Chapter 63: The Battle of Tiraburg
The sun was rising, the chill was receding, the mist between heaven and earth had not yet dissipated, and the silent Nord military camp was like a giant beast awakening, showing its most bloodthirsty fangs, and the heavily armed Nord soldiers were dispatched.
The two hundred central infantry troops were clustered around the ladder to the city, and the crossbowmen on each wing were fifty, a total of three hundred silver glittering Nord soldiers, like snow in winter, and the gray made people want to laugh at it.
There was a loud and urgent trumpet, and the garrison on Tila Fort was in position.
Last night, Zhang Yuan had already divided the team, twenty armored warriors with fifty signs of people to control the 10 large trebuchets behind the city wall, and the remaining 100 armor soldiers were divided into two groups, each group of fifty people, respectively, led the simple clothed fifty people to take turns to defend the city. The battle was fought by the armor soldiers, and the people carried the rolling wood and stones and threw them at the enemy. As for the small trebuchets and bed crossbows installed on the city, they were controlled by recruited skilled craftsmen, and of course Zhang Yuan gave them enough money to be willing to work for Zhang Yuan.
With the sound of hurried war drums, the Nord soldiers began to attack, and the neat Nord army advanced towards Fort Tira, and after advancing a hundred meters, they came into range of trebuchets and bed crossbows.
With the waving of the city's commanding flag, more than ten stones with a grinding plate flew out of Tirabao and smashed into the crowd, because the Nord soldiers were few, although the three hundred people were neatly arrayed, they occupied very few places, unlike the ancient Chinese tens of thousands of troops to attack, overwhelming. As a result, the stones thrown by the trebuchet rarely hit the Nord soldiers, and only three of the dozen or so stones hit the Nord army, causing more than a dozen casualties. The Trebuchet's attack startled the Nord soldiers, who had never seen anything like this, but they still pushed on to Fort Tira.
Seeing that the trebuchet made this is difficult to manipulate accurately, it is difficult to destroy the ladder, and after the trebuchet is unable to use it due to the Nord pawns entering the attack blind zone, the bed crossbow begins to fire at the ladder.
Three large arrows with thick bowls shot towards the ladder, and this time it was considered a passing grade, two out of three. It's just that the strength of the bed crossbow is slightly insufficient, and the ladder made of logs is only shot through and not torn. Seeing that the weapon was ineffective again, Zhang Yuan could only expect to fight hand-to-hand with the defenders.
The Nord soldiers who continued to advance did not have to worry about the boulder flying overhead, but they could not ignore the large arrow, and they succeeded in stringing the three Nord armorers into a blood gourd with the bed crossbow that had just been free-fired. After seeing the bed crossbow effectively killing enemies, the craftsmen became more enthusiastic. Because Zhang Yuan said that he would be rewarded with ten dinars for killing one enemy. Just one stone's throw is thirty dinars, enough bread for a family for a week, and the artisans are crazy about it.
Finally, after paying another twenty men, the Nord team entered the distance that the crossbow arrows could attack, and as the Nord soldiers shot arrows, the Rebel soldiers on the city began to counterattack, because there were battlements on the city walls, which could protect the archers well, but the Nord soldiers needed the protection of other armor soldiers, as the arrows flew around, the Nord soldiers began to look around for the best shooting position, and then entered the trap area of Tila Fort.
A few more miserable howls came, several Nord soldiers were recruited in the trap area, plus the initial attrition, before the battle, Nord lost one-tenth of its combat strength.
Finally, after some firefighting, the ladder was pushed to the edge of the trench.
Looking at the deep trench, the Nord soldiers directly wanted to greet the relatives of the Tiraburg guards, there is such a play? I don't know how many people will be lost by filling the ditch myself.
However, war is all about making a ditch, and after seeing that there is a trench, General Nord directs the sergeants to fill the trench while defending against the attack.
For a while, a large number of arrows were shot at the head of the city, and Zhang Yuan's side began to reduce the number of people, all of whom were afraid of the people, seeing a large number of arrows shooting, they were also in danger of hiding behind the battlements without shields. Due to Zhang Yuan's small number of crossbowmen, sporadic counterattacks did not have much effect, and now the city has been suppressed.
Just when Zhang Yuan was helpless, several super large boulders were thrown out by the trebuchet in the city, because the stones were huge and could only attack the nearest target, they coincidentally smashed into the group of Nord soldiers defending by the side of the trench, and five or six Nord soldiers were smashed into flesh in an instant.
Although the stone killed the enemy, it also killed the enemy, and the Nord soldiers pushed the stone directly into the trench, which saved a lot of trouble.
As the trench was gradually filled, Zhang Yuan felt that he could no longer indulge them, so he threw the firewood and grass that had been prepared at the head of the city from the city, and when the general of Nuo shouted for defense, a rocket was fired into the firewood. A fire ignited in an instant, and several Nord soldiers surrounded by fire scattered and ran there, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but they couldn't, and soon fell into the flames.
Smoke rose from the flames on the outskirts of Tiraburg, billowing and filling the entire perimeter of the city. The flying eagle banner that hunted in the wind was already broken and ragged due to the shooting of a large number of arrows, and it seemed that it would fall in an instant, but it was fluttering in the strong wind.
After the baptism of hundreds of Nord crossbowmen on the city tower, it is a dead corpse lying on the ground, bleeding endlessly, but no one moves forward to clean up, now is not the time to clean up, it is the time to try to kill the enemy to take revenge, the thick smell of blood and sweat are mixed with each other, filling the air, pungent and unpleasant. The war, but it continues.
The flames slowly extinguished, and the general of No, who had been reduced again, was already furious, urging his soldiers to hurry up and attack the city.
Finally, the ladder leaned to the edge of the city of Fort Tila after Nord lost one-fifth of its troops, and the Nord soldiers swarmed up the ladder, and now the battle began to escalate, and the people of Fort Tiraburg kept throwing the rolling wood and stones from the city, but there were not many people under these ladders, after all, there were about two hundred and four Nord soldiers, scattered around the four ladders and the crossbowmen were not with the armor, and the rolling wood and stones that kept being dropped caused very little damage.
General Nord now wants to hurry up and take Tieraburg, to see how the guards' brains grow, and how there are so many strange things.
If Zhang Yuan does not solve the other party in this battle, then the whole world will be changed by this battle, what is the fear of starting, these siege and defense weapons, as long as you look at it, someone will make it, and keep improving. Promote the transformation of wars on the continent and the intensification of wars.
After another number of Nord soldiers died, a Nord soldier finally reached the top of the city and began hand-to-hand combat.
The loud screams and screams are touching. The sturdy figures of the Nord soldiers under the city rose and fell like waves, and when they saw their companions ascending to the top of the city, they let out a cry that shook the heavens and the earth. Bless your companions with such momentum, and at the same time oppress the enemy with such momentum.
This kind of shouting, infecting each other, motivating each other, and dissipating many inexplicable fears in my heart. Arrows flew wildly in the air, dragging a long rain of arrows through the clear sky like locusts crossing the border, only to see the soldiers falling to the ground with arrows in a steady stream. As soon as the Nord soldiers reached the city wall, they were immediately met by several Ryerdian soldiers, and they were outnumbered. They were killed by Sergeant Rui Erdian and dumped their bodies outside the city.