Chapter 52: But We Have a Million Arrows!
Maybe it's out of etiquette, it's out of respect, maybe it's out of faith. Sun Lin's side and the orc side did not start fighting early in the morning of June 14th, but very politely moved the time of the battle from early morning to 12 o'clock at noon, and it seems that this situation is very in line with the original intention of both sides, the orc side belongs to the attackers, and the time it arrived at the "God Bless" canyon is after 11 o'clock at night, and when all of them are stationed to rest, it is already midnight, not counting the time to get up to eat, sort out combat equipment, etc., Six hours of sleep was simply not enough for these tired orc soldiers; As for Sun Lin, he also needs time, although as a defender, he will be better than these orc soldiers in terms of morale and energy at any time, but you must know that the amount of ammunition escorted by Edulio is not only one box or two boxes, but a huge number of more than 20 mule carts, and it is not a matter of dozens of minutes to move these things to various remote blocking points, and you must know that all the firepower points in Nottingham are built on cliffs. Most of the connecting roads are composed of narrow tunnels, hanging boards and wooden plank roads, especially the plank roads on the edge of the cliffs, which are completely comparable to the existence of the original Sichuan Shu Road in China, under such conditions, it takes as much as 2 hours to transport boxes of ammunition to various stone towers, minus the trivial things such as sleeping and eating of the troops and spending more than 8 hours, and finally all the residents of Nottingham (except the orcs) spent more than half an hour praying to the god of this battle victory, The 12-hour preparation time was just in line with Sun Lin's intentions.
Speaking of prayer, it is only now that it has been discovered that although all the inhabitants of London and Nottingham are Christian in faith (except for the orcs and the 410 Naga) are Christians, perhaps Sun Lin is more like a great king in style although he is the pope, the construction of the Christian church in the city was not completed until the beginning of June, and the influence of various policies such as strange but very suitable for the needs of life............ The inhabitants of the two districts are more passionate about Christianity than before (anyway, the population rewarded by the system to Sun Lin is all Christians who have become fanatical for various "reasons", and there is no problem that they will change their religion, so there will be no religious rebellions and other problems in the two districts so far), but on the other hand, they are relatively open in terms of religious concepts.
Just like in the past, most professional clergy were able to enter the scope of power to obtain some of the things they needed, and a large part of this was caused by religious beliefs, don't forget that in the Middle Ages, the "divine right of kings" was the dominant idea. But now the professional priests in Sun Lin's hands have become the same existence as ascetics, they have become more firm in their faith, and in terms of power they are not willing to take these tempting but thorny fruits around them, and for Sun Lin, he would rather let those talented but ambitious generals enter the realm of power, rather than let these priests who only know how to do things in the name of God (in fact, they are hot-headed) enter them, This is not just a question of monarchy and theocracy! It's that this has reached the limit of insulting Sun Lin's pitiful and brittle face and IQ, imagine it, but when Sun Lin decided to fight a defensive war, those brain-pumping magic sticks suddenly stood up and said: "For God!" Let's go play Collective Charge together! And when those brain-pumping generals actually agreed, what will our Sun Lin do.................. Of course, if this group of brain-pumping magic sticks were to form a Nordic battlefield order like Denmark, Sun Lin would still be very happy.
Although he was very reluctant, because he was nominally an orthodox and the only pope recognized by all the bishops of the original world, Sun Lin was very reluctant to lead a group of soldiers and stood in the square for more than half an hour of prayer. However, considering that this battle was more difficult than the last time, and that the current level of all aspects was concerned, only the practice of praying for God could make Sun Lin's troops gain higher morale, so Sun Lin finally worked very hard to hold on for 1 minute, and then broke away from the prayer brigade on the grounds of the most difficult inspection before the battle..................
The sun was shining, and it was indeed a good time to kill people in this kind of weather, and after about 11 hours of rest, both men and beasts finally assembled at 12 o'clock at noon, opening the prelude to the second battle of Nottingham Castle. The orcs are in the same way as the last time the orcs attacked Nottingham Wooden Fort, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to think about the Nottingham Castle area and the 'Wailing Wall', the only difference is that the orc cavalry unit and the orc rear infantry army did not join this battle, and this situation made Sun Lin very distressed.
"Is this a tentative attack? If it is counted, then how to explain these tentative troops that are more than half the number of orc troops and have more than 6,000 orc light infantry.................. Forget it, anyway, there is enough ammunition in each stone tower, even if the enemy attacks four times, there is no trouble, and the order will go on! With the exception of the longbowmen, all long-range equipment began to shoot only, not to slow down the pace of these orcs, but to eliminate as many of these orcs as many combatants as possible. ”
"Yes!" Following Sun Lin's orders, 15 medium-sized torsional trebuchets and 5 heavy trebuchets began to rain their terrifying stones and fire at the orc troops, under the control of each of the 4 engineers. Because the formation of the orcs was scattered, and it could even be said that there was no formation at all, the 60 engineers who controlled the medium-sized torsion trebuchet tacitly put the roughly processed diamond-shaped stones into the "wooden spoon".
With the sound of wood hitting the wool pad, hundreds of fist-sized stones flew out of the wooden spoon and threw them into the scattered orc troops. Therefore, when the first batch of stones was fired, the engineers who controlled the medium-sized trebuchet had no need to measure at all, and urged the orc slaves on the side to quickly move the gravel in the ammunition depot and prepare for a second launch, so these engineers did not appreciate the tragic scene of the "fire rain" falling on the distant wasteland.