Chapter 387 Breaking the City

Maximus knew of at least three types of trebuchets: one is a device that launches stones through a torque device, and the crossbow is a typical example; one is a device that launches stones through elastic materials, such as a huge wooden bow arm pulling the bowstring, and Cao Cao's thunderbolt chariot in the Battle of Guandu is a typical example; and the other is a device that launches stones through the action of a lever, mainly referring to the counterweight trebuchet.

Maximus chose the counterweight catapult because it was the most powerful of all catapults. There were many records of using it to break through thick stone walls in the history of his previous life. Moreover, its production was not too complicated. Considering that the attack was only on wooden walls and his side had an advantage, the enemy did not dare to come out for a field battle. Therefore, he also reduced the size of the catapult, simplified some additional devices, and used more human traction...

At the end of the previous year, he handed the drawings of the counterweight catapult to the engineer Spukara, asking him to organize craftsmen to start trial production. During this period, he took his servants to inspect it several times. It was not until the machine was completely perfected and exerted its powerful performance that the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works began to produce it in large quantities last summer. However, it was still in the stage of confidentiality. Only the chief officer of the Ministry of War, the commander of the legion, and the captains secretly went to the weapon test site to see its power. Therefore, before the start of this war, not only the Brochi people were at a loss about it, but ordinary Nix soldiers were also kept in the dark.

After the war started, the engineering team loaded various parts of the counterweight catapult onto the ship and transported them here. Therefore, it took only one day yesterday to completely assemble it in the temporary camp so that it could be put to use in time today.

Look at the stunned Nix soldiers behind you. They were also shocked by the powerful power of the counterweight catapult, and their morale became higher and higher.

The entire southeast wooden wall trembled non-stop in the roar. After a while, a section of the wooden wall collapsed, and after a while, a tower collapsed...

The Nix soldiers cheered like thunder from time to time, but they did not take any other actions.

Some of the Brochi warriors could not bear this hellish torture, and risked rushing out of the village in an attempt to destroy these terrible machines.

Unfortunately, they buried traps in front of the camp, and only one road leading to the gate was safe. When they rushed out along this road, the fully armed Nix soldiers rushed to the catapults to form a shield wall, first blocking the enemy, and then the crossbowmen rushed up from both wings and fired crossbows at the enemy in the middle...

The Brochi warriors threw hundreds of corpses and fled back to the village in a panic, never daring to take any risks again.

The attack of the catapults continued, and even after the Brochi warriors completely evacuated the wall of the village, they did not stop. The long-term throwing caused certain damage to the catapults themselves, and the wooden poles broke, the wheels fell off, and the base fell apart.

When the southeast gate and the wooden walls connected on both sides were broken and collapsed, the originally six-meter-high and solid southeast wooden wall was like a harvested wheat field, with only a row of uneven wood stubble left.

Finally, the huge and terrifying machine stopped swinging its wooden arms, and the terrifying roar disappeared, but none of the Brochi warriors dared to return to the ruins of the wooden wall.

At this time, the Nix army made new movements: dozens of wooden carts were pushed to the front through the passage in the army formation. They were lined up in a row, with less than three or four people in between, passing through the catapults and slowly moving towards the village...

Following behind these carts were not only the laborers responsible for pushing the carts, but also the Nix baggage personnel holding shovels, rammers and other tools.

Nix infantry and crossbowmen followed behind them as protection.

About fifty meters away from the village wall, these carts stopped moving forward.

It turned out that the boxcar was full of soil. The baggage personnel used a shovel to pull the soil from the car, spread a thick layer on the ground, and then compacted it with a pestle...

The place where they stood was exactly the farthest distance that the Brochi javelin throwers could throw standing on the wooden wall, but now the wooden wall was destroyed, they could only stand in the village and stare blankly, without any other options.

The baggage personnel focused on laying thick soil and compacting the ground. Although the progress was slow, no one in the entire team was injured during the process of advancing, and the traps that the Brochi people had buried with great effort were wasted.

The boxcars carried soil back and forth, and the reorganized ground continued to extend to the village...When the team was less than 30 meters away from the village wall, Elyx began to urge the javelin throwers to return to the ruins of the wooden wall and throw javelins at the enemy to prevent them from continuing to destroy the traps.

However, the Nix army had been prepared. The Nix crossbowmen following the baggage carrier bared their fangs. As soon as the Brochi javelin throwers arrived at the ruins of the wooden wall, before they raised their arms, they fired the crossbow arrows with the strings on.

The range of the crossbow is more than 80 meters, and 20 to 30 meters is its best killing range. The Brochi javelin throwers have no armor, and now there is no wooden wall as a barrier. They fell down in an instant, and the survivors were scared to run away.

The Nix crossbowmen are powerful, and Elyx has a deep understanding of it. Four years ago, in the battle of the Corana River, the Nix crossbowmen showed their power and led to the defeat of the Brochi army. At that time, he almost died in the chaos. He finally escaped to the wilderness and mountains, and slept in the wind and rain for several days before he was rescued back to the territory by the tribesmen who came out to search and rescue. He also fell seriously ill because of this...

But Elyx couldn't just watch the Nixes destroy all the defense facilities in front of the village, allowing their army to easily break into the village without hindrance, so he ordered again: let the soldiers form a shield formation on the ruins of the village wall to defend against the enemy's crossbowmen's shooting, and the javelin throwers hide behind the shield formation, throwing javelins to attack the Nixes who were clearing the ground.

After suffering a heavy blow from the Nix crossbowmen in the last war, Brix began to learn lessons and improve the soldiers' protective equipment. The main thing is that he no longer used simple and thin round wooden shields on the shields, but learned from the Nixes, concentrating manpower and material resources to make large square shields, and also used multiple layers of wood to bond them. The thickness of the square shields increased greatly, and of course the weight increased several times, making the light infantry lose flexibility and become slow, but even facing the close-range throwing of javelin throwers, they also had a certain degree of defense with the new shields.

But when the Brochi warriors formed a shield formation on the ruins of the village wall and the javelin throwers hid behind them, Nix's catapults swung their huge arms again, and stones whizzed over the baggage personnel and hit the ruins of the village wall.

Accompanied by screams, the Brochi warriors scattered.

The Nix manapane began to move forward slowly, firing a stone from time to time, forcing the frightened Brochi warriors to flee deep into the village, away from the ruins of the village wall.

In this way, the Nix baggage personnel more easily eliminated the traps at the front of the village, leveled the land, and finally filled the trenches. At this point, the Nix army's attack on Simbey Isbad from the southeast became a smooth road.

The bugle sounded again, and Nix's huge army finally began to move forward. The soldiers who had rested for most of the day not only did not show slackness, but were in high spirits. They even hoped that the enemy's resistance would be stronger, so that they might get more military merit.

When the Nix soldiers crossed the trench and stepped over the ruins of the village wall, the warriors led by Elyx rushed up again, intercepting the Nix army and preventing them from continuing to advance into the village.

The length of the village wall on the southeast side of Xinbei Isbad was only more than one mile. Elyx deployed more than 3,000 soldiers and some civilians at a time, which could completely block the Nix people on the ruins of the wooden wall, preventing them from taking advantage of the large number of soldiers. Moreover, when the two sides fought together, the Nix people's terrible weapons dared not throw stones anymore.

This is what Elyx planned. Although he knew that the Nix soldiers were strong in combat and had an advantage in field battles, now that Xinbei Isbad was facing life and death, the Brochi warriors who wanted to save their homes could only fight to the death.

But just as the two sides were fighting fiercely, four huge tower-like machines were pushed to the front of the trench, and teams of crossbowmen climbed up to the top floor along the wooden ladder, drew their bows and arrows, and shot downwards.

The two sides were fighting, and the counterweight catapults did not dare to fire stone bullets again to avoid accidentally injuring their own soldiers. However, when the wooden wall was destroyed, the four-meter-high siege vehicle, which Maximus called "well fence", stood out on the battlefield. The crossbowmen standing on the top could accurately shoot the Brochi warriors in the battle. No matter how thick their square shields were, they could not defend against the lower part, and they were shot in the head, shoulder and neck and fell down one by one...

The Brochi warriors, who were already demoralized, did not hold on for long and began to flee...

Sinbey Isbad had only two gates. With the southeast side occupied by the enemy, the people and the fleeing soldiers mixed together and fled out of the southwest gate in panic. However, the Nix army that had landed here before had already lined up and waited. Their mission was not to attack the city, but to ensure that the people of Sinbey Isbad were captured in one fell swoop.

When Maximus saw the Nix army pouring into the village like a tide, he knew that the battle was over. The next step was to take in the defeated soldiers, clean up the battlefield, seize food supplies, appease the people of Brochi, and take over the entire village...

Not only will the army move in, but the officials of various departments and the temple priests who came with the ship will also perform their duties according to the pre-planned plan.

Four years ago, the Nix tribe conquered Segestica by using both military and political means. After several years of careful preparation, the Nix tribe has cultivated more administrative officials with rich experience and has more means of conquest. I believe that this time the conquest of Brochi will be smoother.

Maximus was full of confidence. He did not follow the army into the village. Instead, he turned his horse's head and returned to the temporary camp. When he came to a military tent, he happened to meet the military doctor coming out of the tent.