The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

This also made him completely sure that Ye Tianlong would not kill him. After all, if the other party wanted to kill him, he would not be able to feed him well every day.

As a result, Earl Melt, who was completely relieved, stayed at ease, and now he was leisurely and leisurely tasting the delicious food in front of him.

However, there are relatively few people like Count Melt who are aware of current affairs. Some people still cannot see the situation clearly and are still thinking of making trouble. Among them was Count Melt's youngest son, Ander.

At this time, the boy, who was only in his early sixteen years old, saw Ye Tianlong leading the army out of the camp, leaving only ten soldiers to guard them, and he immediately wanted to escape.

Seeing his father slowly eating breakfast there, the boy stepped forward a little anxiously and urged: "Father, finish your breakfast quickly, and then let's run away!"

"Flee! Where do you think we can escape now?" After hearing this, Melt turned to look at his little son with a half-smile and asked.

"Where else can I go! Of course to Marquis Craggs! I heard that he has recruited more than [-] troops in the city, and his strength is ten times that of Ye Tianlong! We'll be absolutely safe if we go to his place!" Facing his father's question, Ander answered without thinking.

When Melt heard his youngest son's answer, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, thinking that this boy was a little too naive! However, considering that the other party was his son, he still opened his mouth to explain to the other party: "Does having more troops mean we are stronger? Your kid's vision is still shallow! If Marquis Craggs really thinks that he has more troops, If you are more powerful, why don't you take the initiative to go out of the city to fight? From yesterday evening to today's breakfast, he has kept all his troops in the city! This can only mean one thing, that is, that Kraggs The Marquis believed that even if his troops were ten times that of Ye Tianlong, he was still no match for him! And did you just notice? When the soldiers under Ye Tianlong set out, they were all very motivated to fight! This shows that Ye Tianlong The soldiers under my command also feel that they have the advantage in terms of combat power in this battle, and victory is only a matter of time. We foolishly escaped from the camp and went to the Marquis of Kraggs. We are not looking for death!"

After listening to his father's explanation, Ander couldn't help but suddenly realized, thinking that he was lucky that he didn't rush to escape first, otherwise it would be really embarrassing when Ye Tianlong broke through Dehrim City and caught him again. .

However, as a young man with little knowledge, he still didn't understand how Ye Tianlong, with only more than [-] troops, was going to capture the city of Dehrem, which was garrisoned with more than [-] troops.

So out of curiosity, he came outside the camp and stretched his neck to look at Dehrim City in the distance and Ye Tianlong's army below the city, wanting to see how Ye Tianlong attacked the city later.

The small group of soldiers guarding the camp had no intention of stopping them when they saw this. After all, Ye Tianlong had already told them to let these guys see more of the powerful combat power displayed by their own army, so that these guys could clearly understand the situation. It would be best to realize the gap in combat power between the two sides and firmly become a surrender faction in the Kingdom of Swadia after being released.

Under Ander's watch, Ye Tianlong's army's attack officially began, and it was in an all-out attack posture from the beginning. Dozens of artillery carts were seen attacking from the west gate and north gate of Dehrim at the same time.

The artillery carriage wrapped in thick armor was slowly but firmly advancing towards Dehrim City, pushed hard by the soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command. Behind them, three large-caliber heavy artillery also began to roar. Cannonballs hit the walls of Dehreim City heavily.

Seeing the enemy's attack, the defenders in Dehreim City were urged by the officers to climb up the city wall and prepare to fight. Some heavy slingshots on the top of the city began to fire directly at the enemy troops outside the city. Stone bullet.

Those huge stone bullets were hit hard from high altitude, and their power was still very terrifying. During the advance, after several artillery carriages were unfortunately hit, not only the bodies of the carriages were immediately twisted and deformed, but there were also more than a dozen soldiers hiding in them. There were casualties.

However, this small casualty could not stop Ye Tianlong's army from approaching. In addition, under the constant bombardment of heavy artillery, although it was not able to bombard the extraordinarily thick wall of Dehrim City, it also killed many people on the top of the wall. The enemy soldiers controlling those catapults shattered seven heavy catapults, which significantly reduced the enemy's long-range firepower.

However, as the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, the enemy's crossbows and small catapults on Chengtou Mountain also entered the range, so they also began to fire crossbow bolts and stone bullets, joining the long-range strike. middle.

Ye Tianlong's side was not to be outdone. The small-caliber artillery mounted on the artillery carts also used solid shells to fight back against the crossbows and catapults on the top of the city.

Dozens of artillery fired together, and even if the accuracy was not very good, the number of hits began to increase rapidly. In just three rounds of shelling, nearly half of the crossbows and slings on the city were destroyed. In addition, more than [-] enemy defenders were killed and wounded.

The remaining enemy artillery was beaten to a halt for a while. As the commander, Marquis Craggs was naturally very angry about this and kept sending messengers to deliver orders, telling the artillerymen not to be afraid of casualties and attack the city with all their strength. When the enemy troops outside were killed in battle, he would pay one thousand silver dinars as a pension.

As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. After Marquis Craggs offered such a high pension, the artillerymen finally mustered up some courage and began to emerge from the city wall and continue to shoot at the enemy troops outside the city. Unfortunately, this did not have much effect. After all, except for those heavy catapults, other bed crossbows and light catapults were simply unable to penetrate the armor of the artillery carriage.

However, this is more convenient for Ye Tianlong and the others to kill the enemy's artillery and city defense equipment. With the continuous sound of artillery, those small-caliber artillery that can fire continuously are quickly heading towards the city at a rate of six or seven rounds a minute. Shooting cannonballs, these cannonballs that look like large hailstones are not as big as the stone projectiles fired from the catapults, but their lethality is extremely terrifying. Once they are hit even a little bit, they will end up with broken bones and tendons. As for those bed crossbows and catapults, after being hit, they would be smashed to pieces on the spot, and the various parts and pieces of wood sputtered out would often accidentally injure a large number of surrounding soldiers who were manipulating these instruments.

When Ye Tianlong's artillery cart approached within fifty meters of the city wall and began to fire waves of dense rain of shotguns, not to mention the artillerymen on the city wall, even the ordinary soldiers were taken along in large swaths. After sweeping down, after two rounds of bombardment, there was no longer an enemy soldier still standing on the wall. It was obvious that he was really frightened by the terrifying scene of dozens of artillery firing shotguns at the same time.

Also frightened was Count Melt's youngest son Ander. Seeing the lives of the defenders being harvested like wheat on top of the city of Dehrem, he finally understood why Kraggs The Marquis clearly had ten times the strength advantage, but he only dared to stay in the city and hold on, and did not dare to take the initiative to go out to fight in the field.

If the decisive battle were to take place outside the city, facing such ferocious firepower from the enemy, the entire army would probably be completely defeated quickly. However, if the city were to be defended, due to the limited area of ​​Chengtou Mountain, soldiers could be dispatched in batches. Going up, it doesn't matter even if a group of soldiers is defeated, Marquis Craggs can quickly send another group to replace them.

At this time, Marquis Craggs was sending more messengers and officers to deliver orders and dispatching reserve troops to fill positions on the city wall to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the opportunity to attack the city.

What Marquis Craggs didn't know was that the messengers and officers he sent had also exposed his position. Zhou Jiale had been carefully observing the sky above Dehrim City before driving the combat airship. The large number of messengers coming and going made He finally pinpointed the command location of Marquis Craggs.

After conveying the location of Marquis Craggs' headquarters to the friendly forces on the ground using semaphores, Zhou Jiale also controlled the combat airship to slowly fly over the Marquis's headquarters, preparing to bomb it.

After Ye Tianlong and others on the ground received Zhou Jiale's message, an elite team of [-] people led by masters such as Lin Chong and Shi Wengong quickly dispatched and launched a surprise attack from the west gate and north gate at the same time.

Ye Tianlong also mixed in with the two teams this time. After all, for warriors, fighting is the best catalyst to improve their cultivation. He has been practicing hard for a long time, and it is time for another hearty battle. He should consolidate his cultivation.

This elite team of [-] people, the weakest members among them all have the cultivation of Mingjin warriors, so even if they are wearing heavy armor, when they rush out from behind the artillery cart and rush towards the wall of Dehreim at full speed , each one was still as fast as a cheetah. After rushing to the city wall, they threw out their hooks one after another, hooked the city head with their hooks, and began to climb quickly towards the top of the city wall.

The other soldiers were not idle either. They used bows, arrows and flintlock rifles to continuously shoot at the surviving enemy troops on the city wall to prevent these enemy troops from affecting their comrades in climbing the city wall.

Soon, Lin Chong, Shi Wengong, Yang Zhi and Li Rufeng were the first to scale the city wall using Qinggong. Lin Chong and Li Rufeng scaled the west wall, while Shi Wengong and Yang Zhi scaled the north wall.

At this time, the two city walls happened to have a team of thousands of enemy troops coming up to support them. When the officer leading the team saw that the enemy had climbed onto the city wall, he immediately shouted and ordered to fire arrows.

Suddenly, hundreds of crossbowmen began to fire arrows at the four people. However, Lin Chong and Li Rufeng did not panic at all in the face of this situation. Each of them danced their weapons in an airtight manner, shooting down those who were shooting. All the crossbow arrows flew away.

Then the four men rushed into the enemy formation like tigers emerging from the cage, waving their weapons and began to quickly kill the enemy soldiers.

Facing these four innate masters with full firepower, how could the defenders, most of whom didn't even have the fighting power of Mingjin warriors, be their opponents? They were immediately killed and retreated steadily, allowing these bumpkins on the continent of Calradia to see what it means to be a fierce general who can defeat a thousand armies with one person.