Unknown Knight

It took nearly a day, when these ragged gentlemen and the more than 300 auxiliary soldiers who supported them were so tired that they could not even straighten their backs, a passage in the moat of Memphis was finally filled up to accommodate three siege towers.

The gentlemen in Memphis were very loyal and righteous, and they didn't shoot a single arrow at the captives who were filling the river. However, this made Aix worried. He had seen so many unexpected situations that he always felt uneasy. The river was filled too easily, and there wouldn't be any bad situations waiting for him.

However, it was almost dusk, and it was not realistic to launch the siege tower to attack the city at this time. Even if we had many concerns, we would have to wait until tomorrow to attack the city.

"Give orders to have the scouts double their manpower and expand the reconnaissance area to a radius of twenty miles. Everyone should also take turns to rest at night, and there should be at least a thousand fully armed personnel on duty."

Worried, Aix told his guards that the enemy's combined strength was no less than his own, and he could only relieve his worries in this way.

Fortunately, nothing happened that night, but Aix was in great torment. He did not sleep well at all. He just stared at the man in armor for a while, which made his eyelids twitching all morning.

Seeing that he looked exhausted and in a very bad condition, Bestur knew that he had not had enough rest, so he volunteered to take over the command and let him lead the army to organize the siege.

With the strong support of kerosene, the three siege towers put the planks on the city wall without much effort, although the enemies on the city wall threw arrows and javelins very fiercely, piercing the siege towers like hedgehogs.

However, Humamu seemed to be very wary of other city lords. There were no catapults, crossbows and other city defense weapons in Memphis, which allowed the siege tower to approach the city wall smoothly. Then the soldiers climbed up the city wall shouting, and a bloody hand-to-hand fight broke out between the two sides on the city wall.

However, after this confrontation between the two sides, it was found that the city of Memphis was not as simple as imagined. Their soldiers had a very high fighting spirit and everyone was brave enough to fight to the death.

The key point is that the city wall here is actually the same as that of Zion City, with a low wall built on the top of the city. Moreover, this low wall is obviously not newly built. It is made of neat stone slabs, and the glue material is also of the best quality. It seems that some special ingredients have been added. The texture after solidification is as hard as stone, making the stones very firmly bonded.

Although Aix had specially prepared iron-clad battering rams to destroy such low walls, it was still difficult to destroy them after a few of them were passed up, so the progress of the siege was extremely slow. The morale of the enemy troops who had climbed onto the top of the city walls plummeted, and the situation in which the city was immediately breached did not occur.

The slow progress in destroying the low wall also led to an increase in casualties among the soldiers attacking the city. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, Aix had to order the firing of more fire oil tanks for support. For a while, thick smoke and blazing flames were billowing on the city walls. The war of cold weapons had produced the effects of the hot weapons era.

It took a whole morning, and not even half of the low wall in front of them was destroyed. It was almost noon, and the soldiers on the top of the city were too hungry to have any strength. Aix was considering whether to let the soldiers withdraw from the city wall, eat, and then go up to the city to continue fighting. Suddenly, a messenger cavalry with two arrows in his body came to report the news. He was so scared that he immediately asked the messenger to blow the horn to retreat.

It turned out that bad news came from the military camp stationed outside Berbera:

Early this morning, as if everything had been prepared, when Aix launched an attack on the city of Memphis, the lord of Humamu, who was hiding in the city, suddenly led his troops out of the city and used his assembled troops of about 4,000 people to besiege the camp outside Berbera that was responsible for monitoring the siege.

Not only that, the enemy also gathered a cavalry unit of nearly a thousand people from the surrounding Bedouin tribes. They launched a surprise attack on the 400 cavalry left behind by Aix, causing heavy losses to their own cavalry unit in a hurry.

At present, the enemy is launching a fierce attack on the camp outside the city of Berbera. Although General Niza has reinforced the camp, the enemy is obviously well prepared and has prepared catapults for attacking the stronghold. The enemy is attacking very fiercely, making the camp precarious and at risk of being breached at any time.

No wonder Axe always felt something was wrong. When he asked the prisoners to fill the river, the enemy did not panic at all. Even when he had climbed to the top of the city wall, the enemy's will to resist did not diminish in the slightest. It turned out that they had something to rely on.

Although they have already captured the city walls of Memphis, judging from the current progress, it is impossible to enter the city today. And he has to rescue the camp outside Berbera, which not only houses more than a thousand elite soldiers, but also nearly half of the food and grass collected during this period are stored in this camp. If the camp is lost, there will be heavy losses.

Although the troops have withdrawn now, they will definitely be pursued by the enemy soldiers in the city. Memphis is about fifty miles away from Berbera, which is neither far nor close. If they are caught up by the enemy on the road, and the troops of Berbera attack from behind, it will be a lot of trouble.

Judging from the current situation, Humamu's attack on the camp outside Berbera is most likely a real and fake move. If Aix is ​​determined not to return to support, he will eat up the camp outside Berbera. If he returns to support, then his target will become the main force led by Aix. It is really a good move.

In fact, Aix had foreseen this situation a long time ago, but he did not expect that the Lord of Humamu could have such good coordination with the army of Memphis. Their coordinated actions were completely beyond his expectations, and he couldn't help feeling a little panicked.

It seems that the Lord of Humamu City either has a master around him, or I have underestimated him before. He is still quite capable when it comes to marching and fighting.

It's just that you have a plan, but I have a way to climb over the wall. Although the number of troops on Aix's side is slightly disadvantaged, he is still very confident in the quality of his army and its combat capabilities. The key is that his army is an army with faith, which is incomparable to other armies of the same era.

He first sent Bestur to lead the most elite 1,000 men, including only a hundred cavalrymen, to increase their mobility. He asked them to go ahead and asked them to rush to the camp before the Lord of Humamu broke through the camp, and to help Niza defend the camp at all costs.

Then he sent Jeb to lead 2,000 men as the vanguard, one step ahead of the rest of the troops, to rush towards the camp outside Berbera.

He himself led the remaining 5,000 men and slowly retreated behind, ready to guard against attacks from the Memphis army at any time.