Rise of the Empire Total War

While the war with the Kingdom of Delj in the north was progressing first, in the territory of Pintus in the far west, the army led by Richard had defeated the army of the Kingdom of Pravia stationed on the border and approached the city of Pintus.

The capital of the Kingdom of Pravia fell into panic again. Although the buildings destroyed by Richard's siege and bombardment a year ago have been rebuilt, the fear left in the hearts of the local residents cannot be eliminated. Therefore, in Before the siege of Richard, most of the nobles and wealthy families in the city had fled with their money. Except for the nobles and rich people who had no time to escape, there were only a large number of civilians who did not have much money.

"Load ammunition and prepare to shell!"

On the firearms battalion, 18 artillery pieces lined up and were loaded by the operators. The voices of the officers giving orders echoed on the ground and reached Richard’s ears. He glanced at the 18 artillery pieces. The artillery that gave him powerful force, and then looked at the newly built city wall of Tusi, but the corners of his mouth could not stop rising.

"Soldiers of the Firearms Battalion, let the Tusi people experience the feeling of being bombarded by artillery again!"

"Do you hear me, let the people of Tus experience the feeling of being bombarded by artillery again!" As soon as Richard finished speaking, Sandro, the commander of the Firearms Battalion, imitated his words and shouted to his subordinates. With double incentives, the personnel who operated the artillery were full of vitality in an instant as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they loaded the artillery quickly. Then, the gunners adjusted the trajectory of the artillery and lit the matchlock under the order of their respective team leaders!

"fire!"

Rumble——

Almost in an instant, the deafening artillery sounded from the sky, echoing over the position, and the whole earth trembled violently. The eighteen shells shot out of the muzzle at the moment the sparks flashed, and flew through the air at high speed, making a shrill sound of piercing through the air. A few seconds later, the artillery shells slammed heavily on the refurbished city wall, smashing it into a deep hole. In the crater, several shells fell into the crowd standing on the city wall, crushing the Pravia soldiers they touched and plowing a bloody road.

After the first round of shelling, several bullet craters appeared on the refurbished city wall, and several cracks were cracked around it, and sand and stones fell one after another. And the city wall was full of wailing, blood splattered everywhere, staining everything red, those soldiers who were lucky enough not to die on the spot groaned and cried out in pain while clutching their wounds, while the soldiers who died directly had a miserable death, their bodies were fragmented.

Even the early artillery is full of lethality to ordinary soldiers. Wherever the artillery goes, even if it is just lightly brushed, it will cut off a large piece of flesh, not to mention the people who were directly hit. The bodies that died in the accident were all broken into pieces all over the place, not even a whole body was left.

"Prepare to attack, wait for the artillery to fire three salvos,

Attack again! "Richard ordered to the eager soldiers behind him. He could clearly feel the morale of the soldiers under his command. When fighting against his former defeated soldiers, these soldiers had high morale and full of confidence, as if they were ready to fight again. In one battle, the enemy in front of him was beaten to pieces.

"fire!"

At this moment, Sandro's order fell again, and eighteen light and heavy siege cannons fired at the same time, and then hit the city wall heavily after flying at high speed in mid-air. The Pravia soldiers who hid behind the wall to avoid the shelling screamed, scrambled and shivered.

The three rounds of bombardment passed quickly, and then, under Richard's signal, the trumpeter blew the attack horn. The next moment, the neatly arranged formation of the First Legion moved like an oiled war machine. The soldiers marched in orderly steps towards the battered city wall. The murderous aura on their bodies rushed towards the Pravia soldiers on the wall, making the latter even more unwilling to fight. Dare not to contend with the besiegers.

Although this siege battle did not make siege weapons such as siege towers and battering hammers due to time constraints, only nearly a hundred simple ladders were made, but this is not a problem. With the promotion of the soldiers, nearly a hundred ladders It quickly entered the range of the defender's archers. Then, under the scolding of the officers, the archers of the defending army drew arrows from the quiver and shot at the moving enemy. The arrows fired by the defending army fell among the crowd, but most of them were bounced off by the shields, and fell to the ground and were followed behind. The soldiers on the ground were trampled to pieces.

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Continuous arrows hit the shields held high by the soldiers, and then bounced off and fell to the ground. Only a few arrows passed through the gaps between the shields at tricky angles, and hid under the shields or else just pierced through the shield, and nailed the hand holding the shield together with the shield.

Facing the arrows shot from the city wall, the heavily armored soldiers holding their shields and running finally got support. The archer brigade and crossbowman brigade following them stood still after entering the range, and with the support of their comrades in front, When they attract firepower, they set up bows and arrows, load arrows, and then shoot arrows raining down on the city wall. Three brigades of civilian archers and five brigades of giant shield crossbowmen have a numerical advantage. However, there were more than 3,400 arrows fired in one volley. In the face of such a terrifying number, even with the cover of a wall, it was impossible to escape.

Looking at the rain of arrows that covered the sky, even the heavily armored soldiers who were attacking outside the city wall felt frightened, and subconsciously switched the positions of the two sides, assuming that the rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun was aimed at themselves Yes, what will happen to them? In the end, they desperately found that if the wave of arrows hit them, the big kite-shaped shield in their hands alone would not be able to protect them—because After being covered by a large amount of arrow rain, this shield will eventually fall apart under the pressure. After the shield falls apart, they will be exposed to the arrow rain and be shot alive into hedgehogs.

At the same time, the Tusi defenders on the city wall were truly desperate. They screamed and wanted to hide in nearby towers, or simply shrank behind the wall. The next second, arrow rain covered the city wall , Dense arrows filled every inch of the place, those soldiers who were not quick enough to react were shot into hedgehogs on the spot, and the soldiers who managed to escape were screaming in horror as they watched those comrades who died miserable—obviously The psychological defense is broken!

After the first round of arrow rain, the officers who were hiding ran out immediately, or whipped or kicked, and ordered the soldiers to take up weapons to defend against the enemy, but this had no effect. In desperation, they could only grit their teeth , gave up the idea of ​​continuing to resist, turned around and ran away.