Chapter 805: Battle of the Attila Empire (4) --- Suspicious
The effect is very good, the only problem is that there is no way to last, there are not many drinks in the Attila Empire, even if they are collected for the war, they cannot be used many times.
The drinks were obtained from the Baltic Empire's logistical supply teams, originally intended as a condolence item for front-line soldiers, but now used for war purposes.
When the battlefield under the city wall was temporarily put to rest, those soldiers who had finally climbed the city wall ushered in the final end, unable to advance and had no way to retreat.
War stood on the city walls, and he looked at the soldiers around him with happy expressions on their faces, and looked at the scratched armor on the soldiers' bodies, which was the last struggle left by the temporary enemy in this world.
Taking advantage of the short time of the enemy's retreat, the soldiers on the city wall began to rest, they stripped the useful things from the enemy's corpses, and then threw the corpses off the walls and continued to serve as fuel for the flames below.
Black smoke filled the field of vision, and the mouth and nose were filled with a foul stench, but the soldiers of the Attila Empire were accustomed to such an environment, and in this environment, no one would dislike the environment that allowed them to live.
While the soldiers of the Attila Empire on the city walls were in full swing preparing for the next battle, the generals of the Baltic Empire also gathered.
They are not satisfied with their armies being held back by such methods, and they want to find a solution to this problem, preferably by successfully storming the walls without relying on the caster.
It's not that these generals have any sharp contradictions with those spellcasters, the reason why they don't want the spellcasters to participate in this battlefield is that they don't want their own combat exploits to be robbed by the spellcasters, and they don't want to win only with the help of the spellcasters, and they seem so "incompetent".
Within the Baltic Empire, especially in the army, even if you sit in the position of general, the pressure of competition is still very strong, and if you appear to be incompetent, you will be ruthlessly purged.
Therefore, every general will seize the opportunities in his hands, and will use these opportunities to show his worth, gain status promotion, and gain more power.
What's more, the commander-in-chief of this battlefield is Alice, it is their spiritual belief, and all of them hope to be able to perform well, let her see a more positive image of herself, and hope to win Alice's favor through excellent performance.
Soon, the generals came up with a solution that seemed to solve the problem they were facing, and they had the herald report it to the Chinese army, and only after obtaining approval did they begin to implement it.
They are only grassroots officers, and they cannot change the tactics of the army, they can only put forward ideas and suggestions, and it is the commanders of the Chinese army who really make the decision.
The Attila Empire was unaware of the movement of their enemies, and previous wars had shown that it was impossible to attack for two or three days after the flames were lit under the walls, not only because of the high temperatures, but also because of the black smoke from the flames and the vacuum that consumed oxygen, making it impossible for life to survive in this area.
In these two or three days, as long as you pay a little attention to the enemy's attacks with catapults, you can rest and recuperate, and wait for a more brutal battle, only on the back of the city wall, even a projectile cannot guarantee the accuracy, not to mention that in this season, the wind generated by the flowing air has reduced the power of long-range attacks a lot.
Such a concept cannot be said to be incorrect, because intelligent beings are often accustomed to using past experience to evaluate what is happening now, and many times such ideas can bring good help to people, but sometimes they will imprison people's concepts.
There are only a few ways to deal with the flames, and when the caster can't go into battle, those methods are very unrealistic, and they don't believe that the enemies outside will come to the city walls to extinguish the fire under the walls of the capital under the rain of arrows, which will make them laugh and lose their teeth.
With this in mind, the Baltic Empire took action, and the angles of the catapults were recalibrated and the ammunition was replaced with other ammunition instead of lethal explosive and flowering shells.
It was a mud ball made from dried hay and animal manure, and a bottle of sake wrapped in the middle of the mud ball, which was originally used as a fire charge, but now there is a new way to use it on this battlefield.
"What stupid are they doing?"
The soldiers, who were resting on the ramparts, stood up and saw the enemy throwing these ugly balls of mud into the flames under the ramparts with catapults.
With the addition of these fuels, the temperature of the flames increased, and in just a few minutes, the charred dirt below turned into lava.
The air was distorted by the heat, the flames robbed all the oxygen, and the black smoke released forced the soldiers to breathe normally only when they left the walls.
Atila's side could not understand the enemy's approach, and this practice of making the flames burn more violently would only make them unable to attack for a longer period of time, and would consume their incendiary bombs, which were difficult to distinguish between dry livestock and hay as winter approached.
The walls had been burned red with a dull sizzling sound, and they looked like unformed weapons being beaten by blacksmiths, placed in flames.
"Damn, those guys are going to melt our walls in the heat!"
The sudden sound of the soldiers made everyone feel bad, and they knew that the person who spoke was an apprentice blacksmith before joining the army and becoming a soldier.
No one knows why he gave up his profession as a blacksmith to join the army, and the strong body brought about by the original blacksmith life allowed him to survive several disastrous wars, and until now, which makes his words easy for others to believe.
"Hurry up, tell the general the news. ”
The resting soldiers panicked, they simply could not afford to lose the help of the city walls, and without the blocking of the walls, the enemy army could drive straight in.
Even after many wars with the Baltic Empire, they still did not find a way to deal with the Baltic Empire's heavy cavalry, even the defense lines forged by the mammoths and the white bears were easily penetrated, trampled, divided, surrounded, and annihilated.
After receiving the report from the soldiers below, the general could not believe what he had heard, and he wanted to say that he was very confident in the walls that his army had built, reinforced by spellcasters and cemented with molten iron, but he could not say these words when he saw the billowing black smoke and the heat rushing to his face.
The situation reported by the soldier was out of the scope of what he could handle, and the general directly sent the news to the front of the war as quickly as possible.
With this information, the war was not taken lightly, and he asked the herald to call several other knights to him as quickly as possible to deal with this crisis.
"It's ridiculous!
Famine said loudly, he couldn't believe this information, thought it was an unfounded lie, and it was ridiculous to melt their walls with flames.
"Well, that's what I thought too. ”
Plague nodded beside him, his face was still very bad, after a few days of adjustment, he was only barely able to act, and it would take a short time to recover his combat effectiveness.
"Our walls have been reinforced, not to mention these flames, even if they are thrown into the lava, they can hold out for a long time. It's the funniest joke I've ever heard in the past few days. ”
Death was equally unimpressed, believing it to be a joke that was not worth the fuss about, and that they had already planned to make the walls more resistant to high temperatures.
"No, don't be blindly optimistic, my brothers. ”
The war did not appear angry at the taunts of several brothers, and he maintained a calm posture, emphasizing once again that what he was thinking about now was not a joke.
"Our walls are indeed treated with high temperatures, and melted iron is poured into the crevices of the walls, maintaining the integrity of the entire wall, these measures seem to be safe enough, and our enemies must know the same, and I have never underestimated our enemies, especially their intelligence services, those assassins who hide in the dark. ”
The seriousness of the war made a few people straighten their attitudes a little, not interrupting him, leaning sideways and listening carefully, if they still have the right to speak in other aspects, then in the matter of war, war has unshakable authority.
Not only because his name is war, but also because of the achievements of wars on the battlefield in the past, and the use of various wonderful tactics on many battlefields to achieve brilliant victories.
"Do you think our enemies are fools who will continue to work in the wrong direction knowing that they are useless, and are you using your experience with the Scandinavians to deal with the enemy who has cornered us?"
The sarcasm of war left the three knights speechless, and in fact, now that they had calmed down, they also realized that their mentality was wrong.
They are still thinking about the motives of the enemy's actions with preconceived notions, which have already made them suffer enough in the previous battles.
"We don't know why they're doing this useless work, we can know that it's definitely in their interest to do it, and we have to stop them. ”
If it seems to be awkward, it translates to what the enemy wants to do, and it must be destroyed, whether you know it or not, whether you understand it or not, what is the point of the enemy doing such a thing.
"War, can I interpret you to mean that we need to put out the flames outside, help my enemies, and create an environment where they can attack us?"
"This is tantamount to making all our previous preparations meaningless, war, we don't have so many ways to stop their attack, do you think that based on your guesswork alone, we will give up what this flame has won for us, at least three days?"
Death couldn't help but question it, he couldn't accept the idea of war, and he gave up on what he had won so hard to win based on speculation, and he needed to find other ways to deal with the flames.
"Yes, my brother, you understand me very well. ”
War calmly uttered words that made death rage, and because of their personalities, they always got along with each other with quarrels of one kind or another.
"I know that making such a choice based on feeling does not seem to make sense, it will make the soldiers below resist, and until now, I have not thought of how to extinguish the flames outside, and I have not thought of how to solve the enemy's attack if I give up these flames. ”
"As you know, we don't have a lot of explosive arrows in stock, and we've paid a lot of money to get them. ”
War shook his head helplessly, he didn't care about the war's fire-breathing gaze, and walked in front of death in two steps, putting his hands on each other's shoulders, without the slightest joke in his eyes.
"War, have you considered, some kind of worse scenario?"
The plague was inserted, and as he had done many times before, he was always able to ease the tense and awkward atmosphere between the brothers at the right time, so that the conflict of speech did not escalate into a more serious quarrel.
"Looks like you've figured out a way to quench these flames, my brother. ”
War turned his head and asked at the plague.
"I know, my brother, that you will never let me down. ”
"The plague, even you ......"
Death's eyes widened in disbelief.
"It's really not difficult, we can do it, the Baltic Empire is going to be simpler, just let the caster make a move, these flames will be extinguished quickly, just enough casters. ”
Obviously, both the Atila Empire and the Baltic Empire have enough spellcasters to deal with these flames, and they don't even need the level of legendary magic.
"The Baltic Empire is an adversary that we deserve to take seriously and cannot gain the upper hand, and now they have chosen to "help" us when they can easily deal with those flames, such a strange thing has said a lot. ”
"But do you think we really have no problem extinguishing these flames? we can make incendiary bombs, and so can they, and don't forget where our high-purity liquor comes from. ”
The question raised by the plague made the other three frown, and even death stopped making a fuss and began to think about the difficult question raised by the plague.