Chapter 246 The rain of arrows in the sky
Several crossbow bullets crossed the sky, and under the dense rain of arrows that kept shooting out from the city, it was not very conspicuous. But when it accurately hit the arrow tower and ladder truck, its power was easily displayed.
In the "rumbling" explosion, the thick smoke and flames immediately rolled up from the place where they were hit. The archers who were already on the top and the first wave of soldiers who were about to climb the city jumped down from above with flames all over the body. Their miserable screams and crossbow bombs that burst into fire rain on all the siege equipment, causing a huge uproar in the attacking soldiers who were waiting to attack.
"Are we still attacking? What are we waiting for? If we wait any longer, we will all die here!"
The soldiers hiding behind the shield and the shield cart shouted loudly to vent their fear. Arrow towers, ladder trucks, and siege hammers are the guarantee that they can easily seize the city. Without these things, what else will be the result unless they fill the walls of the Aden Fortress with corpses!
The little lord Ashleff, who was winding, still learned the news from the person who reported the news. He frowned with dissatisfaction.
"I'm almost here. Can't they even wait for this little time!"
Although he thought so in his heart, he also heard the concerns of the generals from the messenger's tone. Especially the kind of ballista that fired accurately, although it had not yet begun to attack the soldiers, it had caused panic.
"Well, if they want to, start!"
With his order, the siege soldiers who had already been in front of the city shouted. They either raised their weapons in their hands, or carried the ladder for climbing the city, and ran desperately towards the city of Aden not far away.
According to the strength of the Aden Fortress, if the opponent climbed to the top of the city, it would be not far from the city. Muk made a gesture to Gong Zi on the tower in the castle, asking her to send her slave archers.
She had just mobilized five hundred slave soldiers who had eaten a few steamed buns and meat, carrying arrow bags and old-fashioned bows, quickly pouring out of the dungeon aisle.
They had no short weapons, except the bow in their hands. The grief and anger that came to their hearts was that when the city was the brothers of the soldiers of the province of Aden under the city, when they climbed into the city, they were the targets of the massacre without weapons.
From another perspective, some of them also have the desire to kill. As long as they repel the attack, they can go downstairs to the city and cut off their heads.
The rules on the Island of Felekai are very strange. The slaves originally had no personal property. But now, when they became slave soldiers, they could earn a lot of money by cutting their heads. Undoubtedly, based on the evil nature of human nature, this is a huge temptation.
Five hundred archers lined up behind the walls of Aden City. The barrels placed in front of them were filled with a large inventory of feather arrows in the warehouse of Aden Fortress. Muke didn't need them to perform any accurate shooting, he wanted to deal with the scattering during charge.
"Prepare...replace..."
Basel, who was appointed by Gong Zi, directly commanding the archer, held his mace and shouted loudly. He was wearing the armor of the Song Dynasty Yulin Army and wearing a black cloak, showing a bit of the commander's calmness.
Under the simplest command, the slave archers mechanically pulled the bow and lifted it to the sky. Here I want to say that Juliana prepared for them to shoot a relatively accurate gadget. Each row of slave archers was pulling a long rope in front of each row, and the two ends of the rope were connected to the wooden frame that could be lifted on the side of the team. The raised arrow branches were based on the rope and used as the angle for them to lift.
It seems that this is an extremely simple gadget, but it can make the arrows shot by the archers relatively densely at a certain distance. If you follow the "mathematics, physics and chemistry" that Juliana learned from Martin, this is just the simplest parabolic problem of angle and distance.
From this we can see that when facing a life-and-death showdown, power scheming is nothing but a bullshit, and technology is the key to victory.
With Basel's "release", the seemingly empty mace in his hand fell like a threat, and a dark cloud rose from the yard of the Aden Fortress. At the same time, the people on the top of the city who used the Rambo folding bow also shot a rain of arrows.
The difference is that they have simple aiming, and at such a close distance, when the box on the ruler roughly puts people in, they can basically ensure a hit.
Hundreds of soldiers on the top of the city shot arrows together with the five hundred slave archers in the yard, which caused an arrow-made cloud to surge in the sky outside the Aden Fortress. The soldiers who were running and siege were shouting and reminding each other.
"Arrow attack!"
The person carrying the ladder raised the shield in his hand high and tried his best to speed up his steps.
“Bububububu…”
When the rain of arrows fell, it made a tiny sound on the ground. The person who was hit raised his face and let out a short scream at the sun, sobbing his last life.
But now it is not a tentative attack. As soldiers who have climbed the city, the only thing they can do is to run quickly to the place full of death. There is no retreat, nor mercy.
In front of the slave archers in the yard of the Aden Fortress, the rope was raised a little further, which marked a step closer to the enemy outside the city. Basel still held his mace and issued a loud command.
"Prepare...replace..."
At this time, the soldiers on the top of the city had already started shooting freely, and the rain of arrows in the air could not show their density. But the closer they got, the more worried the soldiers under the city were. They had never encountered this situation, and the density of arrows seemed to be constantly continuous.
With every wave of arrow rain falling, many people in the densely formed siege team were always hit by this kind of cover-type attack. The arrows shot from the city, which were not dense but surprisingly accurate, almost never failed. This forced the attackers to hold their shields over their heads, which made them unable to see what the people on the city were doing.
The shield on the arm can be felt, and a huge array of arrows are constantly falling on it. The shrill shouts coming from nearby also made every soldier understand that if they don’t reach the city, they will die under this rain of arrows that will almost never stop.
At this time, the soldiers under the city were also shooting archers at the head of the city. Unfortunately, every archer on the other side was always treated by the sniper archers on the towers.
Chapter completed!