Chapter 139: Siege

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"Hello Lord Gracis!" replied with a polite response

"The Holy See is menacing, what is the best way for your Excellency to retreat from the enemy?" Emaar asked straight to the point about her most concern.

"The city of Baden is thick and thick, I'm afraid that it should be Gutesian who has a headache at the moment, but about retreating from the enemy, I am trying to negotiate with two ** divisions. ”

"If the Shogun has any ideas that require our cooperation, just ask, our mission here is to assist the Shogun in defeating the enemy army. ”

Emaar is a real person, what to say, this reassures Glacys a lot, what he is most worried about is the unruly character of the magician,

"There may be a war here at any time, it's too dangerous, everyone is the key to winning this battle, the security issue is not sloppy at all, follow me to the headquarters first, and then I will talk about my thoughts, please give me an idea." ”

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the prepared Holy See troops began to move, and after a long trumpet, the radical drums began to sound.

Accompanied by the sound of drums, rushing to the forefront are nearly 100 siege vehicles, four-wheeled vehicle bodies, and in front of them are mounted arc-shaped thick wooden planks, which are attached to cowhide or iron sheets, mainly to resist the condescending bows, spears and light trebuchets on the city wall, and each siege vehicle can hide about 20 soldiers, including a quarter of heavy infantry, half of light infantry and a quarter of archers.

When the Papal troops entered the distance of 500 paces, the trebuchets in the city began to fire, and hundreds of stone projectiles crossed the sky above the city wall and were thrown at the vanguard of the Holy See.

There was a muffled thud of sparks and rubble, accompanied by the sound of broken planks and screams of soldiers.

After a round of attacks, the unharmed soldiers hiding behind the siege vehicles did not even have time to be afraid, so they hurried to push the siege vehicles in the direction of the city wall, a distance of several hundred paces, if the speed of the march was slow, it was enough for the trebuchet to launch more than two rounds of attacks, so in order to save their lives, all the infantry took out all the strength to eat milk and pushed the siege vehicle forward.

Behind the siege car, there are five towers up to twenty paces high, each towers stand on more than a hundred archers, these archers can suppress the defenders on the city wall, because these towers are too huge, must be pushed by a cyclops, and there must be several siege vehicles in front of them.

This was followed by hundreds of trebuchets and crossbows, which were more agile than normal crossbows, especially for anti-air attacks, so it would be more advantageous to attack targets on the walls from the bottom up.

When the attack reached within two hundred paces, the archers on the city wall began to shoot, but due to the siege vehicles as cover, the effect of this attack was not obvious, and it was even countersuppressed by the archers on the watchtower.

At this time, the bed crossbow set on the city wall began to fire, aiming directly at the crowd on the watchtower. In turn, the boulder smashed on the head of the city, making a loud "bang" sound, and the resulting gravel shot at a very high speed, and the soldiers hiding behind the battlements were immediately injured by a large number of stones, and their heads were broken and bleeding.

The crowd suddenly suffered casualties, and the trebuchets that had just been positioned behind the watchtower began to fire, destroying a number of ballistae in an instant, and most of the danger of the archers on the watchtower was immediately relieved, and they began to rain arrows on the city.

The trebuchets inside the city were reloaded after a round of preparation, but this time they were no longer targeting the infantry, but the same trebuchets outside the city. As a result, the soldiers of both sides have not yet fought, and a trebuchet battle has been raging. Huge rocks and flaming fireballs flew over the heads of soldiers on both sides, and for a time the flying stone show, which was more brilliant than fireworks, was in full swing.

However, at this time, the soldiers under the flying stones were not in the mood to enjoy the strange sight above them. The vanguard of the Holy See army had already rushed under the moat, and the front baffle of the siege vehicle was immediately lowered, plus a few gangplanks, just long enough to reach the other side of the moat.

The heavy infantry rushed out from behind the siege engines with their shields held high, covering the light infantry pushing the ladders forward, while the archers who stayed behind continued to fire at targets on the walls to cover the infantry's advance.

The ladder finally reached the city wall, the infantry climbed up along the ladder, at this time the soldiers guarding the city at the battlement suddenly all rushed out, holding the fireworks of the shield, the attack of archery, using the hook to push the ladder outward, at the same time some soldiers holding up the crockpot smashed the crockpot full of fire oil to the ladder, the oil burst out along the broken crockpot, splashing the ladder everywhere with oil stains, at this time there were archers to shoot rockets to the ladder, and suddenly the rolling flames ignited, wrapping the ladder in it.

Some of the soldiers on the ladder jumped off the ladder in time to escape, while others were engulfed in flames, and before they died, they let out a heart-rending scream, and then turned into a ball of fire and fell to the ground, and similar tragic scenes were staged everywhere along the thousand-foot-wide city wall. A scorching stench suddenly filled the front of the entire battlefield.

The Holy See's offensive was suddenly frustrated, and seeing this, the commander at the front immediately blew a low horn.

Before the trumpets could be heard, several roars erupted from the front of the position, and then the cyclops behind the watchtower attacked, taking out stones about the size of coconut from their baskets and throwing them at the defenders on the city walls.

Stones weighing dozens of pounds flew out of the hands of the cyclops at a speed like a fingernail-sized stone shot out of a slingshot, and the infantry shields on the city walls could block the arrow feathers, but they could not block such a huge stone, not only the shield was smashed and deformed, but the soldiers behind the shield also suffered heavy casualties.

"Heavy crossbow! Heavy crossbow assistance!"

The commander of the city waved the flag and shouted excitedly.

The sappers on the city wall received the order and immediately began to adjust the angle of the giant crossbow and began to fire at several giants.

Although the Cyclops was covered with hard rattan armor, it was not enough to completely neutralize the attack of the giant crossbow, and two Cyclops were suddenly slightly injured and began to retreat backwards. However, the movement of the hand did not stop, but the direction of the stone's attack turned to the giant crossbow.

The soldiers under the city took advantage of the time for the cyclops to suppress the defenders on the city wall, pushed the ladder and launched another attack, this time, the soldiers had already rushed to the city wall, so the city wall immediately broke out extremely fierce hand-to-hand combat.

The defenders did not panic in the face of the enemy soldiers who climbed up, and they formed a small team of seven people, three shields blocked the enemy, and four spears pierced the rushing soldiers through the gaps in the shields.

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