Rise In Calradia

When the darkness faded and the sun shone on the earth again, the battle for Fort Amila was over.

Combining the inside with the outside, the defenders of Amira Fort lost the outer wall overnight, and most of the fortress area was occupied by Byron's soldiers. They captured the families and wounded soldiers of those soldiers, put out the fire in the barn, cleared the wrecked roadblocks and corpses, and calculated their losses.

In the battle last night, Byron lost another 80 soldiers who had reached level three, and more than one hundred were injured. The doctors who accompanied the army were very busy. But compared to their losses, the defenders of this fortress were more severely damaged. The mercenaries of the Peony Mission cleared out 137 bodies of the Rhodok defenders, and some civilians who died in the chaos were also destroyed. They were transported separately and handed over to the locals for burial. In addition, they also captured more than 20 prisoners, all placed in dungeons in the fortress. From the perspective of siege, their results are already pretty good.

But the battle did not end. The defenders of Fort Amila still had half left. Instead of surrendering, they retreated into the last and strongest line of defense of this fortress. Among the rocky castles. There is the residence of Count Tazias, which stores a lot of food, wine, and a storage tank. They still don't want to give up, they want to resist to the end with this castle.

Byron sent an emissary to the soldiers during their breakfast and came to the castle gate to speak to them, explain the situation to them, ask them to surrender, and promise that as long as they lay down their weapons and leave the castle, Byron guarantees the safety of them and their families. , No need to pay any ransom, and no need to endure the disaster of jail, you can safely leave this fortress.

But the response of the defenders who retreated into the castle was only a crossbow bolt, which was shot at the feet of the messenger.

So Byron stopped persuading to surrender, but did not order a storm. He carefully observed the castle, with a strong wall on one side and a rock so steep that only goats can walk on the other. The entire castle rises from low to high depending on the mountain. The walls of the castle are more than one meter thick. Behind the walls there are a large number of wooden frames for soldiers to stand and support the structure of the wall. On the two stone towers on both sides, there are two trebuchets with a range of enough to cover the entire fortress. Rodok's crossbowmen can safely hide behind the crenel and shoot at the enemy, while the opponent needs to look up to fight back because of the mountain, and the attack must also attack from a low place to a high place, which is at a serious disadvantage.

Byron learned from the local population that Amira Fort is not the same as the rock fortresses in Rhodok. Many of those fortified fortresses were rebuilt on the ruins of the military strongholds of the Karad Empire, and Amira The fort was only a Scadiah post that counted the business travellers in the past until Rodok became independent. It was not until the Leyland family, the family of officers who were originally responsible for guarding the outposts, allegiance to Rodok that they, who had been named Fort Garmizi, began to build this fortress in order to increase their strength. Therefore, the exterior of the entire fortress is made of cheap and easy-to-build wooden walls. Only this castle was built at a high cost after the family made a fortune from tariffs. The best craftsmen in Rhodok were hired at that time, so the construction was very good. Sturdy.

Byron liked this castle very much, and he thought it would be pretty good as his new home. But if it is an enemy, then this castle can be loved and hated. Byron, who had already suffered a lot of losses, did not want to continue the attack, because the losses would be too great. So he ordered the castle to be surrounded, the city gates repaired, the troops were deployed throughout the fortress, and the gravity stone dumper outside the city was dismantled and pushed forward.

The siege began like this, but at the beginning, the time in the castle was still very optimistic. The castle is so strong that only 100 skilled crossbowmen can withstand the attack of ten times the enemy. What's more, there is a lot of food in the castle cellar, enough for them to eat for a month, and the other party came so quickly, and the baggage is definitely not much. Besides, they also burned the barn in the city, and the supply is estimated to not last a few days. After a long time, their lord will surely know the news, and when reinforcements arrive, the enemy will naturally fail.

With this kind of psychology, the soldiers who defended the city did not dare to neglect, and kept patrolling continuously every day, keeping vigilance at all times. The people in the castle have also been checked to ensure that the last time will not happen. The only thing they worry about is that some of the soldiers' family members are captured by the opponent. The enemy may use this as a threat. After all, the opponent is Byron, the famous mercenary lord.

But they can look down upon Byron at this point. Although Byron has no relatives in this world, he has a harmonious family in his hometown. He also loves his family. He does not want to use other family members as a threat. What's more, it's quite embarrassing to do so in the Swadia noble circle. Of course, there are exceptions to everything. For example, King Harous had a different view on this.

The defending soldiers stayed in this way for three days. Not only did the enemy not launch an offensive during these three days, but when they were okay, they always used trebuchets to hit the enemy troops that they could reach. Few people. Although the other party's behavior was very strange and didn't mean to seize the time to attack the city, they didn't think too much about it. As long as they could defend the castle, everything else was redundant.

But by the fourth day, the situation was not right. A soldier ran to the highest part of the castle where they rarely visited. go. Originally, he just wanted to relax and take a look at the enemy in the city by the way, only to discover their real trouble.

In the open space outside the city close to the city wall, four gravity rappels have been basically completed, and the other two rappels have also been framed. These enemies are very cunning. The location where they built the stone thrower is just blocked by the city wall. They can't be found before the frame is laid. Moreover, because of the crowd blocking and the long distance, the stone thrower on the castle is difficult to hit even if it is found. After the construction of the gravity stone dumper was completed, the height even exceeded the city wall ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ and the range was enough to cover the entire castle.

The defenders panicked immediately after discovering this situation. Although they had not seen it before, they had heard of this huge stone thrower. It is said that this thing was used in siege battles during the Kalad Empire. The technology disappeared with the empire, and it was not until later that people in the West discovered that this technology was still in use in Salander, that this weapon once again appeared on the battlefield of Calradia.

They heard that this thing can destroy the solid wall of rock, and crush the Nord’s shield wall like a hammer and an egg. They don’t know if it’s an exaggeration or a rumor, but they saw the peculiar pendulum-like structure. And the size that has been built is very tall but has not yet been built, they already feel bad.

In the whole day that followed, Byron's army finally began to attack, but their purpose was not to occupy the castle, but to use crossbow arrows to shoot every enemy who dared to approach the castle trebuchets to prevent them from using gravity trebuchets. The enemy destroys their siege weapon before they are finished.

So the battle began, both sides were shooting each other with crossbows, the defenders kept trying to manipulate the catapult, and the siege party desperately prevented them from doing so. This behavior continued for a whole day, but until Byron's army installed the trebuchet the next morning, they only smashed a few parts of a semi-finished product.

The soldiers of Rodok began to worry.