Chapter 799 Crush
".. Reyek! Reyek!" Lusignan kept shouting Reyek's name, and big tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes.
Jafar on the side held Reyek's blood-covered right hand tightly, unwilling to let go. His mind was filled with scenes of the two talking and laughing just a moment ago.
Matt closed his eyes slightly, swallowing the bitterness in his heart one bite at a time. His heart was full of reluctance for the wandering knight he met in the Free Buffalo Tavern in Tyniec.
Everyone present was moved by such a scene, and they all stood in place to express their condolences for the knight's departure.
At this time, Robert, the bishop of Wales, stepped forward and crossed himself on his chest.
"I believe that everything he did for God will be remembered forever by the world. That cross sword not only represents his faith, but also the glory that accompanies him throughout his life! Although his soul has left us at this moment, the glory shining in his blood will always guide us forward. Amen~"
"Amen~" Everyone drew a cross on their chests together, expressing their condolences and saying a final farewell to the knight.
At this time, Art took a deep breath and slowly stood up. Turning his head to look at Fort Alechi behind him, an imperceptible murderous look flashed across the city wall. Kane Hawke, who had personally operated a crossbow to hunt down a general of the enemy army a moment ago, was very excited at this moment.
"Hahaha—quickly, give me my order, the trebuchets will keep hitting me all the time. Use all your powerful crossbows to prevent them from getting closer. ""
"Yes!"
As soon as the messenger finished speaking, an armor-piercing heavy arrow whizzed over with its tail feathers screaming, and pierced into this guy's head. The huge impact instantly pushed him down, hitting the guardrail of the arrow tower and rolling down from a high altitude.
"Protect your lord!"
Seeing this, the leading baron immediately stepped forward to protect Kane Hawke and pushed him to the ground. Other archers who failed to react were hit by sharp arrows that struck again and fell to the ground.
While still in shock, Kane pushed the baron in front of him and shouted loudly to the soldier who was lying on the ground with his head in his hands: "What are you still doing? Go quickly!"
"Yes, sir."
So, the soldiers climbed away from the arrow tower and ran down the wooden ladder towards the city wall. However, at this time, there was a low sound of horns outside the city~
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The general attack on Aletchisburg had officially begun.
In the Wells Legion camp, Art, the commander of the Southern Expedition, nodded to Odo, the deputy commander of the legion on the side, signaling the start of the general attack.
Odo immediately turned around, pulled out the long sword from his waist, and shouted to the legionnaires who had been waiting behind him for a long time: "Shield cover, archers suppress the enemy on the wall, grenadiers prepare!"
"Attack!"
The more than 150 archers following behind were divided into three groups, holding crossbows and arranged in echelons. They continuously fired arrows at the city wall, forming an absolute suppression of the Lombard soldiers above.
"Grenadier company, follow me!" Following Rogge's order, twenty grenadiers took out their throwing belts and the bombs they carried and walked forward step by step.
Behind the grenadiers, more than a hundred heavy armored infantry carrying ladders and temporary "bridges" were holding hammers, chains and heavy swords. Under the leadership of the heavy armored infantry company captain Klaus, they slowly moved closer to the edge of the city wall in ten columns. Less than fifty steps away from the city wall, Rogge suddenly stopped and raised his right hand to signal the grenadiers to stop.
The deputy manager of the weapons workshop, Jack, who was standing next to Rogge, was very excited at this time, and the sweat from his back had already wet the lining.
Rogge turned to him and said, "Jack, take a man to the city gate and blast it open for me!"
"Yes, company captain!"
After saying that, Jack took a grenadier and ran quickly to the city gate.
At this time, the heavy armored infantry had laid a temporary bridge over the trap outside the city gate. Two strong and heavy men carried the city-breaking cannon, which weighed more than a hundred pounds, onto the bridge and walked cautiously towards the city gate. The bridge under their feet made a squeaking sound from time to time.
"Hurry!" Jack urged the grenadiers following him as he ran.
As a grenadier who had participated in the battle to break the gate of Nanguan Army Fort, Jack's mentality at this time was obviously much more stable than last time. Looking at the stones thrown intermittently from the city wall, although he was afraid, he still approached the city gate firmly. The cold surface of the iron egg protecting him had already been dissipated by the remaining warmth on his body, and the fire fold tied around his waist swayed with his steps.
As time passed, the defenders on the city wall began to fight back again. The constantly throwing stones and kerosene posed a considerable threat to the soldiers near the city wall.
"—Quickly, smash them! Burn them to death!"
Kane, Lord of Arachisburg, had left the arrow tower and came to the city wall at this time. Using the cover of the city wall, he kept moving on it and began to organize his soldiers to fight back. But helplessly, the crossbowmen below the city kept firing arrows upwards, but no one dared to show their heads. Looking at the large number of injured soldiers lying on the ground in mourning, Kane suddenly felt a little at a loss.
"Sir, what should we do? They are coming up again?" The baron who had been following Kane used the cover of the wall to glance outside. He was extremely anxious as he watched the densely packed soldiers outside the city begin to approach step by step.
After hearing this, Kane stood up slowly and approached the wall step by step. When he raised his eyes to look outside the city, a black iron ball the size of a fire oil tank suddenly flew past his ear and rolled down to the corner of the wall.
Kane dodged smoothly and slowly slid to the ground with his back against the city wall, exclaiming in his heart, "What a danger!"
Soon, a pungent smell caught Kane's attention. Seeing the iron ball standing in the corner emitting white smoke, an ominous premonition came to his mind. Then, several iron balls of the same size flew from the city wall again and hit the city wall heavily. A large amount of white smoke also emitted, and soon spread over the entire city wall.
"Run quickly, poisonous smoke!"
The soldiers on the city wall were choked by the thick smoke and couldn't open their eyes. They climbed up the steps on both sides of the city wall, trying to escape from here.
Humbling, however, a sudden explosion brought everything to an abrupt halt.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen iron eggs began to explode one after another. The southern city wall suddenly trembled one after another, and the stacked walls above were blown apart in all directions due to the violent shock wave.
After a series of screams, screams and helpless shouts, the broken limbs and broken arms and the splashing red blood poured down like a majestic heavy rain, hitting the light armored infantry holding shields in the city.
· Fog time, the diffuse blood mist dyed the sky above the south city wall a terrifying red. Just as the Lombard soldiers on the other walls were frightened by the sudden explosion, there was another thunderous explosion outside the south city. Under the fierce bombardment of the city-breaking cannon, the iron-clad city gate was instantly blown to pieces~
After a moment of stillness, Art, the commander of the Southern Expedition who was riding a horse not far away to supervise the battle, drew out the stainless steel knight's sword from his waist and pointed it directly at the Aletchisburg in front of him.
"Kill me!"
After an earth-shattering roar, thousands of soldiers of the Welsh Army swept towards Arichsburg like billowing dark clouds. The servants who heard the thunder signal Thousands of troops from the Army Corps and the Palace Guards Corps also launched an attack at the same time~
For a time, there were dozens of ladders on the four walls, and heavy armored infantry climbing up were soon crowded with the passage above.
For Aletchisburg, which had only a few hundred defenders, these Buriandians with murderous eyes were like a group of devils from hell. They started a carnival of blood and fire on the south wall, looking at the Lombards who had escaped the bomb attack a moment ago. The soldiers began to retreat continuously. Claus, the captain of the heavy armored infantry company who was the first to rush forward, raised the corners of his mouth and took a mouthful of spit at those guys. Then he let out a loud roar, picked up the heavy sword in his hand, rushed forward, and slashed the neck of the leading knight in front of him.
After a scream, the bucket helmet containing the head left an eye-catching blood trail on the ground and stopped at the corner of the city wall.
Looking at Klaus' overwhelming momentum, the other Lombard soldiers began to retreat along the steps. Before they could react, Klaus once again raised his sword and rushed towards the panicked crowd, easily slitting the throat of the Lombard soldier at the front like a pig butchering a sheep.
The moment the Lombard soldiers knelt on the ground, a large number of heavy armored infantry following Klaus pounced on the prey in front of them like ferocious beasts, and began to bite their bodies. Outside the south city gate, hundreds of light armored infantry pushed down the crumbling city gate, and swarmed towards the fleeing peasants, soldiers and servants in the military fort, harvesting the enemy's heads like melons and vegetables.
Those who are most excited are none other than the third company under Hans. The adherents among them undoubtedly belonged to the captain of the Third Banner, Burry. Although he was not the first to rush in, the Third Banner, led by the fearless flag captain Burry, rushed towards a squadron of elite private soldiers of the lord, killing ten people on the spot and seriously injuring seven others. Then taking advantage of the good situation, they drove the remaining private soldiers into a granary. If it weren't for the food and grass inside, Bury would have wanted to burn those guys to death -
As the war in the south advanced rapidly, the Palace Guards Corps and the Mercenary Corps also took the opportunity to occupy several remaining city walls. The absolute superiority in numbers and combat power forced the defenders there to continuously defeat.
In less than half an hour, more than 400 people were killed in total, and the remaining Lombard soldiers who survived were all driven into the open space in the fort...
A siege battle that can be described as crushing has basically come to an end~