Chapter 345: Scarlet Dawn
"Hurry up the walls! The sun never sets and the people begin to siege the city........." Before Officer Dick's roar was finished, a huge orange-red fireball smashed into him at a great speed, instantly leaving his bones gone..........
It was about 3:30 a.m. before dawn on April 3, the 6th year of the new calendar of the Great Empire, and the location was the imperial city of the Dick Empire. Only faster, and their strength is stronger than expected. ”
Under the personal leadership of Sun Lin, who had already obtained the attributes of "understanding logistics" and "using scouts to speed up the march of troops", when Sun Lin handed over the command of the cavalry to Bobby and George, and let Uda Khan cooperate with his subordinates, so that all the cavalry troops spread to the Nat Plain, Sun Lin took the shortest line between the two points, and ignored any fortress, city and other places that appeared within the line of sight of the 250,000-foot army. With the cavalry troops relying on the heavy grain and grass provided to the infantry army by plundering, they went straight to the imperial city of the Dick Empire.
Although there were rapid marches at some times in the process of advancing, this was already commonplace for the army that the sun never set, so after the army came to this city and a river, and its surrounding area was flat grasslands and endless fields, Sun Lin immediately decided to test the defense of the Imperial City of Dick after discussing with Henry in Andelt, so as to obtain a more detailed report on the defensive strength of the Imperial City of Dick for the general attack on the third day, and this is the origin of the "Battle of the Bloody Dawn".
Although it was only a tentative attack, but this pre-dawn temptation, the Sunset side almost did not reduce the investment in the war machinery, except for the 6 dwarven centurions that were ready to be sent out to deter the Dirks when the time came, the rest included hundreds of scorpion crossbows, 50 No. 3 counterweight trebuchets and thousands of secret room guards, all under the operation of the Sunset Engineers and Mo Forging Slave Soldiers, with 40,000 Lanster nail hammer soldiers, hook sickle soldiers and 20,000 giant shield crossbowmen, A fierce assault on the walls of Dick.
After more than one month of savings, the hoarding of arrows, javelins and even roughly polished stones and other things owned by the sunset side has reached an extremely staggering value, and if you have to use something to describe the amount of these heavy hoards, the sunset side has to install six dwarven centurions on the march to let them transport those trebuchet special stone bullets is the best example.
Under the repeated bombardment of 50 No. 3 counterweight trebuchets, not only the arrow towers that stood on top of the city walls, but also the thick city walls had many cracks, and the houses behind the city walls became burning ruins..........
"Climb the wall!" With 50 counterweight trebuchets nearly shattering the towers above the city walls and revealing a hint of whiteness in the distant eastern sky, Sunset's soldiers, armed with sophisticated weapons and light armor, rushed up the walls under the cover of giant shield crossbowmen, scorpion crossbows, and chamber guards, carrying folding steel siege ladders.
Skilled scythes wield their scythes with a tiger, while newly recruited scythes follow behind the veterans, ready to recharge their enemies with a shot on their enemies, and snow and fog will be scattered everywhere on the city walls that are attacked by the scythes; As for the Lancet's hammermen, who had become the recognized light infantry of the empire, although they did not make any outstanding javelins in this battle of Bloody Dawn, they were sometimes quite mediocre, and if they had not been dedicated to holding back the heavy infantry of the Dick Tomahawk to support, those hook and sickle soldiers with only steel inlays and even thin sleeveless chain mail would not have been able to achieve such a feat.
Compared with the sunset, the situation of the Dick Empire is also okay, first of all, because the sun does not set and does not invest in the heavy infantry, so the Dick people have heavy infantry in this battle, and they completely stared at the soldiers who rushed into the city wall on the wall of the imperial city that had already lost the battlements. Although the hook and sickle soldiers who never set the sun have strong attack power, in fact, the combat resistance of those hook and sickle soldiers is not even half of the Lancester hammer soldiers, and the hook and sickle soldiers are originally good at charging, not attacking fortifications, so after the battle lasted for more than 1 hour, the side that did not set the sun began to be counterattacked by the Dirks because of the lack of troops to continue to invest, and they were beaten back and retreated.
"Looks like the Dirks are going to fight us to the death! Andrelt and Henry, order that all the soldiers on the city wall be withdrawn, and by the way, the longbowmen will also be lined up to meet them, after all, in this chaotic situation, only our longbowmen are capable of holding back the enemy soldiers. Under Sun Lin's instructions, as the horns of retreat sounded one after another on the front line, the Sunset Hook Scythe soldiers who had rushed to the city wall before were the first to break away from the battlefield, and the Lancet Hammer Soldiers, who were suitable for attacking the fortified position, were led by some grassroots officers who were afraid of the Sunset, and dragged back the more frantic Dick soldiers who were ready to retreat after perceiving that the sun was not setting, and this situation was not until the Yoman Longbowmen entered the designated position to exert territorial suppression. The surviving Lancer Mace brought back all the folding steel siege ladders that had been left on the city walls and retreated to the rear.
And after that, when the Dick Emperor Laksu was about to send the Dick crossbowmen who had previously evacuated the lower city wall to the city wall to shoot as much as possible the soldiers who had left their backs to him, a new round of trebuchet throwing fell on the walls of the Dick Imperial City, and this was called the "Battle of the Scarlet Dawn" by the Dick people who survived the future Dick Imperial City, and it was only a tentative battle on the side of the sunset, and it ended hastily.
After this battle, both sides fell into a brief lull, waiting for the day when the fate of the Dick Empire would be decided in three days.