Chapter 597. The bloody battle at the gates
The southern county of the Principality of the Lion is considered to be divided into two parts of the world at this time. Half of it was occupied by Baron Kant and built a large fortress in Djerkhala, while the other half was occupied by the five noble families of the world and nearly a hundred upper nobles of the Lion Duchy.
In the beginning, the large fortress of Djerkhala was garrisoned by Rolf with 5,000 soldiers, but in the last two months, there have been frequent troop movements in Kant's territory, and most of their destinations are the large fortress of Djerkhala in the southern county territory.
Just yesterday, when Kant received that the upper nobles of the Southern County were about to send troops to the aid of Lionburg, he also gave an order to Rolf.
"Led the army from north to south, attacking one castle manor after another, destroying the nobles of the southern county one by one, and at the same time, confiscating their family property."
These are the orders issued by Kant to Rolf.
Rolf's military talent was unquestionable, and Kant was completely relieved that he would lead a large army alone. On top of that, in the past two months, as soldiers have been converging from Drehem, Aaron, Sagos, and Viruja towards Djerkhala, Djerkhala's strength has become very strong at this time.
And there is no shortage of supernatural powers. In the past two months, the newly promoted Royal Knight of Svadia, the Lion Knight of Saarion, and the Imperial Mage of Einfas have all been transferred to Djerkhala by Kant.
Kant had long anticipated the scenario of being an enemy of the entire Southern County at this time, and had also formulated several lines of battle. If the upper nobles of the Southern County Leader were not dragged into the water by the Cameron family, Kant would only need to deal with the families of the five world nobles, and Kant would have to personally lead the team to deal with them, so only his army would be enough.
At the same time, Kant was also prepared to make the upper nobles of Nanjun an enemy of him, just like the situation at this time. Faced with this situation, Kant's line of operation was that he and Rolf fought in the south and north, both at the same time. This greatly speeds up the conquest.
When Kant once again set up an army to attack the Lionburg, Rolf also led his army on the march.
200 Swadia Royal Knights, 200 Saarion Lion Knights, 200 Einface Imperial Mages, a total of 600 extraordinary powers. 2,000 Swadiya sergeants, 2,000 Mamluks, 1,500 elite desert bandits, and 500 crossbowmen for each of the three fifth-class classes.
The above is the strength of the army led by Rolf, although the number of extraordinary forces of the sixth-level army is a little less, but the number of fourth-level and fifth-level troops is enough, and the entire army has 7,600 soldiers, which is quite powerful. Even if you are enemies with dozens of upper-class nobles at the same time, you can also crush them head-on. And Kant only needed Rolf to be in charge of the upper nobility. The nobles of the world will cook it himself.
Before Lion Castle, the battle began again.
The gate of the Lion Castle was very strong, and the stone golem carried the siege wood machinery for half an hour last night until the summoning time ran out, and it did not shake the gate of the Lion Castle in the slightest. After all, this castle is the first fortress of the Lion Principality, and its defense capabilities are extremely strong.
This time, Kant sent Sergeant Rhodok to carry heavy and thick siege wood to bombard the gate of Lion Castle, and at the same time, 800 Rhodok sniper archers suppressed the Lion Fort archers in the city tower and battlements from the bottom up through the range advantage.
The archers of the Lion Castle on the towers and battlements were extremely brutally suppressed and suffered heavy casualties. However, these archers were also very skillful, and even as the number of sacrifices grew, there was still a steady stream of archers from the Lion Fortress who continued to climb towers and battlements, risking being shot by siege crossbows to shoot Sergeant Rhodok.
"How can those crossbowmen be so elite and almost never fall short?" Above the tower, an archer cowered under the wall said to himself in a somewhat solemn tone. To his right and left, on each side lay a corpse on the ground, and the two corpses died in a terrible state, their heads completely blown off, and the ground was covered with blood and white brains.
Soon, however, two archers came to either side of the archer and filled the vacant slot.
"Soldiers, wind up your arrows, hurry! Listen to my orders, let's shoot arrows together! Enemy troops at the target gate! At this moment, the captain of the archer brigade opened his mouth and gave the order.
"One, two, three, probe arrow!" The captain of the archery brigade counted to three digits and immediately gave the order to shoot.
The archer, without the slightest hesitation, quickly stood up and shot the bow and arrows he had already prepared towards the city gate, and he did not take a moment to aim, but only shot towards the approximate position, and then quickly retracted. It was because he was so vigilant that he was able to survive the rounds of enemy siege crossbow arrows.
However, Lady Luck doesn't favor the same person forever.
This time, the moment the archer's arrow fired, a crossbow bolt struck him in the head faster than he had ever imagined. The archer dodged several times, attracting the attention of a certain Rhodok sniper shooter, who aimed his siege crossbow at the archer's top of the archer, and waited quietly for him to probe again. Sure enough, one arrow killed.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Sergeant Rhodok carried two siege beams and slammed the gates of the Lion Fortress on the left and right.
It's just that the sturdiness of the gate of the Lion Fort is not trivial, even if the strength of Sergeant Rhodok carrying the siege wood is far greater than the strength of the stone golem carrying the battering wood to bombard the gate of the Lion Fort, it can only slightly shake the gate of the Lion Fort, and it can't even do a large shock.
However, the sand gathers into a tower, and the water drops wear through the stones. The gates of the Lion Fort are strong again, and they can't withstand the strong impact of the two siege trees, as long as they keep going, they will definitely be able to knock them open.
Half an hour passed.
Sergeant Rhodok was targeted by the archers on the towers and battlements, and lost more than thirty men, but the losses of these archers were even heavier, seven or eight hundred.
"My lord, this is not the way to go on! The enemy siege soldiers were very strong in defense, and were often able to shoot down the arrows fired by our soldiers with their infantry swords directly, while their crossbow archers were almost innumerable. An archer general poured out his bitterness at Baron Ryan Issey Cameron: "If this continues, there will be no archers in your fiefdom." ”
At this time, every time the siege tree hit the gate of the Lion Castle, the gate shook much more violently than at the beginning. However, it will take at least two hours to actually break the gates open.
The light of thought in Kant's eyes flashed, and suddenly a plan appeared in his heart, which could greatly speed up the speed at which the city gate was opened.