Warlock Royal Family

The roar of the trebuchet sounded again, and a huge stone ball with a diameter of nearly two meters appeared again, flying from the top of the city with a whistling sound.

What makes soldiers more nervous than hearing is visual pressure. Unlike at night, during the day, all soldiers can see the stone ball moving rapidly with a terrifying shadow. This threat instantly shakes the three infantry lines. Most of the inexperienced officers were no different from their subordinates, with their heads raised and their eyes fixed on the sky. Only a small number of officers fulfilled their duties, asking their subordinates not to raise their heads and maintain formation in the formation.

After all, the infantry still huddled together. This was the result of Ladislaus and Old Colonna's several military law lectures after seeing the trebuchet. If there were no relevant preparations, thousands of people would disperse It is not impossible, the troops of the Italian city-states are too fleshy.

The performance of the "hand and half sword" cavalry is much better. Although they have never seen such a trebuchet, everyone is familiar with how to deal with the acting archduke when he releases high-level arcane skills. After observing the trajectory of the stone ball at a glance, he led his subordinates away in a safe direction.

The stone ball finally hit the edge of the first row of infantry. After crushing two unlucky ones, it struck a certain distance, but the second row of infantry was not crushed. The better the stone ball is polished, the farther it can roll , but this cost is very uneconomical.

Not only is polishing uneconomical, just releasing the "Tan Shure Advanced Aiming Technique" needs to consume thousands of taler's magic materials, plus the price of the stone ball, such a costly shot only wiped out a mere The two soldiers really lost their money economically.

However, in terms of tactics, Consul Petrucci still has reasons to be satisfied. This stone ball not only saved a little morale of the defenders, but also made people who didn't know that there was only one thirteenth-level mage in the city who could only make one precision shot Ladislaus decided to withdraw his troops.

However, Ladislaus is still undoubtedly the winner today, severely injuring the opponent's already disadvantaged cavalry, and now the Siena defenders have basically lost the ability to go out of the city to invite battle.

The old Colonna also arranged a small banquet that night to celebrate Ladislaus's first team, which was very good. Although alcohol was banned in the barracks, they still had a very happy meal.

Old Colonna very generously handed over today's spoils to Ladislaus.

Of course, this is only the old Colonna selling a good one. A dozen war horses and a dozen sets of armor are basically obtained by Kessell-Viting's mercenaries. Although the other party is still looking forward to hiring Ladislaus, but In short, it is not easy to do too much.

Ladislaus left most of the usable armor and uninjured horses to Kessell-Witting, and the remaining armor and wounded horses were required to be handed over to Ladislaus, and He also got a certain return. Ladislaus gave Kessell-Weiting three hundred civilian husbands as compensation through his own authority.

With civilian husbands, mercenaries do not need to set up camp, mow grass, or clean up horse manure by themselves.

Ladislaus's order to dig toilets no longer makes them complain, and public toilets are still very good, especially if you don't have to dig yourself.

Although these peasants had to camp, mow grass, clean up horse manure, and dig toilets, they no longer had to fill in the moats.

Kelar didn't go to serve "Hand and Half Sword", but he didn't have to continue to fill the river.

The farmer's fortune, his fortune, is now a member of Ladislaus's "archbishop's guard".

Although the Black Continent trade entrusted to Laciris has not yet seen any benefits, Ladislaus still decided to try his best to form a military force that directly obeys his orders.

This team is composed of the Ligurian church guards. At present, including the captain Sirika, there are only [-] people in total.

Eight ex-Roman soldiers, three well-behaved Siena civil servants, and seven former "hand and half sword" mercenaries born in Austria, Ladislaus equipped them with weapons and equipment as much as possible.

Kailar was the only civilian who achieved results when the insurance team attacked. He cut down a cavalry, so he was awarded the position of deputy captain. hint of power.

As for the excuse of poaching, Ladislaus is using the guise of "devotion to God". His steps are not big, and he has only pulled in a few people. Old Colonna and Kessell-Viting are naturally not too fussy. After all, it is too big a hat to obstruct the cause of Anri, so there is no need to make any trouble for these few people.

For the time being, these people are responsible for inspecting and supervising the performance of the people who fill the moats every day. There is no way to do it on the first day. After the assessment work, Ladislaus decided that it is better to hold it in his hands.

These nine people, no matter what their births were, were promised [-] acres of fertile land in Siena after the war, and the boss of Silica was chasing his own jazz title, and they were quite energetic.

In the following time, until New Year's Day in 1527, thousands of civilians continued to run back and forth to death under the command of Ladislaus, but the Siena defenders never attacked again, or used trebuchets, or even The rotating crossbow basically didn't shoot anymore.

Only bows and arrows and magic missiles are of course not powerful enough. On January 1527, 1, the moat was finally completely silted up.

The experience value rewarded by the task of "filling the moat within ten days" made Ladislaus's experience gauge about one-fifth white.

The surviving civilians finally had a belated Christmas and New Year's Day. Each of them was given enough black bread and a little bacon. The next job was relatively less dangerous, just transporting military rations, cleaning up the barracks, Assist craftsmen to create siege equipment and other work.

The civilian husbands who died in battle also received pensions, and their wives and children were allowed to go home. However, most women would not be able to live after losing their husbands. There are many Roman officers today who are going to be happy in the barracks, but even if the military judges drive the women away temporarily, these women will inevitably fall into the hands of the invaders in the end, if they can succeed in the invasion.

Of course, the fate of the family members of the civilian husbands who were executed for trying to escape was even more tragic.

The boss of Silica unceremoniously fulfilled his master's announcement, and exchanged these women and children for food, grass and weapon supplies. The Venetian merchant ship was loaded with various military supplies and unloaded directly at the port of Siena, and then loaded these slaves for shipment. black continent.

Although the countries of Europa generally hated the nomads on the northern edge of the Black Continent and the Barbary pirates based there, Venetian merchants didn't care about any moral conscience as long as they had gold coins to earn.

Of course, this is not an accusation. It is precisely because of the least conscience that the Republic of Venice is now the most prosperous city-state in Europe.

The outer port in the west of Siena City has been quite busy these days. Not only are there a constant stream of merchant ships from Venice, but the Spanish "Cross of Burgundy" battle flag also frequently appears here.

Because the "filling of the moat within ten days" was completed quickly and satisfactorily, although more should be thanked for the enemy's incompetence, Ladislaus received an additional reward, and the Spanish fleet sent a supply on behalf of the emperor, which was originally planned to be sent to Corsica Because of Ladislaus's rapid filling of the city wall, part of the island's supplies to support the noble rebels was allocated to the Siena battlefield.

The naval commander received an order that the supplies must be handed over directly to Ladislaus. Obviously, the emperor's dissatisfaction with the contemporary Pope Elect became more and more obvious.

With the right to distribute this large amount of materials, Ladislaus' voice on the issue of siege and post-war partition has been greatly strengthened.

The naval commander was not in vain. Ladislaus gave the most beautiful girl collected in this raid to His Excellency the Fleet Commander. Of course, the little care of five hundred talers was also indispensable.