Chapter 612: Heavy casualties
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Seeing the gold juice on the top of the city, the number of rolling logs and stones began to decrease, and the morale of the Black Wind Thieves soldiers under the city was greatly boosted.
Next, countless Black Wind Thieves attacked again, and countless Black Wind Thieves climbed up through a large number of Earth Cloud Ladders.
But at this moment, from the left side of the city wall, and on the right side of the urn city, the figures of the archers who had disappeared from the battlements for a long time appeared again, they stretched out their bodies with a determined face, held the bow and arrow in both hands very steadily, and under the command of the commander, aimed at the black wind thieves on the top of the ladder.
"Shoot!" An order, the archer door from both sides, countless arrows shot towards these black wind thieves, their firepower is extremely fierce, whenever a rain of arrows appears, there will be a terrible scream outside the city wall, those black wind thief soldiers who were hit, even if they are wearing several layers of heavy armor, in the face of such a close range of heavy arrow attacks, they are also dead armor, screaming and falling from the ladder.
In the middle, there were a few quasi-martial artists, although they relied on their strong strength to avoid the threat of death from heavy arrows, but they fell directly from the top of the forty or fifty-meter-high ladder, and in the end, they also fell to their deaths.
If you are even more unlucky, you will fall directly to the ground and become a gourd.
You must know that on the ground at the foot of the city wall, there are countless Black Wind Thieves with spears, waiting to go up the ladder, so those Black Wind Thieves who fall from the top of the ladder will inevitably fall directly onto the tips of these pikemen.
At this time, the hundreds of Black Wind Thief archers under the city, after they had shot more than a dozen rounds before, at this time, they already felt that their arm strength was a little insufficient, so the number of arrows suppressed was also greatly reduced, and the threat to the city was not enough.
Even if it is those powerful ballistas, although the ballista does not have to worry about the problem of arm strength, but after more than half an hour of continuous suppression and shooting, the heavy arrows you carry on the ballista are almost consumed, and if you want to exert your power again, you have to wait for the people behind you not to bring the arrows, otherwise, these giant ballistas are also waste.
Without the counter-attack of the ballistas and archers, the archers on the city walls shot at the Black Wind Thieves more cheerfully, and correspondingly, the number of losses of the Black Wind Bandit army began to rise sharply.
As for the soldiers of the Black Wind Thieves who landed in the city, they were busy climbing the city at this time, and it was impossible to shoot arrows, only some powerful archers were left, and they were still shooting from a distance, which was suppressed, but the number of such martial arts archers was too small, and in such a big battle, it would not play much role, not to mention, Lin Ze still had such martial arts archers on his side, so at this moment, Lin Ze's side occupied an absolute advantage.
"Hehe, these Black Wind Thieves are not really elite troops, they will actually have a vacuum time on the firepower when attacking the city, it seems that the Black Wind Thieves are like this!" Lin Ze said with a smile.
Lin Ze saw the situation of the black wind thief giant ballista under the city wall, and when he saw this, Lin Ze's heart relaxed a lot.
Because, the really elite army has definitely thought about everything before the battle, and when fighting in the middle, there will definitely be no firepower vacancies, even if there is a firepower vacancy, it will be after a long battle, and there is no way to appear, not like these black wind thieves under the city wall, just an hour of battle, there is a firepower vacuum.
At this moment, Lin Ze's winning heart in his heart was even more firm!
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"My lord, the brothers have suffered a lot of casualties. A guard beside Lu Ming said with a hint of unbearability in his eyes.
"Yes, the casualties are not small!" Lu Ming also had a trace of grief in his eyes, the strength of the enemy was beyond his imagination.
Not far from the outside of the siege army, Lu Ming stood directly at the front, with hundreds of shield vehicles around him, thousands of heavy infantry guarding him, and the strength of the archers in Lin Ze's hands made Lu Ming dare not despise it in his heart.
Looking at the Black Wind Thief soldiers above the city, a few, or even a dozen, would be killed every second, Lu Ming, as the commander, beat his chest and regretted himself.
Lu Ming was familiar with the East City Gate before, so he was directly appointed by Xiao Quan as the general of the first merit, which was not only Xiao Quan's attention to Lu Ming, but also the opportunity that Lu Ming himself requested.
For this reason, Xiao Quan directly handed over 50,000 troops to him, and 30,000 cannon fodder troops in the middle were also handed over to him, so that he could use them to capture the city.
Unexpectedly, before approaching the moat, there were hundreds of casualties in the army, all of whom died under the stone bullet attack of the enemy at the head of the city, and a few of them were warriors, you know, every warrior in the army can be compared to hundreds of Black Wind Thief soldiers, but now they didn't even get close to the moat, and they were killed by stone bullets, at that time, Lu Ming's psychological face was really depressed.
Then, on the way to the moat, hundreds of Black Wind Thieves and hundreds of cannon fodder were killed and wounded by the enemy's stone projectiles and archers in the city, and the number of warriors killed and wounded in the middle increased to more than a dozen.
The corners of Lu Ming's eyes twitched!
Then, after approaching the moat, under Lu Ming's order, the siege troops were directly divided into three routes. On the left side of this city gate, a thousand-household-level black wind thief leader led four or five thousand black wind thief soldiers and more than three thousand cannon fodder troops to command the siege. On the right side of the city gate, the leader of the Black Wind Bandits, also led by a thousand-level Black Wind Bandit Leader, another four or five thousand troops, plus two thousand cannon fodder troops, led the army to attack.
In the middle, it was the most important siege site, and Lu Ming directly sent a commanding black wind bandit leader with an army of 6,000 and 6,000 cannon fodder troops to attack.
For the next battle, Lu Ming explained in great detail before these armies set off, first of all, let all the archers as a cover to suppress the attacks on the city wall, and then let those cannon fodder troops fill in the moat, and remove the horses, antler wood, and thistles in front of the city wall.
It can be said that Lu Ming's offensive plan is still very good, and the moat, the horse, the antlers, and the thistle terrestris are all quickly leveled.
Of course, the casualties paid in the middle also made Lu Ming's heart ache. On the side of the besieging force on the left alone, there were more than a thousand casualties in the army. Among them, forty or fifty people were quasi-warriors and warriors, and in particular, hundreds of shield carts and giant ballistas were destroyed.
This is only the casualties of the attacking troops on the left, as well as the casualties of the attacking troops on the middle and right, which are also no smaller than the casualties of the attacking troops on the left.
The casualties of the cannon fodder troops are not too heavy, but it is unlikely that they will participate in the attack.
The cannon fodder troops were originally consumables, so they were all unarmored or only wearing tattered leather armor, and in the middle, they not only had to brave the fire of the enemy's archers in the city, but also when removing the thistle, the feet and feet of many of the cannon fodder troops were pierced by the sharp thistle, and many people were injured in their hands when carrying the horses full of iron thorns.
As a result, these cannon fodder units have lost their combat effectiveness for a period of time.
Lu Ming felt a pity in his heart for a while, he really wanted these cannon fodder troops to consume more of the enemy's military materials on the city wall to reduce the casualties of his elites, but unfortunately, this idea can only be thought about now.
After finally filling in the moat, clearing the horses, antler piles, and thistles in front of the city wall, and transporting a large number of siege equipment, the ballistas and archers also suppressed the attacks on the city wall, at this time, the Black Wind Thieves began to climb the ladder to the city.
Seeing this, Lu Ming was actually extremely excited at that time, and he thought that success was close at hand.
However, soon, the cruel reality let Lu Ming know that success seemed to be close at hand, but it was only close at hand, and it was still far from his real success.
The Black Wind Bandit siege force was here, and it was hit by countless stones and gold juice from the enemy on the city, and countless archers of the enemy army on both sides also shot at the situation, which made the casualties of the siege department increase rapidly.
Lu Ming roughly estimated that here, there were nearly two thousand casualties among the Black Wind Bandit soldiers, and in fact, half of them were heavy infantry wearing heavy armor.
These soldiers have not yet climbed the city wall, the casualties are so heavy, plus the casualties of the quasi-martial artists, the number of martial artists has risen to three or four hundred, how can Lu Ming not be beaten to his chest and cry bitterly?!
In the distance from the city wall on the left side of the east city gate to the city wall on the right, the corpses of the Black Wind Bandit soldiers and countless screaming wounded people were lying all over the place.
Some of the dead soldiers had very large mouths and frightened looks, especially those Black Wind Thieves who were burned and scalded by the golden juice, and were killed, smashed, and injured by the huge rolling wood stones, and the appearance of the Black Wind Thieves was even more miserable.
It's still good, at least when they're dead, they won't feel pain anymore.
The real pain is those injured Black Wind Thieves, with the medical methods in the Black Wind Thieves Army, these injured Black Wind Thieves will not survive in the ninth floor, and many people will even die directly alive.
Before dying, I had to endure severe pain for a long time, and I was afraid to think about it.
Among these wounded and corpses, there were nearly two or three hundred people who were heavy infantry in the Black Wind Bandit Legion, in addition to the injuries caused to them by the rolling wood and stones and gold juice on the city, some of them were taken care of by the archers under Lin Ze's men, and under the close range of heavy arrow fire, the two layers of heavy armor on the heavy infantry did not bring them safety.
The heavy arrows of the archers in the city could easily break through their heavy armor and leave them to die on the ground.
Or they were directly knocked off the ladder and fell heavily to the ground, becoming a string of gourds........