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"It's like catching a turtle in an urn."

At the top of the hill, a faint taunt had already appeared on the corner of Levi's mouth, and after a brief discussion with Green and Wilmot behind him, the order to deal with the attack of the Grey Mist City troops was conveyed.

The town militia that acted as heralds ran quickly, and almost all the troops in Cape Town began to gather towards the southern city wall, except for a small number of town militia stationed at the city gate, the others had also come to the buildings behind the city wall, eager to support the city wall at any time.

At present, the number of soldiers in Haijiao Town is 1,200 town militiamen, all of whom are waiting with flintlock pistols, and for them, a difficult battle for the defense of the city is nothing too tragic.

Because they all know that what is really tragic is the group of Gray Mist City infantry who are still screaming and shouting, rushing up like a tide, wanting to get close to the edge of the city wall and climb the city wall at the same time, they really have to meet a large number of casualties, and even a miserable end that is not much better than death!

The trap trench more than half a meter deep and more than two meters wide had already blocked the attack of a large number of heavy infantry in Gray Mist City, and most of them looked at the four-meter-high city wall a few meters in front of them.

But in the trench more than two meters wide, there were already dozens of people wailing in it, a large amount of blood began to permeate, and the sharp spikes with those unlucky ghosts fell down the moment, so that most people's bodies were greatly injured, even if they could not die for a while, in the case of a large amount of blood, it was not far from death.

The rash move to launch a direct general attack was obviously met head-on at this time, especially when the heavy infantry was still crowding how to get through the spiked trench, and the town militia on the city wall had already appeared!

In the interval between the large trebuchets and the long-range attacks of the archers, the town militia, hiding behind the breastwork, with a log roof on top of their heads, had all appeared in the firing positions, and the standard flintlock pistols supervised by the Spanish Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau were already pressed against their shoulders. 【】

The muzzle of the black hole hole was aimed at the heavy infantry of the Gray Mist City below who were still at a loss for what to do, and the dense crowd did not even require additional aiming, and the crowd under the muzzle was already densely packed.

And then with that high-pitched shout, pull the trigger heavily!

It was still the flash of firelight, the crisp sound, and the thick smoke began to envelop the top of the city wall, but the bottom was still staring blankly, looking at the heavy infantry of the Gray Mist City on the city wall, but it fell in an instant!

Even if there was a sword and shield infantryman raised the shield in his hand, the shield made of thick wooden planks and leather at the same time could not stop the thumb-sized lead bullet, and with the hole that appeared through the wooden shield, the blood on the body wrapped in the chain mail inside was already oozing out.

Close-range shooting has reached the peak of the power of flintlock pistols, not to mention a wooden shield, even an iron shield covered with iron can easily penetrate!

As for the heavy infantry of Gray Mist City, who were still in retreat one by one and could not disperse under the crowd of many companions, they were even pushed and pushed by the crowd and fell into the trap pit in front of them.

The trap pits more than half a meter high were filled by the burly people, and in the roar of the overseers composed of various minor nobles, more than a dozen large trebuchets and archers also began to pour their firepower, so that the town militiamen on the city wall who had just finished shooting were once again hiding in the protection of the breastwork and the roof.

The distance of 150 meters is the effective shooting distance of ancient archers, especially in large-scale legion battles, and this distance also means that archers can form a rain of arrows from above, and will not lose the power of the arrows due to the distance.

But their rain of arrows was extremely ineffective, and even a few waves of rapid fire regardless of the strained arm only made the city wall densely packed with feathered arrows, and as for the town militia hiding behind the breastwork, there were no major casualties at all, only a dozen unlucky ghosts were sent down the city wall in time to be treated.

As for what the town militia is most worried about at present, it is the stone bullets that have been smashed down in the air.

Pumpkin-sized round stones smashed heavily on the city wall, although the accuracy was not good, but the projectile of more than a dozen large trebuchets still caused the death of more than 30 town militiamen, even if there was a log roof on the head, a stone bullet smashed down, but also completely destroyed and easily crushed the militia below, there was no time to react!

The large trebuchets of the Cold Weapon Age also had their own power, especially the dozen or so trebuchets threw catapults together and smashed heavily on the city wall, and as the large area of stones wrapped around the outside collapsed, even the soil layer inside began to collapse a little.

However, it is limited to this, the primary fortifications of modern times are still stable, and the town militia above them are still safe with their heads behind the breastwork, because the walls under them are more than an order of magnitude stronger than the traditional high and narrow walls of the Middle Ages in terms of resisting this siege weapon.

Because this rudimentary fortification was originally built to resist large-caliber artillery fire, although the large pieces of stones on the outside collapsed, it looked miserable, but the soil layer inside, as the main body, was still intact!

In addition to the slight vibration and a slight collapse on the surface, the smashed area became more and more dense because of the wall more than five meters thick, and even the dozen or so large trebuchets continued to bombard, and they were still standing intact.

Even the infantrymen who operated the large trebuchets thought it was a little incredible, because in their experience, how could a wall that was only four meters high withstand their bombardment for so long?

And in the continuous bombardment of the large trebuchet, there are still town militiamen armed with flintlock pistols on the city wall, popping up from time to time, and several volleys even caused more and more casualties among the heavy infantry below, and even in the trap pit of the south city wall, corpses have been thrown to fill the half-meter-deep pit!

But the town militia on the city walls seemed to know nothing, and still opened fire at a rapid rate as the archers rained down on arrows, taking the lives of dozens of heavy infantry with each volley of guns.

This cunning tactic made the group of heavy infantry below who were becoming more and more irritable and angry unbearable, and when the pit was completely filled and they had enough space to touch the city wall, they also raised their shields and long swords, howling and rushing towards the bottom of the city wall, and they wanted to climb towards the city wall in twos and threes!

They could climb the four-meter-high city wall together, but among the dozen or so large trebuchets, seven or eight ladders were also carried by a dozen burly infantrymen.

The low walls don't require sophisticated siege weapons, even if they are tied with trebuchet-backed timber and ropes, they can form a simple ladder for the massive heavy infantry to rush up the walls and use their superb hand-to-hand combat skills and heavy armor to fight their way through the walls!

But this is also their whimsical move, and with traditional thinking, they still use backward concepts of war to figure out the ridiculous actions of Cape Town.

The order had been given on Cape Hill, and on the left and right sides of the primary fortifications, the artillery that had been prepared in the wooden huts had been slowly pushed out, which were four 24-pounder light cannons that had already been prepared, and scattered bullets stuffed in the chambers full of large iron balls!

"Boom-" "Boom-" "Boom-" "Boom-"

Almost uniformly shelled, four dazzling fireworks instantly appeared in the black barrel, a large amount of gunpowder smoke filled, and countless silver lights also pierced out the fireworks and gunsmoke, overwhelmingly roaring towards the city wall.

It was a scatter bomb composed of countless iron balls, a complete barrage of steel, and even in the dense crowd of heavy infantry who had just climbed up by the ladder on the city wall, a metal storm of life and death was set off, sweeping the incredulous gaze and harvesting the fragile flesh!

Even the ladder made of wood was broken and broken, the sturdy chain mail was in tatters, and the original burly body was all in a blur of flesh and blood under the city wall, which was unbearable to see.

The area swept by the metal storm was like four clearings smashed by giants' hands, and there were not half living people in them, even the miserable infantry covered in blood staggered to their feet, but because of the severe injuries, they also fell heavily to the ground again.

Shotshots, which are the natural enemies of infantry, and even the lethality of artillery shots to infantry is the strongest ever!

By the time the dozen or so large trebuchets reacted and wanted to re-fire the stone shells, the smaller guns on the city wall had already appeared, and with the crisp sound of the cannons, they were also bombarded almost not far from the heavy infantry.

It's a 7-pounder city defense gun!

About 32 7-pounder guns had been deployed to the southern wall of the city in the primary fortifications, and almost with the bombardment, the archers, who had already been exhausted by the high-intensity shooting in a short period of time, were actually defeated, and did not kill a dozen people, but began to flee to the back.

They were simply frightened by the blood-drenched appearance in front of them, because the regular army of Gray Mist City, the more than 1,500 heavily armed heavy infantry, was now almost under the city wall, and more than half of them had lost!

They were defeated, even those heavy infantry under the city walls, reacted, and began to flee in large numbers, even the low-level nobles served as the overseers, they had already joined the rout sequence, they were no longer the regular army confident in attacking Cape Town, but a group of defeated remnants who had lost everything and did not dare to continue to fight against them!

(To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.