There were a total of 700 archers in the three towers of Cailin Bay. They only had time to fire three rounds of arrows, causing more than 300 ironborn casualties. The opponent was already close to the tower.
After the Ironborn approached the bottom of the tower, except for the archers in the first two rows who could take turns shooting downward from the edge of the tower, the archers in the back row had no angle at all to shoot.
Fortunately, someone is directing them.
"Blow the horn and proceed as planned!"
On the city gate tower, Winterfell's logistics commander Trogg glanced at the ironmen who were very close to the tower and gave orders to the messengers around him.
Woo! Woo!
The archers on the three towers all heard the signal from their own horns. The archers who had no shooting angle immediately dropped their bows and arrows and ran towards the bottom of the tower.
The bottom of the tower has been repaired by the Winterfell logistics team. The collapsed and broken areas have been reinforced with thick wood. The front door has also been replaced with a new thick wooden door.
It's just that these reinforced woods are full of round holes the size of a child's fist.
These archers came to the bottom of the tower, pulled out a series of gleaming iron-headed spears from the weapon racks next to them, pointed them at the round holes the size of fists, and waited with bated breath.
Bang!
There was a muffled sound outside the city gate tower, and the pikemen in the tower who had successfully changed their arms knew that the enemy had arrived.
Boom, boom, boom!
Outside the tower, many ironmen staggered and fell to the ground. On the ground here, there were not only slippery moss, but also a lot of condensed dark ice.
Trogg ordered his soldiers in advance to pour a lot of cold water in front of the tower. After being catalyzed by the severe cold in the north, it turned into dark ice that hindered the iron people.
This is also a little trick that Trogg came up with in order to try his best to delay time.
In order for those ironmen to detect the truth, the cunning King Balon was fooled.
There is no ambush around Cailin Bay. There are indeed only these 700 Winterfell soldiers, and they must hold out until reinforcements arrive.
Victarion, who was wearing heavy armor and was slower, arrived in front of the city gate tower and saw these Ironborn who were unable to stand up after falling.
He looked at the ground, raised the giant ax in his hand high, and struck the ground with the ax head.
Click!
The dark ice on the ground suddenly shattered and splashed everywhere. He shouted to the ironmen around him: "Crush all the ice on the ground for me!"
When the ironmen heard the order, they immediately took their weapons and started banging on the ground of the tower.
Within a few minutes, they knocked off all the dark ice and arrived in front of the tower door.
An excited ironman who ran at the front looked at the round hole in the wooden door and curiously put his head forward to observe.
"prick!"
Trogg, who came to the bottom of the city gate tower, saw the approaching ironborn through a round hole and immediately shouted.
Phew!
Dozens of iron-tipped spears suddenly thrust out from those round holes.
The curious ironman was instantly stabbed in the eye by a spear, and the entire spearhead penetrated into his head.
The Ironborn, who was killed by curiosity, did not fall to the ground, but hung limply on the spear.
"receive!"
Following Trogg's order, he launched a surprise attack and stabbed to death at least a dozen iron types, slowly retracting through the round holes.
Boom, boom, boom!
The corpses of the ironmen hanging on the spears fell to the ground one after another after the spears were pulled out, and a large amount of blood slowly seeped out from under the corpses.
"Hmph, only the cowards in the green land like to play these little tricks!
Brothers, the one with the axe, come with me to split this pile of wood; the one with the bow and arrow on your back, look at the right moment, shoot the arrow into it as hard as you can, charge!"
Victarion curled his lips in disdain at these small tricks of the city gate tower. After loudly issuing his order, he took the lead and rushed towards the thick wooden door.
Bah!
Click!
The tower door, which was like a hedgehog, once again thrust out dozens of spears. Victarion, who was well prepared, suddenly slashed with veins in his hands holding the axe.
The shafts of several spears hit by his giant ax were instantly broken from the middle, and the iron spearheads fell to the ground.
Duh!
After Victarion chopped off the spear head in front of him, he raised the giant ax again with both hands and struck the thick wooden door heavily.
When he raised the giant ax again, with splinters of wood flying everywhere, a deep and long gap appeared in the thick wooden door.
Some of the dozen iron types who came forward with Victarion were unable to dodge, and the spears thrust out of the round holes opened bloody holes in their bodies.
Some, like Victarion, chopped off the heads of their spears, and then used their axes to smash through the thick wooden door under the tower.
For a moment, pieces of wood were flying everywhere, and the gate of the city gate tower was slowly being opened by the ironmen.
Inside the tower, Trogg commanded the pikemen whose spear heads had been chopped off, and hurriedly replaced their spears. However, the iron archers outside seized the opportunity and fired through the round hole in the thick wooden door.
Whoosh, whoosh!
ah!
Even though many arrows were blocked, two or three of them shot into the tower through the round holes and hit the pikemen inside.
One pikeman was shot in the head and fell straight down. Two pikemen were shot in the body and fell to the ground screaming.
"Rescue soldiers save people, others will take up their positions!"
Seeing that there was a vacancy in the spear formation in the tower, Trogg immediately directed the rescuers and people to fill the positions.
At the bottom of the tower, in a safe position near the stairs, there were two ambulance soldiers wearing linen turbans on standby.
After hearing the order, they immediately stepped forward and dragged the two spearmen who were hit by arrows to a safe area, and then opened the first aid wooden box they carried with them.
Use a sterilized knife to cut the wound, take out the bloody arrowhead, and apply Mil's ointment.
Click, click!
ah!
The sounds of sharp axes chopping wood could be heard outside the tower, as well as the screams of ironmen being stabbed in the body by spears.
But as time passed, the pikemen inside the tower became more and more nervous, and they could clearly feel that the thick wooden door was about to be broken.
Even though the archers are physically stronger than ordinary soldiers, after losing their defensive barrier, they are obviously no match for this group of Ironborn who are several times their number and whose morale has reached its peak.
Looking at the rather severe situation, Trogg frowned. If the defense line of the gate was breached, then he would have no choice but to use the last resort left by His Majesty Robb, but that would not last too long.
Since the communication mechanism in this world cannot communicate instantly, even reinforcements that are prepared in advance cannot arrive at the right time.
The situation of the three towers in Cailin Bay is not much different. Since the terrain in the north is different from the muddy swamp in the south, the surroundings of the three towers are now filled with ironborn with high morale.
The archers on top of the three towers could no longer shoot their bows unscrupulously below.
Because the large number of Ironborn archers have begun to shoot from bottom to top. As the distance between the two sides gets closer, these arrows have very high lethality and suppression power.
Judging from the current situation, it won't be long before the three towers in Carlin Bay are breached.