Chapter 518, the offensive and defensive battle of Shimonoseki City II
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Everything that was born last night made today's siege weak, and the soldiers were haggard, throwing away their armor, how could they attack the city. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info please search (product # book...... The fastest updated novel
The casualties were being counted, and William looked at Shimonoseki City from afar, constantly calculating in his heart, but soon he could only sigh and secretly blame himself for being too careless.
In the tent, many generals also had dark circles under their eyes, and it was obvious that they had also suffered from a night of insomnia.
"What are the opinions of the two in Shimonoseki City, the morale of our army plummeted last night, and I am afraid that there is nothing we can do today, so we can only wait for the morale to recover and be ready to attack the city!"
William looked at Chen Bingxian as he spoke, and Chen Bingxian saw William forcing himself to make a statement.
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Last night, he couldn't sleep and was disturbed by the sound of cannons, at this time, seeing William's words, he opened his mouth but felt that he was short of words, Rao is that he is Marshal Rongwei but he did not come to the battlefield in person, nor did he think of a good countermeasure, and he couldn't say why.
Bingxian trembled, and William secretly cursed a waste. He turned his head to the two imperial marshals beside him, Salva and Zheng Yi.
"Let's talk about it two marshals, the current situation is quite unfavorable to our Haoyue coalition army, and the morale of the first battle has been severely demoralized, I'm afraid it's not good!"
Salva's expression was indifferent, and Shimonoseki City, who had been square, did not hear William's question. Zheng Yi couldn't say anything for a while, but he could only reply due to the emperor's inquiry.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not suitable to attack at the moment, the siege equipment was damaged in the chaos last night, and if you want to capture this city in one fell swoop, you have to fight steadily. ”
William smiled coldly, but didn't say anything more, because he knew that there was no other way than trimming at the moment.
On the second day, the Haoyue Legion was still far away from Shimonoseki City, and kept cutting down the giant trees in the Tianmu Forest to make complete preparations.
The major legions inspected their respective ordnance, and with a burst of reports, some magic cannons were also found to have problems and could not be fired smoothly.
William's earthy Chen and Li did not blame, as early as a few days ago, William got Zhou Jinping's transmission.
In addition to mentioning that there is a problem with the magic guide cannon, the transmission also further explains the progress of the war.
The eastward march of the coalition army was blocked by the Roeweh Army, and Zhou Jinping could only fight and retreat towards the central William's headquarters and slowly rendezvous. After these days of fighting, the low-level sergeants of the Demon Slayer Legion suffered heavy casualties, and the Magician Legion had to expend mental power to bombard the pursuers in the rear, and the two sides were in a stalemate like this.
The second night goes into the night.
The bombardment that came as scheduled sounded again, but the Haoyue coalition forces had already learned their lesson, and they did not dare to enter the range of the retreat, but the rest of the soldiers was still constantly harassed by the loud noise, so that the next day they were still in low spirits.
Day 3 Boom Boom!
Day 4 Boom Boom!
Roewe's side seems to have an inexhaustible magic core, and the magic guide cannon that is fired out is obviously not accurate, but the purpose of harassment has indeed been achieved.
Later, William saw that there was no way, so he could only use the magician legion to arrange a large wind barrier to isolate the entire legion, which made the harassment of the magic guide cannon in Xiaguan City come to an end, and the soldiers could sleep a few well, but the loss of a large number of magic cores also made William feel distressed.
You must know that the army of 1.8 million covers an area of almost the entire plain, even if there are a few wind system demon cores in each military tent, the cumulative number is definitely a large number, seeing that the magic cores stored in the army are decreasing day by day, William's temper also began to be irritable, and he did not have a good face for the generals under his account, and shouted that the preparations should be completed within two days.
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Finally, the sergeants were refreshed, and the siege equipment, including arrows and giant crossbow arrows, was also replenished, and the siege was about to begin.
Rows of sergeants holding shields were neatly lined up in a phalanx, covering the siege equipment in the rear and began to slowly advance to Xiaguancheng, all the ballista magic guide cannons were completely ready, and a dense phalanx was assembled in an orderly manner in front of Xiaguancheng.
"The soldiers of the empire, in front of us is the last barrier that hinders us from going deep into the hinterland of Glory, we have no way out, pick up your courage, take out your fearlessness, the Haoyue Empire is the true master of Glory, attack!"
The catapult was quickly loaded, the crossbow bolts had been wound, the magic array of the magic cannon had been activated, and a great battle had officially begun with William's attack order.
"Ready to go!"
The huge stone smashed into the city wall with a sharp whining sound, but a faint yellow shield soon appeared on the edge of the wall, and the boulder smashed on the shield only to cause a ripple in the shield but did not hurt the warriors on the wall.
And all kinds of equipment on the city wall have been transported, and the warriors are even bending their bows and arrows to use their battle qi on them, aiming at the advancing infantry under the city.
Seeing this, William quickly ordered the magic cannon to bombard.
The colorful magic cannon bombarded the shield, and the huge explosion force also made the shield begin to crack and shake violently, and the powerful impact force also made the magicians who maintained the operation of the magic array behind the city wall vomit blood and fell to the ground, and then they were replaced by the substitute magicians.
Yuan Wentian looked around, there were no other losses, and nodded with satisfaction to continue the order.
"Prepare to attack, the ballista battle formation, the magic guide cannon focuses on bombarding the siege equipment behind the infantry phalanx. ”
"Knock Knock Knock !!"
The dull sound of crossbow shots fell downwards in unison.
As soon as the words fell, the warriors who heard the order let go of the already tense ballista strings. Crossbow arrows more than two meters long pierced the air and plowed towards the infantry phalanx on the ground with great force. The magic cannon began to roar, and a huge sound resounded throughout the city wall again, smashing towards the dense phalanx opposite.
"Shield, defend!"
The generals of the Haoyue infantry phalanx shouted one after another, in the face of the giant crossbow arrows, the role of the infantry phalanx is actually not great, and the infantry can only be used in melee combat. But then again, without the proximity of these cannon fodder, how can they lead to the sharp tricks of the defenders.
In an instant, thousands of crossbow arrows formed a tight net, with an indomitable sharpness that instantly pierced the shield of the soldiers of the Haoyue infantry phalanx, the crossbow arrows pierced the soldiers' bodies like piercing a layer of light veil, and the infantry phalanx with 100,000 people instantly seemed to be grate-grated, and thousands of dense blood lines suddenly appeared on the earth-colored plain in front of Xiaguan City, and this salvo caused tens of thousands of casualties.
Although they were all mentally prepared, such a death-like killing in front of them still made all the soldiers of Haoyue feel desperate, and the magic shield that was constantly shaking on the city in front of them was still holding on to the bombardment of the dense magic cannon crossbow arrows and stones, but the opposite shield still existed, and the crossbow arrows and spears shot still killed countless Haoyue infantry soldiers in an instant like a string of sugar gourds.
Explosions rang out in the rear, and many catapult ballistas, along with the sergeants who were controlling them, were reduced to pieces in the same instant and thrown into the air.
Huge pits appeared on the ground, and the magic fluctuations that scattered from them also instantly formed spike fire pits and frozen cracks on the ground.
Immediately after that, a roaring magic cannon followed, constantly blasting huge craters on the ground, and constantly raising stone fragments, mixed with many broken arms and stumps.
William didn't give up the attack, and the attack of the Haoyue Fang's magic cannon never stopped, and he didn't care about the loss of the magic cannon, and this result was also a result, and the magic shield of Shimonoseki City finally began to shatter, showing the bare city wall in front of the Haoyue Legion.
The ladder of the Bright Moon Legion has been erected to the city wall along with the infantry phalanx. In the face of the tragic killing, the first infantry phalanx had already lost tens of thousands of people in just the first round, but the death of these people also aroused the blood of the remaining infantry phalanx.
It is more than twenty meters high, but with only a few support points, a warrior at the level of a warrior can easily climb the city wall.
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However, as the fire magic fell from above, a tall cloud ladder was also instantly ignited by the raging flames.
Many soldiers had just climbed to the side when they were ignited by the flames, and the flames engulfed them instantly, turning into balls of fireballs and falling, and the terrible howls resounded through Shimonoseki Castle, stimulating the nerves of both sides at all times.
But melee combat was inevitable, and the defenders of the city wall of Shimonoseki City finally suffered huge casualties, and the bombardment of the magic cannon instantly tore many magicians and the defending sergeants apart, and the sharp wooden crossbow arrows also pierced many warriors in an instant.
Siege warfare is like this, once the two sides bombard, it can only be a lose-lose situation.
As the crossbow arrows and magic cannons in the rear kept bombarding the city wall, the offensive of the Rongwei defenders at the head of the city couldn't help but slow down under the suppression, and the Haoyue infantry took advantage of the situation to keep up quickly, and slashed the nearest warrior sergeant with a few ups and downs, and instantly climbed to the top of the city.
A battle has changed from long-range combat to melee hand-to-hand combat, Haoyue has been in battle for a long time, and Haoyue Legion is one of William's most important legions, of course, the personal quality of the soldier is also better than that of Sergeant Rongwei.
The fighting shouts of the two sides shook the sky, and Sergeant Rongwei had to pay at least three people to overthrow a Sergeant Haoyue, this is the gap.
However, the infantry who continued to ascend to the head of the city were a little thin after all, and often fought with one person against several people, and with a fierce force, they killed a few people and then were killed.
The miserable howls, the sound of rushing and killing are endless, the fierceness on the city wall is enough to make all the students who have just come out of the academy scared, many students were obviously higher in strength than the Haoyue infantry army, they were stunned, they were no longer facing opponents who were weaker than them, but a butcher who was full of anger and murderous aura, and the original one-sided kill became killed.
Many people were intimidated by the other party's murderous aura, and they even forgot to open the battle qi shield, and they were stunned to be killed by a second-order warrior level lower than the place.
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And William saw that there was already a white-knuckle battle on the city wall, and he also nodded to several old men beside him, and several people instantly turned into several black shadows and quickly dived in the direction of the army that was attacking the city gate.