that it was too dark, the soldiers of the defenders also had night blindness, and the commander of the fortress seemed to go out of the way to catch all these guys who disturbed people's dreams, and whipped them to death.
The crusaders who had set up a formation under the city were all in good spirits, and Duke Simon's military magician used his eagle eye to show the sluggish appearance of the defenders on the city walls when he smiled and ordered the attack to begin.
This attack was different from the previous ones, the intensity was like that of a child playing a game, and it was crushed with one blow, but there were many times, so as not to let the defenders rest during the day, and the child's play of the siege ended at sunset.
The defenders who thought they would be able to sleep well tonight sadly found that this was just an extravagant hope, not long after falling asleep, the earth-shattering drums and shouts of killing outside the fortress sounded again, and the soldiers yawned with panda eyes and were urged by the officers to run up the city wall, and the result was the same as yesterday except for the cold arrows shot from time to time, there was no movement, and after more than an hour, the soldiers dragged their tired bodies back to the barracks and slept without even taking off their clothes and armor.
"Knock knock knock ......!"
"Kill!"
"Again, my lord, please let me lead the men out of the city and kill all these bastards," said one of the defending officers to the commander of the fort, Count Bennard.
Two small red beans grew from the corners of Earl Benard's mouth, and he also stood on the city wall with red eyes and looked at the black city wall and pursed his mouth, if the southern hillbillies under the city walls still attacked the city like the previous two days, he was confident that they would pay a heavy price to break through the fortress, but now this group of hillbillies actually engaged in this kind of harassment regardless of the face of the nobles, which made him helpless.
"Your Excellency!" the officer shouted again.
Earl Bennard listened to the drums and shouts of the city, and beat the walls of the city and said to the officer, "Marcus, you set out with a thousand cavalry and kill me all these bastards!"
"Yes!" the officer named Marcus happily took the order.
Soon the gates of the fortress were slowly opened, and Marcus led a thousand cavalry to lead the horses and quietly left the fortress in the direction of the disturbing drums and shouts of killing.
After some distance, Marcus shouted, "Get on your horse, light the torches, kill the bastards!"
Thousands of torches were lit, and then the light of the torches was light, and the thousand cavalry rushed at high speed towards the military musicians of the crusading army under the fortress.
"Ah......h......h Ah......!" The hundreds of cavalrymen running in front, including Marcus, suddenly turned on their backs, and the cavalry behind had to stop without knowing what was happening on the road, and Marcus, who fell to the ground, saw through the faint light of the fire that the ground was covered with small pits the size of a fist, and the horses' feet would break if they stepped into them.
"Haha...... Young Master Andy is really powerful, he calculated that they will come to attack tonight!"
Not far away, a large number of fires burned in the place where the military musicians were, and behind each fire there was a recessed reflector, and the brass reflector reflected the light of the fire to the thousand cavalry led by Marcus, and a dazzling light suddenly appeared in the darkness and he couldn't open his eyes.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Arrows shot out of the flames like a rainstorm, and heavy armor-piercing arrows pierced through the armor of the cavalrymen and pierced their bodies, causing heavy casualties among the cavalrymen.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Marcus was pulled back by a few loyal cavalrymen, and was lucky enough to escape, but the thousand cavalry he brought with him fled back with less than three hundred, which can be described as a heavy loss.
After returning to the fortress, Marcus, who had been hit in the shoulder, knelt in front of Bennard and bowed his head and said: "My lord, the enemy army has calculated that we will attack those who harass us, and there is an ambush for a long time, and the thousand cavalry is almost completely wiped out, please punish your lordship." ”
Bennard sighed and helped Marcus up, saying, "It's not your responsibility, the people who can come up with these unheard-of tactics are definitely not those hillbillies in the South, get up." ”
"Master Xie. ”
Bennard looked at the crusaders slowly retreating in the darkness and said to himself, "Who the hell am I fighting against?"