Chapter 264 – The Burson Siege III

Chapter 264 – Burson Siege III

The commander of Burson Castle was Baron Solawang, this person was a seventh-order Silver Knight, the family had the Linus bloodline, and his fighting strength was quite a bit stronger than even Baron Sharpe.

After Baron Solavang was awakened by the battle, he suppressed the annoyance in his heart and immediately ordered his adjutant to organize a team, put on his armor, and lead his soldiers to the castle to support him.

The Baron’s actions were very swift, and in less than twenty minutes, the Baron had rushed to the battlefield with his soldiers wearing their armor.

At this moment, Baron Sharp was preparing to organize his soldiers and open the city gates to receive the second echelon.

Seeing this scene, Baron Solavang immediately led his armor to kill up and protect the safety of the city gates.

There were three thousand defenders in Burson Castle, gathering the elite soldiers of six nearby barons. The fighting strength of the defenders was not as good as the Harland territory army, but it was a bit more elite than the allied army of the three provinces.

After all, the Stannic nobles were fighting a defensive war of the nature of the War of the Guardians, and the nobles claimed to have put their best foot forward and made a comprehensive mobilization.

And the nobles in the three provinces coalition army, almost all of them have reservations, although they also draw veterans, the number of noble professionals is smaller, the real fight, no matter the quality of the officers and soldiers or combat morale, are a little stronger than the three provinces coalition army.

The number of noble allied army professionals is not quite a lot, but the performance on the battlefield is far inferior to the main central legion, the fundamental reason is that the command up internal friction is relatively large.

Every time they encountered a break and sacrifice, the Noble Union Army’s internal interests were complicated and it was difficult to integrate their forces. Decision making was often slow, and in a battlefield where time was of the essence, such a slower reacting army would suffer a bit more losses.

When faced with a difficult task, such an army with greater internal friction could not be held accountable either.

The weaknesses of the noble allied army were very clear to Solavang in his heart, and drawing these three thousand soldiers to Burson Castle had already consumed a great deal of Baron Solavang’s energy.

Gathering the soldiers in Solavang castle, a few nearby barons had to carry out the order to hold the wall.

The loss of the wall is very big, wells have to be filled in, houses have to be burned down, and the population has to be relocated to the rear. To the nobles, a siege is almost the same as rebuilding the territory.

Moreover, if the population moves to the rear, it may not be safe, and there is a high probability that it will be annexed by the rear nobles. If you want to get back the population after the war, it is also a messy account, which is very complicated and troublesome to deal with.

The interests of the nobles were damaged, and it was particularly difficult to coordinate. Fortunately, Baron Solavang had some prestige and was able to get the nearby nobles to hand over their soldiers and carry out the order to hold the fort.

Because of the complicated internal structure, they were not under each other’s command. When it came to a critical situation, Solawang could only rely on the personal soldiers under his command.

Baron Solawang only had 500 or 600 men under his command, roughly the same number as the first echelon.

Visibility was low in darkness, and by the time the first echelon realized the anomaly, Solawang had already arrived in the vicinity with his troops.

The two groups of soldiers immediately mixed together, and a fierce melee broke out.

Sharp and Solawang were both high-level professionals, wearing sturdy enchanted armor and using divine blades in their hands. Ordinary soldiers could not block a single move from them, and their killing power was very high.

The two of them were like a sharp arrow, easily penetrating the scattered formation of the opponent.

Almost as if their hearts were in the right place, the two high-level professionals fought together, and the clash of their weapons erupted into a thunderous-like ringing sound.

Richard led a group of soldiers and covered the magician to mount the city, immediately noticing that Baron Sharp had fallen into a disadvantage.

Sharpe was the soul of the first echelon and could not be broken easily. If he died in battle at the city’s head, the blow to morale would be too great. Noticing that Sharpe was at risk of falling, Richard couldn’t think too much and immediately pulled back the enchanted longbow in his hand, aiming an arrow at the enemy.

Solawang fought with Baron Sharp and had just released a spell Frost Spell, wounding his opponent, before Solawang could make another effort to kill the enemy, a strong sense of crisis struck him violently, and before he could figure out what was going on, there was a sudden gust of wind in his ears.

Solawang glanced out of the corner of his eye, an arrow shot towards his eyes.

In an instant, Solawang could feel the harsh, powerful wind.

“Not good, it’s an enchanted arrow.”

Solawang was alarmed in his heart and immediately gave up attacking Sharp, instead releasing a strong magical energy shield.

Because he had invested a lot of magic power, the energy shield released by Solawang was very large, wrapping him from head to toe in the shield.

The arrow pierced into the energy shield so hard that it looked as if it was fixed in the air, and the shaft of the arrow quivered continuously, emitting a strong buzzing sound.

Before Solawan could breathe a sigh of relief, the feathered arrow struck again.

Solawang looked up and realized that Richard had actually used a streak of arrows, shooting eight feathered arrows in just a few dozen seconds.

The eight arrows pierced hard into the top of the energy shield, constantly draining the shield’s power. In a matter of moments, cracks had appeared in the energy shield released by Solawang.

Together with Richard, there were more than ten magicians who ascended to the top of the city, and their reaction was also very fast, under Wendy’s command, they unleashed spells to strike the enemy.

Heath released a second ring magic debilitating ray, and Anne released a second ring magic blazing spell ball, hitting Solavang at the same time.

Continuously attacked, the energy shield finally couldn’t hold on anymore and turned into a little bit of magic, dissipating into the air.

Seeing that the enemy mage group had ascended the city wall, Solawang’s face changed and his heart was greatly surprised. He never expected that the attacking side would have a mage corps to cooperate with the battle.

During the daytime siege, the realities of the Gascoigne Province nobles’ allied forces had already been seen clearly by Solawang.

Although the Gascoigne Province coalition army is not a serf soldier, the quality is relatively general, a few points weaker than the second line legion.

The attacking army is close to 20,000 people, if the quality is the same as the soldiers who attacked the city during the day, Solawang has enough determination to defend until the other side runs out of food and retreats.

But there were still quite a few elite soldiers in the fifteen thousand plus allied army.

The power of magic, in particular, had made a critical difference today.

There were no magicians under Solawan’s command, so this loss was a sure thing today.

The magic power of the Grand Duchy of Starnic was far inferior to that of the Kingdom of Grant, this country had no natural wells of magic power, and the magic inheritance was very small, making it difficult to cultivate a magician.

The limited mage power was concentrated in the capital, the northern frontier, and the southern ducal families would not send mages to aid Burson City even though they had magical inheritance.

If Solawang had a mage corps, Richard wouldn’t dare to create a stone ramp to attack the city, because the magician could release the Turn Stone into Clay spell, which could allow Richard to steal the chicken.

Seeing the Harland territory mage corps, Solawang was clear that the situation had become very dangerous, if he could not kill these magicians, he would have to accept the loss of the castle and the failure of the battle today.

Baron Solavang yelled, “Follow me!”

His body was like a cheetah, bouncing violently, constantly changing his running path and rushing towards Richard and the others. At this moment, Solawang was very calm in his heart, he knew in his heart that only by killing the enemy’s magician could he change the battle situation and achieve a complete victory.

Although the power of the magician was strong, but the lower ranked magicians did not have mastery of flight, teleportation, dimensional and other magic, and were afraid of encountering close combat.

If he could slaughter the opponent’s mage corps, the battle today would still be a win.

Seeing Solavang killing forward, Baron Sharpe wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and blocked the front without thinking, even though he couldn’t defeat this person, he still had to do his duty on the battlefield, preventing Solavang from approaching the magician.

Solavang let out a roar, raised his enchanted heavy sword with both hands, and leapt high into the air, slashing at Sharp’s head, who was blocking the way.

Sharp’s muscles tensed and he raised his enchanted longsword to meet his foe.

The two swords collided, sparks flying in all directions, and a thunderous sound erupted. Borrowing the force of the collision, Solawan’s body was as light as a monkey’s, crossing over Baron Sharp’s head. With a backhanded sword, Sorafi stabbed Baron Sharp in the back of his heart.

Baron Sharpe’s reaction was quick, almost instinctively taking a step forward before swinging his sword backhandedly, blocking Solavang’s attack.

But at this moment, Solavang had already broken through Baron Sharp’s block and was close to the wizard.

Seeing Solavang rushing over, Annie immediately released a spider web spell, wanting to trap this person.

A spider web appeared under his feet, Solawang’s legs tensed up and his hands kept waving the enchanted arrows to cut the spider web, and then with a hard jump, he crossed the distance of five or six meters.

Solawang had just landed on the ground when a sharp arrow plunged straight into his brow.

In the nick of time, Solawang used the last bit of his magic power and released a seven-ringed magic time delay.

In a blink of an eye, the passage of time in the three meters around Solawang slowed down by a few points, and he hurriedly shook his head to dodge, narrowly avoiding the arrow that would surely kill him.

But his cheek was cut by the arrow, almost killing him.

Another brush with death, and Solawang sucked in a breath of cold air as he wiped the blood from his cheek and turned his head to look at his sneak attacker, glaring at Richard as he killed him.

Solawang’s speed was so fast that he was no longer more than fifteen meters away from Richard, and at such a close distance, against an enemy like Solawang, Richard was too late to draw his bow and aim.

Seeing Solawang swinging his sword, Richard raised his enchanted longsword and fought with Solawang.

Richard’s physical talent was outstanding, his warrior level had risen to the fifth rank, and his swordsmanship was also quite good, so for a moment, Solawang was unable to kill Richard.

Solawang was just about to break through Richard’s block and kill the other magicians, only to see Baron Sharpe had already chased after him, and did not give him a chance to do so.

Sharpe joined hands with Richard, and he was no longer in a close combat situation against Solawang.

Sharp swung his sword to force Solawang back, and Richard immediately released the Three Ringed Magical Body Technique.

Normally, according to Solawan’s combat experience, it would be difficult for him to be hit by this magic.

However, in the chaotic battlefield, facing the threat of Richard and Sharp, Solawang did not dare to be distracted.

Although his magic resistance was very high, and the fixation spell could only fix him for one or two seconds, but these two seconds would also kill him on the battlefield.

When Solawang was hit by the fixation spell, Richard and Sharpe stepped forward almost at the same time, and the enchanted longsword in their hands stabbed at Solawang’s neck, and this Silver Knight, who had very strong fighting ability, lost his life in an instant.

A prompting sound came from his mind, and it was immediately clear to Richard that Solavang had died.

Sharpe stepped forward and cut off Solawang’s head, shouting loudly, “The Silver Knight has died in battle, are you still not surrendering?”

Right at this moment, the second echelon also began to ascend the city. The reinforcements sent by Solawang had also just finished regrouping and were approaching the city walls.

The battle was very chaotic in the darkness of the night, and even if Solawang died in battle and Baron Sharpe cried out that he had killed the Silver Knights, the defenders didn’t really believe it.

Seeing that the defenders had organized their ranks and were once again rushing towards the city, Wendy raised her lightning staff and released a chain lightning spell.

This time before the army, although the Harland territory soldiers didn’t come out of the nest, but also counted the elite soldiers, Richard carried the bottle of starlight, Sophia took on the starlight necklace, Wendy also took on the staff of thunder and lightning.

The Harland Mage Association had mastered three pieces of legendary magical equipment, exceeding even the Grant Mage Association by a few points.

In a flash a dozen lightning bolts struck amongst the Burson defenders, killing and injuring over a hundred people in an instant.

With the help of the bright light that erupted from the lightning, the nearby situation they could finally see clearly. Seeing Baron Sharp carrying Solawang’s head, many soldiers instantly lost their resolve to resist.

The chain lightning was like the last straw, crushing the fighting will of the Burson defenders.

Many soldiers took advantage of the dark night to escape from Burson Castle and hid in the mountains and forests.

The third echelon of reinforcements came up and took the Burson Castle gates with almost no outbreak of fighting.

The surprise attack was successful, and the following troops quickly took control of Burson Castle.

On the afternoon of the second day, the battlefield had been cleaned up, casualties counted, and large pits dug to bury the dead soldiers of the Burson garrison.

As for the officers and soldiers of the allied forces of the three provinces who died in battle, the bodies would be cremated when conditions permitted, and the ashes would be packed in altars and sent to their families in the rear.

Richard summoned the main officers to the Burson City Lord’s Mansion, and when everyone had arrived, the staff officers began to report the results of the battle.

“According to our statistics, last night’s battle killed four hundred and fifty-six of the Burson defenders, captured sixteen hundred and eighty-three, escaped from the city about two to three hundred, and the remaining five to six hundred soldiers were mixed in with the citizens of the castle.”

Listening to the staff officer’s report, Richard frowned and suddenly interrupted, “Has the population in Burson City been counted?”

“There are no detailed statistics yet, only a rough figure, not counting the defenders, there are more than eight thousand people in the castle.”

“What about the captures? Especially the amount of captured food, it must be counted clearly.”

“After capturing Burson Castle, we captured two thousand two hundred tons of grain, one thousand four hundred pieces of iron armor, and over forty thousand gold and silver coins.”

“Take out all the captured coins and divide them among the soldiers. Then pick some beautiful women from Burson Castle, let the officers and soldiers who have made meritorious achievements have priority in choosing someone, many of our soldiers are still bachelors, after this battle is won we need to pick some beautiful women for the soldiers to get married.”

Richard is a fair person, despite the fact that the soldiers of Harland territory got the most credit for this battle, and were able to break the city’s Vase of Starburst, the territory’s mage corps, and elite archers all played a decisive role, he still decided to share the spoils of war with the allied forces of the three provinces. This batch of loot was mainly distributed to the soldiers at the bottom. With the gold coins and women, the soldiers’ morale finally recovered a few points.

(End of chapter)