Bloodline Lord of War - Chapter 171

  Chapter 171 The siege battle begins

  Earl Gude arranged a new task for Robin, guarding the food and material warehouse of the Wilderness Alliance Army, which is the blood fortress that was captured before.

  This fortress will become a transfer station. The military rations and various logistical materials transported from Longji Fort will be stored in this “big warehouse” first, and then transferred to the front line of the war as needed.

  The wilderness is almost flat, and this blood fortress has become the most suitable place for a warehouse.

  Guarding the granary of the army, this task cannot be said to be unimportant, but if it is far away from the front line, it will be difficult to have a chance to make meritorious service in the future. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Earl Good actually transferred Robin away on purpose.

   It is said that the night before Earl Goode gave Robin the order, someone saw Baron Joseph go to see Earl Goode.

   “My lord, I think Robin should be transferred away.”

In the spacious camp, Earl Goode stood in front of a huge map. His expression was tangled and his brows were tightly frowned. He seemed to be studying the map, but in fact his ears were always standing. What Baron Joseph said, He listened to every word in his heart.

“Robin took the lead, Lord Earl, you gave him the medal. The people below have a lot of opinions on this matter, saying that you are partial. Anyway, Robin is an outsider after all, and the one in our pot The meat cannot be eaten by an outsider.”

Baron Joseph stood behind Goode. Ever since he got into the tent, he never stopped talking. He said that he represented a group of pioneer lords to make suggestions to Earl Goode, but in fact he made suggestions over and over again. Just one meaning: Kick Robin away.

  He was very upset seeing Robin all the time. After Robin got the medal of [Guardian of the Wasteland], he felt a thorn in his back even more, and he was so jealous.

   “My lord, what I mean is, it’s not worthwhile to affect our internal unity for the sake of a mere Robin. It’s better to find a job and get him away.”

   After Joseph finished speaking, Earl Goode turned his back to him and thought for a moment.

  As the actual controller of the Central Wasteland, Earl Goode naturally knew the pioneering lords below him, otherwise, he would not be able to sit in the position of boss.

He knew that Joseph and Robin didn’t get along very well. Seeing Robin get the limelight, Joseph must feel uncomfortable. It can’t be said that other lords have problems with Robin. Above all, the person with the most opinion was Joseph himself.

   Baron Joseph’s giant wooden castle belongs to the second echelon of power in the central wasteland. Earl Good wants to control the entire wasteland, and Joseph’s contribution is indispensable. Moreover, if Joseph wanted to make a fuss, he would not do it alone. He also had a few hard-core allies in the central wilderness. If he wanted to make a fuss, he would definitely bring these allies with him.

  So, since Joseph took the initiative to come to the door, even if his request was unreasonable, Goode had to think carefully.

  Earl Good weighed it up, and Joseph’s request was not too much. In order to appease Joseph’s emotions, he thought that Robin could be transferred. Just like what Joseph said, assigning Robin a errand is considered a compliment to a meritorious person, and other lords can’t find any faults.

“Ugh-“

Earl Goode sighed helplessly in his heart, and couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed in Joseph, thinking to himself: Although this Joseph has some brains, can make money and fight wars, but he is too small-minded, even a Robin I can’t stand it.

   “I understand what you mean.” Goode turned around and looked at Baron Joseph. He made a decision and replied. “Go back and wait, I will arrange it.”

  Joseph immediately showed a happy smile on his face: “You are wise! Lord Earl, please rest assured that I will appease the other lords when I go back.”

  Then the next day, Earl Goode summoned Robin and assigned Robin the task of guarding the army warehouse.

   Robin readily accepted Earl Goode’s arrangement. The purpose of his trip is to dry up the blood clan. As long as the wasteland coalition forces can break through the blood king city, he will be happy in the rear.

   On the other hand, if the Wilderness coalition forces can’t break through the Blood King City, then filling in his 100 troops will probably be useless.

  After the order was issued, Robin led the Raging Waves Legion to pack their bags that day and prepared to retreat to the Blood Clan Fortress.

   Regarding the retreat of the army, the iron guards, who are always warlike by nature, were quite critical. Simon ran to Robin’s side and complained: “Boss, if you retreat to the rear, there will be no more battles to fight. How boring it is.”

   Robin kicked his ass: “What nonsense, execute the order!”

  Simon immediately straightened his waist and shouted: “Yes!”

  When Simon returned to the Iron Guard’s camp with his hands on his butt, a group of highland men immediately surrounded him, and everyone asked expectantly, “Deputy leader, what does the leader say? Can you not withdraw?”

  Simon rubbed his ass, like a beast that wanted to eat people, and yelled fiercely: “There are so many nonsense, pack up your things for me, and I will give you 20 minutes. Whoever exceeds the time limit, I will kick his ass!”

  As soon as everyone heard this, they knew that Simon must have been kicked by Lord Robin again. They immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and hurriedly packed their things.

  The Raging Waves Legion had strict discipline. In less than half an hour, all the camps were evacuated, all the salutes were packed into packing cars, iron guards and half elves, and everyone lined up in front of the gate of the barracks.

   To Robin’s surprise, Baron Lauren was waiting at the gate of the barracks to see him off when he got the news that he was going to switch defenses.

   “Baron Robin!” Baron Lauren yelled, and rode quickly to Robin.

  It was raining heavily in autumn, and Baron Lauren seemed to be in a hurry. He didn’t have a raincoat on, and he was panting heavily.

   “I heard that you are leaving, so I came here to see you off.” Baron Lauren said.

   Robin looked at Baron Lauren, first surprised slightly, and then smiled happily. Since he was kind enough to send him off, Robin accepted the friendship.

  Robin rode on horseback, hammered his left chest with his right fist, and saluted Baron Lauren: “Thank you, Baron Lauren, we will meet later.”

   “There will be a period later, take care!” Baron Lauren also returned a military salute.

  Then, Robin left the base camp of the Wilderness Alliance Army with the Raging Wave Legion.

  Three days later, the Raging Wave Legion returned to the Blood Clan Fortress in the autumn rain.

   Today, this fortress has been taken over by the Wilderness Coalition Forces, and the interior of the fortress has been filled with various military supplies of the army. At the same time, there is a steady stream of military supplies brought up from the south of the wasteland every day.

The lord guarding here is named Kyle, a pioneering baron in the central wasteland. He is thirty-four years old this year. Greeted with a smile.

   Kyle has 500 infantry under his command. Although they have more troops than Robin, according to the order of Earl Goode, after Robin came, he replaced him as the commander.

  However, even though the position was robbed, Kyle had no complaints and was very polite to Robin and the Raging Waves Legion. He belongs to that kind of good-natured character, and no one can offend him.

   For Kyle’s honest and responsible style of doing things, Robin quite likes it, and he got acquainted with Kyle within a few days.

  The army came to station in the Blood Clan Fortress, Robin still had nothing to do, the Raging Wave Legion was in charge of standing guard on the city wall every day, Tess led the deer cavalry to patrol around, and then nothing happened.

  The management of the warehouse is mainly in charge of by Kyle, the transfer of military supplies, the statistics of goods, warehousing, stacking, etc. Kyle, like many pioneer lords, started as a businessman, so he is familiar with these tasks.

  Although they left the front line, the Blood Fortress still maintains a close relationship with the front line. The news about the front line, along with the logistics convoy, fell into the ears of the soldiers like autumn rain. Every time the logistics convoy came back from the front line, they would be surrounded by a group of soldiers and ask them how the front line was doing.

At the beginning, the news brought back by the logistics convoy was not a major event, such as the expansion of the camp was finally completed, or which two lords had a quarrel at the military meeting, and occasionally there would be some military developments, such as a certain A certain cavalry regiment fought a battle with the blood wolf cavalry, but the scale of the battle was not large, and the soldiers all listened to it as gossip.

   Until one afternoon half a month later, the logistics convoy finally brought back a piece of breaking news: The army is about to officially attack the city!

Among all military operations, siege warfare is undoubtedly a very difficult one. The army needs to completely control the periphery of the enemy’s city first, produce enough siege equipment, and arrange a detailed siege plan until the commander thinks everything After all preparations are complete, the siege battle will officially start.

  It was the first time Earl Good commanded an army of ten thousand people to launch an attack on the enemy’s fortified city. Although he always tried his best to maintain calm and majesty in front of his subordinates, in fact, he himself felt somewhat guilty.

  So, after half a month of dilly-dallying preparations, Earl Gude finally thought he was ready and was about to officially start the siege.

  To Robin’s surprise, during the half month of preparations for the Wasteland coalition forces, the Blood King City has been very calm. According to common sense, the Allied Forces in the Wilderness is an expedition of hard work, and it is entirely possible to take the initiative to attack and try to fight a wave first, taking advantage of the fact that the Allied Forces have just arrived and their foothold is unstable.

  However, the Blood King City did not respond. They only occasionally sent a few waves of wolf cavalry scouts out for a walk to investigate the movement of the wasteland coalition forces, but there was no further action for a long time.

  During the time when the coalition forces were preparing to attack the city, the two sides only had a few small-scale battles, and the maximum number of participants on both sides did not exceed a hundred people. Moreover, the wolf cavalry was almost defeated at the first touch. They did not entangle with the human cavalry at all, and retreated when they encountered them.

  Blood King City almost watched the wasteland coalition forces prepare to attack the city step by step under its nose. Robin felt that this fact was too abnormal.

  The interior of the Wilderness Alliance Army is full of naive triumphalism. The nobles and lords are all talking about hanging the Blood Race on the gate of the Blood King City. Everyone seems to think that they will win the battle. Many lords even believed that the Blood Duke had already abandoned the city and fled.

  Among these noble lords, only Baron Lauren was cautious about the battle situation, because only he had witnessed the terror of blood warriors with his own eyes.

  The blood race has disappeared on the mainland for nearly a hundred years. Although people still instinctively hate the blood race, they seem to have forgotten how terrible the blood race is. After all, thousands of years have passed since the era when the blood race ruled the continent.

   In such an atmosphere, the Wasteland coalition officially launched the siege battle.

  The sky was covered with overcast clouds, and the cold autumn rain fell on the soldier’s skin like a needle, which hurt like a needle prick.

  Robin was wearing a black waterproof cloak, standing on the wall of the Blood Fortress, looking towards the north with a serious face, his sight seemed to pass through the vast grassland and dense rain, and reached the sky above the Blood King City.

   There, a **** and cruel siege battle is going on.

  The fat and white Baron Kyle climbed up the city wall from behind Robin. He was wearing a dark brown leather armor and a poncho, and came to Robin’s side.

   “Baron Robin, what are you looking at?” Baron Kyle asked curiously.

  Robin replied: “At this time, the siege battle should have officially started.”

“Yeah, I hope there’s a big victory at the front. I can’t stay in this **** place and the weather. You don’t know, Baron Robin, I’m back to my old problem. Every night, I can’t sleep because of the pain in my knee.”

   Once Kyle complained, it would be endless. Robin stared into the distance with deep eyes, not listening to what he was nagging at all.

  Two days later, the logistics convoy finally returned from the front line, and the soldiers immediately surrounded the convoy as usual. Everyone wanted to know how the siege battle on the front line was going.

  The soldiers escorting the supplies were all downcast. From their faces, it could be seen that the front line was not going well.

   “Oh, it’s too difficult. The front line launched an offensive at noon, and fought for a whole afternoon without any progress.”

  From the mouth of the logistics convoy, the soldiers somewhat restored the original appearance of the siege battle.

Earl Gude first ordered the catapults to bombard the walls of the Blood King City. One by one, the catapults threw large stones at the city wall. The ten catapults worked together, and the stones flew towards the Blood King City like hail. The scene was very spectacular. .

Then, the siege towers carrying the soldiers who ascended the city began to slowly approach the city wall. Twenty ten-meter-high siege towers, wrapped in iron skin, looked like tall giants, pushed by hundreds of soldiers. The wheels of the wheel moved forward with difficulty in the mud, against the rain-like arrows on the city wall, they leaned against the city wall of the Blood King Capital.

  The huge iron gate of the siege tower came down with a bang, and slammed heavily on the city wall. The soldiers roared bravely, holding their weapons and jumping from the siege tower to the city wall. The human soldiers and the blood soldiers fought together, and the blood stained the city wall.

  The battle lasted until the afternoon, and the number of soldiers killed in the battle was too many to count, and countless soldiers fell from the city wall. But in the end, there was no result at all, not even a section of the city wall stopped.

  Seeing that the number of casualties continued to rise and the sky gradually darkened, Earl Goode had to give an order to stop the attack.

  (end of this chapter)