Warlock Royal Family

The old Colonna, who successfully got the agreement he wanted, praised his daughter's lover very much, and promised that after the city was seized, all the properties of the churches under the various gods in the city would be handled by Ladislaus, and the church itself It was up to Ladislaus to decide whether to stay or not, and the old Colonna promised not to interfere at all.

However, these benefits are all based on being able to capture the city, and nothing will be mentioned if it fails.

In the next few days, the Roman army did not immediately attack the city, but first collected wood to build ladders, expanded the size of the camp, and strengthened the defense to ensure that it was difficult for the defenders to launch an assault.

Of course, the Florentine army is doing similar things, but apart from the camp in the northeast, part of the Florentine army has moved to the west side of Siena, and the "half-hand sword" mercenaries are also sweeping in that direction, cutting off the port and the city. Contact, and a thorough cleansing of the port area was also part of the agreement between the old Colonna and the Medici cardinals.

Although the port area without the protection of the city wall must have been completely emptied, and the port residents will not be as reluctant to fight as the rural residents, but after a thorough "cleaning", there is still some property.

Those peasants who were reluctant to part with the land really suffered. Ladislaus took the "half-handed sword" mercenary regiment and the cavalry of the Roman army to sweep the villages around the city of Siena these days. Unlike the cramped mountain villages, most of these villages are much richer and have a much larger population.

Although the government of Siena got the news of the enemy's invasion in advance, the big landowners hid in the city, but the yeoman farmers were reluctant to part with their land, and they fled into the city without the money they needed to live, even though Petrucci The consul has repeatedly announced that they will provide rations for those who can serve as auxiliary soldiers after entering the city, but isn't that too dangerous, and the words of the nobles have always been untrustworthy, who can guarantee that they will keep their promises this time.

What's more, even if the aristocrats show mercy occasionally, their lackeys and housekeepers still want to squeeze the peasants in the same way. To the aristocrats, they say that the summer tax will be halved. This kind of thing is really too common.

Although the old people still have lingering fears when they talk about the last war, but after so many years, must the enemy this time be as vicious as last time?

So they put their hopes in the benevolence of the enemy, or just live a day-to-day life attitude, and let fate decide everything.

Obviously, an inactive attitude towards life will bring about more dire results.

The invaders are much more terrifying than the original owners.

All their property was taken away, and all their reserves became the enemy's supplies. Instead, they had to work hard to get a little ration.

After seeing Siena's city defense system, the old Colonna gave up trying to occupy as peacefully as possible in order to facilitate the unrealistic fantasy of ruling, and went all out to recruit civilians.

Yes, the Sienese who were unwilling to enter the city as auxiliary soldiers to defend the city of Siena are now going to contribute to attacking the city. Their wives and daughters have not been ruined, at least before their death. To ensure the morale of the civilian husbands, all the women were gathered in one camp, and the Roman army was strictly prohibited from humiliating them.

The old Colonna also promised that each family member of the peasants would get a ration that was small but enough to survive, and that the peasants could return to the camp at night, if they could survive until night.

These unfortunates were organized to fill up the moats.

The first two days were fine, but the river that flowed into the moat was diverted away. The water flow was not strong in winter, and the river was cut off smoothly. It is extremely dangerous.

The task of Ladislaus is to squeeze out the value of these farmers as much as possible before they die.

The old Colonna gave the opportunity to lead the battle to his daughter's lover. This opportunity was also a reward for Ladislaus' performance in the negotiation. Although Ladislaus was completely inexperienced, he was high enough to order , and Machiavelli is an experienced commander.

Under the task of "Conquering the City of Siena", there is a branch "Fill the moat within ten days". This kind of task with additional requirements must be rewarding, but the difficulty seems a bit too high, unless there is almost no interference, It is really unlikely that the wide moat will be filled so quickly, and the threat of a counterattack by the defenders against the wall is very great.

Old Colonna gave Ladislaus 2000 soldiers and more than [-] civilians to complete this task

The old Colonna himself commanded the main force to press the formation. Of course, most of the army was busy preparing siege equipment, and he only assembled 3000 people.

In order to improve the work spirit of these poor people, Ladislaus organized a total of more than 2000 civilians into five groups, fifteen teams, with about 150 people in each team, and each time a large group was dispatched together, that is, three groups. The team is about four 500 people,

Whichever team of 150 people can complete a turnaround run faster can get one point, and the five teams with the highest scores every night can get a bowl of food in addition to hard-to-swallow rations. In the broth, there may be a few laying hens that they never want to eat, or half of a milk sheep that they never want to eat.

Wouldn't the aggressors be reluctant to kill, the so-called take from the people and use it for the people?

In addition to rewards and punishments, the team with the worst performance among all fifteen teams will be decimated by eleven.

Some of these civilian husbands occasionally go hunting in the mountains, so the stronger ones may be roughly equivalent to the level of a first-class warrior. These people are appointed as small bosses to take charge of daily management, and they eat meat every day.

They are also responsible for conveying Ladislaus' "rules of the game" to other civilians.

As for the few Orions who were very strong and could be regarded as second-level warriors, they could immediately be incorporated into the archers of the Roman army. The soldiers of the Roman city defense army were only required to be first-level warriors, and their families could also be truly protected.

The families of other civilian husbands can only get a bite of food before they die, but they have no choice.

After several days of preparation, on December 12th, after making sure that every citizen understands the rules, they will start the competition.

Under the watchful eyes of two thousand Roman troops, the first group of three groups of peasants each carried a cloth bag filled with 800 catties of soil, and as Boss Silica yelled "Let's go", they started from a distance of about [-] meters from the moat. Go up and rush down to the city.

As far as we know, the effective range of the trebuchets equipped on Spanish battleships is about 600 meters, so the talks that day were arranged at a distance of 700 meters from the city. Ladislaus judged that the distance of 800 meters was about the giant catapult on the turret. The limit range of the machine, shooting at this distance will not have any accuracy, even the shooting at 700 meters should be just luck, this algorithm is indeed a bit unreliable, but even if the calculation is wrong, bad luck It's nothing more than folk husbands, who cares.

His calculations are indeed not quite right. In fact, with the help of Alberto Masalani's "Tan Shure Advanced Aiming Technique" to shoot at a distance of 900 meters, there is still a little possibility that the civilians gathered in a group It caused a lot of damage, but considering the "Tan Shure Advanced Aiming Technique" and the expensive stone ball, which was only once a day, the Petrucci consul who was also on the tower finally decided not to use the trebuchet.

Nervously, the civilians ran all the way worried about the trebuchet, but it wasn't the trebuchet that really killed them.

After the peasants entered a distance of 250 meters, the rotating giant crossbows on the city wall began to speak, and six giant crossbows were assembled on this city wall, shooting fiercely at the peasants.

Two of the six crossbow arrows hit the peasants lined up in a row. The peasants who were hit directly lost one-third of their bodies and were killed on the spot. What was worse was the two people behind the piercing she. hole, but they did not die immediately. Their wailing before death caused the peasants to fall into great fear.