Chapter 470 - The Castle was Finally been Broken Through
Chapter 470: The Castle was Finally been Broken Through
The noble alliance army, who had already assembled the siege equipment, began the prelude to the siege attack.
One after another, round and polished stone balls were directly thrown out by the long arm of the ballista. They drew a beautiful curve and heavily smashed into the city wall. The splashing stones flew around and smashed into the bodies of the soldiers guarding the city, The soldiers covered their body parts that were hit and groaned in pain.
If they were hit at the vital parts or the hands and legs that were not protected by the leather armor, it would take their lives. They fell on the city wall on the spot and lost the chance to continue fighting. It was the same as leaving the battlefield.
The Wayne family had defended Grothen Castle for decades and had accumulated a lot of resources to defend the city.
These included the catapults, ballistae, stone bullets, and lances.
These were all kinds of reserve resources in the castle.
The purpose was to use Grothen Castle as the center of resistance after the South County was fallen. They could also deploy their cavalries and take advantage of the vast plains of the North County to exhaust the infantry troops of Silver Platter Kingdom on this battlefield.
It was like bleeding, forcing the invading troops to retreat and even return the land they had already occupied.
This was the strategic plan of the Dukedom of Leo.
Unfortunately, Maas Castle was not going to put in use any longer.
This was because Kant’s subordinates, Firentis and Rolf, were pressuring the knights to attack Maas Cast;e. If they broke through this place, the door of the South County would open in front of them.
At that time, it would be up to them to decide whether they wanted to declare an invasion or not!
Meanwhile, the South County was still evading.
The war had begun.
But it was not the defensive battle against the Silver Platter Kingdom that they had originally expected.
Instead, it was Kant, an exiled baron that they didn’t care at all. But now, he had fought his way back!
The second son of Grand Duke Cameron, the son of Princess Sofia of the Silver Platter Kingdom, had the second-in-line inheritance right. He had already occupied the entire North County, and according to the news that came, even a small portion of the East County had been occupied by that young man!
The flames of war raging at Maas Castle. The catapults and ballistae whistled as they threw stone balls.
Terrifying tremors shook the heavens.
But they had to continue the attack.
The people of Maas Castle were still defending.
Although the castle that they had spent decades building was not a top-notch castle, it still had a good defensive effect.
Most importantly, after these catapults and ballistae bombarded wildly, although a little of the city walls had collapsed, the main body was still standing. The casualties of the castlesoldiers were also within 200 people, so it was not considered to be a serious loss.
According to the conventional battle method, if they wanted to capture this castle, they would have to pay at least thousands of casualties.
However, Firentis and Rolf were not prepared to do that.
Too many casualties would affect the morale of the troops.
The noble alliance army, which had been bribed and threatened by them, could not afford to suffer setbacks.
On the contrary, they needed a complete victory, they had to take down the Maas Castle.
Therefore, they issued an absolute order, requesting the Wayne family to disassemble all the siege weapons here. They also ordered the infantrymen to throw stone balls at the city wall and bombard the main body of the city wall day and night.
This was also very effective.
With each impact, the city wall creaked, and cracks appeared on its surface.
The city wall couldn’t hold on for too long. After all, the construction of the city wall of Maas Castle was just a layer of stones on the outside, filled with crushed stones and soil on the inside, and then a layer of stones on the outside. It looked solid.
If a section of the city wall was blasted open, then the entire city wall would completely collapse.
And now, that section of the city wall that had been deliberately bombarded with concentrated firepower was really about to reach its limit.
After a whole morning of bombardment, it was around 3 pm. The city wall was covered with dents of various sizes. The entire city wall was visibly dented inward, and cracks even appeared on the city wall.
There were no soldiers left on the city wall, and they didn’t dare to stay here any longer.
In fact, the entire defense of the city wall had already been abandoned.
Instead, they had arranged more soldiers arranged more soldiers to defend the main body of the castle.
The castle was the most important defense system. The city wall was only an obstacle to delay the enemy’s attack from the outside. By the time the city wall fell, the enemy’s siege weapons, and their morale would also be depleted. At that time, defending the castle would be even easier.
At least defending the castle itself was more practical than defending the city wall!
“Boom –”
Finally, under the continuous bombardment of the ballistae, the city wall finally collapsed.
Smoke and dust immediately spread in all directions. A large amount of gravel and soil tumbled down. The soldiers on the surrounding city walls and towers seemed to have received some orders. They quickly gathered and appeared behind and on both sides of the collapsed city wall.
Next, it was time to start the defense around the collapsed city walls!
This was also a good time to attack the attackers.
During the siege, it didn’t mean that the collapse of the city walls meant that the castle had fallen.
The collapse of the city walls was only a small section, and it wasn’t even five meters wide. However, it was precisely the five meters wide opening, and there would always be troops stationed at the rear. If the noble alliance army wanted to attack, they could only turn this place into a meat grinder!
This was a battlefield where life was consumed, and it was also the main position where the defenders could consume the morale of the attackers.
The attackers often had the resolution of death.
This resolution was reflected in climbing the city wall or directly attacking the city gate.
Once it was consumed, the overall morale would drop. It was different from the defenders, who could recover as long as they encouraged the morale. The longer they dragged it out, the greater the advantage of the defenders, especially when they could all retreat to the main body of the castle and wait for reinforcements, they had an absolute advantage.
In the feudal era, it was unbelievable to attack a castle that was completely sealed and had food and water reserves. There were even records stated that a troop was able to defend a castle for several months, yet the enemy still could not break in.
Under the situation of a western feudal lord, a castle siege attack that lasted for several months was very impressive!
“Attack!”
Rolf swung his sword forward.
Behind him, groups of infantries of the noble alliance army began to charge.
They closed in step by step with their long lances in hand, and soon approached the collapsed city wall. However, the rain of arrows that came from the front quickly poured down. Groups of infantries of the noble alliance army fell to the ground, but more people rushed straight into the castle.
Just now, the 10,000-man army had launched a total attack!
They did not care about the casualties at all!
Even inside the city wall, Viscount Kevin was on the main body of the castle. He was dumfounded when he saw this scene.
His original arrangement was to prevent the enemy from probing the attack.
But now, the enemy launched a total attack.
The 10,000-man army rushed over like a tide.
No matter how the archers at the top of the city wall shot and the ballista on the towers bombarded the ground, it was like they were splashing water in the sea. More and more infantrymen rushed in the castle crazily.
And they fought until the city wall collapsed!