Rise of the Empire Total War

attack!

After the wanton tilting of the artillery, the walls of Fort Hovini were devastated, and there were large and small sunken potholes. After the sound of the artillery stopped, countless imperial soldiers carried long ladders and rushed towards the city on the snow. The city wall, the shouts of killing from their mouths gathered together, almost made the whole castle tremble.

Shhhhhhhhhh

Just after the imperial soldiers rushed to the range of the defenders' archers, a deadly rain of small arrows soared from the city wall, flew through the air and fell into the running army of imperial soldiers, jingling on the raised shields From time to time, someone was shot by an arrow with a tricky angle, and fell to the snow on the ground with a muffled sound. The blood that flowed from them dripped on the pure white snow, directly staining the area red, from afar Looking at it, this bright red is particularly dazzling.

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Forward! Speed ​​up! Hearing the tinkling sound from the shield above his head and feeling the vibrations from his arms, the walking imperial knights in the crowd shouted to the heavily armored soldiers running around, The heavy armor on his body made it more difficult to run in the snow, so he could only move forward slowly, being overtaken by the soldiers following behind.

Due to the limitations of the snow, Richard's soldiers could not push heavy siege towers and battering rams at all, so they could only use the lightest ladders to attack.

Seeing that some of the soldiers who were besieging the city were shot and fell down from time to time, Richard gave a few words to the messengers around him, and the latter immediately rode their horses and ran towards the formation of crossbowmen. After that, thousands of soldiers The mixed army formation of archers and crossbowmen is slowly advancing amidst the sound of horns, and the most striking thing among them is the soldiers with huge shields on their backs. These soldiers are the giant shield crossbowmen in the game. Huge shields can protect these soldiers well while reloading ammunition.

One thing to say, Richard even wondered if some of them had removed all the door panels in their homes.

In the front are heavily armed sergeants and spear militias charging against the defenders' arrow rain, among which are some walking imperial knights, and behind them is a long-range army formation composed of civilian archers, civilian crossbowmen and giant shield crossbowmen. After the shooting range, they stood in place and took out arrows from the quiver at their waists. The archers set up their bows and led the arrows, and under the scolding of the officers, they shot salvos into the sky. Covering the sky and blocking out the sun, it directly covered the city wall after drawing an arc in midair.

Under this doomsday-like volley of bows and arrows, the defenders on the city wall suffered heavy losses. Those archers who had been shooting unscrupulously before were instantly sanctioned by the arrow rain from the sky, and their bodies were covered with dense arrows. Hedgehog, such a tragic death caused the liver and gallbladder of those soldiers who escaped to be shattered, and many of them were frightened on the spot.

Then, just when the surviving soldiers thought that the enemy's archers stopped shooting, and leaned out from the wall to continue attacking the imperial infantry who were charging, a more terrifying rain of crossbow arrows flew over the sky with a buzzing and vibrating sound. , covered the city wall again, and a large number of crossbow arrows fell into the castle, shooting the soldiers who were running to support the city wall.

With the cover of their own archers, the infantry running carrying the ladder only needed to defend against the arrows shot from the tower. They quickly rushed to the bottom of the city wall, erected the ladder, put it on the surface of the city wall, and began to climb up.

On the other side, soldiers with improvised bombs made of black powder that came with the artillery a few days ago also rushed outside the gate of Fort Hovinni under the cover of shields. The soldiers who were responsible for protecting these bombs immediately formed a tight group The tortoise shell formation defended against the rolling stones and arrows falling from above. Under the shield, several soldiers frantically dug up the snow outside the city gate with shovels, then put a clay pot containing a large amount of black powder underneath, and pulled out After the match was long enough, they began to light the match.

After the matchlock was ignited, the tight shield array instantly dispersed, and every soldier rushed to run out. After about ten seconds, only a deafening explosion sounded.

Then a heat wave and shock wave chased up from behind, overturning the running soldiers. The violent vibration generated by the explosion made the whole castle tremble, and the soldiers who climbed the wall almost fell down because of the vibration.

When the black smoke from the explosion dissipated, the city gate had already been blown to pieces, and the surrounding snow had melted. The defenders who had been deployed behind the city gate fell to the ground in disorder, bleeding from all orifices. It can't be done.

The city gate has been blasted! Attack!

After the loud shouts of the imperial knights on foot, the soldiers gathered under the city wall immediately shifted their direction of attack and swarmed towards the city gate. Shake the corpses of the soldiers to death and kill them inside the castle.

The sudden deafening explosion shocked the defenders of Fort Hovinni. Facing the charge of the imperial soldiers, they couldn't organize any resistance at once. Their formation was directly dispersed, and then fell on the enemy's spears. Assassinate. The soldiers standing on the city wall were shocked and fell to the ground. They watched the enemy climb up from the ladder before struggling to stand up to meet the enemy, but it was too late.

Attack! For His Majesty Caesar!

In the melee, the foot knights dressed in exquisite half plate armor and wielding terrifying maces and maces showed their might. Cudgels and maces can easily smash open the skull of the enemy, or smash the internal organs of the enemy through a layer of armor. Faced with such a tragic death, even the bravest warrior will feel terrified.

These unkillable and cruel opponents quickly made the defenders lose their determination to resist. They would rather be lowly slaves for a lifetime than die in such pain. As the first soldier took the lead and surrendered on his knees, more soldiers gave up resistance and prostrated themselves on the ground, begging the enemy for mercy. Immediately afterwards, the imperial soldiers broke into the inner fort where the old earl was, and put the inside of the fort where the resistance was intended. The character killed, and the old Earl Ensksa, who was stunned again, was taken prisoner.

On the city wall, seeing the family flag fluttering on the inner fort being lowered, little Nsksa, who was still fighting in the corner, also gave up resistance in despair, letting the heavily armored sergeant pin him to the ground and tied him up. The castle was breached before the poor young nobleman could even exercise his commanding abilities.

In fact, it's not that our army doesn't work hard, but the enemy has Gundam!

After the surrender of Little Nsksa, the soldiers who fought with him followed suit, and the castle fell completely into Richard's hands.