Verse 55 - Allure
A sturdy siege ladder landed on the Slanth's battlements, and Portland soldiers with swords in one hand and shields in the other howled and climbed to the top of the city.
"Thorn, stab, stab, hard, bastard, don't stop, whoever stops will die!"
Razor, the commander of the city defense battalion of Li'an City, ran back and forth in the rain of arrows with a tower shield on his head, knocking on the uncertain soldiers from time to time.
Under the usual training and reprimands of the commanders, the soldiers of the city defense battalion gathered in the area where the siege ladders were erected, several spears took turns to stab, and several shields were stubbornly pressed against the battlements to resist the rain of arrows fired by the Portlanders.
Not just ordinary bows and arrows, but also crossbow arrows as thick as forearms, after being fired from a huge bed crossbow, the five strands of steel arrows can be easily inserted into the city walls, for the most skilled swordsmen to step on and jump onto the walls.
If this powerful heavy crossbow bolt hits a person, it can knock a person out of the city wall and crash far into the city.
Jars of fire oil were thrown off the city wall by the soldiers of the city defense battalion defending the city, and even smashed on the siege ladder, and the flames like maggots attached to the bones burned the Portlanders to cry wolf, and some soldiers with fire on their bodies fell down the ladder, or rolled hoarsely under the city wall until they were burned alive.
Although the strength of the city defense battalion was far inferior to the incoming Portland army, it was able to maintain the situation with the help of the tall and heavy city walls and the fifth-order swordsman Razor.
The first assault of the Portlanders was quickly defeated by the soldiers of the city defense battalion, and they paid for it with two mobile arrow towers and hundreds of Portlander corpses mixed with a few Slanish city defenses.
Except for two or three blazing shells that smashed the walls of Li'an City and trembled slightly, the magicians on both sides did not fire at all their power, and after a few tests of each other, they gave up, leaving those soldiers to fight to the death on the top of the city.
"Lord Mosrig, the first regiment suffered 316 casualties, 6 siege ladders, 2 arrow towers, and 11 bed crossbows. ”
The recorder in charge of battlefield statistics reported the casualties as soon as possible, and at the same time sent someone to report to Bancroft, the commander of the Chinese army's big tent.
"Knowing the road, the first regiment will be replaced by an auxiliary attack, and the second regiment will be replaced, and the number of siege ladders will be doubled!"
This result had long been expected by Captain Mosligwan of the Second Division of the "Overlord Lion" Regiment in Portland, but after a short break, the second round of attacks began again, and he did not want to give the Slans more respite.
"Yes, my lord!"
The war drums rumbled, the long horns sounded through the sky, the orderly Second Division began to dispatch troops, and the soldiers marched into the battlefield in formation, pulling out their snow-white blades, flashing brightly in the sun, and the murderous spirit was soaring.
The soldiers of the first row roared and charged with siege ladders, followed by the second row.
The Portlanders' attacks were like a tidal wave, and the bottom of the siege ladder was full of soldiers, and even some brave archers approached the city wall to launch accurate scattered shots, and some unprepared Slan city defenders screamed and fell down the wall.
One side desperately rushed to the wall, the other filled the attack point with human lives, and from the beginning of the battle, both sides were in a state of glue, and there were constantly siege ladders on the walls.
The location of the city itself has a certain military significance, the hill attached to it has two sides of the terrain is dangerous, ordinary civilians have no problem entering, but it is not suitable for large armies to deploy, it is more difficult to organize sieges, so the Portlanders' attacks focus on the east and north, especially the east, and the northern wall is harassed by feints and cold arrows.
The rigid textbook tactics are not useless, as the attacking side can advance or retreat, the initiative is completely in their hands, so in addition to the rules, there are very few flaws, forcing the defending side of the Slan to only go head-to-head with it.
In just a few battles, he was able to hold on in one breath, but after a long time, the disadvantage of insufficient troops inevitably broke out.
"After the notice, kill a few more brute cattle to add food to the soldiers, the spices should be enough, put as much as possible, if it is not enough, go to my steward Asa, he will give the cooks enough spices!"
Mosrig, who promised to reward the soldiers with expensive spices, could fully imagine what kind of welcome and glory he would receive when he returned to Portland's capital after the war was over, and those wealthy ladies were still alive in their arms.
This trip to the gilding is about to turn into real gold, and he will be looked up to and admired by the young people in the aristocratic circles of the capital.
Struck while the iron was hot, Moslig smiled smugly!
"Hell, this boy from the Bird family didn't expect to have two hits, and he actually caught the rhythm!"
The battlefield experience and vision of Van Degaard, the commander of the 1st Division, are also extremely old, he has already seen the situation on the field, and the balance is tilting little by little towards the 2nd Division led by the young nobleman.
The Slans defending the city had gradually exposed their shortcomings, and knowing that, he should have snatched this mission from the Legion Commander, Lord Bancroft.
Maybe it will only take half a day, no, it will only take one offensive to take down this city of the Slans.
"My lord, these Slans are really vulnerable, Lord Mosrig is lucky, but the city of the Slans has not been completely breached, maybe it will be up to you to take action. ”
The adjutant of the 1st Division, Van der Ga, could see that his boss was very upset, and carefully accompanied the kind words.
"Hehe, Ivre, you're getting better at talking. ”
Thousands of clothes, but not sycophants, Van der Gar was really in a better mood, shook his head with a smile, and continued to watch the battlefield.
Sycophants are sycophants, but Ivor is not wrong, and any accident can happen before the balance of victory is locked in the corner.
The first day of fighting was definitely an extremely torturous day for Lean City on the eastern border of the Slant Empire, and every Slanist who participated in stopping the Portlanders' attack felt like a year.
What no one expected was that at sunset, the Portlanders launched an unprecedented offensive again, a section of the city wall was once missed, the dragon knight Lin Mo and the martial aristocrat He Si rushed forward at the first time, and two different elemental attributes of the battle qi arc slash directly ploughed out a wave of blood among the Portland soldiers who attacked the city wall.
In just a dozen breaths, the lost section of the wall was recaptured, but it also sounded the alarm for Li'an City.
High-ranking fighters may be able to improve local dangers, but they can't completely change the tide of battle.
"Lieutenant Colonel Lin Mo, this city can only hold out until sunset tomorrow at most! ”
The twin sister who could have retreated into the city with the city lord Baron Hong Yu and others still insisted on staying on the city wall, on the one hand, she hated the lustful and shameless city lord baron, and on the other hand, she collected battle data on the spot to assess the military strength of this world.
After all, military science and technology are different, firearms warfare and cold weapons and magic warfare, the two may be similar in strategy, but in terms of tactics, they are completely different.
As her sister said, she was conducting intelligence operations for the Slans on the defending side, doing the best intelligence analysis for the dragon knight lieutenant colonel who couldn't pull back ten brute oxen, and trying to maintain the situation he wanted as much as possible.
The pressure was huge, and she, like her sister, felt unprecedented difficulties, and the reconnaissance satellites, reconnaissance planes, fire support, and special operations units were responding······ None of that.
The only thing you can rely on is your five senses and brain.
On the city walls, where the battle is still raging from time to time, the only way to protect yourself is to carefully hide behind the battlements, and the automatic rifle behind your back can only be used at critical moments, and other than that, there is only a small combat crossbow in your hand.
"Tomorrow the sun sets?
The dragon knight frowned at the on-site assessment that Sister Gemini had transmitted over the radio.
According to his original estimate, Li'an City should be able to hold out for at least five days, which is enough to wait for the reinforcements of the empire, and no matter how bad it is, it can arrange an orderly retreat of the civilians in the city, but he didn't expect that the analysis results given by the twin sisters were not even half.
"If there is, my sister and I will definitely let you know as soon as possible. ”
Li Mubing observed the outside of the city wall, those damn Portlanders were still attacking like mad dogs, and they didn't want to stop.
The other party seems to rely on the large number of people and deliberately grind to death the soldiers defending the city of Li'an with wheel warfare.
The disparity between the forces of the enemy and us is so great that the attacker will lose his temper with his old-fashioned dogmatic tactics by relying on his old-fashioned dogmatic tactics.
In fact, the analysis results of the Li family sisters are infinitely close to the final results, and they are not even much inferior to the analysis results of the staff group of the "Dark Night" Special Service Brigade.
"Well, it looks like the only way to do it is to execute the decapitation tactic. ”
Naturally, he knew what would happen next when Li'an City was breached, and Lin Mo would certainly not sit idly by.
On the day the city broke, not to mention the twin sisters, even he himself crossed the river like a mud bodhisattva, and it was difficult to protect himself.
"Decapitation?"
"Beheaded!"
The twin sisters were surprised at the same time in the communication channel.
Patronizing the evaluation and deduction of the combat effectiveness of the Portlanders and the Slans, they both forgot that Lin Mo was almost equal to the combat power of a combat squadron in the combat sequence of the "Dark Night" special service team.
Decapitation is a special skill of special forces.
"Feasible!"
In normal times, Li Muxin, the sister of Gemini, may not support this idea, but here, there is a great possibility.
With high-tech war equipment of the level of "Dragon General", there is no battle qi and spell fluctuations, and it is completely feasible to use the cover of night to carry out the decapitation tactic of lurking assassination.
Even if it doesn't succeed, at least it can suspend the crisis of this city, even if it is good to delay the moment of breaking the city for one more day.
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