Chapter 381: The Bloody Battle of Pietro City (2)

The city of Pietro was full of joy, and the two attacks of the barbarian cavalry failed without even touching the edge of the city wall, and the slopes were littered with the corpses of the barbarian cavalry, estimated at no less than five or six thousand corpses. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The casualties paid for the two defeats of the enemy were extremely light, the first time only a dozen or so casualties, and the second time was when a few unlucky people accidentally injured themselves, all of which were small wounds, which gave the soldiers of the Guards Battalion and the 10,000 laborers who were called up with great confidence, feeling that these barbarian cavalry were nothing more than that, and there was nothing to be afraid of no matter how many they were.

Edward wasn't that optimistic, on the contrary, he was always on the lookout. When the whimpering trumpets and the heart-stirring sound of war drums came from the meadows under the twilight, and the shouts of the grassy cavalry at the bottom of the slope, Edwalker knew that his worst fears had happened. The barbarian cavalry, enraged by two defeats, were about to attack overnight, and the most difficult moment was coming for the defenders of the city of Pietro......

The first group of barbarian cavalry quickly approached the city of Piedro, but with the help of the fire of the burning shield carts on the slope, the guards of the city soon noticed that the grass cavalry was gathering the corpses of their companions.

"My lord, they're lifting the corpses down, do you think these barbarians will attack at night?" a guard next to him asked Edwalker with a hopeful look.

"Perhaps, I don't know what they're going to do. It's still far away, let's not shoot yet, and if they just collect the corpses, then we'll let them go. But maybe they're trying to collect the corpses so they can attack better, so let's not be careless. Edwalker replied with a deep groan.

Soon the sky was completely dark, and those huge log shield cars also became black shadows, and then joined together, and the fire on the burning shield cars that were closer was extinguished by the grass barbarian cavalry, and it was impossible to see what was happening behind those black shadows. The rows of log shield carts not only obscured the fire below the slope, but also obscured the view of the defenders on the ramparts......

"Longbowman, shoot a row of rockets, and let's see what the hell those brutes are up to?" commanded Edward.

Dozens of feathered arrows fell in a wonderful arc in the sky with flames, and with the faint light of the feathered arrows, the defenders of the city walls finally saw what the enemy was doing.

"They're filling the hole!" a voice screamed.

"It seems that these barbarians are trying to attack the city overnight!" Edwalk's heart sank, and under the cover of night, the enemy's actions made it difficult for the guards on the walls to deal with it as easily as they did during the day.

"One to ten steel crossbows, go get the oil canister, tie them to the front of the crossbow arrows, aim at those shield cars, and fire!"

"Longbowmen, all on the rocket, target shield car!"

Edward gave two orders in succession, and soon ten small clay pots filled with fire oil were tied to the top of the ten crossbow arrows, and the crossbow arrows with the clay pots were fired and inserted into the top of the log shield car, although not a single barbarian cavalryman was injured, but the fire oil canister tied to the crossbow arrows was broken, and the fire oil was stained on the top of the log shield car. As the suspended rockets fell from the sky, a log shield car ignited a fire, followed by another ......

"Good. Edward Walker was very satisfied with his inspiration: "One to ten crossbows, continue to tie the fire oil canister, aim at the shield car and fire, do not let the fire on the shield car that is already on fire extinguish." The rest of the steel crossbows, firing freely with the help of firelight, are aimed at those enemies who fill in the pits and extinguish the fire. The longbowmen continue to shoot with rockets to cover!"

The barbarian cavalry who were filling the pit had already discovered that the shield car was on fire, and as the barbarian cavalry who went to extinguish the fire was killed by the steel crossbow, they separated the burning and non-burning shield cars, regardless of casualties, raised their shields against the falling rockets and continued to fill the pit, the speed was very fast, and they were close to the distance of less than 100 meters from the city of Pietro. But there was nothing they could do about it, and all the log shield carts that could cover them had become a large bonfire, illuminating the area below as bright as day......

The barbarian cavalry had been retreating for less than two hours, and another group of barbarians were pushing log shield carts, but they were all carrying a bulging straw bag, which was supposed to be filled with dirt. Under the cover of the log shield wagons, the barbarian cavalry threw the straw bags they were carrying into the trench, and soon filled in a passage.

The longbowmen have been switched to direct fire, and the steel crossbows are constantly firing, but there are too many enemies under the city, and the night is dark, and the shooting effect is not very good. The barbarian cavalry, no matter how heavy the casualties, rushed forward one after another. While filling in the trenches, with the help of shield vehicles, they shot arrows at the head of the city. The guards on the walls began to suffer casualties as well.

"Ahh The soldier who was winding up screamed sadly, "Brother......", set up a steel crossbow, and pulled the crossbow machine fiercely at the city.

"Whoosh" A gust of wind came, nearly a hundred feather arrows fell on the city, and more than a dozen reserve soldiers who were carrying crossbow arrows to rescue the wounded were like in a torrential rain, with more than a dozen feather arrows stuck in their bodies and fell on the city. They didn't have the same standard armor as the guards, and the feathered arrows that came from below caused them a lot of casualties......

"Over there!" a guard soldier quickly spotted the gathering place of the barbarian longbowmen under the city, which was behind a burning shield cart, and dozens of steel crossbows turned around and launched a retaliatory counterattack against the barbarian longbowmen.

"Huzola!" another group of barbarian cavalry rushed up with a dozen log shield carts.

"Let the steel crossbows and longbowmen pay more attention to the barbarian archers who shoot arrows under the city, and keep them at bay......" Edwalker gave an order that he regretted a lot.

The walls of the city of Pydro were six meters high, and the gates were covered with iron sheets, and there were large iron fence gates behind them. Even if those barbarian cavalry were allowed to get to the city, what would they do? I don't know how long it will take to break through the city gate with the weapons in my hand. So Edwalker decided to deal with the barbaric archers who fired arrows first, after all, they were the ones who posed a threat to the guards now.

Unexpectedly, these grass barbarian cavalry who had just rushed over were very agile and fast, and rushed to the bottom of the city wall in three or two clicks, and then pulled out a lot of long ladders from the huge log shield car, connected and tied up and put on the city, and some grass barbarian cavalry waved the rope grabbing hook and threw it up, hooked the sawtooth mouth of the city wall above and climbed up, and even some grass barbarian cavalry carried a bag of short guns, and put the short guns on the city wall with fighting spirit, climbing up like a ladder......

"The grass barbarians have come to the city!" An exclamation startled Edwalk, and when he turned around, he saw several grass barbarians appearing on the city, brandishing weapons and shouting and fighting with the guards.

Not far from him, a grass barbarian climbed onto the city, and the cold light flashed, and the blood of the steel crossbow archer who was aiming squirreled up, and he fell to the ground, and the three auxiliary guards next to him had not come back to their senses, and had been poked over by this grass barbarian one by one.

Edwalker's eyes were split, he drew his sword and rushed straight to his head, and the grass man saw that there was no sword on Edwalk's sword, and carelessly thought that Edwalker was just an ordinary guard, the short sword in his left hand went up, and the short sword in his right hand was like a poisonous snake to Edward's throat.......

Unexpectedly, when Edward's long sword and short sword struck, the sword suddenly lit up, and the grass was quite shocked, but it was too late to change his moves, and he watched the long sword flickering and cut off the short sword in his hand, and then slashed down his left shoulder......

kicked away the half-pulled corpse of this grass barbarian, and then split another grass man who was about to climb up the city with a sword, grabbed a fire oil tank next to him and smashed it on the ladder outside the city, and picked up a torch and threw it down, until the ladder ignited a raging fire, Edwalker breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ordered the heralds around him: "Quickly let the sword and shield brigade and the heavy armored spear brigade go to the city, and let the reserve soldiers equip spears and prepare to meet the ......"

It's a pity that this order was given too late, more and more grass barbarian cavalry have climbed the city wall, five groups of steel crossbowmen can not stop these fierce and vicious enemies, many steel crossbows on the city wall have stopped shooting, and there are more and more grass barbarian archers shooting up under the city wall, causing great damage to the soldiers of the guard battalion who are still fighting back on the city wall......

Edward knew that he had done something stupid, because the two-meter-wide city wall was equipped with steel crossbows, plus longbowmen, and a passage for the laborers to carry crossbow arrows, so he did not arrange for the sword and shield soldiers and heavy pikemen to go to the city, anyway, they could not help the attack of the enemy under the city, so they simply let them rest under the city. Who knew that these barbarians climbed the city wall so quickly, which surprised all the guards and soldiers......

"Retreat, retreat back to the tower, close the iron gates, and cross-fire the barbarians on the city wall from the tower, so that they can't go up and down......" Seeing that there were more and more grass barbarian cavalry on the city wall, Edwalker hurriedly ordered to retreat to the tower.

After the city of Pedro was converted into a castle fortress, the façade was a tower, protruding from the city wall, and it was two meters higher than the city wall, with two towers connecting the city wall at each end, and two towers at the corners of the city wall 100 meters long on each side. The role of the tower is to locate the stairs up and down the city wall, and the second is to prevent the current situation, as long as the tower can be held after the city wall is lost, the enemy who occupies the city wall will still not be able to break through the city.

Edward grabbed the soldiers beside him: "Singh, you immediately organize fifty steel crossbows to the second city wall, and shoot the enemies on this wall, go quickly!"

The second wall is two meters higher than the previous one, fifty meters away, and is the last line of defense of the castle fortress, and only by breaking through the second wall can the castle fortress be considered to have been truly captured.

The soldier named Singh knew that the situation was urgent, and without hesitation, he saluted and hurried away.

"Go too. Edwalker said to the longbowmen on the tower. There were only more than 100 longbowmen who retreated to this side of the city tower through the tower, and they had done their best, each of them shot no less than forty or fifty arrows, only to blame the enemy for too many, and when they were resting with all their strength, the enemy took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, and the steel crossbow was suppressing the grass barbarian longbowmen under the city at this time, and as a result, they were attacked by those grass barbarians on the city wall, and in the process of resistance, they sacrificed nearly 100 people......

The most fierce battlefield now is under the four towers at both ends of the city wall, one tower has only six shooting windows in the direction of the city wall, and can only shoot six arrows at a time, which is of no use to the grass barbarism on the city wall. The grass barbarians who successfully occupied the city walls on both sides of the front were furious with excitement, they ignored the crossbow arrows shot from the tower, and tried to break the iron gate between the tower and the city wall with the weapons in their hands with their shields, and soon under the chopping of several grass barbarian warriors with silver rank fighting spirit, the iron door under the tower had been broken through a big hole, but before these grass barbarians had time to cheer for their success, four or five spears stabbed out of the tower like lightning and penetrated into their chests.

In the tower, a dozen or so heavily armored spearmen of the Guards battalion formed a circle, facing the door of the tower, and when they saw the grass barbarians rushing in, they shot and killed them. But from time to time, there were also dying barbarians who made a final counterattack, causing damage to the heavy spearmen, and the wounded were replaced by the heavy armor spearmen behind......

The corpses at the door of the tower were piled up, and they were about to block the doorway, but there were more and more grassy barbarians on the city wall, they grabbed the corpses of the dead in battle, and threw them directly from the city wall, and when they had space for the corpses, they rushed into the tower, and then turned themselves into a pile of corpses waiting to be thrown off the city wall by the latter......

When the soldiers arrived, there were only 500 people in a heavy armored spearmen brigade, and there were only more than 100 people in each of the four towers, and soon these heavy armored spearmen were killed in battle, and the wounded were wounded, and the sword and shield brigade began to fill up. However, the casualties of the sword and shield soldiers were greater than those of the armored spearmen, and although they held out for a longer time, they were soon unable to defeat them. Edwalker had no choice but to order the reservists to fill in.

Although these reservists were strong laborers, they were not trained at all, and they were not well equipped, and more of them only held a spear and relied on the number of people to resist the enemy's attack, and they wore out faster, and it took about five or six reservists to suffer casualties before they could be replaced by a brute. This time, the towers were full of corpses, and it was the reservists who died.

When these dead or wounded reservists were dragged out and transferred back, some of the reservists who were waiting for battle collapsed, they abandoned their weapons and ran around screaming, and Edwalker had to order his only squadron of inverted shield soldiers, more than 60 people, to become a law enforcement team, and disposed of nearly 100 deserters on the spot, cutting off their heads and sticking them in spears to stop the riot.

When all four towers became flesh mills for the reservists, the steel crossbows and longbowmen on the second wall were finally in place, and their attack on the grass barbarians on the first wall dealt a heavy blow to those who thought the city was in sight. There were no log shield carts to hide from on the bare city walls, and patches of grass fell like fallen leaves after being hit by arrows......

The corpses were piled up on the city wall, there was almost no place to put their feet, the blood could fill the instep, and the crossbow arrows and feather arrows were stuck in the corpses, and from a distance, it seemed that a neat grove had grown on the city wall. The sky had begun to turn white, and at last there was no grass to climb the city walls, and the mournful trumpets of retreat came from the grassland below the slopes, as if the drums of war had long since subsided, and the morning glow on the horizon was blood-red and dazzling.....

Covered in blood, Edwalker stood up with difficulty on the bricks, and looked up at the city, only to see the backs of a few barbarian cavalry retreating down the slope with longbows on their backs.

The enemy finally withdrew, and we held the city of Pietro...... Edward let out a long sigh of relief, but the sharp pain from the wound made him moan. It was the most dangerous moment of last night, and a dozen barbarian warriors swung to the top of the castle tower with the help of ropes. Although Edwok and the guards fought and killed them, they suffered heavy casualties, and even he himself was hit by three swords and an axe, but fortunately it was not fatal, and he could continue to command his subordinates to hold the castle after being bandaged.

"My lord, my lord, reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived......" Singh, who was commanding on the second wall, rushed up to the tower and held the staggering Edwalk: "It's Lord Farea's banner, the Legion Elder has finally arrived......"

Edwalker suddenly wanted to laugh, he remembered a joke that circulated in the family army that reinforcements always arrived after the battle...... He wanted to open his mouth to say something, but it was dark in front of him, and he fainted.

...... (To be continued.) )