Chapter 563: Salanmar City
"Running out?"
"Yes! More than 50,000 people who were arrested and displaced have been used up. Looking at the more than 60,000 bodies dressed in rags in front of the shattered walls in the distance, only a few corpses that looked like they should be Atlantic crescent spearmen or Saiyi Ashigaru, Yuri with a glowing bald head in front of him, said to Lacman with a bloodthirsty smile and a cane beside him.
With the slaughter of nearly two weeks, although Yuri is not a junior officer and soldier in the Second Expeditionary Force of the Middle Continent that never sets in his own hands, he is the supreme commander after all, and he still has some tyrannical air on his body.
On the other hand, Rakuman beside him did not, his face was full of honest smiles as when he first became a soldier on which the sun never sets, but how could Rakuman, who was also a butcher, not be infected with some tyranny in so many days of massacre? It's just that because he has experienced much more than Yuri, he knows how to hide this breath, and if you look closely at the myth of Rakuman's eyes at this time, anyone can find that the eyes have become cold, which makes people shudder.
"It's just a pity that those excellent soldiers." Rakuman shook his head and said with a look of regret: "When this war is over, build a monument for them in the central square." By the way, Yuri, have the families of the soldiers who volunteered for this operation been dealt with in the aftermath? ”
"Don't worry, I have already used yellow-level intelligence to send the compensation plan to the officials of Atlantis City with War Eagle, in addition to asking them to give those families a set of high-end houses in Atlantis City, I also asked them to pay the head to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and to withdraw 100 gold coins from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and give their children the opportunity to go to the branch of the Royal Military Academy in Atlantis City to study and cultivate, just to pull some students for them by the way, as for the money, it is a big deal to deduct my salary." Yuri said with a nonchalant expression: "Now that the homeless people who were captured in the Sharanmar Hills area before are playing, the morale of the defenders in the city should have dropped a little bit, right?" ”
"I don't know what to do." Rakuman shrugged: "If the situation is not good, it is possible that the defenders and soldiers in the city will be driven crazy by our side, and they will fight with us in the next siege battle." ”
"Hey, the plan to force the outcasts to attack the city, and then let the defenders attack the people of their empire was originally proposed by you! I remember that at that time, you insisted that this plan was very credible, and all the army commanders and I agreed to your plan, and now you have put all your affairs with this plan, what do you mean? Yuri said with a grumbling face.
"But anyway, I have some strength left for our fighters."
“……… How come after many days of killing, are there already soldiers who can't hold on? After a period of silence, Yuri said with a worried face: "After all, in the past few days, every soldier has inevitably had some blood on his hands, and even some people have at least 10 women and children in their hands, and it is a very good performance to be able to hold on to it until now." ”
"Alas! After all, more than half of the soldiers in the 2nd Army were soldiers of other nationalities, unlike the 1st Army, which formed soldiers who were either our sunset people or fierce steppe people. This is to be expected, but at this juncture......... I hope the soldiers can hold on one more time. Rakuman said with a sigh
"As long as this Sharanmar City is conquered, the Sharanmar Hills will fall into the hands of our Great Empire like the Marta Plains, and then our soldiers will have a chance to rest." As he spoke, Yuri patted Rakuman on the shoulder: "Don't worry, this time the main attack force will let our sunset troops take the lead, although the loss of the elite soldiers is greater, but it is much better than the spirit of the soldiers in the army falling into an abnormal state." ”
"I hope so......... Black powder! Start bombarding! ”
With an order, the officer who had been standing beside the two generals before, and now his body had been in a cold sweat and silently chanting "I didn't hear anything, I didn't hear anything, I didn't hear anything............. The officer finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately took out the flag on his waist with slightly trembling hands and began to wave, and it didn't take long for 10 loud sounds to sound at the forefront of the Sunset Army, and the Sharanmar city wall was shaken off by the sudden impact after the lime layer was dropped, Some cracks are also beginning to appear on its surface, which are visible to the naked eye.
Although the accuracy of the early siege cannon is not high, its demolition speed can definitely be regarded as the existence of the giant powder keg of the dwarves in addition to the war beast in the king continent, and the accompanying firing sound like a war beast is a good effect of destroying the enemy's morale.
The Sunset Artillery Corps, which had been tested once in North Limburg, showed several times better capabilities at this time than those shown in North Limburg before, and its loading speed, barrel cleaning speed, bombardment accuracy and other aspects have been well improved, and the time between artillery salvos has also been shortened by 2 or 3 seconds on the whole.
With the help of artillery, plus the No. 3 counterweight trebuchet destroyed the arrow tower of Sharanmar City and the trebuchet equipped on the city wall before this, it began to assist the artillery unit to bombard the city wall of Sharanmar, and in less than half a day, the engineering troops of the 2nd Expeditionary Force of the Central Continent left dozens of gaps in the wall of Sharanmar City.
When the artillery fire stopped firing due to overheating, the three-sided formation of the army on which the sun never set also changed.
The Sunset side was led by the Sunset Walking England Knights, who had the highest hatred for the Water Kirin Empire, and after being equipped with longbow guards and heavily armed hook and sickles, they began to move quickly in the direction of the Sharanmar City Wall, and at the same time, the heavy swordsmen from Sunset also followed, preparing to enter the battlefield as a support force when the frontline battlefield was obviously not conducive to the battle of the English knights on foot.
In addition, the Xiyi warriors of the three legions from Xiyi also began to move towards the only unsurrounded wall, and they were given the task of killing all those who had a glimmer of hope and fled through the gate of the unbesieged wall.
As for the 2nd line of troops that were supposed to be at the forefront, they all stayed in the Sunset Army for some reason and served as a reserve army.