Section 249 Battle for the Head of the Wall
After the German mercenary regiment built a temporary pontoon bridge with wooden rafts and ropes, they immediately pushed the remaining side vans to the bridgehead of their own side of the pontoon bridge, and then let the crossbowmen shoot at the fortress arrow tower through the guò shooting hole in the side van. The second passage opened by Arold reduced the pressure on the soldiers of the Duchy of Mason who were crowded with wooden bridges, and General Ralph led a group of knights and infantry carrying wooden ladders to the temporary pontoon bridge of Guò, towards the fortress of Schleisug, the knights were wearing heavy armor, holding swords in one hand and pointed shields in the other, and the infantry was less burdensome and could quickly pass through the pontoon bridge, although they would be shot by longbows along the way, but under the suppression of the ranged soldiers of the German mercenary regiment, the losses were much smaller.
"Squeak~~~." On the wooden wall battlements raised at the top of the side van, a relatively heavy siege foot crossbow, the crossbowman bends down and hangs it on the string with a hook around his waist, and then steps on a leather ring at the front end of the siege crossbow with his foot, when he straightens up again, the hook pulls the crossbow string and makes a creaking sound, the crossbowman presses a crossbow arrow into the groove, and he lifts the siege crossbow that requires strong arm strength to be able to hold.
"Let me capture a target." Crossbowmen wore a wide-stretched helmet made of wooden strips and leather, and most of them wore a kind of cloth armor that was easy to move on, sewn with six layers of coarse linen inside and out, then filled with cotton wool and wool, etc., and then sewn into small squares with thread, which was used to protect against the cold and occasionally defend against arrows. The main advantage is that it is lighter than leather armor.
When the crossbowmen of the German mercenary group raise their siege crossbow and aim at the target on the Schleisug Fort with the above crosshair, the ones who can use this kind of siege crossbow in the German mercenary group are also elites, and generally those who have won the championship at least once in the arena in Mecklenburg can use this kind of siege crossbow specially made by the smelting base, and this kind of siege crossbow is only three in the German mercenary group.
"Found it." The elite crossbowman armed with a siege crossbow quickly found his target, a Viking warrior who was constantly shooting with a longbow between the battlements outside the tower, and it could be seen that this Viking warrior was quite sharp in archery. Already four or five Mason infantry had been shot with the longbow he used. And while shooting the enemy, he did not know that he had been targeted by the German crossbowmen.
The elite crossbowman with a siege crossbow pressed his cheek to the crossbow and closed one eye to aim his crosshair between the battlements, he had already figured out the pattern of the enemy's appearance, every time after shooting the arrow in his hand. The Viking warriors would retreat to the battlements and put their arrows back on them. Then he poked his head out of the battlement and shot an arrow outside. But when he reappeared between the battlements, the elite crossbowmen placed their fingers on the bracket, and he didn't aim directly at the Viking knight longbowmen. Instead, the crossbow aimed slightly at the top of his head, because the elite crossbowman of the German mercenary regiment knew that when the crossbow bolt was flying, it would cross an arc downward, and even if he didn't understand what gravity was, the experience accumulated in hundreds of games in the arena of Mecklenburg was enough for him to understand this.
"Damn southerners, ah~~~." Just as the Viking warrior longbowman was aiming at a Mason knight who was crossing the pontoon bridge and slowly walking towards the walls of Fort Schleisug, but with a scream that broke through the air, a crossbow shot the eyes of the Viking warrior longbowman, and immediately pierced his eyes and skull, the Viking warrior longbowman only screamed and let go of his fingers, and his body fell backwards and fell inward from the wall, and the arrow that he had been on the longbow before he fell to the ground also shot out, but because the Viking warrior who lost the control of the bow, When the arrow flew out, it was soft, and when it hit the Mason knight, the Mason knight who was hit was only knocked back and staggered a few steps, the knight stabilized his body and shook the head of the bottle helmet he was wearing vigorously to keep himself awake, and continued to move forward unharmed, the heavy chain mail on the knight's body didn't care about this damage at all.
"Cursed Southerner." Arson looked at the longbowmen who were shot, anger burned in his heart, at this time the Mason escalators had set up the ladder on the fortress wall, hundreds of Mason infantry were climbing up the escalator, the Viking warriors desperately attacked the Mason infantry with their tomahawks and spears in their hands, and the Mason infantry at the urging of the nobles and knights, blocked their shields above their heads and accelerated the speed of climbing.
"Oh woo~~~." With a roar of rage, he gave up his duties as commander, grabbed his heavy hammer in both hands, and jumped from the arrow tower to the wooden wall to lean on the escalator, where the Mason infantry was climbing upwards and jumped onto the wall to fight the Viking warriors, and without saying a word, Arson raised his left hand and slammed a Mason infantry from behind.
"Poof~~~." The Mason infantry who was hit by the heavy war hammer spewed out a mouthful of blood, obviously the internal organs were shattered by the war hammer, and the blood was filled with fragments of internal organs, but before the Mason soldier who was hit did not fall to the ground, Yarson hit him in the head with the war hammer in his right hand, and the Mason soldier fell over the wall under inertia, and Yarson bravely used the war hammer in his hand to smash the Mason soldiers who attacked the wall to death one by one, and the corpses were thrown out of the wall by other Viking warriors, and the most miserable Mason infantry just climbed the wall, It happened to be in front of Arson, who faced him with his arms outstretched, the war hammer in his hand, and the two war hammers struck the head of the Mason infantry from the left and right directions at the same time, only to hear the crisp sound of clicking, the skull of the Mason infantry was shattered, and blood and brains burst out all over Yassen's face, making him as hideous and terrifying as the devil.
"Devil, devil~~~." The bloodthirstiness and horror of Yarson finally broke the morale of the Mason soldiers, and they gave up their approach to the escalator and retreated, and the Viking warrior archers on the fortress walls took the opportunity to shoot arrows at them, and the Masons with their backs to Fort Schleisug were shot one after another.
"Oh~~." Looking at the fleeing Mason infantry, the Viking warriors let out a cheer of victory, and Yarson put the double hammer in his hand on the wall battlement, and spat fiercely in the direction of the Masons, at this time the Mason knights happened to go to the corner, looking at the retreating infantry beside them, these knights proudly pushed away these infantry, holding the shield in their hands, and holding the shield hand at the wrist, climbing step by step to the escalator.
The roar of the knights' armor immediately attracted the attention of the Viking warriors, and the longbowmen aimed their bows and arrows at these climbing knights and shot the arrows in their hands, but for the strong knights wearing chain mail and completely enclosed helmets, they had enough defense to avoid these arrows, not to mention the military training that the knights had since childhood included how to attack the walls of the castle, and they were very experienced in putting their shields above their heads and trying to keep their bodies sideways, Reduce the area to be hit.
"Bell~~~." The Viking warriors were like dealing with those Mason infantry, striking the knights with spears and battle axes in their hands, the weapons of both sides were intertwined and colliding in mid-air, making a crisp metal collision sound, the Viking warriors were strong and brave, but the Mason knights as a very good class with a mining life and food nutrition, coupled with military training and exercise from childhood to adulthood, made them know how to maximize the use of space on the narrow wall and the opponent.
The clever knights used the weight of their bodies and armor to squeeze out a space, and they held their shields in front of them to cover the attacks of the Viking warriors, and when the shields were against the Viking warriors closest to them, they stabbed the Viking warriors with their long swords diagonally from above and downward, and the heavy weapons of the Viking warriors at the narrow wall could not be deployed, so they pushed and crowded each other on the wall.
"Kill~~~, ah~~~." Shouts and screams were intertwined, resounding above the city wall, the repulsed Mason infantry was reorganized by the barons, and once again launched an attack on the wall, the Viking warriors also began to counterattack under the leadership of Yarson at this time, the knights desperately wanted to open a foothold on the wall, but they were attacked by the most elite Viking knights led by Yarsen, and gradually there were Mason knights killed and wounded, under the attack of blunt weapons such as war hammers and battle axes of the elite Viking knights led by Yarsin, The shields in the hands of the knights cracked or shattered altogether, and the battle became more difficult for the knights without the protection of their shields.
"We need support." The baron, who led the knight of Mason, stabbed a Viking warrior in the throat with his sword and kicked him off the city, and the banner held high by his squire was covered with bows and arrows, and several attempts to stick it in the wall failed, and the ground was covered with corpses and discarded weapons, and the baron almost fell to the ground several times when he stepped on it.
"Baron be careful~~~." The attendant of the guard beside him suddenly shouted, only to see a Viking warrior longbowman shoot an arrow from the arrow tower to the west, and the arrow was inserted into the baron's neck impartially, and in the gap between the chain mail and the helmet, the front part of the arrow sank into the neck, and the baron's neck was bleeding profusely.
"Woo~~~." The baron grasped the end of the arrow with his left hand, fell to one knee on the ground, and made a coughing sound in his throat, and he looked up at the Viking banner still planted at the head of the city, and closed his eyes reluctantly. (To be continued......)