Chapter 720: Siege Weapon

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When the dirt in the last shield cart fell, the moat was filled in a section fifty or sixty meters long.

As the drums sounded, the soldiers under Song Li's command began to rush under the city wall.

In the era of cold weapons, soldiers mostly used dense formations when charging, which was not only more oppressive, but also allowed more men to occupy and consolidate the defense line when breaking through the enemy's defense.

But if it is a siege, the formation that is too dense is not particularly good, the reason is very simple, the number of ladders is limited, rushing under the city wall does not mean that the city has been broken, and then you have to climb to the top of the city through the ladder.

In this case, too many soldiers gathered under the walls will only become a target for the enemy.

Of course, it is useless to have too few people, because in the face of the rain of arrows above the city, if you want to rush to the city wall, in addition to luck, you must rely on the number of people to fill it.

For this reason, after some thinking and consulting with some battle-hardened generals in the army, Song Li adopted a semi-scattered formation.

On the one hand, the personnel arrangement during the attack is not dense, but relatively loose, so that the casualties can be minimized under the rain of arrows fired by the opponent's archers, and on the other hand, such a skirmish line will advance as much as possible to increase the number of personnel who reach the city walls.

Song Li did this, firstly, to reduce the number of deaths, but also to be more efficient.

After all, if there are too many dead people under the city wall, it will affect the attack speed of the follow-up personnel.

In addition, in order to improve the efficiency of the siege, Song Li also prepared some ** bags. In view of the fact that there is no trace of technology in this world, it is impossible for him to make a too powerful **, which is basically improved on the basis of the gunpowder used to make firecrackers and fireworks.

Because Song Li himself is a saint-level Dan master and knows how to refine weapons, plus he still remembers some chemical knowledge in his previous life in his mind, under the combination of these three, he has come up with some black technology, including many ** bags weighing more than 30 catties.

In addition to the ordinary soldiers who were in charge of the siege, Song Li also selected a hundred people from his Blade Assault Regiment, and they were responsible for blasting operations.

He really wanted to see if he could blow up a gap in the wall of the so-called impenetrable imperial capital with the more than 100 ** bags he made with his own hands.

"Rush, rush, rush. ”

The non-commissioned officers led their soldiers to charge under the city walls, shouting loudly to cheer up the soldiers.

At the same time, the hundred members of the Blade Commando Corps, disguised as ordinary soldiers, also rushed across the moat and came under the city walls among the charging personnel.

The defenders at the top of the city quickly noticed the Blade Assault Troopers and began throwing wood and gold juice down from the top of the city.

The so-called sandalwood and gold juice are all commonly used to defend the city in the era of cold weapons, the former is a large log staring at some sharp spikes, thrown from the sky, if anyone is smashed, even if it does not become a meat pie, it will be pierced into a rotten sieve. This kind of sassato is sometimes hung with iron chains, and after use, it can be taken back and used repeatedly, which is quite sharp.

As for the gold juice, it is even more ferocious, the main ingredients are oil and dung soup, sometimes mixed with some poison or something, put it in a cauldron to boil, and pour it down directly when it is used, as long as it is poured on the body, it will not be scalded to death, but it will also be infected to death because it is mixed with poison or dung soup and other things.

Even without that, the smell alone is enough to smoke people to death.

In the face of the double attack of the defenders at the head of the city, the members of the Blade Assault Corps were not worried.

After all, they are not ordinary soldiers, they are not weak in cultivation, they are agile, and they have some magic weapons prepared for them by Song Li, which is even more powerful.

Seeing the sassaga and gold juice pouring down, the leader suddenly closed his arms together, and quickly bombarded dozens of punches, and the wind roared up, instantly bursting the sassale wood, and as for the gold juice, it was blown away in all directions.

At this moment, the fellow blade advance team members also quickly put on the maze that Song Li gave them.

When it worked, the illusion was enough to fool the eyes of the defenders above the city, for whom all the enemies who had just rushed under the walls were gone.

Although the defenders couldn't understand how these people suddenly disappeared, they were busy defending the city and didn't have much time to think about such a question, so they didn't take it to heart.

The 100 blade assault team members began to take out their tools and began to dig large holes under the walls of the imperial capital.

After the establishment of the Holy Lion Empire, the capital was built at this time, and it took a lot of effort to build this city, and it also cost a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

Its walls, for example, are not only tall and thick, but more importantly, their materials are also extraordinary.

Most of the walls are made of earth, and the best ones are made of bricks on the outside. Better yet, it was built with bricks.

However, the walls of the imperial capital were built with stone bricks three meters wide, one and a half meters high, and five meters long. There is also a criterion when building, that is, if the tip of the knife can be inserted between the brick joints, the person in charge of the construction will be beheaded.

Under such circumstances, although the city walls of the entire imperial capital are made of thousands of stone bricks, they look like they are integrated, and after so many years of wind and rain, they still do not look dilapidated at all.

At this time, it is very difficult for the Blade Commandos to dig a hole in this place, which is no different from digging a hole in the mountain.

What ordinary people may not be able to do in a short period of time even with a hammer and steel drill has become much easier when it comes to the Blade Assault Troop Members. Because they not only have extraordinary strength, but also have the tools that Song Li personally gave them to refine.

Don't look at these tools as just shovels or pickaxes, but Song Li is refined by refining flying swords, and the materials used are quite good.

Not only are they digging the walls above the ground, but they are also digging down.

Song Li prepared a total of 100 ** bags for them, which was 3,000 catties. In fact, there is no such thing as ** in this world, but Song Li, who has lived in another world, knows the power of thermal weapons in war, so he wants to use the technology of an alchemist to solve this kind of problem. After countless experiments, Song Li successfully refined some drugs according to a certain proportion, and after ignition, it can also have an explosive effect, and the destructive power is amazing! Song Li has been storing these ** in the storage ring, and kept them as a big killer at a critical moment, which is surprisingly successful. Now, it is the critical moment of the battle! This time in the siege, in order to increase the destructive power, Song Li decided to use these ** together, and in order to fully exert its explosive power, he specially reminded his soldiers to bury it as deep as possible, preferably deep into the foundation of the city wall.

The members of the Blade Assault Corps were full of blind faith in Song Li, and they all completed his orders without any discount. Song Li said that it was buried deeper, and they would definitely not bury it shallow in order to save trouble.

While the members of the 100 Blades Assault Corps were digging holes like miners under the city walls, a brutal and bloody siege battle was going on not far from them.

It is not for nothing that the imperial capital has been able to stand for so many years without being breached.

Even if the moat didn't play its due role, the high walls and the defensive shape formed by the defenders on the city head with bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, sasswood, gold juice, stones, etc., were still amazingly powerful.

Song Li's army had lost nearly three or four thousand people under the city from the beginning of the attack to this time, and the corpses fell to the ground horizontally, the blood not only stained the ground red, but also dyed the moat red, but still no one could climb the city.

More precisely, in most cases, the soldiers were shot by a cluster of flying arrows before they could climb halfway up the ladder. Many of them died from the rain of arrows before they even had time to climb the ladder.

Song Li realized early on that this battle was not easy to fight, and it would become very tragic, but he didn't expect it to be so tragic, the wall of the imperial capital really became a huge meat grinder, no matter how many people put it in, it didn't seem to be enough to devour it.

Although he felt sorry for the soldiers who sacrificed in his heart, Song Li did not stop.

Ci is not in charge of the soldiers, Song Li has long understood this truth. He also understands the truth of one blow and then three exhaustions.

If he stopped the attack now because he cared for the dead soldiers, not only would the dead lose their lives in vain, but even his own morale would be greatly reduced, so no matter how many people died, he would have to grit his teeth and hold on.

It's like a decisive battle that tests the fighting spirit and willpower of the coaches on both sides, and whoever gives up first will lose.

Song Li didn't want to lose and couldn't afford to lose, so he had to order the generals under his command to send batches of people up.

In addition, Song Li was actually looking forward to the performance of the 100 Blade Commando Regiment. Song Li knew very well that if he wanted to break through the imperial capital, if he simply relied on the lives of the soldiers, not to mention that he only had five or six hundred thousand people now, even if it was doubled, it might not be enough.

He had also lived in the imperial capital, and he knew that there was a situation inside, and he also knew that the material reserves inside were very abundant.

Even if you surround this place yourself, within a year, the people in the city will not worry about food and drink, let alone ordnance or something