At this time, the warm sun was rising, and the sunlight shone on the city wall of Vilnius, emitting a faint light. Overnight, the city wall seemed to be covered with a layer of glazed ice crystals. Lothair knew this scene too well. The failure of the Eastern Expedition came from Phoenix City.
When I escaped back, I often saw this kind of scene.
It was a thick layer of ice that wrapped the city wall. The originally neat city wall had an obvious protrusion. In a short period of time, an ice wall suddenly appeared in front of him. Lothair's lips were trembling. How could he put this
Have you forgotten? The weather in the Istrian highlands is so bad that you can freeze it into sticks even if you urinate at night. The Vilnius garrison froze the city walls into this horrible shape, which made it much more difficult to attack the city."
Damn Slavs, it must be their bad idea."
If Nokikav could hear it, he would definitely cry out that he was wronged. This idea was really thought up by Orger himself. Besides, when the two armies confront each other, the goal is to win. Who cares whether the leader loses or not? Baisier
Gritting his teeth, frowning and spitting viciously, "Your Majesty Lothair, no matter what, we have to attack the city. Why not wait a moment and launch a fierce attack when the ice and snow melt in the afternoon? If it takes too long, we will be attacked."
It’s no good.”
Lothair could only nod in agreement, but even so, he had already lost a lot of time. There was nothing to do for two hours from midnight to noon. Climbing by force was not impossible, but the cost would be very high. Even the German warriors
He was not afraid of death, but he could not make fearless sacrifices. Lothair was deceived and his mood was naturally not good. He had all the prepared trebuchets brought up and fired a violent blast at the top of the city.
The Shanxi Army guarding the city had already prepared. When they saw the trebuchets all behind the battlements, the trebuchets had not stopped since then. Behind the battlements, they saw a lot of messy things flying over their heads, such as dirt and rubbish.
, smelly cow dung, broken stones, in short, all useful things around Vilnius were thrown up.
Lothair didn't know whose bad idea he had listened to, so he boiled the cow dung in hot water, packed it in clay pots, and sent it all to the top of the city. This time, the defenders finally couldn't stand it anymore. Nokikav and Ren
Phen was hiding in the makeshift command post, chatting with each other, "Nokikafu, when do you think the trebuchet outside will be finished? The Germans are so stimulated that they simply don't care about the cost.
"
Nokikafu looked relaxed and said with a careless smile, "No matter what we do, the more the Germans are like this, the more it proves that they are helpless against us. This is a sign of desperation. But generally after noon, the ice
The layer will melt, and the Germans will probably take the opportunity to attack."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a burst of crackling sounds, and at the same time, there was a series of curses on the top of the city. The trebuchet has been going crazy for so long, and he has never heard the soldiers curse. Ren Feo raised his eyebrows, curious in his heart.
I wanted to go out to see what was going on, but before I could stand up, something fell on the roof of the command post, and soon some dark liquid flowed down the gap. Nokikafu was standing in the gap.
Underneath, all the liquid splashed down on his head, and a stinking smell suddenly filled the entire command post. Nokikafu's throat twitched, and he lay on the barrel next to him and vomited wildly. It turned out to be cow dung soup. I missed him.
Nokikafu has been fighting for so many years, but now he has no cow dung soup to pour on his head.
Ren Feol's face didn't look good either. Although he was not as unlucky as Nokikafu, he still had a lot of excrement on his body. He finally understood why the brothers outside were yelling at each other. It was all caused by excrement. He endured his nausea.
, Ren Feol pinched his nose and walked out of the command post. He originally wanted to breathe fresh air, but the smell outside was more pungent than the smell of the command post. The top of the city was completely black and white, like a giant cesspit.
Many soldiers were already in tears because of the pungent smell. Some people couldn't bear the blow. They stuck out their heads and yelled at the city, "You son of a bitch, you are a coward. You have the ability to attack the city. Grandpa is naked and waiting."
you."
While scolding, the Slavic man actually took off his coat and hit his chest with his big fist, making a thumping sound. Three black lines hung on Ren Phen's forehead. If he continues to be tortured like this, the soldiers will not be tortured.
Are you crazy? At this time, Nokikafu also vomited his stomach. He climbed out of the command post with a sallow face. As soon as he got out of the room, he lay on the ground and said viciously, "General Ren, we must fight back and use the prepared artillery."
Pull them up and destroy those trebuchets. The Germans are the most alert right now, so we must teach them a lesson."
Those artillery are now used to deal with trebuchets, which is really a waste. But other than this method, Ren Feol couldn't think of any good countermeasures in a short period of time, so he had to grimace and let people pull crossbows. The artillery has been prepared under the city.
With that, five people were able to move an artillery over. Everyone gathered firewood and the flames were high. Soon a dozen crossbows were assembled. Ren Feol pulled out his saber and shouted with a cold face, "Aim at the trebuchets under the city and destroy these.
Something that does a lot of evil."
The trebuchet is powerful at throwing heavy objects, but its range has always been inferior to that of the crossbow. What's more, the crossbow is located high up and has a longer range, which can completely cover the trebuchet. A cannonball was ejected suddenly, and only a cold thorn was seen in the sun.
Breaking through the sky, he accurately hit a trebuchet. With a bang, the two evil trebuchets were blown to pieces. The Germans working around them were so shocked by this scene that it took them a long time to react. Again.
A cannonball was fired. This time it missed the trebuchet, but knocked several nearby German soldiers to the ground.
Explosions continued, and one trebuchet after another was destroyed. At this time, life was crucial. None of the German soldiers could care about the heavy trebuchets. They ran away one by one. In a quarter of an hour, half of the trebuchets outside the city were destroyed.
Just when the Germans were on tenterhooks, the artillery finally stopped. The artillery had been transported with great difficulty, and the shells were very limited. Ren Fe and others had to use them sparingly. Seeing that the trebuchet was almost destroyed, they stopped wasting it.
Cannonball.
The artillery fire had stopped, but looking at the wreckage of so many trebuchets, Lothair's heart was bleeding, the hateful Easterners and those old Slavs, "I will make you pay the price... pay the price...
..”
Lothair's unwilling voice made people's hearts tremble. These trebuchets were built by the empire after a lot of efforts. Most of them borrowed the craftsmanship from the East. It was not easy. I didn't expect that they were suddenly destroyed by Vilnius.
Half of the Slovak garrison was destroyed. I wanted to use these trebuchets to capture the city of Tomsk, but I didn’t expect so many were destroyed in Vilnius.
Baisier saw that Lothair looked a little uncomfortable, so he quickly asked someone to pull the remaining trebuchets behind him. If the Easterners fired another round of artillery fire, how many of the remaining trebuchets could be saved? Wait.
Lothair calmed down, and Bai Sier quickly advised, "Your Majesty, please calm down, at least for one thing. We saw that the Orientals also have crossbows. This kind of defensive weapon must be guarded against."
"When we attack the city later, let the brothers spread out their formations and don't concentrate too much. Even if the Easterners have crossbows, it doesn't matter. It's not easy to make such crossbows. They won't save too many." Lothair said coldly
After taking a look at the city of Vilnius, he could say that he was determined to win this city. Even chariots and crossbows could not stop the footsteps of the German warriors. It was noon when the pots were being cooked, and the smoke had just dissipated, and the smoke of war began.
It began to spread all around, and more than 3,000 German soldiers began to rush towards the city of Vilnius.
This time they were different from usual sieges. They were far apart from the front and back, dislocated left and right, and the formation was very scattered. Everyone held round wooden shields. The arrow rain from the city head did not have much impact on them.
In addition to the sword, there is also a strange ax on their waist. The ax is divided into two sides. One side is a commonly used axe, and the other side is similar to an iron hook. This ax is also called an ice-breaking ax and is used by Slavic hunters to climb ice rocks.
For this siege, the Germans had made adequate preparations. The rain of arrows could not stop the Germans from attacking. They set up ladders and began to climb up, shouting, using ice breakers on their hands as they climbed.
The ax was used to smash the ice on the city wall, and the sharp iron hook was smashed down. With a click, the ice began to break. As more and more people smashed it down with the ice-breaking hair in their hands, the ice wrapped around the city wall became smaller and smaller.
Peeling off. The ice wall is artificial after all and is not as hard and deep as the natural ice wall.
The German soldiers held up round shields in their left hands and climbed up little by little. When the commanders at the top of the city saw how brave the Germans were, they immediately ordered, "Bring up the rolling logs and smash these Germans down. Don't let them touch the battlements."
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The prepared rolling wood was placed on the cloud ladder, and when the hand was released, the rolling wood rolled down the ladder. The wooden shield could block the arrows, but it could not bear the weight of the rolling wood. Suddenly, wailing sounds broke out, and the German soldiers started to cry.
Like a kite with its string broken, it fell from the ladder with a bang. Seeing this, a captain called his lieutenant over, "Order the archers behind to come up and suppress the enemy at the top of the city."
The Germans had been preparing for a long time to capture the city of Vilnius. Commanders at all levels gave systematic instructions on when to suppress and when to attack by force. Lothair personally gave instructions. Longbowmen came up.
After that, they launched a rain of arrows to suppress the soldiers at the top of the city in accordance with the explicit order. Under the rain of arrows, although the soldiers of the Northern Shanxi Army defending the city did not suffer many casualties, the heavy rain of arrows prevented them from sticking their heads out, and they could still talk.
Why keep throwing logs?
In desperation, they could only throw them out randomly, but the effect was much worse. The defense at the top of the city was suppressed, and the pressure on the German soldiers responsible for attacking the city was greatly reduced. They broke out with a thunderous roar and continued to charge upward.
, step after step, foot after foot. Finally, some German soldiers climbed up the battlements, hooked the ice-breaking axes on the battlements with their arms, and jumped into the city wall with force. As soon as they landed, countless spears poked out from all around.
, directly stabbing the German soldier with several bloody holes. But this is a good sign, proving that the German warriors have begun to touch the city.
Lothair had been observing the progress of the siege. When he saw someone climbing up the city, he clenched his fists excitedly, "Baisel, send the second echelon up. You must seize the opportunity. If this momentum is suppressed,
, it will be difficult to rush forward later."
When you see an opportunity, you should rush forward. You must not hesitate at this time. Baisier nodded. Not long after leaving, more than 4,000 German soldiers in the second echelon also began to press forward. This time they did not disperse their formation, but
It was a concentrated charge. The city was busy dealing with the soldiers attacking the city, and they had no energy to operate the heavy crossbows. There were more and more people attacking the city, and the pressure on the soldiers of the Northern Shanxi Army guarding the city became more and more intense.
In the main attack direction of the southern city wall, the Germans have opened a gap, and nearly a hundred German soldiers have rushed forward. They have occupied a position, intending to expand the gap and then occupy the entire southern city wall. The situation is precarious, but Ren Fe and others
They didn't call for reinforcements, which I have to say is a strange thing. Is the Vilnius garrison just a small number of people? Of course it's impossible. As a veteran of the battlefield, Orger couldn't do something stupid like throwing away all his chips at once.
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The fierce battle on the southern city wall was going on, and the number of casualties was gradually rising. However, Orger remained calm and waited patiently. At the last moment, a scout ran over and said, "General, the second echelon of the Germans has rushed forward.
We are here, and we expect to be able to climb the city wall within half an hour. Commander Ren Phen and Commander Nokikaf are under great pressure, and we hope the general will rush to help as soon as possible."
"Very good, after waiting for so long, that old fox Lothair is finally moved." Orger commanded the battle. He has always been known for his bravery and boldness. This time he still continued that bold style of fighting. Since the people guarding the city of Vilnius
The mission is to kill the Germans as much as possible, so more German soldiers must rush up. But Lothair is a cautious old fox, and he will not give it a chance easily, so Lothair must be allowed to see the attack on the city.
Only with hope can he confidently and boldly send his troops up. As for the Germans who attacked the southern city wall, that was also a flaw deliberately leaked. "Ziege, let the good soldiers and horses in ambush rush up quickly and give you
In a quarter of an hour, kill all these Germans."
After holding it in for so long, Qiege finally got the task. He stood up straight and promised loudly. With the appearance of more than a thousand soldiers and horses under Qiege, the situation on the southern city wall quickly reversed. With an absolute advantage in strength, the Northern Shanxi Army began to attack
Compress the space of those Germans. There are already 200 German soldiers who have attacked the city. They were full of confidence and wanted to seize the opportunity to capture the entire southern city wall and achieve great success. Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly reversed.
What is going on? If these people had been ambushing the city for a long time, why didn't they rush over and put the German warriors up? Somehow, many people smelled a strong atmosphere of conspiracy. Sieg personally led
The soldiers rushed to kill, and Nokikafu rushed left and right holding a mountain-breaking ax. For a time, the Germans were defeated and could only huddle in a small area to resist desperately. But what awaited them was nothing more than death.