As the barbarians were fighting with the Hell City defenders, they were pushed towards the defenders' shield battle line by a large number of their fellow tribesmen who poured into the passage.
The bravest and most fearless warriors in the first few rows of the shield battle have been fighting for so long, and their physical strength has long been greatly reduced. Plus there are too many people and the space is too small. Even if the bronze dagger in their hands is danced airtight,
They only killed a few dozen before they were killed by the barbarians. Then the barbarians roared and crashed into the neatly arranged shield defense line a few meters away.
"Bang bang bang".
There was a sound of flesh hitting the bronze shield, and the two warring parties soon turned into a pure struggle of strength.
Strauss, who was watching the battle from the archer's platform outside the city gate, saw that his side of the battle line was being pushed out of the city gate hole little by little.
He hurriedly implemented the preliminary plan and shouted the order, "Order three reserve teams of 500 people to form a semicircle formation outside the city gate.
The Paladins responded behind the 1st Infantry Regiment".
Looking at the Paladins who had already lined up behind the first army formation and began to draw their weapons, Strauss shouted to the archers,
"Full speed firing".
In fact, without his instructions, the archers had already accelerated their shooting speed, and there were more than a dozen people holding wooden barrels on the 20-meter-high city wall, staring at Strauss.
When he gave the order, he would light the grease barrel and throw it down, using the flames to block the barbarian offensive, giving the archers more time to kill the enemy and the infantry to reorganize and have a chance to breathe.
When the three infantry teams were arrayed outside the city gate, Strauss did not hesitate for a moment and shouted to the first team in the struggle, "First team retreat".
To be honest, letting the first team come down at this time is definitely an idiotic decision.
A normal commander would rather let all 500 people in the first team die in battle, or put down a giant stone trap and seal the city gate.
They would never let the first team withdraw. Not to mention attacking their own formation, the barbarians who were chasing after them would definitely be greatly boosted in morale and use their momentum to break through the defensive formation.
However, maybe he had confidence in the Holy Knights, or maybe he was thinking that William's message to him hinted that killing a large number of barbarians was the main goal.
And this hint, for the mature Strauss, his first thought was the god he served, and in his heart he hoped that the barbarians would break into the hell city.
Otherwise, Strauss and the ten earth paladins would never let their 3,500 warriors directly fight against the barbarians.
Not to mention other things, with three days and a hundred thousand manpower, it is not difficult to dig a huge pit near the city gate and assemble a wooden defense platform around the pit for people to shoot arrows.
Waiting for the barbarians to fill the pit with their lives, and then break through the wooden wall. After a lot of physical exertion, they met the Hell City defenders who were waiting for work.
And when you stay behind the military formation with tens of thousands of young men holding weapons and looking pretty good, your morale will definitely hit rock bottom.
Once the giant stone trap is put down, it will not be difficult to surround and kill thousands of people.
The archers on the city wall, the archers in the pit and surrounding wooden walls, and the infantry surrounded and killed tens of thousands of people.
With the huge casualties and the fact that the city gate was blocked by huge rocks, it was not impossible for the barbarians to retreat directly, let alone attack again.
However, these thoughts are all nonsense now. The first infantry team stayed inside the city gate, and nearly fifty or sixty people continued to wrestle, stalling for time. The others turned around and retreated from the left and right of the Paladin queue.
However, these fifty or sixty soldiers could not stop the footsteps of one or two thousand barbarians. Once the formation was disrupted, they were all killed by the barbarians.
Soon the barbarians howled and crashed into the queue of holy knights who were wearing copper-plated gold-edged plate armor. Even their helmets had gaps only for the eyes and nose. They were leaning on their weapons and bowing their heads to pray to William.
I saw the ten holy knights standing at the front of the array, with dazzling light emitting from their bodies, and a blessing of holy light was released,
With the full strength increased by 2 levels, coupled with so many years of training, although the ascetic paladin is not as good as the Asgardian soldiers, it is still about two or three times stronger than normal humans.
After being blessed by the Holy Light, his strength is comparable to that of the divine warriors in the Olympus realm.
How can they take the barbarians without armor in their eyes, brandishing the double swords or two-handed swords in their hands, roaring and slashing them down with one sword?
The ten weapons made by dwarves were just ordinary goods in the eyes of William and the dwarves, but in the eyes of Olympian mortals, they were swords that cut iron like clay.
Coupled with a suit of Paladin-specific armor made by William himself, it can not only block bullets, but also prevent cuts from ordinary metal swords. Even when hit by armor-piercing weapons such as heavy hammers, the armor has a buffering function.
Weapons, armor, strength and the extraordinary power of Holy Light that can make barbarians fearful, instantly made ten paladins like ten meat grinders, easily killing dozens of barbarians.
The performance of the Paladins greatly boosted the morale of the surrounding garrison who were upset.
While roaring to cheer for the Holy Knights, the fear of being attacked by barbarians soon turned into wanting to join the Holy Knights to kill the enemies together.
The two hundred archers on the archer platform now no longer have to worry about accidentally injuring friendly troops in the city gate, and they don't have to worry about the angle. They can only shoot at the problems in the city gate.
You can draw your bow casually without aiming, and you can definitely kill or injure an enemy by pointing at a city gate hole dozens of meters long or by loosening the bow string at a barbarian rushing out.
If it weren't for the fact that the Paladin Order had only been established for only three days, with only ten senior Paladins, and the rest were all rookies who couldn't even cast the Holy Light,
Just relying on a hundred holy knights who can resist, fight, and heal, regardless of how many people they kill, they can still block the city gate for an hour or two.
But the reality is that the barbarians do not care about human life, and signs of chaos appeared not long after the battle.
After the rookie knight kills at least two barbarians with his special armor that is not afraid of getting hurt,
Strauss saw that the 300 soldiers from the first group who were still alive were beginning to support the battle line surrounding the barbarians. He couldn't help but look up at the city gate and nodded to the soldiers who had been ready to pour grease on them.
Soon, more than a dozen ignited grease barrels fell one after another, and the area around the city gate instantly turned into a sea of flames.
"Ah, ah, ah".
Dozens of loud cries of pain, coupled with barrels of flame grease being thrown down one after another, sealed the city gate. The barbarians who had entered the city wall and fought with the defenders realized that they were isolated and helpless, and their morale suddenly dropped to a low point.
They were quickly killed by the Paladins who were in the encirclement, killing them at will, and by the defensive infantry.
Taking advantage of the rare respite, Strauss loudly ordered Qingzhuang to carry away the wounded soldiers and corpses. The four infantry teams reorganized into formation, and the archers replenished the longbows and arrows sent by Qingzhuang.
Then the whole army began to drink water and eat small pieces of dried meat they carried with them to replenish their physical strength.
Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, a long horn sound came from outside the city wall.
After hearing three consecutive horn blasts, the barbarians who hesitated at the city gate began to have crazy looks in their eyes.
I don't know who yelled something, then hugged the corpses in the city gate and threw them onto the flames one after another in an attempt to extinguish the grease flames.
When Strauss saw all this, his heart tightened, "Is this really desperate?"