176 Verdun Meat Grinder(2)

The tentative assault of the Giants did not stop with the arrival of De Sick's army, and General Alvin commanded five vanguard regiments to camp in front of the line on the west side of Lens Peak, and several vanguard regiments began to take turns to launch tentative attacks on the western line. And farther away, the newly arrived Desik soldiers, camped in the rear, ready for the next battle.

The front line of the Shang Alliance's defense on Mount Lens was a wall made of trees, about two people high, and each row of walls was made of about three layers of trees, and the front was covered with a large number of iron sheets, making the wall extremely smooth and not ignited by fire. In the upper part of the rampart, every one degree of gram, an opening was set aside, about half a man's width, for the bow and crossbow to poke out, and also for the spear to stretch out. But this is not a city after all, and the height of the wall is not high enough to easily stop the Desik soldiers from attacking it.

The Giants undertook the task of the first wave of the main attack, and under the protection of the tower shield, they did not suffer much loss, and at the same time, they also saw the presence of two rows of archers and a large number of spearmen arranged by the Shang Alliance behind this defensive line. Due to the relatively high walls that can protect their bodies, the soldiers of the Shang Alliance will not be easily attacked by the Desik Black Iron Crossbow.

Behind the wall, there are communication trenches connecting the western position and the main position, and in the event of a dangerous situation in the defense line here, the army of the main peak can quickly reinforce here. And if the problem is the main peak, the soldiers in the positions on both sides can also be quickly recovered. More advantageously, the western position is the slowest part of the main peak of the entire Lens Mountain, with an average angle of only about 30 degrees. The trees on the hill have been cut down, and the view in front of the position is quite open.

"General Alvin, what should I do here?" asked the battalion general Alvin, who was dressed in military uniform. Desik's generals still wear their leather jackets and uniforms in wartime, but in important parts such as the chest, black iron or steel armor will be installed, so the Alvin battalion general's uniform is bulging and extremely large.

"There's no need to worry, our task is to suppress the Shangmeng people here in the defensive line, and General Florian will have follow-up arrangements. As if in response to Alvin's battalion general's words, before the words fell, a rapid and high-pitched horn sound came from the camp in the distance, and Alvin and his Hu paused from their ears, "Attack the whole line until sunset?"

"The general is in such a hurry?" the Alvin battalion general muttered, "Send an order to Ludgar, so that his giant regiment should not rest and attack directly." ”

The sound of the horn was transmitted from the Desik camp in the distance to the front line, and the entire main peak of Lens Mountain was heard by both the Desik and the merchants. ”

"Raise your shield, raise your shield, everyone, take up arms and prepare to attack. Ludger, the tall leader of the Giant Regiment, took the iron helmet handed over by his subordinates and put it on. He was the forward commander, and for safety, he changed into a black iron armor and held a Desik saber in his hand. This saber is the same forging process used for the famous Desik scimitar, which is extremely sharp but quite light, but it is different from the delicate curve of the Desik scimitar, which is a straight knife. The other officers of the Giants, many of whom were armed with hammers and axes, were armed with steel swords and small round shields.

At the front row are the Tower Shieldmen, who will once again take on the responsibility of covering the stormtroopers. And at the end of the line, there was a platoon of Desik archers. When charging, it was difficult for the Shang Alliance people hiding behind the wall to be injured by the black iron crossbow, so the entire archery unit was equipped with a longbow, and the feathered arrows they threw could attack the defenders from above, providing cover for the attackers.

In addition to the tower shield bearers in the front row lined up neatly, the follow-up Desik soldiers did not line up, but gathered or scattered under the leadership of their respective captains, forming a small group, which is the unique charging method of the Desik people. Their strong force ensures that each squad member has a strong fighting force, and the scattered squad ensures that they will not be shot down by bows and arrows in batches.

"Forward!" "Forward!" Ludgar's trumpet sounded the horn of the Giants, a very rapid "woo-woo", a succession of short notes that told everyone in Lens Hill that the attack had begun.

The charge began at a distance of no more than 300 grams from the defensive line, which was the limit of the shooting of the Shang Alliance archers. A platoon of tower shields advanced first, and the tower shields more than one person high formed a black line of attack, slightly raised above their heads to form an inclined plane to intercept the shot of bows and arrows. The neat pace of "popping" kicked up a large cloud of dust on the ground.

"Steady, steady, listen to my orders!" On the side of the Shang Alliance, the commander of the mercenary army looked nervously at the Desik people below behind the defensive line, the angle of the gentle slope provided a good view, from here, you can still vaguely see the last part of the Desik charging soldiers, it is a row of archers, but the main force of the charge is tightly blocked by the tower shield, and it is not real.

The tower shield hand walked very fast, the distance of fifty grams was fleeting, and it had already entered the shooting range of the Shang Alliance archers, and with the order of the head of the Shang Alliance, "Shoot, shoot!" Rows of feathered arrows flew down the mountain.

"Bang bang bang!" came a series of muffled sounds, it was the sound of arrows hitting the black iron shield and the arrow touching the shield surface, this level of attack did not affect the progress of the Desiktar shieldmen at all, sometimes they only paused slightly, and then continued to move forward. Behind the tower shield that the merchants could not see, a large group of Desik soldiers, holding weapons, half-crouched on the ground, closely following behind the tower shield hand, some soldiers were equipped with small round shields in their hands, and they held the small round shields above their heads to prevent missing feather arrows. Soldiers who did not have round shields raised their weapons above their heads and waited for them.

Seeing that the bow and arrow attack had no effect, the regimental commander shouted towards the defensive line, "Divine crossbow attack!" There were about a hundred divine crossbows transferred from Manning, White Harbor and Carlin, and sixty were left in the main peak array of Lens, and in the western position, there were a total of eight divine crossbows. With the regimental commander's loud command, after the mechanical winding sound of "crunch, crunch", eight thick crossbow arrows, through the firing holes of the rampart, flew towards Desik like a streamer.

"Boom" a few loud sounds, the power of the crossbow is really extraordinary, the tower shield that was attacked head-on couldn't hold it at once, and was hit to the ground by the crossbow arrow, the strong man with the shield fell down, the giant shield pressed under him, and he couldn't get up in an instant. Several shrewd Shang Alliance defenders immediately aimed their bows and arrows at the gaps that appeared in the tower shield array, and the black pressure feather arrows shot over, only to hear the screams of "ahhhh

The Desik soldiers of the Giant Regiment are all veterans of the Border Guard Regiment, and the vegetarian diet is quite strong, and in a short time, there are soldiers in the back row who prop up the tower shield that fell to the ground, and after only one wave of attacks, the gap is filled in an instant, and the tower shield array is tightly sewn together. And the time for the crossbow to be wound was not so fast, and by the time the Desiks rushed closer, it only fired three rounds.

The three-wheeled crossbow took away the corpses of dozens of Desiks, but the tower shield array had already reached the foot of the fortress wall by this time.

The wall made by the Shang Alliance was high and slippery, and there was no place to borrow strength, but this was not difficult for the experienced Desik people in the war, and the Desik in the front row bravely rushed to the bottom of the wall with a shield, put the tower shield down, leaned against the smooth wall, and at the same time resisted the bottom of the tower shield with all his strength. The soldiers in the rear immediately approached, covering the shield bearer with their small round shields, and at the same time, the archers in the back row, for the first time, raised their bows and fired at the Shang Alliance soldiers at the wall of the wall, which was a wave of counterattack.

Suppressing the soldiers of the Shang Alliance, those Desik soldiers who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly roared collectively and stepped on the tower shield. The shield bearers at the bottom of the tower shield snorted one after another, but they still gritted their teeth against the tower shield. The passage provided by the tower shield made it easy for the Desik soldiers to approach the top of the wall, and some of the agile soldiers jumped over the last part of the wall, and for a while, the shouts of killing behind the wall shook the sky.

The first batch of Desik soldiers of the Giant Regiment of about 500 people jumped over the wall quite quickly, and the tower shield man immediately left the wall under the escort of the soldiers beside him, and retreated about ten degrees, a row of black iron tower shields were rooted in the ground, forming a black defensive line, and the Desik archers were behind the tower shield, and kept shooting at the Desik soldiers who were probing on the wall.

And more of the Merchant Alliance soldiers have now had to face the Desik soldiers behind the wall. Although the first wave of soldiers came up with only 500 people, these soldiers were not afraid of death, and under the leadership of the officer, they pounced on the group of soldiers of the Shang Alliance like a tyrannosaurus, and for a while, blood flew everywhere. Most of the weapons used by the Desik soldiers were steel knives, iron hammers, and copper axes, and they were greeted at once, and the blood among the soldiers of the Shang Alliance was rising, and the stumps were scattered, and some of the soldiers just looked at each other, and as soon as the Desik man slashed down, one arm fell to the ground, and his hand was still holding his spear tightly.

Most of the soldiers of the Shang League were holding spears, and a group of spearmen, under the command of the leading officer, stabbed a Desik soldier with all their strength, and the spear tips came from all directions, no matter how brave the Desik people were, they could not avoid it, and they were stabbed into a sieve in an instant.

After letting go of two rounds of feathered arrows to suppress the Shang Alliance archers, the tower shield men did not stop at all, and approached the wall again, and in the same way, sent more Desik people behind the wall again.

"It's not good, they came too fast, the wall can't stop the other party at all! Tell the reserves to come up directly!" The commander of the merchant alliance mercenary in charge of this defense line did not hesitate to let the herald give the order, and at the same time picked up the copper axe beside him and rushed up with his attendants. Manning's long axe, the huge axe body fell, and in one fell swoop, splitting a Desik soldier in front of him in half.

"Kill!" the two red-eyed soldiers slammed into each other, blood stabbing everyone's eyes red.

However, when the fighting was so fierce, the commanders of both sides were constantly deploying troops. Behind the Giants, the One-Eyed Regiment was also ready to go, and General Etienne also sent mercenary soldiers from another regiment to the western defensive line.

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