After all, it is the regular army of the Duchy of Luzon, although the nobility of the Duchy from top to bottom has been decayed, but these native soldiers who have received the morale bonus of the mourning soldiers still burst out with quite good combat power. Romance first ↑,

With their objectives clear, their cousin was much better than the vague defeat in the last night raid.

A large number of soldiers, holding wooden shields covered with cowhides, endured the fear of the ever-losing friendly troops, and stepped on the ladder to the top of the small city. Until this moment, the soldiers of the Duchy of Luzon were remarkable. But when they really collided with the soldiers defending the city, these natives with desperate beliefs felt the strength and true despair of the enemy.

What appeared in front of them was rows of elite hoplites dressed in iron armor!

The entire Third Heavy Infantry Division has experienced the baptism of the Second Tiannan War, and has repeatedly fought with the Omani army at the Nanfeng Fortress. After that, the unit, which had a short history, completed a transformation. Specifically in the soldiers, there is a cold and tenacious temperament on their bodies.

It's like an unshakable mountain, stopping in front of them!

"Kill them!"

Although they were a little shaken and frightened, the soldiers of the Principality of Luzon still had the courage to swing their swords and go up, inspired by their bloody bravery.

However, defending the city with heavy infantry is too much of a luxury for the current level of combat. The soldiers of the Principality of Luzon, with the exception of a few highly skilled officers, or with particularly good luck, were hardly able to penetrate the iron armor of the heavy infantry and inflict fatal damage. The heavy infantry of the Songjiang Army was different, taking advantage of the small area of coordination and the iron armor on their bodies. The tactics are wide open and closed. Courage carries an irresistible force.

A soldier of the Principality of Luzon who dared to fight the heavy infantry head-on. Most of them were cut down after a few simple faces. In a panic, some of the native soldiers who had just rushed to the city were forced to retreat again and again, and fell directly from the not high city wall. Although this height is generally not dead, it is rare to break a leg if you are unlucky.

The Luzon people's tidal wave of attacks seemed to hit the reef and was solidly stopped.

Except for a little wave and splash, it hardly caused any impact!

"It's an ironclad soldier!"

This is the name given to the heavy infantry by the Duchy of Luzon, which at this moment is shouted from the mouth of the commander of the Northern Army, Agno. Immediately, the faces of the surrounding soldiers turned pale.

Everyone knows the power of the ironclad soldiers, even in the royal capital of Manila, only a few have been trained. No one expected that the enemy would have so many ironclad soldiers. What's worse is that the other party is in a favorable position to defend the city. If it is changed to field combat, using the terrain or avoiding the real and other strategies, there may be a way to limit the heavy infantry. But this extremely unfavorable terrain made it impossible for the Northern Army to come up with any good solutions.

With limited food and grass, in addition to surrendering or waiting for death, they have only one way to keep attacking and use their numbers to meet the enemy's ironclad soldiers.

But. How hard is it......

Watching the soldiers under his command and the Medan Legion continue to fall, warm blood flowed down Tucheng. Staining the ground red, Agno couldn't help but close his eyes in pain.

On the first day of the all-out onslaught, the army of the Duchy of Luzon suffered more than a thousand casualties!

Beneath the earthen castle of the Matsue army, the smell of blood was so strong that it made people vomit, and there were corpses everywhere, and occasionally there were painful moans from seriously injured and undead wounds, but no one paid any attention to them.

The public ** team collectively changed color.

Everyone knows that today is the first day when the morale of the soldiers is at its highest. Such a wave of onslaught could not shake the enemy's defensive line, and they were not even able to take a real foothold on the earth city from beginning to end, which meant that their subsequent battles would only be more tragic and embarrassing!

"We must change our goals, and if we continue this way, the principality will definitely lose."

Agno pressed the arm of the chair with his right hand, his face gloomy as ink. In today's daytime attack, in order to invest enough troops, they did not choose to use the city gate as a breakthrough, but launched a full-line attack on the walls of Tucheng. But the results of the past day have proved that this strategy is not effective.

Since it doesn't work, you can only try to change the way.

Although the small city of the Matsue Army has been repeatedly reinforced, it is still essentially a temporary camp built with civil engineering, only more solid. As far as the wooden gates are concerned, the sturdy Cheng dù is not much better than the gates of ordinary county towns. If you can break through the gate and rush in, you may be able to achieve a surprising effect.

Not every officer agreed with Agno's suggestion, after all, the Songjiang army could use the heavy infantry to defend the city, and naturally it could also be transferred behind the city gate to block the gate. In fact, the heavy infantry lined up to defend the city gate can only play a higher and stronger role than it can be used to defend the city!

However, they couldn't come up with a better way for a while, and they knew that continuing the siege during the day was just looking for death, so they could only choose to accept Agno's orders.

After re-arranging a double vigil, the troops of the Principality of Luzon, who had survived the second difficult night, continued to maintain the offensive while rushing to build siege engines.

The siege vehicle is a kind of equipment, which can be complicated if you want to be complicated, but the basic principles are roughly the same. On top of a large wooden cart, a heavy log is lifted from a shelf, and it is pushed to sway from side to side, relying on the huge force of inertia to hit the city gate. As for the more advanced improvements, it is nothing more than working on the sturdiness of the hull, protection against fire attacks and rain of arrows.

At the moment, the Luzon people don't have that much time, and they don't have such advanced technical reserves. In a hurry, the most ordinary siege vehicle was built, and under the cover of the shield-wielding soldiers, it was pushed hard to lean towards the gate of the Songjiang army.

"Smash it!"

Although He Shixiang was not worried about the destruction of the city gate, he did not want to let the Luzon people succeed in such a vain, so he concentrated his long-range forces to focus on attacking these two parallel siege vehicles.

More than 100 foot archers were mobilized, and two small trebuchets were angled in an attempt to destroy the Luzon hopes before the siege engines reached the corner.

The sudden rain of arrows, as well as the more powerful three-bow bed crossbow, brought terrible casualties. Even if the Luzonians had done everything in their power to protect the siege engines and soldiers. Still at a staggering price. Every few steps. There will be soldiers who have been shot and wounded and shot to fall. On a simple wooden shed above a siege engine. There are also large clusters of arrows densely inserted. However, these feathered arrows do not have a decent destructive effect on siege vehicles, and although they look scary, they are only visually affected.

With the Luzon people coming forward to fill in the position, the siege engines were rapidly approaching the city gates.

At this time, two small adjusted stone throwers finally fired.

More than eighty pounds of stones flew out and landed ten paces behind the two siege engines, smashing a deep pit in the soft ground. The two Luzon soldiers who were left behind were taken aback. While his face was pale, he couldn't help but be a little glad for his good luck.

However, not every time they can be so lucky.

When the two stone throwers were fired again, one of the stones slammed into the siege vehicle on the left, immediately breaking the wooden chassis and stopping the bulky siege vehicle.

This once made the hearts of the Luzon officers who were observing from the rear prickly prickly.

However, as the stone thrower continued to advance, it finally entered the dead end of the stone thrower's attack. Although the Songjiang army reacted quickly and began to throw fire objects such as fire oil bottles in an attempt to burn the remaining stone thrower, the Luzon people covered the wooden shed with a layer of water-soaked felt in advance. Effectively solved the threat of fire attack.

After paying a lot of casualties, the siege caravans reached under the city gates. Beat the gates with the sound of a trumpet.

Every time, dirt fell from the top of the earthen city, and the city gate was even more crumbling!

This gave the Luzon people hope, and they mobilized their troops while stepping up their drums to help. As soon as the gates are opened, they immediately rush into the earthen city through the gap.

The heavy impact rang out thirteen times in a row.

Finally, amid the excited cheers of the Luzon soldiers, the gates of the city collapsed, revealing the passage into the city.

"Kill!"

Seeing the hope of defeating the enemy, a large number of Luzon soldiers rushed forward with shouts. Agno even began to deploy a second batch of reinforcements, and once these soldiers made a breakthrough, they concentrated all their forces in an attempt to crush the enemy forces on the island in one blow.

However, the closer they got to the city gates, the more uneasy the native soldiers in Luzon felt.

The ground seemed to shake slightly, but it wasn't the sound of their footsteps. Behind the flying dust raised in front of you, there seems to be the neighing of horses?

Thirty paces away!

The Luzon soldiers in the front row involuntarily slowed down. At this moment, the first tall horse and a rider in armor and a sword leaped out of the dust raised by the fall of the city gate, and rushed towards him with a cold murderous intent. After him, there was the second, the third...... Hundreds of cavalry!

The Luzon people had thought of rushing into the city gate and encountering the ironclad soldiers blocking the gate, but they did not expect that when they were closest to the goal, they were suddenly met with a wave of cavalry swarms to counterattack!

In a panic, the Luzon soldiers in the first row subconsciously chose to avoid it, and even fled to both sides.

This undoubtedly gave the Songjiang cavalry a clear signal.

The human legs could not outrun the horses no matter what, and the horsemen under the crotch rushed into their ranks like the wind, or knocked away the hapless infantry, or left blood marks on their bodies with their sabers when they staggered, and lightly harvested a life!

Caught off guard, the soldiers who stormed the city gate suffered a great defeat.

The Songjiang cavalry did not give up, and chased all the way until it was only a hundred paces away from the Luzon camp, and then turned the horse's head and withdrew to the city. Although it was not long, this well-timed counter-charge killed and wounded nearly 200 Luzon soldiers, and defused their wave of attacks that they were determined to succeed!

After the first blow, the cavalry retracted as soon as they saw it, and did not circle too much in the not too wide battlefield, but quickly retreated into the city. Except for the large horseshoe prints on the ground and the dead and wounded Luzon soldiers, it was as if the cavalry had never appeared.

However, the enormous pressure they inflicted on the Luzon people was deeply endeavoured.

Despite his ugly face, Agno had no choice but to order to continue the attack. Although the Songjiang cavalry, which made their debut next, did not appear again, their survival was like a sword of Damocles hanging on their heads at all times, so that the Luzon people never dared to devote all their energy to the siege, but left a note.

This undoubtedly weakened the Luzon offensive force, and also made it easier for the heavy infantry of the Matsue Army, which appeared later.

As the Luzon had predicted, the Songjiang army made corresponding adjustments and had the heavy infantry line up to block the gate. In the case that only the front needs to be defended, the heavy infantry array is simply an iron wall, so that the Luzon soldiers who rush forward and charge will hit their heads and break the blood, which will only be more tragic than yesterday's siege!

The four divisions of the right battalion of the Northern Army and the three divisions of the Medan Regiment's Central Army took turns to attack, only to leave behind only hundreds of corpses and a large number of wounded soldiers.

If it weren't for the fact that this is an isolated island occupied by the enemy, there are no reinforcements outside, and there is not much food and grass inside, I am afraid that morale would have fallen to the bottom. Rao was barely able to maintain the morale of the mourning soldiers, and after two days of heavy casualties, the offensive was always frustrated and there was no hope, and the troops of the Duchy of Luzon were still shaken.

"Withdraw!"

Seeing that it was getting late, Agno reluctantly gave an order.

A soldier who was attacking in vain couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he received Mingjin's order. After barely breaking away from the engagement with the Matsue army, they scrambled to retreat.

Here, again, the Luzon made a big mistake.

After the cavalry of the Matsue Army appeared once during the day, they never showed up again. At the end of the day, the frightened Luzon people were somewhat paralyzed. At the same time, due to the issuance of the retreat order, the soldiers who had already been knocked out did not cover each other's retreat, but retreated back in a swarm, and the formation was a lot chaotic!

Aware of this dangerous place, Agno immediately ordered his men to shout and try to regroup, but it was too late.

Behind the gates of Tucheng, an array of heavy infantry of the Luzons, which had not been able to break through during the day, split into two divisions from the middle, and each retreated towards the side of the road, revealing a road sufficient for cavalry to pass through Guò. Then, the cavalry, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, rushed out and launched a pursuit with the retreating Luzonians!

"Not good!"

Hearing the sound of deadly horses' hooves again, the Luzon soldiers who looked back couldn't help but feel dying. Thinking of the tragic situation of their comrades during the day, the retreating Luzon soldiers not only did not stop the whole team and defend on the spot, but threw away their armor and fled faster.

As long as you can catch up with the enemy's cavalry and escape into the camp for a hundred steps, you will basically be safe!

This general scene of rout and escape made the pursuit of the Songjiang cavalry achieve unimaginable results. A large number of Luzon soldiers who were left behind were rammed and trampled by the war horses, and they were crippled if they did not die, and the sharp sword skills and superb riding skills of the riders became the king of Hades. Except for the dozens of soldiers who fled the fastest, they withdrew to the camp to protect the area, and none of the remaining hundreds of soldiers were spared.

A whole part of the soldiers, in the process of retreating, was so lightly crushed by the cavalry, almost completely wiped out!

Seeing the whole process with his own eyes, the faces of the officers and men of the Luzon Army turned green.

This time, the Songjiang cavalry did not withdraw as quickly as they did during the day, but ran back and forth outside the Luzon camp, firing a few rounds of arrows from time to time to intimidate the Luzon soldiers, until it was dark and they withdrew triumphantly. The Luzon army, with tens of thousands of people, did not dare to go out of the camp in the face of hundreds of cavalry!

The depressed atmosphere and the discouragement of the soldiers enveloped the entire Luzon barracks. (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you Zheng Zhe for your big reward!