Chapter 151: The Lynx and the Sword and Shield
With the order of the general of the forward army of the Warsaw Alliance, the 30,000 sword and shield men who were originally in the second line position, under the one-handed swords wielded by many non-commissioned officers, each 30 people were a small team holding siege ladders, first began to trot forward, and then began to let out a roar and rush forward after they were about to enter the range of the small ballistas on the Mars side. They were greeted by slender javelins.
There were not many war equipment divisions in the Mars Empire, and the fact that they could develop a small ballista that could shoot a 2-meter-long javelin from a distance of 400 meters was already a historic breakthrough for the Mars's city defense. Although the 10 small ballistas in front of him are larger than the volume of the improved scorpion crossbow equipped by Sun Linjun, whether it is power or accuracy, the improved scorpion crossbow is several times stronger than Mars's small ballista, who said that the improved scorpion crossbow used by the army does not only have a new type of steel triangular sight, but also the javelin length it throws is more than 4 meters, and each has the thickness of a person's calf? Of course, this is also inevitable.
However, it is undeniable that the small ballista equipped by the Mars army is still very lethal to the Warsaw Alliance, and in just one round of shooting, it eliminated nearly 1 squad of about 50 lightly armed sword and shield soldiers. And because this small ballista is easy to operate, only two people need to insert the javelin into the shooting groove and twist the torsion frame next to the ballista to strengthen the force and then let go, to a certain extent, it is easier than the state of the improved scorpion crossbow, that is to say, the shooting speed of this ballista may be faster than the improved scorpion crossbow.
As the ballistas fired, the crossbowmen standing on the ramparts began to reload their bolts, and when the Warsaw League's lightly armed sword and shield men came into range, they struck at once. The crossbows equipped by these Mars people are not as powerful as the steel pulley crossbows equipped by the giant shield crossbowmen of the Sunset Empire, but the effect of killing and injuring these sword and shield soldiers who are only wrapped in a layer of sleeveless light chain mail is still very impressive, as long as the crossbow arrows that shoot out can hit these sword and shield soldiers, as long as the concentrated position is not the iron shield in their hands, or the iron helmet that hits the head of these sword and shield soldiers can break the armor, and generally these flying crossbow arrows only need to hit the arms and arms of these sword and shield soldiers, It was enough to make them so painful that they didn't even have the strength to stand up, and the result was only to be trampled into meatloaf by the other sword and shield warriors who followed closely.
At the same time, the Mars archers behind the city walls also began to shoot arrows, but compared to the crossbowmen on the city walls, the arrows thrown by these short bows did not cause much damage to the 30,000 sword and shield men, but they made the sword and shield men have to hold the small round shield in front of them to prevent these arrows from falling from the sky to hurt them, and this caused these sword and shield men to completely leak the position below the abdomen to the crossbowmen. And this action will also slow down the progress of the sword and shield warriors.
At this time, Mars's long-range troops seemed to be infinitely beautiful, and they had killed nearly 2,000 sword and shield warriors in just a few shots, but only Andrew, who was in a safe position at the city gate, knew that the brutal battle had just begun, and the commander of the Warsaw Alliance would not let these sword and shield soldiers suffer casualties in vain.
"Woo ..............." With a long horn in the camp of the Warsaw Alliance, the 8,000 Warsaw guards who were originally the vanguard stopped advancing, along with 40,000 ironclad heavy infantry, and the 10,000 javelin raiders in the front-line troops continued to advance, but the 20,000 Warsaw crossbowmen behind them began to trot forward, and stopped 200 meters away from the city wall, and began to counterattack in a slightly scattered formation.
20,000 crossbowmen would shoot 20,000 arrows at the Mars soldiers on and behind the walls, even though the Mars were prepared for this. The Warsaw ranged troops in Zhilu Province preferred to shoot with crossbows rather than bows, which meant that the Warsawians had given up the ability to use fire arrows in disguise, so the walls of the Mars were covered with countless wooden baffles. The ballista only needs to use the thin slit in the wooden baffle to observe the situation outside to adjust the angle, as for the radiation and other actions, it is enough to squat directly behind the baffle, and the 5,000 crossbowmen also use the baffle to wait for the Warsaw long-range troops under the city wall to end the salvo, leaning out to block, although it is troublesome, but compared to their small lives, this trouble is nothing? As for the short archers behind the city walls, not to mention, the crossbow is a straight trajectory, unless there are those crossbowmen who dare to shoot the crossbow as a bow to the height so that it loses its impact and falls down to kill the enemy, not to mention how powerful this falling crossbow arrow is, the 10 miss rate alone can tell the whole story.
However, even if the Mars soldiers tried so hard, they still couldn't resist the advance of the 30,000 sword and shield soldiers, these slave soldiers who had honed a ruthless spirit in the gladiatorial arena were like the orc slave soldiers in the army where the sun never set, not only did they not feel fear after seeing the front row of their comrades fall in large numbers, but this situation also inspired the fierceness in the bones of these people, just like those soldiers with war cry charging in the attributes of the troops, the closer they got to the city wall, the louder the roar they shouted.
After watching the teams of sword and shield warriors begin to erect siege ladders on the city wall, Andrew Zhilu Dao, who is located in the city gate tower, finally began the real tug-of-war. After a little contemplation, Andrew, as the commander-in-chief of the siege, immediately ordered the 10,000 Bobcat warriors who were on standby under the city walls to start moving on the city walls.
These leather-clad Mars soldiers immediately assembled at the city wall after receiving the order, and under the protection of the wooden baffle, these soldiers who were very easy to be shot by crossbowmen got the protection they needed, and the curved scimitars or double-edged daggers they were equipped with were insufficient in blocking, but in terms of offense, they were absolutely inferior to the light sword and shield warriors of the Warsaw Alliance, because the weapons they were equipped with were originally weapons specially used to cut off the enemy's light chain mail, although they did not have cracking attributes, However, the Bobcat warriors, who are adept at hand-to-hand combat, can always use these two weapons to easily pick off their opponents' weapons, and accurately cut the blade into the parts that the enemy's armor cannot cover.
Therefore, when the sword and shield warriors who had worked hard to climb the siege ladder collided with these lynx warriors who rushed to the city wall for defense, the city wall was instantly wet with splashes of blood.