Chapter 51: Double Enchantment
"Hurry up, go to the wall!"
"Report! The enemy of the western city wall has moved!"
"Report! The enemy of the southern city wall has moved!"
"Set up a bed crossbow! Shoot the trebuchet aiming at the enemy!"
The stone ball didn't do much damage to the limestone walls, but it alerted every soldier.
One by one, the tin knights rushed to the wall with their swords at their waists, ready to draw their swords and rush at the enemy knights who climbed the wall.
The musketeers were also ready at this time, but this time instead of shooting in a row of forty-five men in two rows, as before, each musketeer occupied a gap in the female wall, and in addition to the north wall, where more than fifty people were placed, the other two walls were placed with twenty musketeers.
At this moment, each musketeer was accompanied by four or five brave civilians to reload them.
These civilians had been trained for a short time and had already memorized the reloading maneuver.
With the help of these civilians, the musketeers only needed to repeat the actions of aiming, firing, and handing guns, greatly reducing the time between firing shots, reaching an astonishing rate of fifteen shots per minute.
It's a pity that the number of enchanted projectiles is not enough, so you can only save some use, and good steel is used on the blade.
Below, four or five thousand men, including Count Kurumman, hid behind the huge siege towers and slowly pushed forward.
"Temple...... Your Highness, shall we shoot?" Snow asked Murphy in a trembling voice as he looked at the dense crowd below.
"No, wait. Murphy's calves were also a little weak.
The line behind the siege tower even stretched into the dense forest behind, the Theban heavy army with two-handed sickles reflected the cold light in the sun, and the armed soldiers hid behind the giant shields and moved closely with the siege towers.
The speed of the attacking team was not fast, but it gave the people on the wall the feeling that they were facing a Tamar beast that was walking towards them.
The baffles of those siege towers were obviously equipped with steel plates, which were difficult to break with fighting energy, so there was no need to waste precious enchanted lead bullets.
Although there are as many ordinary buckshot as there are, there are only fifteen enchanted buckshot per person, and there can't be more.
"Your Highness, I think you should go to bed first. ”
Simon next to him seemed much calmer, but the constant panting revealed the nervousness in his heart.
Simon has a point, there is still a distance of nearly one hundred and fifty meters from the enemy, although it is within the theoretical range of the arquebus, but the arquebus without rifling only flies out of the muzzle of more than fifty meters, and then thinks about hitting the enemy, it really can only rely on fate, so the bed crossbow is a better choice in comparison.
And the magic Murphy who can rifle has not yet been found and learned, so he can only use it in this way for now.
"Your Highness said it!
"Where's the bed crossbowman? pull the bed crossbow up!"
"The bed crossbowman is in place!"
The bed crossbowman moved, and the one-meter-and-a-half long crossbow bolt was mounted on the crossbow machine, and with a slight tap of the ram on the crossbow machine, the crossbow arrow would follow the revelation of death and guide its target to hell.
However, the only two bed crossbows on the northern wall, including all the important weapons in the city, were of the same style as they were more than thirty years ago, and the last war with the Thebans was more than thirty years ago, and the fifty-year truce had slackened the armament of the entire northern border.
However, although it is more than 30 years old, it still has a certain lethality.
The bed crossbow was aimed at the siege tower, and the crossbowmen knocked down the crossbow machine, which symbolized death, and the huge bed crossbow bolts flew towards the advancing siege tower with a "buzz".
One of the bolts stuck into the barrier of the siege tower, which hesitated for a moment before moving on without causing any casualties.
The other accurately hit the mechanical room of another siege tower, and the crossbow arrow passed through the visual gap of the mechanical room baffle, directly nailing a soldier in the mechanical room who was still powering the siege tower to the wall on the spot, and he couldn't pull it out, so the siege tower stopped.
The siege towers stopped, and the people did not dare to go any further. It wasn't until another soldier was pushed into the mechanical room by one of the centurions that the siege tower was reactivated, but with a gaping hole.
"Keep pulling the strings! Don't hit the siege towers this time! Hit the soldiers in the back!" Murphy stood next to the bed crossbow, pointing to the enemy soldiers behind the siege towers at the gap.
The bed crossbow slowly turned, aiming a little in front of the gap, and another crossbow machine.
The crossbow bolts dragged the sound of breaking wind, and flew straight towards a sixteen or seventeen-year-old soldier.
The hard scale armor on his chest was easily broken by a crossbow arrow like tofu, bringing out his broken lung lobes, and he looked down at his chest in mid-air, a wound more than ten centimeters wide was splashing outward with fragments of the heart and lung lobes mixed with blood, and his consciousness gradually blurred.
After he died, he had a smile on his face, and he didn't know whether he was thinking of his lovely sister, his warm family, or his poor knightly dreams.
The blood-stained crossbow bolt seemed to be even happier, and inertia pushed him to overturn the other young soldier, and finally stopped at the third soldier's body.
The tip of the arrow was embedded in the ground for half a meter, the tail was constantly swaying, the half-lying corpse was constantly trembling, and the broken digestive system was left along the large hole in the mouth of the bowl, covering the filth.
However, a few corpses did not break the morale of the warriors, on the contrary, the Thebans, stimulated by the blood, stimulated the blood of the boys, one by one screamed for revenge for their companions.
One hundred meters, "bow crossbow throwing!"
Fifty meters, "Throwing spear javelin!"
Twenty meters, "Musketeers prepare!"
Finally, after paying more than 100 lives, the siege tower was pushed to a distance of twenty meters in front of the city wall, and the musketeers also raised their arquebuses with enchanted lead bullets in their hands, and several civilians on the side were also nervously loading the musketeers.
"Aim! Ignite the Rope Ready!"
The musketeers stood up and closed one eye to aim at the siege towers ahead.
"Ignition rope!"
Ten meters away, the siege tower stopped, and I could vaguely feel the majesty of the fighting spirit blocked by the baffle.
"Put!"
When the first knight wearing a giant helmet and heavy armor came into view, Snow roared angrily and pulled the trigger.
A smoke screen suddenly dispersed on the wall, but even behind the smoke curtain, you could still see the enchanted lead bullet dragging a faint golden light towards the knights in front of them.
"Ahh
The buckshot hit the knight's heavy armor, but it only made him feel a little pain, and it was not a big deal.
Until an enchanted lead bullet with a red glimmer slammed into the knight's armor, splashing a splash of blood, and the knight also covered his wound and fell down.
It is the lead bullet with the double effect of "armor piercing" and "army breaking" that brings 20 times the impact of the lead bullet!
This cheers everyone up! Double-enchanted buckshot can do considerable damage even to knights.