Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Siege
"Quack~"
The trebuchet rope on the castle was tightened by the winch until it was as strong as possible, and the shooter with the axe cut the rope with an axe, and with the big belly of the counterweight fell, the hundred-pound boulder was thrown out of the city, right in the middle of the charging savage team.
"Boom!" There was no rolling, the boulder was set directly into the ground after it fell, and with it were four or five savages, who fell there motionless, presumably the companions who were about to start the siege, they were a little less painful.
"Turn down the angle, this time it's closer." The shooter stood in front of the wall and glanced down.
By the time the second stone was dropped, the wildlings had already begun to build ladders.
"Archer shoots!" Widdy looked at the savages who were climbing up the castle with ladders, and said, "Some of them were coming for the walls, some of them were carrying axes, and they were going to cut down the drawbridge."
Eighty archers adjusted their angles to shoot first at the savages who were building ladders on the moat, and then at the savages who were escalating ladders, and at this moment the archers of the savages began to take cover, and they killed no less than twenty archers with just a row of bows and arrows.
"Damn pay attention to cover!" Widdy cursed loudly, discovering that those who had been shot were his own men, and that those recruited by Hilton were clearly more experienced than them.
The wildlings had a large number of archers, and their survival in the woods made them more accurate, but their wooden arrows, which were only sharpened, were only effective outside of their armor, otherwise the archers would not even have the courage to fight back.
The suppression of bows and arrows has brought a lot of trouble to the castle, and from the perspective of the Tuser probe hiding under a wall battlement, there have been many savages climbing into the air under cover, and even a few savages are climbing with their bare hands.
"Ahh The climbing savage in the middle of the gate screamed and fell into the moat below with flames.
Widdy and a few of the guards were awakened by the scream, and they braved the rain of arrows to poke their heads out to find that the walls were already crawling with wild men.
"How can they climb so fast! Is it just because it's a savage? Waddy turned around and shouted, "Throw the knife-faced wood down!" ”
When several guards behind him heard this, they immediately raised their shields and threw them backwards, and then threw down the city head with the huge barkless tree covered with nails and blades, and saw the knife-faced wooden stone with iron chains hit the city wall and rolled down, knocking all the wild people into the moat, and the wooden stones on the other two sides were also lowered, and the wild people who were crawling sideways were also scared down, and for a time in the face of the hideous wooden stone, the wild people actually reduced the momentum of the attack.
"Well done!" Wadi took a moment to look at the pile of miserable corpses in the moat below, and said to the guards beside him, and then he saw a wooden tube thrown behind him and smashed against the wall.
"What is this?" Widdy and the guards looked out of the city, and it was the wizards who had arrived behind the wildlings who had come to the front, and when they saw that the bows and arrows were useless, they began to throw magic at the walls.
"It's oil." Looking at the black liquid flowing from the wooden tube, he said, "If they throw more oil at it in a while, they want to attack it with fire." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw dozens of canisters of oil in the table tennis being thrown in, and the oil was smashed.
"Bury them with sand!" Seeing this, Wei Di shouted, and immediately a few guards went to collect the sand prepared in the back, but they had just buried a few points, and the canisters of fire oil thrown in behind them were connected into pieces.
"Ahh Several of the guards who had buried the sand were immediately set on fire, and they struggled to run around, eventually either crashing into or falling off the wall.
"Sage! Can you use magic to extinguish the fire, or summon a heavy rain! Weidi's group coughed from the flames, and hurriedly shouted.
"I didn't prepare those things." He said that he had prepared a lot for setting the fire, but he was really unprepared for putting out the fire.
"Damn it!" Wei Di was stunned when he heard this, and then squatted under the city wall as much as possible, this kung fu was a sea of fire on the entire castle, and he had no way to organize firefighting.
The flames burned on the castle like this, and from time to time two oil canisters were thrown up below to increase the fire, and even the catapults on the city walls were burned because of the spread of the flames, and if the oil canisters were not thrown far enough, the castle would have been set on fire.
The sound of the big axe under the city wall came intensively, with three loud bangs, the knife-faced stone was unloaded by the savage, Weidi probe took a careful look, and was almost slashed by the savage who climbed up, and the one-handed sword was drawn out, and began to defend the city wall against the flames behind him.
"When I go back this time, I'll teach you how to make dry ice." He said to the apprentices behind him.
There was already a sound of climbing on the side of the wall, he picked up a spear and rolled it in the flames, then dragged the flaming spear out of the wall, dragged his arm and swept it across the wall a few times, with a few screams and arrows fired from the opposite side, he ducked back and continued to do so, until the spear was already hot he threw it out, and then replaced it with another one.
The flames were still burning, but they were extinguished a lot by Little Red Riding Hood, who rushed to the rescue, and the sand was carried up little by little, and even if the oil cans were thrown in again, they were carefully caught by them with a wheat cart, and then smashed out of the city with their backhands.
"The walls are full of savages." Said a guard who threw an oil can.
"Windmill!" Weidi said, and then ran to the edge of the city wall and shook his hand, "You guys take the oil cans and pour them out!" ”
As the windmill outside the wall with three ropes and counterweights was shaken, all the wild men who climbed to a certain height were hung up by the windmill and their heads fell, and with the fall of the hot oil, the city was even more ghostly and wolf-howling, both on the drawbridge and on the city wall fell into the river, and some of the wild men who were spared were also corroded to the point of naked death under the potion bottles of the tease and apprentice, and the scene was like hell for a while.
Siege warfare is very cruel, at least that's what he thinks, he sees the dead corpses one by one, he feels that this is a trampling on life.
Even as a corpse collector, seeing the tragic condition of so many corpses corroded by chemicals, there will be a slight sigh, sighing that they have to go through so much pain in the face of death.
But if you don't kill them, these people around you will die a tragic death, and whose ultimate sin is it?
"Retreat, I'll talk to the Grand Duke." Siriana looked at the already timid savages and said, the flame burning was the best reality before, but they didn't rush forward, and it would be a senseless sacrifice to do it again.
The bones of the retreat sounded, and the wildlings slowly retreated to the rear, and by the time they returned to the camp, the castle on the opposite side was still burning.