Chapter 217: The First Fallen Castle Tower
With the increase of scholars in the Sunset Empire, both military and civilian scientific research in the Sunset Empire are improving at an incredible speed, pigments, soaps, fertilizers, etc., with the continuous efforts of scholars, are replaced by unique animals and plants in the world of kings, and small gears, nuts and other parts Although they cannot be mass-produced in the post-modern era, these very rough products can still supply the daily production and research needs of the Sunset Quartermaster Department with the current output, so in this case, Scholars have developed a technique that was originally designed specifically for throwing cans, but which eventually spread to all weapons of war—folding.
As the name suggests, it is a historic breakthrough to minimize the problem of land occupation and bulkage of war machines without disassembling any part. In order to transport war machines such as scorpion crossbows and counterweight trebuchets from the New Delhi Peninsula to the battlefield of the Northwest Continent, people had to reassemble the assembled war machines into parts and wrap them with ropes to pack them away, which can easily lead to the loss of a part and make the weapon unable to assemble, or cause the same effect because of the wear and tear of the parts during transportation. Last year, the Empire produced a total of 100 counterweights, but because of the above situation, more than 20 could not be used without participating in the war, and more than 30 were damaged during the war.
But now war weapons such as can-throwing bows and scorpion crossbows have folding skills, so that they do not need to be disassembled and assembled during transportation, such as the triangular fixed design of the can-throwing bow, only need to untie a fixed nut nail of the guard, and then fold the fixed wooden frame in half, like a mortar folded into a rectangle that can be resisted by one person, which is very light. And the folding design also makes the can-throwing bow this kind of lightweight weapon popularized in all professional legions of the sunset, just like the Roman legions in the original world were equipped with scorpion crossbows, and now in the Sunset Marine Army, in addition to the orc slave soldiers who will dismantle the can-throwing bow if they accidentally use force, about one in every 100 people in the heavy swordsman and papal guard will carry a folding can-throwing bow on their backs when they go to battle, and 5 people will have clay pots filled with asphalt hanging around their waists.
"Burn these heretics! Burn them! As a group of heavily armored swordsmen entered the first floor of the castle tower, it took less than 10 Tai Jar Bows to be installed behind the Naga warriors by heavy swordsmen in light plate armor. Nearly 100 heavily armed swordsmen, who had been given permission by Sun Lin to bring as many bows and ammunition as possible, covered the scythe warriors who had rushed out of the second floor of the castle tower under the roar of a sunset officer with the centurion emblem engraved on his armor.
Although the Western Continent belongs to the early spring season at this time, most of the vegetation, including grass, is not so easy to be ignited under the moisture of the spring rain, let alone spread the flames, but this is enough, and Sun Lin has no evil interest in wanting to set fire to the castle tower, and the Zoran Maru castle tower, a fortress with Xiyi architectural style, is still of strategic significance to Sun Lin.
It didn't set all the scythe warriors on fire as they had imagined, but the scythe samurai who rushed to the front were killed and wounded in the first round of shots from the can-throwing bow. After the explosion of the flying fire canister, an orange-red fire ball was immediately formed around it, and the scythe samurai who were engulfed by the fire instantly emitted a disgusting smell of burnt meat, and the fragments of the canister that flew out because of the explosion were also deeply inserted into the bodies of the surrounding scythe samurai, and several unlucky scythe samurai were not engulfed in the fire, but they were shot through the neck by the flying shards and fell to the ground convulsing and finally died.
After seeing that the scythe warriors who had been pinned on by themselves to help them get out of trouble had not yet arrived, they suffered heavy casualties, and their morale plummeted, and although there was no rout, they had no intention of fighting, and most of the ashigaru stayed where they were and let the Naga warriors slaughter them.
"Fight back, fight back!" Seeing the inhuman appearance of the scythe samurai being destroyed by the weapons of war on which the sun never sets, although in the end there were still many scythe samurai who entered the spear formation to stabilize the line, but the patriarch of the Maori family already felt that this crumbling front could not last long, and watched the Naga warriors and heavily armed swordsmen cooperate to squeeze the front of their troops to the gate of the second layer of the castle tower, and the middle-aged man immediately overwhelmed the samurai archers who were originally guarding the third floor of the castle tower. Hope to use powerful ranged firepower to cover those scythe samurai and spearhead abuta.
However, it didn't take long for the reversal to come to an end, and at this time, the Sea Clan soldiers who had captured the Xiyi battleship for 8 days had already handed over all the captives to the Sunset Fleet, and rushed to the second floor of the castle tower with the second group of Sunset heavy swordsmen carrying canister bows in small boats. The tall Naga warriors not only frightened the Xiyi people in battle, but also made the Xiyi people feel helpless mentally, and on the other side, with the increase in the number of can-throwing bows, the spear formation formed by the scythe samurai spears and light guns shrank, and the can-throwing bows also began to shift the target to those Xiyi people hiding behind the city wall, without exception, all the Xiyi people behind the location of the fire pot were swallowed up by the orange fire that exploded and became charred corpses.
At this point in the war, the outcome has been decided, although the most elite troops of the Zoran Maru castle tower and the most elite troops of the Xiyi troops in the last layer, including hundreds of saber warriors, spear warriors and nearly 1,000 ashigaru soldiers who have been baptized by war, have not joined the front battlefield, when the Zoran Maru castle tower came out and the stone walls used to divide it did not collapse, all the other arrow tower gates have been smashed by stone bullets and ignited by fire, and the small castle tower next to the Zoran Maru castle tower has also collapsed, The only people who can still fight in the Zoran Maru castle tower are the more than 1,000 warriors behind the patriarch of the Maori clan and a dozen mother-clothed people and retainers in battle armor beside him.
Looking at the dilated eyes of the people beside him, the patriarch of the Maori family had already seen the outcome of this battle: "............. hang the flag." ”
"Patriarch!" A few retainers beside him who were still blessed with luck or wanted to give the middle-aged man a step shouted one after another.
"Needless to say, there is no point in fighting this battle, if we continue to defend it, it is estimated that those people who do not set the sun will really set fire to the city, I don't want these more than 1,000 Maori warriors to die so ugly, survival is the most important thing, and the Maori family's bloodline cannot be broken.................. Surrender. ”
“…………… Be. A mournful horn sounded, and the Xiyi people, who were originally fighting on the front line, were unable to put down their weapons. Seeing this, including the Naga warriors who only knew how to fight in the Dao with a bit of a showy brain, also understood that their victorious enemy had surrendered, and on the Royal Victory, a horn sounded immediately, and the heavily armed swordsmen present immediately walked past the Naga and went to collect the prisoners.