1465 Showdown (6)
Normandy's northern border defense line
The hard soil in the north is very dry, in the vast undulating earth, the ground is covered with cracks because of dry and cold, bottomless cracks, there is a thin layer of dust on the surface, with the wind blowing, the dust will flutter with the wind, the originally clear sky becomes gray, the ground withered yellow plant stalks have a layer of fluff, bent bow building prostrate on the ground, it seems that the fragile as long as it touches to break,
At the top of a desolate hill, an endless wall pulls from the horizon. Although the walls are made of local abundant flakes, they are not strong, but the walls are surrounded by several wide moats, the climate is unusually dry and cold, the vegetation here is almost unprotected, the ground is covered with low shrubs, all the villages outside the walls are empty, there are no forests for timber extraction, and there are no rivers for drinking.
The environment here is a headache for any enemy who wants to attack the city walls, they must fight quickly, otherwise, the army will be trapped in this wilderness, and now, on the road behind the city wall, the carriages transporting logistics materials are parked in Guangping, and the city walls are full of soldiers carrying things, pulling wagons full of supplies and hurrying past the soldiers, bundles of arrows are carried up to the arrow towers of the city walls, and some wooden barrels filled with crude oil are stacked on the city walls,
Every fifty meters, there will be an arrow tower used to store supplies, sandwiched between high wooden towers, facing the shaft in the castle, on which the crossbowmen check the bowstrings of their crossbows, and in their eyes looking out of the city, the vast wilderness is not only full of low bushes, but also tents, full of flowers and green, covering the slope of about a thousand meters in front of the city wall,
The Slavic army, which had traversed the entire area of the Fifth Army, thought they would be able to plunder, but they were presented with empty warehouses and villages burned to ashes. The Slavs, who had found nothing, vented all their anger on the remaining Imperial troops, and they strung every captured Imperial soldier on the side of the road with sharp logs, and wiped their buttocks with the Imperial flag.
The colder weather and hunger drove them on, and more and more people joined in, and the more they expanded, the stronger the Slavs' sense of hope for the future, and at first they were a little timid about the sudden appearance of the defensive line of the city walls. They launched several small-scale attacks, and without even crossing the first defensive ditch, the shooters flipped on their backs, leaving more than a thousand corpses and running away
But the large number of people gave them confidence that they would win, and the leaders of the various divisions privately decided to wait until more men launched an attack together.
On the city wall, the fat man was also looking through a telescope at the scattered Slavic camp, which was shabby because of the lack of wood for fire and all kinds of construction materials. It is to form a circle with a wooden cart full of miscellaneous goods,
The Slavic soldier was dressed in the same way as Fort Julilsford described, with a rudimentary light leather armor and a rusty helmet on his head that had gone through an unknown number of generations. On his back he carried a round shield, a tower shield made of the Empire, and a square shield made of wooden planks, with a short axe pinned to his waist. Some of the soldiers carried short javelins on their backs and had no cavalry, or very few of them. All kinds of colorful flags make the fat man a little dizzy,
"Damn, it's a refugee camp!"
The fat man smashed his mouth, the number of Slavs had exceeded 200,000 yesterday, and all sections of the city wall felt the pressure, and the number of enemies gathered outside the city wall could not be counted at present, because the number was still increasing with time, maybe in the evening, I saw that the other party's camp had just been covered with the hills on the left, and the next morning, I would find that the hills on the right were also covered with enemy tents
On the third day, it rained for a day, and the earth was muddy, like the cry of heaven.
The Slavs, who had been starving in the torrential rain and cold, finally couldn't help but move, and the scale of more than 100,000 people began to approach the long wall, and the dense queue was like a dark cloud pressing down on the city, and an hour later, this famous defensive battle in the history of the Falcon Empire was unfolded in the mud and cold mud north of Normandy,
"Ula!" The howls of 100,000 people, like a flood behind a collapsing embankment, the dense Slavic light infantry with small shields and short axes rushed towards the first defensive ditch of the city wall, and several improvised siege towers wandered in the defensive ditch with difficulty,
"Attack!"
There was the sound of trebuchet springs cracking on the city wall, and countless boulders with various sharp water chestnuts were like flocks of birds suddenly flying through the air in the distance, falling from the sky with a terrible wind sound from the white sky and rain.
Thunderously smashed into the ranks of the Slavs who were struggling to advance,
The whole piece of the Slavs was smashed and fell, the minced flesh flew sideways, and the rolling circular slingstones rolled out a bloody scrap of minced flesh in the crowd of Slavic soldiers,
"Rush forward, don't retreat," the Slavic leaders shouted behind them brandishing their weapons, but the front was really uncompromising,
The ranks were torn apart by the dense blows of the slings, and the soldiers who were routed. Scattered like a flock of sheep in the wilderness all over the muddy low-lying land
"Mom, run for your life!" they screamed hysterically, dropped their shields and scattered with their heads in their hands, and the rain in the sky became even more intense, "Mom, cavalry!" The Slavic army wailed in the chaos, and the sound of galloping horses' hooves set off rolling thunder in the torrential rain,
The five thousand cavalry of the Falcon Central Army, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly rushed out from within the city walls,
The earth trembled violently, and a black and oppressive iron wall forced its way into the Slavic array, like a slap in the face of the Slavs.
The knife in the hand of the "killing" Hukochili slammed into the head of a Slavic soldier,
Yellow-white brains mixed with blood exploded from the mountain of the Slav's head,
Tens of thousands of falcon cavalry rolled up the light of the killing sword, mercilessly slashing past the heads of the Slavs who stood in front of them,
War horses are like thunder, as unstoppable as a stream of iron,
Countless iron-hoofed swords were like a cruel rolling iron wall, rapidly expanding in the frightened eyes of all the Slavs who had not yet charged,
So much so that it occupies all the field of vision!
The swarm assault of the cavalry of the Falcon Empire was unstoppable and threw the 100,000 Slavs into chaos, and in a scream and exclamation, the scattered array of the Slavs was scattered after a period of resistance,
Then, a cluster of fierce arrows poured down from the top of the city wall, and the Slavs, who were still rolling in the mud on the ground, did not even have time to dodge, and did not have any shields to withstand such a completely irresistible terrorist attack,
Huge rocks fell from the sky like a nightmare, and the entire area of soldiers was smashed into pulp in an instant, followed by a dense rain of arrows, like a torrent crashing into the cliff, and the flesh of the Slavs below, the two collided with each other, blood flying, (to be continued......