“shit！ What civilization is this army? ”

An African tribal lord occupies a city with the troops of a tribal civilization, and his legs go weak when he sees the mighty imperial army surrounding his city.

There are at least 100,000 troops under the city, and they are not ordinary troops, but high-level troops!

The fully armored tiger army, the vine armor soldiers with full body rattan armor, the huge war elephants, and the three-layer heavy armor Wei Wushu...... Countless elite armor is awe-inspiring, holding sharp weapons, black and pressing, and there is no end in sight.

It is clear that this is an army that only the most powerful civilizations can have!

Chu Tian and Huo An, Xu Fengnian, Zhang Dao, Mu Ke and other princes were at the front, observing the tribal indigenous army defending the city. Chu Tian rarely dealt with African civilizations, and in the past, among Catherina's servant army, he had seen the armies of African tribes.

Catherina, Chu Tian has almost forgotten what she looks like.

Huo An restrained the restless war horse: "According to the captive indigenous scouts, this is the lord of the Songhai Empire. The Songhai Empire was a civilization in West Africa, the Songhai Empire in its heyday, from the tropical rainforest in the south, to the Sahara Desert in the north, and to the Atlantic coast in the west, and was famous for its gold trade. ”

Mu Ke said: "The game expansion I saw before showed that the population of West Africa is one-sixth of our Eastern Han Dynasty, which is about equivalent to two states, which should not be underestimated. ”

Chu Tian squinted his eyes, and behind him were Cao Cao, Xue Rengui, Chen Qingzhi, Wei Qing, and Le Yi generals: "Two states...... How many cities do they have in this war? ”

"Five cities. At least 150,000 indigenous main forces. ”

"It's a neutral civilization, let them get out of our way, or we'll attack the city immediately."

Chu Tian acted according to the established strategy, and for the great civilization with a little strength, he would greet him in advance. As long as they obediently rolled to the side and handed over the cities along the way to the control of the Han army, a major battle could be avoided.

Africa, like the Americas, doesn't have many decent heroes, but the classes are special. Given the balance mechanics of the game's various civilization zones, Africa has iron and war horses, which are equivalent to special barbarians, and it's a bit tricky to really fight.

Huo An glanced at Gao Xianzhi, who rode forward and truthfully conveyed Chu Tian's words to the African chief.

There was a commotion among the indigenous defenders in the city, and the siege was the largest civilization of the Han Empire!

The Eastern Route Army of the Han Empire demanded that the defenders of the city immediately abandon the city and allow their troops to leave.

"This is a trap, once we get out of the city, without a city, an arrow tower, or a fortress, we will be crushed by the cavalry from the east!"

"Wait for the arrival of other chieftains, the Han Empire will not be able to attack for a long time, and it will definitely withdraw its troops."

The lords of the Songhai Empire thought that this was a trap set by Chu Tian and them, refused to leave the city, and then frantically exploded their troops, transforming the inhabitants of the city into tribal archers, large shield soldiers, javelinmen, noble cavalry, and guards.

Chutian gave the Songhai Empire a chance, but the chief was completely reluctant to leave.

"Some soldiers and horses are attacking the city, some soldiers and horses are reinforced, and the rest of the soldiers and horses are protecting the baggage team."

Chu Tian weighed the forces in his hand and decided to attack the city.

The Han army was divided into three parts, and Chutian gathered a large number of low-level troops, with Le Yi as the siege commander, and all the princes each sent a team to attack the city first.

The first team sent by Chutian was Lejin, Zhou Cang, Dian Wei, and Li Guang, Huo An sent the fierce general Li Siye, Xu Fengnian sent Wang Tiegun, Zhang Dao sent Zhang Liang, and Mu Ke sent a Nanban general, who was more than two meters tall and had a very amazing physique.

Mu Ke explained: "This is the father of the vulture bone, who is subordinate to my army, and his army is the vine armor army. ”

The vulture bone was the unlucky character who was burned by Zhuge Liang in the romance, and the whole army was wiped out. However, the vultures are tall and powerful.

An army of 100,000 is preparing to attack the city, the warmaker skillfully commands the soldiers to set up trebuchets, siege towers, ladders, chariots and other siege equipment, and all kinds of high-level cavalry and war elephants are on guard, as long as the lords of the other Songhai Empire dare to reinforce this city, then they will be attacked by a large number of heavy cavalry.

No matter how special the arms of the African indigenous empire were, it could not stop the assault of the heavy cavalry on the Gobi. The destructive power of heavy cavalry in the age of cold weapons was too great.

During the preparation for the siege, Chu Tian contacted the other two armies and asked for cooperation in bulldozing the city blocked by the Songhai Songhai Empire on the way.

The current situation is that the Han Empire is in the south, the Persian Empire is in the north, and the Songhai Empire is in the east.

The Han army marched a hundred miles north, and the lords of the Persian Empire avoided it, and then the Han army turned east and marched towards one of the main cities, bumping into the Songhai Empire civilization, which did not know whether to live or die.

According to the marching route, it is not impossible to avoid, but to avoid the Songhai Empire, it will be necessary to go around in a large circle to make the supply line longer, it is better to bulldoze it directly, and by the way, get points for the national war.

"Attack the Songhai Empire and drive them out of the battlefield of the national war."

The soldiers and horses of Lao Qin and Mingguan also began to attack the cities of the Songhai Empire on the way to temper the army.

The Three-Way Han Army consisted of the forces of fifteen princes, while the Songhai Empire had only five chieftains!

The chieftains of the Songhai Empire gradually realized that the situation was not quite right, and the three Han armies had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on each road, a total of 500,000 troops attacked, such an army was extremely terrifying for any civilization!

Chutian's Eastern Route Army spent a day building siege equipment.

The next day, dozens of trebuchets, dozens of ballistas, hundreds of ladders, carts, and eight towering siege towers stood tall and looked down on the city!

The chieftain of the Songhai Empire knew that he had provoked a terrible behemoth this time. But he had high expectations for the city wall, hoping that he could hold on to it, and as long as the Han Empire could not attack it for a long time, then soon the Han army would withdraw from the siege.

The Songhai Empire has five cities, three of which were attacked by the three-way Han army at the same time!

Since it has been decided to bulldoze the Songhai Empire that is in the way and reduce one competitor for the main city, then the offensive will be as fast as the wind and as fast as fire!

"Liang Hongyu, lead 3,000 shooting battalions and 5,000 crossbowmen to cover."

Chu Tian asked Liang Hongyu, who was good at commanding crossbowmen, to command the crossbow troops to provide support for Le Yi's siege troops.

Liang Hongyu, as a hero of the bow and crossbow system, is very practical, making up for Chutian's lack of elite bow and crossbow troops. Li Guang's troops were actually more inclined to cavalry, while Li Ling's infantry had not yet been recruited, and Liang Hongyu was stronger than Li Ling.

The troops commanded by Le Yi had five advance teams, each with 1,000 elites, and 30,000 low-ranking soldiers as cannon fodder troops.

In addition, Huo An, Zhang Dao, Xu Fengnian, and Mu Ke each sent out 8,000 crossbowmen, and formed a 40,000-strong crossbow force with Chutian's 8,000 crossbowmen!

"It's not a problem to take this city, the problem is that the consumption of armaments is huge."

Chu Tian roughly estimated that 40,000 crossbow troops, all of them would consume 40,000 crossbow arrows if they shot a round of arrows! After a battle, hundreds of thousands, millions of arrows are gone!

Fortunately, the Han army established a supply line, and the rear would transport the produced armaments to the front line, and at the same time, after capturing the enemy's city, it could also get some supplies.

Relying on the way of production and plunder, it can barely maintain consumption.

"Siege!"

Chu Tian gave an order, and the soldiers pulled the rope of the catapult and threw dozens of catties of stones out, and the whistling stones hit the city wall, and the city bricks appeared spider-web-like cracks!

The pawn hammered the bed crossbow, and the sharp crossbow arrow hit the arrow tower, taking a corner of the arrow tower directly! A crossbow arrow hit the city wall, but it sank into the wall, and the rubble fell and spilled on the ground!

Hundreds of chariots covered the advance of the elite archers of the Han army, and hundreds of low-ranking infantry pushed the tall siege towers close to the city walls.

More crossbowmen and foot soldiers formed a phalanx, and as long as the longbowmen protected by the chariots and siege towers suppressed the defenders, they would come forward and suppress the defenders on a larger scale.

Five teams are ready to go.

Li Guang moved his muscles and bones, carrying a big bow on his back, looking majestic. Lejin is relatively short, but he is extremely brave when he fights hard. Zhou Cang is five big and three coarse, and it is not good to march and fight, but the force is not bad.

Chu Tian glanced at Huo An's camp, and there was a fierce general like Li Siye. Li Siye has an elite infantry, the Datang Mo Sword Team. However, Huo An did not have the luxury of using the expensive Mo Dao team to attack the city, but selected the elite infantry of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, commanded by Li Siye.

Xu Fengnian directly sent Wang Tiegun, the fiercest general with the highest force under his command, and swept thousands of troops with an iron spear.

Zhang Dao sent Zhang Liang and the Yellow Turban Chief. The Yellow Turban is similar to the Faith Infantry of the Arab Empire, and is also considered an elite.

Mu Ke sent the father of the vulture bone and the vine armor army.

This time to attack the city of the Songhai Empire, in addition to the other party's ignorance, Chu Tian also had the intention of running in with a few princes. The Songhai Empire is not yet a powerful civilization, so it is the most suitable for training.

The black-pressed siege force advanced, and the natives defending the city began to panic, and they gradually lost confidence in whether they could hold the city in the face of the powerful offensive of the Han army.

Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao, Li Hu, and Liu Zongmin each chose a siege tower. The force of these generals also plays a role in siege warfare, and they can snipe the African tribal heroes on the city walls with their superb bow skills!

The role of the siege tower is not only to suppress the defenders with bows and crossbows, but also to lower the drawbridge, and the infantry can follow the wooden ladder inside the siege tower to continuously attack the city wall!

The indigenous archers on the city walls began to throw a rain of arrows and shoot carts!

A rain of arrows fell, and most of the carts were covered by the rain of arrows, but they were all blocked by the carts, and the longbowmen hiding in the rear suffered few losses.

"Use rockets!"

The chieftain of the Songhai Empire rebuked his native archers, and the native archers were replaced with rockets with more destructive power. A round of rockets filled the sky and turned sharply! The arrows rubbed violently against the air, colliding with the carts and siege towers!

"Did it work?!"

The chieftains of the Songhai Empire and a group of tribal heroes pinned their hopes on using rockets to incinerate the city's threatening siege engines, especially the 12-meter-tall siege towers.

Thousands of rockets were hit, but they were blocked by the cowhide or iron of the chariots and siege towers, and even fire arrows could hardly ignite these siege machines!

"Shoot the arrows!"

The Han longbowmen behind the chariot appeared from behind the chariot after entering the firing range and threw at the defenders of the city wall!

Arrows are like meteors, and dozens of indigenous archers were shot by Han army longbowmen!

"Step forward, divide into three columns, and take turns shooting!"

Le Yi ordered the 30,000 Han crossbowmen prepared in the rear to line up in three columns, each column with 10,000 Han crossbowmen!

The crossbowmen of the Han army had long been reloaded with crossbow arrows. Compared to the high rate of fire of the longbow, the advantage of the infantry crossbow is that it can be loaded in advance without the need for strength to maintain.

The 30,000 Han crossbowmen moved forward step by step, and the 10,000 Han crossbowmen in the first row aimed at the city wall, and 10,000 crossbow arrows were shot! The crossbowmen of the second row of Han army stepped forward, and another 10,000 crossbow arrows were fired! The third row of Han crossbowmen fired crossbow arrows......

By the time the third row of crossbowmen finished firing, the first row of crossbowmen had reloaded their bolts!

A constant stream of high-intensity crossbow bolt fire, resulting in hundreds of tribal archers and infantry being killed! The indigenous soldiers of the Songhai Empire did not even dare to take the lead, otherwise they would be immediately killed by a dense crossbow arrow!

The Han army seems to have a phobia of insufficient firepower, and the continuous rain of arrows washes away the defenders, and the wooden arrow tower is shot into a sieve by thousands of arrows, and all the tribal marksmen on the arrow tower are killed!

Knock, knock, knock!

The sound of war drums echoed in the air, and after the Han crossbowmen suppressed the defenders, Le Yi commanded a large number of low-ranking infantry to storm the city walls!

One team after another of the cloud echelons attacked the city, clinging to it like ants!

"Attack the city first!"

Unexpectedly, Chu Tian originally thought that Le Yi was going to use cannon fodder troops to consume the defenders, but Le Yi pressed all the troops at once, and he wanted to use Cao Di's effect to seize the city!

Soon Chu Tian understood Le Yi's intentions. The capture of this city was only a skirmish on the way of the Han army's expedition, and the number of arrows was limited, and the Han army's arrow rain could not last. Use a rain of arrows to overwhelm the defenders, then take the city in one fell swoop with minimal losses!

The five vanguard teams were ordered by Le Yi to storm the city wall!

Li Guang, Le Jin, and Zhou Cang led Yanjia and drove straight in!

The Vine Armor Army, the Yellow Turban Chief, the Heavy Infantry and other pioneers have been put into the siege one after another!

The ladder hooked the city wall, and a group of Han troops climbed up, and Li Guang held a longbow in his hand and shot the defenders who were rising one after another!

The bulky siege towers were propelled by thousands of low-rank infantry, gradually approaching the walls. The huge siege towers cast a shadow and terrified the indigenous soldiers!

Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao and other generals located on the siege tower stood proudly at the defenders of the city wall, holding a longbow in their hands.

The mighty army is like the waves crashing against the reef, and the city of the Songhai Empire is in danger!

"Ask the wizard to cast a spell!"

Seeing that the situation was critical, the chieftains of the Songhai Empire let their heroes use their abilities.

The sorcerer with his face painted with mud paint in his hand holding a wooden staff and chanting words in his mouth, the defenders on the city walls began to fall into a frenzy, and the indigenous archers braved the suppression of the Han army's arrow rain and began to fight back!