Chapter 295: The Siege of the Imperial City
In a blink of an eye, the time has come to the end of March, and the 170,000 troops of the Dick Empire finally advanced to the Imperial City of Mars, and after spending about 1 day assembling some siege equipment, they were the first to start the siege of Mars and use dozens of counterweight trebuchets to throw boulders with an average weight of more than 400 kilograms to the Sunset Empire.
Prior to this, the Dick army had actually received news from the inland theater of the northwest continent, and the news of the defeat of more than 100,000 people in its own team had been spread to the army, and at the same time, the two news about the fall of the Litao City by the Sunset Empire and the Mars royal family being slaughtered by the Sunset soldiers in the Litaor City have also been transmitted to the hands of the Dick army, the supreme commander General Dante.
For the sudden appearance of such a bad situation, the former head of the Dick Mission to Japan and the supreme commander of the current Dick Army Dante can be said to be both angry and very helpless, angry that the 30,000 Dick Tomahawk heavy cavalry and more than 100,000 Mars troops were too useless, not only were they ambushed and disabled by the enemy in the combat terrain that they were good at, but also lost their armor and were killed by the 4 cavalry regiments of the Sunset Empire because they did not prepare for reconnaissance in advance in the process of retreating. and eventually led to the almost undefended city of Littor falling into the hands of the Empire; Unfortunately, because after the sun never set was actually occupied in Litaor City, Dante used the intelligence network system established by the remnants of the Friends of the Forest in the area around Litaor City to conclude that the Sunset Empire invested about 200,000 elite troops in the area around Litaor City.
Under normal circumstances, Dante would definitely choose to turn around immediately and recapture Litaor City to ensure his own logistics, but not to mention whether the Sunset troops in the Imperial City of Mars when he turned around and attacked Litaor City would suddenly appear and surround themselves, just because he didn't even have a cavalry unit on hand now, but Sunset had 4 cavalry regiments on his side; Although his own soldiers are good at snow warfare, they are not good at forest warfare, and the two battle terrains on the side where the sun never sets can adapt to these two battle terrains, it is enough to trend Dante himself to continue to lead an army of 170,000 Dirks to continue to advance towards the Imperial City of Mars.
And in Dante's opinion, since the Sunset Empire has invested about 200,000 elite soldiers in the inland theater of the Northwest War, it means that in their advance goal, the number of soldiers that the Sunset Empire can have can only reach 100,000 at most, plus the previous 100,000 people not only participated in the defense of Riley City and the siege of Mars Imperial City, but the number of its new forces may have even dropped to less than 100,000, and only 70,000 or 60,000 people remain. In addition, according to the news of the Friends of the Forest, the Sunset Empire has not yet opened the road between the Imperial City of Mars and the City of Edin, and the current Sunset Empire should not have much war baggage, and there should be no problem in capturing the Imperial City of Mars.
But if Dante knew that a 50,000-strong army from the Northern Continent had already entered the Imperial City of Mars through the smuggling lane of the Sunset Empire's merchant guild the night before yesterday with a large amount of baggage, it is estimated that Dante would not have thought like this.
"Boom Boom ...............Boom" Although the power of the counterweight trebuchet of the Dick Empire is not as strong as that of the Sunset Empire, it is better in number, more than 30 counterweight trebuchets will surround the Mars Imperial City on all sides, because the Sunset Empire does not have time to build a city defense giant crossbow on the imperial city wall, all the Dick Empire perfectly used the ultra-long range of the counterweight trebuchet to bombard the walls of the Mars Imperial City.
The bombardment lasted all morning, and even the walls of the Imperial City of Mars were as strong as the city of London to hold out in such a situation, and when the last stone of the Dick Empire was thrown by the counterweight trebuchet, there was not a single part of the walls of the Imperial City of Mars still intact. Even the four strongest gates of the city wall had lost their gate towers under the bombardment of the counterweight trebuchet, and were covered with cracks like spider webs, and there were already four or five gaps in the city wall that could be used by a large number of Dick's troops, and the arrow tower facilities on the city wall that could cause the most damage to them were now gone.
"All-out raid!" Under the command of General Dante, Dick's army launched a full-scale assault on the Imperial City of Mars in the evening like a tide. The first to bear the brunt were the Dick hoplites, dressed in blue-gray armor with Northern Continent style plate armor and armed with a battle axe and knight's shield. These elite heavy infantry belonging to the Dick Empire's army are not only more than 2 meters tall on average, but also as strong as oxen, all of them are composed of northern warriors who survived hand-to-hand combat with the snow troll tribe.
General Dante's choice to make such a full-scale attack did not come from his self-confidence, but because he used the information he had obtained to calculate that it was impossible for the only remaining Sunset army in the city to use less than 100,000 troops to hold the 4 walls of the Mars Imperial City, and he guessed that the Sunset side would definitely have a problem of unstoppable troops in the defense of the Mars Imperial City because of the lack of military strength, and what Dante had to do now was to launch a full-scale attack to calculate where this loophole was. So that he can devote all his reserves to that place to break through the defenses of the empire on which the sun never sets.
"Roar .........." When the Dick army entered more than 300 meters of the city wall, many flags of the Longbow Regiment and the Crossbow Corps were immediately erected on the originally ruined city wall, and the number of them definitely exceeded 1,000, and there were also scorpion crossbows and can-throwing bows, and even at this time, those scorpion crossbows had begun to throw steel javelins at the Dick heavy infantry in the Dick army under the control of the Sunset Archers.
For this situation, Dante, who was watching from a distance, only frowned and stretched out, it seems that Dante just regarded this situation as the luck of the party on which the sun never sets and the decisive resistance, and did not notice that the number of soldiers on the sunset on the broken city wall has reached nearly 40,000, plus the number of hand-to-hand combat soldiers who gradually reveal their figures behind the gap in the city wall, the actual strength of the sunset side in front of Dick has faintly exceeded 80,000.
"It seems that the enemy has firmly believed in the smoke bombs released by our personnel, and the strength of the army in the city is only 70,000, otherwise it is impossible for them to make a full-scale assault This wave of pig rush is dismissed." Throwing aside the battle report in his hand, Sun Lin said with a smile to several army commanders beside him, but the second battle report that Sun Lin casually took made his face sink.