Act 26 Expansion(7)

Antitina clasped her hands on her chest and silently watched more and more people walking in the forest. Since entering the Frost Moon, although it may still be some time before the first snowfall in Eruin, the temperature at night has become very low. A thin layer of white air exhaled by everyone in the cold air enveloped the logging field and formed clouds. Behind the parapet, the soldiers rubbed their hands to resist the cold. There was a hint of chilling and nervousness in the cold silence of the night.

Almost all the mercenaries went to 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. Haunt that young man.

This sudden thought startled her, and even her face became rosy and slightly hot. She let out 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 gave her a simple answer: "This is what the lord ordered -" and couldn't help but think about what he had accumulated so much before. The good impression towards 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, even she herself didn't realize that they had already been influenced by Brando. Because thinking about it on the other hand, at least she no longer objected to this 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 objecting. But when he turned around and saw a smile on the dark face of the tall leader of the Fire Legion, the silver-haired middle-aged man was startled.

"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 and rubbed his nose indifferently: "That little girl is calmer than you and me. Do you think she looks like someone who can give random orders? Can you do it here? The only one who can command her is the young lord..."

"You are very observant." Kerenthia snorted.

“Each other.

"Such a thought flashed through Fern's mind, but he didn't 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 silently to the man who made the same announcement. The voice reporting the numbers was silent.

Soon there were thousands of cavemen, and they were moving 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 as she struggled with fatigue and Roman's endless weird questions, but just as she blinked her sleepy eyes 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 immediately came back from the tower. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison, "My lord, I guessed it 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. It could be seen from the wooden wall that 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 in the front all stagnated. The cavemen and bugbears rolled down together, and an obvious gap immediately appeared in the complete formation.

But everyone understands that only God knows the real lethality of crossbows to cavemen. Before they had time to 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 rushed to the wooden wall outside the lumberyard.

The wooden wall was 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 and groaning of the wooden walls under their feet, which was simply frightening. Compared to this, those cavemen who stepped on wooden shields and relied on their strong hind legs to jump up the wall were simply harmless.

The mercenaries drove these uninvited guests off the wooden wall unceremoniously, but the cavemen's attack was obviously not over yet. Soon the mercenaries' screams 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 indeed saw the bugbears under the cover of the wooden shields raised high. 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 'logs' were of no use to the extremely powerful bugbears.

Fortunately, they still have 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 tunnels. According to Brando's instructions, each tunnel was several meters deep, so when the cavemen spent nearly half an hour digging the first tunnel, the one walking in the front was immediately squeezed out by the cavemen who caught up from behind. Bottom of ditch.

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 caveman has outstanding fighting ability alone, facing more than a dozen spears from above, he can only end up being stabbed like a hedgehog.

After losing dozens of people, the cavemen realized this was a dead end. 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 squatted at the bottom of the human ladder, raising wooden shields to build a platform for the cavemen-so that they could more easily reach the edge of the outer wall of the wooden fortress.

"Net!" Antitina raised her eyebrows and shouted immediately after discovering this situation.

Kerenthia and Fern beside her immediately conveyed this order, and for a while, orders were heard on the wooden wall outside the lumberyard. The next moment, giant nets made of wooden frames were set up by the mercenaries, and they were extended out of the city wall, covering the cavemen like a giant racket.

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 looks absolutely ridiculous in a battle between humans and humans, but it has obvious effects on cavemen who are not good at siege.

While the cavemen were climbing up while dealing with these difficult nets, the mercenaries could stay high and wait for work. The underground creatures that launched the attack soon suffered huge losses.

Juta 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 the enemy' that the young lord had instructed in advance. This made them a little surprised, but little did they 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 were able to repel the cavemen's attacks several times. However, the battle inevitably entered a fierce stage. The big net woven with oil rope was not unbreakable after all. As more and more cavemen broke through the blockade, the battle on the wooden wall finally began to be bloody.

For the first time, human losses were taking place, and casualties were mounting rapidly. In frontal battles, the caveman's single-target 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.

Krenthia and Fern, who were sweating profusely, set their sights on 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 didn't act, then they would have to use their own methods to end the battle.

The two group leaders made the same decision at the same time.

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