Chapter 390: Siege

"Shoot the arrows!"

Kanye shouted as he swung his sword and turned his head to shout, and the longbowman behind him raised his bow to aim.

With a whistling sound, the rain of arrows flew towards the city, most of which were blocked by the arrow stacks, and taking advantage of the gap between the arrows in Zivinie's archers, the enemies on the city showed their heads and wanted to counterattack.

However, Zivinie's archers are basically hunters, and what they are best at is a continuous attack like a rainstorm, the first round of salvos is over, and the second round has arrived.

The rain of arrows weighed down the defenders on the towers, and they could only hide behind the stone walls and pray that bad luck would not befall them.

"Follow me again!" shouted Barro the Bear, his eyes already bloodshot red, and he and a team of armored hundred-men from his own territory were tasked with blasting open the gates with a chariot.

They have scrapped the first four rushing cars, and now the one they have on hand is the last one.

Many corpses lay beside the still burning rushing car, some of the soldiers of the army who had been shot to death, and some of the balls of meat sauce smashed by the fallen defenders.

Screams came and went, and there were dying wails everywhere. The flames burned with corpses as fuel, emitting a disgusting filth, and people kept falling next to the rushing car, but immediately someone took over, and with Barrow's encouragement, they almost stepped on the corpses of their comrades step by step. The roof of the truck made of thick cowhide was littered with gravel and stumps.

"Be careful!"

With the exclamation of the crowd, a huge stone flew over their heads and smashed directly on the city wall in front of them, the stone instantly split apart, and the fragments smashed into the crowd in front of the city wall.

The counterweight stone throwers next to Jebotai began to wield their might, and the stones thrown by the huge war machines easily left huge holes in the walls that had made the besieging soldiers suffer, and the unsteady defenders fell from the crumbling walls.

"Dodge!" Barrow I shouted, and used his thick arms to flick away the falling stones.

But not everyone had the strength of him, and many jumped out from behind the shields and shields in order to avoid the stones.

Seeing this, the enemy immediately counterattacked the defenseless soldiers with bows and arrows and boiling oil, and the scorpion crossbows fixed on the city walls also began to fire, and the huge crossbow arrows pierced directly through the arrow shields, nailing the people behind them to the ground.

After the smoke and dust from the trebuchet cleared, a terrible truth came before the garrison: a gap had been smashed in their walls.

Of course, Zivinie would not let go of this opportunity, and Randall and Batesmore led the formation of their subordinates to attack the vacant place, and the defenders who had risen from the ruins immediately took up arms to stop them.

Batesmore's army, like him, was undeterred by these resistances, and they continued to advance in a very tight formation, using their spears to knock down the enemies on the piles of stones.

Seeing that the defense line was about to be breached, the enemy commander brought in all the reserves to plug the gap, and they desperately blocked the advance of Zivinie's troops like crazy.

"How can these men fight like chickens?" Stannis's troops had been repulsed dozens of times, and had not suffered such stubborn fighting since he raised his army, and he had received information that the city had only a little more than 1,000 garrisons and 20 trebuchets, but under the siege of his 5,000 troops, Drehem had held out for a week.

"No, I must take this city!"

Stanis then led his own guards, despite his royal status, and Richard was the only one at the front, deciding that the attack must take the city.

And the defenders have reached the point of exhaustion, they use all means, even directly pushing those huge scorpion crossbows into the gap, and shooting directly at the rushing Ziviny soldiers.

And the living men on the walls were not idle, and they threw stones and barricades under the city, or poured boiling hot oil.

For a time, this small gap became the most fierce place in the entire battlefield.

And these methods finally disrupted Qi Weini's tortoiseshell formation, they all abandoned the spears in their hands, and instead drew their short swords to meet the enemy's short soldiers, and everyone fought together, like a huge meat grinder, the sounds of fighting, shouting, screaming, and screaming were intertwined.

With desperate resistance from the defenders, Barrow and his men could not go any further.

"The First Legion of my Second Legion is ready, but why haven't they been there!" Stannis lifted the curtain and walked in with his sword in hand, his armor covered in blood.

"It's not time yet. In the tent, Hillier was still studying the map on the table, and this time he was the commander of Zivignie, because he was the only one with siege experience, and even Stannis could not disrupt his deployment.

"This is my last reserve, and everyone in front of me is asking for reinforcements!" Stannis was a little anxious.

"Hmm. Hillier nodded unhurriedly.

"Heathing, Hillier, we could be defeated!" Stannis finally shouted.

"My king, it seems that you still have little faith. Hillier put down his pen and stared at Stannis.

Stannis was a little strange, he had already pressed all the hole cards, why did the other party still say that he didn't have any confidence?

Hillier continued: "We have too few people, and according to the previous situation, we would have to have at least 10,000 men to attack a large city like the siege. ”

"Hillier, you're being too cautious. Sometimes it's a good thing, but sometimes it's deadly!" Stannis felt like he was going crazy.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but the First Corps is no longer in the camp. ”

"What, where did you get my army!"

"They were led by Lord Robert and had entered the city from the dry well. ”

"How are you!" Stannis was speechless, not expecting Hillier to move troops behind his back.

"You said I was the commander of this siege, and I don't need to report anything to you. ”

Somewhat regretting the handing over of command to Hillier, Stannis stepped out of the tent and decided to personally lead his soldiers into battle.

Charlie stepped forward, his armor was better than that of an ordinary knight, and he was not equipped with a short sword, but carried a long sword at his waist. By this time, the Imperial Guards had gathered the last of the men in the camp on Stannis's orders.

"Take your army with me, and take Drehem this time!" Stannis had already decided to bypass Hillier, and the whistling of the trebuchet was so deafening that he had to shout loudly.

Charlie nodded at him and gave a loud order to his men: "Team ready!"

Hearing the commander's command, the soldiers in the first row pushed the arrow board and slowly advanced, while the soldiers behind them raised their broad shields above their heads to resist the bows and arrows.

With the sound of neat steps, the team launched a final assault on Drehem, who was burning with fire in the distance.