Chapter 187: Dawn Firelight
William held the battlements with his hand and looked at the enemy below with a solemn expression.
"This group of people should have just come to test us, now what are we going to do?" He walked up to William's side and pursed his lips.
William wore a helmet on his head, otherwise he would not dare to poke his head out of the battlements so casually, although there were no archers among the group of light infantry outside, but in the three wells erected next to it, there were many archers.
The well, here called the siege tower, can be used to arrange archers on the top floor, allowing the archers to fight back at the archers in the castle at a height as high as the city walls.
When the well is pushed near the city wall, a long wooden plank will stretch out from the well and put it on the city wall, so that the soldiers in the well can rush up the city wall against the plank.
"Do what you have to do, do you want the enemy to answer? Destroy them, of course! William hammered the battlements and said.
"Put the archers in position, our archers shoot far and deploy them on the turret!" William said to Urimu.
In fact, William is also selfish, his archers are not easy to cultivate, and they are even less vulnerable to damage when deployed on the arrow tower, and the archers on the city wall are obviously very dangerous, and they don't know when the enemy will rush up.
After speaking, William turned his gaze to Norwen: "Norwen, you go and divide the remaining four hundred archers into two teams, I remember the alternate shooting I told you before, we will use this tactic for a long time." ”
Norwin thought for a moment and nodded in understanding.
William had told Norwen and the two of them more than once, and as early as when William made the recurve compound bow, William had been excitedly talking to the two of them about the tactics he had conceived.
And the three-stage attack used by the Ming army in the previous life is very familiar to an otaku like him who loves to read history, although it is a musket tactic, but both are long-range weapons.
The effect of increasing the rate of fire is still there, and although it may not be obvious for him to use the bow and arrow now, it will be even more brilliant when he starts to develop the crossbow in the future.
Norwin arranged the archers, and Urimu distributed one hundred and fifty archers on the four towers of the city wall where the gate was located.
William, on the other hand, was on standby on the city wall with the Menders infantry, and in addition to the sixty men in the first row on the city wall, William transferred three columns of one hundred and eighty men, adding up to two hundred and forty men to guard the city wall.
This amount is not rare for Laughlin Bai, but it is not too much, if it is faced with this thousand people attacking the city, there is basically no pressure.
"William! The enemy is attacking! He reminded him of his helmet.
William nodded, and by this time, the sharp sound of breaking the air was already ringing in his ears, it was the sound of the Mandes archers on the arrow tower shooting.
Their task is to shoot freely, because there is no one to direct them on the turret, and their accuracy is good, so the free scatter can be used to the fullest.
But this was not the case with the ordinary archers on the walls, who were not very accurate and had bows and arrows in their hands, so they had to compensate for this with intensive shooting.
The light infantry under the castle suddenly screamed, and more than 150 arrows directly caused more than 70 casualties to the enemy.
If they stood a little sparsely, they would not have suffered such large casualties, and they stood so densely that the archers hardly had to aim, as long as they found a general direction, they could shoot the enemy
After a commotion, the enemy returned to calm and continued to run with ladders in the direction of the city walls.
William looked at the enemy running over, and silently calculated the distance in his heart, after all, the range of this hunting bow is not far, and he has to calculate the distance before he can shoot.
"First row, shoot!" William put his hand down heavily, and more than 200 arrows flew out at once.
Like flying locusts, they all saw that they had fallen into the enemy's formation, and nearly a hundred people fell to the ground, screaming and wailing in bursts.
And the archers on the enemy's wells are also shooting arrows with bows, like the city walls and starting to shoot back, as for the Manders archers on the arrow tower, they are simply out of reach.
After a flurry of fire, the enemy beneath the walls finally began to crumble, and they did not even attack the walls, the only achievement was to set up ladders on the walls.
Watching the enemy collapse, William didn't make any moves, there was no movement on the surface, but thought in his heart.
Now that the enemy has been dispersed, there will be no further attack in a short time, and the enemy's food is not so abundant, and the surrounding villages are also empty under the plunder of the army of Denglenburg.
Their only recourse was to farther away to find supplies, so they wouldn't launch a second attack for at least two days.
"Let the archers rest, rest well, and when the enemy officially attacks, they will come in handy!"
"Oh yes, has there been any news of the other walls being attacked?" William asked Xiang Limu.
"It doesn't seem to be, so far I haven't heard any news of other walls being attacked, but I'll ask later!" He shook his head and said.
"Okay, soldiers, be vigilant, we don't know when the enemy will attack us back, we must not take it lightly!"
William's solemn advice, the soldiers also heard it clearly, and they all said that there was no problem.
William took off his helmet, patted the shoulder of the officer in charge of guarding the wall, smiled, and walked down the wall with the other three columns.
Walking into the town hall, he found that the two viscounts of the earl were discussing something again, and reported to the earl about today's events, and William returned to his room.
As the night approached dawn, William felt a cacophony of hisses, mixed with the sounds of fighting, very clearly.
William, who was woken up, hurriedly got up from the bed, pushed the door open, grabbed the frightened manservant at the door and asked, "What happened?" ”
"I ...... I don't know, maybe the enemy is taking advantage of the night to attack! ”
At this time, the next room in the next room, Yu Limu and Nuo Wen also pushed open the door: "What happened?" ”
"I don't know, it may be that the enemy is taking advantage of choking to death to sneak attack us! Anyway, get gear up and get ready for battle! ”
William pulled the valet into the room and asked him to put on his armor.
Ten minutes later, William came out of the room fully armed, his helmet tucked under his arm.
Walking out of the room with Nowen Hurim, they lived near the wall they were responsible for defending, and the soldiers were scattered in their houses, their armours and their guns.
As soon as there was an emergency, they could react quickly, and now, they had obviously been awakened by the sound, and they all walked out of the door and gathered on the street under the prevention of their officers.