Black Iron Crown

Chapter 532: Proposal to break through

The resentment in the hearts of these soldiers, Count Redmara, is not clear. They take it for granted that these soldiers should still obey their orders unconditionally and dare not violate the slightest.

   Now the soldiers still have some food to support, so they still follow the orders of the lords.

   More than 14,000 troops once again placed their positions under the city of Rolburg.

   This time, they will no longer be able to put as much pressure on the enemy as they did the first time.

  The successive defeats in the war have already caused the defenders in the city to despise these soldiers. At this time, they are waiting for the enemy to attack the city on the wall.

   Ballista is shooting at the enemy's wall as always.

   Just as the boulder was bombarding the city wall with a huge force, a loud noise rang out from the ballista position.

   After launching a huge boulder, a ballista collapsed suddenly, and the huge force arm fell apart under the powerful kinetic energy.

  Almost none of the artillery soldiers around the ballista survived. Only two survived by chance. The rest of the people were either corpses beaten by the broken parts, or the entire ballista was living under the pressure.

   "Damn it!" King Satri did not expect that such an accident would happen, and his anger surged in his heart for an instant.

   "Prepare to attack!" King Sattley shouted loudly, trying to wash away the shame from this time.

   But Count Redmara stopped him.

   "Please wait for King Satri, we shouldn't rush up now!"

   "Why, we don't have much food now, and we can solve this problem immediately by conquering the castle!" King Satri glanced around and said softly when no one was around.

   "King Sasatli, Shaoan, take a closer look at the enemy's walls. We have been hitting their walls with trebuchets in the past few days, and many cracks have appeared on these stone walls."

   "The lords of the Western Territory don't often face wars. The wall of Fort Rolle is only three meters thick. As long as we continue to attack the enemy's walls, we can make their walls collapse!"

   Looking at the city wall where many cracks had indeed appeared, King Sattley pondered for a while and nodded in agreement.

   So, Jing Ran, who had just moved, retreated back to his position.

   The defender on the city wall had just prepared to stand up from behind the battlements to fight the enemy, but found that the enemy's well ran back again.

   Just as they were standing on the wall looking down at the city wall in a daze, a roar sounded, dozens of huge boulders slammed into the wall with incomparable power, causing Rolburg to tremble.

   The soldiers hurriedly hid behind the battlements again. Several soldiers could not dodge and were injured by the splashing stones.

   Not only that, there was even a soldier who was directly hit by a flying stone.

   The soldier who was smashed into the body is naturally needless to say, the death is extremely miserable, almost the whole person is smashed, and even the defenders on the wall are unwilling to restrain his body.

   One day passed. All day long, trebuchets and ballistas continued to bomb the city wall. Hundreds of boulders hit the city wall to make the cracks more obvious.

   However, in contrast, the trebuchets of the Buckden Kingdom were almost unsupported. Four of them were damaged in a single day. As time goes by, this number will grow even larger.

   Two days have passed, and the trebuchets and ballistas have been firing at the city wall without interruption, and the walls of Fort Rolle are already crumbling.

   In the coalition camp, the soldiers endured the hunger in their stomachs and patrolled every day. They became more and more impatient with the orders from above.

   You want to order me without getting enough food? Go to hell!

   More and more soldiers are violating the command, and the Earl of Redmara and King Satri are also more worried.

   "When will our rations arrive? Soldiers have been hungry for a long time since they bought computers. I am worried that they will be mutiny if this continues!"

  The nobles of the empire approached Earl Redmara and asked quietly. The lords of the Kingdom of Bukerdern were more anxious than the nobles.

   Although the soldiers of the Empire received less rations than those of the Kingdom of Buckden, their risk of mutiny was not that high.

First, the status of their soldiers is high enough to bring them a lot of honor. In addition, they are all upstarts and self-employed farmers recruited from the empire, and their families are in the hands of the lords. Therefore, they did not dare to rebel and mutiny.

But the army of the Kingdom of Buckden is different. The southern kingdom is rich, and their ability to endure hunger is very poor. In addition, three-thirds of their army is mercenaries. They are mutinous but not at all. Burden in my heart.

  As a mercenary, I used to give you my life for money, and now you can’t even feed me, so why do I still work for you?

   The mercenaries of the Kingdom of Bukerdern have even begun to openly resist their orders.

   "Hold on for a few more days! Our food will arrive soon! Wait another three days! It only takes three days for you to be full again!"

   The vassals of the Kingdom of Buckden began to persuade the mercenaries and their captains in the camp.

   "Dear sir, we are very willing to serve you, but this is the first time we have received this kind of unfilled order. My people are very dissatisfied. They just want to get the commission and return to their hometown!"

   "No, at least not now. I hope you can measure me. The rations will arrive in three days. You are persuading your people!"

   "Well... then I want 1.5 times the commission!"

   Soon, the lords of the Kingdom of Buckden and this group of mercenaries reached an agreement ~lightnovelpub.net~ to increase the commission by 1.5 times in exchange for their continued service.

   "Damn bastard, when I go back, I must form my own regular army and kill these bastards!"

   The lords of the Buckden Kingdom were blackmailed by mercenaries by this method, and the anger in their hearts could hardly be suppressed.

   Count Redmara dispatched two hundred heavy cavalry along the grain road to find the grain transport team. Their task is to keep the grain transport team and send them to the camp under the city of Rolburg.

  Rol Castle, the hearts of these soldiers became more and more worried.

   They are not afraid of the enemy attacking the city, but they are worried that the wall under their feet will collapse.

  The wall of Fort Rolle is only three meters thick. Although the thickness is enough to block all enemies in normal days, the wall can no longer hold on under the prolonged blows of ballistas and trebuchets.

   They were horrified to find that the cracks that only appeared on the outside of the city wall at the beginning have now extended to the inside of the city wall, and as long as those places are touched, the rocks will fall.

   The lords in the city gathered together, discussing countermeasures with a sad face.

   "Otherwise, let's break through, go to Your Majesty the King, anyway, the enemy's combat effectiveness is so weak, we unexpectedly break through, the enemy will definitely not be able to stop us!"

   The lords glanced at each other, and one after another saw the expressions of movement in each other's eyes.

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