CONQUEST&AMBTION
The Siege of Thorn.
While Waldislaw won the Battle of Waldislaws Hill, his son Boleslaw was besieging Thorn. It's only defence was a wooden wall around it's castle.
"Men look at those things on the walls, they are traitors. And you know what the punishment for traitors are a good old Hanging". The men cheered and laughed and prepared for the worst.
They would face tough opposition, axe-men and crossbowmen defended the walls and they had others in the streets.
"Men look at those things on the walls, they are traitors. And you know what the punishment for traitors are a good old Hanging". The men cheered and laughed and prepared for the worst.
They would face tough opposition, axe-men and crossbowmen defended the walls and they had others in the streets.
Boleslaw knew he could easily defeat this pathetic force of peasants but he would soon learn that numbers alone can't win battles.
The battle began as the Polish siege tower began to be pushed to the wals while at the same time some peasants took some ladders and began to climb an undefended part of the walls.
The Rebels retaliated by withering crossbow fire and burning down the siege tower.
Enraged by what he saw Boleslaw, ordered the ram to destroy the gates. By then fighting on the wall, first attacked by the Polish had begun, masses of men chopped and jabbed at each other unwilling to flee.
Then another set of ladders hit the walls. Mercinary spearmen and normal Polish troops climbed the ladders. The axe-men then attacked the Polish troops and a battle began between the spearmen and ordinary woodsmen.
By the time the ram had began, bashing the gates, it set on fire. It fell into pieces.Archers then went to attack the enemy with arrows.
Boleslaw was becoming, more angry everytime something bad, happenned to his troops. He then sent Polish Nobles to shower the enemy with missiles. The Nobles managed to rout several, Rebel troops off the walls giving, the Peasants on top the advantage. Then some spearmen in the confusion at the front wall opened the gates. And polish troops swarmed into the town.
Once the Polish troops had entered the town, street fighting accured as, the Rebel leader and a hand full of militia, attempted to stop Boleslaw who wanted, the Polish flag hanging over the castle walls. It was chaos as the walls were taken and the rebels despratly trying to hold on.
In the end it was futile the Rebel leader was slain along with the others. The survivors were given a public hanging at the pleasure of Boleslaw and the loyal citizens of Thorn. After the hanging the bodys were beheaded and thrown out of the town.