After Duke elmsworth and His Entourage arrived near The fort they were surprised. At the fortification At the top of the hill.
It's A Stone wall .at first they thought the fort would be built hastily with wooden wall but it feels like they are wrong
Soon the army also arrived Duke gave the order for the army to Start building camp after Clearing the tress And Ground.
One thing was For Sure Camp would be conjusted And not well built because of less space.
He also ordered to Start building Ballistas. Unknown to him there are many eyes Watching there movements from shadows of forest tress
Meanwhile in the fortress which is about to be besieged. Soldiers morale is high they are well supplied as well. Many small catapults are built and Are Situated on the walls.
Swin the one incharge of these Fort is Discussing with his Soldiers and Advicing them of the plan they will carry out.
"Let them start building the camp and Don't attack the enemies. No matter what let Them feel they can win an easy victory that's when they will loose there vigilance. "
"And that's when we will attack. "
Meanwhile in a forest a group of cavalry and Light infantry with light armour can be seen discussing.
The soldier who was Scouting the enemy army returned and Started to give his report."My Lord degmon the enemy has started to build camp..... "
"Hmmm let them do it do not attack them.... After marching so long and Immediately starting to build.. These will lead to them being fatigued all day. "
"And at night when Deep in sleep. That's when we will attack. "
Meanwhile in dukes army camp. Four men can be seen discussing something in a luxurious tent.
'My Lord we Should let our soldiers build the Siege weapon and Camp and give them rest tonight and attack the fort tomorrow. "Gabriel Gave his opinion.
The young evander also agreed "Yes father We Should let our soldiers rest after attacking that fort. Right now won't be easy. "
Meanwhile cavalry general Jack as always was impatient. "My Lord we Should start attacking the Fort immediately . "
Gabriel objected. "Jack it's already afternoon by the time siege weapons are Built it will start to get dark do you really want to besiege a fort in a night. "
Evander gave a mocking smile to Jack.
Meanwhile duke who was silent all these time.
Spoke. "Gabriel and Evander is Right we will attack the fort tomorrow morning... "
Soon the moon started to rise the soldiers of The Duke army were resting sleeping peacefuly. Unknown to the danger Lurking in the shadows.
The army of Duke elmsworth was so confident that there was No Sentry built no patrolling guard's only some soldiers where assigned the duty to keep watch on the fort.
Duke elmsworth was overconfident because he believe when his army was building camp the enemy did not even shoot a single arrow to disturb the progress.so he and his Generals cam to conclusion that the enemy is Scared.
Suddenly the sound of hooves can be heard. And then it started. General degmon with a torck in his threw it at the tents similar to him many other soldiers did the same meanwhile another group of light infantry.
Attacked the area where supplies are located throwing torches And Killing the soldiers which were sleeping but woke after hearing the sound.
Soon the whole camp was thrown in dissaray
The Riverlands soldiers were not prepared at all. Even the cavalry horses were set free by light infantry soldiers of Wildwood territoryand Some of them were stolen by them.
Next came the siege weapon. Due siege weapons being Huge it were Located in front of fort. Duke had ordered his Soldiers to start bombarding the walls Early in morning .
The Siege weapons were guarded by soldiers but A Cavalry contigent of 20 soldiers Attacked them Then threw Torches And Cut The Ballista Ropes destroying it completely.
Duke Was Startled and Quickly stood Up he started wearing his armour hurriedly. Soon a Soldier entered his camp my Lord we are under attack.
"Who is attacking us". Duke asked
They are soldiers from Wildwood territory. Soldier hurrieo replied.
Quickly mobilize some light infantry soldiers so we can repuls them.
My Lord, Lord Gabriel is already doing that.
Duke got out of tent he can already see soldiers running wildly . They are panicking
. Panic is not good.
Enemy attack came from a every sides but the casualties piled up in Dukes army because many of his soldiers in Dark and because of panic killed many of there comrades themselves in confusion.
By the Time Gabriel. Formed up small unit of soldiers to attack the enemy. Degmon and his soldiers have already withdrawn.
In morning the destruction of camp camp in view. Only the inner area was Safe all of Outside camp and tents siege weapons are burned.
In a tent a young boy can be seen shouting he was wounded on his right arm. "Those cowards attacked us at night. "
Cavalry general Jack was also frustrated. "Those bastards"
General Gabriel sighed And Gave estimate to Duke of there Casualties "Yesterday we lost total of 1,700 soldiers and more than 400 soldiers are wounded our Siege weapons are useless now .
But the biggest problem is our food is Totally burned looks like the main target of enemy was to target our supplies.
Everyone in the tent sucked cold air.....
Duke Elmsworth sighed " And our soldiers could not get much rest yesterday as well.
Order our soldiers to start building Siege weapons again and also as for Supplies now we need to completely depend on the supplies that will be supplied from our territory.
At these Jack spoke My Lord give me orders I will collect the rations and food from the villages nearby using my cavalry .
Duke gave some thought to it but then rejected "No you won't do that if in case these people resist our soldiers might start attacking them. I don't want these people to start attacking our army. Using guerilla warfare"
"And in case we conquer these territory in future these people will carry the hatred in there heart ..... "
"So protect our supply line which will be connected to our territory. And i don't want anymore excuses start preparing siege weapons. I want to take that fort... "