Behind Broken Blade Pass lies the Metatlin Plain, which is only two hundred miles wide, with the exception of a West Town garrison in the middle. wWw, qUAnbEn-xIaosHuo, Com no longer have cities. However, there are villages on this plain, and many nobles have built fortresses.
According to the original plan, Salin would overhaul the Broken Blade Pass in July this year and blockade the Metatrin Plain. This is a safe place. Even if a small army penetrated from the mountains, it would not be enough to pose a threat to those fortresses.
Generally speaking, Metatrin City only faces threats from the north and the sea. There is this mountain pass to the west, so it stands to reason that there won't be any trouble. However, the Holy See army arrived too quickly, and Salin's plan was not implemented, and the country encountered its first major war since the founding of the country.
In three days, the Holy See's central army finally arrived outside Broken Blade Pass. After the battle and sneak attack between Salin and Rex's army, the main force of the Holy See was still there. But there are a lot of auxiliary soldiers missing. The soldiers marched very hard. There are people waiting on you every day for armor piercing, massage, and foot washing. There are no benefits such as cooking and so on. Only officers can barely maintain similar treatment.
Fortunately, there are a large number of magicians in the army, otherwise the soldiers would be so tired and would have fallen ill a long time ago. Sickness is contagious, which sounds a bit outrageous, but in fact, in the army. If a soldier's companion is ill for a long time. Even if you don't fall down, the people around you will be greatly affected.
The army arrived and set up camp outside Duanren Pass. According to the astrology, this place is not far from the sea.
The magicians in the army had a calculation error of no more than a hundred miles. Even without a map, they could estimate that Metatrin City was only about three hundred miles away.
Breaking through this majestic pass, that heretical city is within reach.
In the view of the Holy See's army, Broken Blade Pass is already the last line of defense to Tatlin City. This pass is thirty meters high and lined with towers. Behind the city wall, there is also a large crossbow array. The forward army tried to release a few flying monsters and went up to observe them, but they were shot down immediately.
The soldiers on the city wall were in distinctive uniforms and were definitely not just a mob. If a newly built city could expand to such an extent, it would be impossible for it to have much fighting power hidden. If the enemy is strong enough, why burn down small towns one by one.
They didn't know that what Salin wanted was for his enemies to think so. His army was not meant for mutual destruction with the enemy, fighting in the wilds of the north. Saleen's soldiers were certainly no match.
You must know that Salin has only formed six battalions in total, which is already the limit. One of the battalions was also taken away by Rex, five battalions in Salin's hands. The Sixth Battalion had several contacts with the expeditionary force, but all suffered losses. Relying on the speed of the skeleton war horse. It was also the caution of the flag captains that saved their vitality.
The thirty thousand soldiers recruited by the nobles are all in Xizhen, and those soldiers are not as good as Salin's five battalions. It can only be used to cooperate with the battalion left by Rex to defend the city.
The mountain pass where Duanren Pass is located is more than one mile at its narrowest point, which is too narrow for an army of 100,000 people. The striker tried a few times. Now that it can't fly above, I gave up the idea of using flying puppets to attack.
As soon as the army arrived, they did not attack the city immediately. Instead, they rested for a day and then launched the first real attack at noon the next day.
There are three gates on the front of Duanrenguan. The small gates on both sides are less than four meters long. The front gate is twelve meters wide. Qin Yin's cart is 2.8 meters wide. A skilled driver can drive four carts parallel to this kind of city gate.
The Tanggulas army first tried to attack with trebuchets, and Duanrenguan quickly counterattacked. The trebuchets of both sides were of similar quality, and Duanrenguan had a slight advantage in height. After fighting for several hours, both sides' trebuchets were completely destroyed.
There is no way, the terrain in Broken Blade Pass is not open enough, and it is useless to prepare too many trebuchets. When it is rebuilt in the future, it is natural to open underground warehouses and set up real magic trebuchets, but now it can only be consumed by the enemy. Fortunately, a few magicians were always alert, and stones and bullets were flying from both sides. Not really dead. people.
Hard-to-move trebuchets destroy each other. The scene became more relaxed. The people at Duanren Pass had no choice. They had a small number of trebuchets, so they could only try their best to destroy the enemy's trebuchets. Otherwise, when the enemy attacked the city, the trebuchets would suppress the small archers on their side and the damage would be great.
There are twenty-four o'clock in a day. At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, both sides were no longer able to use sling maneuvers to suppress the attack. The Vatican's carriage began to approach, and the archers on the carriage also began to fire arrows at the top of Duanren Pass. .
Qin Yin-style city walls, big cities have copper arrow towers that can withstand magical attacks, small towns also have high-grade stone and even magic-reinforced wood added to the arrow towers. Salin had no shortage of stones, so he used white stones to build dozens of large and small arrow towers.
These archery towers were not damaged by the trebuchet attack. There are arrow holes on the archery towers, and they can shoot at each other with the Tanggulas people on the tower carts. The archery tower is full of large crossbows, and with the help of alchemy machinery, two people can operate one.
There are many models of large crossbows, one of which is a single-shot crossbow that can scatter more than two hundred crossbows at the same time.
In this version of large-scale battles, the accuracy of crossbows is often insufficient. What matters most is range and lethality. Not everyone is an intermediate swordsman and wants to make their crossbow arrows accurate. It takes hard work.
Therefore, there is a swordsman in every arrow tower. Control a small alchemical crossbow, ready to deal with the stronger warriors among the enemies.
Others rely on large crossbows to scatter and suppress the enemy. Tanggulas' army sent out two wings of heavy cavalry. Press the formation on both sides, and then push out the RV from the front, with the soldiers hiding underneath. Approach the city wall. In the crenellations at the top of the city, there were soldiers firing bows and arrows. The soldiers hiding under the RV approached cautiously. The arrows shot at the RV were unable to penetrate.
Behind the small gates on both sides of Duanren Pass, the hidden cavalry did not mount their horses. The opponent's vertical cavalry cautiously pressed on the two wings. Once the cavalry in Duanren Pass went out to attack the infantry, the heavy cavalry on both wings would press down.
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The core force in attacking Metatrin City this time was a regular legion of the Tangulas Empire. In terms of fighting methods, it may be a bit old-fashioned. But there are few loopholes. Use the trebuchet first. Lead a counterattack within the city and then determine the location. After destroying each other, they sent out carriages to suppress the arrow tower at the top of the city, allowing the infantry below the city to approach the city wall.
The two wings used heavy cavalry to sweep the formation to ensure that no troops could be sent out to attack the city. This series of actions was no different from what was written in the military book. It can be said to be ordinary and abnormal. The powerful part is that most of these soldiers are temporarily recruited. After a short period of training, they can connect all the links extremely tightly and cannot find any loopholes.
Salin's caution allowed him to avoid a disaster. If he dispatched an entire battalion of troops and clashed head-on with the Holy See army, the result would definitely be worse than he thought.
Under the protection of RVs, hundreds of soldiers came to the edge of the city wall and jumped out one after another. Picking up the shovel in his hand, he wanted to dig under the city wall.
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Sparks shot out; although these strong soldiers had never practiced swordsmanship, their strength was no different from junior swordsmen. The steel shovel dug hard, but they dug up rocks. The rocks were so hard. Suddenly, curling scars appeared on the steel shovel.
"Can't dig!"
A soldier shouted.
"Stop digging, just pour the acid!" the officer among the soldiers ordered.
The soldiers took off the water bags from their waists. This water bag is filled with acid prepared by divine magic.
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White smoke rises from the base of the city wall of Duanren Pass. The white stone dug out from Metatrin City was used. The acid was poured on and only corroded a thick layer of the nail. Dozens of soldiers tried to approach the city gate. The city gate was made of wood, and no matter how thick it was, it could be corroded by acid and create holes.
Only when they reached the front of the city gate, a metal hole was exposed under a huge platform protruding from the city wall. Hot kerosene poured down, and then a barrage of rockets shot out.
Kerosene was burning in front of the city gate, and the officer supervising the formation behind frowned. The opponent set fire at the city gate. Obviously, the wooden city gate was not afraid of burning. Otherwise, such an attack would certainly cause the enemy to be killed and injured, but his own city gate would be opened.
Sure enough, the kerosene burned violently and burned to both sides, immediately burning to death more than a hundred Tanggulas soldiers. Some soldiers had their hands and feet burned by the fire and were unable to fight. And it was impossible for them to escape back, as they were burned at the same time. And those RVs.
This was still a tentative attack. Hundreds of people were lost under the city wall, and none of them could come back. It was also a considerable loss. The officers at the top of the city were happy when they heard the news. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden explosion under the city, but the injured soldiers took out the divine talismans one by one and launched suicide attacks.
With the blood and essence of hundreds of soldiers injected into it, so many divine spells exploded at the same time, which was equivalent to an intermediate magic attack. If such an explosion occurred in a battle formation, hundreds of people nearby would be affected. If it were a dense battle formation, thousands of people might be killed or injured.
These hundreds of soldiers were shattered into pieces, and their flesh and blood were all stuck to the city wall. The soldiers at the top of the city were frightened when they heard this. Fortunately, the base several meters below the city wall is made of white stone, otherwise it would have been corroded and a big hole would have appeared. If there was another explosion like this, cracks would almost appear.
The white stone that is a specialty of Metatron City cannot be enchanted with magic, but it is harder than steel. The nose forest needs to be cut slowly with level 4 magic water flow before it can be collected. This violent attack method had a very bad effect on Shiraishi.
Hundreds of people were killed, but a large piece of stone was blown off the base of the city wall. The thickness of the base of the thirty-meter-high city wall was twelve meters. Now it is only a finger thick that has been blown up. If you want to blow open the city wall in this way, I am afraid it will take an army of 100,000 people.
"Hmph, prepare the siege vehicles!" the siege commander of the Tangulas Empire gave the order. This was just the beginning. The tentative attack made him understand. The only option is to attack the city gate or climb the city wall. Only then can this city be destroyed. In this case, let the Qinyin people see the bravery and faith of the Tanggulas people!