There were about thirty enemy troops in the first wave of tentative attacks, and they carried three crude ladders about thirty feet long. Judging from the weapons and clothing of the enemy soldiers in the siege, the main force of the first wave of tentative attacks was

It was a small number of infantrymen leading about twenty peasant soldiers equipped with simple weapons. Their main role was to test the "height" of the Talburg wall with their lives.

Standing directly above the fort gate, Odo had never independently commanded and dispatched such a formation. He seemed quite nervous. When the enemy was still a hundred and seventy steps away from the fort gate, he had already ordered the archers on the wall to start.

Shooting, when seven or eight arrows flew lightly in front of the enemy, it indeed caused fear to the farmers who were originally honest and responsible. However, when they saw that none of the arrows fell, they all fell more than ten steps in front of them.

Most of the panic in my heart disappeared immediately~

Otto turned his head awkwardly and glanced at the inner castle tower behind him. Art, who was standing on the top of the building, just nodded in encouragement.

After a while, the enemy troops rushed in eighty steps. This distance was the killing range of the rifle bow. However, as expected, the several light arrows that followed were all missed. Only one enemy soldier was hit by a light arrow on the shoulder.

Scratch a layer of skin.

"The archers waited for the enemy troops to land on the city and fired straight from both wings!" Otto saw that the temporary crossbowman's accuracy was not very high, so he stopped shooting in time to avoid wasting arrows.

On the enemy side of the siege, when about thirty peasants and soldiers responsible for the first round of attack arrived under the outer wall of Tal Fort, a dozen archers behind them also followed closely and stood on the wall before shooting light arrows.

Where they landed, they all drew their bowstrings and fired a volley towards the outer wall of Tal Fort.

The enemy's archers' archery skills were obviously much better than those of the crossbowmen in the arrow towers on the outer wall. Almost all of the dozen or so light arrows fell against the parapet. These dozen or so deadly light arrows that flew in were a huge blow to the defenders.

The soldiers in the city caused a lot of chaos. The soldiers who were hit by light arrows on the wall raised their wooden shields to block, and there was a "bang bang bang" sound on the wooden shields.

As soon as Odo put down his shield, a wooden ladder came up against the crenellations of the outer wall on the left.

"Fork pole!!!" Otto quickly ordered the soldiers behind the crenel to use the fork pole to push down the wooden ladder that was coming up.

"Take the fork and hit the pole! Overthrow these bastards!!" Kazak and Tuba roared.

A few soldiers behind the crenel picked up the fork sticks placed on the fighting positions in the corridor, aimed at the wooden ladder sticking out of the wall, and pushed it out hard. However, the enemy soldiers at the bottom of the wooden ladder held down the bottom of the wooden ladder, and the defenders on the wall held down the wooden ladder.

The soldiers were unable to push away the wooden ladder for a while; but the enemy soldiers had already begun to climb up the three wooden ladders one after another.

"Throw the stone! The bow and arrow shoot straight from both wings!!" Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Odo ignored the sporadic arrows shot from outside the city, threw down his shield and raised a stone the size of a clay pot towards the wooden ladder under the outer wall.

The bottom was thrown down, and the soldiers beside Odo listened to Odo's order and quickly picked up the stone and threw it at the bottom of the wooden ladder.

On the left and right sides of the outer wall, Kazak and Tuba stood near their soldiers. While directing the soldiers to throw stones down, they took off the rifle bows on their backs and drew out light arrows and threw them in the direction of the enemy archers. They

They had practiced bow and arrow under Art's personal instruction. Although their archery skills were not good, they were still slightly better than those temporary crossbowmen. The two of them had already shot four flat-headed arrows in succession when the soldiers threw down the stones.

The light arrows, they stood at a high place and were protected by parapets, had a certain advantage. The seven or eight arrows they fired still hit two enemy archers, but the light arrows had lost their power at such a long distance, unless

Hitting the vital point, otherwise the enemy soldiers would only be able to pierce a layer of skin. However, the arrows flying from high places still had an impact on the enemy archers. After enduring several rounds of arrow attacks, the enemy soldiers

The archers retreated one after another.

Under the outer wall of Tal Fort, rocks falling from the sky smashed the heads of the soldiers who were trying to climb the city. Except for a small number of infantrymen who were equipped with skinned bucklers, most of the peasant soldiers did not have shields and armor. After a stone fell, they were smashed on the spot.

One died and three were injured. The peasants and soldiers holding the wooden ladder at the bottom dispersed. After the wooden ladder lost its support, it was directly overturned by the defenders on the wall. Several enemy soldiers who had not had time to come down followed the overturned wooden ladder and fell heavily.

He fell to the ground and made no sound for a long time.

With the sound of an ox horn blowing from the enemy's rear formation, the siege enemy soldiers dragged the corpses, lifted up the wounded soldiers, and hurriedly retreated. The first wave of tentative attacks ended in less than half a meal...

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On the outer wall of the Tal Fort, a fork-shooting soldier who was hit in the cheek by a stray arrow and a stone-throwing soldier who was hit by an arrow in his left forearm were carried up and taken down for treatment by the working farmers who had been hiding in a safe place.

In the wooden house under the inner wall of the outer wall, the baggage officer Spencer is not only responsible for making food for everyone in Tarburg, but now he also has to act as a "temporary healer".

Spencer held down the wounded soldier on the thatch with his face covered with blood and kept shouting. He turned to the prisoner of war laborer who was making food for the defenders under the low eaves outside the house and shouted: "Sluggard!! Are you blind? Are you still there?"

If you want to cook something, come here and help me!"

This guy called a slacker was a mountain bandit captured by the patrol when they recaptured Alsburg. He participated in the construction of roads at the wooden castle in the valley, and because of his good performance, he was selected by Lawrence to join the army as a labor force to participate in the war. This

Although this guy is called a slacker, he works very honestly and hard, and he also learned some simple wound treatment skills. He is highly regarded by the baggage officer Spencer, and he always handles this guy no matter how big or small the job is.

But in the past few months with Spencer, the thin prisoner of war had eaten well and had begun to gain weight.

"Travel officer, Mr. Odo has asked us to provide hot meals to the brothers on the wall on time. I am too busy." The lazy man ran into the wooden house carrying an iron spoon and sweating profusely, and said helplessly to Si

Spencer said.

"Are you a pig? Are you the only one who can cook? Aren't you going to find two bastards who are hiding under the eaves to watch the fun? You have such a pig brain. No wonder the caravan didn't choose you to be its attaché!"

"Go find someone! Are you waiting at the door for me to kick your ass?"

The lazy guy quickly put down the iron spoon in his hand and went to find someone in another wooden house to help...

On the outer wall, Odo, who had just commanded the first round of defense, was still busy. With the cooperation of Kazak and Tuba, he adjusted the positions of the defenders on the front of the outer wall, and placed several places where wooden ladders could easily be set up.

The local government strengthened the defensive force and asked the defenders to work in pairs: one person held a shield to resist the enemy's arrows before they climbed into the city, and the other person operated the fork stick or threw rocks.

Just after arranging the defense on the fort wall, he ran under the wall and organized the idle laborers and serfs to transport stones to the stations on the outer wall walkway or collect arrows shot by the enemy into the fort.

On the tower of the inner fort of Tal Fort, Art was crossing his arms and carefully observing the enemy camp outside the fort.

The first wave of attacks was obviously just a pawn used by the enemy to test the defensive strength of Tal Fort. After the attack stopped, the enemy troops at the foot of the hillside really started to get busy. Some of them were tying two wooden ladders together to increase the number of wooden ladders for climbing the city.

The length prevents the defenders' throwing stones from injuring the soldiers holding the bottom of the wooden ladder, and also makes it more difficult for the defenders' fork poles to push down the wooden ladder; some people are assembling the scattered parts into two huge wooden tops

When attacking a city, the soldiers under the wooden shields work together to carry the shield and move forward. It can not only block the arrows flying from the city, but also carry the falling stones; there are still people a little further away.

Cut down wood to build military tents and build fences to build camps.

The enemy did not make siege vehicles and battering rams. Obviously they already knew the terrain of Tal Fort. The heavy siege vehicles and battering rams could not be pushed up the slope smoothly under the enemy's attack, and the high battering rams

Town cars can easily tip over on slopes.

A group of enemy soldiers left the rear formation and moved towards the hillside on the right side of Talburg.

The enemy obviously noticed the waiting platform on the hillside. Although the waiting platform did not fire an arrow in the first round of attack, and from the enemy's point of view, no one stationed in the waiting platform was found.

The defenders, but Jeffrey, who knew a little about military affairs, still guessed the role of the waiting platform and sent soldiers to climb the hillside to try to find out.

In the hillside waiting platform, Bass, the first team leader in charge of the garrison, was sitting against the wooden wall of the arrow tower of the waiting platform, looking through the small gap in the wooden wall at the five enemy soldiers approaching cautiously down the hillside.

According to the prior plan, unless three short trumpets sounded in the Tal Fort, the waiting platform would not easily fire an arrow at the attacking enemy.

There is only a very narrow and steep path leading to the hillside waiting platform. This path can only accommodate two people walking side by side. No matter how many enemy soldiers there are, they cannot rush up at once. Moreover, the entire path is full of traps laid in advance. If you want to capture the waiting platform, you must

The enemy must pay greater casualties.

Sure enough, an enemy soldier who was leading the way to the waiting platform on the hillside stepped into the trap hole just after climbing halfway up the hillside. After several screams, he died of exhaustion. The four soldiers who followed him climbed up.

Check the edge of the deep pit trap. The unlucky guy who fell into the trap has been pierced into a meat sieve by the sharp wooden stakes in the pit.

"What on earth do these bastards do! Such insidious tricks can be used, devil! Bastard!!" The enemy soldiers were completely angry. Since entering the mountainous area a few days ago, they have been encountering such well-camouflaged traps.

If you accidentally fall into a pit, your intestines will be torn to pieces and turned into a pulp. Several soldiers have been killed by this trap.

After scolding, the four enemy soldiers no longer dared to be careless and climbed towards the top of the slope step by step. After taking less than ten steps, they actually discovered a large area of ​​fluffy soil in front of them.

It was undoubtedly a trap. I poked it with the short spear in my hand, and sure enough, a large piece collapsed. This hole was much bigger than the previous one, and everyone couldn't jump over it, so they all discussed taking a detour from the nearby ridge.

But as soon as a brave guy jumped off the ridge, he immediately felt a sharp pain in the soles of his feet. If he looked carefully, the dead branches and leaves under the ridge were all small spikes stuck in the ground and smeared with human and animal feces. There were no

The remaining enemy soldiers refused to take a step forward, so they had no choice but to lift the enemy soldiers with their left feet pierced and return to the camp.

"Come on, come on. There are many traps waiting for you here." Bass, who was sitting under the wooden wall of the waiting platform, smiled and took a bite of the bacon in his hand. Several soldiers around him who were watching the excitement through the gaps also followed.

Laughing out loud….

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About three hours after the first wave of exploratory attacks, the sun had already set in the west. After having a hot meal, the enemy troops, who were a little more prepared, began the second round of attacks with a long trumpet sound.

The enemy troops attacking this time were no longer as simple and hasty as a few infantrymen and peasant soldiers.

The attacking enemy troops are roughly divided into three waves. The first are soldiers carrying two giant wooden shields. Under each giant wooden shield are twenty elite soldiers wearing chain armor and iron helmets. They will be

The main force of the second wave of siege; behind the giant wooden shield are four lengthened wooden ladders, each of which is carried by five people.

Peasants and soldiers will carry the shield. They will set up wooden ladders on the left and right sides of the huge wooden shield, so that the soldiers under the giant shield can quickly climb up the wooden ladder; behind the wooden ladder for climbing the city are more than a dozen bows and arrows.

They will fire several rounds of upward shots before their own soldiers board the wall, providing cover for the soldiers who are ascending the city.
Chapter completed!