Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

After the battle plan was arranged, almost everyone received their tasks, with only one exception.

Jeanna obviously disagreed with Orville's arrangement: "I also want to lead troops to fight. Give me a troop and I have the ability to fight."

Orville shook his head and said to her: "General reserve, don't move. You just wait quietly for the situation to change before taking action. Don't rush to go up. Plans can never keep up with changes. Sometimes you have to do things that don't need plans."

Jeanna puffed her lips slightly, obviously dissatisfied with this explanation, but she would not lose her temper with Orville, just turned around and left silently.

Orville looked at the back of the other party leaving, but he didn't have any special feelings. He didn't let the other party go up in the first batch just because he was afraid that the other party would win the jackpot and die.

There are two gifted people in Winchester City. I don't know what tactics the other party will choose. It may be a single action to delay the two attacking armies that want to attack the city, or it may be a group of two to carry out a decapitation operation, choosing to kill the gifted people on Orville's side one by one.

Although Jeanna has some physical and combat enhancements, the main enhancement direction seems to be to boost morale and perspective. Her combat power is average by the standards of gifted people, belonging to the lower middle level, and even Astolfo is estimated to be unable to beat her.

The remaining gifted people, including Boudica, are relatively strong. Even if they are fighting one against two for a short time, they can escape unscathed if they have friendly forces to cover them. Maybe Gildreth can't do it, but to be honest, Orville doesn't care much about the other party's life or death. After all, in history, the future will be a pedophile and a murderer, and they have nothing to do with Orville. It is human nature that Orville doesn't want to protect such a person.

Orville is really afraid that Jeanna will die if she goes up, which is a big loss. It is better to be cautious.

…………

After all the preliminary preparations were completed, Orville prepared to order the soldiers to start the general attack.

The massive offensive began at dawn. The feint attack troops and the main forces attacking the seven gaps gathered together and began to launch an unprecedented large-scale attack on the city.

There were not as many defenders and residents in the city as Orwell had estimated. The usual small-scale offensive against one or two passes could certainly be stopped, but they did not expect Orwell to order a general attack today, so they were caught off guard.

It takes time to wake up the sleeping soldiers and residents and prepare them to arm themselves, but the Romans did not give them enough time.

A large number of troops rushed to the weak links of the city like a tide. The defenders in the city soon began to be overwhelmed and made mistakes in their haste and relaxed some parts of the defense. The first place to be broken through was not Cu Chulainn, Rollo or Belisarius, who Orwell was optimistic about, but Stilicho, who was a little ignored by Orwell.

He and his soldiers climbed up the gap, and he took the lead and chopped down the few defenders blocking the city wall like cutting melons and vegetables, becoming the first soldier to break through the Wessex defense.

After controlling this short section of the city wall, he immediately ordered the flag-bearing sergeant to wave the flag on the city wall and report the situation at the forefront of the battlefield to Orville, who was sitting firmly in the center of the army.

In ancient wars, information communication was very difficult, so so many generals chose to lead their troops to cruise at the forefront of the battlefield, because only in this way could they react the fastest.

Orville had been observing the situation on the small mound outside the city, so his reaction speed was still relatively fast. He immediately ordered the first reserve team to start cooperating with Stilicho's actions.

The soldiers rushed to the battlefield with ladders in their hands and feet, and quickly climbed the wall by putting the ladders on the city wall, and in this way quickly transported troops to the controlled city wall.

Stilicho did not stop there. After ensuring that he could stand firmly on a small section of the city wall, he raised his arms and shouted.

"Men! Warriors! Follow me and seize the city gate. Today is the day to make achievements and win honors!!"

The soldiers were in high spirits and shouted in unison. Then Stilicho led his army from the city wall into the city, ready to rush along the city wall to the city gate and cooperate with the friendly forces attacking the city gate to seize the gate.

Stilicho was the first person to achieve results, and the others were unwilling to lag behind. At present, the number of troops attacking the city wall has exceeded the critical point that the Wessex defenders can cope with, so more and more troops broke through the defense network and entered the city.

Faced with such a situation, the commander of the Wessex side had to divide his already valuable troops to deal with these people. After a part of the troops guarding the city wall were divided, it became easier to attack the city wall.

This is a vicious cycle. Seeing that the complete defense line of the city wall was cut into pieces and in ruins, it is optimistically estimated that the other side should not last too long.

There are three important people around Orville now: Astolfo, who is under close surveillance by the guards, is frowning and watching the battle situation; Procopius, who is responsible for writing historical war reports, is writing furiously on the wax board; and Jeanne Dacre, who is nominally the captain of the reserve team, is trying to persuade Orville.

"I hope you can let me participate in the battle. On the one hand, you really need more power now, and on the other hand, I have the obligation to prevent the potential atrocities of your army."

Orville once again rejected the opponent: "It's not time yet, you need to wait for the opponent's talented person to show up. As for the latter matter, the red-eyed army may not even listen to my words. Do you think that except for those Gauls? Besides, how many people can listen to you?

My order is to capture the city wall and does not involve street fighting. I have tried my best to minimize possible bloodshed. I cannot control many things. Pay attention to my wording. I can't rather than don't want to. If you have too many thoughts while marching and fighting, you will be irresponsible to your soldiers. "

Orville has always been very tolerant of Jeanne because she is an idealist who understands things and can communicate. She knows how much responsibility and pressure Orville has on him, so she won't be too harsh on Orville.

He was honest with Jeanne and told the truth. Because of this, Jean knew that he had tried his best and could no longer force others to do anything. This is the case when an idealist feels most powerless.

She sighed heavily and said in a low voice: "Okay, I understand. Let me know when you have a mission. May your God and my God bless us all."

Orville nodded slightly, and then focused his attention on observing the battle situation on the front line. A large number of light cavalry were constantly traveling between Orville's headquarters and the war front line, conveying information to him.