"General, this will not work, the enemy's bow and arrow are too strong, and it is impossible to rush forward even if all the allied forces are sacrificed. Su Wen, the supreme commander of the charging camp, came to Chi Aotian's side.

"What do you mean?"

"The Allies had never seen much of a battle, and they were terrified when they saw such a dense rain of arrows. Catapults could not be used in this way, and each catapult was equipped with a team of 100 Allied troops, each of which was in a group of two catapults, advancing towards the walls from multiple directions at the same time. In this way, the attacks of the Sweat and Blood Steppe Elves will also be dispersed. Each group is under less pressure. Su Wen, who had seen a lot of wars in the Ice and Snow Continent, immediately came up with a solution.

"Good. Also, send a team of 10,000 residents up and rush directly to the city gate. It really didn't work, so he pushed the cart under the city gate, poured fire oil, and burned the city gate. A hint of cold light flashed in Chi Aotian's black eyes, and directly pushing the ranks of civilians up was a huge challenge for anyone with a chivalrous spirit.

"This city may not be broken. Tayan didn't know when he floated over with the evil guard, and there was a clear sense of unfinished fun in the military advisor's tone.

The three top officers were silent for a moment. Siege siege, the most important thing is that the siege force must have an absolute superiority in strength, 5000 soldiers to defend the city, as long as the commander does not make a mixed move, as long as there is no dragon knight in the opponent's camp, then it is common to directly confront 10,000 people, in the history of the continental war, there is no shortage of 5000 people successfully resisting 100,000 people to attack the city. In Rhodes City, there are now 5,000 elite troops, including 1,000 elven archers, 1,000 troops directly under the city guard, 3,000 swordsman battalions, 2,000 mercenaries, plus the nobles, caravans and other armed forces in the city, the total combat power must have broken through the 15,000 mark. There are more than 100,000 residents, and there are no less than 30,000 strong laborers aged 15~45. The Iron Hand Barricade Grand Duke did not attack at all, and defended a Rhodes city as strong as a turtle king bastard, in this case, with 5,000 regular troops and 15,000 people, it was too difficult, or more directly, the probability was less than 0.1 percent.

"Yes! Drain all these inhabitants and leave. Throw a burden on them, consume some more sweaty mercenaries, and save them from following their butts. The cold and ruthless words still startled both Ta Yang and Su Wen, but this is also the most effective way that the two middle-aged and elderly people can think of - the continuous siege of fifty or sixty thousand residents will definitely bring great pressure to the city, and the first to invest in the defense of the city must be the elite troops, as long as these soldiers can be consumed, it will be fine. After retreating, there is no need to worry about whether the enemy will pursue, regardless of whether the enemy has the strength to pursue or not, and now this season has been limited to death. The Huayu Plain, which is located in the subtropical region, has no spring at all, and after the dry winter, it directly enters the rainy summer, even if the defenders do not rescue the injured residents, it will take a lot of manpower to bury these corpses, otherwise...... When the sweltering rainy season arrives, just wait for the plague to break out. Rhodes City is still on the main traffic artery, hum...... At that time, even if you kneel and invite the Black Dragon Knights to come, no one will come. Historically, in order to eradicate a large-scale plague, it was not only one or two cities that were burned down by those in power.

On the city wall, Han Han and the Iron Hand Barricade watched the many catapults below disperse one by one, and then the black earth dragon knights pushed groups of ordinary people to the front row like herding sheep, and dozens of simple rushing carts were aimed at the city gate. Both weather-beaten faces showed a solemn color, and the real test had arrived.

"Knock...... Boom...... Boom...... Knock knock knock ......" The sound of the war drums urging the life has changed from sparse to dense.

"Rush-" The Earth Dragon Knights waved their whips and shouted for the people.

The huge rush wheel axle gurgle, grunt, grunt.

The imperial standard punch is three meters five meters high, thirteen meters long, and five meters wide, consisting of 8~10 pieces of hardwood that is one person thick, and the hardwood is neatly sawn into a wedge, and the hardwood in the center is wrapped with three centimeters of iron, which is sharper than a knight's gun. On both sides of the rushing car are archery caps, under which 40 soldiers can stand. The cart is covered with wet soil, so it is difficult to ignite even if oil is applied.

The Black Dragon Knights have their own engineering team, and when the Northern Expeditionary Army was formed, more than 20 backbones and officers were included in it, and it was difficult to find suitable materials on the prairie, and most of the rushing cars were made to make. The volume is much smaller, and the wheels are also unloaded from the wagon, and the wheels are thin and easily sink into the mud. There is no talk about it, anyway, it is used to be consumed.

Even louder than the rush was the overwhelming crying.

The wiser inhabitants watched the flashing swords on the city walls, and ducked as far as they could under the arrows of the rushing cars, and the younger children were so frightened by the corpses in front of them that their legs and stomachs trembled, and they wept as they were dragged forward by ropes.

"If you want to survive, pick up your shields and weapons from the ground, and ...... quickly," some black dragon knights who didn't know what their intentions were, guided the inhabitants who had no combat experience behind.

The rushing chariot formation that was scattered in a line had just entered the effective range of the 400-meter steppe elves, and more than 80 catapults were advancing at the same time shouting their trumpets.

"Shoot as you go!" Without waiting for the catapult to enter the effective range, Su Wen had already given the order.

More than 80 catapults shot forward like hail when the bowl was the size of a bowl, and the stones rumbled down on the halfway of the city wall, fell to the ground, and fell on the heads of the advancing people...... Gray bricks, green broken grass, and red and white brains boiled like boiling water under the blue sky.

Whether it was the forest elves in the sky or the steppe elves on the city wall, at this moment, they all thought of two words: murder.

"Shoot!" the lord asks you, why don't you shoot!" The cold guards rushed down the city wall in a rage.

"It's all civilians down there. "The steppe elf archer, the captain of the thousand-man man, Euro, is a prime-aged elf in his 400s, and he glanced at the guards in embarrassment.

"What should I do then? Do you want to die? This is the conspiracy of the Black Dragon Knights, what does it have to do with us? Shoot! Shoot, shoot! This is the order of the regiment and the deputy leader. ”

Euro shook his head helplessly: "Civilians and rushing cars are together, there is no danger now, let's deal with the threat first." Target, catapult, shoot!"

Iron Hand Blocking Jiang and Han Han listened to the statement of the guard, and they both smiled bitterly. There is really no way, there is really no way to treat a tribal army like the steppe elves, and there is really no way to completely follow the requirements of the army, otherwise...... The next day, they might all be gone. Euro is right, after all, these rushing cars have to rush to the city to play a role, in fact, rushing to 150 meters has already entered the range of the human longbowmen on the city wall, and closer, the horned archers also have a place. It is not guilty of punishing Euro for this.

"Hmm......" Hanhan's eyes narrowed together, "Those vulture knights moved." ”

The biggest variable in this siege is the Vulture team of less than 1,000 people. Before that, Chi Aotian relied on these vulture knights to first Hamburg and then Delhi, winning two battles and two victories. If these vulture knights are just shooting arrows into the city outside the range of the steppe elves, they should not be afraid, at such a height, the arrows go with the wind, and the speed of the fall is fast, but the path of the arrows can be seen with the naked eye, and it is easy to dodge. It's just that if Chi Aotian makes another rappelling raid, or even directly launches a surprise attack on other city gates, it will not be a joke.

"Hanhan, you take two phantom beast knights, and then pull out 500 people from the heavy knights as a reserve, once these vulture knights land, immediately rush to stop them......" Iron Hand Blocking Jiang thought for a while, and showed a stoic look on his face: "Priority fight the vultures, as long as you can fight and kill these vulture knights, even if you exhaust the thousand heavy knights, it is worth it." "Of course it's worth it, if you can kill all the vulture knights, even if you lose Derry, this account is too cost-effective.

"Okay, don't worry. "The cold dragon has already fallen in the city, and the knight stepped on the dragon's back, and the dragon roared away against the roof of the house.

Alas...... The iron hand blocked the river with a disappointed look on his face, this cold ...... Brave is brave, but ...... Why don't you use your brains for everything, and if you step on the dragon, will these vulture knights still fall? Forget it, you can't shout back, so it's a warning.

Just thinking about it, the vulture knights in the sky suddenly lowered their height, which was already out of the straight range of the steppe elves, the vultures and the knights let out bursts of cheers at the same time, and the sound of showers of rain hitting the plantain came from the sky above Rhodes City, and the knights did not pity the arrow feathers in their hands at all, and rushed to the west city wall, repeating the action of pulling the bow and releasing the arrows.

"Quick, retreat, go to the north city wall!" Chang Qing watched as a group of grassland elf archers from the south city wall were rushing over here, the young man ordered loudly, opened a pocket casually, carried the corner of the pocket, and shook it down, the yellow-brown powder was blown down by the wind, emitting a sparkling light in the air, falling on the buildings below, and a faint green smoke rose instantly. The organized residents came out with iron pots and buckets to put out the fire.

The Vulture Knights immediately pulled their mounts north, shooting more arrows at the soldiers on the walls.

In the sky over Rhodes City, a farce was staged. Hundreds of vulture knights continued to harass the three city walls, and the 300 steppe elves who were separated were tired enough, and the two dragon knights did not dare to rise directly into the air - in the extremely high sky, there were 10 vulture knights flying in the wind, and the iron hand barrier was born on the sea, and his eyes were extremely sharp, and he had long seen that these knights were in the middle of the black lightning. Obviously, this is a clear trap.

At the same time as the farce was staged here, the siege battle directly south of the city wall had entered the most critical time, and I don't know how the effect of hastily making the rushing car and rushing the door was, but the effect of blocking the arrows was quite good - these rushing cars were made of the main sorghum of the residents' houses, and the wood was more than 30 centimeters thick, easily blocking all the arrow feathers. In the thick smoke, the residents covered their noses one by one and clinged to the rushing car, which was almost under the city, and the number of people who fell would not exceed 1,000.

The soldiers in the city were in a hurry, and the rockets were fired downward in waves, but the effect was not great, and the wet soil was spread more than 20 centimeters deep on the rushing car, and the rockets were extinguished as soon as they were watered in the morning.

"Oil!!" Temuras commanded, jumping on the ramparts. Pots and pots of fire oil fell down against the city wall, and the smoke billowed from the front few rushing cars, and the hot air burned downward through the wet soil and the wooden purlins, and the fire oil fell down the cracks in the wood, and fell on whom, and immediately jumped into a flame.

The raging fire jumped and devoured everything, and the inhabitants who had no experience in war all panicked, overturned the rushing cart, and ran backwards in a tugging manner, and the human horned archers on the city walls finally came into play, and thousands of archers kept pulling their horned bows, and the white death arrow feathers shot mercilessly at the unarmed inhabitants, and one by one the inhabitants threw themselves forward and fell to the ground...... The screams continued.

A small group of inhabitants had just escaped from the range of the archers on the city wall with a cry and rolling, when a powerful bolt of crossbow suddenly flew from the front, and the living flesh was swept away by the huge momentum. A group of black earth dragon knights coldly raised the crossbows in their hands: "Those who take a step back will die! Quickly, go back! Hurry! Go and rush the door with the rushing car, otherwise, all of them will be executed!"

"I don't want to die...... Mom...... I don't want to die...... "A half-grown man didn't know when he untied the rope on his left arm, and his body was covered with blood except for gunsmoke, and he turned around and ran in the other direction with a cry. A black war horse galloped out of the soldiers, and the snow bright war knife cut a scar in the air, and the young man's body was instantly half shortened...... Blood poured out of his waist.

"Bastards, charge yourselves...... Take us as a ......" a man in the crowd stood up angrily, but ...... Before he finished speaking, the man and the dozen or so people behind him were all shot to pieces by the roaring crossbow.

"Go to hell or heaven to curse!, remember, if it weren't for the last intervention of the Sweat and Blood Mercenary Regiment, this city would have been conquered long ago, and you will never be dragged in as substitutes!" the knight captain lifted his mask and shouted a rebuke, whipping one of the inhabitants to the ground with a whip in his hand.

Gray-haired old man, middle-aged man, slender village girl...... The shadow of death was exposed in front and back, and everyone was oppressed to the point of wailing. It is better to be a dog in a prosperous world than to be a person in a troubled world, what kind of troubled times produce heroes, and there are at least 10,000 corpses lying behind each hero - troubled times, human lives...... It's not worth the money.

Rhodes City seems to be a huge sand table.

On one side are the officers of the Black Dragon Knights and the Mercenary Regiment, and on the other side are the cadres of the Holy See and the Sweat and Blood Mercenary Regiment, conducting drills on this sand table. All the offensive and defensive methods that can be thought of have been taken out.

The catapults were destroyed one by one, the rushing carts were burned one by one, the number of bows and arrows on the city wall was reduced little by little, the fire oil had been used up, and the first 10,000 people were wiped out in the evening, and Chi Aotian did not hesitate to invest in the second 10,000 people - more than 200 catapults and the boiling fire ignited by the rushing cars was much brighter than torches. Half of the vulture knights were withdrawn, and the rest were still soaring in the sky, occasionally sneaking up on a section of the wall. In the distance, there are also convoys demolishing houses and churches in nearby villages and towns and transporting them to the main camp, and the sappers are rotating in succession to build new siege facilities.

Before midnight, the second 10,000-man squad disappeared from the combat establishment, and the ruthless boy quietly ordered the soldiers to wake up the third squad that was already in a daze.

The iron hand blocked the river without expecting that the enemy would attack the city overnight, and all the defensive equipment had been exhausted. Fortunately, the Grand Duke had a lot of experience, and there were no more stones, so he immediately sent people to strip off all the dwellings near the city wall, and the thick purlin sawed and nailed iron nails and transported them to the city wall to replace them; the boiling oil was gone, and he took out buckets of dung from the toilet, sprinkled golden millet and black croton, boiled them under the city wall, and splashed them on the ladder with small wooden barrels......

At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was just dawning, the south wall had been smashed in three places, the bluestone bricks more than two feet thick outside fell down in a hurry, the red soil inside poured outward, and the allied troops who had been peeping outside the people for a long time pounced like wolves under the leadership of the officers of the Black Dragon Knights, and the iron hand barricade with red eyes also transferred the reserves in their hands, and the siege of the city for 20 hours in a row, the first 8,000 combat forces to put into the city wall were at least more than half of the casualties. At the same moment, in order to pull the enemy's troops, Chi Aotian did not hesitate to invest a new people's team in another direction while investing in a new people's team.

This is already the last 10,000-strong team of people in Chi Aotian's hands, and the war has basically come to an end at this point. The inhabitants who came from the coercion were immediately depleted, and the Allied forces now had two brigades, and if all the remaining Black Dragon Knights were put into the siege, there might be a glimmer of hope to break the city, but ...... In that case...... The cost is too great. Even if the city is broken, the huge casualty figure is beyond the reach of the Northern Expeditionary Corps fighting on the outside line. Chi Aotian and Su Wen briefly discussed, and prepared to arrange a retreat at the last moment of the siege.

At this moment, in the south of Rhodes City, a sudden sound of horses' hooves sounded, a small group of knights galloped close to the horse's back, on the periphery of the battlefield, a tall and long knight jumped off the horse's back, pulled out the longbow in his hand, a slight bowstring sounded, and a light blue long arrow shot up the city wall with a special sound.

The leader of the steppe elf archers, Oro, picked up the long arrow and just glanced at it a few times, and his face changed greatly.

Temugoral trotted over: "Euro, what's shooting up below?"

The tall steppe elf gave the long arrow in his hand to his companion, slowly raised the long war bow in his hand, and aimed the tip of the arrow with a cold light under the reflection of the rising sun in the eastern sky: Temugoral.