Chapter 105: Breaking the Bamboo
The guards at the head of the wall couldn't resist at all, they were shocked back or killed, and the enemy was allowed to climb the wall at once, or a few mercenaries on the side went up, and a dozen magic apprentices released small magic together under the cover of the guards' tower shields and wooden platoons, so that the enemy was hindered, so that a large number of garrison members had time to go up again.
The formation of the garrison members was extremely dense, they were desperately close to the enemy, completely close to the enemy, reducing the enemy's outbreak space, and relying on the combined force of the large number of people, they were finally able to withstand this offensive.
On the other side of the siege tower, it was Lynn himself who stopped the attack of these warriors, and the rest of the city had to rely on the cooperation of mercenaries and garrison members to resist the enemy who climbed the ladder to attack the city.
Lynn frowned and said to Lancer, "Hell, sure enough, ordinary people can't be used as warriors, even if it's used for the defense of the city wall. ”
Luo Lan didn't want to turn into a dragon to be arrowed, she was always at the head of the wall, so she flashed her big eyes and said: "Old man bearded, as long as 10,000 gold coins, I will help you cut down the Xuanqiao of the siege tower." ”
Lynn almost vomited blood, he was not very old, in the prime of life, his black and shiny beard was often praised by noblewomen, when did he become an old man?
However, now is not the time to think about this, he just wanted to agree, when he heard Luo Lan muttering again: "Don't come early, don't come late, come at this time." ”
Lynn hurriedly looked down the city, only to see the flanks of Edmund's soldiers scratching for a while, and a large amount of smoke and dust billowing up like dark clouds in the distance approached.
Edmund was standing on the high command platform of the Chinese army, this was to control the overall situation of the battlefield, he looked at the smoke and dust in shock, and then his throat gurgled and wanted to say something, but he couldn't make a sound because of trembling.
It was already approaching evening, and on the undulating plains in the distance, a metallic forest reflecting the red light of the sunset appeared out of thin air, all of them were Oro cavalry!
The Oro cavalry had accelerated closer. At the top of the riding formation, Raphael's starry eyes glared angrily and roared: "Shoot!"
The cavalrymen let out a "whoop" and all raised their crossbow arrows.
The infantry on Edmund's flank, seeing that the sky was obscured by terrible black clouds, and that the arrows had not yet fallen, had already screamed in horror, and they tried to shrink their bodies under the tower shield.
Raphael yelled again: "Kill!"
The cavalrymen raised their axes and spears, and shouted together, "Kill, kill, kill!" and picked up speed again, and the anger soared to the sky.
Two thousand infantry, in order to protect the flanks, arranged in a rectangular formation, two hundred and fifty people in a row, a total of only eight rows, not yet pikemen, under the destruction of a round of crossbow arrows, a small half died, the formation was completely loose, where can it resist.
With a loud "boom", the cavalry broke through the thin cloth like a long sword, and scattered all the infantry at once, and half of the infantry fell under the iron hooves, and those who were lucky not to die were the infantry on both sides of the long phalanx, and they ran and broke apart with all their might.
After breaking through the flanks, the cavalry, led by Raphael, continued to charge at the archers without pause, and the archers were eager to have an extra pair of legs, almost on all fours, and fled in panic.
Where did the soldiers on the siege tower dare to attack the city, and without the follow-up troops, what is the use of rushing to the city wall with dozens of people? They were so frightened that they immediately retreated and retreated to the siege tower, and the soldiers who were stepping on the ladder also shrank back, and they hid in the dead corners of the city wall, not knowing what to do.
Standing at the head of the city in high spirits, Lancer shouted with his magic equipment: "On the plain, who can outrun the cavalry?
Lynn also flickered and shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor already knows that you are rebelling, and has sent us 10,000 cavalry! Those who surrender will not be killed! Those who disobey will be exterminated!
When Lancer heard this, he continued to threaten: "Your cavalry has been destroyed by Your Majesty's army!
With so many cavalry together, you can only see a lot, a lot, how can you tell how many there are at once? Moreover, in the eyes of Edmund's soldiers, it is absolutely impossible for Oro to have so many cavalry, it must have been sent by His Majesty the Emperor. They believed that defeat would be the annihilation of the race! They were extremely frightened, and on the battlefield, most of the soldiers had already fallen on the ground and surrendered.
The commander of the phalanx on the other side of Edmund's battle formation, seeing that Raphael was about to charge at them, immediately shouted surrender and ordered his soldiers to lie down.
As soon as Raphael saw that the situation was decided, he shouted: "Separate the attack, scatter any enemy forces that try to gather, attack those equipment!" Fortunately, he had a magic necklace of amplification, otherwise in such an army, he would have to make gestures or use horns.
The cavalry formation began to change, scattered into groups of a thousand horsemen, charging at the enemy who was still trying to resist.
In this case, there are really not many people who are willing to resist, only those nobles who are related to Edmund's interests, and the remaining soldiers on the battlefield are lying down one after another.
Edmund trembled, jumped off the podium with his hands and feet, and he trembled and climbed onto the wildebeest, almost falling, but it was his cronies who helped him to avoid making a fool of himself.
He cried out in fear, "Return to the territory!" and fled with his cronies.
At this time, there was no resistance on the battlefield, including those mages, as long as the mages surrendered, they could basically continue to enjoy the treatment of nobles, no big deal.
Hans rode out of the barracks on a wildebeest when he saw the Oro cavalry appear, and he took out a disc, which was stimulated by the magic of the disc, and as he ran, he reported through gritted teeth.
Although he did not take an active part in the war, he certainly hoped that Edmund would win, because he hated St. Paul very much.
The Rhine Fortress was the central gateway of the Oran Empire, and it was a famous general with the surname Rhine who captured this unruly fortress for the royal family that changed its name to it.
The average height of the Rhine fortress wall is thirty meters, and the overall look looks like a huge monster, crawling between the mountains, this terrifying height has established its reputation as the first fortress on the continent, and anyone who comes to the city wall will be shocked.
The fortress itself is a huge city. At this moment, there was a deafening noise in the streets of the fortress, and people cheered and shouted the emperor's honorific name.
The jubilant crowd flocked to a troubadour who brought them good news. These people were not commoners, they were nobles who had retreated from all parts of the Southern Territory.
In the field outside the city, a team of nobles was also retreating towards the Rhine fortress, they looked at the Rhine fortress that was getting closer and closer, and finally cheered, behind them, in the gloomy sky, a group of knights were running, this is the broken cavalry. After questioning, the team entered the Rhine fortress, and the gates were immediately shut.
The guards of the city gate breathed a sigh of relief, and now put into each team, with a certain dangerous surname, fortunately, there is no problem in this one, the head of the city gate garrison climbed the city tower, looked at the sky, and ordered his subordinates, saying: "Light the torch, bonpot!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a flaming dragon appear on the horizon in the distance, and then, the dragon turned into a raging wave of fire, and the dense enemy army held various banners, covering the vast plain, and in the dim sky, hundreds of black shadows also appeared, they were circling and flying.
The commander of the garrison shouted in horror: "The enemy is coming!"
Immediately, a terrible trumpet sounded in the fortress.
Countless bonfires were lit on the plain, and in the oppressive silence, the auxiliaries toiled incessantly, they toiled like a swarm of small insects, far beyond the range of bows and arrows, some trenches slowly formed, and the excavated earth became earthen walls, behind the trench earthen walls were ballistas, catapults and other siege weapons, and farther away, camps were also being built.
On a low slope in the distance, looking at the majestic Rhine Fortress, and thinking about it, the space in front of him fluctuated, and Hans's voice was heard in the fluctuations.
After listening to Hans's report, Matz said angrily: "This damn little worm, you killed Raphael for me, go now!"
The fluctuations were gone, and Metz looked at the fortress again, which stretched out in the widening canyon between the two great mountain ranges, the only way to the throne, and he took a few deep breaths before calming down.
After the giant catapult was assembled, in the shouts of the soldiers, the ropes and pulleys moved, and countless pobblestones cobblestone coated with magic potions were thrown into the air extremely high, burning in the air, and then over the city walls, scattered into the fortress like a meteor, this was just a test shot, Maitz, there was no need for this fortress, he could attack with impunity.
Just such a wave of test firing, many places in the fortress were in flames, and soldiers and spontaneously formed noble guards panicked to extinguish the flames that erupted everywhere. In the midst of this chaos, the weak nobles could not restrain themselves from letting out hysterical scolding, or desperate cries.
The airriders were dispatched, to see how much air power there was in the city, their massive bodies and razor-sharp claws that seemed to tear everything apart, and they kept them out of range of their bows and arrows, hovering like corpse-eating monsters high above the fortress.
The soldiers in the fortress looked in horror at these huge demons in the air, the cowardly, the hands holding the weapons were trembling.
One of the fighters on the air cavalry saw that there were also some empty horses in the fortress, but these guys in the fortress did not dare to fly up to fight, so he drove the huge thorned wyvern, dived, grabbed a soldier guarding the wall, and quickly raised it under the welcome of crossbow arrows below, and then cruelly threw the soldier down, laughing proudly.
As if in response to his laughter, countless majestic horns sounded in the northern sky, and the sound of the horns echoed incessantly in the dark Rhine Mountains.
Before Maitz could cast his magic or drop stones, he saw a large number of black dots rapidly approaching in the distant air, and turned back in a daze, the Imperial Griffin Knights, not to be underestimated.