The riding and chopping simulator of the Lord of the Rings

Chapter 110
In the rain of arrows, a siege vehicle covered with animal skins was pushed hard by dozens of Dongyi soldiers, along the old road of Tiebi Town, ignoring the corpses beside the road, slowly heading towards the gate of the castle go.

At the same time, the four siege towers also bypassed the obstacles placed by the northern humans in front of the city wall, crossed several trenches filled with corpses and sand, and approached the 200-meter position of the city wall.

And behind these siege equipment, there are groups of infantry wearing simple leather armor and holding brand new wooden shields. They are still holding iron weapons tightly in their right hands. The weapons are very simple, and most soldiers hold Most of them are short spears that are good for stabbing, and only a small number of people hold strangely shaped curved knives or straight swords in their hands.

There are more than 1000 of them. It's not that Ashur can't send more soldiers, but the environment in front of Iron Wall Town only allows so many soldiers to form a formation. No matter how many they send, they can only increase the formation. It's just the thickness, and it's easier to be shot by the defenders on the city wall, because Ashur doesn't have so much time to waste, so he prepares a shield for his soldiers.

The northern humans guarding the city wall naturally couldn't watch the enemy approaching. More than 300 sharp-eyed archers kept pulling the fir bows in their hands, shooting sharp and deadly arrows from the city wall towards the enemy. The approaching enemy flies away.

The rain of arrows was mixed with a little bit of fire. The defenders of Iron Wall Town tried to use the flames to ignite the wooden siege towers and siege vehicles.

Of course Ashur would not let this kind of thing happen. For this siege, he prepared extremely well. Not only did he cover the siege vehicle with animal skins, but he also hung a water-absorbing mask on the front of the siege tower. Cotton cloth, anyway, these things are snatched from northern humans, so don't feel bad about using them, even after they are used up, some people still want them as rewards.

The wood used to make the siege equipment is also newly felled wet wood. Although these moisture-laden wood will crack in the future, Ashur doesn't care about the future. All he wants is the immediate victory.

Although the burning inflammables were accurately projected onto the siege equipment by the arrows, they could not ignite the wet wood and cloth at all. They just dried up a layer of moisture on the surface of the target after a little struggle. Slowly extinguished.

Of course, the archer's attack was not completely fruitless. Those Dongyi soldiers who pushed the siege tower or the siege vehicle would be shot by arrows from time to time. While losing their lives, they would unconsciously collapse to the ground , block in front of the wooden wheels of the siege equipment, or hang the whole body on the siege equipment when they die, which increases the difficulty for soldiers to push.

Such a situation will slow down the speed of the siege equipment towards the city wall. However, at this time, those Dongyi people holding scimitars or straight swords will loudly order the soldiers holding shields around them to take those The corpses blocking the siege machines are moved away, and after that, these soldiers will join the ranks of pushing the siege machines again.

Those Dongyi officers who give orders will undoubtedly attract more attention from archers, but the layers of shields around them block a large number of arrows shot at him, and archers who have failed to shoot several times can only choose those more The soldiers, who were easy to hit, tried to slow down the advancing speed of the siege equipment.

But the effect of doing so is actually not very good. Whether it is a siege vehicle or a siege tower, there will always be some completely enclosed spaces, so that all archers cannot shoot. The reality is not a game, and there will be no commander It would be so stupid to open a window on the siege vehicle to leave a gap for the enemy on the opposite side, so that those sharpshooters can shoot and kill their own soldiers who are pushing the siege equipment.

If it weren't for the fact that the outside of the city wall of Tiebi Town is a gentle slope with a big slope, and it is really too slow to move only by the soldiers hiding, then maybe even the soldiers who helped push the cart outside the siege cart, Ashur unwilling to arrange.

It's not that Ashur loves his subordinates so much. As a human general who is above the qualification line, and can even be said to be barely good enough, Ashur knows that those who died under the archers at this moment The soldiers here can definitely play more roles in other places.

After attacking this town, he still wants to go to the direction of Changhu Town. It is said that it used to be very rich. If possible, occupying it will be of great help to him, but the sphere of influence covers the Woodland Kingdom there. It made him hesitate, so he wanted to save the lives of the soldiers as much as possible, especially the elite, so that he could rely on his strength and fight with the elves.

With the passage of time, the siege equipment of the Dongyi people, under the long-range attack of the defenders' archers, pushed forward again for about 50 meters. Howling in the air, they flew towards the siege equipment from behind the city wall.

As a defensive castle specially built by humans in the north, they still spent a lot of money to purchase three small trebuchets from the dwarves of the Iron Hills, and placed them on the platform behind the castle as the final force to defend the castle.

These sophisticated machines, under the control of skilled operators, can accurately project dozens of kilograms of stone bullets to a position of 150 meters to 200 meters. At this moment, the siege troops of the Dongyi people have already entered this range.

In just two rounds of shooting, a siege tower was crumbling under the attack of two stone bullets, and a stone bullet weighing tens of kilograms had punched a huge hole in the top of the siege vehicle. The few soldiers who were pushing the cart forward inside were even more bloody from being hit by stone bullets.

Such an attack caused a lot of chaos in the siege troops of the Dongyi people.

Ashur in the distance watched the scene where the catapult was launched, his originally calm face suddenly became serious, and his fierce eyes quickly searched the inside of the castle, and immediately locked on the location of the catapult. It was a platform about two to thirty meters away from the city wall, and three trebuchets were placed there.

This kind of counterweight trebuchet is very easy to be damaged or misoperated after being assembled, especially when it is raining or snowing, so the defenders of Iron Wall City will only spend some time when they need to use it. They are assembled, and the rest of the time, they are kept in the warehouse in a state of parts.

Before Ashur attacked the city, he worked tirelessly to climb the tens of meters of cliffs on both sides of Iron Wall City, and observed the general situation of the whole town from the cliffs. At that time, he did not see the trebuchet Otherwise, he would not simply let the siege equipment advance in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers.

Now, Ashur must take other measures to assist the advance of the siege troops. He loudly conveyed his order to the messengers around him, and soon a wave of flags was waved. More than 1000 archers came from the Dongyi people. Walked out of the phalanx.

The bows and arrows held by the Dongyi people have a very short shooting distance. Even for infantry archers, the shooting distance can only barely reach about 150 meters. Moreover, at this distance, the power of the arrows is greatly reduced, and it is difficult to defeat most of the defenders. Excellent armor on the body.

The condescending iron wall guards with fir longbows can shoot at a distance of more than 200 meters, and their sophisticated arrows can cause great damage to poorly equipped Dongyi soldiers.

At the beginning of the tentative siege, Ashur had mastered this information, so he did not immediately dispatch relatively elite archers to shoot each other with the enemies on the city wall during the siege. Let your elite soldiers suffer huge casualties.

And most of those pushing the carts were slaves or cannon fodder at the lowest level, and it didn't hurt that Ashur died. After breaking through the city wall, it was very easy to replenish.

Ashur's original idea was that he would send his own archers to quickly approach the city wall when the cannon fodder on the carts used the siege equipment to formally engage the enemy, and then carry out covering strikes against the enemies who could not fight back. Cause a lot of damage.

Ashur's idea is indeed very good, but the appearance of the trebuchet directly broke his beautiful plan. Now, Ashur needs to move the siege equipment forward as soon as possible and transport the soldiers to the city wall. Under the attack of trebuchets, those siege towers and siege vehicles that were built at a great cost will soon be destroyed.

At this time, the archers who received Ashur's order divided into four square formations and quickly advanced towards the city wall. The movement of thousands of people running quickly attracted the attention of the iron wall guards.

Seeing the vast number of enemy troops approaching the city wall, some of the defenders began to feel a little bit of despair. Even if they were thinking about fighting the enemy to the death just a moment ago, when faced with an irresistible force, their firm hearts would not Inevitably there will be some wavering.

However, the leaders of the northerners, who were more resolute than their minds, had begun to shout loudly: "Shoot, shoot those archers, and hand over the siege equipment to the trebuchet."

As the voice was about to fall, stone bullets flew out of the city again. The siege tower, which was already crumbling under the attack, collapsed in this wave of attack. A large number of soldiers near this siege tower were injured.

And as the siege tower fell into pieces, bursts of cheers came from the platform of Iron Wall Town. While cheering, the militiamen who controlled the catapults quickly reset the matching of the catapults, one by one. The stone projectile is placed in the cast position.

At this time, the first phalanx of Dongyi archers had already entered the shooting range of the Iron Wall guards. Soon, bursts of arrow rain covered their heads, causing them huge damage. Casualties, just advancing 50 meters forward, the archers of this phalanx paid nearly [-] lives, and the heavy casualties directly led to the defeat of this phalanx.

This situation is all thanks to Ashur. Before the siege, this Dongyi leader distributed almost all the shields to the slaves and cannon fodder who were pushing the chariot. Now, he The archer can only use his own body to accomplish his combat goals.

With most of the firepower of the defenders concentrated in the gap between the first phalanx, the other Dongyi archers quickly ran for tens of meters and came to a position 100 meters away from the city wall. They also received some blows, but the casualties were not serious.

Soon, nearly a thousand arrows flew up from the standing Dongyi phalanx, and then fell towards the defenders on the city wall like rain. Such a dense attack instantly gave the defenders Huge damage was caused, and the offensive and defensive sides officially entered the stage of brutal mutual shooting.

Soon, the archers of the defenders were overwhelmed by enemies far outnumbering them. A large number of casualties made them hide under the shields of their own infantry, or hide in corners that were not easy to be shot. Their counterattack became extremely weak, and it was difficult to pose a threat to the Dongyi archers.

Seeing that his own archers finally suppressed the defenders on the city wall after paying a quarter of the casualties, Ashur gave another order to the messengers.

Soon, there was a sound of horns from the camp of the Dongyi people, and several flags shook. Under the order of Ashur, a square formation of Dongyi archers actually advanced again, approaching to the distance of 50 meters from the city wall. After they stood still, they drew the longbows in their hands, and fired upwards at the platform where the trebuchet was placed in the city.

After this wave of arrows was shot, they flew to the front of the platform, startling the militiamen who were manipulating the trebuchets. At the same time, the trebuchets they were manipulating also threw three stones weighing tens of kilograms again. The bullet hit the siege tower that had been pushed to the side of the archer, and the siege tower collapsed under the attack of the stone bullet.

At this time, there was another sound of horns from Ashur's camp. The phalanx of Dongyi archers, which had already approached the city wall by 50 meters, continued to move forward by 20 meters under the order.

At this time, the Dongyi archers could no longer see the position of the trebuchet, and the nearly six-meter-high city wall completely blocked their view, but the Dongyi officer standing on the siege tower told them that the shooting angle was still high. There are shooting directions.

Soon, the militia manipulating the catapult ushered in the first casualties in this war. More than 200 archers carried out precise coverage strikes on them, directly disrupting their control rhythm, and mixed in The rockets in the ordinary arrows also slowly ignited the trebuchet.

Seeing that the catapults in the town stopped attacking, Ashur's face showed a satisfied smile, but then it was replaced by annoyance. He looked to the side with a look of resentment, and there was a person standing there who gave him information. Northern humans, and it was introduced to him by Baal.

Under the leadership of this guy, Ashur was able to quickly break through several gathering points of northerners in such a short time. It was also under the leadership of this guy that Ashur climbed up the nearby cliff and investigated The specific situation of Iron Wall Town.

But the enemy had such important news as the trebuchet, and this guy didn't know about it. This made Ashur angrier the more he thought about it, and he didn't even want to see him anymore. After all, it was such news that cost him nearly [-] yuan. The lives of elite soldiers.

Afterwards, the leader of the Dongyi people whispered a few words in the ear of his own guards, and then the guards held up the astonished northerner and walked not far away. Soon, a bloody figure hung from the center of the camp.

Kulda and Amish standing next to Ashur are already familiar with it. After all, they are four hundred elites. Not any crooked melon and date can be an archer. If it is replaced by someone who is climbing a mountain The scum of the human king, I think he would die of distress.

Just when Ashur hoisted up his own spy, the gate of Iron Wall Town slowly opened, and nearly a hundred cavalrymen on horses galloped out of the gate, rushing towards the Dongyi archers in front of them, and After the cavalry rushed out, the gate behind them was quickly closed.

Naturally, it is impossible for the defenders to just watch their catapults being destroyed by the enemy's archers. Their hope now is to destroy all the enemy's siege equipment and force the enemy to waste more time building siege machines. City equipment, or let the enemy use the extremely inconvenient way of ladders to enter a powerful siege battle against one's own side.

For this reason, several leaders gathered all the elites who could fight on horseback and were willing to die, handed it over to one of the leaders, and rushed out of the town gate at this moment.

Such a move far exceeded the imagination of the Dongyi people. Even Ashur never thought that such a situation would happen. He could only stare blankly at his more than 200 archers who were shooting with their heads up, facing each other directly. Cavalry knife.

The distance of 20 meters is very short for the cavalry. The Dongyi archers who still held a longbow in their hands were unable to fight back under the rapid attack of the defending cavalry, and were quickly slaughtered. .

At this time, Ashur finally reacted. Under his order, there were bursts of horns in the camp again, and the two Dongyi archers remained intact. They gave up and continued. Suppressing the defenders on the city wall, they began to shoot at the enemy cavalry. At the same time, a large number of Dongyi infantry quickly surrounded the cavalry, compressing the cavalry's range of activities.

The elite cavalry of the defending army finally rushed into another phalanx of enemy archers after struggling to break through several infantry who intercepted them. Within minutes, the number was reduced by two-thirds, and after the remaining cavalry managed to kill hundreds of archers, they were finally submerged in the sea of ​​enemy troops.

And in the short time these cavalry won, the trebuchets in the city started again, not only smashing the third siege tower of the Dongyi people, but one of the stone bullets even hit the main beam of the engineering vehicle, causing It lost the ability to break through the city gate.

But at this time, the last siege tower of the Dongyi people finally set up on the wall of Tiebi Town. The Dongyi soldiers who were standing on the siege tower rushed towards the city screaming crazily. , The defenders on the city wall had already been waiting in full battle, and the two sides started a brutal hand-to-hand combat in an instant.

A large number of Dongyi soldiers at the bottom of the siege tower also began to rush upward along the ladder in the tower. They would continuously attack the city wall until they occupied a place on the city wall, or were killed by the defenders until their morale collapsed.

The Dongyi archers under the city wall began to suppress the archers and trebuchets of the castle defenders again, lest the only remaining siege tower be smashed by the defenders recklessly.

And under Ashur's order, thousands of well-equipped Dongyi infantry, mixed with thousands of cannon fodder, carried the ladder and ran towards the city wall. They would give the defenders in the castle a final blow.

At this time, Ashur was surrounded by thousands of soldiers guarding him.

And Allen, who had just climbed the cliff near Iron Wall Town and wanted to observe the battle between the two sides, saw this scene. He knew that this town was hopeless.

(End of this chapter)