Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"Achilles never sleeps alone before a battle."

——"Troy (2004)"

Nine stone bullets hit the Cassander army in a parabola.

A stone as big as a person's head will be smashed in front of the ballista position, causing smoke to fill the sky.Although there were no casualties, it caused panic among the crossbow gunners.

——People can hide behind the camp wall and shoot straight, but they can only aim directly. This is very difficult and unfair!

"Quick! Tighten the twist again!"

At the urging of the officer, the gunners hurriedly turned the winch and reset the tendons.

In the Independence Army camp, soldiers on the dispatch side waved their flags slightly to the rear to indicate that the landing point was not far enough.

Seeing this, Stratton asked the gunners to use long-range firing positions.

At this time, the seven-tip cannon has been reset. After all, the structure of this thing is too simple.The so-called long-range shooting position refers to the three copper bowls on the gun barrel where stone bullets are placed. According to different positions, long-range shooting, medium shooting, and close-range shooting can be carried out.

Put the stone bullets into the copper bowl at the end, and with a command, nine more stone bullets flew out!

At this time, the wild Kasander crossbow gunners in the camp were still struggling to turn the winch and re-tighten the tendons. When they heard the whistling of stone bullets, they looked up and saw that this was coming for us!

Why so fast!

The group of people immediately fled.

Nine stone bullets landed in the middle of the ballista, causing dust to fly again.

Then I saw that not a single ballista had been hit.

However, everyone ran away before the winch was tightened in place, and now the winch had to be tightened all over again.

Under the murderous orders of the officers, the gunners had no choice but to go into battle and were told that they were not allowed to retreat this time and that they had to reset the ballista.

The crossbowmen all had grimaces on their faces. They might as well let the Thessalians smash them all. At least they wouldn't have to risk their lives to twist the winch!

At this time, nine more stone bullets flew towards them...

Seeing the blood mist and sawdust flying up, the Macedonian generals in the rear started talking a lot.

Although it is not known what weapons the enemy used, it is obvious that they were at a disadvantage in the artillery battle.

Some suggested building more and larger ballistae, some said that the ballistae should be dispersed, some said that the ballistae should be moved back to increase the firing angle, and some said that one should simply launch a general attack to disperse the enemy's firepower...

They are all people who have experienced battles for a long time, and they all have practical opinions. In the end, Cassander has to make the decision.

Cassander said: "What you said makes sense. Then let's all come together."

"..."

Why do I feel like the boss doesn’t care much...

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The remaining ballistae were dispersed. In this way, although the firepower of the ballistae was also dispersed, the efficiency of being beaten was greatly reduced. At the same time, the battle cage of the Thessaly camp was a fixed target after all, so at least it could Complete the mission of covering the infantry.

At the same time, larger ballistae and trebuchets are also being built. After all, the biggest advantage of the Kassan Germans is their large number of people.

At this time, two thousand heavy infantry and pikemen who threw down their spears had already assembled in front of the formation. With an order from the officer, they launched an attack on the Thessaly camp with a skirmisher line!

The ballistae crackled stones against the battle cage and the camp wall, but the enemy had already launched an attack, and the archers had to go up to the wall to defend themselves, which would inevitably lead to losses.

At this time, the figures in the war cages on the camp wall were vague, and then they saw the Thessalians sticking out long wooden poles from the war cages, and carrying large pieces of skin on the wooden poles.

The stone bullets fired by the ballista hit the leather, quickly lost most of their kinetic energy, and slid under the camp wall.

The ballista was guarded!

And the leather is some distance away from the battle cage, which does not prevent the archers from shooting at the enemy from a high position.

The forward heavy infantry had arrived at the edge of the outer trench, holding a large shield in one hand and moving the Juma with the other, but the Juma was not that easy to move if it was buried in the soil.

The Thessalian archers who had already entered the fighting position took this opportunity to rain down arrows on the enemy.

The heavy infantry's large shield is more than one meter in diameter. An experienced soldier only needs to squat down a little to cover most of his body, and only a few unlucky ones will be injured.

Suddenly, a group of figures stood up on the silent tower. There were archers, slingers and harpooneers. The position here was forward, so they could attack the side of the heavy infantry!

The heavy infantry was caught off guard with a volley of arrows and stones, and hundreds of them were knocked to the ground at one time.

The other heavy infantrymen quickly moved closer to form small shield formations based on instinct, and still persevered in clearing out the resisting horses.

At this time, the pikemen equipped with light shields had arrived from behind.

They pushed the carts and carried the long ladders, pushed the carts into the trenches, and put the long ladders on the trenches to form short bridges.

Then the heavy infantry took the lead, swarmed across the bridge, and began to clear the second level of resisting horses with their shields.

The light shield troops left the outer ring and took out their javelins and bows and started shooting at the Thessalians in the cage tower.However, although there are many of them, they have shields for defense, so they can only have a weak suppression effect...

The Macedonians attacking outside the wall only had [-] troops, and the space on the battle cage was narrow. Including the tower, there were only a few hundred people.

They attacked each other on the wall and under the wall. Although the light shield was small, the Macedonians carried it on their right arm to form a defensive formation, and with the cooperation of some heavy infantry's large shields, the casualties were not large for a while.

Seeing that the forward heavy infantry had cleared a gap in the inner circle, the second wave of Macedonian offensive troops from the south had also arrived.

As usual, he was pushing a cart and holding up a long ladder, and in a blink of an eye he was approaching the trench.

At this time, the trumpet suddenly sounded in the Thessaly camp.

The Macedonian attacking troops heard the roar of horse hooves coming from the left and right sides - it turned out that the gates at the left and right ends of the camp wall they were attacking had already gathered Thessalian cavalry behind the outer wall at some point!

Two cavalrymen galloped down the slope to the sound of trumpets and headed straight for the Macedonians!

To the west were a thousand heavy cavalry, led by Scopas, charging straight towards the second wave of enemies behind; to the east were a thousand light cavalry, led by Achilles, charging towards the enemies at the ditch.

Just as the Macedonians were panicking, several suspension bridges on the camp wall were lowered at the same time, and the stone bridges flattened several heavy infantry who could not dodge. Inside, there were light infantry lined up in two columns, shouting and fighting towards them. The Kassan Germans are out of formation!

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"It's almost done after soaking for a while. There are other soldiers who need to wash." Pyrrhus wiped his face and said to little Nicesi, "After the battle is over, let's come over and relax for a few more days."

"Good king!"

As soon as Nicesi stood up from the water, Pyrrhus was almost blinded by the oncoming high beam!

Pyrrhus was stunned and speechless.

You...you...how did you two get in!

"..."

Nikesi, your future is limitless!

But why didn’t you tell me earlier if you had such a specialty?

We didn’t even ask at the time...

Nicesi was washed clean and put on new clothes, and his face was full of joy.Looking back, I saw Pyrrhus still sitting in the water.

"Your Majesty, aren't we going out?"

"That... that... I'm sweating a lot! I need to dry it out before going out, otherwise I'll get sick easily... You, you go out first and wait for me..."

"Okay, Your Majesty!" Nicesi walked away obediently.

After a while, he hurriedly came back to get his cloak, feeling embarrassed to smile at Pyrrhus who was still sitting in the water.

Pyrrhus returned an awkward yet polite smile.

Damn, I've stabbed Lou Zi!