Chapter 28 The Siege of London
In recent times, England has been extremely disasters and difficulties. Especially as the capital city of London. Once, the Celtics once captured the city of London and destroyed the powerful king Alfred on the British islands of England and England. Later, the Black Prince Edward once again captured the city of London under the control of the Celtics and declared himself the king of England.
Then, this time. The Vikings and Celtic coalition were full of confidence and were ready to break through the city of London in one fell swoop. Moreover, although the main force of the dwarf army went to York City to defend Scotland in the north. However, there were still a group of dwarf soldiers in Egil's army. Of course, for this group of very valuable resources, Egil would not be so stupid that he used them to charge in the battle. Instead, he used them to create siege machinery.
Egil even discovered that from a certain perspective, the siege machinery produced by the dwarf is even better than the siege machinery produced by the system. If the siege machinery produced by the system is like a newly produced product mass-produced on the assembly line, then the siege machinery produced by the dwarf is like a modified product manually debugged by professionals. Compared with the two, the latter has a better ability.
"So, can I recruit dwarves from the system, too?" Egil asked.
"It doesn't seem to work at the moment." The system elves replied: "At least, it won't work until the war is over."
In other words, can we recruit after the war end? Egil is very surprised by this statement. But this is not the point. The focus now is to take down London, the already dilapidated city.
In this way, the bride and groom, who were still wearing wedding dresses, came to the front line, holding sharp blades and shouting wildly, making the entire siege show a strange joy and morale.
Unlike the cheers and hilariousness under the city wall, the black Duke Edward IV began to regret it on the dilapidated city wall. He really didn't expect that after such a long war, Norway could still pull out such a huge army, and even miraculously formed an alliance with the Celtics, instantly stabilizing the situation on the British islands.
Although the groom was wearing armor and holding a sharp blade, the bride was wearing armor and holding a sharp blade, and the priest who presided over the wedding was wearing armor and holding a sharp blade (?). Although it was a little disharmonious, it was an indisputable fact that the coalition forces were full of morale. In comparison, the Black Duke's army seemed very desperate.
Yes, extremely desperate.
As mentioned before, after being robbed by n+1 times, nothing left. Logistics supply has to be completely relied on the Norwegian Navy to cross the English Channel and transported from France. But now, the two sides have become enemies. Naturally, Egil will not do such a stupid thing anymore. In this way, the logistics supply of Edward's French army was interrupted.
Speaking of which, although Edward IV was a little anxious, he was not a stolen ruler. In fact, in the first two months, he asked for logistics and transportation, he asked for much more supplies than normal. In addition to normal consumption, it was enough for his army to use for the first half of the year.
But it miscalculated.
The first few batches of supplies were fine, but the last few batches of supplies all had problems. They were toxic.
Yes, I was poisoned. Although it was just a very small dose of toxin, it would be fine after taking it. But I felt that I had eaten less than I had pulled it out. The more I ate, the faster I died...
"Being plotted." At this moment, Edward IV realized that not only he wanted to part ways with the Norwegians after this, but also the Norwegians, who were interested in the British land he now controls - of course, there is only one city left now.
There is no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside. Such a city cannot be defended no matter what. Therefore, the Black Duke made a quick decision and left the city before his morale had received much impact, and chose to fight in the wild. Although the number of the other party was twice that of himself, the Black Duke claimed to be a famous general and was not a person who likes modestness. In this way, 10,000 French, pseudo-English army, vs 21,000 Norwegian, and Celtic coalition.
However, the war exceeded the expectations of Edward the Black Duke from the beginning - the opponent, that is, the coalition forces, as always, used the most classic tactics of the medieval era, with a total of one thousand elite heavy cavalry charging. However, in addition, the infantry group in the rear also charged at the same time. The coalition forces had no more longbowmen than those of the pseudo-English army. Long-range attacks were not at all disadvantages. At the same time, the Norwegian knights who rushed in the front row were wearing heavy armor even with their men and horses, and it was difficult to shoot through even if they used longbows.
In this way, a total of 1,000 heavy cavalrymen instantly broke the front line of Edward's army. After a round of charge, he took out his battle axe and slashed and slashed. Edward IV saw that the situation was not good. He decided to retreat immediately. But at this time, he was surrounded by the remaining 500 heavy cavalrymen of Egil's troops and then charged fiercely.
The pseudo-English army then declared collapse. In the end, Edward, the Black Duke, fled back to the city of London, completely ignored the wailing sound of his own troops behind. Arrows were fired at the top of the city, and then the cables of the gate were cut off, and the huge iron gate was pressed down, and even rolled many French soldiers into two sections.
There was a wailing under the city of London. Seeing that his robes were dead at their own hands, the French soldiers who had escaped back to the city were feeling sad. The longbowmen closed their eyes when they set up prison again. They didn't want to take a look at them again. However, the intermittent howling of the dying people was torturing their eardrums all the time.
Extreme pain, extreme helplessness, and despair.
After that, the entire city of London was shrouded in an ominous atmosphere. The French soldiers fled back from the battlefield were only 2,000. The Celtic-Viking coalition, which was originally casualties on the battlefield, had only 100 people. The coalition still had an army of more than 20,000. In this way, the comparison of the troops of the siege and the garrisoned side reached a tragic number of ten to one.
The opponent has all the troops and armor, his morale is high, and he also has excellent siege machinery. If you calculate this, isn't your side completely out of the chance?
Under the slightest failure, French soldiers in groups of three or three sneaked out of the city in the dark and drove away.
In this way, Egil slowed down for a week before the general attack. The last bit of normal food was eaten up. The city of London was filled with sorrow and there was no strength to resist.
The trauma suffered by the city of London in the previous few sieges has not been completely repaired. Egil followed suit. He directly attacked the place where Artoria commanded the city to break the city that day. The army dug soil on the hill next to it, and then packed it in sacks. The improved tomahawks rushed to the gap with sandbags and shields, put the sandbags down and ran back. After that, a few times, the slope was built again. Then, a large number of Norwegian and Celtic warriors rushed up and the city of London was lost.
When the war was raging, Edward IV was captured alive in an extremely unfair manner - he was about to pretend to be a woman and was about to escape, but he didn't expect that he happened to meet his former guard knight, who was cut off one arm and then captured. His guard knight never thought that his lord would appear in front of him in such an unfair manner. He screamed "Duke!" and then died because of his serious injury.
So Edward IV became a prisoner.
Edward IV looked at the Western scenery for a rare moment. When Edward IV was escorted in front of him, she still maintained a pair of women's clothes and had powder on her face. So Edward couldn't help but burst out laughing. Immediately afterwards, other guard knights, Viking captains, and leaders of Celtic tribes, also laughed out loud.
Edward IV's face turned red, and he just wished he would die now, so he should not be so embarrassed.
"Okay, okay, everyone, let me give you some face to Duke Edward." Egil stopped and said to the people around him. After that, the other generals stopped and smiled little by little. However, at this moment, Egil couldn't help it - or intentionally, and started laughing.
The generals in the military camp, whether genuine or fake, were almost all laughed out loud.
Edward felt that he could faint at this moment - if he didn't faint, he didn't know what method he should have to face it. So, he could only faint.
So Edward didn't know whether it was real or pretending. He rolled his eyes and Kutun fell to the ground with a sound.
Of course, compared to Egil, Artoria, a couple with an unscrupulous nature, Edward is still a little too young.
"Cold water?" Artoria asked quietly to Egil's ear.
"No, no, hot water." Egil traveled over at least, so it is clear that evaporation, sublimation and heat absorption are used. The heat will be taken away by taking a bath with hot water than cold water. It will also add scalds, ulcers and other effects, which are much more innovative than cold water.
then.
"Come on, it's too cold. Give His Highness some hot water to warm up your body."
After that, a basin of 100 degrees Celsius water that had just been grilled was poured on Edward's body. Edward IV, who was pretending to be dizzy, jumped up suddenly - but because his hands were tied behind him, his body lost balance and fell to the ground all of a sudden. Then, he started to scream like a pig.
However, Egil was very leisurely, approaching Edward little by little with one step, two steps, and then kicked Edward IV's scream a little louder.
"If you make a little more noise, I will hang you to the head of London."
Chapter completed!