The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

What came to besiege the town of Odasan was a coalition of the great nobles of the Kingdom of Sirona. Although they were not as elite as the beastly heavy cavalry of the Kingdom of Svadia, they were numerous in number, and there were enough regular soldiers alone. Tens of thousands of people. Including the civilians who were responsible for transporting later supplies, the total number of people was about [-] to [-]. With so many people, it was almost boundless at first glance. The entire town of Odasan was soon surrounded, and then Those civilians began to go to the nearby woods to cut down trees for use in making various siege equipment.

Because of the huge disparity in strength, Luo Chenguang had no idea of ​​going out of the city to fight in the field. Instead, he seized the last moment to let the young men in the city continue to strengthen the city's defense. At the same time, the new recruits also took the last moment to train.

With the careful guidance of masters such as Lin Chong, Sun An, Li Rufeng and Shi Xiu, these recruits have made rapid progress, and at least some of the regular moves used in battles have been mastered.

However, there are only more than [-] soldiers on his side. During the battle, hand-to-hand combat should be avoided as much as possible. When long-range weapons can be used to deal with them, he will use various long-range weapons to deal with the enemy.

After a day of preparation, the rebels of the Kingdom of Sirona built more than a dozen siege towers and a large number of simple wooden ladders, battering rams and other siege equipment, and then attacked them from four directions at the same time. The town of Odasan launched an attack.

Obviously the rebels also knew very well that Ye Tianlong had limited troops. The most they could allocate to the town of Odasan was a few hundred veterans, so they deliberately launched attacks on the city walls in four directions at the same time, so that the opponent would not have many. Spread out their troops as much as possible so that they can defeat the opponent by relying on their strength.

Just as the rebel leaders guessed, there are only more than [-] veterans in the town of Odasan, and [-] of them are recent recruits. Not only have they not experienced any actual combat experience, I even couldn’t complete all the training because of the rush of time!

So Luo Chenguang could only adopt the strategy of leading the new with the old. On each city wall, one hundred veterans and three hundred recruits were arranged to be responsible for the defense, while he led the last one hundred veterans and six hundred recruits as reserves. The team immediately rushes for reinforcements when danger arises.

The rebels relied on their large numbers and arranged more than [-] civilians and thousands of regular soldiers to attack on each city wall.

Such a huge gap in strength made all the new recruits very nervous, and some of the less courageous ones had their legs shaking uncontrollably.

"Little guy, don't be nervous, they can't attack!" Li Rufeng stepped forward and patted the shoulder of a soldier who was so nervous that he was sweating profusely, and comforted him, and then gave the order to fire those rockets.

These rockets may not be accurate enough, but they are very powerful because the charge is large enough. Now that the enemy has dispatched so many troops at once, it is time for these rockets to show their power.

Accompanied by bursts of whizzing sounds, those rockets took off from the city wall with dazzling tail flames.

After crossing a distance of thousands of meters, each of these rockets fell towards the enemy below. During the flight, the flight trajectories of these rockets were all crooked, making the enemy not sure where to hide. Well, by the time it starts to fall, it's already too late. This is also a benefit of its poor accuracy. After all, even the people who launch these rockets don't know where these rockets will land in the end, let alone Enemy.

Boom! After a series of violent explosions, the first batch of attacking enemy troops were immediately bombed, killing thousands of troops on the spot, and many siege equipment were also blown up. The civilians were even more powerful like thunder. They were frightened by the explosion and ran around, causing the entire formation to become chaotic.

The high-ranking rebels obviously didn't want the first attack to end in such a hurry. They immediately sent in additional troops and also sent out a supervising team to quickly kill the civilians who were running around and stabilize the formation. .

"Keep attacking!"

Amid the roars of the officers, the reorganized siege troops continued to advance towards the town of Odasan. In addition, this time the nobles even asked the artillerymen to risk dozens of catapults and push them forward. , preparing to fire stone bullets to provide fire cover as our own soldiers approach the city wall.

Naturally, Luo Chenguang would not let the enemy's plan succeed. After all, the earthen walls of Odasan Town were indeed not very strong and could not withstand the bombardment of those slingshots.

So as soon as those catapults entered the range of the city's artillery, the muzzles of the artillery aimed at the catapults and started firing.

With the introduction of high-explosive shells, artillery has become more lethal to these catapults, which are mostly made of wood. Even if the shell does not directly hit the catapult, the flame generated by its explosion will quickly ignite it. The slings were burned.

After several rounds of shelling, most of the rebel's catapults were blown up by artillery. However, the enemy's siege troops took advantage of this time to accelerate their march under the urging of the supervisory team. Some of them only carried simple The enemy soldiers on the wooden ladder had already rushed to a distance of only about [-] meters from the city wall.

At this distance, it was already within the effective range of the flintlock rifle, so the old and new soldiers on the city wall raised their rifles under the orders of the officers. After taking aim, they all pulled the triggers. .

After a series of gunshots like fried beans, many of the enemy soldiers who were rushing towards the city wall immediately burst into blood sprays, and then fell down screaming.

Some enemy soldiers also wanted to use shields to block bullets. As a result, the shields in their hands were easily penetrated by the bullets fired by those large-caliber flintlock rifles, and had no defensive effect at all.

Seeing that the seemingly ferocious enemies were so easily defeated by the rifles in their hands, the recruits couldn't help but calm down a lot. Then, under the guidance and guidance of the veterans, they completed the rifle training as usual. After reloading, he fired at the enemy troops outside the city again.

Soon, the enemy troops that rushed the fastest were basically wiped out, followed by a large number of enemy soldiers pushing siege towers and siege rams. These enemy soldiers were very cunning enough to hide behind them. Behind those siege towers and battering rams, this is a good way to prevent them from being shot by rifles.

After all, those siege towers and siege rams themselves are made of extremely strong and thick hardwood, and the surface is often covered with cowhide. Finally, a layer of wet mud is applied to prevent fire. This makes these siege equipment have The defense is not low, and bullets cannot penetrate it even if it hits it.

It was the artillery that could really cause effective damage to these siege equipment, so the artillery on the city head were replaced with solid shells with stronger penetrating capabilities, and they began to bombard the enemy's turtle shells.

After a loud explosion, a siege tower was hit by three artillery shells in succession and broke directly from the waist. Its upper part fell heavily. Some people were hiding in the siege tower, preparing to attack the city. The enemy soldiers who attacked the city wall as soon as the tower was erected were immediately in bad luck. They were either thrown to death or crushed to death by the falling upper part of the siege tower. Many soldiers and civilians were hiding behind it. They were also pricked with blood by the large amount of splinters splattered by it. Then, before they could take a breath, the defenders at Chengtoushan immediately turned their guns and fired at them, the unlucky ones who had no shields. the trigger.

As bullets were fired, these guys were shot down in pieces. The blood gradually dyed the ground red, and even gathered into blood-red creeks, flowing towards the low-lying areas. .

The enemy soldiers who followed stepped on the slippery ground soaked with blood. Before they formally engaged in the battle, they suffered a huge psychological blow. After all, if there were no accidents, they would soon follow the footsteps of their comrades. Following in the footsteps, they became corpses with miserable death conditions.

"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow quickly! Suppress the enemy's firepower!"

Amid the eager shouts of the officers, some archers mixed in with the siege troops fired their bows and arrows in unison, shooting waves of arrows at the city wall not far ahead.

However, Luo Chenguang was already prepared for this. When he saw the enemy archers starting to fire arrows, he immediately asked the soldiers on the city wall to put down the baffles that had been prepared. The baffles were made of extremely thick wooden boards. They were usually folded and hung like eaves on the city wall to protect the soldiers from wind and rain. Now facing the rain of arrows shot by the enemy, these shields were lowered and immediately protected the soldiers on the city wall. It was completely protected. The arrows that were shot could not penetrate such a thick wooden board at all. They could only be inserted on the baffles. After this wave of fighting was over, the defenders could even recover them from these baffles. There are quite a few arrows that are still usable.

The defenders on the city wall will not be blocked by these baffles and cannot fire, because small shooting holes have been reserved on these baffles, and the defenders can continue to shoot through these shooting holes. Enemy soldiers outside the city shoot.

Under this situation, the enemy troops outside the city were shot and killed continuously, but the defenders on the city wall had not suffered any casualties.

This situation made the recruits who participated in the battle for the first time completely feel relieved. Some of the more motivated guys even accelerated the speed of loading ammunition, hoping to shoot more enemy soldiers so that they could improve their military ranks and obtain more Good treatment and more generous pay.

In the end, before the first wave of attacking enemy troops could even reach the city wall of Odasan Town, they were forced to withdraw due to heavy losses.

In the battle that lasted only more than half an hour, the enemy suffered at least five thousand casualties. With such huge losses, even the rebels with a large number of troops may not be able to withstand a few times before they collapse.

The top rebels were obviously not fools and knew this truth, so after the first wave of attacks completely failed, they also gathered in the Chinese military tent and discussed what strategy to use next. Anyway, the original This method of frontal attack is absolutely useless. Facing such fierce enemy firepower, it is impossible to attack with a frontal attack!

Finally, after several hours of heated discussions and quarrels, these rebel leaders decided to use cave attack tactics. If they could dig tunnels directly into the town of Odasan, they could directly engage in face-to-face confrontation with the enemy. In a hand-to-hand battle, the enemy's powerful artillery will not even dare to use it for fear of accidentally injuring our own soldiers. In this way, the situation will be greatly beneficial to our own side.

There is no doubt that the infantry of the Kingdom of Nord are capable of hand-to-hand combat. First, these rebel leaders do not believe that the enemy's recruits can defeat their own well-trained and well-equipped Nord royals in hand-to-hand combat. The guards.