To Murphy, these two hours seemed like two long and two minutes urgent.

The people on the walls are in full swing preparing for the coming big war. Batches of swords, arrows, javelins, throwing spears, etc., were transported to the city walls, and the three walls were full of busy figures.

"Hurry up, hurry up, and transport this bundle of throwing spears to the western wall. ”

"The one over there, come over there, and put the gates on top of it, and don't let the beasts of Thebes break through. ”

"Hurry up and get ready, we'll have to go up the wall later. ”

"The crossbowmen are well stocked with crossbow arrows, and when they are ready, they will shoot them downwards as desperately as they can. ”

"Hurry up and get the bed crossbow ready, this is the main force!"

The knights were assigned to command the various units to ensure that the decisions of Murphy and the others were carried out accurately.

"Woo-"

Finally, when the time of two hours came, a trumpet was heard from the army of Thebes.

The war has begun!

In the distance outside the northern city, the siege tower was still being built, but the first group of 300 soldiers had already carried the assembled ladder and held the broad shield forward.

"Archers retreat! Crossbowmen step forward!" Captain Simon leaned against the female wall, peering out of the city through the window, commanding as he watched.

"Ready! Launch!"

When the soldiers carrying the ladder reached only fifty meters from the city wall, Simon waved his hand and shouted, and the crossbowmen next to him moved.

In an instant, hundreds of crossbow arrows formed a pitch-black cloud in the air, and pounced on the more than 300 Theban soldiers with broad shields.

The soldiers, who were about to be rained by the rain of arrows, hurriedly raised their broad shields, forming a wall of shields that were almost impermeable.

But even a broad shield can't block the whole body.

So there were still a couple of soldiers who were shot in the knee or something.

One of the unlucky soldiers was shot directly in the head, and the crossbow bolt sank through the forehead, turning the whole brain into a mess, and then poked out of the back of the head, nailing the unlucky fellow to the ground, and the brain mixed with blood slowly flowed down the shaft of the arrow, and finally mixed with the white snowflakes and turned into a strange color.

Of course, in the chaos of the battlefield, no one has the leisure to care about this unlucky bastard.

Several of the soldiers who had been shot in the knee stayed where they were, while their comrades continued to move on.

As their comrades walked past them, they slowly backed back with their shields on their backs, and only after they were out of range of their crossbow arrows did they turn around and drag their injured legs and run towards their own army's potions.

On the other side, Simon saw that the crossbow arrows were not too lethal, so after the first wave of arrows, he ordered the thrower to go up.

Compared to crossbowmen and archers, Wallyne's elite throwers are truly formidable ranged troops, and Simon originally intended to use them as one of his hole cards, but he didn't expect to use them in the first wave of the enemy.

Each of Wallaine's elite throwers was fully armed, dressed in wilderness ox skin armor, carrying five throwing spears and ten javelins on their backs, five throwing axes hanging from their waists on their right, twelve throwing knives pinned to their chests, and a small cloth bag tied to their left waist with a large handful of sharp stones, all of whom were featherless arrows.

"Thrower Throw Spear Ready!" Simon saw that the enemy was less than thirty meters away from the city, and immediately gave the order.

"Whoosh-"

More than fifty spears swooped down with the sound of breaking through the air.

The soldiers of Thebes raised their shields again, but this time they were not as lucky as before.

The spear pierced through the shield, and the tip of the four-diamond-shaped spear pierced into the chest of the soldiers, and a small soldier who fell behind and did not have time to raise the shield was directly pierced by a spear and flew up.

The spear had pierced him and stuck to the ground, but the end of the spear was still attached to the soldier's end.

But he was still alive, he wanted to struggle, he wanted to scream, but he was pitiful to find that he couldn't scream at all, and the broken intestines flowed out of the extra hole in the abdominal cavity, and the filthy excrement mixed with blood spilled all over the ground.

He groaned weakly, maintaining a half-squatting position to relieve the pain, feeling the loss of strength in his body but there was nothing he could do but stand there and wait for death.

This wave of spears directly knocked down more than 20 Theban soldiers, and the remaining more than 270 people also quickly sped up and set up a ladder when the inner city wall was still ten meters.

Seeing that the vanguard had successfully completed its mission, more than a thousand Theban soldiers immediately raised their shields and rushed towards the ladder in the face of the rain of arrows.

"They're coming up! Quick, pour hot oil down!" Seeing that the three ladders had reached the city wall, everyone became anxious, and some soldiers ran to the back and poured a can of hot oil before they even heard the command.

Obviously, the hot oil was poured early, and only a few soldiers were burned, and most of them were wasted.

"Who told you to pour hot oil?!Drag a few of them down and beat them with ten sticks!" said Simon, furious, grabbing a soldier by the collar and throwing him backwards.

"That axe destroys the ladder! Don't let them take advantage of it!" After dealing with the panicked soldiers, Simon observed the situation and commanded.

As soon as he finished speaking, four or five young and strong warriors rushed over, raised their two-handed battle axes, and slashed down on the edge of the ladder.

But what I didn't expect was that the ladder turned out to be the latest creation of the Theban alchemist! It was also enchanted with a layer of tough inscriptions!

"It's a big deal!"

Simon was shocked and sighed at the same time, it costs at least 90 gold naso to build a ladder like this, and the price of three ladders can arm 90 elite soldiers, and the Thebans are really rich.

But sigh to sigh, this ladder must be dismantled for him!

So, a dozen soldiers chopped with axes and burned with fire, but there was nothing they could do.

"I don't believe it!" The Roland knight on the side was not a good-natured lord, and the fighting spirit directly covered the knight's half-sword, and he slashed hard according to the handrail of the ladder, and the handrail only jumped open a gap, which was harmless.

"Even the fighting spirit doesn't have much effect?" Roland Knight was very angry in his heart, he didn't expect that it would have no effect if he worked so hard.

"Maybe we don't have to stare at the ladder, we can think of something else. Murphy suddenly remembered that when he used to watch TV dramas, he threw large rocks and wooden stakes downward, and often smashed the siege soldiers to cry for their fathers and mothers.

But the world thinks that warriors should fight face to face, and pouring some hot oil down during the siege is a despicable and obscene way to fight, let alone anything else.

"Tell people to prepare big rocks and logs, and when they are about to come up, they will be thrown down! Bow and crossbow arrows should be aimed at the spot, and the living force of the enemy army should be killed and wounded as much as possible, and remember to save the spear, so that the grenadiers can see it before throwing it. ”

Murphy followed the idea in his head.

"But Your Highness, that doesn't seem to be in line with chivalry, does it?" Knight Roland hesitated, his face a little reluctant.

"Is it useful to cling to chivalry when the city is gone? Your Highness will hurry up and do things when he orders! I don't know how to work around at all!" Simon heard this, and directly came up and kicked Roland, telling him to hurry up and do something.

By this time, the first Theban siege team had rushed up the ladder, but they were constantly being pushed back by the pointed staff that poked down from the wall.

"We're back!"

Just when the pointed staff was already too busy, the knight of Roland rushed back with people, carrying logs and stones.

With large pieces such as stones, Murphy ordered the spearmen who were still idle behind, waiting for the enemy to kill the city wall, put down the spears more than four meters long in their hands, picked up the stones and logs on the side and smashed them down.

The soldiers below experienced this, and they were stunned at that time.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

An officer-like man waved and shouted, and the Theban soldiers who had been smashed under the city hurriedly retreated.

The temptation lasted more than thirty minutes, and the Thebans left behind more than 70 corpses and retreated with some of the seriously wounded.

Seeing the temporary retreat of the Theban army, everyone on the wall breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, although there was not much loss in this battle, but the pressure was still very great.

Finally, I can take a break and eat.