Chapter 30: A Brutal Siege

After discovering the weakness of the enemy's Macedonian phalanx, Wang Ping immediately ordered Changge in the front to attack the enemy's footsteps. As a result, the army of Ander will really not be able to carry it. There's no way, the shield is not as big as the family, and most of the spear attacks on your own side are blocked by the opponent's shield, and you can't attack the Changge hand behind.

Moreover, Changge on the opposite side has an extremely obscene attack, and the footsteps of his own military formation. In that position, without the defense of a shield, the blades on the opponent's weapons can easily cut off the feet of your own soldiers. It's really too bullying, don't play like this, are the Chinese really so bullish? Is it really invincible?

The Changge hand below is playing happily with each other's feet. Ender's soldiers are miserable, their feet are facing a serious threat, what are they fighting now? Otherwise, after a while, the foot will be cut off, and you will not be able to run. Thus, Ender's army was simply defeated.

The spaghetti army, which had no fighting spirit, lowered their seven-meter-long spears and withdrew their armor. Strive to make the fastest use of your speed and increase your chances of running. One by one, they fled in all directions, and even Ander could not stop the rout of the army. In the end, Ander was helpless, so he had to lead the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers to follow the flow and run to his nest.

If there is anything that is the hardest part of a battle, then the capture of prisoners comes first. The more captures you capture, the fewer defeated troops the enemy commander will be able to collect. At the same time, there are many prisoners captured by the side, and they can also be escorted back to the lair to work as coolies.

The mountains were all over the mountains, but all the defeated troops of the enemy army were scattered, followed by the cavalry troops of Donglin City. Now the capture of prisoners has become the full-time of the cavalry, so to speak. At present, in Xiao Chen's army, the cavalry has the most experience in capturing prisoners. The reason is that Xiao Chen is reluctant to charge the battle with the only cavalry he has, according to Xiao Chen's idea, the number of cavalry has not reached 10,000, and he must not attack the infantry army, so it is better to capture the prisoners honestly.

Using cavalry to capture prisoners is a bit of a waste of using cannons to fight mosquitoes, but you have to admit that cavalry is indeed several times stronger than infantry in capturing prisoners. Remove the 700 enemy troops annihilated, and the 1,000 troops led by the enemy commander who fled. The 500 cavalry captured 1,500 prisoners, and the cavalry commander said firmly, so the defeated army had all become prisoners. As for the hundreds of people who were missing, they were directly destroyed by humanity because they were seriously injured and difficult to bring back.

Wang Ping doesn't mind this. Anyway, the boss of his own family said that all the labor obtained from the attack on the city of Kells was removed from the young and strong, and the old man and the children who had not passed the wheel were all killed. Those seriously injured captives are no longer of any value, and it is a waste of their resources to keep them, so why bother. Besides, he died early and was born sooner, so as not to suffer any more in the slave brigade.

After defeating the enemy's main force, it is natural to go to take someone's city.

By the time they came to the city of Kells, it was already dark, and the army had been encamped with skillful man, and then it was time to eat. There was a non-stop march along the way, and there was a battle in the middle. The army of thousands of people had already digested all the food that had been put into their stomachs at noon, and now they were hungry one by one.

The food for dinner was good, and each soldier was given a few pieces of meat. It seems that the battle in the afternoon really made Wang Ping satisfied. Think about it, against the opponent's 3,000 army, your own side only lost more than 200 people, thus destroying the enemy's main force of 2,500, can you not be happy!

Although in the afternoon, he won a big victory, but Wang Ping still did not dare to relax his vigilance. As an excellent general, you must never forget where you are at any time, and you must not forget to detect whether there is danger around you.

After leaving another 500 people to keep vigil, Wang Ping dared to return to the big tent of the Chinese army to sleep. If you don't arrange a large number of soldiers to keep vigil, you won't be able to sleep. After all, it is estimated that there are more than 1,500 people in the other city, which cannot be underestimated. Once the enemy army sneaks up and bombs the camp, almost the 5,000-strong army will be completely abandoned. And his own life will definitely not return to Donglin City alive.

Everything was arranged, and Wang Ping fell asleep with a little peace of mind. As for Luo Cheng's goods, as soon as he was full, he got into the big tent and began to fall asleep. However, he was also very tired today, personally fighting on the front line, killing dozens of enemy soldiers. If it weren't for Luo Cheng's support in front, I'm afraid that the army of Donglin City would have lost more than two hundred people.

The next morning, Wang Ping got up early. I thought I got up very early, but who knew that as soon as I came out, I saw Luo Cheng's goods, and he was playing his Luo family marksmanship.

"Blatantly (Luo Chengzi), why did you get up so early." Wang Ping walked next to Luo Cheng and asked.

"Haha, Zijun, I can't sleep. Yesterday's battle was not passionate, today I want to rush to the front line and kill him well. Seeing Wang Ping coming over, Luo Cheng also temporarily put down the spear in his hand and handed it to a personal guard.

"Well, you're still going to charge, it's not good. In case you die, how can you explain to the king? You must know that the king is still counting on your martial arts to fight the country. ”

"Zijun, it's not like you don't know what kind of person I am, and the master has never been afraid of anything when he fights. As for what you said later, it made fun of me, I'm just a scheming man, and I can't command a large army to fight. Hehe, so brother, I can fight every day, you can only watch your buddy play handsome, haha"

Luo Cheng was still so handsome when he laughed, and Wang Ping wanted to kick him twice. But considering that he can't beat him at the moment, it's better not to look for abuse.

After the two of them continued to talk a few words, the horn in the army sounded.

The army went out with the wounded and the soldiers guarding the captives, more than 4,000 men, and slowly came three hundred paces in front of the city of Kells with siege ladders, siege cones, and catapults.

The 4,000-strong army lined up neatly, showing solemnity and might. In contrast, the soldiers on the walls of Kells were not so dripping. One by one, they were all stunned and had no energy, as if the real army had been mad all night by the women comrades. However, no matter how spiritless the soldiers are, it is not so easy to capture this city, and the enemy troops on the opposite city wall are nearly a thousand people, and it is estimated that there are fewer soldiers at the other city gates.

Since this is the case, then the soldiers will be divided into two roads, all the way to the north city gate, and all the way to the east city gate. There are exactly two battering cones, how can you not use them?

A distance of 300 paces is an insurmountable danger for archers, but for catapults, it can be smashed with their eyes closed. As a result, the catapult, which had attacked the farthest distance, began to exert its power again. The stones kept falling on the walls with a whistling sound.

The collision of the stones with the masonry of the city wall and the small stones that burst out became the most terrifying weapons of murder. The rapid sputtering of a single stone can easily penetrate a person's body. The soldier who was smashed into flesh by the stones, the soldier with broken arms and legs wailed and cried, and the stones penetrated the abdomen, and the intestines that flowed out made a soldier faint directly. Before a soldier could scream, he was hit directly in the head by a stone, and his brain was mixed with broken bones and blood flowed all over the ground.

After about half an hour of firing from the catapults, the 3,000 soldiers and horses under Wang Ping's command also began to rush towards the city wall. The archers slowly advanced under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, and the skilled workers also got under the guards of the siege cone, pushing the heavy siege weapons, and slowly approached the city gate.

One by one, the Changge soldiers also quickly drilled into the siege ladder, and in a very safe environment, they pushed the siege ladder and rushed towards the city walls everywhere.

(Siege Cone: At the top is the * ramming wood, and below the ramming wood is a thick shield that the soldier can stand under and push the siege cone forward.) And not like in the TV series, just a huge hit wood and a few wheels. The real battering cone has a baffle. )

(Siege ladder: Well, it's like an open-roofed carriage underneath.) At the top of the siege ladder is a ladder with little protection. When advancing, the soldiers all drilled into the protected place with wooden planks, and after approaching the city wall, they quickly hung the vertical ladder directly on the city wall, and then the soldiers drilled out of the protected place and climbed up the city along the ladder. )

The archers stopped eighty paces away from the city wall, and under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, they kept throwing at the high city wall to support the siege robes. The arrival of siege cones and siege ladders made Ender's army even more difficult to defend.

The siege cone slammed into the city gate, making one loud noise after another, shaking the Ander army behind the gate to the point of bleeding from the nose and mouth. The siege ladder was also close to the city wall, and the ladder was put up on the city wall, and then the soldiers inside immediately rushed up.

When the catapult was fifty paces close to the wall, the catapult stopped attacking. The trebuchet might have smashed his own siege ladder, so Wang Ping directly ordered the catapult not to support.

Without the support of catapults, the siege soldiers were under pressure, although the archers insisted on helping. But the enemy army was already on the city wall, and all the rolling logs were thrown down, and a few could be killed by smashing them.

A sword and shield soldier, with a shield on his right hand, covering his body, and his left hand holding a ladder to climb up step by step, holding a ring-headed knife in his mouth. While the huge shield gave him good cover, it also obscured his vision. A huge stone smashed directly on the shield in his right hand, and on the spot, the arm snapped off with a click. The soldier let out a roar, holding the ladder in his left hand, and quickly climbed up to it.

It's a pity to lose an arm, to lose the cover of a shield. He had just rushed to the women's wall and was about to jump on it. was cut off by a soldier armed with a double-edged axe, directly from the waist. Blood gushed frantically from the breach, and the corpse, broken in two, fell under the city walls.

The soldier of Ender, who had just laughed at his achievement, was directly crossed over the female wall by a soldier of Donglin City who followed and cut his neck with a knife. The skull flew directly into the sky because of the huge force, and the blood sprayed red the body of the Donglin City soldier.

The valiant soldier then quickly cut down an enemy who was picking up a rock. Then, the tips of several spears instantly pierced into his body from behind. It was the bravery of these two soldiers that bought a little time for the troops behind.

With more than a dozen Donglin City soldiers behind the two of them, they took advantage of this short time to cut down the surrounding enemy troops and quickly seize a bridgehead. After that, more soldiers flocked to the gap.

At the other ladders, it is also agreed that there is a variety of heroism. A soldier who had been drenched in gold juice climbed the city wall, and jumped off the wall with an enemy soldier in his arms. After killing several enemies, a soldier was attacked by a large number of enemy soldiers, and was stabbed more than a dozen times in a row, and continued to fight until he died.

Compared with the tug-of-war at the North Gate, the West Gate is extremely easy.

Under the leadership of a famous historical general, the soldiers of Donglin City exerted 200 percent combat effectiveness. In this case, it also shows that in China, the quality of a general is always the decisive point for how much a soldier's combat effectiveness is exerted.

At the beginning of the siege, Luo Chengcheng directly chose to attack from the ladder with the soldiers. Under the leadership of the generals who are not afraid of death, a group of small soldiers are also fierce one by one. Since most of the soldiers in Donglin City were concentrated at the north gate, in the direction of the west gate, Ande could only draw more than a hundred soldiers to collect the city.

As a result, more than 100 people were not enough for Luo Cheng to kill himself. Luo Cheng killed more than seventy people alone, and the soldiers of Donglin City who followed him scolded Luo Cheng half to death in their hearts. You are a big general, and you are still fighting for people's heads with our group of small soldiers, is it a shame.

The battle at the West Gate ended quickly, and Donglin City took the West Gate without losing a single soldier. Subsequently, when Luo Cheng was about to go to the north gate to support, he encountered the support of the enemy's guards at the other two gates. As a result, there is no need to say that if a thousand troops can't destroy these 200 people, then they can collectively commit suicide by hitting tofu.

As a siege force, casualties are always distressing. It is said that the siege is tenfold, although their own soldiers have seized several city walls, but the losses are not small. After all, there are quite a lot of materials on the enemy's city walls, stones, sasswood, and gold juice are all a big killing weapon. Countless valiant soldiers became the ghosts of these defending weapons, countless stumps and broken arms piled up at the foot of the city walls, and dark red blood pooled along the uneven ground to form rivers of blood. However, for the sake of the future of Donglin City, he can only choose to sacrifice these brave and fearless soldiers.

Brothers, the king will not treat you warriors with peace of mind