"It's a siege and a car!"

The sentry standing on the watchtower saw the retreating siege carts in the crowd and immediately shouted loudly.

Hearing this, Odo looked in the direction of the sentry's guidance, and sure enough, less than two hundred meters away from the city wall, a siege cart with a wet cowhide on the top and four wheels was slowly approaching the city gate under the impetus of the enemy soldiers.

It is also thanks to their efforts to hide the whereabouts of this siege car, which can be regarded as the only hope that the other party can break through Stralsund City, so there are many soldiers around this siege car, with the protection of these soldiers, the Normans want to repeat the old trick, it is impossible to use cavalry raids to destroy the siege car.

In addition, there were many soldiers carrying ladders around the siege chariot, and they were moving faster than the siege chariot, and it didn't take long to approach a hundred meters away from the city wall.

"Longbowmen, crossbowmen! Arrow proof! Arrow proof! ”

"Catapults, bed crossbows, shoot quickly!"

"Artillery ready, shotgunfire!"

Commands continued to be heard from the walls, and the Norman soldiers obeyed the order and methodically began to saturate the enemy forces approaching the walls with arrows, stone bullets, crossbow arrows, and shotguns.

The Normans' long-range firepower was extremely layered, the furthest being the counterweight trebuchets set up in the city, and they were still throwing stone projectiles at the rear of the enemy army, followed by five-shot guns and longbowmen, who had a range of between two hundred and three hundred yards, and fired ammunition at the center of the enemy's largest number, killing and wounding a large number of enemy troops.

They were followed by crossbowmen and artillerymen, who mounted crossbows and fired at the brave-looking soldiers, who could break up half of the enemy's charge by killing the enemy's warriors.

Then, as the other side approached the city wall, seven or eight already loaded guns fired scattered shells.

With a series of loud noises of "dong dong dong", the cannon muzzles on the city wall burst into dazzling light, and countless iron filings, iron chips, and gravel were shot at the enemy in the shape of flowers.

In an instant, hundreds of Slavic soldiers who tried to approach the city walls were hit by fragments of shrapnel and threw themselves to the ground in large numbers, letting out bursts of oozing screams.

When these Slavs were hit by the gun's shotgun, they were all miserable, with stumps all over the ground, and there were soldiers covering their wounds and wailing.

The Slavs were frightened by the hellish sight and hesitated to go on, but behind them were the fierce noble riders, who were forcing them to continue the attack with their blades raised.

After all, there were only about 6,000 soldiers stationed in Stralsund, but at this moment, they were facing an enemy army of about 14,500 people, and there were even more cannon fodder slaves, and the defenders in the city alone could not stop them from approaching.

"My lord, they are going to set up a ladder, and the siege car is about to arrive under the city gate." A knight came up to Odo and reported.

"Inform the soldiers, prepare the fire oil, and once the enemy's ladder is leaning against the city wall, immediately pour the oil on the ladder and burn it clean, and the same is true for the siege of the city.

Ladies and gentlemen, please be sure to hold the city walls, and when they are tired, you can immediately organize a counterattack and completely annihilate them here! As Odo gave the order, he cheered on the nobles and soldiers around him, and made a morale-boosting speech.

As Odo's order was delivered, the soldiers on the city walls began to get busy again, and the soldiers in the rear carried the fire oil onto the city walls and distributed them to the soldiers one by one.

This kind of fire oil has been boiling and heating in the city for a long time, and after it is brought up, it is still extremely hot, once these fire oil is taught head-on, the soldiers below will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and no one will be spared.

"The enemy's ladder is coming up!" A young soldier shouted with his right hand pointing to the ladder that had been the first to climb the wall.

"Don't panic, take a wooden fork and push the ladder back, and pour fire oil quickly!" The Norman knights on the walls were very calm, and they kept shouting and giving orders.

"Yes."

At this time, the Norman knights had become the backbone of all the soldiers, and the soldiers looked at the heroic and fearless Norman knights, and they also had confidence in their hearts.

"One, two, three, pour fire oil!"

With a bang, a large barrel of fire oil was carried by the two soldiers and pointed at the soldiers who climbed up the ladder.

Searing, viscous oil was poured on the bodies of enemy soldiers, no matter how thick their armor and fur they were, like maggots on tarsal bones, burning their skin through crevices.

Countless soldiers who climbed the ladder screamed and fell to the ground from the ladder more than ten meters high, some of them were silent after a while, which was lucky, but more of them were burned by the fire oil and were in agony, as if they were in hell.

"Throw the torch!"

At the orders of the Norman knights, flaming torches were thrown down by the soldiers.

When the flames met the still fire oil, the flames sprang up in an instant, and along the ground under the city walls along the fire oil attached to the ladder, many soldiers who had no time to escape screamed and were swallowed up by the raging flames.

Such a scene was constantly played out in various parts of the city wall, and countless Slavic soldiers were engulfed in flames, and their precious lives were lost before they could reach the city wall.

Under the city gates, the siege car that arrived here was in better condition, and the Slavs had made this siege car fireproof, not only covering the top and all sides with thick wet cowhides, which were all water, even in the face of burning oil.

"Cut the ropes and drop the slitons and boulders!" Seeing that the oil did not work for a short time, Odo immediately ordered the soldiers in the city gate.

"Yes."

After receiving Odo's order, the soldiers on the tower of the city gate swung their swords and cut the ropes that tied the boulder and the pulley, and immediately the huge stones and pulleys hanging on the high place aimed at the siege car and the enemy under the gate tower and smashed them down.

The stones hanging from the gate tower weighed thousands of pounds, and there were as many as three of them, and they smashed into the roof of the rushing car with huge kinetic energy under the traction of gravity.

With three loud bangs, the siege car that was hit by the three boulders suddenly couldn't bear it and collapsed instantly, while the soldiers inside were crushed alive by the boulders.

The enemy's offensive was broken down, the defeat was revealed, and even a few enemies who climbed the walls were instantly repulsed by the Norman soldiers, and this was the perfect time to counterattack.

"Launch signal rockets, wave signal flags, and inform the Hohenzollern brothers and Admiral Randolph deployed on both flanks of the city to attack the enemy, and I want to leave them all here!" Otto commanded aloud to the knight beside him.

Behold, they have received the walls."