Section 99 The battle begins
The atmosphere on the eve of the big war is always dreary, and this dreary has a suffocating feeling.
The soldiers on the walls of Covind City stared unblinkingly at the enemy camp that had already moved in the distance, waiting and staring for a long time, just for that moment of outburst. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The 8,000 soldiers under the command of Keith, after three days of preparation, have cut off all contact between Covinde City and the outside world, and a large number of siege equipment made in the past two days have been continuously delivered to various squadrons.
Keith stared at the city opposite that seemed to be within reach, take him, and his family could continue to pass it on, fail? No, it won't fail, his current advantage is impossible to fail.
If the information is reliable, the number of troops in the city of Cowinde is less than 2,000, and even if they rely on the defense of the city walls, they will not be able to withstand the attack of 8,000 soldiers. Although the city's defenses are not bad, this kind of dead city without foreign aid, facing enemies several times its size, the final outcome is only the destruction of the city, and Keith is confident that he can take this city within 10 days.
The changing situation in the past few months has completely changed Keith's carefree life, and he has changed from an ordinary thin aristocratic boy to a murderer of his own brother, and then a brutal lord!
Looking at the city of Cowind, which was besieged by himself, Keith kept telling himself in his heart: Don't die so ridiculously like Viscount Marne!
The city of Covind was built on the river, and the only way to attack the city was to attack it head-on, Keith looked up at the somewhat dazzling rays of the sun, and then ordered the catapults to attack the opponent's wall first.
As the herald's rhythmic magic whistle sounded, rows of moving towers were pushed out of the barracks with a "boom" and slowly advanced towards the city walls.
The soldiers who had just left the camp immediately divided into several groups and quietly waited for the advance of the mobile towers, and when the mobile towers advanced to the position in front of them, the infantrymen who had been standing solemnly moved behind the mobile towers in an orderly manner under the orders of the officers.
The cavalry troops, on the other hand, moved to the left and right sides of the ranks and stood by to prevent the enemy from leaving the city to sneak up on the besieging team. The infantry phalanx was followed by giant crossbows and archers, who were responsible for covering the siege of the infantry.
Dozens of moving towers lined up in a row, and the gaps in between, were filled by infantrymen holding long shields.
When Sir Myron saw this scene on the city wall, his hands began to tremble slightly, this is simply a moving city wall! The long-range strike weapons that his side has arranged on the city wall will be greatly discounted!
However, the opponent's heavy crossbow followed closely behind, its attack will directly cover the entire city wall, Myron did not see the opponent's ladder and siege tower, he knew that the other party wanted to fill in the moat under the city wall first.
For Myron Laishui, he has the opportunity to hold the city, just during the period when the siege troops fill the moat, if he can break the morale of the siege troops during this time, and make the enemy soldiers have a sense of fear in their hearts, then he is half the success.
Myron was right, in the past few days, under the protection of the guards, Keith has been going to a high ground on the west side of Cowinde City to observe the terrain of Cowinde City. From the observation of the past few days, Keith knew that he would not be able to make any other substantial attack without filling in the moat beneath the walls, and his captain of the guard, Sir Sven, felt the same way.
As soon as the besieging force advanced to less than two hundred paces from the walls, Sir Myron immediately ordered: "Let the archers prepare the rockets, and let our catapults prepare to attack!"
When the enemy entered the attack range, Myron's face turned cold, his eyes flashed with cold light, and he stared motionlessly at the enemy troops advancing towards him in the lower direction, and his right hand subconsciously held the hilt of the sword at his waist.
The archers on the city walls, at this time, put the arrows wrapped in gray cloth in the tung oil basin and soaked them, and then stared at their commander.
"Ready!" Myron spat out two words, and the herald next to him immediately blew the magic whistle he had brought with him, and when the familiar and piercing whistle sounded, the bunkers, arrow towers, catapults and crossbows in the battlements of the walls of Covinde City were all fired.
At this time, the archer also grabbed the arrow in the tung oil basin and put it on the bow, and the bowstring was already full, just waiting for the magic whistle to blow again!
"Beep!" The rhythmic whistle sounded again, and the soldiers of Covinde City knew that it was the signal for an attack.
"Whoosh!whoosh!whoosh!" "Quack!quack!"
All kinds of uncomfortable sounds suddenly filled his ears, and in an instant, a dark cloud seemed to rise above the head of Covinde City, with fiery red points of light and huge fireballs, pouring down towards the soldiers of the Harrence Command who were advancing!
Keith was also startled when he saw this wave of enemy attacks from a distance, but fortunately, the moving tower fended off most of the attacks for the advancing soldiers.
However, no defense is absolute, the enemy's heavy crossbow passes through the gap in the defense, and the huge crossbow arrow carries a terrifying impact that can directly penetrate the body of several soldiers.
Also, the fireballs thrown by the catapult also caused a lot of casualties among some of the soldiers behind.
The first arrows with a flaming glow were nailed to the moving towers, but they didn't catch fire, because they were fireproofed! But this was only the first wave of attacks, and there were countless more that awaited them.
Now, the troops on both sides of the attack and defense have entered the time rush.
"Quick! Quick!" the experienced officer immediately urged!
Every magic whistle on the city wall was accompanied by a dense rain of arrows, and after two or three rounds of baptism, the besieging army below was already close to the moat, and the soldiers in the front row immediately poured the mud and stones from the burlap bags into the moat.
This burlap bag can be brought back, after all, this thing is not to be consumed as much as you want.
The soldiers were immediately exposed to the archers of the defending forces, and Sir Myron immediately seized the opportunity to shout to the heralds: "Quick, let the archers shoot freely, and crucify the damned soldiers in the moat." ”
Without the protection of the moving towers, the soldiers who poured sand and stones into the river suffered heavy losses at once under the rain of arrows from the defenders, and a wail and scream suddenly came from the front line.
Some soldiers actually started to run to avoid the arrows, but this area was the best strike zone for enemy archers, and they could dodge it, not only did they not dodge the arrows, but even rammed their comrades.
The officers were anxious to curse, suddenly, a rain of arrows rose from the rear and fell towards the walls of the defending troops, fortunately, at this time, the heavy crossbows and archers behind arrived in time, and their attack effectively covered the soldiers who filled the moat in front.