The city walls of Bremen were already filled with corpses.
For half a month, the servant soldiers, one after another, have been continuously attacking Bremen's city defense.
Facing the solid city defense facilities and tenacious defenders, these Saxon soldiers who were transformed from farmers did not achieve much results, and they did not even consume much defense materials.
"Where is the cannon I want? When can I get it?" Seeing that another tentative attack had no effect, Otto asked dissatisfiedly.
The person responsible for building the siege equipment was Baron Lars, a very capable siege officer of Count Werner. Hearing this, he smiled bitterly.
"My lord, this trebuchet is complicated to make, and there are not many craftsmen who can make it. I'm afraid it will take five or six days to finish those trebuchets. Please wait a few more days."
"Why does it take another five or six days?" Otto glared at the other party. "Before, you promised me that it would take ten days. Now, after ten days, you tell me that it will take another week. It doesn't matter if I wait, but it is not certain whether the Saxons are willing to let us wait. "
Otto was not deliberately threatening Baron Lars. As a vassal of Werner, the other party had no enmity or enmity with him. Besides, he and Werner had a good relationship, so there was no need to specifically target a baron.
But the Saxons are really preparing to rescue the city of Bremen. In the Lunenburg area east of Bremen, many flags of the Saxon nobles have appeared.
Apparently, the Saxons were gathering troops in the Lüneburg area and might appear under Bremen at any time.
Otto is naturally not afraid of Saxon reinforcements. Bremen has reinforcements, and so does he.
After Bach ran away with his guards, the remaining generals were obviously no match for Werner, and were easily defeated by Werner.
Now, Werner is also leading the army to quickly move closer to Otto.
Otto now has enough troops on hand to gather reinforcements and have a head-on confrontation with the Saxon army.
Therefore, in fact, he is not worried about the war in front of him.
What he was worried about was that his brother El disappeared after a trip to Hamburg.
El took three thousand men to Hamburg to plunder, but he didn't hear any news at all. Now the scouts went to inquire about the news and came back. They found that the Hamburg area was peaceful and there was no sign of a war at all.
Good guy, that's weird. He didn't fight anyone and disappeared. Could it be that he went to sea?
I won't let my brother, who seems to be able to help me, just disappear from now on.
This made Otto a little irritated, so much so that he was now using the topic as an excuse.
"My lord, you have wronged me." Baron Lars naturally knew the reason for Otto's bad mood. Since Otto sent a large number of scouts to the north instead of the east during this period, he can understand. The so-called Saxon reinforcements were not something Otto worried about at all.
"You didn't say you wanted to make a catapult at the beginning. I have already had people build catapults, rams, ladders, tower trucks, etc., and they are ready for use at any time.
This catapult of yours has only been around for a few days. "
The resentful tone of Baron Lars is very much like Party B who is being censored by Party A's father.
"Yes." Otto nodded, fully understanding Baron Lars' resentment.
But, Otto's rush to get the trebuchet was certainly not to embarrass the other party, but because he really had an urgent need.
Although he was not worried about Saxon reinforcements, Otto was very worried about Count Werner.
Originally, the wealth of Bremen City could belong to him alone, but now that Werner is here, he will not share any part of it.
Based on the principle that if you make less money, you will lose money, Otto naturally thought that it would be best to capture Bremen first. In this way, even if Werner comes, he will capture Bremen by himself after all, and he only needs to show some interest. .
But looking at the current situation, it's obviously not possible.
Without the cooperation of trebuchets, the casualties would be too high if we attacked like this.
After all, we are in the enemy's hinterland, and the enemy still has reinforcements watching. If the attack strength is seriously damaged, and the enemy's reinforcements appear at the right time, wouldn't it be a big defeat?
Then wouldn’t all the work on this trip be in vain, with nothing gained?
After all, he was working for the Duke of Franconia. He was not seeking promotion, but he had to seek to make a fortune, especially now that the situation was very good.
"Okay." Otto curled his lips. "Then I'll give you five more days. By the way, remember to contact Count Werner and ask him to hurry up and don't scare the nearby Saxons who want to join in the fun.
If possible, I hope he can take the army and go around more.
I believe Count Werner will understand what I mean. "
On the city wall of Bremen, Bishop Farley, Bremen's temporary army commander, couldn't help but frowned as he looked at the attacking soldiers retreating as if they were clocking out.
"Knight Barrow, what is the purpose of the enemy's painless attacks every day? What do you think?"
As the bishop of Bremen, Farley did not choose to run away, but took the initiative to stay and defend Bremen.
There is a big difference in personality between him and Jason. As a moderate in the Sun God faction, he is tired of all kinds of power struggles within the church, and he also respects the church knights quite a bit.
It was with his strong support that Barrow, as the leader of the church knights in the Bremen area, was able to take part of the power and renovate the city defense of Bremen. Now, he can rely on the strong city defense to block Otto's army.
"Your Majesty Bishop." Barrow stared at the single-headed eagle flag representing the Habsburg family and slowly retreated, with a trace of worry in his eyes.
"I think there are two possibilities.
The first one is that Count Otto does not intend to attack the city, but only creates the illusion that he is about to attack the city, attracts reinforcements from other directions, and attacks those reinforcements.
The second is that during this period, the opponent has been testing and testing the weaknesses of our defense. At the same time, they are secretly building siege equipment, preparing to launch a fierce attack and capture Bremen once we relax. "
"It sounds like the measures we need to take are completely different between the two options?" Bishop Farley shook his head slightly and smiled bitterly.
"Then what do you think Count Otto, whom everyone calls the Butcher, thinks?"
"Your Majesty Bishop, I don't know." Barrow looked away from the flag of the Habsburg family and shook his head as well.
"I think there is a gap between my abilities and Count Otto. I shouldn't be able to guess his thoughts. However, I think the best way for us now is to do nothing.
As long as we don't do anything and wait for work, with sufficient supplies and solid city defenses in the city, we can wait until the main reinforcements from the Saxon nobles arrive. "
"Do more and you will make more mistakes, do less and you will make fewer mistakes? I understand." Bishop Farley smiled and nodded in praise. "Knight Barrow is quite wise."
Knight Barrow saluted respectfully and said nothing.
Also under siege, Bishop Farley and Knight Barro of Bremen were still chatting on the city wall with ease, while Duke Bach of Kassel hardly had a good night's sleep during this period.
"Fuck!" Duke Bach couldn't help cursing as he chopped down a Franconian soldier who jumped onto the city wall again.
"What on earth was I thinking, and why did I bring people into this ruined city?"
