Game of Thrones: I loaded the witcher system.

Chapter 276 Siege
The so-called shameless, the world is invincible.

And if a person puts his own life and death aside, then, to a certain extent, he is also an invincible existence.

Standing with a sword, although he has been thinned to a bone, but standing on the east gate, Robb Stark has become the undisputed core.

Some soldiers recognized the king who had been patrolling the city before, and couldn't help but feel confident.

Before, there had been rumors in Harrenhal, saying that His Majesty had died in the city, and some weird conspiracy theories were added, which really made the northern soldiers in Harrenhal have their minds fluttering. for a while.

The lower the people are, the more they believe in the king or emperor and regard them as their spiritual sustenance.

Many soldiers gathered around Rob Stark spontaneously, and they all saw Rob Stark's weakness and the very obvious left hand sword.

Protecting the king, these soldiers didn't think much of it.

But Rob Stark didn't need their protection at all. After scolding them to return to their defensive positions, Rob Stark came to the center of the East City Gate.

From this moment on, he became the supreme commander of the East City Gate battlefield in the last battle of Harrenhal, bar none.

From Tywin Lannister's unusual movements, he felt a vague sense of urgency.

The old lion must be aware of the emptiness in Harrenhal, but in such a hurry, especially at this time, in Rob Stark's opinion, there is actually no good choice.

But Duke Tywin still made a move, which meant that something was forcing him to launch a full-scale attack immediately.

Robb Stark looked towards the wilderness to the north, feeling a little clear in his heart.

I'm afraid, there are reinforcements on his side, and they are about to bite the old lion's ass.

This forced him to pick the time when the snow was falling heavily.

However, it doesn't matter, since we are here, let's have a good fight. In this battle, one of the lions and wolves must fall.

……

"Get ready, let go!"

The Lannister army held back for several months, and finally built the siege equipment, which can be regarded as catching up in this final war.

The attack distance of the catapult is far greater than that of the bow and arrow, and because of the different ways of exerting force, it is even higher than that of the general defense crossbow.

Therefore, the western army placed these siege weapons at the rear of the army formation.

With an order, the soldiers cut the rope, and the counterweight quickly fell, driving the long arm of the catapult to swing quickly, throwing the fat-stained boulder, which was ignited and burning with raging fire, towards the city wall of Harrenhal.

Regardless of the snowy weather, it seems that the fire can be easily extinguished, but in fact this is not true.

A flame with grease will not stop until the grease is burned off unless there is a physical isolation of the air.

Now that the weather is so cold, although the soldiers do not have the cold-proof winter clothes issued by the army, they will definitely try their best to fill their bodies with something that can keep them warm.

Without exception, these things are the best combustibles.

……

"Get out of the way!"

Looking at the flaming boulders that were billowing black smoke, dragged their long tails in the sky, and fell towards him, Robb Stark roared, shaking those soldiers who were a little dumbfounded and stunned. give wake up.

At this time, people are very fragile in front of these guys. If you are hit head-on, no matter whether you are strong or not, there is no second end except for your bones to be broken and your tendons to be broken. .

Right now, they could only hope that the remaining battlements on the east gate of Harrenhal would save their lives.

"boom!"

The sound of stones hitting the battlements was not harsh, on the contrary, it was very dull.

However, no matter how thick the battlements are, they can't stop such a heavy blow.

After all, the rules of physics are still universal. The acceleration of gravity and the huge mass generate powerful kinetic energy, which instantly shatters the battlements and disintegrates them, and the soldiers hiding behind are either killed or injured.

"Ah, my legs!"

Just five meters away from the battlement where Robb Stark was hiding, a soldier of the Karstark family was directly smashed by the bombarded stones.

The pale broken bones pierced the skin and were exposed to the air. The wounded soldiers hugged their legs and screamed chillingly.

Robb Stark didn't choose to save him. An injury of this degree cannot be cured in Winterfell, let alone Harrenhal, which is short of medical treatment.

There should be slightly better medical conditions here, and he, Rob Stark, would not be what he is now, with one foot already on the verge of death.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The bombardment lasted for about 10 minutes, until the long arm of a catapult broke during the throwing of the stone on the Western Front Army's position, and the huge boulder thrown into the air crashed down, smashing a nearby knight, man and horse together. Into a puddle of meat paste.

The stone-throwing attack of the western army came to an end. However, they did not intend to give the northerners on the wall a rest.

Bursts of dull horns sounded, and the western infantry standing at the forefront, like a golden-red tide, slammed towards the scarred east gate of Harrenhal in an instant.

Robb Stark, who had a similar experience for a long time, stood up from the pile of rocks regardless of his disgraced appearance, and shouted loudly:

"The Westerners are here, meet the enemy, meet the enemy!"

Under normal circumstances, the main breakthrough point of such an attack is the city gate, because the city wall is thick and thick, and it cannot be knocked down for a while, and no matter how well the city gate is made, it is still a younger brother compared to the city wall.

Therefore, as long as the brothers responsible for smashing the city gate successfully blasted open the city gate, the infantry behind would swarm in, relying on their numerical advantage to directly crush the defenders inside, and after capturing the city gate, the larger army would enter the city.

Assuming that the subsequent street fighting is not considered, then the siege battle has actually been won at this step.

Having said that, in fact, because of the fixed location of the city gate, it has always been the key defensive target of the defenders. Rolling wood and stones are fine. If you throw down a jar full of grease, then shoot a rocket.

Then, in front of the relatively closed city gate, there is suddenly the blazing Abi Hell.

The attacker will pay a considerable amount of blood here, and may not be able to open the gate.

But this time, Tywin Lannister was already desperate, so naturally he couldn't control that much.

A wooden cart tied to a thick log and used to hit the door quickly approached the east gate of Harrenhal under the cover of some thick shields.

The people in the western region thoughtfully sprinkled a layer of snow on the wooden cart. Even though it was just a little bit, it ensured that before the cart reached the city, it would not be ignited by the rockets shot down from the city.

"City Guard Crossbow! Dismantle that chariot for me, don't let it rush under the city gate!"

Seeing themselves here, the feather arrows shot out of the soldiers just stayed on it and did not receive any results.

Robb Stark immediately ordered the defensive crossbow on the side to aim at the rushing car that was advancing in the mud, and ordered to release the thick crossbow bolts.

Although the crossbow arrows are precious, the oil reserves in the city are really not enough.

After keeping it for so long, it has basically bottomed out. When it was distributed last time, Dongchengmen only received fifteen cans in total.

As for the ones actually assigned to the east city gate, there were only seven cans, and the rest had four cans on each side. After all, their defense zone still had a large part of the city wall.

If this car was allowed to rush down the city, there would be no way to completely burn it if there were no more than three cans.

Therefore, fire oil cans are used as a last resort, and they are not used if they can be used.

With the sound of the bowstring relaxing, a thick crossbow gun roared out directly.

The archers in charge of manipulating the city defense crossbow were all highly skilled guys. With a single arrow, half of the body of the car made of wooden boards was broken, and the log hanging in the middle also fell directly to the ground because of the broken beam.

Robb Stark on the top of the city breathed a sigh of relief. He understood that this time, the guy who smashed the door with the hand of the Western Territory army was finished.

But the smile stayed on his face for less than ten seconds. Under the shouts of the soldiers, Rob Stark noticed that two identical siege machines were pushed out from the red-gold army formation.

Obviously, Tywin Lannister had been planning this attack for a long time.

The time and cost of building this thing is quite expensive. This time, Tywin Lannister even paid out his family's money.

The battle quickly heated up.

Because the number of defenders on the top of the city is too small, there is no way to form a continuous attack. Some soldiers simply wear several positions.

He is both a slinger and a spearman, and he has to pick up the bows and arrows on the dead comrades-in-arms when he has time, and shoot a few bows indiscriminately towards the city.

This is because there are too few people. The current number of defenders in the entire East Gate is less than [-]. Facing the attack of thousands of Lannister troops, it is naturally stretched.

Below the city, three archers squarely lined up in a neat formation, and began to tilt a large number of feathered arrows towards the east gate.

This is not a counterattack by the northerners.

Thousands of feathered arrows were thrown into the air at the same time. Intuitively, it was a dark cloud.

It's just that this cloud is here to kill people.

All of a sudden, arrows rained down, and the defenders on the top of the city were caught off guard, causing many casualties. The rest of the defenders were also forced to hide behind the remaining pitted walls and were firmly suppressed.

This is when the archers buy time for the siege infantry who are preparing for the ant attack.

Once the vanguard is close to the city wall and the long ladder has been erected, the task of these archers is completed.

If they shoot any further, they risk accidentally injuring their own siege troops.

If the number of defenders at the top of the city is sufficient, then what they should do at this time is to boldly shoot each other with the relatively weak armored enemy archers below the city.

Don't worry, their casualties in the end must be smaller than those under the city.

……

Soon, the first western soldier climbed to the top of the city, and before he had time to slash his sword, he was pierced by the long-prepared spearman, and then fell down amidst screams. Go down to the city wall.

The real hand-to-hand combat begins.

This seemed to be a signal that more and more soldiers from the western border broke through the death blockade of soldiers from the northern border and jumped onto the top of the city.

The ping-pong sound of the blades colliding was mixed with the dull sound of iron piercing into the flesh, accompanied by heart-piercing wailing.

Immediately, the sound resounded throughout the east gate of Harrenhal.

But in fact, it wasn't just the east gate. Tywin Lannister was attacking in an all-round way this time, and the battle at the north gate was equally tragic.

Human life, on such a battlefield, becomes worthless.

He had to grit his teeth and hack the opponent to death, otherwise, there was no possibility of surviving.

(End of this chapter)