The messenger was killed. The attacking side had sufficient reasons. The defense side also had a clear understanding. There was no possibility of easing between the two sides, and it was about to start a war.

Egil had already received news that the total number of Renaya people stationed in this city was only more than 2,000.

And they are not regular soldiers. Although due to the excellent economic conditions of Northern Italy, they are equipped with iron helmets and chain armor and large shield spears, their actual combat effectiveness should be only a little better than the spear soldiers of ordinary countries. It is not worth worrying about. The signature army of Renaya, Renaya giant shield crossbow soldiers, has only less than 200 people in this city. The crossbow has strong lethality, but its shooting speed is also not worth worrying about.

What bothered Egil was more than 50,000 citizens of Marseille.

Perhaps it is because of the high awareness of this kind of urban residents. Or perhaps it is because of the popular saying "The city was destroyed and the city was slaughtered for three days. This made it work. The strong people in the city consciously armed. Although the equipment was not as good as the Renais militia, it was enough to dismantle the simple shields made of houses and the short spears made by the blacksmith shop. In this way, Marseille had nearly 10,000 defenders out of thin air. When necessary, the young and old can also go to the city wall to block arrows. Overall, Marseille's war potential is still very high.

Egil looked at the secret letter sent by the spies in the city through the pigeons at night. He knew that it would be unlikely to fulfill his promise to "kill as little as possible" by Joan of Arc.

Perhaps the city will be slaughtered after it is broken. These damn Frenchmen will die in the previous siege.

"Your good people." Egil was very angry. So the French king Philip II, who was directly related to it, turned into a punching bag. Egil was angry and didn't care that the other party was the king who was equal to him. He didn't give him a good face at all.

In fact, Philip II felt very uncomfortable. Egil's blame was one aspect.

It is another aspect to see that the people who should belong to him are actually fighting against him.

"Tomorrow, the French army will attack first." Philip II was so angry that he clenched his fist with his right hand and smashed the table hard, but he made a decision that was completely inconsistent with the title of "Fox,".

So, the second arrow.

Egil did not tell Philip II that he specially brought hundreds of loading and unloading, fully assembled lines, made of universal parts, and extremely convenient and powerful counterweight catapults. It does not require a strong attack to deal with a strong city. It only takes a while to allow the engineers to assemble all these siege weapons. Then they can knock Marseille's not-so-solid city wall into slag.

But why did Egil tell Philip II? Philip II is not his relative.

However, Egil's purpose was to rescue the city of Rome. Why did he bring so many siege equipment? It's really strange...

that's all.

After a day of preparation, the French soldiers carried shoddy ladders and rushed towards the city wall more than four meters high in Marseille.

Immediately afterwards, a round of crossbow arrows shot down from the top of the city. Renaya crossbow soldiers were the best in Europe.

The technological content of the Kowtower is not inferior to that of the Norman crossbowers. The training level is even higher. The crossbowers equipped with heavy scale armor, long swords, and large shields are not bad at all in close combat.

These two hundred Renaya crossbow soldiers gathered in the front row of battlements, holding heavy vehicles, aimed at the French spear sergeants who were swarming in, and then fired a volley. Then they did not check the results. Instead, they continued to quickly put the heavy crossbow on the ground, lifted their feet and stepped on them to sternly.

The power of the heavy crossbow was fully displayed at this moment. The French soldiers rushing to the front row felt as if they were punched heavily, and the shield that protected the front of them was penetrated. Their bodies were involuntarily leaning back. Then they felt that the pain was painful when they looked down and found that there was only a piece of arrow feather left shaking. They wanted to get up, but they felt that something was pulling him behind them. They lay down to the ground all of a sudden. The reason for this was because the crossbow arrow was directly nailed to the ground.

The unlucky guy struggled desperately, trying to stand up and waved his hands to ask for help. However, on the battlefield, no one paid attention to him. Behind him, the same fanatical French soldiers stomped past him and stomped the soldier who had only half his life to death.

"As soon as you climb, you will receive a hundred gold! Canonize a knight! Those with a noble title will reward a thousand gold, and you can choose three trophys first!" Philip II's generous reward completely aroused the greed in the hearts of the French people. Especially those civilians. After hearing about a knight title, almost all of them went crazy. It is not easy to become a nobleman these days... Although after becoming a knight, he was just a high-level cannon fodder, and he is still a certain distance from a real noble. But at least he took the first step. Many veterans fought wars all their lives. They even killed more people than some knights. But many of them were just civilians in the end.

So, the title of knight! And gold!! There is a fame and profit at once! How can you not be moved?!

The French soldiers roared fanatically, holding the French iris flag and the Crusader's red cross flag, carrying the ladder and rushing towards Marseille! The number of people was only 200 Renaya crossbowmen, such a long-range attack could not cause panic at all! On the contrary, the red blood actually caused the fierceness in the hearts of the French!

Only a few hundred meters away! It was a blink of an eye. The Renaya crossbow soldiers had only time to shoot two rounds of bows and arrows!

Immediately afterwards, the crossbowmen of the Renaya retreated and rushed towards the tower that was more towering but less likely to aim at the shooting. Italian militia and Marseille armed citizens rushed to the city to block the shield. At the same time, some citizens were responsible for transporting stones and boiling oil and other defending weapons. On the city wall, a bonfire brazier would be set up as a prop for ignition.

Seeing that the city of Marseille was well guarded, Philip II sent another horse exploration again. After rewarding, he said that the other two walls were also in the same situation. The south of Marseille was surrounded by the sea, but there were only three walls. Therefore, the 15,000 French troops were divided into three routes, each with 5,000 troops attacking one wall.

In this way, although the effect of surrounding attacks was achieved, it also lost a slight numerical advantage. A total of 12,000 defenders were divided into three teams, each team with a population of 4,000. There were not much less than the 5,000 attack troops in France. In addition, the pretty good urban defense system. It is unlikely that the French army would want to capture this city...

At the north wall, Philip II was frowning. Egil smiled slightly with his lips upwards, and then asked, "How? But it needs some support. The Norman army leader's archer is also good. Suppressing the enemy will also help the attacking forces."

Philip II opened his mouth and then whispered: "So, thank you for your help."

Egil chuckled twice again. Then he felt that the position was a little far away from the city. So he suggested: "Let's get closer. Just stop outside the range of the Renaya crossbow." The other monarchs had no objection. So hundreds of well-equipped Kings Guards advanced about two hundred meters. At the same time, the Norman Longbowers were ordered to launch a formation to fight. A total of five thousand Longbowers and five hundred Sherwood Shooters were arranged into straits. While doing the final debugging of their longbows, they slowly calculated the distance step by step and walked towards Marseille.

Finally, under the north wall, Robin Hood, dressed in green color, stopped under the order of Robin Hood. Then Robin Hood ran to Egil and asked his lord whether he could attack or not.

"Wait a minute." Egil waved his hand and pointed to the city. The one hand held the St. George flag of the Republic of Gernaya with one hand and the other pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist.

A guy dressed in heavy chain armor and dressed in a nobleman.

"Can you hear what that guy said?" Egil asked.

As an archer, the most important thing is to be a clever ear and a bright eye. As a leader, Robin Hood is the best.

Of course, it will not be inferior to the slightest. Use your ears a little and nod afterwards.

"I can hear it," Robin Hood replied.

"Oh, then that guy is talking, what are you talking about?" Egil continued, "Since I walked here just now, I saw him shouting at the top of my throat."

Robin Hood nodded and carefully distinguished the guy's voice from the noisy battlefield.

"These guys under the banner of the crusaders are essentially a group of locusts, a group of robbers! beasts in human skin! Although they promote the danger of saving Bishop Yahweh and proclaim their piety and chivalrous spirit. But the fact is that their real purpose is to rob! It is to plunder! It is to satisfy their wishes! The so-called piety and chivalrous spirit are just their fig leaf! The citizens of Marseille, don't be deceived by these people anymore! They are all a hill, and you must never have any fantasies about them. Only by rising up and resisting is the only way out!"

Robin Hood listened for a long time, but it was embarrassing. Deep down, this thief in the past did not think what the other party said was unreasonable. However, he had different identities and different positions. It was very difficult to identify with him...

"How? What did he say?" Egil continued.

"It's just nonsense. My subordinates are afraid that they will defile the Lord's ears."

Robin Hood answered so humblely.
Chapter completed!