Chapter 61: Be Patient
There was not much time for the two sides to prepare, and after more than two days of rest, the siege began. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
There is nothing fancy, the French army is the most formal dispatch.
"Whoosh"
A loud whistling sound rang out suddenly, the sound of a boulder cutting through the air.
"Boom"
The first boulder was not on target, smashed on the ground and rolled several times, stopping at the base of the Nuremberg wall.
Then there was the squeak of countless minions, the swaying of ropes, and it was the trebuchet adjusting its bearing.
But for a while.
"Whoosh" "Whoosh" "Whoosh" ......
A series of whistling sounds pierced the sky and slammed into the city wall with a sharp whirl.
"Knock" "Knock" "Knock" ......
As if a drum hammer was beating the drum surface, the boulder left shallow pits one after another in the city wall.
The French army, of course, did not expect to break through the walls with these catapults alone, and the catapults were reoriented again with one order.
"Whoosh" "Whoosh" "Whoosh" ......
The second batch of boulders flew into the sky and smashed into the city walls with an unstoppable momentum!
"Knock"
The thinner battlements were smashed open, and the boulder bounced and crashed into the city, causing a commotion.
"Knock"
The boulder swirled, smashing a stone cannon, and then flew sideways with the bodies of two stone cannon operators.
"Knock"
The boulder fell straight down, tumbling over the city walls, and came to rest on the edge of a battlement, leaving a trail of flesh and blood.
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Boulders continued to fall, destroying the fortifications on the city walls and destroying the confidence of the defenders. After all, such a killing machine that was not forged by human beings was not something that ordinary soldiers could stop, and it was very difficult for those masters to dodge it.
However, as the defenders of the city, they will not sit still, and at the sound of an order, the counterattack begins.
The stone cannons, bed crossbows, and crossbow machines arranged on the city wall began to exert their might, condescendingly, and began to attack the trebuchet positions on the opposite side.
For a while, the whistling sound was endless. Some are dull, they are boulders, some are short, they are cobblestones, some are sharp, they are crossbows...... The two armies wantonly squandered the accumulation of the past few days, and poured whatever they could find into each other's heads without stopping.
Trebuchets had a useful life, and suitable corpses were not so easy to collect, and gradually, the French under the city fell silent, while the Germans on the city walls fired two rounds with joy, as if to express their displeasure.
Of course, a siege battle will not be so simple, these long-range attacks are just foreplay, and if you really want to capture a steel town, you still rely on hand-to-hand combat, climbing the city, being brave and fearless, and not afraid of sacrifice.
Dense ants of French soldiers poured out of the camp, assembled in phalanx, and began to charge the walls.
Each of them is an elite! They are all warriors who have trained their internal strength! They are all the essence of the French Revolutionary Army!
They wore sharp cloaks, raised their shields, and rushed to the city walls in the face of raindrops of arrows!
This is a world with this magical martial arts, and the siege warfare in this world rarely uses swords and ants to attach the siege method, and they rely on martial arts masters!
There was no need for a ladder or a car, and several martial arts powerhouses in full armor jumped up from the back of the ranks and stepped on the walls of Nuremberg!
The straight walls seemed to them to be on the ground! In a few breaths, they ran up the walls!
Long knives are wielded, swords are stabbed, and great axes are slashed...... Masters bloomed on all sides of the city walls, wantonly slaughtering those ordinary German soldiers.
The people below were not idle, taking advantage of the short gap in the chaos on the city wall, the ladder began to be erected, and the cart was pushed up, and ordinary soldiers could start to kill towards the city wall.
But it is clear that the German side is also well prepared, and one by one the masters are quickly mobilized and go towards the chaotic several places. In a short time, the dozen or so French masters who burst into the city wall were hanged.
Then they overthrew the ladders, burned the chariots, and drove down the French soldiers who had burst up to the city walls.
Of course, there is not only one wave of such raids.
Soon, the second, third, and fourth waves of French masters continued to burst onto the city wall, and for a while, the entire city wall was in a scuffle. The clashing of weapons continued, shouts and howls continued, and the battle entered a white heat.
Time passed, the casualties increased one by one, and the bluestone city wall was soon stained red with blood, and the narrow city wall was full of flesh and blood, making people feel like they were stepping on a piece of mud......
A whole day of fighting, without a moment's rest.
But the sky was still slowly darkening, and the sound of trumpets came from the French camp, and the army slowly withdrew like a tidal wave.
Yes, Germany is well prepared this time, with complete manpower and equipment, no shortage of food and herbs, and occupies the advantage of terrain and city walls, this Xiongguan is not so easy to break.
The sky was completely dark, and the two "giant beasts" who had been fighting for a day also began to lick their wounds and prepare for the next day's battle.
In a bloody atmosphere, the soldiers greedily swallowed their food. In the tents, the wails and pains of the wounded soldiers continued. In the big tent, the top brass of the two armies began to worry about the offensive and defensive strategies of the next day......
In the misty night, the guys in the dark also began to act.
Although the bonfire was raging on the city walls, it was dark under the city walls, and many of the corpses from the day's battles were still there, and they had not had time to recover. Five hundred meters outside the city wall, all of them were stumps and broken arms, flesh and bones. There were French and Germans who fell from the city walls, some were killed by arrows, and some fell to their deaths.
And in the dark, their corpses will be treated to a feast!
The night grew darker and deeper, and the feast officially began, and figures wrapped in black robes appeared on the battlefield like ghosts. There was no shouting, no fighting, only gurgling, the sound of liquid entering the throat, only rustling, the sound of heavy objects moving......
They don't know their identities, but they have a tacit understanding, and they choose their own goods, just like picking goods in the market, relying on their eyes and hands, first come, first served.
The night slowly dissipated, and the banquet that lasted all night came to an end, and the "ghosts" disappeared one by one, and with them disappeared, there were still a large number of corpses, the corpses of the masters of the two armies!
High on the hillside, looking at the battlefield shrouded in early morning mist, one of the inquisitors couldn't help but ask, "Dear Lord St. Simon, these demons have had a full meal, I don't understand, we are already here, why don't we stop them?
"Oh no, my child. The sturdy old man smiled kindly: "Of course we will make a move, but not now! These are just bait, we need to be more patient, a little more patient." ”