Woo——

Two and a half months later, outside the city of Orticia.

Looking at the mottled masonry wall of Ortisia, the fierce attacking horn of the Valandia Kingdom echoed in his ears, and Richard unconsciously held his breath again.

It has been more than half a month since the army besieged Ortisia. Most of the residential houses outside the town were torn down and destroyed by the soldiers of Vallandia, and the materials removed were used for construction and attack. The city equipment, the remaining intact houses were requisitioned by the king and some great nobles, looking lonely.

Snowflakes are still floating in the sky, but the temperature is not at all Richard’s imagined cold. The warm wind from the south also affects the land on the north shore of the West Porras Sea, allowing the soldiers to be in winter. Combat.

Since the army captured Fort Garonthor and besieged Ortisia, there has been no news of Emperor Garrios hiding in Fort Vijon in the north. He seems to have been killed in the Battle of Sargod. The confidence was overwhelmed, and he watched Varandia’s army erode the southwestern border of the empire step by step.

However, the nobles of Vallandia are not at all, so they relax their vigilance. The messengers to and from Serektor Castle will almost all go in and out of the camp every day, passing the news from there to King Deterre. In order to prevent the imperials from taking the opportunity to recapture Serektor Fort, Ingatel and his army, who had been willing to stay by the Royal General of the Kingdom, were deployed there-this seems to be to avoid the gap between Prince Arari and Ingatel.

“Richard, the King Your Majesty ordered you to join us in today’s attack!”

At this moment, Altamund ran to Richard on his horse and confronted Richard. Loudly said, pulling his thoughts back to reality. Richard glanced at him, nodded, then turned and looked towards his troops.

The 80-person team has been reduced to 61 in these two months, but although their number has been reduced, the quality has been improved. In addition, Richard also gave everyone a match The best armor available for defense.

“Khalid, reorganize the team and play with me.” Richard ordered to the dark-skinned Khalid, and the Alysai immediately took the command to gather all the melee infantry in the team. stand up.

More than ten minutes later, Richard personally led the team to the front line. With him on the offensive were Altamond and Berger of the Day Foster family and the others.

The young Altamond was standing beside Richard, looking at the swaying silhouette of the city wall, and the stone bullets that passed over his head from time to time, and howled against the city wall, be eager to have a try.

“Altamond, don’t be so impulsive this time. If I hadn’t blocked the javelin for you in time last time, you would have died on the wall.” Richard told him Tao.

Altamond nodded promised: “I know, you can always trust me.”

Richard was a little helpless. In the past half-month siege, although they Only once participated in the war, but in that only battle, Altamund showed his stunned nature and took the lead. Although this mobilized the morale of the soldiers, it also put himself in danger. The last time Had it not been for Richard to find out in time and help him with his shield to block the flying javelin, Altamond’s body would have been cold.

Woo——

At this moment, the offensive horn was sounded again, and Belgier, who was in charge of the general offensive, ordered the attack. The soldiers immediately ran behind several siege equipment and pushed the heavy ram and towers. While the soldiers pushed the siege equipment, their archers and catapult ballistas also kept firing to cover the infantry. .

The city walls of Ortisia have withstood more than half a month of strikes, and there have been many cracks. The wall stacks in some places have even been destroyed. The snow-covered city walls can clearly see the solidification The dark red blood stains.

The long and continuous siege has reduced the number of defenders in the city by half, and now only more than two hundred soldiers are left under the command of the Archon Apis’ son Eronix put up a desperate Struggle, it can be said that without the command of Eronix, the defenders would have surrendered long ago.

“Offensive!”

The roars of the nobles filled the ears of the Valandian infantry who were advancing in formation. As they slowly entered the range of the defender, The defending archers immediately started shooting. They used the remaining undestroyed ballistas to shoot at the siege tower and the infantry in formation, but in exchange for the firepower of the siege trebuchet.

An imperial ballista accurately shot the giant crossbow into the crowd. The crossbow with the thick arm of an adult man with no difficulty tore the armor on the soldiers. Throughout, the soldiers in that row are like human flesh candied fruit sticks strung together by crossbow bolts and nailed to death in the snow.

The screams of the soldiers caused fear in the people around them, and they quickly dispersed the formation. At the same time, the trebuchet of the Valandian also set fire to the arrow tower where the ballista was located. The stone, a few seconds later, only heard a loud bang, and the weather-beaten arrow tower finally couldn’t withstand the external blow and collapsed, burying the ballista and the soldiers hiding inside.

Seeing that the arrow tower was destroyed, the attacking soldiers cheered, but before they cheered a few times, they were suppressed by a rain of arrows from the defenders. They quickly raised their shields to defend. He pushed up the siege ram and the siege tower.

As the siege tower approached the city wall, Richard took the lead with his soldiers to climb the ladder of the siege tower. The resistance of the defenders became stronger and stronger. They madly moved towards the tiles under the siege tower. Landia soldiers fired, but they were all blocked by shields. In addition to crossbows and crossbows, they also used other weapons. During the climb, Richard saw with his own eyes several empires smashing a clay pot filled with kerosene against a siege tower not far away, and throwing a torch to light the kerosene. , The wooden siege tower burned instantly, and black smoke soon appeared, and the soldiers underneath scattered like birds and beasts and began to retreat.

Richard is a little grateful. Fortunately, it wasn’t the siege tower where he was burned, otherwise he would be uncomfortable when he climbed halfway.

Soon, Richard and his soldiers climbed to the top. He ordered one of the soldiers to step forward and open the suspension bridge. The man kicked the suspension bridge open with one foot. The moment the suspension bridge fell, several javelins And Arrow flew towards the inside. Fortunately, Richard kept their shields in front of them to prevent the defenders from attacking. However, the soldiers who were ordered to open the door were not so lucky. He was directly penetrated by several javelins. The body fell in a pool of blood.

“Offensive!”

Richard angrily roared, rushed up first, behind him, Khalid and the other soldiers followed closely, and he ran a few steps , The shield in front of him was hit by a burst, and the arrow shot by the defender hit his shield but was bounced to the ground, and was broken by the foot of the soldier following him.

In addition to Richard and the others, the other siege towers also lowered the drawbridge. Many Valandia soldiers roared and rushed to the wall, and the bloody battle started slowly…


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