Under the city of Meggara, thousands of young and strong slaves of Pylos trembled and held large wooden shields, lined up in a tight phalanx, facing the slowly gathering crusaders. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Behind these Pylos slaves, there is the Cyris Revival Army with spears, and the Pylos slaves in front do not have any weapons in their hands, only rough wooden shields made improvised, except that they are large enough, the defense ability is not very good, however, it doesn't matter if the quality of the shield is low, these Pylos slaves holding wooden shields are human shields in the eyes of Lei Zihao!

The Seris spearmen in the back supervised the Pylos slaves while stabbing the approaching enemy with spears in the back!

In this way, the defenders of the city can save a lot of troops and use them to strengthen the defenses on the city walls!

After all, with the strength of the Crusaders, it was only a matter of time before the defenders under the city were crushed, and Lei Zihao just wanted to use this way to consume the strength of the Crusaders as much as possible.

The Cyres spearmen under the city were promised in public that after the death of the battle, their families and relatives could get a lot of food and coins as pensions, and if they could survive, they would have made a great contribution, and they could get admission to the intermediate 'relaxation camp' after the war!

The longer you hold on, the more tickets you get......

In later generations, it may be common to give pensions to the families and relatives of soldiers who died in battle, but in this world of backward productivity and frequent wars, pension is a rather lofty term, except for some wealthy kings and nobles who will promise pensions to their Janissaries and personal guards in wartime, whether they are mercenaries or standing soldiers, there is nothing left when they die......

At most, in some important battles, the commander will add some settling-in expenses, so that those assault troops who act as death squads can die with peace of mind!

In this backward civilized society, it is not the generous pension that urges the soldiers on the battlefield not to flee, but the harsh punishment of deserters!

Once the deserter is caught by his own boss, the lightest crime is to be reduced to a slave, and even some lords use various means to destroy the cowardly deserter in order to make an example of the monkey, so that their life is worse than death!

If the deserter has a family, it will be even more unlucky, one person escapes, and the whole family suffers, which is a common practice in the human society of this world......

In contrast to the orcs who fought on brute vale, the dwarves fought on fortifications, the night elves fought on racial glory, and the human armies relied on harsh punishments!

There are not many lords like Lei Zihao who are kind enough to give pensions to the front-line soldiers who died in battle......

This is also Lei Zihao's shortcoming, whether it is the population of Longhan City or the population of Seris, it is too scarce compared to the human main world, and the noble lords will not care about casually executing hundreds of deserters, but the population under Lei Zihao's command, how many hundreds of people are enough for him to kill chickens and monkeys?

As the war drums of the Crusaders sounded, the massive trebuchets set up were the first to attack!

In order to avoid the smashing of stones, there were only a few sentinels on the wall of Megara who observed the enemy's attack, and Lei Zihao's main force hid in a safe position behind the city wall!

Boulders fall, gravel flying, this ancient and effective way of attack, although the rhythm is a little slower, the accuracy is about equal to zero, but the shock to the human heart is still quite powerful, before the appearance of artillery, trebuchets can be said to be the most destructive siege equipment!

Lei Zihao squinted at the boulder falling, and after causing damage on the city wall, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the Megara city wall is quite powerful, according to such a smashing method and hit rate, let the crusaders throw stones for a month, and they can't smash the Megala city wall out of the gap!

After all, the crusaders used crude trebuchets made of local materials in the Greek peninsula, and their load-bearing capacity and hits were far less effective than hardcover torsion trebuchets!

The Crusader commanders did not expect trebuchets alone to break down the walls of the Seris, and their role was mainly to demoralize the soldiers defending the city.

When a boulder falls and smashes the body into a splash of 'red sauce', it's still quite scary!

Even the bravest warriors don't want to choose that way to die......

It's like saying that many people can accept their own death, but they can't accept that they will be eaten and die......

Death, in fact, is also divided into many realms!

Faced with the fall of such a boulder, which was irresistible to manpower, the soldiers seemed to have no choice but to comfort themselves with prayers......

Therefore, in ancient siege warfare, trebuchets were the most effective way to hit the enemy's morale, which is also the reason why trebuchets with an incomparable hit rate and only smashed gravel when they hit a city wall were so popular in ancient wars!

Due to the crusaders coming across the sea, it was difficult to transport the packed siege equipment, so they could only let the craftsmen rush on the spot, for the sake of time, the crusaders only made some rough trebuchets and a large number of siege ladders, and the crusaders with sufficient cannon fodder directly chose the way of ant-attached siege!

However, Alibach must first clear the phalanx of infantry shields under the city of Megala!

At this moment when the siege began, the authority of the Church was vividly demonstrated in the Crusaders!

The aristocratic army, which originally had big and small contradictions with each other, gathered together regardless of the previous suspicions under the strict warning of the church deacon, and launched a charge with all kinds of weapons!

The reason why there are all kinds of weapons is mainly because the first wave of charges were all temporary conscripts, cannon fodder such as peasant conscripts!

Obviously, before storming the walls of Megala, Alibach did not intend to use real main forces!

The crusader cannon fodder, armed with spears, sticks, dung forks and other strange weapons, with numb eyes, rushed into the effective range of the rain of arrows at the head of the city of Megala, driven by the leader!

When the Crusader cannon fodder charged, the sentries on the walls of Megara launched a warning to the rear, and groups of neat troops came to the walls according to their functions, and at this time, the crusaders' trebuchets did not stop firing!

The soldiers who climbed to the top of the city had to fight under the pressure of a boulder that could fall on their heads at any moment!

It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no impact on combat effectiveness!

"Shoot !!"

As the officers in various locations shouted angrily, a black wave suddenly rose from the walls of Megara, and after cutting a graceful parabolic arc, it fell on the heads of the Crusader cannon fodder running forward!

Suddenly, in the cluster of crusader cannon fodder, there were screams, and the fairly neat charging formation was also disrupted in an instant!

This is the cruelty of siege warfare, and the reason why the ancient army did everything possible to avoid storming the city, and this round of arrows rained down, and the crusader cannon fodder fell at least a thousand!