Rise of the Empire Total War

"The princess was taken away?"

Looking at the still weak Buck, Richard asked again with a serious expression.

"Yes, Your Highness Richard." Buck sighed, and recounted what happened that day. After listening, Richard fell silent.

"Regardless of Princess Sophia's situation, we must send troops to rescue." Richard said, "I will order the army of Luwen City to dispatch, and you will be required to lead the way."

The latter sentence was addressed to Buck and the old man who had saved him.

...

The next morning, the army of Luwen City arrived according to Richard's order. These troops were all feudal knights. If the target of the attack was not the lair built by thieves on the mountain, the chain armored cavalry would follow.

Oh, by the way, the feudal knights here are not fixed on horses like in the game. They can dismount and fight at any time, but they can exert more power when fighting as cavalry.

The individual combat effectiveness of the knights under Richard's command was comparable to that of the royal cavalry. He didn't think those thieves could defeat his army of knights.

This self-confidence didn't come to an abrupt end until Richard saw the bandit's lair under the guidance of the old farmer.

What kind of lair is easy to defend but difficult to attack. A three-to-four-meter-high wooden city wall was built on a steep mountainside, surrounding a large number of thatched houses. A trench of unknown depth was dug outside the city wall, and the outside was layered with sharpened wooden thorns. There is only one road to the city gate - a winding mountain road.

In addition, not to mention the thieves and archers standing on the towers behind the city walls, Richard has reason to believe that anyone who wants to attack this lair will have to go through difficulties and obstacles under the firepower of the defenders Only then can he reach beyond the wooden wall, and then look at the barrier and sigh.

However, looking at the knights in exquisite armor behind them, Richard did not think that the arrows shot by these thieves could cause them casualties.

"First send someone to symbolically persuade to surrender. It's best if the other party is obedient. If not, then attack directly." Richard sat on his horse, leaning back slightly, and said to Sheriff Blaise, who After hearing this, he made a promise and called a follower to persuade him to surrender.

There is no way, Richard's subordinates are basically knights, and it is impossible for knights to do things like persuading them to surrender.

The entourage didn't keep Richard and the others waiting for a long time. After less than five minutes, the entourage came back with a sullen face.

"My lord, the thieves demanded that we pay one hundred thousand Morse coins before releasing the captured princess and her party back," he said.

"There's nothing to talk about." Richard shrugged with a look of surprise, "The negotiation failed, and we are ready to attack!"

"Make siege equipment and prepare to attack!"

Following Richard's order, the knights personally took off their obstructive armor, rolled up their sleeves and cut down the trees at the foot of the mountain. It only took a few hours to build a few rough long ladders.

Immediately afterwards, the feudal knights dismounted and began to attack the city with long ladders.

"Attack! For Richard!"

The knights shouted slogans, the people in front held up their shields to defend against the arrows from the sky, and covered the comrades behind, who all carried the ladders together and walked along the mountain road.

The defenders' arrows were sparse, unable to cause any damage to the knights at all, which surprised Richard. If he was in command, he would definitely focus on defending the mountain road instead of letting the enemy pass easily.

At the same time as Richard was slandering, the knights rushed under the wooden wall with sparse arrows. They put the long ladder outside the wooden wall, and then began to climb. The thieves standing on the wooden wall and shooting saw that something was wrong, and ran away screaming that the wind was tight.

The young knight who was the first to climb up the wooden wall stared at the fleeing minions in a daze, and the expected resistance did not appear at all.

Let him not react at once.

"What are you doing in a daze? Take advantage of the victory and pursue!"

The shouts from his comrades in the back brought him back to reality, and the young knight hurriedly raised his shield and rushed to the stairwell, preparing to open the city gate together with his comrades.

At the same time, Lavis, who learned that the official army was calling, summoned the minions who were searching for the fugitives—it was precisely because the minions were busy searching that the outermost wooden wall was only defended by two or three minions. There is no way to achieve decent resistance.

The thieves had suffered heavy losses in the ambush of Sophia's party, so Lavis could not gather many minions, only a hundred or so.

And how could these more than a hundred people beat Richard's feudal knights? After only one meeting after the battle, these thieves were defeated, and even Lavis died under the sharp knight's sword.

The smoothness of the battle was beyond Richard's expectations. In less than an hour, the lair of the Lavis bandits was conquered, the bandit leader was killed, and the bandits dispersed.

However, apart from the hanged knight and the body of the maid who was scarred, even though Richard searched all the houses in the lair, he couldn't find Princess Sophia.

Princess Sofia, where are you going?

...

"I... where am I..."

Toby was awakened by a burst of pain. He rubbed the back of his neck that had been attacked in pain, and then jumped up from the ground with a changed expression. empty.

"Don't worry, it's safe here."

At this moment, a hoarse voice sounded from behind Toby. He was startled, and quickly turned around and put on a fighting posture. However, he was stunned the next second, because behind the speaker, there was actually standing behind him. Princess Sofia.

"Your Highness, you..."

Before Toby finished speaking, Princess Sophia laughed softly and interrupted him: "Toby, this Mr. Marlowe brought me here."

"Mr. Marlowe?" Toby looked suspiciously at the unshaven man, who was extremely scruffy, but his eyes were bright and full of life.

"Yes, if this Mr. Marlowe hadn't rescued me, I might have fallen into the clutches of thieves by now."

"Okay." Toby nodded, bowed to the man called Marlowe, and said gratefully, "Thank you, Mr. Marlowe."

"You're welcome. I mistook you for one of them before and gave you a stick in the back. I hope you can forgive me." Marlowe said slightly apologetically.

"It turned out to be you." Toby suddenly realized. He touched the wound that was still painful, and forced a laugh, "I can understand. If it were me, I would do the same for safety."

"It's just that I use a deadly sword instead of a club." He added silently in his heart.