Rijeka naturally knows, but he really has no choice now. The nobles and officials have enjoyed the rights granted by the empire, and now they naturally have to pay for the empire. As for any problems in the future, it is better than losing Malakanda.
Well come.
"As commanded."
The man glanced at Rijeka and went directly to issue the order.
Sure enough, after receiving Rijeka's order, the city officials were fine. After all, they were all working under Rijeka, but those nobles no longer worked. How could they allow Rijeka to treat them like this?
Someone beat up the people sent by Rijeka on the spot, but they were immediately suppressed by Rijeka's governor's guard. When the nobles in the city saw that Rijeka was serious about it, they did not dare to say anything but
They cooperated and dispatched their servants from their respective mansions one after another. Under the command of the governor's guard, they began to put out the fire in the city.
Without the continuous output of fire bombs from the trebuchets, the flames in the city were extinguished everywhere. Finally, there was no original risk. However, it was not something that could be solved in a short time to eliminate all the fires in Maracanda.
Tens of thousands of people outside the city worked together to dig up the indigenous mountain. The project progressed very quickly. They watched a mountain of soil rising from the ground and gradually getting higher. The soldiers and horses in the city were helpless when they saw the enemy's work. Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, they also
You don't dare to attack the enemy rashly, you can only let them continue to work.
Soon the time turned from day to night. Even late at night, the Chinese army did not stop working, and the flames in the city continued to burn.
Time turned from black to white. The Chinese army worked overnight and finally built the earth mountain requested by Tian Feng. Then, based on this earth mountain, they began to expand to the surrounding area. At the same time, the trebuchets were dismantled again and transported to the earth mountain.
Line assembly.
"Prime Minister, we should be able to build a platform to accommodate twenty trebuchets before this afternoon."
Jiang Qin glanced at Tian Feng who came over and reported the progress directly to him.
"After the earthen mountain is built, use trebuchets to attack the enemy troops in the city from a high position. If you can't kill the enemy's effective forces, you can smash them against the important buildings in the city."
Tian Feng nodded to Jiang Qin. The speed of travel is still acceptable. After all, tens of thousands of people are working at the same time. It is not a problem to build an earth mountain. Moreover, these earth mountains are still supported by buildings and trucks, and wooden boards and tree trunks are used as skeletons. If it cannot be completed,
, he was about to curse.
"promise."
Jiang Qin nodded, then signaled the soldiers to continue to reinforce the earth mountain, and at the same time assembled the trebuchets one by one on the earth mountain.
Yuan Wei was on the top of the earth mountain, looking down at the city in front of him, not only observing the concentration of enemy soldiers, but also searching for attack targets.
Time flew by and it was afternoon. The earth mountain was almost completed. Twenty trucks were placed staggered and side by side on the earth mountain.
"Yuan Wei."
Tian Feng personally climbed the Tushan Mountain, looked at Malacanda in front of him, and directly ordered Yuan Wei's general.
"Prime Minister."
Yuan Wei directly cupped his fists and saluted Tian Feng.
"How about it?
Can you hit the enemy soldiers?"
Tian Feng asked the other party. After all, Yuan Wei was an expert in this field, so it was more appropriate to ask him about these things.
"Most of the enemy's soldiers and horses are hidden in the dark. We need soldiers and horses to move forward and mobilize the opponent's people."
Yuan Wei looked at Malakanda in front of him again and directly expressed his thoughts.
"Jiang Qin."
Tian Feng nodded and called Jiang Qin behind him.
"exist."
Jiang Qin cupped his fists towards Tian Feng.
"Tell the soldiers to feint attack again and bring out the enemy's troops and horses for me."
"promise."
Jiang Qin nodded directly to the people behind him, and the flag bearer nodded and waved the flag to signal the army to start a feint attack.
"Dong dong dong,"
"Dong dong dong."
"Dong dong dong."
The war drums sounded again, and the 30,000 Chinese main force cooperated with the soldiers from the Western Regions to push the carts and launched another attack on the city wall. Yuan Wei also ordered the soldiers to make intense adjustments.
"General, the enemy is beating drums and marching."
Hearing the continuous beating of war drums, someone immediately came to report to Armstad.
"Tell the soldiers to move out and prepare to go up the city wall to meet the enemy."
Armsda gave the order, and Kabudat's Kelan Legion took the lead in attacking, followed closely by the elites of Lit Province, ready to support the battle on the city wall at any time.
"The enemy is out."
The school gunnery crew on Tushan reported directly to Yuan Wei.
"Pass the parameters to each trebuchet, and prepare the shotguns for me to shoot."
Naturally, Yuan Wei also saw the enemy emerging from the hiding place and directly ordered the parameters to be passed to each trebuchet.
"Yuan Li, you mark the location of where they hide their troops. Once the battle begins, use heavy bombs to seal it for me. Once you get out, don't go back."
Yuan Wei glanced at the clerk next to him, Yuan Li, and asked him to write down the enemy's hiding place, and immediately sealed it.
"It's already been marked."
Yuan Li nodded to Yuan Wei. He knew what he should do. He didn't need Yuan Wei to tell him that he had already done what he should do.
"Colonel, all trebuchets have been aimed and can start attacking at any time."
Soon each trebuchet was debugged according to the parameters provided by their gunnery crew.
"put."
Yuan Wei shouted directly and ordered the trebuchet to fire shotguns.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
Twenty trebuchets roared one after another, spraying shotguns on the Kushan army inside the city wall.
"Trebuchet, defense."
Seeing the rain of bullets coming, Amsda screamed and directly ordered the soldiers to defend.
For a moment, the Kushan army also panicked. The original formation collapsed instantly, and everyone began to look for places to block the scattered bullets falling from the sky.
Shotguns fell from the sky like a heavy rain, directly killing and injuring a large number of Kushan Empire soldiers.
"Everyone made fine adjustments, changed their equipment and reloaded their ammunition, and sealed their hiding holes for me."
Seeing that the first shot of loose ammunition was effective, Yuan Wei directly ordered the soldiers to reload with heavy ammunition to cut off the enemy's retreat first.
For a moment, the trebuchet turned, switched heavy bombs, and hit the direction of the cave where soldiers were hidden.
A series of heavy bombs fell, directly hitting the cave where soldiers were hiding, trembling, and some places were directly trampled, completely burying the soldiers still inside.
"No, the enemy's target is the hiding cave."
Seeing the soldier-hiding cave behind him being stormed, Armstad was also stunned. Now he finally understood why the other party had to go to such great lengths to build the earthen hill outside the city wall. It turned out to be to attack him from a high position.
"General, retreat quickly. The enemy's attack is too fierce."
The captain of his personal guard took a look at the current situation. The enemy's firepower was so fierce. If they were exposed to the enemy's firepower, these stones could kill them all without the enemy coming to kill them.
Just thinking about it with a stone bullet would kill you.
"We can't go back to the Tibetan Soldier Cave now. Those places have been exposed. If we go back now and get sealed in by the enemy's stone bullets, it will be over."
Hearing what the captain of the guard said, Amstal immediately became angry. If you want to enter the Tibetan Soldier Cave now, aren't you digging your own grave?
"What should we do now?"
The commander of the guards looked at Armstad with horror in his eyes. If he could not enter the hiding cave, his soldiers would be exposed to the enemy's sight.
"Everyone stands against the wall, so close to the city wall that the enemy's shotguns cannot hit them."
Armstad glanced at the impact point of the shotguns, thought for a moment and directly ordered the soldiers to stand against the wall to avoid the Chinese army's shotguns.
After hearing Amstal's order, these soldiers seemed to have a backbone, and they woke up from their panic, and then moved closer to the city wall to avoid the rain of bullets from the trebuchets.
Seeing that the enemy could think of countermeasures in such a short period of time, Yuan Wei couldn't help but frown. After all, the soldiers and horses of a big country reacted so quickly, which was a bit beyond his imagination.
"Replace all weapons with heavy ammunition, and prioritize the military camps and granaries near the city wall."
Since he could not defeat the enemy's troops, Yuan Wei had no choice but to retreat and choose valuable targets to attack.
All of a sudden, the heavy bombs of the trebuchets were fired one after another, attacking the targets that had been mapped out long ago, destroying the enemy's military camps, granaries and other targets within the shooting range.
"Amsda, the current situation is not good. The enemy's trebuchets are towering over us. If our people climb the city wall through the stairs, they will definitely attack us. What should we do?"
Kabdaat came to Armsda. He was worried about nothing else but how to reinforce the city wall in the future. After all, the entire city wall was now exposed to the enemy's view. If they used the stairs to climb the city wall,
They will inevitably be struck by thunder, and they will probably suffer heavy losses even before they reach the city. Although their soldiers are not afraid of casualties, it is indeed not worth it to die in vain.
"Where's the ladder?
Bring me all the ladders and use them to climb up the city wall to fight the enemy."
Armstad glanced at the city wall that was close behind him. Now that the city wall and the others were in trouble, they had to find another way to reinforce the city wall.
"Is it really going to be like this?
If the opponent occupies the city wall and attacks us with bows and arrows from above, I'm afraid we will suffer heavy casualties."
Although Amsda's method can avoid being killed by trebuchets to the greatest extent, it has a drawback, that is, the speed of adding troops to the city wall will be very slow compared with the opponent's. If they occupy the city wall and are condescending, then they will
It's very difficult to fight.
"That's all we can do now. Why don't you tell us how we can avoid the opponent's trebuchets and climb onto the city wall."
