Chapter 105: protracted war

The battle belonging to the Second Corps of the Eagles started on the second day of the siege.
The Second Corps, with a total of more than 10,000 people, was divided into two parts and attacked the west gate and north gate of Odis City. It seems that neither Marquis de Marmen nor Prince Kensel intended to give the Charlotte a breath.
Locke's battalion was assigned to the team at the West Gate. The specific task was not harassment, creating as much chaos as possible.
The leaders of Folstein also knew that the city of Odes City, where the Charlottes were stationed, had already been built into a fortress-like existence.
All they need to do now is just a bit of a crack in the copper wall and iron wall.
To make it clear, Locke and the troops who attacked after the third batch belonged to feint attacks. Yesterday the Third Corps had paid enough. I believe that the Charlottes who defended the city also knew a little bit better and would not dare to go out of the city to fight.
Well, this means that the initiative is in the hands of the Forstan army. Prince Kensell, who has been leading troops for more than five years, is clearly better at military transfers than Marquis Philip of Charlotte and their kings.
Locke, who still had Grace's request, went on the battlefield of Odyssey siege.
"Ogon, Billy! Go up! Up! Up!" shouted Locke, waving his arm against a soldier at the root of a wall in Otis City.
Their battalion has been fighting at the corner of the west gate for almost half a day. At least five charges were made against the Charlottes on the city wall, but they were all blocked. The countless kerosene and sapwood made the Forstin soldiers attacking the city miserable.
The cavalry squadron is the trump card of Baron Keddoch. Baron Keddoch will of course not let the soldiers be wasted here. Whether it is a powerful Will Knight or a safer offensive position, the Cavalry Squadron has suffered low losses in successive siege battles.
Locke, who has been promoted to a low-ranking servant, has no skin trauma, and the falling stones and sapwood are slow. In the eyes of Locke blessed with grudge, the speed can be slow and can be easily avoided. Locke needs to pay attention to the flow of arrows.
Although he could not pierce his armor, it was enough for Rock to pierce the skin in the gap between the armor.
The boring siege warfare has no tactics at all, it is tough. Either Forstan or Charlotte, they are using their own soldiers' lives for the other soldiers.
Because they no longer belong to the same squadron, it is difficult for Locke to care for Kane and Hans. Hans luckily said that he, who had just practiced fighting spirit, had condensed the seeds of fighting spirit and had a trace of self-preservation.
Kane won't work anymore. Kane, who was originally a scout, is extremely unfavorable to deal with this kind of tough siege. Hope the two can take care of themselves, Locke sighed.
But there is no need to worry too much about Locke. Hans is also a squadron leader. Kane is also a squad leader. There are a group of brothers under their hands, and they are not attacking the most intense places, and the danger will not be very high.
The resistance of the city of Otis is not beyond the expectations of the high-level leaders of Forstein. If the city of Odis as a king can be captured by them as simple as that, then it cannot be called king capital.
Prince Kensell was not in a hurry, Marquess Marmen was not in a hurry, nor was Foster in the country, and the Fosters gave patience in the face of the last battle of the Charlottes.
Are they really not in a hurry? According to the food report of the Kingdom of Forstan last month, the winter wheat that was just planted in the winter was reduced by another 20% compared to last year because of manpower and other factors. If there is not enough imported food, the next spring and summer will alternate, and Folstein will definitely have a severe famine. At least one tenth of the population will die from famine.
However, in fact, the Kingdom of Forstan has been using food for two consecutive years so far, relying mainly on imports from the Southern Likia Union.
If one day the Likia Union ceases to import food to Folstein, Folstein senior officials can hardly imagine the consequences that would be difficult to estimate.
But that's it. For the city of Odis, which the Charloes finally adhered to, the senior leaders of Forstein still used the method of boiling frogs with warm water after making decisions.
It wasn't until late evening that Locke's Second Corps was transferred back by Marquis Mamen. On the way back, Locke found that the soldiers of the First Corps of the Eagles had been ready to go and began to approach the gate of Charlotte.
The First Corps is the elite of the entire Eagle Corps, and it is also the soul of the Eagle Corps. Compared with the other three Corps, the difference in combat effectiveness is not a little bit. Locke believes that the battle tonight will definitely let the defenders The Charlotte was taken aback.
After two days and nights of "little fight", Marquess Marmen was finally going to use his killer skill on the second night.
Withdrawing to the camp, Locke bit the wheat cake just sent and silently ate with the soldiers. After a whole day of fighting, they consumed a lot of physical strength, and revealed that the hot wheat cake was just right.
Everyone's voice for eating was very quiet. The soldiers who had just experienced a battle did not take the time to make jokes. Today’s battle is not too fierce for the Battalion Kaidoqi. For their cavalry squadrons, there is nothing more thrilling, but everyone is relatively silent.
The Cavalry Squadron led by the Will Cavaliers is not without casualties today. The cavalry dismounted from the war horse is still a bit less flexible than the professional infantry. Locke and Will Cavaliers have tried their best to reduce casualties, but after all, it is a squadron of more than 100 people, and the two cavalier servants can't do everything.
Four soldiers left the battle after today. Two were hit by the sapwood that fell from the city's head. They died on the spot, and two were burned by arrows and kerosene. They need to be trained in the rear.
To sum up, today's results, Will Cavaliers and Locke as squadron leader are still acceptable. Compared to the other four squadrons, their losses have been minimal.
In addition to the low losses of the first and second squadrons led by Captain Monte Squadron and Uncle Joshak, Hans and their squadron, mostly composed of recruits, showed their tenderness as recruits in this first battle today. .
A full fifth of the soldiers suffered various degrees of injuries and needed to be repaired, which was so abrupt in several other squadrons.
The fourth squadron, composed of mercenaries, left a strong impression on the soldiers of the Kedoqi Battalion. Because they rushed up first, but their loss fell through everyone's eyes.
With zero casualties, the soldiers of the Camp Keduoqi realized the capabilities of the mercenary team that had business in countries around Forstan.
The marvels of the soldiers don't say first. Baron Kedoch, who was watching the battle from the rear, knows this team the most, because from the beginning to the end, he pays attention to the front line.
The money was not in vain, this was the thought of Baron Kedoqi. In order to hire this team of nearly one hundred mercenaries, Baron Keddoch emptied the car of gold coins seized from France.
The result is also gratifying. Baroness Kadoqi is confident of this powerful mercenary team and will earn him enough compensation in the distribution of loot afterwards.
Locke took time to take a look at Hans and Kane.
Both were okay, Hans' younger brother Hank, this screaming boy, was shot in the right arm with a falling arrow. Fortunately, the wound was not deep. After the bandage, he could still wave normally.
This kind of minor injury, the baron will not allow the rear to be trimmed, but because it is Hans's younger brother, everyone opened one eye and closed the other and asked the doctor to lift him away.
Hank was also clever, knowing when he should not do what, when he should not, and no bravery. He followed the wounded soldiers to the rear.
In the night, outside Otis, the shouts continued to kill. Both the First Corps of the Eagle Corps and the newly added Corps of the Lion Corps greatly surprised the Charlotte who had defended the city.
Miller's eyes were red, and he was carrying the sapwood under the west gate of Odis City. Since last night, the soldiers who had been defending the city had been forcibly pulled out of the house, he had been doing the work of transporting the supplies.
The huge sapwood hugged by the two needed Miller to drag and bring it to the city wall alone. I couldn't stop in the middle. I carried Miller all day and night. In the middle, I just secretly nibbled a few potatoes from the house.
Fortunately, his wife was clever. Before he was taken away, he stuffed a potato in his clothes.
Originally working on the city walls, the Charlotte garrison would give food, but because the Forstin’s offensive did not stop for a moment, the soldiers of the garrison haven’t had a good bite, and who will have the rest Take care of them.
Dragging another piece of bark to the city wall, Miller stooped down the stairs carefully. The arrows and the boulders hit over and over from time to time give Miller no sense of security on the wall.
"Poof!" An arrow hit the eye socket of a Charlotte soldier next to Miller accurately. The arrow shot from the soldier's left eye, and shot from behind the right brain, bringing out a piece of brain plasma. White, red.
Some of them also splashed on Miller's face.
Fighting not to vomit his throat, Miller accelerated his pace. But God did not let him wish. "You! Come here! Yes, it's you!" A man who appeared to be a Sergeant Sergeant pointed to Miller and let him pass.
Miller, who was just a civilian, ran over with his waist. "Take it!" The sergeant stuffed Miller with a spear in his hand. "Go guard the arrow stack!"
Miller, who was just an ordinary citizen two days ago, was frightened by this sudden encounter and was not flexible. "Adult...I, I just moved supplies..."
"Don't talk! Go quickly!" The sergeant interrupted Miller and turned around to run to another place. The fighting at the head of the city is still fierce, and fighting takes place everywhere.
Miller, with a spear in his hand, shook his legs and moved in the direction the sergeant pointed. He did not dare to run away, because there were many corpses of Charlotte soldiers around the city walls. They were not shot by the Folsteins under the city, but were executed by the Lebanese princes because they wanted to be deserters.
Miller, who had just taken two steps, suddenly turned back.
Not far away, an archer in a battlement had aimed his arrow at Miller, and he had shot a lot of deserters in the past two days.
But the arrow did not shoot out after all, because he saw the ‘destroyer’ stopped.
Miller turned back to the unlucky ghost who had just died, and flexibly grabbed the armor of the dead soldier with his hands and feet, and put it on himself, regardless of the discomfort of the sticky. He also took away the long sword that the soldier held in his hand and a dozen copper coins hidden in his trouser pockets.
After all this was done, Miller ran towards the arrow stack.