Jackson led his army of archers to the wooden wall. Some of the black soldiers under Meluses were also helping the archers carry arrows and other supplies. Later, they would also stay on the wooden wall to help the archers.
Deal with soldiers trying to climb the wooden wall. After all, the wooden wall is not very high.
The cavalry troops brought by Ronan are waiting in the middle and rear of the camp. Leon will definitely launch attacks from all directions, so although the oncoming gate is the most important, if you want to avoid being stolen, other places must also be prepared.
, these cavalry are used to put out fires. If the city wall falls down, they will immediately support and block the enemy.
Ronan took his newly formed infantry regiment to take charge of the back door position. These infantry were the imperial legion infantry from Pendor's prophecy. Their individual strength may not be as good as other high-level arms, but they are very strong when scaled up.
Skilled in battle formations and with tacit understanding, these soldiers together are definitely one plus one greater than two.
This is also the reason why Ronan chose them. If they are used for positional defense or steady advancement of offense, they are definitely stronger than the Nord warriors that Ronan has always used before.
Time passed by minute by second, and soon, Magna on the watchtower could already see the silhouette of the Leon Army in the distance.
"Attention, the enemy is here!"
Upon hearing Magna's news, Meluses immediately raised his weapon and signaled the soldiers who were sitting on the ground to rest behind him to stand up and get ready.
The soldiers who were laughing and joking with each other immediately put away their smiles when they saw Meluses's gesture, stood up with serious faces, moved their limbs, and took up their positions and stared in the direction of the city gate.
Jackson on the wooden wall relied on his excellent eyesight to quickly see the enemy figure in the distance after Magna's warning. He squatted behind a baffle, where an arrow was placed on a long bow, and then he shot the enemy around him.
The archers gave some instructions to pass to each other.
"attack!"
After the Leon army arrived not far away, Leon launched an attack call without stopping. Under the long horn sound, the infantrymen in the front row immediately howled and launched a charge.
But after they entered about three hundred meters away from the gate, the trap began to take effect.
A soldier stepped on the suspended camouflage straw curtain. The straw curtain was overwhelmed and fell down. The soldier above was no exception. The armor could not protect him at all in front of the sharp and dense wooden stakes. He was nearly six meters high.
Under the added gravity of the fall, he was directly penetrated by the wooden stake, and his screams stopped abruptly.
The soldiers behind him wanted to hide when they saw this, but the car could be stopped there, and several of them fell down. The one behind him who managed to stop the car was also hit by the soldiers behind him who did not know the situation and did not slow down.
The few soldiers who fell in behind were fine, because the wooden stakes were already filled with strings, and they just fell on the corpses of their comrades, but the height of the pit still made it impossible for them to climb up easily.
"Bang!"
The explosion sounded, which was the sound of Matthias's magic trap and alchemical mines. Most of the soldiers whose legs were blown off by the alchemical mines were trampled to death by the soldiers behind them, but those who stepped on the magic traps were not that simple.
After Mathias recovered a lot of his strength, the power of the magic trap he made has obviously been strengthened. Some of the soldiers were blown up into the sky, their limbs and bones fell to the ground, or they simply collapsed in the poisonous gas.
If you die, you will either be frozen into an ice sculpture, or the worst thing is to be directly melted by acid, leaving only a few residues.
The soldiers were obviously too scared to move forward, but the supervising team at the rear still prevented them from escaping, so they could only bite the bullet and continue charging.
The mechanism was triggered, and several sharp iron thorns pierced out from the ground, penetrated the soles of several soldiers' feet, and then pierced their chests without losing force. They were quickly retracted.
"Dammit, avoid those traps!"
The officers on the front line shouted loudly, and then walked over through the safe path discovered by the soldiers.
After finally passing through the death zone with a hail of arrows, they encountered another difficulty in front of the gate. A three-meter trench was dug out in front of the gate. There were still spikes at the bottom, and it was covered with straw curtains and soil.
In the end, the Leon army had to modify the carriage and unassembled siege ladder parts to make a wooden bridge and build it over the trench.
"Ascend the siege cone!"
Under the loud shouts of the officers, a group of soldiers pushed the siege cone outside the gate with Jackson's heavy bow and arrow strikes.
"Bang!"
The door shook, accompanied by the sound of some wood breaking. Meluses immediately lowered his body, raised his shield to his chest, clenched his spear and pointed it forward. The soldiers behind him immediately made the same move, and the crossbow team also
Ran to the front position.
"You lead people to the left, you lead people to the right!"
Leon knew that his current numerical advantage would not be fully utilized if he only attacked from the gate, so he ordered two knights to lead troops to attack from the left and right, surrounding the entire camp.
Soon, there was a crashing sound at the back door, and soldiers from all directions began to climb the wooden walls. In some places, catapults were used to attack, trying to destroy a certain section of the wooden wall.
The fighting on the wooden wall has already begun, but it is difficult for the soldiers to climb up the wooden wall. The Vigian shooters on the wooden wall can accurately grasp the enemy's weaknesses and shoot down the enemy from places not protected by shields.
, and they have plenty of arrows.
The spearmen on the wooden wall were also very strong, and their spears struck quickly and accurately. They did not give the enemy a chance to resist or seize the hair, and simply relied on their excellent arm strength to shoot them down one by one.
"Crack!"
The square door was finally overwhelmed by the continuous impact, and the last baffle broke with a crisp sound.
"Ouch!"
The enemy soldiers outside the door cheered, but before they could finish cheering, a burst of arrows shot out from behind the opened door.
The powerful crossbow arrows pierced through their armor without any hindrance, penetrated their bodies, and even injured the people behind them. The shields in their hands could only resist for a while, and then were shattered by the crossbow arrows.
Three waves of crossbow arrows felled four or five rows of soldiers. The officer commanding the frontline troops immediately became furious and roared:
"Charge! Chop them up!"
Originally, Leon planned to charge with cavalry as soon as the gate opened, but after the front line reported that there were many resisting horses, he had to give up the idea and let the infantry destroy the resisting horses first and then send the cavalry to charge.
But Ronan set up a lot of resisting horses at the gate of the camp, not just those in front of Meluses' formation. It is estimated that they will never be able to clear them all. Once the cavalry comes in, they will definitely encounter obstacles everywhere.
"We are here to stop them, we are here to destroy them!"
After saying that, Meluses took the lead in throwing the javelin in his hand, and the soldiers behind him immediately responded with roars and threw the javelin together.