The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Following Jiang You's order, dozens of sharpshooters equipped with sniper rifles on the city wall began to shoot at the enemy sharpshooters below the city.

Compared with bows and arrows, sniper rifles have a slower rate of fire, but are more powerful. If you are hit by a bow and arrow, if it is not a vital point, most of them will only be injured, but if you are hit by a sniper rifle bullet, even if it does not hit a vital point, you will still be injured. A huge blood hole was made in the body. If the bleeding was not stopped in time, he would soon die from excessive blood loss. And even if he received timely treatment, the soldier would have completely lost his combat effectiveness in a short period of time. After all, The caliber of this sniper rifle is very large. If it hits a person's hands and feet with one shot, it can even tear off a person's hands and feet.

So the two sides exchanged fire for just a few minutes, and as many as seventy or eighty of the enemy's elite marksmen were killed and maimed, leaving a lot of dazzling bright red bloodstains on the snow.

At this time, the enemy's large siege force had already rushed to the wall, and more ordinary archers began to shoot arrows at the top of the wall to cover their own soldiers as they climbed up the wall.

This is not the time to retreat. Once you retreat, the enemy will probably occupy the city wall.

So Jiang You personally led a group of soldiers and threw grenades at the enemies under the city wall.

At the same time, dense arrows continued to be shot from under the city wall. Many militiamen were unlucky and were shot in the face and fell down screaming. A few unlucky ones even shot directly from the city wall. Fell down. The city wall of Albuk Fort is also seven or eight meters high. If you fall from such a high wall, it is basically impossible to survive.

As for the regular soldiers, they had already put down the visors of their helmets at this time. Even if the enemy archers shot at their faces, they would not be able to do any harm to them.

Following a series of explosions under the city wall, the enemy soldiers who had gathered below to climb onto the city were immediately killed or injured, and the blood gradually turned the ground under the city wall completely red.

After clearing out the group of enemy troops approaching the city wall, Jiang You asked some soldiers to pour gasoline on the siege equipment and burn it, while ordering many soldiers on the city wall to continuously fire at the enemy troops that continued to come from behind. .

Dense bullets continued to pour down from the top of the city, and below the city wall, a large number of enemy archers were also firing arrows upwards.

The most powerful unit in the Kingdom of Wikia is the archer. In the original Mount and Blade game, it can be said that the Wikia marksman has no other shortcomings except for poor endurance.

But now even this shortcoming is gone, because in addition to those regular soldiers, King Yarogork also recruited 200,000 civilians. These civilians are constantly transporting arrows to the front line, which makes those bows and arrows more powerful. You don't have to worry about running out of arrows. You can keep firing arrows towards the city without any scruples, suppressing the enemy's long-range firepower.

Under such a dense rain of arrows, some of the militiamen on the city would be injured from time to time. Fortunately, these militiamen were also wearing armor. Unless they were directly hit in vital parts such as the face, others were shot in the arms. The militiamen like these only suffered some injuries. They were taken down to treat the wounds and rested for a day before continuing to fight on the city wall. After all, Jiang You did not expect these militiamen to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy. They only needed them to use those flintlock rifles to open fire. That's good, it's not a difficult thing.

In fact, the reason why firearms can completely eliminate crossbows is not only easy to use, but also related to their less laborious control method. It takes a lot of effort to pull the crossbows apart. Even the elite marksmen in the world of riding and slashing, who are blessed with strong bow skills, will probably feel tired after shooting one or two hundred arrows at most. However, using a musket does not require much effort, even those who are not very strong. Militiamen, also armed with flintlock rifles, could keep fighting for hours.

After the battle lasted for about an hour, the enemy archers exhausted their strength one after another, so the density of the arrow rain they fired became more and more sparse. On the contrary, the bullets fired from the top of Albuk Castle were still continuous. Continuously, this made it more and more difficult for the enemy soldiers who were still attacking the city. If they were not careful, they would be killed by bullets.

King Yarogerk, who had been watching the battle from the rear, immediately stopped the attack upon seeing this. After all, after such a long attack, none of his own soldiers could climb the city wall. On the contrary, he lost a lot of soldiers during the attack. Through the use of firearms, the soldiers suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the civilians also suffered more than 5,000 casualties.

King Yarogerk didn't care much about the casualties of those civilians, but the loss of those regular soldiers made him feel very distressed. You must know that although he summoned an army of 300,000 this time, the combat effectiveness of those among them was relatively strong. There are only about 100,000 senior soldiers. These are all the elites in the Kingdom of Wikiya. These elites require long-term training and many battles to be experienced, and the one who was just responsible for the exploratory attack Most of the first wave of armies were elites like this, so how could King Yarogork not be heartbroken after losing so much at once?

After waiting for the army to withdraw, King Yarogerk saw that it was getting late, so he decided to stop today and wait until dawn tomorrow before continuing the attack. After all, it is winter now, and the temperature will drop rapidly at night, and the sky will change. Darkness will also affect your archers' shooting, so it's better to withdraw your troops back to camp at night and have a good rest.

On the other side, Jiang You watched for a while and found that the enemy army had indeed retreated. He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Then he began to ask the civilians in the city to go up to the city wall and start cleaning up the corpses and arrows on the wall, especially those arrows. Arrows, if they run out of bullets later, collect more arrows now, and then they can use bows and arrows to shoot at the enemy, so that they will not have any long-range firepower, so that the enemy can easily attack the city wall.

Since the enemy only made a tentative attack on the first day and did not dispatch too many troops, the defenders did not suffer too many casualties. After checking the statistics of his men, Jiang You found that only a few of his own soldiers were actually killed. More than a hundred, there are quite a lot of wounded soldiers, more than five hundred, and dozens of them are seriously injured, such as arrows in the eyes. They are still in danger at this time. Can they survive? We don’t know yet, but if we can’t survive, the number of soldiers killed will continue to increase.

Fortunately, all the soldiers who were injured or killed were militiamen, and no regular soldiers suffered any casualties in today's battle.

In contrast, as the attacker, the Kingdom of Vekia suffered heavy casualties. As the siege troops withdrew to the camp, screams soon rang out one after another in the camp. Those were those who were attacking. The soldiers who were injured during the city process issued.

Under the influence of those shrill screams, the soldiers in the camp could not rest well at all.

King Yarogerk was also upset by the screams and could not sleep peacefully, so he went to the wounded barracks to check on the wounded soldiers in person. He wanted to see how seriously injured these guys were and why they were one after another. They all screamed in agony.

As a result, after personally inspecting the miserable condition of the wounded soldiers, King Yarogork could not sleep even more, because most of the wounded soldiers were missing arms and legs, and some had their stomachs smashed and their intestines damaged. After lying outside, the doctors in the military camp tried hard for a long time but couldn't put the intestines back in. Under this situation, it was strange that the wounded soldiers didn't scream.

However, in order to continue commanding the battle tomorrow, King Yarogork finally asked his doctor to make a bowl of medicinal soup that could help him sleep and drank it, finally falling into a deep sleep.

King Yarogork slept until about nine o'clock the next morning. Although the sun had already come out at this time, the sunlight was still very weak and could not melt the snow on the ground at all. As a result, the temperature is still not high.

After King Yarogerk finished his breakfast, he once again sent troops to attack Albuk Fort.

Although the troops dispatched this time were not as elite as yesterday, the total strength was greater, with more than 50,000 troops.

When Jiang You saw that the enemy had sent so many troops this time, he did not dare to be careless. He immediately ordered all troops to board the city wall and enter combat positions.

Because of the large number of enemy troops, Jiang You even took out the only dozen rockets in the city, preparing to give the enemy a big surprise after they entered the shooting range.

The enemy obviously didn't know that there was such a big surprise waiting for them today. Before approaching the city wall, the formation was still very dense. This can be regarded as a habit of the troops in the cold weapon era. After all, the army in the cold weapon era They usually advance in formations, so over time those soldiers will develop this habit and like to get together when advancing.

This directly led to the tragedy that followed. With a series of whizzing sounds, the dozen or so rockets immediately flew out from the wall and flew towards the gathered enemy troops.

Although King Yarogork had never seen a rocket, he instinctively felt something was wrong at this time, and immediately asked his soldiers to notify the frontline troops and ask them to disperse.

Unfortunately, it was too late to send soldiers to notify them at this time. The soldiers rushed halfway on horseback, and the rockets fell into the enemy's formation one after another, and then a violent explosion occurred.

Because the enemy soldiers were several meters too far, as long as these rockets successfully fell into the enemy formation, each shot would kill and injure at least fifty or sixty people. From the air, it looked like there was a huge enemy army in the middle. It was like being pressed down by the fingers of a certain God's hand, and the soldiers in these places were instantly wiped out.

King Yarogork was shocked to see that nearly a thousand men and horses were killed in an explosion on the front line. However, he soon realized that it was useless to feel sorry for the loss of troops at this time, so he ordered the troops to continue the attack. , he didn't believe that there would be a lot of enemy troops with such a big killer.

To the delight of King Yarogork, as the frontline army continued to advance, the enemy never used those big weapons again. Instead, they relied on the few artillery on the city wall to bombard their own army, but only relying on Those few artillery pieces couldn't kill all the more than 50,000 troops in a short period of time, so the frontline troops still approached the wall of Albuk Fort little by little.