After the ground was stabilized, Kalu didn't talk nonsense to Xiao Yu any more, he just waved his hand and asked the commander next to him to start attacking according to the previously drilled formation.
Last time Xiao Yu's elegant middle finger counterattack impressed him deeply, so this time Kalu will not waste any more words, he will wait to capture the city, capture Xiao Yu alive, step on his feet, and then vent his heart anger.
So, under the command of the commander, the 20,000 army was divided into more than a dozen square formations, and slowly entered the battle.
The last disastrous defeat made Kalu also sum up the lesson. He felt that his army had not experienced combat for too long, so they did not cooperate well, fought independently, and could not form combat effectiveness, so they failed.
Before he came to attack this time, he spent more than a month running in and did some research on the siege tactics, so he was full of confidence in winning the Lion King City.
Boom... Boom...
The infantry stepped on the ground with neat steps, full of rhythm, like a beautiful piece of music, pressing on everyone's heart.
If it wasn't for Xiao Yu's tactics of psychological relaxation before the battle, those recruits under Long Hui's first battle would probably have peed their pants by now.
It was precisely because Xiao Yu's troops showed disdain for the upcoming battle that they also felt that there was nothing terrible about the battle.
What soldiers are most afraid of is losing their momentum and being suppressed by the opponent.
When it was nearly 400 meters away, except for the phalanx of heavy infantry in the middle, the other infantry on both sides had already started to accelerate gradually with their ladders, ready to run and quickly attack the city wall.
Carew's formation is simple and practical, and it can be regarded as a relatively common formation.
The direction of attacking the city gate in the middle is the heavy infantry phalanx, with a heavy siege vehicle, the focus is to break through the city gate, push into the city, open the gap, and be the vanguard for the follow-up troops to enter the city. Behind the heavy infantry phalanx, there is also a heavy siege vehicle, in order to prevent the first siege vehicle from being destroyed, and the heavy infantry have nothing to do when they reach the city gate. In fact, in the center of the reloaded phalanx, there is still a magician hidden, who can provide them with powerful fire support at any time to help break the door.
On both sides of the heavy infantry formation, there are light infantry with shields tied to their arms. On the one hand, they are used to guard against the bows and arrows at the top of the city. On the other hand, they can free their hands without holding up shields when climbing ladders.
The light infantry on the left and right sides carried as many as a dozen ladders. They had practiced many times and could quickly climb up the city. Iron hooks were installed above the ladders to prevent them from falling off.
This is just the first phalanx. Behind the first phalanx, there are more than 20 heavy ballistas, which can fire heavy crossbow arrows up to 400 meters away, suppressing the archers at the top of the city.
Karu spared no effort for this battle, not only brought all the ballistas from their territory, but also borrowed more than a dozen ballistas from other territories.
It is difficult for ordinary soldiers to shoot arrows on such a high wall, but the ballista can do it. Last time Xiao Yu's elf archers impressed Kalu very deeply, so this time he deliberately used ballistas to suppress the archers at the top of the city.
Behind the first phalanx is the second phalanx, which is still advanced by heavy armored infantry in the middle and light infantry on both sides, but this time many soldiers are equipped with military crossbows. Shoot, or suppress the top of the city from the bottom of the city, and help the people on the ladder to attack the top of the city.
Behind the second phalanx, Karoo also arranged five catapults, ready to serve as long-range heavy fire support.
Xiao Yu was in admiration for such a luxurious lineup, let alone such a small lion leader, it would be no problem for him to capture Huicheng, the capital of the nearby Duke of Wei.
Unfortunately, what he met was Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu squinted his eyes, watched Kalu's army advancing slowly, and took a sip of red wine lightly.
"Tell them, open the city gate." Xiao Yu issued an order directly.
The orc infantry below received the order and immediately began to open the city gate. Long Hui was taken aback and said, "Young Master, what are you doing? Are you going to surrender? How can you open the city gate at this time."
Xiao Yu cut out, and said: "I haven't had enough of such a good life, why surrender? Uncle Long, just watch, you will know in a while."
Soon, the orc soldiers below opened the solid city gate directly according to Xiao Yu's order, and pushed it to the sides rumblingly, so the Lion King City looked like an undefended city, and also like a city. A woman who has taken off her underwear, you have tried every means to conquer, but suddenly you find that the other party has completely opened up to you.
Karu's army had already reached a distance of 300 meters from the city wall. The city gate suddenly opened wide, and they could naturally see it.
Seeing this weird scene, both the commander and the soldiers were dumbfounded. What's going on? Could it be that the other party is about to surrender when they see their own army pressing down on the country
As a result, the charging and running speed of all the soldiers immediately slowed down and stopped slowly, and the commander didn't know what was going on, so he ordered his subordinates to stand in place and not continue to attack, waiting for Kalu's order.
As a result, the Kalu army, which had been charging like a rainbow, stopped and lined up three hundred meters away from the city wall, waiting for Kalu's order.
Karu was stunned when he saw such a scene, but then he burst out laughing. He thought Xiao Yu was going to surrender, so he was extremely happy, full of a sense of satisfaction of conquering.
"Xiao Yu, are you going to surrender? Hmph, if you surrender now, I can consider letting you be my slave and watching me play with your sisters-in-law every day, haha..."
Karoo stood up from the carriage, full of vigor, feeling as if the world was already under his feet, arrogant.
On the top of the wall, Xiao Yu took another sip of red wine, and asked Grom behind him to lift a huge wooden sculpture. It was carved from a whole tree, a clenched fist with only one finger sticking out, the one in the middle.
Xiao Yu asked Grom to point straight in the direction of Karoo, like a super big hand, gesticulating a super middle finger to Karoo.
"Bastard." Karoo directly smashed the wine jug worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins on the carriage.
"Get rid of him, I want to capture him alive, I want to rape all the women in the Lion King's Land in front of him. Whoever captures the Lion King's Land first, I will let him share Xiao Yu's sister-in-law with me. "Karoo growled angrily like a mad dog, without any aristocratic demeanor.
And Xiao Yu was lying on the rocking chair, sipping red wine, leisurely, like a real gentleman, the super middle finger just now seemed to have nothing to do with him.
"Rush..." Accompanied by Kalu's roar, the army moved again under the command of the commander, but now they are only less than 300 meters away from the city wall of the Lion King, and this distance has entered the distance of the archers at the top of the city. range.
After the elf archers got their equipment replaced, the range of the bow has reached more than 200 meters, and the range of the projectile on the city wall is undoubtedly farther, reaching 300 meters without any problem, plus Tyrande's powerful aura , the range is even further.
As a result, the rain of arrows rained down from the sky, and all the soldiers who lined up and stood within a distance of 300 meters became living targets.
The dwarf musketeer's shooting range was even further. Although the accuracy was poor, under Xiao Yu's order of intensive shooting without any need to investigate the accuracy, it was like a machine gun harvesting the opponent's life.
Originally, if they charged in one go, the damage caused by the archers' shooting would definitely be reduced a lot, and the moving target would definitely be difficult to hit. Moreover, with the momentum of their charge, they would soon be able to reach the bottom of the city wall and climb up the ladder. The whole time, at most, is more than a minute.
But now, they came to a sudden brake while running, and then charged again after waiting for a while, which is a completely different effect.
Everyone knows the gap between starting speed and peak speed.
The rain of arrows continued to fall, and the fallen soldiers became even more obstacles to the charging of the soldiers behind, so their speed became even slower.
Originally, they could reach the bottom of the city wall in more than a minute, but now it takes at least several times the time, and at this time, the archers at the top of the city can launch dozens of shots more.
It goes without saying what kind of lethality the elf archers shot dozens of times. Coupled with the intensive shooting of the dwarf musketeers, the fate of these infantry can only pray for God's blessing.
Anyway, when these light infantry arrived at the city, all the phalanxes in their first row were basically dead. As a last resort, the commander sent out the second row of phalanxes to continue the attack.
One face to face, all the infantry phalanxes in a row are dead, which is definitely a huge blow to the morale of the Karoo army.
Xiao Yu's psychological tactics achieved complete success.
"Taste ten times the land, millions of people, beat the pass and attack Qin. The Qin people switch and extend the enemy, the division of the nine countries, linger and dare not enter..."
Xiao Yu recited Jia Yi's theory of passing the Qin Dynasty, and said to himself: "Nimma, the experience of the ancients is really useful. I opened the gate of the city, but they dare not go forward."
(end of this chapter)