Chapter 35: Maple Leaf Manor Restoration Battle (1)
After Balian waited for Thorg to show no resistance, he sheathed his sword and left, taking his barrel helmet and sword as victory gifts.
After Sogg got up with his face covered in blood, he turned around and went out. He originally wanted to teach Balian a lesson while most of the nobles in the direct county were present, but he didn't expect that he would be so embarrassed. How could he have the nerve to be here now?
If you stay there, leave quickly.
The other nobles did not come to curry favor with Balian because he defeated the first warrior in the direct county. Instead, they felt a slight rejection towards this new friend who had recently become famous but did not understand the social rules among nobles and was very powerful.
After all, you are excellent and not of their kind, so how could you attract their favor? The banquet ended quickly because of this unpleasant episode, and Balian and Eomer also left the Sheriff's Mansion and returned to the camp.
Early the next morning, the soldiers stationed at Fort Nolandt got up early to make food. After breakfast, everyone began to pack up the camp. After loading the tents and supplies into the carriage, everyone waited on the spot for notification to assemble.
Balian originally thought they would have to wait a long time. After all, Viscount Merry and Sir Pippin drank a lot of wine at the banquet last night. It would not be too early to get up the next day. However, Balian guessed wrong. They did not wait long.
, the county soldiers who came to deliver the order came and informed Balian to lead his soldiers to assemble in the south square of the city of Amundine.
According to the guidance of the county soldiers, the expedition team was divided into three parts: lords, county soldiers, and recruiters in the square, as well as some cavalry under Viscount Merritt. The total strength was close to 500 people.
It can be seen that Viscount Merry is determined to win this battle of recapture. Just based on the comparison of military strength, Viscount Merry and his side must have an absolute advantage. Although the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is hard to say, the number is sufficient.
Ser Thorg, who was defeated by Balian last night, did not come today. The soldiers of Waterside Town were led by his knight squire and remained in the army.
When Balian saw that he didn't come, he somewhat let down his guard. After all, there was a person who hated him participating in the battle with him. Who knew if he would stab him in the back.
However, Balian still asked Eomer to be careful of some of the soldiers in Waterside Town, and specially arranged two men to keep an eye on them. If anything went wrong, Balian could prepare early to avoid being tricked.
revenge.
After Viscount Merritt delivered an impassioned speech, he, fully clothed in armor, mounted a magnificent war horse. He rode on the horse, drew his sword, and shouted: "Let's go!" The team gathered here.
, officially set off.
Viscount Mery was escorted by seven of his knights of the house and a team of twenty heavy infantry. He walked in the middle of the team, and a knight walked in front of the team with twenty light cavalry.
Followed by Balian and his nine lords and the soldiers they led, and finally by the county soldiers and city militia, a team of 500 people plus carriages, etc., marched for a rim long (rim, this time and space
Distance unit, equivalent to one mile away).
At the end of the team, there is a group of merchants who follow the marching team. In addition to those who sell armor and weapons, they also sell wine and meat, and there are also special professionals who sell skins and flesh. This kind of merchant caravan is the mainstay of this time and space.
The characteristic is that basically there will be no large-scale military expeditions, but there will be caravans accompanying the army.
As soon as the team stopped to rest, the merchants of the military caravan began to do business, greeting the officers and soldiers to come over to eat and drink. After all, these people now have a few dinars of military pay per week, and they are about to go to the battlefield, and their swords have no eyes.
, instead of feeling regretful while waiting to die, it is better to be happy now. When the time comes, even if you die in battle, you will not have much to regret.
As a result, every evening when the army camped, these military merchants also surrounded their carriages into a camp. The sounds of drinking, making money, singing and dancing could be heard inside. Many lords also came in and out, enjoying themselves through indulgence in sex, wine and food.
Comfort yourself physically and mentally tired from a day of marching.
This is true for the upper floors, not to mention the lower floors. Ordinary soldiers can go there and spend a few soles to sell a glass of fruit wine brewed by the hawker, and then spend another twenty soles to buy a roasted rabbit leg and a bowl of wheat with dried shrimps.
Porridge.
After having a delicious meal, he found a girl he liked in the camp, and the two of them hugged each other and went to the side of the camp.
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In the woods, in the first half of the night when we camped, men's roars and women's gasps came from the woods around the camp from time to time, which made everyone restless and prevented many people from sleeping well.
Balian set up the camp of Fort Norandenburg soldiers some distance away from the main camp to keep the soldiers away from these disturbances. Although a few soldiers of Fort Norandenburg yearned for this kind of indulgent and depraved life, in Balian
Under the strict order, everyone stayed in the camp honestly.
But Balian also knows that it is absolutely stupid for any leader to want to ban the entertainment life of his subordinates. The more people below want to get something, the most stupid thing a leader can do is to deliberately leave the masses with nothing to entertain themselves.
The harder it is, the harder it is to live a cultured life. So Balian decided that it would be better to let them have entertainment activities from the beginning, but to change the way of entertainment.
After thinking about it, Balian took out the playing cards from his previous life and taught them how to play, including tractors, fried golden flowers, etc. Now the camp became lively every night.
However, Balian had stipulated in advance that it was forbidden to play with money and continue to play after lights out. However, Pandora's box was opened, which brought both beauty and evil. Because of the poker game, Balian almost lost his life.
,Of course, this is something.
On the fifth day of the march of the brigade, they arrived at a distance of fifty rims from Maple Leaf Manor. They would arrive there in another day. At this time, the sentry sent by Viscount Merry to conduct reconnaissance came back. Balian, as the leading knight, attended the pre-war meeting and talked with everyone
Let's listen to the scouts report the news about Maple Leaf Manor.
The soldiers who went to reconnoitre were a group of hunters recruited by Viscount Merri with a lot of money. Their leader introduced the situation of Maple Leaf Manor to everyone. The basic information was similar to what Bahrain and his team had reconnoitered, but these hunters did not find the ship on the Carr River.
, and these intruders are Toba pirates.
He only figured out the approximate number of troops and the number of archers observed on the city wall, but he didn't even know the basic configuration of the opponent's troops. Balian originally wanted to tell Sir Merry what he had discovered, but when he saw
Sir Merry was very satisfied with the reports of these hunters and rewarded them with a bag of silver coins in public. Balian suppressed his impulse and sat there honestly, waiting for arrangements.
The combat meeting was held under the auspices of Sir Pippin. Based on the map drawn by the hunters and the basic information about the buildings of Maple Leaf Manor, everyone started a colorful discussion. Some suggested that we should use our superior force several times that of the enemy to surround two or three people.
months to achieve the goal of starving the enemy to death.
Of course, this suggestion was rejected by Viscount Merry as soon as it was put forward. He did not dare to risk delaying the summer harvest by besieging the enemy; there were also suggestions for negotiation. After all, the army was pressing on the border. How many of these refugee rebels had the courage to continue to resist?
Recruit them, and then find any reason to kill a few leaders in the future, and send the remaining people to the Snow Mine to work as miners. This suggestion was approved by Viscount Merry, but some leading knights also opposed it, because this
This dishonest method is against the spirit of chivalry, and then everyone started debates and personal attacks around chivalry. Even the scandal of a certain knight spying on a maid taking a bath as a child was exposed, and the person involved almost overturned the table on the spot...
Balian was in this noisy commander's camp. Apart from occasionally saying some indifferent words, he just listened to everyone's nonsense, laughter and curses.
This reminded him of when he was in college in his previous life. The free discussion sessions in his class would always start less than ten minutes before deviating from the main theme and turning to gossip, games, and arguments. He often spent a lot of time talking all morning, but
If nothing comes out of the discussion, the greatest value is to take a group photo with everyone at the end, send the photo to the teacher and post it on WeChat Moments to show that everyone has studied together.
The entire combat meeting was discussed from morning to dusk. In the end, everyone was exhausted and could not speak. Viscount Merritt made a messy combat plan on the spot, which was based on everyone's suggestions.
That is: after arriving, negotiate with the leaders of the refugee rebels to try to surrender them and resolve the problem peacefully; if the rebels refuse to surrender, they will then use the city militia and county soldiers as the main siege force to attack the east gate head-on. The six leaders will
The knights led their soldiers to climb up the city wall with ladders and attack from three directions: northwest and south; leaving the two leading knights to lead the army to defend
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Protect the camp.
After confirming the plan, tasks began to be assigned. Because Balian was so popular in the competition before he went on the expedition, he got a bad reputation. In addition, all the leading knights and officers believed that it was inevitable to regain Maple Leaf Manor, and Merry
Viscount, Ser Pippin was dissatisfied with Balian's repeated offers to be the main siege force and was rejected.
Balian and a young knight with only fifteen old and weak peasant soldiers were assigned to guard the camp and be responsible for the food of the siege troops, becoming the housekeepers and fire-headed troops. The young knight wearing rusty chain mail
He was so happy that he quickly stood up and thanked Viscount Merry. Balian also stood up and saluted, just to show off. Since his men didn't have to participate in a near-death siege, why not do it.
After the battle plan and division of labor were finalized, everyone was happy. Except for Balian, everyone agreed that today's battle meeting was a successful conference, a victorious conference, and a united conference. Of course, Balian agreed with everyone, but in his heart
He muttered: "What a fucking conference, a bullshit conference, a fart conference."
After the war meeting, Viscount Merrill sat in the east, summoned the "craftsmen" who were engaged in special industries among the merchants accompanying the army, and arranged a sumptuous dinner. Balian was not popular with everyone, so he simply found a
The reason for leaving was that the other lords couldn't enjoy themselves as long as he was here, so why should he be here to increase others' dislike of him?
Inside Maple Leaf Manor, two Tuba pirate leaders were listening to the sentry reporting the news. The sentry reported: "Two leaders, the total number of Brick soldiers is more than 500, mainly light ones."
There were about 40 infantry, levied peasant soldiers, and about 40 cavalry, and about 15 heavy cavalry in combat. There were no heavy weapons for siege, only ladders and simple crash carts.
In addition, according to my observation, they do not have a strong will to fight. Almost as soon as they set up camp, the officers and soldiers went to the caravan with the army to have fun, and they did not look like they were out to fight."
"These losers think they can beat us with about five hundred men, huh!" After hearing the scout's report, a strong pirate leader with long blond hair, a blond beard and a golden beard said disdainfully.
"Brother Ham, although most of these Bricks are trash, they have a huge advantage in terms of military strength. It is best to transfer the valuable things we robbed this month to the ship in advance, so that if they break the city, we can also
It's better to just take the goods and food and run away, don't you think?" Another pirate leader sitting opposite him made a suggestion to move important items.
The leader of the pirates nodded, "You are right, Fast. In this way, you can start transferring items tonight. Counting the time, it is estimated that these Bricks should arrive at dusk tomorrow."
"Yes, Brother Ham!" Fast responded respectfully.
"After you have moved everything, only ten people are left to guard the ship. The main force is still used to defend Maple Leaf Manor. If we can defeat the Brick attack this time, we will be equivalent to setting up a stronghold in the north.
Nails, so that Lord Earl's summer rush plan can be implemented perfectly," Ham said.
Hearing what the boss said, Fast had some doubts, "Brother Ham, are ten people too few? The fruits of our labor during this period are all there. What if someone robs us?"
"Hahaha! Fast, my brother, you are too careful. The ship is parked in such a hidden position, and there are ten experts watching. How can the useless Brick people find it? If you take it away, you can
Don't worry." Ham ignored Fast's doubts.
"That's right, I really overthought it." Fast said with a smile.
"You just think too much, why do you act like a woman." Ham said jokingly.
"Hehe." Fast smiled and thought, I hope I don't worry too much, otherwise if we fail and go back like this, the Earl will pull out our skins.
At this time, up and down the city wall of Maple Leaf Manor, the Toba pirates were urging the captured serfs in the manor and the population plundered during this period to build fortifications. They reinforced the gate of Maple Leaf Manor and repaired the damaged wooden walls.
, the decayed parts, and dug many pits outside the city wall, with sharpened wooden stakes hidden inside. These traps that the Brick people were forced to dig are quietly waiting to harvest the lives of the Brick people.