"The Kurgits are here, so get up to the city wall!"

"Bows and arrows, send more bows and arrows!"

"Where's the trebuchet? Let the engineers get ready and smash their trebuchet!"

After three days of siege, Dherim finally ushered in the Kujit's offensive. A large number of Kujit soldiers who dismounted to fight and those southern mercenaries as well as the robbers who were collected took up weapons, shields and carried the long ladders and began to move towards the city wall. The movable catapults were also pushed onto the battlefield, and the Kujites were filling these weapons with rocks.

The city is already full of Kujit’s troops. Although only the Kujit in the direction of the east gate are currently attacking, the defenders in other directions dare not move. The enemy outside the city can stare at them. Withdraw by themselves, they will definitely seize the opportunity to attack.

As a result, the East became the main battlefield of the current siege. The Kujit infantry continued to approach, and the stone thrower in the city was immediately loaded with huge stones and thrown out amidst the roar of the sergeants. These rappels were assembled from the parts brought by Byron. They were personally supervised by Atiman. They are of good quality and have a long range. After assembly, they are as high as the city wall. Hundreds of pounds of stones flew over the city. The gaze of the garrison fell into the Kujit army.

Accompanied by heavy muffled noises and miserable screams, the stones rolled past the crowd, smashed to death and wounded many people, and finally crashed into the Koujit catapult, smashing the lower part of the catapult directly into the frame. .

Subsequently, the other three rappels also threw huge stones. Even if the Kujit infantry could dodge those stones in time, the movement of the catapult was not easy. Two more catapults were hit, one fell apart and the other fell apart. The car was smashed and it was not used anymore.

They couldn't fight back. The range of the rappel was more than half that of their catapult. Before reaching the effective range, they had to endure several rounds of the rappel. And the further forward, the more severe the attack was. When the Kugit infantry quickly advanced about a hundred steps, the soldiers at the head of the city also received a second order.

"Winding the crossbow, reloading the catapult, and hitting me all!"

Huge crossbow arrows with thin arms are fired from the bed crossbow. The power of this weapon is so powerful that even the heaviest Kujit Zha is as fragile as a piece of paper. As long as it hits the target, at least one Kujit must be killed. Shoot, sometimes the crossbow bolt can penetrate their bodies, assassinating another hapless guy behind him.

Dozens of stones from the trebuchet fell down one after another. The Khergits moved forward while avoiding, but even so, many people died from falling rocks. They tried to fight back with trebuchets, but with little success. People first attacked these catapults, so not many can counterattack, and even fewer can hit the catapults in the towers of the city wall.

Moving on, the crossbowmen on the city wall also set the string. The east gate gathered the main bowmen in the city. Nearly a thousand crossbows have been aimed at the target. The soldiers held the trigger and waited for the order to be issued.

"put!"

The banner of the city head waved, and the raindrops of crossbow arrows and a few arrows immediately flew out of the city wall, even with a shield, but facing such a density of arrows, the Kujit who rushed to the forefront still fell suddenly. After dozens of people were dropped off, the soldiers in the back row stopped, some were afraid to continue to rush forward, and then they were hit by crossbows and catapults for a round.

But soon, more than 200 Kurgit archers arrived under the city with their bows and arrows. They lined up the loose lines enough to avoid the rocks, and shot arrows at those figures who were slowly moving towards the city.

"what!"

Soon, a few people who were shot fell off the wall. They stretched their bodies too far in order to aim. When they were shot, they fell directly without controlling their center of gravity. Some people were also shot by arrows. Most of them were not injured by the shields of the nearby infantry and their own armor, but some were evacuated by the arrows.

"They shouldn't just have this ability, are they?"

Some sergeants at the head of the city couldn't help but laughed a lot, facing a well-prepared fortress city, launching an offensive at this level is no different from looking for death. And the facts are exactly as they thought. Before the attacking force arrived at the drawbridge, it was shot down by the dense rain of arrows at the top of the city, and the archers under the city were quickly cut by a third. , There was no firepower to suppress the city’s head. After leaving hundreds of corpses, the Kujites blew the horn behind them, and the soldiers retreated quickly, much faster than when they attacked, as if they were fleeing for their lives. Same.

But it was precisely because of their hurried escape that their exposed back became a target, and the armor on their bodies was good, even if they were shot like a hedgehog, they could escape back alive. But those armors were slightly worse... they died on the way back.

The soldiers at the head of the city cheered and celebrated their victory. Although there were some losses, they only used one-tenth of the casualties to repel the enemy's attack, which is really exciting.

But the commanders of the army didn’t think so. Even the young man named Byron could see that this was probably the tentative offensive of Kujit. It’s very simple. Their large-scale siege weapons were obviously not finished yet. Obviously, the soldiers are not elites either, this is just a test of Dherim's city defense force.

Therefore, Earl Kleis did not slack in the slightest. He distributed double supplies to the soldiers to give them a big meal, but the army was forbidden to drink alcohol. He obeyed Byron's advice to maintain sanitation in the city in a legal situation, ensure the safety of drinking water, and let all soldiers drink boiled water to avoid the spread of gastrointestinal diseases. After that, these soldiers returned to their posts again, guarding the walls to prevent the next attack by the Kujites. Both Earl Cress and Byron believed that when the large siege weapons whose frames can be seen from the walls were completed, they would definitely launch an even more fierce offensive.

Life in the city is still normal, with sufficient food and excellent weapons, arrows and stone bullets can be used for a long time. Table salt and other seasoning substitutes are abundant, and wood is piled up like a mountain, but considering the number of people and the huge army in the city at this time, these things may not really be enough for them to consume.

However, during this battle, Byron also found a very special soldier. He was a Nord and was tall and scary. Byron was shocked when he first saw him. This brawny man It was almost eight feet tall, and it was close to 2.4 meters by the scale that Byron was familiar with. When standing next to him, Byron had to raise his head to the highest point, and his neck hurts after a long time. And he is very strong, his shoulders are the same width as the door panels, and a one-foot-long beard is nothing to him. When he walks, people around will subconsciously make way for him. After all, as long as you see the terrible long axe in his hand that stands up to the height of Byron, anyone with a bit of brain will not provoke him~lightnovelpub.net~ When Byron sees him, the first Time's reaction was not even that it was a person, but a certain celestial spirit in human skin, or an Astarte who accidentally crossed over like him.

Count Kleis told Byron that the northerner who didn’t speak the language had run over from the north some time ago. He who did not speak the language had a conflict with the locals. He overturned six heavily armed soldiers with bare hands, and could even turn one into an adult. The man grabbed it and threw it out. In order to catch him, the local sheriff used a whole team to hold him down. But Earl Claes was surprised by his great power and hired him as a guard at the gate. In this battle, he was also sent to the wall. Everyone believed that if he was in the Kujites, he would not be able to climb the wall where he was.

Byron was greedy for such a tough soldier. He immediately went to talk to him with Matild and Egilsson. He very much hoped that he could hire this big man as the strongest around him. Guards.

At the beginning of the conversation with him, Byron learned his name from him.

"Olav, people call me the giant Olaf." The big man said in a thick northern dialect.

"It's worthy of the name, brother, you really are a giant!" Byron looked up at his face and exclaimed.