Chapter 152: Stalemate

As Lynx warriors who use the Twin Blade Stream, although they have given up most of their blocking skills and are always in a bad position against heavy weapons such as two-handed broadswords, halberds, and double-edged axes, this abandonment has given the Lynx Warriors the benefit of being able to deal with lightly armed sword and shield classes. The 10,000-strong Bobcat warriors, wielding swords and daggers, dragged the Warsaw men to the city walls with siege ladders after making contact with the Warsaw Alliance's lightly armed sword and shield men.

And this light-armed sword and shield warrior, who had been in the battle with the bobcat warriors after a period of weakness of the strong bow and crossbow, gradually became decadent from their previous indomitable posture, and there was a faint state of wavering military spirit. But it's also something to take for granted. First of all, although these sword and shield soldiers are composed of slave soldiers screened out of the Colosseum, they all retain some servility to a certain extent, that is to say, these people generally obey the slave owners very much, or the centurions and commanders who command these slave soldiers to fight, and the people who survive from the Colosseum will have a ruthless spirit, but these do not mean that the slave soldiers have a good morale, in the final analysis, because these lightly armed sword and shield soldiers and the members of the orc slave army in Sun Lin's hands are all slaves, So they all share the same attribute – low morale.

Morale is a kind of inscrutable thing, but it cannot be denied that morale is particularly important in the cold weapon battlefield, sometimes strong and high morale can offset the enemy's excellent weapons, combat ability and other problems, and in the era of cold weapons, similar to siege warfare This kind of battle depends on the number of both sides, the quality of equipment, etc., are secondary, and morale is the most important. 30,000 demoralized sword and shield warriors against 10,000 lynx warriors who were holding the city walls to live and die, the victory was already self-evident.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the lightly armed sword and shield warriors possessed by the Warsaw Alliance seems to be very strong, but their real strength is completely inferior to the round shield swordsmen of Spain in the original world, whether in terms of equipment or combat skills, even the combat effectiveness of these lightly armed sword and shield warriors is not as good as those militia swordsmen, and at most they are abusing the town militia and light spear infantry.

So when the battle lasted for nearly 1 hour, and the number of Bobcat warriors killed reached more than half, the Warsaw Alliance's lightly armed sword and shield warriors, who were still very powerful before, began to waver after sacrificing more than 10,000 soldiers, and then deserters began to appear in the area at the end of the right side of the city wall, and the embankment of thousands of miles collapsed in the anthill, and there would be a second with a bird, and there would be a third with a second, and in less than 5 minutes, the lightly armed sword and shield warriors who were still in the siege stage began to fully disperse, The sword and shield warriors who had no intention of fighting again were beaten and lost their armor under the frenzied killing of the lynx warriors.

And as the lightly armed sword and shield warriors were driven down from the city wall by the Bobcat warriors, the siege ladder that had been leaning on the city wall mountain was either knocked down or ignited by the Bobcat warriors, and the 5,000 crossbowmen who had previously withdrawn from the city wall or hid in the arrow towers and firing platforms replaced the only remaining 4,000 Bobcat warriors on the city wall, and killed the lightly armed sword and shield warriors who had left their backs to the crossbow. Because these sword and shield warriors did not deliberately use the small iron shield in their hands to defend against the flying crossbow arrows, so at this time, the mortality rate of the sword and shield warriors when they were covered by Mars's long-range fire was as much as twice or even 3 times that of their previous attacks. But the illusions of these crossbowmen were soon shattered by more than a dozen fireballs flying in.

"Boom, boom, boom!" After hitting the city wall, the huge ball of fire immediately sank and shattered some of the wooden baffles used to defend against arrows, and even if they were not broken, they were ignited by these sudden flying fireballs, but thankfully, due to the thick wooden baffles blocking it, the flying live baffles did not cause any casualties, and even the crossbowmen hiding behind the wooden baffles only fell to the ground due to the strong force coming from the wooden baffles.

And with the appearance of the fire group, Andrew, who had originally focused all his energy on the previous failure of the siege and retreated to the remaining more than 10,000 lightly armed sword and shield soldiers, also turned his attention to the Warsaw Alliance army again.

"Damn, I didn't expect that the chairman of the Warsaw Alliance really wanted to use this opportunity to completely change the situation in the Western Continent! It is no wonder that the Warsaw Alliance would send those lightly armed sword and shield men to attract and block the fire of the small ballistas on the city walls, originally to buy time for the engineers to assemble these weapons, but the only thing that the Warsaw people did not calculate was that these light sword and shield men were defeated so quickly............ Ballista chief, can the 10 ballistas in your hand hit those medium catapults? ”

"Hmm............ Since the ballistas are set up on the walls, the range will be longer, I think......... There are about 6 ballistae that can hit the location of those siege weapons. Beside Andrew, a middle-aged soldier with his arms behind him, after visually inspecting the position of the Warsaw Union catapults ahead, said to Andrew: "And......... Although the Warsaw Federation has medium-sized catapults, and the light catapults of our Central Army are stronger, I think the medium-sized catapults we have encountered in front of us should be defective. ”

"What do you mean?" Andrew asked, confused.

"Well.......... I've had the good fortune to see the medium-sized catapults that the Sun Never Sets Empire has ever had, but the stones they threw were not only larger than the ones in front of me, but they also weighed twice as much, and I felt that I would like to vouch for the fact that the flints that flew from before might not even weigh 150 kilograms. And I've heard before that the Empire of the Sun Never Sets has secretly put up some experimental catapults for auction in order to obtain military spending. These catapults are all defective products, not only have a very low lifespan, but they are also imitable, but these defective products are still a sought-after item in the black market of the Northwest Continent, which lacks engineers, and are the finale of the competition between various noble lords, and sometimes even the royal family will intervene when the number is large. So I think that the medium-sized catapult in front of me should be the defective products that the sun never sets sells. ”

"The sun never sets again, have they extended their hand of expansion to this extent............... Ballista Chief, we'll talk about this after the battle, you still have to get rid of those defects for safety, you must know that our mission is to hold on to this city for at least 1 week! ”