industrial lord

Chapter 147 Short Battle

In the early morning of April 4, the sound of the horn replaced the crowing of the rooster and floated over the city of Heim.

Earl Rhys suddenly realized that he was getting old. The full-body plate armor he had custom-made at the age of 20 was still gorgeous, but it seemed a bit inconvenient to wear on his body.

For a full body plate armor, you need to measure waist circumference, chest circumference under the armpit, the position of the anterior fossa under the neck, the width of the arms extended forward, the distance from the shoulder to the neck, the width of the shoulder and neck, the length between the shoulders, the distance between the shoulder blades, and the distance from the armpit to the waist , the length from the end of the neck to the spine, the hip circumference, the waist to the hip size, the circumference from the wrist and the elbow to the front and back of the three positions, the length from the elbow to the shoulder and the wrist respectively, the width of the knee, the distance from the crotch to the knee, the length of the thigh The length and the width of the front, middle and rear positions when squatting, the length of the calf, the width of the upper, middle and lower positions from the knee to the ankle, and the length and width of the hand, etc. The steel plate is hammered little by little to fit the data.

If you have money, you need to reserve a place to set up the magic circle on it.

"It's so crowded." Earl Rhys couldn't help sighing after putting on his tin can, "It's like lying in a coffin."

His subordinates felt that the master's words were unlucky, but they were all new recruits, so they didn't dare to take the master's words.

The head of the city of Heim, the city defense army and the 1-minute people wearing the clothes of the city defense army have all stood on both sides of the south gate. All of them put pea guns under their feet and held traditional weapons in their hands.

Otto stood on the arrow rest on top of the city gate, holding a telescope to carefully observe the enemies who were walking out of the camp.

The mountain mercenaries quickly lined up outside the barracks, and then advanced to a place 500 meters away from the city wall, and the farmers and soldiers behind began to assemble siege equipment.

Otto estimated that those siege ladders, medium-sized catapults and shield vehicles would not be assembled until noon.

In the army formation, there was no trace of such a gorgeous gold-plated knight.

"Good job." Otto smiled slightly.

If Frederick hadn't discovered those gilded knights in the sky just now, he would have thought that the opponent would have assembled the siege equipment at noon, had a simple lunch, and then attacked in the afternoon.

At about nine o'clock, Earl Rhys commanded the mountain mercenaries to start advancing and stopped at a place about 250 meters away from the city wall. At this time, they had entered the range of the pea gun and cherry gun.

Instead of giving the order to fire, Otto ordered the trebuchets to begin preparations.

The 15-meter-long crossbar of the trebuchet behind the city wall has been put down and ready to go, and there is nothing in the front counterweight basket to prevent the enemy from discovering it in advance.

Next to the weight basket was a stair shelf, and the soldiers began to put weights in it.

At the other end, someone put 10kg of angina medicine in his pocket.

According to previous tests, these bombs can be thrown in front of the military formation.

Not long after, there was a rush of horns in the north of the city.

Otto immediately put on a look of panic, and yelled to make those one-minute-playing city defense troops immediately descend the city wall.

Those people who were still citizens yesterday ran in a mess, and many people fell down, all of which were seen by Earl Rhys with a telescope.

Count Rees waved his hand, and nearly [-] mountain mercenaries advanced slowly. The peasants and soldiers behind were driven away from building siege devices, and followed up with long stairs.

In the air, Frederick and Li Xiao had been hiding above a cloud, facing the sun from the battlefield, and they couldn't see it unless they looked carefully.

From time to time, they got out of the clouds, had a bird's-eye view of the earth, and grasped the entire battlefield situation.

At this time, a two-meter-wide slope appeared on both sides of the north gate of Heim City. The gilded knights were divided into two teams, each wearing a layer of magic shield, and were rushing up the slope to climb the wall.

When Frederick saw this situation, he remembered the scene of playing "Horse and Blade" in his previous life to defend the city. His favorite thing to do was to shoot arrows at the heads on the stairs on the horse face of the city wall.

With a whistle, the soldiers of the Whetstone Troop who had been sitting behind the city wall stood up one after another, and the tarpaulin covering the three-line pea gun was instantly lifted.

The ten-meter-long ramp suddenly burst into colorful lights.

The torrential rain of bullets hit one side of the magic shield until it was overloaded and failed, and it instantly turned into bursts of light, followed by red blood.

Under the crossfire, the 45 vase knights fell to the ground immediately, and the slope disappeared, and they all fell to the ground.

Then several fires were lit in the city, and the smoke shot straight into the sky, as if the streets were burned.

Earl Reese waved his hand again, and the whole army quickly approached the city wall.

At this moment, several wooden poles higher than the city wall suddenly stood behind the city wall, and black things flew out one by one, landing in front of and behind the army formation.

There are actually large trebuchets in the city, which no one thought of before.

What they didn't expect was that the things thrown by the trebuchet were not the usual stones, but things that would explode.

Countless steel balls swept across the army with a huge explosion, and more than 200 people fell instantly. The surviving mercenaries recalled what happened on the stone bridge yesterday morning, and couldn't help but slow down.

Gunshots rang out on the wall, and dozens of people fell down.

The mountain mercenaries had never experienced such severe casualties in a short period of time, and their minds went blank all of a sudden, and nearly a hundred people fell down again in this short period of time.

A young rookie couldn't take it anymore, dropped his weapon, turned around and ran away.

The first escaped appeared, and naturally there would be a second and a third, and the entire army collapsed in a blink of an eye.

No one stopped these mercenaries, Earl Rhys ran faster than them.

He understood that the enemy's new weapon was not something he could contend with. The explosion just now had injured his horse. What he had to do now was to run as far as possible while the horse still had strength.

Frederick saw it clearly from the air, and at the same time saw the smoke and dust billowing a few kilometers to the east, and the two main regiments were on their way.

He flew over immediately, and let the main group rush to the south to block the enemy, and at the same time let Otto lead the troops to pursue, without giving the enemy a chance to stop and breathe.

Under the guidance of Frederick from the air, the main regiment relied on a village and a small river flowing through this place to launch a defense line with a side length of more than 1000 meters, encircling the defeated enemy.

The team commanded by Bobo happened to guard between a firewood forest and the small river. From time to time, a few rout soldiers ran into the forest and were easily caught by them.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, there was no sound around, and everyone began to take turns eating in place.

Bobo was eating marching biscuits, and Metzger was nibbling biscuits while pointing to the bushes in the forest and said, "If I were the enemy, I would hide inside until it gets dark."

Immediately someone nearby said with a smile: "Then you go in and arrest him."

"Think I'm stupid." Metzger gave his comrade a blank look, "It's better to set a torch and burn the bushes."

Then he picked up a fist-sized stone from his side, threw it in his hand, and said with a smile: "This forest is not very big, maybe I can hit someone by throwing a stone."

After speaking, he smashed the stone hard into the woods.

The stone hit a tree, rebounded and landed in the grass, making a muffled "boom".

Metzger's originally smiling face suddenly became serious. He jumped up from the ground, pulled out his revolver with his left hand and shot at the place where the stone fell, and then rushed over.

When everyone was stunned, a beautiful tin can really jumped out of the grass.

Metzger fired bullets at the body of the iron can without hesitation. However, the power of the pistol was a bit small, and the armor had more defensive magic. He fought back.

In the end, Metzger slammed his pistol hard on the enemy's face shield, taking advantage of the opportunity to bully him from the side.

The enemy is not a rookie, it doesn't matter if the visor is hit, he turned around and smashed it with the mace in his hand.

Seeing this, Metzger squatted down immediately, and when the mace passed over his head, he rushed over and knocked the tin can to the ground.

The two rolled into a ball in the bushes, and Metzger found that he was not as strong as the other party, and was pinned to the ground by the other party's neck.

Metzger immediately drew out the bayonet on his waist, and stabbed it between the tin can's helmet and armor.

Blood gushed out along the bayonet in an instant, and there were two gasping sounds of "hehe" from the mouth of the tin can, and then it pressed heavily on Metzger's body.

"Stop watching!" Metzger yelled. "Help me move him away."

Bobo had already surrounded him with people holding weapons, and someone said with a smile: "We don't want to take credit for your work."

"You guys." Metzger pushed the tin can away and sat up, rubbing his neck and panting.

(End of this chapter)