Quick, quick, quick, we must complete all the positions, ditches, horse traps, and hidden soldier roads within today. Comrades, this is a task assigned to us by the government, and we must complete it. This is for Ourselves, this is for our land, our wealth, our freedom comrades, work hard, come on
These dwarfs who shouted loudly in the labor brigade were all short-term brainwashing by Chu Hao. No, political commissars trained in a short period of time are the most determined proletarian fighters. These dwarf political commissars were brainwashed by Chu Hao in large quantities. No, after training, they became It has been directly spread to the grassroots of the dwarves. One is to guide public opinion, the other is to increase the cohesion of the Blue Mountain dwarves, and the third is to deal with the current war.
The aristocratic coalition of humans and dwarves totals 70,000 people, of which 20,000 are the aristocratic private troops for the main battle, and 50,000 are militiamen for logistics such as transporting food, or directly civilian households in these aristocratic territories, known as the Seventh Army. Wan, has arrived in the Blue Mountain territory, and sees the attack in front of them. Of course, these nobles call themselves nobles. They also sent a letter of war before the attack, but their letter of war did not say at all that they were required to fight for Turin. The dwarf nobles were seeking revenge, or they were hostile to the provisional government, attacking the political form of Blue Mountain, etc. Their war letter only mentioned the ownership of the territory of Blue Mountain. As far as they claimed, the territory of Blue Mountain was not returned to the capital. It was owned by the spirit dwarves, and then the war book cited a lot of history and noble blood, and finally claimed that this territory was owned by a certain human noble. Although it had been temporarily lent to the Turin dwarves, due to civil strife among the Turin dwarves, At that time, all the dwarf nobles who had lent it were dead, and the temporary right to lease the land had expired. Therefore, the coalition demanded that all Turin dwarves leave the Blue Mountains immediately.
After this letter of war was sent to the Blue Mountain, the dwarves in the entire Blue Mountain suddenly became noisy. They had never heard that the Blue Mountain was a land of ownership. In fact, Thorin led the Turin dwarves to the Blue Mountain. In the mountains, the various tribes around have already reached a consensus that the land of Blue Mountain is an ownerless land, and is now owned by the Turin dwarves. Who would have known that the coalition of nobles would actually come with such a clear declaration of war? Just looking for excuses
Almost all the dwarves in the Blue Mountain are extremely angry, and this letter of challenge also sets a deadline, requiring that the entire dwarves in the Blue Mountain must leave the Blue Mountain within three days, and are not allowed to take away any grass or trees in the Blue Mountain. That is to say, all the Turin dwarves must be completely driven away. Except for the clothes they are wearing, they are not even allowed to bring food. This is no longer driving away, this is massacre.
Therefore, there was no room for reconciliation between the two sides. After receiving the letter of war, the Dwarf Provisional Government directly drove away the nobles' envoys without even replying to the letter. The nobles had obviously expected this situation, and the war letter The book is just a formality. Both of them understand this truth. When it comes to this, it still depends on what happens on the battlefield. No one will take anything for granted.
Just like that, on the afternoon of the day when the gauntlet arrived, the allied forces of the nobles arrived outside the capital of Lianshan, a dense mass of cavalry, infantry, siege troops, archers, crossbowmen, sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, etc., all kinds of There are complete types of arms, strong armor, and sharp swords. This is no longer the mercenary army that has been pieced together. This is a real organic army of humans and dwarves. And don't underestimate feudal society, especially those with energy such as the Lord of the Rings. In the army under the circulation system, the individuals who make up these armies often have stronger physical fitness, greater strength, and sharper skills than individuals in the real world. This often means that in cold weapon combat, the difference in combat power between each other is doubled. Or even several times more, especially after possessing fighting spirit, the early hot weapon army may not be as powerful as the cold weapon army in the Lord of the Rings.
Of course, this is just a single unit's combat power. The army does not just rely on a single unit's combat power to win.
The difference between the modern army and the feudal army is not just about thermal weapons. Don't think that if the modern army loses thermal weapons, it will be defeated and massacred by the feudal army whose physical fitness and fighting skills are stronger than theirs. The fact is exactly the opposite. Even in modern times, The army is just a new army, and its combat skills are very different from that of the feudal army. The modern army is not comparable to the feudal army. Unless everyone in the feudal army has fighting spirit, the battle will often end with a great victory for the modern army.
Of course, although Chu Hao did train the Blue Mountain Dwarf army in the same way as modern armies, the time was still short. There was no essential difference between this army and the feudal army, and his purpose was not to let the Blue Mountain Dwarfs win at all. , otherwise he could have used other methods to defeat the coalition in front of him, so when the coalition arrived, he had actually achieved most of his goal
In essence, the ancient methods of siege are nothing more than siege and consumption, and ant attack. As for various strategies, they are only based on these two methods. Generally speaking, the number of enemies in a siege battle depends on the number of enemies. The ratio determines which siege method to use. If the attacker has ten times the enemy's strength, then the latter is basically adopted. When the difference in arms is not much different, or is only several times greater, the former is generally adopted. Of course, This is not absolute. After all, a city siege often depends on the entire campaign. If the situation requires that the number of attackers and defenders is equal, or even less, the most intense siege method of the latter will be adopted. This It's also possible.
At this moment, the coalition forces are adopting the former, that is, siege and consumption, because not all the Blue Mountain dwarf nobles have died, there are still a small number of Blue Mountain dwarf nobles who have escaped, and they are the ones who know the current situation in the Blue Mountains best. , especially the food reserves. Even if the interim government confiscated the nobles' stocks, the food would not be enough to support the consumption of the entire Blue Mountain dwarves for several months. Blue Mountain already needs to import a large amount of food from the outside world, not to mention that the interim government wants to By winning over people's hearts and liberalizing food consumption, the Blue Mountain's food storage was reduced. The coalition forces did not even need to fight at all. They only needed to delay it, and all the Blue Mountain dwarves could only surrender.
Therefore, when the coalition forces arrived outside the capital of Lanshan, they only started to install various siege equipment, such as small catapults and a large number of siege ladders. They only fired a large number of shots into the capital of Lanshan. The meaning is very simple. It was intended to deplete the morale of the Blue Mountain dwarves, but unfortunately, the first round of shooting that arrived that afternoon was hit head-on by the Blue Mountain dwarf guards.
Even though this coalition is a coalition of many nobles, they are not elves, they are just humans and dwarves. They will have many good crossbows used by vindictive owners. In the original movie, whether it is Lord of the Rings Both the trilogy and the prequel to The Lord of the Rings have various characters, that is, humans, dwarves, orcs, half-orcs, orcs, etc. The number of crossbowmen in their troops is very small, and There are all kinds of bows and crossbows, some are good and some are bad. Only the elves have standardized high-quality bows and arrows, and the performance is the same at this time. Speaking of which, there are more than a thousand crossbowmen shooting at the city wall of the Blue Mountain capital. , but among them, there were only a few dozen crossbows with fighting spirit at most, and then, two thousand crossbows, all equipped with fighting spirit, fired back outside the city wall, killing at least hundreds of people at once, including the impatient dwarves. , directly mustered up all his fighting spirit, and fired the crossbow bolt into the coalition's main formation thousands of meters away. This immediately caused a sensation in the coalition. At that moment, the entire coalition retreated outside the Blue Mountain City, at least tens of thousands of people. meters, and then resettled, and no more sieges were carried out that day.
At that moment, the Blue Mountain capital fell into a sea of ecstasy. The Blue Mountain dwarves were full of confidence in defeating the noble coalition. They even thought that the opponent was a group of paper tigers. There were even many dwarves clamoring to rush out of the city directly. Drive these intruders out of the Blue Mountains
In fact, the leaders of the noble coalition, the human nobles and the nobles of other dwarf clans, were discussing and arguing excitedly in the coalition camp. They simply could not believe that there were so many standard soldiers in the Blue Mountains. Crossbows, this is simply impossible. It is initially estimated that there are nearly two thousand crossbows, and almost every crossbow can be inspired by fighting spirit. This is amazing. Even many small elf tribes are not like this. There are many fighting spirit crossbows. In fact, when the nobles discovered the existence of these crossbows, their purpose was no longer to eliminate the Blue Mountain Provisional Government. They hoped to seize this batch of crossbows, and even get these crossbows. The manufacturing method, obviously, they believe that these crossbows were probably made by the Blue Mountain dwarves. It is likely that the Blue Mountain dwarves obtained some secret method of forging steel, and then the secret method of making crossbows. Because of this, they have such Confidently provoking the nobles
This is the inference of the nobles, and from the conclusion drawn from this inference, they almost unanimously believe that whoever obtains these secret techniques may increase the strength of their hands ten times or a hundred times, because if all this is true, The power that obtains this secret method will be able to rival the elves and become a transcendent power in Middle-earth.
Greed, desire, jealousy, and fanatical imagination of all these possibilities, this group of nobles can't wait to capture the Blue Mountains and get all these secrets. However, no one has the tactics of siege and consumption they planned before. Again, after several discussions, all the human nobles and dwarf nobles finally decided that tomorrow
Capture the Blue Mountain Capital