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"Enemy attack!" The shouts from the castle spread like a spreading plague, and the Kyoto of Virtue, which had just calmed down, became lively.
"This is the sound of the trumpets of war, isn't it?" The citizens of Ottoku, who were still drinking and celebrating on the way, stopped in unison, cheering loudly all around, and the music and dancing of the battle stopped, and they heard the sound of battle horns everywhere, first the northern wall, which was the most vulnerable, then the eastern wall, and the southern wall, and it seemed that the whole of Kyoto was plunged into a fierce battle
"What's the situation? Didn't you say that you repelled the Falcon Army, how could you drink a glass of wine and fall into a heavy siege again" The citizens of Kyoto looked at the troops who were busy mobilizing around them in confusion, and there was billowing black smoke everywhere, and there was a violent concussion sound, and a circular object dragging the tail of the flame passed over the city wall
"Get out of the way, get out of the way" A convoy transporting supplies for the defense of the city rushed from the front of the team, because the speed was too fast, or the riders above were also panicking,
The carriage loaded with goods was less than 2 meters away from the crowd, the wheels of the carriage turned, and it hit a raised dirt slope on the left side of the road, only a violent crash sound was heard, and the whole carriage completely fell apart after shaking violently, and there was a creaking cracking sound from the rutted position where it was bearing, and the wooden barrels piled up on it like a small mountain scattered like an avalanche, and the citizens of nearby Kyoto could not dodge, and many people were knocked to the ground by the wooden barrels that tumbled down
"Damn, you're trying to kill someone!" said a very drunk man. Angrily, he smashed the clay pottery wine glass in his hand on the ground, and the pottery shards scattered everywhere, just like the people of Kyoto who were also full of complicated and incomprehensible moods behind him.
"What, this is munitions, do you know munitions, you have to cut off your head to stop munitions!" A dusty man crawled out from under the overturned seat, he cursed loudly and reprimanded, and when he heard the driver mention the word munitions, the surrounding citizens immediately surrounded him
"We don't care what military supplies you have or not. I'll just ask you something, is it the trombone of the enemy attack that sounded just now!" The citizen grabbed the wolf officer by the collar and asked in a loud and eager voice,
"Count...... Sort of!" The officer in charge of escorting supplies was about thirty years old, and his face became more and more pale when he saw more and more people coming around him, because of the refusal to take prisoners into the city, the relationship between the defenders of the city and the citizens of Kyoto did not appear to be very friendly, and from time to time the officers were beaten. was surrounded by so many people in the middle at once. Under the countless pairs of eyes full of accusations, even the most daring people will be furious in their hearts
"What the hell is going on? Didn't you say that the Falcon Army had been defeated and withdrawn by us!" Make it look like a grocery yard,
"It's withdrawn, at least not in the morning!" said the dear officer, who had been grabbed by the collar, "and we don't know what the situation is. I'm from the 3rd Banner Regiment of the Armaments, and I'm just following the order to transport what I need to 51 East Blue Vick Street!"
The citizens suddenly became in a commotion, besieging the city for a month and a half, and although the city was still holding on, it was becoming increasingly embarrassed. The price of wheat in the city has risen three times a day due to food shortages, and many small and medium-sized citizens have begun to fall into famine. There are even rumors in some neighborhoods that murderous cannibals have been found,
At this moment, a galloping scout cavalry rushed past the crowd shouting, "The enemy is attacking, the falcon army is attacking the city, all the armed soldiers immediately return to their posts on the city wall,...,!
"Hell, it's a war again, how long is this going to last!" Some Nords scolded in a frustrated whisper, they are the members of the armament team in the mouth of the scout cavalry just now, the beautiful name is the armament team, in fact, it is cannon fodder used to delay time when necessary, under the deliberate propaganda of the Roude official, the falcon army has long become synonymous with butchers, executioners, and maiden destroyers,
Anyway, in a word. , down to the 1-year-old baby, up to the old man who has not yet breathed before death, are the most favorite objects of the Falcon Army, the day of the breakthrough of Goude Kyoto, is the time to slaughter the city, if you don't want to die, just contribute your last bit of value
In this way, the defenders of Virtue were forced to impose various obligations on the citizens of Virtue, who had a great deal of grievances against the army, such as repairing the collapsed city walls at the risk of arrows. Transporting the materials needed to defend the city, transporting the wounded soldiers from the city walls, and forcibly apportioning the army, the citizens of Kyoto dared not speak out.
The Ministry of War requisitioned 50,000 men from among the citizens to form the so-called resistance armaments, and once the defenders on the city walls could no longer bear them, they let these improvised armaments go to the top
"I don't know, I can only say, I hope God can protect me Roude!" Under the siege of everyone, the officer of Roude didn't care about the carriage rolling over and crushing one of his legs, and the limp was really funny
When Dusag ran to the battlements of the city wall, it was already a full fifteen minutes before the enemy attack alarm was issued, and when he came to the battlements on the city wall for observation, Dusag took the cloak from the adjutant and asked, "Is the investigation clear? How many people have the enemy dispatched this time?"
"About fifty thousand people!" replied the adjutant next to him in a low voice
"50,000 people? Could it be that with only 50,000 people, the Vicchia Falcon wants to capture the Kyoto of our Hinders, what a wishful thinking! Come on, gather all the troops at once, I want to teach the Falcon Army a hard lesson" Dusag smiled contemptuously, but the adjutant continued with an ugly face, "My lord, you are mistaken, I didn't say that the Falcon Army only dispatched 50,000 people together, but 50,000 people in every direction!"
"Nonsense! Who submitted the report!" Dusag just showed a hint of relaxation, his face suddenly turned blue, he turned his face like thunder, and scolded his adjutant loudly, "Yage, as a king, you should know what the consequences are of lying about the military situation and shaking the morale of the army." Do you know what it means to have no less than 50,000 siege troops on three walls at the same time? It means that we are under the full assault of 150,000 Falcon troops! 150,000, that's three times the total number of our defenders!"
"But my lord. The little one really didn't lie!" The adjutant said with a smile on his face, "Although I don't know why the Falcon Army has so many more troops, but if you look at the number of one phalanx per 5,000 people on the other side, no matter which city wall, we are facing ten phalanxes, and my subordinates assure the adults with their heads and reputations that I have personally checked it out, and it is absolutely not wrong! The Falcon Army is going to capture Kyoto in one fell swoop this time."
Looking at the adjutant's sworn expression. Dusag's face finally changed, 150,000 Falcon Army, do you still need to fight this battle? With the 50,000 defenders with low morale, I am afraid that just the news is enough to make most of the soldiers feel depressed, they have been frightened by the Falcon Army, especially the continuous harassment they have suffered recently, whether it is the will to fight or the spirit is on the verge of collapse
It was at this time, from the side of the battlements on which he stood. A terrible shout was heard, "The Falcon Army is coming!" in the distance, only to be seen in the white mist drizzle.
Ten neatly arranged phalanxes, pushing hundreds of high-rise vehicles, slowly appeared in the rain curtain. Countless spears were moving like a whole row of dense forests, and the momentum was like a rainbow phalanx, with an aura of ruin. Slowly approaching the direction of Kyoto Castle Wall...,
"Archers ready!" "Archers prepare!" began to have archers stand in the firing position of the battlements according to the custom, and many archers with large shields on their backs stood neatly in the prominent position of the battlements, holding compound and elongated strong bows in their hands, and carrying huge shields large enough to cover their bodies behind them, standing in front of the battlements like warriors who had died generously.
Following the commander's command, the Roude archers raised their compound bows upwards in unison. "Shoot" and then with an order, the whole area of arrows shot out like a torrential rain, quickly covered the white fog in the sky, like falling rain, fell in the entire column of the falcon army, in this terrible metal storm, the flesh and blood without armor and shield protection, as fragile as papier-mâché, "ah" I saw the falcon pikemen fall in a row.
"Assault!"
The bloody screams of the Falcon Army rang out from below the city, and under the dense rain of arrows, the enemies who encountered the cover did not stop advancing, but rushed over as if they were crazy
"Shoot, don't let them get close to the city wall!" The Nord defenders also panicked, although they were still hundreds of meters apart, they could already clearly feel the murderous red gaze of the falcon pikemen, if these pikemen who were not afraid of death were allowed to rush up the city wall, the entire defense line would collapse
At the entrance of the battlement, countless Majestic archers kept pulling their bows in their hands, and then heard the sound of the dense crumbling bowstrings vibrating, and the arrows crossed the white lines in the rain curtain, forming a breathtaking spectacle.
I saw that the enemy below the city was screaming, groaning, blood, and dying, the panicked men and horses trampled on each other, the sound of horses' hooves, screaming, and the rain of arrows flew like locusts, and the archers on the city wall would immediately turn around every time they shot a cluster of arrows, at this time, the shield behind the archers was comparable to the door panel, like a super barrier to protect themselves, unless they encountered a shot like a trebuchet or a powerful crossbow, the archer could leisurely turn around and shoot arrows again,
This is the experience summed up by the Roude people in several battles with the Falcon Army, everyone knows that the Falcon Army's strong crossbow is the best in the world, and often has not actually come into contact, and the overwhelming crossbow arrows like locusts have already killed and injured the opponent.
In siege warfare, lightly armed archers have always been the focus of the falcon army's crossbowmen, but with the strong rise of the Falcon Dynasty, the scene of arrows in the sky is becoming more and more frequent, and it is no longer the situation that was completely suppressed at the beginning
Archers are a weak class of troops in the Ikadiva continent, the traditional arms of the Ikadiva continent are hoplites and hoplite knights, and although the archers have a strong compound bow with good range and penetration, but because of the lack of training and the inherent difficulty in posing a fatal threat to the hoplites, the continental countries have always despised archers, and often in the engagement, only one knight squadron is needed to disperse all the opponent's archery troops,
However, the rise of the Falcon Dynasty's crossbow troops forced countries to train their own archers to compete with the Falcon Dynasty's new types of crossbowmen. And the Goude people, who have always been known as the country of warriors, are obviously also very good at understanding the opportunism of war in their clumsiness, this kind of archers with door shields on their backs. It is enough for a lightly armed archer who has no protection ability to have a very mobile and flexible protection ability
The dense rain of arrows caused heavy losses to the Falcon army array that was the first to approach the city wall, at least half or so of the soldiers lay on the road near the city wall, but it also gave time for the other phalanxes to approach, layer after layer of corpses piled up into small hills, and blood bubbled into small rivers. Stained a hundred meters of swampy mud in front of the city wall red,
"Hell, what the hell are these falcons doing!" Dusag threw the letter for help from the south wall to the ground with an angry expression, and in just one hour, almost all of the south and east walls of Kyoto were attacked by the Falcon army, regardless of life and death,...,
Although the defending troops inflicted a lot of casualties on the Falcon Army according to the city wall, and it is estimated that the number of Falcon troops is at least about 10,000, the Falcon Bureau still follows one after another, and it seems that it is completely a posture of not giving up until they crash into the walls of Kyoto. And the North Gate, which should have been the most likely to be attacked, was calm. Looking from the battlements of the north gate,
The solemn Falcon Army lined up in a large phalanx of ten five thousand people, under the banner of the huge Falcon Station. The Vecchia Falcon wears a helmet with horns and eagle wings in the shape of a demon king, silver-white armor with white thorn flowers painted with the crest of the Falcon family, and a shark-skin Samar sword at his waist. The handle of the war knife is inlaid with seven colorful gemstones representing the color of the sun, and the whole person in the white rain curtain brings people a strong visual impact
Not to mention that under the crotch is a giant war horse with a fine pedigree like a giant beast, this kind of war horse is a special product of the Dongting grassland, the number is very small, and the body is tall and heavy. As a war horse, it lacks a certain degree of mobility flexibility, but if it is used as a decorative war horse. That's just right, half a neck higher than the other horses, making the knight riding on it look extremely powerful, just like those legendary warriors who can conquer the evil dragon,
Such an exaggerated shape, coupled with the bloody battle flag behind him, and the entire row of 2,000 black-armored Guards cavalry and 50,000 elite soldiers in black armor behind him, are enough to show that the Vecchia Falcon and the most elite main force under his command are at the north gate, and half of the defense force of Kyoto has to be gathered in this direction, even if the other two city walls are in full swing, and the enemy has rushed to the city wall several times.
Dusag would never dare to mobilize troops from the north to come to the rescue, because the generals on the mainland knew that the style of the Vikia Falcon had always been like this, if it was not moving, once it attacked, it would be upside down, and there would be no room for counterattack, Dusag didn't know what the Vechia Falcon on the other side was waiting for, but he knew that once it moved, it was the time for the final decision. At this moment, he even has a hint of pride, being able to compete with the number one player in the mainland, Vekia Falcon, is probably something that countless famous generals both desire and fear!
The fat man stood on a high mountain facing the Kyoto of Virtue, his eyebrows were frowned, and his deep eyes examined the battlefield that was fighting fiercely below, probably the defenders of Kyoto could not have imagined that the Deity of the Vekia Falcon was not at the North Gate at all, but in the area of the East Gate, which had been turned upside down, and in the rear of the fierce battle in front, an assault force composed of 20,000 elite Central Army had been lurking here all afternoon,
The fat man looked up at the rain flying in the sky, and two hours had passed, only to see that the so-called Liberation Army, which was composed of the prisoners of Virtue, had hit the city wall several times, and was driven down because of the follow-up. Leaving behind a corpse like black spots, these Liberation Army, which was originally composed of miscellaneous troops and citizens, did seem too choking in terms of combat power.
I only know that I blindly rush upward, and my courage is commendable, but my combat ability is really low, just like this section of the city wall in front of me, you only need to concentrate your forces, open the gap at two points, and then close it towards the middle of the gap, you can get the control of the city wall, but these guys just want to die at one point, and they have countless corpses, and they are almost blocked by that section of the city wall, and they are still driven down,,
"I can't wait any longer" The fat man turned his head to Hukochili, who was standing behind him, "The attack power of these great captives is too weak, let the siege Thor concentrate on bombardment, the eastern end of the city wall, otherwise, it will not be fought until tomorrow!"
As the order was given, the hundreds of Thor archers located on the mountainside began to quickly clear the leaves and weeds used to cover the giant Thor, and in the mountainside full of shrubs and trees, no one found four huge black cannon muzzles,
"The distance is three hundred and eighty-one meters, the left rotation is sixty-three degrees, and the height is 32" A rangefinder read aloud in front, and the Thor soldiers laboriously began to adjust the angle of the muzzle, watching these giant cannons slowly lift upward, everyone had an indescribable shock in their hearts, I am looking forward to it, if this kind of thing is launched, I don't know what kind of power it will be!
The siege of Thor, the super-heavy artillery built in order to destroy the miè, these oversized guys specially transported from Zhivadin, just the muzzle of the cannon is as thick as a human waist, and the huge and heavy cannonballs even need to be transported by horse-drawn carriage, this is the pinnacle of the Falcon Dynasty Thor sequence, and the huge power is enough to destroy the strongest city wall of the current era