Lord Chronicle

Chapter 108: Fortress Attack and Defense
"Today, we have only taken a small step to resist aggression; but tomorrow, this may be a big step to change the entire war, so..."

Thor's gaze slowly scanned the team in front of him. Wherever his gaze passed, the soldiers in the team all stood upright and held their weapons resolutely.

Sol smiled slightly, then pulled out his sword and waved: "Go to fight bravely!"

"Woo!" The insurgents who had been instigated by him screamed wildly, and swarmed towards the city wall.

At this moment, the sound of killing on the wall shook the sky, the impact of weapons and the muffled sound of human bodies falling from a height rang out one after another, billowing thick smoke mixed with a strong smell of blood permeated the air.

Gein, Kress and others were commanding the defenders of the castle to fight bloody battles with the Lulin army who came to attack. The arrival of these fresh troops immediately drove all the Lulin soldiers who climbed up the city wall down.After another unsuccessful siege, the Lulin army clinging to the high wall of Diviji Castle retreated like a swarm of ants.

However, the hot-headed soldiers obviously didn't notice that the instigator who was still impassioned just now, who seemed to be the first to kill the wall, had no intention of leading by example.

After witnessing the end of the whole battle, our Master Sol fanned himself with his hands, then turned his head and said to the defenders who protected him: "Really, I'm so tired of talking, get me a cup of tea first!" .”

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As expected, the Lulin Empire will obviously not let go of this group of guys who dare to break ground on Tai Sui.Less than a week after Sol and the others occupied the castle, a large army arrived at the city.

However, the enemy did not expect that these days, the nearby rebels and Dinar people came to join them, and the number of defenders in Diviji Castle quickly rose to nearly 4000.Therefore, when this Lulin army of 2 began to attack, it encountered fierce resistance.

Most of the rebels who came to defect were the former defenders of Ferris and Lamo. After the territory was occupied by Lulin's army, they did not surrender due to various reasons, but turned to secret resistance activities .These people have received strict combat training and are currently the main force of the castle defenders.

There is also a small group of Dinar people who are dissatisfied with Lulin's invasion, including residents from all walks of life, with occupations ranging from blacksmiths to cooks, and even many robbers.Although their combat effectiveness is slightly weaker, they have also contributed a lot to guarding the castle by using their professional skills in their respective industries.

In addition, Diviji Castle was originally a logistics base, and all kinds of materials were sufficient to the extent that they could be wasted at will.In order to repel the enemy's attack these days, Sol and the others have never been stingy. It is often because the enemy has not rushed to the city wall, it is a rain of javelins or a salvo of bows and arrows regardless of consumption, which makes the Lulin soldiers outside the city ruthless. He tasted the taste of "weapon saturation strike".

Therefore, after several days of successive storms, the Lulin army outside the city failed to step into the castle.

As the enemy retreated, the soldiers defending on the wall began to clean up the battlefield, sent their wounded comrades to heal, abandoned the enemy's corpse, and rearranged the equipment needed for defense with the help of artisans.

At this time, Gein and Kress walked down the city wall with a group of soldiers who changed defenses. After the battle just now, everyone was covered in blood. The swords slashed and dents were everywhere, and some people still had unbroken arrows stuck in their bodies.

At the moment, under the city wall, there is also a busy scene.The blacksmiths in the rebel army who came to seek refuge set up anvils and stoves under the wall, tinkling and repairing the damaged weapons and armor.Groups of men were busy walking up and down the stairs on the wall, transporting all kinds of supplies needed to defend the city.

The soldiers who had changed defenses from the city wall were taking the time to eat and rest. There were tired soldiers lying down everywhere in the open space. Some of them were cleaning their weapons, and some of them were eating a few mouthfuls of dry food before lying down and closing their eyes to rest their minds.Several doctors frantically bandaged the wounds of the wounded, and from time to time a few moans of pain could be heard.

Due to the dangerous terrain of the castle and the availability of various supplies, the morale of the defenders is currently high.Although there were many casualties after several days of fighting, there were sufficient medicines in the castle, and the attrition rate remained at a very low value.According to the development of this situation, the Lu Lin army outside the city would never want to attack.

Telling the group of soldiers to take a good rest, Gein and Kress walked towards Sol.Although they had just gone through a bloody battle, the two of them did not show any signs of fatigue. They swaggered through the wounded soldiers lying on the ground, and soldiers saluted them respectfully from time to time.

After these days of fighting together, the two young men with outstanding swordsmanship, brave and tenacious won the respect and recognition of all the rebels, which made this improvised city defense army quite cohesive from the very beginning.Not only them, but even the other defensive players are impressive with their outstanding abilities.

On the contrary, Saul, an idler who almost never goes to the front line, hides in a safe zone and has nothing to do, has made many people mutter in private, what exactly does this guy do?
"How's it going up there?" Sol, who was leisurely sitting on a pile of empty wooden boxes drinking tea, greeted the two from afar.

"Completely beat them back. It seems that the enemy will not attack again today." Kress replied.

"Your armor is really good, where did you get it?" Gein was staring at Kress's armor enviously.

Manson's armor made of coke-smelted steel has shown excellent performance in these days of battles. All the Lovell garrison equipped with this armor will reduce casualties to a minimum.So far, no defender has died or been seriously injured. This is not only their personal bravery, but also the excellent protective performance of the armor.

In comparison, the Cavey collar first-class standard knight armor equipped by the Northern Army Cavalry Regiment is inferior, let alone the rebels wearing all kinds of messy armor.These days Sol is thinking about how to find a way to wear off the enemy's logos on the Lulin armor stored in the castle in order to equip the troops.

"Hey, our lord made this." Kress proudly slapped on the armor, and he has also tasted the sweetness of these sophisticated equipment these days.

"Sol?" Gein was taken aback: "When will you even know this?"

There was no way to explain this matter for a while, so Sol had no choice but to say vaguely: "Don't listen to his nonsense, it was made by a dwarf craftsman in my territory. But because the territory is too small and there are not enough manpower, so I only equipped my garrison team."

"This armor is very good, especially the quality of the steel, which is even better than the military steel used by Karvey. If we can equip a large number of troops, the combat effectiveness of our Dinar army can be raised to another level." Gein was not worried about him, so Said.

"You know, those dwarves value this kind of thing more than their lives. Who knows how he did it, and I have always wanted to steal technology." Thor lied.He didn't want to reveal the matter of the coke for the time being, besides, it was something he had worked out with great difficulty, and he didn't intend to "contribute" it easily.

Gein didn't think much about it, he nodded: "This is indeed a troublesome matter."

While talking, he and Kress had already taken off their armors, and then threw the swords on the table made of wooden boxes with a snap. An attendant came up to change them into clean clothes, and then took the weapons for maintenance.

Signaling the two to sit down, Saul asked, "How are the enemy's movements these days?"

Gein grabbed the teapot and took a sip vigorously before wiping his mouth: "It's still the same, constantly attacking, but they should have suffered enough."

"Will you retreat?" Sol asked with some expectation.

Gein shook his head: "Of course it's impossible. Diviji Castle is very important to them. They won't give up until they capture those guys. I think they will increase their troops soon."

Sol felt a chill in his heart, it was over, the total number of people in the castle was less than 4000, plus there were a lot of casualties these days, how would the enemy increase their troops to deal with it?
At this time, Lesta just came over. Hearing this, the battle maniac said disdainfully: "What are you afraid of? This castle is much stronger than imagined. No matter how many people there are, we can handle it."

Knowing that this guy had only one tendon in his head, Sol directly ignored Lesta's words.Do you think everyone is like you?Another tens of thousands, I don't know what other people think, anyway, I'm going to run away.

Seeming to see Sol's worry, Gein patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, most of the troops of the Lulin Empire are on the front line. They need to garrison to control the occupied area and ensure the strength of the front line. I can't gather many troops. Hmph, if it wasn't for the small number of troops, I would have wanted to fight out."

Sol couldn't help rolling his eyes, it's no wonder that the two have such similar tastes, they are both bold and bold guys.But at present everyone is a grasshopper on the same line, and Sol can only accept his fate.

Now his only hope is the secret road in the back mountain. If you are going crazy, we will not accompany you. If the army is really overwhelming, can't I run away?

At this time Gein asked him: "How many supplies are there in the castle?"

As soon as he said this, Sol immediately became excited.He took out a ledger and flipped through it, and he proudly said: "My god, just doing statistics these days almost exhausted me. You can't even imagine how many things they shipped here. If they can sell all of them, It’s much richer than being a robber... Cough cough.”

Saul, who was consciously losing his composure, coughed twice, and quickly changed his words: "In short, I won't say the specific amount, let's put it this way, you just hold back your energy and waste it, and don't think about using it up within half a year."

Although he had expected that Diviji Castle would have enough supplies, Sol’s words still made Gein very happy. I don’t know how long it will be surrounded by the enemy, so it’s better to make a plan as soon as possible.”

Sol had thought about this a long time ago, and he nodded: "I understand, after I figure out the storage capacity of the castle in a few days, I will draw up a rationing table as soon as possible."

During these days, Sol was busy counting the supplies in the castle, and occasionally cameo to do ideological work, he was so busy that he was dizzy.No way, who made him the least effective one.

In addition, the defenders are either professional soldiers or low-level occupations such as cooks and blacksmiths, so the mental work such as logistics distribution has to fall on us, Lord Sol, the only person who is involved.

It's a pity that Sol has always been a hands-off shopkeeper for this kind of thing. In Lovell, he only knows how to push his beautiful manager to do it.In desperation, he had no choice but to rely on the poor mathematics knowledge he learned in another world, struggling desperately among a bunch of messy numbers, his head was about to explode.

Alas, I would have brought Jessica if I knew it earlier.More than once, someone who couldn't be lazy anymore complained.

Afterwards, several people discussed some things about defending the city. As night fell, it was time for dinner.The chefs accompanying the army set up iron pots, and a seductive aroma permeated the castle.

"Okay, let's have dinner first, and we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." Gein knocked on the wooden box.

As he spoke, he stood up and said in a loud voice, "Hurry up and divide into groups to have dinner, and don't take the time to rest for those who are on duty at night. Before the enemy retreats, we can't relax for a moment!"

Following his yell, the soldiers immediately surrounded the dining place in an orderly manner, and the urging voices of the officers kept ringing around.As the sun began to sink, torches were lit in the castle, heralding the passing of another day of hard work.

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Two days later, Sol and his men stood on top of the castle walls.

"How is it? Did you see anything?" Gein covered the sun with his hands and tried to look across.

After the attack failed two days ago, the Lu Lin army under the city suddenly and strangely stopped all movements.In the past two days, they didn't do anything, not even the most basic feint. They just sent troops to guard the way out to prevent the people in the castle from rushing out, and then there was no movement.

Sol also set up a pergola to look at the opposite side like Gein, but unfortunately the enemy camp was quiet, and he couldn't see any strange places, only the enemy soldiers blocking the road were patrolling back and forth.

Secretly thinking that it would be nice to have a high-powered telescope at this time, Sol shook his head and said: "I can't see anything clearly, who knows what those guys are doing."

Gein said distressedly: "This is not right, why did they stop attacking?"

Kress guessed: "Perhaps because they have been unable to attack for a long time, they are waiting for reinforcements."

Nori on the side shook his head: "No, it shouldn't be like this even if you're waiting for reinforcements. You must know that besieging a city is like defending a city. You are most afraid of low morale, so you often have to attack to maintain morale. Do nothing like this Death siege has a great impact on morale, and it is definitely a taboo in the art of war."

Gein nodded and said: "I think so too, so the opponent's current state is even more strange. The commander of the Lulin Army is not a fool, and it must be weird to do so."

"Maybe, they are waiting for something. It doesn't have to be reinforcements, maybe something that can take down this castle." Sol said suddenly.

"Oh? What could that be?" Gein was taken aback.

"I don't know." Sol shook his head, then pointed to the distance: "But it must be related to there."

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a few tents erected at some point on the edge of a forest behind the enemy barracks.Due to the distance, only some ant-like soldiers can be seen coming in and out of the woods.

"What the hell?" Gein frowned involuntarily.

"You can only find out if you send someone over there." Sol turned around and said, "Chip, are you ready?"

"No problem, we can start when night falls." Chip standing behind him said.

"Well, be sure to find out what the enemy is doing." Thor ordered.

"Don't worry." Chip nodded calmly, turned and left.

Looking at Chip's back, Gein couldn't help but said, "Your subordinates are very special. Who are they?"

In the battle to capture Diviji Fortress, the night shadow troops led by Chip made great contributions.And in these days of fighting, it was all up to them to guard the castle and prevent the infiltration of enemy scouts.Therefore, the whole castle became very interested in this group of taciturn but extraordinary people.

Although he has an unusual relationship with Gein, Sol does not intend to reveal Chip's details.It's not that they can't trust him, it's just that with Chip's special identities, if they say it, it will inevitably cause some unnecessary troubles, and the reaction of others is also unpredictable.

So he said vaguely: "I subdued them by accident. It is said that they used to be high-level thieves of the Thieves Guild, so they are very good at doing these things."

Gein had no doubts, and he said enviously: "You are so lucky, you are a big official, and you have such beautiful stewards and maids, and even your subordinates are so powerful. If I had known such a good thing, I would have called you Dad helped me get a piece of territory, how could I be this unlucky soldier."

What else could Saul say about this?I had no choice but to hide it with a few dry laughs.

After Chip left, they turned their attention to the enemy camp below the city again, which was still silent.It seems that the only way to know what they are planning is when Chip comes back.

The day passed while waiting anxiously, and night fell, but no one dared to be careless.Although Sol and the others had already returned to the castle to rest, the number of soldiers on guard at the top of the city was twice as many as usual.

In the castle's command room, Kress was concentrating on wiping his "iron lump", Sol and Nori were playing chess, only Gein was fidgeting, walking around the room like a light-haired beast, From time to time, he walked anxiously to the window and looked.

"Stop spinning, I'm dizzy for you." Saul couldn't help but said.

Gein couldn't help giving him a blank look: "Nonsense, aren't you in a hurry?"

"Of course." Sol shook his head and said, "Look at your mental quality, do you still want to be a general in command of thousands of troops? Learn from me. The most important thing in front of the enemy is to be calm. Playing chess is the same as fighting a war. You must focus on the overall situation. .Do you know what this is called? This is called strategizing, winning a decisive victory thousands of miles away, hahahaha..."

Unable to understand what nonsense he was talking about, Gein snorted angrily and sat back in the chair.

"Tsk tsk, young man." Sol sighed pretentiously, picked up a chess piece and put it down.

It has to be said that his appearance really has the posture of a dog-headed military division.But unfortunately, it will be revealed soon.

"General." Nori said calmly as he moved a chess piece.

"Ah, fuck it." Sol slapped his head angrily.

Pfft... Gein, who was drinking a mouthful of tea, couldn't help but spit it out, pointing at Sol and laughing.

Saul was very depressed, you won't wait a while to send it again?I just got the feeling.But after such a commotion, the dull atmosphere eased a lot.

At this moment, a guard member hurried in: "Lord Lord, Chip is back."

The people in the room immediately stopped laughing, and Sol hurriedly said, "Let him in quickly."

A moment later, Chip, still in his black tights, entered the room.Gein couldn't wait to ask: "Have you found anything?"

Chip went to the table and sat down: "I led people around the side of the enemy's camp. There is indeed a problem with that forest. The enemy is doing all they can to make siege equipment."

"Siege weapon?" Sol and the others couldn't help but look at each other.

This time the Lu Lin army came in a hurry and did not carry any siege equipment. The attacks in the past few days were all by force.It seems that the opponent has finally realized that this group of "rabble" in the castle cannot win by force, and must prepare to fight steadily.

The fact that the invincible Lulin regular army could face up to the rebel army composed of bandits and defeated troops showed how solid their defense was these days.

The Lulin Empire has been fighting for years, and its military strength ranks first in the entire Mojina Continent. In addition to strong soldiers and horses, their various war equipment is also very powerful.Therefore, when they heard that the other party was rushing to produce siege weapons, everyone was very worried.

Gein asked, "See what they're doing?"

Chip thought for a while: "The enemy's defenses are tight, and we can't get too close. But judging from some scattered parts on the edge of the forest, there are trebuchets, large siege vehicles, and ladders."

Although it is a little strange why Chip is so familiar with the war equipment of the Lulin Army, Gein has something more worrying: "This is too bad. If they wait for them to do well, and use the opponent's strength to match these equipment, our defense It’s not so easy to get up.”

"It's better to destroy those things now." Kress suggested.

Nori disagreed: "The enemy has blocked all the exits, and there is a barracks between us and the woods, so large troops can't get close at all. If there are fewer people going, it won't work."

Chip also nodded and said: "That's right, our number is relatively small, and our overall combat effectiveness is far weaker than that of the Lulin Army. We can only defend in the castle, and there is no chance of winning if we defend head-on."

"What if I take my cavalry to try?" Gein still didn't give up.

Since the occupation of the castle, all the cavalry of the Northern Legion have been converted to infantry, and all the horses have also been converted to cargo horses to help transport various supplies.

Sol said in horror: "Don't be crazy, no matter how strong you are, there are only more than 300 people, what's the use? I'm afraid you didn't even pass through the enemy's barracks, and they were all killed."

Knowing that what he said was true, Gein said distressedly: "Damn it, you know what the other party is planning, but you can't do anything?"

He was right, there was really nothing to do.There is no way, the difference in strength is there. Sol and the others are dragons in the castle, but if they leave this barrier, they will only be adults in the face of the elite Lulin army.

"At least we know what the enemy is doing, so we won't be at a loss when the time comes. Well, he has a good plan, and I have a wall ladder, so there must be a way to deal with it." Sol comforted.

Gein glared at him: "What are you talking about, what are you talking about? But you are right, although we can't think of a way to deal with it for the time being, we can at least make some preparations." Having said that, he finally recovered. some confidence.

But having said that, among the few people, only Gain had actually fought in battle, and it was his first time to be alone. It is very rare to be able to lead an army to resist for such a long time this time.Now that they were about to face the famous siege weapon of the Lulin Army, everyone couldn't help feeling anxious for a while.

After discussing some countermeasures, the group dispersed and got ready.

(End of this chapter)