Chapter 647: Destroying the withered and decaying
At the command of Delceth, the ballista suddenly let out a roar, which was the sound of the huge kinetic energy brought by the powerful crossbow arm tearing the crossbow string.
The huge ballista was sent out by the powerful kinetic energy, and there was a sharp sound of breaking the air in the air, and such a huge salvo made everyone stunned.
Of course, the only ones who were stunned were the defenders on the city walls, who had no idea what was going on after hearing such a terrifying sound.
Some of the regular soldiers speculated that it was the sound of bows and arrows, but the sound of arrows was usually very high-pitched, but the sound had a dull feeling.
It's all sounds that cut through the air, but it's clearly different.
But soon they knew what was going on, as huge ballista guns were fired straight into their walls.
There were even a few arrows that were lucky enough to make their way into the crowd, but not for the defenders on the walls.
More than thirty unlucky people were pierced through their bodies by four arrows, and the crossbow guns were given immensely powerful kinetic energy by powerful crossbow arms, and continued to fly backwards even after penetrating several defenders.
The ballista carried several corpses on it, and then crossed the wall and plunged directly into the dirt floor behind it, the tail of the ballista still shaking.
The city wall that was swept by the crossbow was already bloody, and the crossbow just now not only penetrated those few people, but the people who were grazed by the crossbow were either missing arms or missing legs.
There were even half of the body that had been wiped off directly by the ballista, and the internal organs were all over the ground, and none of the limbs that had been ravaged by the ballista were intact, either in tatters, or directly turned into a lump of minced meat.
Such a sight immediately caused a commotion on the defenders of the city wall, and their morale was greatly damaged, after all, whoever saw such a cruel and bloody scene would feel some fear.
What's more, except for the 600 regular soldiers, half of the people were caught from the citizens and caught on the city walls.
Their morale was not high, and although Count Maras promised them many benefits, they were still a group of ordinary people, not soldiers who had fought on the battlefield.
The regulars, though fearful of the enemy's weapons, saw such a scene, but quickly calmed down after some commotion.
But this group of citizens was different, and they began to shout, some of whom had never seen such a cruel sight in their lives.
There were even quite a few people who stood up directly from under the battlements and ran in all directions trying to escape.
It took the defenders a long time to stabilize them, but even so, the group looked at the enemy below the castle in a shudder.
The commanders looked at their troops worriedly, knowing that the morale of the troops under their command had collapsed for the most part.
In fact, even the regular army under their command trembled in their hearts, after all, those powerful ballistas made a deep impression on their hearts.
They didn't know if there was such a terrible thing in the enemy's endless array of siege engines.
But it was useless to be afraid, and they had to dutifully guard the walls.
After a round of arrows, another round of ballista shots rang out, and another fifty ballistas were fired.
The crossbow guns were so powerful that they either shattered the stones of the city wall or completely inserted them into the city walls, and many of them directly skipped the walls and penetrated into the defenders.
The two rounds of crossbow guns came down, and the enemy soldiers were extremely frightened, and the sound of crossbow guns finally stopped, and some of the defenders poked their heads out from under the battlements to take a look.
I saw Delseth pull out the long sword at his waist in the center of the formation, and said to the flag officer: "Shoot!" ”
The flag officer followed Delceth's order and made a salvo.
The crossbowman commanders above the well had been staring closely at the center of the formation, for fear of missing the order given by the Governor.
When they saw the flag, they shouted to the soldiers: "Everyone prepare!" “
The well-trained royal army enforces orders and prohibitions, and the ability to carry out orders is very strong.
Upon hearing the commander's command, the archers raised their bows and arrows and prepared to pull them apart, while the crossbowmen raised their pulleys and crossbows, which had been loaded, and aimed them at the wall.
As soon as their commander and Delseth gave the order, they immediately let go of the bowstring in their hands and snapped the hanging knives of the lower wheel crossbows.
Delceth looked at the top of the city wall that had just emerged, and shouted expressionlessly: "Shoot!" ”
The flag officer immediately sounded the flag, and the commander on the well issued an opinion order, and immediately launched the order to shoot.
More than a thousand crossbow arrows poured out like this, and the air was screeched by the dense crossbow arrows.
Before the men who had just emerged could return to the battlements, they were killed by arrows and crossbows in the head.
Even beneath the battlements there is no immunity to arrows, and some of the tricky arrows fall directly into the defenders in a vertical manner.
When William has the conditions, he attaches great importance to long-range forces, and can suppress firepower even in siege battles.
But it has to be said that the battlements were still very useful for defense, and more than 4,000 arrows fell on the city wall after three rounds of shooting, but only caused more than 200 casualties to the defenders.
While the archers were firing, the well was pushed by the servants to advance slowly, and the defenders could not lift their heads at all due to multiple rounds of arrows.
So they don't even know where exactly the well has gone.
At this time, the well has already marched to the vicinity of the city wall, and the royal infantry has long been in position in the well wall, and they will launch a fierce attack on the city wall as soon as the planks are placed on the wall.
"Whoosh!" The sound of arrows rang out incessantly, and from time to time screams rang out beneath the battlements.
Some of the hapless ones didn't dodge and were shot by arrows.
Delseth watched the battle situation from behind, and couldn't help but show an expected smile on his face, at this time, the well was already in place, and the planks on it were slowly rising, about to be erected on the city wall.
Eventually, all the wells were planked on top of the walls, and the heavily armed royal infantry climbed the planks along the ladders inside the wells.
One by one, they climbed the walls.
Just as the defenders on the city wall heard the arrows stop and wanted to poke their heads out to take a look at the situation, they suddenly saw a group of majestic and well-dressed multi-layered ironclad terror soldiers walking up.
The royal infantry formed a battle formation and rushed up the city wall, no matter what kind of enemy could not hold out in front of them for a minute, and they were crushed by the royal infantry in three strokes and five divided by two.
At the beginning of them, there were still some people resisting, but the more they went to the back, the fewer people resisted, and even those regular army soldiers had a lot of deserters, who did not dare to compete with the royal infantry dreaming of you, and directly scattered and fled.