Chapter 469: The Beginning of the General Attack
Just as Viscount Kevin was feeling nervous, the reinforcements from the South County had yet to arrive.
On the contrary, on the morning of the next day, Gray fog rose up from the plain in the north. At the same time, under the gray fog that was like showing off and brandis.h.i.+ng its fangs and claws, one could vaguely see many figures.
Like an arrogant long dragon, it slowly approached Maas Castle.
“It’s coming!” Viscount Kevin’s voice was trembling.
He swallowed his saliva and forcefully suppressed the fear in his heart. He waved his hand and shouted, “Everyone, pay attention. Pull up the drawbridge and the city gate. All the soldiers go up the city wall. Archers go up the tower. Speed up!”
“Yes!” the orderly voice rang out in the castle.
The soldiers were all shaking.
Soldiers holding crossbows and war bows quickly appeared on the tower and the city wall.
These were the soldiers that the Kevin family had trained since young. Their loyalty was trustworthy. After a long period of military training, they were also not bad in shooting and close combat. They could be considered a group of elites.
Moreover, in terms of combat ability, they were slightly better than the regular infantrymen of the North County!
This was the strength of Viscount Kevin.
Unfortunately, they were really outnumbered.
Currently, there were only 500 elites stationed in Maas Castle.
The rest were a group of conscripted militias that they gathered from the surrounding villages.
There were even a group of armed peasants who were doing menial work. They wore slightly thicker clothes and came to the castle. On their backs were pitchforks or sickles on their waists. Their combat ability was not strong, it was impossible for them to kill with their current equipment.
They did not even have proper leather armor. They were probably cannon fodder who would be killed on the battlefield!
It was indeed the case.
There were more than 3,000 of them but one shouldn’t be fooled by their number. Although they were all young and strong, they had not received proper military training. They could do nothing except to be helpers.
The most suitable place for them was still the farmland. It was much easier to harvest those crops than to go to the battlefield, especially on the battlefield where they were harvesting their dead. Some people had just walked onto the battlefield that was filled with the smell of blood, and they were so scared that they couldn’t move their legs at all.
In comparison, the over 1,000 conscripted militiamen were not too bad. They had at least received military education.
They were trained by the castle infantry during their free time.
However, they only knew the most basic of spear thrusts.
This was enough.
If they were to form a formation on the city wall, they could completely protect the safety of a section of the city wall.
Moreover, they were all wearing leather armor made of cow leather. Although their defense was inferior to mail armor, they could still withstand normal attacks. Sometimes, because of the toughness of the cow leather, they were even better at blocking arrows!
At the very least, mail armor would be vulnerable to more serious secondary damage because of the iron ring.
“Enough!” Viscount Kevin knocked his head.
He did not understand what he was thinking but looking at the formation that was already set up in the distance, his heart trembled even more. His breathing became extremely heavy. “What exactly are these people doing!”
In the distance, the n.o.ble alliance army began to set up their camp. A large number of tents were facing the rising sun.
According to logic, they should launch an attack.
Even if they did not launch an attack, it would be good to make some preparations first.
But those n.o.ble alliance army actually made preparations for a long-term confrontation.
This really made Viscount Kevin confused. This made him ready to defend to the death and make use of the advantage of the castle to heavily crush the allied army of Kant’s side.
The other side had come all the way here.
Since they were prepared to rest, they would definitely come again after they had recovered their morale.
If that happened, it would probably be an extremely tough battle, which would be disadvantageous to him.
Although defending the city had a natural advantage, Viscount Kevin did not have much confidence in his weaker troops. He did not have much confidence in defending against the elite troops of the North County.
Although his castle had the mission of monitoring the North County and controlling the checkpoints here, it was definitely not a fortress to defend against the army of the North County.
It had a 6m high and 2m wide wall
It also had a 13m tall castle.
If they relied on such a medium-sized castle, the elite forces of the defending troops would be severely lacking.
In addition, their material reserves were low, so they could not defend for a long time. They did not even know when the reinforcements would arrive.
Thinking about this, Viscount Kevin felt that his head was about to explode. After all, the current situation was completely unsolvable for him. Especially the most crucial thing, he only had two grand knights under him.
And he swore that there were definitely more than five grand knights in the n.o.ble alliance army!
They were all n.o.bles who also did the shady little thing.
All of them had hidden some grand knights under their force without reporting to the official.
This was called foundation!
It was at this time that it came into play.
But current situation was very awkward, his foundation didn’t seem to be of any use.
Because even those two subordinates who were grand knights, when they saw the 10,000 plus infantrymen and 3,000 plus light and heavy cavalries outside, they had already sent a message to their subordinates, saying that they absolutely couldn’t leave the city to engage in field battles!
Just a glance was enough to destroy their thoughts of engaging in battle.
Their confidence collapsed.
There was nothing they could do. The difference between the forces of both sides was too great.
Viscount Kevin did not expect that the n.o.ble alliance army of the North County, who had originally gone to attack the Stone Pa.s.s, would be defeated so easily. Instead, they had become the core force in attacking the South County. This was simply a joke.
It was no wonder that even the n.o.ble families of the South County were still in a daze.
They really did not know what had happened.
The weakness of the n.o.ble families had appeared.
Without knowing what had happened, they knew that Maas Castle was facing absolute military pressure, but they still argued with each other and pushed the other party to handle this matter.
After all, as long as the South County didn’t suffer heavy losses, their interests wouldn’t be harmed.
And in this argument, Maas Castle was facing more and more pressure.
Because at noon, the n.o.ble alliance army that had already rested and reorganized began to take action.
Even the siege weapons provided by the Wayne family had begun to be a.s.sembled. There were catapults with long arms and all sorts of ballistae outside the city walls.
It seemed like they were going to forcefully attack the city.
That was indeed the case.
At 1 pm, the catapults and ballistae creaked.
With a command, the heavy round stone sh.e.l.ls were throwing in a beautiful arc and smashed heavily onto the stone walls. With a clang, the broken stones scattered in all directions, announcing the start of the siege.
More than 10,000 n.o.ble alliance soldiers also began to forcefully attack the northern city gate.
Those ballistae were also whistling and smas.h.i.+ng the stone bullets towards the city gate.
The situation was extremely critical.
Even Viscount Kevin did not expect that the other party did not even feign attack and directly started the general attack!
Because of this, he could not help but laugh like he was going crazy. “What is that Baron Kant thinking, directly launching the general attack. Do these guys know what a siege is? There is such a tactic?” But as the attack begin his mental pressure gradually increased to a point where he couldn’t it anymore.
The situation was too dangerous!