Text: The Struggle of Great Powers_Chapter 182 Burning the Sea
Hachicheng.
Bands of allied soldiers carried rudimentary ladders up the city walls. Then, he desperately climbed to the top of the city wall. Behind him were a large number of archers, who finally caught up at the critical moment, which was not easy.
Facing the surging number of coalition soldiers, the Beichen army on the city wall was not afraid. The catapult continued to attack in an orderly manner, vowing to inflict maximum damage on the enemy when they reached the foot of the walls.
The soldiers in the city also began to attack the enemy who climbed the ladder.
Changge soldiers are the most tired of the Beichen Army, holding a long Changge in their hands. At this moment, when the coalition forces were attacking the city, facing the condescending Changge soldiers, the bitter water was a big place.
I just got on the ladder here, and after climbing a few meters, there were a few long thorns on it. When I looked up, the Beichen Army stood directly on the city wall and poked down with Changge! How can this be fought, before it reaches the city wall, it will be abused like this.
What about archers? Suppression! Suppress!
Although there is a powerful class of Changge soldiers, it still can't stop hundreds of thousands of enemy troops from rushing into the city together. Zhang Han is not a stupid person, people divide their troops to attack him in turn, and he can't be stupid enough to let 200,000 people go to the city wall in one breath.
100,000 people, and now the Beichen army fighting on the city wall only has 100,000 horses.
The coalition soldiers who escaped the torture and killing of Changge began to rejoice alone. Unbeknownst to them, an even greater danger had come.
Stones, poles, fork guns, sasswood, and so much more are waiting for the Allied soldiers to enjoy. Xiao Chen's importance to important cities is very high. Let's just say that in this Hachi City, if there is an army of 500,000 in the city, Zhang Han dares to pull it out and fight with the enemy.
However, there are not many soldiers and horses now, so it's better to go out of the city to fight, just think about it.
The sword and shield soldiers were the easiest of the entire defense force, and the sword and shield in their hands were destined to prevent them from attacking the enemy from afar. Coupled with the blocking of the city's defense weapons such as Changge, bows and arrows, stones, and sassal woods along the way, when the sword and shield soldiers saw the enemy, it would be good to have a group of about a dozen people.
For the huge number of sword and shield soldiers, this bit of meat is too little, and it is simply not enough to eat. In the end, the sword and shield soldiers stopped going up to cut people, and stayed by the archers' side to protect their own long-range output.
With the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, the archers are also quite leisurely. While pulling out his bow and releasing arrows, he chatted with his teammates around him.
This is the disadvantage of not having siege weapons, look at the previous time when the Beichen army attacked the city. The usual rain of stones smashed over, directly hitting the defending troops without morale.
However, in the end, in the face of more than 100,000 people stationed in the city, there are still a lot of various materials, it is indeed not so easy to fight. Even if the Beichen Army came, they could only watch dumbfounded.
When Beichen Kingdom fought Hachicheng, it didn't fight for several months. In the end, he first broke through the capital of the people, and then the troops in the city surrendered out of the city. If those people don't surrender, it is estimated that it will not be a problem for Beichen Kingdom to fight for another half a year.
The coalition suffered heavy casualties, and the group of generals standing behind them were a little distressed. It's only been a long time, and in just an hour, the army of more than 600,000 has already suffered nearly 50,000 casualties. Compared with the thousands of casualties of the Beichen Army, this is also a bit of a pitfall.
If you want to retreat, everyone wants to retreat. However, if any of the previous ones were unwilling, there was nothing the many generals could do. There are few people who know that big guy, and the only thing that knows is that his own boss is also obedient to this person.
Charlie is a player, a government official of the British Empire. Although the official position is not big, he has a good character. Just like this once, the government ordered all the idle officials to enter the Beacon Age and lead the powerful British players back to the glory of the sun.
Of course, before the rise, the first thing to do is to destroy those two powerful Chinese players.
And Charlie was so lucky, when everyone else was randomly assigned to various places. Charlie was assigned not far to the west of Beichen Kingdom, and with such convenient conditions, Charlie certainly would not give up.
As long as he destroys the Beichen Kingdom, it is not a problem to be promoted to become rich at all.
As a result, more than a dozen players in the vicinity were gathered by Charlie. took out the prestige of the government and became the leader of these dozen players, that is, the sole commander of the tens of millions of troops.
At the same time, Charlie also reported the matter and asked for support. In this case, the credit for winning the battle is definitely not small, and if you lose, it is the country's problem. I have already asked for support, but the state has not sent anyone, and if it fails, it will naturally be a matter of the top.
Originally, Charlie thought that Beichen Kingdom was only one player, and it was impossible to block the siege of more than a dozen players. The best way is that the Chen Xiaotian of the Beichen Kingdom surrendered, and everyone was happy.
But unexpectedly, news has already come from the naval forces. In the first naval battle, the two sides fought to a draw. The army forces have no way to land now, and they cannot attack the capital of Beichen Kingdom.
And his side was also blocked by the city in front of him!
After all, Charlie is just a political officer, not a general in the army or something. For the two places of Hachi County and Dingxi County, which one is better to fight, Charlie can see. However, I don't know much about how to beat myself.
Charlie also knows this, but looking at the army of millions and not commanding it himself, it is really awkward in his heart!
By now, Charlie's face was a little unbearable. You can see why you will have such a large number of casualties. Without the suppression of siege weapons, it was too difficult for the troops to siege the city.
10,000 men went up, and after 500 paces, they began to be attacked by enemy catapults. When they reached two hundred paces, the catapult continued to attack the troops behind them. The 10,000 people in front began to face the blows of tens of thousands of archers. When we get to the city walls, it would be nice if there were 8,000 left of 10,000 people.
Finally crossed the shooting range of the archers of the Beichen Army and came to the foot of the city wall. found that it was better to stand up to the archers of the Beichen Army here.
There are only so many ladders on the tall city walls, but there are so many soldiers that they are not enough at all. There were dozens of people piled up under a cloud ladder, and then they were abused by the Beichen army above.
What stones, all wood, all thrown down. What's even more ruthless is that the Beichen army above also threw down their own corpses that died on the city wall, just to kill and injure themselves.
Don't underestimate those corpses, plus the armor on their bodies, they must have more than one hundred and forty pounds, to say the least. Falling from the top of the fifteen-meter-high city wall is no weaker than a few stones. Although the stone thing is not a hard thing, it is not very lethal. But if you get hit, you won't be able to slow down for several days.
Without siege weapons, this battle was really broken to the extreme.
Charlie also wanted to go and attack the city gates, and he also found several large trees and made them into crashing logs. When the timber was hit, the gate didn't even move. No matter how stupid a person is, he knows that the Beichen army must have blocked the city gate, and as a result, the coalition army may attack through the city gate.
If you can't enter through the city gate, you will have to climb the city wall. But the city wall is fifteen meters high, and the Changge soldiers of the Beichen Army are six or seven meters high. As soon as the soldiers were halfway up, they were stabbed down by the Changge soldiers of the Beichen Army.
The infantry couldn't get up the walls, and the only ones they could attack were the archers.
Now almost all the killed and wounded Beichen troops are caused by archers, and hundreds of thousands of archers are scattered under the city walls and shoot arrows towards the city. However, because there was no dense rain of arrows, there were still many people in the Beichen Army who were able to dodge the arrows of this surprise attack.
Even if you can't dodge, the hard iron armor on your body will greatly reduce the lethality of the bow and arrow. On the contrary, the archers of the Beichen Army shot very happily, and with the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, they didn't worry about being attacked at all.
The only action is to set up an arrow, draw a bow, and release an arrow. Where you want to shoot depends entirely on your mood. Anyway, now the city walls can still be carried on top of the city, and no one cares where the archers shoot.
"General, the casualties of the troops are too great, withdraw them!" A general saw that his troops had suffered heavy casualties, but he still said firmly.
Charlie frowned, turned around and glared at the man fiercely, and then said, "Hmph, when will the siege weapons arrive?" ”
The general was immediately annoyed, feelings are not your troops, you can fight as much as you want!
"I don't know!" The general said a word angrily. Then, he turned and left, and the birds were not birds Charlie.
Charlie didn't care either, he didn't play this game for this time. If you can't defeat Beichen Kingdom, you don't have anything to lose, anyway, you're a newcomer to the game, and there's nothing to be reluctant to. If you win, you won't be playing the game, and getting promoted and getting rich is the king.
"Command the troops, whoever is the first to climb the city wall will be promoted to general and rewarded with a thousand gold!" Charlie let out a loud shout. Increasing morale in battle, Charlie still knows how to do it.
"No!"
Soon someone gave this order to the besieging troops, and hundreds of thousands of people instantly turned red-eyed. Promoted to general, this is the work of Guangzong Yaozu, even if we don't pay attention to Guangzong's mouth. But with the rank of general, we can also bully men and women once!
The 1,000 gold in the back has attracted countless big-headed soldiers, and everyone is poor haha. A thousand gold is a lot of copper coins, ten million, a full ten million. With 10 million, you can't do anything, and you can buy hundreds or thousands of maids. If you change one a day, you won't be able to spend it in a few years!
With a huge reward, the big head soldiers immediately got erections. One by one, they scrambled to climb up the ladder, and the dead one immediately made up for it.
The Beichen army on the city wall didn't know what kind of stimulation this group of people was under, and they became unafraid of death in an instant. After killing one, he immediately followed another. The Changge in his hand is a little stabbed, there are too many enemies.
For a moment, the entire city wall began to be precarious. At this time, the archers also split half and fired back at the foot of the city wall.
Casualties on both sides soon rose sharply, and blood covered the ground.
The sunset was even redder by the sea of blood in this corpse mountain!