Chapter 113: Attack on Fanta City

20,000 killed, and nearly 20,000 incapacitated. But this did not reduce the prestige of the Beichen army, and the morale was not damaged in the slightest. On the contrary, because four cities were taken in three days, the morale of the whole army was even higher.

After Fanta City became a lonely city, Xiao Chen began to prepare the army for the final fierce battle. Defeat Fanta City, then this western crusade can continue.

The army, which still had 400,000 horses, had all gathered around the city of Fanta the next morning, when the sun was just showing its head. Each wall is divided into 100,000 troops to attack, which is the advantage of superior forces.

The sea of red armies completely surrounded Fanta City, and the entire city was gambled so tightly that no one could escape. As for flies or something, Xiao Chen couldn't stop them. If it really can't even fly a fly, as others say, then at least millions of troops will need to stop it.

Otherwise, if someone's little fly flies over from the sky, can you stop it? Maybe if there were flies all the time, Hua Rong might still kill him with one arrow. But if it was a swarm of flies, it would be impossible for Hua Rong to realize this dream.

Although it can't achieve the effect that even a fly can't fly out, the pressure on Andrew from 400,000 people has not decreased, but has become more and more intense.

Because the drums of war of the enemy army are beginning to sound!

The sound of war drums was followed by the fire of oil bombs from three hundred catapults.

Because the catapult is too large to be transported, there are only 300 that can be pulled out this time, and as for the follow-up catapult, I don't know when it will be able to catch up.

But don't look at the fact that there are only 300 catapults, and they are distributed on four walls, but the shock is still not something that ordinary people can imagine. Especially when the fire oil bomb was fired, the entire sky was obscured by a huge ball of fire.

When the oil bomb was first fired, only a small ball of fire could be seen rising into the sky. However, when the oil bomb comes to the top of the head, the effect is not ordinary.

When I looked up, I saw an oversized ball of fire above my head. Born with a fear of fire, Andrew's soldiers were in disarray, scattered looking for a place to hide.

"Oh my God, can the Chinese do magic?" Andrew only said that, and quickly hid in a safe secret passage. In this situation where the sky is full of fires, no one dares to guarantee that those fires will not hit them.

"Boom! Rumble! "Every time an oil bomb hits a wall or the ground, it makes two sounds. The first sound is the sound of an oil bomb hitting a wall or ground. The second sound was the groan of the walls and the earth in excruciating pain.

Although the three hundred rounds of fire oil bombs did not smash a gap in the city wall, Xiao Chen did not mind. After all, the catapult's head is really a little sorry for his great power, but the power of fire oil should not be underestimated!

The moment the fire oil bomb fell on the city wall or the ground, it scattered the burning oil cloth on it. Fall on the defenders. A guard sergeant, already on fire, howled in pain and cried out in terror: "Greek fire! It's the Greek Divine Fire! ”

Seeing the soldier's painful appearance of being burned by the fire, the people around him wanted to say that they were not afraid, but it was a lie. How high the temperature of the fire is, it hurts a lot to think about being scalded by boiling water. If it is like this, the meat is cooked alive by the fire, and the thought of the pain makes people feel terrible.

Finally, the defender's robe was still a little kind, and he raised his spear and stabbed the guy who was covered in his body to death. The screams gradually stopped, and the guy who had been burned by the fire for a long time finally left happily at this moment.

And the soldier who stabbed his compatriot to death with a spear, after recovering the spear, directly threw away the spear in his hand. I saw that in a short time, the spear also burned.

However, no one had the heart to look at the burning spear at the moment. Because, once again, there was a screaming sound in the sky. After experiencing an attack by an oil bomb, all the defenders knew what the sound meant. It means that the ball of fire carrying the fire of the Greek god has once again come to the top of his head.

After seeing the tragic appearance of the compatriots who were completely consumed by the fire of the Greek gods, there was not a single soldier on the entire city wall who did not pray to God. However, God and his old man will not care about these idle things, and the fire oil bomb naturally fell on the city wall again.

Then, there was a roar and countless screams!

After firing eight rounds of fire bombs in a row, Xiao Chen was reluctant to continue like this. It's not that I'm so kind, but this time I only brought 5,000 oil bombs. The group of people under his hands threw fire oil bombs, as if they were throwing snow balls, and they really thought that the fire oil bombs were the snow that had been all over the ground in the previous months.

The next five rounds of stone bullets were all smashed towards the vicinity of the city gate. However, the catapult did not hear Xiao Chen's prayers, and still did not smash down the city wall. The best thing to get is that the stones and bricks that fell from the city walls were just strips of stone.

The infantry approached the city wall one by one, and dozens of archers were all gathered together, and then they threw arrows between their fingers towards the city wall.

100,000 archers fired a rain of arrows, although it was not as earth-shattering as 300 fire oil bombs, but it also made people's scalps tingle when they looked at it!

That's 100,000!

It can be said that as long as the area is covered, the defenders raise their heads and cannot see the sun at all!

There was a thunderclap, after a clanging sound. All 100,000 arrows were stuck upside down on the walls of the city, or upside down on the ground. But those covered areas are a bit miserable.

The death of one of the enemy soldiers was the most striking, with four or five arrows, all of which poured down from the top of their heads. Pierced through the iron helmet and stuffed it into the head.

But the soldier was also surrounded by arrows, and when he ran out of life and fell, he actually fell to the ground. Instead, it was supported by the countless arrows on the ground, about thirty centimeters above the ground. But in this way, the five arrow feathers inserted upside down in the head are more vivid.

The rest of the corpses were not much worse than this one, covered with arrows, like hedgehogs. Most of the corpses were formed into large funnels, which were then sifted through blood.

More than a million arrows were simply shot out by the 100,000 archers, and this only used ten rounds of shooting time. But the casualties caused were much stronger than the catapult's inaccurate head, a million arrows, even if a hundred arrows hit one person, that would almost kill and injure nearly 10,000 opponents.

After the archers showed off their thighs, it was time for the foot soldiers who rushed forward to show off their little muscles.

A thousand ladders, carried on the shoulders of a team of soldiers, directly covered the entire city wall. Almost every two or three meters there is a ladder, of course, this is just a simple ladder, a thing that the army can build.

In addition to the ladder, the powerful siege ladder and nest car are naturally indispensable, as well as the siege cones in the thousands of catties. Three hundred siege ladders and one hundred nest cars, as well as a dozen siege cones, slowly approached the city wall together.

After that, the tragic siege began.

Changge was waving, and the swords and shields were colliding with each other. The soldiers on both sides are fighting for their own glory, never to the death.

The dense ladder was covered with soldiers in red armor, like ants climbing a mountain. The defenders on the city wall did not hesitate to throw stones or something downward.

The besieging army was greatly hindered, but the defenders of the city were even more uncomfortable.

There are so many enemies pouring up from below the city that even if you just kill one, you might just rush up to two. In this way, how are we going to play?

The battle was fought until noon.

The Beichen army slowly retreated with ladders or siege weapons, and the archers once again shot hundreds of thousands of arrows to cover the retreat of the siege army.

Didn't take it down in one go!

The morale of the Beichen army obviously dropped significantly, and the defenders of the city jumped with cheer, and some even hugged each other to celebrate the success of the defense. Of course, the archer brigade of the Beichen Army could not allow them to be arrogant in front of their eyes.

A rain of arrows suddenly caused all the defenders to hide like rats. No one dared to dance and cheer under the rain of hundreds of thousands of arrows.

On the wall more than ten meters high, it has become a mess. Countless rubble, arrows, and weapons were mixed together, making it look like a garbage heap on top. Patches of blood stained the entire ruined city. The blood, which had not yet dried up, began to slide slowly down the city wall.

At the base of the city, there were countless corpses, including the corpses of the Beichen Army in red armor and the corpses of many defenders in black armor, mixed with each other. Beside it are countless weapons, stones, and broken ladders. On the entire battlefield, it is full of grandeur.

Countless corpses, piling up the entire battlefield. The Changge, the flags that are placed diagonally on the ground, or the infantry shields that fall to the ground, add a lot of color to this battlefield!

After lunch, the armies of both sides sent a number of people to collect the corpses under the city. After all, it's summer now, and if these corpses are piled up under the city and not collected, in less than a day, maybe the armies of both sides will face the potential threat of plague.

The generals on both sides regard this matter as the biggest thing, and the first confrontation is over. No matter how many people these corpses were killed in their lives, they will not contribute to this war in the future.

None of the men and horses who gathered the corpses were armed, which was a normal phenomenon after the war. The dead are the greatest, although Europe does not have this famous saying, but still do not want these soldiers who sacrificed for themselves to throw their bodies into the wild.

It took a long time to collect the corpses, it took nearly two hours, mainly because there were too many corpses on the battlefield.

In this siege battle, Andrew's defenders lost nearly 20,000 people. The casualties of the Beichen army were even greater, with 30,000 killed and more than 17,000 casualties.

Counting the previous casualties, the Beichen Army had already lost 50,000 casualties in just four days. More than 13,000 were seriously injured and nearly 20,000 were slightly injured.

At most, one-third of these seriously wounded can return to the army after recovery, and all the lightly wounded can return to the army. But even so, the troop attrition reached about 55,000 men.

The 400,000-strong army directly lost one-eighth of its troops, and the casualties were really not small.

However, these did not delay the attack of the Beichen Army in the afternoon, and after collecting the corpses of the dead robes, it was less than three o'clock.

At this moment, the remaining 350,000 troops once again lined up in a huge formation, slowly rolling out various siege weapons, towards the city in the distance.

The howl of the horn, the hissing of the flag, and the earth-shattering sound of the war drums once again opened the siege and defense of the two sides.

The battle lasted until more than six o'clock, and the hundreds of thousands of troops who had participated in the siege slowly retreated like a red tide.

Another siege failed!

However, this did not surprise Xiao Chen and others.

In this siege battle in the afternoon, the Beichen Army had nothing remarkable about it, and it could even be said that its performance was too poor. Xiao Chen also understood that it was because of the failure of the siege battle in the morning.

In the morning, the soldiers on both sides were very fierce, and in less than an hour, more than 100,000 soldiers who were in close contact with each other were killed on the spot. The defenders are there to defend their homeland, and they burst out with incomparable positive energy. And when the Beichen Army was in the morning, the morale was at its peak!

But when the siege failed in the morning, the army performed poorly in the afternoon. In the morning, they attacked the city wall, but in the afternoon, no one rushed to the city wall.

One go, then tired, three exhausted!

The morale of the army is the most important in combat, and if the morale is high, it can exert 200 percent of its strength, but if the morale is low, it is good that the soldiers can exert half of their strength.

And the Beichen army is like this at present, the morale has dropped a lot, and the soldiers have not shown their maximum strength. At the same time, Xiao Chen also discovered that the Beichen Army was expanding too fast now, and the soldiers had not experienced any hard battles. Therefore, it has created a fighting spirit that is now not fighting to the death.

If the 20,000 veterans of the Guards Association and the Yulin Association came over, even if the siege was not taken in the morning, the attack in the afternoon would definitely not be worse than the morning, or even better. This is the gap, there were many hard bloody battles during the Southern Expedition, and the will to fight was also cultivated in these soldiers.

As the sun sets, the fiery red evening sun hangs obliquely on the horizon. The tall body of Fanta City has long been dilapidated, and countless boulders have been continuously destroyed, and countless stones have fallen on Fanta City's body.

Countless corpses were piled up on the walls, and blood slowly flowed down the tattered walls. Patches of bright red blood marks on the city wall covered the walls.

On the battlefield under the city foundation, corpses, weapons, shields, and tattered battle flags were scattered everywhere, dyeing this battlefield with a sense of vicissitudes.

The beacon fire is rising, and the world is in chaos.

The array of ten thousand armies, the bowstrings groaned, and the horses' hooves were shocked.

One will climb to the top of the clouds, and ten thousand bones will spread the world