Chapter 51: Dissolution
Seeing that the torsion ballistae of the two towers were properly prepared, Osborne's butler waved his hand and ordered: "The ballista crew prepares, aim at the target, and shoot." ”
With the order of Osborne's butler, a soldier armed with a sledgehammer came over from each of the two torsion ballistas, and swung the wooden sledgehammer at the slider at the tail of the ballista.
Bang bang...
Sad... Sad...
The hammer hit the tail touched the torsion ballista, and the two crossbow arms, driven by the torsion spring, violently pulled the stone projectile in the groove and fired towards the siege tower in the middle.
Bang... Bang...
Rumble...
Two 57-pound stone projectiles hit the middle siege tower in no particular order, piercing through the siege tower like weak paper, and messing up its internal structure.
Several of the wooden pillars inside the siege tower were shattered by stone projectiles, and they could no longer support the huge weight of the top, and they fell along with hundreds of soldiers on the siege tower.
This single salvo of torsional ballistas completely destroyed a siege tower and caused the enemy to lose nearly 200 soldiers, which can be described as a brilliant victory.
The soldiers on the city walls and towers saw the scene of the ballista destroying the siege tower, and in an instant there was a deafening cheer, and they jumped up and hugged each other and cheered.
The Osborne steward in the tower was not satisfied with this small victory, and once again ordered to the equipment team on the two towers: "Ballista ancestor prepare, reload." ”
The soldiers of the ballista crew who received this order sprang into action, and once again worked hard to turn the winch and load the stone projectile as if they had been trained countless times.
"Aim at the target, siege the city and charge the car." Steward Osborne then ordered, "Shoot!" ”
The two groups of ballista soldiers once again swung their mallets and struck the slider at the end of the ballista, firing the stone projectiles aimed at the siege vehicle.
Sad... Sad...
Two stone bullets fell from the sky like a comet falling to the ground, with an incomparably huge kinetic energy that successively penetrated the siege car, completely destroying and collapsing the car, while the nearly 100 soldiers who pushed the car inside were either crushed to pieces by the stone bullets, or crushed into meat sauce by the collapsed battering ram.
"Yay..."
"We're going to win."
"Without these siege engines, see how they climb the walls."
With the second siege machine once again destroyed by the torsion ballista, the soldiers on William's side no longer doubted that their side could win, and cheered and hugged excitedly.
However, they were too early in their joy, and after the two rounds of ballistas, the remaining two siege towers were now less than eighty meters away from the city walls, a distance from which the torsion ballistas could barely fire another round.
Sir Hubert on the city wall also noticed this, and immediately made a decision, and ordered the soldiers on the city wall and the tower to shoot at the soldiers who pushed the siege tower to move with light javelins and bows, trying to slow them down.
Sad... Sad...
With Hubert's command, more than a thousand soldiers on the city walls hurled more than a thousand light javelins at the two slowly approaching siege towers, which accelerated faster and faster by gravity.
In the blink of an eye, more than a thousand light javelins hit the two siege towers and the soldiers around them.
Unfortunately, these light javelins were either held back by the sturdy siege towers or by the shield formations of the town militia.
Of course, this javelin shooting was not without effect, and the town militia had to slow down the movement of the siege towers because they had to organize a shield defense.
If you do this a few more times, you will be able to delay the two torsion ballistas firing twice.
Whoa... Whoa...
Just as the town militia relaxed their vigilance and disbanded their shield formations to continue pushing the siege tower forward, a rain of black arrows fell from the sky again from the tower of the highland wooden fort, penetrating the bodies of more than a hundred town militiamen around the siege tower in the blink of an eye and pinning them firmly to the ground.
The sudden rain of arrows attacked, and the fear of death that was close at hand, made the soldiers pushing the siege tower begin to confuse for a while, and the already unhappy siege tower gradually stopped.
"Good chance, soldiers, keep shooting, make sure these siege towers don't move." Sir Hubert, who was on the city wall, also noticed the confusion in the place, laughed excitedly, and went down to speak.
"Yes...", everyone should be the way.
Waves of javelins and arrows seemed to shoot into the vicinity of the Alençon coalition siege towers without stopping, making it impossible for the enemy soldiers pushing the siege towers forward to push them with peace of mind, greatly slowing down the movement of the two siege towers.
A few minutes later, the two torsional ballistas that had been wound up on the two towers of the Highland Wooden Fort were in place, ready to be fired again.
"Attention ballista crew, siege tower on the left side of the target, shoot." Steward Osborne did not hesitate to give the order to shoot.
Bang bang...
Two 57-pound stone spherical projectiles unsurprisingly hit the siege tower on the left, penetrating it without hindrance and breaking the supporting pillars within.
For a moment, the siege tower began to lean forward, making a creaking sound, as if it was about to collapse at any moment.
"Run, run for your life."
"I don't want to die."
"If you don't want to be buried alive, get out of here."
Having learned from the past, the soldiers resolutely fled around the siege tower, running and shouting as if the back of their butts were on fire.
Rumble...
The siege tower, which had been pierced by two huge stone spherical projectiles, unsurprisingly collapsed, crushing everything within a radius of ten meters.
Rao was the first time for the surrounding soldiers to flee, or nearly a hundred soldiers in the siege tower did not have time to escape, and were firmly pressed into meat sauce by the collapsed siege tower.
Although the soldiers in the highland wooden fort cheered with smiles on their faces, their hands did not stop for a moment, constantly firing spears and arrows at the last siege tower.
The enemy generals also seemed to regard the siege tower as their last hope, and hundreds of town militia armed with large shields were dispatched around the siege tower, forming a shield formation to defend the siege tower soldiers against javelin arrows.
With friendly shields guarded by large shields, soldiers no longer have to worry about arrows, and can concentrate on pushing the siege towers.
Sir Hubert stood on the wall of the wooden castle, watching that the advance of this last siege tower was not stopped by the arrows, and the speed did not slow down in the slightest, and he could not help clenching his right fist and secretly anxious, and thought to himself:
"It's less than fifty meters, and if we can't destroy this siege tower, we'll have to fight the locality. This is not the strong point of our army, our army has lost more than 300 valuable soldiers before, if the enemy uses the siege tower and ladder to climb the city wall, I have only sent more than 2,000 soldiers can not guarantee that they can defeat the other side. ”