In the rain of arrows, a siege vehicle covered with animal skins was pushed hard by dozens of Dongyi soldiers along the old road of Tiebi Town, ignoring the corpses on the roadside, and slowly moved towards the gate of the castle.
Go.
At the same time, the four siege towers also bypassed the obstacles placed by the northern humans in front of the city wall, crossed several ditches filled with corpses and sand, and approached the city wall 200 meters away.
Behind these siege equipment are groups of infantry wearing simple leather armor and holding brand-new wooden shields. Their right hands are still holding iron weapons tightly. The weapons are very simple, and most of the soldiers hold
Most of them had short spears that were good for stabbing, and only a few people held strange-shaped scimitars or straight swords in their hands.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]
There are more than a thousand of them. It's not that Ashur can't send more soldiers, but the environment in front of Iron Wall Town only allows so many soldiers to form a formation. No matter how many more soldiers are sent, they can only increase the formation.
It is only thicker, and it is easier to be shot by the defenders on the city wall, because Ashur does not have so much time to waste preparing a shield for his soldiers.
The northern humans guarding the city wall naturally could not watch the enemy approaching. More than three hundred sharp-eyed archers kept opening the fir bows in their hands, and sharp and deadly arrows fell from the city wall one by one.
Fly towards the approaching enemy.
Those rainy arrows missed, mixed with little bits of fire, and the defenders of Ironbill Town tried to use flames to ignite the wooden siege towers and siege engines.
Of course Ashur would not let this happen. He was extremely well prepared for this siege. Not only was the siege vehicle covered with animal skins, but he also hung water-absorbing cans on the front of the siege tower.
Cotton cloth, anyway, these things are snatched from the people in the north. It doesn't hurt to use them. Even after they are used up, if they are rewarded, there will still be many people who want them.
The wood used to make siege equipment is also freshly cut wet wood. Although these moisture-filled woods will crack in the future, Ashur doesn't care about the future. All he wants is the victory in front of him.
Although the burning flammable objects were accurately projected onto the siege equipment by arrows, they were unable to ignite the wet wood and cloth. They only dried out a layer of moisture on the surface of the target after a slight struggle.
Slowly extinguished.
Of course, the archer's attack was not completely fruitless. Those Dongyi soldiers pushing siege towers or siege vehicles would be hit by arrows from time to time. While losing their lives, they would collapse to the ground unconsciously.
, blocking in front of the wooden wheel of the siege equipment, or hanging the whole body on the siege equipment when dying, making it more difficult for the soldiers to carry out the task.
Such a situation will slow down the speed of the siege equipment towards the city wall. However, at this time, those Dongyi people holding scimitars or straight swords will loudly order the soldiers holding shields around them to move those
The corpses blocking the siege engines are moved away. After that, these soldiers will join the ranks of pushing the siege engines again.
Those Dongyi officers who gave orders will undoubtedly attract more attention from archers. However, the layers of shields around them blocked a large number of arrows shot at him. The archers who shot several times to no avail could only choose those with more arrows.
The soldiers, who were easy to hit, tried to slow down the advancing speed of the siege equipment.
But the effect of this is not very good. Whether it is a siege vehicle or a siege tower, there will always be some completely enclosed spaces where all archers cannot shoot. Reality is not a game, and there will be no commander.
They would be stupid enough to open a window on a siege vehicle, leaving a gap for the enemy on the opposite side, allowing those sharpshooters to shoot their own soldiers carrying out siege equipment.
If it weren't for the fact that there is a gentle slope outside the city wall of Tiebi Town, and relying solely on the hiding soldiers would be too slow, then maybe even the soldiers who helped push the siege vehicles outside, Ashur
Not willing to make arrangements.
It's not that Ashur cares much for his men. As a human general who is above the qualification line and can even be said to be barely good, Ashur knows that those who died under the archers at this moment
The soldiers can play more roles in other places.
After attacking this town, he also wanted to take a look in the direction of Changhu Town. It was said that it was once very wealthy. If possible, occupying it would be of great help to him, but the scope of influence covers the Woodland Kingdom there.
This made him hesitate, so he wanted to save the lives of as many soldiers as possible, especially the elites, so that he could rely on their strength to compete with the elves.
As time went by, the Dongyi people's siege equipment, under the long-range strikes of the defenders' archers, pushed forward about fifty meters again. At this time, three stone bullets weighing several dozen kilograms,
Howling in the air, it flew towards the siege equipment from behind the city wall.
As a defensive castle specially built by the northern humans, they still spent a lot of money to purchase three small trebuchets from the dwarves in the Iron Hills, and placed them on the platform behind the castle as the final force to defend the castle.
These sophisticated machines, under the control of skilled operators, can accurately project stone bullets of tens of kilograms to a position of 150 to 200 meters. At this moment, the Dongyi siege troops have entered
Within this range.
After just two rounds of shooting, a siege tower was crumbling under the attack of two stone bombs, and the top of the siege vehicle was hit by a stone bullet weighing dozens of kilograms, which made a huge hole.
The few soldiers inside who were pushing the carts were left in pieces of flesh and blood after being hit by stone bullets.
Such an attack caused considerable confusion among the Dongyi siege troops.
Ashur looked at the scene of the trebuchet being launched from a distance. His originally calm face suddenly became serious. He quickly searched the inside of the castle with his fierce eyes and immediately locked the position of the trebuchet.
It was a platform about 20 to 30 meters away from the city wall, and three trebuchets were placed there.
This kind of counterweighted trebuchet is very easy to be damaged or mishandled after being assembled, especially when it rains or snows. Therefore, the defenders of Iron Wall City will only spend some time when they need to use it.
They are assembled, and at other times, the parts are properly kept in the warehouse.
Before attacking the city, Ashur took great pains to climb the dozens of meters high cliffs on both sides of the Iron Wall City and observed the general situation of the entire town on the cliffs. At that time, he did not see the trebuchet.
existence, otherwise, he would not simply let the siege equipment advance in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers.
Now, Ashur had to take other measures to assist the advancement of the siege troops. He loudly conveyed his orders to the messengers around him. Soon, a wave of flags was waved, and more than a thousand archers came from the Dongyi people.
walked out of the phalanx.
The bows and arrows held by the Dongyi people have a very short shooting distance. Even for infantry archers, the shooting distance can only barely reach about 150 meters. Moreover, at this distance, the power of arrows is greatly reduced, making it difficult to defeat large targets.
The fine armor worn by some of the defenders.
The iron-walled garrison who stood high and held fir longbows could shoot at a distance of more than two hundred meters, and their sophisticated arrows could cause great damage to the poorly equipped Dongyi soldiers.
At the beginning of the tentative siege, Ashur had this information, so he did not immediately send relatively elite archers to shoot at the enemies on the wall during the siege. This behavior would definitely lead to
Let your elite soldiers suffer huge casualties.
Most of the people in those carts were slaves or cannon fodder at the lowest level. It didn't hurt that some Ashur died. After breaking through the city wall, it was very easy to replenish the supply.
Ashur's original idea was that when the cannon fodder on carts used siege equipment to officially engage the enemy, he would send out his own archers to quickly approach the city wall, and then carry out covering strikes against the enemies who were unable to fight back.
Cause a lot of damage.
Ashur's idea is indeed very good, but the appearance of the trebuchet directly broke his beautiful plan. Now, Ashur needs to move the siege equipment forward as soon as possible and transport the soldiers to the city wall. Otherwise, he will not be able to survive.
Under the attack of trebuchets, those siege towers and siege engines built at great cost will soon be destroyed.
At this time, the archers who received Ashur's order were divided into four square formations and quickly advanced towards the city wall. The movement of thousands of people running quickly attracted the attention of the Iron Wall defenders.
Seeing the vast number of enemy troops approaching the city wall, some of the defenders began to feel despair. Even if they were thinking of fighting the enemy to the death a moment ago, when faced with the irresistible force, their firm hearts could not
There will inevitably be some fluctuations.
However, the leader of the northerners, who was more determined than them, had already begun to shout loudly: "Shoot, shoot those archers, and leave the siege equipment to the trebuchets."
As the words were about to end, stone bullets flew out of the city again. The siege tower that had been crumbling during the attack collapsed suddenly in this wave of attacks. The fallen shelves and scattered wooden boards were crushed to death.
A large number of soldiers near the siege tower were injured.
As the siege tower fell into pieces, bursts of cheers came from the platform of Ironbill Town. While cheering, the militiamen who controlled the trebuchets quickly reset the weights of the trebuchets, one by one.
The stone bullet is placed in the projection position.
At this time, the first phalanx of Dongyi archers had already entered the shooting range of the Iron Wall garrison. Soon, bursts of arrow rain covered their heads, causing them a huge blow.
Casualties, just for advancing fifty meters, the archers of this phalanx paid nearly 200 lives. The heavy casualties directly led to the defeat of this phalanx.
This situation is all thanks to Ashur. Before the siege, the Dongyi people's capital commander distributed almost all the shields to the slaves and cannon fodder who were pushing the chariot. Now, he
The archer can only use his own body to accomplish his combat goals.
With most of the defenders' firepower concentrated in the gaps between the first phalanx, the other Dongyi archers quickly ran for dozens of meters and arrived a hundred meters away from the city wall. Although they were running
They also suffered some blows, but the casualties were not serious.
Soon, nearly a thousand arrows were lost and flew up from the Dongyi phalanx, which was standing still. Then, like rain, they fell towards the defenders on the city wall. Such a dense attack instantly hit the defenders.
It caused huge damage, and the offensive and defensive sides officially entered the stage of brutal mutual shooting.
Soon, the archers of the defenders were suppressed by enemies who far outnumbered them. The large number of casualties caused them to hide under the shields of their own infantry, or hide in corners where they were not easily shot.
Their counterattack became extremely weak, and it was difficult for them to pose a threat to the Dongyi archers.
Seeing that his archers finally suppressed the defenders on the city wall after suffering a quarter of their casualties, Ashur gave the order to the messenger again.
Soon, there was a sound of horns from the Dongyi people's camp, and several flags started to wave. Under Ashur's order, a phalanx of Dongyi people's archers actually advanced again, approaching five meters away from the city wall.
After standing at a distance of ten meters, they fully drew the long bows in their hands, and using upward shooting, launched a covering shot towards the platform where the trebuchet was placed in the city.
After this wave of arrows was missed, Kankan flew to the front of the platform, startling the militiamen who were controlling the trebuchet. At the same time, the trebuchet they controlled also threw three stones weighing several dozen kilograms again.
The bullet hit the siege tower that had been pushed next to the archers. The siege tower also collapsed directly under the attack of the stone bullet.
At this time, a trumpet sound came from the main camp of Ashur again. The Dongyi archer phalanx, which was already fifty meters close to the city wall, continued to move forward another twenty meters under the order.
At this time, the Dongyi archers could no longer see the position of the trebuchet. The nearly six-meter-high city wall completely blocked their view. However, the Dongyi officer standing on the siege tower told them the shooting angle.
There are shooting directions.
Soon, the militiamen controlling the trebuchets suffered their first casualties in this war. More than two hundred archers carried out precise coverage strikes against them, which directly disrupted their control rhythm, and
The rockets mixed in with the ordinary arrows also slowly ignited the trebuchet.
Seeing that the trebuchets in the town no longer launched attacks, Ashur's face showed a satisfied smile, but then it was replaced by anger. He looked to his side with an angry face, where a man who provided him with information stood there.
A northern human, and was introduced to him by Baal.
Under the leadership of this guy, Ashur was able to quickly break through the gathering points of several northerners in such a short time. It was also under the leadership of this guy that Ashur climbed up a nearby cliff and investigated.
The specific situation of Tiebi Town.
But the enemy had such important information as a trebuchet, and this guy didn't know it. This made Ashur angrier and angrier, and he even became reluctant to see him. After all, it was such a piece of information that cost him nearly four hundred dollars.
The lives of elite soldiers.
Then, the leader of the Dongyi people whispered a few words in the ears of his bodyguards, and then several bodyguards held the astonished northerners and walked not far away.
Soon, a figure of flesh and blood was hung in the center of the camp.
Kurda and Amish, who were standing next to Ashur, were already used to it. After all, they were four hundred elites. Not just any crooked person could be an archer. If this were replaced by someone who was climbing a mountain.
The King of Humans is so despised, I feel so sorry for him.
Just when Ashur was hoisting up his spy, the gate of Iron Wall Town slowly opened, and nearly a hundred cavalry on horseback galloped out of the gate, rushing towards the Dongyi archers in front of them, and
The door behind him quickly closed after the cavalry rushed out.
Naturally, the defenders could not just watch their trebuchets being destroyed by the enemy's archers. Their current hope was to smash all the enemy's siege equipment and force the enemy to waste more time building siege equipment.
Use city equipment, or let the enemy use the extremely inconvenient method of ladders to enter into a powerful siege battle against your own side.
To this end, several leaders gathered all the elites who could fight on horseback and were willing to die, handed them over to one of the leaders, and rushed out of the town gate at this moment.
Such a move far exceeded the imagination of the Dongyi people. Even Ashur had never thought that such a situation would happen. He could only look blankly at his more than two hundred archers who were raising their heads to shoot.
The butcher's knife of the opposing cavalry.
The distance of twenty meters was reached in an instant for the cavalry. The Dongyi archers still holding long bows in their hands were unable to fight back under the rapid attack of the defending cavalry and were quickly slaughtered.
Almost exhausted.
At this time, Ashur finally reacted. Under his command, the sound of horns sounded again in the camp. The two Dongyi archers still maintained a complete phalanx, and gave up.
Suppressing the defenders on the city wall, they began to shoot at the enemy cavalry. At the same time, a large number of Dongyi infantry quickly surrounded the cavalry, compressing the range of the cavalry's activities.
The elite cavalry of this garrison, after struggling to push through several infantry that intercepted them, finally rushed into another phalanx of enemy archers, but their number was not enough in this short period of more than a dozen.
The number was reduced by two-thirds within minutes, and after the remaining cavalry managed to kill hundreds of archers, they were finally submerged in the sea of enemy troops.
In the short time these cavalrymen bought, the trebuchets in the city were launched again, not only smashing the Dongyi people's third siege tower, but one of the stone bullets even hit the main beam of the engineering vehicle.
It lost the ability to breach city gates.
But at this time, the last siege tower of the Dongyi people finally set up on the wall of Tiebi Town. The Dongyi soldiers who were originally standing on the siege tower rushed towards them with howling madly.
, the defenders were already well-positioned on the city wall, and the two sides immediately started a brutal hand-to-hand battle.
A large number of Dongyi soldiers below the siege tower also began to rush upward along the ladder in the tower. They would continuously attack the city wall until they occupied a position on the city wall, or they would be killed by the defenders until their morale collapsed.
The Dongyi archers under the city wall once again began to suppress the archers and trebuchets of the castle defenders to prevent the only remaining siege tower from being smashed by the defenders regardless of the consequences.
Under Ashur's order, thousands of well-equipped Dongyi infantry, mixed with thousands of cannon fodder, rushed towards the city wall carrying ladders. They would give the final blow to the defenders in the castle.
At this time, Ashur was guarded by thousands of soldiers.
Allen, who had just climbed up the cliff near Ironbill Town and wanted to observe the fighting situation between the two sides, saw this scene and knew that the town was hopeless.