When the huge bodies of ladders and catapults appear on the earth, even the dullest person will realize that something is wrong.
In the palace, King Andri was still waiting for the good news that the city-state had accepted the surrender.
The old king still felt that he was full of energy and thought he could live a long life. He was sitting in the study, having just returned from hunting in Wangjialin Garden, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.
King Andri, who was in a better mood, rang the bell and summoned the palace servant who was accompanying him. He was a castrated boy. He opened the ajar door of the study and knelt down in front of King Andri.
"Go and ask the palace priest to come over." King Andri paused, "I asked him about the prophecy yesterday."
The boy servant accepted the order, stood up and left.
Not long after, in the glorious palace, the palace priest was walking in a hurry. Under the leadership of the boy servant, he passed through the exquisite statues and gorgeous pools one by one.
The palace priest was so excited that it was indescribable. The prophecy that King Andri asked for yesterday was when the Sambu people would return to the world. This is something that kings of all ages have asked about. However, most of the time, they may not know anything about it. Or just know that it is far away.
But this time, the palace priest received a clear answer.
He didn't wait for the boy servant to enter the study, but opened the ajar door and knelt directly in front of King Andri.
"Priest, why are you in such a hurry?" King Andri asked doubtfully.
According to common sense, the boy servant should have opened the door first, and after getting King Andri's order, he would have brought the priest outside the door into the study. But this time it was unusual.
"Your Majesty, it's just because I received the prophecy that I will be favored by my Lord." The palace priest said excitedly.
After King Andri heard this, he immediately straightened up, his beard and hair were trembling, and he raised his Adam's apple and said, "Speak, tell me quickly."
The palace priest touched his throat and said the original sentence in a trembling voice: "On the third day, the world will descend."
"Three days..." King Andri was stunned for a moment, "How could our giant tower be built in three days?"
"Your Majesty, the Lord's will is transcendent and unfathomable," the palace priest said loudly: "Perhaps when the time is right, our beloved Lord of Suffering will come to this hell, let the giant tower be built in one day, and take us back to the world. Your Majesty, all of this is It is your wise rule and endless piety day after day that moved heaven."
"Praise my Lord, your humble and pious servant Andri, who never ceases to beg for your mercy." Hearing the priest's words, King Andri could not hold back. He raised his hands, performed the suffering ceremony three times in a row, and recited Read scriptures and pray devoutly.
The priest took out the incense, lit it, put it in front of him, knelt down completely, and recited the scriptures along with King Andri.
Just when King Andri was intoxicated in praying over and over again, hurried and continuous footsteps suddenly sounded in the spacious corridor of the palace.
In order not to disturb his prayers, King Andri waved his hand to the boy servant to go out and stop the visitors.
The boy servant did not make a sound, and did not dare to make a sound to disturb the prayer. After nodding slightly, he quietly left the study and stopped the people who were meeting the king.
Then, although the footsteps outside the study stopped, King Andri still heard some impatient sounds of wandering in place. His face became slightly angry, and he realized that he was still praying. He must empty his mind and wait with piety. Holy Lord of Suffering.
After a long time, the priest stood up first, and then King Andri slowly stood up.
"Priest, let me go and see who it is." After King Andre said this, he opened the study door and walked out.
He pulled up the hem of the royal robe and saw the captain of the imperial guard in armor.
When the captain of the imperial guard saw King Andri, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said hastily: "Your Majesty, under the city wall, under the city wall..."
"What happened under the city wall?" King Andri took the scepter handed over by the boy servant.
"Enemy, there are enemies attacking the city!"
King Andre was slightly stunned. This was so unreal. He suspected that he heard it wrong, so he didn't feel much nervous.
The last time the royal capital was besieged was a noble rebellion a hundred years ago. It lasted only half a year. They agreed to the reconciliation terms of the late king, and then were defeated by the late king's surprise attack on the way back to the fiefdom.
"What enemy? Did you say the wrong thing?"
"Your Majesty is really an enemy attacking the city, and he is a traitor to Ailan Biyin!"
The captain of the guard in front of him repeated it several times in a panic and loud voice. King Andri froze on the spot, his pupils widening.
"Alan Biyin...Alan Biyin...Myron, that one named Myron! Ask him to defend the city! He knows those slaves."
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There had been no troops approaching the city in the past hundred years, so one can imagine that the royal capital's city defenses were lax.
The man was stationed at the foot of the hillside and used a lookout tube to carefully measure the height of the city wall to prevent the ladder from being too short to climb up the city wall. He suddenly saw that the height of the city wall was not much different from the year he left. If it was a few meters high, it should be a few meters high. There are even some corners missing.
Despite this, the thickness of the city wall is still breathtaking. In order not to waste the siege stones, the counterweight trebuchet was only thrown twice before being ordered to be moved away by the man, and the weak points of the city wall were found before being pushed onto the battlefield.
The horns and trumpets were blown by the leading soldiers. The soldiers of the city-state army put up the bundles of wooden sticks and carried the battle shields on their backs. They pushed the large arrow-proof pillars to the front. This can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. Sexually, it is to prevent the battle shield from being filled with arrows, which will be too heavy and affect the battle.
The ladder appeared outside the wall of the royal capital. The defenders were immediately in chaos. They hurriedly organized sparse defenses. Scattered stones and arrows whizzed past and rumbled onto the ladder truck.
In addition to tall and square ladder trucks, the advancing infantry also had several small long ladders and battering rams. They advanced bravely, and more than a hundred meters behind them, soldiers and servants built rows of fences. The archers were protected from arrows. As the one-meter-high fence was in place, the archers, under Colvin's order, raised their right hands and tightened their bowstrings and arrows.
They aimed at the chaotic defenders on both sides of the ladder truck. After giving the order, hundreds of feather arrows flew out in a "swish", densely packed, covering a small area of the sky and covering the top and bottom of the city wall, oppressing the defenders. Jun did not dare to step forward and create further chaos.
"Have the scouts returned? Which section of the city wall is thinner?!"
The man gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and stared nervously at the situation in front of him. He stood outside the tent behind the archers. The tall Keck personally went to the front to supervise the battle. Kassel was mobilizing the cavalry to guard the trebuchet. To the south was There is a city gate, and the battering ram is slowly approaching there.
At this moment, the royal capital's defenders were in chaos and the enemy was caught off guard, which was why they were advancing so smoothly. Once they reorganized their defenses, their siege pressure would increase severalfold.
As long as a weak wall is found and the trebuchet smashes it, the pressure on one's own siege will be much reduced.
