Black Iron Crown

Chapter 527: Protracted

   King Satli once again assembled his army under the walls of Fort Rol, ready to conquer this damned castle in one fell swoop.

   More than 15,000 soldiers covered the sky and the ground. Looking from the city wall, they all saw countless enemy troops.

   However, the defenders in Fort Rolle were not afraid of this. Although there were a few elite enemies, most of them collected cowardly lambs. Even if they hit the wall, they were just waiting for their killing.

   The remaining wells were watered on to prevent fire from the enemy.

  The archer stood on the top of the well, as always, preparing to suppress the enemy.

   The soldiers who fought with the enemy hand-to-hand also entered the inside of Jing Lan, preparing to attack the enemy's city.

  The soldiers of the Imperial Army looked calm. The series of wars left them fearless. As long as they were not facing the Northern Army of Duke Rainer, they could be as solid as a rock without making waves.

But the army of the Kingdom of Bookeden can’t do this at all. The previous battles have given them a sense of the enemy’s tenacity and ferocity. Although the enemy’s equipment is not as good as their own, the brutal fighting method still makes them feel good about it. sad.

  The wars in the Kingdom of Bukerdern have never been so bloody. Most of them are defeated. After defeating the enemy, a large number of prisoners are captured in exchange for ransom. Everyone tries to avoid losing their lives on the battlefield.

   They are not like Reiner’s Northern Army, who are brave enough to fight in public but not in private battles. They are not willing to clash with their neighbors in their hometown, but are happy to chase their own glory and rewards on the battlefield.

  In order to protect their property, the people of the Kingdom of Bukerdern will fight hard, but they will not get much wealth when they come here, so their morale is not as high as it was at the beginning.

   The more affluent the place, the lower the combat power, this is not empty talk.

  The imperial army is different. Although they have a well-earned family, the imperial tradition of martial arts and immediate fame is still in play.

   Most of them are self-employed farmers or the youngest sons of squires. The education they received is fundamentally different from that of low-level serfs. Even if they are not aristocrats, they still have the same pursuit of honor.

   squeezed the halberd in their hands, they looked at the wall with many cracks, and looked forward to the start of the battle.

The remaining four ballistas were still bombarding the walls of Fort Rolle. It was a pity that the deterrence and lethality caused by the four ballistas were not enough. After three rounds of shooting, only one stone hit the battlement, giving The defenders caused seven or eight casualties.

   In addition, the best record produced by the ballista was nothing more than adding a lot of cracks to the city wall again, which did little harm to the entire castle built of stone.

   King Satri was obviously not satisfied with this situation, so he waved his hand irritably and said to a follower beside him: "Let the ballistas and catapults stop shooting, and let the soldiers go up!"

   The ashamed gunner hurriedly stopped his hand movements, and some soldiers in heavy armor began to let the behemoth slowly approach the wall through the handle on the well.

   Jing Lan moved forward slowly, and soon came to the front of Fort Rol, the creaking sound of the wooden planks sounded, crashing on top of the battlements.

  The archers on both sides immediately took their bows to shoot arrows and started shooting wildly.

   Although the archers cannot cause too much damage to each other due to the presence of bunkers when shooting, no one can deny the important role of the archers.

  On the battlefield, archers have never been the main force in deciding a battle. It is always the main soldiers who fight on the front lines that determine the outcome of a war.

   However, the importance of archers can not be ignored.

   Their role is to shoot against the enemy's archers, forcing the enemy's archers to be unable to strike their own soldiers with arrows.

  Once one of the archers is shot and collapsed, then their infantry will face the blow of arrows, and the formation will be disrupted by the archers, exposing the flaws to the enemy's infantry.

The archers on    Jingran did not shoot the infantry on the enemy wall, and the archers on the arrow tower did not shoot the soldiers on the wooden planks.

   The soldiers who attacked the city successfully reached the battlements.

   The soldiers who had avoided the ballistas and catapults behind the battlements hurriedly drew out the long swords around their waists, picked up the spears and the axe, and walked towards the location of the wells.

   The imperial soldiers were brave and fearless. The halberd in their hands exploded with extremely powerful power, attacking the weak points of the enemy's armor successively, causing several casualties to the enemy in a short period of time.

   However, even so, relying on the advantage of the city wall, the defenders can besiege the Siege Imperial Army. Every time two or three of them can successfully climb the city wall, they have to face the siege of the enemy several times.

   In this way, let alone the Imperial Capital Army, even Rainer’s Northern Army can only slap his claws in the face of such a situation.

   Although the proportion of casualties will be much smaller, the loss is inevitable.

   On the other side, the army of the Kingdom of Bukerdern was even more miserable. Facing the culling of the army of the Kingdom of Bazaran, they even flinched and dared not climb the wall.

   There is no doubt that this is the **** of a group of gold and jade, and their long and generous life has made them lose the sturdyness of the past.

   More than half an hour passed, and the result of this attack was not as good as the first siege two days ago.

   The first appearance of the ballista at that time gave the army of the Bazaran Kingdom a great deterrent and directly affected their morale.

  The war in the cold weapon era is very dependent on morale, and the influence of equipment on the victory or defeat only dominates in modern times.

   Therefore, the performance of the Warriors of the Kingdom of Buckeden on the battlefield made King Sartri lose face.

This time the offensive was still unstoppable. After more than 800 corpses were left behind but only two to three hundred people were left to the enemy~lightnovelpub.net~ King Sateli angrily ordered the retreat. Order.

   Although the soldiers withdrew back, the strikes of the ballistas and catapults did not stop.

   Stone blocks are everywhere, just put them on the trebuchet and throw them out.

   After a whole day, the loss to the defenders of the Bazaran Kingdom was less than a hundred people, and King Satri did not want to lose too much force in this way, so he could only choose to besiege.

   hope to exhaust the stock of defenders in the city.

   In this way, it has brought a great burden to the lords of the Western Territory and the imperial capital.

   The food and drink of more than 15,000 people is definitely an astronomical figure, and people who eat horses and chew the grains of the lord of the West are not enough to look at.

   can only collect grain from the imperial capital and transport it to the west to support the use of the army.

   In a blink of an eye, a month passed, and the Bazaran defenders in the city still showed no signs of running out of food, and King Satri had to hold back his impatience and continue the siege.

   At this time in Inzburg, King Irmaru is calling all the vassals here for discussion.

   Regarding the siege of Rolburg by the coalition forces, King Irmaru had a plan in mind.

  

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