Chapter 90: The Trebuchet

In fact, by the next day, a large number of French and Scottish soldiers arrived at Huntington.

Most of the French soldiers who arrived this time were mercenaries from Switzerland, and some musketeers from France, but none of the famous French plate knights came.

In the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, due to the large number of longbowmen in England, the French knights were reduced by more than half before they began to charge, and the most elite stuffed knights were even broken up, so the French knights had a fear of the English.

Compared to the Plate Knights, the more powerful troops were actually heavy infantry from Switzerland - two-handed sword infantry.

Because the Plate Knights can only charge once and cannot change direction, their effect on the battlefield is similar to that of tactical missile or artillery fire.

Looking at the Swiss mercenaries coming one after another in the distance, the Earl of Wellington slowly frowned, even in England, he had heard of the famous Swiss mercenaries.

At present, in France, the two-handed sword infantry is the darling of the battlefield and the main force of the battle. They wore heavy plate armor (though not as heavy as the knights') and armed with huge swords.

Two-handed sword infantry generally has a long sword of 80-110 inches long, 11 inches wide, and weighs about 60-70 pounds.

If you are familiar with this kind of army, you will definitely know that if you are interested in the history of the Tang Dynasty, it is very similar to our Modao troops in the Tang Dynasty, and it can be described as full of lethality in the era of cold weapons!

The two-handed sword infantry is slightly faster than the Plate Knight, and has the same defense as the Plate Knight, with a single two-handed sword infantry often killing more than 20 enemies.

On the city of Huntington, Wellington looked through a telescope, and on the left side of the entire army were Swiss mercenaries, densely packed with halberders and spears, the largest number of troops, and they were generally dressed in short clothes belonging to the free people. The wealthier ones basically have a half-breastplate and a nice hat.

And in the middle position is the essence of the mercenaries - two-handed sword infantry, they are particularly eye-catching, covered in armor, holding a pair of long swords in both hands, unusually majestic, imposing.

The most striking feature of the Scottish army was the 10 large stone throwers pulled by dozens of horses, and the crash cart propelled by hundreds of men. Seeing this, the Earl took a hard breath.

In addition to this, the Scots also sent their killer weapons - Scottish throwers, as well as double-edged sword warriors. The majestic size and extraordinary strength of the Highland Warriors make these two arms particularly powerful.

Although most of them are pikemen (found no!). Poor places have the most pikemen! But throwers and double-edged warriors also add up to almost a fifth.

Seeing this, the Earl of Wellington's face suddenly became even more difficult to look at, and he raised his hand, and the longbowmen on the city wall also began to set up sharp arrows on the strings of arrows.

"Boom!" Even on the city walls, the Earl of Wellington could feel the roar of the trebuchet.

At this time, the joint commander of the Scottish Army and the French Army, Theo. Let. Lancorst (for the 1935 Warlords) was holding a telescope and looking at the walls of Huntington in the distance, looking very solemn.

Dio. Let. Lancoster's father was a French count, and Dio, who was only twenty-eight years old this year, was given the task of an expedition to England (as he thought it himself!). It was not his goal to drive the English from Scottish soil, his goal was to capture King Edward VI of England alive.

No one knew about his ambitions, including his father, so he took the drudgery of supporting the Scots.

"Let the trebuchet drop as many stones as possible on the walls, and fill in the moat by the way!"

Dio looked at the city wall in the distance and shouted to the herald beside him.

Suddenly, ten trebuchets began to fire intensively, and ten large stones smashed into the walls of Huntington City. Unfortunately, only three boulders hit the city wall, and only some debris fell, creating three small pits in the wall.

The other stones either smashed into the moat or flew into the city of Huntington, without causing any harm to the soldiers on the walls.

Just as the English soldiers slowly stretched out their heads and secretly rejoiced, the boulders from the French army came to the city wall again with the sound of friction in the air.

But this time it was not so lucky, a boulder flew directly to the city wall, sliding on the city wall with an unlucky longbowman, and then met two soldiers who could not dodge before slowly stopping!

Looking at the three people who were blurred with flesh and blood, although they knew that they were not saved, the Earl of Wellington still asked them to be sent down for rescue.

"Lads! Don't show your body casually, be careful, your family is still waiting for you to go back! ”

Seeing that the injured were basically novices, the Earl of Wellington couldn't help but remind.

Then, over the next hour, the French threw fifteen rounds of boulders in quick succession, which not only turned the entire wall into a chole, but also killed thirty-five English soldiers and wounded sixty-nine.

Of course, there are many boulders that have flown into the city, not only destroying many houses, but also causing hundreds of casualties and more property damage.

Seeing that the trebuchet was running out of projectiles, Major Theor ordered all his soldiers to begin the siege, although this time the trebuchet did not have the effect he wanted.

Intensive shooting, capable of causing a lot of damage to the city walls. In addition, projectiles and fragments of the collapsed walls helped fill in the trenches, and the piles of rubble they created provided for siegers to climb into the city.

However, this huge engineering weapon was not good in the early Middle Ages, but it was greatly improved by 1500, and it was guarded by a large number of infantry and men to prevent the knights from rushing out of the fortress to destroy it.

The crashing car roared towards the gates of Huntington, dodging the dense arrows on the city walls, and there were only about a hundred people left in the cart army of three hundred.

A large wooden stake in front of the crash car will have an iron head on it, and after hitting the wall, the stake will swing back and continue to ram the wall.

Looking at the rumbling gates, the Count knew that this could not go on, so he ordered the soldiers to start stopping the collision of the cars.

As a result, the English soldiers above threw boulders, boiling water, or burning grease onto the ramming car in an attempt to destroy or kill the soldiers in operation.

These methods worked well, but the French were not jealous.

The French on the besieging side hurriedly shot the British soldiers on the city walls with archers and crossbows, and they carefully aimed at the soldiers above them with large wooden shields as cover.

This shield is called the Great Shield. Above the shield there is a narrow firing port, which allows the soldier to shoot at the defenders from behind. It was while watching these large shields that the English king Lion Psycho I was shot in the shoulder with a crossbow, causing fatal injuries.