Chapter 333 (1/2)
Arrival of the Second Highness
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On both sides of the bank of the lower streaated cahtlyalong the banks of the river, bringing with it the prophecy of war The moment the side of The Northlands finished their preparations, the ould break out But from how the defenses on the side of the Madras duchy seemed, the forces of The Northlands didn't look like they would be able to pull through Even if they dyed the whole river red, it seemed like an impossible feat for the forces of The Northlands to breach the defenses at the opposite side of the bank
The 32nd day of the 10th ht drizzles Lorist looked at the opposite bank on horseback using a telescope before he turned to Baron Shazin Hennard and asked, ”Is everything ready?”
”Of course All the rafts and boards for the floating bridges are already prepared This part of the river stretches around 300 meters to the other side that is filled to the brim with barricades, moats, and short walls for obstacles A hundred meters away from the bank is where the defense towers are situated The towers have an octagonal structure and has five floors, bringing it up to around 15 ht There are two ballistae each on the upper three floors The fishi+ng boats I sent were shot down before they crossed the streaer
”You can give orders for the bridge to be built now You'll soon be able to exact revenge on those on the other side,” said Lorist with a smile
Hennard waved his hand doards, causing a few guards behind hi of the horns resounded across both sides of the river as groups of soldiers flooded to the riverbank alongside carriages filled with roup of works out the rafts with the wooden boards
Lorist once again used his telescope to observe the opposite bank and saw that the soldiers of the Madras duchy wearing an assort to their battle stations All of theun
The rafts were each laid with an extra wooden board on top and relied on a soldier to push it along slowly using an oar More than a hundred such rafts lined themselves side by side by the bank as the workse chains By the tith was fully constructed
Lorist said with a little bit of frustration, ”Hennard, you should've constructed the boat ramp beforehand That would've saved us quite a bit of time”
Hennard laughed and said, ”It was my intention to trick those idiots on the other side of the bank by intentionally waiting until now to build the boat ra to approach through transporting our soldiers on rafts on the other side before uys on the other side were busy building barricades to resist our charge while aited Do you see all those barricades they're tossing into the river over there? I've practicallyat all They didn't think ould approach slowly using our boat ra is our catapult bo of the soldiers on the other side so that their defensive fortifications will be crumbled beforehand”
After lunchtiantic boat ramp was already 40 meters away fro on a floating bridge that would connect to the boat raer, the boat ra further into the river
”I believe that we only have to push forward another 30the catapults onto the rae
Lorist said, ”Watch out for the fire arrows from the other side Since that ramp is made of wood and interconnected, all it takes is for a couple of fires to start to burn it down to ash”
Hennard said, ”Don't worry I've already hly 320bridge grows another 30 th Since their ballistae can only shoot as far as 300 e Not only that, the catapults can fire roughly 350 to 400about their attacks reaching us Not only that, I will have the soldiers splash some river water onto the surface of the ramp as a precaution There's no way it'd be set on fire that easily”
Count Kenmays looked rather bored as he yawned and said, ”Howour boulders?”
Hennard thought for a bit before he replied, ”I think there's still another hour or two to go”
”Fine,” Keno take another nap within ins I drunk a little more than I should in the afternoon so I still feel rather dizzy now”
After another two hours, the boat raer worked on building the floating bridge and took the opportunity to rest after a long day of work On the other hand, Ovidis coade to retire the horses pulling the catapults and had them carefully load the the catapults on the ra rock projectiles of various sizes for the squad of soldiers on the ramp
After an hour's hard work, the preparations were finally complete Count Ken anyone to call for him
”The prep work is far too troublesoan,” said Kenmays
”No worries,” Hennard said, ”We can still fight during the night Darkness or not, they will be sin”
After hearing the horn signal, Ovidis quickly ordered the 500 catapults on the ra Rocks and boulders rained all over the opposite side of the bank, causing one defense tower after another to collapse into a rubble of sle defense tower re, with the cries of nu out in despair after the baptism of rock What remained of them retreated backwards as quickly as they could in an atte the defense towers Initially, after the first two volleys of rock were fired, the troops in the defense towers that still re back in the direction of the river Half of the projectiles they loosed seeht as well However, all of those projectiles landed straight into the river tens of meters before they reached the boat ra that, apart fro to accept the results of their retaliation and wanted to try again, the rest of the soldiers in the defense towers could only watch as the next volley of rocks caainst the structures within which they stood
A large empty space on the bank on the side of the duchy appeared following every volley of catapult fire Not one defensive fortificationrocks Thedefense towers to be felled, all soldiers within the towers had already given up on their posts and ran for their lives
Now that the defense toere no longer a threat, the workse to push the ramp further ahead to connect it to the other side of the bank Ovidis on the other hand began to fire jars filled with fuel towards the rows of barricades at the side of the river It didn't take long before soht breeze near the river only served to help the fire to spread to the forest nearby