Chapter 39: Psychological Tactics
After the formation was stabilized, Karui didn't say any more nonsense to Xiao Yu, and directly waved his hand, letting the commander next to him start attacking according to the formation that had been drilled before.
He was impressed by Xiao Yu's elegant middle finger's counterattack last time, so this time Karui didn't talk nonsense, he wanted to wait to capture the city, capture Xiao Yu alive, and then vent his anger after stepping on the soles of his feet.
So, under the command of the commander, the 20,000-strong army was divided into more than a dozen phalanxes and slowly entered the battle.
The last fiasco made Karui also sum up the lesson, and felt that his army had not experienced combat for too long, so it did not cooperate well, fought separately, and could not form combat effectiveness, so it would fail.
This time, before he came to attack, he had been running in for more than a month, and he had also done some research on siege tactics, so he was full of confidence in taking the Lion King City.
Rumble...... Rumble......
The neat steps of the infantry on the ground were very rhythmic, like a beautiful music, pressing on everyone's heart.
If it weren't for Xiao Yu's psychological relaxation tactics before the battle, the recruits under Long Hui who were fighting for the first time would probably have already peed their pants by now.
It was precisely because of the disdain shown by Xiao Yu's troops for the upcoming battle that they also felt that there seemed to be nothing to be afraid of in the battle.
The soldier is most afraid of being demoralized and suppressed by the other party.
When it was nearly 400 meters, except for the phalanx of hoplites in the middle, the other infantry on both sides had already begun to gradually accelerate with cloud ladders, ready to run and quickly attack the city wall.
Kalu's formation is simple and practical, and it is a relatively ordinary formation.
The direction of the middle attack on the city gate is a phalanx of hoplites, with a heavy siege vehicle, focusing on breaking through the city gate, pushing into the city, opening the gap, and making a good forward for the follow-up troops to enter the city. In the rear of the hoplite phalanx, there was also a heavy siege vehicle, so as not to destroy the first siege vehicle, and the hoplites had no way to get under the city gates. In fact, in the center of this heavily equipped phalanx, there is also a hidden magician, who can give them powerful fire support at any time to help break down the door.
On both sides of the hoplite formation, there were light infantry with shields tied to their arms, on the one hand, bows and arrows to defend the city, and on the other hand, they could climb the ladder without holding a shield and free their hands.
The light infantry on the left and right sides carried as many as a dozen ladders, which had been drilled many times, and could quickly get on the head of the city, and iron hooks were installed on the top of the ladders to prevent them from falling off.
This is only the phalanx of the first column, and behind this first phalanx, followed by more than twenty heavy ballistas, which can fire heavy crossbow arrows at a distance of up to 400 meters, suppressing the archers at the head of the city.
Karui also spared no effort for this battle, not only bringing all the ballistas in their territory, but also borrowing more than a dozen ballistas from other territories.
It is difficult for ordinary soldiers to shoot arrows at such a high city, but ballistas can do it. Last time, Xiao Yu's elven archers made a deep impression on Kalu, so this time he deliberately used a ballista to suppress the archers at the head of the city.
Behind the first phalanx, there was the second phalanx, still advanced by heavy infantry in the middle, flanked by light infantry, but this time many soldiers were equipped with crossbows, and during the siege, they could shoot or suppress the head of the city under the city to help the people on the ladder to attack the head of the city.
Behind the second phalanx, Karui also arranged five catapults, ready to be used as long-range heavy fire support.
With such a luxurious lineup, Xiao Yu was amazed, not to mention that he was such a small lion king leader, and it would be no problem for him to capture Huicheng, the capital of the nearby Wei Principality.
It's a pity that he ran into Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes, looked at Kalu's army slowly advancing, and took a sip of red wine gently.
"Tell them to open the gates." Xiao Yu directly issued an order.
The orc infantry below got the order and immediately began to open the city gate, Long Hui was taken aback and said, "Young Master, what are you doing here?" Do you want to surrender? How can you open the city gate at this time? ”
Xiao Yu cut off and said, "I haven't had enough of such a good day, what do you vote for?" Uncle Long, look at it, you'll know in a while. ”
Soon, the orc soldiers below opened the solid city gate directly according to Xiao Yu's order, and rumbled to the sides, so that the Lion King City looked like an undefended city, and it was also like a woman who had taken off her underwear, so that you had tried all kinds of tricks to conquer, but suddenly found that the other party had been completely open to you.
Karui's army had reached a position three hundred meters from the city wall at this time, and the city gate suddenly opened wide, and they could naturally see it.
Seeing this strange scene, both the commander and the soldiers were dumbfounded, what is going on? Could it be that the other side is about to surrender when he sees his own army pressing down on the border?
As a result, the speed of all the soldiers immediately slowed down and slowly stopped, and the commander did not know what was going on, so he also ordered his subordinates to stand in formation, not to continue the attack, and wait for Karui's order.
As a result, Kalu's army, which was originally imposing like a rainbow and charging with all its might, stopped and lined up at a distance of three hundred meters from the city wall, waiting for Kalu's order.
Karui was stunned when he saw such a scene, but then he burst out laughing. He thought that Xiao Yu was going to surrender, so his heart was extremely cheerful, full of a sense of satisfaction of conquest.
"Xiao Yu, are you going to surrender? Hmph, you surrender now, I can consider sparing your life and making you my slave, watching me play with a few of your sisters-in-law every day, haha......"
Karui stood up from the carriage, in high spirits, feeling as if the world was already under his feet.
At the head of the city, Xiao Yu took another sip of red wine, and then asked Grom behind him to hold up a huge wooden carving. It is carved from a single piece of wood, a clenched fist, with only one finger sticking out, and the finger in the middle.
Xiao Yu asked Grom to point straight in Kalu's direction, like a super big hand, and drew a super middle finger at Kalubi.
"Bastard." Karui directly smashed a wine jug worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins on the carriage.
"Kill him for me, I will capture him alive, and I will ravage all the women of the Lion King in front of him. Whoever is the first to capture the Lion King Territory, I will let him share Xiao Yu's sister-in-law with me. Karui roared angrily like a mad dog, without the slightest aristocratic bearing.
And Xiao Yu was lying in a rocking chair, sipping red wine, leisurely, like a real gentleman, and the super middle finger just now seemed to have nothing to do with him at all.
"Rushing ......" accompanied by Karui's roar, and the army moved again under the command of the commander, but now they were less than three hundred meters away from the wall of the Lion King, and this distance had already entered the range of the archers at the head of the city.
After the elven archers got the replacement equipment, the range of the bow had reached more than two hundred meters, and the projectile on the city wall was undoubtedly farther, reaching three hundred meters without any problem, plus Tyrande's strong attack aura, this range was even farther.
As a result, a rain of arrows poured down from the sky, and all the soldiers who stood in line within a distance of three hundred meters became live targets.
And the range of the dwarven musketeer is even farther, although the accuracy is relatively poor, but under Xiao Yu's order to shoot intensively and without investigating accuracy, it is also like a machine gun harvesting the opponent's life.
Originally, if they charged with all their might, the damage caused by the archers' shots would definitely be much weaker, and the moving targets would definitely be difficult to hit, and with the momentum of their charge, they would soon be able to reach the bottom of the city wall and take up the ladder. The whole time, at most, is more than a minute.
But now, they braked the way and then charged again after a bit of waiting, which was a completely different effect.
Everyone knows the difference between starting speed and peak speed.
The rain of arrows continued to fall, and the fallen soldiers became an obstacle to the charge of the soldiers behind, so their speed became slower.
They could have reached the bottom of the city walls in just over a minute, but now it takes at least several times as long, and at this time, the archers at the head of the city can fire dozens of more shots.
Dozens of shots by elven archers, what kind of lethality is that, needless to say. Coupled with the fact that the dwarven musketeers were also firing intensively, the fate of these infantry could only be blessed by God.
Anyway, by the time these light infantry arrived at the city, all the phalanxes of their first column were basically dead, and as a last resort, the commander sent out the phalanx of the second column and began to continue the attack.
In one shot, all the infantry phalanxes in a column were killed, which was definitely a huge blow to the morale of Kalu's army.
Xiao Yu's psychological tactics have been a complete success.
"Taste ten times the land, millions of people, knock on the pass and attack Qin. The Qin people switched and extended the enemy, and the division of the Nine Kingdoms did not dare to enter the ......"
Xiao Yu muttered Jia Yi's theory of passing Qin, and said secretly: "Nima, the experience of the ancients is really useful, Lao Tzu opened the city gate, but they didn't dare to move forward." ”
…………
Xiao Sa is going out soon.,Get up at half past six in the morning.,Get another chapter out.,It's interesting enough.,There's still in the evening.,Everyone votes a lot.。 Xiao Sa knelt down and thanked him.