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Chapter 1296 Battle of the Northern Territory (2)

A crossbow arrow as thick as an arm flew towards it dragging the cold air.

Those panicked savages had nowhere to hide, they could only watch the crossbow arrows shoot through their bodies.

"Ah-"

There was the sound of sharp arrows piercing the chest, and the bloody arrows continued to move forward under the huge inertia, stringing five barbarians into gourds in a series.

This is just the power of a crossbow bolt. The Nilotic warriors on the city wall who were suppressing their anger kept manipulating the bed crossbow to shoot at the barbarians. The sky filled with crossbow bolts hit like a storm. People were killed and injured immediately.

Seeing their companions die under the crossbow arrows, those barbarians would also feel frightened. They didn't dare to rush forward any more, they just wanted to retreat quickly.

But just when they were about to retreat, the axemen who followed behind swung the axes in their hands and chopped off the heads of all the barbarians who wanted to escape.

The bloody suppression was right in front of them, and the fear immediately prevented these barbarians from retreating.

At this time, no matter whether they were going forward or backward, they were all dead, and they would definitely die in the future, and there was still a glimmer of life ahead, so they turned around and rushed towards the city wall again.

After all, the bed crossbow is not a machine gun, and its biggest weakness is the attack gap. Usually, the bed crossbow takes a long time to reload after shooting a crossbow bolt.And this time happened to be the opportunity for those barbarians to charge forward.

After the first volley of bed crossbows, the casualties of these barbarians were about [-]%, and the remaining barbarians were cornered and had no choice but to rush forward.

Seeing that these barbarians had broken through the narrow intersection and rushed to the outside of the city wall, the Nero soldiers prepared their bows and arrows, and waited for these barbarians to come into range.

The bed crossbows on the city wall are still being loaded, and the archers are already in place. The city walls are full of veterans who have experienced countless wars. They have faced countless scenes of overwhelming armies. The situation in front of them did not make these Nero soldiers panic. They waited calmly for Art's order.

Those barbarians who broke through the gate of hell were killed less than a hundred meters away from the city wall.

One by one, their hair was disheveled, their teeth were bared, and they looked like crazy monsters. They waved the weapons in their hands and continued to charge forward without caring about their lives.

The soldiers on the city wall were all looking at Art, waiting for his order.

Seeing those barbarians approaching little by little, from a distance of 50 meters to about [-] meters, Art finally waved his arm and gave the order to release the arrow.

"Fire arrows!"

With an order, the whistling sound broke through the air.

The arrows shot from the top of the city pierced through the wind and snow, and fell on the heads of these barbarians with a desperate cold.

After a round of salvo, many barbarians fell to the snow.

This time, these barbarians did not run away. With the previous lessons, they already understood that even if they escaped, they would die.

In order to deal with the arrows shot by the Nero soldiers from the city wall, these barbarians took down the bark, wooden boards, cooking iron pans and other utensils hanging behind their backs. They did not have regular round shields or square shields. Good gear is these makeshift shields.

These "shields" would make them a little bit easier under the Nile arrows, but it would not change the situation drastically.

Under the command of the general, the Nero soldiers shot at the barbarians in an orderly manner. Although these barbarians took some defensive measures, many people would fall down after each round of salvo.

In order to be able to get close to the city wall, these barbarians can be said to have paid the price in blood.Every time they take a step forward, what they have to face is countless angry arrows shot by Nero soldiers.

Under the hard work of the Nile soldiers on the city wall, these barbarians suffered heavy casualties.

When passing through the narrow intersection just now, the barbarians suffered nearly [-]% casualties, and this time they lost more than [-]% in order to rush under the city wall. As a result, there were only nearly a thousand barbarians under the city wall. The scale of human barbarians is too small, and it will only be a matter of time before these barbarians without tactics and organization are completely wiped out.

Art stood at the head of the city, earnestly directing the generals to defend, while at the same time his eyes were fixed on the Ohrei Army in the distance.

What are these Ohre people thinking? Do they think they can break through the city wall with the help of barbarians?

Just when Art was still wondering why the Ohrei Legion was not moving, the phalanx of the Ohrei Legion in the distance suddenly began to move towards the city wall.

"Your Highness, the Ohres are coming towards us."

Aldrich pointed to the legion phalanx in the distance, and at the same time, there was a deep worry on his brow.

It turned out that among the ten phalanxes of the Seventh Army of O'Here, two phalanxes also carried special siege equipment.

Just now, because the two armies were too far apart, Nero's side only saw the eight square formations in front, while the two square formations in the back fell to the rear and were not fully seen.

Now the eight phalanxes in front moved forward, and the last two phalanxes appeared in the field of vision of the Nile.

Those siege equipment are mainly battering hammers used to break doors and ladders used to climb city walls. These two equipments exist in armies all over the world, but the styles used by different armies are different.

Art is no stranger to those siege machines. He had already thought of countermeasures at the first sight of those siege machines. Smash them with a trebuchet when the mouth is narrow."

As the wise general next to Art, the situation in front of him caused Aldrich to touch his nose, "It's letting the barbarians gather together to die, and it's also going to use siege equipment in such a narrow terrain. It seems that this Ohre The commander of the legion doesn't seem very smart."

On the battlefield, how to mobilize soldiers to fight can best reflect the ability of a commander.

In fact, most of the commanders can only follow the pre-war deployment step by step. Only a few truly elite commanders can respond on the spot and make the most correct judgments based on the actual situation on the battlefield.

It was obvious that the commander of the Seventh Legion was a bit short in on-the-spot command. Forcibly using siege equipment in such a narrow and rugged place, at least it seemed like a stupid move.

This situation is likely to be due to the fact that the legion commander has been fighting west from O'Here, and the city-states that encountered resistance along the way used this method to conquer, so he did not change his inertia when attacking the northern fortress Thinking, the northern fortresses fought in the same way as those city-states fought before, but obviously this method has great risks.

(End of this chapter)