Chapter 380: The Bloody Battle of Pietro City (1)

People on their backs turned over on their horses, under the watchful eyes of the public, more than 2,000 horsemen who launched the first wave of attacks suddenly lost their front hooves before they reached half of the slope, and the grass barbarian cavalry above fell out one after another, and the lucky ones could still struggle for help, the unlucky ones had broken their necks and broke their breath, and the second and third waves of grass barbarian cavalry who followed closely behind hurriedly reined in their mounts, dismounted and began to save people, and after a while they turned their horses' heads and ran back, and the grass barbarian cavalry who were cheering for those watching the battle was like being slapped in the face, and could no longer scream. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and in the process, there was no movement in the city of Pedro on the slope......

The face of the Krinubi patriarch was very ugly, and he felt very embarrassed by the halfway attack: "Go, bring me Harikayi, Runi Jiji and Murlymed, I hope they can explain why they stopped attacking......"

The barbarian guards beside him brought only two people: "Noble Lord Krinubi, your lowly servant Harikai, Murraymud salutes you. ”

"Where's Runiggi?" Patriarch Krinubi snorted from his nose.

"Noble Lord Krinoubi, Runigigi has returned to the arms of the wolf god. The older Murray replied respectfully.

"What did you say?" Patriarch Krinubi was stunned: "He's dead? Nonsense, how could he be dead, he drank a big urn of milk wine from me last night and ate a roast sheep from me." Didn't you just go out of battle well?"

"It's true, noble Lord Krinoubi, your lowly servant did not dare to deceive you with lies, and the brave Runigigi followed your instructions and took the lead, but the despicable flatlanders dug countless traps on that slope, and Runigigi's war horse stepped into one of them, and his right front hoof broke, and Runigigi flew out, broke his neck, and thus returned to the arms of the wolf god......." Murraymud explained in detail the cause of Roonigigi's death.

"Well, you said the slope is full of pits?"

"Yes, noble Lord Crinoubi, your lowly servant has not lied to you, the two thousand horses with the guitar of Roonegi have broken more than three hundred horses, the warriors have fallen and injured more than a thousand, and more than a hundred warriors have returned to the arms of the wolf god like Roonegigi. The scumside was filled with pits, trenches and traps, and filled with sharp wood-spiked wolf fangs. We couldn't rush up on horseback, so we decided to retreat first......" Murray Murray hurriedly explained the reason for the withdrawal, saying that it was not because of cowardice, but because there was no way to attack.

"Hmph, I hope what you said is true......" Patriarch Krinupi looked Murlymoud and Harika up and down with cold eyes, and saw that they were both standing there calmly, obviously not lying, so he turned to Archduke Fisabulun.

"Hehe, no problem, my brother, Patriarch Krinubi. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun had already heard their conversation and spoke before the Patriarch of Krinubi: "I will hand over all the shield carts I brought with me, and you all know very well how to use them in ambush warfare." It is believed that with these shield carts, you will soon be able to fill in the traps and trenches on the slopes, and will also be able to protect you from approaching the city of Pedero. I think that since the enemy has dug so many traps and trenches on the slopes, does it not mean that they do not have enough troops to defend them, so they have to use such despicable means to stop and delay the attack of our warriors......"

The Krinubi patriarch hoped that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun would send the soldiers of his Frontier Ranger Regiment to attack the city of Pietro with those log shield carts to cover his men, but he was first blocked by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. The shield car can be given to you, and people don't think about it.

Hatefully cursing the old fox in his heart, the patriarch of Krinubi nodded at the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, thanked him, and then ordered Murlymud and Harikayi, who were standing in front of him, to receive the shield cart, and let the barbarian cavalry dismount and get tools to fill in the pits, trenches and traps on the slope first......

Grand Duke Fisabrun ordered the encampment on the spot, and this time the Krinubi patriarch did not stop him. I don't know how much time it will take to push those log shield carts up the slopes, and it takes a lot of manpower and time to fill in the horse pits, trenches and traps, so you can't let the 100,000 grass barbarian cavalry sit stupidly on their horses and wait. The Patriarch of Krinubi has postponed the capture of Pydro until tomorrow, so let's open a passage for the attack today.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the construction team of the barbarian cavalry pushing the log shield cart had approached about 300 meters of the city of Pietro, because the city of Pietro had not moved, and the barbarian cavalry with various tools had lost their vigilance, and knew that they were burying their heads in the pits and trenches on the ground. Patriarch Krinubi has given a death order, and a road must be opened today, and none of the barbarian cavalry hopes that they will be punished when they go back, and their ideal is to finish it as soon as possible and return to the camp as soon as possible to have a good rest.

No one knew that at this moment, Edward, the commander of the 23rd Battalion of the Guards of Pedro City, had just organized a raid team of nearly 1,000 people to set off from the back gate of Pedro City, secretly covering the front along the moat, bending down to get closer and closer to these grass barbarian cavalry, and then suddenly jumped up at a distance of less than ten meters and rushed into the crowd of people who were buried in work......

It was a massacre, and three or four thousand barbarian cavalrymen who were filling in the pits and trenches of the horses were killed, and fell into a miserable situation. When the enemy pounced in front of them, they realized that they didn't know where to put their weapons, and the tools in their hands were cut off by the enemy's sword, and then there was a flash of cold light, and they lost consciousness, and there was darkness in front of them......

The 100,000 barbarian cavalry who had already set up camp looked at the slaughter and atrocities on the slope in the distance in amazement, and the grassbarian cavalry who went up to work one by one were slaughtered by the enemy as easily as killing chickens, and the grassbarian cavalry who were lucky enough to fall behind cried and ran down the slope, but they were unlucky, because they pushed a lot of log shield carts up, because the city of Pydro was slow to move, so they forgot the danger of being attacked, and they thought that these shield carts were bulky, so they all fell behind.

Now these log shield carts became an obstacle to their escape, and they could not squeeze through as soon as there were too many people, and the barbarian cavalry that fell behind let out a miserable cry, and the soldiers of the Guards Battalion who were chasing after them could even penetrate the chests of two or three enemies with a single shot......

The barbarian cavalry in the camp finally reacted in shock, they let out a furious roar, and flew on their horses in desperation, whipping their mounts and rushing towards the slope, and the city of Pedro rang at this time a crisp bell, and the guards who came out to raid no longer pursued the fleeing enemy, but took off the skins hanging beside them, and poured the oil into the huge log shield carts, and lit them with fire, and there were fifty or so large fires burning on the slope, and then they stopped for a while, and after selecting some trophies from the dead barbarian cavalry, they withdrew to the city of Pietro。

Only seven or eight hundred of the three or four thousand barbarian cavalry who went up the slope to fill in the horse pits and trenches ran back, and nearly three thousand of the barbarian cavalry lay on the slope, and even the fifty or so log shield carts that were pushed up became huge bonfires, which was simply a slap in the face of all the barbarian cavalry.

The barbarian cavalry who rushed from the camp to the rescue were furious, they had just received the seven or eight hundred people who had survived and lost their souls when they ran down the slope, and then looked at the bloody corpses of the tribesmen scattered all over the slope, and their eyes were red. And the cheers and laughter coming from the city of Pydro sounded so harsh to them. A barbarian cavalry shouted like a frenzy, and his horse rushed up the slope, and countless grassbarian cavalry behind him also shouted, and rode his horse to follow, and launched an attack on the city of Pietro.

The enraged brute cavalry showed great horsemanship, and they rushed up the slopes, leaping across the rugged hills, skimming over the flaming shield carts, and over the corpses of a Gu people, and quickly approaching the city of Pietro. It was only when they were less than three hundred meters from the city of Pedro that they came into some trouble, and the pits and ditches that were all over the place finally slowed down their speed, and from time to time the brute horsemen fell when their mounts stepped on the pits, or because their horses had rushed too fast, and they fell headlong into the trenches. But these barbarian cavalry, who were carried away by the rage, were not afraid, and as long as they could get up, they still brandished their weapons and rushed towards the city of Pietro, shouting loudly for the protection of the wolf god......

"Release!" Seeing that these barbarian cavalry were already approaching a distance of two hundred meters, Edwalker finally gave the order to let the steel crossbows arranged at the head of the city fire.

With the sound of "buzzing" firing, the first crossbow arrow was shot out from the two hundred steel crossbows arranged at the head of the city, like a gust of wind sweeping across the position, and the grass barbarian cavalry who shouted for the charge turned over on their backs, and fell in pieces, and many grass barbarian cavalry and even people and mounts were nailed to the ground by the crossbow arrows that were shot at the fiercely, and the screams of people and the neighing of horses became one.

Although these two hundred crossbow arrows dealt a severe blow to the attacking grass barbarian cavalry, all the enraged grass barbarian cavalry did not stop their charge, and more grass barbarian cavalry swarmed in, ignoring the wounded and corpses severely injured by the crossbow arrows, ignoring the crossbow arrow attack they were about to face, still shouting loudly, cheering themselves and their companions, and continuing to rush towards the city of Pietro......

"The steel crossbow fires freely, the longbowman prepares! The enemy can shoot on his own when he approaches a hundred meters, and there is no need to wait for orders. Edwoker gave the order again.

The configuration of the Norton Family Guard Battalion is generally two sword and shield brigades of 1,000 people, a spear and heavy armor brigade of 500 people, a longbow brigade of 500 people, a steel crossbow brigade of 500 people with 100 steel crossbows, and a logistics baggage brigade of 500 people. If it is stationed in a strategic location, it will be equipped with an additional hundred steel crossbows, and one less sword and shield brigade, and the 23rd Guards Battalion will be stationed in the city of Pietro, which will also be equipped with 200 steel crossbows. Now these two hundred steel crossbows were placed on the front wall by Edward, and at this moment another form of massacre was launched against the barbarian cavalry below the city......

The first time Edwalker organized the guards to go out of the city to raid it was hand-to-hand combat, but now the steel crossbow on the city wall carried out a long-range point kill on the grass barbarian cavalry under the city, one by one the grass barbarian cavalry broke through the trap and jumped over the trench, but the crossbow arrows that came from one after another made all their anger and efforts condense at this moment, from time to time there were grass barbarian cavalry who were carried up by the crossbow arrows, fell in the trench, and fell to the ground, in this storm of crossbow arrows, no grass barbarian cavalry could get close to the distance of a hundred meters from Pedro City.

The Krinubi patriarch and the patriarchs of many grass barbarian tribes stood together, shouting loudly and cheering for those grass barbarian cavalry: "Rush up, kill them all, and slaughter the whole city!"

In the end, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun couldn't stand it anymore and reminded: "I think it's better to withdraw first, it's the log shield car that wants to attack us, and now rushing forward like this is just making an arrow target, and our grass barbarian warriors have lost their lives in vain......"

The Krinubi patriarch immediately woke up: "Yes, blow the trumpet quickly, let our warriors withdraw first......."

The loud sound of the horn resounded throughout the grassland, and the grass barbarian cavalry, which had been unable to attack for a long time and suffered heavy casualties, finally regained their consciousness and retreated down the slope like a tide, leaving corpses and blood all over the ground.

After all the grass barbarian cavalry returned to the camp, as soon as the patriarchs of the grass barbarian tribe counted them, everyone was angry, and before the attack officially began, there were already nearly six thousand grass barbarian warriors lying on the slope. Krinu regretted even more than the patriarch, the first time the barbarian cavalry went to fill the pit and the second time the warriors who spontaneously charged, his tribe had lost more than 4,000 men......

Grand Duke Fisabrun advised: "Although the initial battle was unfavorable, we have already understood the basic situation of the defense of Pydro, and a careless defeat is nothing, let's rest for a night, and we will attack Pydro City tomorrow." ”

The patriarch of Krinubi coldly rejected the proposal of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun with slightly red eyes: "No, we will attack overnight, we will not let the enemies of Pydro City spend another night in peace, the blood debt must be paid in blood, we have 100,000 horses, from this moment on, we will not let the enemies of Pydro City get a moment of rest, we will continue to attack until the city is captured...... Your Highness the Lion Grand Duke, please hand over the rest of your shield carts to us, and we will soon arrange the men and horses and the order of the attack. ”

"Of course, we are allies and stand together. I will arrange for all the shield carts to be handed over to you for use, and I wish you to take the city of Piedro in the first battle, and avenge the unfortunate death of the warriors. Grand Duke Fisabulun smiled and agreed to the request of the Krinubi patriarch.

The trumpets sounded again, and three phalanxes of barbarian cavalry gathered under the slope, each with four or five thousand men. There were twenty or thirty log shield cars in front of them. The barbarian cavalry had dismounted, and they were to be divided into three waves, pushing huge shield carts up the slope to approach the city of Pedreau. The first batch of grass barbarian cavalry on the slope received a simple order, that is, after approaching the city of Pietro, they should first collect the corpses of all the grass barbarian warriors, and not let the corpses of these brave warriors who died bravely be left in the wilderness. The second group of Grass Barbarian warriors who went up the slope had to suppress the enemy on the city wall with their longbows, covering the rest of the grass barbarian cavalry to fill in traps and trenches, and of course they had to watch out for the surprise attacks of the enemy in the city.

The grass barbarian cavalry who went up the slope for the third time was the main force of the real siege, and in addition to the shield carts, they also brought a lot of long wooden ladders. After the second group of barbarian cavalry opened a passage to the city of Pietro, they would approach the city wall along this passage, and under the cover of the barbarian longbowmen behind, they would use long wooden ladders to climb the wall, cut down the enemy, and capture this section of the city wall to receive more grass barbarian warriors to enter the city, and finally win the final victory.

This siege method is the traditional siege method left by the grass barbarian tribe for hundreds of years to deal with the flatland towns, so the third batch of grass barbarian warriors gathered the most famous warriors and strong men of all the grass barbarian tribes, they were drinking the mare's milk wine in their skins at the moment, packing up their armor, wiping the weapons in their hands, laughing loudly and joking with each other, and the rest of the grass barbarian cavalry looked at them with awe......

The sky began to darken, and the fire on the fifty or so burning shield cars on the slope of nearly a kilometer long seemed extraordinarily bright, and the sound of the horn sounded again, but the difference was that there were more bursts of war drums like thunder, and the rumbling drums echoed in the open field, bringing a kind of solemn and shocking throbbing......

The grass barbarian cavalry under the slope let out a deafening cry: "Huzola!"

This is the name of the wolf god worshipped by all the grass barbarian tribes in the Northeast Prairie, and calling this name means the determination to move forward, either win or die. The first group of barbarian cavalry rushed up the slope with log shield carts, and the assault on the city of Pietro began.

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