Chapter 684: Withdrawal (I)
Soon, more than half an hour passed, and a large number of serf conscripts poured onto the city walls, but each time they stayed for less than ten seconds, they were brutally slaughtered by the royal infantry.
More than 2,000 serfs had already died in half an hour, and the Grand Duke of Vokkaran below saw that the time was almost up, and said to the nobles around him: "Everyone, we can send a regular army!" It's best to gather all our knights together and do a complete assault on the enemy's walls! ”
These nobles were quite in favor of Grand Duke Vokkaran's proposal, and had no other opinions, so they chose to listen to Grand Duke Vokkaran's advice.
The regular army was assembled, and more than 8,000 regular army soldiers were gathered together, and the momentum was obviously much stronger than that of the serf conscripts before them.
They far surpassed the serf conscripts, both in terms of formation and combat effectiveness.
And the knights are also gathered together, their equipment is not uniform, some are very sophisticated, and some are only half of the iron chain armor.
"Knights, conquer this castle, untold riches await us, and each of you will get what you want, money and honor!"
"Oh!"
There was a shout from the knights, who, though they flaunted honor and etiquette all day long, were nothing more than a group of armed bandits.
For them, honor and money are the goals of their battle, and loyalty to the feudal lord is sometimes secondary.
After all, they are a group of knights with two swords, which are completely different from those knights in the central and eastern parts of the continent who have a strong chivalry spirit and a part of loyalty, mercy, honor, and sacrifice.
After hearing the words of wealth and honor, they immediately became excited, and they felt that the castle in front of them was not too difficult.
It is not to blame them that in this era when there is a lack of basic standing armies and most of the operations rely on serf conscription, a group of elite standing armies who are so skilled in horseback and foot combat are still very useful.
That's why the knight class has such a high status, and it is precisely because of this that they are so confident that they can conquer Marasburg.
In this way, the knights took the lead, while the regular soldiers followed behind them, and they came behind the serf conscripts, and when all the serfs in front of them had climbed the wall, they would go with them to fight the royal army.
They followed behind the serfs, each with a shield in his hand, to prevent the arrows from above the walls from inflicting massive damage on them.
The poor group of serfs was quickly slaughtered by the royal infantry on the city walls, and in another ten minutes, hundreds of serfs were killed.
At this time, the regular infantry was also about to reach a short distance under the walls of Marasburg.
"Get ready! The battle is about to begin! We're going to follow behind the knights and help them clear the walls, hear me! ”
"Yes!" Bursts of shouts rang out among the ranks of the regular army, and every commander of the aristocratic army was encouraging morale with various words.
Soon, all the farmers and herdsmen in front of them climbed the city wall, and they also touched the ladder.
Although the serfs were massacred, they still managed to carve out a small area above the city walls for the regular army behind them to land.
The royal army kept waving the weapons in their hands, and they fought in teams of three, three in groups, and three in a team.
The sword and shield infantry were responsible for the defense, while the two pikemen relied on their short spears to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.
The dead serf conscripts were already piled up on the walls, and the area near the walls had nowhere to put their feet, all the corpses were strewn all over the ground.
The serfs gradually cleared up an area, and the regular infantry below the castle began to climb the ladder in the rain of arrows, and even under the protection of their shields, occasionally people were shot by arrows.
And the rain of arrows is not all arrows fired from the recurve bow, the pulley crossbow is hugely powerful, the range is enough to reach four or five hundred meters, and such a powerful power can even penetrate the shield.
If the bolt hits the shield head-on, it will be able to pierce the shield, and even if it weakens most of its power, it can also cause panic and sometimes even some damage to the soldiers behind it.
In addition, the huge ballista is also constantly firing, and for a powerful ballista, the defensive power of the shield is simply not enough.
As long as it hits, it will be a bloody end.
Although they were also very scared in their hearts, they were much better than serfs, and the perennial war in the western part of the continent was not as fierce as the war in the central and eastern parts of the continent, but it also honed a group of experienced soldiers.
In this way, at great risk, they began to climb the city wall without stopping.
From time to time, they were hit by arrows and fell on the ladder, but they did not waver.
Finally, the knights began to climb the city wall, and at this time the serfs on the city wall had also lost a lot, and the murderous combat effectiveness of the royal infantry was not at all comparable to that of the serfs.
After the combat effectiveness was high to a certain level, the only role played by these serfs was to open up the battlefield and consume the physical strength of the royal infantry.
By now, more than 3,000 of the enemy had died on the walls, but not a single officer of the royal infantry died, only a few dozen were wounded and had to leave.
Until now, the royal infantry did not regard this war as a danger, and they never thought that the enemy would be able to defeat them and conquer the castle.
In the eyes of all the soldiers, only the army of the Rhoderan Empire and the elite soldiers of the Kingdom of Astra were worthy of being their opponents.
Perhaps other countries also have some elite troops, but there are definitely not many of them.
This is also the case with Delceth, if the two sides are fighting on the battlefield, then it is very likely that there will be danger due to the enemy's large number of troops.
But if it is a defense battle, there will not be so much danger, before Delseth felt that there were too many enemies, but now at a glance, even with such a large number of enemies, there is not much combat effectiveness.
Two hundred of the enemy's eight hundred knights had climbed the walls, and they took the place of the serfs to fight against the royal infantry, who were almost dead.
The knight is worthy of being a knight, and his combat effectiveness is really not comparable to that of the serf conscripts, as soon as he came up, there were more than ten casualties among the royal infantry.
However, on the contrary, these knights also died more than a dozen people, and the casualties on both sides were equal.
After all, the strongest of the royal infantry is still fighting in formation, not that Dong, who has trained swordsmanship since childhood, they can't compare to knights in individual combat.
The two sides began to fight together, and the battle of their time did not seem very bloody, and the scene of broken hands and feet and severed heads did not take place on the city walls.
After all, the armor of both sides is very good, and even if they die, it is because of the piercing of sharp weapons and the vigorous blow to the vital point, not because of the loss of a certain part or excessive blood loss.