Bloodline Lord of War - Chapter 125

  Chapter 125 Seize the door at night

  Night battles have always been a forte of the Raging Waves Legion. Compared with ordinary humans, half-elves’ vision is almost unaffected at night. In ancient wars, the elf army liked to launch attacks at night.

  At night, Robin and several of his leaders gathered in a military tent. Several people sat in a circle on the ground, and a topographic map around the wind castle was spread on the open space in the middle.

  Before the official start of the battle, Robin had already figured out the situation around the Wind Castle. Without the support of intelligence, Robin did not dare to fight this battle.

  Wind Fortress is located on the bank of the Raging River. One side is next to the Raging River. The walls on the other three sides are all five meters high. Only the side next to the Raging River has a wall that is just over four meters high.

  When the city was first built, it was probably thought that there was the Raging River in the north as a barrier, and it would be difficult for the enemy to attack the city from the north, so the city wall on this side was shorter than the other three sides.

  Although the four-meter-high city wall is not considered high, it is definitely an insurmountable barrier for ordinary soldiers without siege equipment. But for the Iron Guards, whose average height is two meters, four meters is not enough. As long as someone below can act as a foothold, the highlanders can easily climb the city wall.

  If they were to attack the Wind Castle head-on, Robin thought they could also enter, but the casualties would definitely be huge. The soldiers under him are all awakened, and losing any of them is a loss. Therefore, in order to minimize casualties, Robin decided to find another way to launch a night attack on Wind Castle from the north, that is, this side of the Raging River.

  However, if you want to attack from the north, the first difficulty is the Raging River. The terrain on the north side of the Wind Castle is narrow, the city wall is seven or eight meters away from the furthest bank of the Raging River, and the closest point is only three or four meters away.

   It is almost impossible to go around the river bank to the north of the Wind Castle. The defenders on the city wall will definitely discover it in advance, and then lose the opportunity. If you want to catch the enemy by surprise, the best way is to launch a surprise attack from the water to the land, from the Raging River to the Wind Castle.

   This means that Robin and the others must start from the opposite bank of the Wind Castle, then cross the 20-meter-wide river, swim to the north of the Wind Castle, and then launch an attack.

  This battle plan is very difficult, and it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to complete it. But the iron guards under Robin are all strong men who can stand up to ten, and their extraordinary personal bravery makes this plan possible to succeed.

  Looking at the dim candlelight, Robin quickly arranged the combat missions of each team, and finally asked: “Do you understand everything?”

   Several people nodded together and replied in unison: “Understood!”

  Robin took out his pocket watch from his pocket, glanced at the time, and immediately ordered with a serious expression: “Okay, you all go back now and assign tasks to your troops. After half an hour, gather in front of the main gate of the camp!”

   Half an hour later, at the appointed time, the iron guards, half elves, and deer cavalry, three teams lined up in front of the camp gate.

In addition to these three regular troops, Robin selected 20 people from the iron guards and 10 people from the half-elves. He personally led the team to form an assault team. What they had to do was the most dangerous and the most Important missions to climb the city.

  Because they needed to cross the river, all members of the assault team wore light, close-fitting soft leather armor, which could barely protect their chests. The iron guard’s weapons are short knives and round shields, and the half-elf’s weapons are short knives and crossbows. The weapons and equipment of the entire team are light.

  Robin incorporated Simon and Luke into the assault team, so the command of other troops was temporarily handed over to Tess.

  After successfully ascending the city, Robin will lead the team to open the city gate. At that time, as long as Tess rushes into the city as fast as possible to join Robin, the battle will be assured.

  After everything was ready, Robin led the assault team and left first. In order to avoid being noticed by the defenders of the Wind Castle, they deliberately made a big circle and ran to the upper reaches of the Raging River, a few hundred meters away from the Wind Castle.

  Robin led the team to the riverside of the Raging River. The surface of the river was pitch black, and only the sound of rushing water could be heard. Whether it was day or night, the Raging River was always flowing.

  The width of each section of Raging River is different. Luke stood by the river and looked towards the opposite bank: “My lord, the river is about ten meters wide.”

   “Time waits for no one, let’s go!”

  Robin waved his hand and jumped into the river first. They had to swim to the other side of the river first, then walk back from the other side of the river, and finally reached the other side of the Wind Castle.

  The river quickly flooded Robin’s body. Although it was midsummer, the river was still bitingly cold in the dark night. Robin skillfully swung his arms and legs, and quickly swam to the other side of the river. Behind him, the iron guard and the half-elf jumped into the river one by one like ducks.

   Ten meters is not a long distance, and soon, Robin and the others landed on the north bank of the Raging River. Then they began to approach Windkeep along the bank. It didn’t take long for Robin and the others to reach the other side of Wind Castle.

  The assault team squatted in a large area of ​​reeds by the river, looking towards the opposite bank from a distance. In the darkness, the silhouette of Fengbao was like a huge monster, lying quietly on the south bank of the Raging River.

Scattered fires could be seen on the city wall. Baron probably never thought that someone would attack from the north of the Wind Castle, so there were only a few guards standing guard on the 200-meter-long city wall, and these sentries were all in a pair of Absent-minded, everyone yawned.

  Late night sentry is the most uncomfortable time, but also the easiest time for sentries to relax their vigilance.

  Suddenly, a white water bird flew up from the reeds, screamed vigilantly, and then disappeared into the dark night sky.

  A sentry glanced at the reeds on the other side of the river, but didn’t think much about it. Instead, he opened his mouth wide and yawned a lot, with a tear streaming from the corner of his eye. The other side of the Raging River was pitch black, and in fact he couldn’t see anything.

  All members of the assault team squatted in the reeds, motionless like a group of statues. After waiting for a while, Robin secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the sentinels of the Wind Castle on the other side did not respond. Unexpectedly, it was so unlucky that it accidentally disturbed a sleeping water bird.

  Robin turned his head, made a “go” gesture to Simon and Luke behind him, and then took the lead and slowly walked into the river. He walked very slowly, and there was almost no sound of entering the water.

  The iron guard and the half-elf followed him, like dumpling, one after another into the water, they were also very careful, and they didn’t make too much noise.

  Because he was worried that his movements in the water would be too large to be discovered by the enemy, so Robin swam forward very slowly, almost his whole body was hidden under the water surface, and only one head was just exposed on the water surface. Waiting to get closer to the walls of the Wind Castle, Robin simply took a deep breath, and silently dived his head underwater.

  Behind him, the iron guard and the half-elf also dived into the water, their heads disappearing on the water surface one by one. At this time, a sentry happened to look at the surface of the Raging River, and saw that the surface of the river was dark, except for a few small water splashes occasionally, there was nothing.

  Robin swam quickly under the river, like a big nimble fish, quickly approaching the walls of the Wind Castle. The iron guards and half-elf behind him also swam fast, following closely behind Robin. For this operation, Robin specially selected these iron guards and half elves with good water quality.

  A moment later, in the reed bushes on the south bank of the Raging River, heads slowly popped up from under the surface of the water one by one quietly. Robin raised his head, the wall of the Wind Castle was only five meters away from him, and a sentry was patrolling the wall.

  Sweeping from left to right, there are five sentries standing guard on this section of the city wall. Robin turned around and gave Luke a wink, meaning: “Kill these sentries!”

Luke nodded to show his understanding, and the ten half-elves dispersed immediately. They hid in the reeds, squatted halfway in the water, took the crossbow from their backs, put the crossbow bolts on them, and pointed the crossbow at the city wall, two and a half The elf targets a sentry.

   It is reasonable to say that the crossbow is soaked in water, and there is water on the crossbow arrows, so the accuracy will definitely be affected. But the half-elves are [bow and crossbow specialization], not only are they good at using bows, but they can also hit a hundred shots with a hundred shots. So even if it is soaked in water, the crossbow bolts they shoot can maintain a very high accuracy.

  In addition, two half-elves aimed at one sentry, which increased the redundancy, even if one missed, there would be a second one.

   Ten half-elves pulled the trigger almost simultaneously, and ten crossbow arrows shot towards the wall of Wind Castle. The sound of the crossbow flying in mid-air is extremely small, almost only a “swoosh” can be heard.

Then, five sentries fell to the ground with arrows one after another. The time difference between each person’s arrows was less than a second. Some of them were shot in the face, and some were shot in the chest. All of them were fatal wounds, and all were shot by one arrow Dead, they didn’t have time to make any noise before they died.

   “It’s done, let’s go!” Robin immediately stood up from the water and rushed to the wall of the Wind Castle.

   Five sentries were killed all at once. This kind of thing cannot be hidden. The enemy will find out the abnormality in a short time, so there is not much time left for Robin and the others. They must race against time.

  Robin led the iron guards and half elves, and a group of people quickly rushed to the wall of the Wind Castle. What stood in front of them was a stone wall about four meters high.

   “Climb the wall!”

   Robin gave an order, and the iron guards rushing in the first row immediately turned and leaned against the city wall, and built a ladder for the companions behind with both hands.

The iron guards in the second row stepped on the hands of the iron guards in the first row. The iron guards in the first row pushed their hands upwards, and the iron guards in the second row jumped up with their strength. Ten people raised their hands at the same time, brushing together. resting on the edge of the city wall.

  Then, they climbed up the city wall cleanly, and then turned around and stretched out their hands to their companions below. They divided into two groups and pulled all the remaining iron guards and half-elves up the city wall.

  In the end, Robin was left alone below, and Simon lay on the wall and stretched out his hand to Robin: “Boss, I’ll pull you up.”

  Robin raised his head and smiled, and said, “No need.” Then, he took two steps forward, and jumped up suddenly with both legs. He jumped up to a height of more than four meters, and landed directly on the city wall.

  Both Simon and Luke’s eyes widened. The Iron Bear Warrior couldn’t help giving his thumbs up, and sincerely praised: “Boss, you are so fierce.”

  Robin pulled out the short knife with a swipe, and frowned: “Stop talking nonsense, get ready to fight!”

  Standing on the city wall and looking inside the Wind Castle, they saw densely packed stone houses. Except for a ring of torches lit on the city wall, the whole city was pitch black. Obviously, they were not aware of the danger coming.

   So far, the entire operation has gone very smoothly, and Robin and the others have hardly encountered any resistance.

  Robin looked towards the south of Wind Castle, which was the only gate of Wind Castle and the target of their operation.

“Walk!”

  Robin immediately jumped off the city wall, and the rest of the people immediately followed suit. The assault team quickly rushed towards the south gate of Wind Castle along the main road in the city.

  Standing on the city wall, you can have a panoramic view of almost the entire Wind Castle. Soon, the suspicious figures of Robin and the others were discovered by the sentinels on the city wall.

  Robin and the others didn’t want to hide at all. Once they entered the Wind Castle, they would be discovered by the enemy sooner or later. Instead of hiding and missing the opportunity, it is better to win the city gate as quickly as possible.

   “Hi! Who are you guys? Which part are you from?”

  A sentry stood on the city wall and shouted at Robin and the others. At this moment, he never thought that someone might break in silently, thinking that these people were friendly troops.

  Robin and the others ignored the sentry’s questioning at all, and just rushed towards the south gate with their heads depressed.

   Seeing that the other party did not respond, and that they were charging towards the city gate again, the sentinel finally realized that something was wrong.

   “Woooooooh—”

  The sound of the horn immediately sounded over the entire Wind Castle.

The movements of the Wind Castle sentries were also very fast. When Robin and the others rushed to the south gate, thirty sentries had already gathered in front of the gate, and thirty sharp spears were aimed at the assault team. .

At this time, every second counts, and Robin can already hear the voices of people around him. In the darkness, there are continuous fire lights, and the shouts and footsteps are coming from all directions. Obviously, the defenders of the Wind Castle have awakened from their dreams. A large number of troops Reinforcement will come to the gate soon.

  At this critical moment, there cannot be a second of delay. Robin ran at the front of the assault team, instantly arousing all the strength in his body, the silver lightning in the sea of ​​consciousness released dazzling lightning, [thunderstorm mode], turned on!

  The speed of Robin’s charge suddenly accelerated, throwing away the iron guards and half-elf behind him in the blink of an eye, and he himself was like an arrow from the string, shooting straight at the defenders’ spear array in front.

Just like an arrow piercing sandpaper, a shining silver arc shot out from Robin’s body. His speed was as fast as a gust of wind. Before the defenders of Windcastle even had time to react, Robin had already rushed in front of them, sweeping the short knife in his hand. The head of a Windcastle soldier in front of him immediately flew up.

   After a few blows, the heads of the Wind Castle soldiers who stood in front of Robin were chopped off one by one. Before the rest of the Wind Castle soldiers could react, Robin had already cut through their formation.

   Then, Robin continued to run forward. There were only ten meters between him and the city gate, and the middle was unimpeded!

  Robin rushed to the city gate in a few steps, then jumped up and kicked the giant door bolt of the city gate. The door bolt made of a whole piece of wood was kicked in two by Robin from the middle!

At this time, the iron guards and half-elves also rushed past the spear array of the Windcastle Sentinel, leaving behind a group of iron guards and half-elves to entangle with the Windcastle Sentinel, while another group of iron guards rushed to the city gate. The iron guards pushed the door together, and there was a “rumbling” sound, and the gate of the Wind Castle was slowly pushed open!

  (end of this chapter)