The Eagle of Eastern Europe

Peter had to make a decision. He ordered all the current troops to march north quickly, and the follow-up troops could go directly to Kiev.

At this time, after Wladyslaw found that the front of Kiev was full of traps, he did not rashly order the army to continue the attack, but sent all the heavy infantry, holding long shields for protection, braved the rain of arrows and shells from the top of the city, and patiently cleared the traps on the ground. Although some casualties were paid, the traps in front of the trench were roughly cleared by nightfall.

The Polish siege soldiers retreated in waves, and another wave of overwhelming attacks came up, like a surging tide. The number of casualties of the defenders increased, and the defense strength decreased. The enemy had already attacked the top of the city several times. If it weren't for the defenders' desperate resistance, they would have been gone long ago.

Calderon had an army of about 11,000 people, plus 2,000 civilians in the city who volunteered to defend the city. For this large city, it seemed that the construction was beyond his ability. The only consolation was the main force of Rome, so he sent people to break through the south to request reinforcements.

"Sir, the enemy's offensive today was too fierce."

"What are the losses?"

"More than 300 injured and 80 dead."

Such losses were within his expectations. Fortunately, he handled it between the lines. Otherwise, there would definitely not be enough people now.

"God bless, I hope your majesty can lead the reinforcements to arrive in time." Calderon prayed silently.

On the other side, Władysław was cheering up the generals. As long as they captured Kiev, he would give him the city.

"Your Majesty, as long as you go all out, you will definitely be able to capture Kiev within a week."

The generals under his command promoted themselves one by one, and Władysław was also happy to drink a few more glasses of wine. Then he went to bed. He would definitely become the master of Eastern Europe.

At dawn the next day, Władysław was ready to continue the attack. But his scouts and the envoys from Teutonic brought him some bad news.

The first one was that Teutonic could only postpone the arrival of the army because of the attack of the Berlin Alliance.

The second one was that Hungary was a little unstable. According to the current relationship with Rome, it is very likely that Hungary would send troops to attack Krakow.

The third one, the Roman emperor led the army to sail upstream to Kiev, and it is expected to arrive within three days.

"Damn, how come he came so quickly?"

Wadyslaw felt the danger, and he decided to take out part of the army to build a defense line in Obushiv in the south, and the rest of the army tried their best to attack the city.

At the same time, his cousin Vytautas also asked for help, hoping that he could come as soon as possible. As long as Moscow was stabilized, they could join forces and then attack Rome.

His situation changed suddenly. Either he had to attack Kiev quickly or he had to meet with Vytautas. Otherwise, he would be miserable if he was defeated by the Roman army.

"Listen, Kiev must be taken."

Wadyslaw gave the last order, and he had only more than 30,000 troops. In order to capture the city, he took out all his weapons today, including extremely precious artillery.

The siege tower in Poland is trapezoidal in shape and has a total of seven floors. The top layer is a ring-shaped wooden vertebrae, which contains five archers who can shoot arrows at the top of the city from a high position; the bottom layer also has a siege hammer that can directly hit the city wall; the second-to-last layer is almost as high as the city wall, and a drawbridge can be lowered to allow soldiers entering the tower to rush to the top of the city. This is Władysław's most proud weapon, but he spent a lot of time and effort to make it, and of course it cost him a lot of money.

Roman shells kept falling around it, splashing mud flowers one after another, and the splashed mud hit people, causing pain. Those who were hit by the shells died in a horrible way, and there was not even a corpse, which scared the surrounding soldiers to hide. With the siege soldiers advancing densely under the city, only a large area near the siege tower was vacant.

The commander of the siege tower certainly felt a bit of danger. He urged the laborers behind the tower to push the siege tower to speed up. As long as they reached the city wall, there would be nothing that could threaten the siege tower.

At this time, the outer wooden board of the third-to-last layer on the siege tower had been opened, and the two crossbows were exposed. The device used for launching was a huge bow that was fixed flat on the launcher. The operator turned the pulley vigorously, pulled the thick bowstring open and fixed it, and then put in an equally huge iron arrow.

"Huh! !..." With the sound of the huge bowstring, the iron arrow flashed with a whistling sound and rushed to the top of the city.

When the general defending here "opened the window" of the siege tower, his years of battlefield experience made him feel uneasy, so he subconsciously sat down under the battlement and heard two shrill screams. The soldier behind him who was holding a round shield to block the attack from the earth rampart and the siege tower bow and arrow was pierced through the chest by the iron arrow, and the powerful kinetic energy also pierced through the soldiers behind him at the same time, and finally nailed to the wall behind him, while another iron arrow shot through three people at once, and the surrounding soldiers were horrified when they saw this.

At this critical moment, a black dot flew across the wall like a meteor, and hit the arrow tower on the top floor of the siege tower with strong kinetic energy. With a "bang!" sound, the hard and thick wooden board was easily broken into a hole, and the scattered wood chips pierced the faces and bodies of the Polish archers in the arrow tower like steel needles, causing them to scream miserably. But this was not the end. The stone bullet that fell into the tower fell along the wooden ladder and hit the foot of a soldier who was stringing a crossbow on the third floor from the bottom of the siege tower. His scream caused panic among other soldiers, delaying the firing.

"Hit! Hit! Our crossbow hit!!..." The defenders cheered, as if they had won the entire victory, using such actions to dispel the fear in their hearts.

Then another cannonball flew impartially into the floor where the baffle was being lifted and the crossbow was being fired. Various parts and sawdust were flying randomly in the narrow space, which was replaced by the screams and splashes of the soldiers. of blood. Then another stone bomb penetrated the lower part of the siege tower.

Despite the constant cheers of the defenders, the siege tower, which had several large holes punched through by stone bullets, still slowly approached the city wall. However, as it moved, the tower began to shake, and the loose wooden boards continued to fall down, causing the siege tower to fall. The laborers who struggled to push it fled in panic, and the siege tower began to collapse from top to bottom...

Finally, the siege tower could no longer withstand the destruction of artillery and collapsed, taking the soldiers on it with it to see God. Seeing this, Wladyslaw began to think about withdrawing to Krakow.

"Father, I am afraid that Kiev, which you personally conquered, will be lost." Wladyslaw said in his heart.