Chapter 707 The first battle was unfavorable
Under the cover of crossbowmen, cavalry, and stones, soldiers carrying broadaxes and giant hammers rushed forward again, and with one force they completely pulled out the wooden piles under the wall. The Welsh Legion finally reached the city wall at the cost of thirty-eight casualties.
..—Quick, set up the ladder and get ready to climb the city! Guys from the Radiation Brigade, bring me the battering ram~"
"Hurry up, everyone, prepare to climb onto the city, pay attention to the stones rolling down the city wall——"
With the constant voices from the flag captains of each company, more and more soldiers came to the city wall carrying ladders...
"Your Majesty, Earl, they are already close to the city wall! What should we do?"
Terman, who was standing behind the shield, pushed away the panicked soldiers with one hand, came to the crenellation and took a look at the bottom of the city wall. He yelled at an officer who was responsible for guarding the city beside him: "Quickly, stop them from climbing the city! Get ready with fire oil and rocks!" We are about to enter the city. Everyone, prepare to face the enemy. If you don’t want to die, get up!” The officer gave the order while pulling up the soldiers who were lying low on the ground to avoid arrows and stones and pushing them to the edge of the city wall.
".-Klaus, take your heavy armored infantry and come up to me!" Seeing that the ladder had been set up, Art, who was supervising the battle not far away, shouted to Klaus, the captain of the heavy armored infantry company, who was already ready to board the city.
"Yes, my lord!"
Klaus, who was standing by, put the nose helmet he was holding on his chest on his head, pulled out the heavy sword from his waist, raised his shield and protected it on his chest, turned around and shouted to the more than two hundred heavy armored infantry behind him: "Heavy armored infantry company!"
"Here!"
"Raise the weapons in your hands and fight in with me!"
"Kill!" Everyone raised their swords, axes and hammers, like angry steel beasts, and ran towards the city wall behind Klaus.—
At this time, the city wall began to throw stones at the bottom of the city again, trying to prevent the soldiers who climbed the city from approaching.
Smash it hard!"
"Yes!"
When Art finished these three orders, the heavy armored infantry company, with the cooperation of the other soldier companies, began to climb the city.
At the same time, the men and horses of the heavy squad also pushed the siege tower under the city wall, and the soldiers of each combat company began to climb up the wooden ladder one by one.
Part of Colin's company, with the assistance of the radiant team, pushed the battering ram and approached the north gate step by step.
Hence, the soldiers of the Wells Legion divided into three groups outside the north city gate and began to attack Sauronburg "~~"
Hence, with the rhythmic sound of crashing outside the south city gate, the David Company of the Palace Guards and the reserve regiment led by Obote had begun to attack the city in a mighty manner. The battering ram kept hitting the outermost slanted wooden door.
".—Brothers from the reserve group, rush up and kill those bastards in the city!"
More than a hundred steps away from the south gate, Obote drew out the long sword from his waist, shouted to the reserve regiment soldiers behind him, raised his shield and led the rest of the troops towards the foot of the south city gate. Roger and Benson, the deputy commanders of the reserve regiment, each led a group of troops to rush to the east and west sides, and at the same time launched an attack on the Soronborg garrison on the city wall.
Although the soldiers of the reserve group have only received some basic military training, some of them even have short spears that have not seen blood. But under Obote's encouragement, these strong young soldiers were as excited as chicken blood. They roared and rushed forward, intending to use the heads of these Lombards to accumulate their own military exploits.
As soon as they rushed to the city wall, rocks began to roll down from above, smashing the heads of several soldiers into pulp on the spot, frightening these reserve regiment soldiers who had never experienced a real battle.
As the war intensified, the soldiers of the Palace Guards who had climbed halfway up the ladder kept rolling down from the top. Obote took a look at the situation on the city wall and said to a few soldiers around him who were good at throwing spears: "Listen, I will lead people to rush up later. You are responsible for covering. Give me those guys on the wall."
Obote stretched out his hand and made a gesture on his neck.
"Don't worry, Lord Obote!"
Obot nodded with satisfaction and glanced at the city wall again. There were not many Guardsmen left standing on the ladder.
"Come with me!" Obote said, turning around and stepping onto the ladder in a short step, and began to climb up on hands and knees. "...—Be careful!" On a ladder near the left side of the city gate, Sir David shouted as he ducked sideways to avoid the rolling logs. When he turned around and looked down, there was a burst of mourning. The soldier following him had been smashed to the ground, and his feet were broken by the rolling logs.
「Ah!」
David roared towards the city wall and climbed up towards the city wall at a faster speed. The scars on his face and the incomparable anger made him look like a dead ringer. He was so frightened that the defenders at the crenellation kept lifting stones and smashing them at him. David dodged left and right, avoiding those fatal stones again and again. Just as David was about to approach the crenellations, the city defenders once again raised the stone and aimed it at David's head. The moment he gathered strength to throw the stone, a short spear pierced his neck~
David turned back and looked down the city. A soldier from the reserve regiment humorously bowed to him in the manner of a maid.
David raised the corners of his mouth and nodded toward the soldiers. When he turned around and climbed towards the city wall again, a sharp spear stabbed at him from the battlement wall, just hitting the plate armor on his chest, and the huge impact almost pushed him down. After David came back to his senses, he held the ladder with his left hand, grabbed the spear pole with his right hand and pulled it outward with force, throwing the Lombard soldier at the other end off the city wall~
Accompanied by screams, the Lombard soldier rolled several times in mid-air and then landed on the ground. He immediately vomited blood.
However, this guy was very lucky and did not die immediately.
At this time, the soldiers of the reserve regiment, who had been suppressed by the defenders on the city wall, swarmed up. They picked up the guy in their hands and surrounded the Lombard soldier lying on the ground, directly chopping him into a pile of meat.
Perhaps the hacked Lombards at their feet gave them courage. These soldiers swarmed up, roaring and climbing towards the city wall. -
The Andermatt Castle Company and Tyniec County Soldier Company on the west wall, and the young and strong Provence peasant soldiers on the east wall fought separately, using ladders and siege towers to attack the city wall according to prior arrangements.
Compared with the intensity of the fighting at the north and south fort gates, the pressure they faced was relatively small. But the defenders on the city wall did not slack off at all and kept throwing stones and rolling logs at the bottom of the city wall. At the same time, the arrow towers on both sides kept harassing the siege soldiers climbing up the wall, which once frustrated the siege.
After a short rest, as the commander of the western siege team, Baron Antayas adjusted his strategy and planned to concentrate his superior forces to attack the wall section near the north, with archers and spear throwers as cover.
Relying on this strategy, the siege soldiers from the west once had a dozen soldiers rushing into the crenellations. However, with the continuous reinforcements from the opponent, eight of the dozen soldiers who rushed forward were killed, and the rest fought and retreated, retreating again along the ladder.
Happily, Antayas could only order to postpone the attack and then look for fighters. Under the leadership of Baron O'Dowd, the eastern city wall did not make much breakthrough.
Not only that, during the second attack, the defenders of Sauronburg poured a large amount of kerosene under the city wall, causing heavy losses to the Provençal soldiers who had been unable to attack for a long time. More than thirty people were burned into blackened corpses by the fire oil all over their bodies, and no less than fifty people suffered burns.
Compared to several other siege teams, the young peasant soldiers of Provence have the weakest combat effectiveness and the least battlefield experience. Coupled with the tenacious resistance of the Soronborg garrison, the Provence soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
But Baron O'Dowd was a man who would not admit defeat easily, and coupled with his hatred for the Lombards engraved in his bones, after reorganizing his troops, he resolutely led the group of soldiers with the strongest combat effectiveness as the vanguard, climbed the climbing tower, and then walked step by step toward the Lombards on the city wall. The defenders were approaching·
The northern city wall of Sauron Castle, watching more and more Burgundians approaching the city wall. The Lombard soldiers stationed above smashed the kerosene that had been prepared towards the bottom of the city wall. As hundreds of clay pots shattered, black kerosene spattered everywhere.
At this time, the company captain Weitz, who was directing the attack under the city wall, realized that something was wrong, and immediately shouted to the soldiers on the ladder who were constantly attacking, "Quick, everyone, get down immediately, it's kerosene!" When everyone began to retreat along the ladder, the crossbowmen on the city wall had already started to draw their bows and set arrows. "Retreat, retreat quickly!"
On the other side, the company captain Colin had just climbed onto the ladder. The arrows shot from the city wall instantly ignited the kerosene on the ground. Suddenly, explosive flames rose up and surrounded the soldiers who were boarding the city. In an instant, a wave of heat rushed upwards, igniting the coarse linen clothes worn by the soldiers.
Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Colin covered his mouth and nose, jumped down from the ladder seven feet above the ground, and ran quickly towards the outside. The kerosene on his legs ignited his trouser legs. Fortunately, a few soldiers who reacted picked up the soil from the ground and covered the trouser legs, and Colin was able to save these two legs.
When Colin stood up and looked towards the city wall, those soldiers who had no time to escape fell into the sea of burning fire and struggled sadly...
The first battle ended with the retreat of the Welsh Army