Chapter 6 La Rochelle Attacks and Defends 2 Mountain Road Meat Grinder
The next day, the Albiang army woke up one after another, put on armor and took up arms, used dry food and water, and the three parts of the Albiang army began to attack La Rochelle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info Under the leadership of their respective commands, the three divisions of the army approached the mountain of Caola Rochelle, maintained the array, and then, after reaching the bottom of the mountain, began to climb along the winding and narrow mountain path.
La Rochelle is a port city, and the transportation of goods to and from floating ships does not affect prosperity. The narrow mountain road became a natural barrier for La Rochelle, and along the way, rockfalls and other mechanisms were set up at key passes, and fortifications were built, arming La Rochelle like a hedgehog, and no matter from which mountain road attack, it would encounter stubborn resistance.
Observing the movement from the top of the hill, Ingres divided the 8,000 defenders into three parts, 2,000, 2,500, and 3,050 to face the enemy forces numbering 5,000, 5,500, and 8,000. Ingres personally commanded a garrison of three thousand and a half against an enemy force of eight thousand, while the other two parts of the garrison were placed under the command of two generals.
It had been ten minutes since the Albion army had ascended the mountain road, and the Torristeen defenders had removed the supports under the boulders, and balls of five or six meters in diameter fell from both sides of the mountain road, gurgling and rumbling downwards with a crushing momentum.
Feeling the shaking of the ground, the Albion army became vigilant, and in command, all the soldiers stopped advancing and clung to the road wall, looking from a distance like ants on honey-coated bread.
The "Boom" boulder rolling, purely in terms of destructive power, has surpassed the second level of magic, close to the third level of magic such as [Flame Explosion], [Depth Charge] and [Eye of the Storm], but it can only roll down simply and rudely without the control of the magician.
Albion's eyes lit up with fear as he looked at the oversized boulder.
The boulder is slightly narrower than the mountain road, with one or two more gaps, and if the size is just right, it will get stuck and can't roll down. So the boulders rumble, one after the other running over the mountain road, is like a matter of probability, and there will always be unlucky soldiers who are crushed and soldiers who happen to avoid the boulders during the boulder bumps.
The boulders that La Rochelle had accumulated dozens of rounds rolled over one after another, and the soldiers who were crushed screamed miserably, and most of them died tragically on the spot.
"Ahhhh
Screams mingled with the rolling figures of the boulders, and the Albion army survived the onslaught of the boulders.
Cleaning up the corpses and regrouping, all three Albion armies lost hundreds, if not thousands, of troops in the megalithic attack
。 The soldier's eyes were filled with sadness and anger, and he wanted to pour out a wave of anger on the enemy.
Moving on, the Albiann army was soon again held back by the fortress.
Dozens or hundreds of Toristine troops hid in enclosed buildings with only a few openings, bending their bows and shooting arrows, constantly firing bows and arrows loaded with explosives.
When a bow and arrow is shot in the crowd, it detonates cracks, and it is a few or even a dozen casualties.
This time, the Albion army had a way to deal with it, and they let the soldiers with shields move forward, holding their shields high in layers and slowly moving forward. The bow and arrow can only hit the shield and fall at the feet of the shield soldier.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"
There was also a group of shield soldiers with shields at their feet, and the explosion only caused them to be impacted and halted a little. Soon the shieldmen moved forward again. The shieldmen who were struck to death by the impact were carried by others. The Albion Army advanced steadily.
The archers in the fortress took a different approach and threw their bows and arrows into the air, although they lost a lot of strength and their accuracy was much worse, but many bows and arrows still fell in the unprotected army crowd behind.
"Boom, boom, boom" In the explosion, flesh and blood splashed, and another life withered.
After paying a certain loss, Albiang approached the foot of the fortress, the shield soldiers gave way to the gap, and a group of siegers carrying explosives rushed out in the rear with explosive bags one by one, and quickly buried the explosives bags in front of the fortress gate.
Knowing that his death was near, the archers only thought about killing more enemies and throwing the explosives hoarded in the fortress through the firing ports without bows and arrows.
"Boom Boom"
There was a huge explosion, and the ground shook like a mountain.
The shield soldiers who formed the shield wall were all blown open a large hole, killing dozens of people, and the attackers who rushed out to bury the explosives were all gone. The fortress also collapsed in the explosion, and the falling earth and rocks buried all the people inside.
The Albion army continued to march past the fortress in silence, encountering several more forts along the way, all of which continued after suffering heavy casualties.
And Torristeen was also shrinking the defensive line step by step, and the boulder traps and five or six fortresses on the mountain road were all swept away by the Albion army without fear of casualties.
The last section of the mountain road is also the only one wide enough to accommodate dozens of people side by side. Angel and two other generals stood by in this position. Shieldmen and swordsmen are in front, and archers are behind.
When the rest of Albion's army reached the second half of the mountain road, they were greeted by a rain of arrows.
"Ten thousand" arrows were fired in unison, and bows and arrows fell from the sky.
"Meet the enemy!! Shield soldiers defend, defend. ”
When the fortress was conquered, the shield soldiers were concentrated in the front, and at this time, the middle and rear sections of the Albiang army lost the protection of the shield soldiers, and many soldiers fell screaming in the rain of arrows.
"Charge, charge!!"
"Kill!! Kill! Come on!! ”
A loud roar erupted from the front of Albion's army, and the shield soldiers scattered, and the swordsmen and pikemen charged forward, and soon collided with Torristin's shield men and swordsmen.
"Kill!!"
The soldiers of the two countries finally fought each other in a short battle, you give me a knife, and I return you a shot.
Flesh and blood are flying, and the sound of rushing and killing is boiling in the sky.
Because of the cross-section, only twenty or thirty soldiers could rush together, and when the soldiers of the two countries fell, the soldiers behind immediately replenished to maintain the line.
The archers in the rear of Torlistine's army constantly bent their bows and fired arrows.
In the rear of the Albion army, shield soldiers are scattered in various areas, holding their shields high to protect their allies.
The lethality of the general bow and arrow is significantly reduced.
"Swap out the Burst Arrow!!" Toristine commanded the army.
The archer began firing arrows loaded with explosives, and the arrows fell towards Albion's back.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"
Each explosion represents the death of several or even a dozen lives, and after the shield soldiers are not formed, they are powerless to resist the explosion. The dead Albians were not killed by bows and arrows, but were carried away by the impact of the explosion.
Unable to endure the continuous casualties, the Albion army made way in the formation, and dozens of siegers strapped to explosives rushed forward shouting.
"For Albion!!" "For victory!!" "For victory!!"
Fanatical soldiers crashed into the stalemate of Albiontolistin's line.
"Boom Boom!!"
The huge explosion swept hundreds of people around, both the Albion Army and the Torristeen Army.
Flesh and blood fell from mid-air like a rain of splinters, and a gap appeared in the stalemate line.
"Rush me!!" The commander of the Albion Army roared angrily.
"Rush, kill."
The Albion army, whose eyes were red, slashed at it with a fierce sword.
"The former army hedges, don't be afraid, give it to me!!"
Torlistine's swordsmen and pikemen also charged up from above with murderous intent.
Without the shield soldiers' blocking, the two armies were like two streams of water that were dissipating each other, and the places where they collided continued to devour lives.
Toristine's army was outnumbered, and after the defensive line was breached, Ingres ordered the front army to charge and cut at it, and the rear army began to retreat with archers himself.
The three fronts of the Toristin, which numbered only one or two thousand, were all killed, and the blood stained the entire battlefield red.
The Albion army, which had slain the madness, continued to swing their swords, but the Toristine defenders, who had retreated first, laid down the Longmen Stone at the end of the mountain road.
"Boom!!"
Twenty meters long, six or seven meters high, four or five meters thick huge stones were originally pressed on the mountain road, and after digging out the rock and soil below, this huge stone crushed the remaining soil and crashed to the ground. Blocking the Albion army that was chasing after them on the other side.
On the other side of the gantry stone is La Rochelle's body, the houses, squares, and so on built in the mountain walls. The army that Toristine fled back to was only about 3,000 in the three confluences, all of which were rear troops such as archers and stormers.
The three armies of Albion were blocked by three dragon gate stones, and there was nowhere to vent their killing intent, so they waved their knives in vain and looked at the big stones. After the mood gradually cooled, the commander stepped forward to gather the army and count the casualties.
There were still 2,000, 2,000, and 3,500 of the three armies left, of which the attacking troops were all annihilated, the shield soldiers were heavy, and most of the remaining were swordsmen and pikemen in close combat.
The day's repeated battles lasted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and it was difficult for the two tired armies to do anything more in a short time. Toristine's army left a small part to monitor the enemy's movements, and the rest gathered together to rest, drink and drink and bonfire, vent to their heart's content, and try to recover. The three armies of Albion also left a small part of them to take turns on guard, and the rest leaned on the walls of the mountain road, digging through dry food and water, many of which were stained with blood, and there were enemies, companions and their own.
This was the second day of La Rochelle, and the two countries devoured seventeen or eight thousand soldiers on three narrow mountain roads, with blood flowing from the top to the bottom of the mountain roads.