Chapter 737: Trebuchet
Seeing that there was no reaction from the city at all, and that the few soldiers exposed outside the wall were still languishing as if they had nothing to do with themselves, the messenger turned his horse's head and rushed towards a large black banner. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, after a while, there was a stirring in the Ryukyu Nansan National Formation, and as the team slowly separated, four wooden carts were slowly pushed forward from the back of the team.
Catapult, Li Yang looked at the other party's big cart with a lever on the top, this should be the catapult, although it belongs to the old-fashioned siege equipment that will be eliminated by artillery, but its practical value is indeed quite good.
Looking at the other party's busy fixed catapult, loaded with stones, and comparing the distance, Li Yang regretted a little that he didn't take the artillery out of the warehouse and bring it up.
With a few muffled sounds, many locusts flew up the city, hit the walls, or fell into the roofs of the city, but there were no casualties.
The soldiers hid behind any shelter in silence, and the inhabitants of the city were not so well characterized, although it was only on the edge of the city, many of the residents who lived here were already making noise.
Li Yang frowned and said, "Send a team of people to make the residents of the city quieter, it's just a few small stones." ”
The people who were waiting for the second wave of the enemy's stone throwing did not wait, and Li Yang leaned out of the city wall to look, only to find that the other party had already lit a fire.
I saw that the trebuchet was no longer filled with stones, but made of vine branches, filled with straw and cotton wool, and soaked in black oil and ignited a large fireball.
The enemy soldier did not dare to wait after lighting the fireball, and immediately launched the fireball, which not only did not go out when it flew in the air, but the flames became more and more turbulent, drawing a black trail in the air.
With a few soft cracks, the fireball fell into the city, the weather was humid and it rained for several days, and the effect of the fire attack was obviously not as good as expected, causing a panic and then it was quickly extinguished.
After firing three rounds of fireballs in a row, seeing that the effect was really limited, the enemy was no longer in vain, and the trebuchet was slowly pushed again, and a siege team carrying a ladder came up from the back of the queue.
It seems that the enemy is really anxious, and it must be that a major city has been breached by a small city with a small name, and their faces are very gloomy.
The enemy rushed forward with shouts and killing, Li Yang was wearing gold silk soft armor and a thin titanium alloy cuirass, believing that his safety was guaranteed to a certain extent, and he was also standing on the city wall ready to fight with the enemy, but he was naturally surrounded by many guards.
Seven or eight ladders were erected on the wall one by one, and the soldiers of the Ryukyu Nanshan Province climbed up with a shout, while the soldiers of Miyakojima picked up the stones and wood around them and smashed them down the castle.
With a scream, the besieging soldiers were smashed down the city with their heads broken and bleeding, and some of the ladders were full of people, and the soldiers defending the city simply pushed the whole ladder down the city, in the process of pushing, several soldiers defending the city were also taken down by the ladder because they leaned out too much, and fell heavily on the ground, and then they were immediately cut into pulp by the soldiers of the Nanshan Kingdom who surrounded them.
The first wave of siege came and went as fast as it came, it was only a tentative attack, and after losing one hundred and eighty men, the enemy soldiers of the first wave of attack retreated with a cry, and even the ladder was discarded.
Is it really going to be slowly consumed in siege warfare? You must know that the war between you and the Nanshan Kingdom of the Ryukyus has spread, and it is difficult to ensure that there are no other forces that are ready to move, but now the casualties of the duel out of the city are really unbearable for the weak country, Li raised his eyebrows.
At this time, far away from the two-day journey, a small army was rushing towards Nanshan City, and the big man in the lead was the bearded Huang Bingxi......
The first day of siege passed in the tentative attack, and the second day did not change, it was still a harassing siege by the attacking enemy troops in the back row of trebuchets.
But at this time, Li Yang's anxious expression had faded, he had already made a decision, and it was the two soldiers standing under the hall who made him make up his mind.
These two men were the soldiers sent by Huang Bingxi's team to make contact, and the troops of the Ryukyu Nanshan Province were not sufficient, so they did not surround the city, so that the communication between the city and the outside world was still unimpeded.
Knowing that Huang Bingxi was coming with a small army, Li Yang couldn't wait any longer, he put the time on tomorrow night, and chose the night to be a helpless move to injure 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 himself, more than one-third of Li Yang's team were recruits, in terms of combat effectiveness, compared to the enemy's 3,000 temporary conscriptions, and the duel with the enemy's 2,000 elites must have heavy casualties, and there are few night battles here, it is better to take advantage of the chaos to raid, with a heart or not, there may be hope.
Li Yang also sent people to contact Huang Bingxi to inform him of his decision, and after standing at the head of the city, Li Yang carefully looked at the situation of the enemy's camp from afar. The enemy's camp is also quite decent, the handsome tent is in the middle, it is a big black tent, it looks quite gorgeous, it is really a big target.
But this target is not so easy to hit, it is surrounded by military tents in front and back, left and right, but it has opened a safety belt of more than ten meters with all the military tents, and the middle is full of rejecting horses.
But at this time, Li Yang still discovered a situation, the enemy's elite soldiers and temporarily conscripted troops were clearly distinguished, and the camp was lined up on the left and right next to the enemy king's tent. Although the tents were very closely connected, Li Yang saw an artificial barrier in them......
The third day came, and by this time Huang Bingxi had already received Li Yang's order to start marching to the southeast, preparing to make a detour behind the enemy's army.
The attack of the Ryukyu Nanshan Kingdom is still not in a hurry, the two sides have killed and injured each other, the enemy should not have expected Li Yang to capture the Nanshan City with all its strength to defend so quickly, and he was going to attack Li Yang inside and outside Nanshan City, which would also be difficult to ride a tiger, and he could only rely on the numerical advantage to slowly consume Li Yang's men and horses.
While waiting, it got dark. Li Yang was not prepared to come out of the nest this time, not to mention that he still needed people to defend the city, just the newly recruited slaves were already malnourished, and their eyesight at night was extremely poor, and the discipline and teamwork were also very lacking.
This time, Li Yang was only going to send the veterans of the two battalions of the slave corps and the men and horses of the two battalions of the second corps, less than 1,500 people, plus the small troops led by Huang Bingxi, although the number was less than 2,000, but the elite and the armor were also excellent, and they could especially save themselves in the melee and kill and injure the enemy.
The attackers in the city only ate half of their usual meals, gathered behind the south city wall, sat on the ground, their left arms wrapped in white cloths, wiped their weapons, closed their eyes and fell asleep, the calm before the coming of the war was perfectly interpreted at this moment.