A few days later, Ronan's troops arrived about a kilometer outside the gate to the southwest of Gersenberg. In front of them was the moat that Jackson mentioned. Judging from the range of the Eagle Men's bows and arrows, it was just at the edge of their attack range.
, while catapults and bed crossbows can easily attack wherever they go.
The surrounding trees had been cut down, and only trees that were more than a day's journey away could still be cut down. The ground was a little charred. It was obvious that there was too much wood, and they couldn't use it and couldn't take it away, so they burned it directly on the spot.
The Eagle Man discovered the whereabouts of Ronan's army early on. After all, the army was too large and Ronan couldn't hide it even if he didn't want to. The two sentries detected by Jackson lit up the smoke on the first day they discovered Ronan's army. Therefore,
The troops outside Gessenburg all huddled inside the castle before Ronan arrived.
Two days before the arrival of Ronan's army, Eranikus and Kemilla crouched under the supplies that the Eagle Men were transporting to Getsenburg. Without saying a word, the two of them rushed towards the supply team.
First, Kemilla fell into the supply team's formation and continued to kill to attract attention. Then Eranikus directly took advantage of the attention being partially attracted to pass over the supply team's convoy from the air. With the dragon's flames spitting out,
The convoy immediately burst into flames. The temperature of the dragon flames was extremely high and it burned very quickly. The supply team had no time to put out the fire before all the supplies were burned.
Then Kemilla forced the others around her to fly away, but Ronan did not let them return, but still let them stay behind to prevent the Eagles and supply teams from arriving. The supplies were destroyed
The supply team divided a few soldiers to deliver the letter to Gessenburg, and the rest returned to Jianmen Fort. However, it was obvious that the few soldiers who delivered the letter and the carrier pigeons sent out could not escape Kemilla.
A poisonous hand, so Gesenberg has not yet received news that the supplies have been destroyed.
After having a meal and resting for half an hour to digest, the soldiers began to carry shields to cover the engineers who started to build the bridge. Most of these engineers were the gangsters Ronan had caught before. Although they were extremely frightened,
But Ronan promised to pardon them and give them some financial rewards if they survived the whole bridge, so they finally chose to build the bridge with the cakes drawn by Ronan, even though they were dead before and after.
The bridge is made of wood, and the parts have been made by craftsmen before. It only needs to be spliced together. The quality is average, but it will not be a problem to withstand today's attack. If it is captured, they will not be needed.
After paying a lot of casualties, the wooden bridge was finally installed two hours later. The enemy troops continued to shoot and harass at first, but later because the distance was too extreme, the effect was really poor, so they stopped continuing in order to save arrows.
Instead of shooting, they only used catapults to attack, and the arrows were reserved for defending the city later.
After the wooden bridge was built, the troops immediately rushed across the wooden bridge in batches holding shields. The troops in the middle took the parts one by one and assembled them directly after crossing the bridge. After all, the large siege equipment was transported directly to the bridge.
The requirements are too great. If the bridge collapses, it will be in trouble.
Siege ladders, ladders, and other equipment were being spliced continuously. The archers led by Jackson also crossed the moat, and then began to counterattack on the city wall under the cover of the large shield infantry.
Archers on both sides fell from time to time. The strength of the Eagle's archer troops far exceeded that of the other Gaoling noble troops that Ronan had fought before, thus causing more trouble to Ronan's troops.
"Break the door!"
The outermost gate of Gersenberg is a suspension bridge, so Ronan specially crafted some heavy crossbows to shoot and destroy the suspension bridge structure. At this time, under the operation of the soldiers, the crossbow arrows continued to attack the top and bottom of the suspension bridge.
One of the iron ropes on both sides was about to break.
"Bang!" The iron cables of the suspension bridge finally broke, and the entire gate crashed to the ground. After dodging, the soldiers immediately pushed the cart and stepped on it, and began to use big axes and saws to deal with the iron gate. The iron pipe of the iron gate of Gessenburg was very thick.
It was still solid, so there was no telling how long it would take to saw off the gate. Therefore, the soldiers quickly gave up the idea of sawing off the gate and began to wait for Matthias to come over.
At this time, Matthias also crossed the bridge under the escort of soldiers, surrounded by twenty ghoul kings, and protected by two hundred infantrymen holding heavy shields. In fact, there were twenty ghoul kings.
The protection is enough. Those are warriors who can use their swords to cut away the ammunition of catapults. It is estimated that only ballistae with extremely fast firing speed can kill them.
But Matthias had just crossed the bridge and before he could reach the city gate, the city gate of Gesenberg suddenly opened, the iron gate rose, the wooden gate opened, and a group of heavily armored orc warriors and heroes
The Eagle soldiers immediately rushed out howling and stood together with the door-breaking troops led by Meluses.
Their purpose is very clear, which is to destroy the siege vehicles on Ronan's side. If possible, it is best to break through the troops near the city gate and rush to Ronan's archer position to kill and injure them to reduce the pressure on the city wall.
However, Meluses led the troops to counterattack quickly and tenaciously. They fought with the enemy troops who came out of the city to fight without giving an inch. Although the chariot was still damaged, the wheels were chopped into pieces by an orc warrior with a giant axe.
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There was a fierce fighting at the city gate, and there was also a fierce battle on the city wall. In order to deal with the attacks from the archers on the walls on both sides, the craftsmen specially added two extended baffles to both sides of the ladder. The ladder was set up on the city wall.
, the baffles on both sides completely blocked the bows and arrows coming from the walls on both sides, and the soldiers climbing the walls still only had to deal with attacks from above.
However, the Eagle Men's defenders were well prepared. The crossbows on the walls on both sides were constantly filled and fired, accurately destroying Ronan's siege equipment. The siege ladder was okay, but it was just a big hole. If the structure was not damaged by continuous attacks,
It can still be used, but the ladder next to the city wall is in trouble. If it is shot, it will be cut in half, directly broken into two parts, and all the soldiers will fall off.
As for the crossbow ladder that had been tested before, it was not put into use because the angle formed by the range of the crossbow ladder and the height of the walls of Gessenburg was too tilted, making it difficult for soldiers to run on it.
Matthias looked at the city gate and couldn't tell the winner for a while. Looking at the crossbows on both sides firing continuously, he knew that he could not delay any longer. He originally wanted to destroy the city gate first to avoid destroying it later.
There was no magic left at the watchtower, but there was nothing he could do now, because Matthias had already seen Ronan riding Namientu and taking Yesefa from the air to the city wall on the right.