1050. When the trumpet sounds

The rainy season is approaching on the Sayroman Plateau, and the winds blowing from the south are warm and humid.

Surdak rode his green scaled horse and stood on a high hill in front of the town of Samp, built on the southern shore of Lake Belanoma, and the five-meter-high walls were filled with demonic minions and Flame Gog, who let out a strange cry towards the heavy infantry regiment on the hillside.

Surdak dispatched six heavy infantry regiments and one archery regiment this time, with a total of 10,000 troops.

In addition, there were 1,000 heavy cavalry guarding the left and right flanks of the army.

Surdak raised his broadsword and assumed a forward stance, and the muffled sound of a horn rang out simultaneously from all over the procession.

The hoplite soldiers of the Heavy Infantry Regiment surrounded ten ladder carts, and they slowly pushed forward with the ladder carts, and these hoplite soldiers would be the first to rush up the city wall along the ladder, and the grass in front of Samp Town was a little soft, and the wheels of the ladder carts pressed two deep ruts.

The whole army is also slowly advancing......

The hoplite warriors in front held huge tower shields, forming an impregnable shield wall.

Neat footsteps. Let this great meadow tremble.

The main force attacking the town of Samp was six heavily armored infantry regiments, and 1,000 heavy cavalry were on both sides of the main attack corps to prevent any unexpected situation.

At the west gate of Samp Town, a group of hellhounds with blue smoke on their skins ran out, and they did not rush up immediately, but crowded densely at the city gate.

Ten ladder trucks stopped two hundred meters from the town of Samp.

At the head of the city, Gog held a small fireball in both hands, and suddenly the city wall lit up with a dense firelight.

The demonic minions also showed their devilish faces from the city, and these faces had the smell of decay......

Surdak raised his sword again, and the soldiers of the entire hoplite regiment neatly struck their shields with their long swords, and for a moment their morale skyrocketed.

"Ready...... Light the fire and put it! ”

With the commanding officer's coherent command, twenty catapults threw twenty black powder kegs at the rear of the team at the same time, all of which were made of hard oak, and some of the powder kegs hit the wall stacks, and suddenly scattered, and the black powder in the barrels scattered out, and suddenly burst into a dazzling light. Only a few black powder kegs managed to detonate, killing and wounding Gog and the demon minions at the head of the city.

Rounds of black powder kegs exploded near the walls, and the hoplite soldiers pushed ladder carts closer and closer.

The hellhounds cowering at the gates of the city did not rush out.

But when these hoplite soldiers pushed the ladder carts to less than 20 meters away from the city wall, they saw ten catapults in almost no particular order, and the front wheels were all sunk into a sand pit, and the whole ladder cart tilted forward, and even a few ladder carts fell under the city wall.

A platoon of hoplite soldiers at the front fell into the bunker.

At the same time, thousands of cavemen emerged from the countless bunkers beneath the walls, wielding tattered brass and iron in their hands and lunging at the hoplite warriors.

The hoplite warriors who had fallen into the bunkers were also fighting hard, and some of the hoplites and the Cryptmen rolled together, dropped their shields, and stabbed their swords into the Cryptmen's crusty bodies.

The cavemen opened their jaws full of sharp teeth and bit down on the bodies of the hoplite warriors.

The hellhounds cowering at the gates of the city were like a group of arrows off the string, and they pounced on the battlefield one after another.

The hoplite warriors who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Cryptmen immediately sensed the threat of the Hellhounds, and some of the hoplite warriors were bitten off their arms by the Hellhounds, or simply bit their throats, even though the spearmen who followed behind stabbed Paglio spears into the bodies of the Hellhounds.

A rain of arrows fell on the city, and the demon servants and the Gogs let out a howl of ghosts and wolves......

A round of flint fell on the city, and the walls were smashed into a splash of rubble.

The flint ignited the flammable materials on the walls, and some sections of the walls burst into flames.

There was a scuffle under the walls, and at that moment, a roar was heard from the walls, and a leader of Gog, who was almost as tall as a normal human, stood on the high arrow tower at the head of the city, and threw a huge fireball in his hand off the wall.

At the moment when it stood up, thousands of Gog and Demon Minions appeared on the city wall, Gog threw the fireballs in their hands, and the Demon Minions also threw the lit black oil balls on the ladder cart.

They didn't seem to care about the hellhounds and cavemen beneath the city, and there was a sea of fire beneath the walls, and many of the warriors were on fire.

The soldiers of the heavy infantry regiment in the back held their shields, and under the leadership of several regiment commanders, they reorganized a defensive line under the city against those bursting fireballs.

The hoplite soldiers who were fighting under the city were received by their teammates, with flames on their bodies, quickly left the battlefield, ran back to the phalanx, and immediately fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind took out their shovels and frantically threw sand on these fighters to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

A sea of fire had formed beneath the city, and countless Gog and demonic minions were desperately throwing fireballs at the bottom of the city walls with black powder kegs thrown by catapults.

The hoplite fighters retreated, quickly out of range of the Gog's fireballs.

The Cryptmen and Hellhounds took the opportunity to bite the tail of the Heavy Infantry Regiment and refused to let the Heavy Infantry Regiment easily withdraw from the battlefield.

The regiment of archers in the rear quickly plugged in, forming a rain of arrows against the wall.

The hoplite warriors burrowed behind the shield wall, and the hellhounds chased after them, and they were stabbed to death by spears.

Behind the hellhounds was followed by a group of cavemen who were not running fast, they rushed up, not caring about their own life and death, their round bodies pounced on the tower shield, holding the tower shield with both hands and feet, and the cavemen behind stepped on the body of the caveman in front of them and rushed forward.

The shield wall is broken.

Once again, the hoplite warriors are locked in a hand-to-hand fight with the Cryptmen.

Some black oil balls were thrown on the ladder trucks, and although the ladder trucks were fireproofed, these super adhesion black oil balls continued to burn, which still ignited the ladder trucks.

The Hellhounds and Cryptmen attacked fiercely, and the hoplite soldiers had to keep retreating, and they couldn't bring the ladder cart back when they retreated.

Having lost the ladder cart, the heavy infantry regiment was unable to conquer the city gates, so it could only use the rain of arrows from the archers to kill the hellhounds that were chasing behind.

Even the two-headed ogre, mixed in with the ranks of the heavy infantry regiment, was disgraced by so many geg in the city this time.

Surdak didn't expect Samp Town to be so difficult to attack, and after making so many preparations before the battle, he was actually blocked by the demon servants and Gog at the head of the city.

He didn't even give the bearded Edgar who was waiting on the other side of Lake Belanoma a signal to attack, and there was no progress in the frontal siege, and he couldn't let their hundreds of hoplite soldiers land on the northern dock and die in vain.

Hellhounds and Cavemen beneath the walls were crushed by several rounds of arrows, and Hellhounds continued to pour out of the gates of Samptown.

Surdak ordered the catapults to continue bombarding the walls of Samp Town with flint, but the hoplite regiment slowly retreated in front of the catapults, forming a solid human wall.

The flint exploded one after another, mixed with a large number of black powder kegs, and with a sound of explosion, several cracks had been blown out on the surface of the walls of Samp Town, some

Hundreds of hellhounds lay beneath the walls, and more cavemen emerged from the sand and slowly approached the hoplite regiment.

This time, the warriors of the Cryptmen were still at the front, and countless Cryptmen followed, and they didn't seem to realize what use their suicidal attacks could be without the protection of Flame Gog and the Demon Minions.

It is true that the people of the crypt are not afraid of death, but the hellhounds are different.

After the hoplite soldiers rearranged their shields and pierced the corpses of countless cavemen with their sharp spears, the Hellhounds heard the call from the walls, and then they abandoned the Cryptmen who had been used as cannon fodder on the battlefield and retreated to the town.

On the battlefield, although the soldiers of the heavy infantry regiment could not continue to attack the city, they refused to give up the corpses of these hellhounds on the battlefield, raised their shields and marched forward, cutting off all the heads of hellhounds on the battlefield.

Later, some infantry fighters discovered that the Crypt Warrior also had it in his body, but the guy's head and body were completely connected, like a giant pea.

The severed head was too big, and it was not easy to carry it back from the battlefield.

So the infantry fighters just cut open their bodies and took away the demon core inside, and they also cut off their chests. The first few pieces of tough hard armor will also be purchased by the merchant group.

Twenty siege engines were on a high hill eight hundred meters from the city walls, and they bombarded the walls of the town of Samp with flint in turn, and this bombardment continued until dark, when the six heavy infantry regiments withdrew from the front line.

In fact, before the six heavy armored infantry regiments and two heavy cavalry regiments withdrew from the battlefield, six heavy armored infantry regiments in the barracks left the camp before dusk and rushed to the battlefield outside the west gate of Sampu Town, maintaining continuous suppression of the low-level demons in Sampu Town.

These twenty catapults, even at night, would not stop bombarding the walls of Samp Town.

As for the flint and black powder kegs, they were all brought by Surdak from this side of Puss Mountain.

The northern ridge of Wall Village is Oak Ridge, which is never short of black powder and oak barrels, and the old village chief Bright has recently personally led people to fill black powder kegs.

Compared with the explosive barrels filled with black powder, the cost of flint is relatively cheaper, because these stone balls with a diameter of nearly one meter are no longer carved out of granite or marble by stonemasons, but poured into the wooden shape with the unique cement of Wall Village, and when the cement is dry, it will form an unconventional cement stone ball.

Then wrap such a thick layer of flax thread soaked in fire oil around the stone ball, and it becomes a flint that can be used to ignite a fire when thrown.

This flint is far less lethal than explosive barrels, but the advantage is that it is cheap and can be manufactured and used at any cost.

At present, the barren land is in the dry season, there is a large number of surplus labor on the side of the village of Wall, the old village chief organized 500 people to transport cement every day, pour cement stone balls, wrap them with oil-soaked linen, and finally use oil film paper to complete the packaging, and even each flint has a special simple wooden frame to fix it for easy handling.

The flint was transported in four-wheeled wagons to the Pusbag Mountain, where Surdak and Aphrodi took turns to move to the military camp outside Samp on the Gamp plane......