The coalition army finally began to siege the city, because there were no heavy trebuchets and ballistas and siege towers, the coalition army could only use a large number of ladders, and soldiers climbed ladders to the city wall, such a single means of siege, the casualties of the besieging side were often several times that of the defenders.

Qin Dong divided the infantry into three parts, each part of two hundred people, in each part of the two hundred people there are fifty people are archers, regardless of whether the coalition army is attacking the city or not, there are always two hundred people on the city wall to defend the city, the other two parts rest, the three parts take turns to defend the city, the city wall is so long and wide, no matter how many people can fit, but it is easy to become a live target, each time sending two hundred people to defend the city is the best, not only to ensure the body of the soldiers, but also to make the city wall guard force get the maximum play, soldiers with swords and spears in front of the defense, archers and slingers took cover in the back.

At first, the archers did not move, because the coalition army did not arrange archers to cover the siege soldiers under the city, and in order to save the body of the archers, Qin Dong did not let the archers participate in the defense.

When the coalition soldiers climb the ladder, the slinger first smashes the stone downward, as long as someone climbs the ladder, the city wall is not much higher than the city, and the stone is smashed at this distance, there is a great chance that it can be hit, so in the first hour or two, almost no one of the coalition soldiers can climb more than two-thirds of the ladder, at most climb to the middle and be smashed down, and the chance of survival after being hit is only half, even if he does not die, his head or body is also injured by the stone. After two hours of continuous fighting, the coalition forces had to retreat.

"Captain, captain, our casualties are too great. I ask to send archers to suppress the Huns on the walls of the city and throw stones! A centurion ran out of breath and saluted Homsis.

Homsis looked up at the city walls, and saw that the city was full of Hun soldiers who were stoning the ladders, and these were all his soldiers. Die one less one, after thinking for a while, promised: "Okay, send a team of archers to suppress the enemy army, and while the archers suppress the enemy army, the infantry will do their best to climb the city wall!" ”

"Thank you, Captain!"

On the orders of Homsis, a group of archers was sent out, lined up in a neat row facing the city wall, and this situation was immediately discovered by Qin Dong on the city gate tower. He immediately ordered: "The archers step forward, the others retreat and hide, and if there is no place to hide, use shields and other items to block their bodies!" ”

The archers were under the city. After Qin Dong's order was issued, the archers immediately climbed the city wall and stood at the front, and at this time, the archers of the coalition army under the city were also ready, and Qin Dong immediately took the preemptive action. Command the archers: "All archers take arrows." Draw the bow and scatter freely! ”

Free scatter is free shooting, not limited by time and rules, if it is a salvo, you must follow the commander's order to release arrows collectively at the same time, the allied archers under the city are lined up, this formation only allows the archers to scatter freely in order to cause them the greatest casualties, but also to save the greatest range of arrows. It would be a waste of arrows to shoot in a salvo.

"Whoosh"

The two sides began to shoot at each other, in terms of archery. Obviously, the Huns are more skilled, although the infantry phalanx of the Roman Empire is very strong, but the Roman Empire has never paid much attention to other types of troops except heavy infantry, not only the archers are not only worse than the Huns in terms of equipment, but also can not be compared with the Huns in archery technology, moreover, the Roman archers under the city have no cover to cover their bodies, and the Huns on the city wall have battlements to resist arrows for their bodies, they hide behind the battlements to take arrows after they finish shooting, and then pull the bow, dodge out and continue to shoot arrowsAnd so on and so forth.

Sometimes, the danger of this long-distance shooting is more dangerous and tragic than hand-to-hand combat, and it is much more threatening, for example, the threat of a sniper is much higher than that of an average fighter, because he has a sniper rifle in his hand, the accuracy is not comparable to ordinary guns, and every shot of a sniper will take a life, this is the deterrent force, it does not come from a sniper rifle, but from the fear in the heart of the target.

Compared with other ferocious large predators in nature, human beings have no merit, human strength is not as great as theirs, speed is not as fast as theirs, claws are not as sharp as theirs, the reason why human beings can stand out in nature is because human beings have learned to walk independently, free hands, hands can make their own weapons, can throw long-range weapons, with long-range strikes, human food sources are abundant, in this way, the brain has enough energy to evolve, The bow and arrow is one of the most primitive long-range strike weapons of mankind.

Seeing that the archers on both sides began to shoot at each other, Homsis immediately ordered: "The second echelon of attack begins to attack the city!" ”

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the opponent's archers were simply overhauled and there was no other defense force on the city head to let the infantry climb the ladder up the city wall, and if other defense forces went up the city wall at this time, they would definitely be shot by bows and arrows.

Under his order, a large number of Roman soldiers carried ladders and swords to rush to the city wall, Qin Dong saw clearly on the city gate basket, and immediately ordered: "Archers, don't be distracted, your task is to suppress the opponent's archers, as for the other enemy troops, you can ignore them, naturally there will be others to deal with them!" Order the slingers to go up the walls and stone the enemies who climb the ladders".

The slingers came up again on Qin Dong's orders, and at the same time baskets of stones were also hoisted up from under the city, and the slingers immediately took down the frames, poured the stones on the city wall, and then threw the frames and ropes down.

The Roman soldiers who had just climbed to the middle of the ladder were attacked by stones faster, and the stones fell down from the city wall, and the Roman soldiers were suddenly smashed to the point that their heads were bleeding, and they could no longer support it, and fell down from the ladder, some people fell to the ground, their waists were broken, and some people even knocked down a large piece of their companions, and the Hun soldiers on the city wall also pushed the ladder outward, and the ladder fell, and the Roman soldiers under the city wanted to climb up again and had to lift the ladder up and climb again.

Although the Hun archers on the city wall had casualties, they inflicted greater casualties on the coalition forces under the city, seeing their archers fall one by one, Homsis was almost bleeding in his heart, and when more than half of the casualties were killed, Homsis could no longer bear such heavy casualties, and he immediately ordered the archers to withdraw.

The battle lasted until noon, when the Romans retreated, and in the course of one morning, they suffered about three hundred casualties, half of whom were directly killed, and the rest were seriously wounded, and most were lightly wounded, because they were experienced in siege warfare, and if the Germans were to attack the city, it is estimated that the casualties would be more than doubled.

It was already noon when the coalition army collected troops, in order to prevent the Huns from carrying out a sneak attack, the coalition army has been arranging personnel to monitor, and they did not relax when they had lunch at noon, and the psychological shadow caused by the last night attack on them was too great.

After lunch, several leaders of the coalition army gathered in the big tent of Homsis, and Homsis said: "You have also seen the attack in the morning, the enemy does not have many men on the city wall, I think we can continue to strengthen the attack in the afternoon, but because my army is too tired in the morning and needs to rest, so the attack in the afternoon will be taken over by one of your three parties, and you will discuss it yourself to see who will take over?" ”

The three leaders looked at each other, but they didn't speak, and the fools could see that the Huns on the opposite wall were a hard bone, and whoever gnawed on whose teeth would have to be broken.

Seeing that the three of them refused to send troops, Homsis immediately became a little annoyed, and said angrily: "Why, are you all still thinking about preserving your strength at this time?" You must know that this time it is not my empire begging you, but you begging my empire, and you yourself are reluctant to contribute, do you still want my empire to bleed? In that case, I would like to send a letter to the Governor to report your prevarication, and I think the Governor will be very angry and will definitely recall us, and it is better to leave this mess to you! ”

As soon as Homsis said this, Odoases and the other three immediately panicked, if the Western Roman Empire didn't care, just because these three Germanic tribes didn't want to recapture the city of Razlog, this fortress would never be peaceful if it fell into the hands of the Huns.

Mundy hurriedly said: "Don't don't, Captain Homsis, don't be in a hurry to report to the governor first, let's discuss the matter of who will send troops to attack the city, do you think it's okay?" ”

Homsis snorted, "Okay, I'll give you time to discuss, but there must be a result before two o'clock in the afternoon!" ”

At this time, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon, and there was less than an hour to spare, and Mondy thought for a while and said to Odoasee and Hall: "Two, we can't let the friendly army always be in front, and it's time for us to contribute, I propose that the three of us use the method of drawing lots to decide who will send troops to attack the city in the afternoon, for the sake of fairness, this time the lot will be presided over and supervised by Captain Homsis, no matter who catches it, whoever will send troops, and we must not raise troops under any excuse, even if we die, we must die under the city wall, otherwise, The other two parties and Captain Homsis will join forces against him! ”

When Homsis saw that Mundi had recommended him to preside over the drawing of lots and to supervise the execution, he was very happy and said, "I will be happy to serve!" ”

Hall and Odoaser glanced at each other, and Hall exclaimed, "Okay, come on, whoever catches it and refuses to carry it out is a betrayal of the coalition forces!" ”

Everyone else agreed, but Odoaser could not object, so he could only agree to use the method of casting lots to decide who would send troops to attack the city in the afternoon.

Soon, Homsis made three lots, all made of white linen, one of which said to send troops, the other two were blank, and after they were done, they were put in a soldier's pocket, and then Odoase and the other three people made a fist to decide who caught first, and after the three of them drew a fist, Odoyasse won first, followed by Mondy, and finally Hall, these three people successively took out a lot from the soldier's pocket, and under the justice of Homsis, the three of them opened the white cloth regiment at the same time, and Odoyase and Mondy's cloth regiment was blank, Only Hall's regiment had the words "Sending Troops" written on it.

Hall was dumbfounded, but when he saw that everyone else was looking at him, he immediately snorted: "Send troops to send troops, you guys are afraid of me?" Come on, prepare to attack the city". (To be continued......)