The Hun army continued to smash the castle for more than three hours with trebuchets this time, and at noon, although the outer wall of the opposite Sveron Castle was already full of desolation, it still stood proudly, and it seemed that it could not be smashed in a short time.

At this moment, the official saw the flag from the siege camp, and his face changed slightly, and he stepped forward to report: "General, news came from the siege camp that all the stones were about to be thrown!" ”

"Throwing so soon? Didn't they bring a lot of stones this time? Ma Li stood up and turned his head and asked.

The herald smiled bitterly: "General, as far as I know, there has never been a war in which the besieging party will throw stones for such a long time, in terms of the number of trebuchets and the size of the siege camp, I am afraid that there is no army that has more than us, the more trebuchets there are, the more stones consumed, and the stones they brought can last up to this very good!" ”

Ma Li touched his nose a little stupidly to hide his embarrassment, but he immediately asked, "Is there any stone mining around here?" ”

The intelligence officer stepped forward and said, "General, there is only stone mining in Mount Petro, twenty miles to the south, but if you want to get there, you have to build a bridge over the Maricha River, and it takes a lot of time to mine stones, and it is not something that can be transported in a short time!" ”

Ma Li originally saw that the castle of Sveron was too large and strong, and it was afraid that it would cause huge casualties if it was completely attacked by soldiers, and it would be best if it could be broken without soldiers attacking the city, and he saw that his siege camp had a lot of trebuchets and carried a lot of stones, so he wanted to use stones to smash the castle down, and then the infantry rushed in. I didn't expect that this time I couldn't bring so many stones to the castle.

As the intelligence officer had said, it would take a lot of time and a lot of manpower and material resources to send people to Mt. Pietro, twenty miles away, to mine stones. It would be no problem if you could capture tens of thousands of Eastern Empire soldiers to help, but this is a border area, and there are not many residents around at all, so it is really not possible to mine stones.

Seeing that the stones were about to be smashed, Ma Li thought twice and decided to launch an infantry siege to test the castle's defenses at this time before collecting his troops and returning to the camp for lunch at noon.

"Order, order the first battalion of infantry to attack the city!"

"Yes, General!"

The herald turned and shouted to the standard-bearer on the tower behind him: "Order the 1st Battalion of Infantry to attack the city!" ”

"The 1st Infantry Battalion Siege".

The siege requires the cooperation of the siege battalion. If it is in the armies of other countries, the siege equipment is generally sent to the army to besiege the city, and the army in charge of the siege carries the siege equipment to the siege itself. But in Qin Dong's army, it was different, and when attacking the city, the siege camp had to cooperate.

After the order was given, some of the soldiers of the siege battalion who were responsible for supporting the infantry in the siege carried ladders, towers and wells through the middle passage to the castle and the walls on both sides of the castle, with the first infantry battalion following behind. Some of these sword and shield men climbed the siege towers. Archers climb up the well.

Invented by Mozi during the Warring States period of China, the Jing Qi is a siege weapon that rises above 10 meters, and archers use the Jing Qi to attack the defenders on the city wall by shooting from the well wall, and to protect their own soldiers who are climbing over the city wall. Attacking a city with a well has a great advantage over the besieging party, because it is much higher than most walls, and the archers can stand on it and shoot at the enemy troops on the walls, while the soldiers on the walls have nothing to do with the soldiers on the walls.

However, it is not invincible, and it is generally built to a height of 3 and a half floors. Pulleys are installed underneath to facilitate the soldiers to push forward. The well is generally made of wood, so it is afraid of fire, and because it is too high, it moves slowly when pushing, so in addition to burning it with fire, you can also send cavalry out of the city to destroy it, but this is a great risk, and the army responsible for destroying the well is generally gone and has no return.

During the Warring States Period, the king of Chu used Jing Lang to attack the Song State. Mozi was the doctor of the Song State at that time, and Jing Yan was invented by him, of course he knew the weakness of Jing Qian, didn't the King of Chu play a big knife in front of Guan Gong? Mozi destroyed all the wells of the king of Chu in one fell swoop.

Zhong Hui had previously served as a taishou in the Jin Dynasty and had some knowledge of siege equipment, and he happened to remember the structure and shape of the parts.

The sound of huge, neat footsteps came in front of the castle, and this resonance caused a lot of momentum because of the neatness, which caused a lot of psychological pressure on the generals and soldiers of the Eastern Empire in the castle, and the guards of the Eastern Empire couldn't help but wonder when the Huns had such elite infantry?

When the well and siege towers were pushed to a distance of about a hundred yards from the city walls, the archers on the well began to shoot arrows at the Eastern Empire soldiers on the city walls.

"Whoosh ......"

"Ahhh.......h

"Damn, what kind of bow and arrow is this, Huns? What the hell is that tall tower, why can you shoot arrows from such a distance? Damn, let the soldiers all protect themselves, keep an eye on the infantry behind, and if they rush over, the archers will greet them! ”

"Yes, General!"

Jing Yan stopped when he was only fifty meters away from the castle and the city wall, while the siege tower continued to advance, when the siege battalion soldiers carrying the siege ladder suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the city wall and the castle with all their might, and the soldiers of the first battalion behind quickly followed the direction of the siege ladder under the command of the captains, squadron leaders and squad leaders.

While the siege ladder was erected on the outer walls of the city wall and the castle, the infantry struggled to climb up the ladder with steel swords in their mouths, "Kill, kill!" The sound of shouting and killing reverberated through the universe, and the Hun infantry under the city wall rushed over like ants.

At this time, the soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire in the city walls and castle emerged from the city walls, and the soldiers in the castle also appeared in the shooting holes and lookout holes to prepare for the enemy, and the casualties caused by the previous trebuchet attacks and arrows from the wells were too great.

One by one, the infantry climbed the ladder, some soldiers were shot by arrows from the city wall and fell off after climbing less than a third of the way, and some climbed to the top of the ladder and were about to rush up the city wall, but they were stabbed to death by a spear, and their bodies fell and smashed over the group below. The soldiers charged under the walls at a heavy cost, and the archers deployed by the Eastern Roman Empire in the walls and castles inflicted heavy casualties on the Hun infantry.

Siege warfare has historically been the most brutal of battles, often fought as a last resort, as it often requires a huge price to be paid to achieve the goal.

Seeing this, Ma Litong frowned on the telescope, and said to the official who put down the telescope: "Order, let our archers on the well go all out to suppress the archers in the enemy's city and castle!" Why, the casualties of the siege were too great, and a large number of people died just under the city walls."

"Yes, General!"

After the order was delivered, the archers on dozens of wells launched a volley at the city, and the archers of the Eastern Roman Empire in the city and the castle suffered heavy losses, and finally had to hide and dare not show their heads, and then the infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire was also attacked, and the arrows fell in pieces, and they were able to hide behind the battlements and survive.

"Okay, hahaha, let the first battalion of infantry step up the assault on the city and the castle!" Tong Guò telescopes were overjoyed when they saw the effect of the archers' suppression, and immediately spoke to the herald again.

After the attack on the head of the city and the castle was a little smaller, the Hun infantry at the foot of the city wall immediately exerted all their strength to climb up the ladder, and soon some soldiers rushed to the city wall and fought with the soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In the past, the equipment of the Huns was not a little worse than that of the Roman Empire, but now it is different, the equipment of the Hun heavy infantry is almost on par with the heavy infantry of the Roman Empire, and the equipment of the light infantry is much stronger than the Roman light infantry.

In the siege war, the phalanx of the heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire could not be used on the city wall at all, because the equipment was too cumbersome, the heavy infantry was not flexible in the siege war, and the equipment on the body became a burden, so after the Hun infantry rushed to the city wall and fought with the soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Roman soldiers suffered very much at the beginning, and the city wall was defeated one after another, and a small section of the city wall was completely occupied by the Hun infantry.

This situation shocked the Eastern Roman Empire guard in the castle, and he shouted: "Send someone to help, go to help!" ”

The lieutenant general said beside him; "General, support must be sent, but is it useful to send people to support? In the present situation, we cannot hold on, and I think that the infantry should be ordered to form a formation of five and use shields to protect the upper and lower left and right wings, and then advance collectively and neatly towards the fallen walls, so that we can defend ourselves against the archers of the enemy's towers, and the strength that forms a whole is much stronger than the fighting power of individual soldiers."

The guard thought for a while and agreed: "Okay, just follow your wishes, and deploy immediately!" ”

"Yes, General!"

After being deployed in this way, the heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire lined up in five columns on the city wall and used the turtle shell phalanx to really have great power, relying on the straggler formation to kill the Roman soldiers who lost their armor and abandoned the Hun infantry, where could they resist, one by one they were forced to retreat again and again, and some were squeezed off the city wall and fell down, and the section of the city wall that fell into the hands of the Hun infantry in a very short period of time was snatched back by the Eastern Roman defenders.

"Hey, what's the matter, how did you do it, I just grabbed a section of the city wall and lost it again!" Ma Li was very angry, and when he looked up, he saw that the sun was already above his head, so he had to order: "Mingjin retreats!" ”

After a burst .......of golden gongs sounded, the Hun infantry slowly retreated to their own camp and began to eat lunch. (To be continued......)