Chapter 24: The Bloody War
Call! Call! Call! Rumble! After the rebels had knocked out all of Aldolph's forts, they began to bombard the walls and the city with impunity, as if they would not stop until all the stones were used up.
Old John led a few groups of people to rest at the foot of the wall on the right side of the city gate, watching the stones flying overhead from time to time crash into the city, and it was helpless, Teucer asked Old John some questions from time to time, and Beani was still not free from the nightmare.
Time passed slowly in the whistling of stones, I don't know how long it took, the city wall on the left side of the city gate finally began to endure the continuous bombardment, a large number of wall skins on the inner wall began to fall along with the stones, and the position of the original standing person on the top had already been blasted out of the gap, with the fire of the rebels, this section of the city wall could not hold out for long.
"Everyone checks the equipment, and the enemy is going on the offensive right away!" Old John, with his experience, had a premonition of the enemy's movements.
Teucer looked curious, "Uncle John, how do you see that?"
"The enemy's tactics are very simple, break a section of the city wall, and then cooperate with the siege tower, the battering ram three-way attack, disperse our guard forces, I just don't know where they put the main force, alas, this is really a vicious battle, Bini, don't be muddy anymore, if you can survive after the fight, think about it slowly"
"Hmm," Bini replied nonchalantly.
The more arrogant people are, once they encounter this kind of untieable knot, they will fall into it and torture themselves.
"The war has not stopped even after the unification of the empire, even human beings have different thoughts, let alone other races, once one thought wants to unify another thought, then the peaceful method can not be solved, only force remains, so the war will never stop, because only the dead will no longer have thoughts" John glanced at Bini, who was thinking, and stopped paying attention to him, and enlightened him again when he had time.
When the walls could no longer hold on, they began to fall in one piece, and when the last dilapidated wall was smashed by trebuchets, the sound of stones whirring in the air finally stopped, and was replaced by the "creaking" and "creaking" movement of the siege towers.
"Quick, musketeers, crossbowmen in position, waiting for orders"
"Melee troops are ready at the location of the opponent's siege tower, ready to meet the enemy!" The generals on the city walls began to command in an orderly manner.
And the city wall was also busy, and at the gap in the wall, the swordsmen began to push everything they could push towards the gap, even if it could cause even the slightest obstacle to the rebels.
"The enemy comes into range and fires freely!" The shout of the commander on the city wall was like a spark of cannonball, which instantly ignited the entire city wall of Aldolph, and the projectiles of the muskets and the crossbowmen's crossbows were shot out at once, crackling and crackling.
"Cavalry charge towards the gap, be careful" As soon as the voice on the city wall fell, the neighing of horses came from outside the gap, and I saw a black-armored knight take the lead in rushing through the obstacles set up by everyone, crashing into the crowd and knocking the first soldier out of the way for several meters. The person who came was the affairs officer sent by Middenheim, the captain of the empire, Jones, who was really in the lead, Jones didn't pay attention to the crowd at all after rushing over, and rode left and right to break up the crowd, and the soldiers around him were all swords and shields, and there was really nothing to do with him for a while.
"Quick, keep up" Old John was ordered to guard the city gate, but the big hole next to it was really worrying, and a thing officer was stirring there, so Old John had to leave the others, only with a team of men and horses to support, in addition to the halberd and spearmen arranged on the city wall, only Old John's city gate was equipped with long soldiers to restrain the cavalry.
Old John listened to the sound of the shooters' bullets hitting the city wall getting closer and closer, and knew that something was wrong, and sure enough, the other groups of cavalry of the rebels rushed in after a while, "It's really a-stirring stick" John calculated the distance, and instinctively shot at Jones, which was about to be shot, but Jones's horse suddenly stood up, and this shot only hit the horse's body, causing Jones to fall. Jones, who fell to the ground, rolled over and was out of sight, and then a large number of cavalry jumped in.
"Up!" Old John took the lead in the charge, Teucer and Beani followed closely with the rest of the people, fortunately there are a lot of swords and shields here, plus there are many huge stones at the break of the city wall, which limited the impact of the cavalry at once, and it was surrounded after a while, and the sword and shield formed a shield array to encircle the cavalry in a semicircle, which is not like Jones alone to fight and run, that scare, this group of cavalry was blocked here, couldn't get in, wanted to go out and was blocked here by the friendly army behind, Old John took a team of spearmen, holding a shield in his left hand, The right hand was sent back and again, and there was no need to look at it, and the undead who fell to the ground were also slaughtered by the swordsmen who raised shields around them. The idea of letting the cavalry storm was good, but the infantry didn't keep up, which led to these waves of cavalry being sent in vain, and Jones had already taken advantage of the chaos and didn't know where to run, so you pretended to be B.
When this wave of cavalry broke up and ran away, the siege tower slowly shook to the edge of the city wall, and as the uppermost tower gate slowly fell, it was not the melee troops that appeared in the eyes of the defending army, but the crossbowmen.
"Brush!" "Brush!" With such a close-range crossbow shot, even the heavily armored knights had to be shot through, and the city wall guards who did not react for a moment were shot to the ground layer by layer, instantly losing a lot of people, and when they were about to counterattack, the crossbowmen began to retreat again, and a large number of spearmen and ordinary swordsmen of the rebels poured out to melee with the guards of the forbidden army.
The rebels at the gap finally arrived, and with the great sword covering him, Old John knew that no more platoon of musketeers could stop them.
"Teucer, hurry up and report to Marshal Rick, just say that the enemy's main force is already in battle, quick, go, Binny will follow me," Old John shouted after he ran to all the shield swords
"You want to live and obey my command! All of them! Vertical shield! ”
"Roar!" The shield swordsman bows forward with his left leg forward, his right leg straight, and makes a motion that is ready to start, ready to exert his power at any time.
The rebel two-handed swordsmen didn't know what was going on, the huge stone ruins blocked their view, but they were still fearless, rushing in with great momentum.
"Bump!" Old John saw that the first two-handed swordsmen had just fallen from the ruins, and as soon as he gave the order, all the shield swordsmen slammed forward with their shields. The rebels were stunned at once, and before they could react, they heard another order:
"Thorn!"
The swordsmen's swords were aimed at the gap between the shields and inserted! This group of two-handed swordsmen died a real wretch, that is, giving people heads and experience. But the group of swordsmen behind them are not stupid, they will exert their strength at once, the two-handed swords of the giant swordsman are really split together with the shield, without any effort, the shield sword that is still extremely brave is hard and just far away, after a few moves, the shield sword is lying on the ground, and there are more and more two-handed swordsmen, it seems that the main giant swordsmen of the rebels are gathered here, and the gap defense line cannot be defended.