Chapter 164: Before Fort Wilcot
The central territory of the Mishal Empire, the first main peak of the Mishal Mountains, and the fortress of Wilcott.
As the original 4 major forces of the Northwest Continent, the Mishaal Empire has a fortress dedicated to training professional soldiers like the Lancester Empire, which was destroyed by the Sunset Empire, compared to the Fort Biliga built by the original Lanster Empire in the forest hills, the Willcott Fortress of the Michal Empire is said to be the most strange area chosen when building in the Northwest 4 forces, because the construction area of this fortress is very similar to the Nottingham Fortress of the Sunset Empire to a certain extent, However, Fort Nottingham is built in a huge canyon in the desert, while Fort Wilcot is built in the middle of a mountain with a thousand years of snow.
The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that in the Mills Mountains where this fortress called Wilcott was built, there is only one mountain road leading to the plateau area of the inner territory of the Mishar Empire, and the Willcott Fort is built here to contain this chokepoint, and a large part of the reason is because only here, in this environment, can the best warriors of the Mishal Snow Mountains be bred.
To a certain extent, the warriors of the Snow Mountains can be compared with the Vikings of the original world, but compared with the Vikings, although the warriors of the Snow Mountains are stronger than the Vikings in terms of strength and endurance, but because they did not dare to drive the dragon-headed warship to conquer and plunder the entire world like the Vikings did back then, the Snow Mountain warriors have less than the Vikings who seem to be useless, but they are the soul of a whole nation.
It can be said that the reason why Sun Lin did not first fully unite with the Mars Empire first to kill the strongest Warsaw Alliance in the Northwest Continent, but chose to use 80% of the infantry army in a state of semi-riot and half-defense to deal with the Misharid Empire that had just tasted defeat, a big reason is because it was to be able to take these Viking-like snow mountain warriors for his own use after assessing the alpine snow field where the Misharid Empire of the Northwest Continent is located. Recruiting formidable Nordic axemen and Viking assault soldiers in the soon-to-be-captured fortress of Wilcot will no longer be a dream, but what will be the hoppy hook and scythe and the knights of England on foot? Of course, this reward can be given after completing the task given by the system to destroy the Mishaal Empire.
"Forts Wilcot.......... have to admit that no matter how many times I've seen this fort, I've always been blown away by its magnificent walls." The beard around the mouth was already stained with snowflakes, and even the small brown ice cones that had formed into a small brown Xiaoice cone, and at the moment when the 60,000 army left the camp, he looked at the Willcott fortress in the distance and muttered, and the 60,000 troops beside him, and even the 60,000 troops in front of him were shocked by this fortress hidden in the blizzard, at least the look of surprise in their eyes never disappeared. Do you have to know that in the eyes of these system people, or the sun does not set, there is no fortress in this world that can compare to the Nordting burger that is still in the foundation laying stage until now, so it stands to reason that there should be no more fortresses in this world that can shock the people of the sun does not set, but when the 60,000 people who do not set the sun arrived the day before yesterday, they realized that they themselves really underestimated the skilled craftsmen of this world.
Although the mountains and the snowstorms that fall every half hour from morning to night obscure the outline of the walls of the Wilcot fortress, in a parallel line of 25 meters of darkness from the ground to the sky, the dozen or so smoke-emitting braziers tell how magnificent the wall is, and the stone towers above it and at the turning point of the mountain range behind tell how well defended it is.
Andert is a native of the Northwest Continent, so he knows more about the defense of the outer wall of this fortress than the 60,000 people who do not set the sun, and the road ahead looks calm, but in fact, on the other side of the mountain range, there are many solid stone towers, and the people who turn the corner in front of them will be like the sand in the hourglass, without changing the front and back of the hourglass, these people who do not set the sun will never come out. Because just now, a somewhat clever herald used an elk caught in the morning to paint it with red and yellow paint, and made it move around the corner, at first 300 meters without any problems, but just as the elk took another step forward 300 meters, more than a dozen sharp arrows shot the elk into a hornet's nest with a sound of breaking through the air.
"The greatest achievement of the empire on which the sun never sets is conquest, and in the process of conquest, the conqueror is judged according to the enemy's fortress, soldiers, logistics, etc., and the conqueror is the most priority............ The fortress of Wilcott, 60,000 against 100,000, if you can conquer him, the engagement money for the father-in-law of Thebes can be regarded as having fallen............. counterweight trebuchet, on! Although the outer defense of the Wilcot fortress is indeed terrifying, no matter how tight the defense is, there will always be some flaws, and then with the information provided by the old man of Thebes, Andult learned that in fact, near this corner area, there is still a clearing that the shooters on the stone tower cannot hit, and this clearing is just enough to accommodate 10 counterweight trebuchets.
"Drink!" Under the order of Andelt, 200 engineers dragged the 10 counterweight trebuchets that had been packed into a giant wooden cart, and carefully bypassed the corner in front of them to reach the designated open space, although during this period the ears of the 200 engineers heard the sound of many sharp arrows breaking through the air, but none of these iron arrows fell more than 100 meters away from the engineers, and even some iron arrows were swept back and fell in front of the city wall after flying forward for a period of time due to the blizzard.
With a burst of assembly and people's noise, a counterweight trebuchet with a height of more than 10 meters appeared in front of everyone, given that the last time these counterweight trebuchets were used in the coastal area of the northwest continent, several of them were ignited by rocket arrows because the position of the prevention was too forward, so at this time the wooden frame of these counterweight trebuchets was coated with a layer of wax, and there was a layer of iron wrapped in a layer. And the 500 kilograms of roughly polished stone bullets placed around it made the engineers shudder.
"Is it assembled?"
"Report to Your Excellency General, it's all assembled."
"Then let's start the attack, and give you a day, at least to blast open the gates of the fortress of Wilcot, and clear a safer road for the 60,000-strong army, I don't want our soldiers to be shot into a hornet's nest."
"It's Your Excellency General!"
PS: The update time of the two chapters tomorrow night is uncertain, but there will definitely be.