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Even Tamworth, the capital of the Kingdom of Mercia, has a resident population of only 5,000 in peacetime.

In the eyes of the locals, the capital is really a big city with such a population.

The strange army killed along the river. The people in more than ten villages near the capital saw the fleet going upstream. Out of fear, they poured into the city with limited softness, hoping that the tall stone wall would give enough Of blessing.

For this reason, Tamworth suddenly became crowded. Because of the influx of refugees, the population easily reached the level of 15,000.

The wet streets were full of refugees. They endured the peculiar smell of mud and excrement and urine all night. When the sky was bright again, the light of the east represented the end of the rain and the sun. The sun made the refugees feel better, but they were inexplicable. The army is still outside the city.

A group of soldiers stood on the wall of the outer city, and the ring-shaped wall further diluted the few defenders.

To supply a standing army is very costly and food, even in peacetime, the standing army of the Mercia royal family is only two thousand people. The main force of the army will never be stationed in the capital, the military camp is in the villages and towns of Birmingham to the west, but the capital has always maintained a garrison of 500 men.

The weapons in the warehouse were distributed, and the "Prince of the Superintendent" Bot Woolf pulled out an army of 3,000 people overnight. This army only obeyed his prince!

If it is not restricted by the dogma of faith, enlisting women as soldiers can make the army stronger.

Compared to his father, Bot Woolf is more clear-headed, or more conservative. He dared not take the initiative to challenge the unknown enemy, and for the time being, he would not move, and often set up the king's flag on the wall, let the armed men climb the city, at least show the people under the city the determination of the city guardian and the strength of the defender. The bluff.

Located in Tamworth, the capital of the Kingdom, on the right bank of the Tam River, a tributary of the Trent River, she has a clear road to the Birmingham Barracks but only eight Roman miles (about 23 kilometers). This distance is not short. If the Birmingham army rushes to help urgently, the crisis in the capital will be alleviated.

If Steiner launches an attack, everything will be fine. But Steiner didn't do it. He had just been defeated in the past battle, and he was unable to launch an attack with a non-existent army.

All these situations are really the situation faced by the Mercia King Wiglav and his expeditionary army. Wigraf indeed walked to the Birmingham Barracks with his exhausted division. He had no idea that the highly mobile Vikings had already approached the city and launched a strong attack.

Botwulf did not know his father's failure. He was particularly clear that the army stationed in Birmingham had been led by his father himself to the northern border.

Now that the enemy has obviously destroyed the wooden bridge and controlled the Tam River Ferry, the capital has lost a huge opportunity for sending signal soldiers.

A group of correspondents with news about the crisis in the capital slipped out of the city overnight. They were going to the eastern territory to report the news and ask for reinforcements from the local lord. As for the lords of the western territories of the kingdom, when the traffic is interrupted, don't expect them to know the news and be king.

For a period of time, the capital can only rely on its own strength to guard it. After the most difficult moment, when the situation is fermented, the army of King Qin from the lords of various places will definitely gather in the capital.

Looking at the enemy barracks outside the city, the chief guard was worried: "They have a lot of soldiers. The weather is clear now, I don't see what they have to do with the Wessex army."

"They are crowded, maybe they are not very effective." Bot Woolf sighed deeply, and then asked: "Are the soldiers assembled?"

"Basically, there are about 3,000 troops. There are many young boys who are willing to fight to defend the city to the last breath."

The captain of the bodyguard tried his best to say encouraging words. Botwulf patted his shoulder encouragingly, and said: "This is not enough. It seems that the enemy is not in a hurry to attack. I will use this opportunity to execute the person who spread the defeat yesterday. Calm down. Don't just stay at the city wall. You send someone to negotiate with them and ask these guys what they want."

"His Royal Highness, this... also many other things."

"Go ahead. We are so stupid. The war is about to start. I don't even know who the enemy is and what the intention is."

The walls of the outer city of Tamworth are rammed with stone and earth, and its foundation comes from the walls of the old Roman era. The walls appear to be inhomogeneous as a whole, and grass has grown in many places, and there are many slopes behind the walls. Allows people to quickly climb the wall.

Of course, its average height is only four meters, which is really not high.

Only the inner city of Tamworth Castle has a higher wall, and the overall appearance is more regular. The polished granite fortress makes it heavier.

More than a hundred warriors with bows stood on the wall, and a batch of stones and wood were also transported to the wall.

Relying on the protection of the city wall, Botwulf did not worry that the enemy could break the city at all.

The sun dissipated the mist in the morning, the rain stopped, and the Ross-Balmerk coalition awakened in the morning light.

Regarding the launch of a full-scale offensive this morning, Rurik still refused, but his father-in-law was unable to persuade him, and his cousin was also eager to try.

"Children of God? They really came to my identity for reference only?" Rurik laughed at himself for a second, convinced that the stability of the alliance must be based on the consistent appeal of interests.

The Balmerks have their own Kingdom of York, and their morale is so high that even the old Magnuth feels reborn!

The Balmerk soldiers screamed and got up, the golden light of the rising sun shone on their golden heads, and the whole person was like gilded. They held up their axes and swords and yelled with great vigor. Bijuni and Geiger and other Balmerks were actively preparing to climb the city wall.

Help them? That's a must.

Based on what happened yesterday, Rurik felt that if he had become extremely proactive, he would have manifested his indecision instead.

Seeing his cousin Arik sharpen his knife, the men of the First Banner team were eager to try. Rurik simply called his cousin and all five centurions to his side, and deliberately made a decision that was not negotiable somewhere on the secluded river.

"They want to fight, we help. The First Banner is not allowed to attack the city first. If everything goes well, we will attack. If the situation is not right, we will cover their retreat."

Arik fully understood what his younger brother meant, and shook his head with his lips: "This is not honorable."

"It's not honorable. I feel that the situation is very wrong. This should be a revelation from God. The victory must be ours, but the attack this morning was too hasty. We acted as a reserve team."

"Ok."

"I will send out shooters to support them first. Brother, take the brothers to stand still. Remember, you must not launch an attack without authorization."

Arik didn't say much, his eyes signaled that the old man would do it himself.

More and more Balmerk warriors gathered. In order to be majestic, Magnuth held up his sword and axe and yelled in front of the crowd.

Seeing that this army was about to launch an attack, the Messiah garrison on the wall was shocked. The priest who climbed the wall also held the cross, calling on the soldiers to remain calm.

The gate of the confined city, reinforced with iron chains, opened, and five envoys held the King Mercia flag and walked tremblingly towards the unknown army.

The Messiah sent a messenger?

Bijuni, who was ready to warm up before the war, twisted his neck and walked to his father with a sword: "Here is a death-seeking idiot. They want to negotiate with us and kill them in my opinion."

"Yes. There is nothing to negotiate, you go and make your brothers happy."

Biyuni nodded, and immediately entangled more than a dozen brothers and walked over.

The poor messenger hadn't reacted yet, and died suddenly in the chaotic sword.

This horrific scene was seen by the soldiers on both sides. The Mesiah garrison trembled in shock, and then was dazzled by anger.

Looking at the Balmerks again, they uttered Viking roars in unison, and the majestic vigor caused the Roths to roar.

Magnuth held up his axe and swung abruptly, and shouted in an old male voice: "Warriors, go ahead! Go grab everything you like!"

The Balmerk Army has acted!

They have golden hair and white faces. They are dressed in gray and black coarse cloth or a black leather jacket. Some people even temporarily changed into the orange clothes of the Northumbrian Army. Their dresses can be described as varied, and there are at least a hundred people shirtless, with scary tattoos on their chests and backs.

They followed the black raven flag with white background, carrying all the long ladders and siege hammers (that is, a large tree trunk), and launched a full-scale attack with swords and shields.

Even the Wessex army once attacked Tamworth, and the siege formation at the time was not so crazy.

Behind him is a large group of neatly dressed teams.

That was the first flag team of the Ross Army. Arik was forced to stand still. He arranged the team in a matrix. Looking far away, it was a blue and white square.

Rurik also yelled: "Shoot the flag team, let's go!"

Each two-wheeled trolley is equipped with a torsion slingshot, the number of which reaches thirty. There are also all ten bull trebuchets that were carried by manpower.

Fifty wooden-armed crossbowmen and a hundred Suomi archers are responsible for covering the enemy's throwing arrows.

In response to such a weapon, Magnuth actually felt that his son-in-law was guilty of being upright, and it was a cover. No matter how he looked at it, the people of Ross wanted to give it a go.

Full of confidence, he vowed to seize Mercia's treasury, reward the army, and become a hero who will be celebrated forever by the people of his hometown.

The army was getting closer and closer to the city wall, and shouting at it, Bot Woolf in the city directly suspended the hanging of those who spread unfavorable news, and urgently took his attendants to supervise the battle.

But when he arrived at the wall of Outer Guocheng, the battle had broken out.

Ross and Balmerk's coalition forces are violently attacking the west gate of Tamworth facing the Tam River, which is also the main gate of the entire city.

Stones and javelins fell from the sky, refugees have suffered casualties, and houses were smashed into cracks. The people began to flee, and the crowded road suddenly became empty. In fact, they all fled to the east of the city.

It was a blow from a torsion slingshot and a trebuchet. Cast iron projectiles, stones and javelins crossed the city wall and smashed into the rear of the defending army. As for the number of casualties of the Mercian army, Lirik was incalculable.

The only thing he can be sure of is that these weapons will definitely bring panic, forcing the enemy's follow-up reinforcements to not continue to support the city wall defenders. Once the so-called Balmerks stepped onto the wall, the victory was more than half achieved.

Rurik ordered free shooting, and the wall defenders were fighting desperately with deadly bullets.

"They took the ladder! Stoned them to death!"

After all, the chief guard shouted to the soldiers under the city: "Hurry up and find the wood to withstand the latch."

He asked the special guards loudly about the preparation of the secret weapon.

At least twenty sets of ladders have been built, and the Balmerk warrior holding a wooden shield with an axe in his mouth, is struggling to climb against the stones and arrows thrown by the enemy.

Biyunni also took the steel-armed crossbow he borrowed from Rurik and sniped the guards of the city very insignificantly.

The people who were hit in the head by the stone were basically dead on the spot, and some convulsed and remained motionless. Some Balmerks were injured by arrows. They screamed and pulled out arrow clusters with barbed hooks, let them spurt blood, and still climbed the ladder to try to fight against the wall.

Another long piece of wood was thrown down, and the soldier fell off the ladder and vomited blood. Even people who use slings use this limited-damaging weapon to harass the people in the city.

But the situation of the Messiah garrison here is not good. They braved the arrows, projectiles, stones and javelins of the Ross army to resolutely attacked Balmerk who was climbing the city wall.

The Messiah warrior in chain mail was directly smashed into the internal organs by the projectile of the torsion slingshot and fell into the city, and some people's mind was blank to plug the gap.

Some soldiers were shot through their heads with a crossbow and died on the spot, while others took over.

Because they can see that the enemy is not Wessex, although they still don't know its identity, everyone can only be sure-once this unprecedented brutal army breaks through the city, tens of thousands of people in the city will die.

Ordinary kingdom soldiers are no longer just fighting for the royal family, the armed civilians also have very simple reasons to fight. They fought for the survival of everyone, and saw His Royal Highness personally supervise the battle at the head of the city. Even if they suffered a lot of losses, the Mercia Army would not retreat.

The battle has been going on for a while, and the changes in the situation have made Magnut, who is full of self-confidence, more puzzled.

He saw Biyuni bringing a group of brothers reasonably carrying the big tree trunk (acting as a siege hammer) to hit the door. They had hit no less than 50 times. How could the enemy's door stay still? !

He didn't understand. Hearing from his son-in-law Rurik and his son, they all went smoothly when they attacked other cities. For example, the siege of York in which Magnut personally participated, the battle was extremely smooth.

"Why? I kicked the iron plate down here?"

Magnut stood in a fairly safe area, but his people were suffering unprecedented casualties. He eagerly saw a soldier falling from a ladder, and he saw an enemy also being shot down by an arrow.

"This group of enemies are so tenacious? But I obviously killed a thousand of them in that village easily. Why did they become stronger when I got here?"

Magnut really didn't know, because the defender was the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Mercia, and Bot Woolf's attitude had also changed drastically due to the changes in the battle. He no longer wished that this battle could help his family and himself. This is a battle that determines the life and death of city residents. The Messiaians have never been so united as they are today. He wants to bring the army, the civilians and the enemy to fight to death.

The anxiety of the battle also surprised Rurik. The facts were like his own prediction. This battle was the most serious obstacle encountered by the coalition forces after they landed in Britain. He was not happy that he was correct in his prediction, but resented seeing the loss of the friendly army and his own siege weapons not being able to destroy the enemy's will.

"Offense! On offense!"

"No! I just attacked, I was actually impulsive. No, I should persuade them to retreat temporarily."

The battle situation is really changing rapidly. The two sides were thrown into a fierce battle, but a lot of boiling water fell from the sky. Urns after urns of boiling water were poured onto the Balmerk fighters who collided with the gate. Even with shield cover, the boiling water was still hot and screaming.

The soldiers evacuated subconsciously, and even the heroes with Biyunni ran away without taking any disadvantages.

The steam was permeating under the city gate, and the chief guard looked at the backs of those who fled after the steam dissipated. He couldn't help laughing presumptuously, and then stretched out his right finger to curse and curse at those who were instantly burned with red backs.

Suddenly, a crossbow arrow shot directly through the palm of his hand, and even **** were blown away. The captain of the guard who screamed fell and was immediately supported by the soldier, looking at his mutilated right hand with tears and a dull smirk.

Biyuni retreated temporarily. When he greeted his men and rushed back again and picked up the big tree trunk to continue hitting the door, he saw his guys rolling and screaming all over the floor.

Their severely burned skin has blistered, and the tattoos on their upper bodies have become distorted.

"Fools! What are you doing! Follow me and kill them."

Geiger screamed pessimistically, whose arm was splashed by boiling water and it was no problem: "Bijuni! Continue to attack is to find death! Think about our hometown to make whale oil and seal oil, if they use oil next step, brothers will all be scalded to death. "

"Geiger, are you a coward?"

"No! I don't want to die! I heard that Rurik said that we would be frustrated in this battle, but your father wouldn't listen! Who is a fool, look at the current situation!" Geiger, pointing to the corpse of the Balmerks in the city, screamed and cursed: "If your father fails with us, no one will recognize him as King York! I'm going to retreat!"

After that, Geiger and the men from his Washoby farm really withdrew. Not only this one, but the armies of the other leaders of the Balmerk family also retreated with the wounded of various wounds, including pulling away the bodies.

Until now, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Rurik's shooting flag team is still carrying out fire support. For the friendly forces, he did not hesitate to consume a lot of projectiles and arrows, only a defeat in return.

The Balmerks gradually withdrew, and the Ross Shooting Flag team also withdrew.

It was such a tragic battle that made Arik and the soldiers of the First Banner Team, who had always watched the battle, clearly realized that even if they participated in the battle, they would also face a bitter battle.

Britain is the island of cowards? Do not! At least the residents of Tamworth are a force.

Arik's eyes widened, and he couldn't help laughing when the Balmerks of the Alliance were evacuating.

So a centurion asked him: "Are you mocking them for being cowards?"

"No! Brother, we met a strong enemy. This is the opportunity God gave us. I like fighting strong enemies the most."

"However, it is very difficult to capture this city."

"It's true, but Rurik will solve this **** wall."