Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

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Chapter 392 The Mountain Barbarian Strikes

After the rainy season passed, the winter wheat harvesting began in April, and the whole Northland became busy.

Just as Lorist departed from Rock Castle to patrol the family realm, Princess Silvia and her team also set off from Huju Castle in the Eastern Desolation Province to the Northland. She was given the post of envoy Norton by Grand Duke Feisabrun. family.

Because the mountain barbarian army is about to invade, Lorist specifically issued an order to harvest winter wheat while not forgetting war preparations, holding a sword in one hand and a sickle in one hand, and is always ready to counter the mountain barbarian tribe’s invasion of the family territory.

But it wasn't until the winter wheat was harvested and halfway through the spring ploughing process that there was news from Liangshan Town that the mountain barbarian army was about to go down after the assembly was completed. According to the pre-planned arrangement, the residents of Liangshan Town began to evacuate backwards, deliberately leaving behind a phenomenon of rushing to escape before they had time to clean up, confusing the mountain barbarians descending.

On April 21st, the forward of the mountain barbarian army occupied Liangshan Town. The large quantities of wine and abundant daily necessities deliberately left by Liangshan Town made the forward of the mountain barbarian army overjoyed. All the mountain barbarians thought With their military strength, they can surely sweep the entire Northland, and everyone rushes to act as the vanguard, for fear that they will fall behind and lose the opportunity to capture them.

Lorist arrived at Wollongong Fortress on April 23. The long defensive wall that leads directly to Guishan Fortress is about to usher in the attack of the mountain barbarians. Lorist must come and sit in town. But in the afternoon, he received a message from the courier sent by the acting commander of the Cavalry Regiment of the Eastern Northland by the Vassimma Knight. The Feisabrunn family sent Princess Silvia to the Northland to prepare for the Northland. The four local alliances discussed issues related to the redemption of prisoners of war and material trade.

Lorist was very happy when he received the news from the messenger, but also very embarrassed. Happily, the old fox, Grand Duke Fesabrunn, finally admitted that the situation is over and failure is inevitable. Sending an envoy to the north means bowing his head and surrendering. The embarrassing thing was that the messenger who came was Princess Silvia, and Lorist was unable to go to meet him because of lack of skills. After thinking about it for a long time, he could only send his guards to inform Fatty Shi, who was sitting in Rock Castle, to go to the eastern part of the Northland to welcome Princess Silvia to Rock Castle on his behalf. He would go back when he defeated the mountain barbarian army.

To be honest, Lorist felt most guilty about not knowing how to face Princess Silvia. He knew very well that he and Grand Duke Fesabrun turned over and led the family to destroy the Iberian Principality and destroy Fesab. Several legions of the Lun family have caused huge losses to the Fesabrunn family and suppressed the prosperity and rise of the Fesabrunn family. It can be said that he has long become a life-and-death enemy and a thorn in the eyes of the Fesabrunn family.

Precisely because of this, the princess Silvia, who is so passionate about herself that she will not marry, must have been wronged and criticized in her family. Just like the inconspicuous guy, the Duke of Kenmes, joked that this time Iberian Kingdom Raiders is actually the four alliances of the Northland venting for Lorist. Who is the old man, Grand Duke Fesabrun, who rejected Lorist? Princess Silvia’s marriage proposal. The current folk rumor is that the Norton family destroyed the Iberian Kingdom in a rage after being rejected for the marriage of the grandduke Norton and Princess Silvia, staring at the Fesabrunn family. Princess Silvia is almost synonymous with beauty.

Alas, Lorist sighed slightly, and could only wait for the end of the war with the mountain barbarian tribe before going over to compensate Silvia, a simple girl, and made her suffer for herself, for nothing. Has taken on a reputation as a confidant. In fact, both Grand Duke Fesabrunn and himself knew that even if they agreed to Princess Silvia and his marriage, this war would still be unavoidable. Because this is the battle between the Fesabrun family and the Norton family for dominance and control over the entire northeast of the former empire, one family will always fall.

"His Royal Highness, the mountain barbarians are here."

Lorist looked up, and saw black dots appearing in the dense mountain forest in the distance. These small dots quickly gathered into a large area, and the black crows rushed toward the defensive wall like a tide. Picking up the monoculars, you can see the mountain barbarian warriors appearing in the round mirror frame wearing various animal skin armors, and even some have their chests exposed, with strange patterns painted on their bodies and faces. , Holding the bronze axe and other unique and rough weapons in his hand, rushing over here with his hair and beards scattered.

At about 4:00 pm on April 23, the forerunner of the mountain barbarian army launched its first attack on the six to seventy li-long defensive wall between the fortress of Wuniugang and the fortress of Guishan. It’s just that these mountain warriors have never seen such a long and tall defensive wall. They often charge to the trench in front of the defensive wall and they have to stop and watch the sharp wood thorn wolf sticking under it as deep as three or four meters. Ya's trench went into a daze, and then was easily taken away by the steel crossbow of the chariot on the defensive city wall.

In the first attack, Shan Barbarian's vanguard troops left four to five hundred corpses and turned around and fled back. Until the sky was near dusk, around five or six o’clock, these mountain barbarian pioneers once again launched a tentative attack. This time the mountain barbarian warriors moved to the trenches with a crude wooden shield tied with vines. First fill in a road that leads to the defensive city wall, but it was quickly wiped out by the steel crossbow of the chariot on the city wall. Nearly a thousand brave mountain barbarians fell, and those crude shields were also shot by steel. The mountain barbarian warrior who lost their cover had to retreat again.

"Haha, it's so easy. We are like shooting turkeys on the city wall. It's really easy." The archers who drove the steel crossbow of the chariot racing back and forth on the spacious city road were all excited, and stood under the wall. The mountain barbarian warriors in front of the trenches are almost like arrows and targets. They are still stubbornly reluctant to retreat, and they are bravely strung together by crossbow arrows into a gourd string...

The defensive city wall between Woniugang Fortress and Guishan Fortress is 72 miles long, eight meters high, but five or six meters wide. And it's not a straight long wall, but every five or six miles, there are towers and towers protruding from the city wall, serving as places for patrol and guard soldiers to rest and watch. Together with the war, these towers and towers can be divided into sections to be responsible for defensive squadrons of guard soldiers. A trench of five meters wide and three to four meters deep was dug ten meters in front of the city wall, turning the flat land into a moat.

"It's kind of boring..." Lorist yawned. These barbarians did not bring any pressure to the Norton family armed forces. Compared with the threats brought to them by the Allied Forces of the Central Four Duchy and the Fi Sablon family armed forces in the second half of last year, it is simply a world of difference. It is these guards who have never been on the battlefield that are so excited.

However, it is rare for the guards battalion soldiers who have been training all the year to open up to see the blood. Lorester decided not to give any guidance to this defensive battle, to see if the commanders of the two guard battalions can be carried out qualified. Command operations. He is sitting in the Wollongong Fortress this time to reassure the soldiers of the guard battalion during the defensive operations, and to prevent a surprise attack by the masters of the mountain barbarian tribe equivalent to the great swordsman. The Shiwanshan Barbarians should also have several sacrifices equivalent to the level of the Great Sword Master. Lorist's main purpose is to deal with them.

The pioneer troops of the mountain barbarian who had only touched the nail twice finally remembered the lesson of failure, knowing that they could not break through this long defensive wall, and for the next two days they camped in the distant mountains, waiting for follow-up. The arrival of a large force.

Two days later, the mountain barbarians arrived. Lorester found that the news was correct. The mountain barbarians who arrived were more than 100,000, but there were only more than one. Although the mountain barbarians lacked supplies and did not set up a tent barracks, the bonfires overwhelmed the sky at night and looked far away. Like the stars in the sky, the entire mountain forest up to the sky is filled with red bonfires burning, boundless...

Many guards have never seen such a shocking scene, and the joy of victory in the first two days has long been lost. They unconsciously lowered their voices and talked, and their words all revealed the question of whether we can hold it. How can so many mountain barbarians be able to kill, we can't win...

The tension and disbelief before the war was thrown behind by all guard battalion soldiers after the mountain barbarian army launched a large-scale attack on the defensive wall on the second day. Faced with the endless attacking crowd, the defender was just Mechanical winding, launch, continue winding, launch. They have forgotten everything, only knowing that with their long training instincts, they are launching a counterattack numbly like a wooden man under the command of the officer.

"Let it go!" With an order, the Longbow Brigade once again fired the feather arrows in its hands at the dense mountain barbarian tide under the city. The arrows fell like a rainstorm, clearing a small area, and countless arrow-struck mountain barbarian warriors hugged them. The part where the arrow was hitting began to scream, but soon another group of mountain barbarian warriors rushed over to fill the gap. The lightly wounded were quickly carried down, while the severely wounded were sent to the mountain god’s soul kingdom in the battle song praising the mountain god...

The trenches have been filled in several sections by the corpses, branches, soil, stones and other messy things of the mountain barbarian warriors. Countless mountain barbarian warriors have passed through these filled areas and forced them under the city wall, but they Soon they encountered a very difficult and embarrassing situation. The long ladder they carried could not reach the eight-meter-high city. Some impatient mountain warriors angrily threw their weapons into the city. Head, it did cause very slight casualties to the defending guard battalion soldiers.

Some bright-minded mountain warriors were already shouting and preparing to connect the two long ladders, but the work site of the connecting long ladders was quickly targeted by the steel crossbow shooter on the city wall. They were connecting the two long ladders. The mountain barbarian warrior was immediately killed by a crossbow shot from the wall. Even though the mountain barbarian warriors went forward and succeeded, as long as the long ladder aimed at by the steel crossbow shooter could not be connected.

On the contrary, several long ladders farther away were connected to the top of the city because the steel crossbow could not be taken care of. It was just the big rocks that were thrown down by the city wall before the mountain barbarian warriors wielding weapons had climbed halfway. Smash it down. The guard soldiers of the sword and shield brigade who were idle and panicked finally had a place to use them. While throwing stones from the city, while throwing fire oil cans and torches, not only those long ladders burned ragingly, and even under the wall. It was also burnt into one piece, and soon the wind was full of the smell of burning human flesh, and many guards vomited with nausea.

This massive offensive by the mountain barbarian army lasted from morning to afternoon. The only danger that appeared was that before the retreat in the afternoon, the mountain barbarian army gathered a group of warriors and stormed the defensive wall. Lorester did not come and took action. These dozens of mountain barbarian warriors were rounded up by the knights of the Raging Bear Knights who went up to the city wall to watch the battle. When these mountain barbarian warriors on the city wall were chopped over the city head by the angry bear knights like melons and vegetables, all the mountain barbarian warriors who were still attacking were as if they were punched face to face. There were waves of mourning, and the action seemed hesitant.

The horn of the retreat finally sounded, and the whimpering horn echoed between the sky and the earth, watching the desperate mountain barbarian soldiers retreat, leaving corpses everywhere, covering the entire battlefield, and even in some places, the corpses were piled up several layers. Few steps. Lorester gave mercy and ordered that no more shooting, let the mountain barbarian warriors who lost their souls retreat. The corpses under the city wall are estimated to be more than 10,000 or nearly 20,000. Today's battle has been given. After a profound lesson from the mountain barbarians, the attack of more than 50,000 people caused nearly half of the casualties. I believe the mountain barbarians would never want to attack this long defensive wall.

After receiving Lorist’s order, the Long Wall quickly became silent and quiet, but then bursts of cheers broke out: "We have won! We have won! We have guarded the Long Wall!"

Many steel crossbow shooters who were already exhausted just slumped to the ground~www.readwn.com~ They were numb in the battle, only knowing that they would shoot the crossbow arrows mechanically. After receiving the order, they found that they were tired to death and didn’t want to move. , My voice was dumb, I only knew I was crying with joy, watching my friends cheering and celebrating there...

Compared with the joyousness here, sad cries were heard in the distant mountains and forests, the cries were getting louder and louder, and they became one piece, even more sad and sad in the dark night...

Lorist stared at the distant mountains and forests, looked at the corpses everywhere on the battlefield, shook his head and said to Terman, the leader of the Raging Bear Knights around him: "Maybe this defensive wall of our family will be affected by these mountains in the future. It’s called the Wailing Wall. They will remember how many mountain barbarian warriors have died under this long wall. But I don’t sympathize with them. If this long wall is broken by the mountain barbarian army, then it will be us who weeping. Those industrious and kind-hearted leaders in the territory."

After this offensive failed, the mountain barbarian army never tried to break through this long defensive wall. For the next three or four days, the mountain barbarian army only sent people to converge the corpses of the warriors who died on the battlefield. And collected the crossbow arrows fired by those steel crossbows. It was just that the mountain barbarians who came to converge the body did not dare to approach the trench and the long wall. In the end, Lorist ordered the soldiers of the spear and sword and shield groups of the two guard battalions to be under the cover of the chariot steel crossbow and the longbowman on the wall. Out of the city wall, the corpses of the mountain barbarians under the wall and in the trenches were moved to the center line of the battlefield and handed over to the mountain barbarians who converged their bodies.

After another six days of confrontation, Lorist was awakened by the loud voice of Terman, who was rushing to the bedroom outside early in the morning: "His Royal Highness, Your Highness, the barbarian army has moved, they are divided!"

...To be continued.