Like a torrential downpour of arrows, even the hoplites of the dwarven clan felt the pressure.

At the height of the Roman Empire, it sent 20 reorganized legions and 400,000 troops to conquer Scandinavia, but they all failed.

The logistical supply and the fact that the Romans were not adapted to the bad weather in Scandinavia, on top of that, was the desperate counterattack of the Norsemen.

It was at that time that the Icelandic dwarves in Greenland saw the signature tortoiseshell formation of the Roman Empire, at that time, the civilization level of various tribes was still very low, and the war was rushed forward in a swarm.

Despite this, the dwarven clan is still maintained in a social stage such as the tribal alliance, and some powerful tribes are able to recruit qualified heavy dwarven soldiers, while others are either infantry who prefer other methods, such as the phalanx of super-long spears, or the assault infantry with two-handed weapons, or they are not strong or manpower enough to put up such a phalanx.

Therefore, in the face of the arrows of the English longbowmen who were like a rainstorm, the dwarves suffered a lot of losses, and they threw out with a powerful longbow, and the arrows with the acceleration bonus of gravity hit the large shield as if they were a large hailstone falling from the sky.

Anyway, the shield is arc-shaped, which can indirectly unload part of the strength, but this crackling arrow rain still makes many dwarf elite warriors feel quite difficult, one is not good, the shield is bounced away by the impact of the arrow rain, or offset a little, and the raindrops that leak in mercilessly pierce the flesh of the dwarf warriors, and the unlucky dwarf warriors snort and fall down, and this tortoiseshell array is a little bit of a gap.

If you change to the tortoiseshell formation of other barbarian cottages now, most of them will be helpless, but the dwarf side is to learn a full set, and even on the basis of the tortoiseshell array, there are improvements, naturally not afraid, I saw the whole tortoiseshell array flickering and changing, just like a puzzle module, and the back took a step forward at the same time, and the last row was subtracted by one column, and the entire tortoiseshell array returned to normal.

The legendary tortoiseshell array was able to minimize the damage of long-range projectile weapons, but the other dwarven classes were not so lucky, and the dwarven spear warriors were not suitable for siege warfare, so they did not participate, but the dwarven two-handed axe warriors, dwarven crossbowmen, and ordinary, dwarven soldiers who were only equipped with small round shields, and the dwarven conscription militia, fell a lot under such a rain of arrows.

Even the dwarves, an army equipped with well-armored armor, have suffered a lot of casualties, so you can imagine how miserable the Scots, who are mainly light infantry, will be miserable, even at the moment when the arrow rain rises, the Scots either squat down on the spot with shoddy large shields to protect their upper body, or hide behind the baffle carts, and some shameless ones also use their dwarven allies as shields, but even so, there are still a lot of arrows beckoning to them, who let them have no armor on them.

The English, with their proud longbow troops, were able to salvage a little in mid-range combat, but this good thing soon disappeared after the dwarven troop's chariots and ladder carts approached Hadrian's walls.

The building cart made by the dwarves according to the height of Hadrian's city before was also more than ten meters high, and it was full of dwarven crossbowmen, and even light ballistas, although they were destroyed a little by the city defense ballistae of England on the way, and the building cart collapsed suddenly, and then the topmost crossbowmen fell down and became meat cakes, but most of them still arrived safely.

The dwarves and Scots stepped on the folding staircase of the building, almost as high as climbing five stories to the roof of the building, and then ran a few steps above the baffle to see the English lined up with a shield wall.

The two sides stabbed with axes and guns, and it was a tragic battle.

In such a close battle, the dwarven long-handled axe warrior wearing heavy armor and holding a long-handled battle axe can be regarded as the strongest king, and the long-handled axe weighing more than ten kilograms wielded in both hands is even longer than the short spear in the hands of the heavy spearmen.

Dwarven axe warriors are often out of range of the enemy's attack, and they sweep through people, shields, armor, and short spears, all of them with absolute and incomparable terrifying power.

The first line of Hadrian's Wall was full of blood, and the English defenders screamed and screamed.

Seeing that with the dwarven long-handled axe warriors as the vanguard, the dwarves and the Scots allied forces have achieved an incredible advantage in the battle on the front line of the city, and even under such circumstances, it is not inconceivable that Hadrian's city will change hands.

"Hold on! Be sure to hold it!! ”

Many knights were stunned by this scene, and some of them directly lifted the barrels full of fire oil and threw them at the gangplank of the dwarven building, and the longbowmen who ignited the rockets fired fiercely at the dwarves and Scots, who were already glued with fire oil.

The screams resounded in the sky, even the most brave dwarven warriors, in the case of being on fire, it was impossible to keep calm, and in such a dense area as the springboard, they even had nowhere to escape, under such a squeeze, the soldiers standing on the side fell directly because they panicked, or because of the push of their own soldiers, the fire spread from the city to the ground little by little, and finally the entire building car directly turned into a huge torch, Hadrian's city was on fire!

The battle continued, the commander of the Scots, William Wallace, and the dwarf king Wald were both veterans over the years, both of whom were like iron and stone, although the front-line army did not progress well, and was cut open by the skin with little oil, and shot like a hedgehog by the longbow, after the ladder cart came, some of the soldiers who climbed along the ladder cart were even smashed by the stones thrown by the opponent, but the two commanders of the coalition army still did not give the order to retreat.

One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion!

The fierce siege of Hadrian continued, and the dwarf troops stepped forward, each carrying a wooden barrel in his hand, which could not be doused with water because of the fluidity of the oil, so their barrels were filled with freshly dug sand.

The dwarf soldiers were on the job of firefighters, carrying large vats of mud and sand, running wherever there was fire, covering the flames with sand, and then stomping on them with their big feet in tin boots.

In this way, the fire under Hadrian's city decreased little by little, and at the same time, along the ladder carts and tower carts, more and more dwarves and Scots attacked the head of the city.

"Use that!"

The English commander, who was standing on a tower in Hadrian's city and observing the battle, sighed lightly and said.

"Yes, General!"

Several heralds around him quickly ran away to deliver the general's orders.

Far away from the battlefield, a secret door that looked no different from the surrounding city wall slowly opened, wearing heavy chain mail, holding a spear, and riding a horse of the English knights slowly walked out, a total of more than 100 English knights quietly lined up in formation, and then, the secret door slowly closed and was not opened again.

A total of one hundred and thirty-two English knights, and three hundred and forty-eight knights, nearly five hundred English heavy cavalry lined up in a conical formation, and listened to their commander-in-chief shout:

"Today, where we died, we go to the Yellow Spring! Today, we are all brothers, regardless of whether we are high or low!! ”

Five hundred English cheered and rushed towards the dwarves and Scots who were besieging the city......

The siege was in full swing and the coalition army did not expect that such a cavalry would appear behind them, and in the stunned, a large number of dwarves and Scots were pierced by the cavalry spears, and the knights and servants drew their swords and slashed left and right, and some of them were armed with heavy chain flails, maces and other objects aimed at ladder trucks, building carts and other siege equipment for a while, or took out fire oil to ignite it.

“………………”

The dwarf king Wald shouted angrily, because the dwarves were completely unable to ride horses because of their natural size, let alone develop cavalry or something, so they often suffered losses in foreign warfare.

"What about your cavalry? Hurry up! ”

The Dwarven King immediately remembered that he had one more ally, and turned to shout at William Wallace.

"We don't have cavalry either."

William Wallace said with a wry smile on his face: "However, we still have powerful spearmen, so let's use that!" ”

Wald slapped his thigh and shouted, "Chamber guards!" The Chamber Guard stepped forward!! ”

The coalition forces quickly dispatched their own super-long spear troops, the heavily armoured and four-meter super-soldier vault guards of the dwarven clan, and the Scottish Highland pikemen, the most powerful weapons that the Scots are proud of against the English iron cavalry.

Thousands of extra-long pikemen lined up in a tight formation, and the soldiers in the first four rows all had their spears pointed flat forward, and when they looked at it from the front, they could hardly even see people, and they were all guns, and the guns were like iron forests, and they were lined up forward.

But now it was a little late, at this time, the coalition army that had suffered a double attack on the city and under the city was already on the verge of collapse, the first echelon of the siege, a total of 5,000 dwarves and Scots, rushed to the wolves, and the combat power was completely lost......

The first Hadrian siege came to a tragic end......

After stabbing the English cavalry who swore to die, or said that they were looking for death, the combined forces of Scotland and Dwarves also lost the spirit of attack, at this time the sun was already in the west, and the food that had been eaten in the morning had already been digested, and the stomach began to growl, Wald and Wallace looked at each other, and both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes, so the coalition forces had to withdraw their troops and return to the camp.

Seeing that the coalition army was retreating little by little, the English people standing on the city wall finally breathed a sigh of relief and erupted in deafening cheers, the English originally thought that this would be an easy battle, and it was not for nothing that they were temporarily suppressed by the Scots before, but as long as the English retreated to Hadrian's wall, then the Scots had no way at all.

But now the situation was completely different, and the English faced a new challenge in addition to their old rivals, the Scots, the dwarves who had sailed from Scandinavia, and the Norwegians.

It's only been three years since the last Viking invasion, and the English people still remember these two enemies vividly, whether they were fierce and brutal Vikings or well-trained dwarves.

In the last war, the English were able to win because of the carelessness of the Nordic coalition, and after capturing the city of London, they thought they had won, and the English seized the opportunity to raid successfully.

And the second, it is because of the cold lips and teeth.

The United Kingdom of Ireland and Wales and their elven allies contributed 20,000 troops to the first time that the English outnumbered the Nordic coalition.

Both armies were fierce rivals, especially the dwarven army, although only 5,000 troops were dispatched last time, but their brave posture was still fresh in the memory of the English, and the endless variety of siege equipment made the English people even more terrified.

This time, a total of 20,000 dwarves, plus 20,000 Scots, a total of 40,000 troops were located under Hadrian's city, and the English suddenly felt a huge pressure.

Although the first attack of the coalition army was broken and the siege force lost nearly 4,000 men, the English as the defender suffered unimaginable casualties.

More than 3,000 Englishmen, including nearly 500 heavy cavalry, a third of the garrison, and a third of the garrison, were all lost in the first battle.

The ratio of casualties between the defenders and the attackers was close to one, and such a victory was really difficult for the English to accept.

It is more appropriate to say defeat than victory.

If such a victory were to be repeated several times, as long as it was done again, Hadrian's City would be over.

Because the garrison of England could no longer come up with a cavalry strong enough to break through the siege troops,

"Ask for help! Anyway, it's not a shame, after all, the other party is a dwarf, and there are several times more than us. ”

The English commander decisively sent a messenger asking for reinforcements.

"The other party is preparing for the next siege, it will take at least half a month, please send reinforcements from the Lord, otherwise Hadrian's walls will be breached, and England will never be at peace!"

At the commander's command, the messenger set off with the letter in his arms.

Seven days later, that is, now, it seems that Alfred's reinforcements will still take some time to arrive, but the Viking fleet led by Randy can't wait to appear under the walls of Newcastle, directly cavalry charge, rushing in before the enemy can react.

"These Vikings are too blind!"

The Englishmen who defended Newcastle were also well-trained, and although the Norwegian heavy cavalry roared in, they were not intimidated by them, and they still looked at ease, because they only had to pull up the drawbridge and then ......

"Wait, what's going on? Is the suspension lock of the suspension bridge broken? ”

Seeing the cavalry of the opposing brigade roaring, the defenders in Newcastle Castle were stunned for a moment, and then wanted to pull up the drawbridge, but when the English soldiers wanted to do this, the sling snapped into two, and I don't know when it had been sharpened with a file a little bit.

"Cut the ropes! Put the gate down!! ”

Seeing that the drawbridge basically could not be pulled, the junior officer guarding the city gate immediately made a decision, and then without waiting for his subordinates to react, he ran directly to the front of another mechanism, and pulled out his long sword to cut the rope.

However, the gate had no intention of falling, and several English soldiers went to the front to take a look, and found that the gate was stuck in the wall with several daggers, and could not be pulled down even harder, and was completely stuck.

At this time, the Norwegian cavalry roared, and the Tomahawk cavalry that rushed to the front did not slow down, and rushed directly past an English soldier.

Because of the work of the previous spies, the two gates of Newcastle, one south and one north, were all broken, like a beep that automatically removed its clothes, and let the Norwegian iron cavalry ravage.

After the Norwegian cavalry rushed into the city, some of the soldiers quickly dismounted and galloped towards the city walls, while the rest of the soldiers did not stop and rushed towards the four gates of the inner city.

"Damn, get all those bastards out of here! Fast! ”

The Earl of Newcastle, who was in the inner castle on official business, got the news, jumped up, grabbed the long sword hanging on the wall, beckoned a few of his squires and knights to run outside.

Shouting as he ran, the more than five hundred English spearmen stationed in the inner fort, the hook and sickle soldiers, received the order, and quickly gathered and rushed outside.

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