rise of empire total war

Chapter 156
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The next day, the coalition attack came again.

Standing behind the wall, the Danish lieutenant general Toolagris was dressed all over his body, and personally commanded the soldiers in this section of defense. Looking out along his line of sight, the Bundak coalition forces were like a flood rolling up tall attacking troops. The city tower and a ladder rushed towards the dam of the city wall of Bell Harbor.

Although this is not the first battle, he still has unspeakable tension in his heart. He turned his head to look at the Nordic archers and crossbowmen beside him, swallowed to moisten his parched throat, and then clenched his fist Ax pointed at the siege cannons deployed on the city wall, and shouted: "Load the shells and prepare to shoot!"

"call!"

With a shout, the artillery operator first poured gunpowder into the barrel, then lifted a heavy solid iron ball from the wooden frame on the side, and stuffed it into the barrel of the siege artillery. The pounding stick was poked into it, and the iron ball and gunpowder were compacted hard, and it was pulled out after several movements back and forth.

"Prepare!"

The voice of Tooragris sounded again, and the soldiers standing behind the artillery quickly inserted the matchlock into the small hole on the top of the barrel. This small hole went straight to the inside of the barrel. As long as the matchlock was ignited, sparks would enter the inside of the barrel along the rope. The gunpowder is ignited, and the cannonball is ejected.

Looking at the enemies who ran into the range of the artillery, Tooragris swallowed again, opened his big mouth with a mouthful of rotten teeth, and shouted loudly: "Light it up, shoot!"

呲——

boom! ! ! !

After the torch was lit, the surrounding soldiers quickly covered their ears. Then, a deafening bang was heard. The city wall under their feet began to tremble violently. It slammed into the running coalition army formation, and in the next second, countless soldiers blocking the trajectory of the artillery shells were torn and crushed, and human stumps, broken arms and fragments were sprinkled on the land with the rain of blood. , They didn't even have time to let out the last scream, and they became excellent fertilizers to moisten the land.

With the sound of the first cannon, the cannons on the entire city wall of Bell Harbor roared angrily one after another. The deadly shells flew at high speed in the air, and then fell into the crowd, plowing out bloody roads.One of the shells directly hit the slowly advancing siege tower, and instantly penetrated the body of the siege tower. Then, under the terrified eyes of the surrounding soldiers, the siege tower collapsed, knocking the soldiers under it to pieces. Together with the soldiers in the tower, they were buried in the dust rising from the sky.

"Archer ready!"

"shooting!"

The roaring cannons did not stop the coalition soldiers from attacking. Just after they entered the range of the bows and crossbows, the heart-piercing screams of the officers sounded on the city wall, and teams of archers and crossbowmen raised their hands reflexively. The weapon, following the officer's order, sent a round of black arrow rain into the sky. These arrow rains traced beautiful trajectories in mid-air, and then fell into the crowd.

Ignoring the results of the first round of volley, the archers drew arrows from the quiver at their waists, raised their bows and pointed them obliquely into the air, while the officers among them raised their sabers high, and then slashed them down heavily, roaring :"shooting!"

The next second, these archers loosened their thumbs on the bow strings and sent arrows into the air again. Compared to the first round, they tended to shoot more tentatively. The second round of shooting obviously caused more damage to the enemy.Arrows falling like raindrops hit the shields raised by the coalition soldiers, making a clanging sound. From time to time, some soldiers were hit by arrows at awkward angles and fell to the ground with screams. Some soldiers' shields were penetrated by arrows. , the iron arrow nailed the shield and the wrist below together, and blood spurted out, staining their bodies red.

"Attack! Attack!"

In the crowd, an officer of the Kingdom of Winster shouted loudly to the surrounding soldiers. There were several arrows stuck in the shield he held high, and one even penetrated the shield, only a few centimeters away from his hand. Facing the defender, The army was raining down crazy arrows, and he had no choice but to pray to the gods at this moment.

"what!!!!"

At this moment, a soldier in front of him was shot in the chest by an arrow piercing through the gap between the shields. After letting out a painful scream, he subconsciously let go of the shield, exposing himself to the shooting sight of the defenders. , Officer Winster and the surrounding soldiers quickly dragged him into the shield formation, which prevented him from being shot into a hedgehog. At this time, looking at the position where he was standing just now, he had already inserted a few An arrow whose wings were still trembling slightly.

"Take him back quickly!" Officer Winston ordered to a soldier. Before the latter could respond, they only heard the frightening sound of tearing air in mid-air. The next second, a rocket spun at high speed. The solid iron ball slammed into the crowd, directly breaking the upper body of Officer Winster who had not yet reacted, and then continued to hit the soldiers behind. Officer Winster's remaining lower body still stood there, gushing red. The blood stained the surrounding soldiers into bloody men, and his upper body disappeared without a trace. His intestines flew high into the air and flew a certain distance in the air before falling on the shield held by a soldier.

……

Braving the arrows and shelling from the defenders, the coalition infantry rushed to the base of the city wall of Port Bell. Along the stretch from the siege camp to the city wall, a large number of corpses of coalition soldiers were lying down, but they did not care at all and remained They charged frantically towards the city wall, seemingly intending to capture the city in one fell swoop.

However, this is not possible.

"Throw the fuel tank!"

On the city wall, Toolagris's voice sounded again. As soon as he finished speaking, countless clay pots filled with viscous black liquid were thrown from the city wall to the crowd of people below, and crisp cracking sounds were heard. The viscous liquid immediately sprinkled on many soldiers. They smelled the fishy stench on their bodies and asked, their expressions changing greatly. But before they had time to respond, soldiers holding strange long iron pipes stood up on the city wall. , they pointed the long pipes in their hands at the coalition soldiers below who were stained with kerosene. The next second, they heard a sound like exploding beans, and the city wall was immediately enveloped in white gunpowder smoke, and under the city wall, flames suddenly ignited, Devouring the lives of those coalition soldiers stained with kerosene.

"Hand artillery retreat, reload ammunition, crossbowmen continue to shoot!"

Following the order of Toolagris, those hand artillerymen in fine armor and holding early firearms retreated to the safe back, cleaned up the gunpowder residue in the barrel before pouring new gunpowder, and then put in the small gunpowder. Metal projectile, take out the bead and poke it into the barrel.

After they finished loading, some coalition soldiers had already climbed up the ladder, revealing their upper bodies covered by shields!
(End of this chapter)