The next morning, dark clouds still hung over Harez City, and the wind swept through the yellow sand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info flags fluttered in the wind, and pairs of soldiers lined up in a neat phalanx outside Harez City.

Unlike the scene in the movie, where the flags are flying, the crusaders outside Harez only have more than 100 flags, and they also belong to more than 100 large and small nobles. There were only a few banners in the eastern, northern, and southern directions attacked by the great nobles and the king's guards.

After all, the soldiers of this era still relied on the direction of the march of the flag to judge whether to attack or retreat. If there are too many flags and the scheduling is not uniform, it will affect the judgment of the soldiers, and at worst, it may cause chaos in the army and lead to the collapse of the army.

Of course, if it is a large army, there will be several detachment flags, and this question cannot be generalized. Otherwise, if the 100,000 army only has one flag, the soldiers in the distance will not be able to see clearly. Generals at all levels are also not easy to dispatch their own soldiers.

Dozens of catapults, storming vehicles and siege towers were assembled. Because there was a lack of good timber around Harez, the timber used to make these siege machines was brought from nearby cities.

For this reason, General Sharu had to requisition many local people to transport supplies. This also increases the logistical burden on the entire army. This is also the reason why General Sharu is in a hurry to attack the city of Harez.

If Harez City is not captured as soon as possible, the huge logistics will drag down the 100,000 crusaders. Therefore, General Sharu could only make a desperate attempt to forcibly attack the city. If it drags on for a long time, the crusading army that was originally forcibly put together may fall apart in an instant.

Seeing that the catapult was ready, General Sharu ordered to skip the test firing stage and proceed directly to the projectile.

Whoosh, a series of boulders streaked across the sky, bringing with them the sound of whistling wind.

Bang bang a dozen huge stones smashed into the walls of Harez, smashing pieces of loess and gravel flying everywhere.

The soldiers on the city wall trembled at the boulders flying over, if it weren't for the training they had been training for days and the overseers behind them, they would have quickly abandoned their weapons and fled.

Count Killian led his own soldiers to stand on the top of the city as a warlord. On the one hand, it is to boost morale and facilitate command, and on the other hand, it is to be ready to save the scene at any time.

"Hold on, there are no quarries near Harez City, and the mining of stones is difficult, and the enemy's catapults will soon stop attacking due to the lack of stones. Hold on to your weapons and show your prowess. Killing an enemy soldier gives you a gold coin, killing ten enemy soldiers can be promoted to captain, and killing a nobleman can take the opponent's title. Glory and wealth depend on today. "Count Killian patrolled the walls and cheered up.

I have to say that Count Killian, who was born as a nobleman, is still very good at encouraging people, and the soldiers who were originally frightened by the flying boulders slowly recovered some of their morale.

At the same time, as Count Killian said, General Sharu's catapult stopped firing after several rounds of projectiles.

After all, there was a lack of such suitable rocks near the city of Rose, and Count Killian had deliberately cleaned up the boulders around the city, so there weren't many stones that Sharu could collect.

Moreover, catapults can't be concentrated in just one place, after all, the nobles of the crusading army are not willing to suffer, and after the dispersion of the four walls, the already small number of stones is even more scarce. After a few rounds of projectiles, it was unsustainable.

The damage caused by a few rounds of catapult projectiles was not significant, but it only smashed a few houses in the city. And a few hapless eggs that had their skin scratched by the flying stones.

General Shalu looked at the empty catapult with a blushing face, and secretly cursed the nobles who were dragging their feet, and had to give the order to start the siege.

Thousands of soldiers marched in a dense formation with round shields pushing the high siege towers towards the walls of Harez, and a rushing cart used to attack the city gate was also slowly pushed in the direction of the city gate.

Count Killian hurriedly transferred the archers who were on standby under the city to the city walls. "Catapults, throwing ale barrels. Put!"

In an instant, dozens of barrels of ale were thrown into General Sharu's siege force, and one by one the barrels fell to the ground and shattered, and countless yellow powders rose into the air.

"Archers, change for flaming arrows, let's go!"

Hundreds of flaming arrows were hurled at the besieging forces.

The flaming flaming arrows instantly caused huge clusters of flames as they flew through the yellow powder floating area. The tight formation, which was originally used to resist bows and arrows, instantly became a talisman, and each broken ale barrel could light dozens of soldiers gathered tightly together into torches.

Suddenly, hundreds of ignited soldiers desperately ran to the side, trying to find a place to extinguish the flames on their bodies, and these running soldiers also contaminated the flames attached to their bodies to the nearby soldiers. Caused even greater riots.

Humans have an instinctive fear of flames, and the soldiers who were originally closely packed scrambled to disperse, hiding from their comrades who were burning with flames. The originally tight siege formation was broken up.

These casks are filled with a mixture of sulfur powder and edelweiss powder. This agent has a strong ability to adhere to and burn, and can cause an explosion if ignited in an enclosed space.

This was a serendipitous discovery made by Cynthia while she was conducting an experiment. When Count Killian learned of this discovery, he used it as a secret weapon and rushed to make a batch. I tried it today, and it worked well.

Seeing that the siege party had dispersed, General Sharu had no choice but to gather the soldiers back and reorganize the attack.

And Count Killian also actively mobilized his soldiers to prepare for the next defense.

In the second round of attacks, General Sharu was on guard. He assembled a large number of men and a small number of logistics soldiers and launched an attack on the walls of Harez in a loose formation of cannon fodder.

There weren't many incendiary barrels in Count Killian's hands, only a few hundred.

The reason why there are so few burning barrels is mainly because Harett City does not produce sulfur mines, and these sulfurs are all bought from outside, and it is not easy to store so much in a short period of time.

After two rounds of projectiles and finding that the results against the loosely formed enemy were not as good as before, Count Killian had to use the primitive method of using bows and arrows, gravel, and golden soup to fight the enemy for the wall. For a time, the battlefield entered the stage of attrition.

The defensive Earl Killian occupies a favorable position and can form a situation of more fighting less on the local battlefield, while General Shalu has superior forces to take turns in battle, and no one can help anyone in a short time.