Among the Burgundian soldiers who were densely packed like ants towards the base of the west wall of Geneborg, Hans carried a thick-backed single sword and followed closely beside a wooden ladder and raised his shield to protect the soldiers carrying the ladder. Behind Hans were ten prisoner soldiers in the same posture. They were covering the elite soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment who were carrying the wooden ladder and ascended the city first.
In the first battle against Randy's army, Hans, the prisoner soldier who fought in front of Deadpool, made another military exploit. He personally killed two Swabian heavy infantrymen and also fought with the butcher. Together they killed a Swabian officer. During the battle, Bury's sternum was broken by the heavy hammer of the Swabian heavy infantry. He was carried back to Bramond City for treatment. Fortunately, Hans was almost unscathed except for a few non-fatal stab wounds.
After the war, the Burgundian army suffered heavy casualties, especially among the low-ranking officers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. Hans's original squadron commander and now the newly promoted flag captain of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, Commander Rigg, recommended Hans to the Chinese Army, so the prisoner soldier Hans, who had repeatedly achieved military exploits, was transferred back from the Deadpool to the 2nd Infantry Regiment as the fourth squadron captain under flag captain Passat.
In Art's army, the "fourth" is usually a relatively weak team, and Hans's fourth squadron is basically a slave recruit rescued from Bufan County. There are not even a few prisoners, so the combat effectiveness is even worse. As a result, when the combat mission was assigned, Hans's squadron was assigned the task of covering the elite soldiers entering the city.
But Hans was also very balanced. After all, his flag captain Passat also received the same task - holding up a shield to block the arrows of the elites, and then standing at the base of the city wall waiting for the elites to rush to the top of the wall and tear apart the enemy's defense line. If they were lucky or unlucky, they would still have the opportunity to climb the wooden ladder to the top of the city to perform meritorious service or die.
The shield in Hans's hand is still the small buckler captured from a small Swabian army. It is light and flexible to use, but in this situation, it needs to withstand the deadly arrows flying down from the city. It seemed very useless when he was in front of him. The shielding surface of the round shield was too small. It could block him but not the soldiers around him. If he moved a little towards the soldiers, the arrows whizzed past his shoulder blades, which made Hans's crotch tighten.
Fortunately, the trebuchets in the rear formation were still throwing stones at the top of the wall of Geneborg. Every time the stones hit the city, the Swabian arrow rain could stop for a moment. The Burgundian soldiers below the city had to take advantage of this short gap to rush forward.
"Asshole! Who asked you to block yourself? Let you cover the soldiers! Block the soldiers! Block the soldiers!!"
The scolding of flag captain Passat was accompanied by the sound of the scabbard flapping, and a prisoner behind Hans The disciples were so afraid of the arrows that were constantly being fired from the city that they put their shields on their heads, completely ignoring the safety of the soldiers carrying the heavy wooden ladder. This scene was seen by the flag captain Passat who was supervising the formation. Of course, this grumpy veteran officer rushed up and beat him.
Hans quickly moved the shield that was tilted to his side over the head of the soldier beside him, closed his eyes and prayed that the arrows shot by the Swabians would not kill him.
Charging at a high speed, the ladder to the city was safely covered and reached five or six steps in front of the wall. There was originally a trench trap here, but in the past ten days of fighting, it had been filled with soil and corpses by the siege army. After the fierce battle, the corpses of both the enemy and ours, broken weapons, and broken stones and rolling logs were still piled at the base of the wall.
Those corpses were Swabian, but most of them were Burgundian soldiers. The weather was cold in winter. After the siege failed, the corpses that could not be dragged away were thrown at the root of the wall. From time to time, the Swabians venting their anger would throw stones from the wall and hit the corpses, so many corpses were smashed into pulp, and then covered by snow to reveal some broken noses and skulls...
Hans suppressed the fear in his heart and half-closed his eyes to avoid looking at the broken limbs in the pile of rocks. Fortunately, the weather was cold in the winter. If these corpses rotted, grew maggots and stunk in the hot summer, it would be the misfortune of the siege soldiers.
Ignoring fear and nausea, the squadron soldiers under Hans gathered at the base of the wooden ladder and gathered the shields in their hands to form a large shield. The elite soldiers who were preparing to climb the city lifted the wooden ladder. The upper end of the wooden ladder at the back slowly rose under the combined efforts of the soldiers. The top of the wooden ladder with iron hooks slowly approached the crenellations of the outer wall of Geneborg. Once the iron hooks of the wooden ladder caught the crenellated wall, the defenders at the top of the wall could not easily overturn the wooden ladder.
However, the Swabians would not let the wooden ladder easily reach the top of the wall. Before the wooden ladder got close to the wall, the two fork poles were already aimed at the top of the wooden ladder. The Swabian desperately pushed back the wooden ladder that was about to get closer.
At the base of the wall, seven or eight elite soldiers also tried their best to push the wooden ladder closer to the wall. Unfortunately, they were at the end of the wooden ladder. No matter how strong the force was when it reached the top of the wooden ladder, it was mostly reduced. The seven or eight soldiers had veins bursting and could not push the wooden ladder against the wall.
Hans saw that the soldiers were struggling, threw down his shield, and ordered three nearby soldiers to join the team of pushing up the wooden ladder. After the four young men joined the Swabians at the top of the city, they could no longer hold up the wooden ladder. The wooden ladder clicked onto the wall. The soldiers quickly pulled the wooden ladder back, and the top hook of the wooden ladder was hung on the wall.
“Guys, follow me and charge upwards! If you kill an enemy, you will be rewarded with a hundred pfennigs!” The squadron leader gave the order, holding the dagger in his mouth, taking off the iron-clad round shield on his back, holding the shield in one hand and the ladder in the other, and the ants came up...
At the base of the wall, Hans also led his ten soldiers to hold up the shields and steady the wooden ladder. While guarding against the rocks and rolling logs constantly thrown down from the top of the wall, he also had to be ready to lead his troops to rush up the city wall...
As the ladders climbed up to the top of the west city wall, the trebuchets in the rear array outside the city finally stopped throwing stones at the top of the wall. At this time, the trebuchets could no longer hit the top of the city. Otherwise, with the accuracy of the trebuchets, it would be easy to accidentally injure our own soldiers who climbed onto the city. But the trebuchets in the rear formation were not idle. Stones of different sizes moved little by little from the outer wall of Genene Castle into the castle. Areas where soldiers might appear or accumulate were within the projectile range of the trebuchets.
At the same time as the elite infantry climbed onto the city, the siege tower also got closer to the west wall. The Swabians on the wall used kerosene cans to attack the approaching siege tower. Although the front of the siege tower was splashed with water and covered with animal skins, it was still set alight under the attack of kerosene. The crossbowmen on the top of the tower quickly opened the bags filled with sand piled aside and poured the sand down from the top along the front of the siege tower. The moist sand still played a role in extinguishing part of the fire.
When the first soldier who used the wooden ladder to climb the city jumped into the crenel, the siege tower on the right was also successfully pushed to the ten-step position of the city wall.
The tower bridge of the siege tower fell down with the sound of heavy hammers hitting the lock pins, and the west wall was set up with a pass.
At the moment the Tower Bridge was put up, five or six twenty-foot long iron spears protruded from the stacks of the west wall, and then two burning clay pots of kerosene exploded on the Tower Bridge. The kerosene splashed everywhere, and a fire soon ignited.
With an order, two soldiers wearing half plate armor and holding heavy hammered bucklers jumped onto the tower bridge. They were not afraid of kerosene and spears, and rushed into the sea of fire and ran away with their iron spears. Almost at the same time, seven or eight brave soldiers with similar armor and weapons also rushed into the sea of fire, and then the remaining people rushed out one after another.
The previous battle was caused by the enemy throwing kerosene, which caused the enemy to lose money. Therefore, the soldiers who attacked the city had long expected that the enemy would throw kerosene. They had already doused themselves with water the moment before the tower bridge fell.
However, the Swabians are not that easy to deal with. At the moment when the elite Burgundian soldiers blocked their spears and were about to jump into the wall, the Swabians actually lifted several large wooden boards to block the wall behind the wall. These large wooden boards were door panels removed from the mansions of wealthy merchant lords in the city. These door panels were not too high, but they could completely stop the Burgundian soldiers on the wooden bridge from jumping over the wall. It was impossible to climb over the smooth wooden boards wearing heavy armor.
The soldiers who had just rushed out of the sea of fire and escaped from the iron spears were blocked in front of this wooden door. No matter how they chopped and hammered with heavy hammers and axes, they could not break it open. It turned out that the Swabians were holding the door panel with a thick wooden stick.
The elite soldiers on the siege tower bridge had to retreat to the troop storage platform to put out the fire and repair before the kerosene burned the tower bridge...
When the attack on the siege tower was blocked, people on the ladder had already jumped over the wall to fight with the Swabians behind the crenellations. The Burgundian soldiers were brave, but the Swabians were also tough. Those who could survive more than ten days of offensive and defensive battles were elites in the army, and the Swabian garrison commander was also quite capable of commanding. He clearly understood that the West City was the main battlefield, so he deployed all the most elite troops to defend the West City.
The battle on the city was inherently disadvantageous, and the defenders were brave and fearless. The Burgundian soldiers who climbed to the top of the city were quickly killed. Odo and others who were commanding at the base of the wall had already begun to let the second batch of elites take the field, but there was still a section of the wall where fighting was still going on.
"On that section of the wall are the members of the flag team attacking?"
At the rear of Burgundy's western city, Art, who was watching the battle immediately, also saw an officer who looked like a squadron leader on a ladder on the right wall, leading three surviving soldiers, trying to maintain the crack that was being compressed step by step by the Swabians.
The officer must be young. From a hundred or two hundred steps away, you can feel his slightly immature face and body that has not yet fully grown, but he still refuses to step down the city ladder.
"Ron, who is the officer still guarding the city?" Art asked Ron, the guard beside him.
Ron set up the tent and took a few glances, "His name is Seredi. He is the first batch of apprentices in the parish school and the first batch of apprentices in the officer academy. He entered the army with Matthew. He was originally an orphan from a monastery in the North. He was brought back to the valley by Lord Salter five years ago."
“Originally a squad leader under Weitz, his squadron leader died in battle, and he was just promoted to squadron leader last week due to his meritorious service.” Ron, who is also a young officer, is very familiar with these young officers who came out of the officer academy.
Matt nodded and glanced at the battlefield on the wall where he was still fighting to the death, "If he can finish this battle alive, transfer him to the bodyguard."
Matt gave an order and said no more.
"Yes, sir."
During the conversation, the second group of soldiers who climbed onto the city had already begun to climb the stairs amidst the sound of the horns of Odo's soldiers. The main force of the second group was Tuba's flag team. This team has been stationed in Wallonburg recently and has suffered almost no major losses. Their desire to fight is also the strongest.
Tuba seized the fighter opportunity, spotted the gap in the wall that was still fighting desperately to maintain, and personally pressed the most powerful No. 1 Squadron under his command to climb up.
Tuba is the most senior flag captain under Art except Kazak. As a high-ranking commander who has been steadily promoted from an ordinary patrolman after five or six years of fighting, he not only has extraordinary commanding talents, but also has the fearless courage to personally go to the battlefield with a heavy hammer and an axe.
After a dozen soldiers from the first squadron climbed up the wooden ladder one after another and began to climb the city, Tuba ignored the guards of the soldiers around him, took out the hammer from his waist and rushed up the wooden ladder. "Comrades in front, rush up. If you die in battle, I will avenge you. If I die in battle, there will be hundreds of brothers behind me to avenge us!"
Tuba Dencheng itself is an encouragement to morale.
In an instant, five soldiers had already crossed the wall and joined the fighting in the gap. The young officer had fallen down and his life or death was uncertain, but the gap he tried to support was getting wider and wider. The Swabians also mobilized more elites here to defend against the enemy. .....
At the same time, soldiers from other parts of the Western Wall were also boarding the city one after another. Seeing that the Western Wall was about to be breached, the Swabian garrison commander sounded an emergency call, and the defenders from other walls also rushed to the Western City to increase their strength.
Just when the West City was in a fierce stalemate, the North City was defeated. The Burgundian frontier baron took advantage of the North City's weak defense and personally led more than twenty elites to board the North City and planted his flag on the wall...