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As the saying goes, if there are more than 10,000 people, there is no boundary, 100,000 ...... Oh, by the way, with less than 100,000 crusaders now in the city, there is no end in sight to the tents alone!

Lei Zihao, who was standing at the head of the city of Meghal, squinted at the crusader soldiers who began to gather in the distance, and his heart was extremely shocked!

It's just that in order to calm the morale of the army, Lei Zihao has always put on an indifferent expression, as if the endless enemies in front of him can't attract his attention at all......

Not to mention, this move is the effect of fixing the sea god needle for those Seris soldiers and civilians, and the officers and soldiers defending the city who were originally frightened by the endless crusader formation, when they saw their own governor's calm and calm demeanor, their mentality also became subtle!

Thinking of the glorious history of the invincibility of the Governor of his own country, the sense of oppression brought by the Crusaders from the strength of the army is gone!

In Lei Zihao's field of vision, in the distance, a series of trebuchets stood up in the ant-like crowd, and stones were piled aside, obviously, the crusaders were more prepared than Lei Zihao expected!

He didn't expect that after he came to this world, he didn't wait to feel the refreshment of a trebuchet smashing people, but he had to take a step forward to experience the grievances of being smashed......

"Sure enough, the army from the main world of mankind is fundamentally different from the Pylos, fighting with the backward Pyros all day long, fighting with the beasts like barbarians, I almost forgot that there is a trebuchet in the war, and there is a big killing weapon like the trebuchet......"

Lei Zihao laughed at himself in his heart.

In this battle, he was not only weak in terms of troops, but also became a crushed existence in terms of equipment......

Lei Zihao's deployment of troops to defend the city is not like in the 21st century Earth War TV series, where all the soldiers are hiding in the city and on the city wall, lying in the gap of the female wall and watching the army outside the city advance......

In the real battle of defending the city, as long as there are not many troops in the city, and even the city walls are not satisfied, the commander of the city defense with a little military common sense will not shrink all his troops in the city!

Not to mention a city that doesn't even have a moat!

In orthodox siege warfare, the defending side will place a large number of melee troops under the outer city walls, generally spearmen and shield spearmen, and these melee troops are completely shrouded in the effective range of long-range troops such as crossbowmen on their own walls!

These hand-to-hand combat units under the city walls will greatly increase the difficulty of the attacking side!

If you don't crush these defending troops under the city, the siege equipment such as the ladders of the besieging troops will not dare to rush up at all!

The problem arises when the besieging side attacks the defenders' troops under the city, the attacking side has to withstand the blows of various long-range weapons from the city walls all the time, and then fight desperately with the defenders under the city!

To put it bluntly, the defenders under the city do not need to advance at all, as long as they set up a phalanx, the front row is held with shields, and the spearmen in the back cooperate with the stabbing people to stabilize their own positions is victory!

The longer they hold out, the more damage the friendly crossbows from above the walls will do to the attacking side!

And if the crossbow troops on the attacking side want to shoot at the crossbow troops on the city wall, it is definitely a phenomenon that the defending generals like to see!

The rain of arrows is not a bullet, shooting condescendingly and shooting from below, whether it is accuracy or penetrating strength, it is not a level or two of difference!

This involves wind hydrodynamics, Newton's first, second, and third laws, etc., anyway, Lei Zihao doesn't know the specific principle, he only knows that the city wall shoots arrows down, as long as the difference in the number of crossbow troops on both sides is not too big, it is basically completely underneath!

This is still in the case that the defending side does not have large crossbow beds and other equipment, otherwise, the advantage is even greater!

Therefore, arranging hand-to-hand combat troops under the city walls is a choice that a city defender who is not in short supply will inevitably make!

The sheep and horse wall under the city wall is the dividing line between the hand-to-hand combat troops of the defenders under the city!

This will cause the attacker to lose a large amount of vital force when attacking the troops under the defender's city, which is basically equivalent to fighting in the area covered by the defender's firepower, and the casualties can be known without counting......

If the troops under the city on the defending side cannot resist it, the commander in chief of the city will order someone to open the city gate and send a small force to cover the retreat of the remnants of the city.

Because as long as the general of the attacking side is not brain-pumping, he will never let the army cover and enter the city gate in this situation!

There is no control of the hub area of the city gate, even if you enter the city gate, the commander of the defending side can also order the fall of the jack gate and other objects, the city gate is forcibly sealed, and when the time comes, the army that enters the city gate is really waiting for death to surrender......

This is why, in the siege phase, the besieging side either completely destroys the city gate, or directly opens a gap in the city wall, kills it to occupy the hub that controls the city gate, and then puts in a large army!

If you can't control the city gate hub, even if the defending side opens the city gate, the besieging side will not dare to enter it directly!

Of course, it is impossible for the defender to open the city gate for no reason, in that way, it will only add a big gap to its own city defense system, and it is necessary to mobilize a large number of troops to defend the open city gate, obviously, this behavior is very brainless......

However, in the battle to defend the city, there will occasionally be a brutal and unkind commander, when the troops under the city can't stop it, he won't open the city gate even if he dies, just watching the troops outside the city completely annihilated!

The premise of this is that the attacker's army is too strong, or the defender's troops are not sufficient, and the commander is not sure that after opening the city gate, he can ensure that the attacker's army can be eliminated......

Lei Zihao's subordinates guarding the city are that there are a large number of melee troops under the city, and the city is full of archers and elite Wei soldiers who use crossbows, and there are also a large number of temporarily recruited Cyris hunters and soldiers who can shoot arrows.

In this way, the number of archers on the wall of Megara can reach nearly 5,000!

For covering the land under the city, it is definitely qualified!

Lei Zihao's most proud arrangement is actually under the city wall, and the hand-to-hand combat troops under the periphery of the city are filled with a large number of Pyros slaves!

In order to make the hand-to-hand combat forces under the city as strong as possible, Lei Zihao used a very cold routine!