Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Situation Flips Up
"Knock! knock!"
Obviously, these steppe minotaurs are not a race that often attacks cities, and if humans were using battering rams, they would definitely hear the sound of battering rams hitting wooden doors. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Behind the false gate is a whole frozen earth city wall, and the sound of the siege stakes hitting it is very low and has no reverberation.
If it's a real gate, the battering ram will hit the gate with a "bang, bang, bang!" or "bang!bang!" sound, which is much clearer, because there is nothing inside the city behind the gate.
It's a pity that they are steppe orcs and are good at field warfare, but siege is not their forte.
Seeing that the Ox Slave soldiers began to ram the city gate, and under the hard impact of the Ox Slave soldiers, they were crumbling, and the signs of loosening were already very obvious, and the temporary leader of the wolf cavalry immediately ordered to lean in the direction of the city gate.
Prepare to rush into this human village and town in one go, once you slam the door open, and the humans who dare to kill their people will have to pay the price of blood!
With the impact of one after another, the city gate became looser and looser, and the wooden door, which had not been moving at all, began to have a clattering and cracking sound when it was hit, but it was accompanied by a very strange slapping sound.
But the excited wolf cavalry and the cattle slave soldiers had already decided that the city gate was broken and was imminent, and even their morale was raised.
The constant howl of "ahhhh
They believe that victory is at hand!
They could almost imagine the weak humans being chased and scattered by them after the city was breached, screaming helplessly.
At this moment, it seems that the arrows shot by the militia of Grizzly Village don't hurt much when they are stuck in them, and while dodging the arrows, the wolf cavalry's wolf howl has not stopped, and the scimitars in the hands of the wolf cavalry have not stopped waving.
Even Centurion Ivanov, who had been hit by six arrows, was wounded by the arrows and rode his giant wolf mount in the direction of the city gates.
It's just that they didn't find out that when the siege gate was about to be breached, the defenders of the city should have been very panicked, but this group of humans was not flustered at all, and they were still calmly shooting arrows at the crossbow arrows.
A constant stream of bows and crossbows inflicted continuous damage on the orcs of the Kuyaba steppe, who were concentrated near the false city gates.
"Puff, puff, boom, boom......" As the cattle slave soldiers hit again and again, the wooden door finally fell down with a roar.
When the cattle slaves slammed open the gate, they found that the gate did not fall forward, but backwards, and then revealed the thick frozen earth wall hidden behind the wooden gate.
The "ah-woo-woo" that had been cheering the wolf cavalry suddenly stopped, and the wolf's mouth of their werewolf combat form opened widely, and the scimitar that was originally waving stopped in the air and suddenly couldn't move, and even the steppe giant wolf who was originally running and jumping felt that something was wrong, and his pace slowed down.
The originally lively battlefield seems to have suddenly quieted down!
Quiescence!
Eerie silence!
An eerie silence on the battlefield!
All the steppe orcs were stunned to see the incredible scene in front of them!
In particular, the temporary commander of the wolf cavalry was directly dumbfounded, to use a modern word, it was at this time that there were 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in his heart!
Who has ever seen a wall behind a door?
Isn't the door meant to get in and out? How can someone put a wall behind the door?
Wrong!
How could someone put a useless door on a wall?
In fact, the false city gate shot by Ziggy was of inferior quality, and it was one step away from the tofu scum project, and even the cattle slave soldiers knocked the city gate open not because the wooden planks were broken, but the shaft used to connect and fix the wooden gate was cracked and broken, and the false city gate fell out under the impact.
The cheers on the orcs side of the steppe came to an abrupt end, but the cheers on the human side of Grizzly Village had just begun.
And the cheers were accompanied by gloating laughter.
Of course, it is also accompanied by a continuous coverage of bows and crossbows.
As the cheers of the human side resounded in all directions, the steppe orcs of the Kuyaba tribe were like stone-smashing thieves for a while, just trying to dodge the arrows that came out of the arrow towers from the city walls.
In addition, they all gathered near the city gate, and the casualties suddenly increased sharply.
At this time, the temporary commander of the steppe orcs could no longer control the wolf cavalry and cattle slave soldiers, and there was no city gate to enter, so could they stay under the city wall and eat bows and arrows?
After all, the cow slave soldiers were slave soldiers, and soon there was a rout, and it was useless for the wolf cavalry to cut off their heads on the spot, and the cascading effect of the rout was even affected by the other wolf cavalry, not all werewolf warriors were real warriors, and there were cowards in any race.
The rout of the cattle slave soldiers led to the rout of a small group of wolf cavalry.
The horror of the rout is not only the blow to morale, but also the terrible consequences of an attack that leaves the enemy behind.
Facing the enemy head-on, the soldier can also block or use a shield according to the arrows or slashing at his own weapon, but once the back is open to the enemy, it is basically a knife, and the arrows shot at this time can basically cause damage to the back of the fleeing soldier as long as the direction is roughly accurate.
Since Centurion Ivanov was wounded, and the wolf knight, who was temporarily in command, basically could not control the rout, Ivanov had to catch up with six arrows on his back to help maintain the situation.
"Go straight to the city walls! Their walls are not very high!" Ivanov was still a relatively old wolf cavalry centurion after all, and quickly found the only way to get out of the predicament of the battle.
If you want to find the real city gate again, whether you walk around the city wall, or withdraw from the range of the bow and arrow of the human village and town, you will be grinded to death by the human bow and arrow, if you just withdraw, all the cow slave soldiers and wolf cavalry will open their backs to the human archers as targets.
This will exacerbate the casualties.
It is equivalent to not even touching the hair of human beings, leaving more than two-thirds of the wounded of the total strength back to the tribe, these wounded who were injured by bows and arrows basically rarely died, most of them just lost their combat effectiveness, if they were withdrawn like this, it would be equivalent to throwing all these wounded and fallen to the ground to human beings like the enemy.
This is an absolute shame for a centurion.
Unless he wins, Ivanov will be able to capture the human villages and towns and bring these wounded back to the tribe of Kuyaba, and after the treatment of the tribesmen, most of the light and serious wounded can recover, and the battle loss rate will not exceed one-tenth.
A one-tenth battle loss rate and a two-thirds battle loss rate are huge differences that any general understands.
Now there are still about forty wolf cavalry with complete combat effectiveness, as long as they can climb the city wall and realize short-range combat, they can greatly exert the advantages of the wolf cavalry, one unit of wolf cavalry, equal to the two combat effectiveness of the giant wolf mount and the wolf knight, those humans are not opponents at all, so that the grassland orcs of the Kuyaba Department can turn the unfavorable battle situation.
The biggest difference between the wolf cavalry and the human cavalry is that the mount of the wolf cavalry is the steppe giant wolf.
And the jumping ability of the giant wolf mount is much higher than that of the war horse!
If you try your best, you might be able to jump to the wall.
According to Ivanov's observations, the walls of this human village are not too high, and it is possible to climb the walls by jumping on them and picking up two.
In the past plunder, humans have always been so cowardly and cowardly, if a few wolf cavalry jumped on the city wall, they could turn the tide of the battle and let the rout happen on the human side, and the werewolf orcs of the Kuyaba tribe would be victorious.
"Warriors of the Kuyaba tribe, follow me!" The wolf knight in temporary command quickly understood what Ivanov meant, and beckoned twenty or thirty wolf cavalry veterans who he could still control, gathered together, intending to jump over the wall and enter the city.
However, at this moment, the bow and arrow, which had been accurate, flew straight over and hit the nose of Ivanov's mount under the crotch.
It was Ziggy who noticed that the other party's supreme commander, Ivanov, who dared to run under the city walls to provoke, came into the range of his bow and arrows, and gave him an arrow without hesitation.
Ivanov's steppe wolf mount was hit by an arrow in the nose and fell to the ground in pain, knocking Ivanov to the ground and unable to get up.