Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 170

2021-01-23

Chapter 170 Excavation
The rivers on the Great Wasteland belong to the dendritic Water Element, the tributaries and the main stream All intersect at an acute angle.

The Hurds built their fortresses on the long and narrow highlands where the two rivers meet. The city is surrounded by water on three sides, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Only the northwest side is solid ground.

Although the two unnamed rivers are fast, they are not too wide and can be crossed smoothly by swimming or boating. The land around Bienli City was thus divided into three parts by two rivers.

Therefore, the Palatine army besieging the city was also divided into three, and the two armies were located in the south and northeast across the river to prevent the Hed people in the city from fleeing across the river.

Most of the main force crossed the river and set up camp in the north of the Western District, building walls and trenches, blocking the way out on land. At the same time, there are temporary bridges erected by engineers over the two rivers to connect the three places.

Plato's army had been besieging the city for nearly two months, and these arrangements had been completed long before Jesska battallion arrived.

Although there was no direct attack on the city wall, the Paratus did not sit idle during this time.

Under the instruction of Major General Arpad, the sappers never stopped digging into the tunnel under the city wall. Most of the wood that Jesska battallion pulled back was used by sappers for tunnel reinforcement.

However, the progress of the tunnel is classified, and the officers of Jesska battallion are not known.

As auxiliary soldiers, they are only responsible for digging and guarding trenches.

No one knows the decision-making process above, but at least the generals are on the same page.

Two infantry battalions of the Fifth Army regiment and a platoon of cavalry, disengaged from the main force and headed eastward, will return to the west bank of the Netherworld River to re-build the pontoon, as ordered by Brigadier General Sackler.

Apart from this , Palatu's army will no longer be divided, and will attack Bianli City with all their strength.

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The Platonic attack began after noon, when the light was in its favor.

Several of the generals of the Palatine are senior professional officers, and they will know when you see it in the arrangement of the Hurds.

The Tucheng "Bianli" is long and narrow in shape, roughly divided into three parts: west, middle and east.

Among them, the main city is the highest, and the east and west sides of the main city are the Acropolis built by the Hurds.

Due to the cutting action of the river, the terrain on the north and south sides of the Tucheng is steep, and the river acts as a barrier. Attacking from these two directions will only run into a bloodbath.

The terrain to the west and east is relatively flat, but the East Acropolis is surrounded by water on three sides and is equally difficult to attack.

Therefore, the west side is the most vulnerable position in Bianli, and the Hurds will definitely place their main force in the West Acropolis. The battle for the western wall will determine the success or failure of this battle.

The Hurds invite the battle with a dignified formation, and there is no trick available, so they can only bite the bullet.

As the sun was at its highest, Arpad sent for the last time to persuade him to surrender. The Hurds simply refused, but they were very graceful and did not attack the messenger.

The drums of war were rumbling, a signal of the Palatine attack.

The desolate horn sounded from a distance, and the silhouette flashed on the city wall. Several city gates also slammed open, and the Hurds began to enter the fortifications under the city wall.

Under the guidance of the officers, the Palatine people behind the barrier roared in unison. The waves of voices were higher than waves, and everyone was excited to hear this battle cry.

The battle cry echoes over wasteland, and the Palatine army goes into battle.

Winters stuck his body out of the trench used to resist the enemy breaking out of the city, and watched the heavily armored Paratus soldiers push dozens of chariots to cover the musketeers as they slowly approached the city wall.

Alaric Thousand Man Squad pushed the carriage to attack the Netherworld River barracks, and now the Paratus have come up with exactly the same tactics, and Winters can't help laughing.

As time was running out, and the Hurds had weak long-range firepower, the superiors believed that they did not need to dig trenches to advance, and Brigadier General Sackler ordered a direct attack on the city wall.

Winters' troops are not in the siege sequence, and Jesska battallion is responsible for defending a blockade, so Winters can build the trenches according to his own ideas.

This kind of thing, he has done the familiar in the archipelago.

He arranged the trenches at six-meter intervals, and they were not connected horizontally, which saved man-hours.

Sprinkling the soldiers like salt was easy to break, so Winters widened every corner of the trench so that it could accommodate two Ten Men Squads, which he called the angle of attack.

Beside Winters, the militiamen also stuck their heads out of the trenches and watched nervously as the siege troops pressed down on the city wall.

A few puffs of white smoke rose up from the city wall in the Highlands, and Winters' heart tensed - Bello didn't lie, the Hurds really had artillery.

The artillery shells flew towards the trench where Winters was located with the thunder, and the militiamen screamed and returned to the trench one after another.

Winters was completely motionless, and the shell "xiu" swept past four or five meters above the trench and flew to somewhere unknown.

What's the point of shelling trenches? The gunner in the city must have aimed at the chariot, but it was too crooked.

Winters couldn't help shouting the head. In his opinion, the siege ability of the Paratus was as poor as the defense of the Hurd, and they were both third-rate.

A nearby militiaman got up from the ground and suddenly said, "Why are you shaking your head? Sir."

Winters glanced at the questioning militiaman: "What's your name?"

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A large number of militiamen were newly recruited by his subordinates, so that he still does not recognize the whole person.

"Ish, Ish from Ganshui Town." The militiamen were stared at by the blood wolf, so nervous that they were at a loss.

The other militiamen in the corner of the attack also stiffened for a while.

"I shook my head because it would be foolhardy to siege the city like this." Winters tried to remember the faces and names of the militia before him.

He jumped back into the ditch, slapped the dirt on his hands and said, "Don't look, Bian Li can't get down today. Pick up the shovel and keep digging!"

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The chariot approached the earth wall, the musketeers suppressed the archers on the wall, and the sword and shieldmen jumped over the wooden fences, low walls, and ditches under the city to fight the Hurds.

During the short days in winter, the Palatine Army fought hard all afternoon and even failed to clear the fortifications under the city.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Brigadier General Sackler had to order the troops back to the camp.

Andre and Mason reunited in Winters' tent after the sun went down. This time, not only the two of them, but also Lieutenant Veneta, who was in the frontline camp, also came to have a dinner.

There were no less than ten people squeezed into the small military tent, and everyone couldn't even stretch their legs, so they could only curl up in aggrieved.

But the atmosphere in the tent was very warm, and some people brought wine.

It was the first time that the Veneta ensigns had gathered so many people since they lived in the country of galloping horses. In the same period, fellow villagers and comrades-in-arms reunited after a long absence, only to hug and cry on the spot.

The bone-chilling wind screamed outside the tent, but the people sitting around the iron furnace didn't feel cold at all.

Bud was not there because he was on the night shift on the first day, where he was still counting the stars in the trenches.

"Emotional scumbags are all useless?" There was only himself in the tent, and Andre recklessly commented: "On this level, I can go up to me too! It's just a matter of life."

"Actually, the barbarians keep a little bit of rules. The triangular fort, the multiple trenches, and the cross-fire between the city and the city will give everyone a headache. Just because the artillery hasn't exploded in the afternoon, it's not an ordinary barbarian." Vettel swallowed a mouthful of Distilled Liquor and passed the bottle to the right hand.

Wettor's right hand was Winters, Winters took the bottle, but did not drink, and then passed to the right.

He sighed and said, "I dug trenches all afternoon, and I don't even know who I am fighting. Who is the general in the city?"

"It seems to be called... Yasin ." Vitol rubbed his temples and tried to recall: "The chief of the Chihe Department, the barbarians call him the white lion."

Andre suddenly came to his senses: "The white lion? Winters hunted one. Giant lion! The head is as big as a wheel! Hundreds of pounds!"

"Really?"

"It wasn't me, it was killed by a hunter." Winters didn't think at all. Talk about this topic.

Berrian lifted the curtain and brought in an iron pot with hot meatball soup.

It was cold and the food would cool down quickly, so Berion put the pot on the iron stove in the middle of the tent and continued to cook, while Winters added some wood to the stove.

The food stopped chatting, everyone cleaned the meatballs first, and then cooked noodles with the soup in the pot. In the wilderness on the edge of this "civilized world", several Veneta people actually tasted a touch of hometown.

After a full meal, Lieutenant Sanu of the Cavalry Division licked his fingers and said, "I'm curious, where did the barbarians get the guns? They can make guns? And gunpowders? Cannonballs? Gunners?"

Andre picked his teeth, coldly snorted: "The Tanirians can get cannons, why can't the Hurds? Old Mako said that the inscriptions on the heavy cannons on the Red Iwo Island were all smashed. Filed."

Everyone felt a little sad when he mentioned Marcello, who had been killed in action.

Winters recalled the way Marcello walked up to him at the gala dinner with two bottles of wine in between, as if it were just yesterday.

Kona asked hesitantly: "What do you mean... Maybe someone deliberately provides artillery and technology to the barbarians?"

"It's not possible, it is! The barbarians will defend the city, I They said no one taught them, do you believe it? It must be the scumbags of the Union Province! Last year, we punished us, this year, the Palatine people!"

"You can't be so arbitrary..." Kona was still there struggle.

Andre's eyes widened and he shouted: "There is a circle of forces that can cast heavy artillery around Palatu - the United Provinces, Veneta, and the Oathbreakers in the north. Not us, then If it's not a union province, can it still be an oathbreaker? Stop thinking about it! It's the mud guy who is supporting the barbarians."

Lieutenant Mason looked a little embarrassed, Bud was not there, he was the only union province in the tent people.

Andre hurriedly added: "Senior, the mud guy didn't mean you."

Mason was even more embarrassed, his smile was bitter: "It's nothing, anyway, the United Province is also He didn't treat me as a member of the United Provinces, and Plato didn't treat me as a Plato either. I'm not on the same page."

The atmosphere was cold for a while.

"In Palatu, we are all strangers." Winters wanted to divert the topic and bring the chat back to the military: "I think it's normal for the Palatu people to be bad at attacking cities, they Fighting against the Hurds has always been cavalry, so why do we need to attack? , Major General Arpad was born in the cavalry, and Sackler, who was born in the infantry division, was only a brigadier general.

"I've said bad things, so don't spit it out." Andre, who was sulking on the side, stubbornly pulled the topic back: "It happens that everyone is here, I have something I want to discuss with you. "

Everyone's eyes were on Andre.

Andre cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "I think, no matter whether the Paratus can win or not, we have to prepare early..."

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The siege on the first day was not smooth, and on the second day, Brigadier General Sackler attacked the city wall early in the morning, and the tunnel troops also stepped up overnight. dig.

The city wall of Tucheng is not high, but the Palatine army lacks artillery—even if there is artillery, it is not effective for the low wall constructed by civil engineering. Only use the chariot to cover and clear the city, and then Dig the wall and blast.

The Hurds built two bastions on the western wall, excavated multi-layered trenches outside the city, erected wooden railings and low walls, and arranged shooters-mainly archers and a few muskets above and below the city.

The main direction of the Palatu army is two bastions, and there is no way to attack the city gate without first pulling out the two bastions.

Sgt. Miller, the Fifth Army's chief battallion, was sweating and panting when he finally reached the first parapet as he pushed his cart uphill.

Because of the terrain, the parapets under the city are higher than each other, and they will not block the shooting range.

The arrows from up and down the city hit the carriage, making a series of muffled sounds of "pu pu".

Miller's men held up their shields and tried to hide behind the carriage. Many Hurds are still using bone arrowheads and stone arrowheads, but they can't help plate armor, but no one wants to gamble on luck.

even more how Sword and Shieldmen have only half body armor, and Heard Archers shoot their legs exclusively.

The sound of arrows breaking through the air was occasionally mixed with the muffled sound of muskets, which was the most terrifying sound for sword and shield players.

Already ten paces before the wall, but everyone cowered, Sergeant Miller clenched the teeth, roaring against the parapet against his shield.

An arrow hit Miller in the chest, and the arrow and sawdust splashed in the harsh, crisp sound. Miller froze for a while, but continued to charge forward.

The other Platonic soldiers saw the sergeant take the lead and followed. The musketeers mounted a good spear on the chariot and began to shoot at the archers on the city.

After a fight, the Hurds were defeated, and Miller led someone to clear this small section of the parapet.

The city was still raining arrows, Miller was shot in the right leg, and his comrades dragged him back to the other side of the parapet.

The Platonic soldiers temporarily resisted the Hurd's bullets against the Hurd's parapet.

Next they need to fill the trench, then attack the next parapet, then fill the trench, and then attack the next parapet before finally touching the city wall.

While the Palatine soldiers were fighting fiercely with the Hurds under the city, Winters was still leading people to dig a Z-shaped trench that extended towards the city wall.

In his eyes, the Palatine soldiers were brave enough, but the generals were too impatient and underestimated the enemy, always thinking of going down in one fell swoop.

It should be noted that foaming will not delay the shaving of beards. There is an uphill road of more than 600 meters between the Palatu army's attack position and the city wall.

I can't find a way to shorten this distance, how can I launch an effective impact on the city wall?

And Plato's generals have yet to realize the importance of keeping the enemy within the city wall.

As an officer who had watched Antonio's siege battle up close, Winters found that every time the elders sieged the city, the first thing they did was to find a way to lock the enemy in the city wall.

In the middle of the attack and defense of the tower city, the Veneta soldiers even sneaked into the city trench in the middle of the night to recover the shells, but the Union Army was trapped behind the city wall and unable to move even a little bit, so they could only watch.

Once the defenders can't get out of the city wall, the city is not far from being occupied.

But now the Palatine Army is attacking Bianli City. According to Bard, who was on the night guard last night, it was the Hurds who sneaked out of the city gate at night to recover arrows and repair fortifications.

Since then, the siege will turn into a complete war of attrition of human life, which is by no means what the siege party wants to see.

So when the half-armored Platonic sword and shield fighters fought against the Hurds under the city wall, Winters was leading people to dig trenches.

Lieutenant Colonel Jesska gave no such order, but he did not stop it either.

The lieutenant colonel went to see Brigadier General Sackler, and soon more militias and militiamen were transferred to Winters - digging trenches.

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