Chapter 0916: Peeling Back the Cocoon: Surrender of Ellenwood City
Roger Elion is the heiress of Greenblood River Grace, and his wife, Aenz Ellenwood, is the eldest daughter of Earl Anders. When Will orders Roger's head to be cut off, both Lady Laura and Miss Jonessa intercede for Roger.
As soon as Roger dies, there will be no heir to the City of Divine Grace. Ellenwood also has a young daughter, Guanise Ellenwood, but she can no longer support the inheritance of the Ellenwood family.
Both families are currently sparsely populated, Anders' nephew and son have been killed in battle in Valantis on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and the man who killed Count Anders's heir, Bletus, and his nephew Archibald, is also Will.
Lady Laura thinks that she can use Rorgher to blackmail Anders and the Elion family in Grace City, while Janessa believes that killing will not win the favor of the nobles of Dorne.
But Will nevertheless ordered Roger's head to be cut off, hung with bamboo poles, and ordered the soldiers to erect bamboo poles by the moat.
Soon, the Count of Anders got the news, and came to the city wall to see that his son-in-law Roger's head was full of eyebrows, round eyes, and hung on a high bamboo pole.
Anders's eyes were so dark that he almost fell, and the guards around him hurriedly supported him.
Will whistled, and two griffons hovered over the moat, guarding Roger's head. A general wanted to risk rushing down to retrieve Roger's head, but Count Anders did not allow it and ordered him to hold on.
The three gates of the city were blasted open, the ravens were eaten by griffons when they were released, and Roger was sent to move the rescue troops in the middle of the night, but they were caught and beheaded, and the external information of Ellenwood City was completely cut off. At this point, no matter how strong Anders's loyalty was, the soldiers had no will to fight.
Will didn't spend a single soldier and broke the morale of the soldiers of Ellenwood City.
Morale is very important and equates to combat power.
Anders ordered the whole city to hold on, but secretly let people go out through the east gate, set up a raft, and go down the river that flows eastward, and if he is lucky enough not to fall to his death under the waterfall cliffs of the mountains, he can go to the Dorne Sea, and find the Dorne fishermen's village on the shore of the Dorne Sea, and then he can go to the Halberd City and report to Prince Doran that the city of Ellenwood is about to be destroyed.
Anders' verbal message to the Brave Soldier was that Ellenwood City would hold out for a week at most.
Fortunately, Will did not attack the day after beheading Roger. At noon that day, all the soldiers on the hillside moved to the flat ground below, and the city of Ellenwood was only separated by a moat. The tents in the camp on the slopes of the hill more than doubled to accommodate the new troops.
Arya arrived with a mixed army of 5,500 men, and in addition to the flag that Will's army had, there was an additional military flag: the Icewolf Banner. A running ice wolf on a gray-white background is the family crest of the Stark family in the North.
Hearing the loud noise outside the city, the soldiers of Ellenwood who defended the city understood that the enemy had come to reinforcements again, and the centurion and the generals looked at Count Anders with a strange look in their eyes, if the count had listened to Sir Roger and opened the city gates to launch a surprise attack on Will's army beforehand, he would have won a great victory. Well, now that the enemy's real forces are coming, Ellenwood is at a disadvantage in terms of numbers and morale.
Count Anders ordered the whole city to be ready for battle, and the walls were again filled with archers, and under the walls were filled with pikemen. After this level was defeated by the enemy, all the soldiers retreated behind the street wall and engaged the enemy in street battles. If you lose the street battle, all retreat into the inner city and engage the enemy in the inner city street battle.
Count Anders has sworn to fight the enemy to the end for the sake of Dorne.
This gave the soldiers a little morale, so that the whole army would not lose their morale.
Just when Anders summoned up the courage of his soldiers to fight the enemy, who knew that the enemy still did not attack the city when the large army arrived and the strength was superior, but continued to rest, play, drink, sing, and dance blatantly, and had no intention of attacking the city at all.
The generals of the city of Ellenwood stood on the walls and completely could not understand the intentions of the enemy.
Obviously, they may be able to win the city of Ellenwood in a single battle, but the enemy has no intention of going to war at all when all the circumstances are superior, as if they are here to play, not to fight.
Earl Anders had the intention to take the initiative to start a war, but at this time he really didn't dare to fight, the enemy's forces were stronger than them, and when he fought outside the city, the other party had griffins to help, that is, he was looking for his own death, and he let the city of Ellenwood fall in time in vain.
The morale of Count Anders was raised, and when it was dark, the enemy had no intention or preparation to attack, and the morale that was raised was naturally discharged.
At night, Count Anders feared that the enemy would come to raid the city, so he personally led his armor to defend the city. The earl took the lead and personally defended the city, which gave the soldiers the courage to see death as home, but the soldiers of the whole city stayed up with the earl until dawn, and the enemy had no intention of going to war at all.
The Count went down to rest and sleep, but fearing that the enemy would attack during the day, he sent his family henchmen to urge the soldiers to hold the walls. There was nothing to do for a day, and as long as the soldiers had no intention of blocking the city gates, the griffons of the opposing side did not bother to move.
As if both sides had their own tacit understanding, the carpenters and masters in the city did not repair the city gates, and the people outside the city did not attack the city with griffins.
After three days in a row, the hearts of the soldiers who were actively defending the city were slackened, and Count Anders himself was tired.
Outside the city, because most of them are Dorn, sometimes because of singing, or other warriors with similar accents, they talk to each other for a while across the river. When outsiders come here, they will only regard both sides as soldiers of one camp, and will not consider it a hostile relationship.
From the communication of the soldiers, Anders got a piece of news that he did not want to admit: the city of the king mound had been taken by Will, the entire clan of the Count of Manwudi had been killed in battle, and the soldiers defending the city had surrendered to Will except for those who had died in battle, and Lady Laura of Bremont City led all the soldiers of Bremont City to surrender to Will, and assisted Will in taking the city of the mound.
It was not attacked from the outside, but by the enemy from the inside.
After the enemy took the city of Wangzuka, he waved his army to the city of Ellenwood, why did the crows of the city of Wangzuka not be able to send the news? Anders naturally understood that with two such powerful griffins, no amount of ravens would be of any avail. It is only useful to send the Death Warrior to deliver the message.
Will also did what Count Anders wanted, and he sent a group of ten scouts to the mountains to the east, hoping that one or more of the scouts who had traveled along the Dorne Sea would get out smoothly and bring the news of the fall of the city to Prince Dorand.
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Chapter 0916 of 2
Night.
Jet-black.
I can't see my fingers.
The city walls are brightly lit.
The soldiers defending the city were visibly tired, and although their eyes were open, they had no intention of fighting.
More soldiers were sleeping and falling asleep.
Even the city dwellers who were hiding in the city's underground passages couldn't bear to come out, and they returned to their homes and slept comfortably.
The Earl of Anders was also sleeping.
The inner city of the main fort, the torch shines on the streets outside.
The patrolling soldiers were in groups of five or ten, and after midnight it was difficult to see the patrol on the streets.
The inner city fell asleep.
In the sky, in the night, there was the sound of wings flapping the air.
But the distance was too high and far away, and no one noticed.
The soldiers on duty also took a break in the sentry posts on the streets.
On the high spire of the Earl's main castle, a griffin fell gently, and on the back of the griffin, five people came down, among which Arya was the leader.
The griffin flapped its wings into the air, and another griffin fell, landing on the top of the tall Bachelor's Tower, and five people descended from the griffon's back, with Will as the main one.
Arya led the four gray-clad swordsmen down the stairs at the top of the tower, climbed into the tower, and began to kill from the top of the first floor. Five men and five swords, and every house was thrown in, either through a window or through a door, and when they encountered a door against it, they forcibly split the door and rushed in to kill people.
When the sound finally alarmed the sleeping Earl, Arya and the others had already reached the third floor, only one floor away from the room where the Count was sleeping.
The guards immediately rushed to the third floor, and then each of the guards had a bloody hole in their throats in an instant. None of the five second-floor guards could block the opponent's sword, and they were all killed with one stab.
When Arya entered the Earl's room with the four Grey Killers, Will led the four Grey Killers all the way from the top of the Bachelor's Tower to the bottom of the Tower, the Bachelor's Apprentice and the Raven were all killed, and the two guards at the bottom of the Tower were easily and effortlessly killed.
Will and his party met no resistance, and the defense of the Bachelor's Tower was useless.
When the Earl escaped from the main fort with his youngest daughter, Guan Nisai, he happened to bump into Will and his party of five who were coming from the Bachelor's Tower.
Count Anders did not choose to fight, he dropped the sword in his hand, he was not afraid, and said loudly: "May I ask who is the captain, please take me to Lord Will." ”
"I am!" Will said.
Anders looked at Will, who was dressed in black, and because of the light, the Count couldn't see Will's face clearly.
The Lord Chancellor of Will himself came to assassinate him, much to the Earl's shock. The Prime Minister of the Seven Kingdoms of Martial Arts once had a famous minister: Jon Clinton. Lord Will is more daring than Jon Clinton in martial arts.
"Lord Will, I am willing to beg for death, can you please spare my little girl, Guanisai Ellenwood. ”
Before Will could answer, Arya came out of the gates of the Earl's castle with four men, five of whom were bloody and had killed everyone in the Earl's house: family, servants, and guards.
Will said, "You knelt down and I beheaded you, and I will spare the life of your youngest daughter Guan Nisai." ”
"Thank you, Lord Will. Anders knelt down, kowtowed, and lowered the little girl Guan Nisai to the ground.
The little girl was just about to grin and cry, when one of them struck the little girl on the head with the hilt of her sword, knocking the little girl unconscious.
Will swung his keel sword and slashed Anders' head with a single sword. He raised his head in his hand and gestured, and the ten men divided into two groups and returned the same way. At the top of the tower, the griffin flew down and picked everyone away.
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Early the next morning, on the tall bamboo pole erected in the moat, there was another human head: the head of Anders Ellenwood.
When the soldiers defending the city saw this, they were shocked and hurriedly sent people into the inner city to find out, and soon the whole city knew that the Earl's family had been assassinated last night, that all the people in the Bachelor's Tower and the Earl's main castle had been killed, and that the Earl's only youngest daughter, Guanisai Ellenwood, was missing and her whereabouts were unknown.
Outside the city, Will's troops on the slopes of the hill began to move, and all moved to the flat ground below the mountain to camp. Looking at their appearance, they still have no intention of attacking the city.
The soldiers of the city crowded the city to see the head of Count Anders. The morale of the army fluctuated, some wanted to fight to the death, some wanted to negotiate peace, and some wanted to abandon the city and flee, they decided to take the official road of the south, even if Will had an ambush army on the official road, he was not afraid of a battle, and some wanted to implement the loyalty of the earl, defend the city, delay time, and wait for reinforcements.
No matter how the soldiers in the city talked and even drew their swords against each other, Will stood still and waited for the changes. The only tacit agreement between the two sides is that if the city's soldiers and craftsmen do not repair the city gates, everything will be fine, and they will not suffer any attacks, as long as anyone dares to build stones and move wood, they will inevitably be attacked by the griffin's boulders.
The griffin boulder attack, no one can stop it!
Will saw that the enemy's army was impetuous, and had no intention of fighting, but between surrendering and fleeing, they were at a standstill. Will then sent Lady Laura, with her own men, to garrison the official road at the south gate to block the enemy's only way south. He also issued an order to divide the army into five thousand troops, with two thousand men stationed at the north gate, two thousand men at the west gate, and one thousand men at the south gate, to help Lady Laura and Miss Jonessa guard the official road at the south gate.
The defenders of the city were shocked, thinking that Lord Will was finally going to attack in three directions, but Will only ordered the army to dig up, dig wide and deep trenches, and put on dense antlers, completely to defend the soldiers in the city and rush out, obviously there was no plan to attack the city.
At dawn the next day, two more bamboo poles were added to the high bamboo poles of the moat, on which were hung the heads of three generals. When the news spread, the soldiers and people of the city were all terrified, and no one could see how the enemy had entered the city and beheaded the heads of the three generals.
At this point, some soldiers fell down the east gate with ropes and fled for their lives to the mountains and mountains to the east. In the evening, the whole city was under martial law, and it was strictly guarded, but the next morning, four more centurions were added to the bamboo poles by the moat.
The whole city was in an uproar, and the soldiers and centurions were all frightened.
There is no doubt that there are terrible dark wizards in the Will army.
At noon, there was a loud rumbling noise in the city, and the street walls built by the Earl of Anders were torn down by the people of the city, and the soldiers elected their representatives, raised the banner of surrender, and tied themselves up, and a total of six generals went out of the city to surrender to Will. ()
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