total war rise of empire

Chapter 95 Battle Three

The flags are unfurled, covering the sky and the sun.

As the saying goes, once the number of people exceeds [-], there is no limit to it. One hundred thousand... Oh, by the way, after the Crusaders, who are now less than one hundred thousand, arrive at the city, you can't see the end of the camp alone!

Lei Zihao, who was standing at the head of the city of Megara, squinted his eyes at the crusaders who had begun to form in the distance, feeling extremely horrified in his heart!
However, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Lei Zihao has always put on a calm expression, as if the endless enemies in front of him can't attract his attention at all...

Not to mention, this move had the same effect as a sea-calming needle on those soldiers and civilians of Seris. The officers and soldiers who were originally frightened by the crusade formation that could not be seen at the end, saw that their governor was so calm. With a self-possessed demeanor, his mentality has also become subtle!

Once again thinking about the glorious history of our own Governor-General's invincibility, the sense of oppression brought by the Crusaders' military strength has disappeared!

In Lei Zihao's field of vision, trebuchets stood up among the ants-like crowd in the distance, with stones piled up beside them. Obviously, the crusaders were more prepared than Lei Zihao expected!
He didn't expect that after he came to this world, he didn't wait to feel the exhilaration of being hit by a trebuchet, but he had to experience the aggrieved feeling of being smashed first...

"Sure enough, the army from the main world of humans is fundamentally different from the Pylos. They fight against the backward Pylos all day long, and fight with barbarian orcs. I almost forget that there are such big things as trebuchets in the war. Killer..."

Lei Zihao laughed at himself in his heart.

In this battle, he was not only at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, but also became a crushed existence in terms of equipment...

Lei Zihao's deployment of troops to defend the city is not like in the 21st century Earth War TV series, where all the soldiers hide in the city and the city walls, and lie in the gaps in the parapet to watch the army outside the city advance...

In a real city defense battle, as long as there are not many troops in the city and even the city wall is not full, a city defense commander with some military knowledge will not shrink all his troops in the city!
Not to mention a city without even a moat!
In an orthodox city defense battle, the defending side will deploy a large number of melee units under the outer city walls, generally spearmen and shield spearmen. Within effective range!

These hand-to-hand arms under the city wall will greatly increase the difficulty of the attacking party!

If these defending troops under the city are not defeated, the ladders and other siege equipment of the attacking army will not dare to rush up!
When the siege side attacks the defenders' army below the city, the problem arises. The attacker has to bear the blows of various long-range weapons from the city wall all the time, and then fights desperately with the defenders below the city!
To put it bluntly, the defenders under the city don't need to advance at all, they just need to set up a phalanx, the front row is supported by shields, and the spearmen behind cooperate with stabbing people. If you stabilize your position, you will win!
The longer they persist, the more damage the friendly crossbows from above the city wall will do to the attacking side!
And if the crossbow troops on the attacking side want to shoot at the crossbow troops on the city wall, that is definitely a phenomenon that the defending generals like to see!
The rain of arrows is not a bullet. Shooting people from a high position and shooting people from below, whether it is accuracy or penetrating power, the difference is not a level or two!

This involves wind fluid dynamics, Newton's first, second, third laws, etc. Anyway, Lei Zihao doesn't know the specific principles, he only knows how to shoot arrows down the city wall, as long as the difference in the number of crossbow troops between the two sides is not too large Basically, it's the bottom of the abuse!

This is still in the case that the defending side does not have a large crossbow bed or other equipment, otherwise, the advantage will be even greater!

Therefore, deploying hand-to-hand combat troops under the city wall is an inevitable choice for a city defender who is not in short supply!

The sheep and horse wall below the city wall is the dividing line for the defending melee troops below the city!
This approach will cause the attacker to lose a lot of vitality when attacking the defenders' troops. This is basically equivalent to fighting in an area covered by the defender's firepower. The casualties can be known without counting...

If the troops on the defending side of the city cannot resist, the commander in chief will order someone to open the city gate and send a small group of troops to cover the retreat of the remnant soldiers under the city. Not a problem at all!

Because as long as the attacking general is not brain-twitching, he will never let the army enter the city gate under such circumstances!
Without controlling the hub area of ​​the city gate, even if they entered the city gate, the commander-in-chief of the guarding side could order the dropping of the thousand-jin gate and other objects to forcibly seal the city gate. At that time, the troops entering the city gate would be Really waiting to die and surrender...

This is why during the siege stage, the siege party either completely destroys the city gate, or directly opens a gap in the city wall, goes up to occupy the hub that controls the city gate, and then sends in large forces!

If the city gate hub cannot be controlled, even if the defenders open the city gates wide, the attackers will not dare to enter directly!

Of course, it is impossible for the city defenders to open the city gates for no reason. In doing so, it will only add a big gap to their own city defense system, and a large number of troops will be deployed to defend the opened city gates. Obviously, this kind of behavior is very serious. moron……

However, in the battle of defending the city, there will occasionally be cruel and unkind commanders. When the troops below the city cannot stop them, they will not open the city gate even if they die, just watching the troops outside the city completely wiped out!

The premise of this kind of situation is that the army of the attacking side is too strong, or the troops of the defending side are not very sufficient. The commander is not sure that after opening the city gate, the attacking side's army can be wiped out. Of course, This kind of situation rarely happens...

Lei Zihao's subordinates defending the city are, there are a large number of melee troops below the city, and the city is full of archers and elite Wei soldiers using crossbows, and there are also a large number of temporarily recruited Siris hunters and club For archery soldiers, condescending archery has very low requirements for archers. Anyone who has played bow and arrow can barely serve as a long-range output personnel on the city wall!

In this way, the number of archers on the walls of Megara can reach nearly 5000!

For the land covering the city, it is definitely enough!
Lei Zihao's most proud arrangement is actually under the city wall, the hand-to-hand troops outside the city are filled with a large number of Pylos slaves!
In order to make the hand-to-hand forces under the city as strong as possible, Lei Zihao used a very ruthless routine!

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