Arod's plan was to use his strong castle to ensure his own strategic security, and then gradually expand his power. If he was lucky, he would take the opportunity to attack the Slavs' gathering place in the case of civil strife of the Slavs. Although it was a stupid way to take action step by step, there was no way to use Arod's manpower and material resources. However, the Slavs did not have the idea of ​​first resolutely defending their homes. When Arod had just established his foothold, Jakash, the mayor of the Wisma town of Mecklenburg County, invited the hero Kang Tuoyi, gathered five or six hundred noble private troops, and advanced towards Arod's Rage Lion Castle.

There is only a short distance between the town of Visma and the Rage Lion Castle. It can be reached when it is almost noon in the morning. The flags of the Slav nobles are flying outside the Rage Lion Castle. Most of the flags are simple and monotonous red and white colors, or very ancient graffiti-like graffiti-like arms that look like rock walls. This instead represents the ancient family lines of these nobles. Some families can even trace back to the ancient Roman times. The ancient family lines make the Slav nobles full of pride. In their opinion, these pagans who claim to believe in God are both arrogant and rude.

"Is this the castle of the pagans?" The leader of Upton led thirty men in leather armor, holding sharp swords and wooden shields, and wearing helmets made of wild boar teeth. The top of the helmet was decorated with black animal mane. This was the elite heavy warrior of Upton's leader, who was his faithful guard on weekdays.

"Yes, look at the moat that is not wide, but it is enough to stop our attack from the raid team." Kang Tuoyi pointed to a moat that looked like a jade belt outside the Rage Lion Castle and said to the leader Upton.

"Then let's solve the water. Order the light infantry to build earth dams upstream with earth to cut off the river. I see what their moat is useful." Chief Upton is worthy of being a veteran in the war. He quickly saw the key points of solving the moat. Cutting the river upstream, making the moat a sourceless water. It would be much easier to break it again at this time.

"Good idea." Kang Tuoyi agreed and quickly ordered the 100 light infantrymen in the team to set sail upstream. The people in the Rage Lion Castle looked at the Slavs hidden in the forest, neither attacking nor provoking. They seemed to want to siege the people in the Rage Lion Castle. But they were not afraid of this. Why? Arod had a lot of live birds and farming land in the Rage Lion Castle, and there was enough food and material reserves to support a year. The hungry siege battle did not work at all. The Rage Lion Castle is a castle near the river. Therefore, the people in the castle were not afraid of having no water to drink. As long as they could not defeat the people guarding the city in hunger, a castle would basically not be able to be broken by itself.

"Sir, do these Slavs plan to siege us?" Julian stood in the Arrow Tower with Arrow. Looking at the flags vaguely visible in the forest and the figures of Slav soldiers who appeared and disappeared from time to time, Aroud felt relaxed, and what should come was always coming back. However, he believed that the Slavs would not use the long siege battle, because Jeff's intelligence was very clear. A war of inheritance rights was brewing within the Mecklenburg emirate, so although Kang Tuoyi was unwilling to be involved, the power struggle was unwilling not to fight. Therefore, the protracted siege battle was definitely not what Kang Tuoyi wanted.

"Let our people be more alert, what tricks may the Slavs play." Arod patroled the city walls and saw that all preparations were sufficient. When the soldiers saw Arod took off their hats and saluted respectfully. When the solar eclipse was approaching, Arod was calm and composed, so that the soldiers were very confident in their lords.

"Wow, um~~~~." At this moment, twenty or thirty Slavic warriors rushed out of the forest, wearing thick linen tops and trousers, wearing a cloak, either wearing felt hats or nothing, holding bows and javelins in their hands. When they approached the moat of the Rage Lion Castle, these people shouted and threw the bows and javelins at the guards on the walls, and arrows shot through arcs into the castle, and many javelins pierced into the wooden boards of the walls.

"Swoosh!" The guards on the city wall were not to be outdone. The archers bent their bows and fought back at the Slavs who were trying to provoke. The arrows and javelins of both sides intertwined between the city wall and the ground. However, the walls of the Rage Lion Castle were tall, adding a little height to the arrow tower above. The condescending shooting allowed the guards to take advantage of the guards. Soon the Slavs threw down several corpses and retreated to the forest.

"Sir Earl, the enemy is testing our defense strength and weakness." John Berg wore Tang-style leather armor. He and his men had already climbed the city wall and were ready to counterattack the Slavs' attack at any time, but he could see that these archers and javelins were just tentative attacks. The Slavs' generals were very cunning.

"It's okay, they can't imagine what will be waiting for them behind." Arod said to John Berg indifferently. John Berg's mouth also smiled. His eyes crossed the city wall and looked at the four whirlwind cannons placed on the open space in the castle. These whirlwind cannons were majestic like proud guards.

"Kang Tuoyi, the enemy has three arrow towers on the city wall, but there are wooden boards on the arrow tower, and there are very small shooting holes on it. It is difficult for our people to use bows or javelins to deal with the people inside from below." A leader in charge of this tentative attack reported to Kang Tuoyi and the leader of Upton.

"So what about their city walls? How thick is the wall? Can they be pierced?" Chief Upton asked him immediately.

"No, although it looks like wood, the javelin cannot penetrate it."

"So what if you apply oil cloth on the arrow and use rockets to burn those city walls?" Chief Upton touched his chin and suggested to Kang Tuoyi.

"It doesn't work. I've seen it from inside. Their walls are compacted with mud and sand. Besides, there is river water outside the castle. They can quickly put out the rockets, and they can't destroy the walls at all." Kang Tuoyi shook his head, thinking that the suggestion of the leader Upton was not advisable. The only way now is to cut off the water source of the moat. He cannot let the people in the castle notice their actions, so he needs to constantly pretend to attack to restrain the attention of people in the castle.

After using the long-range soldiers to test the defense of the castle, the Slavs began to order a small number of light infantry holding spears and shields to approach the castle. However, once they were violently shot by the archers on the castle, they quickly retreated, and they were harassed like endless flies. This kind of battle was very boring. John Berg was very afraid that the enemy was consuming the arrows in the castle, so he ordered the archers to reduce the number of shots and was forced to shoot continuously unless they had to.

"It's a little wrong." Aruod keenly noticed that the Slavs' offensive rhythm was abnormal. Generally speaking, in order to avoid morale decline, they either attacked fiercely or remained silent. However, this kind of attack that was constantly repelled would only weaken the morale of the soldiers. Aruod was not worried about this at all? Aruod was puzzled. Time passed little by little, and the offense and defensive machinery under the castle were going monotonously. The sun gradually sinks, and the night falls on the ground, and the two sides stopped fighting.

The people who did not participate in the battle in the castle still maintained the normal order of life. Although they were deeply worried about the vicious Slavs and pagans outside the castle, people felt much more at ease when they looked at the tall and thick city walls and the strong Swiss mercenaries on the city walls. Except for the monks praying under the cross from time to time, their production and life were not greatly affected.

But in the morning of the next day, people suddenly found that the water level of the river surrounding the Rage Lion Castle had dropped a lot, and some places could even see higher river beds. Aruod, who was woken up by Julian, had no time to put on a chain mail and walked up to the city wall to look at the moat that had lost its protective effect. He was secretly complaining in his heart that he was actually placed by these Slavs, which explained why they kept harassing themselves. This was to prevent their attention from focusing on the dropping water level. At this time, the moat water level could be wading by hiking.

"Woo~~~~~~." The sound of the Slavs' horn came from the forest. Three hundred Slav light infantry holding spears and shields walked out of the forest under the leadership of their respective leaders. It seemed that the Slavs were preparing to come true this time. Some of these light infantry teams were carrying heavy wooden stakes. This was to attack the gate-bumping team to defend the castle. Most of the members of the gate-bumping team were strong.

In addition, after every fifty light infantry, a Slavic leader was wearing tough leather armor, an iron helmet, a green cloak, and a sharp iron sword around his waist. They were both officers leading the soldiers and supervisors who supervised and prevented the soldiers from escaping.

"Give you strength in the name of the gods~~~." In addition to the leaders who shook swords among the Slavic soldiers and made pre-war mobilization speeches, there were also priests Lomwa who were wielding the golden sickle to inspire people with religion.

However, their actions also angered the monks in the Rage Lion Castle. The monks believed that these heretics who believed in the wrong gods dared to use the name of God shamelessly. The monks immediately held up the small cross in their hands, cursed at the Lomwa priests, and assured the warriors in the Rage Lion Castle that they would definitely ascend to heaven against the pagan souls.

"Attack~~~." Kang Tuoyi, who was a little impatient with the performance of these religious madmen, frowned and nodded to the leader Upton. With a low horn sound, the Slav soldiers, led by the leaders, rushed towards the Angry Lion Castle like a tide. In an instant, in the open space outside the castle, it seemed that Slavs holding shields and spears were everywhere in the mountains and fields.
Chapter completed!