Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

Although he is not interested in the rewards given by Adram Emil, Richard received the money after all, and the next battle is related to his life and safety, so he only Can go all out.

This World does not give preferential treatment to mercenaries. In battle, unless you are a nobleman, you will fight to the death. Even if you are lucky enough to survive the war and be captured after the war, you will have to pay a painful price. To be free again.

This is pretty good. If you run into a cruel lord, the other party will just pull out their despised mercenaries, regardless of whether you can afford the ransom.

Richard and the others were arranged at the main gate of the fiercest siege.

“Richard, you and your people are here to stay. You are not allowed to retreat without authorization. My people will stare at you at any time.”

The Mamluk Palace called Kaierla After leading the Richard entire group to a section of the city wall near the tower, the guard warned them, and then hurriedly left. Seeing his leaving back, Connie looked resentful. He said, “Boss, what’s the matter with that person and why is he targeting us every time?”

“Don’t bother him.” Richard said solemnly, he could vaguely guess why Kyla was hostile to them, either because he didn’t trust them, mercenaries, or he looked down on them.

Ignoring Kyla’s warning, Richard turned his gaze to the enemy outside the city. With a long dull horn sound, the Southern Empire’s Legion also began to enter the battlefield. Heavy siege towers and rams pushed against the city wall. Ballistas, catapults, and counterweight rappels were also loaded with ammunition under the operation of the soldiers to prepare for shooting.

Richard turned his head and looked towards his nine soldiers. Half of them were Allese recruits who had only participated in a downwind battle. They basically couldn’t count on it. There were two of the other four. This is a weak and melee armed merchant. If you really count on them to guard this City Wall section, you can wait for it to fall.

Richard only thought for a moment and made a deployment. He ordered the two imperial armed merchants: “You stand behind the wall and shoot at the enemy together with the local defenders. It is possible to shoot at those who push the siege equipment and slow down their progress.”

“Understand.” The two shooters nodded agreed.

After that, he looked towards the five Allese recruits. He didn’t expect these five to participate in close combat, so he said: “Go and get some javelins and equip them. When the enemy approaches, Throw a javelin at them.”

“Understood.” The five agreed in unison.

“As for you two.” Richard looked towards Connie and Keane again, and said: “You will follow me and don’t go away.”

“Understand.”

As soon as Richard gave the order, the heavy equipment of the offensive and defensive parties began to shoot at each other. Whether it was a ballista, a catapult, or a counterweight rappeller, they all threw the heavy stones into the sky. Roaring and flying towards the opponent’s position.

Hearing a sharp whistling from the sky, Richard lifts the head like a conditioned reflex, and he just saw a stone thrown by the siege party hitting a wall not far from him, directly hitting the sand The walls of the structure were shattered, and the splattered pieces hit the surrounding soldiers, causing bursts of exclamation.

“Throwing stones, take care to avoid!”

The reminders of guarding army soldiers sounded one after another on the wall, making the soldiers’ positions more dispersed. In this case , They can only pray silently in the heart, praying that the stones will not hit themselves.

“Shoot! Shoot!”

While the two armies fired each other’s heavy equipment, the Allese archers on the wall also fired at the enemy entering the range under the shout of the officer. Under the cover of the wall stacks, the archers arbitrarily vented their firepower at the enemies pushing the siege equipment. Although the imperial soldiers raised their shields to defend, many of them were shot by arrows and fell wailing.

“Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up!”

An imperial Legion infantry standing next to the battering ram, holding a shield to cover his robes, loudly shouted at them, but In the next second, a thick and long crossbow arrow dropping from the sky, piercing the zither-shaped shield he was holding like paper, the crossbow arrow went through his body without any reduction, and it pierced his whole body. Crucified on the sand.

The next second the Legion infantry was shot and killed, a few more arrows flew from the city wall, shooting the soldiers pushing the ram under his cover, and the heavy ram fell suddenly After a pause, the other soldiers who were still pushing could only hide under the ceiling in embarrassment, begging not to shoot themselves.

Swish——

“Hit!”

I saw my arrow hit the calf of an enemy who was hiding under the roof of the battering ram. , The Allese militia archer, who leaned half of his body out of the wall, shouted excitedly. He tone barely fell and saw an arrow flying from the front like lightning. Before he could react, the arrow was straight. The stick fell into his eye sockets, and the militia shooter screamed and turned over and fell off the wall.

At the source where the arrow flew, a middle-aged archer wearing a dome helmet coldly retracted, hiding behind the shield, silently in the heart and noted another number.

The imperial archer’s counterattack immediately suppressed the firepower output of the defending archers. In front of the huge disparity in the number of people, the Allese archers could only passively hide behind the wall and endure the arrows from The whiz whiz whiz flying overhead, or the sound of a beating when hitting a wall.

Although the shooter was suppressed, the ballista on the tower was still showing power. Looking out through the shooting hole of the tower, Richard saw with his own eyes a bundle of tied stones after being thrown out. , Disintegrated in midair, and fiercely smashed into a small phalanx of the enemy like a goddess scattered flowers, immediately causing half of the phalanx’s soldiers to lose battle strength.

The ammunition of the defending ballistas is not limited to ordinary stone eggs. The clay pots with flammable pitch were also carried on the ballista skins and projected towards the closer and closer siege tower.

After hitting the siege tower, the fragile clay pot broke apart instantly, splashing the black liquid inside onto the siege tower, and then, the scorpion crossbow that had been prepared would burn The fire arrow shot through the siege tower with asphalt sticking to its surface——

The next second, the fire ignited, and the wooden siege tower was quickly swallowed by the flames under the push of the asphalt, the soldiers underneath While screaming, he fled in all directions, and only came back to his senses after running to a safe place, and watched the siege tower gradually become coke ruins.

Seeing the successful destruction of a siege tower, the guarding army soldiers on the wall cheered, but they soon had to go into battle again, because the fully armed imperial infantry lifted the ladder. Rushed towards the city wall in a shout.