Chapter 6 The Natural Risk of Shredding Snowflakes
Reggie held the boy and walked down the street, using an apple and a few strawberries as bribes. The young child finally told the truth.
His name is not Jimmy, his name is Hunter, Hunter Rogers.
Like other children, he came out to beg. A man promised him two pounds of bread and asked him to call a strange woman his mother. He also taught him a few lies and asked him to follow the woman to the meeting hall.
His father was a hunter. On the first day of the enemy's arrival, his father climbed to the top of the city and never came back.
Never came back? What was the reason? Was he killed in action?
But in Reggie's memory, there was no battle between them and the enemy.
Reggie looked at the First Knight and asked, "Tell me, where is this child's father?"
Jiawen stopped, hesitated for a long time, and whispered: "I'm sorry, sir, I don't recognize this child's father. I think he may have died in the battle."
"I don't know! Maybe he died in the battle?" Reggie was very dissatisfied with this answer.
"We fought back, sir." Jiawen finally told the truth.
"Counterattack? Did you fight the enemy?" Reggie searched his memory hard, but still couldn't find any information about the battle.
"I'm sorry, sir, I shouldn't have lied to you." Jiawen knelt on the ground with one leg. Although there was no one on the street, what he did still made Reggie very embarrassed.
"Stand up, my knight, what has happened?"
Jiawen said: "On the first day when the enemy arrived at the city, they launched their first attack. I led more than a hundred militiamen to repel them."
Reggie looked at Jiawen in shock and said, "You never told me about this."
"This is the order of the Administrative Officer. I dare not speak out about this battle," Jiawen said. "The Administrative Officer said that if troops are sent out without permission, all those who participate in the battle will be sent to the gallows, Lord.
, they are all good guys who refuse to admit defeat, they just want to defend their homeland, if they are really guilty, my family and I are willing to bear all the blame for them!"
Jiawen knelt on the ground again, and Reggie quickly helped him up. The moment he lowered his head, he felt that his vision was a little blurry.
"How many of us died in total?"
Jiawen said: "We lost sixteen brothers in battle, but we killed nearly a hundred enemies, and we captured their weapons. I'm not talking nonsense. Sir, you can go and see. The weapons of Bayer are different from ours."
"Sixteen were killed..." The ratio of deaths between the enemy and ourselves was more than five to one. One Shattered City warrior could deal with five enemy troops.
This is so hard to understand. How can militiamen who have never been on the battlefield have such strong combat effectiveness?
Could it be that Jiawen lied?
Reggie looked at the boy in his arms and asked, "Hunter, what's your father's name?"
"Will Rogers."
Reggie asked Jiawen: "Is this person on the list of the dead?"
"I... need to ask," Jiawen said a little ashamed, "We did not build a mausoleum for the fallen, nor did we remember the names of the fallen. We could only bury their bodies with the enemy. The political affairs officer said,
They are not soldiers at all, they are not qualified to participate in combat, so I don’t have a list of soldiers..."
"Just do it! How much time will you waste by recording a list?" Reggie frowned, "First, make a list of all the dead. No one can be left behind!"
"But……"
"This is an order! Knight Gusta!" Reggie's expression was extremely serious, "Not only the dead, but also the living!"
"Sir, they didn't do anything wrong..."
"I don't want to punish them. You must give me the list of all the participants before dark!"
"Yes, sir!" Although he didn't know Reggie's intention, Jiawen always maintained trust in this lord.
Reggie looked at the boy in his arms again. He ate apples and strawberries. He was very hungry. He was willing to accept food, but he kept holding the bread in his hand without moving a bite.
"Hunter, aren't you hungry?"
The boy hugged the bread in his hand tightly and shook his head: "I'm not hungry."
He lied. A child of his age should eat from morning to night.
"Eat it, there will be more after you finish eating." Reggie tickled the bridge of Hunter's nose.
"This is for mom."
"Your mother is still alive?"
"Yes," the boy nodded, "she is sick and she is very hungry."
Reggie bit his lip. Although he had just come to this world and even though all this had nothing to do with him, as the lord of a city, he really felt that he was very useless.
Reggie handed the child to a guard and told him: "Send this child home and find a doctor for his mother."
"Yes, sir." Just as the guard was about to take the child away, Reggie stopped him again and said, "Bring more bread to the child and find him something else to eat."
"Yes, sir."
Reggie took off his silk scarf, handed it to the guard and said: "Give this to the mother of the child. It has the emblem of the Victor family on it. If the political officer dares to trouble them, tell him that this is equivalent to asking for help.
The lord declares war!”
Broken Snow City is huge, bigger than Reggie imagined. It takes almost an hour and a half to walk from the city center to the city wall.
This reminded Reggie of something the political officer often said:
"Prince Sean is a gentleman on the battlefield. He has never surrounded Broken Snow City. He left the chance of survival to our people."
Sarn often talks about his respect for his enemies. In his words, Prince Sean is a great hero who combines bravery, wisdom, decisiveness, generosity, benevolence and countless other advantages.
It is a good habit to respect your opponents, but Reggie can be sure of one thing. Sean's failure to surround Shattered Snow City was not out of mercy, but because Shattered Snow City was too big.
He has two thousand troops. In this era, two thousand troops is not a small number. But it is completely impossible to surround Broken Snow City.
"Previous Reggie" didn't have any military knowledge, so he would listen to Sarn's praise of the enemy. Facing such a vast city, two thousand troops can only focus on one point to attack. The defenders can change their defense strategy at any time according to the enemy's actions.
You can also choose to abandon the city and escape at any time. This is one of the advantages that "former Reggie" did not list.
And when Reggie climbed to the top of the city, he discovered that the advantage was far more than that.
Reginald was Victor VI. According to family history, his great-great-great-grandfather Victor I contributed a lot of financial resources to the kingdom during the war, so he obtained this fief and built the Snow Tower on the fief.
city.
I have to admit that my great-great-grandfather was a genius, and the location of this city was so perfect.
Standing on the watchtower beside the city wall, Reggie could clearly see the whole of Broken Snow City. The city was built on a hill.
This small hill looks like a steamed bun, and this steamed bun is filled with "blades". The locals call these blades crushed snow stones.
This flat stone looks like a razor blade. It is about one meter high, ranging from thirty to fifty centimeters in width, but only a few millimeters thick. Each stone is as sharp as a razor blade.
Tens of thousands of stones are densely arranged on the hillside. Even the snowflakes falling on the mountain will be cut into pieces by these strange rocks. This is the origin of broken snow stones and the origin of broken snow city.
Reggie looked at the strange scenery around him in surprise. This is unscientific. What caused such a weird landform?
This kind of strange rocks should be very fragile. They are too thin. Reggie went out of the city to test the texture of the stones. Unexpectedly, the hardness and toughness of these stones were comparable to fine steel. This was simply a naturally formed mountain of steel knives.
.
There is a strange criminal law in Broken Snow City, which is to find a few strong men, throw the criminal on the hillside, and let him fend for himself. The gap between the stones cannot accommodate an adult, and he can neither return to the city nor escape.
When he reached the bottom of the mountain, he could only squirm among the strange rocks, watching the sharp rocks cut his body continuously, and finally he died in pain as his blood drained away.
The east, west, and north sides of the hill are occupied by gravel. It is impossible to attack Broken Snow City from these places. There is only a road on the south side of the hillside. This was the best stone used by Victor I when he built Broken Snow City.
Craftsmen flattened the road left by the strange rocks. It is said that it took five years to build this mountain road. Victor I spent another twenty years to flatten the strange rocks on the top of the mountain and build a broken road.
Snow City.
Now Reggie finally understood one thing, why a group of miscellaneous troops could defeat the elite troops of the Bayer Kingdom.
The geographical advantages of Shattering Snow City are comparable to those of peerless danger. As long as the only mountain road is defended, no matter how many enemies there are, there is nothing they can do.
"We have accumulated a lot of round stones and rolling logs outside the city wall," Jiawen pointed to the bottom of the city wall and said, "These stones are not big and can be pushed by a few people. When the enemy launched their first attack, we used rolling stones to defeat them.
, Prince Sean led his cavalry to launch a second attack. The cavalry was very fast. Many people escaped from the rolling stones and killed many of our brothers, but in the end none of them escaped from the stone on our city wall.
Archer."
Jarvan's tactics are very simple. Form a suicide squad and roll rocks on the mountain road. They will roll wherever the enemy rushes. If there are any fish that slip through the net, they will be shot by the archers on the city wall.
Such simple tactics are very suitable for militiamen who have never fought in a war. Jiawen is an excellent general. He has made full preparations for the battle. He has maximized his geographical advantages. He has made accurate judgments on the changes in the enemy's army and given
responded effectively.
At the same time, it also proves Prince Sean's poor military ability. He doesn't know enough about Shattering Snow City, or he doesn't know much about the characteristics of the troops. Attacking the city is not what the cavalry is good at, and attacking from the top is a taboo for the cavalry. The target
The huge cavalry is simply a living target for cobblestones and rolling logs. When faced with such a rubbish opponent, it's no wonder Jarvan fought such a beautiful counterattack.
Jarvan brought a piece of parchment, which was a government order issued by Thane. It also had Reggie's signature on it. Of course, it was signed by "former Reggie".
"After we won, the Administrative Officer ordered me to take the soldiers to the foot of the mountain and have an open and fair duel with Prince Sean." Jiawen handed over another piece of parchment and said, "Prince Sean also sent a letter of challenge, and also asked him to
I went down to give him a fair fight."
Reggie opened the letter of challenge, and Prince Sean's tone was very arrogant. He called Reggie a miserable guinea pig, a guinea pig that only dared to curl up in a hole in the ground.
"Why do you say I'm a guinea pig?" Reggie looked at Jiawen with a smile, "Wouldn't it be better to use a turtle to humiliate me?"
"Turtle?" Jiawen said with a surprised look, "The turtle is the symbol of the king. I don't think Prince Sean would praise you like this."
Well, it seems that there are still big cultural differences in different worlds.
Prince Sean made a promise in the letter of war that as long as Reggie the guinea pig dared to go down the mountain to fight, he would forgive all the residents of Shattering Snow City. He also said that even if Reggie the guinea pig had the ability to kill a Bair country soldier, he would
He would spare Reggie's life, give him a piece of land, and make him Viscount Guinea Pig.
"I actually retained my title." Reggie nodded with satisfaction, "It seems that this prince is really generous."
This government order and this letter of challenge match so perfectly. It seems that Baron Beach not only does not want to fight, but also has established some kind of connection between him and Prince Sean.
"I have indeed seen this government order," Reggie was a little embarrassed when he said this, after all, his name was signed on it, "but this is the first time I have seen that letter of challenge."
Jiawen replied respectfully: "I beg your forgiveness again, sir. I was worried that you would make a reckless move, so I did not give you this letter of challenge."
Reggie nodded and said, "I guess you regard that stupid government order as a piece of waste paper."
Jiawen looked at Reggie in surprise and said, "You also think that government order is stupid? But you are up there..."
"I don't know how to express it," Reggie said. "At that time, I couldn't act according to my own wishes. In short, it's better that you didn't carry out that stupid order."
"I can't do that," Jiawen shook his head. "It has your signature on it, and I must carry out your order."
Reggie's heart tightened and he said, "Could you be..."
Jiawen said: "That night, I took a few capable soldiers down the mountain, but I didn't tell Prince Sean in advance."
Reggie was silent for a moment and said, "This should be considered a sneak attack, right?"
"Yes, it was a satisfying sneak attack," Jiawen said with a smile. "We used the fire crossbow to burn a lot of ordnance, and a load of black powder, killing many of them."
Reggie laughed loudly and said: "Well done! The political officer must be mad at you!"
"Yes, he said that this was not an aboveboard battle. He said that doing so would anger Prince Sean and bring disaster to the people," Jiawen said with a smile. "He wanted to send me to the gallows again. He does this every day.
think."
After laughing for a while, Reggie was suddenly stunned: "You just said black fans and explosions?"
"Yes," Jiawen nodded and said, "That is the most terrifying weapon in the Bayer Kingdom, black powder refined by the devil."