() Just when Xu Shouyi was boosting his morale, Rimeer, as the commander of the Atterbury expeditionary force, was also commanding the siege of the city in the commander's tent.

After quickly marshalling the young men who volunteered to participate in the battle, Xu Shouyi and his generals stood high on the city tower, waiting for the first wave of attacks from the enemy.

The huge military formation of the Atterbury army began to move, and the 10,000 hoplites at the front of the array began to accumulate on both sides, and the dust raised by more than 10,000 people covered the sky for a while, and the entire Atterbury army formation seemed to be hidden in the dust. When the dust settled, ten rushing carts eight meters high and five meters wide appeared in front of the Atbury formation, each of which was pushed forward by fifty hoplites. As the ten rushing carts slowly moved forward, the first wave of siege battles of the Atterbury Army officially began.

The chariot was followed by 5,000 light infantry from Atterbury, and in the middle of the army formation were more than 30 ladders, arrow wagons, crash cars and other siege equipment. In the end, there were 10,000 hoplites, with an astonishing momentum and neat appearance.

Five hundred paces, the moment of reaching the farthest range of Carol's side, more than thirty trebuchets that had already been prepared on the city wall launched the attack first. Huge boulders were catapulted into the air, leaping high and raining down again. Many stones were smashed on the cart, but seven or eight of them crossed the cart and landed in the Atbury army, and one fell on an arrow cart.

Due to the excessive impact force, the arrow cart with a height of more than ten meters could not withstand such a large impact force, and fell backwards, crushing dozens of Atterbury soldiers on the spot, causing a little chaos, and the Atterbury soldiers who were hit by the stones falling from the sky were even more miserable. Some had their heads flattened, some had been crushed whole, and many had their hands and feet broken. But this qiē did not stop the advance of the army in the slightest, and the entire Atterbury army continued to advance at its original speed.

The Carol soldiers on the city wall hurriedly loaded the second batch of stones and continued to catapult at the Atterbury army, which was now bleeding for every step forward.

Just when the Atbury Army thought that the power of the trebuchet was being blocked by the rushing car, Carroll's giant ballista began to exert its power, and dozens of arrows were soaked in pine oil and lit crossbow arrows whizzed, piercing through the iron sheet wrapped on the surface of the rushing car and nailing it to the rushing car, and for a time the flames were blazing. It was late autumn, the trees were quite dry, and four or five of the vans were engulfed in flames at once, and the whole thing was burning. And the remaining four or five rushing cars were also scurrying around. Atberli was in a state of confusion for a while at the "wall of fire" that had appeared out of thin air in front of him.

But the trained regular army was not a straggler after all, and soon lined up in array, bypassing the burning ten rushing carts in front of the formation, and advancing from the left and right sides to the city of Bollinger Pass. And the soldiers in Atterbury, who lost the protection of the rushing car, were killed and injured by the boulders that catapulted down the city walls several times more than before.

Finally reached a distance of about two hundred paces from the city wall, due to the proximity of Carol's trebuchet, Carol's trebuchet could no longer pose any threat to Atterbury's infantry, and the archers on the arrow cart had already begun to fire the first round of arrows at the Carol soldiers on the wall, causing some casualties on Carol's side.

But at the same time, as the Atbury army got closer and closer to the city wall, Carroll's giant ballista once again exerted its power, hitting three or four arrow carts one after another, seeing the fire spread, the archers on the arrow carts jumped down from the arrow carts more than ten meters high, suffering heavy casualties.

At the same moment, the light infantry on Carroll's side of the wall began to fire arrows at the enemy troops below the wall, and the five thousand light infantry on the Atterbury side at the front of the battle formation below also began to return fire. Due to the different heights of the two sides, Atterbury's casualties were several times greater than Carroll's, but the difference in numbers between the two sides made the entire battlefield situation a tug-of-war.

At this moment, the 10,000 hoplites who were originally behind the array increased their speed, quickly overtook the light infantry who were returning fire on the spot, and approached the city wall. The only remaining seven or eight ladders leaned against the walls of Bollinger Pass, and along the ladders, a large number of Atterbury's hoplites swarmed up.

As the defender, Carroll did not show weakness, and the moment the Atterbury army reached the city wall, stones and logs poured down like rain, causing hundreds of casualties among the Atterbury army at once.

At this time, the offensive and defensive battles began to enter the most intense stage, and the Atterbury soldiers who climbed up the ladder became the target of the Carroll soldiers' siege the moment they stepped on the battlement, and many of the soldiers were slashed and killed by the sword before they could stand firm, and their corpses fell under the city. Some of the more fierce ones crossed the battlements and climbed the walls, but they were also cut to the ground by the Carol side, who had the superior number on the walls.

Over time, however, the Atterbury's numerical superiority began to emerge, and two or three battlements had been captured by the Atterbury, and many Atterbury soldiers climbed over the walls to engage Carroll's side in positional battles. At this moment, every inch of land on the city wall is fighting, whether it is an inch of Atbury army advancing or Carol being forced to retreat a foot, it will cost several or even dozens of young lives. Every brick on the tower was stained with blood, and under every battlement lay piles of dead bodies.

And Yu Ming, who has always been known as the first fierce general of Bollinger Pass, is sticking to the battlement by himself at this moment, cutting down every Atterbury soldier who came up along the ladder, and his uniform is even more bloody, and he has long been unable to distinguish whether it is himself or the enemy, and there are even more corpses around him.

Xu Shouyi, who is over 50 years old, also stuck to his position, did not move a single cent, and together with his own soldiers, resisted wave after wave of enemy attacks. While swinging his sword to cut off the head of an enemy soldier, he kicked an Atterbury soldier who had just climbed the city wall off the tower, and the screams stopped abruptly for a second.

A crashing car had rushed to the gates, bombarding them with huge logs, but the gates were not moving because of the sand heaps of dirt inside the gates. The boulders and rolling logs that were constantly falling from the castle tower made the roof-like structure covered by the crash car "gurgle" sound.

The minutes ticked by, and the battle continued. And the Atterbury light infantry, which had suffered the most casualties at the beginning, was now the unit with the fewest casualties. Due to the fierce fighting between the two sides on the city wall, the original arrow rain attack on the city tower has been weakened a lot, and now the light infantry on the Atterbury side is more threatening to the Carol side on the city tower.

In this kind of bloody battle, the soldiers on both sides were killed, and there were even scenes of falling down the city wall with the enemy in their arms.

The fighting continued from morning until noon, when the Atbury side began to withdraw from the fighting. After eliminating the Atterbury soldiers who had climbed the city wall, Xu Shouyi also ordered to rest at the same time. Almost all of them sat down on the ground at once, apparently exhausted, regardless of the blood and dead bodies lying everywhere.

As soon as the battle was over, a large number of men, women, and children poured up to the tower, removing the corpses, bringing food, and at the same time carrying many stones and sassalwoods up to the tower, so that what had just been consumed could be replenished. The crash on the Atterbury side at the gate had fallen apart because it could not withstand the continuous impact of the falling boulders at the head of the city. Looking outside the city wall, there is also a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. The Atterbury Army suffered about 3,000 casualties in this attack, while Carroll also paid more than 800 casualties.

At this moment, all the generals on the city wall, including Xu Shouyi, hurried to eat and rest. Because everyone knows very well that the Atterbury Army will not rest on its laurels, no one knows when the next wave of attacks will begin, and after that, it is already unknown whether they will be able to sit down and eat like this.