Rise of the Empire Total War

"Archers, prepare!"

The shooting of the archers of the defenders seemed to have turned on a mysterious switch. After the soldiers raised their shields to catch the arrows falling from the sky, the archers of Richard's army who followed the siege infantry stood still, under the shouts of the officers. Take out several arrows from the quiver, insert them in the soft ground under your feet, then place an arrow on the bowstring, draw the bowstring, and aim at the figures flashing by the city wall from a distance. The arrows shone frighteningly cold under the sunlight.

In the next second, the officer drew out his sword and slashed at the void in front of him. At the same time, he tore his throat and roared loudly. As soon as he finished speaking, the archers untied their bowstrings together, and a rain of black arrows flew into the sky from the crowd. It flew across the air, almost covering the sky and the sun. Under the horrified eyes of the defenders, this round of arrow rain fell from the sky, directly covering the entire city wall.

Those soldiers with fast reaction speed hid under the wall in shock and panted heavily. They hid before the rain of arrows fell, but many soldiers did not have time to escape. They were shot into hedgehogs by the enemy's arrow rain. They saw it with their own eyes. Seeing that several soldiers who hadn't had time to react were pierced through their thin bodies by several arrows, they fell to the ground without much struggle and lost their vitality.

At this moment, the city wall was like Shura's hell, with flesh and blood flying all over the ancient city wall as if it didn't cost money.

However, if you think that the soldiers guarding the capital are so weak, then you are completely wrong. Relying on the protection of the city wall, the soldiers hiding in the tower unscrupulously operated the large crossbow machine installed inside to shoot at the enemies outside the city. From time to time, giant crossbow bolts flew out from the shooting port, roaring into the crowd, and directly piercing through the crowd. A string of human candied haws was strung out from the body of a soldier.

In front of the dense phalanx formed by the soldiers of Richard's army, the large crossbow machine can be said to be very powerful. Each shot can take away the lives of dozens of soldiers. Even the strongest shield can't block the extremely penetrating crossbow. The arrow, the blood quickly stained the ground outside the city red.

For this kind of large crossbow machine hiding in a solid tower and shooting, Richard is also helpless. If the artillery and trebuchet can still be fired, he can concentrate fire to knock down a tower, but the towers of the city wall of Nord City are not only This one, even if one is knocked down, there are still other towers that can continue to shoot.

"Accelerate forward! Disperse formation!"

Facing the giant crossbows flying from time to time, the officer who rushed to the front was very angry, but he had no choice but to order the soldiers behind him to disperse loudly, and prayed that the crossbows would not fall on him, except for the giant crossbows In addition, there are a small number of arrows shot from the tower, hitting the shield and making a clanging sound-fortunately, most of the archers of the defenders are suppressed by their own archers, otherwise they will be in trouble if they advance in a loose formation. !

"what--"

A scream sounded from behind the officer,

He was startled, and looked back subconsciously. It turned out that a soldier's thigh was pierced by an arrow, and his thigh was almost stained red with blood. moan.

"Take him to the back quickly!" The officer shouted loudly, and several nearby soldiers quickly ran to the wounded soldier, using their shields to block the direction of the arrows, and one of the soldiers helped the wounded soldier up, Putting the latter's hand on his body, he wanted to take him back together. During this period, arrows shot at the shields held by several soldiers from time to time, and then were bounced off by the curved shields on the surface, and fell to the ground .

Seeing that the wounded soldier was taken away, the officer breathed a sigh of relief and continued to run forward. While they were taking the wounded soldier away, a fast phalanx had already rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and the ladder was placed on the surface of the city wall, with several people underneath Holding the ladder to prevent it from losing its balance and falling down, the other soldiers held their shields above their heads in an orderly manner and climbed up the ladder. At this time, Richard's archers had stopped shooting, and the continuous high-intensity shooting made the soldiers' arms sore, so they had to stop.

The cessation of shooting by the archers of Richard's army finally gave the defenders on the city wall a chance to breathe. They hurriedly left their hiding places, drew out their longbows and shot at the climbing enemies, or raised the rolling stones they had prepared long ago, and headed towards them. The enemy slammed down heavily, and the heavy rolling stone would usually make the enemy let go of his hand, and then the whole person lost his balance and fell from mid-air, directly falling into the crowd, overwhelming the crowd.

boom!

Just when a defender leaned out from the wall and was about to smash the rolling stone at the enemy, a series of gunshots rang out from under the city wall. Several blood holes appeared on his body, and he lost his balance and fell off the city wall together with the stone. down. Following the source of the sound, those arquebus soldiers dressed in strange costumes in this era seemed to be half-kneeling on the ground, cleaning up the gunpowder residue in the barrel with no expression on their faces, and the white gunpowder smoke produced during shooting was drifting with the wind.

Compared with the earliest hand artillerymen in the army, these soldiers equipped with more advanced matchlock guns can aim at the target when shooting. Although the shooting accuracy is still resigned to fate, it is not a problem for at least dozens of people to hit one person, and at the same time The huge roar of firearms shooting can also scare the enemy. After hearing the roar, many people saw small blood holes appearing inexplicably on the bodies of several comrades-in-arms, and they fell to the ground and died. Their faces turned pale with fright. Thought it was the enemy's sorcery.

After thinking that it was a witchcraft performed by the enemy, some devout soldiers knelt down on the spot, ignoring the screams around the battlefield, and prayed to the gods they believed in, trying to use magic to deal with magic, but it was useless. He was immediately grabbed by the angry officer and scolded bloody.

"shooting!"

bang bang bang—

After a series of gunshots, a defender who was trying to attack the climbing soldier fell down. Taking advantage of the gap between the defender's fall, the climbing soldier in heavy armor turned over and climbed up the city wall, becoming the first one to climb up. The soldier on the city wall, before he had time to cheer, was pierced by several spears head-on, and blood gushed out from the wound immediately, splashing the faces of several attackers in front of him, and then they simultaneously forced his body He lifted his body, threw it directly off the city wall, and smashed heavily into the crowded crowd below, overturning several soldiers.

Similar scenes also appeared at the top of other ladders. This is the disadvantage of a ladder that can only be climbed by one soldier at a time. Grandpa also gave away heads one by one.

Watching the soldiers die tragically under the enemy's spears one by one, the officers under the city wall were so angry that they almost gritted their teeth, but there was nothing they could do.