Chapter 122: The Attack on the City of Dehrim (Part I)

This also made him completely sure that Ye Tianlong would not kill him, after all, if the other party wanted to kill him, it would be impossible to raise him with good food and drink every day.

So the Count of Melte, who was completely relieved, also stayed at ease, and now he was enjoying the delicacy in front of him slowly.

However, there are relatively few people like Count Melt who are aware of current affairs, and some people still can't see the situation clearly, and they still want to make trouble. Among them is Ender, the youngest son of the Earl of Melte.

At this time, this young man, who was only in his early sixteens, saw Ye Tianlong leading the army out of the camp, leaving only ten soldiers to guard them, and immediately thought of escaping.

Seeing his father eating breakfast there slowly, the kid stepped forward a little anxiously and urged: "Father, hurry up and finish breakfast, and then let's go away!" ”

"Get out of the way! Where do you think we can slip away now? When Melt heard this, he turned his head and looked at his little son with a smile and asked.

"Where else can I slip away! To the Marquis of Craggs, of course! I've heard that he has recruited more than 15,000 horses in the city, and his strength is ten times that of Ye Tianlong! We went to him, and we were absolutely safe! Faced with his father's inquiry, Ander replied without thinking.

And when Melt heard his youngest son's answer, he couldn't help laughing, thinking that this kid was too naïve! However, for the sake of the other party being his son, he still opened his mouth and explained to the other party: "If there are more troops, will it necessarily be stronger?" Your kid's vision is still shallow! If the Marquis of Craggs really felt that he had more troops and stronger strength, why didn't he take the initiative to go out of the city to face the battle? From yesterday evening until today's breakfast, he has kept all his forces in the city! This can only mean one thing, that is, the Marquis of Craggs thinks that even if his strength is ten times that of Ye Tianlong, he is not his opponent! And did you just notice? When the soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command set off, they all had high fighting spirits! This shows that the soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command also feel that they have an advantage in combat power in this battle, and victory is only a matter of time. ”

After listening to his father's explanation, Ander couldn't help but suddenly realize, thinking that he was fortunate not to be in a hurry to escape first, otherwise it would be really embarrassing when Ye Tianlong broke Dehrim City and caught him again.

However, he was young and knowledgeable, and he still didn't understand how Ye Tianlong could capture Dehrim City, which was garrisoned by more than 15,000 troops, with only more than 1,500 horses.

So curious, he came to the outside of the camp, and tried to stretch his neck to look at Dehrim City in the distance and Ye Tianlong's army under the city, wanting to see how Ye Tianlong attacked the city.

And the small group of soldiers guarding around the camp had no intention of stopping them when they saw this, after all, Ye Tianlong had already explained to them, let these guys see more of the strong combat effectiveness shown by their own army, so that these guys could clearly understand the gap in combat power between the two sides, and then it would be best to firmly become a surrender faction in the Swadia Kingdom after being released.

Under Ender's gaze, the attack of Ye Tianlong's army officially began, and at the beginning it was an all-out attack, only to see dozens of artillery trucks attacking from the west gate and the north gate of Dehrim at the same time.

The artillery cart wrapped in thick armor was pushed hard by the soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command, slowly but firmly advancing towards Dehrim City, and behind them, three large-caliber heavy guns also began to roar, smashing one shell after another into the walls of Dehrim City.

Seeing the enemy attacking, the defenders in Dehrim City were also urged by the officers to go up to the city wall and prepare for battle, and some heavy catapults on the city began to fire stone bullets directly at the enemy troops outside the city.

Those huge stone bullets fell heavily from the air, the power was still very terrifying, in the process of advancing, after several artillery carts were unfortunately hit, not only the body of the car was immediately twisted and deformed, but more than a dozen soldiers hiding in it were also killed and wounded.

However, this small casualty could not stop Ye Tianlong's army from approaching, and in the continuous bombardment of heavy artillery, although it was not able to bombard the extraordinarily thick walls of Ta Dehrim City, it also killed many enemy soldiers who controlled those catapults on the wall, and smashed a full seven heavy catapults, which made the enemy's long-range firepower plummet.

However, as the distance between the two sides became closer, the bed crossbows and small catapults of the enemy's Chengtou Mountain also entered the firing range, so they also began to fire crossbow arrows and stone projectiles, joining the long-range strike.

Ye Tianlong's side was not to be outdone, and the small-caliber artillery loaded on those gun trucks also used solid shells to return fire at the bed crossbows and catapults on the city.

Dozens of artillery pieces fired at the same time, and even if the accuracy was not very good, the number of hits began to increase rapidly, and only three rounds of artillery fire smashed nearly half of the bed crossbows and catapults on the head of the city. In addition, more than 200 enemy defenders were killed and wounded.

The rest of the enemy artillery soldiers were beaten for a while, and the Marquis of Kragus, as the commander, was naturally very angry about this, and constantly sent messengers to pass orders, so that those artillery soldiers should not be afraid of casualties, and attack the enemy troops outside the city with all their might, and he would give a thousand silver dinars as a pension for one person killed in the battle.

After the Marquis of Kragus offered such a hefty pension, the artillery men finally mustered up some courage and began to rise from the walls and continue to shoot at the enemy troops outside the city. Unfortunately, this did not have much effect, after all, except for those heavy catapults, other bed crossbows and light catapults could not penetrate the armor of the artillery carriage at all.

However, this is more convenient for Ye Tianlong and their killing and wounding of the enemy's artillery and city defense equipment, accompanied by a continuous sound of cannons, those small-caliber artillery that can be fired in bursts quickly fired shells at a speed of six or seven rounds a minute towards the city, these cannonballs like a large hail look not as big as the stone bullets fired by catapults, but the lethality is extremely terrifying, once it is rubbed to a point, it is the end of broken bones and tendons. As for the bed crossbows and catapults that were hit, they were smashed to dismantle on the spot, and the various parts and pieces of wood that were splattered often accidentally injured a large number of soldiers operating these machines in the vicinity.

When Ye Tianlong's artillery truck approached within fifty meters of the city wall, and began to fire waves of dense scattered bullets like rain, not to mention those artillery soldiers on the city wall, even those ordinary soldiers were swept down by a large area, and after two rounds of bombardment, there was no longer a single enemy soldier still standing on the city wall, obviously really frightened by the terrible scene of dozens of artillery guns firing scattered bullets at the same time.

And he was also frightened by the youngest son of the Count of Melte, Ender, looking at the lives of the defenders on the head of Dehrim City who were harvested like wheat, and he finally understood why the Marquis of Craggs obviously had a tenfold advantage in troops, but he only dared to retreat in the city and hold on, but did not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight.

If it is a decisive battle outside the city, in the face of such ferocious firepower of the enemy, the entire army may soon be completely defeated, and if the city is defended, because the area of the city head mountain is limited, it can send soldiers in batches, even if a group of soldiers are defeated, it doesn't matter, the Marquis of Craggs can quickly send another army to fill the position.

At this time, the Marquis of Kragus was sending more heralds and officers to send orders and reserve troops to fill the city walls, so as to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the situation to attack the city.

What the Marquis of Crags didn't know was that the heralds and officers he sent had also revealed their locations, and Zhou Jiale had been carefully observing the sky over Dehrem City before piloting the battle airship, and the large number of heralds back and forth made him finally accurately lock the location of the Marquis of Craggs's headquarters.

After conveying the position of the Marquis of Craggs's headquarters to the friendly forces on the ground using the flag, Zhou Jiale also controlled the battle airship to slowly fly over the Marquis's headquarters, preparing to bomb it.

And Ye Tianlong and the others on the ground, after receiving Zhou Jiale's information, an elite team of two hundred people led by Lin Chong and Shi Wengong and other masters quickly dispatched, and launched a surprise attack from the west gate and the north gate at the same time.

Ye Tianlong was also mixed in these two squads this time, after all, for a martial artist, battle is the best catalyst for cultivation to improve, he has also been cultivating for a long time during this time, it is time to have another hearty battle for him to consolidate his cultivation.

This elite team of two hundred people, the weakest of the members of which have the cultivation of Ming Jin warriors, so even if they are wearing heavy armor, when they rush out from behind the artillery carriage and rush towards the city wall of Dehrim at full speed, one by one they are still as fast as cheetahs, and after rushing to the city wall, they have thrown out their hook claws, hooked the city head with their hook claws, and began to quickly climb towards the top of the city wall.

The rest of the soldiers were not idle, using bows and flintlock rifles, and constantly shooting at the surviving enemy troops on the walls, so as not to interfere with their comrades from climbing the walls.

Soon, Lin Chong, Shi Wengong, Yang Zhi and Li Rufeng were the first to climb the city wall, of which Lin Chong and Li Rufeng were the first to climb the west city wall, and Shi Wengong and Yang Zhi climbed the north city wall.

At this time, the two walls also happened to be supported by a team of thousands of enemy troops each, and the officer who led the team saw that the enemy had climbed the city wall, and immediately shouted and ordered the arrows to be released.

Suddenly, hundreds of crossbowmen began to fire arrows at these four people in unison, but Lin Chong and Li Rufeng did not panic at all in the face of this situation, and one by one they danced the weapons in their hands to the airtight, knocking all the crossbow arrows that were shot out.

Then the four of them pounced into the enemy line like tigers out of a cage, waved their weapons and began to quickly harvest the lives of these enemy soldiers.

In the face of these four innate masters with full firepower, where are the opponents of those defender soldiers who don't even have the combat power of Ming Jin Martial Arts! was immediately killed and retreated, so that these soil buns on the Calradia continent had a good understanding of what it means to be a fierce general who can defeat a thousand armies by one person.