Chapter 106: Forced Squatting and Real-time Commentary
"My lord, the army of Reykmund is less than 10 kilometers away from Rezwan City." A raptor beast warrior said to Pan Xiaogu
"Keep watching."
He followed the main force and lurked in the pre-dug bunkers, where they had been staying for a day and two nights, for fear of being discovered by the Scouts of Rekmund, and no one could light a fire or move around the ground.
It is said to be latent, but it is actually a squatting pit.
The bunker is actually a big pit, a pit can accommodate dozens of people when squeezed into it, and then on the top of the pit like a tent to prop up a roof made of white cloth, in the distance is not carefully looked at and ordinary snow field is no different, only there are many footprints around the pit, which may expose their location, but yesterday a light snow began to fall, covering the footprints on the ground, and this last flaw disappeared.
However, the snowfall also brought some trouble, and the Reykmund army slowed down their march because of the snowfall, otherwise they would have arrived outside Rezwan yesterday afternoon, so that Pan Xiaogu and they had to squat for an extra day or two.
The raptors in charge of monitoring, they will report the enemy situation to Pan Xiaogu every quarter of an hour, and then the herald will use a special whistle to transmit to other surrounding bunkers, and finally they will relay the order, when the attack is launched, the trumpeter of the Chinese army will blow the trumpet of the charge, and the army will rush out of the pit together after hearing the trumpet, and launch an attack on the enemy.
Rykmund's army arrived at the city at about ten o'clock in the morning, and the enemy's main force set up camp outside the west and north gates, and sent two more divisions to monitor the other two gates, completing the siege of Rezwan.
After noon, Rykmund, who had completed the encirclement, sent an envoy to the city of Ryzwan to persuade him to surrender, and it was LΓΌ Dingbang who was responsible for commanding the defense of Ryzwan, and he had a battalion of infantry and a battalion of sailors, a regular army of Wuhe of more than 700 people, ten brigades of 2,500 servants, and more than 1,000 people temporarily recruited in the city.
Because he wanted to induce the enemy army to attack the city and create opportunities for the main force outside the city, Lu Dingbang deliberately only let the five hundred servants and the people stand at the head of the city, so that the envoys under the city could see it, and then sent a steward of the Rezwan City Lord's Mansion who had surrendered before, refused the envoy's persuasion to surrender, and humiliated the other party's commander.
When the envoy returned to relay the story, it really caused Redmond to be greatly annoyed, but as a man who had been tested on the battlefield for a long time, Redmond was not carried away by anger and attacked directly, but asked the craftsmen who accompanied the army to start assembling siege equipment.
The Redmond army carried many carts, which were filled with wood and various parts, and the craftsmen of the army used these materials to assemble a siege machine, including two rambling carts to attack the city gate, four stone throwers, and a siege tower, and when these equipment were ready, the sky was already dark, and the Redmond let the stone thrower symbolically launch a few stone balls at the city of Rezwan as a deterrent, and then collected the troops and returned to the camp, without the slightest intention of night fighting.
This can be bitter for the ambush of the Wuhe Army outside the city, they have to be in the icy and snowy wilderness, and then squat in the pit for one more night, fortunately the pit is warmer, but the air is not very good, because they can't go out, everyone eats and drinks Lazar in the pit, even if there is a covered pit dug in advance in the big pit, but the smell is not to mention, as for the big pit where people and horses are mixed...
The cavalry comrades said with tears in their eyes that we all survived with a handful of and urine.
Squatting in the pit is also very hard at times.
At the time of the post-war summary, Pan Xiaogu also unexpectedly found that the performance of the servant army when squatting in the pit actually exceeded that of the regular army of Wuhe, and these servant troops from low-level herdsmen showed extremely high endurance for the dirty environment in the bunker, and were obviously extremely adapted to this kind of environment where people and animals lived together. In contrast, regular troops from systematically better living conditions were less tolerant of dirty, and although the discipline of the troops persisted, there were many complaints among the soldiers.
Of course, these are all afterwords, and the night before the battle passed without alarm.
Early the next morning, Rykmund's army set up and prepared to launch a fierce attack on the city of Rezwan.
The direction of the enemy lord is the west of the city, and most of the siege equipment is allocated, and the remaining part is allocated to the troops in the north of the city to disperse the strength of the defenders in the city - in the mind of Rekmund, the defenders in the city must not have enough troops, otherwise they would not have sent so many men to the city wall to assist in the defense. How did he think that the defenders of the city were deliberately showing weakness and deliberately luring him to attack the city?
When the siege began, four stone throwers were the first to strike.
These stone throwers belong to small stone throwers, can only fire lead ball-sized stone projectiles, the range is more than 300 meters, these stone bullets are too weak for the city wall, but the firing speed is good, after the siege begins, maintain a rate of fire every two or three minutes, the accuracy is also okay, and it is suitable for destroying the wooden defensive equipment on the city wall.
After more than two hours of uninterrupted attacks by the stone throwers, almost all the wooden equipment and buildings on the western wall were destroyed, and the enemy troops in the west of the city saw this and launched the first wave of tentative offensives.
At the same time, the enemy army in the north of the city was still using the only stone thrower to sweep the city head in a hurry, and sent soldiers carrying wooden ladders to stand by more than 200 meters from the city wall, so that the defenders in the north of the city could not support the west of the city.
And behind the Reykmond army, Pan Xiaogu was also anxiously observing the situation on the battlefield.
"The enemy on the west side of the city sent one or two. . . Seven or eight, eight phalanxes besieged the city, and the number of people in each phalanx was about a hundred. "Today's raptor who is responsible for battlefield monitoring, named Liu Qi, he has a dual-purpose skill, and can observe through the perspective of a pet while exercising his skills, while explaining to the people next to him in real time, just because of his unique skill, he did not participate in the reconnaissance mission in the first two days, in order to let him broadcast the situation of the battlefield in real time after the war.
"The enemy had four phalanxes stopped, it was the archers ... They shot arrows! Well, our archers returned fire, and both sides were fiercely firing at each other ... The other four phalanxes accelerated, and they put ladders on the wall, and they were beautiful, and someone cut a ladder on the wall, but the other ladders were on the wall, and someone climbed up the ladder, and our army began to throw stones, well, another ladder was broken, but the other enemies were still climbing up the ladder..."
In a trance, Pan Xiaogu had the illusion that he was listening to the commentary of the ball game
"The enemy landed in the city, but was quickly driven down... The enemy has retreated, is this attack going to end? Not really! The enemy directly launched a second wave of attacks, one, two, three... Twenty-two, the enemy has invested twenty-two phalanxes, and the enemy's siege towers have also come up, it is a general attack, and the enemy has launched a general attack! β