rise of empire total war

Chapter 271
"Hit him! Hit him! Ryder, fuck him!"

"Come on, beat this son of a bitch until his teeth are all over the floor!"

In the northern part of Lavie Territory, Alessim Manor, in the garrison of the First Legion, a fighting competition is being held at this time. It is said that it is a fighting competition, but it is not necessarily true, because it is more like a fight, surrounded by people. Surrounded by two soldiers with bare upper body, exposing their strong bodies, they fought with each other from fist to flesh, and the soldiers around them all bet on the outcome of the fight, in order to win the bet , They also shouted with the soldiers in the circle.

For this situation, Legion Commander Charles did not stop it. To be precise, he was also happy to see all this, and stood on the periphery watching the fighting situation in the circle, secretly cheering for the person he liked.

Why are Charles and half his army stationed here?This is also a long story.After conquering Miggsburg, the capital of the leader, Charles led the army to go north again after a few days of repairs, and marched towards Sukenya.

After marching to the vicinity of the Alessim Manor, they encountered and defeated an army from the Kingdom of Fayle, and then entered the manor that had long been unowned, and dealt with the captured Fayle soldiers.

While watching the fight in the arena, a light horse rushed into the army garrison. The soldiers on duty were about to step forward to stop him, but the soldier on the horse took out a scroll from his arms and shouted Said: "According to the order of His Majesty Caesar, come to deliver the military order."

Hearing this, the soldiers didn't bother to stop them anymore. They made a gesture and asked the messenger to continue riding in the camp.The courier rode a fast horse into the camp area, looked at the soldiers who gathered together and shouted presumptuously from time to time, frowned slightly, then asked a middle-aged soldier in plain clothes standing next to the horse condescendingly Said: "Soldier, I want to find your commander, Earl Charles, where is he?"

"Looking for Earl Charles?" The middle-aged soldier who was questioned looked at him suspiciously, and after seeing the costume on his body and the scroll in his hand, he said in a displeased tone: "I am Charles, the commander of this legion. Soldier, you'd better get off your horse and talk to me, or I'll make you never even try to ride a horse."

"Ah?" The messenger hurriedly got off his horse, put away the arrogance just now, half-kneeled in front of Charles, handed the scroll to him, and said, "I'm sorry, Earl, I didn't know it was you."

Charles ignored the apologetic messenger. He directly took the scroll handed to him, unwrapped the red thread tied to it, unfolded it and looked at it carefully. As time went by, the expression on his face became heavier. After reading it, , he put away the scroll and asked the messenger who was still half kneeling on the ground: "Where are His Majesty Caesar and his army now?"

"According to the estimated distance, it should have already entered the city of Tus." The messenger replied respectfully with his head bowed.

"Okay, I see, you get up." Charles said, and then returned the scroll to the messenger, and shouted to his lieutenant: "Derek, gather the army immediately, we should set off!"

"Obey, my lord!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of Lieutenant General Derek came from a distance. Looking carefully, this Lieutenant General who had followed Charles since he was summoned was also shirtless. He squeezed out of the crowd while wearing clothes, waiting After answering Charles, he shouted the assembly order to the soldiers around him.

As soon as they heard the order to assemble, the soldiers who were gathered together dispersed and disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving only two soldiers who were still going back and forth together in the field.When Derek saw this, he was furious. He stepped forward and kicked the two of them hard. The latter did not react for a while after being kicked. He was about to fight back in unison, but he saw that it was Lieutenant General Deli. Derek ran away in fright, causing Derek to curse repeatedly.

Seeing all this, Charles couldn't help laughing. He recruited Derek, who was still cursing, and said, "My dear General Derek, go and put on your armor, we will have a big battle soon."

"Of order, Lord Earl." Derek agreed, glanced at the messenger standing behind Charles, then turned and left.After he left, Charles turned to the messenger and said, "Soldier, get ready, we need your guidance."

"As ordered."

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While Charles led the legion to start operations, Richard had already entered the city of Tus and made urgent repairs to the riddled city wall that was bombarded by artillery. In addition, he was also inspecting the supplies in the city, including Food storage and city defense resources, fortunately, the food storage in the city of Tus is enough for the half of the legion to hold on for several months, and the city defense resources were not used much when Richard attacked before, so most of them can still be used.

The only problem was the wall that was riddled with holes by artillery bombardment. Although Richard ordered the soldiers to repair the wall, not much could be repaired in a short time.A few days later, when the coalition troops came to the city, the city wall of Tus seemed to have been plastered with dog skin plaster. This patch and that patch were very ugly.

Since the city wall of Tus was not able to withstand the recoil generated by the artillery fire, Richard did not dismantle the eighteen artillery pieces in the general and hit them on the top of the city to defend against the enemy. However, in order to deal with the enemy's siege, he chose to put The gunpowder brought by the artillery unit was collected, and a large number of pottery pots were collected from the city, and the gunpowder was packed in pottery pots to make simple grenades for use in defending the city.

If there was no suitable carrier, Richard would even want to imitate the "heartless cannon" made by the People's Liberation Army in later generations. This kind of cannon is made of gasoline barrels and can be filled with a large amount of explosives. The effectiveness of this homemade cannon The shooting range is 200 meters, and the explosives fired can kill the enemy in an instant, which is very powerful.Richard learned about this earthen artillery when he was reading an anti-war novel, and since then, the heartless artillery has left a deep impression on him.

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Five days after the siege, the coalition forces outside the city of Tusi began to attack the city. The urgent work on the fifth day allowed the coalition forces to produce a large number of simple ladders and battering rams. Although they did not have the craftsmanship to make siege towers, it was reasonable Chad posed no small threat.

Listening to the dull and distant sound of horns outside the city, the civilian archers, giant shield crossbowmen, and heavily armored soldiers deployed on the city wall looked nervous. Swelling up and down, swallowing the saliva secreted by nervousness.Behind them, the military chaplains attached to the army stood up in time, holding Bibles and scepters, inspiring and comforting these heroic soldiers in the name of God.

(End of this chapter)