Chapter 715

"Keep order! Don't be afraid! We have city walls! The enemy has no advantage!" Deron drew out his long sword and shouted loudly.

"Father is with us, we are with you! Those who die in battle will return to Father!" Amon also shouted.

Their cries are always useful. While the Templars have a high status, they lead by example and obey the precepts. They are powerful in combat. With them, the hearts of the soldiers are finally at ease.

The news that the enemy was about to attack the city spread throughout the entire fortress almost instantly, and the kings and lords who were resting in various rooms gathered in the fortress hall to discuss countermeasures.

"Support the city wall immediately, we must stick to it!"

Everyone has reached a consensus, that is, it is necessary to fight against Leiner to the end, and immediately support the city wall to make the enemy retreat.

As a result, teams of soldiers gathered towards the city like flowing water.

More than 8,000 soldiers have gathered on the city wall. After all, Lu Gaoyin Fortress is a large castle, and it needs 8,000 people to fully defend it.

Leiner rode a tall warhorse, and looked at the bravery in front of him among the tens of thousands of troops. Hundreds of soldiers were standing next to eighty trebuchets, ready to throw stones at the bravery at any time.

The Jinglan is also ready to be in place, and the Golden Lion Guard has hidden in the Tibetan soldier cave below the Jinglan, and is going to forcefully climb up to fight the enemy.

The archers and crossbowmen are sitting on the top platform of the well. After a while, they will rely on the height of the well to shoot at the enemy, suppressing the archers of the defenders, so that their comrades can go smoothly. Climb the wall.

At this time, the protruding horse faces on the city wall were already crowded with archers. If it weren't for the fact that there were a lot of war materials stored in this fortress, they probably didn't even have many arrows for combat.

In addition, there are also many archers on the arrow tower, just waiting for the start of the battle to shoot and kill the enemy with their own bows and arrows.

The rest of the warriors were holding swords, shields and spears, curled up behind the battlements, ready to fight hand-to-hand with the approaching enemies.

Templars and apprentice knights wore fine armor, bending back and forth among the soldiers.

"Don't be afraid! We are by your side!"

"It's okay! Even if you die, your soul will return to your father!"

"We fight side by side together!"

With the encouragement of these Templars,

The fear of the soldiers finally decreased a lot.

In addition to these ordinary soldiers, there are also many Templar soldiers on the city wall. They are the elite who fought head-on with Reiner's direct troops for a long time without losing the wind.

Leiner looked at the densely packed human heads on the top of the city, narrowed his eyes, and said, "The trebuchet fires ten rounds!"

After his order was issued, the trebuchet began to operate immediately. The soldiers put the stones on the cantilever with great effort. After some operations, eighty stones that were several circles larger than a human head flew into the city. head.

But unfortunately, although these trebuchets have excellent throwing ability, their accuracy cannot be controlled by humans. They only have a rough strike range, so the lethality caused will not be great.

Sure enough, more than a dozen of the eighty large stones flew over the top of the city and landed inside the fortress, hitting something.

In addition, thirty or forty yuan fell directly on the plane of the city wall, smashed some small holes that were not too deep, and then fell to the ground.

In the end, only a dozen or so stones were successfully smashed onto the battlements.

However, these dozens of stones have already caused a lot of casualties to the enemy. Basically, every big stone that hits the ground will cause two or three people to die directly, and if it bounces, it will cause injuries.

The deaths of the few people who were directly hit were naturally very miserable. Some parts were like mud, and their bodies were even directly interrupted. They wailed miserably. head.

"Don't be afraid! Lower your body! Lower your body!"

The Templars leaned against the battlements, shouting to the soldiers around them.

It has to be said that these Templar knights did play the role of pinning the sea, boosting the morale of the soldiers even more than their lords.

The catapult continued to roar, and the stones were sent to the city wall.

Of course, in fact, after the ten rounds of shooting ended, there were very few casualties, and it looked like two or three hundred people were killed.

The accuracy of the trebuchet is really poor, and the impact on morale is far greater than the actual lethality.

After ten rounds of catapult attacks, the morale of the soldiers on the city wall suffered a huge blow. Seeing their comrades being smashed into flesh by stones falling from the sky in front of them, such a sense of fear and respect for Mental oppression is not comparable to Arrow Rain.

"Advance the well by 100 meters! The trebuchets continue to launch!" Leiner looked at the city wall in front of him and sneered. The truly terrifying attack hadn't started yet!

Pushed by the soldiers, the Jinglan advanced a hundred meters, and the archers and crossbowmen on the Jinglan had already started shooting. It lasted for nearly half an hour, but still failed to cause much damage to the enemy.

So Lena ordered: "The ladder is ready, the Golden Lion Guard is ready, and we will launch an attack on the city in five minutes!"

Soon, the trebuchet stopped launching stones, and the well fence was pushed further, with a toothache creaking sound, and came to a place about fifteen meters away from the city wall, and the wooden boards on the well fence were placed on the top of the city wall above.

At the same time, a large number of infantry were carrying ladders and holding shields, waiting for Leiner's attack order.

At this time, the confrontation between the archers of the two sides had already begun. The archers on the horse's face frantically shot arrows towards the well, and Leiner's crossbowmen also poured out their own arrows.

The advantage of the archers under Leiner's command has actually been weakened a lot. The distance of fifteen meters is not enough to show their range advantage and power advantage. Basically, as long as the bow and arrow are used at such a distance, they can shoot and kill the enemy.

However, the accuracy of the archers on the city wall is obviously not as good as that of Leiner's crossbowmen, and their morale and training are not at the same level. Therefore, in just over a minute, they have been suppressed by Leiner's crossbowmen.

"Siege the city!" Leiner gave an order, and the soldiers immediately rushed towards the wall of Lu Gaoyin Fortress steadily carrying the ladder.

Some archers in the defenders turned their targets to the infantry carrying the ladders, but the few arrows they shot could not cause much damage to the imperial soldiers.

While the infantry were advancing, the chariots were also slowly advancing. The Golden Lion Guards got up from the inside of the well, carrying shields and one-handed battle axes, and climbed up the ladder inside the well to the top plank.

Although their movements were slow, they were very powerful. With heavy steps, they rushed towards the city wall in front of them.

"Kill them all!"

The tall Golden Lion Guards were not slow in running. They rushed to the front of the city wall, pushed aside the thrusting spears with their shields, and slashed at the crowd with their one-handed tomahawks, causing two or three enemy soldiers to fall to the ground.

Leaping forward, he jumped onto the city wall and waved the battle ax in his hand like a wild beast to clear space for the comrades behind.

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