The capital of the Blue Mountain is not a cave-style building that is common among dwarf clans. Although the Blue Mountain is rich in minerals, the Blue Mountain itself is not tall and steep, so it is impossible to hollow out the mountain and transform it into the city inside the mountain that the dwarves like most. This is different from the fact that the Blue Mountain is rich in minerals. Gushan is completely different. The capital city of Blue Mountain can only be built against the mountain, similar to human cities, with city gates, walls, and internal streets and houses.
Because of this, as long as the coalition forces break through the city wall of the Blue Mountain capital, the Blue Mountain dwarves can be said to be the best among them, and they are definitely dead. Of course, this is just what they think, or the limitations of the feudal era. let them think so
The next day, during the siege, Chu Hao personally led the dwarf army to the city wall. Directly in front of it, several army formations were arranged, including human army formations, dwarf army formations, and various The array of siege equipment and a small number of cavalry were present. Not to mention anything else, the momentum of this army alone was enough to intimidate the dwarves on the walls of the capital city of Blue Mountain.
In fact, the Blue Mountain dwarves, or the Turin dwarves, do not have a regular army. Most of their army was destroyed when the fire dragon invaded the Lonely Mountain. Later, they gathered a large army to attack the ancient homeland of the dwarves. In the mountain country occupied by the orcs, in that battle, the Turin dwarves' army was truly wiped out. As of the Blue Mountain period, the Turin dwarves only have dwarf guards and no dwarf army anymore.
At this moment, the huge army array of the noble coalition outside the city is enough to scare the dwarves on the city wall. After all, most of them were civilians not long ago. The reason why they can stand on the city wall is thanks to the previous battlefield of mercenaries and the continuous It's because of the crazy training for many days, otherwise they probably wouldn't even dare to stand here.
After the nobles' armies were arrayed, various long-range siege equipment also began to be debugged, and there were also slinging equipment made by the Blue Mountain dwarves on the city wall. They were debugging and testing each other, and there was nothing new after that. Yes, a large number of stones were thrown at each other's positions. Speaking of which, the Blue Mountain capital side has the upper hand. After all, it has the height and protection of the city walls, and the dwarves' forging skills are top-notch in Middle-earth. So in comparison, , the combined forces of humans and dwarves lost more slinging equipment.
But this is just an appetizer. The real ant-affiliated siege is what follows. A large number of servants start rushing towards the gate of the Blue Mountain capital from the positions of the noble coalition. These servants are not regular feudal troops, and they are not regular feudal troops. Most of them are militiamen and civilians, basically belonging to the private tribes of nobles and poor people. Although many of these people don't even have armor and only have leather armor, and some even don't even have leather armor, there are indeed many of them. Tens of thousands of people rushed to the gate of the capital city of Lanshan carrying various siege equipment, including siege ladders, corner trucks, protective vans, etc.
The dwarves on the city wall did not wait in vain. A large number of slinging instruments were aimed at these siege troops. There were also many archers and crossbowmen who kept shooting. However, there were no crossbows from the Dou Qi owners. The two thousand The dwarves had been gathered together by Chu Hao and had not started shooting yet. Such a sparse blocking force also allowed these servant siege troops to arrive under the city wall without incurring many casualties, and immediately began to attack the city.
No fighting spirit, the siege troops below are free to fire.
Next to Chu Hao were the two thousand strongest dwarf fighting spirit owners, all holding alloy steel crossbows facing downwards. The entire city wall was densely covered with thousands of dwarf fighting spirit owners, and ordinary dwarf guards. The members guarded the entire city wall together. As Chu Hao issued the order, the two thousand dwarves could not wait any longer and started shooting downwards with their crossbows. Although these crossbow bolts were not infused with fighting spirit, the alloy crossbow itself was It is a creation that transcends this era. Two thousand crossbows fired a salvo, and a large number of humans and dwarves suddenly fell under the city wall. Even if they raised their shields to resist, the crossbow bolts of the alloy steel crossbows were enough to directly hit them within a distance of tens or hundreds of meters. It penetrates and cannot be blocked at all.
And the alloy steel crossbow has one of the biggest advantages, that is, the loading speed is much faster than the crossbows of this era. Although it is not as fast as a bow and arrow, it is definitely much faster than an ordinary crossbow. That's it. After two or three consecutive rounds of shooting, a large area under the city wall in front of the two thousand crossbow dwarves had been cleared. The lethality was so amazing that many troops avoided it, and a large number of stones were destroyed. Although the accuracy of the trebuchets was extremely low, almost half of the trebuchets were aimed at this direction. After a series of projections, dozens of crossbow dwarves were smashed into pulp, along with their crossbows. All were directly damaged.
The battlefield has reached this point, and there is no longer any compromise. They are just consuming each other. In fact, Chu Hao has at least several ways to let the Blue Mountain dwarves win this battle, but why bother? His purpose is This cruel war must begin. For this reason, he even refused Zhang Heng and others to participate in the war. He simply let the Blue Mountain dwarves defend the city with their own strength.
Just like that, a large number of servants began to attack the city all over the city wall. A large number of ladders were set up on the city wall. There were also a large number of people at the city gate trying to break down the city gate. There were also archers below who kept shooting and catapults. They also kept throwing stones, and the dwarves on the city wall were fighting in a melee with the human army that had already attacked the city wall. The vindictive holders among the dwarves became the backbone of the battlefield, repelling the attacks of these coalition forces time and time again. Two thousand dwarf crossbowmen They were like firefighters, carrying out rescues everywhere. The entire battle had been going on for two hours without knowing it, and the city wall was almost broken through several times. Thanks to Chu Hao and the dwarf fighting spirit owners who carried out continuous rescues, it was finally possible. The situation was saved, but after such a long battle, the Blue Mountain dwarves had suffered at least two thousand casualties, and the rest were beginning to get tired.
Of course, compared to the defending side, the attacking side suffered more terrible casualties, with at least more than 10,000 casualties. Such large casualties have caused the servant troops to collapse several times. If it were not for the regular formation of the coalition positions, The troops suppressed them, maybe they had already escaped, but even so, no matter how much suppression they hit, they could not allow these servant troops to attack the city again, unless the nobles were willing to have an army mutiny. You must know that this is not a modern army, feudal Most of the social troops collapsed after only one-tenth of the casualties. These servant troops had already suffered more than one-fifth of their casualties. No matter how hard they suppressed them, they had absolutely no morale to attack the city.
It was only then that the regular troops of the nobles began to move forward, and they began to attack the city. The pressure was very terrifying. These regular troops were much more elite than the Blue Mountain dwarf defenders, and they attacked themselves. After the city battle began, they had been recharging their strength until they started to move forward. All this pressure was put on the defenders. Before they attacked the city, there were even dwarves who were trembling and trying to escape down the city wall. , after all, they are not a professional army, they are just ordinary people who have been trained for a short period of time.
Chu Hao seemed to have expected this situation. He breathed out, and then his eyes were full of determination, and he shouted loudly: All the dwarves who escaped are traitors of Blue Mountain, and they are all nobles who betrayed the provisional government. , all those who directly escape will be executed, their families will be deprived of all privileges and equal shares of wealth, and then driven out of the Blue Mountains. Comrades, we are just, and the revolution will succeed.
At the same time, when Chu Hao was roaring loudly, revolutionary songs organized by the Dwarf Provisional Government were heard everywhere in the Blue Mountain capital. These were the real-life revolutionary songs that Chu Hao had plagiarized recently. They were heard at this moment. Many dwarves, who were already violent and simple, felt their blood boiling. Even those dwarves who had lost their courage and tried to escape gradually stabilized. In fact, they had tasted the privileges of the provisional government and had no choice but to... I really don’t want to leave Blue Mountain.
Just like that, the most elite troops of the noble coalition began to attack the city. Facing them was a group of defenders who had been fighting for two hours, were exhausted, and suffered many casualties. There was no more words for each other, and they were almost exhausted. They fought together with all their strength, each relying on their own greatest advantages. The noble coalition was more elite and knew better about battle formations and recharging its energy, while the dwarf defenders relied on the advantage of the city wall and had a thousand and seventy-eight soldiers left. Hundreds of dwarf crossbowmen resisted desperately, blood and fire, survival and death, all fighting for each other at this moment. People died almost every second, and the corpses were piled up under the Blue Mountain city wall.
When the war reached this point, the nobles also regretted it very much. They did not expect that the Blue Mountain dwarves were so tenacious, because as far as they knew, the Blue Mountain dwarves did not have a real army. These armies should have been rushed. They should just disperse the mob, but they have already fought to this extent. If they retreat, there will be nothing left. Now they have made up their minds. Once they break through Lan Mountain, they must wash the city. In addition to the secret recipe for crossbows, the entire Lan Mountain All the wealth in the mountain must be plundered to make up for their losses, so at this moment, they became more and more crazy, desperately ordering their troops, promising and threatening, and even made it clear that once the city was conquered, The army was allowed to wash the city, and those feudal armies went crazy because of the casualties. Gradually, more and more troops were on the city wall, and the entire city wall defense was already crumbling.
Until this moment, Chu Hao still did not use any magic or participate in any battles. He was commanding from the center of the dwarf troops, which became the last line of dwarf defense on the city wall.
Suddenly, the coalition forces attacking the city cheered loudly, while the dwarves defending the city shouted in despair because the city gate was breached.
Everyone, the nobles, the attacking coalition, and the Turin dwarves seemed to be able to imagine the next scene. The city gate was broken and the Turin dwarves of the Blue Mountains were exterminated.
But at this moment, the dwarf officials of the provisional government who had received the news, followed Chu Hao's instructions, opened the door of the weapons warehouse, and began to directly pull all the dwarves in the Blue Mountain capital, regardless of men, women, old and young, in a batch A group of people were sent to gather them together, then directly handed them a weapon and took them to the lane block near the city gate.
You must fight for the great Blue Mountain Provisional Government, for the great working class, and for the revolution.
Among all the people, only Chu Hao, who led the defending troops and fought and retreated, knew that the real battle to defend the capital of Blue Mountain had just begun.