Chapter 420: How to siege a city without a siege ladder? (Part 2)
"How about it, you haven't seen it before! Don't be surprised, the fun is yet to come. Today is a free eye-opener for you! You will see later whether Keelin's fate will be worse than yours!"
The conversation between the three fell into Narant's ears, and Narant immediately turned back and smiled at the three.
This battle, if possible, he wants to make it more shocking, so that it can be used to frighten other castles later!
"But you don't even have a siege ladder, is this called siege?" Ryan was still a little unconvinced and muttered in a low voice!
The three of them were also heirs to the family. Although they were shocked by the catapults and ballistas, they felt that Nalant was not attacking the city at all.
If he sent hundreds of serfs to fill the river properly, and then brought dozens of ladders to attack the city, they felt that with the help of these two powerful weapons, it would really be possible to attack the city.
"Haha, who told you that you must have a siege ladder to attack a city? I, Nalant, don't plan to rely on ladders to attack the city. I want to attack through the gate!"
Narant smiled. This was what he thought about the most when he was 'talking on paper'.
When he was outside Quint Castle, he was greatly shocked by those skeletons attacking the city.
Even beings like skeleton soldiers who can climb walls with bare hands have to pay a high price when they attack the city. So if I send out guards properly, I don't know how many people will die.
Therefore, he used his imagination to come up with a strategy to attack the castle without climbing the wall.
Of course, it is estimated that only he can use this tactic. As for the effect, it depends on the first practice. I think it should be good.
Ryan and the three of them curled their lips when they heard this. Although they were disdainful, they did not dare to say anything. After all, they were still prisoners now, so they still had such awareness.
Narante also ignored them.
Buzz buzz!
Boom, boom, boom!
The long-range attack team's attack continued. After adjusting the angle, they started the second round of salvo.
"Ah! Ah!"
With the second round of volleys, the hit points of the catapults and ballistas were indeed improved, especially the basketball-sized stone bullets, which all fell from the sky and hit the wall.
Suddenly, the screams on the city wall became intensive.
"Vivian, five rounds of rapid fire!" Nalant gave the order directly.
"Yes, sir!"
Next, the ballistae and projectile vehicles poured towards the city wall as if they were free of charge, and the attack targets were all concentrated on the top of the wall at the castle gate.
Suddenly, all the guards on the castle gate were smashed so hard that they could not lift their heads. Upon seeing this, a bronze knight in charge of commanding the battle in the castle immediately called the guards to take shelter in the towers on both sides of the city wall.
After all, the catapult is too weak and cannot shake the towers on the city wall in a short period of time.
However, Narant had no intention of destroying the tower. When the five rounds of shooting by the long-range attack team ended, he began the next attack plan.
"The catapults continue to attack to ensure that the enemy cannot appear on the top of the city. The ballistae is preparing to move its position closer to the city wall!"
"Quick, Raymond, start moving!"
"Yes, sir!"
Immediately, thirty barbarian guards held up their shields and began to move forward, and the ten longbowmen of the Storm Riders also dismounted and followed closely behind.
Behind them were five ballistae and dozens of barbarian coolies.
Looking at Nalant's operation, the trio of Ryan and Karen were puzzled.
It's understandable that the soldiers are moving forward, but why is the ballista also pushing forward? Is it because the enemy's longbowmen can't shoot them?
However, the three of them will soon get the answer.
The guards finally stopped more than fifty meters away from the city wall, and then moved to both sides.
The barbarians held up huge shields to cover, while ten longbowmen fired back at the enemies who dared to show their heads on the city wall.
Fortunately, the catapult attack continued. The enemy's longbowmen only dared to hide in a few small windows in the tower to fight back. The sparse arrows did not pose a big threat to the siege team.
The central channel that Raymond and others gave up happened to be the firing port of the ballista.
When the crossbow truck stopped, everyone began to reload the crossbow arrows.
However, the crossbow arrows loaded this time are a bit weird. They are actually made of iron. Not only are the barbs of the iron crossbow arrows wider, but there is also a thick and long hemp rope tied to the back.
In just a moment, five iron crossbow arrows were safely placed in the arrow bed.
And the hemp rope, which was an unknown number of meters long, was neatly placed in front of the ballista.
"Shoot!" When the loading was completed, Vivian immediately gave the attack order.
Buzz buzz!
Whoosh whoosh!
As the order was issued, five ballistas were launched simultaneously.
Although it was an iron crossbow arrow, under the strong elasticity of the crossbow, the crossbow arrow, which weighed more than ten kilograms, still shot out and shot steadily towards the castle fifty meters away.
Bang bang bang!
In an instant, five crossbow arrows flew to the city wall, and there was a dull collision sound, accompanied by wood chips flying everywhere.
"This... what are they planning to do? Are they planning to pull down the suspension bridge?"
"This is impossible, the suspension bridge is connected by four iron cables, and there is a winch on it!"
The Ryan trio watched all this and vaguely guessed what Narant was planning to do, but they did not believe that Narant could succeed.
If the suspension bridge is really so easy to pull down, then why do we need a moat?
However, Nalant had no intention of explaining to them, so the three of them could only continue to watch obediently.
When five crossbow arrows were nailed to the heavy suspension bridge, the Storm Riders, a small group of semi-barbarian guards and dozens of barbarian coolies immediately started moving.
They formed a group of more than ten people, each holding five thick and long hemp ropes connected to the crossbow arrows.
"pull!"
"drink!"
With a roar, everyone exerted their strength at the same time and began to wildly pull the five crossbow arrows.
Creak, creak, creak!
Suddenly, the heavy suspension bridge under the city wall creaked.
As the suspension bridge made strenuous crosstalk, the four chains hanging on it were immediately jumped upright.
Even the two winches on the city wall seemed to be being pulled backwards.
"Quick, quick! The card owner's winch!"
Keelin, who was hiding in the tower, saw this scene and immediately gave orders to the guards anxiously.
However, compared to his anxiety, the Bronze Knight in charge, the vassal of Baron Lalo, was very calm.
"Master Keeling, don't worry, the winch is stuck with a huge wooden plug. Even if they have fifty more people, they won't be able to pull the suspension bridge."
Following what his vassal pointed out, Keelin saw that the winch was stuck tightly by a wooden plug as thick as a human leg. No matter how hard it exerted force from below, it could no longer pull even an inch!
Seeing this, Keeling finally smiled and said, "This lord named Narant Berwick, did you pick up his title? He actually wants to cross the river by pulling down the suspension bridge. Doesn't he know that from ancient times to the present,
When attacking a city or castle, is the first step to fill the river?"
If Narant heard Keeling's words, he would definitely applaud him. Speaking of which, Narant's title seems to have been picked up...
Of course, he didn't agree with the last half of Keelin's sentence.
Who said that to attack a city, you have to fill up the river?
Especially a small castle like this!
I saw that while the guards were using all their strength to pull the suspension bridge, Vivian was not idle and had already taken off the long bow on her back.
Then he bent his bow and aimed an arrow in the direction of the city wall.
Whoosh!
As Vivian loosened her bow string, an air-piercing scream was immediately heard from the field.
The arrow fired by Vivian flew towards the city wall with a strong red light.