Chapter 154, The Siege of Ursen
More than 18,000 people from the Central Route Army began to return. The Marquis of Anci and his lieutenant, Baron Pierre, discussed the military situation. After the left Army was wiped out, this chivalry war was actually doomed to fail.
"After Adelaide's stupid failure, our war has failed this time." The Marquis of Anxi said angrily, he really wished Adelaide had died in battle.
"There is no way now, we have to go back to support Ursen Castle, where a large amount of military supplies and food for the army are stored!" Baron Pierre was very anxious, and he said anxiously: "There are only one thousand defenders in Ursen Castle With dozens of knights, they won't last long in the face of the Beastman army."
"You mean that we march directly?" The Marquis of Anci thought for a while, and asked Baron Pierre for advice.
Baron Pierre nodded immediately: "We must hurry. The army only has seven days of food left. Without Yursen's supplies, the soldiers will collapse if they run out of food."
The Marquis of Anxi nodded first to express his agreement. His army did not have much food left. Before, they all relied on the supply from Ursen Castle. Now they have lost their food and grass supplies. Once there is no food, even the most powerful knight I don't have the strength to fight anymore.
But the blond-haired and blue-eyed Marquis thought for a while, then shook his head suddenly: "No, no, Pierre, tell me, if we can think of this level, can't the Beastmen not think of it? Do you know what tactics I thought of?"
"The Beastmen will besiege Ursen's castle, but they will not attack by force. Instead, they will let Adelaide and his group of soldiers tremble and panic in the tall castle, and then... the Beastmen are very They might lay an ambush on our way back and catch us off guard!"
The Marquis of Anxi graduated from the Knight Academy in Courona. He has excellent tactical attainments. He is sensitively aware that if they want to return to Ursen Castle as soon as possible, they want it, and the Beastmen want it too.
"Send a large number of scouts, so we must be able to know whether there is an ambush nearby!"
"Yes!" The knights responded loudly.
Sure enough, during the next two days of marching, relying on a large number of scouts and rangers to scout regardless of cost, the scouts discovered ambushes many times, and the Central Army was able to advance carefully. On the way back.
Beastmaster "Bloodhorn" Maras immediately realized that human beings were prepared for an ambush, so he changed his strategy and began to attack Ursen Castle with all his strength.
Driven by the Beastmaster, the Beastman warbands attacked Yursen Castle one by one. The Beastmen cut down the forest and made crude ladders. The Cyclops grabbed the stones and suppressed the serf archers on the tower with throwing stones.
The Earl of Adelaide hid anxiously inside the castle tower. Every scream outside and the sound of hard objects hitting the earl would make the Earl collapse alive. In a daytime attack, the castle lost more than a dozen knights. More than two hundred serf soldiers.
Fortunately, the gate of the castle was strong enough, and the Beastmen lacked powerful siege weapons. After today's strong attack, relying on the constant sacrifices and swearing-in guards of the knights and soldiers, the Beastmen dropped their corpses all over the ground and retreated.
At night, humans need rest, but beastmen don't, so the anxious Earl of Adelaide immediately grabbed the magic communication: "My Marquis, my Marquis, it's already the third night, where is the promised reinforcements? "
"The Beastmen have set up a large number of ambushes on the marching road! We must proceed carefully, Adelaide, the Beastmen should not attack you with all their strength." The doubtful voice of the Marquis of Anxi came from the magic communication.
"No! The Beastmen are attacking Yurson with all their strength, they are attacking Yurson with all their strength!" Adelaide frantically shouted towards the magic communicator: "Listen, my Marquis , that is the sound that my soldiers and I are resisting!"
The roar of the Beastmen and the sound of boulders hitting the stone wall came from outside the tower,
Obviously, after a short rest, another round of the Beastman's offensive is about to begin.
"What? Hello? Adelaide? Can you hear me? Hold on, hold on, we'll be there in a day at most!" The Marquis of Anxi immediately realized that the situation on the battlefield had changed.
The Beastmen had given up ambushing them on the road, and instead stormed the castle.
So he immediately ordered the Central Route Army to pull out the camp quickly and speed up to return to Ursen Castle.
"Do you want to notify the right army to come to support?" Some knights asked.
"No need, we are enough." The Marquis of Anxi is confident in annihilating the Beastman army. He doesn't want the Holy Grail Knight and the third son of the Red Dragon Duke to share the credit, and the right army will return It will take several days for aid.
Along the way, Earl Adelaide called for help one after another, and each time was more critical than before. The Beastmen kept attacking Ursen Castle, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties.
At noon on September 13th, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was clear. It was a rare good weather in the forest.
The situation in Ursen Castle has deteriorated to the extreme. More than half of the defenders have been killed or injured, and only a small number of people are still fighting. The arrow rain released on the city wall has been very sparse. The castle is full of gunpowder and smoke. , the beast people have come to the gate of the castle.
The battering ram made of wood is hitting the city gate, making a rumbling sound. On the gate tower, the sergeants are directing the serfs to shoot down arrows, and the horned beasts holding the battering ram are shot down one after another. , but more horned beasts rushed up. The battering ram made of tree trunks was very simple and ineffective. The city gate was shaken, but there was no sign of breaking open.
The continuous attacks caused the Beastmen to suffer heavy casualties. The corpses were piled up around the castle, and even the ravines were filled up.
A doomsday bull walked up to Beastmaster "Bloodhorn" Maras. It panted heavily, with a lot of hot air coming out of its nostrils: "The city gate...is strong, but the wood...is fragile."
"We...can't open...the city gate." Doomsday Bull said to the Beastmaster.
"Trash...waste!" The Beastmaster shouted angrily. It knew that it had to buy time now, and the army of chivalry might appear at any time: "Give me... attack again!"
"Attack again...can't open...the city gate." Doomsday Bull continued.
"...uh... they're all trash." The Beastmaster pushed the doomsday bull away, and it grinned: "It's okay...we have... Greer."
After finishing speaking, under the command of the beast king, a five-meter-tall Cyclops walked out from the ranks of the beastmen.
"Greer! Greer! Greer!" All the beastmen shouted the Cyclops' name, only to see a few beastmen put a huge black boulder in front of the Cyclops, and the Cyclops After screaming a few times, he raised the boulder and staggered towards the gate of the castle.
"Greer! Greer! Greer!"
The earl of Adelaide in the castle naturally heard the roar of the beastmen outside. The sweaty earl hesitated again and again, picked up the magic communicator, and then took out a gem.
After getting connected, before the Marquis of Onchi could speak, the Earl of Adelaide said in a piercing voice: "My Marquis, the castle has reached its limit, and we have also reached its limit. There are more than 300 living people left."
"My marquis, my marquis, for the sake of the lady and the king, give me a hand! Where are our reinforcements?"
There was silence in the communicator for a while, and then the voice of the Marquis of Anxi came out.
"We are already rushing to Ursen Castle at full speed, Earl of Adelaide, please hold on for the last thirty minutes, please hold on for the last thirty minutes, we will arrive at your place soon!"
Adelaide put down the magic communicator, and the gem has dimmed. This is the last gem of the castle, and it is the last chance to talk.
At the gate, Cyclops Greer staggered towards the gate of the city holding a black boulder in his hands.
"Greer! Greer! Greer!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Cyclops lifted the black boulder, placed it on his head, then relied on the impact force, hit his head suddenly, and then passed out from the pain.
The gates finally collapsed in the Beastmen's carnival.
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An hour later, the Marquis of Anxi finally led the army of knights to Ursen Castle.
In the distance, Ursen Castle was still billowing with thick smoke, and the corpses of countless Beastmen were scattered all over the walls, and the river was stained red with dirty blood.
"It seems that we are not late." The knights wiped their sweat with their hands. They had been marching for a day and a night, and this army of more than 18,000 people finally arrived in front of Ursen Castle.
What's worse is that the army is running out of food. During the four-day march, the knight army now only has three days of food left.
The army of chivalry gradually approached Ursen Castle, and the knights gradually smelled a different atmosphere.
Quiet.
It was so quiet.
"The situation is not right, gather the troops and prepare to fight!" The Marquis of Anxi also realized that something was wrong, he reached out to signal the army to stop advancing, and then divided into several groups to stand by, while he himself rode to the front of the army formation: "Adelaide? "
"Adelaide?"
Some black figures appeared on the tower, and a round ball-like thing was thrown from the tower: "Your... earl... here you are!"
"what!"
"Here... I'll give you all... return humans... to humans!" The trebuchet on the castle was roughly opened, and countless things like broken stones were ejected from the castle, heading towards Fly away with the army of knights.
"Conceal!" The knights were still yelling for concealment, but those things flew very fast, and they seemed to be very light, even if they were hit, they wouldn't do much damage.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" When those "rocks" fell into the crowd, many serfs couldn't help howling in fear, and backed away in fright.
It's a head! So many heads!
It's the head of a knight! It's the sergeant's head! It is the head of the serfs! There are even many heads of servants and women in the castle!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Many heads were still oozing blood. The fear and despair they had before them put a deep pressure on the serfs. Some serfs turned around in fright and wanted to run away. Although the knights tried their best to suppress the fear of the serfs and boost their low morale, the serfs were still full of vacillations, and they did not believe the words of these master knights.
Without the Holy Grail Knight, they were already terrified from the bottom of their hearts.
"Damn it!" The Marquis of Anxi looked at Adelaide's head that fell in front of him. He knew that Ursen Castle had fallen.
The main force of the Beastmen's attack on the castle also suffered a lot of losses. The corpses around the castle had been piled up all over the castle, so the Marquis led an army of chivalry to besiege the remaining Beastmen in the castle.
In this way, the offensive and defensive sides reversed.
More than 18,000 knightly army camped around Ursen Castle. In order to prevent the beastmen from coming to support, the Marquis arranged for the army of the Principality of Connecticut to lie in ambush on the periphery as a reserve team, and he personally led the knightly army. Start the attack on Ulson Castle.
"Forward! My men! For the Lady and the King! For Britannia!"
"For the lady and the king! For Britannia!"
The first is the charge of the serf infantry regiment. These serfs were rushed to the battlefield by the knights first. They shouted slogans and formed a dense front under the fierce eyes of the knights. Most of the serf infantry were only wearing leather armor. No shields either.
Arrows rained down on the city wall, and the Unholy Beasts shamelessly used a large number of arrows they had seized. These equipment for defending the city had become their property. Thousands of Unholy Beasts lined up densely in the castle to destroy them. The severe city tower brought great losses to the army of knights.
After the serfs fell in pieces, sergeants holding shields and wearing chain mail or breastplates continued to attack, and then the dismounted knights. For this, the Beastmaster of the Beastmen had long been prepared, and they took out the castle armory A large number of spears and throwing axes suppressed the knights' attack through firepower.
Throughout the day, the army of chivalry organized five waves of offensives. Although they broke into the castle at the deepest point, they were all repulsed by the beastmen.
The knights suffered heavy casualties, and the Beastmen also left hundreds of corpses.
The topography of the castle occupying the top of the mountain has large ups and downs, and there are rivers interspersed in it. The continuous charge of the knights was repulsed, and the piles of corpses hindered the knights' attack route. The large amount of military supplies in the castle ensured that the beastmen With plenty of arrows, the knights have never been able to take advantage. Even if a few knights and sergeants can rush into the castle, the giant minotaur and big horned beast battle group can always harvest them one by one.
From the fierce battle at noon to the sunset, it was the doomsday bull and the four-armed bull demon that finally decided the situation on the battlefield. These terrifying large monster troops not only repelled the charge of dismounted knights, but even killed the serf archers who were covering them. The army had to retreat in defeat.
The Marquis of Anxi began to feel bad. He first cursed the serfs for their lowliness and cowardice, and then hoped for a night raid. The Marquis personally selected his elite to attack the castle in the dark.
It's a pity that the Beastmen are better at night fighting than the knights. After the knight army approached the castle, they were forced back by a large number of arrows and javelins. The two sides fought fiercely until dawn. A fatal blow, the knights had to retreat again.
After a day of fighting, the Beastmen lost more than 2,000 people, and the knight army lost more than 200 knights and 3,000 serf soldiers.
The battle situation has reached a stalemate. The army of knights surrounded the remaining 7,000 beastman troops in a small area near the castle and the castle, but they were still unable to destroy them. The beastman army tried to break through under the command of the beast king. All failed, so they made up their minds to stick to it and wait for reinforcements.
The Marquis of Anxi knew very well that the Beastmen's reinforcements must be on the way, and the time left for him was running out, and the food left for him was even less.
The army of chivalry only has two days of rations left!
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