Volume Six, Chapter 22 The Danger of the Imperial Capital
Floating City and Earth City are a pair of new offensive and defensive weapons that appeared during the War of the Gods.
The former appeared in the city of Hamburg, but unfortunately it was only an eternal masterpiece; while the latter, since the advent of Scambrai, has repeatedly appeared in the offensive and defensive battles of cities in various continents. Of course, the most famous one is the earth city in the Battle of Scambrai.
It is said to be Tucheng, but in fact, it is more accurate to say Tushan. After the War of the Gods, in order to commemorate the great contribution of the small mercenary group in this war, the empire invested heavily and transplanted a large number of green pines, green cypresses and green bamboos from the Pancontinent.
The entire earth mountain became Scambrai's famous landscape, so the earth mountain was named Jingshan.
And the big hole dug to build up Jingshan was the number one sinkhole during the War of the Gods. Later, the Golden Brain Amy went on an expedition to the mainland. This big hole really was forgotten to be filled. This was also the first sinkhole in the War of the Gods.
The only hole that Amy did not fill during this period was that after many years, rainwater accumulated and formed a large lake facing Jingshan in the distance, which is Beihai.
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Chapter 22 The Crisis of the Imperial Capital
In fact, the magic touch of Tucheng originated from the attack and defense of Horns Grass City.
Two years ago, neither Amy nor Daqingshan could have imagined that in the face of the menacing Merlin and Mora beast legions, Horns could hold on with just stacks of food and grass and a lot of ice scrolls blackmailed from the Dragon Realm.
At that time, Amy joked: "I didn't expect that there was a floating city in front and a grass city in the back. In the future, when we fight city sieges in winter, we will always use the grass city to attack, and we can build it higher than the city wall."
The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. Horns pondered a question at that time. Such a grass city is definitely useless when used to attack Hamburg. However, if it is used to attack a strong city like Scambrai, it might be possible.
. However, the grass city's solidity is too poor. Once it is attacked by catapults in a confrontation, it will definitely collapse. What if it is replaced by an earth city or a stone city?
Hohns never imagined that just one year later, he would have the opportunity to realize his idea.
After the sun fully rose, Renault, the sea commander and Lord Delaware, who had also been pulled out from under the covers, stood on the top of the city, narrowing their eyes and looking carefully at the oppressive hill opposite.
.This building is completely made of earth and stone, and is mainly made of earth. All the earth was put into a 100m long wooden box by Minzhuang behind the hill. It was tamped once on the ground to make the wooden boards bend to both sides.
.I poured water on it again, and it looked really solid. Now I understand why the little mercenary group cut down all the surrounding trees.
Then use a small cart to push it up along the built dirt path. Layer after layer is coded, and before one layer is finished, the hill is 50 centimeters higher. The entire earth hill is in the shape of a "herringbone", "human"
The highest point of its head is only facing Tuancheng on the southeast side of Scambrai. The two wings of the "man" are more than 0 meters and have been slowly descending to more than 30 meters. They are facing the city of Scambrai. The two wings are completely stacked according to the pattern of the city wall.
, the two wings were filled with soldiers and civilians, and there were hundreds of strong bows and crossbows as well as dozens of simple catapults that had just been made. At the top, four people were patrolling back and forth, three humans and one
One of the dwarves was wearing white clothes, one was wearing green clothes, and the other was wearing a black outfit and a black cloak. The sun was hanging behind the heads of these people, and although their faces could not be seen clearly for a while, this sentence was
The four giants of the small mercenary group are really fake! At least Haishuai and Renault think so.
After a while, the three humans all went down, leaving the dwarf to continue directing the construction of the earthen city. The dwarf who turned out to be the real one even directed all the people working on the wall to sing "We Dwarves Have Power".
Finally, before going down to the city, the dwarf arrogantly took out all the men on the mountain and took out their male symbols and fired violently at Scambrai. For a moment, it was really suspected that it was the Yinhe Luojiutian, which was very spectacular.
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"Horns..." How many Fanos officers on the city wall wanted to crush their teeth!
However, after seeing the work that was still going on in Tucheng, the officers on the city wall stopped gnashing their teeth - and there was no time to gnash their teeth!
The villagers were still pushing the wooden crates to the highest point. When the small cart was lifted hard, the large wooden crates rolled all the way and fell to the ground. After hundreds of large wooden crates fell, the mountain of earth turned up little by little.
Move forward--Obviously, the small mercenary group actually hopes to use this method to dig holes and push the mountain of dirt all the way to the Scambrai city wall.
There are two things worth flaunting about Scambrai. One is high and the other is solid. Especially the height. The average height of the city wall is 20 meters, the arrow tower is 28 meters, the regiment city is 30 meters, and the city gate is 40 meters. From the day it was built,
Scambrai only considered how to attack the enemies on the ground faster. At best, he faced a city wall more than 20 meters high. All the large-scale long-range attack equipment fixed on the city wall, including catapults, crossbows, and bed crossbows, were
It is aimed at the ground. Now I want to remove it and readjust the projection angle. This problem is obviously too big. In addition, even if the adjustment is completed - who heard that someone used a catapult to collapse the mountain? What Scambray is facing now is simply
A mountain of dirt!
"Merlin, Moramon, Nianbul." Dahino called his two confidant generals and the little bear man who had just been sent from Azure Island not long ago: "Merlin, you lead your own legion from Scambredon.
Go out from the door, after seeing the red magic signal, assault the mountain from the east side; Moramon, you lead your army, go out from the south door, after seeing the red magic signal, assault the mountain from the right side. Nianbul, Merlin
The two legion commanders, Moramon and Moramon, will attack first, which will contain the defense forces on the mountain to both sides. You can bring the heavy infantry from my direct legion, and after seeing the yellow magic signal, attack the mountain from the center."
Marshal Dahino knew that the small mercenary group had the largest army of elves and dwarves on the entire continent, and their eyesight was so good that they couldn't hide the surprise attack outside the city wall even if they wanted to. They could only create chaos through coordination from both wings, and finally achieve their goal.
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"Your Majesty, I still need to trouble you about this matter. You are also the commander of the Yemoda Army. You led all the pseudo-dragon knights and phantom beast knights to break through the enemy's frontal position from the air when Nianbul was in the middle of the attack. Nianbul, you must
Occupy the territory in one fell swoop! Do you understand?" After the old marshal, who was over fifty years old, finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had been fighting for a lifetime to defend the city, and he was still defending one of the most fortified cities in the world. Now... unexpectedly...
Being forced by the enemy to abandon the city wall to attack the enemy's city wall, what is the greatest sorrow of using troops? Getting old... getting old... This world is really a world of young people. You can't accept old age!
"Yes! Lord Marshal." The three officers walked down the city horse road and each called their direct messengers to mobilize their respective regiments.
The pseudo-dragon knights were directly under Renoir, and the Young Emperor also sent someone to mobilize them, and made it very clear that they must go back here close to the city wall. All the knights were waiting for orders under the city wall to avoid being killed by the little mercenaries on the mountain.
The group elves clearly saw that they had lost the concealment of the air assault.
Ginger is still old and hot. Just now Renault's mind went blank. Dahino could cut off a strong man's wrist in the shortest time. He decisively abandoned the city wall. In Renault's opinion, it was impossible to invest three people in one fell swoop under such a small hill.
It's impossible for an elite army not to be able to take it down.
"Sea Commander, why don't you send the heavy knights of our legion to the front?" Renault decided to add another firepower.
"Your Majesty, please arrange it." The old marshal smiled at the young emperor.
Scambrai was so big that he sent orders one after another through the city. It took a full hour before the three legions were all ready.
With a "Boom~~~" sound, a red magic light bullet rushed directly to an altitude of 50 meters, and made a loud bang in the sky into a red cloud.
The two main gates on the east and south sides are open at the same time. The main gate of Scambrai is 18 meters wide and can pass 12 riders at the same time. There is also an ear door on both sides of the main gate. Each ear door is 9 meters wide and can also pass 12 riders at the same time. First, the knight troops
, followed by light infantry and archers, and finally the heavy infantry. As soon as the troops rushed out of the gate, they did not stop to make any adjustments. Under the leadership of their respective commanders, they marched toward the troops who were still rising slowly.
Tushan rushed over!
Standing on the hill, Horns could see very clearly with the help of the dwarf's long ground sight. The two armies were arranged in almost the same way, with heavy infantry in the middle, light knights on both sides, and light infantry and archers behind. The light knights
The pace has been accelerated, obviously to take some measures to clean up the soldiers and civilians on the periphery. As for the main attack, we still need to rely on the infantry and archers at the back.
The Fanos army is now also using the most conventional military methods in the Eminor continent. If at the beginning, on the Lion River, the soldiers had Ling Tian's method, then they might not even win a tragic victory, so they would have to change it.
Two consecutive orders were issued, and several groups of mercenary swordsmen pulled up from behind the mountain and formed a chaotic formation under the mountain. Horns smiled and looked at the chaos below. Such a performance was unexpectedly good. After all, it was
A sheep that has just been wearing wolf's clothing for more than 10 days.
On the wall of Scambrai City, a smile appeared on the corner of Dahino's mouth. Kamen is kamen. No matter how strong the mercenaries are, they can only hope to compete with the regular army when defending the city. In a frontal war, mercenaries are absolutely impossible.
It was to compete with an equal number of elite troops. After thinking about it, Hai Shuai actually said such words.
Renault, who was next to him, had no expression on his face and was extremely dissatisfied. After all, he was also a mercenary, and Renault knew the small mercenary group better than Dahino. Amy was not as famous as Chi Taotian in terms of military use.
, but Amy’s use of troops has never been normal, and she likes to use her brain to complete things that others need to use their strength to accomplish. This is probably what people often say that it is better to use your brain than your hands.
Without a word of explanation, Renoir led his mount Dragon Soaring Neru, circled in the air for a small circle, and immediately landed. His expression became solemn: "Marshal, something seems wrong. All the catapults on the hill are...
The ballistas, etc. did not change direction at all.
Huh?, the old soldier was stunned! The catapult and ballista didn't move? Then^^^does the small mercenary group have the confidence to block the knight's charge with the swordsmen they just mobilized? Not to mention the heavy force that will come later.
Although the infantry and sea commander are not very interested in the quality of mercenaries in frontal combat, he has never underestimated the military thinking of the chief officers of the small mercenary group. There must be something wrong with this unusual move.
"Cancel the attack! Retreat the troops!" Dahino immediately ordered. The old marshal was the most cautious in using troops and liked others to follow his ideas. But the current situation is just the opposite. This feeling is very bad. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being more careful.
Several trumpeters quickly picked up their one-meter-long horns, and their continuous blasts of horns immediately passed through the clouds and sounded across the entire land.
Merlin's Moramon on the front line were all stunned. Why did the old commander become worried about gain and loss? He quickly called all the troops, and the heavy infantry took up positions on the spot, while the light infantry and archers retreated slowly.
But ^^^^^ something went wrong. The distance from the east gate to Tushan is only 3 kilometers, which is more than twice as close as the south gate. Merlin, as the three most outstanding senior half-orc officers in the entire Eminor continent, is setting up a knight force.
Finally, from personnel allocation to mount allocation, a lot of money was spent to strengthen this unit. The distance of 1500 meters is a small sprint for the two units.
When the horn sounded, the knights rushing in the front row were only 300 meters away from Tushan. The knights rushing in the front had already leveled the knight's spear. It was easy to level the two-meter-seven-meter-long knight's spear. They started again during the sprint.
It would be much more difficult to put it up. If the emergency call was sounded, the knights in the second row would just throw their guns to the ground, but unfortunately not... the knights in the first row would keep enough speed to close the distance.
, I had no choice but to run forward for more than thirty meters, and the result^^^^^^
The ground in front of the knights suddenly collapsed without any warning. The more than 200 knights rushing in the first row, without exception, all fell into a large pit more than 6 meters wide and three to four meters deep.
There were more than ten knights in the second row who were rushing to the front. They couldn't hold back their momentum and followed behind them, screaming and falling in. The screams suddenly disappeared.
The Marshal of the Sea, the Emperor of Myanmar, and Delaware were all looking at each other with their eyes almost bulging out. Although standing on the city wall, the old marshal felt that the mud that burst out the moment the trench collapsed seemed to hit his face, and he was sweating.
He came out immediately, and after a while, he whispered to Renault in a low voice: Thank you for the reminder, Your Highness."
Dahino wanted to understand two points. First, the small mercenary group had been digging holes for more than ten days in the past. In addition to laying the foundation for this earth mountain, the rest was to dig out a few such holes in front of them.
The trench. I think the bottom is propped up with wooden stakes, just waiting for them to be fooled. Secondly, I seriously underestimated the enemy. The four big heads of the small mercenary group are really a headache ^^^^^.