Unknown Knight

"Duo, duo, duo."

Not far away, in the camp of Lord Humamu, the sound of craftsmen hammering on wood could be heard constantly. They were working overnight to build a new siege tower.

The failure of the siege two days ago calmed down the city lord Humamu. He knew that the defense of Nico Town was strong and the defenders were well prepared, and it was not easy to take it down. After calming down and thinking about it, he decided to set up camp first, and then hurry up to build a batch of siege towers.

Moreover, their soldiers were not idle during the day, and the whole camp was filled with thick smoke. At first, Aix didn't care, but when he found that the thick smoke was a mixture of black and yellow, he immediately realized that something was wrong. He used the monocular telescope handed over by Bestur to see that the enemy was experimenting to break the attack of fierce oil. The black smoke was a substance similar to fierce oil burned by the enemy, and the yellow smoke should be yellow sand mixed with water.

They seemed to have roughly guessed the main ingredients of the formula of the fire oil, and even figured out that covering it with wet sand was the best way to extinguish the fire. It seems that the power of the Humamu City Lord is quite deep, and there must be capable people among the enemies who found a way to crack it so quickly.

This forced Aix to take it seriously. The flaming oil was the most important killer move in his hand, but the enemy found a way to crack it so quickly. This made him feel that the situation had become serious.

After all, staying in the city and waiting for the enemy to attack was very passive, and it was not Aix's style, so he organized a night attack on the camp last night.

According to the pre-planned plan, the sneak attack soldiers were going to first use lassoes to pull open the wooden fence of the enemy camp, and then rush in to catch them off guard.

However, they never expected that the enemy was very alert and well prepared. Before they got close, the alert sentries discovered the unusual situation, immediately sounded the alarm and shot flaming arrows.

Seeing that the sneak attack was exposed, the team leader Zhebu prepared to use lassoes to force open the fence, rush into the camp before the large number of enemies could react, and then kill everyone. However, he did not expect that the enemy seemed to have expected them to do this, and had prepared swordsmen and axemen in advance, who quickly cut off more than a dozen lassoes with ease.

This was followed by a dense rain of arrows, which killed or wounded more than twenty of the sneak attacking soldiers and easily repelled them.

Moreover, according to the report from Zhebu who returned, the enemy's military quality should be relatively high. Not only were the wooden fences of the camp rammed very solidly and could not be pulled down in a short time, but there were also wooden spikes in the trenches near the wooden fences, making it difficult to get close easily.

Judging from their speed of reaction, the enemy has a mature set of methods and strategies for dealing with night attacks, and they use them very skillfully. It seems that night attacks will not work.

However, that was a routine night attack routine, which did not mean that Aix had no other options. After conquering the city of Zion, Aix absorbed most of the soldiers and prisoners who had passed the political review into the Legion of Redemption, and successively established the First and Second Legion of Redemption.

These soldiers from remote and backward areas, excluding some armed relatives with close blood ties to the owners of the families, are mostly mercenaries who aim to make a living. They have no inherent concept of loyalty in their hearts. As long as the treatment is good and the prospects are bright, some people are willing to leave their families and careers to become single.

What's more, their treatment was not very good to begin with, and they could only make ends meet, let alone save money to start a family. They were like rootless duckweed, without any sense of belonging.

And now that they have invested in Aix's Standing Castle, not only has everyone received a share of the land, but their salaries have also doubled compared to before, not to mention the food. Following Aix, they will eat well, which has become a unanimous consensus among all those who follow him.

Not only that, the rent exemption and various preferential policies for soldiers' families have made them popular in the marriage market. Many beautiful girls don't even ask for a dowry and are eager to marry a soldier. Now, except for those who have not yet reached the "atonement" standard, many soldiers are married.

These benefits have given the soldiers of the Redemption Corps a strong sense of belonging. The useless soldiers, ruffians, and short-lived ghosts who were looked down upon before can now hold their heads high and become a group of people with status and respect.

Now all the soldiers, including the First and Second Legions of Atonement, have an unprecedented level of loyalty to X, and they have basically all joined the Church of the Supreme God. After training, they have all become brave warriors.

Among them, there is a special team in the Legion of Atonement. They are the special soldiers of Zion City - slingers. These people have been herding since childhood and are born good at throwing stones. They can throw stones as far as 300 meters, which is beyond the range of most bows and crossbows of this era. Moreover, they can almost accurately hit whatever they point at within 200 meters.

In response to their special ability, Aix combined it with the incendiary oil produced in the territory and invented a new tactic, allowing them to use specially made small clay pots for throwing attacks.

This special small pottery jar is filled with flaming oil. Although it is heavier than ordinary stones, it can be thrown more than 100 meters, or even more than 150 meters away. This distance is comparable to the distance of an ordinary bow and crossbow.

The unique attack mode of this trebuchet soldier can be used in situations like tonight. That's right, Aix plans to use the trebuchets to launch a surprise attack on the camp of Lord Humamu tonight. Because through observation, Lord Humamu's craftsmen will be able to build the siege tower in a day or two at most. Tonight may be their last chance for a surprise attack.

His plan was to first use slingers to throw small flaming oil cans to set the enemy camp on fire and create chaos, and then take the opportunity to raid the enemy camp and start a fight.

If they really cannot raid the enemy camp, they can also use slingshot soldiers to harass the enemy camp within the safe range of the enemy's long-range attack, in order to tire out and disturb the enemy, while waiting for an opportunity to burn the enemy's food supplies and siege equipment to gain some advantages for their side.

Looking at the enemy camp more than a hundred meters away, Aix, who led the team personally, arranged the fifty stone-throwing soldiers into two loose teams, with a distance of ten meters between the front and the back of the two teams, and arranged in a staggered manner. In this way, the small incendiary oil tanks they threw out could cover a certain area, and also form relatively dense fire points in the covered area.

At his command, fifty small pottery jars with burning shells flew towards the camp of Humamu City Lord like fifty fire stars streaking through the night sky.

After observing during the day, it was found that this side of the camp was where the enemy stored food and supplies and made siege equipment. Aix decided to destroy and burn this place first, with the intention of slowing down the enemy's attack at the very least.

After throwing one round of flaming oil jars, another round followed. Then, without hesitation, Aix mounted his horse with the fifty stone-throwing soldiers and galloped to the other side of the enemy camp.

The enemy camp was not large, and the other side was mainly a camping area with tents. After Aix and his stone-throwing soldiers arrived at the site, they did not stop at all. After dismounting, they lined up to attack directly.

Each slinger carried a total of five small incendiary oil cans. This time, Aix asked them to throw out the remaining three incendiary oil cans.

At this time, a fire had already started in the other camp, causing a great noise. The enemies in the camping area had just been awakened and rushed out of the tent in panic. One hundred and fifty incendiary oil tanks were thrown at them.

The splashing incendiary oil covered a large area, instantly igniting the flammable tents, while some directly hit the densely packed crowd. Many burning firemen screamed and ran around the camp, and the entire enemy camp was instantly transformed into a burning sea of ​​hellfire.