Chapter 91: Bloody Battle
As soon as his words fell, several ballistas immediately spewed out dozens of crossbow arrows, each of which was as thick as an ordinary knight's riding spear! Metallic crossbow arrows flew through the air with a whistling sound, and dozens of crossbow arrows immediately covered the heads of the Macedonian army on the city wall!
The power of this kind of heavy crossbow is more than ten times stronger than that of ordinary bows and arrows! In the Macedonian formation, some people were immediately shot by a huge heavy crossbow, and the powerful impact force penetrated the soldiers' bodies at once! There were even more soldiers who were so dense that they could not dodge were directly shot through three or five people by the heavy crossbow, and there was still no end left!
The heavy crossbows of the garrison were extremely powerful, and after just one round of shots, they directly suppressed the offensive of the vanguard of the Macedonian army!
Almost all the people who were hit by the heavy crossbow were killed or wounded. www.biquge.info It's just that this powerful thing can only play a long-range attack, and the accuracy is not high, and the number is too small to form a large-scale lethality.
After a round of shooting, the garrison did not waste any more time to continue to reload the heavy crossbows, but directly ordered the archers to shoot freely! The Macedonian vanguard was now only half small, but with the dull sound of horns, a large number of Macedonian soldiers drove their horses and pushed large siege equipment to swarm!
The defeat of the strikers did not seem to have affected them much, but when the garrison was used to attack the vanguard, a large number of the main siege troops had already rushed under the city walls!
The archers no longer needed Gould's command at this moment, and they shot under the city walls. The Macedonian soldiers who were the first to approach the city wall were undaunted, just holding the round shield in their hands in one hand, drawing their short spears in the other, and raising their heads to shoot at the soldiers of the garrison above the city!
The Macedonians' short spears were almost a man tall, and their length and weight far exceeded those of bows and arrows, but in the hands of these Macedonians, the speed and power of throwing them were no less than ordinary bows and arrows! Thousands of Macedonians under the city threw at the same time, which was a nightmare for the garrison at the head of the city!
Countless short spears were thrown in unison, and the garrisons on the city walls were shot by stray spears, and the arm strength of the Macedonians was amazing, and many short spears were thrown directly over the heads of the garrisons and into the residential areas of the inner city.
Eventually, the garrison suffered casualties, and the archers at the head of the city were even more suppressed and unable to shoot, and as soon as they showed their heads, they would be attacked by a large number of short spears. A few archers drew their bows and arrows, and as soon as they exposed their bodies and shot an arrow, they were immediately shot through the body by more than a dozen short spears, and immediately the blood flowed, and they choked on the spot.
Joseph had long heard Gould say that these Western Macedonians were still culturally backward compared to the Bright Empire. Although it once had the same roots as the Bright Empire, after hundreds of years of division, its culture and economy were extremely backward, and even some political and military systems were degrading.
Most of the Macedonians live in the mountainous areas of the west, and because of the lack of transportation and cultural backwardness, most of them have developed a tradition of hunting with special short spears. Therefore, in the Macedonian army, round shields and short spears with distinctive Macedonian styles were also formed, and this time seeing the power of these short spear attacks made Jose have a deep impression of this group of guys called "barbarians" by the Empire of Light.
Even if it's a barbarian, it's terrifying!
The Macedonian army under the city did not stop in the slightest, but roared loudly with excitement, driving horses and siege equipment all the way to the city wall!
With a loud bang, the first siege vehicle similar to a ladder was pushed to the side of the city wall, and the horses had been driven away, and the huge impact made the garrison on the city suddenly feel shocked!
At this time, the Macedonian soldiers under the city were even more frantically slapping the round shield with the short spear scimitar in their hands, making a loud noise of metal impact, and their mouths were roaring and roaring. Waving their weapons and climbing up the huge siege ladder!
"Don't panic! The garrison organizes a counterattack, and the archers continue to shoot and suppress these guys!
The fat man's face was flushed, and he shouted loudly at the top of his voice, and after the sound, dozens of pro-soldiers were all like wolves and tigers, and a murderous aura came to him from afar, where was there still half a minute of laughter on weekdays!
He led his own army directly to the Macedonian soldiers who poured out of the mouth of the ladder, and the scimitar in his hand swung wildly, like an angry bull, rushing at the crowd is a wild slash! Where did the Macedonian soldiers who attacked the city think that they would encounter such a killing god, and after Gould killed several people in a row, the momentum of the attack slowed down.
However, what made the garrison at the head of the city uneasy was that more than a dozen ladders of the same scale were also approaching the head of the city, and the dense crowd of people under the ladders made people's scalps tingle when they saw it!
But at this time, José found that Aloke, the main general who was supervising the battle on the side, strode towards the city, directly grabbed the bow of an archer, and then drew three or five feathered arrows, held his breath, and fiercely pulled the bow and arrows into a full moon. The bowstring shook violently, several feathered arrows broke through the air, and several war horses in front of a siege ladder suddenly screamed in unison, and they fell to the ground one after another!
As soon as Alok struck the blow, he immediately did the same, killing several horses in a row. The archers on the side followed suit, shooting at the horses one after another, and for a while, they actually shot more than a dozen war horses in front of the cart.
However, at this time, the Macedonians' vehicles were not far from the city, and these guys simply swarmed up and pushed the siege ladder forward with brute force.
"Archers, shoot these guys hard!"
Alok roared angrily, raised his bow and arrows, and under his precise archery skills, dozens more Macedonians were killed one after another. But such casualties were almost negligible for an army of several thousand people, and more than a dozen ladder carts crashed into the city wall one after another, and the violent impact sound was shocking, and hundreds of Macedonian soldiers immediately rushed up in a frenzy!
The garrison at the head of the city was no more than a few hundred, and the soldiers guarding the city were under fierce attack from the Macedonians. Macedonian soldiers, who were temporarily unable to climb the ladder, pushed siege engines and used the impact of huge wooden stakes to destroy the city gates.
The northwest was mostly arid, and there was no defensive system such as a moat, and the city gates were directly exposed to the Macedonian soldiers swinging. These guys are so wild and manic that many of them even slammed their bodies into the city gate with the wooden pillars!
Above the city, the two armies had already begun to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the Macedonian soldiers who frantically surged into battle with the garrison fought to the death!
The archers gave up their bows and arrows, pulled out their short swords and scimitars, and killed the enemy troops on the city. Dozens of meters long above the city, more than a dozen gaps, hundreds of Macedonian soldiers climbed the city, and the two armies have fallen into a stalemate to the death.
Fat Gould is especially conspicuous in the chaos army!
His figure was like a killing god, the armor on his body was covered with blood, the scimitar moves in his hand had a wild taste, and there was a faint hint of pale silver fighting spirit under the slash! This general who had been in the army for many years showed his true strength, and with the assistance of his personal guards, he almost suppressed half of the Macedonian soldiers at the head of the city!
Alok was also already under the protection of the personal guards, and personally held a long sword to supervise the battle under the city. Compared to the city head, the city gate is under the most pressure!
After all, it was impossible for a dozen or so ladders to send all the soldiers to the city, and the exposed city gate naturally became the target of most of the soldiers' onslaught! Thousands of troops blocked the water around the city gate, and all kinds of swords and short spears were cut towards the city gate one after another, and even the Macedonians' own siege engines could hardly move half a minute!
At this point in the development of the battle situation, any strategy and strategy are meaningless, and only the weapon in hand is the key to determining the battle situation. There is no temptation, only the collision of blades and flesh, the duel of strength and strength!
Everyone had only one thought left: kill these enemies in front of them! )