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Chapter 592 The Tragic Siege 1
In order to save time, Zhang Qiang had to attack Dherim City regardless of the cost. The 25-kilometer-long city wall made Zhang Qiang only concentrate on attacking.

The catapult continuously threw boulders, fireballs, and hit the city wall violently. This scene reminds people of the scene of Saladin attacking the city of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Heaven. The city wall was shaken by huge stones, and the wooden arrow tower on the wall was under the boulder. Breaking down, many soldiers turned into debris and fell from the city wall before they even had time to snort. The watchtowers in the city were messed up, collapsed and were submerged in a burst of dust.

Countless black smoke billowed from the top of the city, and some places were on fire. After a heavy bombardment, the siege ladder truck was pushed by the soldiers and slowly moved towards the city wall. The archers, or the crossbowmen, fired one after another after approaching a certain distance, and the archers on the city wall did not show any weakness. They started shooting arrows from the wall in front of them and from the place beyond the distance of the siege vehicles. Damage, of course, the biggest loss is the attacking side.

Since most of Zhang Qiang's troops on the attacking side belonged to militias, recruits, mercenaries, and adventurers, they were in an unprotected area. They not only endured the attacks of the enemy's bows and arrows on the wall, but also endured the attack of the enemy's bed crossbow on the wall. Attack, although the catapults and bed crossbows equipped by Zhang Qiang, and even the long-range suppression firepower of swarms are already very sophisticated, and there are kite vehicles, which are equivalent to the firepower of front-mounted smoothbore guns, which are much more advanced than the enemy But how can I say that the enemy is attacking a big city, the enemy is far more than Zhang Qiang's troops in terms of numbers, defensive weapons, and defensive cities, so heavy losses are inevitable.

Zhang Qiang held a binoculars and sat on the horse silently looking at the city wall and the attack of his troops.

Time passed little by little, and the losses continued to expand. From the attack again in the afternoon to the present, after more than 300 people were killed and injured, the troops finally approached the enemy's wall with difficulty. The siege vehicles and siege ladder vehicles were advancing It fell down on the road and damaged more than a dozen vehicles. Even the kite car that wanted to get close to bombarding the enemy's city wall was destroyed by the enemy's bed crossbow.

Finally, a vehicle approached the enemy's city wall, and the archers on the wall were cleared. The enemy was in a hurry, but did not have time to mobilize troops to seal the gap, so the pedals slowly stretched out from the siege vehicle, On the crenel of the enemy's city wall, the infantry who had already been prepared to follow the ladder vehicle gathered from both sides, rushed towards the slope-like springboard at the rear of the siege vehicle, and rushed towards the city wall.

The crossbowmen in front of the springboard kept suppressing the enemy's infantry who came up to reinforce them, but they were only a few crossbowmen left over from the brutal confrontation, how could they compare with the infantry and archers on the enemy's wall, they were a group, a group Yes, using many, many to describe the defenders of the city, they were shot to the ground by the enemy without shooting a few arrows, and their bodies fell from the towering siege vehicles to the bottom of the city wall.

At this time, the infantry gathered towards the siege vehicle had just reached the springboard of the siege vehicle and was rushing forward, trying to climb up to a height of more than ten meters above the siege vehicle, pass through the corridor inside the siege vehicle, and rush up. A gangplank on the walls of Dherim.

The enemy rushed to the springboard in front of them. Immediately, the ax slashed, the sword came down, kicked, and the spear pushed, trying to push the springboard away from the city wall. The crossbowmen and archers mixed in there kept shooting bows and arrows from the side Swadian infantry rushing up from the ramp at the rear of the siege vehicle.

The city of Dherim was built during the period of the Swadia Empire. The city wall began with a straight-line wall. In the period of the Swadia Kingdom, with the development of architectural concepts and war concepts, it has developed into a European bastion style. The buildings may not be that advanced, but the extensions extending from both sides every 30 meters happened to show the function of a bastion, so the infantry of Zhang Qiang's troops who attacked the city wall were pinched from both sides, and the first wave of shock Under the cover of the shieldman, only a dozen or so infantry rushed up, but what they had to face was a pincer attack from three sides, whether it was the infantry on the attack or the infantry fighting the enemy at the end of the springboard.

Losses are inevitable, but how can the siege troops who rushed to the edge of the city wall and successfully set up the siege vehicles be discouraged?

A steady stream of soldiers gathered behind the narrow siege vehicle ramp, where the two sides formed a fierce collision scene of needlepoints against wheat awns. Corpses continued to fall from the wall like rain, many of which belonged to Zhang Qiang's troops. There were one or two enemy infantry mixed in. Because the crenels were smashed to pieces by catapults, not many enemies on the city wall could gain much space advantage over the siege troops on the springboard. There was a distance of one meter between the two sides. Width, confronting each other, there are always soldiers who are overly excited. If one accidentally falls off the city wall, he may be killed or disabled, but no matter how he is, alive or dead, he exists under the wall. It was impossible to stand up again while the war was still going on, and the corpses that kept falling from above buried him alive under the city wall.

As the first part of the siege successfully put up the city wall, it took away the enemy's local defense force and concentrated on one place to attack the siege vehicles. There were always gaps in other places, so the commanders of the siege vehicles behind also Not a fool, under the escort of the infantry, the siege vehicle was pushed to other places, so the second siege vehicle, this one was a siege ladder vehicle, successfully leaned against the city wall.

The commanding infantry commander asked the infantry to climb the ladder to the city wall. The first soldier jumped up, the second jumped up, and the third was surrounded by scattered enemies. Climbing up, with a knife in one hand and a ladder in the other, he killed the surrounding enemies, turned over and rushed to the top of the wall to help the three soldiers who had already gone up, and the soldiers behind rushed up continuously, but this breakthrough could not be achieved. In a few minutes, the enemy discovered it, and soon the enemy surrounded it. Several soldiers guarded the ladder behind them back to back, fighting with the enemy's infantry.

It was getting darker and darker. Six or seven siege vehicles had already leaned against the city wall and were fighting with the enemy's troops on the city wall. The other siege vehicles were still constantly seeing the enemy at a place infinitely close to the enemy. Kuji Within the shooting range of the special people's short bow, the siege engine pushed forward with difficulty, and the infantry covering the siege vehicle above and below, whether with shields or without shields, were killed several waves, and then waited for the infantry behind. The infantry continued to rush up, replacing the soldiers who died in front, pushing the siege vehicles, while suppressing the shooting of the archers on the enemy's wall.

(End of this chapter)