Chapter 124: Guarding Battle
Listening to the sound of rustling outside, everyone except Harry Kane and the crossbowmen on the watchtower buried their heads behind the battlements.
"Archers and arrows, ready!"
The voices outside the city are getting louder and louder, and the enemy is getting closer.
Harry Kane's high-pitched roar wafted through the silent air of the walls of the fishing village harbor.
All the defenders held their breath.
"Ignite!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
In the ignition bucket prepared in advance, there were jumping flames, and arrows tied with strips of cloth probed into the iron bucket one after another.
Draw the bow, ignite the fire, inspire!
The archers skillfully manipulated their crossbows and began to shoot crackling from outside the city.
As the rockets pierced the night sky, the flames illuminated the figures of the dunes outside the city, and the archers' eyes began to light up.
With the line of sight, the probability of subsequent bow and arrow shots hitting is also greatly improved.
Outside the city came the roar of the arrow-hitter, and inside the city was boiled by the barking of dogs.
Dogdan bowed himself behind the battlement, and he and his brother were in charge of the defense of the eastern city.
As a wounded man who survived the ambush of the Iron Islands merchant ships, he was left behind in the fishing village of Harbor Fort.
At this time, his side was full of people squatting against the wall.
Dogan asks everyone to learn from him.
Because, the enemy's arrows are coming.
The coverage of the walls by fire will not cease until the ladders of the enemy's besieging infantry are erected on the walls.
Dogdan's guess was not wrong.
After the archers on the walls began to shoot outside, they waited only a moment, and the archers outside the city also pulled their bowstrings.
The enemy came prepared.
The archers, with a of 200 men, were scattered for forty weeks in the territory of the fishing village and began to suppress the defenders on the city walls with a dense barrage of arrows.
The sound of a whooshing crack tearing through the air was non-stop.
Most of the arrows slashed through the walls and into the rooftops of the city.
Arrows of fire set fire to some of the city's thatched huts, and the flames lit up the castle.
The women of the city hid in their houses, carrying buckets of water, and after the round of arrows had passed, they would go out to fight the fire.
Those who participate in assisting the defenders of the city will be rewarded with 20 silver deer.
The money was easy to make, as long as it was constantly fetched and watered, or it was enough to transport the wounded under the walls.
Soon, a ladder landed on the battlement beside the dog, and he slowly turned his vision to inspect the militia that were surrounding him, waiting for him to give instructions on his next move.
Many of them were dressed in armor and ordinary daggers that they had received from Harry Kane.
They were dressed in different ways, most of them were the armor of the soldiers of the Twin River Cities, and the craftsmen had not had time to renovate the armor, so these people were dressed in a variety of ways.
A guy who lacked a helmet and had a broken crockpot on top of his head.
A lean man without skirt armor hung an iron basin in front of his crotch to draw water, and I heard that after the war is over, he will use his savings to marry a Zeren wife, so he must not be harmed.
It's messy, but it's good to know the importance of protection.
The dog retracted his gaze in satisfaction.
His chain armor was neatly draped, and he was prostrate at the base of the wall, his ears pressed against the battlements, so that he could clearly hear how far the nearest enemy had climbed.
The sound of slashing was already heard in the other sections of the wall, and the enemy here seemed to be not as sharp as the enemy in the main direction, and climbed very slowly.
The siege infantry probed their brains and climbed up.
When the archers behind them stopped covering the walls with arrows, they suddenly began to speed up.
The ladder hanging on the city wall began to shake violently.
The dog stood up openly.
He yelled, "It's now, smash." ”
Everyone around them also stood up and shouted, "Smash!"
The militiamen pushed the prepared stones and logs off the wall, and then listened to the sound of puffs and puffs coming from outside the city.
It's too late to rejoice.
A few of the White Harbor infantry, who had escaped by chance, had already rushed to the top of the city and slashed at a militiaman who was caught off guard.
Blood soared.
"Take up arms, defend!"
"Don't panic, stab them to death!" The corpses are left on the city walls and used as rolling stones for the next round of defense. ”
"Stay in the same formation as before, don't get hurt by mistake!"
Goudan raised the broadsword in his hand and shouted a reminder as he trotted to help a panicked militiaman relieve the siege.
Although the militia had not really experienced any battlefield fighting, they had the backbone to shout there, and everyone followed suit.
occupies an absolute geographical advantage.
Every time an enemy climbs up the ladder, he is greeted by harpoons, or cracked one-handed swords, sailors' scimitars, and other miscellaneous weapons.
Where the attack intensity is weaker on three sides, the defense is not so tight.
The worst of the fighting took place in the direction of the city gates.
The enemy there was also the most elite, with shielded siege soldiers using shields to block most of the Rolling Stone Oaks.
Enemies soon poured up the ladder to the wall.
There were not a dozen people who climbed the walls at a time, but dozens.
And it's layered, and it's constantly going up.
Harry Kane has placed more than half of the main force of the city's garrison of 200 people here, and the newly recruited local recruits, after some training in the three sister pirates, are also waiting for the side, ready to fill in at any time.
Fire oil became the best defensive material.
Pots of fire oil were poured down, lit by archers on watchtowers, and a raging fire burned below.
Screams and wails resounded throughout the city defenses.
The smell of blood and smoke wafted through the air, filling the entire castle gate around the castle gate, making people smell sick.
Because it is located on the east coast, there is a lot of sand on the beach, and the follow-up troops of White Harbor began to bring sand and soil from the beach, and every soldier who was ignited threw himself into the prepared sand pit, which made people flutter to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
Under the charred city walls, there are many bones.
The war was tense, and Harry Kane couldn't care about archery, so he had to constantly urge the defenders to defend against the enemy.
He pointed to the battering ram that was covering the door with a shield, and was crashing into the gate.
"Pour the oil at the gate, there is no need here!"
"The recruits in the back are in a daze, and hurry up to fill the position. ”
"The wounded soldiers only need to be transported under the walls, and the women in the city can transport the wounded soldiers to the wounded soldiers' camp. ”
When Harry Kane felt a lot of pressure to defend the city, the knights of Mandalay vassals who were in charge of the siege command outside the city were even more full of blood pressure.
The knight looked at the city in a daze, his eyes were bloodshot, his eyes were dull, his spirit was highly tired, but the war horse he sat down was full of energy.
The horses kept pacing on the dunes, looking a little restless.
Why did the battle that should have been won overnight suffer from such a fierce defense.
The White Harbor Knights didn't understand.
The soldiers who rushed up the wall did not understand why there were so many garrisons in this small fishing village, and those who obviously had no military training saw that they were climbing the wall, and kept stabbing themselves with all kinds of knives, forks and sticks.
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