After following the townspeople of Baiyan Town for more than a mile, Nalant stopped the team and asked the guards to rest where they were.
Each of the guards was still frightened at this time, and their faces were indescribably pale.
"Everyone, please bring out water and dry food for a simple replenishment! The threat has not dissipated yet." Nalant ordered after seeing the Boris guards lying on the ground unwilling to move.
These people have not been trained for long-distance running in the past, and their current state is really different from that of Quick and others.
Although the dark creatures have been successfully led to Quint's territory, when the time is right, Nalant still needs to take action to deal with these dark creatures and complete the main mission of the system.
After all, ten energy points represent ten elves.
"Lord, please drink some water!" At this time, Catherine took a leather bag from Lightning's saddle and handed it to Nalant.
Catherine is not in a high mood right now and can be said to be a little disappointed.
Narant guessed the reason for Catherine's loss, but he didn't have time to explain anything now. After taking a few sips from the kettle, he comforted him: "Catherine, just concentrate on resting, we will still need to fight later."
"Yeah!" Catherine nodded!
"Narant, look, the death knight is coming!"
At this moment, Boris exhaled softly.
The location they chose is very good, it is a small land parcel.
Quint's castle was not built on a mountain like the Storm Territory, but directly on a flat land near the water.
Of course, although the castle is built on flat ground, the defensive capabilities of Quint Castle are absolutely standard.
Not only was a moat more than ten meters wide excavated, but the only passage on the river was a four- to five-meter-wide suspension bridge.
At this time, all the guards who had followed Quint to escape had entered the castle and appeared on the city wall, and the suspension bridge had been closed.
Dark creatures have also arrived at this time, the first to arrive are the death knight and several headless horsemen.
After they arrived at the outskirts of the castle, they did not pursue Nalant and the others, but waited outside the castle.
"Narant, do you think Quint can hold on?" Even though he was more than a mile away, Boris still had lingering fears.
"It's not easy to say!" Nalant gave an answer.
Although he also wished Quint bad luck, he really couldn't tell now.
Quint's castle walls are brand new and have complete defense facilities. More importantly, the city gates are covered with iron sheets, making them truly impregnable.
The only shortcoming of Quint Castle at present is that it lost too many guards this time. There are only forty or fifty guards in the castle.
If Quint's guards can reach hundreds, then defending the castle shouldn't be a problem.
Next, Nalant and the others waited quietly.
After about ten minutes passed, the hell dogs and some skeletons finally arrived one after another.
"Roar! Tremble, humble creatures!" After seventy or eighty skeleton soldiers had gathered, the death knight finally raised his sword. Following his order, all the dark creatures rushed towards the castle.
There was an immediate response from Quint's castle. As the dark creatures approached, many arrows were shot out from the city wall. In addition, there were also several fist-sized gravels accompanying them.
The arrows hit the group of skeletons. Except for a few unlucky skeleton soldiers who were shot in the head, most of the arrows were neither painful nor itchy to the skeleton soldiers, and at most they broke off a few broken bones.
However, the several fist-sized stones were different. They drew an arc in the air and then hit the dark creatures, causing many skeleton soldiers to fall apart on the spot.
Often a stone can seriously injure one or two skeleton soldiers.
"This... turns out to be a trebuchet, a small trebuchet!" Boris exclaimed with his eyes widened.
Nalant was also a little surprised.
There are also trebuchets in this world, but trebuchets are considered a difficult craft in this world, and only great nobles can master them.
Petty vassals and nobles like Nalant and others would never get it.
The reason is very simple. This thing is considered a strategic weapon in this world, and it is indispensable when attacking cities and castles.
Therefore, the great nobles will not let the trebuchet technology leak out, and the finished products are also strictly controlled.
And Quint Castle actually has a small trebuchet, obviously because of his status as the heir of an earl.
"Fortunately, it was a dark creature that did it. If I were to lead the attack, we would lose a lot of men just by getting close to the city wall, regardless of whether we could capture it or not!"
Narant found that he still underestimated Quint. As the saying goes, his arms can't twist his thighs, but now his background is still too weak for Quint.
Whoosh whoosh!
Bang bang bang!
While Nalant and the others were still surprised, the fighting was still going on over there.
Because of the presence of the trebuchet, those skeleton soldiers became living targets.
After approaching the city wall for a hundred and fifty meters, the number of people continued to decrease. Even a hell dog and two headless horsemen were unlucky enough to be hit by stones from the trebuchet.
The hell dog howled loudly, and its head was dented and bruised.
As for the two headless horsemen, one of them was knocked to the ground and turned into black smoke. The other one was more lucky and only lost one arm.
To be able to become a strategic weapon in this world, the power of the trebuchet is not small, not much weaker than the solid artillery of previous and modern times.
It's just that the trebuchet is inconvenient to transport and not flexible enough, and its durability is not as long as the artillery.
The charge of the dark creatures continued, and when the skeleton soldiers and hellhounds at the front finally approached the castle, they were finally out of the range of the trebuchet.
What they faced next was a moat more than ten meters wide.
However, the moat did not seem to pose an obstacle to these dark creatures, and only skeleton soldiers and hell dogs were seen plopping into the river.
About ten seconds later, they were seen emerging from the water again, and then arrived on the other side of the moat.
"This is really amphibious!" If it were a human guard, even if he was only wearing leather armor, he would not be able to swim over. The heavy armor would be used as a lead ingot once soaked in water, and he would have to face the arrow above his head.
arrow.
But the dark creatures were different. They sank directly to the bottom of the water and walked to the other side without any loss.
However, what surprised Nalant had just begun!
I saw the skeleton soldiers arriving under the city wall, and then began to climb the city wall with their bare hands.
Although the city wall made of stone is not as smooth as the city wall made of masonry, it is not much different. Clay made of various materials is evenly spread between the stone gaps.
But the skeleton soldiers used their white fingers to dig out the clay from the cracks in the rocks, and then began to climb up through these cracks.
When Nalant saw this scene, his scalp felt numb. He finally knew how the dark creatures broke into the castle without siege equipment.
Quint's guards also noticed the skeleton soldiers' actions. There was a burst of chaos on the city wall, and then the guards began to lift rolling stones and throw them at the climbing skeleton soldiers.
Fortunately, the only ones who could climb were the skeleton soldiers. Although the hell dogs were powerful, they could only bite and hit powerlessly in front of the iron gate. The headless horsemen did not dare to go into the river because of the weight of their armors, so they were blocked.
Across the moat.
For now, the safety of Quint Castle is temporarily guaranteed.
Of course, this is only temporary. When more skeleton soldiers come under the city wall, Quint Castle, which has only forty or fifty people, will be in trouble.