Chapter 37: Maple Leaf Manor Restoration Battle (3)
"What Sir Pippin said makes sense, and I agree with it." Seeing that everyone agreed, Viscount Merry naturally followed the public opinion and said, "These damn hunters, when this battle is over, I will
Just send people to arrest them. The leader must be hanged on the city wall, and the others will be sent to the Snow Realm Mine as slaves!"
"Yes! Yes! Yes! We can't spare them!"
"They should all be hanged on the city walls."
"It's all the fault of these bad guys."
… When the leading knights and officers heard that the Sheriff put all the responsibility for the defeat of today’s battle on the hunter responsible for the reconnaissance, they all immediately became excited.
Balian saw it in his eyes and smiled in his heart. None of these guys had any ability, but they were all ambitious and low-handed people. He didn't say he was incompetent, and he didn't allow others to show his ability. He was unwilling to do things in earnest, but he couldn't do anything.
We have to fight for all the credit.
Afterwards, after some discussion, everyone unanimously decided that Balian and the leading knight would continue to garrison the camp tomorrow and stick to the mission of the Good Housekeeper and the Firehead Army. The others, under the leadership of Sir Pippin, would concentrate their forces to attack head-on tomorrow.
The gate of Maple Leaf Manor, try to win Maple Leaf Manor tomorrow.
However, this plan was opposed by the city militia. The leader who represented the city militia at the meeting was a mercenary with many years of combat experience. It was he who led the formation of this city militia group consisting of the second son and the third son.
The city militiamen in the team are either his relatives or his neighbors and fellow villagers. The city militiamen suffered heavy casualties in today's first battle. This middle-aged soldier's heart was bleeding. He refused to participate in the next siege and was only willing to stay in the camp.
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Viscount Merri also knew that there was no way to force the city militiamen who had suffered more than half of their casualties to continue fighting, so he had no choice but to agree to let them garrison the camp and assume the tasks of the Firehead Army.
Transfer Balian and his soldiers from Fort Norland, but instead of allowing Balian to participate in the main attack, Balian will lead his troops as his escort. He will discharge his twenty heavy infantry to serve as the main attack.
Strength to ensure that the outcome of tomorrow's battle will not be as devastating as today's.
After Balian heard this, he accepted Viscount Merry's arrangement. After all, he didn't have to participate in the attack, and it was good to be able to go to the battlefield and share the merits. However, Balian was still not optimistic about tomorrow's battle.
After all, the opponent is not only strong but also very strategic in defending the city. However, not to mention the combat effectiveness of our own side, there is no way to fight the battle. In addition, today's casualties were heavy and everyone's morale is not high. I'm afraid it's hard to say what the battle will be like tomorrow.
ah.
After the combat meeting, Balian returned to his camp, called Eomer and the leaders of each group, and explained to them that after all, they would go to the battlefield tomorrow.
Although Viscount Merritt only arranged for them to serve as guards, he did not rule out the possibility of fighting. Let them all be prepared. Before entering the battlefield tomorrow, their armor should be neat, their bows should be strung, and their swords should be unsheathed. They should be ready for battle at any time. There should be no trace of
slack off.
The next day's siege started after breakfast. Commander Sir Pippin gave up the plan of using a ram to break through the city gate. He first sent county soldiers holding large shields to find all the traps in front of the gate of Maple Leaf Manor and fill them in.
flat.
Then several teams of people were sent to pile up a lot of firewood at the gate, and then set off rockets to light it. The temporarily collected firewood did not add fuel or other combustion aids, so it did not burn very quickly, and was quickly doused by the pirates with water, but it was wet.
The thick smoke from the firewood caused great disturbance to the pirates in the city. Many pirates were choked with tears and could no longer draw their bows and shoot arrows.
At this time, Sir Pippin ordered an attack. The eight leading knights led their own levied peasant soldiers, and the three trainee knights led the county soldiers carrying ladders and began to attack the city. This time the attack went much more smoothly.
Before the pirates, who had been disturbed by the billowing smoke, could react, the Bricks had already boarded the city and started a close-range hand-to-hand battle with them.
These pirates shot arrows accurately and hard, and their skills in close combat were even more impressive. Many peasant soldiers and county soldiers who had just climbed to the top of the city were knocked to the ground by the pirates after a few fights.
Not only did they lose their lives, but they also let the pirates knock down the ladder.
However, some attacks went smoothly. A trainee knight led five heavy infantry assigned by Viscount Merri to the city. They were better equipped and had rich combat experience, and they quickly killed the three pirates who blocked them.
The subsequent county soldiers began to board the city one after another. Once they had the advantage in numbers, they quickly suppressed the pirates who were inferior in strength. Viscount Merry and Sir Pippin saw this.
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They were very happy and hurriedly sent additional heavy infantry to support them in an attempt to expand the results of the battle.
Sir Pippin took the remaining ten heavy infantry to support another leading knight whose attack was relatively smooth. He wanted to advance from both ends and give these dirty dragging wild dogs a fatal blow.
Just after Sir Pippin led his troops to support, only Viscount Merry, Balian and thirty soldiers of Fort Norland were left in front of the gate of Maple Leaf Manor. Viscount Merry watched the attack proceed smoothly and was very happy.
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He glanced at Balian, what he meant was, little boy, I can defeat you without you. When the merits are discussed and rewards are given, I won’t give you any benefits and make you disrespect the leader! Don’t listen to me! You won’t do it again in the future.
I need to give you little shoes to wear!
At this moment, there was only a "squeak" sound, and the door of Maple Leaf Manor opened. Thirty pirates like wolves and tigers rushed out from inside. These slutty pirates actually launched a counterattack. This was so surprising!
They were divided into three groups, and two groups attacked the Brick soldiers who were climbing the ladder. There were only ten pirates on the way, and they rushed straight into Balian and the others. It seemed that these pirates wanted to capture the thief first.
According to the principle, I want to capture Viscount Merri.
Because Viscount Merritt wanted to take the lead, from the beginning of the battle until now, he has been at a position about 400 steps in front of the gate of Maple Leaf Manor to facilitate timely observation of the battle situation. He also sent several knights and attendants to protect him.
Go out and patrol around Maple Leaf Manor to prevent any pirates from jumping over the wall to escape, so now he has no escort except Balian.
When Viscount Merrion saw the pirates rushing out and trying to catch him, he immediately wanted to turn his horse around and flee back to the camp. Balian knew that if the army chief escaped from the battle, it would have a huge blow to morale, and everyone would definitely be killed.
The army collapsed, and many members of their expedition team might have died due to the cowardly act of the chief officer.
It was with this in mind that Balian grabbed the reins of Viscount Merry's horse and shouted angrily: "My lord, do you want to abandon everyone? If you run away, the knights and soldiers who are attacking the city will only
We are afraid that we will be disbanded immediately, so please hold your ground, and we, the soldiers of Fort Noland, will kill these pirates!"
Balian's angry shout calmed down Viscount Merrill, who had been panicking just now. He also figured out that now was not the time to run away, and he couldn't get far by running like this. Sir Balian was very skilled in martial arts, and his soldiers were not very effective in combat.
It's customary, it's just ten pirates, so it should be fine.
After thinking through this, Viscount Merry smiled awkwardly and said, "Sir Balian, the Sheriff is waiting here. You can lead your troops to kill these pirates!" Balian nodded and arranged for two Nuo
In the name of protecting Viscount Merri, the Landenburg militiamen watched him and prevented him from escaping from the battle again. They led the remaining soldiers to the front and lined up in formation, preparing to destroy the pirates.
Seeing that the pirates were less than 300 steps away from him, Balian directly ordered the soldiers to line up in battle formation. Eight shield-bearing spearmen stood side by side in front, thrusting their spears forward. Four halberdiers and four
Soldiers with javelins, swords and shields stood behind the pikemen, and at the end were four crossbowmen and eight Norlandon militiamen with longbows.
The crossbowmen and militiamen launched the attack first. At a distance of more than 200 steps, the crossbowmen only fired one round. The militiamen fired three rounds with longbows. Twenty-eight arrows went down. The pirates were shot down on the spot.
There were three on the ground. Although the rest were protected by shields, most of them also had arrow wounds on their bodies.
When the pirates rushed to a distance of fifty steps, the four sword and shield soldiers fired two rounds of javelins in their hands. Because the javelin practice time was not long enough and the throwing was not accurate and powerful enough, these eight javelins only killed two of them.
A pirate.
Now there were only five Toba pirates left in front of the formation. They were not afraid of half of their comrades who died before the battle started, but continued to charge forward.
Later, when he interrogated them, Balian found out why these pirates were so fearless. It turned out that the main reason was that based on their years of combat experience, the Toba pirates believed that the Bricks were poor at hand-to-hand combat and could only stick close to each other.
If you go forward and launch a fierce attack, you will be able to disrupt the formation of the Bricks.
But this time they really miscalculated. Before they could fight, the eight spearmen in front collectively took a step back, then quickly rushed forward and stabbed them with their spears.
This sudden blow knocked the two pirates who had no time to dodge to the ground, and the other three pirates were also forced to take a few big steps back.
This is still
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