Chapter 156: Fatal Battle on the City Wall
But those devils from hell finally discovered the situation and felt that something was wrong.
After these hell devils gathered together, under the command of the medium devil, they all began to choose to advance forward step by step, and then carried forty or fifty 10-meter-long siege ladders to approach the city wall of Xinriwadin.
He planned to endure the attacks of the human cavalry, place all the siege ladders on the city wall, and capture the wall in one go.
After all, as long as the city wall is captured, no matter how powerful the human cavalry is, they will not be able to cause much damage to them who enter the city wall.
And it would be even better if those human cavalry could get inside the city walls and start fighting with them.
Now these devils from hell know that they cannot catch up with the human cavalry on war horses.
Then once these human cavalry entered the complex environment of the city walls and fought with them, it would be tantamount to falling into the trap of these devils from hell.
The final outcome will be to be torn into pieces by these hell demons who are extremely capable in close combat.
This is the tactical arrangement that these devils from hell want to make.
"Go forward! Go forward quickly!"
"The inferior devil's centurion on the edge! Start driving away those human cavalry. Don't let them continue to shoot arrows at us here!"
"Inferior devils! Cover the inferior devils as they approach the city wall!"
So the middle-level devils began to arrange the inferior devils carrying siege ladders to continue moving forward, while letting the inferior devils on the side actively attract the attention of the human cavalry.
It is said that it is to attract the attention of those human cavalry, but in fact it is to let them die.
Because only these inferior demons moved forward and were shot to death on the spot by the human cavalry with bows and arrows.
Only in this way can the remaining inferior devils, low-level devils and these medium-level devils have the opportunity to approach the city wall.
Otherwise, they would not be able to reach the city wall, and their final fate would certainly be to die in this flat field. No matter how strong their combat power was, they would be shot to death on the spot by the human cavalry with bows and arrows.
These medium-level demons have already seen how difficult it is to deal with the human cavalry riding on war horses and holding bows and arrows.
That's why they came up with this idea.
And this method is also relatively effective.
After all, more than 2000 inferior devils are a considerable number. If they take the initiative to die, the 515 Kugit grassland bandits will really have to kill these inferior devils first.
Otherwise, if those inferior devils really came near me and attacked me with their scimitars, it would be very dangerous.
Besides, these Kugit grassland bandits also understand their own tactics, which is to consume and attract these devilish troops.
Disrupt the dense formation of these devil troops.
It also disrupted the siege rhythm of these devil troops, making it impossible for them to comfortably and easily launch attacks on the city walls.
These Kugit grassland bandits have this kind of mission.
So these grassland bandits watched helplessly as the low-level devils and the inferior devil phalanxes carrying ladders approached the city wall, and none of them were in a hurry.
Instead, he was a little interested in speeding up the running speed of the prairie horse under his crotch, occasionally passing through some demon phalanxes, then bending his bow and shooting arrows to kill a few demons, and then leaving again in a flash.
It was like a game, constantly attacking and killing those demons.
These hell demons came all the way from the Sujia Village station to the direction of the city wall and stayed there. There were also thousands of corpses of inferior and low-level demons.
As for the phalanxes of inferior devils that had stepped forward to actively attract the Kugit grassland bandits, they were now in disarray.
It was a heavy loss indeed.
Moreover, it only takes about 15 minutes for a normal person to walk from Sujia Village to the city wall.
If you run, it will only take 5 minutes to get here.
But it's just a small distance.
Thousands of corpses of these hell demons were left behind, and the remaining hell demons also had some feather arrows stuck in their bodies.
Quite miserable.
"Alright! Now we have reached the city wall, and now it's time for us to kill these humans!!!"
"As long as we reach the city wall, we can kill all those humans!!!"
"Those humans are very weak and are no match for us!!!"
The middle and low-level devils were roaring in anger, and ordered the inferior devils to push forty or fifty long ladders towards the city wall.
The round shields in the left arms and the scimitars in the right hands were constantly swinging.
He was obviously eager to rush up and start fighting with the mounted and slashed soldiers on the city wall.
However, these medium and low-level demons had just approached the city wall, only 50 meters away.
Resarit, who was still commanding all the Vikia archers and the hired assistants behind him on the city wall, had a grim smile on his face, raised his knight's sword high and pointed forward: "Shoot!"
"All Vigia archers! Release your arrows!"
"All hired crossbowmen! Release the arrows!"
And the captains of the Vikia archers on the outer city wall quickly conveyed Resarit's orders.
The captains of the mercenary crossbowmen on the inner city wall also saw Resarit swinging his knight's sword downward, understood his meaning, and conveyed the same order to shoot arrows.
And right at the city gate, and on the arrow towers on the left and right, Swadian light infantrymen, who were also operating light equipment, conveyed the order to shoot.
"Light trebuchet! Fire!"
"Light crossbow! Fire!"
The long-range city wall defense mechanism, which had already been prepared and fully formed into a systematic one, suddenly erupted at this moment.
Cone-pointed arrows used by Vaegir archers.
Crossbow bolts for mercenary crossbowmen.
Loose gravel for a light catapult.
Light crossbow spear.
At this moment, it instantly blasted out violently.
It was like an ocean wave formed by a terrifying long-range projectile weapon, which directly submerged the inferior devils in front of them who were carrying siege ladders and rushing towards the city wall quickly.
As the waves surge.
Those four or five hundred inferior demons who came carrying forty or fifty ladders were beaten to death on the spot by the waves without even a grunt.
Those conical arrows, crossbow bolts, stones and spears almost beat all the inferior demons that rushed over to the point that they could not recognize their original appearance.
They all turned into hedgehogs covered with feather arrows and crossbow bolts.
A rag doll that was smashed to pieces by scattered stones.
Candied haws pierced by spears.
It looks so miserable!
So much so that the forty or fifty ladders were thrown on the ground at this time, and no inferior devils were willing to carry these ladders to approach the city wall.
It’s not that these inferior devils don’t want to.
But these inferior devils carrying ladders were all killed in this wave!
Even if there were still thirty or forty inferior demons who were lucky enough not to be hit by arrows, stones, or spears, they were still standing there stupidly.
But these thirty or forty inferior devils alone could not carry the forty or fifty extremely heavy siege ladders, which were ten meters long and one meter wide.
Looking at the inferior demons around, there are only four or five hundred left.
You have to know that at the beginning, there were as many as 2000 inferior devils, followed by thousands of low-level devils, who came to attack the city.
They had only just reached the city wall and hadn't even set up the siege ladders, but they had already lost two-thirds of their inferior devils.
So what should we do when the more brutal battle for the city wall comes next?
At least not to these inferior devils.
With their current numbers.
Even if we knew, there was nothing we could do.
In the ensuing battle for the city wall, there were only four or five hundred of these inferior devils left, and they were not even qualified to be cannon fodder.
All they could do was watch the ensuing battle unfold.
But for those low-level devils, now is the time when there is no time to lose, they absolutely cannot stand idly by.
Continue to wait here and face the shooting of sharp cone-head arrows and crossbow bolts.
It was directly hit by the two light crossbows on the city gate.
The light catapults on the arrow towers on both sides shot out pieces of stones, which hit them like shotgun bullets.
They are also reaping the lives of these low-level demons.
They knew they couldn't wait any longer.
"Begin the siege!"
So those low-level devils took the initiative to carry the forty or fifty siege ladders forward, and shouted loudly as they began to move them closer to the city wall, and then erected them and smashed them on the battlements of the city wall with a "clang".
Forty or fifty siege ladders were built one after another, forming relatively steep slopes.
But it just happened to allow these low-level devils to rush up to the city wall with scimitars in hand and fight.
"kill!"
So these low-level devils immediately widened their dark red eyes excitedly, raised their scimitars and round shields on their left arms, strode forward and began to climb the steep ladders.
He wanted to rush to the city wall at an extremely fast speed and fight with these humans.
However, just above the city wall, the Viktoria archers and Swadian light infantry behind the baffles, as well as the Viktoria recruits, would not allow these hellish demons to rush up the city wall so easily.
So the Vikia archers immediately opened their nomadic bows and aimed the conical arrows directly at the siege ladders.
'Swish, swish, swish, swish!'
Countless shrill sounds of breaking through the air appeared again. Then, on these straight siege ladders, the hellish demons who tried to climb up quickly were shot dead on the ladders.
They had no ability to resist at all and were like living targets on the ladder.
He was shot dead on the spot.
He fell down heavily, hitting other demons, twitched twice, and then became completely silent.
However, even if there was still a sound, it was just a devil from hell who was seriously injured but not dead yet.
At this moment, he looked at the stone the size of a human head falling directly from the city wall above his head, and the huge rolling log, which was eventually smashed to death on the spot because he could not dodge in time.
Even outside the city wall, there were already forty or fifty siege ladders.
At this time, these low-level demons were rushing towards the city wall frantically, climbing the ladders fearlessly, wanting to rush to the city wall as quickly as possible and in the shortest time, and completely defeat the defenses of the human defenders.
Because only in this way can they avoid greater casualties, and only in this way can they have a chance of survival.
Therefore, facing the feather arrows flying all over the sky and the crossbow arrows behind them, these low-level demons suffered heavy casualties.
Finally, I reached the top of the ladder.
That is the location of the battlement.
Just as he was about to climb over the two-meter-high barrier, he jumped directly to the top of the city wall behind him and fought with the human defenders with the scimitar in his hand.
However, he never expected that a number of sharp spears would appear directly from the gaps in the baffle and the shooting windows.
They were stabbed to death on the spot when they tried to climb over the barrier.
At the same time, the Swadian light infantrymen wearing chain mail at the back retracted their spears from the gaps and shooting windows.
Looking at the gap and shooting window that were so close to them again, as long as there was any dark red figure that dared to appear in front of them, they would use all their strength to thrust out the spears in their hands regardless of everything.
Because this is the key mission of these Swadian light infantry stationed on the city walls!
"Well done! Swadian Light Infantry! You are indeed the most qualified regular infantry in Swadia!"
At this time, Resarit was even more excited and praised loudly.
The Swadian light infantrymen cheered in response to the praise, and their stabbing force became even more ferocious.
Everyone likes compliments and everyone likes to be praised.
What's more, the one who praised and commended them this time was Instructor Resarit, who had trained them since they were new recruits in Swadia and had a very deep relationship with them and whom they trusted quite a lot.
This means that Resarit believed in their fighting ability and their combat level, which is why he entrusted them with such an important task.
This in itself is something for them to be happy about.
"However, at this time, should we let the Vikia archers retreat?"
At this time, Shen Mu was looking at the devils from hell who were under great defensive pressure on the city wall due to the excessive number of forty or fifty ladders, and whose attacks were also quite fierce, with some worry in his eyes.
"Of course, Lord Shen Mu, I also think that those Vikia archers should retreat first." Resarit agreed with all of this point of view.
Then he waved his hand to signal the 300 Vikia archers to retreat immediately.
There was no need to say more, because he had already instructed them before to let these Vikia archers immediately go to the inner wall from the north side of the west wall through the tower.
After joining up with the 100 mercenary crossbowmen, they once again took advantage of the height of the inner city wall to provide long-range support for this side.
These were all arranged in advance.
So the 300 Vikia archers put away the cone-head arrows in their quivers without saying anything extra.
Run quickly towards the inner city wall.
Because only by running over in the shortest time can they appear on the inner city wall again, draw their bows and shoot arrows at this side again, and provide support from long-range archers.
This is a good castle defense system with layers of defense.
And at this time.
Shen Mu looked at the Wikia recruits who were still raising the stones and wood in their hands and throwing them hard towards the ground.
His brows furrowed subconsciously.
These Vikria recruits are only first-level recruits. If they are allowed to continue here and those Swadian light infantry, they will have to fight against the hellish demons rushing in from the siege ladders outside.
Whether they can be stopped is still unclear. Even if they can be stopped, in such a narrow terrain, will these hellish demons armed with scimitars cause heavy losses to these Wikia recruits? This is what Shen Mu is extremely concerned about now.
After all, these Wikia recruits are Shen Mu’s favorites.
If these Vikia recruits can be upgraded to the second-level Vikia light infantry, and then the subsequent upgrades will be Vikia infantry and Vikia guerrilla archers.
The Vikia infantrymen's words are not that important.
However, the Vikia Guerrilla Archer is an elite third-level archer who is armed with a nomadic bow and equipped with feather arrows. This long-range archer is quite useful.
After reaching a certain scale, the Vikia guerrilla archers could shoot arrows accurately and quickly, and they could also chop with two-handed axes in close combat, which was absolutely unmatched by the long-range archers of other kingdoms.
Therefore, Shen Mu paid great attention to the safety of these Wikia recruits. After all, once they are upgraded, they will definitely be elite archers.
This means that these Wikia recruits will be the foundation of Shen Mu’s elite troops in the future.
The key is that those devils from hell are still extremely flexible.
For example, on the battlefield today.
The more than two-meter-high wall barriers were really difficult for the pig-headed people who had experienced such siege tactics before to climb over them.
Therefore, the pig-headed men could only use the flails and various other means in their hands to smash the baffles in order to enter the city wall directly.
And Shen Mu's mounted and sword soldiers hunted and killed.
After all, those pig-headed people are really fat and can't make any flexible moves.
But these demons from hell are different.
Especially these low-level hell demons, each of them looks thin, but their muscles are quite developed.
Quickly climbed up the 10-meter-long ladder and reached the 6-meter-high city wall.
Just by stepping on the height between the baffle and the battlement, you can climb up easily with the help of the outline of the shooting window, and easily climb over the entire baffle and jump onto the city wall.
If the Swadian light infantry hadn't been poking them down with their spears, if the Viktoria recruits hadn't been throwing stones and wood down on them.
These devils from hell can really climb over the city wall easily and quickly occupy it.
This is the advantage of race.
Of course, for Shen Mu, the current situation is quite urgent.
Because the speed and force of those hell demons attacking the city walls were getting faster and faster, the defensive pressure they faced almost doubled after the Vikia archers withdrew from the front-line combat positions.
So much so that Shen Mu and Lesarit had already drawn their knight swords and started to join the city wall, using their own strength to stop the attacks of those hell demons.
Because at this time, there was a section of the city wall where the devils from hell began to climb over the baffle and landed on the wall.
In other words, there are really a lot of defenders on the city wall.
Once those hellish demons gained a foothold, they were directly attacked by the Germanic swords of the Swadian light infantry or the two-handed axes of the Vikrian recruits.
These devils from hell were hacked to death on the spot.
But even so.
As more and more devils from hell climbed up the ladder, the number of them being stabbed down or knocked down by stones and wood decreased.
The entire city wall had indeed reached a critical point on the verge of being breached.
'Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!'
But at this moment, waves of arrows, producing shrill whistling sounds that tore through the air, appeared outside the city wall.
There were even some barbed arrows that were shot with such great force that they got nailed on the wooden baffles.
This caused the baffles to make a clanging sound.
"Haha! I knew that guy Bestul has been waiting for these devils from hell to launch a general attack!"
At this time, Resarit, who was holding a knight's sword enchanted with mithril and killing those devils from hell, suddenly let out an excited grin.
As he once again used the knight's sword in his hand that was flashing with white light, he easily killed those demons from hell.
Lesarit looked through the gap at the Kugit grassland bandits rushing out, and the grim smile on his face became more and more prosperous: "Now is the time for these pathetic hell devils to be harvested!"
"Yeah." At this time, Shen Mu also used the Holy Tree Knight Sword in his hand to kill the hell demons who dared to appear on the city wall.
Protecting the surrounding Viktoria recruits and Swadian light infantry from being severely damaged.
By the way, through the gap in the baffle, he also looked at the Kugit grassland bandits outside who were rushing over and shooting at the devils of hell one by one. His heart, which had been in his throat, finally calmed down.
At this time, you can indeed fall back.
Because when those Kugit grassland bandits rushed out, they began to call out the names of the hell devils on the ladder one by one with nomadic bows.
Directly shoot those low-level demons who were caught off guard and had their backs to them.
The enormous pressure on the entire city wall, which was on the verge of collapse, suddenly disappeared into thin air.
As for the low-level demons that jumped onto the city wall in groups of two or three, they disappeared without a trace.
The Swadian recruits and Vikia light infantry, who had not suffered any casualties at all, raised the stones and wood in their hands again and began to smash them hard at the low-level demons on the ladders outside that had not yet been knocked down.
Once again, the low-level demons on the ladders were forced back to the bottom of the city wall.
It's another embarrassing situation where you can't advance or retreat!
But this time, these low-level devils couldn't retreat slowly like last time to ensure that they could retreat back to the subway tunnel.
Because right on their retreat route, the 515 Kugit grassland bandits had already lined up.
To be precise, they were 415 ordinary Kugit grassland bandits.
And 100 elite Kugit grassland bandits.
He blocked their retreat route, and while riding on his warhorse, he stretched the nomadic bow in his hand into a full moon shape, then put feather arrows and barbed arrows on it, and began to rain arrows at these devils from hell!
What we want is the lives of these devils from hell!
(End of this chapter)
