Chapter 131: Counterweight Trebuchet
"Out of pity for the weak, the great Lionheart sent a very gentlemanly messenger, or a skilled joman longbowman, to deliver the war book to the enemy's gates with arrows. Then, when the enemy's soldiers began to assemble, the soldiers of the Empire on which the sun never set attacked.................."
Just as described in the "Biography of King Lionheart" published by an editorial office of the Sunset Empire hundreds of years later, Sun Lin shamelessly made an undeclared war against the Duchy of Morse the same way he treated York Collar last time, and when the so-called leader of the Duchy of Morse, Duke Morse and a group of servants ran up the city wall in a panic, the scene outside the city wall almost made the duke faint.
At this time, outside the city, the originally empty meadows have been replaced by torrents of steel, and their number is definitely above 50,000 people, and the capital of the Duchy of Morse is full of white and red people except for the seaside side where there is no city wall because it is a port. And the towering blood-red 3 lion flags in the sea of people were particularly visible in the eyes of this Duke of Morse.
"Oh! My God, isn't this the legion banner of the empire on which the sun never sets? Are they going to war again? Duke Morse groaned in pain, and the duke's own legs, which could not withstand the solemn aura emitted by the opponent's military formation, also softened at this moment, and the duke also took advantage of the situation to the ground, with his earthy yellow thin face, and the Morse soldiers on the side saw that the leader of their country reacted like this, and the morale that was not high was directly reduced to the empire.
And outside the city, behind the army of the Empire, on a hillside, Sun Lin, who was riding in snow, followed by 40 members of the general guard, came here to watch the battle. After seeing that the morale of the Morse garrison was so low, Sun Lin, who should have been very happy, did not have a trace of joy on his face, on the contrary, Sun Lin was looking at the city wall in front of him with an unhappy face, and muttered in a very helpless tone, but in such a situation, Sun Lin's words almost made the 40 members of the general guard on the side slide off their horses: "What is this called!" Although the defending army of the Duchy of Morse has nearly 5,000 people, why is this morale so poor? According to the information displayed on the intelligence network established by Thebes, wasn't this Morse Empire the strongest in the coastal principalities? But now............. alas! Forget it, I originally wanted to let these thousands of people give my newly recruited soldiers a warm-up match, but it is estimated that now these miscellaneous soldiers are not even enough to give these new soldiers a big sacrifice. ”
In fact, the information given by Thebes is correct, the soldiers of the Duchy of Morse are indeed the soldiers with the strongest ability to defend the city among the small principalities on the coast of the northwest continent, but the problem is that the soldiers of the Duchy of Morse are compared with the soldiers of other principalities, not Mars, Mishar, etc. And............ The war between the principalities, a large-scale battle with more than 5,000 soldiers on both sides, and a battle of 10,000 people is already the sky, these dukes and duchy soldiers who have never seen the kind of imperial battle that both sides invest tens of thousands of people at one time, and the state of the dukes after seeing them surrounded by tens of thousands of people is also very normal, and even if you really want to compare, the reaction made by the Duke of Morse is already very good, if it is the dukes of other duchies after seeing such a situation, It is estimated that it is not as simple as collapsing on the ground, no matter how it will reach the level of "endocrine disorder (also known as incontinence) in fright, shock and even death on the spot".
The situation shown by the troops of the Duchy of Morse made Sun Lin feel very bad, but this does not mean that Sun Lin will stop there, it is important to hone the soldiers, but the real purpose of coming here is not to hone the soldiers, if you want to hone the soldiers, you can directly send these 70,000 people to the Mars Empire to fight with the Mars, why do you need to let the Northwest Fleet transport so many people and the new siege weapons prepared in advance to transport them here without the enemy detecting it, And with the fighting physique of the soldiers in Sun Lin's army now (or the ability to recruit soldiers in terms of fighting skills, defense skills, etc.). By the way, combat skills + weapon power are the attack power and charge power of soldiers, and defense skills + armor power are defense power) and weapon configuration, do they still need to hone the army in the empire? Of course, but not urgently, because what the sun never sets on now is the land that the empire desperately needs.
"Pass the order! Put the new siege weapons on the platform, and when those treasures have destroyed all the arrow towers built on the three walls, let all 30,000 giant shield crossbowmen press me forward. Sun Lin, who sighed again because he regretted that he could not train the army, called a member of the general's guard beside him, told him the order and handed over the command order to him, the general's guard immediately rode his horse and whipped towards the forest behind, and after a while, in a howl of the beasts, countless birds were awakened and flew out of the bushes, and when the Morse soldiers and the Duke of Morse shifted their eyes to the forest behind the army on which the sun never set, one by one they were built with steel and wooden frames, The war machine, which was nearly 30 meters high, was dragged out of the forest by a group of 12 engineers and 12 engineers, and was placed on three sides of the encirclement network of the Sunset Empire in the following ten minutes, which belonged to the 40,000 papal guards of the fortress of Nottingham as the source of the 30,000 giant shield crossbowmen mentioned by Sun Lin before.
Their shape is very huge, even comparable to the goblin giant human trebuchet that appeared in the 3rd Nottingham Defense before, but there are three differences, in fact, the goblin kind of human giant trebuchet is wrapped with hemp rope at the junction of each support, and these siege weapons lifted out of the forest are connected by various steel parts at the junction of each support; The second is that the siege weapons carried out by the siege soldiers of the Empire where the sun never sets are much more complex in terms of details than the giant human trebuchet of the goblins, and the third, the goblins are borrowed from the stones projected, and this siege weapon uses neither manpower nor torque, but a new type of power - weight.
And this siege weapon is the counterweight trebuchet that shined in the major siege and defense battles in the middle and late Middle Ages.
PS:。 Eat and eat, and then be drunk, but get up in the middle of the night and drag the dizzy head to finish the 2 more, the above is the reason why the 2 more is only now the reason for the 2 watch.