957 One Man's Campaign 8
Nelson is also a viscount, although he will also be restrained by Yun Xiaohan after he goes ashore, but after all, he and Yun Xiaohan are equal to each other, and he takes the initiative to stand up to help Yun Xiaohan without obligation, and Yun Xiaohan always has to save some face for others. Therefore www.biquge.info can only be regarded as friendly forces, not troops under direct command.
As for the equipment to defend the city, Yun Xiaohan has a total of 78 magic crystal cannons, 8 trebuchets, 8 crossbows, and 30 improvised catapults (trebuchets and crossbows are fixed and cannot be moved, but they are more powerful). Leah also sent some simple catapult components, but considering the lack of wood in the city, even if there were components, she couldn't build too many simple catapults, so she only sent 30 sets of components, using more space on the ship to transport the convenient magic crystal cannon, after all, compared to the simple catapult, the magic crystal cannon is much more powerful.
In terms of equipment, Yun Xiaohan's side has a great advantage, the simple catapult has a slow rate of fire and small power, and the 4 simple catapults are only the last magic crystal cannon, plus Yun Xiaohan's side has the advantage of defending the city, and can attack condescendingly, and the gap is even greater.
In this case, the Shang Alliance's forcible siege of the city was actually a great loss, but Yun Xiaohan was very insidious and did not let the 15,000 people go to the city, but the equipment was all on the city wall. Because of the long distance, and people and walls blocking it, the Shang Alliance side didn't know that the defenders of the city had such extra equipment.
Besides, it doesn't matter if the Shang Alliance knows, they are already riding a tiger, and it is impossible to say that they will not attack because there are more equipment to defend the city.
What's more critical is that it is normal for the empire to send equipment to help defend the city, and it is all earned to cause some losses to the business alliance, anyway, the magic crystal cannon is gone, and it is just to spend money, anyway, I just grabbed so many materials. But the Shang Alliance didn't expect that Ria would continue to invest troops, after all, in their opinion, the empire would definitely not be able to hold the city of Caril, but only came to loot supplies, and it was a cost-effective move to continue to invest.
Most of the equipment on the merchant side was collected by Viscount Aloe, and it was almost assembled before the Marquis of Nkuru arrived, so there were not many improvised catapults that really needed to be assembled on an improvised basis. Moreover, they were also worried that the Imperial side would run away from the sea when the supplies were almost carried out, and did not dare to let the troops rest and prepare for too long.
At 21:45, the Shang Alliance ended its rest and began to attack the city. At this time, the Marquis of Nkuru had just rested for 10 minutes, and the rest time was obviously insufficient.
Yun Xiaohan didn't repeat the old trick to destroy the enemy's equipment, on the one hand, he had other plans, on the other hand, the enemy's lineup was much stronger than before, and the success rate of using the old routine was not high.
The Marquis of Nkuru was accompanied by a retinue of mages about the size of a white man, as well as more than 300 knights. The knight is fine, but the threat of this mage team is too great, and Yun Xiaohan also sees an old acquaintance - Bata Montbrun.
Bata Montbrunn is a heroic NPC, and he is also a berserker type who uses an axe, and the axe has a certain restraint effect on the shield, and is a greater threat to Cloud Owl than Khalid.
In addition to Bata Montbrun, there is another NPC next to him who is very outstanding in appearance, he is riding side by side with Bata Montbrun, and you can see that this eighty percent is also a heroic NPC.
This NPC's name is Clement and does not have a surname, which means that the other person is most likely not of noble origin. Compared to Bata Montbrun, Yun Xiaohan was more afraid of this Clement, because this Clement was wearing a cloth robe, holding a short staff in his right hand, and was obviously a spellcaster.
Bata Montbrum and Clement both came with the Marquis of Nkuru, so they were not far from the Marquis of Nkuru, and they wanted to act with the Marquis of Nkuru.
Viscount Aloe only made brief contact with the Marquis of Nkuru when they met, and then led the army alone. But after the meeting, Viscount Aloe was in command of only 10,000 men, and the other 10,000 people were stripped of their command by the Marquis of Nkuru.
Viscount Aloe's ability is still strong, even if it is not a hero-level NPC, it is estimated that it is not far off, and he also has a 50-person personal guard force, which is not easy to deal with.
In the face of such a lineup, Yun Xiaohan still wants to be as hard as before, the risk is too great, even if he successfully hangs up the [Lone Warrior], those two hero-level NPCs and the mage group can still cause him a lot of damage, and the probability of control will be higher. If you don't get it right, the equipment is not destroyed, but you play yourself to death, then it's too bad.
Therefore, Yun Xiaohan decided not to take risks, and waited for the enemy to attack, and first fought a frontal battle to defend the city.
It is impossible to play any new tricks in this kind of siege warfare, and the Shang Alliance still let the shield guard troops cover the advance first, and then the rear troops will slowly follow.
Although the Marquis of Nkuru did not know that most of the newly recruited 50,000 people were militiamen, he was not blind, and he knew that the combat strength of these forcibly recruited troops was not high, because he planned to use them as cannon fodder, and then mix a small number of main forces in the middle to attack the city, and test and consume the opponent first. He and two heroic NPCs lead people to supervise and direct the battle in the back.
Yun Xiaohan still tried to attack the magic crystal cannon with the [Thunder Spear] during the advance of the enemy army, but the enemy's protection of the magic crystal cannon was relatively in place, and he threw five thunder spears at the magic crystal cannon, and only one hit the target.
Yun Xiaohan himself didn't achieve any results, but the results of the city defense equipment on their side were quite impressive.
Although it can't be compared with the salvo of naval artillery, 78 magic crystal cannons are not less, and there are more than 50 other city defense equipment, several rounds of attacks are out, and before the Shang Alliance's equipment is completely in place, the other party will lose 4 magic crystal cannons and nearly 1/3 of the simple catapult.
Only then did the Merchant Alliance, who had been hit hard, realize that the number of weapons on the defending side was far greater than the number reported by Viscount Aloe, and the Marquis of Nkuru was angry and wanted to pull Viscount Aloe over and reprimand him, and let him count how many weapons the enemy had to defend the city.
But the Marquis of Nkuru just lacks military experience, but his brain is still very good, and he knows that it is useless to scold people at this time, the key is to win, but he has also made up his mind that he must recommend to the council afterwards that Viscount Aloe be held responsible.
The Marquis of Nkuru also knew that he lacked practical command experience, so he immediately asked Bata Montbrum about countermeasures, his family and the Montbrum family had a very good relationship, and he also stood up for the Montbrum family at many meetings of the Chamber of Commerce and sought benefits, so he still trusted Bata Montbrun very much.