Section 50: Prelude to the siege

When the troops led by Schwab broke into the swamp of the Ruvede camp, the king of Ruvede and General Sauron looked at the road made of countless woods in the swamp. They could not imagine that the enemy passed through these ubiquitous things, passing through the bottomless swamp area that was considered inaccessible, where the enemy launched an attack in the most unlikely place, caught the Ruvede off guard.

"Is the enemy who used this to pass through the swamp?" King Regod flexibly jumped onto a wooden board, which sank because it had taken his weight, and mud splashed on King Regod's legs.

"My king, please be careful." Sauron hurriedly stepped forward to support King Regod, but after the wooden board sank a little, it was fixed and no longer sinking downwards.

"I didn't expect this thing to allow us to walk freely in the swamp. It's incredible." King Regod said to Soren with a smile. He was curious about the general who could come up with such a wonderful plan. This was the masterpiece of the vassal under Duke Hanruowei. Therefore, King Regod continued to Sauron, "Do you know who the opponent is?"

"Sorry, my king, I have never seen the flags they have slapped, and we found out from the bodies and clothes of the dead soldiers on the other side, that they seemed to be a group of mercenaries."

"Mercenary? Then, what's going on with those fire and thunder?"

"I don't know, my king, is hell. They threw some pots at us and made loud noises, and splashed iron nails, which hurt our soldiers. The soldiers all said that this was a group of soldiers from heaven."

"Soldiers in heaven? How could they be killed by us if they were God's soldiers? This must be some weapon that we don't know." King Regod touched his beard that was combed into a braid, and he wisely said to Sauron.

"Father, I've seen those soldiers." In addition to Sauron, Sauron's son Rody, was also followed by King Regod.

"Enough, isn't your trouble enough? Do you want me to give you a punch?" Sauron raised his fist angrily and waved at his son. After Roddy failed to plunder the village, Sauri's identity was also exposed. The angry Sauron has been dissatisfied with his son recently.

"It's okay, Roddy, please tell me." Although King Regod was surprised that his daughter Sari ran to the battlefield, he did not blame Roddy. He knew the personality of his daughter best, and he could have expected that his stubborn personality from the beginning.

"Yes, Your Majesty. These soldiers holding spears should not be the Duke of Han Ruowei."

"oh?"

"They are from Mark's territory, a man named Schwab's Knight." Roddy swallowed and continued, "It is the southerner who defeated me."

"Hmph, you have the nerve to say it." Sauron said angrily.

"Don't worry, my friend." King Regod frowned. When will a unit led by a knight have such strong combat power. "Are those soldiers servants of the Schwab Knight? Or his servants, no, if they are servants, there would be too many."

"Your Majesty, I see that those soldiers are like mercenaries, but they also seem to be volunteer soldiers composed of farmers."

"Volunteer soldier? Farmer, are you talking in your sleep? In addition to the knights and the attendant knights, who else is the opponent of our Novedic people? Just those farmers?" Sauron scoffed at his son's statement and became more and more dissatisfied with his son.

"This is really a strange opponent." King Regod didn't believe that he would be defeated by a group of farmers. He thought for a while and said, "Soren, launch an attack. Let's see if this Schwab Knight is fighting based on luck or strength."

"Yes, my king, I'll go and prepare immediately."

"Your Majesty, every word I say is the truth." Roddy said nervously to King Regod, "I'm sorry about Sari's affairs. It's my fault, your Majesty."

"Okay, young man, don't care about these things. Do you think I don't know my daughter? What we have to do now is to defeat the enemy." King Regod patted Roddy's strong shoulder and said to the excellent young man.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The king's close attitude made Roddy a little excited. Not every noble child could value the king.

At the same time, after the meal, Schwab and others came to the soldiers of the Mark Legion in the castle. The soldiers of the Mark Legion sat in groups of three or three on the stairs of the castle, on the ground and next to the stables, eating the soup served by the maids in the Marenko Castle, and then adding their own bacon. The bacon was made into strips and placed in a long linen bag.

"How are the morale of the soldiers?" Schwab asked Mag, bald Otto and others.

"It looks pretty good now, sir."

"That's because I defeated the Ruvid people before, haha."

"How did the wounded soldiers arrange it?" Schwab asked worriedly. There were not enough experienced doctors here.

"Look over there, those guys are happy." Mag pointed his thumb at the armory where the wounded soldiers were located, where a group of young maids were bandaging their wounds. They looked skillful and probably not the first time they did such a thing. Apart from the lack of disinfection procedures, they were all right. The wounded soldiers were surrounded by so many women, and they were excited to stand up straight.

"However, the grenade who had his arms cut off by the OVID man just died of excessive bleeding."

"It's so damn, it would be great if there were blood transfusion equipment." Schwab said in annoyance.

"What blood transfusion?" Although Bald Otto and Mag were used to Schwab's strange talk, this dangerous attention still made them shudder and put other people's blood into their bodies. The Lord was above, which was too terrible, so they chose not to hear it.

"Woo." Just as Schwab was walking among the soldiers and asking about his well-being, a dull horn sound came from outside the castle.

"What's wrong?"

"The OVID people started attacking."

"Where is the Countess?" Schwab, as a reinforcement army, was nominally under the leadership of Earl Marenko. Now that the Countess is not showing up, he can only ask the Countess for his opinion.

"There is there." A guard of Fort Marenko pointed his hand and saw the countess standing on the second floor of the tower wearing scales, appearing there through the window.

"Mr. Schwab, I am the Countess' maid. The Countess asked me to tell you that the command of the castle is entrusted to you at this time. You can act in the name of Count Marenco and the Countess." A maid walked up to Schwab and said, and the trumpets of the Oveids and the barbaric yelling made her face pale.

"Okay, I understand, let the women and children hide." Schwab pulled out his sword from his waist and ordered the gathering to the soldiers of the Mark Legion, "The battle has begun, boys, prepare to face the enemy."

"Oh." The soldiers of the Mark Legion immediately put down everything at hand, picked up their spears, and quickly gathered together with the sound of small drums. Suddenly, a forest of sharp spears appeared in the castle.

"Countess, is it appropriate for you to hand over command to a stranger?" asked the maid who returned to the countess with concern.

"A person who can lead the soldiers through the camp of the Ovids will definitely not disappoint me." The Countess looked at the energetic Mark Legion soldiers in the castle. She suddenly felt that her body and mind were much relaxed, and the fatigue she had experienced during this period was wiped out.

"Boom." The trencher set up by the Ruvider threw the stones hard towards the wall of Marenko Castle, and the stones hit the walls, shaking the originally solid walls.

"Damn it, the wall is about to collapse." The guards were short and the dust fell from the wall was smashed by stones, leaving them covered in dust.

"Oh, God." In a section of the city wall, the stones thrown by the trenchers of the Novedes were hit continuously and a gap was smashed. Several unlucky guards hiding there were hit on the heads by the stones. With the red and white brains, the guard's corpses fell from the city wall.

"Oh Odin." The Ruvids howled excitedly when they saw the city walls that had been smashed with a gap. They raised their battle axe and ladders toward the Marenko Fort.

"Clog the gap, block the gap." The sergeant leader of the Marenko Fort was shocked. You must know that they did not have the courage to fight face to face with the crazy Ruvid people.

"Don't panic, they haven't come yet. We still have a moat." Schwab observed the situation calmly. The people of Ruwad rushed to the moat like a tide and stopped. They placed the ladder across the moat, but in this way they could only cross the moat one by one. After suffering a lot of attacks, the guards of Marenko Fort above also picked up crossbows and shot at the invading enemy.

"Pelven soldiers advance." Schwab put on his helmet, put down his cover, and waved his sword to lead the spearmen to the gap, allowing the soldiers of the Mark Legion to block the place with their spears.

"Oh." A warrior, wearing a horned helmet, wearing leather armor, holding a battle axe, finally crossed the moat and rushed towards the gap, but a wall of spear appeared in front of him.

The soldiers of the Mark Legion formed three lines of defense. The first row of spearmen knelt on the ground and inserted the spear at a 45-degree tail end to the ground. The second row of soldiers and the third row of soldiers flattened the spear. The dense gun array formed a powerful force that had just escaped the arrow above. However, the fierce warrior of Ruvid rushed into the gun array desperately. He might have wanted to use the battle axe in his hand to bring a fatal blow to his opponent, but perhaps it was just out of the pride of the warriors.

"Puchi." The spearmen of the Mark Legion skillfully raised their spear and pierced the reckless Ruvid warrior on the spear.

But before his death, the Noveid actually threw the battle axe in his hand. The sharp battle axe cut off a spearman's head and sprayed blood on his companions and face beside him, but no one left his position, and the spear square formation was still perfect.
Chapter completed!