The Legend of Fatality

Three days after the end of the war meeting, Bain and Night Owl led Fatalin ’s army to advance along the long coastline of Ogborn, first north and then northeast. The day after the departure of Bairn and the Night Owl, Netska's fleet set sail from the port of Diamantri, carrying heavy artillery, supplies, and more soldiers.

Shortly after leaving the city of Diamantri, Fatalin ’s army encountered the first cavalry composed of mercenaries, about 200 people. They watched Fatalin ’s troops march from afar, and the Knights without a knight who did not stay overnight quickly attacked, when the group of mercenaries tried to dodge and found that the horses of the Knights of the Night Owl seemed to run faster than their It was already too late.

When the group of mercenary cavalry found that they could not get rid of the night owl, they chose to fight reflexively. It is worth mentioning that their combat was more heroic than expected, but unfortunately it had no effect. More than 70 mercenaries died in the first charge, and most of them chose to surrender. When the night owl returned with the captive, Fatalin ’s army did not even go far.

"Although the strength of the two sides is very different, this battle situation is too one-sided." Bai En looked at Ye Xiao's men and returned with a long row of captives trapped on the horse. "And I noticed that the speed of you and the horses under your hands seems a little abnormal."

"The power of magic." Ye Xiao said lightly. "As for the victory, it is an unexpected joy."

"How to say?"

"You know I actually don't have a knight under my command, part of it is my apprentice, part of it is my ..." follower "." Ye Xiao hesitated and said. "There are only about a hundred people, and most of them are mercenaries who are proficient in riding. So I decided that since most people ’s riding is very poor, I ca n’t spend years or even more than ten years to train them with A knight who has been training knights from a young age is better than the fighting skills on horseback. "

"So you plan to opportunistically?" Bai En answered.

"Haha, yes," Ye Xiao smiled and continued. "I only train them on the skills of using a spear and throwing a sword after abandoning the gun. Then let them line up in two rows and ride together head to head. To be honest, this is the hardest to train. But after the training is completed, through magic, we You can run fast and hit the other side like a wall made of spears. "

"What are the disadvantages?" Bai En asked, tilting his head.

"Too much," Ye Xiao shook his head and said helplessly. "If there is no magic, the speed of riding side by side is slow. They are very difficult to use the shield while grasping the reins. Not to mention the use of legs and spurs to control the mount like a real knight. Their control of the spear It ’s also extremely limited, and you ca n’t expect them to aim at the target.

Speaking here, Ye Xiao sighed again. "There are many others, and their rejection of horses, stumbling, and even stakes will disperse their formations. And as long as they place an order, any trained knight can easily kill them, one and ten even There is no difference. But there is no way. This is the fastest way I can think of to play their immediate combat. "

"But they are good for dealing with those mercenaries, aren't they?"

"Yes, but if they did not dismount and surrender, but fled and fled, I would not even dare to send them to chase." Ye Xiao lifted his chin towards the group of captives. "At least twenty of them ran away. I can only let Mia Lara's hands go down. I give up or refuse to hunt down my defeated enemies. I can't tell whether this is a knight's honor or shame."

"If you refuse, it may be honor." Bai En teased.

"Fortunately, we are not knights." Ye Xiao shook his head helplessly.

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After a period of hard march, when the Fatalin army finally surrounded the city of St. Louis, they were not looking at the picture shown by the Earl of Cordoba at the previous war meeting only to resist the cloud ladder and the engineer, not to resist the continuous artillery. Port city with thin walls.

Now the city's defense has been greatly improved. Huge city walls, extremely thick walls, wider bunkers with corners, inclined chest walls for deflecting shells, base for longer-range artillery, trumpet-shaped shooting holes, with concealed turret Inner defensive circle, double trenches deep into the gorge, and outer trench walls that can expose the enemy to the firepower of the storm.

St. Louis ’s defense reminded Baine of Bill Barry ’s defensive facilities. It seems that King Bill Barry lent the engineer who designed the whole defense of Bill Barry to Earl Hengdorg.

Under this entire defense system, Fatalin ’s army will be attacked from multiple angles every step forward, and there may be traps ahead. Fortunately, King Margarita's urgent declaration of war made it impossible to complete all this.

The outer wall was half built, and the inner defensive circle was only a prototype. When the trench digging workers found the Fatalin army, they panicked and fled into the city, leaving only a messy construction site. A few cannons were not visible on the cannon base, and Bian suspected that Earl Hengdaughter had loaded all the cannons on his ship.

Bai En and Ye Xiao divided the main force into two camps off the coast, and on the periphery were the four camps established by the Goblins, mainly responsible for vigilance. A large amount of combustible materials accumulated in the Goblin camp, especially the branches and leaves of the felled trees around. The whole form a defensive circle loose outside and tight inside. If the army of Bill Bally really came here, several camps could either delay the time or limit the scope of the battlefield after being ignited, weakening Bill Bally's number advantage.

Bane and Night Owl stood on the mounds of dwarves and observed the overall layout of St. Louis City with a telescope. From the layout point of view, St. Louis City is round, like an apple. But where the fortified port is connected to the town, Apple's arc seems to have been bitten off.

Through the distinction between the flags, Bane and Night Owl believed that St. Louis ’s defenders divided the circular line of defense into six zones, each with a tower. Although the generals in the city kept everyone in uniform, there were too many short soldiers. Both Bai En and Ye Xiao thought that the defenders might have recruited most of the young and strong in the city to stand at the head of the city to fill the gap on the defense line.

"It seems that we all guessed wrong," Ye Xiao held up the telescope and carefully observed the differences of the soldiers. "No more than a thousand people looked like real soldiers in the defenders. But now more than three thousand people stand on the city walls."

"They don't have many cannons ~ www.NovelMTL.com ~ But they are focusing the cannons." Baien put down the telescope and said. "It seems that the defenders intend to shoot at our siege cannon."

"They first reinforced the west and south walls. We can only attack from the east, which is not very beneficial to us." Ye Xiao also put down the telescope and added. "If we attack from this side, we'd better choose to be close to the coast. Waiting for Netska's fleet to come and assist us in the artillery bombardment."

"We still need her to block the port, I don't want to suddenly pop up a lot of soldiers and artillery who came to support."

"Just building the temporary dock and transporting the things off the ship, we need ten to twenty days. If we let her fleet block the port, we won't get the support from the sea, it would be better to attack from the northeast." Ye Xiao Ning said with his eyebrows.

"If you attack from the northeast, then if Bill Barry is interested in us, we have no chance of escaping, and Netska's fleet cannot transport so many people." White retorted.

"Damn, it's so troublesome to attack the city," Ye Xiao thought for a while, then said. "Perhaps the dwarves can dig the tunnel. We have enough gunpowder to dig directly into the city or blow up the walls?"

"There is too much sand here, and it takes at least a month for the dwarves to dig under the city." Bai En was hesitant about Ye Xiao's proposal, but in the end he still thought he could try it. "Okay, the ghost knows how long we have to stay here, so we can do everything we can try. Maybe we will face more of this in the future."

"Well, then we will hold a meeting at night to discuss the siege plan." Ye Xiao nodded. "We also need to arrange some spying and defensive measures in the southeast direction to prevent the mercenaries or the Billy army from coming.