Chapter 499: Battle of the Ottoman Imperial City (Part II)
There are still about 38 hours left before the arrival of the army of the Sunset Infantry Battle.
At night, the flames of the Ottoman Imperial City were not extinguished, but intensified.
As early as the early morning, the Ottoman counterweight trebuchet set the earth on fire with flint and fiery javelins with the assistance of the ballistas on the city wall, and it is impossible to say that the sun does not set in this fire without being injured, according to post-war statistics, in the late stage of the war, that is, before the arrival of the sun never set foot army, there were no less than 100 auxiliary cavalry of the sun never set or were suffocated to death by the smoke blowing from behind, or were trapped in the fire and burned alive because they ran in the wrong direction. Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for is that the No. 3 counterweight trebuchet of the day did not fall on the side of the sun, under the impetus of the Sunset Engineers, when the battlefield was transferred to the north and south city walls respectively, because the extra Sunset Engineers cleaned the grass on both sides of the road all the way, so that the Sunset Engineers did not suffer casualties in the fire.
At first, the fire caused by the lit grass outside the city not only caused casualties on the side where the sun never set, but also caused smoke outside the city, which reduced the accuracy of arrows on the side where the sun did not set by at least 30%, and more than 30 No. 3 counterweight trebuchets were temporarily unable to bombard the city wall due to their trapped vision, but the soldiers on the Ottoman side were not treated in the same way. And due to the factor of thick smoke in the theater of operations on the side where the sun never sets, and the array of soldiers and counterweight trebuchets that never set before was arranged in a skirmish formation, in this case, the equipment troops on the Ottoman side also fell into a semi-paralyzed state, although the Ottoman side may be able to hit some unlucky soldiers who do not set the sun if they bombard the dense fog area together, but what is the use, even if a large number of stones, arrows and rolling logs have been hoarded in the Ottoman Imperial City before, But the fact that there are so many consumables doesn't mean that the Ottomans can use them at will, because these things are reserved for the foot army on which the sun never sets.
With the passage of time and the blowing of the west wind, the side that does not set the sun finally broke away from the billowing smoke at sunset, but the Ottoman side fell into the complete paralysis of the long-range troops and the war machinery troops: who told the heavens today not to be beautiful, the hanging point turned out to be the wind blowing from west to east, such a wind is clearly to make the Ottoman Imperial City into a city of smoke!
The Ottoman Imperial City has become a smoke city, and the sun never sets will certainly not let go of this opportunity to beat the water dogs. Although the smoke in the sky made it impossible for the Cuman infantry and the auxiliary cavalry on foot to see with the naked eye where the Ottoman soldiers on the walls were, did this have any effect on the ranged infantry on the sunset? Don't forget that the original intention of these long-range infantry was not to kill the Ottoman soldiers on the city wall as much as possible before the sun never set on the arrival of the walking army, but to suppress the Ottoman soldiers on the city wall with a huge rain of arrows all the time, so that those Ottoman engineers could not operate the war equipment, so they now only need to throw the arrows in their hands onto the city wall as before, or even without throwing them, because now the war equipment on the Ottoman side has been forced to obviously paralyze in the smoke, This is equivalent to making these soldiers who never set the sun and the Cuman soldiers into a demand in disguise.
For the siege troops on the side where the sun never sets, although the smoke in front of them is dense enough to wrap all the three Ottoman city walls, it is important to know that those Ottoman city walls are not like the No. 3 counterweight trebuchets outside the city, the targets are small, and the walls and arrow towers themselves cannot move around to switch throwing points like those No. 3 counterweight trebuchets.
The immovable city wall is obstructed by smoke for the side that does not set, but it cannot change the essence of being a live target of siege equipment, so for the Ottoman side due to the smoke of the city and its war equipment troops are ignited and paralyzed, the sun does not set the side to accelerate the attack speed, originally in the northwest region of the Central Continent city wall, the Ottoman Imperial City wall that can be ranked in the top 10 in terms of solidity not only did not show its solid ability, but in the sun does not set more than 30 counterweight trebuchets in the round bombardment, There were bursts of groans that made the Ottoman soldiers' scalps tingle and frightened.
It's not that the Ottoman side won't counterattack, in fact, the Ottoman soldiers have also organized several death squads, hoping to use the death squads to raid the army formation of the side where the sun does not set and it is night, and destroy as many No. 3 counterweight trebuchets as possible, so as to reduce the burden on the walls of the Ottoman Imperial City. But it turned out to be nothing short of whimsical.
When the first death squad of up to 1,000 people, led by a small general on the Ottoman side, equipped with inlaid armor and chain mail, armed with swords and round shields, rushed out of the city, located in an area of about 100 meters around the city gate, suddenly planted many torches, looking at the past, the number of them was at least 300, and beside these soldiers holding torches, there were at least 500 soldiers who were not equipped with torches. The soldiers armed with Mo forged crossbows were arranged in an arc and divided into three columns, the first of which was arranged on one knee, and the last row of soldiers who never set the sun stood in the gap, which maximized the long-range firepower of the sunset side.
"Shoot the arrows!" Although the Mo forging crossbow is not controlled by the giant shield crossbowmen who do not set the sun, this does not reduce its powerful penetrating ability, under the orders of several centurions, the crossbow arrows that are flying from the cold light in the front reflect the moonlight in the sky, all of them hit the inside of the Ottoman soldiers' bodies, and all the arrows are either killed or injured in order to make the powerful Mo forging crossbow, and the injuries are still seriously injured.
Of course, as the selected death squads, although they were ambushed by the long-range troops on the side of the sun, their morale would definitely not be shattered so easily, on the contrary, the situation in front of them also aroused the blood of these Ottoman soldiers, but these Ottoman soldiers could only go to the end, because when the second round of arrow rain passed, these auxiliary cavalry immediately dispersed, and behind them, a member of the Field Order and a knight of England on foot wearing plate armor and holding a two-handed war hammer rushed forward, With the weapons in his hands, he killed the death squads on the Ottoman side one by one.