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Chapter 2070 Siege War

The castle built by Rollin Rudolf was built strictly according to geometry. Every corner has been accurately measured. During the training on the battlefield, his parents successfully summed up relevant experience. Compared with those nobles who are more conservative and have not all changed into bronze cannons. These nobles in remote areas need to guard against constant sneak attacks by separatist forces. On the contrary, they are the ones with faster technological advancement.

In the process of facing various enemy artillery attacks, they also successfully built their castle into a star-like shape.

And he currently trains 500 peasants and soldiers. You can officially enter the battlefield. Rowling has no plans to use these people as an offensive force for the time being. Instead, he kept gathering refugees nearby. Because he occupied a portal, the territory he could control was twice the normal amount. You can control twice the territory with the same amount of troops. In this way, the efficiency of collecting the surrounding people will be higher.

Today is undoubtedly a troubled time, after the arrival of void creatures. Even those areas that were not affected by the disaster and were not greatly affected by the space gate transfer would still fall into chaotic fighting due to habitual panic and the influence of the people around them.

At this time, there was a castle occupying the space passage. Order was restored and people began to be collected. Immediately, a large number of homeless people who were homeless during the war gathered here.

Relying on the space gate, Luo Lin has begun to organize the planting of winter wheat. After all, so many people must have a source of food. Although the surrounding towns can harvest one round, if they don't continue planting after that, they will have to rely on robbery to obtain food in the future. This is not what a big force should do.

But if he wants to hold on to the space he occupies, the door is not that simple. Although the population in the town has expanded from less than 1 to nearly 2 now with the gradual collection of refugees.

But the number of troops plus the cavalry he brought from his family amounted to more than 800 people. More than half of them are peasant soldiers who have just finished training and have not been on the battlefield.

They used improved matchlocks and cooperated with other farmers who trained in their spare time. These farmers fought with spears. In fact, on the battlefield, you can only recharge the number. However, it does play a certain role in city defense.

After he occupied the space gate here, he soon ushered in the first round of attacking enemies. This round came from behind the space gate, which was the town where they set out.

He is the descendant of a previous earl, and has more than half of the legion in his hands, totaling 1500 people, more than half of whom are cavalry. This is a quite luxurious configuration for this town, and it is impossible to obtain it in the field. victorious.

The number of his cavalry was less than a hundred. In this normal situation, the victory or defeat is determined by the charge of heavy cavalry on the battlefield. The comparison of this quantity has already determined that it cannot win. But he believed what his father said that the times had changed. Today's era was no longer the era of knights, and the rules of the world should also change accordingly.

After the cavalry formed up in front of the town, the other team's commander. Observed this strange city. And a high platform was built to observe the population of the city from a high altitude.

"There are only so many people. They are not worthy of occupying the space channel. Crush them!" After observing the population and the number of troops in the town, the noble who commanded this army ordered the attack without hesitation.

Of course, it doesn't mean that he is so reckless, but that he has no other choice. In the previous battle for another nearby space gate, he lost to the descendants of other nobles. The opponent had thousands of cavalry, which was not something he could compete with at his level. After a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, , he escaped with his remaining defeated generals. As a result, there was a bright future in another village, and they unexpectedly encountered a village with such weak defense.

In his opinion, this could only be regarded as a village, not even a city.

He has so many elite soldiers and generals who are cutting down trees and building construction machinery around him. It is not difficult at all to destroy this city.

You can dig holes below and conduct sneak attacks on the city walls. You can even blast the city wall directly underground. If you go up again, you can use the excavated soil to pile up a mountain of earth and slowly push it towards the city wall. In this way, on the one hand, the fact of digging the cave can be concealed, and on the other hand, a mountain of earth can be piled up as a high ground, so that the archers on their side can suppress fire on the city wall.

From a high position, archers can shoot farther and be more intimidating to those on the wall.

However, piling up such a mountain of earth requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and he was beaten out, so he didn't actually carry much material with him. He is more considering digging tunnels to break the city. If that doesn't work, he can only attack by force.

As for the mountains of earth piled up on top, they were mostly used to cover up people's eyes and ears, to confuse the public.

Among towns. Luo Lin saw the army arrayed neatly outside the city, and her expression gradually became serious. However, after taking a look, I found that there were not many artillery pieces in the army, and the opponent's generals didn't seem to be very good at using cannons. When they fired cannons at long heads from an extremely long distance, the hit rate was pitifully low. The deterrent effect it can have is also very average.

"This group of gunners has very little experience in using artillery. Although the distance is a little farther, if you know how to calculate the angle, the setting will not be so biased. In this way, it will be easier to handle. We don't need to worry about these artillery. The artillery can threaten the enemies approaching the city wall. It seems that they are preparing to pile up sheep ridges to suppress our city walls, and they can just use the artillery at the top of the city to suppress them.

If we can win this station and capture the enemy's artillery, then the subsequent punishment will be much easier. Now we do not have the ability to produce artillery. "

Luo Lin was thinking about how to win this battle instead of simply defending the city.

The other party was obviously prepared for a long-term project. After all, there was a wheat field outside the city. It can harvest the wheat fields there. They had not arrived so quickly before because of the scout's mistake. The wheat field was not burned. This was considered a mistake, and in order to make up for the impact of the mistake, he had to find a way to defeat the enemy. “In a conventional field battle, we definitely cannot win with our numbers.

You can first defend the city to weaken the enemy's morale, and then think of ways to make a sneak attack. If you can capture the thief first and capture the king first, there may be hope. "He knew that he could not wait for reinforcements by simply defending here. Although he also knew that the other party did not dare to stay under the city for too long, otherwise he might be discovered by others outside the city, and then they would be flanked by two sides. But outside the city The existence of other people is still a threat to this town, and he does not believe that anyone can let go of such a transportation hub.

Fortunately, he was prepared on the other side of the portal. On the other side are some crops that can mature quickly. This city defense is also very particular. A city occupying a space passage is much more difficult to attack than an ordinary city. The biggest reason is that there is no way to starve such a city of food because the space gate is inside the city.

Opposite the space gate is another city. And if the city was not surrounded, they could still plant here. The food grown and harvested can also be supplied to people in the city.

In other words, if there is no way to capture the city after the siege, then there is basically no hope of capturing it for the rest of your life. The opponent's population may even increase as they fight. After all, the population can be collected from the other side of the space gate.

This is why most cities are built near space gates. It is because of the huge strategic advantages that space channels have.

The attacking side actually considers a quick victory because it delays time. Encircling a city is obviously detrimental to them. There are really not many cities that can be conquered through encirclement, unless there is someone on the other side of the city space gate who cooperates with him. But how is that possible?
  As time goes by, the mountains of earth pile up higher and higher. It has begun to gradually spread towards the city wall, but after the earth mountain reached this height, it also reached the range of the artillery on the city wall. Soldiers carrying dirt on their backs to pile up on the dirt hill. They fled in all directions under the bombardment of artillery. They were not warriors who died in Han Dynasty. Faced with the torn corpses under the bombardment of artillery, none of them dared to move forward.

The seemingly offensive nobles made an angry gesture. They tried to launch several rounds of strong attacks on the city wall, but in the end they were beaten back because the firepower density on the city wall was higher than theirs, and they were unable to deploy their own forces under the same width. But in fact, they built the plank road openly and used it secretly.

The underground caves are being dug closer and closer to the city. Once dug under the city wall, a large number of bombs can be buried to blow the wall open directly. When the time comes when your side has the strength advantage, you can rush up the city wall from the gap, occupy the next position on the city wall, and then advance little by little. Completely capture this city.

Luo Lin looked at the opponent's fierce attack. But he couldn't help but shook his head.

"It is impossible to attack this city with such an attack. If you want to attack such a city, the best way is to dig a son-shaped trench on the ground. Calculate the angle. The artillery on the city wall cannot bombard it. For those who entered the ditch, after digging the ditch to the bottom of the city, when they could no longer move forward, they established an artillery position closer to the city wall, and then bombarded a corner of the city wall.

After a corner of the city wall collapses due to bombardment, it is possible to seize the city wall with a single charge after sending people to attack it fiercely. Once occupied, it will basically be stable.

If you dig a hole in the ground, it is basically unavoidable to make a loud sound.

In the city, there are people lying at the mouth of wells. Listening to the direction of underground sounds, they can determine the approximate direction of the person digging the tunnel. It can be connected through intersections in multiple directions. Determine the location of the other party.

You can dig a tunnel first to connect to the tunnel dug by the opponent, and prepare thick smoke or poison in the tunnel in advance, or blow up the cave back and bury all the people who dug the cave directly underneath. In the process of digging caves and attacking, the deaths of those who died were generally very miserable. After being carried out, it will greatly affect morale, so that we stopped using this trick a long time ago.

But it seems that this is a classical nobleman, and maybe he will try this old method. After all, with explosives, this is indeed a way to destroy the city wall in a short time. "

Rowling has put enough blind people into the attempt. Because they lost their power, their hearing has become more acute. They can hear subtle sounds better than ordinary people, and it is easier to judge the source of sounds.

Digging a cave underground, at least in this era, is impossible to be quiet. They use a leather drum similar to a stethoscope to listen at the wellhead. It is relatively easy to hear the sounds outside. They can also confirm the general direction of the sounds underground in this way. Multiple general directions form connections with the locations of these wellheads. You can roughly calculate how far the other party is from you through calculation.

He did not expect to find the enemy sneaking through the underground tunnel to attack the enemy's morale, but to his surprise, a blind man did hear the sound of digging, and one after another people verified the sound.

Distances were calculated based on the approximate direction they pointed to the sound and their description of its size. Under the guidance of the advisors he brought with him, he successfully determined the general direction of the enemy digging the tunnel.

"If you even dare to use this method, then teach them a lesson. Prepare the wormwood in the city to make a ceramic pipe, and then send people to dig the cave and the opponent's tunnel, and connect them as much as possible. Wait until the two sides After the successful docking, they used thick smoke and used the short musket they carried to attack in this dark and narrow environment.

The person digging the tunnel on the other side cannot bring too many troops, nor can they have too sophisticated weapons. If we suddenly dig the tunnel, they will definitely panic, and there will be heavy casualties. We can even take advantage of this opportunity to select The warriors went out of the city to fight, and then returned through the tunnel.

At that time, it will be able to destabilize the morale of the troops outside the city and create a fearful retreat mentality. "After hearing Luo Lin's request, someone immediately contacted the craftsmen in the city to build corresponding equipment. Although they had not dealt with such a primitive tunnel attack for a long time, they had already had their own response plan.

[To be continued]

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