12,000 ...... When I prepare wood, I can't do four more and rub my face

At this time, there was no such tactic as a straggler array, crawling forward, looking for cover, and it was a dense formation as soon as it came up, and a long-range attack could naturally make a big profit - just such a round of bombing-like catapults and city defense crossbows directly caused the United Kingdom's 3,000 vanguard troops to lose nearly one-fifth.

However, the morale of the soldiers of the United Kingdom, with the blessing of the noblest alliance, was still high, and the pace of progress was much faster.

They were greeted by a rain of arrows woven by crossbowmen and longbowmen, and the crossbowmen were still divided into three columns, standing on the wall, one clan approached the wall, leaning on the battlements to shoot downward, and then backwards, replaced by a second column of crossbowmen to shoot downward, the third column stepped forward and prepared, and the first column went directly to the position of the third column and began to load...... This tactic is similar to the legendary three-stage shooting.

The longbowmen stood under the wooden wall and threw their fires. Since the wooden wall is only three meters high, it does not have a great impact on the longbowmen - it is nothing if you can't see the target, just dense shooting. Anyway, the opponent is also in a dense formation. Add acceleration due to gravity from top to bottom. So the attack power of the longbow was not affected too much.

In this way, a dense network of crossfire formed by a salvo of bows and crossbows like a torrential rain covered the entire dense array of enemy infantry. Inflicted heavy losses on the United Kingdom. In just a few moments, the enemy had not even been able to touch the edge of the wall, and nearly half of them had fallen - although the rest of the enemy had reacted and raised their shields to protect their heads, they still had the tragedy of being shot by stray arrows - plus the catapults and the city defense crossbows, which could basically ignore the shield, by the time the enemy carried the ladder and set up the edge of the wooden fort, there were less than a thousand men left.

"Damn...... It's really hateful...... "Seeing the slaughter of his own vanguard troops, Władysław II on the other side gritted his teeth, and finally had no choice but to order his army to retreat.

Seeing that the enemy army fled back in disgrace, Egil did not give the order to pursue. Then the city erupted in bursts of cheers. Because of Ekir's orders, the Norman soldiers did not continue to shoot arrows and stones to shoot the water dogs. However, this did not make Władysław II's mood any better. Seeing the rude Norman soldiers laughing at the top of the city, insulting everyone in the United Kingdom from Wladyslaw II to the orderly, grimacing and making strange faces, some even took off their pants and peed below.

Meow a mi, it's too deceitful!

Seeing such a barbaric and rude provocation by these Normans, the knights and nobles of the United Kingdom almost blew their lungs. In unison, they demanded that their own king continue to send heavy troops to destroy all those provocative bastards. However, many grassland nomads are related to each other, and they feel that they seem to have done this kind of thing......

Seeing that his army was not demoralized because of the previous defeat, but was scrambling to continue to rush over to his death, Władysław II sighed in his heart, but did not agree again.

That's right, it's to die, just now in this offensive and defensive situation, the Normans' combat effectiveness made the king of the United Kingdom quite jealous, and at this moment, he also somewhat understood the benefits of this strange defense system.

The entire wooden fort formed a 120-degree arc, stretched and retracted with spike-like edges and corners, encircling the entire southern wall of the city of Riga. In addition to the crossfire network mentioned earlier, and the advantage of not needing to set up an outer fort, there are still a lot of iron pieces stuck in the walls of the wooden fort. It looks sharp. If you don't pay attention, you will get your arm hung up while climbing.

"It's not easy, it's not simple. Władysław nodded repeatedly, but he glanced up at his opponent. After that, he directly ordered: "Bypass and attack the walls on the other sides - concentrate shields and helmets for the besieging troops!"

Seeing that the time had reached the afternoon, spies from the other three walls of the city came to report that the opposing troops began to assemble on the periphery of the other side of the city wall, the range of stone throwers and crossbows. Egil nodded, knowing that this round was not going to be a winner. But the legendary Star Castle is very strong, and this should be confirmed.

So, Egil opened the system interface, looked at the more than 300,000 gold coins on it, and spent 200,000 to upgrade Oslo into a starburg-style fortress. Immediately afterwards, he built a two-tier starburg-style defense system for Gothenburg, and contacted Aurora to ask her to agree to the request of the Swedish merchants to open a port in Gothenburg for trade. And only half of the prescribed commercial tax is collected within half a year. In order to attract businessmen.

In addition to this, Egil has fifty or sixty thousand "small money" left. Although the cities of England are waiting for this money to develop. But Egil was still ruthless, leaving 10,000 at the bottom, and the remaining 40,000 or so were all used, and recruited 5,000 mercenary spearmen in various places. and ordered General Carter to transport reinforcements.

Since the beginning of the war, Egil's naval superiority has once again been evident, and the entire Öresund waterway has been blocked, and not a single merchant ship from Novgorod or the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom has been allowed to pass. Except for thirty copper plates (the price of a fifth-class ticket for a merchant ship can send you anywhere in the Baltic, but you have to eat and live with the rowing slaves and help with rowing), everything will be stolen......

In this way, Egil made a lot of extra money......

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Egil stood at the head of the wall on the west side of Riga and yawned, thinking to himself: If we don't attack the city again, it will be dark, you sister's pit daddy......

Perhaps Egir's complaint was heard by God, and when Egir yawned again, and was about to go to the guardhouse of the castle tower for a short while, Artoria next to him poked him. Egir immediately took out his binoculars, and saw a large group of British soldiers on the opposite side who were out of range of their crossbows and couldn't wait to raise their shields to protect their heads, and carried ladders, and then expressed their emotional stability. Just when he saw that big ...... Very large root ...... It was very large, and it looked like three thick trees tied together to make a punch, and I couldn't help but whistle.

"How?" asked Artoria.

"Prepare the rocket. Egil replied briefly, and at the same time asked one of the knights of the guard standing next to him to give the order to the Longbows.

"It's useless, you look closely. Artoria didn't say that until Egir had finished giving the order.

“...... Huh?" Egil looked at the telescope for a few more moments before he understood.

"Bucket in your hand?" asked Egil, frowning.

"That's right. Artoria nodded.

"Do you have five to zero eyes?"

"What's five-to-zero?"

When I didn't say it. ”

Egil looked at such a large ...... There is no baffle on it, and it looks extremely rough in workmanship, but it costs a lot of money to wrap a layer of iron battering ram in front of it, and it is a little speechless. This thing...... Looks like it can be killed with a catapult. Anyway, let's give it a try.

So, at the sound of Egil's order, the engineers on this side of the city wall began to ramp up the city defense machinery, throwing stones at the huge battering ram. The result was somewhat unexpected.

Although he accidentally killed more than a few United Kingdom soldiers, the opponent's battering ram only shook a few times, and it didn't look like anything was wrong.

Unexpectedly sturdy.

At this time, a message also came from the city walls on both sides, and the other party dispatched a battering ram that looked quite stout, whether it was a longbow rocket or a catapult, it was not a problem for him. And the hit rate of the city defense crossbow is a little too low. Egil hasn't been very religious in prayer lately, so ......

"Prepare the oil. Egil rolled his eyes, a little reluctantly ordered, thinking to himself that he was going to be ruined again this time......

Immediately afterwards, the opponent's battering ram walked for more than ten minutes, during which the Normans desperately drew their bows and arrows, desperately threw stones, and desperately used city defense crossbows...... In the end, something worked, and after the battering ram in the north was hit by the ballista several times, Kara, a few sounds of Kara, became fragments. Immediately afterwards, the British soldiers retreated in a panic as if they had suddenly been taken the biscuits that were being carried away.

But there are two more ways.

After a few more minutes, the battering ram reached the gate with great difficulty, led by hundreds of soldiers, and was greeted by the boiling hot oil. Listening to the screams of the enemies below who had been fried into tempura, Egil once again offered to set fire.

Immediately after that, a large number of rockets, torches and more oil were thrown. Turned the entire city gate into a sea of fire. However, under such difficult conditions, the soldiers of the United Kingdom still gritted their teeth, ignored the fire and tried to hit the city gates, and even some of the skin and bones that had been scalded with oil were exposed, but they still pushed the battering ram as if they were unconsciously crazy. Of course, in the end, he fell helplessly. But in this way, two times, three or four times, the latch of the gate was soon broken in two, overwhelmed......

Immediately after, accompanied by the cheers of the soldiers of the United Kingdom, and the exclamations of the Norman soldiers, the gates of the city were broken.

But the corners of Egil's mouth turned up, and he didn't look in a hurry at all......

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