rise of empire total war

Chapter 143 Siege (2)

"Defend! Defend the enemy archers!"

Whoosh whoosh!Amidst the horrified screams of the defenders, the archers outside the city let go of their bowstrings at the same time, and a round of black arrow rain rose from the formation of Richard's army, and then covered the chaotic city walls.

Seeing countless arrows flying towards the city wall, the usurper Bandak, who popped out his head to check it out, was shocked, and quickly retracted his head. At the moment he retracted his head, he felt his head go dark, and the arrow Yaya flew over the wall and shot at the soldiers who were too late to take cover.

Bundak was hiding under the battlements panting in shock. Just now, he witnessed several unresponsive soldiers being shot through their thin bodies by several arrows, and fell to the ground without much struggle. live.

At this moment, the city wall was like Shura's hell, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and blood was sprayed on the ancient city wall for free.

Seeing the good effect of the first round of shooting, Richard nodded with satisfaction, and he ordered the messenger standing by: "Let the siege scale and the catapult shoot a round of fireballs and see how it works."

"Yes, Your Majesty Caesar."

The messenger who received the order immediately took the order, and soon, the shouts of the officers sounded from the projected position. In their shouts, the soldiers placed the stone bullets covered with inflammable materials on the leather bags of the equipment. After finishing the aiming and debugging, a soldier took the torch and lightly touched the surface of the stone bullet, and the fire ignited instantly. Then, the operator activated the mechanism, and the burning stone bullet was thrown out of the leather bag, tumbling in mid-air , It hit the part of the city wall where the defenders were densest.

boom!After a deafening bang, a tumbling fireball accidentally hit the place where the oil tank was placed on the city wall, and the entire city wall was instantly engulfed in a sea of ​​flames. The firemen screamed and ran around, or rolled on the spot trying to put out the flames. The flames on his body, or he fell directly from the city wall to the ground tens of meters high, and died on the spot.

However, more fireballs just slammed heavily on the surface of the city wall, and then bounced off, and some fireballs crossed the city wall and fell into the urban area, hitting the buildings in the city, or penetrating the wall, or causing a raging fire.

For a moment, the outer city where the fire broke out fell into chaos. In order to prevent the fire from spreading, civilians who were hiding in the house ran out of the shelter and ran towards the fire. People's screams and insults could be heard even outside the city.

"attack!"

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Accompanied by the sound of long horns, tall siege towers were pushed slowly towards the city wall. These siege towers contained the life-long painstaking efforts of craftsmen from the Kingdom of Farnik. They wrapped the siege towers with iron sheets The surface is used to defend against the arrows of the defenders, and at the top a few meters higher than the city wall, a large ballista (similar to the Romans' scorpion crossbow) is placed on it, and under the operation of the operator, it shoots towards the arrows on the city wall. The enemy fires a massive, massive crossbow bolt. This devastating giant crossbow is so powerful that a frontal shot can even smash the walls of the solid marble city wall.

In addition, the battering ram, which is easier to make, is also slowly advancing towards the city gate under the push of the soldiers. The top of this battering ram is a wooden roof covered with iron sheets. This roof is not only used to defend the defenders Arrows and falling rocks, its unique inverted V shape can also defend against the falling oil of the defenders and protect the vulnerable soldiers underneath.After arriving at the city gate, the thick hammer under the roof only needs a few hits to smash down the wooden city gate of Ravana City.

After the siege equipment was pushed up, the siege scales and catapults in Richard's army stopped roaring, and only the archers and crossbowmen were still shooting deadly arrows at the enemies on the city wall, losing the catapults The threatening defenders breathed a sigh of relief, but became tense again. They looked at the tall siege towers that were slowly moving forward, ignoring the arrows shot by the enemy, and hid behind the solid walls under the scolding of the officers. They shot at the siege tower from behind the wall, but the sparse arrows they shot were bounced off after hitting the surface of the siege tower, and they could only make a clanging sound.

"Prepare for a fire attack and burn down the enemy's siege tower!"

Hiding behind the wall stack, Bundak ordered loudly, and the officer beside him rushed out of the wall stack and ran towards the position where the oil tanks were piled up, but the unextinguished flame told him the answer directly, so he risked it again and again from time to time. The flying arrow ran back, holding the helmet with one hand, half kneeling on the ground, and said: "Your Majesty, the oil tanks we placed on the city wall were just hit by the fireball fired by the enemy, and all of them were lost."

"It's all lost?" Banda Ke almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. The only way he could think of to deal with these tall siege towers was to use fire attack, but now all the oil tanks containing fire oil had been lost. Is helpless.

"Damn." By now, Bundak could only grit his teeth and curse secretly, and then ordered the officer: "Go and mobilize the soldiers on standby under the city wall to enter the defensive position, and Richard's army cannot be allowed to stand on the city wall." Stand firm!"

"Understood, Your Majesty." The officer promised, and then got up and ran towards the stairwell of the tower, but he had only run a few meters when an arrow shot out of nowhere and pierced his throat. The unfortunate officer ran forward following the inertia After taking a few steps, he fell to the ground and began to struggle violently while covering the wound that was constantly gushing blood. He opened his mouth to say something, but blood foam kept coming out of his open mouth, and he only struggled for a while. , he lost his breath.

All of this was seen by Bandak. He almost gritted his steel teeth in anger, looked up at the archers who were struggling to shoot at the enemy, and rushed out to the stairs before the guards could react. Several times the arrows passed by his side, and he could even feel the cold wind brought by the arrows flying.

whoosh-

On the battlefield where the arrows are flying, not only the contest between the archers of the two sides, but also the contest between the large ballista on the attacking tower and the large ballista equipped in the city wall tower is equally fierce, and then the battle of the strong tower As cover, the large crossbows of the defenders can unscrupulously shoot at the moving siege towers and battering rams. Although the huge penetrating crossbow bolts they shoot cannot cause fatal damage to the siege equipment, the large crossbow bolts It was still able to penetrate the iron skin on the surface of the siege tower and penetrate the body of the soldier standing inside.

"Don't be nervous, God is with us."

Inside a moving siege tower, an officer was motivating the soldiers behind him, but shortly after his words fell, a large crossbow roared and smashed the iron skin and wooden boards on the surface of the siege tower, and then disappeared. The reduction directly pierced the bodies of him and the soldiers behind him. Before the unlucky soldiers even had time to scream, they were carried out of the siege tower by the crossbow arrows, and fell heavily to the ground from midair, becoming a group of soldiers. Beach meat paste.

When one's own soldiers were attacked, the ballista operators on the siege tower were not to be outdone, and then manipulated the large ballista to shoot at the tower, but the large crossbow arrows they fired could not break through the defense of the tower, causing damage to the enemies inside. harm.

Richard soon discovered this situation, and he ordered the siege scales and catapults that had ceased fire to shoot at the tower.

Soon, the terrifying roar of boulders sounded from the air on the battlefield again.

(End of this chapter)