Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 187 The Battle of the Trapped Beasts
Sirius stood on the highest slope of the camp, frowning and looking into the distance.

The team of bandits who were rushing away rushed out of the gate and fled to the east in a mighty way. The dust they raised seemed to be mocking Sirius' speech just now.

Yes, not all thieves are hot-headed young men.

In the intrigue-ridden Soul Breaking Land, no one would regard the slogans shouted out along with Daliu as unbreakable oaths.

A few minutes ago, under the call of Sirius, a group of small bandit leaders vowed to lead troops to attack Shuangfeng Ridge, but when it was time to gather the troops and prepare to attack, the bastards turned their heads and led their troops Without hesitation, he broke through the gate and ran away with honor, and his speed was a little faster than that of a bankrupt real estate developer.

——The bandits who are willing to follow Sirius to gamble their youth on tomorrow are only a part of them. For the cunning bandits who have been wandering in the wasteland for a long time, it is the right way in the world to preserve their strength and return to the village to stabilize the situation in their hometown.

As a large number of bandits followed the little boss back home, the bandit camp, which was still huge, suddenly seemed deserted and lonely.

Today, there are only half of the bandits who still insist on staying here, and they are mainly divided into three categories:
The first category is the middle-level leaders who have been in private connection with Sirius since the establishment of the coalition forces:

These people have already reached a secret agreement with Sirius behind their own leaders, and they are even planning to replace their own village master after the war. It is considered that they have secretly surrendered to Rock Creek City—they are not big-eyed traitors , is destined to follow Sirius to the end;
The second category is a group of fanatical adventurists: for them, with the death of the village lord and the retreat of a large number of friendly troops, although attacking Frost Maple Ridge seems to be a risky move, the high reward Sirius promised , has given them enough expected benefits to prompt them to play hard!

——More importantly, many bandits, including this group of people, do not actually have a little understanding of the defeat of the Pride of the South like Sirius did:

The proud wilderness bandits have never faced up to the strength of Shuangfengling. In their impression, the coalition forces this time are no different from the previous crusade against outsiders. Battle of the Belly:

——The manpower is still there, and the siege equipment is ready, but I don’t know what kind of magic was used by the other party, and a few leaders were killed, so they left their daughters and bones to be famous in the wilderness and rich. Frost Maple Ridge turned around and retreated?

There are no doors!
Everyone is still waiting to crush the Igor bastard in the west, and have a good time holding the noble chick!
As for the third category, they belong to the idiots who were fooled by Sirius' speech just now-this group of people have taken refuge in the cottage. This little moth thief is afraid that he was sold by someone and is still helping some gold coins.

In the end, with Sirius' full efforts to save them, the bandit coalition forces beheaded by rockets did not collapse as a whole, but maintained about half of their formation in a decent manner—it has to be said that the reality of this gang of reckless coalition forces The degree of organization is probably much higher than Shuangfengling and Sirius' own estimates.

Standing on the high slope, Sirius gritted his teeth and looked at the mess in the camp, but he really didn't dare to procrastinate.

In the original plan of the Yanxi City Warlord, as long as he can suppress the radical tendencies of the cottage owners and confront Shuangfengling on the east and west sides, today is already a victory;

But the sudden attack of Shuangfeng Ridge wiped out all the leaders of the bandit coalition forces, and completely disrupted Sirius' established strategic deployment;

Today's leather armor warriors don't even dare to imagine, if Shuangfengling still has the ability to replicate the attack just now, then what should he do?
All he knows is that he must abandon his defensive strategy and launch an attack as soon as possible!
The reason why half of the current bandit coalition forces are still left is because, to put it bluntly, a group of inner ghost bosses who were recruited by Rock Creek City and Sirius' speech just now forcibly maintained it-if it continues, When everyone thinks about it, maybe more than half of them run away...

Sirius raised his head on the high slope and stared at the sky.

The sky in the land of cracked soul is as blue as crystal.

It's too early anyway, and shouldn't be attacking at this time... Sirius thought bitterly, but then felt a huge pain mixed with strong despair in his chest:
Sirius, after that explosion, the initiative is no longer on our side...

The leather armored warrior closed his eyes silently, and when he opened them again two seconds later, his light gray pupils were already as hard as the rocks of Dragon Bone Peak.

"Attack!" He ordered in a deep voice.

The herald bandit gave him a suspicious look, making sure that the temporary boss, who had been conservative and avoiding war before, would not change the order again, so he raised the rhinoceros horn in his hand and blew it with a blushing face.

Amidst the sharp and rough sound of the horn, the silent and desolate bandit camp finally began to operate like an earthen war machine.

The first to file out from the two wings of the camp were two teams of light cavalry scouts.

Although the fortifications of Shuangfeng Ridge are far less complete and solid than the castles on the eastern front of the empire, the attacking ability of the bandit alliance is also not comparable to the glorious federal elite known as "God's Thunder" and "Hundred City Slayer".

Therefore, for this crusade against Shuangfengling, the bandit coalition forces basically prepared as a serious siege battle.

For siege warfare, the cavalry who are good at mobile warfare are not very useful. The cavalry who ran home, and the remaining bandit knights basically dismounted and transferred to infantry to participate in the battle;
The only two light cavalry left in the camp were left by Sirius as a scouting force.

——They were the first to rush out of the camp to investigate the situation around the platform in order to prevent Shuangfengling from setting up an ambush outside the camp.

But Sirius thought for a while, and felt that since Shuangfengling occupies a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, he would not be too good at going out to set up an ambush, and just sell himself a loophole.

Sure enough, the light cavalry quickly returned to the signal of safety.

As a result, the real main body of the bandit army officially began to advance towards the periphery of Shuangfengling amidst the loud horns and drums.

The first to drive out of the gate of the camp were five rough-built siege towers.

In view of the fact that the green dam guarding the Phoenix Tower is only two or three meters high, which is far from the breathtaking height of the castle walls of the "Anthony Defense Line" in the east of the empire. In the absence of wood, the siege towers of the bandit coalition forces did not The repair is very exaggerated, and the height is about three meters.

However, the extra-reinforced structure on the front of the siege tower and the tightly nailed hard cowhide almost completely retain the defense function against projectiles.

There are four huge wooden wheels inside the siege tower, which enables the bandit alliance to push the siege tower as a cover, approaching the fortifications of Shuangfengling all the way, and then climb to the top of the wall along the siege ladder in the tower, and come A hearty battle over the wall.

Basically, this is how siege towers are routinely used in warfare.

On the wilderness of the Land of Cracking Souls, where magical power is extremely scarce, the appearance of war seems to be not much different from that on Earth——

——At least Xia Houyan, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai on the roof of the Horned Eagle Manor, thought so.

The lord held the dark moon glazed binoculars steadily with his hand, and through the lens, watched these giant turtle-like siege machines slowly approaching the Phoenix Terrace under the push of a group of bandit coolies.

He roughly estimated that these idiots would take four to five or 10 minutes for a three-kilometer journey?
"Siege tower..." Karen Leperg took a look through the binoculars, shook his head and sneered, "These gangsters really gave you Phoenix Tower face, even using this kind of serious siege warfare equipment on..."

"Damn, Karen, what do you mean?" A certain lord suddenly became unhappy, "Look at what you mean, isn't it true that our Shuangfengling is not a serious territory, and this group of bandit coalition forces are killing chickens with a sledgehammer? "

Karen's ironic gaze first turned to the green dam that was scribbled with fire-resistant paint, then to the unreliable masonry watchtower from head to toe, and finally to the tense pioneer recruits who were neatly formed in the camp. For a sneer that is both charming and hurtful.

it is more than words.

"Mother Xipi..." The lord himself was discouraged:
Although Shuangfengling's magical power and wealth are enough to be proud of the wilderness, but only in terms of the level of urban construction, the sloppy defense system of the Phoenix Terrace really reveals a shabby air that penetrates deep into the bone marrow.

"It's all a good thing, it's a good thing..." Chris Mann hurried forward to make a mess.

"It's really a good thing..." Sean Mountbatten, who took the lens from Karen, immediately made everyone listen, "They built siege towers, not so much to deal with the city walls, but to In order to be able to brave our projectile attack and successfully advance to the foot of the platform... But this time, they are singing an opera for the deaf..."

Mountbatten was right.

The extreme scarcity of projectile power has always been the eternal pain in the heart of the lord during the process of building the Shuangfengling army.

In the original Phoenix Terrace, there was almost only Chris, a serious archer, but recently with the expansion of the army, there are indeed many good guys in the territory, but there are still not many who can bend the bow and shoot arrows. Rees, also can't get together a 20-man archer team;

To be honest, Xia Houyan has been coveting Karen's Luna Village troops for a long time: Among the team brought by the female village master from the demon territory, there are several elite shooters who have reached the "Crescent Moon" rating in the Demon Professional Association ——If the lord hadn't taken into account the overall situation of suppressing bandits in the west, he would have poached these pieces of meat and potatoes to Phoenix Terrace with a lot of money.

As for conventional siege weapons other than archers, which often play an important role in projecting power on the battlefield...

Frost Maple Ridge still existed before.

Well, originally.

The bandit allied forces apparently did not expect that Shuangfengling's long-range firepower was so short. They were too cautious, facing a camp with no projection ability, but chose to advance with a shield like a turtle...

...It can only be said that this scene on the battlefield is quite weird.

To the west, the Shuangfengling scoundrels are leisurely watching their opponents advance quickly;
On the east side, the bandit coalition army huddled in the shadow of the siege tower like a group of lambs, for fear that if they showed up, they would be killed by the long-range killer of the opponent just now;
And the silence of Shuangfengling's projected power made the bandits even more convinced that the siege tower had played a protective role in advance, preventing the enemy from shooting at will, so they crowded behind the tower even tighter...

On both sides of the wilderness, the defenders and attackers remained silent, only the creaking of the wooden wheels of the siege tower and the chirping of birds in the sky echoed faintly.

Unable to bear the loneliness, Xiahou official took a sip of purple-leaf long ginger tea from his cup with An Jie's slender hand, raised his binoculars and looked at it for a while, and asked:

"How many people are hiding behind these five siege towers?"

"More than 100 people..." Karen Leperg replied with folded arms, "The siege towers they built are relatively short and cannot cover too large a team."

"More than 100 people? That's all?" A certain lord's contemptuous tone showed that he had forgotten about it as soon as he was rich. When he was in the infected area a few months ago, he had only a dozen or so guards under him.

"The big troops are waiting in the camp." Karen pouted towards the bandit camp in the distance, "They have to wait until the siege tower walks a certain distance to leave a space, and then the whole team follows up, and finally within the normal range of the bow and arrow , that is, stop a few hundred meters away from us—and after that, the siege tower approaches the platform, captures the green dam, and the bandit army rushes up."

"Excuse me?" Xia Houyan sucked his teeth, "Isn't it good to use magic or a trebuchet to blast the green dam out of the gap?"

Sean Mountbatten shrugged and said:
"I don't think there will be many magicians who can live well in the Central Plains and are willing to come to the Land of Soul Breaker to help others."

Master Laurie and Lena Leslie on the side suddenly looked a little arrogant.

However, what Mountbatten said next shocked everyone:

"As for the trebuchet... Your lord, how do you know that the other party has not made second-hand preparations? Look..."

Following Sean Mountbatten's finger, everyone hurriedly looked north.

Through the binoculars passed from you to me, everyone found a huge wooden thing on the plain hundreds of meters away, under the cover of a large group of bandits and another siege tower, slowly moving towards the city. Terrace approaching—

--Catapult!

"Master Laurie, what is your magic with the longest range?" Xia Houyan turned his head and asked.

The chief mage of the Igor family, the expression on his old face is like constipation:

Of course he knew what the lord's intentions were, but since Adrian's magic scroll was exhausted, this junior magister who specialized in spiritual magic couldn't kill a siege machine hundreds of meters away!

As for the fire mage Lina?If the other party's brain suddenly short-circuits, and then pushes the catapult close to the billion point, there may be some chances...

"My lord, this catapult is not something we can just sit on the top of the city and use magic to solve." Mountbatten euphemistically criticized the magician chauvinism of the Xiahou official, "I suggest that to deal with siege weapons, or Do it the old way with siege weapons."

"Using siege weapons to attack?" Xia Houyan was stunned. "But after the launch just now, there was something wrong with 'I'll kill you 3000'. Are Master Nicholson and the others repairing it?"

Karen glanced at Mountbatten, and said in a deep voice:
"Master, what he meant was to use cavalry."

Xia Houyan blinked: using highly mobile cavalry to rush out of the camp and kill the enemy's siege weapons is indeed a conventional method of warfare;
but……

"We only have sixty cavalrymen, and all of them are recruits..." Xia Houyan said, "And their catapults are still escorted by troops. We can't fight them, right?"

"My lord, my theory is that anyone who rides a horse is considered a cavalry." Mountbatten smiled, "And fire magicians can obviously ride a horse..."

In Lena Leslie's eyes, the smile of this pioneer army recruit was like a ghost.

(End of this chapter)