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When the Norman soldiers pushed and pulled the improved ladder cart to the base of the city wall. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info hitched up the castle and roared and began to attack. General Wallenstein gritted his teeth again. He still ordered the soldiers to pour oil - this time, he didn't want the Normans to fall. Instead, they want to light a fire and burn these ladder trucks to the ground.

Hay plus oil. It burns quickly. The whole ladder truck is like a fire blanket. It burned completely.

"In that case—" General Wallenstein was about to breathe a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, in this case, the Norman infantry still chose to continue the charge! The flames were indeed terrifying, and they flinched. But in the face of true warriors, such a formation was not enough! and after stepping forward and passing through the sea of fire as fast as possible, the Norman infantry would not be too harmed. It's just a slight burn on the calf. The impact on combat effectiveness is rather limited.

It's the coalition soldiers. Seeing the heroic gesture of the Norman soldiers through the flames, I felt ashamed of myself. Morale dropped further.

In this way, a little flame could not stop the progress of the Norman soldiers. In a very short time, less than half an hour, more than a thousand Norman infantry had climbed the walls. Fight with the coalition forces.

Norman infantry, dressed in three-quarter plate armor and armed with tomahawk shields, was incredibly powerful in close-quarters combat. Although the coalition army is numerous. But the fighting power was not as good as these Normans. Plus the amazing move of the Norman infantry through the sea of fire. Let the morale of the coalition forces drop. Under the influence of one another, the Norman infantry, which was less than a thousand, in turn, suppressed the anti-Norman coalition army, which was several times more numerous than them.

This made General Wallenstein and General Karl feel disgraced. Especially after the Normans captured an arrow tower and cut down all three flags of Bavaria, Bohemia and Austria and replaced them with Norman flags. Coalition morale is even lower. Listening to the cheers of the Normans, it was almost impossible to form an army.

"General, we can send reinforcements now!As long as we send another 3,000 elites over, then we will win this battle!" Seeing that our own strikers had the advantage. In the back, beside General Erth, several commanders and knights of the guard were excited, and persuaded them like this.

"I can't tell...... I don't know. ”

However, General Ers is not as optimistic as these people. The general had already seen it. Although the other party was suppressed for a while. But the defeat was not chaotic, and the front remained intact. None of the key points of the city walls have been lost. At the same time, a large number of reserves were still kept. If the army on the front line is increased at this time, it will certainly be possible to expand the results of the war. But there is little hope of winning all at once. The biggest possibility is that two armies are bogged down in a war of attrition. In the end, both sides lost.

"If that's the case, it's not a good thing to win......" General Ers shook his head. In the end, he made up his mind to suspend the attack and made plans for the next step.

Seeing that the enemy has the upper hand. At the head of Prague over there, the two generals of the coalition army muttered in their hearts. I was really afraid that the Normans would send reinforcements in one go. Turn this siege into a decisive battle. At the same time, both generals were prepared for the worst. A large number of heralds were sent into the city. Order the remaining defenders of the city to prepare for battle. When necessary, fight with the Normans.

However, just as the heralds left. At the same time as he went to convey the orders of the allied generals, there was another sound of trumpets in the Norman army. After hearing this trumpet. The Normans, who were fighting bravely against the coalition forces on the city walls, whether they were thousands, centurions or ordinary infantrymen. All moved quickly. Along the siege ladder, they all went down the city again. Retracted under the long-range cover of the Normans.

“...... What's going on? Did we win?" watched the enemy retreat. The two generals came together and looked at each other. I don't know what to say. It's been a long time. It was Wallenstein who reacted first. A shout of "Victory!" was followed by a feeble cheer from the head of Prague.

So, this tentative attack ended in this way. The coalition forces presented themselves as the victorious side. The Norman Empire, on the other hand, also got the data they wanted. For the next period of time, General Ers, except for something to do, as this time, sent a small number of troops to feint in order to weaken the strength and physical strength of the coalition army. It's another job.

"Sixty-four pounder siege cannons". It was a flash in the pan in the siege of Jerusalem. Giant artillery that exists primarily as a deterrent. Nowadays in the Norman Navy. Already in line - of course, only the largest, sturdy ships of the first rank could carry such huge guns. In the Army, such large, bulky artillery is almost completely unsightly - precisely because it is too bulky to transport. Even for a great empire as prosperous as the Norman Empire, the standard equipment of the army was only a twenty-four-pounder infantry gun.

However, General Ers, who is an expert in siege and is well versed in how to craft various siege weapons. The knowledge of this kind of giant artillery was far greater than that of the average person - in fact, after hearing that he would be in charge of the attack on the Austrian side of Bohemia, the general had already begun to plan his plan for a giant artillery.

First, he cast the guns in their entirety. It was then disassembled into parts and loaded on a special eight-horse carriage. Transported in such a way. Once they were there, they had to be reassembled. And you need to replace some new parts before you can use it.

If it is an ordinary field battle, there will be such a time to work, and the daylily will also be cold. However, if it is a siege, it is a different matter......

After a month of preparation, the Allied soldiers in Prague were surprised to find that the Norman soldiers had carried a total of five behemoth-like bronze cannons. The huge cannon barrel can be directly loaded into one person, and it is even richer. Next to these cannons were twenty-four pounder infantry guns, which were much smaller—these originally hideous weapons looked small and insignificant in the face of the monster-like cannons. As for the further back of this artillery array, the twenty smaller mortars are even more inconspicuous......

It's just a short month. Under the constant urging and efforts of General Erth. The Norman engineers rushed to work all night. Not only were five 64-pounder cannons combined, but several other standard guns were cast. Plus the artillery that the Norman army originally had. All of a sudden, he came up with such a terrible stance. Seeing dozens of black holes of artillery aimed at him, how could the coalition forces at the head of the city not panic?!

"This, this is the artillery that appeared during the attack on Jerusalem!" Many soldiers who participated in the Fourth Crusade changed their faces when they watched the huge cannons. When the Normans were fighting the Crusades, they only cast one of these cannons with all their might. Who would have thought that they would come out with five huge cannons at once! Who could stop them in such a terrifying formation?!

I didn't wait for the coalition soldiers to finish sighing. On the side of the Norman Empire, it was ready to shoot. A total of thirty-five artillery pieces were fired one after another. The scene was spectacular. Amid the loud bang, the soldiers in Prague felt as if the sky had fallen. Some of them were even shocked to the point that they were bleeding and their internal organs were shattered! Two of the 64-pound cannonballs were driven into the moat, and the waves of water set off directly hit the head of Prague, and even knocked a few panicked coalition soldiers running in all directions!

This was followed by a second round of shooting. A cannonball slammed into an arrow tower. Then, amid the surprised shouts of the coalition soldiers, a large hole was punched in the middle of the tower, and an equally large hole appeared in the back of the hole. Then the masonry next to the cavity crackled and fell. Then there was a "boom", and the tower, which had looked magnificent, was broken in the middle and fell towards the city of Prague, crushing a few unlucky people who could not dodge into meat sauce, and smashing several surrounding houses into pieces......

A group of coalition soldiers were speechless for a long time watching such a scene. And my heart kept falling......

However, when the soldiers of the coalition army were all fools and could hardly move, outside the city, General Erse angrily scolded: "Where are you aiming?! I want you to bombard the city gate, do you understand the city gate, the city gate !! the current artillery technology is too difficult to blast through the city wall, so in addition to the psychological deterrent effect, the most correct target is the opponent's city !!!gate!

The group of engineers who were working as artillery were a little speechless when they heard General Ers's roar. They also know exactly what to attack. But the accuracy of this heavy artillery was really a bit problematic. And they also rarely used artillery of this specification. Coupled with a little less luck - in a total of two rounds of bombardment, none of the ten shells hit the target, although it sounds idiotic, but in reality it is also helpless.

"Forget it...... Pay attention. Keep shooting. After scolding for a while, General Erse also felt a little helpless, so he waved his hand and ordered the engineers to continue. So the engineers immediately went into action. Super level play, in five minutes, ready to shoot. At the same time, I don't know whether it is the effect of being scolded or the victory of the probability theory. This time, three of the five huge shells hit the opponent's city gate......

(To be continued)