Chapter 483: Continue the onslaught
The siege battle, launched by the Imperial Army, has been going on for the fourth day, and the progress of the war has exceeded the expectations of all parties, and it has reached a stalemate. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
First of all, on the attacking side, that is, on the Ka Miao side, I thought that the siege would be very smooth, after all, they had several reasons.
For example, the Imperial Army occupies three times more than the defending Rose Army, for example, the Rose City is not strong.
As a commercial city, the construction of Rose City over the years has not been prepared for war at all, and the beauty is greater than the practicality.
But as the war progressed, the Rose Army showed tenacious perseverance, and their command and command performance was surprising.
No matter how aggressively the Imperial Army attacked and tore through the mouth, the defending Rose Army could always fill the loophole and repel it at the first time.
This made Ka Miao extremely distressed, and for this reason he had already removed several legion commanders from his positions, but he said that he would take Rose City within a week.
But now that half of the time has passed, the whole city is still impregnable, which makes his plan for a quick solution fail, how can he not be annoyed?
Secondly, the defenders of the Rose originally thought that even if they went out of the city to fight, they would have the strength to fight against the Imperial Army on the frontal battlefield.
After all, they had been confronting the Imperial Army for a long time before this, but after a real all-out battle with the Imperial Army.
The Rose Defenders only discovered the strength of the Imperial Army's attack power, and sure enough, they had been hiding their strength before, even if they had the tall castle towers to rely on.
The Rose Army continued to suffer heavy losses, losing more than 2,000 men in just a few days, and the defenders' ordnance was also badly damaged.
The general public who were still demonstrating at the Governor's Palace were also stunned, especially when they saw a steady stream of flying stones falling into the city.
After too long of comfortable and peaceful days, they felt the horror of war for the first time, and thanks to Lin Ye's early deployment to let them retreat to a safe area, there were no large number of civilian casualties, and the people watched their originally sturdy houses being shattered by flying stones.
Every day, a large number of wounded soldiers were carried down the tower, and the people came to their senses that war was cruel and not as simple as they thought!
"Is this war? The youngest son of the neighbor Bes, who saw him patrolling the city walls yesterday, lost an arm today. ”
"Yes, at first I thought I could easily defeat those bastards, but I didn't expect them to be so powerful, I really underestimated them. ”
"We really wronged the Duke before, if we fought rashly, more people would definitely die, maybe it would have been breached. ”
"We can't sit idly by any longer, the Duke has come from the Far East, and is still fighting for our safety, although we can't climb the city walls to fight, and we can't shoot the enemy with our bows, but at least we have to do what we can, I'm a leather merchant, donating twenty carts of leather. ”
The people of Rose City watched the fierce battle on the city walls from afar, and finally decided to do something for the city, and they must not stand idly by!
"I'm a herb merchant, so I'm going back now and I'm going to send all the herbs in the warehouse to the barracks to treat the wounded, they are all here to protect our wounds. ”
"I'm a carpenter, and there must be a place on the walls that will be useful for me, so I'll go back and pack up my guys and go to the barracks to help. ”
"Although I'm not a businessman, and I don't know much technology, but I'm going back to tear down the door panel of my house, which can always come in handy!"
At the call of people of insight, the citizens took action and contributed their modest strength to the defense of the city.
There may have been many differences between them before this, but at this moment, everyone has only one purpose, to defend Rose City to the death!
The archers on the tower were shooting, and unlike the arrows used to set fire on the first day, this time with clusters of arrows.
The overwhelming rain of arrows rushed over, and the shields raised by the soldiers of the Imperial Army were instantly inserted with dozens of arrows, and there were almost no gaps to follow.
Some soldiers reacted half a minute slowly, and their wrists were shot through the whole body, and blood was pouring into them immediately, but he didn't care about screaming, and another cluster of arrows flew in.
The experienced veteran hurriedly dragged him behind him, hunched up and raised his shield, the sound of breaking through the air kept ringing in their ears.
"Damn, the bows and arrows in the city are so fierce that there is no way to get close at all, many people have already died, and they can't continue to attack!"
"But there is no order to collect the troops, we can only bury our heads and rush down, General Ka Miao gave a death order, and there will only be one death when we turn back!"
"Did that bastard take our lives seriously? This is simply sending us to death for nothing, General Adolf is not. ”
"What can we do as soldiers, even if we don't want to fight, we can only rush, we can't stand the front, hurry up!"
The veteran looked back at the officers who were supervising the formation in the rear, and then at the walls of the city where the arrows rained down, and he had never feared death since he joined the army.
Anyway, he is also alone, but he is not afraid of death, because he has a sense of honor as an imperial soldier, and it is a long-cherished wish to die on the battlefield.
But was such a meaningless death really what he wanted? He smiled bitterly and saw the young people's immature faces.
He has never served the old, and sure enough, only at this moment can he sigh that he is already a remnant of the previous era, and he is finally not far from death!
At the back of the battle formation, Ka Miao anxiously paced back and forth with his hands on his back, and since he had been promoted to lieutenant general of the Central Army, he had rarely ridden a horse anymore.
"It's the fourth day, why haven't we made any substantial progress? We have a three-fold advantage in troops, can't we take it?"
Ka Miao was furious, the tenacity of Rose City was beyond his imagination, originally he wanted to take this opportunity to surpass Adolf in one fell swoop, and even ascend to the first place in the imperial military circles, what Doragon stood aside, he was the pillar of the empire, the pillar of the empire.
But now that he can't even gnaw on a small Rose City, how can he do the big things he wants to do?
"General, the resistance of the defenders is too stubborn, we have lost nearly three legions in the onslaught of the past few days, such losses are really a bit unbearable!"
You must know that when Adolf was in charge of the army, they only lost three legions in a month, half of which was caused by Aquiz's light enemy advance, but in just a few days, the losses have reached this number, if it drags on any longer, it will be worth it?
"It's just three legions, don't just look at our losses, there is also a lot of pressure in the city, it's almost unbearable, as long as we hold on, we will be able to tell the winner within a week, they are not our opponents. ”
Ka Miao has a strong attitude and still believes that he can win to the end.
"General, no, this is a letter from General Doragon, they are surrounded in Pepper Village, hoping that we can go to support. ”
At this time, another scout came to deliver the news, and this was the fifth letter sent by Doragon.
"Siege Pepper Village? So they secretly sent an army over? To deal with Dorragon they need to send at least four legions, which means that the number of defenders in the city now does not exceed six legions, this is really good news, pass my order, continue the onslaught!"
Ka Miao was in ecstasy, his eyes were fixed in the Rose City, and he would never care what happened somewhere else.