The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

What made Ye Tianlong happy was that after he stayed at Dechiosburg for a day to repair, the troops sent by King Ragnar to take over those towns arrived.

After completing the handover, Ye Tianlong was able to call back all the troops stationed in various towns, and also received [-] silver coins rewarded to him by King Ragnar.

However, these monetary rewards are just a small amount in Ye Tianlong's eyes. What he is really waiting for is King Ragnar's promotion of his title after the battle is completely over.

After all his troops stationed in various towns came to join the large army, Ye Tianlong led the army of more than [-] people and marched towards Dehrim City.

After discovering the movements of Ye Tianlong's army, Marquis Kraggs of Dehrim City immediately understood that the opponent's target was his territory. So Marquis Craggs immediately began preparations for war.

Although Marquis Kraggs also knows that Ye Tianlong's army, which is equipped with a large number of firearms, is extremely powerful, but as a great nobleman of the Kingdom of Swadia, he has many soldiers and generals, so naturally he will not be so easy. surrender.

At this time, there were more than [-] regular soldiers in Dehreem City, and more than [-] militiamen. In total, there were more than [-] troops, which was several times the strength of Ye Tianlong.

After knowing that Ye Tianlong was coming to attack his territory, Marquis Craggs promoted and armed more than [-] militiamen with better performance among the civilians, making them official soldiers. In addition, he also summoned [-] militiamen in the city. Many are elite mercenaries who are well-equipped and have the combat effectiveness of regular soldiers. Finally, more than [-] young men were summoned from the city to join the militia. This caused the garrison strength of Dehrim City to rapidly expand to more than [-] people in a short period of time.

With such a large number of troops, Marquis Kraggs suddenly felt that I had the advantage. Even if he used his own life to fill it, he could still use up the ammunition of Ye Tianlong's troops. When the opponent's guns and ammunition were used up, they would all become He bought some useless fire sticks. Then he would like to see how the other party defeated his city of Dehrim.

After marching for most of the day, Ye Tianlong finally arrived at the city of Dehreim when it was almost dark.

With the last rays of the setting sun, Ye Tianlong saw the whole city clearly. Although it was incomparable with those big cities in the real world, on the continent of Calradia, the city in front of him could indeed be regarded as a city. It is a big city. It is said that the population in the city is about [-], and the garrison strength is more than [-]. It is still difficult to conquer it.

In particular, its city walls looked much taller and thicker than the two small castles he had built before. Visually, the height should be about twelve meters, and the thickness was more than three meters. The top of the wall was wide enough to run a horse.

At this time, the sky had begun to darken rapidly, so Ye Tianlong asked the troops to set up camp and rest. At the same time, he also sent Shi Qian to the city to explore the enemy's situation, so that he could formulate a corresponding attack plan based on the enemy's situation.

Shi Qian, who had been sitting in the carriage to rest during the day, immediately set off in high spirits after receiving the mission.

Because they knew that enemy troops were about to attack Dehrim City, the city had already been under martial law at this time. As the sky darkened, many torches were lit on the city walls, and they would light up every few minutes. A group of soldiers patrolled back and forth on the city wall.

Faced with this situation, it would be extremely difficult for ordinary people to sneak into the city secretly to investigate the situation, but for Shi Qian, this was a piece of cake.

Wearing a close-fitting black python leather armor, he quickly approached Dehrim City like a ghost under the cover of night, and then carefully huddled at the foot of the city wall. After observing for a while, he summarized the pattern of enemy patrols. , just after a group of training soldiers passed by, he immediately stood up from the foot of the city wall, leaped seven or eight meters high with one force, then tapped his toes twice on the wall, and let his lightness return. His body jumped up a few meters and successfully climbed onto the wall. When he landed, he did so quietly, without attracting the attention of any nearby defenders.

After quickly scanning the city in front of him and determining the direction, Shi Qian jumped off the wall again, flying horizontally for more than ten meters, and finally landed near the city wall. The roof of a residential building.

However, since the roof of this residential house was made of a pile of weeds and branches, even though Shi Qian was very careful when he landed, he still accidentally stepped on and broke a dry one that was extremely brittle from the sun. The branches made a snapping sound.

At this time, the residents in this house had just fallen asleep and were not yet completely asleep. When the hostess heard the sound, she immediately got up from the bed, strained her ears to listen to the movement on the roof, and pushed her body hard. The husband next to him reminded him: "Did you hear anything? There seems to be someone on our roof?"

"Have you?" Upon hearing this, the husband stood up from the bed in a daze, trying to hear what his wife was talking about.

As a king of thieves, Shi Qian naturally had excellent hearing. He immediately heard the couple's conversation, so he hurriedly imitated the cat's meows a few times.

After the husband heard Shi Qian's imitated cat meow, he smiled and comforted his wife: "You heard it wrong! It's not a human, it's just a wild cat who doesn't know where it came from! Go to sleep! We'll have to wait until early tomorrow morning Get up and get to work!"

After saying this, the very tired husband lay back on the bed and fell asleep.

Naturally, his wife also heard the meows that Shi Qian imitated, and wondered whether she really was overthinking it. The person on the roof was not a person, but a wild cat.

After listening for another long time and failing to hear any other suspicious movements from the roof, the wife, who was also very tired, couldn't stand it any longer and comforted herself in her heart that maybe she had heard it wrong. , he also lay back on the bed and fell asleep with his husband.

Shi Qian was on the roof, and after seeing the couple falling asleep again through the gaps in the weeds, he breathed a sigh of relief and put the two daggers back into their scabbards.

Under the cover of night, Shi Qian continued to advance cautiously in the city of Dehreim. Compared with the tight defense at the city wall, the defense inside the city was much laxer. In addition, this kind of medieval background As soon as night falls in the city, most of the people in the city will fall asleep directly, resulting in no lights in the city. Therefore, unless Shi Qian happens to bump into the patrolling soldiers, no one will notice Shi Qian jumping back and forth on the rooftops. move.

After some exploration, Shi Qian finally found the city lord's mansion where Marquis Nakraggs was.

After sneaking into the city lord's palace secretly, Shi Qian found that Marquis Craggs had not fallen asleep. At this time, many senior officers in the city were summoned to discuss the next defense tactics in the city lord's palace.

Shi Qian carefully hid in the shadows, silently memorizing all the tactics discussed by these guys. At the same time, he also learned that the current defenders of Dehrim City were not more than five thousand, but a full There are more than [-] horses.

After two hours of discussion, Marquis Craggs finally dismissed the officers, and then he had a hasty dinner and prepared to sleep.

Shi Qian also quietly left the City Lord's Mansion at this time, without disturbing the Marquis' rest.

When Shi Qian returned to the camp outside the city, Ye Tianlong soon learned the news from Shi Qian. Ye Tianlong also felt that the strength of the defenders in Dehrim City had suddenly increased several times. It was very helpless. After all, the continent of Calradia was already sparsely populated, and Marquis Kraggs had recruited so many young men to join the defending army. When the battle was over, he would be able to successfully capture the city. In Dehrim City, the young people in this city who are suitable for joining the army have probably been almost exhausted, and most of the remaining population is a group of old, weak, women and children.

After Ye Tianlong summoned his generals for discussion, everyone felt that if they wanted to end this war as soon as possible and reduce the population loss of Dehrim City, using beheading tactics would be the best choice. As long as the Marquis of Kraggs can be captured as quickly as possible, the remaining enemy soldiers will probably not resist to the end.

It is not easy to capture the Marquis of Craggs, because the Marquis attaches great importance to his own safety. When Shi Qian went to investigate before, he found that there were at least one person in the other party's mansion. There are more than two hundred elite personal guards. These personal guards are not only well-equipped, but also have the combat power of Mingjin warriors. The evil aura on their bodies is so strong that they can be faintly felt from thousands of meters away. Obviously they are all battle-hardened veterans.

Under the protection of so many elite soldiers, Shi Qian could only hide in the corner secretly to gather some information, but did not dare to assassinate the opponent.

The Marquis has arranged so many guards for himself just by staying in his mansion. It is conceivable that when the opponent appears on the battlefield tomorrow, there will definitely be more guards around him, who want to behead him. Definitely not an easy task.

Not many masters such as Lin Chong and Shi Wengong said they could give it a try. After all, as innate warriors, their combat effectiveness has indeed been qualitatively improved compared to those of acquired warriors. As long as they attack quickly enough, there is still a certain chance that they can kill that warrior on the spot. The Lord Marquis was killed.

And this success rate! According to the estimates of innate masters like Lin Chong, it should be around [-]%.

Ye Tianlong felt that a [-]% success rate was enough for him to take a gamble. After all, if he could win this bet, he would be able to end this battle as soon as possible without destroying the population of Dehrim City. Larger losses.

After a good night's rest, early the next morning, Ye Tianlong led the army out of the camp and slowly approached the city of Dehrim not far across the way.

Last night, the city's defenders did not go out to carry out any night raids, allowing Ye Tianlong and the others to have a good night's sleep. From this point, it can also be seen that Marquis Nakraggs is indeed very aware of the gap in combat strength between the two sides' soldiers. He knows that even if his military strength is ten times that of Ye Tianlong, it will be difficult to defeat the opponent in a field battle. The only way to win is The only chance was to use various city fortifications and the complex terrain in the city to gradually consume the ammunition and strength of Ye Tianlong's troops during the city defense battle.

At the same time that Ye Tianlong was leading the army from the camp, Count Melt was enjoying his breakfast.

In order to show respect for this wise earl, Ye Tianlong not only did not do anything to him himself, but also generously pardoned more than a dozen of his immediate family members and put them all under house arrest, with daily food and clothing expenses. They are all based on the same highest standards in the army as Ye Tianlong himself. This made the earl live a very comfortable life after becoming a prisoner of war. He even felt that he enjoyed more food than when he was free. alright.