The enemy abandoned fifty or sixty corpses and fled back. They caused three deaths and eight injuries to the defenders on the city wall. Then the first tentative attack ended like this. Let Claude wait.
What is strange is that the enemy did not launch a second attack throughout the afternoon, which was a bit too weird.
Claude looked at the enemy camp in the distance with a monocular, but saw that there was dust flying there, and from time to time soldiers sent in felled trees, which seemed to be making some large siege equipment.
Major Scree looked at the seven or eight wooden carts arranged in a mess in front of the ditch below the castle and asked: "These wooden carts are just left there like this?"
Diavid next to him said: "Sir, I have asked two soldiers to go down from the side door to the trench to pour kerosene on these wooden carts. They can be lit at night to provide lighting to prevent enemy sneak attacks."
This is a good idea. Night is a good opportunity for attackers to take advantage of. Taking advantage of the darkness to obscure the defender's vision, launching a surprise attack before reaching the enemy's position is a very common method in this era to capture the enemy's defensive position. But now
The First Ranger Battalion is stationed in a strong and tall castle, not a defensive position set up in the mountains. For the attacking enemy, how to climb the city wall is the biggest problem.
At night, the enemy's wooden carts lined up in front of the trench were lit as fires for lighting. This could effectively prevent the enemy from using the darkness to reach under the city wall, or use gunpowder barrels to blow up two gates to open a passage into the castle.
However, the front gate of Count Crelaus's castle, in addition to the two outer gates covered with iron sheets, there is an iron fence hanging door as thick as a child's arm separated by two meters, which is lowered from the city wall.
Even if the enemy blows up the two outer gates, they will still be blocked in the city gate by this iron gate, and then become a target for the defenders.
Generally speaking, the enemy would not attack those two gates. After all, the original owner of the castle, Count Leucade Barclaus, was in the enemy's camp. He would not fail to tell the enemy that they were attacking.
What should you pay attention to? The two gates may seem fragile, but they are actually traps. The result of attacking from the gates is to be blocked in the door opening and then be shot one by one by the guards on the wall behind.
"Well done." Major Skerry nodded, praised, then looked at the scattered corpses on the ground outside, and asked: "Why didn't the enemy launch an attack, and no one came to collect the corpses...
"
Captain Heimkling, the captain of the second battalion standing nearby, replied: "Sir, depending on the situation, it is impossible for the enemy to continue attacking. The first exploratory attack just now did not force us to use artillery, but it killed so many people."
, this has made the enemy realize that our garrison troops are not easy to deal with. If I were the attacker, it would be impossible for me to continue to let the soldiers approach the castle without the assistance of complete siege equipment.
In order to avoid causing too many unnecessary casualties to his men..."
Although this Captain Hemklin performed poorly in the ambush of the principality's scouts, causing his group to lose nearly a squadron, and was ridiculed by Claude as a wooden head. But after all, after more than ten years in the army, he could climb to the top
The rank of captain is not simple. He is very familiar with the methods of defensive position defense and position attack, and he gave a perfect answer.
After a while, I saw a squadron of enemies with empty hands and white flags pulling over several large trucks transporting supplies. These were corpse collectors. They moved the corpses on the ground onto the large trucks and piled them up.
Then they pulled back. The soldiers on the city wall watched the enemy collect the corpses, but when they wanted to pull the seven or eight wooden carts back, they fired a few shots in the open space at their feet. This meant that the enemy was not allowed to
The corpse collection team also pulled the wooden raft truck back.
At five or six o'clock in the evening, the soldiers on the city wall took two bows and used rockets to light four wooden carts in front of the ditch below the castle. The wooden carts that had been poured with kerosene ignited thick smoke and illuminated the
A large area around them made "crackling" sounds from time to time. There were four wooden carts that could be set aside to be lit again in the middle of the night, just in time to replace the four that were almost burned.
Claude stayed up most of the night and found that the enemy had no plans to attack by surprise, so he found a fur blanket, wrapped himself up, found an open space in the defense tower on the city wall, and fell asleep. After sleeping for two hours, he was
The patrolling soldiers woke up. This was Claude's order. He must be woken up at five o'clock, because this is the time when the night watchman's spirit is the most tired and sleepy, and it is also when the attacking enemy is the most tired.
Love the time to launch a raid.
It was November, and the weather had begun to get cold. The sky was still very dark, and even the flames of the four burning wooden carts under the castle only illuminated the surrounding area of five or six meters. Claude took a deep breath.
He breathed, took a few breaths of cool air, and rubbed his face to wake himself up. He walked to the top of the door, leaned against the wall and listened to what was going on around him.
There were no suspicious sounds, only the sound of wind, the sound of wooden trains burning below, and occasionally the murmur and teeth grinding of a sleeping soldier in the castle. It seemed that the enemy would not be able to launch a surprise attack today, because again
After a while, the sky began to light up, and the soldiers on the city wall could easily see every move of the enemy in the distance.
In the morning, there was still no sign of the enemy launching an attack. Major Skerry decided to send a Falcon Message to report the situation to the frontline headquarters. What surprised him was that the Frontline Command did not send a Falcon Message over the past two days.
Don't know what happened.
The falcon that delivers letters is a specialty of the Kingdom of Overas and is said to have a history of nearly a thousand years. In the earliest times, magicians selected countless species of birds in order to send letters quickly, and after comparison, they selected the ones unique to the eastern part of the continent.
A kind of mountain harrier, after more than ten generations of cultivation, finally produced a harrier that is comparable to a homing pigeon and can deliver messages with extremely accuracy. After the founding of the Kingdom of Overas, due to an accident, a magic manual was given on how to cultivate this kind of harrier.
Since then, this kind of falcon that can deliver messages has become one of the highest-level secrets in the kingdom.
However, there seems to be something wrong with the falcon that is preparing to set off. Instead of holding its head high and chest full of desire to spread its wings as usual, it stays in the cage like a sick chicken, as if it doesn't want to go out. The signal soldier checked again and again.
Later, I found nothing unusual and thought that the falcon might be acting like this because of the cold weather.
Major Skerry handed the small silver tube containing his secret message to the signal soldier. The signal soldier skillfully tied the small silver tube to the falcon's feet. After feeding the falcon some fresh beef strips, he threw the falcon into the air.
It was about to hit the road. To our surprise, the falcon did not spread its wings and fly high. Instead, it flew close to the ground and flew into the distance.
The people on the city wall saw black lines on their faces, wondering what was wrong with the falcon. Suddenly, a soldier exclaimed: "That's the prairie golden eagle!"
Everyone looked up and discovered that there were two falcons circling in the sky above their heads. The figure was several times larger than the falcon that delivered the message. The signal soldier suddenly came back to his senses and shouted: "No, my falcon..."
A prairie golden eagle seemed to pause in the air for a moment, but soon spread its wings and flew down from the sky. The direction it flew towards was exactly the direction in which the harrier that delivered the message was scurrying close to the ground. Obviously, this
A golden eagle found the falcon.
Several soldiers raised their muskets, but quickly put them down. The range was not enough and it was impossible to hit the two golden eagles. Now everyone on the city wall understood why the falcon that was delivering the message was unwilling to come out.
That's because it had a premonition of where its natural enemies were.
The fallen golden eagle jumped up quickly. The attack just now did not catch the prey, and another golden eagle hovering in the sky also quickly jumped down from the sky. The two golden eagles launched an attack on the falcon eagle at the same time.
Chase.
Markchi stared at the two golden eagles chasing the falcons and wondered: "Where did these two big birds come from? We have never found golden eagles in the sky before?"
Major Skerry sighed: "I can understand why we haven't received the carrier pigeon communication from Squirrel Village and the harrier communication from the frontline headquarters in the past two days. With these two birds here, we can't even think about contacting the outside world.
"
The two prairie golden eagles in the distance should have hunted the falcon that sent the message. But what surprised everyone was that the two prairie golden eagles did not eat on the spot. Instead, one golden eagle grabbed the falcon with one talon.
body, and then the two golden eagles flew towards the enemy's camp and landed slowly. There was no need to guess where the two prairie golden eagles came from. Everyone immediately understood that these two prairie golden eagles should be the pets of a certain territorial noble.
, is now used to cut off communications between the defenders in the castle and the outside world.
"Sir, what did you write in that secret letter?" Captain Hemkling suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked Major Skerry. Seeing that he didn't understand, he pointed to the enemy camp where the two prairie golden eagles landed.
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Only then did Major Skerry realize that he had written a secret letter to report the situation here to the frontline headquarters, but now the falcon that delivered the letter was hunted by a golden eagle, and the secret letter fell into the hands of the enemy. Heimke
Captain Lin was anxious because he was worried that Major Skerry would reveal the situation at the castle in a secret letter, and the enemy would seize the opportunity to attack the castle.
"It's nothing. It mainly talks about the enemy's strength surrounding us, the confidence that we can hold on for three months, and the hope that reinforcements will be sent out as soon as possible, and we will cooperate with both inside and outside to eliminate the enemy..." Major Skerry frowned and recalled what he had written.
Secret message, thinking about the possibility of leaking castle defense information to the enemy.
It shouldn't be a big deal. Maybe the enemy will be discouraged after seeing the secret letter stating that the defenders are confident of holding on to the castle for three months. Because it is already November, and in three months it will be January and February.
, is the coldest day in the whole winter. The defense in the castle is okay, at least there are walls to block the wind. But in the wilderness outside, it is simply suffering. It is hard to believe that the soldiers and the pampered territorial nobles can persist in the ice and snow.
Fight...
"We have to find a way to get rid of those two beasts, otherwise we won't be able to report the information here to the higher ups." Major Skerry said, staring at the two prairie golden eagles that took off again in the enemy camp in the distance. Although the harrier that sent the message is gone now
, but there are still about ten carrier pigeons communicating, but as long as the two prairie golden eagles are in the sky, the carrier pigeons will not be able to fly. If they are thrown out, they will only fall to the ground. They will not open their wings even if they die.
"We have no way to deal with these two beasts. They have been domesticated and will not come close to our castle. The range of the musket is not enough to hit them, unless we can lure the two prairie golden eagles to within a hundred meters of the castle.
.Otherwise, we can only watch them hovering in the sky." Captain Hemkling said.
"What do you think these territorial nobles do with these prairie golden eagles?" Claude asked from the side.
"This is very simple. One is for showing off, and the other is for hunting. Nomadic tribes on the grassland have always had the traditional custom of domesticating prairie golden eagles to help them hunt. When hunting on the grassland, a prairie golden eagle is even more useful than a hunting dog.
It can help its owner hunt nimble little animals such as hares and otters. It is said that the Grand Duke of Karnus raised a pair of very large prairie golden eagles, which can lift a hundred-jin sheep into the air..." This is the fourth
Captain Coldwalker, the captain of the brigade, also ran to the city wall to watch the fun.
Claude snapped his fingers: "Since those territorial nobles tame prairie golden eagles for hunting, I think I can lure them down."
"What can we do?" Major Skerry asked impatiently. He hated the two prairie golden eagles that were always circling in the sky.
"When I was young, I hunted in the mountains and forests, and read many novels about hunting. I remember a travel book said that in order to catch big birds like wild geese and swans, hunters would lay fishing nets on the ground, and then pour fish and shrimp on top. etc.
When the birds in the sky flock down to eat fish and shrimp, they rush out and beat gongs and drums. The panicked birds will easily sink their claws into the mesh of the fishing net, so that the hunter can catch many big fish alive without any effort.
bird.
I remember that we brought back two fishing nets when we returned from Randers Castle, right? They were originally used for fishing in the big river bend. Maybe we can also use fishing nets to deal with these two beasts in the sky. Of course mine
I don’t mean to spread the fishing nets on the ground, as that would be of no use to these two golden eagles, and they would not be able to fall into the castle.”
Claude pointed to the rooftop of the main castle in the central area: "I remember that the platform above is very big. We hung the fishing nets in the air. There were more than a hundred sheep in the garden. We put the lambs on the platform.
Just keep them under the fishing net. If the two prairie golden eagles in the sky find that there is no one on the platform and there are only lambs, they will not be able to bear their hunting nature and will probably pounce down to hunt those lambs. As long as they touch the fishing net
, at least you can be entangled for a while, which is enough time for the soldiers on the city wall to shoot several times."