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When the soldiers defending the city opened their bows and arrows to shoot arrows, the effect they gained was not as obvious as expected.

Because even the worst soldiers in the Saxon army have a thick coat to wear.The clothes of the soldiers at this time were mostly hemp clothes filled with wool or other sundries. Although it sounds very tattered, in actual tests, it not only has a strong defense against swords and swords, but can even defend against long-distance Arrow Shooting.On the contrary, the leather armor that often appears in TV dramas and movies has hardly been used at this time.Presumably, it is because leather is too expensive and has many uses, and the tanning technology in Western Europe is also very poor, unlike the mature processing technology in Eastern Rome and Islam, so it is not as reliable as cheap and easy-to-use linen.

It is a real case of hip stretching with skill points.

As a result, the archers shoot at a long distance, and the damage is not high; when they shoot at close range, within two or three rounds, they have reached the moment of hand-to-hand combat.Only the elite crusader archers and rangers, the two armies, have the ability to cause heavy casualties to the enemy.

However, the morale of the army in the Black Forest was high. Even though they were tired, they were still able to kill Huo Teng's city wall with a tragic ratio of casualties.

After careful calculation of Huo Teng's garrison army, one would find that among these soldiers, only the garrison sergeants were relatively well-equipped, and the garrison sergeants were not bad. The rest of the Peasant Spear Corps and Peasant Infantry Corps were all militiamen.Moreover, they really don't have much experience in war, and it is very difficult to deal with the enemy, so that they have an advantage in numbers and even retreat step by step.There are only 12 garrison sergeants, and the garrison sergeants are actually composed of some wealthier urban residents. They are slightly better equipped, but their morale is generally not as good as that of the militia.

As a result, Huo Teng had to send his followers and knights to dismount from the city wall, and charged the Saxon army down the city wall with a group of elite soldiers.

"Damn it, the Saxon army is made of iron?"

Calling back and forth, Huo Teng was extremely annoyed.This is completely different from what was expected.

The enemy's militiamen are brave and fearless, and have rich experience; our militiamen have never been on the battlefield, and they are outrageous.

The slightly better guard sergeants had sufficient equipment, but their morale was not high. After two hours of fighting on the battlefield, they were already in emergency situations.

Huo Teng even regretted that he didn't keep the big axe soldiers, making the melee on the city wall look very useless.

Therefore, after fighting for two time units, Huo Tengfang lost dozens of militiamen, accounting for almost one-tenth of the total, which made Jones and Amelia wipe tears as they watched the huge casualties.

The so-called two time units refer to morning and afternoon.Because people in the Middle Ages did not need particularly accurate timekeeping. There are morning, afternoon and evening every day, and the church bell rings one day a week. Four quarters a year are enough.

"Rest, we have to study overnight, how to deal with it!"

Huo Teng was so uncomfortable that he gathered several militia generals and craftsmen to discuss how to better resist the Saxon army.

After many studies, the craftsmen initially indicated that the female wall should be pushed forward and an additional platform should be built with lumber, forcing the Saxon army to find a way to solve these lumber platforms, and then try to find a way to climb up the city wall.In this way, the archer can obtain the opportunity and time for additional output.On the other hand, the militia believe that the opponent is too fierce and should find a way to avoid close combat.

Therefore, someone proposed to set up a torsion catapult at the rounded corner of the corner to strike the flanks with stone cannonballs.

"That bullshit piles gold juice, our soldiers don't know how to use it at all. Once the battle is over, they pour it all down, but it doesn't hurt anyone, which only adds to the joke. On the contrary, it's better to use 檑木. But nervous Spearmen will also forget." Amelia, who was watching the audience, held her nose and suggested canceling the golden juice.

Jones also interjected: "Soldiers should be equipped with more and bigger shields, otherwise they will be frightened when they see the enemy."

In short, many of the advanced city defense technologies that Huo Teng prepared were actually because the soldiers were too good to use them.Especially the golden juice, this thing seems to be easy to use, but it does not hurt others, improper operation or even a waste of firewood.

Until the moon floated to the middle of the sky, the guards were lying in the corner to sleep, and Huo Teng was watching the distance, waiting for the sun to rise again.

……

Another day of fighting.

However, the Saxony barracks were full of wounded soldiers.

Since the moat was piled up in many places, the Saxon army did not blindly abandon its comrades-in-arms, and dragged back many Saxon soldiers who were too late for the Huo Teng army to clean up.

"At least [-] wounded soldiers are in urgent need of medical assistance. At least find a wizard, shaman or some country doctor to treat them."

Facing the screaming wounded soldiers all over the street, Bernard Jr.'s subordinates bit the bullet and came to the door, hoping that the little lion would quickly use the influence of its Duke's son to rescue the wounded soldiers.

In this era, various folk shamans occupy the most important medical niche in the countryside.After all, the doctors in the monastery usually only treat the nobles. If the villagers have a headache, the medicine soup of the old witch at the entrance of the village is more suitable.People at this time were very religious on the one hand, and superstitious on the other.Therefore, people can believe in God, and at the same time ask for various medicines from the old shaman at the entrance of the village.

Ordinary soldiers can only expect the help of the shaman.

But to be honest, with so many wounded soldiers, a few ordinary shamans would not be able to make so many medicines even if they were exhausted.

Most of the wounded soldiers were gold wounds, or infections caused by wounds.A small number of fractures, ribs, thighs and other places were damaged. These parts that need splint treatment can only be seen by themselves at this time in the Middle Ages.

Not all doctors only know bloodletting, enema and madness.The best doctors in Europe are mainly located in southern Italy and eastern Rome, where there are relatively scientific medical skills handed down from the ancient Greek era.Ordinary monastery doctors and folk witch doctors also have their merits.

But if these doctors all came to treat the wounded soldiers whose wounds were stained with golden juice, then the immortal Lao Tzu would not be able to save them.

When Huo Teng's army complained that the dung gold juice was basically useless, the Saxon army hated Huo Teng to death.

They didn't know what this pot of stinking voodoo soup was for, but every infected soldier had a high fever, was weak and trembling, and could hardly stand up when lying down. Is this the witch soup in fairy tales?

The morale of the Saxony army plummeted at the thought that Huo Teng would use 'magic'.

"We... at such a critical moment, where can we find a doctor? Or... you let the soldiers hold on for a few more days." Bernard Jr. also had a high-sightedness and a low-handedness. He talked eloquently when talking about tactics, but it was a problem when he was actually in command. constantly.

Is it a matter of waiting a few days for the treatment?

Soldiers infected by germs will die of illness and stink in just a few days, and they will not be able to eat and walk around.

The officers were also impressed.

It's fine if you can't love the soldiers, but it's not that there are no knights and noble retinues among the wounded soldiers, but they are also ignored, which proves that Bernard Jr. is not a qualified general at all.

So throughout the night, the wailing sounds one after another in the Saxony barracks shook the thoughts of every healthy soldier.

Wounded soldiers were left untreated, and were even maliciously abandoned outside their tents during the very cold season.

This is a cold and windy winter.

The next day, almost hundreds of wounded soldiers were abandoned by their companions, despised by their officers, or even disgusted by their groans, and were forced to freeze to death at the door of the tent.

Although this cleared up the wounded soldiers on the surface, it dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Saxon army invisibly.

So much so that when the Saxon army launched another siege attack on the fourth day, the morale of the army and the intensity of the war plummeted.

Huo Teng, who tried every means to improve the soldiers' combat capabilities against Saxony, was surprised to find that today's Saxon army is crossed by Guevara.It seems that all the vigor was spent in the first two days.

"Damn, then who am I preparing so much for?"

Chapter 77 The Tide Turned Completely

Vegetables are the original sin of the weak in war.

If Conosha had thousands of knights, why did she have to fight with the Duke of Saxony?If Huo Teng's city was heavily guarded, why would he need to dig out dung and boil dung, exhausting all conceivable plans for defending the city, so that the peasants who hid in Liberty City for protection complained.

But dishes can also leave enough motivation for the laggards to try to catch up with the winners.

Countess Conoza, because of the siege of the Principality of Saxony, was forced to work hard on the aspect of war command that she had never paid attention to before.

In the past, she was her father's beloved daughter. Not only was she not sent to a monastery, but she even specially hired teachers from the knight academy and monastery that only men could attend to teach her.This made Conosha's level of scheming very extraordinary, and he was very skilled in competing with his brothers and obtaining Göttingen after his father's death.

Partial students always have to pay for the one they are missing.

"Is this how the defense is organized?"

"Is this the way to make better use of the soldiers' combat effectiveness?"

"Huh? So it was designed to make soldiers more courageous?"

For all kinds of things like this, it was the first time that the countess carefully observed the castle she had lived in for many years in a state of war.

Very strange, very fresh.Unexpectedly useful and interesting places that women never cared about.

Just like when the countess saw Huo Teng bouncing in front of the green skin for the first time.

And thinking of Huo Teng, Conosha felt depressed and panicked.

Huo Teng had warned Conosha countless times that fighting a war was the original sin, and that Conosha had no ability to command, so she should not leave the castle without authorization.

And the enemy, that is, the son of the Duke of Saxony, really went straight to the free city of Göttingen, just as Horten expected.

Everything is going according to Huo Teng's prediction, but Baron Kenan's easy betrayal still makes Conosha feel as if he is in a thick fog, and only sees countless future confusions.

Surrounded by heavy soldiers from the Saxon army, it is said that in the Free City of Göttingen, which is said to be screaming and killing every day, news from Horten is not delivered every day, which makes the countess always unable to help but desire to micromanage.Occasionally, because of the military knowledge I just learned, I want to experiment on the battlefield.

Of course, all of these are just Connorsa's doubts.

She was still rejecting the persuasion of the Saxon envoy, still refusing her brother Adler's retreat order, and still trying to maintain the loyalty among the remaining nobles who had not betrayed.

In fact, every nobleman also understands at this moment that the victory or defeat of this battle, the fate of everyone, and the future of Conosha are all stuck in the fateful confrontation between Huo Teng and Bernard Jr.

……

"Damn it, that's it? Give me a hard fight back."

On the walls of the Free City of Göttingen, Horten's aggressive urging had already annoyed the Saxon army, and the experienced militia quickly organized a counterattack.

There is a saying that goes well, competing with the strong will only make you stronger, and competing with the weak will only make you weaker.

The Saxon army brought a more formalized semi-professional regiment habit, and these militiamen who usually only appeared in rural fights were forced to quickly fight against the semi-professional regiment and persist, and died if they couldn't bear it.Under such life-and-death pressure, most militiamen persevered and spontaneously explored countermeasures.

After all, they are all real individuals in this world, and their wives and children are behind the city wall.No one believed that the Saxons, who had always been barbaric, would treat this newborn city peacefully.

With the spontaneous small tricks of the militiamen and the continuous and powerful fire support of the archers, the Saxon army retreated again as expected.Before he could gain a foothold on the top of the city, he was blasted down.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Little Bernard nearly snapped his whip.

When they came, they were still laughing at how top-heavy this free city was, how many arrow towers had been built, and they were not afraid of hitting the city wall.But now they are enlightened.

Horten's infantry may be the weakest, but his archers are far superior to the Saxon Army.Those elite archers can even shoot through the neck of a fully armed knight from 50m away.However, the large number of ordinary archers brought the feature of quantity suppression to the extreme.

Peasant archers are not qualified to use precious iron arrows, they only need wooden arrows that they have cut themselves.Even so, the peasant archers found that as long as a few people, a dozen or so people gather together and shoot together, there will always be one person who can hit the vital point.So there are wooden arrows flying all over the sky.

Defeat the most terrifying enemy with the cheapest price.

Huo Teng didn't know how the system would evaluate after the war was over, but he himself had to thank these militiamen.

Without them, Huo Teng and Conosha would have rushed to Nancy, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lorraine, to work as an apartment and housekeeper.

"Go, let my favorite pet out!"

When the war has reached the point where it is impossible to fight, the intensity cannot be escalated, and the casualties of one-third of the own army are about one-third, the war is in fact no longer able to continue.

There were nearly a thousand Saxon soldiers casualties, most of which were traumatic infections, diseases and other terrible symptoms that could cause death. Even Bernard Jr. could not explain the dozens of freezing deaths every day.

Therefore, Little Bernard had no choice but to release his last trump card, the war monster.

A unique giant creature in the setting of the magical age, a half sea dragon.

The so-called sea dragons are monsters that wander in the sea and are about the same size as giant whales.Such a monster is obviously impossible to capture.

But if you can steal the sea dragon's eggs, raise their offspring to half-mature and then promote their reproduction, and in this cycle, you can get a half-sea dragon the size of a truck.In order to make it obedient, it must also be demented, otherwise it will run away as soon as it becomes an adult.

But in any case, when a huge monster that was only a little shorter than the city wall left the Saxon barracks, the morale of the defenders of Liberty City still plummeted.

Even Huo Teng himself felt like he was sweating.

He didn't have these strange things in his original history, and he didn't have a corresponding solution.

"Report the baron, our shells have been fired." A soldier came over to complain.They shot out the stone bullets, and then shot the big stone bullets, and then replaced them with wooden blocks, which broke two noose straps, and they really ran out of bullets.

Huo Teng himself didn't have the time, so he could only say, "See if there is something suitable at hand, you can go and play."

The soldier was very wronged and went back to explain to the commander.

And the commander here is none other than Amelia.

The widow looked around and felt that the iron-tipped spear was suitable for the torsion trebuchet, so she simply inserted the spear into it.

Huo Teng was extremely nervous.

Ban Hailong moved forward with bared teeth and claws.

Little Bernard looked triumphantly at the turmoil on the city wall, and regretted that he hadn't brought the war behemoth earlier.

At this moment, the torsion trebuchet on the east side of the city wall suddenly started.This sudden shot almost pierced the half-sea dragon's scaly skin.

This shot also completely reversed the situation of the battle.

Chapter 78 A Better Tomorrow

The spear, the cornerstone of human warfare.

In the history of cold weapon wars known to mankind, spears are the only existence that overwhelms conventional weapons such as bows, swords, and knives, and ranks absolutely first in number.Whether the civilization is advanced or backward, prosperous or declining, the spear will always find its proper place.A straight wooden stick, a piece of undemanding iron, copper, or even stone can form a qualified and effective weapon in the cold weapon era.As far as humans were hunting mammoths in the savage age, and as far as rebelling against European colonists, spears have played a role.

In the Roman Empire, spears were used by even the pretentious elves.Compared with the Arabians in the desert, the warlords in the East, and even the green-skinned tribes in the mountains, they may have great differences in civilization and language, but only a spear can go anywhere.

Now, this cornerstone of human warfare was accidentally inserted into the torsion trebuchet by the Huo Teng family who made a mistake in their busy schedule.

Although the size may be wrong, although the aim is a bit off, the effect is surprisingly good.The extremely powerful spear directly pierced the scales of the monster with its teeth and claws, and penetrated deeply into the flesh and blood.This wasn't enough to kill the monster, but it clearly made it violent and uncontrollable.As we all know, war behemoths can play a 1+1>2 effect on the battlefield, and must obey the orders of the army commander.

Once the war behemoth becomes indistinguishable from friend and foe and starts to rampage randomly, it will not be just 1+1=2, but a tragedy of 1+1<2.For example, in the previous war with Earl Schmallen, Huo Teng killed the giant wild boar domesticated by halflings. A giant war beast of that level is a typical representative of high risk and high return.

When little Bernard saw this, he lost his temper.He pointed at the animal trainer from Hamburg and roared: "What have you trained? Are you worthy of my father's cultivation of you?"

The animal trainer was also helpless, but he retorted rather stubbornly: "With such a large force, you can't take down this city. Are you worthy of the training your father gave you?"

Beast trainer, that's father Bernard's heart and soul.Not only is his status high, but he also has a lot of nobles that he can contact, so he dared to fight on the same stage with Bernard, who was not yet in a high position.

This half-sea dragon was the little Bernard who asked his father for help when he saw that the situation was not going well.To be precise, it should be the bedside wind with the help of his mother, otherwise the old Bernard would not have easily dispatched his precious war beast.He specially opened up a piece of land between Lüneburg and Hamburg to build a taming farm to breed these monsters.Slavic tribes without the ability to fight against monsters are often terrified by it.