Black Iron’s Glory

The 248th chapter of the battle on the wall

Major Scurry's face was very unsightly. It wasn't just that Claude failed to take the man to attack the three giant siege towers last night. The main reason is that the night has become the enemy's world. Not only did they ambush the team that went to the sneak attack, but they also sent a brigade to touch the castle and finally sneaked on the open space in front of the castle for half a night, creating a casualty for more than 30 people. .

The only good news is that last night, the battalion of the battalion dispatched a large number of people to collect a lot of logs from the crushed wooden rafts, and even pulled a number of intact wooden rafts to the city, and the number was enough. Set up a row of logs for the shelter on the wall. Fortunately, the action last night obeyed Claude's suggestion. Instead of opening the door to carry the wood, the rope was used to pull the logs from the wall. Otherwise, the enemy team can easily be mixed into the castle by touching them. The result will be worse.

The bad news is that the enemy's three giant siege towers are closer to the castle. They were stuck at the end of the village during the day. In the morning, they found that the enemy had already moved the three siege towers to the village. That is to say, if you advance another 30 meters, the artillery on the enemy's three siege towers can launch a bullet-covered attack on the guards on the front gate wall. Major Scree decided that the logs had to be erected in the city during the day to allow the soldiers to have a hiding place.

Unexpectedly, the Principality of Eskilin died and the enemy could form such an elite infantry regiment. Although these days of offensive and defensive warfare, the enemy also suffered more than 300 casualties, more than one brigade. For a regiment's strength, this casualty is only one-sixteenth of its total strength, and it is far from the critical point of its casualties. Now the three siege towers are about to be close to the castle. For the officers and men of the battalion, the days of defending the castle will be a very difficult test...

Last night, Claude took the first squad of Diavid squadron to raid the three siege towers. If it wasn’t in the village, Claude was keenly aware that there were many people’s breathing in the village ruins. If you rush to lead the team to retreat, maybe you will suddenly fall into the trap and be encircled by the enemy. This is the case, the Diavid squadron is still bitten by the enemy's ambush, and finally retreats into the trench to find a team of people lost.

Fortunately, Claude retired, just happened to meet the enemy's brigade and touched the castle, and then fired a warning. The fourth battalion collecting wood under the city wall found that he almost had been dumped by the enemy, so everyone broke down and fired. The soldiers on the wall fired the burning torches under the city and fired at the enemy’s direction. After shooting for half a night, the enemy dropped 50 corpses and retired.

Claude and McJack, as well as Diavid, were fine, but the big man had a shot on his left arm and was taken away with a large piece of meat. This is also very lucky, because if the gun breaks the bone and gets stuck in the joint, maybe the big man has to lose half of his arm. The doctors at the injured camp will generally recommend amputation. It's not like now, just use the medicine and drink the medicine to wrap it up and wait for the flesh to grow again.

I stayed on the wall for a long time in the morning, and everyone finally understood how the enemy moved the three siege towers from the village to the village. It turned out that the enemy gave up the method of using the herd to pull the siege tower. Instead, they added several putters and crossbars on both sides and behind the siege tower, and then let the soldiers work hard behind the siege tower and on both sides. Push forward, so a little bit of the siege tower was moved to the village entrance. Because of the cover of the siege tower and the wooden carriages on both sides, the soldiers who worked hard to push the siege tower were not afraid of being bombarded by artillery in the castle...

Perhaps it was too busy and too tired last night, so both sides were very quiet this morning. Only after three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy appeared in the village. First, more than twenty wooden carts were pushed in a distance of seventy to eighty meters from the castle to form a long snake array, and then under the command of several officers, they were ready to continue to push the foremost tower.

The second battalion of the guards on the castle naturally began to shell, the eleven light infantry artillery fires were fully open, five doors bombarded the wooden platoon cars, and six doors concentrated firepower bombarding the foremost siege tower. The enemy soldiers all dispersed behind the broken wall of the village after the castle fired. The six artillery on the three siege towers also counterattacked the castle.

After about twenty minutes, the shelling stopped. The wooden platoons that were arranged on the open space were destroyed by seven or eight vehicles, but they still had no effect on the three huge siege towers, but left a white spot on the outside logs that was bigger than yesterday. And the same is true of the enemy. The six guns installed in the siege tower only destroyed two logs on the wall that were used to cover the guns. Nothing threatened the soldiers on the wall.

The enemy is pulling down the crushed wooden carts and re-introducing the replacement wooden carts. The distance of 70 to 80 meters is effective for the precise aiming of the Obash three-type arquebus. Within the range, some soldiers from the second battalion behind the wall rafts began to shoot. Several enemies who were cleaning the rafts fell to the ground. Soon, a large number of enemies rely on the cover of the rafters, facing The city wall fired.

Although the range of the enemy's equipped musket's precise aiming shot is not as far as the Obash's three-type arquebus, the distance is still within the effective range of their musket, and countless shots hit the logs on the wall. Even several soldiers were injured by these stray bullets. However, this shootout soon ended after the crushed wooden carts were replaced with new wooden carts...

Chloe and Major Scrough and others looked at the two logs that were destroyed by artillery. It was very simple to build a log for the shelter on the wall. The logs in the front row were followed by the upper and lower rails. Then, do two triangle wood left and right sides on the upper and lower rails. The two logs that were destroyed by the enemy's shelling were the ones that were successively hit in the middle, because the hollow behind could not withstand the force of the solid shells hitting the logs, so they were broken and expanded into a big hole.

Now the enemy's siege tower is still at the entrance of the village, nearly 100 meters away. The launch of six artillery pieces destroyed two logs. It can be imagined that if the three siege towers of the enemy are in place, the violent artillery will destroy all the logs arranged on the wall. The final result is the same as the original, covering the front with a bullet. The wall of the section forced the soldiers to stand on the wall, and the enemy took the opportunity to capture the wall and open the front door, allowing the follow-up troops to enter the castle...

"I think I might have a way to avoid the destruction of these logs." Claude said that his proposal is very simple, that is, the empty grain sacks in the warehouse are loaded with dirt and piled up behind the logs. In this way, even if the enemy's shelling destroys the log, the sacks filled with dirt can still cover and shield the soldiers.

"Since this is the role, then do it right away. Captain Codwalk, this is handed over to your fourth battalion." Major Scree did not hesitate to adopt Claude's suggestion. Although the defense on the wall is guaranteed, the sorrow in his eyes is still very strong.

"We have to find a way to get rid of these three siege towers." Claude knew what Miss Scree was worried about. He thought that the battalion could hold this sturdy castle of Earl of Claurus, and did not expect to come. The enemy is not only elite, but also made three big guys. In the case that the strength of the troops is dominant, the firepower and the quality of the soldiers are not lost to the battalion of the squadron, Major Scree has to worry about whether he can hold it here...

"How to get it?" Major Scurry said with a smile: "The enemy is not a fool idiot. They know that the key to attacking our guarded castles lies in their three siege towers. The defense is definitely strict. It is also possible to set traps to lure me to take the initiative. To destroy the three siege towers, we are ready to ambush us as we did last night. In fact, we must be very happy to raid the three siege tower enemies because they can effectively use these three siege towers to destroy us. There is power, just like putting a delicious cheese on a mousetrap to attract rats.

The enemy already knows our defensive forces in the castle. They are an infantry regiment, plus three other directions to monitor our three light cavalry battalions, which are enough to crush us. And we were trapped in the castle, and because of the two animals in the sky, we lost contact with the outside world. For us, what we can do now is to stick to it. When the first snow falls in December, perhaps the enemy will take the initiative to withdraw troops because of the cold. ”

Referring to the three siege towers of the enemy at the entrance to the village, Major Scree was bitterly bitter: "I have been very sure these days. The commander of the enemy is a veteran with rich experience in the battlefield. He understands the key to this battle. It’s been a week since they arrived, but he only launched two offenses, and there were more than 400 casualties. This casualty is insignificant for their strength. Instead, we exposed all the firepower and the walls. Defense layout.

The enemy commander knew exactly what we were expecting, but he did not rush to seek success, commanding the troops to launch a wave of attacks on us, but patiently let the soldiers spend three days to build these three attacks. City tower. This shows that he is confident that after the siege tower is in place, it will capture the castle we guarded. Anyway, as long as the three siege towers move in place, our defense advantage on the wall will be offset.

I suspect that the enemy’s idea is to fight with us. The three siege towers are arranged in front of the city wall to suppress the defensive firepower on our walls. At the same time, let their soldiers attack the city walls, we have to deal with them. Fighting consumption, the enemy is paying a camp for casualties. As long as it can capture the wall of the front door, it is a worthwhile victory for them. ”

If the front wall is captured by the enemy, even if the enemy pays a casualty at the battalion, then the battalion will definitely have to pay a lot of casualties. By then, using the rest of the castle to defend will not be enough. The strength is gone. As long as the enemy floods into the castle, it means the complete annihilation of the battalion.

Claude stared at the three siege towers at the entrance to the village, and could not speak for a long time.

As Major Scree said, the enemy used the night to put the three siege towers in place. In the next four days, while suppressing the firepower on the wall, and carrying out a continuous attack on the castle on the scale of a large team, it did not give up even in the first two days, and several of them were attacked. The city heads were all driven by hand-to-hand combat, which caused a lot of casualties in the battalion of the garrison.

"How many enemy injuries have been killed in the past few days?" Major Scurry was also wounded and hung his arms. He is also directly under the third battalion and is also the third battalion captain. Captain Heckham, the original captain, was sent to the rear because he was injured in the operation of the ambush enemy.

“Is it estimated that there are seven or eight hundred?” Captain Cordwack replied.

Now the first battalion of Crowd is still complete. The four-day defense, the second, third and fourth battalions lost a lot, the second battalion was almost disabled, and the captain Captain Hemkelin was also seriously injured in the treatment center in the back area of ​​the castle. The third and fourth brigades are still good, and each has two and a half squadrons.

"How many doors do we have in our artillery?" Major Scree asked again.

"There are seven more." This Claude is very clear. The artillery on the wall has been lost a lot these days. The guns on the three siege towers of the enemy are very experienced old gunners. After discovering the position of the artillery on the wall, they gathered six of the three towers. The door artillery, which concentrated on bombarding the area where the artillery was on the wall, was destroyed by three artillery pieces when it was not prepared for the first two days.

"The enemy who climbed the city yesterday yesterday broke a door. Now, in addition to the four artillery pieces placed on the defensive towers on both sides, there are three artillery pieces on the wall. The gun crew has already had experience. It took a shot to change places, and the enemy wanted to darken the city last night. It was the three guns that made great achievements. The bombs were fired to make the enemy dead and wounded. In the end, they returned without success. They lost 80 bodies." Lord explained.

During the day, the enemy basically used the smoke to fill the city. When the soldiers could not see the distant scene, they used the Dengcheng ladder to lean on the wall to carry out a surprise attack. When there is no smoke, they are hiding behind the wooden car and putting a cold gun. In the evening, the darkness was sneaked into the wall to carry out a sneak attack. For the enemy, they have sufficient strength to launch an attack on the scale of a large team. A group of more than 16 teams, each team needs one day to rotate, and the soldiers who defend the battalion cannot be like the enemy. The replacement was the main reason why they were on the wall several times by the enemy yesterday.

"Fortunately, Claude made an idea, and piled these sacks in the city to reinforce the log, otherwise we couldn't hide ourselves. But why did the enemy stop attacking today?" Major Scree was very puzzled. Look at the enemy's three siege towers.

"I think it should be too much casualty. In the past four days, the enemy has lost seven or eight hundred people. In addition, there were more than 1,000 casualties in the past. I guess this is already a quarter of their strength. The city wall is still We are among the guards, so they have to stop the attack and appease the soldiers, otherwise no one will be willing to continue the attack.” Claude guessed.