Chapter 170: A Tragic Death Match (1)
"My lord, do you want to let the gunpowder troops start attacking?" Planck said as he looked at the enemy troops who were throwing sandbags into the moat.
"No, this is our trump card, the later it is exposed, the better, although we have a lot of explosive packs, but we also have to make each explosive bag exert 100% lethality!" Meria's voice was cold: "Let our soldiers hide under the battlements and shoot into the sky!"
"Look over there, my lord!"
Meria looked in the direction of Planck's finger, on the other side of the city wall, the garrison under the command of Kiru, half of the soldiers held round shields in their hands, covering their bodies under the shields, and between the two shield soldiers was an archer, using the cover of the two shields, forming a relatively safe vacuum above and in front of the archer, such a space was enough for him to open his bow and shoot the crossbow arrows in the quiver.
"This Kiru, really has some ability, quickly, let all the soldiers do this!"
Under Meria's command, the soldiers on the city walls quickly formed an exact defensive formation, such a positional battle requires a tacit understanding formed by the long-term cooperation of the soldiers, and in a hurry, many soldiers were a little scrambling, but at the head of the city of Boer, a decent offensive was finally formed.
Again, this meant that there were less than half of the soldiers available on the towers, and in the face of the rain of swords in Boer City, the Belu cavalry kept throwing sandbags into the moat, and gradually, the muddy water of the moat was no longer visible, and instead of thick sandbags, the overflowing muddy water washed up to the shore.
The commander on the castle tower can only do something in a hurry, but there is no way to stop the enemy's crossing of the river unless he throws the gunpowder bag now.
Hundreds of corpses fell on the banks of the moat, and there were also Belu soldiers who had fallen from arrows on the piled sandbags, and the moat was soon paved except for a road that could be passed through the soldiers.
However, the Belu soldiers holding sandbags did not stop.
All the Belu soldiers split into two groups, one with sandbags in their arms and the other with bows and arrows, and rushed from the sandbags floating on the moat.
"They don't have ladders, how can they attack the city?"
Planck's eyes looked down from the gap in the battlements, the siege troops of the Belu people did not intend to assume the ladder, the ladder is basically the standard in the siege battle, without the ladder, there is no way to rush up to the tower to solve the defenders on the city gate.
Planck soon found the answer, though.
The Belu soldiers, who had rushed to the front, had already come to the front of the strong, and they were faced with a rain of swords like a tide, even if they tried to lift the sandbags in their hands, it was useless, and these enemies quickly fell under the tower.
But the Belu soldiers in the back, as if they did not see their fallen companions in front, carried the bodies of their companions and threw heavy sandbags under the walls.
Nearly a thousand troops, they did not erect a ladder, but wanted to use this sandbag to pile up a road to the upper floor of Boer City!
"Shoot the arrows!"
Meria's voices were almost all roaring, and everyone understood that once this sandbag path was successful, the towers of Boer would face the most brutal hand-to-hand combat—a situation that no officer was willing to face, and in terms of this hand-to-hand combat ability, the soldiers of Boer City were far from being a match for the elite Second Legion.
These enemies carrying sandbags are indeed no threat, if placed in peacetime, it may still be a very good moving target for soldiers to practice archery, but what really makes Meria a headache is the archers wandering under the city walls, these soldiers after crossing the moat, immediately learned the tactics on the previous Boer city walls, and formed a temporary position with shields and archers, these people's archery skills are so vicious that as long as the Boer city defenders show a little bit of their heads, they may be shot by their arrows. The archers who shot it. As soon as he shot the first arrow, he was counterattacked by the opponent and almost all of them were killed. In desperation, the effectiveness of counterattacks on the city walls repeatedly declined.
Meria's eyelids jumped, she also understood that the situation was already quite critical now, if she threw the explosive bag now, then she would soon be able to kill all these enemies on the other side of the river, and the pressure on the city wall would be instantly reduced a lot, but in this way, the other party would also react instantly, especially her opponent was Lampard, who had suffered a loss in Yode Town.
Thousands of Belu soldiers went back and forth, constantly carrying sandbags, and after an hour, a passage made of sandbags was finally formed.
The walls of Boer City are actually higher than the walls of Yode Town, and the sandbag slope piled up by the Belu soldiers is actually very steep, and the back is also quite narrow, and only two soldiers can walk side by side at a time, which is destined to be not very efficient for them to climb the city.
The first soldiers to climb up the slope were quickly killed by the archers. The corpse rolled all the way down. It didn't stop until the bottom of the slope.
"It's a good idea to storm the city with sandbags, it seems that you can eat this small city in one bite without our help. ”
In the rear of Beru's troops, Novak, the cavalry commander of the Northern Corps, lifted his helmet, and a voice with a hint of laughter sounded from under the helmet.
"I hope so!" Lampard sat on his horse, in fact, he was very angry now, and when he spoke to Commander Noah on the castle tower before, his tone was already very unkind.
The small Boer City must not be difficult for him, even the Hamp City, which is several times taller and stronger than this, was conquered by Lampard, and the capture of this Boer City is nothing more than paying some losses in the soldiers.
But strategically, this battle is completely meaningless, as the previous lord of Boer City said, once the other troops of the Principality of Noah directly attack Hamp City from the Great Plains, then his army is likely to encounter a situation where the enemy is on the back. The First Legion of the Principality of Noah has fallen, but the Principality of Noah is not just one First Legion.
Before the expedition, Novak's attitude was undoubtedly tough, for some reason, Frank Lampard had to fight against the crowd and launch this raid, but when it came time to actually attack the city, these self-proclaimed elite Kyrnilo soldiers stayed at the back of the team to watch the show, and Lampard could only vent his anger on the defenders of Boer City opposite.
Lampard already had a plan in mind, as long as the city was captured, he would make Boer disappear from the map of the Fjords of Death completely!