Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty Two

On both sides of the lower reaches of the Mitobluo River, there are densely covered camps. The tents arranged in square arrays are endless, and the once peaceful and wide section of the lower reaches of the Mitobluo River is gestating the Mars of war. When the Northland is ready, war will break out. ←Fiction, but from the perspective of the Principality of Madras, it has a tight and deep defense line and facilities. The army coming from the North will only meet and break the blood, even if the blood stains the river. Also helpless with the solid line of defense here.

On October 32, it was cloudy and windy with a little rain.

Lorester rode a horse and looked at the other side with a single scope, and after a while, he turned his head and asked the Baron Shahin Hennede beside him: "Are you all ready?"

"Of course, all the flat boats and the thick planks for building the pontoon bridge have been prepared. This section of the river is more than 300 meters wide, and the front 100 meters on the opposite bank is used to prevent landing, trenches and low walls for blocking. One hundred meters from the shore is the arrow tower and the fence. The arrow tower is octagonal, with five floors and 15 meters high. There are two garrison crossbows on each of the top three floors. Several fishing boats I dispatched before It was after the center line was shot and destroyed by the **** on the other side in the river." Hennede gritted his teeth.

"You can now issue an order to build a floating bridge, and you can immediately take revenge on the **** on the other side." Lorist said with a smile.

Henned waved his hand, and several guards behind him raised their horns. A loud "Woo" echoed on both sides of the strait. Groups of soldiers and craftsmen crowded out of the camp, and trucks filled with wood slid towards the river. side. On the riverside, a group of craftsmen and soldiers have already set up a row of flat boats and started laying wooden boards on them.

Lorist raised his monoculars again and looked towards the opposite bank. The other side was also flagged. Teams of soldiers from the Principality of Madras, wearing different styles of iron and leather armor, ran towards their defensive positions. Everyone knew well. The war broke out.

The so-called flat boat is a large-shaped ferry with a bottom but no building above it. A flat plate is laid on the cabin. The whole ship is bare and can only move slowly with poles and paddles. Nearly a hundred flat boats lined up in a long row along the river bank, and then the craftsmen and soldiers kept laying a finger-thick plank on it and then fastened it with large iron nails and thick iron chains. . Near noon, a long row of large slipway nearly 300 meters long and more than seven meters wide appeared on the river.

? Lorist wondered: "Henned, you should be able to set up this slipway in advance. It's a waste of time to start building now."

Henneide smiled triumphantly: "I didn't build it earlier to fool those stupid birds on the other side. Look, Locke, they always thought that the attack method I was going to take was to let the soldiers take a boat and land ashore. I'm here. While building a flat boat on the other side, I was not idle, and I kept making refusal. Didn’t you see that the refusal was placed in the river. Now I’m dumbfounded. I kept them busy for a month or so, all doing useless work. They died and did not expect that we would use the slipway to slowly pile up, and then use the thunderbolt catapult to smash their defenses and positions before landing."

After lunch, this huge slipway on the river surface is more than 40 meters offshore. Now the busy craftsmen on the riverside are building a pontoon bridge leading to the slipway. The length of the increased pontoon bridge slowly builds this huge and heavy slipway. Push into the river.

"It is estimated that by pushing 30 meters forward, Oviz can command the Perak sling battalion to board the slipway." Henned said, taking a look at the length of the pontoon.

Lorist said: "Beware of rocket attacks on the opposite shore. Your berth is made of wood and connected together. If the rocket attack is concentrated on the opposite shore, it will become a fire."

Hennede said: "It's okay. I calculated that the distance from the arrow tower on the opposite bank is three hundred and twenty thirty meters. The longest range of their garrison crossbow is only three hundred meters. We are just right. They can see where they can’t shoot. And our thunderbolt catapult’s best range is 350 meters to more than 400 meters, which happens to be within our sling range. In addition, I will throw soldiers on the slipway. River water. It’s not that easy to catch fire."

Count Kenmes yawned boredly next to him: "How much time will it take to throw stones?"

Henneide thought for a while to answer: "It should take about two hours."

"Okay." Earl Kenmes said simply: "Then I will go back to the big tent and squint, and then call me when I am throwing stones. I drank too much at noon, and I still feel faint now."

After another two hours, the slipway was in the right position, and the craftsmen finally stopped building the pontoons and had a rare break. Orviz commanded the soldiers of the Perak sling battalion to unload the horses in front of the Perak sling, and then carefully pushed the sling onto the slipway into two rows, and then fixed the sling on the slipway. A small team of people carrying rocks and stone **** to the slipway.

It took nearly an hour for all the preparations to be completed, and Earl Kenmes didn't need anyone to ask himself to get out of the account.

"Preparation is too cumbersome, you see the day is almost over," said Earl Kenmax.

"It's okay," Henned said: "It's okay to carry the lights for night battles, anyway, we will do the same when it's dark. Blow the trumpet and let the Oviz knight start throwing stones."

Obviz, who received the signal, quickly ordered the five hundred catapults on the slipway to start launching. Wherever there was a shower of stones with a large washbasin, it was the real wall collapsed and an arrow tower collapsed in the smoke and dust. No arrow tower could support three rounds of stone rain, and countless guards were crying and howling. They swarmed out from the arrow towers that had not been baptized by the rain of rocks, and ran towards the rear. They don't want to be like the unlucky ghosts in the previous arrow towers. The collapsed arrow tower was buried under the stone rain

After the first and second rounds of slingshots, except for the few arrow towers covered by stone rain, the other arrow towers fired huge crossbow arrows at the berth in the river almost at the same time. Half of the crossbow arrows were still carried. Fire light. It is a pity that all the crossbow arrows have penetrated into the river at a distance of tens of meters before the slipway, and none of them can reach the slipway. Therefore, in the next ten minutes, apart from a dozen garrison crossbows, which tried their firing range again, the rest of the arrow towers could only watch the arrow towers that were smashed into ruins by the rocks falling from the sky. collapse

It can be said that every round of stone throwing has left a large blank in the defensive positions on the river bank of the Principality of Madras. No defensive facilities can survive the large stone rain. When Orviz commanded the sling battalion to attack the remaining arrow towers, all the guards in the arrow tower gave up their duties and fled.

Without the threat of the city defense crossbow on the arrow tower, the craftsmen began to build the pontoon again, and continued to push the slipway to the opposite bank. On the slipway, Orviz also ordered the catapult to launch fire oil tanks, targeting the rows of wooden horses on the other side of the river. Soon, countless flames ignited on the opposite bank, igniting the weeds and shrubs in the river bank and mountains under the blowing of the river breeze, spreading far away.

Standing on the mound by the river, Lorester watched the smoke billowing from the opposite bank and the fire was shining into the sky. He let out a sigh of relief: "The overall situation is set, and you can board the opposite bank tomorrow. But you need to be careful at night. I was hurriedly jumped over the wall by the army of the Principality of Madras and attacked at night or something."

Henned said with a smile: "Don't worry, we have been prepared for this and we can guarantee that nothing will happen."

The army of the Principality of Madras was not as strong as Lorester imagined. Until the next morning the slipway was approaching the other side, the craftsmen were busy building a simple wooden bridge to get the Perak trebuchet ashore and dispatched a brigade of soldiers ashore When the land was leveled, the army of the Principality of Madras with nearly 10,000 people finally appeared in the distance. The wretched and petty troops approached the river, as if they wanted to drive the enemy who came ashore.

It was just that when Orviz ordered Perak’s sling battalion to launch a round of stone **** at enemies rushing in the distance, those enemies immediately collapsed and soon turned around and fled.

"Locke, there is such a magic weapon as the thunderbolt catapult, or we will directly sweep the entire Principality of Madras, we don't have to wait until next spring for any decisive battle." Henneide said confidently.

Lorist shook his head: "Let’s do as originally planned, Henned, the Principality of Madras we want is not just a territory, population is also a very important resource and wealth. If we go to wipe out Madeira now In the Principality of Slovakia, the Grand Duke of Madras will surely recruit all the people from the Principality to fight with us, so that even if we win, the Principality of Madras will be broken. It will not only cost a lot of money and manpower, but also gain. Still the hatred of the survivors.

If we want to turn the Principality of Madras into our family territory, we must reduce the harm caused to those civilians. What we want to rectify is the nobles of the principality. We went ashore according to the original plan and started to build a battalion defense, turning us into a defender, turning the nobles of the Madras Principality into an offensive side, and letting them be in the defense facilities of our camp Upload a few squads, and then negotiate with the Grand Duke of Madras, asking to guarantee the right of passage for this section of the river and commercial trade to mislead them about our purpose of starting this war. This is how I asked the Earl of Kenmes to come here. the reason. "

Henneide regretfully said: "I know, I am responsible for landing operations, and Kenmax is responsible for negotiations. I really want to fight them."

"Forgot the second prince? At the beginning, he led an army of fifty thousand to attack the Principality of Madras, but was defeated in the Battle of Kebo. If the forces of our four major families in the North can indeed destroy the Principality of Madras, But then our losses will be great. How can we deal with the hostile countries in the next week? In this attack on the Principality of Madras, what I hope is the slightest casualties at the lowest cost, whether it is us or The Principality of Madras is the same, so that the victory won will not damage our strength, and it can also effectively use the power of the destroyed Principality of Madras to pose a threat to the surrounding enemies, so that they dare not beat us. Do you understand the idea?" Lorist warned.

Henned also nodded unconvincingly.

"Henned, you have a misunderstanding right now. You think you will be invincible if you have mastered the Thunderbolt Catapult. In fact, this Thunderbolt Catapult is not as powerful as you think. I have dozens of ways to overcome the threat of the Thunderbolt Catapult. The light cavalry is one kind. The thunderbolt catapult really deals with defensive facilities and castle fortresses. It does not play a big role in field battles and has insufficient lethality against moving enemies. This is because the catapult needs to pre-determine where the rock falls, not only The launch is slow, and the sling has a long time in the air. As long as the action is quick, it is possible to avoid the area being thrown.

This is what I'm talking about as the role of the light cavalry in dealing with the Perak catapult. If the light cavalry is willing to pay some casualties and let the light cavalry fight to the death with the fire oil tank to attack the position of the catapult, it may burn the catapult. Others, such as marching in the wild and camping, sneak attacks and night attacks can pose a threat to the Thunderbolt catapult. It is the first time that the army of the Principality of Madras has encountered the Perak Catapult, and it is so afraid because it does not understand it. If the war really goes on, more contact will naturally come up with a way to deal with catapults. "

These words of Lorist are very reasonable, Henneide thought for a while and laughed: "I think it's bad, I listen to you, Locke, don't worry, I won't do my own thing."

Lorist patted him on the shoulder, and was about to say a few good words, but heard the rush of horse hooves. Several fast horses in the distance ran out of breath, and soon came under the mound. Three messengers wearing Norton family guard armor jumped off the horse and rushed towards Lorist and others.

At a distance of ten steps away, the messenger stopped, and El went over to look at it, then reported back: "My lord, they are from the guard camp. They came from the family and sent an urgent letter from Silovas Island."

"An urgent letter from Hilovas? What happened?" Lorist took the letter and opened it, surprised. The signatures on the envelope are Governor Hansk and the Knights of Farrea. The two are in charge of the administration and the military at the same time. Something must have happened.

Loris was taken aback when he opened the folded letter paper. The Earl Kenmes next to him asked curiously: "What's the matter, what's the matter? May I know?"

Lorist stuffed the letter to him: "Read it for yourself."

The Earl of Kenmes took up his faith and said: "At 7 o'clock in the evening on October 24th, the Second Highness and the others disguised as fishermen and drove a dilapidated fishing boat to Silovas Island, accompanied by Miss Norton Christian And the four guards, one of them is the Golden Order, and the three are the Silver Order. Governor Hansk received them and the party. The Knights of Farrea hoped that they could rest on the island for a while and wait for the letter from the North, but the second Highness and Kerry Ms. Siya insisted on setting off to the Northland immediately, and wanted to meet with the adults. She couldn't stop her and she had to send them aboard the passenger ship heading to the Northland on the morning of October 25, and sent Dawn's Flying Fish to take the adults here first. letter"

"His Royal Highness is still alive? Is he coming to the North?" After reading this letter, Earl Kenmez looked at Lorist in a daze~www.readwn.com~ This is really shocking news.

"You are not a nobleman in the Antinac Kingdom anymore. Why are the Second Highnesses coming to the Northland?" Henned asked strangely.

"Ben! He is not the king of the Antinac Kingdom now, but from the perspective of the noble inheritance, he is still the nominal upper lord of the Norton family. This time he must have returned to the country by military force." Earl Speyer said with certainty.

Today is October 33, and the Second Highness left Hilovas Island on October 25. The passenger ship to the Northland took seven days, so they had arrived in the Northland. Although Faria sent Dawn’s Flying Fish to deliver the letter first, it was able to arrive two days earlier, but it took three more days to go to the lower reaches of the Mitobura River to deliver the letter from the family territory. Even now, it’s too late to return. Up.

"I rushed back overnight. I will ask you two here for the first time. I will just do as planned. If anything happens to me, I will notify you immediately." Lorister made a decision: "El, order. Everyone is ready immediately, and in half an hour we will leave for the family territory."

"Yes, my lord."

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