Chapter 841: The Lions and the Wolves 2
The Vandals raised their weapons and roared at the Romans on the wall, as if to say, "Come, come, I am not afraid!"
Stones rained down from the Roman walls, some in the crowd and some on the towering siege towers.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The not too big stone actually brought amazing destructive power, the stone hit the towering siege tower, more than ten meters high siege tower couldn't help but tremble, every time it shook, the soldiers of the Vandals above couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
Even so, they had to stand at the very top of the siege tower, clutching their wooden bows, praying that the trebuchets had not locked them, and their fear of the precise striking power of the Roman trebuchets was evident from the side.
"Forward, my children, the time for revenge has come, forward, defeat our enemies, defeat these self-righteous Romans!"
At the instigation of Gaisarric, the soldiers beside him raised their weapons and roared loudly, they knew that the Roman city in front of them was isolated, they didn't care about the city, only the person standing at the top of the city, a large number of infantry joined the attack, and the Vandals in front of them swept towards the Roman walls like a raging torrent.
"Onward! Advance! ”
The Vandal's Overseer nobles roared loudly, swinging their long leather whips back and forth in mid-air with a "snapping" sound, and mercilessly whipping the backs and legs of the slaves pushing the siege towers.
"Hurry up! Damn it! Hurry up! ”
The Overseers roared, not caring about the scarred backs of the slaves, they just wanted the siege tower to be faster, faster.
"Quick, muster up the courage to resist! Pluck up the courage to resist, boys! ”
At this point, Walkrick was weaving back and forth across the crowded walls of Rome, patting every soldier on the shoulder and encouraging the trembling ones to cheer them up.
"Click......"
At this time, only a dull sound of wood crashing was heard, and countless fiery stones flew out from behind the Vandal army.
"Avoid! Avoid! ”
Walcreek's eyes widened, and in a split second he hurriedly leaned down, pulling his trembling bow and arrow in front of him at the Vandals below, who were far from being in range.
"Boom! Boom! ”
I only felt a strong wind blowing, followed by a loud crash, and I saw the rows of houses behind the city wall being smashed out of terrible black holes.
"Get up! Get up! ”
Walkrick just glanced at the smashed black hole, then pulled the soldier next to him to get up and rejoin the fight.
"Onward! Advance! ”
Seeing only a noble Vandal officer with a disheveled head, the battle reactivated the imprint of the ancient ancestor that he had hidden in his body, and made his blood boil again.
He raised his banner and roared loudly, raising his sword and pointing it at the Roman walls in front of him.
"Click!"
I only heard a loud bang that was crisp and clean, and I saw a black shadow falling from the sky in front of me.
"Whew!"
The black shadow crossed, the roar stopped abruptly, and the upper body of the standing man instantly turned into a cloud of blood mist, and a huge crossbow bolt was inserted in the ground behind him, and the man fell to the ground with a bang, leaving the others to look at the corpse with terrified eyes.
"Onward! Advance! ”
The blood-stained banner rolled down from the loose hand on the corpse, and the other soldiers pounced, picked it up, and threw it in front of them.
"Trebuchet! Trebuchet! ”
shouted loudly and lunged at the trebuchet that was away from him, and he pounced on the busy soldier to carry the stone bullets and press them against the wooden bowl of the wringing trebuchet that had been pulled down.
"Aim! Aim! ”
Walcreek ran all the way to the battlements, pointed to the nearest siege tower, turned back to the appraiser, and shouted, "Side, side, that pillar exposed in the plank shield, aim!" Aim! ”
The apparatus skillfully maneuvered the trebuchet and aimed at the target.
"Ready!"
The apparatuist gripped the wooden handle of the launch, and lifted his sweaty face, the resolute face beneath the wet hair.
"Click!"
The whole trebuchet shuddered violently, and then a stone projectile swirled in the air towards the siege tower.
"Click!"
The stone projectile slammed into the siege tower, and the entire siege tower trembled, and the Vandal soldiers above screamed in horror, and they clearly felt the slightest discomfort.
At this time, only obvious cracks appeared in the place where it was impacted, and the entire pillar was already shaking.
"Damn, why didn't it break!" Walcreek's eyes were full of loss, and it seemed that the trees around Rome were very strong, and they were the best things to be the pillars of the siege towers.
"One more time, one more time!"
Not reconciled, Walcreek turned back to the Instrumentain, and the soldiers assisting the Instrumenter hurriedly pulled down the trebuchet's stone bowl and placed the stone projectiles.
"Aim, aim!"
At Walcreek's repeated urgings, the Machinemen re-aimed as the siege towers moved slowly, and the Vandals picked up speed when they discovered the Romans' intentions.
"Hurry, hurry!"
Walcreek urged loudly, and saw that the machine's hands were shaking because of his nervousness, and he trembled to grasp the grip, and then pulled it down violently.
"Huh!"
The wooden arm dragged the stone bullet up, but the rubber band and rope of the twisting force below suddenly broke at this time, and the entire trebuchet instantly lost its strength, and the stone bullet above could not be launched, but could only slide down and hit the soldier next to Walkerrick in front of him.
"Boom!"
The soldier was hit by a stone bullet and choked on the battlements, and he spat blood from his mouth, and his whole body froze in place, like a puppet with a line off, and his chest and abdomen were sunken, and he saw that there was only one breath left.
"Damn it! Damn it! Walcreek looked at the dead soldier, then at the scrapped trebuchet behind him, and at the discouraged apparatus.
"Die! Die! ”
The Vandals on the siege tower roared angrily, and pointed their bows at the Roman soldiers below, because the Roman soldiers on the walls had no place to hide.
Soldiers continued to fall from arrows, and the Roman archers on the walls raised their bows in response, but the arrows flew and bounced off the shields in front of the Vandals.
"Click......"
The cracks in the pillars of the siege towers grew bigger and bigger, and the creaking sound continued.
The siege towers groaned, and gradually, the shaking became louder and louder, and the entire siege tower began to tilt in the direction of the fracture.
Click!
There was a loud cracking sound, and the siege tower in front of him collapsed entirely, and the Vandal soldiers on it screamed and fell from the top of the collapsed siege tower, falling heavily on the hard ground.
"Launch! Launch! ”
The archers, under the command of the officer, drew their bows and aimed their arrows at the Vandals below.
Arrows continued to fall in a dense manner, hitting the wooden shields held high by the Vandals, and the slaves pushing the siege towers fell with arrows, crushed in two by the siege towers behind them.