Tang Qi Tan

Then, with the sound of the bugle, the ten companies that arrived first and had already set up their formations also slowly moved towards the city.According to the formation of the white soldier company holding the shield in front, the spear company is on the two wings, and the strike company followed closely to launch a tentative attack.

I saw those white soldiers wearing chain shirts and breastplates, wearing curved helmets, holding knives, axes, swords and shields, rushing up behind the three bridges one by one; there was still silence on the top of the city; until they waved Hack and slash, destroy those obstacles and try to overthrow the river.

It was only when the top of the city reacted suddenly as if waking up from a dream, and shot many arrows behind the wall with an uproar; although most of them had insufficient range and landed on the other side of the bridge; there were still some sporadic arrows. The rocket, hit the barrier and ignited.

However, such a small problem is so rare that the soldiers of the leading company of the Freedom Army were troubled; I saw that they quickly changed into special long halberds and hook-blade guns, and they worked together to slash, chop, and push and push. These obstacles, which had just begun to burn, were cleared from the bridge deck one after another.

Seeing that the passage ahead has been cleared, the remaining members of the auxiliary company, also urged by the sound of drums, followed closely behind holding up a simple long ladder assembled with wooden poles and iron hoops on the spot, and The slab acted as a baffle and crashed across the bridge deck.

At this time, the scorpion crossbows and small crossbows from the top of the city began to shoot heavy arrows and stone bullets in a powerful manner; however, the threat of these heavy equipment was not enough for the soldiers rushing to the city; As long as it is not a direct hit, it will not be fatal.

Jiang Tian even saw a sergeant in full body armor, who was hit by a stone bullet and turned somersault on the ground, then ran up and continued to sprint forward; well, it was actually a soldier who was killed before the battle Reinforced into the starting company, a member of the Inheritance Knight Squad.

I saw him covered in mud all over his body, as if he was irritated, he roared loudly and caught up with him a few steps. He was mixed with ordinary soldiers in the brigade, and he alternately covered several advancing companions; Under it, he quickly rushed up the gentle slope where the city gate was located.

Then it turned into the sound of violent collision and chiseling from the door opening; at this time, there were already more than a dozen pairs of simple long ladders with special iron hooks, which were successively put on the five or six meter high city certificate; Although more than half of them were quickly pushed away by the defenders.

But there are still several long ladders built on the wall, and the hooks are firmly embedded in the gaps between the brick and wood walls; no matter how much the defenders chop, push, and pry, they can't be destroyed for a while; The soldiers of the Free Army climbed up one after another and fought among the city gates.

And among the soldiers who had climbed up the wall and fought hard to open the breakthrough, apart from a few squads of inheritance knights; Jiang Tian even saw Podos, the captain of the regiment; this giant man like an iron tower waved With a pair of fine steel hammers flying like a wheel.

It's like a human-shaped hurricane walking through a thicket of enemies. No matter whether it's the enemy or the enemy, as long as it is rubbed against the edge, the bones will be brittle, the flesh will be rotten, and the limbs will be broken, turning into a mass of twisted corpses flying in the air.However, Jiang Tian felt a little helpless and hated that iron could not be made into steel when he showed his power this time.

Take good care of the captain of a large alliance in a province, and don't care about the thousands of troops in the dozen or so defensive regiments under him; instead, take the lead in attacking the city here, learn from ancient hero legends, and play the role of attacking the city. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?
But no matter what, and no matter how to deal with Polis afterwards, the behavior of abandoning his subordinates and rushing to the top of the city; there is no doubt that his behavior greatly encouraged and inspired those free soldiers who were attached to the city. Soldiers, while breaking through the walls more and more.

However, such a smooth offensive progress made Jiang Tian a little uneasy; it was like the fighting will and resistance shown by the defenders on the city wall; Very subtle gap.

Because the orthodox army represents the most conservative and cruelest armed force in the royalist party; not only is it cruel to the enemy, but also cruel to its own soldiers; There are 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 obliquely from north to south, turns eastward to form a river bend at the platform where the city of Ales is located, the free army that has just arrived at the battlefield is attacking from the northeast.

Moreover, the river is neither deep nor wide enough; therefore, the auxiliary company that came later, using sacks filled with soil and bundles of branches cut down, quickly refilled a river in the upstream direction, enough for the The cavalry quickly came through the temporary embankment-style passage.

Then they galloped past some light cavalry of the Free Army, heading towards other unattacked city gates, forming a posture of approaching for investigation and restraining harassment; everything seemed perfect and happened logically; even the follow-up camp Most of the prototypes have been built.

So what is it that is disturbing or worrisome?Jiang Tian looked to the north of the upper reaches of the Severn River again. The weather in the entire valley was fine and cloudless, and there was not enough rainfall in a short period of time, causing floods or other major threats.

On the way to the south of the Freedom Army, there is also an open valley plain; the continuous farmland and scattered villages, except that the general terrain is a little lower, and there is no place to hide a large number of threats, or to be interspersed and infiltrated Opportunities on the way.

However, Jiang Tian turned to the mountains in the northwest again. It seems that the mountains are not high but the slope is steep.The forest vegetation is also quite lush and dense, so that it extends to the vicinity of the city; and because of the need for mining, a large area has been cut down, leaving only pitted tree stumps.

So there was also a cinder road that stretched to a nearby mine?Immediately, Jiang Tian noticed that there was an unusually low forest near the river bank, mixed with dense reeds and grasses, which was not so eye-catching and was easily overlooked.

The next moment, Jiang Tian turned his head and said to the communications officer beside him: "Send the order to let the standby artillery company deploy to the northwest, and use incendiary bombs to bombard the trees and reeds on the river bank;"

Then, amidst the continuous whining of the horn, a cannon carriage with hubs was pushed out.

Then, under the sweaty work of the soldiers of the auxiliary company around them, they quickly dug a shallow trench.They also filled sacks with the excavated soil, surrounded the two-pound guns and four-pound guns, and piled up a row of waist-high simple artillery fortifications.

However, the first to test-fire were those thunder cannons with short range and great power; I saw the thin-skinned cylinder half-buried obliquely in the trench, and several rings of smoke burst out with the ignited line of medicine; After a large arc trajectory visible to the naked eye, it hit the edge of the reed bushes.

In an instant, the burning pot smashed on the branch of the tree, and the rain of fire splashed in all directions, igniting the wet reeds and branches one after another, and turned into thick smoke billowing into the sky; Even so, the ignited reeds and the edge of the forest remained unresponsive.

Smelling the faint burnt smell floating from a distance, Jiang Tian let out a slight breath, and was about to order the artillery to withdraw.However, the next moment, the wind direction on the river suddenly changed, and the smoke column that originally drifted obliquely towards the southeast Freedom Army camp suddenly poured back into the bushes at a low pressure.

After a while, coughing and shouting suddenly came from the bushes and reeds; then, against the smoke generated by insufficient combustion, many armed men with faces covered in soot and beards and hairs were scorched rushed out; Their clothes are messy but everyone has armor.

Amid some fierce roars and hissing sounds one after another, they charged towards the camp of the Freedom Army; afterward, another large banner of white iris flowers on a black background was quickly unfurled and held high in the smoky sky, which was impressively The orthodox army ambushed outside the city.

So in response, there was a thunderous roar in the artillery barracks of the Free Army; a row of bullets ready to go, bombarded the crowd of the orthodox army head-on, splashing a puff of blood and bursting in an instant. There was a lot of mud, and there were still broken limbs flying around.

There are also cannonballs, after piercing and shredding several human bodies that happened to be in the line at the same time, they bounced obliquely and smashed a head, one shoulder and one thigh; finally, dripping with sticky flesh and blood, they rolled down In a small pit formed by blood and water.

However, the bloody traces caused by this round of bombardment in the enemy group were quickly filled and covered up by more successors.While these gunners were frantically reloading, the remaining enemies had rushed within half a mile in one go;

So, amid the sound of the trumpets, they had to stop what they were doing; they turned around and left under the urging and urging of the sergeant, leaving the running base and the front line to the striking company that had already lined up; There is also a gunner who is struggling and does not want to retreat...

However, the next moment, the sergeant who was being pulled and dragged suddenly fell to the ground with a slap; the next moment, they heard the sound of fried beans resounding close at hand, and the two of them dared not move at once.Instead, strikers/fusiliers in three rows opened fire.

In an instant, in the thick and pungent gunpowder smoke, only the whistling sound of countless dense lead piercing through the air, like raindrops, hit among the orthodox soldiers who buried their heads in the charge.With the burst of blood in the crowd one after another, the front row seemed to be whipped invisible.

These enemy soldiers rushing to the front, just suddenly paused one after another, showing a bewildered expression, and fell down or fell on their backs; They trampled on each other back and forth, unable to stand up again.

Although the orthodox army's charge has suffered such tragic blows and losses one after another, it seems that more soldiers in the rear have not discovered and noticed it, or reacted to it; and under a certain inertia of advancing forward and succeeding, they continued to move forward. within 20 meters;

At this time, they also saw the front line of the Freedom Army, and they suddenly collapsed, turned around and left; they couldn't help but hissed again and accelerated forward; in a blink of an eye, they rushed to the simple artillery fortress before, but one after another sank down and became a little shorter.

But it fell into the ditch in front of the artillery barracks. Although the ditch was only as deep as the calf and less than one meter wide, it could be easily crossed.But under the obstruction of the waist-high pile of soil in front of the artillery barracks, they suddenly stopped, and they could barely show their shoulders and heads.

The next moment, the enemy soldiers who jumped up in these trenches screamed and rolled and fell down again; because at some point, in the short blind spot of their vision; The phalanx replaced the original strike line.

I saw the phalanx of these long spear companies, amidst the sound of commanding rhythm drums, every time they stabbed and chopped forward, a group of soldiers of the orthodox army tried to climb over the artillery barracks 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 and killed by the short guns attached to the sergeants and non-commissioned officers in the formation; therefore, after the frontal breakthrough fell into a stalemate, some soldiers of the orthodox army rushed to the two wings along the edge of the fortress where the corpses were lying. Trying to turn around and attack the side of the long soldier company.

Then, what greeted them here was the reloaded and filled strike company, only to hear pieces of firecrackers hitting the students, and the orthodox soldiers on the two wings of the detour almost collapsed like a flood. Retreat; more companies of white soldiers follow.

I saw them wielding small iron-faced round shields or leather kite-shaped shields, and knocked down the enemy soldiers who couldn't dodge or escape in time from the back; There was no time to enter in the opposite direction, and the chaotic battle was on the side and rear of the enemy's front.

Followed by more gunners with squadrons as the unit, lined up in two elongated horizontal lines; extending out in a fan shape like the spread of crane wings, and then more orthodox soldiers in the chaos; Included in the range of firepower and potential threats that one's own platoon can reach.

Therefore, in the end, as long as there was the sound of nearby volleys, the soldiers of the orthodox army who were surrounded by groups and fought on their own would panic and disperse and hide and try to escape; More fragmented and messy.

And at this point, in Jiang Tian's overall perspective, only a small half of the troops in the camp, about [-] companies, were mobilized.Even the cavalry squadron on standby, as well as the special attack squadron and guard squadron serving as reserves, didn't have time to use them.

Therefore, when he ordered again, facing the orthodox army surrounded by groups; the position where the resistance was the most intense and the most densely populated; It's already irreparable.

At the same time, after seeing that the ambush outside the city, which was the main combat force of the Legitimacy Army, was seen through and fell into a desperate situation; Smiling faces scorched the banner of the sun, and the gates of the city opened from the inside.

But what was unexpected was the rebirth of the mutation; the roar and howl suddenly came from the battlefield, which immediately pierced through countless firecrackers, knives and guns, and was also mixed with the sonata of human beings screaming in despair.