Antitina clasped her hands on her chest, silently watching more and more people walking around in the forest. Since entering the Frost Moon, although it may still be some time before the first snowfall in Eruin, but
The temperature at night has become very low. A thin layer of white air exhaled by everyone in the icy air enveloped the logging field and formed a cloud. Behind the female wall, the soldiers worked hard to resist the cold. The cold silence of the night
There is a hint of solemnity and tension in it.
Almost all the mercenaries were on the wooden wall, leaving no reserve team. Although Yuta and Kerenthia strongly opposed it, Brando personally told her that it was not necessary, so for this noble daughter, that was the truth.
"What if there is an emergency? This is putting everyone at risk!"
When answering the angry question of the female group leader, Antitina suddenly had a playful idea in her heart for some reason; she thought that if Brando lied to her, she would become a ghost after she died.
Hang on to that young man.
This sudden thought shocked her, and even her face became rosy and a little hot. She took a breath and shook her head seriously to drive the thought out of her mind.
But Yuta looked at the noble girl and blushed as if in a daze, then shook her head and only gave her a faint answer: "This is what the lord ordered -" and couldn't help but think about what he had accumulated so much before.
When I got up, my good impression of the other party was completely lost.
This irresponsible answer made Yuta couldn't help but turn around and leave, and went to inspect her men angrily. Before leaving, she secretly cursed 'self-righteous nobleman' in her heart, but if it had been before, she would have done it in front of her.
Antitina said such words in front of her face instead of behind her back.
In fact, invisibly, even she herself did not realize that they had already been influenced by Brando. Because thinking about it on the other hand, at least she no longer objected to such a one-time investment of troops.
Since it was the young man's order, he must have a reason.
With the same idea, Kerenthia also stopped to object. But he turned around and saw a smile on the dark face of the tall Grand Master of the Fire Legion. The silver-haired middle-aged man was startled.
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"Did you already know this?" When he asked this, he instinctively felt alert.
But Fern seemed to have seen through the mind of this scheming old fox. He smiled casually and rubbed his nose: "That little girl is calmer than you and me. Do you think she can give random orders?"
Human? The only one who can command her here is the young lord..."
"You are very observant." Kerenthia snorted.
"Each other." Such thoughts flashed through Fern's mind, but he did not say it out loud. There was an experienced mercenary beside him who would roughly estimate the number of cavemen in the forest every once in a while. He just listened to that in silence.
The same sound of counting was repeated without saying a word.
Soon there were thousands of cavemen, and they were eager to move around in the forest, which aroused everyone's vigilance.
The stars on the night sky were changing, but time finally passed the first two hours after midnight. At first, Antitina finally lost the battle when she was fighting tiredness and Roman's endless weird questions, but when she blinked
When her sleepy eyes tried to suppress a yawn, she heard a series of unusual noises.
That was the sound made by the surrounding mercenaries raising their crossbows.
Our noble daughter immediately trembled. She raised her head and saw that the cavemen in the forest finally made some movement. They walked out of the forest in rows - one or two bugbears were spaced every distance between the rows.
Raise a huge wooden shield for cover.
"Are there any siege engines?"
The sound of mercenaries asking each other could be heard on the top of the city.
"No!"
"did not see!"
The scout's voice was immediately transmitted back from the tower. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison, "My lord has guessed again -" Antitina thought as she stood behind the female wall with a normal expression on her face.
The cavemen began to accelerate at a distance of about 150 yards. Judging from the wooden wall, they were just starting to trot, but the sea surface composed of giant wooden shields was already flowing.
One hundred yards.
Fifty yards.
At this moment, Jutta, Fern, and Kerenthia issued the shooting order at the same time. When hundreds of crossbows were released at the same time, they made a trembling sound that made everyone's ears numb. Everyone saw the dense
The crossbow arrow formed a translucent white line and swept forward - like a blade.
The blade swept across the advancing formation of the cavemen. About two or three rows of underground creatures at the front all stagnated. The cavemen and bugbears rolled down together, and an obvious gap immediately appeared in the complete formation.
But everyone understood that only God knew the real lethality of crossbows to cavemen. Before they could load the second crossbow bolt, they saw the crowd from behind rushing up to fill the gap in front.
Almost in a moment, the cavemen had already reached the wooden wall outside the lumberyard one after another.
The wooden wall is composed of four layers of logs, with soil between each two layers. For a lumberyard to build such a fortification, the three grand captains once thought that the cavemen were simply wasting raw materials; but when the bugbears raised
When they hit each other with wooden shields, they began to regret this idea.
Those cumbersome creatures took huge steps and collided with their bodies and the weight of the wooden shields in their hands. The wooden walls immediately made a tooth-gripping sound, and the logs in some places even began to tilt backwards - you need to know these
The logs were driven deeply into the ground nearly one-third of their length.
Everyone heard the creaking sound of the wooden wall under their feet, which was simply frightening. Compared with this, those cavemen who stood on wooden shields and relied on their strong hind legs to jump up to the top of the wall were simply harmless humans and animals.
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The mercenaries drove these uninvited guests off the wooden wall unceremoniously, but the cavemen's attack was obviously not over yet. Soon the screams of the mercenaries rang out from the wall:
"They're digging tunnels!"
Huque made Antitina retreat a little, and then the captain of the Rubis mercenaries put his hands on the female wall and looked down - he really saw that under the cover of the wooden shields raised high by the bugbears,
Below, the cave dwellers were digging the soil very quickly - their speed was astonishing, and they were worthy of the title of underground people.
But there was no kerosene in the lumberyard, and there were even very few stones. The mercenaries tried to throw the logs down, but unfortunately these "wood" had no effect on the extremely powerful bugbears.
Fortunately, they had a plan. Some people immediately left the city as planned and retreated to the edge of the trench dug in the afternoon.
Those trenches were dug specifically to deal with the caveman's tunnels. According to Brando's instructions, each one was several meters deep, so when the caveman spent nearly half an hour digging the first tunnel, he walked
The caveman at the front was immediately pushed to the bottom of the ditch by the cavemen catching up from behind.
Without exception, these cavemen were beaten to pieces. They subconsciously raised their heads to figure out what was going on, but what was waiting for them was human spears. Although the cavemen have outstanding individual combat capabilities, they face
For the dozen or so spears that were condescending, he would only end up being stabbed into a hedgehog.
After losing dozens of people, the cavemen realized that there was no way to go. So they had to retreat and choose a more direct and brutal method - the mercenaries on the wooden wall soon discovered with ugly faces:
These guys are starting to use human ladders!
This is an effective method. The only flaw is that they have to abandon the huge bugbears in the army. Those bugbears squat on the bottom of the human ladder and raise their wooden shields to build a platform for the cavemen.
—so that they can more easily reach the outer edge of the wooden fortress.
"Net!" After Antitina discovered this situation, she raised her eyebrows and shouted immediately.
Kerenthia and Fern beside her immediately conveyed this order. For a while, orders were heard on the wooden walls outside the lumberyard. And the next moment, giant nets set up by wooden frames were set up by the mercenaries.
They stood up and stretched them out of the city wall, like a huge racket, downwards to cover the cavemen.
The net is simply woven from oil rope. This thing and the wooden stakes that make up the outer frame of the net are all made from local materials and can be found everywhere in the lumberyard. This simple net is used in a battle between humans and humans.
It definitely looks ridiculously crude in the siege battle, but it has obvious effects on cavemen who are not good at sieges.
While the cavemen were climbing up while dealing with these difficult nets, the mercenaries were able to sit down and wait for work. The underground creatures that launched the attack soon suffered huge losses.
Jutta and the other three couldn't help but marveled at this scene. It was simple but effective, different from the tactics of most regular armies. This was not like a method that a noble or a knight should come up with, but more like
The "emergency strategy" of these mercenaries who are experienced in battles - but this is exactly the "strategy to defend against enemies" that the young lord had instructed in advance. This made them a little surprised, but they did not know that the players had a lot of experience in the past games.
In wars large and small, these whimsical 'techniques' are the most invented.
With simple nets, the mercenaries fought off the cavemen's attacks several times. However, the battle inevitably entered a fierce stage. After all, the large net woven with oil rope was not unbreakable. As more and more cavemen broke through
Blocking the net, the battle on the wooden wall finally began to get bloody.
For the first time, humans suffered losses, and the number of casualties was increasing rapidly. In frontal battles, the caveman's single-unit combat effectiveness gradually emerged.
The mercenaries retreated step by step. As more and more cavemen rushed to the city, they found that their previous advantage no longer existed, and even worse. The defenders in many places were driven away.
Creatures seem to be breaking through at any moment.
Although they are not good at siege, their numerical advantage has covered up any shortcomings.
Sweating profusely, Kerenthia and Fern turned their attention to Antitina at the same time. They knew that the only key to turning the tide of the battle at this moment might be this noble girl. Of course, if she did not take action, then they would have to use their own
way to end this battle.
The two group leaders made the same decision at the same time.