Then, as the bugle sounded, the ten companies that had arrived first and had already set up their array slowly advanced towards the city. The company of white soldiers holding shields was in the front, and the pike companies were on the two wings, attacking the companies.
The following formation launches a probing attack.
I saw those white soldiers wearing chain shirts, breastplates, curved helmets, holding swords, axes, swords and shields, swarming up behind the three bridges one after another; the top of the city remained silent and motionless; until they waved
With swords and axes clattering, they destroyed the obstacles and tried to topple them into the river.
The people on the city suddenly reacted as if they were waking up from a dream, and with a great uproar, they shot many arrows behind the wall and missed them. Although most of them were out of range and landed on the other side of the bridge, there were still some sporadic arrows.
The rocket hit the barrier and ignited.
However, how could such a small problem defeat the soldiers of the leading company of the Free Army? They quickly put on special halberds and hook-bladed guns, and together they cut, cracked, and pushed and pushed, and they were immediately defeated.
These obstacles that had just begun to burn were cleared from the bridge deck one after another.
Seeing that the advancing passage ahead had been cleared, the remaining members of the auxiliary company, urged by the sound of drums, followed closely, holding up a simple long ladder assembled on the spot with wooden poles and iron hoops, as well as a carriage with
The board acted as a baffle and crashed across the bridge.
At this time, the scorpion crossbows and small ballistae from the top of the city began to fire heavy missiles and stone bullets in a powerful manner; however, the threat of these heavy equipment was not enough for the soldiers who poured into the city.
As long as it's not a direct hit, it won't be fatal.
Jiang Tian even saw a sergeant in full body armor, who was hit by a stone bullet and rolled over on the ground, and then ran again and continued to sprint forward; well, that was actually a soldier who had been shot before the war.
Reinforced into the starting company, a member of the Heritage Knights squad.
With his body and head covered with mud, he seemed to be irritated. He roared loudly and took a few steps to catch up. He was mixed in with the ordinary soldiers in the group, and alternately covered several companions who were advancing; and in front of other soldiers
After avoiding the situation, he quickly rushed up the gentle slope where the city gate was located.
Then it turned into the sound of violent collisions and chisels coming from the doorway; at this time, there were already more than a dozen simple long ladders with special iron hooks, which were successively climbed up to the five or six meter high city ultimatum.
; Although most of them were pushed away by the defenders with quick eyes and hands.
However, there were still several long ladders erected on the top of the wall, and the hooks were firmly embedded in the gaps between the brick and wood walls. No matter how much the defenders chopped, pushed, or pried, they could not be destroyed; instead, they were blocked by the long ladders.
The soldiers of the Free Army climbed up one after another and fought among the city ultimatums.
Among the soldiers who had climbed up the wall and fought hard to open a breakthrough, in addition to a few small groups of heritage knights, Jiang Tian even saw Bodos, the captain of the team; this giant man like an iron tower waved
With a pair of fine steel hammers flying like wheels.
It's like a human hurricane walking through the enemy jungle. As long as the enemy or friend is touched even a little bit, the bones will be brittle and the flesh will be rotten, the limbs will be broken, and it will turn into a twisted corpse flying in the air. However, Jiang Tian has nothing to do with him.
Fan showed great power, but was helpless and resentful that iron cannot be transformed into steel.
You, the commander of a large army guarding a province, do not take care of the dozens of garrison companies under your command, and the thousands of troops; instead, you take the lead in attacking the city, learn from ancient heroic legends, and play the role of siege and evacuation.
A powerful general, isn’t this putting the cart before the horse?
But no matter what, and no matter how to deal with Polis afterwards, he left his men behind and rushed to the city. There is no doubt that his behavior also greatly inspired and inspired the Free Army ants who were clinging to the city.
The soldiers, while breaking through the city walls, became more and more numerous.
However, such a smooth progress of the offensive made Jiang Tian slightly uneasy; just like the fighting will and intensity of resistance displayed by the defenders on the city wall; they were still far from the orthodox army in his impression.
A very subtle difference.
Because the Orthodox Army represents the most conservative and fiercest armed force among the royalists; it is not only ruthless to the enemy, but also ruthless to its own soldiers; the defenders in front of them obviously lack something; you must know those old
There are also nobles who dare to fight and fight hard.
Thinking of this, Jiang Tian took the initiative to stand on a high place and inspect the current battlefield. Because the Severn River, which flows diagonally from north to south, turns eastward to form a bend on the platform where Alais City is located, so
The Free Army, which had just arrived on the battlefield, attacked northeast.
Moreover, the river was neither deep nor wide enough; therefore, the auxiliary company that came after them used sacks filled with soil and bundles of cut branches to quickly fill up a new river in the upstream direction, which was enough for the river to pass.
The cavalry came quickly through the temporary embankment channel.
Then they galloped past many light cavalry of the Free Army, heading towards other unattacked city gates, forming a posture of approaching for reconnaissance and containment and harassment. It seemed that everything was perfect and happening naturally; even the follow-up camp
Most of the prototype has been built.
So what is it that makes people feel uneasy or worried? Jiang Tian looked to the north of the upper reaches of the Severn River again. The weather in the entire valley was very good and cloudless, and there was not enough rainfall in a short period of time.
There is a major threat of flooding or something else.
On the way to the south, the Free Army also had an unobstructed view of the open valley plains; the continuous farmland and scattered villages. In addition to the generally low terrain, there was no place to hide a large number of threats, or to be penetrated by others.
Opportunities along the way.
However, the river turned to the mountains to the northwest. It seemed that the mountains were not high but the slopes were very steep. The forests and vegetation were also quite lush and dense, so much so that they even extended to the vicinity of the city; and large areas were cut down for mining needs.
Only the pitted tree stumps remain.
Therefore, there was also a cinder road extending to the nearby mining area? Immediately, Jiang Tian noticed that there was an unusually low forest near the river bank, interspersed with dense reeds. It was not that eye-catching, and it was
It's easy to ignore.
The next moment, Jiang Tian turned to the communications officer beside him and said: "Give me the order to have the standby artillery battery deploy to the northwest and use incendiary bombs to bombard the trees and reeds on the river bank;"
Then amidst the continuous whine of the trumpet, a gun carriage with wheels was pushed out.
Then, with the soldiers of the auxiliary company beside them, sweating like rain, they quickly dug a shallow trench. They filled the excavated soil with sacks and surrounded the two-pound cannons and
The four-pounders were piled up into a row of waist-high simple artillery forts.
However, the first ones to start test-firing were those short-range and powerful mine cannons; only thin-skinned cylinders half-buried in the trench were seen diagonally, and several rings of smoke were blasted out along with the ignited powder lines;
After a large arc trajectory visible to the naked eye, it hit the edge of the reed bush.
In an instant, the incendiary jar was smashed on the branch of the tree, and the fire rain splashed out, igniting the still moist reeds and branches one after another, and turned into dense smoke billowing into the sky;
Despite this, the ignited reeds and forest edges still showed no response.
Smelling the faint burnt smell wafting from the distance, Jiang Tian let out a slight breath and prepared to order the artillery to withdraw. However, the next moment, the wind direction on the river suddenly changed, and the smoke column that was originally drifting diagonally towards the southeast Free Army camp
, suddenly poured back into the bushes with low pressure.
A moment later, a loud coughing and yelling sound suddenly came from the bushes and reeds; then, against the smoke produced by insufficient combustion, many armed men with faces full of soot and withered beards and hair rushed out;
Their uniforms are messy, but everyone wears armor.
Amidst some fierce roars and hisses, they rushed towards the camp of the Free Army; then, another large flag with white fleur-de-lis on a black background was quickly unfurled and held high in the smoke-filled air. It was clear that it had already been
The orthodox army ambushed outside the city.
So in response, a thundering roar rang out from the Free Army artillery fort; a row of ready-to-go ball bombs hit the crowd of orthodox soldiers head-on, and in an instant, a cloud of blood and explosions burst out.
There was a lot of mud and broken limbs flying around.
There were also shells that simultaneously penetrated and tore up several human bodies that happened to be in the same line, and then bounced diagonally and smashed a head, a shoulder and a thigh; finally, they dripped and rolled with adherent blood and flesh.
It fell into a small depression formed by blood and water.
However, the bloody traces caused by this round of shelling in the enemy group were quickly refilled and covered up by more people who came to follow. While these gunners were hurriedly reloading, the remaining enemies were already rushing forward.
Within half a mile;
So, at the sound of the trumpet, they had to stop what they were doing; and under the sergeant's urging and urging, they turned around and left, leaving the running base and the front line to the strike company that had already lined up; among them
There was also a gunner who struggled and didn't want to retreat...
However, the next moment, they were suddenly knocked to the ground by the sergeant who was pulling and dragging them; the next moment, they heard the sound of dense radiation like fried beans that resounded close to Chi Chi, and the two of them immediately did not dare to move.
.But the strike soldiers/flintlock rifles lined up in three horizontal lines opened fire.
In an instant, in the strong and pungent smoke of gunpowder, there was only the sound of countless dense lead particles breaking through the air, striking like raindrops among the orthodox soldiers who were immersed in the charge. As they exploded one after another in the crowd,
There were clusters of bloody flowers, and the front row felt like they were being whipped invisible.
The enemy soldiers who were at the front suddenly paused, showing bewildered expressions, and then fell down or fell on their backs; then they were followed by their companions who were unable to stop themselves, and were immediately attacked.
They were trampled under their feet, unable to stand up again.
Although the orthodox army's charge suffered such tragic blows and losses one after another, it seems that more soldiers in the rear have not discovered and noticed it, or they have reacted to it; and under a certain inertia of going forward and succeeding, they continue to surge forward.
Forced to within twenty meters;
At this time, they also saw the Free Army line in front of them. They suddenly broke up and turned around and walked away. They couldn't help but screamed with renewed morale and accelerated forward faster. In the blink of an eye, they rushed to the simple artillery fort.
In front of them, they sank down one after another and became a little shorter.
But he fell into the trench in front of the fort. Although the trench was only as deep as his calf and less than one meter wide, he could easily cross it. However, under the obstruction of the waist-high pile of soil in front of the fort, he couldn't stand it.
They paused unexpectedly, and could barely show their shoulders and heads.
The next moment, the enemy soldiers who climbed up in the trench screamed and rolled over again and fell down; because at some point, in the short blind area of their vision, a dense company of spears holding halberds and hook-bladed guns formed.
The square formation replaces the original strike formation.
I saw the phalanx of these pike companies, amidst the drum beats commanding the rhythm. Every time they thrust forward and slashed, a group of soldiers tried to climb over the artillery forts and orthodox soldiers, and fell back covered in blood.
Only a lucky few can pass through the gap between the spears and halberds.
Then they were quickly shot head-on by the short muskets attached to the sergeants and non-commissioned officers in the array. Therefore, after the frontal breakthrough reached a stalemate, some orthodox soldiers rushed towards the two wings along the edge of the fort where corpses were lying on the pillow.
Trying to take a detour and assault the rear of the long-soldier company.
Then, what greeted them here was the reloaded and filled strike company. They heard pieces of firecrackers hitting each other, and the orthodox soldiers on the two wings detoured, almost like a flood pouring down.
retreat; more companies of white soldiers follow closely behind.
I saw them waving small iron-faced bucklers or leather kite-shaped shields, knocking down the enemy soldiers who could not dodge or escape in time from the back to the ground; then trampled their bodies with iron-clad boots, and then
The flawless reverse attack, the endless fighting behind the enemy's front line.
Immediately behind, there are more fire gunners in squadron units, forming two long horizontal lines; they extend out in a fan shape like crane wings, and then more orthodox soldiers in the chaotic battle are thrown into the air.
Included in the fire range and potential threats within the range of one's own fire.
Therefore, later on, as long as the sound of volley fire was heard nearby, the Orthodox soldiers who were surrounded by groups and fighting on their own would disperse and hide in panic and try to escape; and then they would be interspersed and divided by white soldiers and spear teams of the Free Army.
More fragmented and chaotic.
At this point, in Jiang Tian's overall view, only a small half of the troops in the camp, about thirty companies, were used. Even the cavalry regiment on standby, as well as the special attack company and guard company serving as reserves
, and didn’t even have time to use it.
Therefore, when he gave the order again, facing the orthodox army surrounded by groups, the stubborn resistance was the most intense and the most densely populated position. After using the thunder cannon to fire powder cans/explosives in turn, the orthodox army was destroyed on the spot.
It's already irreversible.
At the same time, after seeing that the ambush outside the city, which was the main combat force of the orthodox army, was seen through and fell into a desperate situation, the will of the defenders from the top of Alais City to resist also dropped thousands of miles; and with the slowly rising
A smiling face with a scorching sun and a banner, the city gate also opened from the inside.
But unexpectedly, the mutation reappeared; the roars and howls that suddenly came from the battlefield immediately pierced the sonata of countless fire blunderbuss, swords and guns, mixed with the desperate shouts and shouts of mankind.