Nelson was also a viscount. Although he had to be controlled by Yun Xiaohan after he landed ashore, he and Yun Xiaohan had an equal relationship on land and sea after all, and he took the initiative to help Yun Xiaohan without any obligation. Yun Xiaohan
You have to save some face for others. Therefore, they can only be regarded as friendly forces, not directly commanded troops.
As for the defensive equipment, Yun Xiaohan has a total of 78 magic crystal cannons, 8 trebuchets, 8 crossbows and 30 simple trebuchets (trebuchets and crossbows are fixed and cannot be moved, but they are more powerful
). Liya also sent some simple trebuchet components, but considering the lack of wood in the city, even if there were components, not many simple catapults could be built, so she only sent 30 sets of components to use more space on the ship for convenient transportation.
After all, compared to simple catapults, magic crystal cannons are much more powerful.
In terms of equipment, Yun Xiaohan's side has a great advantage. The simple catapult has a slow rate of fire and low power. Only four simple catapults can hold the last magic crystal cannon. In addition, Yun Xiaohan's side has a large advantage.
With the advantage of defending the city, you can attack from a high position, and the gap will be even greater.
In this case, the Merchant Alliance would actually suffer a huge loss by forcibly attacking the city. However, Yun Xiaohan was very insidious and did not let the 15,000 people go to the city. He just put all the equipment on the city wall. Because the distance was far away, and there were many people
Blocked by the wall, the Merchant Alliance didn't know that the city defenders suddenly had such equipment.
Besides, it doesn't matter even if the Merchant Alliance knows about it, they are already on the verge of defeating the enemy. It is impossible to say that they will not attack because they have too many defense equipment.
More importantly, it is normal for the empire to send equipment to help defend the city. Any losses caused to the merchant alliance will be earned. Anyway, the magic crystal cannon can be rebuilt after it is gone. Isn't it just money? Anyway, we just robbed it.
There are so many supplies. However, the merchant alliance never expected that Liya would continue to invest troops. After all, in their view, the empire would definitely not be able to defend Khalil City. It was only here to plunder supplies. Continuing to invest would be a waste of money.
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Most of the equipment on the Merchant Alliance side was collected by Viscount Aloy, and almost assembled before Marquis Nkuru arrived. Therefore, there are not many simple catapults that really need to be temporarily assembled. Moreover, they are also worried about the Empire.
On the one hand, they moved almost all the supplies and then ran away from the sea. They did not dare to let the troops rest and prepare for too long.
At 21:45, the Merchant Alliance ended their rest and began to attack the city. At this time, Marquis Nkulu's troops had just rested for 10 minutes, and the rest time was obviously insufficient.
Yun Xiaohan did not repeat his old tricks to destroy the enemy's equipment. On the one hand, he had other plans. On the other hand, the enemy's lineup was much stronger than before, so the success rate of using old tricks was not high.
Marquis Nkuru is accompanied by a personal mage group of about a hundred people, and more than 300 knights. The knights are okay, but this mage team poses too great a threat to Yun Xiaohan, and Yun Xiaohan also sees
An old acquaintance arrived - Bata Montbrun.
Bata Mombrun is a heroic NPC, and he is also a berserker type who uses an axe. The ax has a certain restraining effect on the shield, and is a greater threat to Yun Xiaohan than Khalid.
In addition to Bata Montbrun, there is another NPC next to him who looks very outstanding in appearance. He is riding side by side with Bata Montbrun. Looking at his posture, you can tell that this NPC is probably also a hero.
level NPC.
The name of this NPC is Clement, and he has no surname, which means that the other party is probably not from a noble family. Compared with Bata Montbrun, Yun Xiaohan is more afraid of this Clement, because this Clement is not from a noble family.
Wearing a cloth robe and holding a short staff in his right hand, he is obviously a spell caster.
Both Bata Montbrun and Clement came with Marquis Nkulu, so they were not far from Marquis Nkulu, so they decided to go with Marquis Nkulu.
Viscount Alloy only had a brief contact with Marquis Nkuru during the rendezvous, and then went to the side to lead the army alone. However, after the meeting, Viscount Alloy only commanded 10,000 people, and the other 10,000 people were commanded.
He was deprived of it by Marquis Nkulu.
Viscount Alloy's ability is still very strong. Even if he is not a heroic NPC, he is probably not far behind. Moreover, he also has a 50-man personal guard force, which is not easy to deal with.
Faced with such a lineup, Yun Xiaohan still wanted to force himself on him like before, but the risk was too great. Even if he successfully used [Lone Warrior], the two heroic NPCs and the mage group could still cause considerable damage to him and control him.
The probability will also be higher. If you don't do it well, the equipment will not be destroyed, but you will be killed, which is really worthless.
Therefore, Yun Xiaohan decided not to take risks and wait for the enemy to attack, and then engage in a frontal defensive battle first.
It is impossible to use any new tactics in this kind of siege warfare. The Merchant Alliance should first let the shield guards cover the advance of the equipment, and the rear troops can slowly follow up.
Although Marquis Nkuru did not know that most of the 50,000 newly recruited soldiers were militiamen, he was not blind. He knew from the equipment that these forcibly recruited troops were not very powerful because he planned to use them as cannon fodder in the middle.
Mix a small number of main troops to attack the city, first test and consume the opponent. He and two hero-level NPCs will lead the people behind to supervise the battle and give command.
Yun Xiaohan still tried to use [Thunder Spear] to attack the magic crystal cannon during the enemy's advance, but the enemy's protection of the magic crystal cannon was relatively good. He threw five thunder spears at the magic crystal cannon, but only one shot
Hit the target.
Yun Xiaohan himself did not achieve any results, but the results obtained by their defense equipment were considerable.
Although it cannot be compared with the naval gun salvo, 78 magic crystal cannons are not too few, and there are more than 50 other defensive equipment. After several rounds of attacks, the opponent did not wait for the Merchant Alliance's equipment to be fully in place.
In total, 4 magic crystal cannons and nearly 1/3 of the simple catapults were lost.
The merchant alliance, which was hit hard, realized that the number of weapons on the defensive side was far greater than the number reported by Viscount Alloy. Marquis Nkulu was so angry that he wanted to pull Viscount Alloy over and give him a scolding.
He himself counted how many defensive equipment the enemy had.
However, Marquis Nkulu just lacked military experience and still had a very good mind. He knew that it was useless to curse at this time. The key was to win. However, he also made up his mind to make a suggestion to the parliament afterwards to pursue Viscount Alloy's case.
responsibility.
Marquis Nkuru also knew that he lacked actual command experience, so he immediately asked Bata Montbrun for countermeasures. His family had a very good relationship with the Montbrun family. He also defended Montbrun at the Merchant Alliance Council many times.
He believed in his family's support and seeking interests, so he still trusted Bata Montbrun.