Chapter 36: The Numbered Attacker
"Kill." Early the next morning, the Rus' coalition launched a huge siege, learning the lessons of yesterday, Rhodok strengthened the protection of the crossbowmen, and a row of shield-wielding Rhodok sergeants were arranged in front of the crossbowmen's position to attract the fire of the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen began to disperse. Soldiers from the Kingdom of Svadia also joined the siege, and a large number of crossbowmen and infantry gathered near the siege engines to take cover.
Seeing that the enemy army was menacing, Hu Bin decisively sent all the archers to cooperate with the city defense crossbow to kill and injure the enemy outside the city. The ranged troops of the defending army quickly ran out of arrows, and the outside of the city was full of arrows, and the crossbowmen who besieged the city were taken care of.
Commander Rhodok, who originally wanted to suppress the city wall with more crossbowmen, overestimated the protection of his soldiers' thin cloth armor, the sharpshooter wearing chain mail was not a cabbage after all, and he had suffered heavy casualties under the key care of the city defense crossbow, and most of the rest were also painted, although the archers' rate of fire was not as fast as that of the Vigians, but it was more than enough to open two streets of the heavy siege crossbow.
With the siege vehicles in place, the tragic siege battle entered a new climax, and several corpses fell from the city at any given moment. The sentries gradually ran out of ammunition, and Hu Bin could only bite the bullet and let the mercenary swordsmen withstand the attack, and the large number of casualties made the commanders of both sides frown.
The shouts of killing continued from morning to noon, and finally the coalition commander, unable to resist the pressure, ordered to withdraw from the battle, and the remaining Rhodok crossbowmen fled to the rear as fast as possible, not even thinking to cover the retreating infantry. In this battle, Hu Bin was determined to inflict heavy damage on the opponent's ranged troops, and his archers really lived up to expectations, shooting an average of 100 arrows each, almost covering the vicinity of the crossbowmen's position with arrow feathers, and depleting all of Hu Bin's arrow inventory. But the result made Hu Bin very satisfied, the Rhodok crossbowmen were lost, especially the sharpshooters were killed, and the city defense crossbows were always looking for opportunities to shoot them.
The main force of siege melee led by the Swadia sergeants was blocked by a large number of mercenary swordsmen, and the defenders supported by the sentinel phalanx still had the advantage in the early stage, but later the crossbows were exhausted, and the more well-equipped Swadia infantry gradually gained the advantage, even in the face of the siege of many mercenary swordsmen, they were still able to reduce the battle damage ratio back to 2:1. In the end, it was Hu Bin who raised the war bow and went out in person, opened the wind arrow technique with one arrow, and the Swadia infantry who shot it were terrified, plus the addition of the fifth-level professional samurai who were also wearing heavy armor, finally forced back this large wave of enemy attacks.
The departing Swadia infantry regiment desperately suffered casualties and destroyed many arrows stuck in the ground outside the city, which made Hu Bin very annoyed, which meant that the already small arrow resources were further reduced, and perhaps it would not be long before the archers would pick up shields and short swords for hand-to-hand combat.
Luckily, a large number of crossbows were planted in the battlements, which could not help but make up for the consumption of today's sentries and hired crossbowmen, as well as an additional surplus.
The soldiers on both sides who collected the corpses returned to their own positions, and the loss made Hu Bin's heart ache, once upon a time, the large number of mercenary sword soldiers was disabled, and the total number of swordsmen who increased one after another was originally more than a hundred, but only more than 20 people remained in this battle.
The most painful thing for Hu Bin is not only these, most of the ammunition stocks of the city defense crossbow are consumed, and the evil siege party actually sent a group of people to collect these crossbow arrows. Nearly half of the archers were killed or wounded in the confrontation with the enemy, and the rest were also facing a lack of ammunition, so Hu Bin had no choice but to concentrate their arrows on the elite archers, and the others picked up the captured large shields to block the front.
The next day was finally over, and Hu Bin had less than 400 available troops left, and the other side still had more than 2,000 troops. However, the enemy's long-range troops had already lost most of them, so Hu Bin simply gave up replenishing the hired swordsmen, and took advantage of the capture of a large number of crossbowmen to promote a large number of hired crossbowmen to strengthen the long-range offensive. Tomorrow the ammunition of the city defense crossbow will run out, and the time will really come to test the defenders.
"Gerry, it's time for us to play."
Gerry picked up a short fighting axe and came to the city, Hu Bin stood beside him, holding a war bow in his hand, he only had half of his energy to squander.
"After surviving today, it is estimated that the Swadiya who have suffered too many casualties will withdraw from the battle, and the Sultan of Hakim finally said that the Saiga Khan was mobilized to support the Eastern Front, and the Swadiya cavalry is obviously too tricky, and even you Kugit feel threatened. Haraus didn't dare to trap them, if it weren't for these elites, it is estimated that Swadia would have been eaten by several countries long ago. ”
Gerry shrugged, "Even if you have to survive today, those people are really crazy, Rhodok forget it, when did the Swadias work so hard." ”
"Humph!" Hu Bin looked at the large wave of enemies rushing over in a queue and said slowly: "It's not that you want to get a piece of the pie, you haven't seen the importance of Jerqila, if they capture here, the Rhodok people will definitely garrison a large number of troops here." Thinking about how many troops the already exhausted King Griffos still has, the charm of the city of Tulga is really great. After saying that, Hu Bin waved his hand, and many archers and crossbowmen began to rain arrows.
The counterattack of the besieging side seemed a little sparse, the casualties of the long-range troops of the coalition forces in yesterday's vicious battle were too great, and many of the crossbowmen who attacked the city today were wounded in the first day's battle, and they participated in the battle with their wounds today.
However, under the intensive care of the defenders' ranged troops and the city's defense crossbows, the coalition's remaining ranged troops were depleted in a matter of moments, and a group of shield-wielding infantry to protect them was also involved.
The Rhodok side simply pressed all the infantry up, and the Swadians may have some concerns, but they also sent a large number of infantry. In the face of the mighty siege troops, the arrows fired by the long-range troops defending the city could be hit without aiming, but the infantry in armor and shields were not brittle like crossbowmen, and few infantry fell after a few rounds of arrow raindown.
The siege engines finally reached the city walls. Hu Bin's brows tightened, the damage caused by the infantry in the past few days is obviously huge, Hu Bin doesn't have too many infantry to consume with the other party, can he really only let the cavalry go up?
Hu Bin was very reluctant to let his elite troops suffer too much losses, but the city head could not afford to lose, so in desperation, Hu Bin ordered all the Mamluk and Salander riders to go up, withdraw all the archers, and let them stand on the roofs of the buildings below the city walls, and shoot at the enemies who rushed up the walls. Crossbowmen try to run out of ammunition in the shortest possible time and then act as cannon fodder to withstand enemy attacks.
After the elite Mamluks joined the battlefield, the enemy's offensive immediately slowed down, giving Hu Bin a moment of respite. Just as Hu Bin was about to send a more elite personal guard to force back the infantry who had already climbed the city wall, several fireballs blew up his own defensive line, and the soldiers on the right flank of the city wall were densely packed with heavy casualties.
"Numberer!" Hu Bin and Gerry shouted together, their eyes locked on the Rhodok numbered man who had just rushed to the city wall and was mixed in with the soldiers. The few people who came up afterwards made Hu Bin's heart sink to the bottom, their movements were obviously not like soldiers, and there was no doubt that the numberers of Rhodok had formed a group to brush Hu Bin's copy.
Gerry and Hu Bin, who are also numberers, know what role the numberers can play in local battles. It can use the template level promotion to improve the combat ability, and the numberer can reach the level beyond the top class as long as he takes the combat route. Among them, the flexible combat skills of the best ones, such as Gerry, are far from being matched by soldiers, let alone the endless number of props.
The Rhodoc Numbers quickly coordinated with their siege forces to break the right flank of the wall, capturing a city defense crossbow before Hu Bin's troops could react. Under the watchful eyes of the defenders, the city defense crossbow, which gave them infinite confidence, slowly turned its gun and collapsed a building below the city with a single blow, and the archers on it fell with a scream.
The entire city wall fell into chaos, and Hu Bin's soldiers' casualties began to soar, and by the time Hu Bin rushed to the front row from the left wing wall with support, the right wing city wall had been completely lost. Hu Bin quickly ordered the soldiers behind him to support, and several different figures swept past Hu Bin and rushed forward to the invincible enemies and numbered ones.