Viscount Geoffrey was completely angry when the Lombards executed the clerk and his party who were sent by the Eastern Army to persuade them to surrender. Viscount Geoffrey knew that it would be impossible to capture Sauerburg by paying money to persuade them to surrender.
However, Viscount Jeffrey is still looking forward to spending a glorious and warm winter in the southern city of Wilno.
Early on the morning of the fourth day after the failure of the first attack, the Eastern Army began to launch a strong attack on Sauerburg.
This storming attack used the strength of the entire legion.
Three of the four gates of Sauerburg were under attack by the Eastern Legion, and only the southern gate was missing.
The attacking team was divided into four parts of different sizes - the north city gate is still the main attack direction, and is led by the legion's elite first company and crossbow team, a total of nearly 300 people. The auxiliary siege equipment includes four counterweight trebuchets, a topping battering ram, and twenty city climbing ladders; the east and west city gates are each led by the second and fourth companies. A flag team was sent to take charge, each equipped with two trebuchets, city-breaking hammers, city climbing ladders and other equipment; in the rear formation outside the north city, Viscount Jeffrey personally led the remaining flag teams of the second and fourth companies and the cavalry, a total of 240 people, as a reserve team. Once a hole is opened in a certain attack surface, these people will swoop up and tear the gap.
The Chinese Army command sounded three urging horns, and launched attacks from the east, west, north and west at the same time.
This is not a probing attack, so the trebuchet is the highlight of the soldiers' charge. Almost all the stones in the manor villages around Sauerburg that are suitable for throwing objects have been moved and stacked behind the trebuchet.
Eight trebuchets kept swinging their long and short arms and smashed stones as big as people's heads against the outer wall of Solburg. The rubble flew from the outer wall of Solburg. The Lombard defenders behind the wall were so smashed that they did not even dare to raise their heads. Dozens of people were hit. The arrow towers on the outer wall of Solburg were thrown down, and the arrow towers on the outer wall of Solburg were smashed and collapsed. The wide ditch on the inner side of the outer wall was hit by falling rocks, causing smelly water to splash everywhere. Occasionally, one or two rocks that flew far away rushed into the inner city, smashing a big hole in the houses in the city...
Behind the north city wall, a Lombard soldier squatted under the crenellation, holding his head and shivering. Four trebuchets from outside the city flew towards the top of the wall and pounded stones. The stones hit the city wall and made the entire wall tremble.
“The Provençal trebuchets are really powerful. They are so powerful even at such a distance.” said an older veteran next to the Lombard soldier.
The little soldier was frightened half to death by the loud noise and shaking caused by the rocks, so he could not hear the veteran's words.
"I'm talking to you, little bastard." The veteran kicked the soldier.
"I, I, am afraid of death." The soldier replied quietly.
"Yes, just hit me like this. All four trebuchets will be nailed to that section of the city wall and they will be smashed together. If the entire North City cannot be destroyed, can't I make a gap in the wall?" In the North City attack team, the commander of the first company shouted an order to the soldiers operating the trebuchets.
The trebuchets had little effect on the hard stone outer walls. He simply stopped sending stones to the Lombards everywhere, and instead concentrated all the trebuchets on one wall stack. No, the four trebuchets kept throwing, and a gap was quickly opened in the wall stacks in the North City.
After hammering at the gap for a while, the commander ordered: "Let me keep pounding the trebuchet until the soldiers climbing the city rush to the bottom of the city."
"The battering ram team attacked the north city gate."
「步兵旗队，进攻！」
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傍晚，持续了一整天的索尔堡攻防战仍在继续。
The first company of the North City Legion, which was mainly attacking during the day, almost occupied the outer wall of the North City. However, when a dozen elite infantrymen had just gained a foothold on the hole in the wall, more than twenty Lombard heavy infantry wearing half plate armor rushed to the top of the wall from the door hole and pushed back all the attacking legionnaires.
These heavy infantrymen wearing half plate armor are the most elite soldiers of the Lombards. Their armor is made by the armor craftsmen in the southern continent. Ordinary swords, hammers and axes cannot cause fatal damage to them.
In the two years since they invaded Provence, the Lombards have relied on these heavy infantry hiding behind iron plates to turn the tide in battle after battle.
The siege battle lasted from morning to evening, and the iron-clad people could not bear the intensity of the attack. So when the sun set below the horizon, the commander of the Eastern Army's central army sounded the trumpet for retreat. The siege soldiers who had been beaten back by the Lombards finally found salvation. They jumped off the city wall along the ladder and returned to the rear as if they were fleeing.
The main battlefield in Beicheng is like this, and the battlefields for feints on both sides are even worse. The mercenaries are the ones who lead the army and pay for the military rations. They have no sense of honor in their eyes. If the Eastern Army had not given them sufficient and stable military pay and the promise of allowing looting after the siege, these mercenaries would not even be able to help with feint attacks in the face of the fortified city.
The storming attack on the first day failed, and the Eastern Army paid the price of 48 deaths, 32 serious injuries, and more than 80 minor injuries.
Viscount Geoffrey was in ashes again and was in a very low mood.
In the next few days, the legion basically gave up the strategy of attacking the city with ants and instead used the method of building siege towers and gathering battering rams.
But the Lombards were also fully prepared. They used a large number of trebuchets, kerosene and other long-range weapons to attack the legion's siege towers and battering rams. Long before the Eastern Legion entered Solburg, they had marked various points outside the city. The trebuchets in Solburg could always accurately hit the siege towers and battering rams made by the siege team.
After attacking for several days, almost all the siege equipment produced by the Eastern Legion were destroyed by the Lombards, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
No way *** The Principality of Bardie is the main source of trade for kerosene. They have a large amount of kerosene reserves. The kerosene that is regarded as a treasure in the North is just an ordinary item for them...
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In mid-December, the outer wall of Solburg, which had been busy for more than ten days, finally became quiet.
Firstly, because the Eastern Army had experienced nearly half a month of hard fighting, the equipment and supplies were too consumed, the soldiers were too tired, and their morale was very low. The outer wall of Sauerburg seemed to have become an insurmountable high wall gap for the Eastern Army.
The second reason is that snow has begun to fall in the sky, covering the entire inside and outside of Solburg. The ground outside the city is slippery, which is really disadvantageous for the siege party.
The Eastern Legion camp north of Sauerburg.
Except for some patrols and sentries on guard duty, almost no one was moving around. The soldiers all hid in their tents to avoid the severe cold, and the whole camp was cold.
In sharp contrast to the quiet and cold camp, the Chinese army command camp was full of noise and heat.
All officers of the entire Eastern Legion, including the commanders of the legions garrisoned at the other three castles, and above, gathered in Viscount Jeffrey's camp. There were fire pits burning firewood around the camp, and the officers sat on both sides and argued.
Viscount Jeffrey dropped the wine glass in his hand to the ground.
"Quiet! You are here to discuss how to capture Sauerburg, not to listen to you fighting for victory and crying! The legion's armaments and supplies are all left. I want to concentrate my strength on the battlefield of Sauleburg. Where can supplies be distributed to other places? You garrison garrison at the three castles should first think of ways to raise it yourself, and the legion will make up for it after Sauerburg is captured." Viscount Geoffrey calmed down the officers in the camp who were arguing endlessly about asking for armament supplies.
Seeing that the tent finally became quiet, Viscount Jeffrey turned his head and said to Knight Charis, the captain of the first company who was sitting next to him: "Charis, let me tell you about the legion's recent attacks."
Charis raised his head and glanced at the people in the tent, and said: "Since the beginning of December, the Legion has launched six strong attacks on Sauerburg. The most promising one was that we had taken the outer wall of the north city. However, when we stood on the city wall, the Lombards ignored the melee garrison on the city wall and threw a large amount of kerosene directly at the top of the city. Together with the Lombard defenders on the wall, more than 30 people were burned to death, and even more were burned."
"A week ago, we stopped our assault and sent a small team of elite soldiers to sneak into Sauerburg City through the West City Water Knife, intending to burn the enemy's food and baggage, but the Lombards had already been prepared. We made a sneak attack and they hid and stored the food in the city in more than ten places, all of which were stone houses. Our infiltrated soldiers only burned two places before they were discovered by the Lombards. All six elites who infiltrated the city were killed. "
An officer asked: "If burning food doesn't work, can't we cut off the water source in the city? The river outside the city is brought in by a canal dug by people. Can we fill the canal directly from the outside soon?" , The Lombards have already dug several deep wells in the city, and there is no shortage of water. We have sent people to sneak into the city to poison the wells, but the Lombards actually dug several wells in several houses where troops were stationed. We poisoned the deep wells in the open air in the city, and the Lombards directly used deep wells hidden in the houses to get water~"
「经过两次潜入偷袭，警觉的伦巴第人已经将河道和几处可以潜入得暗口给封了起来，每日城中都有大量的军队巡逻放哨，现在别说一个外人了，就算一只陌生的老鼠进入城中都会被伦巴第人抓住。」查瑞斯骑士一脸的无奈，能够想到的阴招他们都已经差不多用光了。
"According to the information we received from the captured Baron Schmidt, there were eight months' worth of food and baggage stored in the city of Saulburg, and after he was captured, the Lombards also successively transported several batches of food and baggage into Saulburg. If we expect to besiege the city of Saulburg Fortress, I’m afraid we don’t have that much food and supplies. Besides, the Lombard army in Wilno will not sit idly by forever. Once our Provence friendly troops in the hilly areas cannot contain the Lombard army in the south, the Eastern Army will have to face the threat of Lombard reinforcements~”
Knight Charis gave a brief introduction to the current situation of the Eastern Legion, and everyone in the tent shook their heads.
"Okay, the battle situation is understood and the situation is clear. Now all the eloquent commanders, please share your thoughts."
"There is no need to talk about the nonsense of complaining, let's talk about the useful things." Viscount Jeffrey looked around at everyone.
All the officers stopped and bowed their heads in silence.
· Jeffrey sneered, "Everyone is usually very smart and brave, but now we need you, so you are humble."
· "Sir Art, you don't have to hide at the back. You are the outpost of the Chinese army, not an ordinary flag captain."
· "Aren't you very good at taking surprises? Tell me what you think~"