Game of Thrones: Attack on the North Wolf

Chapter 124 Chapter 120: Attack and Defense

Oh oh oh!
The sky had just turned white, and the sound of the siege horn sounded rapidly, breaking the tranquility of the castle.

This is already an unknown number of times that the city of Riverrun has been attacked and defended, and the order under the sound of the horn has begun again.

Riverrun is a strong triangular castle that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.To the north and east of this castle lies the confluence of the Tenstone and Red Fork rivers.The two sides of the northeast are close to the turbulent river, which is a purely natural defense system.

And in the southwest of Riverrun City, there is a large man-made trench in the shape of """.At either end of the moat were built locks controlled by Riverrun.

When Riverrun was under attack, the sluice gates could be activated to fill the entire moat with water from the rivers on both sides, making the castle an independent island surrounded by water on three sides, completely indestructible.

After nearly two months of siege, until today, the """-shaped ditch in the southwest direction has been completely filled.

This was piled up with the lives of civilians in Hejian.Because Robb didn't fall into Tywin's trap, Kevan received Tywin's order and made up his mind to capture Riverrun.

After he led his troops back to Riverrun City, he sent a special search team to arrest the civilians in the riverland.Among them, the civilians in the riverland contributed by the magic mountain troops are the most.

These Hejian civilians were driven by Dafeng's troops to fill the trench with baskets of earth.

At the beginning, Edmure Tully, the acting lord of Riverrun City, saw that there were only civilians in the riverlands, and he couldn't bear to let the soldiers attack.

Under the threat of death for a large group of civilians in the river, the trenches were filled very quickly.

Seeing this, his uncle 'Blackfish' Brynden Tully stood up, and he passed Edmure and ordered the archers defending the city to attack directly.

Facing the rain of arrows covering all directions, these defenseless civilians fell in pieces like harvested wheat.

After a group of civilians died, Dafeng sent another batch of civilians up, and the corpses of the civilians who died in front also became materials for filling the trench.

It can be seen from this that in troubled times, the life of a human is worse than that of a dog!

Edmure couldn't stand it at first, and went to the seriously ill, sometimes sober, sometimes confused Duke Hoster Tully to accuse Brynden of his cruelty.

Fortunately, this time happened to be Duke Horst's sober time, although he had always been at odds with his younger brother.

But since Brynden can decisively resign from his position as the Knight of the Blood Gate in the Valley and rush back to Riverrun to join the battle, he can trust his younger brother.

Moreover, at his present age, how could he not understand that his younger brother's decision was the right one.

After opening his mouth to hand over the command of Riverrun City to Brynden, he waved his useless son away.

After nearly a month of delay, the man-made trench in Riverrun was finally filled.

After countless small-scale offensive and defensive battles.It ushered in the siege of nearly [-] troops joined by Tywin and Kevan.

The Tully family in Riverrun originally had nearly 1 troops, but they were wiped out because Edmure sent Earl Vance and Earl Piper to lead 4000 people to the Golden Tooth City to demonstrate.

Gathering the nearly thousand remnants of Earl Piper, Riverrun barely has a defensive force of nearly 7000.

Gollum, Gollum!
A wheeled battering ram was pushed by dozens of Lannister infantry towards Riverrun's only western gate.

This wheeled battering ram was made by Lannister's logistics force from the beginning of the siege of Riverrun.

It looks like a wooden turtle as a whole, and the turtle shell is protected by a wooden shield covered with raw animal skin.

There are wooden rollers underneath for easy movement. The turtle's head is a heavy battering ram. These Lannister soldiers who push the wheeled battering ram are well protected by hiding under its tortoise shell.

Beside the wheeled battering ram, there was a mass of darkness, at least seven or eight thousand other Lannister infantry carrying shields and carrying siege ladders.

I don't know if it's because Tai Wen is in charge this time, and all of them are full of morale.

Hu, Hu, Hu!
Before the Lannister siege infantry attacked, it was dozens of trebuchets in the position behind them.

The trebuchet, which was about three meters high, was suddenly lowered with the counterweight, and the five or six-meter-long throwing rod slammed lumps of rocks the size of an adult's upper body toward Riverrun City.

Tom, Tom, Tom!
The catapult stones that fell on the strong city wall of Riverrun City only left shallow pits without pain, while the stones smashed into the city destroyed some houses and some defensive facilities.

The thing that hit morale the most was the few catapult stones that were precisely dropped on the city wall.

At this moment, there were many guards standing densely on the city wall of Riverrun. In addition to the infantry and archers defending the city, there were also many conscripted servants who were burning many covered boilers with fire.

Under the powerful impact force of several trebuchet stones, they would stand neatly together alive, and a row of guarding soldiers were smashed with arms and legs broken, and a few unlucky soldiers were hit directly and smashed into meat paste.

In fact, the damage was not too great, but it caused some chaos on the city wall.

Looking at the chaos on the city wall, Brynden didn't even frown, staring straight at the wheeled battering ram.

He understood that attacks like trebuchets were irrelevant, but the wheeled battering ram that went straight to the city gate was the key.

After this round of attacks, the catapults of the Lannister camp misfired and entered the time-consuming and laborious loading stage.

"Fire arrows!"

When the Lannister soldiers entered the attack range of the archers of the second party, Brynden waved his hands vigorously and gave his order.

Huh, huh, huh!
Thousands of sharp arrows, drawing a perfect parabola, fell like raindrops from the highest point in the sky into the formation of Lannister siege infantry.

Duh, duh, duh!
The huge wheeled battering ram was instantly pierced into a hedgehog by countless arrows.

But these arrows can't break through at all, and the wheeled battering ram is covered with a wooden shield of raw animal skin.The Lannister infantry hiding inside, still intact, pushed it forward.

On the other hand, there were so many Lannister siege infantry with shields on their backs, some unlucky ones were always pierced by arrows through the gaps in their bodies.

However, except for the soldiers who shot at vital parts and were killed on the spot, the Lannister soldiers who were shot in other parts did not suffer much damage due to their excellent armor protection, and continued to move forward.

Generally speaking, the rain of arrows from the defenders of Riverrun City did not cause any loss to the well-equipped Lannister soldiers.

Brynden saw these situations in his eyes, and he had seen such situations in the previous small-scale siege battles.

Regarding the fact that the rain of arrows did not cause too much damage to the Lannister siege soldiers, he had already made other preparations, so he was confident and didn't care.

It's just that the wheeled battering ram is not very easy to solve.

Since the moat of Riverrun City had already been filled, if it smashed through the gate, it would definitely be impossible to defend the city with at least four times the difference in strength between the two sides.

"The archers fired a second round of volley, and the giant crossbow aimed at the wheeled battering ram, and began to attack!"

As Brynden's order came, the archers of the walls of Riverrun drew their bows and shot their arrows,
And the three giant crossbows deployed on the left, middle, and right three high platforms of the city wall, after hearing the order, the soldiers in charge of manipulating them focused their attention on the wheeled battering ram.

Due to the long-distance shooting of the giant crossbow, the accuracy is not high, Brynden did not order to shoot at the beginning, and did not order to attack until it entered the optimal shooting distance.

Boom, boom, boom!
The bowstrings of the three giant crossbows on the city wall made loud sounds, and the three crossbow bolts, which were as thick as spears, shot into the Lannister army formation in the blink of an eye.

Two crossbow arrows shot at the left and right sides of the wheeled battering ram, piercing through the three Lannister infantry and nailing them to the ground.

what! ! !
A Lannister infantryman didn't know whether to call it lucky or unlucky. Because his left leg was hit by the second wave of arrows, he limped slightly away from the soldier in front of him.

This made him lucky to escape the crossbow arrow attack, unlike the crossbow arrow next to him, which was directly strung with candied haws, two arrows with one arrow.

However, the arrow of this crossbow just happened to penetrate his right foot, nailing him firmly to the ground, and screaming violently.

The third crossbow bolt accurately hit the front of the wheeled battering ram, and the powerful force directly penetrated the wooden shield on the front of the wheeled battering ram, inserted into the wheeled battering ram, and headshot a hapless Lannister infantryman.

However, the power of this crossbow bolt is nothing more than that.

At the command of the infantry captain inside the wheeled battering ram, two Lannister footmen threw the headless body outside.

Then, the wheeled battering ram with a crossbow bolt inserted continued towards the gate of Riverrun.

Seeing that the powerful force of the crossbow arrow did not break the wheeled battering ram apart, Brynden knew that this wheeled battering ram was definitely carefully crafted by Lannister.

So he immediately sent his order to the herald next to him: "Change the crossbow arrows!"

The order was quickly conveyed to the soldiers operating the three giant crossbows, and the soldiers in charge of auxiliary work immediately took out a crossbow arrow wrapped in thick tarpaulin from the wooden box beside him.

After the crossbow was installed, the auxiliary soldiers carefully took out a glass bottle full of green liquid, the Wildfire Bottle, from the wooden box.

The wildfire in Westeros is not difficult to get, as long as you have a golden dragon, you can definitely get it.

It's just that in the past when the Seven Kingdoms were at peace, there were almost no occasions where you needed to play with wildfire, and you would be despised by all the nobles.

Because they believe that these are indiscriminate methods that violate the spirit of chivalry.

In addition, wildfire is not easy to preserve, and if you are not careful, you will set yourself on fire. Therefore, you can basically only see it in the Alchemist Guild in King's Landing City and the black market.

However, Robb has no scruples about using wildfire from the beginning.And at the beginning of this war, in order to allow Riverrun to hold on for enough time, he wrote a lot of suggestions for defending the city.

Edmure definitely scoffed at Robb's suggestion and didn't want to pay attention at all.

Because Robb's letter focused on calling vassals for defense, he directly sent [-] soldiers to the Golden Tooth City to sacrifice in vain.

But obviously, Brynden fully accepted Robb's suggestion, and he asked someone to collect these wildfires.However, due to the small amount, it can only be used in a targeted manner.

The auxiliary soldiers poured the pungent wildfire on the oilcloth at the front of the crossbow bolt, and then ignited it instantly with flint.

Green flames rose from the front of the crossbow, and it covered the entire tarpaulin at a very fast speed.

Boom, boom, boom!
Three loud bowstrings sounded, and a crossbow arrow burning with emerald green flames hit a Lannister siege infantryman and the siege ladder he was carrying.

Green flames followed the corpse and the siege ladder. These two excellent fuels spread rapidly. Seeing this, the other Lannister infantry immediately dropped the siege ladder stained with green flames.

And the other siege infantry around also dodged far away, the burning corpses and siege ladders, and a blank area appeared in the dense siege army formation.

And the remaining two crossbow bolts burning with wildfire, because the distance was close again, and after a round of trial firing, they accurately hit the wheeled battering ram directly.

Brynden could see from the wall that the well-built wheeled battering ram was still unshattered by the crossbow bolts.However, it stopped after being hit by the arrow and did not move forward.

One minute later, more than a dozen siege infantrymen, covered in green flames, emerged from under the wheeled battering rams, rolling and struggling frantically on the ground.

Then, the wheeled battering ram began to burst into green flames, and the green flames spread rapidly. In the blink of an eye, the wheeled battering ram turned into a giant green torch.

Seeing that the biggest hidden danger of siege was eliminated, Brinden remained calm on the surface, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Without the drag of the wheeled battering ram, the speed of these seven or eight thousand Lannister siege soldiers increased.They came under the walls of Riverrun with their shields on their backs, set up siege ladders and began a brutal siege.

The army position in the western region, on a temporary high platform.Tywin looked at the raging green fire ignited by the wheeled battering ram, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

He had no idea that Wildfire could be used like this.This well-built wheeled battering ram, which is not afraid of ordinary fire attacks, was burned by the wildfire on the crossbow before it even got close to the gate of Riverrun.

Tywin stared at the battle ahead with his pale green eyes dotted with gold. Although his family's soldiers had just approached Riverrun, he already knew the outcome.

Pursing his lips, Tywin turned his head and said to Kevan next to him: "Without that wheeled battering ram, the front of Riverrun is difficult to break through. Let the other families take action!"

"it is good!"

Oh oh oh!
As Kevan conveyed Tywin's order, the horn sounded again from the position of the Western Territory Army.

Gollum, Gollum!
A siege tower nearly 20 meters high, also covered with raw animal skins and with wooden wheels at the bottom, was pushed by other soldiers of the Western Realm family and came out of the nearby dense forest.

These siege towers were obviously not as strong as the wheeled battering ram, and they creaked as they were pushed forward.

At the same time, it was still wobbly, so that the soldiers standing on the siege tower could only hold on to the edge of the siege tower to stabilize their bodies.

These siege towers were originally produced in large quantities, and their function was only to allow the siege soldiers to better suppress the guards on the city wall, and then wait for an opportunity to board the city.

Next to these siege ladders was a siege army composed of nearly [-] other western border families.

But they didn't come straight to the west gate of Riverrun, but to the south wall of Riverrun.

False attack from the front, Taiwen wants to attack the southern city wall and suppress it with the number of troops?

Brynden watched more enemy troops than the siege army to the west, pushing the siege tower towards the south, guessing Tywin's true intentions in his mind.

Compared with the west gate of Riverrun City, there is no gate on the south side, only a wider city wall.It is true that more siege soldiers can be accommodated at the same time, and the attack on the city can be launched at the same time.

Staring at the siege tower that had passed the corner and headed towards the south wall, Brynden ordered to the messenger around him: "Tell Lord Tytos Blackwood that if there is any abnormality in the south wall, please notify him as soon as possible. I."

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