Chapter 118: Soldiers Descend on the City
Compared with the Western Route Army, the Northern Army led by Sun Lin is much slower, but this is also a helpless thing. This time, Sun Lin chose to march in a straight line, but the difficulty of walking this route is as much as 3 times that of the western front, between the lines, although there are not many checkpoints in the way, but the natural formation of turbulent rivers, lush forests, etc. are not counted, so to the end of the road, the two route armies are not the same in the length of the journey, but on the same day, that is, on the night of September 24, they arrived at the destination of the two roads, the imperial city of the Lancester Empire and the military center Fort Biliga.
After reaching the destination, the commanders of the two routes did not rush to start the siege in the first place, because in the first few days, the soldiers of the two routes were marching in the mountains and forests, although they were all using the speed of walking, but the rugged mountain roads on the way still made many soldiers feel tired after walking, and fatigue battles would be variable. Moreover, although Sun Lin and Bobby had the information provided by Thebes for reference before, after arriving at their destination, they still needed to personally observe and collect data such as what type of city fortress they were going to capture next, and how much resistance the city wall was in.
In the days of rest, although most of the soldiers were resting, the engineering troops, including all the engineering generals, were very busy in these days, not only to reassemble all kinds of siege equipment, but also to make some ladders and other equipment. However, it was thanks to their efforts that Sun Lin and Bobby were able to start the siege at 10 a.m. on September 28 at the same time.
The first to hit was Fort Biliga. Although this castle is the same fortress as Nottinghamburg in terms of name and system definition, because Biliga Fort was built with Lancet, to a certain extent, its internal facilities will be more complete than Nottingham, because Biliga Fort is also a fortress with a long history and development, and Nottingham Fort, even if it has the help of the system, is still weaker than Biliga Fort in many details, just like the street design, The training equipment of each middle school (which should be counted in addition to the buildings of the cavalry units), but in terms of defense, this castle does not have the same perfect wall as the current Nottingham Fortress, which has a two-tier defense system, and then counts that Fort Biliga has already undergone a tragic siege before, so the current Fort Biliga only has an outer wall full of broken gaps, and an inner wall that is less than two-thirds of the height of the outer wall.
In fact, the situation had already doomed the Lancet's side to a crushing defeat from the beginning, but because the defenders left in Fort Biliga this time were all soldiers who had been baptized by the noble rebellion before, and all of them were loyal to His Majesty Mireel of the Leinster royal family, and Millaire had ordered all the remaining soldiers here to defend Fort Biliga before leading his troops back to the Imperial City of Leinster, and absolutely before he defeated the troops of the Sunset Empire that was aimed at the Imperial City of Leinster, the other Sunset Imperial army was outside Fort Biliga, So the soldiers who stayed behind to give the order all rejected Bobby's offer of surrender.
Bobby didn't say anything about this, but everyone has their own masters, and since they want to follow in Milyre's footsteps, let them go. Under Bobby's orders, dozens of catapults threw slightly polished cobblestones towards the walls of Fort Billy in front of them, and since the damaged walls left by the last siege of Fort Billy had not been repaired, the engineers who operated the catapults this time all shifted their targets to these broken walls. On the other side, the improved scorpion crossbow and those more powerful ballistas with a slightly worse accuracy rate also began to exert their power, although these engineering weapons are not capable of destroying the walls of Fort Biliga, but it is more than enough to snipe those defenders guarding the city walls, each shot, the powerful ballista can shoot a giant javelin powerful enough to penetrate any armor and blast several Lancester soldiers standing in a row down the wall, and the improved scorpion crossbow can become a huge "sniper gun" with its excellent accuracy rate, Snipe at the Lancet soldiers who accidentally exposed their heads outside the battlements.
Subsequently, when the sound of "boom" sounded, a city wall finally collapsed after withstanding the impact of no less than 100 fast boulders, dozens of unlucky Leinster soldiers did not escape from this section of the city wall in time and with the collapse of the city wall, fell from the air more than ten meters high and fell into meat sauce, Bobby waved his hand, and directly let hundreds of centurions lead the newly formed Leinster slave army with more than 20,000 people, under the guard of 3,000 hook and sickle soldiers to launch a surprise attack on this section of the city wall, And the 10,000 Yoman longbowmen also stepped forward and began to suppress the soldiers on the city wall, and the overwhelming long-range fire coverage immediately blinded all the militia units that remained behind, only the semi-professional troops reacted faster, and immediately rushed towards the gap after a short period of stupor, resisting the members of the Lancester slave army who were supposed to be their comrades.
"Hmm............ What's going on? Why did the Lancet slaves storm the walls with such a small number of people? Why did the rest of the people stay outside the walls and fight the enemy slowly with those iron spears? Didn't I say that before! The Lancet slaves had to be pushed into the walls of the city to lay a piece of ground, so that the troops behind could continue to attack inside. Bobby, who was riding a dark horse, watched the battle from a distance for a while, then asked a herald beside him with a frown.
"Report to the general, this is because the centurions who led the slaves have responded that the enemy inside is better equipped and there are many of them, and it is impossible for those slaves to capture the outer city so quickly with the equipment configuration of those slaves with leather armor and long short iron spears."
"Humph! I think it's actually those slaves who don't want to play to their full strength............ Go and tell those centurions to be harsh on those slave soldiers, and let them charge again, as long as we can win once, or when the enemy recovers, I will fill this gap with the corpses of the soldiers of our empire on which the sun never sets! ”
"Yes!"
“……… In this case, the outcome of the battle here should have been decided, I wonder what happened to the other side of the Dao Crown? It stands to reason that he should also start using siege weapons to attack the walls of the Imperial City of Ranster at this time, right? I wonder how strong the defensive belt established by Mireel will be on the side of the Imperial City? I hope I won't disappoint Sun Linmian........."