Chapter 384: I'm here to make money!
"Kill!"
As soon as the horn of the charge sounded, the soldiers who had been walking slowly began to run and shout.
In an instant, the originally silent battlefield instantly became a terrifying shouting and killing sound, and it really became the battlefield imagined by Gervais!
"Give me a bounty for the first person to rush the wall! Kill an enemy soldier and get two silver coins! ”
While the soldiers charged, the little nobles and the captains of the soldiers who led the team continued to roar hoarsely.
Promising a heavy reward before the battle is a common practice for every world general, and it is also a very effective and feasible method.
When the soldiers heard the rewards of gold and silver coins, they were all shocked, and their charging bodies became faster, and the shouts of killing became more high-pitched.
For these ordinary soldiers, in addition to death on the battlefield, that is the time to achieve fame, as for whether to live or die, it is all up to luck!
"Spread out, don't get together! Spread it out a little more! ”
The little nobles are like shepherd dogs, charging and constantly correcting the state of the charging team.
Three hundred meters is not a long distance, but in this technologically backward world, there are very few weapons that can damage the enemy at 300 meters.
These small nobles, who were restrained by the small nobles, and the momentum was quite large, and the charging team safely broke through to a position about two hundred meters away from the city wall.
But that's when things get a different story.
The counterattack by the defenders of White Rock City has finally arrived.
"Be careful, it's a trebuchet! Spread out a little more! ”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Burst! Burst! Burst!
Just as the charging soldiers were shouting excitedly and rushing forward, suddenly a number of black dots crossed the sky, and these black dots were slowly growing larger above their heads.
The first to react were the little nobles who had already been notified, and after they found out about the situation, they immediately shouted hoarsely to the soldiers to remind them.
Although for the title knight, as long as the situation is discovered in advance, with the blessing of the fighting spirit, he can barely avoid the attack of these stone bullets.
However, for those ordinary soldiers, whether they can dodge the attack of stone bullets depends on luck and probability.
It was only a second or two after the little nobles reminded them that the bowl-sized stone bullets finally fell into the charging crowd.
These stone projectiles, which looked like scattered flowers of the Heavenly Maiden, were fired by a small trebuchet fifty meters away from the walls of Baiyan Castle.
Although the firing distance of these small trebuchets is not far, it is only about two hundred meters.
But this kind of shotshot-like debris against the attacking infantry is a powerful lethal force.
"Ahh My arm! ”
"Ahh My legs, my legs are gone! ”
Even though the minor nobles had deliberately scattered the infantry when they charged, there were always some unlucky ones who were unlucky enough to suffer when such a large number of stone projectiles fell.
These unlucky people ran and ran, and before they could react to what was going on, they only felt a chill in their limbs, and then they realized that their arms or thighs had become thin and bleeding.
There are some more unlucky than these people, that is, they were directly hit in the torso or head, and they didn't even have a chance to scream, but they only heard a pop, and the originally intact body or head was directly smashed and penetrated like rags, and then fell to the ground and became a dead soul.
"Hurry up, just rush under the city walls, the trebuchet won't be able to hit us!"
In just a few seconds, dozens of trebuchets on the city wall fired a total of hundreds of stone bullets, although these stone bullets were fired at will, but under the base, they could always harvest the lives of many charging soldiers.
In addition to the soldiers who were wounded and fell to the ground and could no longer continue fighting, there were more than 20 soldiers who were directly killed.
The stone projectiles of this small trebuchet are not the same as those of large siege trebuchets.
The stone projectiles of a large trebuchet can be irregular shapes, while the stone projectiles fired by this small trebuchet are polished and rounded.
Even if the round stone projectile did not hit the target at the moment of landing, the huge inertia prompted the round stone projectile to bounce up again and continue to eject forward, similar to the effect of the solid bullet of the artillery in the previous life.
This is precisely why this small trebuchet fired a salvo, and a hundred or so projectiles caused as many as thirty or forty casualties.
After a round of trebuchet stone bombs, the battlefield was no longer only shouting and killing, but also mixed with a lot of painful wails.
However, there are no medical guards in this world, and their comrades-in-arms at this moment cannot take care of them.
The wounded soldiers, wailing and rolling on the ground, could only struggle helplessly on the ground, and some of the more seriously wounded soldiers would die and be relieved after a few minutes.
And some soldiers who are not so badly wounded may need to hold out until the charging team retreats, and then meet a kind comrade and drag them back by the way.
As for organizing people in the rear camp to rescue, I'm sorry! This world does not have such habits!
"Fool, hurry up, the next wave of throws will be coming soon! If you don't move forward, I'll kill you right now! ”
Why is it said that the battlefield is the best place to test and screen soldiers, because only after seeing the cruelty on the battlefield and eliminating the fear in his heart can a person exert his true combat effectiveness.
At this moment, there are already a few recruits who have seen the tragic situation of their comrades-in-arms and are so frightened that they dare not advance for half a minute.
But when he thought of his family, he didn't dare to escape, so he could only curl up on the ground with his head covered and shivering.
After the little nobleman who led the team found out about the situation, although he wanted to kill these cowards with a sword, these people were his subordinates after all, so he could only run over quickly and roar to lift the people up, and urged the timid recruit to move forward quickly with a long sword.
As the little nobleman said, the next wave of trebuchets arrived more than ten seconds later, once again reaping the lives of many of the stormtroopers.
When the trebuchet fired three projectiles, harvesting the lives of nearly 100 soldiers in total, it was finally no longer a threat to the charging team due to angle problems.
The charging soldiers crossed the first line of death and rushed to the bank of the moat, which at this moment had been filled with more than twenty passages more than ten meters wide.
But before the soldiers could breathe a sigh of relief, the defenders on the walls had raised their longbows and shot arrows like raindrops at them.
The arrow feathers slashed through the air with a whizzing sound, like a talisman, and shot at them.
"Raise your shield and don't stop! There is no forgiveness for the latter! ”
Sincere! Sincere! Sincere!
This wave of arrow feathers does not deal as much damage to the stormtroopers as much as trebuchetsets.
Only occasionally a few soldiers fell to the ground and howled because their shields were not held tightly, and most of the arrows were blocked by the wooden shields.
"Longbowmen! Start fighting back! ”
As they got closer to the walls, the attacking team finally had the possibility to fight back.
The little nobles gave an order, and the longbowmen on the large siege ladder that was more than ten meters high began to shoot at the front city wall!
The appearance of this large siege ladder is more like a tower with wheels, and the tower is covered with planks on three sides, except for the rear side, which is not blocked.
From the rear, the massive tower has a staircase inside.
Sou! Sou! Sou!
The battle between the attacking and defending sides finally reached a white-hot stage, as the siege soldiers finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall, whether it was the huge siege stairs or those simple wooden ladders, all of them were carried on the city wall by the soldiers, and then the most fierce and cruel ant-attached siege battle began.
A huge wooden plank was lowered on the tower-like siege ladder and leaned directly against the battlements of the city wall, and the armored soldiers who had already been ready rushed to kill, wanting to jump on the wall and buy time for their comrades behind.
The soldiers who used the improvised wooden ladders did not flinch, and they all held their large shields and swords in their mouths and climbed towards the city wall with difficulty.
While the soldiers continued to climb up, hundreds of longbowmen continued to pour their arrows towards the city wall more than ten meters away, buying more time for these comrades who were climbing.
……
"Hello, Lord Gervais! I'm the Winton family, the leader of the Blizzard Legion, Pustar! ”
"Master Gust, let me ask you, what are you doing here? Adults say it's dangerous here, and if you want to continue watching the battle, you can head to the camp. ”
Ever since the battle began, Gervais has been using his monoculars to observe the fierce and brutal battle two miles away.
But he didn't expect that his strange team had already fallen into the eyes of the four earl families stationed five hundred meters away.
Everyone in the camp was puzzled by the strange team of Gervais, and in the end, it was the Lord of the North who sent someone to ask the reason because he had seen Gervais's banner.
"Oh, Captain Pustar! Go back and tell Master Gust that you're grateful for his kindness, but I'm not here to watch the battle! ”
"I'm here to make money...... Ahh ”