Time passed quickly at the camp yesterday as everyone was busy with building it making liveable and safe the legionnaires and the higher up were waiting for a night raid or something of the like but the first Ray of light came nothing happened.
In the main tent đȘ Damien,kikyou, Carl and the rest of the knights were having breakfast đ„ đł it was almost like they have already reason the only thing they were so relaxed is that from the intelligence gathered by Bruce from the deserters not many have returned except a four hundred cavalry man and around a hundred personal guards of Dylan so in all they will be facing at worst a thousand man with low morale.
While they were having their meal Damien asked Carl :'what procedure you will be following for this siege sir Carl?'.
After hearing this question from his lord he stopped eating then said:' the plan I will applying to this siege will be as follows first we will give it a simple bombardement to make the people what's gonna happen as the sound plus the destruction that will cause will start moving many hearts then after that we will make three artillery batteries anchored around the twelve pounder guns then fire on three parts of the wall 𧱠simultaneously in order to create many breaches as possible as that will lower our casualties and increase our chances of success because even if they are a losing army they still have the wall which will give an advantage also before the assault I will have the musketeers snipe the archers over the wall then move in with the legionnaires usin Testudo '.
After hearing the plan Damien said' you have my full support for this plan sir Carl I wish success'.
After that continued their meal with some small talk here and there.
After Damien rode his horse towards a the main gate of Manheim but he stood around a three hundreds metres away safe from in stray arrow that could be unleashed at him right after he was there the doo opened and from it Dylan came wearing his a shining armour typical of any knight Damien could see some runes were hammered at it so it must have some magical properties.
Dylan started by seeing:'My dear baron Damien Pendragon, we deeply regret how our first meeting went. We were compelled to fight in those circumstances'.
' Manheim town remain your territory, but if you could bestow it upon me as a place of ruling in your name, I am willing to offer my sincere loyalty to you and I am willing to composate you with gold and silver my lord'.
' I would like to tell while those magic wands or magic cannons of yours while may have been great on the battlefield it also cost a fortune to fire them if what I heard is correcte just two shot consume five mana stone I wonder how much shot you can still fire I am even Willing to handover to you half of the quarterly revenue, guaranteeing that you will receive far more than the taxes you will if you rule directly what do you say we end this misunderstanding this way'
Hearing all this Damien was thinking the conditions given by Dylan where good he will get more revenue without doing anything also preserving the life of his legionnaires but this will also sit a precedent that traitor even in weak position can negotiate with him but most importantly he knows that the seconde that he regained just a little of power he will Renegade on their deal đ€ he could use an oath contract but those are astonishingly expensive and hard to get .
After a few minutes of silence đ€ Damien said:'The very idea is of agreeing to you proposal is ludicrous nevermind it will make the joke of dinner đœïž among nobles what made you think I will say yes to such a thing woul you have agreed if you where in my position '.
Dylan didn't know what to say only a foolish lord would have agreed to this deal but he couldn't tell him this it just he kept getting a weird feeling isn't this guy supposed to be stupid and doesn't know shit first where those fire spitting weapons he used against him now he didn't get fooled even when he gave them lucrative deal even ceding some of his interests but alas he seems to have missed judge him and everyone who knew him he really hid deep .
So he should change the way his treated him and start thinking what as from the looks of it he seen confident like that time he meet before the battle.
Then he said:'no I would never even entertain the idea'.
He answered :'i appreciate your answer so I will tell this the town I will take it back no matter what as so my advice to you you should write your will'.
Then he turned and started going back to his army as for showing his back to Dylan he was enticing him to attack then he will bounce on him and also summon his death knights.
He heard Dylan saying:' you should do the same'.
A few minutes later Damien was back he stood next to Carl he was making sure that every artillery battery well placed and aiming at its supposed part of the wall đ§±.
He said to Damien:' how did it go lord?'.
He answered him:' I got a battle are up for it?'.
Carl:' yes lord I am ready and every legionnaires ready to do our duty we are just waiting for you order lord'.
Damien nodded and said:' I baron Damien of Tuscany I order you sir Carl chief of staff to take back the town and eliminate the rebels'.
Carl:' yes lord'.
Just right after the order to fire was given thus the first bombardement of a wall 𧱠in the history using gunpowder artillery has started the different members of gun crew, carrying a bucket of water, approached the cannon, following the established procedure.they used a long pole with a wrapped brush, dipped it in water, and cleaned the cannon's muzzle to remove any residual sparks from previous use in the earlier battle this step was rigorously enforced to prevent any mishaps in subsequent shelling.
After that they will use a dry brush to clean out any water residue left in the barrel, then loaded a cloth-wrapped gunpowder charge and a solid iron shot into the breech, followed by tamping down the ammunition with a ramrod.
Finaly The ignition stage came A small iron spike was inserted through the vent hole at the breech, piercing the gunpowder charge filling the vent hole with gunpowder and using a linstock, a stick with slow match wrapped around it, to ignite the gunpowder in the hole then the dragon roar was heard "booooooooom".
Right after parts of the wall were damaged and some of the enemy soldiers who were manning the wall were hurt đ€ others were frightened from the new weapons and some remembered what happened last time the y heard this sound they were fear Frozen seeing this Dylan Fastly acted ordering his loyal guard :'i want you to maintain discipline and order in the ranks here by any means so make some examples after tell them i will rewards lavish for those who will distinguishe themselves in the upcoming battle'. for the time being he has his army in check and we'll motivate as for how to deal with those cylinders tubes they will have just to endure their punishment for nom and later when they attack or at night he will launch his chimeras to destroy this robbing the baron of his strongest weapon.
Meanwhile the gun crews were continuing their firing large holes could be seeing on the wall 𧱠and Carl was giving his orders so that for each side two campanies ready to storm the town and a third for support as for the rest they were on stand by or on guard duties.