Text: The Great Power Struggle_Chapter 226 Military Rank System
A million elite troops lined up 800 meters outside the east gate of the capital of Uzbekistan. The remaining 600,000 troops were divided into three gates, and 200,000 troops were stationed in the camp. Fortunately, Uzi City is located in the Great Plains region, and beyond its eastern gate is an endless plain, where millions of troops are lined up, and it is not crowded at all.
There are 100,000 troops in formation, the armor is mighty, the swords are numerous, the flags are arrogant, and the military formation is solemn.
Xiao Chen led several generals, ran to the front of the army, and stood on horseback. Looking at the resolute faces in front of him, Xiao Chen only had a serious expression. This time, the troops participating in the main attack on the eastern city were all standing armies and royal armies, and there were no servant troops.
"Brothers, sons and daughters of the Han family! Do you see the castle behind this king? It's been more than a month, and our Beichen Kingdom hasn't destroyed a weak small country! I have always believed that the sons and daughters of our Han family are all heroes who stand up to the sky, and they are all heroes who are brave and feared by the enemy. However, looking at the other day, I am very dissatisfied with your results. ”
"A city defended by a million civilians, but an army of two million did not take it, but suffered heavy losses! Is it that our Beichen Kingdom has been defeated, has we won so many battles that we have forgotten how to fight?"
"Today, I am here to make you a promise: a million troops to attack a city garrisoned by 500,000 militiamen. You don't have reinforcements, you don't have catapults, you only have your own bodies. As long as I take it down in one breath, I will not be stingy with glory, and I will not be stingy with wealth. ”
"Break through the city and lift military discipline. Rob and kill all the city, and all the riches in it are yours!" The first person to climb the city, the reward is 10,000 dollars, General Feng! ”
After speaking, Xiao Chen rode directly towards the Chinese army, and the rest of the generals hurriedly followed. After this call, Xiao Chen didn't know what the soldiers under his command thought, he only knew that a real battle of the strong was coming, and he needed more elites.
Xiao Chen had just returned to the command platform of the Chinese army, and the drummers below had not yet beaten the drums of the attack. But when Xiao Chen looked back, he found that the twenty phalanxes in the front row had actually begun to charge. Seeing this, Xiao Chen showed a smiling face, and there was still no cowardice under his command.
And time went back for a while, and as soon as Xiao Chen left, a co-president of the First Association of the First Royal Army couldn't help it. The king's straightforward words just now Mr. Xie's face turned red. While blushing because he didn't dare to come forward for a bloody battle for a few days, he was blushing because he wanted to kill the enemy. It's just that Xiao Chen has just left, and the drums of the march have not yet sounded, so he can't violate military regulations.
Looking back, the soldiers behind him were all similar to him, their faces were red, and their eyes seemed to be about to erupt into a thick fire. This situation makes Mr. Xie very entangled, on the one hand, military discipline, on the other hand, the anger between himself and his brothers, how to choose!
Just when the co-president was struggling back and forth, the co-president of a 10,000-strong army formation beside him shouted loudly. It was an association of the Ninth Army of the Standing Army, and they were all just a bunch of rookies who had just been on the battlefield for a short time.
I only heard the general manager of the association shouting loudly to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, the spirit of heaven who died in the robe a few days ago is looking at us!" If it's a gentleman, you will roar, and if you don't take the enemy city today, you will not return it! ”
"Kill!" Ten thousand people roared in unison, and the entire battlefield was suddenly shaken. Then, without waiting for the war drums in the army to sound, 10,000 soldiers rushed out. It's going to be a mess all of a sudden, and a standing army association dares to kill it directly without following military discipline, can't our Royal Army?
In the final analysis, isn't it just a violation of military discipline once, it's a big deal to get dozens of sticks, in short, you can relieve your anger. Besides, I don't know if I can go back to this siege battle. However, anyone would be happy to be able to go crazy for a while before they die!
"Brothers, kill! Slaughter the city, slaughter the city! An officer shouted, and then more than 10,000 soldiers followed him towards the city wall.
The association next to him was not to be left behind, and when he saw that everyone shouted slogans, he also made one out of his side: "Brothers, the one who climbs the city wall first is the general!" Kill! ”
For a time, hundreds of thousands of troops frantically poured towards the city wall. Countless siege ladders and siege equipment such as nest cars and chariots were more than doubled in speed under the impetus of the angry Beichen soldiers. Many soldiers of the Beichen Army were dressed in armor and holding sharp blades, completely ignoring military discipline.
Soon, the Beichen Army began to suffer casualties. As soon as he ran to the city wall about 500 paces, countless boulders flew out of the city. The boulder fell from the sky and fell into the crowd of the charging Beichen army, suddenly setting off a bloody storm. Many soldiers of the Beichen Army were directly smashed into flesh by boulders, and the sturdy iron armor on their bodies also turned into pieces of iron.
And that's not even counting the boulders, followed by countless bolts. The crossbow arrows with the thickness of the child's arm pierced directly into the crowd, and the lethality was no less than that of a boulder. The iron armor on the Beichen Army was easily broken in front of the boulder and crossbow arrows, like paper. In just one wave of attacks, numerous stumps and severed arms were left behind.
However, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Beichen Army, these seemed to not exist. The army of hundreds of thousands of charges still struggled to run forward. The roars and wails of his comrades-in-arms came from the side, which did not attract the attention of the soldiers at all. From time to time, boulders fell from the sky, smashing the earth and trembling. The crossbow arrows flying in the air from the front always pierced several soldiers in one go.
In just three hundred steps, the Beichen army paid a heavy price. However, these are all in the past, and the Beichen Army is about to start a counterattack. After moving forward dozens of steps again, the seventy or eighty thousand archers of the Beichen Army stopped, and then took their bows and drew arrows. In this way, the first wave of attacks of the Beichen Army was launched by archers scattered among many soldiers.
Tens of thousands of arrows immediately flew past the comrades who were charging in front and scattered on the city walls. The defenders suffered heavy losses without paying attention, countless defenders were crucified to the city walls, and many more were turned into human hedgehogs. Subsequently, the defenders of the city also began to counterattack.
Tens of thousands of arrows flew down from the city wall, densely packed, making people a little dizzy to watch. As a result, seven or eight out of ten of them were scattered about a hundred paces outside the city, and the rest only flew scattered to a hundred and fifty paces away. Although the number of Beichen troops charging was very large, there was not the slightest formation. But under this wave of arrows of the defenders, there were not many people to lose.
On the one hand, the bows and arrows used by the defending troops are not good, you must know that the country of Uzi is a small country, and the best equipment will naturally be armed to the main force. It's just that the million-strong army led by Rango has been wiped out, so there are no good bows and crossbows in the city. On the other hand, the soldiers of the Beichen Army are all wearing iron armor, like bows and arrows in the hands of the defending troops, and it is completely by luck to shoot the Beichen Army.
More than 100,000 archers on both sides immediately went crazy. The archers of the Beichen Army were still standing one hundred and fifty paces away, slowly firing arrows at the city wall. As for the threat of the defenders, the archers of the Beichen Army were not afraid at all. It was really the bows and arrows of the defending troops that were too much, and only the catapults and bed crossbows in the city could cause a lot of casualties to the Beichen army.
The clash of archers is the most shocking, after all, the black pressure arrow feathers floating in the sky will not make anyone feel good when they see it. On the surface, it looks very majestic, but the actual lethality is a bit poor. The soldiers of the Beichen Army have armor and do not worry, and the defending troops can also hide behind the female wall to avoid the flying arrows.
However, it is the hand-to-hand combat that is the most tragic.
Then I saw that the soldiers in the front row of my side had rushed to the bottom of the city wall and began to set up a ladder. The archers of the Beichen Army, who released arrows in the back, also gave up continuing the design and began to approach under the city wall to support their comrades who were climbing the city. And the archers on the defending side of the city wall continued to shoot arrows outside the city. Although the casualties inflicted on the Beichen Army were small, they were better than nothing.
The soldiers of the Beichen Army quickly put the cloud ladder on the city wall, and the iron claws in front of the ladder held the city wall tightly. Then, a soldier named Beichen began to climb up the ladder. The defenders naturally would not sit back and watch the Beichen army climb the city wall, and all stones, rolling logs, etc., were all smashed on the faces of the climbing soldiers without hesitation. For a while, the city wall of Uzi suddenly felt like dumplings, and almost every moment the Beichen army fell from the cloud ladder. As for the result, it is self-evident that even the gods fell to their deaths when they fell from a height of fifteen meters.
But these did not frighten the soldiers of the Beichen Army, and many soldiers still climbed the ladder desperately. The archers of the Beichen Army under the city wall also kept firing arrows at the city. As soon as many of the defenders emerged from the walls, they were killed by several arrows. Despite the cover of archers, the Beichen army still failed to climb the city wall. After all, it was also a city wall more than 20 meters high, and it was impossible to climb the tower in one breath.
In the rest of the place, nearly 200 nest carts and more than 12,000 crossbowmen fought against the defenders on the city walls. Sharp and penetrating crossbow arrows weave back and forth through the crowd of bees. In just half an hour, the defending troops who rushed up to block the attack of the Beichen army were immediately covered by hundreds of crossbow arrows.
Most of the rest of the nest cars were the same, and under the sharp crossbow arrows of the Beichen army, countless defenders were shot. But the defenders are also very tenacious, no matter how big the losses, they will always quickly replenish some soldiers and horses. In this way, the original idea of the Beichen army to seize the bridgehead on the city wall was completely dispelled. Hundreds of nests of cars also began to stalemate after starting to achieve some results.
And the battle at the city gate was also very fierce, dozens of strong men pushed the huge siege cones, and kept crashing towards the city gate. Each knock shook the gates, and countless pieces of rubble and dirt fell. Naturally, the defenders would not let the Beichen army below wantonly hit the city gate, so many stones and arrows were concentrated at the city gate.
The arrow feathers of the first also had stones and wood, so that the soldiers of the Beichen Army who pushed the siege cone suffered a lot of casualties. Many soldiers were directly stoned or shot to death by the enemy when they had just pushed the siege cones in place of their dead comrades. However, the siege cones continued to pound the gates, and did not stop attacking because of the huge casualties.
It's just that as the gate of the capital of Uzi, it is naturally not comparable to the gate of some small cities, and its solidity is much beyond the expectations of the soldiers of the Beichen Army. After more than ten strikes, no cracks were seen in the city gate. Only the pebbles that are knocked down from time to time also represent that the city gate is suffering from the damage of the siege cones.
The fierce battle lasted for more than three hours in one go, and outside the walls of the Woods, a thick layer of corpses had piled up. Bright red blood, pouring out of the pile of corpses, stained the entire earth red. However, at this time, the battle continued. The soldiers on both sides are working hard for their goals, and the battle of life and death is like a river of blood.
Suddenly, only a loud rumbling sound was heard in the heavens and the earth, which immediately startled the soldiers on both sides. Then there was a cheer at the city gate, and "The city is broken!" was faintly heard. ”
The city is broken!
This shocked the soldiers on both sides, and then everyone seemed to understand what was going on. The gates must have been slammed open, it must have been so! Immediately after that, all the Beichen troops on the battlefield cheered and killed those dumbfounded defenders.
At the city gate, the strong and tall city gate has been quietly crooked in the city gate cave at this time. Countless soldiers of the Beichen Army poured into the city from the city gate.
The news that the city gate had been breached immediately demoralized the defenders. As soon as the city gate was broken, it meant that the city wall was no longer useful, and the Beichen army had already begun to enter the city. As a result, more than 100,000 defenders on the city wall immediately threw away their armor and hurriedly ran towards the city. It's just that there are so many passages to scare the city wall, and they are so big that they don't allow more than 100,000 troops to be frantically crowded.
After no one cared, more soldiers of the Beichen Army climbed the ladder to the city wall. Finally, the defeated defenders began to be covered. A large number of defenders were slaughtered without resistance, and countless defenders died on the passages of the lower city. The blood of the direct killing flowed like a river, and the corpses were connected for miles.
This is the role of morale, which can turn a group of ordinary people into brave tigers. In the same way, it is also possible to turn a male teacher into a soft sheep. The Uzi garrison is a prime example, under the threat of national annihilation, a million militia became extremely brave, holding off millions of elite Beichen soldiers. But now, as soon as the city gates were breached, the militia lost their morale, resulting in the current massacre. At the end of the day, they're just militias.
Countless defenders lost the will to fight when the gates were breached, and became lambs to the slaughter. Of course, there were still quite a few defenders who safely removed the walls. However, they seemed to have forgotten that the main force of the Beichen Army was constantly pouring in from the city gates. The fate of these people still can't escape a dead word.
The gate of the capital of Uzi was broken, and the millions of Beichen troops immediately began to kill in the city, continuing to strangle the remaining defenders in the city.