Naruto: History of the Warring States Period

Chapter 580

Stockton sighed slightly. The national defense policy that the empire believed in could not solve the problem fundamentally. The problem of foreign nations on the grassland in the north has not been solved, even the greatest first emperor of the empire, such a brilliant generation. The emperor couldn’t solve this problem completely, even though it was because the empire had just established its lack of national power.

However, although the subsequent generations of kings were determined to solve this problem, they did not have the courage and authority to be the original emperor, either for their own interests or for other reasons. As long as the imperial kings put this issue on the agenda, then they did not have the courage and authority to be the original emperor. Will be pushed off by the dignitaries in the DPRK for various reasons. This problem has been stranded until now. The senior empires who are accustomed to singing and dancing are even more lacking in the mind to completely solve the grassland, which has caused the current situation. Defensive national policy.

But it is precisely this defensive national policy that makes the empire in a passive state, and the current national conditions of the empire also determine that the empire does not have the strength to launch a war that completely destroys the absolute side. The empire with internal and external troubles can no longer withstand such consumption. Now, even in this war launched by the other side, there are voices among the empire’s high-level officials who are ruining money and eliminating calamities or “discussing peace”.

Although the empire still seems to be singing and dancing on the surface now, it is undercurrents.

Thinking of this, Stockton’s eyes felt more worried about the prospects of the empire.

At this time, a huge boulder hit a depression in the eastern section of the city wall. The heavy impact made the city wall unable to hold on any longer, and collapsed suddenly, revealing a collapsed surface of more than 30 meters wide and three meters high. The guard is here. Dozens of imperial soldiers and three bed crossbows screamed and fell down the city, and a large amount of rubble poured out of the city instantly buried them.

At the same time, the imperial soldiers on the top of the city suddenly yelled, a black behemoth appeared in the thick fog, and the battering rams of different nations appeared. These six-meter-high and twelve-meter-long beasts were slowly moving towards The wall came.

The siege ram is made of a thousand-year-old giant wood near the grassland Bingsen. The hammer head is fitted with cast iron and hung on a huge bracket with an iron chain. The top is equipped with a ceiling to defend against bows and arrows. There are six huge wooden wheels underneath. Pulled by more than a hundred horses, after entering the range of the bow and arrow, it was pushed by more than a thousand people.

This kind of siege ram is generally used to hit the city gate, but the city gate of Lelang City has been sealed with a huge stone. It is too time-consuming to siege the city gate, so it does not make much sense. The city wall collapsed, facilitating the troops of foreign nations behind to rush to the front of the city.

The dense boulder impact made the city bricks become loose, and if they were hit with a ram, the city wall would inevitably collapse.

Stockton stared sternly at this huge battering ram, he had arranged a defensive strategy early, and waited for the opportunity at that moment to appear.

The inside of the moat has dried up, and people of different races have spread thick and wide planks on it, so that the huge battering ram can pass through the moat smoothly. Arrows on the city’s head are like rain, and more than a thousand soldiers of different races have used huge shields to cover and push. The battering ram continued to advance and finally withstood the city wall, but the width of the moat to the wall was only more than four meters, which made the huge body of the battering ram straddle the moat.

Stockton fixed his eyes on this behemoth, and when it completely crossed the moat, he gave the order.

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Hundreds of rockets shot into the dry moat. In an instant, the moat fire was raging, the fire was raging, the flames rose, and the wooden planks laid on the moat were burnt. The huge battering ram plunged into the moat. When facing upward, it was stuck vertically in the ditch, the hammer body fell off, rolled aside, and was quickly engulfed by the fire.

It turns out that these days, as early as after every siege by the opponent, General Stockton ordered the soldiers to pour a large amount of gunpowder developed by the empire into the moat. Therefore, the moat will also be shot on the head of the city. The rocket that came out came in at just one point.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!”

“Help!”

“Ohhhhhhh!”

“…”

More than 10,000 foreign soldiers died and wounded countless, howling and struggling in the fire, and finally being swallowed by the fire demon. The remaining thousands turned around and ran away, but they forgot to defend and were shot down by the arrows of the imperial soldiers.

In the flames of the sky, the fog gradually dissipated, and two hundred trebuchets from different nations also hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield before the fog dissipated.

The sun dispelled the fog, and the fire slowly faded. The charred corpses of foreign soldiers and the remains of the battering ram were trapped in the moat, with green smoke curling up and emitting a pungent smell.

The open wilderness once again appeared in front of the imperial soldiers on the front of the city. The foreign army had retreated to the camp. Barker stood in front of the camp, staring at Lelang City from a distance, even though he had lost more than 30,000 people in five days. In addition, this time the sneak attack has lost nearly 40,000 people, which can be regarded as a heavy loss, and the battering ram attack has also suffered a loss.

However, even though his face was expressionless at this time, the results of the battle in front of him were not unacceptable to him, and there was even a trace of ecstasy in his heart. Most of the troops killed in the previous five days were Those tribes of large and small on the grassland, his own strength has not been damaged.

Moreover, the thick fog that appeared in the morning also made him find a time to attack Lelang City, and his heart began to brew the next large-scale attack.

At this moment, a cavalry rushed forward and immediately reported:

“Kei for Khan! King Zuo Xian urgently!”

“Ok?”

With a slight frown, Balke resisted the unhappiness in his heart, and accepted the urgent report from the other party. In an instant, his eyes burst into devastating eyes. At this moment, he is completely gone. For a few days, because he was constantly consuming the joy of other tribal troops on the grassland, he was already angry at this moment.

“Damn saladine, you don’t put me in your eyes, huh, you wait for me, when I finish cleaning up these disobedient guys, it’s your turn! How dare you find such a bad reason to come? Prevaricate me, even if there are small imperial cavalry in your territory, with the strength of your stay in your tribe, there will still be problems!”

Although Balk seemed calm on the surface, he actually roared out of his heart.

“Okay, I see, you go down! Also, help me summon the leaders of the various ministries. I want to make a summary of today’s siege, and then make a plan for the next time!”

At this time in Lelang City, in the Northern Army Command Headquarters, General Stockton also had bloodshot eyes listening to his adjutant reporting the loss of personnel and materials this time.

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