Trebuchets were a bit more complicated to build, so the Crusaders could only make a few crude pieces in a hurry, but the ladder was relatively simple, and with the help of a large number of Pylos coolies provided by Agamemnon and the efforts of the Crusaders' cannon fodder conscripts, Alibach prepared hundreds of simple ladders!

It's a real ladder, the kind with a chassis, not a wooden shelf in a TV series!

That kind of wooden shelf, 100,000 troops want to do as much as they want!

However, the simple ladder made by the Crusaders is still a little different from the ladder car under Lei Zihao's command, not because of the wheels, but because the Crusaders' ladders have no folding device, and after the city is overturned, it is necessary to rely on manpower to pull it up little by little and drive it to the city wall!

Although as long as this ladder is erected, it is basically impossible to be destroyed except for lighting it with fire, but the process of erecting the ladder will have to face the rain of arrows on the city wall for a long time, and there will be more people killed by the siege troops below!

To keep the ladder from being wiped out by a large number of casualties, the siege force had to prepare enough men to be exposed to the naked rain of arrows!

That's why the crusaders, who had plenty of cannon fodder, could use this kind of simple ladder in large quantities in such luxury......

In order to give full play to the effectiveness of the ladder as much as possible, Alibach did not launch a general attack on the same day, but let some cannon fodder bulldoze the sheep and horse wall under the city wall, otherwise it would be difficult for the ladder to be transported......

In a real siege battle, even if it is a city on the plain, the defender climbs the city wall in order to block the ladders and other equipment of the siege troops as much as possible, even if there is no moat, it will dig high slopes and ravines similar to sheep and horse walls under the city, like the scene in the TV series rushing to the city, which is rare in reality......

However, these are minor problems for the siege troops, which are nothing more than consuming some cannon fodder lives to turn the high slope into a relatively flat slope with earth and stones, etc., which is much simpler than filling in the moat!

Under the rain of arrows in the city of Megala, the crusaders paid thousands of cannon fodder lives to finally clear all the obstacles under the city!

This is the siege of ancient times, and before it even began, the Crusaders suffered nearly 20,000 casualties......

Of course, the crusaders' casualties are so huge, and it has something to do with the outdated of their siege equipment, if it is the human main world itself, what shield cars, building cars, torsion trebuchets and other equipment are in battle, with the city defense of Megala, whether the long-range firepower can suppress the besieging side is a problem......

If there is no equipment, it can only be filled with human life, but fortunately, the human reproduction is good, and the church can afford to die!

Early the next morning, when the sun had just risen, the crusader camp, which had rested for the night, was revived, and the crusader camp was set up in a flat area with sentry posts everywhere. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the elite of the crusaders only occupy a minority, after all, they are all drawn from the noble territories of the civil war, whether it is the knight nobles who lead the troops or the deacons of the church, they are always vigilant, in this war-torn world, there are too many people with experience in leading troops, and it is difficult for surprise attacks or anything to work!

The crusader siege formation was relatively conventional, and in front of them were temporary levies with large shields, and these temporary levies were far inferior to the mercenaries who fought professionally and the standing armies that were often trained by noble lords, let alone the knights!

However, Lei Zihao felt that these temporary conscripts could be completely crushed compared to the Pilos slaves!

These simple and ignorant serfs, under the persecution of their families and the supervising team behind, the probability of rout and escape can still be effectively reduced, provided that the elite as the main force is not defeated!

If in the field, these temporary conscripts can easily become a breakthrough in the whole army's array, as long as a team of elite cavalry breaks into the temporary conscription queue, it can cause a chain collapse, and even shake the entire army formation!

Therefore, in the eyes of the noble lords, these temporary conscripts are used to do chores and serve the knights and regular armies on weekdays, and only when attacking the city, will a large number of temporary conscripts be needed to go to the battlefield!

Because the defenders of the city can't fight back with the whole army, even if they barely break these cannon fodder with a few elites, it won't cause a chain collapse reaction!

The sound of the drums of war sounded again, and tens of thousands of crusader cannon fodder holding large shields and pushing ladders rushed towards the city of Megara like ants!

From Lei Zihao down to an ordinary miscellaneous Pilos slave, when he saw the endless siege troops, he felt a sense of depression in his heart!

The faint man was already trembling just by seeing this formation!

Although the main body of these tens of thousands of siege troops is cannon fodder similar to levies, there are still a large number of archers and crossbowmen who have infiltrated it in the middle part, and they talk about mixing in the crowd to fight back at the defenders who show up on the city wall to shoot arrows!

When the Crusader cannon fodder forward, holding a large shield and pushing a ladder, came within range of the defenders' bows and arrows, thousands of arrows rained down from the sky at once!

The crusader cannon fodder was beaten by the officers and the overseers, gritted their teeth, walked in the rain of arrows, and after the cannon fodder pushing the ladder fell, the levy cannon fodder with no weapon was substituted for it, and continued to maintain maximum thrust!

The siege troops under the city of Megara stepped on the corpses of their own people along the way, and finally approached the real city walls!

By this time, the Crusader crossbowmen in the center had already entered the effective range, raised their faces, stopped to bend their bows and arrows, and fired back at the defending archers who were shooting happily at the walls!

Lei Zihao's men and horses began to suffer casualties, and archers who kept screaming fell on the city wall, or simply fell from the city after being hit by arrows, turning into meat pies......

Bell, bell, bell......

A series of ladder crashes sounded, and even though the base of the ladder was covered with corpses, those cheap levies still completed their task without hesitation!

The conscripts who couldn't help picked up the shields of their dead comrades in front of them and put them on top of their heads, they didn't dare to retreat as deserters, because they knew very well that there was still a chance of life here, and if they fled back, they would be 100% killed!

These conscripts, who have no human rights, suffer and cultivate the fields on weekdays, support the noble lords who are not engaged in labor, and serve as cannon fodder under the threat of swords in wartime!

This is where the name of the dark calendar comes from, in this era, if you don't step on someone else's head, you will lose everything, and even your life will be fully squeezed out of every value by the upper classes!