Chapter 683: Stalemate
Soon, the next round of ballista strikes began, this time the bed crossbow aimed at the shaft, several ballistas hit the shaft in an instant, and the oil tank slammed into the shaft under the action of inertia.
The oil was sprinkled on the well, followed by the flaming arrows of the archers on the turret, and the arrows were nailed to the well.
The flames ignited when they met the wells, and a raging fire burned on them, and after several shots, all the wells burned with flames.
The speed of the flames spread very fast, even if it was the cold winter season, it did not stop the scorching heat of the flames, and one by one the wells began to be gradually engulfed by the flames.
The archers above fled in panic through the ladders above.
The infantry who were preparing to climb the well behind were greatly hindered.
The nobles behind frowned when they saw this scene, their wells were not at all like those of the Kingdom of Lorik, they were covered with a thin layer of iron, and the exposed wood was very easy to be ignited by the flames.
Of course, it was not uncommon for no one to think of burning the well with flames, but they did not have a powerful weapon like a bed crossbow that could carry an entire tank of oil, and no small flame of an ordinary arrow was long enough to ignite the well block, so they did not succeed once.
The Westerners, who had not faced such a terrible weapon as the bed crossbow, of course, would not have protected themselves from this aspect, which led to the ignition of all their bed crossbows.
"You can only use the ladder!" Grand Duke Vokkaran frowned and said, their number of ladders is far more than the number of wells, after all, ladders don't require much skill, just a relatively long ladder.
In this way, the soldiers, carrying a large number of ladders, began to move closer in the direction of the city walls.
This time the defense of the city will be much easier, the enemy can no longer climb the city wall through the passage on the well, and can only use the ladder to attack the city.
When the time comes, the archers only need to keep shooting at the bottom of the castle to kill a large number of enemies.
After several rounds of arrows, the enemy's casualties were also very large, and more than 2,000 serfs fell, but the ladder also successfully approached the city wall.
They began to climb the ladder, holding improvised shields made of planks and clubs or daggers in their hands, and climbed above the walls.
After all, these serfs are just cannon fodder, and being able to give them a shield is already a very good treatment, if it weren't for the siege war, I'm afraid they wouldn't even get a shield.
The archers shot down from between the battlements, while the auxiliary generals threw large stones downward.
In the case of an enemy with a shield, throwing stones down is a more useful method than throwing arrows, as only one large stone is needed to clear most enemies on the ladder.
Just like now, many enemies were broken by stones, and even if they weren't killed in the first place, they fell off the ladder and rolled on the ground.
Delceth looked at the enemy gradually gathering in the rear, and knew in his heart that this time the enemy was going to launch a full-scale attack on the city walls.
But he was not very worried, because the situation had been relatively optimistic until now, and there had been no casualties even now, and the enemy had only marched below the castle when he lost more than 4,000 men.
The enemy who had lost the well was obviously not so much of a threat to the city walls, and in addition to a solid wooden gate, the city gate also had a wooden gate and an iron gate, which was blocked by a large pile of stones at the end, and it was still impossible for the enemy's car to break the city gate.
A large number of serfs held shields to protect their bodies, and then slowly climbed upwards.
Although they suffered a large number of casualties, they were not too much of a wound in the face of their large numbers, so even though the defenders on the castle were throwing stones and the archers were firing quickly, the enemy slowly approached the walls.
At last the first serf rushed to the wall, but before he could rejoice, a spear pierced his chest, followed by several other spears, and he lost his life in an instant.
Blood flowed from his mouth, and the internal organs had already been destroyed and shattered by the spear, and when the spear was pulled out, the body of the serf fell backwards weakly, and several serfs who were climbing were smashed.
And when they showed their heads on the city wall again, several spears pierced out, and the exposed head was instantly pierced by several spears, turning into a mutilated tattered, with brains and blood flowing all over the ground.
In this way, although many soldiers were able to show their heads on the city walls, all of them were killed by spears piercing their heads.
So far, the battle has been unusually smooth, and the defenders on the city walls have suffered almost no casualties, but the enemy has lost more than 6,000 serfs.
Such a large number is almost a rare number of casualties from war.
Eventually, the speed of shooting on the walls slowed down, and the archers could no longer keep up with the high-intensity exercise of drawing their bows, and they had to rest, or risk losing their hands.
The enemies below the castle were also very happy to see the speed of their shooting slow, except for the huge ballista guns fired from the bed crossbow, they no longer had to worry about the threat from overhead.
In less than an hour, the archers had fired seventy or eighty thousand arrows, which showed that they had exhausted more than twenty rounds of shooting.
If it weren't for the enemy's large number of shields, these arrows alone would have wiped out a large number of enemy armies.
Finally, the serfs inevitably climbed the city wall, after all, the soldiers were not supermen with underpants behind them, and they could throw stones and shoot arrows with unlimited physical strength.
Armed with large sticks or short swords, they fought with the royal infantry on the city walls.
But they were desperate to find that no matter how hard they tried, they could not inflict any damage on the enemy, and even if they were lucky enough to rush to the enemy's side, relying on the weapons in their hands could not inflict any damage on the well-dressed enemy.
It seemed that not even the slightest pain could be inflicted on the enemy, and with it, sharp spears stabbed them in the chest, killing them one by one.
The Grand Duke of Vukaran and the other nobles in the rear also saw the situation on the city walls clearly, and they had to send out regular troops to fight.
The regular army had been assembled, and many of them were armed with heavy weapons, hoping to inflict some damage on the enemy or even kill him.
However, they did not issue an order to the regular army to attack immediately, they still hoped that the serfs could consume some of the enemy's physical strength, so that the regular army could fight more smoothly and be able to conquer the city wall as soon as possible.