Warlord: King of All Clans

The wall of the Earl's main city is twelve meters high. Literally, it only appears to be three or four meters higher than the local branch cities, but in fact the improved defense capability is quite considerable.

The trolls and werewolves in the river bend, facing the eight or nine meter high city walls, can use spears and sharp claws to attack the city with bare hands and rush up the city walls in one breath.

However, facing the twelve-meter-high city wall, you need to take a breath and find more climbing points in the middle.

In the time it takes to take a breath, the casualties in the siege will double.

If 30% of the original 1,000 elite trolls and 500 elite werewolves were able to withstand falling rocks, rolling logs, crossbows and other city defense weapons and rush up the city walls of Vidanlan in one breath, only 15% would be left when they reached the city of Osluden.

With such a small number of people, it is impossible to establish a solid line on the top of the city wall and allow subsequent troops to continue to move up.

Even if the city wall was taken, few of Akhan's elite werewolves and Asa's elite trolls would be able to return.

It is easy for Riverbend's city breakers to break the defensive array, but they need to consume a lot of ammunition to destroy the city wall, which is equivalent to exchanging Riverbend's gold coins for Gustav's city bricks.

Without Leo's words, no one dared to fight such an extravagant battle.

In fact, according to Strong's idea, it would not be excessive at all to move all the artillery to the bottom of the city wall before the main force of the enemy arrived, and then sacrifice the lives of half of the soldiers to forcibly capture the Earl's main city.

The 20,000 Hewan troops fought desperately, and even if all the young and strong men in the opposite city joined forces, they could not hold out.

This is the Earl's main city. The accumulated wealth is enough to double the strength of Hewan. What kind of foreign warriors and musketeers can't be recalled?

But only Leo in the entire river bend could make such a decision. If he dared to say it out loud, the other leaders would turn around and leave.

Being a commander in Riverbend is much more difficult than being in the goblin tribe.

Not only are we not allowed to rob, but we are also not allowed to fight to the death!

Strong was prepared. Seeing that no one spoke, he grinned and said, "Can you call Leo back no matter what?"

Luo Meng was speechless and stared at the Minotaur. "Then what are you going to do?"

"I only said to besiege the city, not to attack it." Strong looked at the map and said disdainfully, "Isn't it said that Earl Gustav's territory is much richer than our River Bay? Why are there so few roads?"

Two hundred miles west of Osluden, Fonteyne's main army was marching hard to support the count's main city.

The soldiers of the entire main legion were exhausted, and many were injured.

The city of Xingtao is only 500 miles away from Osluden, but Fontena's main army took ten days to travel only 300 miles.

Every day, a group of Western musketeers would emerge from all directions, bringing their progress to a standstill.

The thickened plate armor of the Cuirass Corps can indeed withstand the shooting of Western muskets, but mortal soldiers simply cannot march in it.

If they were taken off, the musketeers could charge in with a wave of shotgun shells and grenades, causing heavy casualties to the Northern infantry and causing them to be routed.

Fonteyne had to let his personal guard, Knight Gonlif, lead the knights and attendants to cover the rear and block the pursuing musketeers, while he himself led the remaining infantry to continue on his journey.

High-ranking knight Ganglif cooperated with Raymond of Xingtao City to block Arina's main force, but there were still thousands of musketeers who broke up into small groups and turned into wolf packs following Fontena's legion and harassing them constantly.

Strong sent a message via Pegasus, ordering Arina to do her best to keep Fonteyne in the west.

This order was obviously a bit reluctant. Arina's musketeers were not the troops of the River Bay, and they did not have the confidence to confront the Northern Earl's Legion head-on.

And Count Fontenay was no ordinary man. Despite the efforts of Arina, a Western warrior who had followed her father into battle since childhood, he still managed to run three hundred miles with a group of heavily armored soldiers.

When they got here, Fontena's brows relaxed a little, and he said to the generals beside him: "The Black Crow Castle of the Reese family is ahead. We can take a good rest. After passing the Black Crow Castle, there are many water networks and rivers. If we guard a few bridges, the cavalry from the west will not threaten us."

"Knight Andrew has sent a letter saying that the legion he has formed will soon arrive at Osluden, and is just waiting for us to join them."

Andrew is an eighth-level knight stationed in Gustav's southern border city. He is responsible for resisting the invasion of the southern border army and has 3,000 heavy armors and 3,000 light armors.

As long as Fontena's main force enters the territory of Osluden and joins forces with his border troops, they can drive away the invaders from the river bend.

After walking for another half an hour, a small town built on the mountain appeared at the end of the sight. This was Black Crow Castle, one of the four cities and twelve castles in Earl Gustav's territory.

After passing Black Crow Castle, you will reach the territory of Osluden, where the road is smooth and flat.

At this moment, a mid-level knight beside him said in a deep voice: "Something is wrong!"

As he spoke, the black flag of unity of River Bay was slowly raised on the top of Black Crow Castle.

Around the Fontena Legion, teams slowly appeared at the end of the field of vision.

Strong led the River Bend alien army and marched two hundred miles, captured Black Crow Castle, and surrounded the exhausted Fontenay.

Behind the Fontena Legion, Arina was also slowly approaching with thousands of Western cavalry.

The hundreds of armored troops and light cavalry led by Ganglifu were defeated within ten days by Arina's excellent cavalry tactics and were blocked in a small castle halfway.

Even the seventh-level great knight was unable to defeat thousands of musketeers, and could only be blocked by the middle-level knight Valhan.

In order to deal with the main army of the Gustav family, Strong not only brought four thousand aliens, but also called on Marvin's field artillery battalion and Bjorn's wild sniper regiment.

Seeing the cannons being launched one after another, the ogres carrying cannon barrels appearing one after another, and even the weak kobolds approaching step by step with shotguns, Fontena couldn't help but sigh, "God wants to kill me."

What follows is a battle without suspense.

When the mature hot weapon troops face off against the cold weapon troops on the open plains, it is a pure crushing defeat.

Gustav's Cuirassier Corps could stop the muskets of the Western Territory, but could not stop the field artillery and rifled rifles of the river bend.

Rows of elite soldiers in heavy armor died miserably on the battlefield before they could even touch the enemy's clothes.

Even if the battle entered the melee stage, the combat effectiveness that the cuirassmen who had traveled back and forth for hundreds of miles could exert was only equivalent to that of the ogre musketeers with full morale.

The reason why the Earl's main army is called the main force is that not only are all the soldiers in iron armor, but they are also strong enough to fear no death. Despite such a huge gap in weapons and huge casualties in a short period of time, they did not collapse.

Surrounded by a group of extraordinary knights, Count Fontenay broke through the camp of ogre lead spitters and kobold musketeers and successfully broke through with hundreds of people.

Count Fonteyne's eyes were injured by the shotgun bullets of the ogre musketeers, and his dragon-blood warhorse was also killed. He could only blindfold himself and let his servants lead the horse on the road.

After walking for dozens of miles, we heard gunfire sounds from the front again.

The army of hundreds of people lost half of its troops again.

The personal guard knight beside him could not help but persuade him: "My Lord Earl, please surrender. Riomondo is the adopted son of the Grand Duke and he will not be rude to you. When we get to the Grand Duke of the North, we will confront him in court. I believe the Grand Duke will administer justice."

Count Fontenay was disheartened. "Times have changed. Now it's the law of the jungle. The Grand Duke won't care about us."

He said in a cold voice: "But the Gustav family cannot perish in my hands. Let me, the count, see the power of the firearms of the river bay."

"Take me to where the fire is heaviest."