The cheers in the city of Pedro shook the sky. The two attacks of the grass barbarian cavalry failed even before reaching the edge of the city wall. The corpses of the grass barbarian cavalry were scattered all over the slope. The casualties paid for defeating the enemy twice were extremely slight. The first time only a dozen people were killed or injured. The second time, a few unlucky people accidentally injured themselves, all of which were small bumps. The soldiers of the Guards Battalion and the 10,000 conscripted laborers had great confidence, and felt that these rough cavalry were nothing more than that, and no matter how many they were, there was nothing terrible.
Ed Walker is not that optimistic, on the contrary he has been worried. When the whimpering horns and the thrilling drums sounded from the prairie under the dusk, and he heard the "hudra" shouted by the cavalrymen on the slope, Ed Walker knew that the thing he was most worried about happened. up. The Grass Cavalry has been irritated by the two failures, and they are about to launch an attack overnight. For the guards of Pedro City, the most difficult moment is coming...
The first batch of barbarian cavalry pushed the log shield carts and quickly approached the city of Piedro, but with the help of the flames of the burning shield carts on the slope, the guards on the city of Piedro quickly found the grass barbarian cavalry Converging the corpses of their companions.
"My lord, they are carrying the corpses down. Do you think these savages will attack at night?" A guard next to him asked Ed Walker with hopeful eyes.
"Maybe, I don't know what their plans are. It's still far away, so let's not shoot. If they just collect the corpses, then we will let them go. But maybe their purpose of retracting the corpses is to attack better , so let's not be careless." Ed Walker replied in a deep voice.
The sky soon completely darkened, and those huge log shield carts became black shadows one by one, and then joined together. The fire on the nearby burning shield carts was extinguished by the grass barbarian cavalry. I can't see what's going on behind those black shadows at all. The row of log shield carts not only covered the firelight below the slope, but also blocked the sight of the guards on the city wall...
"Longbowman, lob a row of rockets, let's see what the hell are those savages doing?" Edward Walker ordered.
Dozens of feathered arrows drew a beautiful arc in the sky with flames and fell down. With the help of the faint flames on these feathered arrows, the guards on the city wall finally saw clearly what the enemy was doing.
"They're filling holes!" a voice screamed.
"It seems that these savages want to attack the city overnight!" Edward Walker's heart sank. Under the cover of night, the enemy's actions made it difficult for the guards on the city wall to cope with it as easily as they did during the day.
"One to the tenth steel crossbow, go get the fuel tank, tie it to the front of the crossbow bolt, aim at those shield vehicles, and launch!"
"Longbowmen, all on the rocket, target the shield car!"
Edward Walker issued two orders one after another, and soon ten small clay pots filled with kerosene were tied to ten crossbow bolts, and the crossbow bolts with clay pots were fired and inserted into the top of the log shield car. Although no grass barbarian cavalry was injured, the kerosene tank tied to the crossbow was broken, and the kerosene was stained on the log shield car. As the lobbed rockets fell from the sky, a log shield vehicle burst into flames, followed by another...
"Very good." Edward Walker was very satisfied with his idea: "From the first to the tenth steel crossbow, continue to tie the fire oil tank, aim at the shield vehicle and launch it, and don't let the fire on the shield vehicle that is already on fire go out. The rest The steel crossbow, with the help of firelight, shoots freely, aiming at the enemies who fill in the pit and put out the fire. The longbowmen continue to use rockets to lob and cover!"
The grass barbarian cavalry who were filling the pit had already discovered that the shield car was on fire, and the grass barbarian cavalry who went to put out the fire were shot and killed by steel crossbows, so they separated the burning and non-fired shield cars, and raised their shields against the fire regardless of casualties. The falling rocket continued to fill the hole at a very high speed, approaching the city of Pedro less than a hundred meters away. But they couldn't do anything anymore, all the log shield vehicles that could cover them had turned into a big bonfire, illuminating the area below the city like daylight...
Less than two hours after these grass barbarians retreated, another group of grass barbarians pushed the log shield cart, but these grass barbarians were all carrying a bulging straw bag, which should be filled with dirt. With the cover of those log shield vehicles, these grass barbarian cavalry threw the straw bags they were carrying into the trench, and quickly filled in a passage.
The longbowmen have switched to direct fire, and the steel crossbows are also firing non-stop, but there are too many enemies below the city, and the night is dim, so the shooting effect is not very good. The grass barbarian cavalry rushed up one after another no matter how heavy the casualties were. While filling the trenches, with the cover of the shield car, they shot arrows towards the top of the city. The guards on the city wall also began to suffer casualties.
"Ah!" A guard soldier who was firing a steel crossbow screamed, and fell to the ground covering his right eye, his hands and feet twitched and soon became stiff. The soldier who was winding up the string cried out "Brother..." He set up the steel crossbow and slammed the crossbow down the city.
There was a gust of wind, nearly a hundred feathered arrows fell on the top of the city, and a dozen reserve soldiers who were carrying crossbow arrows to rescue the wounded fell to the city as if they were in a heavy rain. on the head. They didn't have well-protected standard armor like the guards, and the feather arrows shot from the city caused them a lot of casualties...
"Over there!" A guard soldier quickly discovered the place where the grass barbarian longbowmen gathered under the city. It was behind a burning shield car. The longbowmen launched a retaliatory counterattack.
"Huzhuola!" Another group of grass barbarian cavalry rushed up pushing a dozen log shield carts.
"Let the steel crossbow and longbowmen pay more attention to the savage archers shooting arrows in the city, and suppress them..." Edward Walker gave an order that he regretted endlessly.
The city wall of Pedro City is six meters high, the city gate is covered with iron sheets, and there is a large iron gate behind it. So what if those savage cavalry came to the city? I don't know how long it will take to break through the city gate with the weapon in my hand. So Ed Walker decided to deal with the savage archers who shot arrows first, after all, they were the ones who threatened the guards now.
Unexpectedly, the grass barbarian cavalry who just rushed over were very agile and fast. They rushed to the bottom of the city wall in two or three strokes, and then pulled out many long ladders from the huge log shield cart, connected them, tied them, and set them on the city wall. Above the head, there are some grass barbarian cavalry swinging the rope grappling hook, hooking the jagged opening of the city wall above and climbing up. There are even some grass barbarian cavalry carrying a bag of short guns on their backs. Climb up the city wall like a ladder...
"The savages are coming to the city!" The exclamation startled Edwork, and when he turned around, he saw several savages appearing on the top of the city, waving weapons and shouting, fighting with the guards. .
Not far from him, a grass man turned over the top of the city, and the cold light flashed, and the steel crossbow shooter who was aiming at it squalled with blood, and fell to the ground. It has been poked over one by one by this savage.
Edward Walker's eyes were shattered, and he drew his sword and rushed over to cut his head. Seeing that there was no light on Ed Walker's sword, the grass man thought that Ed Walker was just an ordinary guard. Grid, the dagger in the right hand wiped Ed Walker's throat like a poisonous snake... .
Unexpectedly, when Edward Walker's long sword and short sword collided, the sword light suddenly lit up. The grassman was shocked, but he was too late to change his moves. dagger, and then cut down on his left shoulder...
He kicked the half-lag corpse of this savage into the air, and then chopped down another savage who was about to turn over the top of the city with his sword. He grabbed a fire oil tank next to him and threw it on the ladder outside the city, He picked up a torch and threw it down, until the ladder ignited a raging fire. Ed Walker then heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ordered the orderlies around him: "Let the sword and shield brigade and the heavy armor and long spear brigade go to the city quickly, and let the reserve soldiers Equipped with spears and ready to meet..."
It's a pity that this order was issued too late, more and more grass barbarian cavalry had climbed up the city wall, and a group of five steel crossbowmen could not stop these vicious enemies at all. The crossbow had stopped shooting, and there were more and more savage archers shooting upwards from the bottom of the city wall, causing great damage to the soldiers of the Guards Battalion who were still fighting back on the city wall...
Ed Walker knew that he had done a stupid thing. Because steel crossbows were arranged on the two-meter-wide city wall, plus longbowmen, there was also a passage for the laborers to carry the crossbow arrows, so there was no deployment of the sword and shield brigade and The heavy armored spearmen went to the city, but they couldn't do much to attack the enemy below the city anyway, so they simply let them rest below the city. Unexpectedly, these savages climbed up the city wall so quickly, making all the guards unexpected...
"Retreat, retreat back to the tower, close the iron gate, and cross-shoot the grass barbarians on the city wall from the tower, so that they can't go up and down..." Edwalker saw more and more grass barbarian cavalry on the city wall, hurriedly Order to retreat to the tower.
After the city of Pedro was converted into a castle fortress, the front was a tower, which protruded a large part of the city wall and was two meters higher than the city wall. There were two towers connecting the city wall at both ends. There were two towers at the corners of the city wall each 100 meters long. tower. The role of the tower is firstly to locate the stairs up and down the city wall, and secondly to prevent the current situation. As long as the tower can be held firmly after the city wall is lost, the enemy who occupied the city wall will still be unable to break through the city.
Edward Walker grabbed the soldiers around him: "Singer, you immediately organize fifty steel crossbows to the second wall to shoot the enemies on this wall, go!"
The second city wall was two meters higher than the previous one, and was 50 meters away from it. It was the last line of defense of the castle fortress. Only when the second city wall was breached could the castle fortress be truly captured.
Knowing the urgency of the situation, the soldier named Singer saluted without hesitation and hurried away.
"You go too." Edward Walker said to the longbowmen on the tower. There are only more than a hundred longbowmen who have retreated to the city tower here through the tower. They have tried their best, and each of them has shot no less than forty or fifty arrows. It is only because there are too many enemies. When they are exhausted, they are resting , the enemy took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, and the steel crossbow was suppressing the grass barbarian longbowmen under the city at this time, but they were attacked by those grass barbarians on the city wall. In the process of resisting, they sacrificed nearly a hundred people...
The most intense battlefield now is under the four towers at both ends of the city wall. A tower has only six shooting windows facing the direction of the city wall, and can only shoot six arrows at a time, which is of no help to the savages that are full of grass on the city wall. The Caoman who had successfully occupied the city walls on both sides of the front went mad with excitement. They ignored the crossbow arrows shot from the towers and tried to break through the iron gate between the towers and the city walls with their weapons against their shields. The savage warriors with a silver-ranked grudge had smashed a big hole in the iron gate under the tower, but before these savages had time to cheer for their success, they stabbed out from the tower like lightning. Four or five spears pierced their chests.
In the tower, a dozen heavy armored spearmen from the guard battalion formed a circle, facing the door opening of the tower, and when they saw the grass rushing in, they fired their guns and killed them. But from time to time, the dying grass barbarians made a final counterattack, causing damage to the heavy armored spearmen, and the wounded were replaced by the heavy armored spearmen behind them...
Corpses piled up at the entrance of the tower, almost blocking the entrance, but there were more and more grass barbarians on the city wall. They grabbed the corpses of the clansmen who died in battle and threw them directly from the city wall. In space, they rushed into the tower, and then turned themselves into a group of corpses waiting to be thrown off the city wall later...
When the soldiers are in use, there are only a few. A brigade of heavy armored spearmen has no more than 500 people, and each of the four towers has only more than a hundred people. Fill it up. However, the sword and shield soldiers suffered more casualties than the heavy armored spearmen. Although they persisted for a longer time, they soon became unable to fight. Ed Walker had to order the reserve soldiers to fill in.
Although these reserve soldiers are strong laborers, they have not been trained at all, and their equipment is not good. Most of them just hold a spear and rely on the number of people to resist the enemy's attack. They wear out faster, about five or six Only the casualties of a reserve soldier can be exchanged for a grass barbarian. This time it was the corpses piled up in the tower, and it was these reserve soldiers who died.
When these dead or wounded reserve soldiers were dragged out for transfer, some of the reserve soldiers who were waiting to go into battle collapsed. They abandoned their weapons and ran around screaming. Ed Walker had to order the only one under his command to More than 60 members of the Inverted Shield Squadron, which was still established, served as a law enforcement team, and dealt with nearly a hundred deserters on the spot. Their heads were chopped off and inserted on spears to stop the riot.
When the four towers became flesh and blood mills for the reserve soldiers, the steel crossbows and longbowmen on the second city wall were finally deployed. Their attacks on the grass barbarians on the first city wall made those grass barbarians who thought they were about to break the city He was hit hard. On the bare city wall, there was no log shield car for them to hide in. Pieces of grass fell off the city wall like fallen leaves after being shot by arrows...
Corpses were piled up on the city wall, and there was almost no place to set foot. The blood could cover the insteps. Crossbow arrows and feather arrows were stuck on the corpses. Looking from a distance, it seemed that a neat grove had grown on the city wall. The sky has begun to turn white, and finally there is no grass to climb up the city wall. From the grassland below the slope, there is a sad sound of retreating horns, as if the sound of the war drums that have been ringing all night has long since subsided, and the blood-red glow of the morning glow in the sky is dazzling...
Edward Walker, who was covered in blood, struggled to stand up while supporting the city bricks. He looked up and looked down the city, only to see the backs of a few grass barbarian cavalry retreating down the slope with longbows on their backs.
The enemy finally withdrew their troops, and we defended the city of Pedro... Edward Walker let out a long sigh of relief, but the severe pain from the wound made him moan uncontrollably. This was the most dangerous moment last night. A dozen or so savage warriors swung to the top of the tower with the help of ropes. Although Edward Walker and the guards fought and killed them, the casualties were heavy. Even he himself was hit by three swords and an axe. Fortunately, it was not fatal. After bandaging, he could continue to command his subordinates to hold on to the castle.
"My lord, my lord, the reinforcements, the reinforcements are here..." Singer, commanding on the second city wall, rushed up the tower and supported the rickety Edward Walker: "It's Lord Farea's banner, the Legion Master finally Arrived..."
Edward Walker suddenly wanted to laugh. He remembered a joke in the family army that reinforcements always arrived after the battle... He wanted to open his mouth to say something, but his eyes darkened, and he passed out.
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