Volume 1 Forest Knight Chapter 59 The Great Pit Under the City
Just as Balian was leading everyone to work in Sith Town, in a dense forest thirty miles away from Sith Town, Cassel, the leader of the Black Mountain regiment, got his
Arrange to scout out the informant's report in the town.
This man originally went in disguised as a hunter, but was expelled early this morning because he was not a local. After observing outside, he returned to the camp and reported the situation to the leader.
The Black Mountain Regiment is a large-scale mercenary group. It can be said to be one of the top mercenary groups on the Weilin continent. The history of the Black Mountain Regiment can be traced back to the imperial period. After hundreds of years of development, the combat strength of the Black Mountain Regiment has increased.
The number remains at about two thousand people all year round, most of which are elite armed infantry, and there are also a small number of cavalry troops.
The supreme commander of the Montenegro Regiment is the Grand Commander, who is also a hereditary viscount of the Principality of Orion. There are many regiment commanders under him. These regiment leaders are responsible for training and commanding mercenaries in combat. Under each regiment leader, there are three deputy commanders.
Responsible for leading teams to perform small-scale combat missions.
Since their debut, the Black Mountain Regiment has carried out countless combat missions, with few defeats, and its combat effectiveness is amazing. However, they are too cruel in fighting, and they are also notorious on the Weilin continent. Unless they have no choice, not many people are willing to pay such a high price to hire them.
Here comes a group of guys more ferocious than wild beasts.
However, it is also known that the Black Mountain Regiment is notorious for being bloodthirsty. Often, after one party hires mercenaries from the Black Mountain Regiment, the other party will choose to stop fighting in order to avoid tragic battles and meaningless massacres.
But this kind of thing usually only occurs in private wars between small nobles. In national wars and private wars between big nobles, no one will stop fighting just because you hire the Black Mountain Regiment. Instead, they will hire the Black Mountain Regiment.
A group of mercenaries of equal strength will come, use cruelty to fight against cruelty, and use cruelty to resist violence.
Cassel is one of the many deputy commanders of the Black Mountain Regiment. After Cassel heard his subordinates say that Sir Tower was preparing to fight them to the death, he had a look of ridicule on his face.
As a mercenary who started out as a low-level mercenary and has withstood the test of iron and blood on the battlefield for more than 20 years since he was fifteen years old, he did not take the military power of these low-level nobles into consideration at all.
In his opinion, if they met on the battlefield, all it would take was a frontal charge, and Sir Tower's gang of drunkards would scatter like birds and beasts. Not to mention that the number of soldiers in Sir Tower's hands would only be less than fifty.
It is precisely for this reason that when Cassel heard Sir Tower preparing to fight them to the death, he only laughed in his heart, what strength do you have to fight against the men of my Montenegrin regiment?
Unlike Cassel, who just laughed at him after hearing this, his subordinate, Centurion Derek, stood up and yelled: "These stupid pigs from Brick have no credibility at all, so forget it.
You are still so stupid. It seems that we should massacre the city this time. After we attack Sisi Town, no one, male or female, old or young, will be left alive."
As he spoke, the scary scar from the corner of his eyebrow to his chin began to tremble with the trembling of his facial muscles. It could be said to be quite terrifying.
"Sit down first, Derek." Cassel, as the boss, ordered Derek, a tall man, to sit down. "Our purpose is to recover commissions and interest, not to kill people. After attacking Sis Town this time,
, just take away all the valuable things.
After all, we have already slaughtered a village, and then we will massacre a town. In this way, we will completely offend the Brick nobles, and it will be difficult for us to take business from the Brick people in the future.
Besides, these Brick lords have seen how powerful we are, and when they come to work with us again, they will consider whether they dare not repay their debts to the Black Mountain Regiment. Naturally, it will not be like this time.
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The boss has made the final decision, and Derek has nothing more to say. Now they are recharging their energy and waiting to seize the money after they invade Sith Town. After all, the wealth of the mercenaries is mostly obtained by trophies.
Two days later in the morning, the Black Mountain regiment mercenaries arrived outside the town of Sissi. They were well-organized and well-equipped. Although they only brought makeshift crash carts and ladders, others had no doubt that if they attacked with all their strength, they would
This wooden wall on the outside of Sis Town must not be able to withstand it for long.
Deputy Commander Cassel sent one of his men to ride a horse and play white chess to the gate of Sith Town. He called for Sir Tower to come out. Although there were ten thousand people who were unwilling, in order to delay the enemy's siege time
, to buy Balian and the others more preparation time, he still had to bite the bullet and meet with the envoy.
The purpose of the people from the Black Mountain Regiment is very simple, which is to give Sir Tower an ultimatum. If he can pay off the bill now, they will not attack the city. If Sir Tower refuses to pay, then one hour later, the Black Mountain Regiment will
The mercenaries will attack Sith Town and steal all the wealth.
Sir Tower, who had already made his choice, asked the man to wait. He said that he needed to discuss it with his wife and butler. After an hour of "discussing", Sir Tower, who received the news that Balian and the others were fully prepared, said with great righteousness.
Standing on the city wall, facing the messenger, he angrily denounced the evil deeds of Tuan Tuan Tuan in Heishan.
And curse them, the demons who slaughter pregnant women, children and other innocent people, they will definitely go to hell, and their dirty souls will be tortured in the poisonous fire forever.
The envoy didn't react at all to Sir Tower's wrath and curses, and his expression didn't change. It seemed that he had heard these things too much and had become immune to them.
He sat on his horse and saluted Sir Tower, and then said: "Dear Sir Tower, you still have one hour to prepare. In one hour, we will attack.
Before we go to hell, we will send your men to hell first." After saying that, he held up the white chess piece, turned the horse's head, and left gracefully.
Watching the Black Mountain mercenary leave after saying harsh words, Sir Tower was so angry that he was shaking all over. He picked up a bow beside him and shot an arrow. Unfortunately, the distance was too far.
After the arrow lost its power, it stuck in the mud in front of the city gate.
After the man returned to the team, he reported the matter to the boss Cassel. Cassel sneered and said, "I brought flowers and swords to let him choose, but he chose the sword, so we can only use Bree."
The blood of the conquerors has come to feed our swords, and let their wails fill the sky!"
One hour after the hourglass time scale passed, the mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment launched the attack on time. Relying on their superior strength and confidence in their own combat power, they directly pressed their troops to the city gate and prepared to launch a fierce attack.
These mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment, who were proud of being a top mercenary regiment, had no idea what kind of surprise Balian had prepared for them in front of the city gate.
The twenty soldiers pushing the crash cart exerted all their strength, shouted slogans, and pushed the crash cart quickly towards the gate of Sis Town.
On their left and right, in front were ten heavy infantrymen holding broad shields and wearing three layers of combined armor, and closely behind were the elite shooters from the Black Mountain Regiment, who were holding relatively powerful horns.
bow.
After advancing to the shooting range, they all leaned out from behind their shields and shot accurate and fierce arrows out of the range of the hunting bows of the Sith garrison. In the first round, there were three peasants lying on the crenels watching the excitement.
Soldiers were shot dead.
One of the peasant soldiers wearing shabby armor and holding a rusty iron spear was not far from Balian. He just stuck his head out of the crenel to take a look at the situation when he was shot by an arrow and choked.
Throat, he clutched his neck, vomiting blood and foam, and fell down unwillingly.
Such accurate and ruthless archery skills surprised Balian. It seemed that the mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment were indeed well-deserved and their combat prowess was indeed impressive.
Then he ordered everyone not to poke their heads out easily, but to hide behind the crenellations. Anyone who disobeys will bear the consequences!
Not long after everyone stayed behind the crenel, they heard screams below. It was the mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment who had stepped into a trap.
In the past few days, Balian led everyone to dig a lot of traps around the entire Sith Town, especially near the city gate, which was densely packed with traps of all sizes.
As a town without a moat, these traps can only be used to build the first line of defense.
Derek, the centurion of the Black Mountain Regiment, was shocked when he saw the few heavy infantrymen holding shields at the front suddenly falling into the pit.
I saw that the two traps that were stepped on were about the width of an adult man's waist and about nine feet deep. They were covered with branches and hay and covered with soil, so that they could not be seen as traps at all.
When a heavy infantryman with armor and weapons weighing nearly three hundred pounds stepped on it, the board collapsed, and the unlucky guy who stepped on it also fell in, and was riddled with holes by the sharpened wooden stakes below.
No life left.
After seeing the trap, Derek, who was leading the siege, asked his soldiers to stop and check the ground carefully to avoid falling into the trap again.
Just as they were staring at the ground, the archers on the city wall began to fire arrows. They had entered the shooting range. Although the arrows shot by the archers on the city wall, mainly composed of hunters, were not as good as those of the archers of the Black Mountain Regiment.
It was accurate and ruthless, but it still caused some casualties and interference to the mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment.
However, during this period, the archers of the Black Mountain Regiment also fought back, bringing five more combat casualties to the Sith garrison. Although they also caused the same number of kills to the opponent, such a one-on-one battle
The replacement is very inappropriate, after all, the people of the Black Mountain Regiment are approaching the city step by step.
Although the siege speed of the Black Mountain Regiment was relatively slow, in terms of the overall advancement speed, it was still relatively fast. Soon they eliminated most of the traps and pushed their crash cart to less than ten steps from the gate of Sis Town.
place, and they have sent people to inspect the last stretch of land in front of the city gate, and no traps were found.
At this time, Centurion Derek heaved a sigh of relief. He stared at the city head angrily, and secretly made up his mind that after he entered Sith Town, he would slaughter all the men, women, and children in the town in order to solve the problem.
The hatred in my heart.
I saw him tapping his shield with his battle ax, and then other mercenaries also followed his rhythm, showing a very intimidating aura. There should be a person on the wall of Sith Town.
The young peasant soldiers who had never been on the battlefield were so frightened that they could not even hold the spears in their hands when they heard the thumping sound.
After banging for a while, Derek roared: "Brothers, go in and slaughter the city!" Then the forty or fifty vanguard mercenaries in front of the city also shouted and gathered near the crash car, pushing the crash car together.
Facing the city gate of Sisi Town, their fearless and fearless momentum is indeed shocking to see.
But when Derek and the others rushed to four or five steps away from the city gate, they suddenly heard the sound of planks breaking under their feet. Then Derek himself and the soldiers behind him crashed into the car and fell into the pit. It turned out that
Balian knew that these mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment had been in battle for a long time. After stepping into a trap, they would definitely deal with it carefully. Those ordinary traps would definitely be discovered and destroyed by their careful people.
Since the small trap didn't work, Balian simply made a big one for them. He dug a large pit ten steps long, five steps wide and ten feet deep in front of the city gate, and laid a layer of wooden boards on it.
It is covered with more than a foot of thick soil. In this way, the mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment cannot find it at all when they poke the ground with their spears and swords, and even if there are a small number of people, they cannot trigger the trap if they step on it.
When these mercenaries arrive in front of the city gate and confirm that there is no trap, they will definitely push the crash cart and rush forward. At this time, the weight of dozens of heavy infantry plus the weight of the crash cart will be supported by the wooden planks on the trap.
Can't stand it any longer.
After the board broke, the mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment above were thrown in, and most of them were killed on the spot by the array of sharp wooden stakes below. Although the remaining ones were not stabbed to death, they were all stabbed, and many of them were injured.
His legs were pierced by sharp wooden stakes, and he could only cry out in pain, begging his companions to save him quickly.
Derek, who luckily escaped the trap, and two agile mercenaries from the Black Mountain Regiment, climbed out by following the crash car that fell into the pit in the first half and the ladder that fell in.
As soon as they climbed out of the big pit, countless rockets were fired from the city wall into the pit. It turned out that the bottom of the pit was filled with hay and firewood soaked in oil.
When the rocket shot into the pit and came into contact with the hay and firewood, a raging fire instantly ignited, frightening the three Dereks so much that they hurriedly fled back to the group.
The dozen or so mercenaries of the Black Mountain Regiment who were still alive in the pit were injured and unable to move. At the same time, they were wrapped in fire. They were worse than dead, and they wailed in an even more miserable way than before.
This voice reached the ears of Cassel, the deputy commander of the Black Mountain Lions Regiment. He couldn't help but grit his teeth and clenched his fists. He raised his eyes that were almost bursting with fire and looked at the head of Sith Town.
He gritted his teeth and ordered: "After we attack Sith Town, no matter what the identities of the people inside are, I will kill them all. No one will be left alive, to comfort the brothers who died tragically."
He was a person who initially opposed the massacre of the city. At this time, he was so angry that he lost nearly fifty soldiers in one fell swoop. He was still a powerful vanguard including twenty heavy infantrymen and more than a dozen elite shooters. He really
He was heartbroken, knowing that even if he got back the 60,000 dinars, he might not be able to keep his position as deputy commander.