Chapter 478: Secret Weapon

Finally, two days later, the Valley Knights and Lannisters began a joint operation, officially launching a simultaneous assault from three directions at dawn in the early morning.

This time it was not hundreds or thousands of people making a joke, almost half of the soldiers were dispatched on both sides, nearly 50,000 people began to attack at the same time, hundreds of ladders frantically set up the walls of Harrenhal, and at the same time the Lannisters also got several rushing carts, heading straight for the gate.

This level of attack without a flag army has been dispatched throughout the city, including many civilians have also gone up to the city wall, constantly throwing some broken nails down, this is Li Lingyi deliberately melted a lot of armor before, and then asked the blacksmith shop to make tens of thousands of iron nails. As long as one of these things is thrown down and pierced in the face, it is also quite uncomfortable, and if it is an eye, it is directly wasted.

Li Lingyi, Soros and Berry are each responsible for a city wall, Li Lingyi is naturally attacking the strongest main side, and this side is Lannister in charge of attacking, and it is quite terrifying for tens of thousands of people to climb up without their lives. It's just that because of the reinforcement of the city wall and the design of some details, these ladders are very difficult to fix, and many times they fall down by themselves without having to push them by the soldiers defending the city.

But there were so many people that even if only one of the twenty ladders could rush a few people, that proportion would be quite high. Ten minutes after the storm, the Lannisters had almost climbed the city wall, but they were almost hacked to death the moment they came up.

And when they died, the soldiers defending the city immediately lifted their bodies and threw them down, not blocking the city walls. And this kind of action is tantamount to angering the Lannister soldiers even more, and making the latter even more desperate to rush upward. Occasionally, there are those who can rush up and hold on for a minute or two, but every time they see hope of gaining a foothold, Li Lingyi will dash his hopes.

This is also the role of Li Lingyi, he does not pay attention to a certain point, but focuses on the overall situation, whenever someone rushes up on a certain point of the city wall and can stand on his feet, he will immediately rush over, and use Poseidon to shoot or pick people down with two or three strokes.

The strength of hundreds of catties was no one to resist, which also greatly demoralized the soldiers defending the city, so after the assault lasted for nearly an hour, the Lannisters finally gave up and began to withdraw.

As soon as he retreated, the Valley Knights naturally couldn't stand it, and began to retreat slowly, and the battle stopped after twenty minutes, leaving only corpses nearly four or five meters high piled up on the ground.

In less than an hour, the number of dead and wounded on the three sides reached nearly 20,000. Among them, the Lannister suffered the most losses, accounting for nearly 10,000, while the Valley Knights had more than 8,000 men, and Harrenhal also suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

It seems that Harrenhal has taken advantage of the big advantage, but in fact the casualty ratio has reached a quarter, and the situation is not very optimistic. Therefore, Li Lingyi also nervously arranged the rescue work for the wounded, and asked the female nurses to quickly bring the wounded soldiers to the medical room in the fort.

Outside the city, the camps of the Lannisters and the Knights of the Vale were in a state of misery, there were so many wounded soldiers that they simply did not have enough medicine and bandages, and there were not enough doctors, and many times they could only watch the wounded soldiers die in pain.

This is undoubtedly a huge blow to morale, the Lannisters are fine, but there are already different voices in the army of the Knights of the Vale, and some people are questioning whether there is any point in such a senseless sacrifice?

Of course, Ian also refuted this voice, but he is now only one of the generals who lead the army, and he is also on an equal footing with other generals, so this has also caused some people to express dissatisfaction.

And this information, naturally, also reached Harrenhal.

Just as the enemy will release spies into Harrenhal, Li Lingyi will naturally send some spies, whether it is in the Lannister army or in the Valley Knights, there are his people. Of course, some spies were not his subordinates, but he spent money to buy them, after all, it is impossible for tens of thousands of troops to be loyal.

After learning this information, Li Lingyi immediately became pleasantly surprised, he knew that this was an opportunity, so he immediately wrote some things in batches, and then asked the soldiers to tie arrows to shoot towards the barracks of the Valley Knights.

The content of it is very simple, undisguised and blunt: as long as you are willing to withdraw your troops and go back, then when the war between Harrenhal and Lannister is over, then the Eagle's Nest will be willing to return to you.

As soon as this information came out, there was a sudden difference of opinion among the Valley Knights, and the faction represented by Ian decided that this was Li Lingyi's trick in order to trick them into giving up the siege. The other faction believes that there is no need to sacrifice a large number of people to wade through this troubled water.

And the little devil also immediately went to the camp of the Valley Knights after knowing about this and discussed it with the generals. As a result, some of the soldiers were reluctant to fight again and demanded to return to the Riverlands. And although Ian was angry, he had no right to restrict, and could only watch the withdrawal of almost 10,000 troops.

As a result, there are less than six thousand Valley Knights left. The little devil was also quite helpless, he even carried out the Iron Throne, but those people didn't buy it, thinking that Harrenhal couldn't be attacked at all, and those who died were witnesses.

So at this time, the combined army of the two armies was almost just over 50,000 left, almost half less than at the beginning. Li Ling in the city also smiled when he learned about it, so the pressure on Harrenhal was much less, and more importantly, there was a problem with the enemy's internal estimates.

As long as you stick to it for a little longer, there will be absolutely no problem.

Li Lingyi, who thought so, did not expect that on the night when part of the Valley Knights withdrew, the Lannisters launched another large-scale assault, and this time was obviously different from the last time.

"My lord, I'm afraid they're coming!"

The soldiers defending the city were shocked at Li Ling on the side, who was also frowning, and the Lannister soldiers who appeared in his eyes had completely changed their clothes. The original armor was replaced with a deadly light armor, for the sake of the mountaineering device on the feet and arms!

That's right, it's the hiking boots that Bronn once said, and with the hook lock on the arm, these soldiers no longer need a ladder at all, but one by one they scatter and climb straight to the wall!

This was completely beyond Li Lingyi's expectations, he had thought that there might be this kind of mountaineer, but he didn't expect it to be so much! Because this kind of equipment is very expensive, it is not cheaper to build than a piece of armor, and now these thousands of people have a set, it can be seen that the Lannisters have also made a lot of money in order to capture Harrenhal......

"My lord, it's time for us to come up with a secret weapon, right?" Soros on the side said solemnly, if he doesn't use it at this time, then Harrenhal is really at risk of falling.

Li Lingyi narrowed his eyes when he heard this, and knew that it was time, so he nodded, "Well, let's push it out." ”