Rise of the Empire Total War

"Now that the enemy's main force is besieged outside the city of Port Bell, Ravana City should be weakly defended. Perhaps we can send the navy to raid Ravana City along the Fabrici River to destroy the enemy's supplies."

Condra's proposal made Richard a little moved, but he didn't dare to order Sigurd to dispatch the fleet directly. In case that guy from Bundak left a lot of soldiers to defend in his hometown as a precaution, Sigurd would not Just banged his head against the wall.

"Your proposal is very good, but before we act, we must first understand the real defense situation of Ravana City. We can't let the navy have avoidable casualties." Richard said.

"The subordinates understand that this is just a suggestion from the subordinates, and you have the final decision."

Richard nodded, and then he called Sigurd and explained the situation with the admiral of the navy. The latter immediately agreed, claiming that he would send spies in advance to investigate the guard situation of Ravana City.

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The next day, the siege began again.

Out of fear of the mysterious weapons displayed by the defenders, the siege party did not form a dense offensive formation, but adopted a loose formation. The advantage of this formation is that it allows the defenders to shoot arrows and shells The probability of hitting the target is greatly reduced. In this tense battlefield environment, it is impossible for the archers of the defenders to calm down and aim—and the earliest artillery can not achieve accurate aiming. It all depends on God's arrangement.

Therefore, the casualties caused by the long-range firepower of the defenders to the coalition soldiers were greatly reduced, but they soon changed their tactics, no longer staring at the running soldiers and shooting, but focused on attacking the ladders that were being carried forward. This can only kill the soldiers carrying the ladder. Under the city wall of Bell Harbor, there is still the blood-stained ladder from yesterday's siege!

"Archers shoot!"

"Rolling Stones ready!"

"Fire oil! Fire oil! Quickly move the pot containing the fire oil!"

The shouts of the guarding soldiers on the city wall came one after another. Except for the crossbowmen who continued to shoot at the enemies outside the city, many soldiers were running on the aisle. They carried all kinds of defense equipment, or carried boxes. Wooden box for arrows.

Different from them, there are still some soldiers on the city wall quietly waiting for the enemy to climb up the city wall. These soldiers are dressed in fine armor and holding long strange long pipes. From their expressionless faces under the iron helmets, you can see Show no emotion.

Due to the extremely short range of early hand cannons,

Therefore, these hand artillerymen must deal with the enemy's melee combat at any time. The sophisticated armor they wear has higher defense than other soldiers in the army. In melee, they will also draw their waist sabers or wield heavy hand cannons. Show your enemies the power of a hand-to-hand shooter.

"The enemy has started climbing the walls!"

Accompanied by the sound of the defenders' loud warning, a ladder was erected by the coalition forces on the surface of the city wall, and then countless soldiers of the coalition forces raised their shields above their heads and began to climb up the city wall. Dealing damage to enemies under strong shields and taking too long to emerge from the battlements, ready to be shot by the attacking archers.

"Quick, throw rolling stones and drive them off!"

The defenders shouted loudly, then raised a rolling stone the size of a basketball from the wooden frame on the side, and slammed it down heavily on the enemy who was climbing on the ladder, and the heavy stone hit hard on the shield raised by the coalition soldiers , Only shaking his shield a few times had no effect. The soldier who climbed at the front just stopped in place for a second, and then continued to climb.

Seeing this scene, the defenders also became ruthless. They picked up the pottery jars filled with some kind of liquid, and smashed them down with all their might. The moment the pottery hit the shield, it exploded with a crisp cracking sound, shattering the The black viscous liquid inside splashed around and flowed down the ladder, while the climbing soldier curiously smelled the liquid that flowed onto himself, and then his face changed drastically. Regardless of the safety of his head, he moved directly Opening the shield and looking up, in his horrified eyes, the defender archer leaned out of the city wall with a smirk on his face and shot the rocket with the burning arrow at the ladder stained with black viscous liquid. In just two breaths, the fire broke out. Instantly devoured the ladder and the soldiers climbing on it.

"Ahhhhhh—"

The soldiers who were still on the ladder were immediately ignited by the flames. They let go of their hands and jumped off the ladder. They fell into the crowd and overwhelmed several unlucky soldiers. The flames on his body were also stained. As if in a chain reaction, the surrounding soldiers were also ignited.

"Throw it, keep throwing it for me!"

Seeing that the results of the kerosene battle were so outstanding, an imperial veteran shouted excitedly. He also picked up a clay pot from the wooden frame where the kerosene tank was placed, and half of his body protruded from the wall to smash it down. , but at this moment, a stream arrow flew from mid-air and pierced his throat directly before he could react. Such an unlucky veteran couldn't make a scream, and when he let go of his hand, the clay pot fell to the ground and shattered. Then, the black viscous liquid also splashed on the city wall, and his whole body fell directly from the city wall.

No one noticed the tragic experience of this veteran. His original standing position was quickly occupied by a Nordic archer. On the bowstring, he said to his comrades in arms: "Quickly, light the fire and let us burn those dogs outside the city to death!"

"Okay!" The comrade-in-arms nodded, holding the torch, he was going to help the Nordic archer light the arrowhead of the special arrow, but he didn't pay attention, and a small spark fell from the torch inadvertently, and this little spark fell directly on the ground. The splashed kerosene was ignited on the body of the previously shattered pottery pot, and the fire erupted instantly, swallowing the two unlucky soldiers. When it is time for fire, the most primitive instinct of human beings drives them to run wildly and ask others for help.

"Help me, save me, ahhh—"

The sudden appearance of two fire men caused chaos in this section of the city wall. The soldiers avoided the two comrades who were screaming in pain in horror. Everyone dared to step forward to help them put out the flames. At this moment, the enemy outside the city The archers started shooting, and the arrows they shot fell into the city wall and killed many soldiers who hadn't escaped in time, and also shot and killed two poor soldiers who were running.

However, when the surrounding soldiers looked at the direction in which they fell, disaster was inevitable!

boom!

A Pyro man who was shot fell directly on the wooden frame where the kerosene and gunpowder cans were placed. His weight instantly crushed the fragile pottery. The flames on his body reacted with the kerosene inside, and the fire was instantly ignited , directly devoured the surrounding soldiers—and also detonated the jars containing gunpowder!

The violent explosion caused the section of the city wall to tremble violently, and the surrounding soldiers were either swallowed by the flames of the explosion or killed by the fragments of the explosion. Not only that, the location where the section of the city wall exploded began to collapse—fortunately, the amount of gunpowder detonated was not very large. Big, otherwise this section of the city wall will be directly bombed!