Chapter 404: Stubborn Resistance

The shield chariot is not a very sophisticated siege machine, but even so, it is not used by many countries in the hinterland of the continent.

Mainly because the siege battles in the hinterland of the continent are not too intense, and the long-range weapons are not very sharp, as long as there are some shields or better armor, they can be well defended.

However, the Astra Kingdom is different, the intensity of the war here is very high, and the weapons to defend the city are also very numerous and advanced.

There are also many crossbows and crossbows used to defend the city, which are not simple armor and shields that can be defended, so they must rely on shield vehicles.

I saw that more than 6,000 infantry got into the shield cart and carried out the first round of attacks.

Above the city wall, only a few arrows were shot, and they were only able to cross the city wall not far away.

The archers and crossbowmen on the well used their weapons to pour their bows and arrows from behind them, covering the enemy.

Under this overwhelming blow, the Norweeds on the city walls could not raise their heads, and they were in danger of dying as soon as they showed their heads.

Moreover, the danger does not come from the arrows, but also from the stones poured down by the terrible trebuchet.

Although they are not very accurate, and even the number of deaths is far less than that of arrows, their deterrent power is far greater than that of arrows.

The sharp sound of breaking the air kept ringing, suppressing the Norweeds on the city walls.

The shield cart was also pushed slowly by the soldiers towards the city wall, and dozens of soldiers were clustered next to the rushing cart, who would ram the city gate with the rushing cart in a moment.

There was a ladder hidden in the shield cart, and at the top of the shield cart there was a long wooden plank, like the plank on the well that extended to the city wall, which served as a task for the soldiers to walk.

The shield cart finally marched slowly to the bottom of the city wall, and the soldiers inside took out the ladder from the inside and handed it to the other soldiers outside, while they put down the wooden planks erected on the shield cart and set it up on the city wall.

"Onward! Follow me! ”

A mid-level officer of the Iron Legion shouted at his soldiers, who were almost completely undisciplined like a warlord army.

Their military discipline is much better than that of most of the aristocratic private armies, after all, the Iron Forest Legion once relied on the indestructible spear phalanx to repel a knight order of thousands of people, and the name of the Iron Forest Legion is also derived from this, which means hard as iron, spears like a forest.

In this way, they formed a coordinated formation one by one, and slowly walked towards the wooden plank, towards the city wall.

Their coordinated operations are also the same as the Denglenburg infantry, and they want to be a tacit understanding, but judging from the formation of their advance, their coordinated operations are still somewhat different from the Denglenburg infantry.

On the other side, the Blackstone Army, which served as the main attacker, was completely different.

As a warlord army recruited from bandits and other outlaws, how could they have good discipline and cooperation?

When they charged, they were pushing and shoving, some were afraid of death and didn't want to rush forward like this, and some wanted more bounties and scrambled to be the first.

They were undisciplined, and swarmed up the planks of the shield carts, and the ladders that seemed more dangerous were only taken by a small number of people, and most of them chose the less dangerous ones.

Of course, it was impossible for the shield cart to accommodate so many people to climb, so they blocked the door of the shield cart like this, waiting for the people in front of them to go up and then they were going up.

This wasted a lot of manpower, and even some ladders were completely idle because the soldiers were dead, and no one climbed them.

On the other side, the siege point of the Iron Forest Legion is completely different, they are advancing in an orderly manner, and the number of soldiers with shield carts and ladders is all reasonably distributed, and this situation will not occur at all.

Now it can be seen that the Iron Forest Legion and the Blackstone Army are divided into two distinct parts, and no one will cross the line.

This is because of the hatred between them, the Blackstone Army and the Iron Forest Legion have fought and clashed more than once, and the hatred between the two sides is much greater than that of the Kingdom of Tskema and the Kingdom of Riborn.

The Norvidians faced the siege, and although they were not very good at bows and arrows, they stored a large number of stones in the castle for defense.

I saw an enemy appear on the top of the ladder in charge of the Iron Forest Legion, and he was holding a stone that looked like it was hundreds of nears, and if this weight was replaced by a Lordite, it would take at least two or three people to be able to lift it, but if it was replaced by a strong Norweed, he could carry it alone.

He lifted the stone above his head, then slammed it down, and the huge stone fell under the influence of gravity.

There were exactly a dozen soldiers climbing on this ladder, and the top soldier was already less than three meters away from the battlements, as if he could climb the city wall with just one more step.

But in the next second, a huge stone smashed on his shield without concealment, his shield was used to resist arrows, and in the face of these hundreds of stones, it had no effect at all.

The stone slammed down on his shield, and without any accident, he was directly broken by the smashed hand and fell to the ground by the huge gravity.

At a height of seven or eight meters, even if he jumped down preparedly, he would be seriously injured, not to mention that he fell down lying flat, coupled with the blow of the stone and the weight of a piece of armor, there was no doubt about falling down, and he was killed on the spot.

And his fall also affected the soldiers on a ladder, and all but the bottom two were smashed down by him.

And he was seriously wounded, only two or three soldiers hesitated not to reach a high altitude, did not suffer any injuries, got up from the ground and continued to climb upwards.

The same is true in other places, where the Blackstone Army is responsible for attacking is even more miserable, the place where the Iron Forest Army is responsible for attacking is a little better, and the place where the Blackstone Army is attacking is even more messy.

The Norwids relied on their strong bodies to carry stones and fight back violently against the besieging jihadist army.

The warriors who climbed on the shield cart were also stopped by the Norwids with their powerful fighting skills and bows and arrows.

Although their bows and arrows are not strong, they still have some lethality at close range.

And the Norweed tactics of wearing leather armor or improvised chain mail, with round shields and tomahawks in their hands, are the real tricky characters.

At the beginning of the crusade, William's light cavalry had fought a Norweed patrol that was considered a regular army, but it was only by the agility and bows of the cavalry that they succeeded.

It would have been a cruel thing to have ordinary infantry to confront these men who were tall, powerful, and skilled in battle.

I'm afraid that apart from a few elite troops, such as William's Denlenburg Infantry, the Grail Guardians of the Kingdom of Astra, or the Berserk Guards of the Western Kingdom, there will be no infantry to match them. 2k reading web