Warlord: King of All Clans

To prevent any fraud, Leo sent the Pegasus Knights to conduct reconnaissance over the city of Arbroath, watching for Godwin leading his core troops away.

Godwin only took two thousand armored soldiers with him, and he left the unarmored militia and local conscripted infantry in the city.

Godwin had been doing business here for half his life and had gained a large number of loyal followers. When he abandoned the city and left, three of the five knights of the square flags of Arbroath followed him, and there were countless knights in armor.

The remaining square and corner flags were reluctant to give up their own property, so they hid from Godwin and waited to pledge allegiance to the new lord.

After receiving the news, the local nobles of Abros City could only accept their fate and watch Leo's vanguard troops enter the city as they looked at the army outside the city.

Leo, on the other hand, stood on horseback at the dock outside the city with his knights, watching the vanguard troops climb up the city wall and occupy key points.

Romon had been following Leo. He was now riding on a horse with Godwin's handwritten letter in his hand. He read it and praised: "Sir Knight Godwin is indeed a man of both civil and military talents. Not only is he powerful in martial arts, but he also writes a letter with great style."

Several Wind Knights nearby also nodded.

Godwin's letter was written in the Imperial Elegant Language, which is equivalent to the classical Chinese in this world. Most people find it quite difficult to read.

In the eyes of orthodox aristocratic children like Luo Meng, that is called elegance.

But his perception is based on the premise that Godwin is an eighth-level extraordinary knight. If it is an ordinary person's belief, it can only be said to be average.

The knights of the North respect the use of force and worship the strong. Godwin is a powerful figure who can lead a battle on horseback, govern the place when dismounted, and even kill a full legion single-handedly when pushed to the limit. He is the perfect role model for young knights like Romon.

Leo also had to admit that, for now, without the support of firearms and equally high-level combat power, it was indeed difficult to restrain the high-level warriors, enough to truly achieve "taking the head of a general in the midst of thousands of troops as easy as taking something out of a bag."

The reason why the Earl of the North can maintain his rule is partly due to his elite earl army and partly due to the high-level combat power cultivated by his family.

If the new forces lack either of these two, they will not be able to threaten the rule of the great earls.

Having said that, the young knights of River Bay were all proud to have forced such a famous Northern general to abandon the city.

But when these extraordinary knights thought about the reason why Godwin left without fighting, they couldn't laugh.

As Riverbend's firearms became more and more powerful, the extraordinary knights began to realize that the era of knights was finally over.

Even the powerful Wind Knight, on the one hand, continued to improve his extraordinary strength, and on the other hand, began to seriously study the use of firearms and no longer regarded it as a gimmick.

The person who was most happy about being able to capture Abros without bloodshed was none other than Freya.

She turned into a giant bear, carrying Totos and Snell, and circled around Leo's dragon-scale horse.

While walking in circles, he kept asking, "Don't we have to fight anymore? Has the other side admitted defeat? Can we go into the city and play?"

Yesterday she witnessed the Yinmen Formation in the city of Abros, which once again refreshed her understanding of the race living down the mountain. She was so scared that she hid in Leo's chest for a long time and did not dare to come out.

It was not until nightfall that he took Totos and Snell, carried some clothes and food in his space pocket, and sneaked to the dock to help those poor women.

Early this morning, the women who had received food and clothing were suddenly less afraid of the "invaders" and sat by the dock, watching the soldiers of the River Bend Legion pass by.

Leo was also very happy and led everyone into the city, "Come on, come on! I'll take you to live in the castle now!"

The city of Arbroath was built on a hill. Outside the south gate was the river port of the Anzeno River. Outside the west gate was a tributary several dozen meters wide that flowed around the city. To the east was a river bank cliff, and there was not even a road.

Therefore, if one wanted to attack the city, the South Gate was not the first choice. One could only land, follow this tributary far north to cross the river, then go around the city half a circle and attack the city from the North Gate where there were no dangerous terrain obstacles.

There is only a moat about ten meters wide on this side, which makes it easier to attack, but the defenders also thought of this and set up a large number of crossbows and catapults on it.

Taking down the outer city wall is only the first stage of the siege. The lord's castle located on the hill is the most difficult part.

Although there is only a drop of dozens of meters, the entire lord's castle has only one main gate for mortal troops to pass through. Other places are either natural cliffs or artificial terrain that has been constructed over hundreds of years.

A high-level extraordinary knight is guarding here, and no matter how many mortal troops come, they cannot rush in.

It would be absolutely impossible for Rio's new River Bend Army to capture such a city without bleeding some blood.

But Godwin obviously knew that he would not be able to defend it.

If both sides fight to the death here, it will only benefit other surrounding forces. The only hope of the Beboos family is to concentrate its forces to defend the Earl's main city, Clemens.

The main cities of the seven earls in the North were all big cities that absorbed the blood of the entire territory and were nurtured over hundreds of years. Compared with them, branch cities like Abros and Isembol with a population of 20,000 to 30,000 can only be regarded as small towns.

The walls of every earl's main city are more than twelve meters high, and are blessed by magic arrays of successive high-level wizards, as well as the presence of high-level powerful men.

Back then, the Grand Duke of the North was stationed in Frovald to stop the orcs from moving south. Even the powerful orc army was helpless against this fortified city.

The coalition forces of Count MacDonald in the south trapped Count Gustav's main city for more than a year, and finally had no choice but to negotiate.

Since the artillery at Hewan was able to break open the city gate with one shot, the walls of Arbroath would certainly not be able to withstand the bombardment. Instead of this, Godwin might as well take the core troops who still had some morale and return directly to the Earl's main city to defend it.

As Leo entered the city, the residents of Arbroath hid in their homes, clutching their swords, and watched them in silence.

After the end of a siege throughout the ages, there is always a period of celebration for the victors. The only difference is whether it is three days of massacre or three days of looting.

If it is the former, we can only fight back and fight to the death.

As for the latter, one can still endure it a little. Maybe one's house will be searched and one may be humiliated, but at least one still has a chance to survive.

But this time, the River Bend Legion's actions went against their common sense.

Teams of musketeers, led by their captains, occupied all combat positions in an orderly manner. The wild snipers, led by Bjorn, climbed to the commanding heights of the major blocks.

In Leo's eyes, the Virgil rifle, whose range and accuracy were not very high, could almost perform at the level of a World War I rifle in the hands of the Savage Hunter.

Above the sky, Pegasus knights patrol back and forth, ready to provide alerts to their comrades below at any time.

The entire River Bend Legion was made up of elite troops carefully trained by Leo. Perhaps many soldiers among them still had a nature of looting and killing, but under the strict military orders, they dared not leave their posts without permission.

Leo also made it very clear that they were all on active duty during the entire war, and any unnecessary actions without his order would be a violation of military orders!

Compared with the gold and silver that could be put into the pockets from looting, the spoils of war and military pay distributed after the war seemed to be more generous.

There was no need to lose the five acres of military land in his family because of this greed.