Chapter 311: Siege (2)
Ice bullets the size of a human head can be fatal to any enemy with weak defensive capabilities, but for soldiers with iron armor or shield defense, they are basically injured at most, unless they hit the vital point, otherwise they will not be life-threatening.
Although the main purpose of the death squad is to consume the city defense equipment of Ice City, but the ice bomb is a weapon that is simple to manufacture, fast, and extremely convenient to use.
Therefore, the hundreds of casualties of the death squad could not achieve the purpose of consuming the city defense equipment of Ice Sky City at all. So August soon gave the order for the death squad to retreat and find a way to attack again.
Ice City did not relax after repelling the attack of the Silver Snow Legion, and was always ready for another attack from the other party.
Sure enough, as the horn sounded again, soon the people of the death squad rushed up again.
It's just that this time there is a big difference from the previous ones, this time these death squads each have an extra simple wooden shield in their hands, and some of the stronger ones are each assigned a shabby leather armor as protection.
Of course, these strong people are basically in groups of two or three, and each group of people will have a simple siege ladder in their hands.
And in addition to the members of the death squads, the regular troops of the Silver Snow Corps also began to appear behind the death squads and on both flanks to cover for the death squads.
"Ice bombs!"
"Ice bombs! Release!" Without the orders of Aland IV, the officers of the trebuchet unit, after seeing the Silver Snow Corps attacking again, quickly gave the order to fire the ice bombs.
It's just that this time the effect of the ice bomb is far less effective than the last time, because when the soldiers of the death squad charge, they only need to put the simple wooden shield on their heads, although they can't directly block the damage of the ice bomb, but with this layer of shield as a buffer, even if they are directly hit by the ice bomb, at most the shield is broken and the left hand is injured, but the soldier will not die because of this.
Of course, there are also those who are unlucky, and there are no longer a few who die after being hit in the head after being smashed by an ice bullet, but it is a great change from the previous situation of hundreds of casualties in just one round of charge.
"Replace the stone bullets!" It was still Aland's order, although the reserves of stone bullets in Ice City were not much, but this was not the time to save, and soon dozens of trebuchets began to fire stone bullets from afar.
The power of the stone bullet far exceeded the power of the ice bomb, even with the defense of the wooden shield, in the face of the stone bullet falling from the sky like a rag, it had no effect, and in an instant, the casualties of the death squad began to increase rapidly, and even far exceeded the casualties in the first wave of attacks.
But this time August did not order a retreat, because his idea was to use human lives to consume the defense equipment of Ice City, and ice bombs can be made almost infinitely for Ice City, as long as there is water.
But the stone bullets are not good, as long as the limited stone bullets are partially consumed by the death squads, it is extremely beneficial for August and the Silver Snow Corps.
When the death squad passed through the rain of stone bullets and approached the city wall, the threat was not over, and the rain of arrows began to shoot over their heads!
At this time, August saw the opportunity and sent the Rock, Feather Arrow and City Defense Battalion among the six battalions in his hand, wanting to capture Ice City in one fell swoop, because August knew that the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for him.
At this time, the Yinxue Corps had a total of six main battalions, namely the six battalions of Rock, Sharp Arrow, Cavalry, City Defense, Patrol, and Feather Arrow.
Among them, the Panshi Battalion and the Sword Battalion were transferred from the old Zhenbei Corps, the cavalry battalion was formed by drawing most of the cavalry of the corps, and the city defense battalion was the 11th battalion of the earlier Zhenbei Corps. The patrol battalion was adapted from the sixth battalion, and the last feather arrow battalion was formed by merging the seventh battalion and the remnants of the original Yinxue Corps.
Throwing three battalions into it at once is not a desperate move, but it is also an extremely bold move.
You must know that although August's Silver Snow Legion is a newly established army, it has experienced the battles of the four major lords' armies, and has also fought hard with the undead legions, and has really seen the blood army.
If it weren't for the siege, August would have been able to wipe out any of the two major legions of the Icewind Kingdom with the same number of people.
Although Bingxiao City is relying on temporary conscription at this time and has 5,000 soldiers to defend, but Bingxiao City is not only this one city gate, plus a reserve force of 1,000 people, and the actual strength of the city wall that the Silver Snow Legion has to face now is only about 2,500.
At this moment, the number of troops sent by Aldrich plus the death squad is close to four thousand, far exceeding the number of people on the other side, and more importantly, the number of knight-level powerhouses, and the newly built Silver Snow Corps is also superior.
However, the number of knight-level powerhouses will directly affect the effect of siege, although the ordinary city wall still has a role for knight-level powerhouses, but the role is not great, for August, Barron and other high-level knights, the city wall is even more dispensable.
Soon, four or five knight-level powerhouses of the Silver Snow Corps attacked the walls of Ice City, and easily established a relatively stable position on the city walls, and then behind them there was a steady stream of soldiers from the Silver Snow Corps climbing the city walls.
Although the knight-level powerhouses of Ice Sky City quickly filled the position, there were only more than ten junior knights in Ice Sky City here, and they could not completely block the attack of more than thirty knight-level powerhouses of the Silver Snow Legion.
In the end, I could only watch as the city wall fell into the hands of the enemy one by one under the leadership of these silver snow regiments and knight-level powerhouses.
Among the knight-level powerhouses of the Silver Snow Legion, the most conspicuous thing is the two figures, one red and one gold, whether it is a stone bullet, a rain of arrows or boiling oil, they can easily dodge, and then a few charges can easily attack the walls of Ice City.
Ordinary soldiers had no enemy in front of them, and even the junior knights of the Icewind Kingdom wanted to stop the two, but they were easily killed by the two of them, and soon there were more and more soldiers of the Silver Snow Corps behind the two, and they climbed up the siege ladder.
"Intermediate Knight! It's an Intermediate Knight!" There was chaos on the walls of Ice City, just the junior knights had already made them anxious, and now there were suddenly a few more intermediate knights, which suddenly made the soldiers of the beast legion defending the city wall feel the pressure doubled.