Chapter 392: Mountain Barbarians Arrest

The rainy season has passed, and April has begun to be busy harvesting winter wheat, and the entire northern region has begun to become busy.

Just as Lorist set out from Rock Castle to inspect various parts of the family territory, Princess Celivia and her group also set off from Tiju Castle in the Eastern Desert Province to the north. She was given the important task by Grand Duke Fisabren to serve as a Norton family.

Because the mountain barbarian army was about to invade, Lorist issued a special order for this, requiring him to not forget to prepare for war while harvesting winter wheat, holding a sword in one hand and a sickle in the other, always preparing to counterattack the mountain barbarian tribe's invasion of the family territory.

But it was not until the winter wheat harvest was halfway through the spring plowing that Liangshan Town had heard that the army of mountain barbarians would be about to go down the mountain after they had assembled. According to the pre-planning, the residents of Liangshan Town began to evacuate backwards, and deliberately left behind a phenomenon of rushing to escape without having time to clean up, confusing the army of mountain barbarians who were going down the mountain.

On April 21, the vanguard of the Shanman Army occupied Liangshan Town. The large number of fine wines and rich daily necessities deliberately left behind by Liangshan Town made the vanguard of the Shanman Army happy. All the vanguards believed that their military power would definitely sweep the entire northern land, and they all rushed to act as vanguards, for fear that they would lose the opportunity to plunder themselves.

Lorist arrived at Woniugang Fortress on April 23. The long defensive wall that went directly to Guishan Fortress was about to be attacked by the mountain barbarian army. Lorist had to come to take charge. But in the afternoon, he received the news that the Knights Varzenma, the acting commander of the Hunting Legion in the eastern part of the Northland, urgently sent a messenger. The Fisabren family sent Princess Celivia to the Northland to discuss matters related to prisoners of war redemption and material trade with the four alliances in the Northland.

Lorist was very happy when he received the message from the messenger, but also in a difficult situation. It was glad that the old fox, Grand Duke Fisabren, finally admitted that the situation was hopeless and failure was inevitable. Taking the initiative to send an envoy to the north meant bowing his head and admitting defeat. The emissary that came was Princess Celivia. Lorist was now in a clone and could not go to greet him. After thinking for a long time, he could only send his guards to inform Fatty Shi who was in charge of the Rock Castle and go to the eastern part of the north to welcome Princess Celivia to the Rock Castle instead of him. After defeating the mountain barbarian army, he would go back.

To be honest, what Lorist felt most guilty about was that he didn't know how to face Princess Celivia. He knew very well that he and Grand Duke Fisabren turned against each other, led his family armed forces to destroy the Iberian Principality, eliminated several legions of the Fisabren family, causing huge losses to the Fisabren family, and suppressed the prosperity and rise of the Fisabren family. It can be said that he had long become the life-and-death enemy and thorn in his eyes of the Fisabren family.

It is precisely because of this that Princess Celivia, who is deeply in love with her, must have suffered a lot of grievances and criticisms in her family. Just like Duke Kenmas, who is unrestrained, joked that this time the Iberian Kingdom strategy is actually the four alliances in the Northland to vent their anger for Lorist. Who told me that the old man, Grand Duke Fisabren, refused to propose to Princess Celivia. Now the folk rumors are that the Norton family destroyed the Iberian Kingdom in anger in anger, staring at the armed forces of the Fisabren family. Princess Celivia has almost become synonymous with beauty.

Alas, Lorist sighed softly, and could only wait until the war with the Shan Barbarian tribe ended here before going to make good compensation for Celivia, a simple girl, which made her suffer for herself and took on the infamy of being a beauty. In fact, Grand Duke Feisabren and himself knew in his heart that even if he agreed to Princess Celivia and her marriage, this war was still inevitable. Because this was the case that the Fisabren family and the Norton family had to fight for the dominance and domination of the entire Northeast region of the former empire, there was always a family that had to fall.

"Your Highness, the mountain barbarian is here."

Lorist looked up and saw black little dots appear in the dense forest in the distance. These little dots soon gathered into a large area, and the black crows rushed towards the defensive city wall like a tide. He picked up the monocular telescope and saw the mountain barbarian warriors appearing in the round frame wearing various animal leather armor, even with some bare chests and abdomen exposed, with strange and blue-black patterns on their bodies and faces. He held a bronze axe and other weapons with unique and rough shapes, and rushed towards this side with his hair and beards.

At around 4:00 p.m. on April 23, the vanguard of the Shanman Army launched its first attack on the defensive wall that lasted sixty or seventy miles between Woniugang Fortress and Guishan Fortress. However, these Shanman soldiers had never seen such a tall and long defensive wall. They often charge to the trench in front of the defensive wall and had to stop, looking at the trench with sharp wooden thorns and wolf teeth below three or four meters deep, and then they were easily taken away by the steel crossbows on the defensive wall.

In the first attack, the vanguard of Shanman dropped four or five hundred corpses and turned around and fled back. Until it was almost dusk, and around five or six o'clock, these vanguard of Shanman launched a tentative attack again. This time, the vanguard of Shanman carried a rough wooden shield tied with vines to move to the front of the trench to fill out a road leading to the defensive city wall, but under the shooting of the chariot and steel crossbows on the city wall, it was quickly destroyed. Nearly a thousand brave and unafraid of death fell down. The rough shields were also shot by the steel nun, and the Shanman soldiers who had lost their cover had to retreat again.

"Haha, it's really simple. It's really easy. We're like shooting turkeys on the city wall." The shooters who were driving a chariot and steel crossbow on the spacious city road were all excited. The mountain barbarian soldiers standing in front of the trench under the city wall were like targets, and they were still stubborn and refused to retreat. They were bravely strung into gourd strings by crossbow arrows...

The defensive city wall between Woniugang Fortress and Guishan Fortress is 72 miles long, eight meters high, but five or six meters wide. It is not a row of straight and long walls, but a city tower and tower protruding the city wall every five or six miles, as a place for patrol guards to rest and be on duty. In the war, these city towers and towers can be responsible for the defensive guard soldiers in sections. A trench of five meters wide and three or four meters deep was dug ten meters in front of the city wall, turning the plains into natural chasm.

"It's a bit boring..." Lorist yawned. These mountain barbarians did not put any pressure on the Norton family's armed forces. It was a world of difference compared to the threats brought to themselves by the four central principalities coalition forces and the Fisabrun family forces in the second half of last year. It was only these soldiers of the Guards who had never been on the battlefield were so excited.

However, it is rare to let the soldiers of the Guards who have been training all year round to get a bloody look. Lorist decided not to provide any guidance on this defensive battle to see if the commanders of the two Guards can be qualified to command the battle. He was in Woniugang Fortress this time to reassure the soldiers of the Guards who are defensive and combat, and to prevent the raids of the Shan Barbarian tribe of masters who are equivalent to the Great Sword Master. The 100,000 Shan Barbarians army should also have several priests of the Great Sword Master level. Lorist's main purpose is to deal with them.

The Shanman vanguard troops, who had just hit the nail twice, finally remembered the lessons of failure and knew that they could not break through this long defensive wall. In the next two days, they were very self-aware of the camping in the distant mountains and forests, waiting for the arrival of the subsequent large troops.

Two days later, the army of mountain barbarians arrived. Lorist found that the news was correct. There were more than 100,000 troops of mountain barbarians, only more than 100,000. Although the army of mountain barbarians lacked supplies and did not build tents and camps, the bonfires everywhere at night covered the sky. From a distance, it looked like stars in the sky. The entire forest to the sky was full of burning red bonfires, endless...

Many guards have never seen such a shocking scene. The joy of winning the first battle two days ago has been completely lost. They unconsciously lowered their voices and talked, and their words revealed the question of whether we can defend it. How can we kill so many mountain barbarians? We cannot win...

The tension and inconfidence before the war were lifted off the attack on the defensive city wall the next day, and after the Shan barbarian army opened its large-scale attack on the defensive city wall, all the soldiers of the Guards were thrown behind. Faced with the endless attacking crowd, the defenders only mechanically winded, fired, continued winding, and fired. They had forgotten everything, and only knew that with their long-term training instinct, they launched a counterattack like a wooden man under the command of the commander.

"Let it go!" With a command, the Changbow Brigade shot out the feather arrows in his hand again at the tide of mountain barbarians densely covered under the city. The feather arrows fell like rain, clearing a small area. Countless mountain barbarian soldiers who were shot in the arrow began to scream in the arms, but soon a group of mountain barbarian soldiers rushed over and filled the gap again. The slightly injured were quickly carried down, while the seriously injured were sent to the soul kingdom of the mountain god in a war song praising the mountain god...

The trench had been filled with several sections of the corpses, branches, soil, stones and other messy things of the Shanren warriors. Countless Shanren warriors passed through these filled areas and forced them to the city walls, but they soon encountered a very difficult and embarrassing situation. The long ladder they carried was not reaching the eight-meter-high city head. Some anxious and irritable Shanren warriors angrily threw the weapons they held onto the city head, which caused very minor casualties to the defending guards.

Some mountain barbarian soldiers with a bright mind were already shouting and preparing to connect the two long ladders, but the long ladder work site that was connecting was soon aimed at the steel crossbow archers on the city wall. The mountain barbarian soldiers who were connecting the two long ladders were immediately taken away by the crossbow arrows shot from the city wall. Even though the mountain barbarian soldiers continued, no long ladder that was aimed at the steel crossbow archers could connect.

On the contrary, several long ladders further away were connected to the city because of the steel crossbows' care. However, the mountain barbarian soldiers wielding their weapons were smashed by the big stones thrown from the city wall before they had climbed halfway. The guards of the sword and shield brigade, who were idle, finally had a place to use their skills. While throwing stones down from the city, they threw turbulent oil tanks and torches. Not only did the long ladders burned wildly, but they even burned under the city wall. Soon the wind was filled with the smell of burning human flesh, and many guards vomited disgusting.

The powerful attack of the mountain barbarian army continued from morning to afternoon. The only dangerous situation that occurred was that before retreating in the afternoon, the mountain barbarian army gathered a group of warriors to attack the defensive city wall. Before Lorist had time to take action, these dozens of mountain barbarian warriors were wrapped up by the knights of the Rage Bear Knight who were watching the battle on the city wall. When these mountain barbarian warriors who were on the city wall were chopped over the top of the city like the Rage Bear Knights chopping melons and vegetables, all the mountain barbarian warriors who were still brave enough to attack seemed to be punched in front of them. They let out waves of wail and their movements seemed to be hesitant.

The horn of retreating was finally blown, and the whimpering horn echoed between the heaven and earth. Watching the desolate mountain barbarian soldiers retreating, leaving corpses everywhere, covering the entire battlefield, and even the bodies in some places were piled up for several layers, with almost no place to step on. Lorist sent mercy and ordered that no more shooting, so let those mountain barbarian soldiers retreat back. The corpses under the city wall were estimated to be more than 10,000,000. Today's battle has given the mountain barbarian army a profound lesson. The attack of more than 50,000 people was almost half of the casualties. I believe that the mountain barbarians will never want to attack this long defensive wall again.

After receiving Lorist's order, the long wall quickly became silent and quiet, but then bursts of cheers broke out: "We won! We won! We guard the long wall!"

Many steel crossbow shooters who were already exhausted were directly sank on the ground. During the battle, they were so numb that they only knew how to fire crossbow arrows mechanically. When they received the order, they realized that they were tired and didn't want to move. Their voices were hoarse. They only knew how to cry happily, watching their partners cheer and celebrate...

Compared to the joy here, there were sad crying in the mountains and forests in the distance. The crying became louder and louder, and it became a whole, making it even more sad and sad in the dark night...

Lorist looked at the mountains and forests in the distance, looked at the corpses everywhere on the battlefield, shook his head and said to Terman, the commander of the Knights of the Rage Bears beside him: "Maybe the defensive wall of our family will be called the Wailing Wall by these barbarians in the future. They will remember how many warriors of the barbarians died under this long wall. But I don't sympathize with them. If this long wall is broken by the army of barbarians, then the one who cries will be the hardworking and kind leaders in our territory."

After the failure of this attack, the Shanman Army had no intention of trying to break through the long wall of defense. In the next three or four days, the Shanman Army just sent people to restrain the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle on the battlefield and collected all the crossbow arrows fired by the steel crossbows. Shanman, who came to restrain the corpses, dared not approach the trenches and long walls. In the end, Lorist ordered the spear brigades of the two guard battalions and the soldiers of the sword and shield brigade to leave the city wall under the cover of the steel crossbows and long bowmen on the city wall. The bodies of the Shanman soldiers under the city wall and in the trenches were moved to the middle line of the battlefield and handed over to the Shanman soldiers who restrained the corpses.

After another six days of confrontation, Lorist was awakened by the loud voice of Terman who was excited to reach the outside of the bedroom early in the morning: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the mountain barbarian army has moved, they have divided their troops!"

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