System: Build My Own Territory-Chapter 642 - 233: Facing the Enemy (10,000 Words)
Janet quickly stood up, firmly gripping the slender longsword in her hand, and walked toward the guest hall exit.
As she arrived at the door, Joao happened to stride up to her.
He hurriedly explained, "Janet, the Three Great Estates have begun their attack!"
Janet said nothing.
Her gaze was fixed intently on the front of the castle.
In the far-off darkness, torches emitted a yellow glow.
Each torch represented a cavalryman.
All the torches formed a moving curtain of fire, rapidly advancing through the darkness.
Rows of cavalrymen galloped across the farmland.
Treading on the plants in the soil, they kicked up a cloud of sand and dust, charging toward the castle!
The soldiers of the Three Great Estates were attacking!
Janet remained calm in the face of danger, her expression stern, and with a swift motion of her right hand, she drew the slender longsword from her waist.
She shouted to Joao and the soldiers, "Prepare to meet the enemy!"
"Alright!"
As the unified shout resounded.
Joao ran off, heading to the castle walls to organize soldiers and guards for defense and safeguarding the castle.
Standing behind a battlement on the wall, Janet watched the torch lights continue to draw closer.
Three hundred meters.
Two hundred.
One hundred meters.
Closer.
Even closer!
She could now see clearly.
Troops of cavalrymen riding under their horses, raising shields, charging toward the castle gate and walls.
"Attack! Attack! Attack!"
"Kill!"
"Destroy Frank Manor!"
"..."
Amid the thundering hoofbeats, the invading enemies’ fierce shouts were clearly audible.
Standing in a prominent position, Joao Frank saw this and shouted, "Release arrows!"
On his command, the archers crouched behind the wall immediately stood up.
They drew their bows, aimed, and fired their arrows.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
In an instant, nearly a hundred arrows shot out from the archers’ fingers.
With sharp sounds, they rained down below the castle.
Thunk, thunk~
Thunk, thunk~
Despite the soldiers of the Three Great Estates charging with raised shields.
Still, more than ten men fell off their horses, crashing heavily onto the ground.
The horses galloping at high speed, coupled with taking arrows.
These ten men already had no chance of survival.
Watching the waves of approaching cavalrymen drawing ever nearer.
Joao urged the archers, "Shoot freely, kill them fiercely for me!"
The archers, with serious expressions, promptly shouted back, "Yes, Lord Joao!"
Joao strode to the edge of the wall.
His left hand gripped a battlement, body leaning forward, looking over the wall at the base of the Manor Castle.
Below the castle.
The arriving soldiers of the Three Great Estates, layer upon layer.
After just a few charges, the soldiers beneath the wall and gate numbered at least three to four hundred!
Watching those raising their shields, leaning them against the wall, forming a triangular pattern.
Joao frowned deeply, withdrew his body, and shouted to the soldiers, "Rolling wood and stones, hit them hard!"
The soldiers and guards heard this, with no hesitation.
Struggling to lift the massive stones and rolling wood from the wall’s edge, amid calls to throw.
Weights of hundreds of kilograms, rolling wood and stones, rolled down from the wall.
Under the effect of gravitational acceleration.
Some soldiers of the Three Great Estates standing in the wall’s corners didn’t even have time to cry out in pain.
Directly crushed into a bloody mess, lying in pools of blood.
But more soldiers from the Three Great Estates hid under triangular wooden shields, avoiding the attacks of rolling wood and stones.
A jumble of shouting rose from beneath the wall.
"If you don’t want to die, quickly find shields, raise them!"
"Rolling wood and stones are powerful, but the quantity is surely limited."
"Hold on!"
"..."
Listening to these reminders, more shields were raised.
The soldiers of the Three Great Estates hid beneath the shields.
They clutched their weapons, madly attacking the wooden gate of the Frank Manor Castle!
Seeing the impact of rolling wood and stones wasn’t as significant as imagined.
Joao’s already furrowed brows tightened even more.
If they couldn’t clear out the soldiers of the Three Great Estates below the wall.
It wouldn’t take long for them to break the gate, and even set up cloud ladders!
Joao didn’t hesitate, grabbed a team leader, and commanded.
"You, lead a guard squad to the warehouse!"
"Bring up all the pine resin oil from the warehouse!"
The running team leader, half-dragged by Joao, instinctively reached for his longsword to swing.
But upon seeing the burly man in front of him was Joao.
His anger instantly dissipated, he quickly responded, "Yes, Lord Joao!"
The team leader shouted to a dozen guards, "You all, follow me."
Watching the team leader lead the guards away from the wall, heading to the warehouse.
Joao’s heavy heart remained unchanged.
The pine resin oil in the warehouse, with strong flammability, could be used to launch deadly attacks at the soldiers of the Three Great Estates hidden below the wall.
The only flaw is the limited amount of pine resin oil!
But it’s enough to deliver a fatal blow to the soldiers of the Three Great Estates!
...
Facing the Frank Manor.
A mess of farmland already trampled beyond recognition.
A dozen figures rode atop horses!
Guards held torches, lighting the way for a few manor lords in front.
Watching wave after wave of light infantry carrying cloud ladders, swiftly heading toward the wall.
