Naruto: History of the Warring States Period

Chapter 579

The war in Lelang City has entered its fifth day. Within five days, the northern foreign army launched four large-scale offensives, but all four offensives failed miserably. The foreign army’s casualties have reached 30,000, and Le The defenders of Langcheng also suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the war gradually became fierce.

The corpses were everywhere in the wilderness, with stumps and arms everywhere, blood stained the land outside Lelang City, hundreds of carts and ladders collapsed in the wilderness, they looked like warriors who died in battle, looking desperately The imperial flag still flying above Lelang City.

The tactics of the Alien Army are also constantly changing. The sky is still dark, and the inside and outside of Lelang City is covered with thick white fog. This is the weather that often occurs in winter, and it is the same as the wind and sand in autumn. It is in the north. Characteristic, but the fog will not last long and will dissipate after dawn.

The war ceased for a day. The 40,000 defenders on the city were huddled in sheepskin and covered with thick blankets and fell asleep. Suddenly, a violent shock caused the soldiers to wake up from their dreams. The alarm bell has also sounded.

“Dang! Dang! Dang!”

The harsh bell awakened all the soldiers, and the rotating soldiers who were resting under the city quickly rushed to the top of the city and entered their respective combat readiness positions.

The thick fog filled the inside and outside of the city wall, and there was nothing to be seen from dozens of meters away, only the rumbling sound was heard. The soldiers talked a lot, but everyone was full of doubts and vigilance.

If the enemy is attacking the city, why is there no horn to attack? They have fought countless times with the aliens in the north, and an attack without a horn has never happened.

In the heavy fog, the flag on the command tower lost its effect. The commander of the Northern Army Corps Stockton, who commanded the entire battle, rushed to him on horseback. He shouted:

“This is a sneak attack by the enemy. Everyone is ready to meet the enemy, and the Musketeers will hide first!”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

Because of this heavy fog, the Five Thousand Ace Musketeers in the Northern Army have no room to play, so they can only use the trebuchets, large bed crossbows and other defensive equipment in the city when the opponent is not close. The voice fought back.

In the sound of the command, the trebuchets began to creak and wring, and the long arms slammed up, shooting blocks of boulders out, and shot them into the vast fog. For an instant, the screams came from the fog. It was heard that there was really an enemy army coming. The soldiers of the empire cheered up and drew their bows and let go of arrows. A rain of arrows shot towards the outside of the city. Almost at the same time, overwhelming arrows flew out of the fog, hundreds of empires. The soldier was caught off guard and was shot down screaming.

In a whistling sound, hundreds of boulders also flew from below the city, and slammed on the top of the city with a “boom”. One boulder smashed the battlements, smashed dozens of imperial soldiers out, and another boulder hit the city. After hitting a trebuchet, the trebuchet fell apart, and the huge wood hit the top of the imperial soldiers, screaming constantly.

The heavy fog reversed the situation, and the siege party, which had been in a disadvantageous state, began to gain the upper hand. Instead of blowing the offensive horn, the side of the alien race started a sneak attack silently.

Nearly two hundred trebuchets have been put into the battlefield. The trebuchets of foreign nations are smaller than the empire and are launched by manpower. A trebuchet requires hundreds of people to pull and has a range of up to 300 meters. Under the cover of heavy fog, They had reached three hundred meters away and launched a fierce attack on Lelang City.

After five days of fierce battle, foreign nations have gradually discovered some of the imperial army’s defensive loopholes. Most of the imperial army’s trebuchets have a range of about 450 meters, with the shortest being 350 meters, and there is one of them. The longest distance is no more than 100 meters, so there is a gap between 100 meters and 450 meters. A crossbow arrow can be used to make up for it from a distance of 100 meters, but it is between 200 meters and 300 meters. The weakest link of the imperial army’s strike force.

In this defensive link, the Imperial Army uses bed crossbows, but the destructive ability of bed crossbows cannot be compared with trebuchets, and foreign nations use special defenses. In fact, it is a large leather shield. A leather shield is three meters high and wide. Up to six meters, the support is made of huge wood, and it is covered with dozens of layers of the first-level dangerous seedling dragon skin and some other low-level dangerous seed coats. Except for the impact of a huge boulder that can destroy the support, the bed crossbow cannot penetrate it. This is the invention of more than a dozen craftsmen who fled to the grasslands and was framed by corrupt bureaucrats in the empire. It is very useful for defense of the imperial army’s crossbow arrows. At the same time, these leather shields were made by different nations who cost a lot of money to hunt dangerous species.

Under the protection of heavy fog and leather shields, the Imperial Army’s bed crossbows lost their power, and two hundred trebuchets of different nations began to show their power. Blocks of boulders smashed heavily on the walls, breaking the bricks and denting the walls. The imperial soldiers who defended the city suffered a large number of casualties in the impact of the boulder, and the trebuchets of the imperial army were hit and destroyed continuously on the city head.

Stockton has appeared on the city head to watch the battle. His eyes are stern, and his eyes are full of worries. This is the first time a foreign nation has used a trebuchet to attack the city since the attack for five days. Using human tactics, such subtle tactical changes of foreign nations also made Stockton feel a kind of invisible pressure. As a living in the north for most of his life, he knows that this kind of foggy weather will last for at least a dozen. Heaven, this will make the defender encounter great difficulties.

What Stockton is worried about is not Lelang City, what he is worried about is other cities in the north, and the defensive capabilities of the other cities are far inferior to Lelang City, even though he has also received intelligence that foreign nations’ troops are divided into The Five Route Army entered other places in the north, but don’t forget that the defenders of the Northern Army in other cities are far inferior to Lelang City, both in terms of quantity and quality.

People from other nations in the north have always had weak siege abilities, but the strong siege ability they showed this time was beyond Stockton’s expectations and completely subverted his ideas. Twenty years ago, The siege weapons of different nations are very crude. From the time they could not attack the city of Taycan, which was a little inferior to the defense of Lelang City, Madara can be seen. But in just a few decades, the opponent’s manufacturing ability has advanced by leaps and bounds. .

This can only show that because the empire is becoming more and more decayed, a large number of northern people would rather flee to the northern grasslands, but whoever can survive in the empire will leave their hometown to go to other places.

At the same time, this is also every time the empire has troubles, there will be opportunities for the development of foreign nations in the north, west, southwest and so on. It is not because the combat effectiveness of the imperial army has weakened, but because the combat effectiveness of these foreign nations is gaining. The advanced technology of the imperial people living in their area has allowed them to make considerable progress. The imperial turmoil five hundred years ago illustrates all this well, but five hundred years ago a great ZTE also appeared in the empire. Lord, but this time, Stockton, a veteran general who has served the empire all his life, is full of worries.

Suddenly, Yuzan’s slightly immature face appeared in his mind, but immediately afterwards, he shook his head and laughed mockingly.

“What am I thinking about, why would I think of him?”

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