Chapter 35: How the Tortoise Shell Is Made?

There are only two types of engineering methods in the warband, siege ladders and siege vehicles, and in large cities such as Jerqila, the attackers must first push the siege engines near the city walls, so that they can use the gangplanks on the siege vehicles to attack the enemies on the city walls.

In the rules of the last battle, the Rhodok defenders of Jerjera abandoned the city defense and tried to sneak attack the rear position of the Kusa coalition army, and were shot by many Salander archers, crying dad and shouting mother, and most of the losses retreated into the city, which led to the coalition army easily capturing Jerjla, and finally cheapened Hu Bin.

This time, Hu Bin will not be stupid enough to go out of the city to face the enemy with more than 5 times the enemy, and he will not leave his turtle shell if he kills him, and the city defense was smashed by him in this month, and the four high platform protrusions were built on the front city wall, Hu Bin reluctantly dismantled the rapid-fire city defense crossbow on the tower of Muradin's city and pulled it here, and spent a lot of money to equip it with sufficient crossbow arrows. The open space of the city wall was filled with quiver pots full of arrows for the archers to use, and Hu Bin used them as transport carts to place them.

The second level is equipped with a small crossbow Sentinel is the best cannon fodder for defending the city, far can be attacked and defended, although the battle damage ratio will be relatively high, but whether it is used to block the enemy's siege route, or to share the damage with their own archers, they are a cheap good hand, not to mention that they can spend a small amount of money at any time to promote to a hired crossbowman and a hired swordsman to supplement their main garrison.

The army besieging Jergira had just built its first siege cart and started the siege, they did not have time to slowly consume the well-fed defenders, and the containment on the eastern front could fail at any time, and Salander, who reacted, would let the siege quickly collapse.

In the morning, the siege troops began to approach the city walls, and the tall siege vehicles were slowly advanced under the control of a dozen soldiers, and the Salander archers, who had the advantage of height, could already hit these enemies, but Hu Bin did not let his precious long-range troops show their heads, because.

"Pounce." A bolt struck the battlement wall at the head of the city, and then a rain of arrows rained down on the head of Djerjla, stabbing several hapless light infantry in the head and planting them on the wall, and more bolts hitting the battlements and infantry shields.

One of the two major arms that Rhodok relied on for survival, Rhodok crossbowmen armed with siege crossbows lined up in two lines under the city walls, using wave shots to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, so that they could not care about the advance of the siege engines. The high-ranking soldiers in the army who came this time made up a considerable proportion, and the Rhodoks had already begun to use their last resort.

However, Hu Bin is not the master who will not fight back after being beaten, although he is reluctant to let the number and ammunition of the archers be consumed in the counterfire now, but there are still two big killing weapons on the head of the city that Hu Bin hopes for. A small piece of wood in front of the rapid-fire city defense crossbow was uncovered, revealing a hideous launch port, and the hideously sharp large crossbow was quickly filled into the groove behind the winding, and then under the control of several professional samurai, the inventory was poured into Rhodok's dense array of marksmen with an extremely fast rate of fire.

The city defense rapid-fire crossbow adopts the Terran arrow tower technology in the world of Warcraft, and the dwarves apply the four-string coaxial technology to this small ballista, and the soldiers use the foot pedal to drive the roller, and at the same time take turns to force the four strings, which greatly shortens the firing interval. With just a skilled enough soldier to manipulate and wind it, you can easily reach a frantic rate of fire of 5 second shots. Hu Bin had specially trained a group of strong professional samurai to specialize in manipulating these crossbows, and now it was time to come in handy.

It's a pity that this is not Muradine City, and there is no special enchanted lookout tower to place them, so Hu Bin had to nail the chassis firmly to the city wall with iron nails, but don't think about the range and damage bonuses.

But in the World of Warcraft, the loss of a crossbow that can penetrate the hero's defenses is not in vain, and the powerful penetration of the crossbow bolt cannot be consumed by a mere human body. Each hit silently pierces a Rhodok soldier, and the crossbow that pierces the human body is most likely to be inserted into the body of another soldier, often at an angled angle that causes the latter to be pinned to the ground, provoking a scream.

The brutal death of their companions made the Rhodoks begin to focus on the location of the city defense crossbow, but although the thick wooden planks in front of the crossbow were filled with counterattacking arrows, they were as strong as the city walls, and the specially made baffles were glued with asbestos cloth, iron plates, thick wooden planks, and a large amount of filling, which could not be easily penetrated by holding a siege crossbow. The frenzied Hu Bin even ordered the construction of a full-hooded fort for him, but eventually gave up due to flexibility issues.

Just as the Rhodok crossbowmen were focusing on the two weapons of destruction, Hu Bin commanded the Salander archers to launch a volley. The archers are condescending, and they can fire arrows with just a simple aim, and the opponent's crossbowmen are quite dense anyway, and any shot will be rewarded. By the time the besieging lords reacted and ordered a counterattack, the Salander archers had already finished shooting two rounds of arrows, retracted back to the city wall and waited for the opportunity, the speed of the crossbow bolts was a hard wound.

The soldiers of the cart suffered heavy losses under the subsequent crossbow control of the city, and the coalition forces had to send reinforcements to replenish the number of marksmen, and build a shield wall around the cart soldiers to resist the crossbow arrows. However, it is clear that they underestimated the penetration power of the city defense crossbow, and more opportunities to pierce the skewers made the soldiers who controlled the crossbow more hard. Hu Bin successively ordered the archers to release two more rounds of arrow rain, but the Rhodoks who had learned their lesson learned to defend themselves, and there were always some sharpshooters who were slow to fire crossbow arrows and waited for the archers on the city wall to show their heads. Hu Bin gave up after losing a few archers, and only let the city defense crossbow reduce the number of enemies as much as possible.

The siege engines were finally set up at the head of the city, and the coalition infantry in the rear swarmed up, and Sergeant Rodok, who was in the lead, had just stepped onto the gangplank when he saw a group of Salander light infantry holding javelins ready to shoot. His companions pushed him forward, and after a muffled pop, several corpses fell from the gangplank, but more infantry rushed to the top of the city, stepping on the corpses of their comrades to engage the defenders.

Hu Bin had already retreated to the high platform with the archers, and the space at the head of the city was given to the light infantry and mercenary swordsmen, and the archers occupied a safe position to sneak attack the enemy who climbed to the top of the city, and then there was a tingling sound of string control, and the shouting of killing at the head of the city was suddenly much quieter. Under the city walls, hired crossbowmen with many sentinels lined up in a neat phalanx, and the rain of arrows in a row was not only for Rhodok marksmen, although they were not as penetrating as siege crossbows, but a hundred or so hunting crossbows were enough to shoot the small number of troops attacking the city into hedgehogs.

The lords outside the city don't know why, obviously there are many soldiers in the city, but the shouts of the defenders at the head of the city are still ringing non-stop, and the archers on the high platform can always find an opportunity to sneak attack the Rhodok marksman under the city wall, and after several waves of attacks to no avail, the coalition army left a large number of corpses and siege vehicles and slowly retreated to the camp. The lords, who felt that the city was difficult, discussed countermeasures, and estimated that today's siege would come to an end.

Hu Binjian retreated from the enemy, quickly sent people to dismantle the siege vehicles, identified and collected the corpses of his own soldiers, mended the wounded soldiers of the enemy, captured the crossbows and arrows that were still well preserved outside the city, supplemented a large number of large shields that were standard for Rhodok soldiers, and harvested a lot of crossbows and arrows that could still be used in the city. Today, in one day, the rapid-fire city defense crossbow shot out one-sixth of its stock, killing and wounding many of the enemy's elite. The two sides raised the white flag as usual to cease fighting, Rodok sent people to collect the wounded and corpses under the city, and Hu Bin sent people to mend the corpses of the enemy in the city and then left the city.

"It's really not easy to do!" The enemy suffered more than 200 casualties in the first battle, but Hu Bin's casualties were also quite few, and the gap at the head of the city lost almost all of the more than 30 light infantry and more than a dozen mercenary swordsmen, most of whom were shot by the crossbowmen under the city during the battle. The archers were well protected, but still lost 7. The sentinels were heavily depleted of arrows, but they captured a lot of ammunition left by the enemy, so it was not a problem for the time being. The wounded soldiers were carried to the city for treatment, and Hu Bin's troops were not as sufficient as expected.

"But the other party must have more headaches than us." Gerry only allowed the cavalry archers to join the defenders, and the rest of the army did not join the battle. "Let's just let them crash to death on this turtle shell."

Using the sentry promotion to supplement some of the mercenary swordsmen, Hu Bin began to seize the time to arrange for the soldiers to take turns to rest, although the enemy is unlikely to attack at night, but there will always be exceptions to everything, there is nothing wrong with being careful.

"Meat grinding has just begun." Hu Bin's cold voice exuded a faint murderous aura.