Volume II: Chapter 23: The Siege of Viruga

Sergeant Rhodok, who carried the siege ladder on his shoulder, rushed towards the wall of Viruga with great momentum, and there were more than 1,000 Rhodok sergeants behind him, as the first group to siege the city.

"Your Majesty, let them go, they're about to cross the moat!" Karl said to Fan Ming anxiously when he saw the more than a thousand enemy troops who were already about to run across the river.

"No! Wait! Wait until they are all in range and launch!" At this time, Fan Ming also sweated, this was the first time he had commanded a big battle in the true sense, so he was also inexplicably nervous.

The more than a thousand Rhodok troops below the city were getting closer and closer, and the Imperial army at the head of the city was in a state of jealous excitement and nervousness!

Fan Ming stared at the city until he saw the last group of enemy troops crossing the river on the cloth bag on the moat, and Fan Ming immediately ordered loudly: "Warriors of the Empire! It's time to teach them a lesson!"

Following Fan Ming's order, the crossbowmen on the arrow tower at the head of the city and the trebuchet on the projectile platform fired together, and in an instant, the crossbow arrows rose into the air, blocking the sky above Viruga.

The Rhodok soldiers who were marching forward did not encounter any obstacles in the march just now, so they had already relaxed their vigilance, and when the feathered arrows from the sky were fired, they were blinded, and some were even stunned on the spot, and then they were shot squarely.

The feathered arrows in the sky fell in the dense crowd, instantly bringing up a bloody flower, and the crossbow arrows with strong tendons shot through the body of Sergeant Rodok who was only wearing leather armor, and some even penetrated the body of another sergeant, only the first wave of crossbow arrows. He let Sergeant Rhodok fall, two or three hundred people, and some even became hedgehogs.

But the catastrophe of the Rhodoks is not over. Followed by the feathered arrows is a secret weapon thrown by the trebuchet, not like the boulders used by the Rhodoks, but a bag of explosives made by the Vanming.

The powerful explosive packets were thrown into the crowd, and nothing happened when they fell, but the Rhodoks laughed at the fact that the trebuchet dropped something was too lethal.

But as the fuses burn out, their sneers become a mockery of the ignoramous about themselves, and five explosive packs in the crowd burn out the fuses at the same time. Five explosive packets exploded together, and the powerful explosion instantly shattered the dense crowd, sending flesh and blood flying all over the battlefield. Countless people were blown to slag, some of them had their legs blown off, and they screamed in pain on the ground.

With the violent explosion of the explosive pack, the earth even trembled. A huge pit also appeared under the city of Viruga. Those who were lucky not to be killed by the bombing knelt on the ground and wailed 'Thor spare their lives', and even the soldiers who did not participate in the siege in the distance knelt on the ground and prayed loudly.

Gong Xiang was startled by the sudden explosion, and even almost fell off his horse, and when the explosion echoed across the plain, the fear in people's hearts still lingered, and even the imperial soldiers in the city who had long known the power of the explosive pack were shocked by this huge power.

"It's terrifying!" Resarit looked at the place where the explosion had occurred, surrounded by a layer of blood mist. And the original more than 1,000 people who were alive were less than 300 people in an instant, and they seemed to have been stupefied by this sudden 'Thor's Fury'. If you don't go crazy, you can have a concussion

"This is power! power from science!" Fan Ming was also shocked by the power of the five packets of explosives exploding at the same time, and pulled out such a sentence unnaturally.

Gong Xiang looked at the sergeants in front of him who had already begun to flee back, and his heart was in a hurry, and he immediately ordered his sword: "Give me the second group, that is all Fan Ming's trick! Don't be afraid! Anyone who dares to run back will cut off their heads and feed them to the vultures!"

The reluctant sergeant had no choice but to continue the attack, and the second group was more than 1,000 people, following the order of the palace minister, the soldiers who fled back were cut to death, and seeing their companions being slaughtered, the remaining soldiers who were ready to flee back also woke up, and for the sake of their lives, they had to rush forward with them, waiting for them to still have the same fate.

First there were crossbow arrows in the sky, where the arrows fell, a piece fell, blood splattered, and then there were bags of explosives fired by trebuchets, and bursts of slaughter in the crowd, and the panicked soldiers shouted and cheered themselves up, and continued to march towards the city walls, even if there were constantly companions falling beside them, but in order to survive, they could only continue to move forward.

"Your Majesty, you've run out of explosives!"

"Haha, what's the hurry! They still have less than five hundred people, so let them go a little further! I'm still a little waiting to give them a taste!" Fan Ming said with a sneer.

Although there was no threat of explosives, the strong crossbow arrows continued to deprive the attackers of their lives, braving a dense rain of arrows, and finally, with less than 400 men lost, the Rhodok climbed the siege ladder to the top of the wall.

"Haha! It's now! They don't have Thor's Wrath anymore! Everyone together! Rush!" Seeing that the explosion had stopped and the siege ladder was in place, the palace minister shouted orders everyone else to rush forward.

A moment later, more than 4,000 people rushed towards the walls of Viruga, and the first to hit was the foot knights who had been aggrieved for a long time, they were composed of a group of knights, trained from childhood, strong in combat, and protected by a set of strong armor, extremely loyal, so when charging, they were also the most brave and fearless.

The rain of arrows was still shooting intensively at the enemy troops under the city, and people kept falling to the ground with arrows, but without the attack of explosive packs, the casualties of the enemy troops decreased significantly.

The four hundred soldiers and pirates who were the first to climb the ladder continued to smash down the city under the shields and sharp hammers of the Imperial soldiers at the head of the city, but the ladder still stood at the top of the wall and was not knocked down. It was not that the imperial sergeants were unwilling to be overthrown, but that Fan Ming ordered not to be overthrown. "Your Majesty, quickly push down the ladder! their main forces are here!" Karl looked at the more than 4,000 heads that were already approaching under the city, and the black pressure made him panic.

"No, just let them come, let the brothers hold up for a while!" ordered Fan Ming.

As the attacking Rhodok soldiers continued to gather under the city, the enemy troops gradually climbed the city wall, although the imperial soldiers relied on their huge shields and strength to drive them off the city wall, but they still could not withstand so many enemy troops to climb up in turn. Finally, as the Imperial sergeant in the front row was overdrawn and fell with a pirate's axe, people began to fall continuously. Imperial sergeants began to show dead and wounded.

At this moment, more than 4,000 troops rushed to the city, and the black pressure of the human head was like a stream of water, crowded under the city, and like a wriggling worm, it was very infiltrating

"They've all rushed over! It's too late to knock down the stairs! What are we going to do? If we wait until they're all up, it'll be too late!" Karl reported anxiously.

"Are you all rushing here?" he said. Fan Ming looked at the city, and sure enough, the city was already crowded with people at this time, and there were more than 4,000 people in the city.

"Now is it. Grenadier, start throwing!" With Fan Ming's order, the strong man who had been waiting at the head of the city began to throw the clay pot pinned to his waist, "Stay in the pile!" Fan Ming told again.

These grenadiers. It is the hundred big men with arm strength recruited by Fan Ming. They are all physically strong, especially the arms, and the large muscles are almost torn through their clothes, and their task is simple, that is, to throw Fan Ming's homemade clay pot bomb into the pile, not to mention that this clay pot bomb is light and contains little explosives, but it is full of iron filings and iron nails. There is also fire oil! When the explosion is accompanied by pottery shards, they are splashed around, which can not only expand the killing range. It can even make the body burned by the fire in an instant, and even water is useless.

Don't look at this small throw, it is difficult for ordinary people's arm strength to ensure that the strength of the clay pot thrown can be smashed immediately and exploded, so it requires a high arm strength, and it can explode as soon as it is thrown, therefore, Fan Ming attaches great importance to the system of these grenadiers, from the day of recruitment, the side of the big meat and big fish is raised, so that other soldiers are greedy and gossip, today, let them see that these grenadiers are not raised for nothing.

I saw the soldiers raise their strong arms, and threw the clay pots in their hands as if they had a deep enmity with it, and in an instant, a hundred clay pots fell into the crowd that was crowding under the city.

The clay pot fell and smashed on the head, and the huge force combined with inertia exploded the top of the head, and the clay pot also cracked, exploding in an instant.

People who were still glad that they did not hit their heads were immediately hit by the broken pottery shards and iron nails that were splashed by the explosion, one didn't matter, but one piece would be dead, many people were pierced into hedgehogs by pottery shards and iron nails, and some of them were covered with broken pottery nails, but they were not dead, and they endured the state that life was worse than death, and finally pulled out a knife and stabbed them in the stomach.

Then the fire oil that flew out as it broke burned in the air and splashed on the person's body, and a single spark instantly turned the person into a fireball.

For a time, the explosion of hundreds of clay pots turned the city into a hell of pottery shards and iron filings, and the burning oil seemed to be the seven-flavored real fire in purgatory, engulfing people, and constantly some people let out heart-rending screams, and some were infected with fire oil and burned, and painfully went to ask for help from his companions, but unfortunately, as soon as he touched his companions, he was also ignited.

So, in order to prevent the burning companions from falling on fire and guiding themselves, from time to time someone drew their swords and hacked the burning companions to death, and a large-scale cannibalism began, and the battlefield became a crazy slaughter game.

Under the fire, self-mutilation, and the destruction of the feathered arrows on the top of the city, the whole battlefield became a bloody hell, and everywhere there were mutilated corpses, or charred dried corpses, or severed limbs, and the blood had stained the walls of the city red, and the stairs had been burned, and the cries and cries came one after another, making everyone tremble at the remnant.

The army of 4,000 men, under this wall, was reduced in an instant, and less than 2,000 remained, and most of them were peasant soldiers, and most of them were wounded by different Cheng Dรน.

Although the heavy armor blocked the fatal damage of the iron nail pottery shards, and only suffered a slight injury, the ensuing fire that stuck to them wherever they caught fire roasted them alive in the armor and turned them into steaming knights.

With the destruction of the army under the city, the Rhodoc soldiers who had already climbed up at the head of the city, saw that there was no hope for reinforcements, and their fighting spirit was greatly reduced.

Looking at this remnant, the palace minister had no choice but to order the withdrawal of the army, he didn't expect that the Viruga regime, which he originally regarded as a group of mud legs, turned out to be his grave, and there were not many people left in the pirate group that he had worked so hard to run for many years, not to mention the plan, even the fake Hal, had already been refined. (To be continued......)