764 Battle of Staros (2)
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Salon stood on the head of the city in front of the army in front of him, in order to meet the Ryrdian, 20,000 heavy infantry of the Northern Army wearing heavy armor and holding spears waited solemnly on the fortress of Stros, and the first round of rapid fire from 15,000 crossbowmen on the city wall was almost on the flat ground 200 meters away, forming a blood-colored and hideous killing zone.
Seeing that the army of Rui Erdian was like a flock of black and oppressive sheep, driven forward by the overseers behind, there was no emotion on Salon's cold face, and at the corners connecting the two sides of the fortress gate, there were more than ten trebuchet towers temporarily built according to the city wall,
In order to capture these trebuchet towers with long-range suppressive power, Salon's northern army paid a heavy price, and unlike the other areas of the city wall, these trebuchets, which should have been launched a long time ago, did not see the slightest intention of launching at the moment, just because they were waiting for the order to attack
Looking at the other troops in full swing and making a lot of money, the trebuchet operators felt itchy one by one, their eyes puffed out, and the angle of the trebuchet was adjusted with the voice of the surveyor, and in the dull air, the shouts from the advance of the Rui Erdian army in front of them made these trebuchet operators feel as uncomfortable as seeing a stunning ** in front of them, but they could only pretend to be familiar with an expression
"Take it, my lord" The trebuchets had reported to the Legion Headquarters for the fifth time, but to no avail, until the enemy had almost entered a hard area 120 meters from the city wall, that the order of the Legion Commander Salon was conveyed from the Legion Headquarters "All the catapults are listening, one hundred and thirty meters away from the proofreading, the direction is just ahead, call me"
As soon as the order was delivered, the trebuchet, which was already in a hurry, let out its own roar, and the sound of the trebuchet machine cracking continued, and countless boulders with various sharp water chestnuts suddenly flew through the air, from the white sky and rain, with a terrible wind falling from the sky, thundering in the middle of the dense shield phalanx of Rui Erdian, which was steadily advancing under the rain of arrows.
The soldiers didn't even have time to dodge, and they didn't have any shields to resist this completely irresistible terrorist attack, huge stones rolled through the ranks, and the soldiers on the entire road were smashed into pulp in an instant,
Brain splatters. The minced flesh flew sideways, and beneath the rolling boulder was a bloody scrap of minced flesh, a terrifying effect dozens of times greater than the actual killing effect.
It was the first time that many of the Raldian soldiers had faced such a terrifying defensive weapon. Seeing that their companions had died so miserably, the sense of terror took control of their already terrified hearts, "Mom, run for your life," they screamed hysterically, dropped their shields and scattered their heads, the neatly arranged shields were torn apart by the heavy blows of the stones, and the defeated soldiers scattered the entire muddy low-lying area like sheep in the wilderness.
"I shoot, and there is a person who retreats without permission, and I kill"
The overseer team located in the back, in the hysterical crazy shouts of the second prince Harauskes, raised the powerful infantry heavy bow in his hand into the air, and the people who could serve as the overseers were the henchmen of His Royal Highness the Second Prince, and there was almost no hesitation in carrying out the order, in their eyes, there was no difference between their own people and enemies, only success and soldiers,
In an instant, facing the soldiers who ran back, the archers in the direction of the battle team fired thousands of arrows, and black raindrops roared
The soldiers who screamed and fell to the ground with arrows widened their eyes widened, and they still couldn't believe this fact until death: they died in the hands of their own family, and the last row of the front line responsible for pressing the formation of the knights of Ruierdian did not hesitate to draw their swords, they used knives and stabs with guns, and constantly slashed and killed the soldiers who broke backwards, not at all like treating their own subordinates, because according to the Ruierdian military system, how to break up the troops under his command, the knights who led the team will also be sentenced to death...,
To go back is to die, and to move forward is to die. The fortress in front of us stood majestically, and the falling rocks and arrows were like a storm, and it was hard to imagine that any creature could survive such a blow.
Layer upon layer of corpses were piled up into small hills, and blood bubbled into small rivers, staining the muddy ground of a swamp hundreds of meters wide in front of the fortress red.
The wounded soldiers were crushed in the pile of corpses screaming for help, and no one had time to pay attention. The desperate Ryle soldier let out a cry of terror and broke down. They laughed like madmen, banged their heads against the wall in despair, their brains bursting, and someone lay down pretending to be wounded, but new cannon fodder roared up and trampled him into pulp.
"Attack, kill those who retreat without permission"
With the experience of the previous car, the 20,000 infantry pushed up behind were obviously brave and killed, and the army array rolled and charged forward, and under the heavy rain, countless small red water streams flowed along the ravines between the soil,
"Kill, kill, kill"
Heaven and earth were filled with terrible shocking sounds, and the boulders and arrows as dense as raindrops bombarded the sea of people violently again, like waves slapping on the hard rock wall, turning into a terrifying bright red splash, and the sound of "puff puff" sharp weapons piercing into flesh and bones in the rain came and went, which was the waves of flesh and screams in the killing.
With this decisive attack, the army of Ruierdian did not care about casualties at all, and was not afraid of sacrifice, and the army of 80,000 advanced step by step, until it was pressed under the moat of the fortress.
The "creaking" huge siege city was pushed by the Ryerdians, the wooden coke wheel made a swaying sound, and staggered over the muddy rain, and from time to time huge catapults aimed at it whizzed past the sides of these giant-like siege engines, and smashed into the heavy infantry that was slowly advancing with the catapult below
The deep moat beneath the city held back the advance of the Ryordians, and the second prince, Haruskes, ordered the advancing troops to quickly fill it up. However, because the man who was shot by the crossbow at the head of the city turned on his horse, the Ryordian soldiers with sandbags on their backs could not approach at all. The fallen bodies piled up almost a meter high on the edge of the castle moat,
The forward infantry waited restlessly, and I don't know who was the first to take the lead, and the soldiers threw the bodies of their comrades into the moat, and even threw the wounded soldiers who were not killed into it.
The moat was flattering with a myriad of sounds, and the water was getting shallower, but it was scarlet.
"Win and win"
Stepping on this bloody foreshadowing, the Raiders raised their weapons above their heads and jumped into the river, using the corpse's foreshadowing to advance. For a time, the surface of the river was black and oppressive, all of which were heads exposed to the water, and the crowds were dense, forming a new bridge, and people could walk across the opposite bank without wet
"Shooting"
The fifteen thousand Vecchian crossbowmen on the city wall also shot red eyes, and the arrows shot down from the oblique walls on both sides of the moat like a torrential rain, and countless Ruierdian soldiers fell with arrows in the scarlet water, so they also became a new foreshadowing, "snapping" a team of Ruierdian cavalry who rushed to the city jumped down the river,
As a result, as soon as they went, the cavalry found that the war horse was completely uncontrollable, and the strong and pungent smell of blood hit the nostrils, and there was a thick layer of floating corpses everywhere, making this place look like the legendary hell of the blood pool, but a strange smell was also mixed with blood
The knight of Ryrdian, who led the team, used his hand to remove the blood floating on the surface of the river, only to find that under the strong vomiting blood, there was a layer of black, shiny grease liquid.
"It's black blood" This terrible discovery made the brave knight turn pale with fright, "Quick, get ashore, go ashore" He struggled to wave the river, shouting to the infantry who were still jumping down, no one noticed his gestures in the chaos, on the contrary, the overseers at the rear continued to drive the infantry down the river,...,
There were even large numbers of infantry climbing the walls. Under the cover of the archers, in the shooting corners under the city walls, the infantry set up ladders, tied their weapons behind their backs, and climbed up the cracks in the city walls, and the walls were black and pressed, like black ants crawling all over a sugar cube.
Seeing that the troops were approaching the city, Rui Erdian's entire army burst into enthusiastic cheers, "Victory must be won, victory must be won", as the fourth phalanx of Prince Harauskes' personal guard, it was suddenly dispatched.
Twenty thousand archers rushed forward to cover their infantry with dense fire less than a hundred meters from the fortress, tens of thousands of arrows flew in the air on both sides, and shiny metal waterfalls could be seen continuously, and the crossbowmen on the strong walls from the bottom up could not resist the blow.
Brick debris flew everywhere on the city wall, and cracks were everywhere. Arrows erupted from the gaps in the railings, from the firing holes of the battlements, from every window, from every firing hole, from every crack in the stones, and the whole city groaned. From time to time, some of the crossbowmen on the city fell to the ground with arrows, and the corpses were covered with blood, and the cold walls were covered with bloody handprints.
Arrows flew in the air. The Vicchian heralds ran around the city, shouting one after another, and the sound of catapults, crossbows, and winch ballistas was continuous, shaking people's eardrums with a faint pain.
The current situation made Ssalon put all his reserves into battle, and his northern army only dispatched 26,000 men this time, but because of the previous losses, there were less than 23,000 people who could still fight, and in the face of a fierce attack four times his own, the strength was really insufficient. In some areas where the defense could not be taken care of, the Ryerdian infantry sneaked up the city wall,
The patrol immediately pounced on it to intercept it. The soldiers of the first row crouched down and rested the five-meter-long spear shaft on the ground, pointing the spear point forward, and the second row of spearmen rested the spear shaft on the shoulders of the first row of soldiers, and the third row of soldiers also rested the spear shaft on the shoulders of the second row of soldiers. Three neat rows of spears pointed diagonally ahead,
The tips of the Vykia Army's dense spears shimmered with a terrifying edge of metal in the white rain. Guns are like a forest. The pressure of the phalanx was heavier and heavier every moment, and each time it was getting closer and closer, and the number of people was increasing. The two sides gritted their teeth, blood flew everywhere, and screams continued one after another.
At the critical moment of "ignition", Salonn finally made the order to ignite the moat that poured black oil, and as a red torch flipped and fell from the height of the city wall, the huge flames instantly turned the entire section of the moat into a sea of fire, and the Ruierdian infantry who were still rolling and climbing the wall inside were engulfed in the raging flames without even having a chance to shout for help.
"Damn, it's just a little bit,"
Seeing the failed siege battle, Prince Harausquez couldn't help but wave his horsewhip indignantly,
"Your Highness, stop the attack immediately, otherwise the army will be finished" Some generals from the crusading army hurriedly ran over, but Prince Harauskes had no intention of withdrawing immediately,
He didn't expect the Falcon Army's combat strength to be so tenacious, with four times the strength, it was not able to achieve a suppressive advantage, but one thing was quite gratifying, that is, most of the soldiers who were pushed to the front line by him mercilessly were from the troops of the crusading army, and only the fourth team that had not yet gone up was his own people,
He ignored the advice, and said with a blushing face, "After three hours of fierce fighting, we suffered heavy casualties, and the Wikibians were also having a hard time, the war is a contest of strength and will, and I firmly believe that whoever can hold out until the last five minutes will win in the end."
His answer made the generals of the crusading army look ugly, but they had to carry it out, in fact, most of the troops sent to cooperate with the second prince were not very valued in the crusading army, the crusading army has nearly 200,000 people, such a large scale but lack of supplies and combat power, it has long been recognized fact, otherwise, it would not have been blocked by the tens of thousands of elites of the second highness under the city of Paravon...,
And the troops who were sent to assist this time were forced to make military orders, and if the attack failed, no matter which side would ask for their heads,
Because the Nords broke up too quickly, the time was too short, the real main battle troops were in the base camp behind, only these cannon fodder troops ran the fastest, in order to cover the real main force, these cannon fodder were destined to sacrifice themselves, with a powerful offensive to wear down the strength of the defenders, as long as Staros was captured, the back of the entire main force of the Falcon Army was like being completely exposed
This is a battle of life and death, there is no retreat, there is no victory or defeat, only life and death,
Otherwise, when the main force of the Falcon completely defeats the Nords, and then turns back to clean up itself, the Raldian army will inevitably suffer from the crazy revenge of the Vecchia Falcon, although the Ryrdian generals are numerous, but after the older generation of famous generals such as Berrant and Prais are gone, none of the new generation is the opponent of the Vecchia Falcon, and now the entire Ryrdian military community has been talking about the change of color for the Vekia Falcon, and listening to the situation of avoiding it
The most important thing to revive the lost morale of the army is an indisputable victory, and Harausquez guessed correctly, the army of Ryrdian was strewn with corpses, and the northern army of Salon guarding Strøs was about to die, and the same heavy casualties. With no reserves to replace, the soldiers on both sides of the fierce battle were exhausted.
The two main battle flag regiments stationed on the southern wall were more than half damaged, and the corpses of soldiers on both sides were piled up on the bluestone slabs of the fortress, and the gurgling red blood mixed with the rain flowed down the steps to the cracks in the corners of the fortress.
There were more dead bodies than alive in the city.
At 5 p.m., the main force of the 120,000-strong Ryrdian army arrived, and the fortress of Stros was once again a bloody hell, and thousands of knights formed an assault force poured into the city. The flaming moat was also filled with the soil by the riverside by the reckless Ryerdians, and thousands of Ryordian soldiers poured towards the fortress's gates, their crowded armor emitting a cacophony of metallic sounds. So much so that they couldn't even turn around and gasp, and many soldiers were inexplicably stabbed to death by the knights with sharp knights' swords because they blocked the way on the bridge.
The Northern Army, which had suffered more than half of the casualties, basically abandoned the defense of the perimeter of the fortress, and they relied on the tall interior of the fortress, holding heavy shields, and lined up in a wall to block every staircase leading to the main fort.
On the dozens of steps at the entrance of the main building, the Vikia heavy infantry and the attacking Ruierdian heavy infantry collided violently, the shield of the army was against the shield, no one could advance, and they could not retreat, even if they died, their corpses could not fall, they were wrapped in the flow of people and continued to move forward, as if the dead were also going to charge, mixed into a huge melee whirlpool, this whirlpool was constantly rolling, twitching, spasms, producing a lot of blood and sacrifices.
At the entrance of the narrow city road, tens of thousands of people were gathered to fight, this is almost not called a battle, the soldiers on both sides can only try their best not to be squeezed to death, trampled down, it is almost impossible to have wounded, all the wounded fall to the ground, immediately to the two sides of the fighting soldiers trampled into flesh, blood and corpses tumbling, roaring, shouting, moaning, the fighting on the city road was so fierce, a large amount of blood flowed down the stairs of the city road, and even once no more than the instep of people.
And on the horizon behind the army of more than 100,000 Rui Erdian, a black line is like a thin stream of water, and this water flow is expanding at an alarming speed, it becomes a black stream, and then it becomes a black river, and finally, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all the black lines gather in a black ocean with no end in sight
Thousands of cavalry poured out from below the horizon and rushed towards the rear of the main array of Ryerdian. The terrible darkness, so black that people dare not face it, the soldiers and horses surged forward, like a storm, as fierce as a wild hurricane, and they surged in thousands of them, swept in a dense formation, and swooped down on the rear army that was retreating from the front to rest.
"It's the main force of the Falcon Army"
The base camp of Rui Erdian, who discovered the situation, was terrified. Looking at the army that suddenly appeared, many people were so shocked that their whole body turned to stone, they couldn't imagine why the main force of the Falcon Dynasty army, which was supposed to be fighting the main force of the Nords, would appear behind them at this moment.
"Killing" the cavalry of the Central Army of the Central Army, led by Hu Keqili, only one roared, and penetrated deeply from the defenseless rear of the Rui Erdian army, the horses' hooves were trampled wildly, and the sword light was like snow and the heads of people were rolling everywhere, and the entire squadron of Rui Erdian infantry was drowned by thousands of war horses, and the bright red blood mixed with the broken flesh was deeply trampled into the muddy mud
With just one glance, Harauskes, the second prince of Raldian, judged that this time was completely finished. Instead of mobilizing forces to save the rear army at this time, it is better to keep the old capital and keep the main force of the army is the most important.
"Pass the order, and the banner regiments will immediately resist on the spot," Harausquez shouted anxiously, but in a hurry, it was not easy to switch from a siege battle to a defensive position. The various infantry squadron headquarters were turning hastily, and the soldiers were in disarray.
"Attention to the front," the captains of the infantry at the front shouted hoarsely, "Hold your ground on the spot...... ,