Chapter 187 Attacking the fortress (2)
Sir, didn't you give orders to attack the farm in the afternoon? What are they doing on the top of the mountain?" Odo asked to send two injured soldiers to the baggage team, then looked up at the busy group of people on the hillside, walked to Yat and asked.77dus
Odo led the third squadron of Kazak to return to the north side of the hill where most of the troops gathered in the front post. After conquering the small village in the northeast, they "accidentally" let a Lombard soldier run away, and then killed all the Lombards in the village, taking away the robbery of the Lombards in the small village, along with their weapons and armor.
However, those Provence women were unable to rescue them, because when Odo besieged the Lombards in the village, the Lombards killed all the women and waited to be killed by Odo's soldiers.
"They are preparing to attack the siege equipment of the farm." Yat replied with a wooden spoon down.
"Why did the equipment to prepare for siege run to it?" Odo asked.
Yat handed the half-eat broth and wheat paste into Odo's hands and replied, "I don't plan to attack the front of the farm directly. We have to dive down from the hillside and attack by the wooden ladder and tree bridge. So I asked the baggage team to take people to make local materials and equipment so that they would not have to be moved up from the bottom of the mountain in the afternoon."
Odo took the wooden bowl and stopped, "Sir, attack from the mountain? Did I hear it right?"
Yat took out half of the bare wheat bread from his arms and broke it into the wooden bowl in Odo's hand, and replied, "You will understand when you look at the terrain of the farm and the hillside. But I need to numb the enemy to attract their attention, so after you eat something, you will take the first mercenary squadron and the third mercenary to the open space on the front of the farm, and then pretend to make siege equipment. After I send a signal, you should also pretend to attack the front. The more defenders you attract in the front, the less difficult it will be for me to attack on the rear wing."
"Yes, sir." Odo agreed and held the wooden bowl and raised his head to drink a big mouthful of hot broth, wheat paste and crumbs.
The sun is slanting to the west, and the sun shines on the farm. On the south side of the hillside, looking at the dazzling light from the farm tower, there is a gray tranquility.
It seemed as if it was in contrast to the tranquility on the hillside, the sound of killing sounds shook the sky in the open space in front of the farm.
Odo led the 30 soldiers of the 1st mercenary squadron and the 3rd squadron of Kazak, carrying three thick wooden ladders to attack the farm. A large group of people roared in their throats as if they were crazy, as if they could block the stream and shake the stone wall down.
However, although the roar of more than thirty "crazy soldiers" failed to stop the stream from shaking the stone wall, it really made the Lombards behind the stone wall of the farm extremely nervous. They looked at each other, and the sweat beads on their faces could not stop flowing down.
"This group of madmen will siege the city, which makes people feel panicked." A little Lombard officer on the wall looked at the army lined up outside the farm and swallowed his throat with a mouthful of saliva.
"Arrowers fire arrows and let these wild beasts roar in hell!" The commander of the Lombardy defenders gave the order, and the archers began to shoot arrows through more than 180 steps.
Whoosh~buzz~~
The low or sharp sound of arrows breaking through the air between the offense and the defense sounded in the air.
"Shield Arrow Defense!"
Apart from one hundred and fifty steps, the light arrows in the arch and bow were basically powerless, but hitting the key points could still kill people. So Odo ordered all the conflicted soldiers of the two squadrons to squat and raise their shields to resist the rounds of arrows from the stone wall of the farm.
The arrows of the Lombardy defenders were not infinite. After shooting three rounds, the archers in the farm stone wall shot only one or two unlucky siege soldiers were caught, they stopped diffusing meaninglessly.
The rain of arrows stopped and the trumpet that rushed forward was about to ring again.
Wow~~Wow~~Wow~~Wow~~
Three horns urged the expedition, and more than thirty soldiers put down their round shields, picked up their weapons and began to roar at the front of the farm again...
The lion never makes any sound when it pounces on its prey.
On the north side of the hillside of the rear wing of the farm, three horns of urgency sounded. Yat waved his hand at the soldiers who were waiting behind him. The second, fourth squadron and crossbow team, who had been hiding for a long time, all followed Yat along a trail on the hillside to the other side of the mountainside. They would attack the stone wall of the farm at the foot of the mountain from the hillside.
In addition to carrying siege armor weapons, the soldiers behind Yat also carried three fifty-foot wooden ladders, and each two soldiers who did not carry wooden ladders also carried a fifty-foot-long trunk with a sharp edge.
Arriving at the critical point of the Lombards' vision, Yat signaled to pause behind him, and then observed the battle on the front from the mountainside:
Odo led more than 30 people to the edge of the stream, and was attacked by Lombards and tried to use a wooden ladder to make a bridge or jump directly over the stream. Here, the team of feinted attacks also suffered casualties, because the stream line was the best shooting angle for the Lombard defenders' bows and arrows. The Lombards did not know that behind them was the main battlefield, so they sent all the arrows to the "siege" army that was wandering around the stream.
Yat took off the exquisite step bow on his back, drew out three diamond-shaped armor-breaking arrows and pinched them in his hand, and ordered the crossbow team behind him: "Jason, Smith, pick two soldiers with good shooting skills and come with me."
After saying that, he bent down to the mountainside with the cover of the sunlight. Jason ordered two crossbowmen with good shooting skills and followed.
Yat chose a position with excellent shooting range and squatted down, then said to the people who followed: "See, the enemy has been attracted by the frontal attack. They only left three sentries to guard the rear wing. In order to surprise the Lombards, we will kill these three sentries later. Remember, it is best to kill with one blow. Four of you two are responsible for an enemy sentry, and I am responsible for the one on the left. I will shoot the arrow three times and understand?"
"I understand~" the four of them answered in a low voice.
Yati nodded, then grabbed the bow and drew the arrow, and pulled the arrow up. The people around him also followed Yati's movement and tapped the arrow to hit the arrow...
"Prepare!"
"one"
The bowstring begins to stretch.
"two"
The bowstring is stretched to the extreme.
"three!"
Wow, swow, swow, five heavy armor-breaking arrows or flat-headed light arrows twisted their bodies forward and backward, one by one, and three groups of them rushed towards the targets under the hillside...
On the stone wall of the rear wing of the farm, the three Lombard soldiers who were guarding the back wall had no intention of observing the situation of the rear wing. Although they stood on the stone wall on the back, their minds had long been attracted by the death battle in the south. They were not only curious about the frontal battle situation, but also worried that the Provence army would cross the stream and cross the trap to attack the stone wall. Every mistake of the frontal defenders might become the reason for their lives, although they thought they should be the last to end their lives.
However, their worries are obviously not redundant today, but the deadly enemy did not come from Zhengnan.
A Lombard sentry on the back wing of the farm was still tilting his head to peek at the scene of the front battlefield. A companion next to him fell down. The Lombard sentry looked down and saw that the companion next to him was shot with one arrow in his eyes and chest, and the two arrow feathers were still shaking. The companion who was shot on the ground had no sound at all, and there was no time to twitch.
“Yes~”
Before the Lombardy sentry could say the second word, a heavy arrow pierced through his back and nailed it straight into his chest, blocking his warning words in his throat, and then another arrow was inserted into the back of his neck, and a staggered knocked him straight to the ground...
Almost at the same time, two more arrows broke through the air.
The three Lombardy sentries on the rear wing of the farm were almost killed at the same time, but almost, because at the moment when Yat let go, a gust of wind burst out, and the arrow shot from Yat's hand hit the Lombard's shoulder blade. The Lombardy sentry instinctively collapsed after being shot, hiding behind the stone wall.
Fortunately, this heavy blow hit the sentry's bone, and the severe pain made him fall into shock the moment he fell down.
"I missed the shot~" Yat said in shame.
"Die~ Isn't you dead?" Smith asked.
"I don't know, it seems that there is no movement. The archers on the whistle tower didn't notice it either." Jason replied.
"Stop worrying, do it!" Yat no longer wondered whether to shoot the Lombardy sentry.
"Jason, you stay on the mountainside with your crossbow team to find a suitable position to suppress the enemy's crossbowman at any time."
"Tuba, Ron, rush down the hillside, and move as light as possible before the enemy notices it."
Yat led thirty people to carry wooden ladders, lifted the tree trunk and lowered his body to the mountain at a rapid speed. There were many thorny shrubs and sharp gravel on the hillside. More than thirty people carried the ladder and slid down the road, their hands and feet were thorny, and several unlucky soldiers even fell into the thorn bush and were caught by barbs and could not get out...
On the farm sentry tower, an archer shot out the archer's bags in front of him. He was about to call the idle sentry on the back wing to send a few more arrows, but found that the back wall was empty. He looked at it and the three sentries were sank straight behind the wall.
His eyes looked up the hillside along the rear wing, and the archer exclaimed.
"Enemy~Enemy!!Enemy!!There are enemies in the back mountain!!!" The archer shouted and warned his companions around him.
The leader of the archer also found unknown figures carrying wooden ladders and tree sticks on the back mountain moving down the mountain, shouting loudly: "The archer turns to shoot the enemy in the back mountain!"
Seven or eight Lombard archers turned around and began to shoot arrows at the people on the back mountain.
However, before the arrows of these Lombard archers could hit the figure swooping down from the back mountain, six or seven flat-headed light arrows flew towards them.
On a wide-view area on the mountainside, the crossbow team was constantly raising bows and arrows, and with their absolute advantage, he severely suppressed the arrows shot by the Talunbadians in the farm.
With the suppressed shooting of the crossbow team, the pressure of the diving team was reduced a lot. Before most of the Lombards could detect it, Att's order, all the lowered bodies stood up, and then the slope of the hillside was fiercely towards the place closest to the back wall of the farm.
A hundred steps away, it arrives in a flash.
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Chapter completed!