The stone projectiles fired by trebuchets and ballistas were like small black dots in the eyes of the defenders on the city wall at first, but they quickly became larger in the next second, and the first wave of stone bullets fell from the sky at a very fast speed, and most of them fell behind the city wall, only a few smashed on the city wall, but they did not cause any casualties to the defenders on the city wall, but the momentum and destructive power of this batch of stone bullets falling from the sky made the defenders scared into a cold sweat.

The first wave of firing is just a test firing, and the second wave is also, basically calculating the launch distance, two sets of stone bullets are launched, and there are already soldiers who observe the landing point of the stone bullets to report the situation to the officer in charge of the stone projectile launch, at this time Qin Dong from the Eastern Roman Empire The mathematicians who extorted them from the Eastern Roman Empire played a role, they began to calculate, and correct the firing angle of the trebuchet and ballista, and adjust the length of the firing moment.

The defenders on the city wall began to laugh and let down their vigilance when they saw that several waves of stone bullets were either thrown too far or too close, and none of them smashed on the city wall and caused casualties.

The third wave of stone shells finally arrived, and the defenders were making all kinds of insulting gestures in order to mock the Huns under the city, but they did not know that death had come.

"Bump-" A stone the size of a basin fell from the sky and smashed on the city wall, and before three or four Germanic soldiers could dodge, they were smashed into meat sauce before they could even scream, and many stones in other places also smashed on the city wall and caused many casualties.

Although the accuracy of trebuchets and ballistae could be improved, one out of ten stones on a wall is already quite good. However, the tragic casualties caused by stone bullets still greatly damaged the morale of the defenders, and one after another stone bullets fell on the city wall, and the casualties of the defenders began to increase. Moreover, every soldier who was smashed died a terrible death, which caused great fear in the defenders.

Odoaser was also confused by the sudden increase in the accuracy of the stone projectiles fired by the Huns, and finally stabilized his mind, only to remember to stabilize the morale of the army, at this time must not let the morale continue to be low, must stabilize the position, he immediately shouted: "Hide." Hide, shields and door panels! ”

Stabilizing your position and boosting morale doesn't have to be a speech, at times like these. The soldiers are in danger of being smashed into meat sauce at any moment, and no one is going to listen to any bullshit speeches, and the best thing to do is to find a way to reduce casualties and let the soldiers hide. The most effective way to block the stone projectiles thrown by the opponent is to use shields and door panels.

Walls of shields and large door panels suddenly appeared on the city wall. Although stone shells still fell on the city walls, the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchets caused far fewer casualties, and the small stone shells fired by the ballistas did not cause death, but only injured the defenders.

Qin Dong rode on horseback and observed the casualties and damage caused by the siege equipment to the enemy defenders, and he found that the defenders almost collapsed at first, but soon stabilized their position, the casualties caused by trebuchets and ballistae began to decrease, and stone projectiles smashed on the outer city walls could not cause damage at all. However, the stone projectiles shot into the city caused a burst of chickens and dogs to jump.

Calculating the time, almost ten minutes have passed. Qin Dong ordered: "Add fire oil to the stone projectiles that are thrown!" ”

"Yes, General!"

The horn of the command began to sound, the war also has rules and rules, in the battlefield of thousands of people, or 100,000, millions of people want to convey the order completely, so that the army to effectively implement it is not an easy thing, in the ancient Chinese battlefield, the drum is on behalf of the attack, the Ming Jin is on behalf of the collection of troops, and these two orders are divided into a variety of forms, how to attack the drum of attack? Mingjin, who collects the troops, must convey clearly how to collect the troops, which is all in order, not as long as the drum sounds, the big guys rush forward, nor after the sound of Mingjin, everyone carries weapons and runs back, which is an act of looking for death.

The armies of ancient countries used different means to convey orders on the battlefield, some were drums and ringing gold, some used flags, and some blew trumpets, which were generally made of animal horns and metal.

The soldiers of the trebuchet and ballista units began to pour fire oil on the stone bullets, and one soldier ran away after lighting them with a fire breaker, and the burning stone projectiles were thrown out in an instant, and one after another large fireballs rose into the air, and the top of the parabola fell diagonally downward.

"Bang-"

A fireball smashed down on the city wall, suddenly let the city wall a piece of people on their backs, poured the fire oil and ignited the stone bullet fired by the power is much greater than the stone bullet without fire oil, after the stone bullet smashed over a few soldiers, the fire oil that has not been burned on the city wall is sprinkled on the city wall, the stone paved ground instantly burned, some of the surrounding soldiers splashed with fire oil The clothes immediately caught fire, burning more vigorously under the action of the wind, one by one miserable screams sounded, and the soldiers who were on fire all over their bodies crashed everywhere, The soldiers around had to dodge so that they themselves would also be set on fire.

"Bump"

A cauldron that was boiling water was smashed over by a stone bullet, and the boiling water in the pot splashed on the surrounding firefighters, and the collective screams sounded, and huge blisters immediately appeared on the skin on the face and body, and some people's skin was directly scalded, revealing red flesh and blood, terrifying and disgusting.

Odoaser and his leaders had no experience in defending the city, they were the only ones who had raided and attacked others before, and no one else had ever attacked them, so they never thought of defending the city. One aspect of the difference between nomads and farming people is here, nomads don't have cities, they can move at any time, they never need defense, but farming people are different, they build many cities of different sizes, and most of their wealth is in the city, so they have to defend the city.

In a way, Odoaser and the Germanic people under his command can also be regarded as nomadic people, but they have been driven south by the Huns, and now they can only live in the gap between the Huns and the Romans, and have gradually lost the characteristics of nomads, and they have begun to change from nomads to agricultural peoples, is this a progress, or a kind of degradation? It's really not clear.

If Odoaser had the experience of defending the city, he would never set up the place to boil water and fire oil on the city wall, as long as the attacker threw a stone projectile down, the cauldron of boiling water and fire oil was basically smashed to pieces, the best place is on the root of the inner wall of the city wall, here because it is a shooting dead angle will not be hit by stone bullets, the boiled water and fire oil are packed in containers, tied to a rope for the soldiers on the city wall to pull up, so that there is no need to continuously transport back and forth from the city to the city wall, saving a lot of labor.

Odoase and the others had never defended the city, they didn't know this, the hot oil in the oil pot set up on the city wall was hit by a stone bullet fireball, and immediately caused a fire, dozens of people were instantly engulfed in the fire, and a distance in the city burned into a sea of fire, and people and ghosts could not approach.

"Ha, it's funny that Odoaser actually had fire oil on the city walls? Was he kicked in the head by a donkey? Hahaha! Qin Dong laughed when he saw this.

"What a fool, haha" Duoyin and Toron and the others laughed as well.

At this time, a herald reminded: "General, the time you have set for the infantry to attack the city has come, should you start the siege now?" ”

After hearing this, Qin Dong looked at the situation on the city wall and waved his hand: "Start the infantry siege of the city, and when the infantry arrives under the city with siege equipment, the trebuchets and ballistas will stop firing, so as not to injure their own people by mistake!" ”

"Yes, General!" The herald agreed, and immediately delivered the order.

After a while, the desolate horn sounded, this is the signal for the infantry to attack, under the command of Ruth, two hundred infantry began to attack the city, a team of ten people, under the leadership of the ten commanders, carrying a ladder to the city wall quickly, the heavy infantry phalanx in front of the centurions under the command of the centurions had already given way to several passages for the light infantry who were ready to attack the city behind, and the light infantry carrying the siege ladder passed through the passage and rushed to the city wall, and the people of the siege troops began to prepare, supporting at any time in the back, Siege towers were pushed by the soldiers to approach the city wall, this kind of siege tower was several feet high, there were six wooden wheels below, and six thick tree trunks in the middle supported the top platform obliquely, above which was a four-square-meter platform, surrounded by a wooden fence, six soldiers with bows and arrows pointed at the wall, only to shoot arrows to cover the light infantry in front of them when they began to climb the ladder.

Immediately afterwards, the deafening drum sounded, the drum here is not the offensive signal, but only to inspire, motivate the morale, the attacking soldiers heard the drum after one by one blood boiling, morale boosted, fearless along the ladder to climb the city wall, some soldiers in order to quickly climb the city wall, the small round shield on the arm, the Yanling knife in the mouth, hands and feet with a fast climb up.

After the ladder was erected on the city wall, the trebuchet and ballista also stopped firing, and it was very likely that they would accidentally injure their own people if they fired again at this time, so Qin Dong emphasized this point especially when he gave the order.

Finally survived the continuous blows of the stone bullets, Odoaser breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly remembered something, got up and ran to the edge of the wall to look down, only to see the dense Hun infantry is rushing to the city wall, there have long been a lot of siege ladders on the city wall, and some Hun light infantry is trying hard to climb the city wall, he immediately shouted: "Defense, all up to defend!" (To be continued......)