Chapter 69 The Tiger in the Fence
Soon, within a few days, when the Kumans and the Centaur coalition forces discovered that they were already trapped in a huge trap like wild animals, none of the people present had a good look. The Normans were still pushing their fortifications inwardly, constantly looking around... Relying on the main force and the original fortifications, they continued to move forward and inwardly, and continued to build various kinds, some of which had been seen and some had never seen before, but all were buildings beyond the imagination of the coalition forces. Even when there was no need to rush to work, the soldiers began to use stone and bricks to build more solid and durable fortifications in order to pursue the effect.
It was like a pocket that was getting tighter and tighter. It made people feel suffocating and extremely unpleasant. It also seemed like those evil people were filling the traps that had fallen into prey for fun.
"It won't work if this continues." Seeing the opponent's pocket getting tighter and tighter, the Kumans and the Centaur coalition were anxious. They didn't care that their army was not good at fighting tough battles, so they rushed towards the most solid defense system that also led to the Kazan Belt. Ayujie Khan was also a little panicked at this moment and couldn't think of any way, so he let the people below attack. Of course, the Centaur Khan had at least put forward his own ideas for the trenches on the outside and obstacles such as trapped horse pits.
The coalition gathered all the cloth bags and sacks they could find together. Some soldiers used simple tools to shovel dirt into the bags, while the other part of the heavy armored centaurs carried sand and soil bags and rushed to the trench, braved the rain-like bows, crossbows, arrows, gravels and other things to pour sand into the trench.
However, even the centaurs who were doing this suicide squad were all wearing heavy armor and had a very strong defense. However, the Norman troops on the side were not vague. The well-trained longbowers immediately replaced the armor-breaking cone arrows. The pulley crossbow soldiers' pulley crossbows could ignore the protection of the two layers of scale armor and pierced directly into the flesh. In addition, the heavy city defense crossbows equipped on more than a dozen design platforms, controlled by engineers, suffered heavy casualties.
At the same time, Norman soldiers lit the beacon tower and informed that the position was attacked.
So, several camps next to them immediately ran along the unblocked grasslands on the periphery to support. The Norman soldiers gathered in this camp of less than three square kilometers in a blink of an eye. Soon, as the first trench was filled, the centaurs howled wildly, and stepped on large corpses and rushed towards the second trench. A large number of light-armed archers joined the ranks of blocking and shooting.
"Deploy the flames of heaven! Deploy the iron cannons!"
The forced centaurs were crazy and deadly. As the front advanced, the pressure on the Normans became even greater. Seeing that their archers had reached the range, the coalition immediately sent a large number of bow and arrow troops to shoot fiercely at the Norman soldiers on the wooden wall fence and shooting platforms. Although most of the bows and arrows were defended by the stacking walls and baffles, they still caused great trouble to the Normans, and casualties also occurred.
On the front line, Egil and Artoria were rushing towards this side at this moment.
The Longbower and the Crossbowman Commander Robin Hood, the Death Knight Captain Alpha, the Archbishop of the Battlefield Order, these three senior generals and three legion commanders, Joseph, Alvin and Ivan were not there, and the biggest ones were several thousand-man commanders. Originally, according to the Military Reform Ordinance, the Thousand-Man commanders were not qualified to be dispatched and used these two secret weapons.
But at this moment, no one cares about these things. A Norman infantry commander made such an order when he was anxious.
Since the commander of thousands of men is like this, there is no need to mention the big-headed soldiers below. After hearing the order, more than a dozen heavily armored Norman infantry jumped down from the two-meter-high wooden wall, and then stumbled towards the warehouse where the material reserves were behind.
Soon, as the clamor of the centaurs got closer, the hideous and terrifying faces, mixed with sweat, dust, mud and blood, could see clearly~
When the second trench was about to be filled, the soldiers finally ran back. Each of them held several cans of heavenly flames, or a close-range iron cannon, and several soldiers struggled to bring up a one-meter-high oil barrel filled with heavenly flames.
"It's good to kill those dogs!" The Norman soldiers burst into cheers. Then, they fired gravels before, but because the other party was wearing heavy armor, they did not kill many stone catapults, so they replaced them with the latest heavenly flames pot.
"emission!"
With the order of the Norman officer, more than a dozen cans of heavenly flames were thrown out, a parabola was drawn in the air, and then landed on the ground, or on the gods of centaurs, breaking them up, and the tinder oil was removed everywhere - and the flames on the fuses of the lit pot that were lit before instantly burned into a large fire wall that was nearly one person high.
"Fire! Fire!!"
The centaur soldiers screamed, slapped the flames on their bodies, but the tincture oil was directly attached to them and could not be removed no matter how they were shot. The soldiers rolled and struggled, and ran around like crazy and spread the fire to other places. The centaur troops in the attack suddenly became chaotic.
Because there was a trench before the wooden wall and the military camp, Norman soldiers did not have to worry about the fire falling on their heads. Therefore, they could use this weapon with confidence.
"Okay!" Seeing the huge power of the flames of heaven, Norman soldiers celebrated, and someone immediately went to the warehouse to get more fire pots. The longbowmen also took the cotton wool they distributed and soaked the cloth strips in the bucket of tinder oil, and then tied them to their arrows to make a simple rocket and shot them out, which encouraged the violent fire outside the city. As more and more tinder oil tanks were thrown out, the battlefield outside became a sea of fire, the burning smell, and the smell of barbecue that smelled very good, the smell of steel and leather burning was mixed together, which was disgusting.
Compared with very good results like the Heaven Flame, the explosion power of those iron cannons is not as good as expected. For those light-clad centaur archers, the scattered iron sheets and iron filings of the explosions are undoubtedly fatal, but for the heavy armored centaur suicide squad, the power of these explosions is not great enough. It can only cause very small damage or even a little damage. However, the violent explosion sound and choking smoke have also aggravated the chaos of the centaur army to a certain extent.
"This city seems to be invincible..."
Seeing that there had been a sea of fire outside the military camp, Centaurus Khan A Yujie couldn't help but close his eyes. Extreme anger, anxiety, and a little fear made the usually gentle middle-aged man red with his eyes "Calm!" and pulled out his scimitar from the scabbard covered with gems. However, the next one was a sound of powerlessness, unwillingness but helpless: "Retreat..."
Seeing the other party escape in shame, the Norman soldiers cheered loudly in the military camp. After hearing these cheers, Ayujiehan, who had fled back in a panic, also became even worse.
In this battle, more than 5,000 centaur warriors were killed in just half a day.
In addition, the blow to the morale of the coalition forces was also quite huge. Even Ayujie Khan also happened: "If this is the case, can we really win?" He was afraid of being moved.
The opponent's combat power is stronger than you imagined. Having a weapon that is beyond your imagination. Although I have heard that in a Roman Empire along the Mediterranean coast, I have invented a very terrifying tincture oil called Greek fire at sea level, but I have never seen a real thing... Now thinking about it, this should be that kind of weapon, it is indeed a terrifying weapon...... It's okay when fighting in the field, the soldiers on both sides are entangled with each other, and this kind of weapon is not easy to fiddle with. However, in the battle of siege or defending the city, shooting this kind of fire pot by throwing stone tools is a very terrifying attack method...
On that day, fierce quarrel broke out within the coalition forces again, and some people who were scared by the Normans hoped to negotiate with them.
"Even if we hand over some of the spoils, it's better than waiting for death here now?" said the leader.
Hum! The Kumans are absolutely uncompromising. The Normans are just a group of turtles huddled in the castle and dare not fight head-on! How can they be compared with us?!"
"Wait! We still have a chance to leave the castle without enemies from the south, and its defense is not very high." Several head men said.
"The swamp will greatly limit our ability to move, not to mention that we are carrying the spoils of the chief committee. The other party just wants us to move forward from the swamp terrain and then be trapped in such a mud pond, and they will gather together and hit our backs hard. Then we will be finished!" Zai Yujiehan, who had been silent, shouted.
Hearing him say this, the Kumans and the centaurs were quiet for a while.
"So Khan, do you have any other ideas?" someone asked.
"While our army's morale has not yet dropped to a bad situation, we have the power to fight and submit letters of war to the Normans to make an appointment. In addition, we are sending troops to harass the enemy's fortifications. We cannot let them continue to advance inside. Otherwise, we will be trapped to death!"
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