Chapter 382 I'm here to make money!
"kill!"
As the urgent charge horn sounded, the soldiers who were originally marching slowly began to run and shout.
In an instant, the originally silent battlefield suddenly became filled with deafening shouts and screams, truly turning into the battlefield that Gervis had imagined!
"Charge forward! The first person to reach the city wall will be rewarded with a gold coin! Killing an enemy soldier will be rewarded with two silver coins!"
While the soldiers were charging, the petty nobles and the captains leading the troops continued to roar at the top of their lungs.
Promising a generous reward before the battle is a common practice among generals in every world, and it is also a very effective and feasible method.
When the soldiers heard the rewards of gold and silver coins, they were all shocked. They charged faster and their shouts became louder.
For these ordinary soldiers, apart from death on the battlefield, that is the time for success and fame. As for life or death, it all depends on luck!
"Spread out, don't gather together! Spread out a little more!"
The little nobles were like sheepdogs, constantly correcting the status of the charging team while charging.
Three hundred meters is not a long distance, but in this technologically backward world, there are almost no weapons that can harm the enemy at three hundred meters.
These powerful charging teams, restrained by the minor nobles, safely advanced to a position about 200 meters outside the city wall.
But it was at this moment that the situation became completely different.
The counterattack of the Baiyan City defenders finally arrived.
"Be careful, it's a trebuchet! Spread out a little more!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Just as the charging soldiers were shouting excitedly and rushing forward, suddenly a lot of black spots streaked across the sky, and these black spots were slowly getting bigger above their heads.
The first ones to react were the small nobles who had already received the notice. After discovering the situation, they immediately shouted at the top of their lungs to warn the soldiers.
Although for the titled knights, as long as they discovered the situation in advance and relied on their fighting spirit, they could barely avoid the attack of these stone bullets.
However, for ordinary soldiers, whether they can avoid the attack of stone bullets depends on luck and probability.
Just one or two seconds after the little nobles gave a reminder, the stone bullets as big as bowls finally fell among the charging crowd.
These stone bullets, like flowers scattered from heaven, were fired by small catapults, one every 50 meters on the wall of Baiyan City.
Although the shooting range of these small catapults is not far, it is only about two hundred meters.
However, this method of firing gravel like shotguns to deal with attacking infantry has great lethality.
"Ah! My arm!"
"Ah! My legs, my legs are gone!"
Even though the petty nobles had deliberately dispersed the infantry's formation before, with so many stone bullets falling, there would always be some unlucky people who would suffer.
These unlucky guys were running and before they could react what was happening they felt their limbs getting cold, and then they discovered that their arms or thighs had become rotten and were bleeding profusely.
There are some people who are even more unfortunate than these people. They were hit directly on the torso or head. They didn't even have the chance to scream. With a "puff" sound, the originally intact body or head was smashed and penetrated like fruits, and then fell to the ground and became ghosts.
"Hurry up and charge over there. As long as we get under the city wall, the catapults won't be able to hit us!"
In just a few seconds, dozens of catapults on the city wall fired a total of hundreds of stone bullets. Although these stone bullets were fired randomly, the base number was enough to claim the lives of many charging soldiers.
In addition to the soldiers who were injured and fell to the ground and could no longer continue fighting, there were more than twenty soldiers who were killed directly.
The stone bullets of this small catapult are different from those of the large siege catapult.
The stone bullets fired by the large catapult are irregular in shape, while the stone bullets fired by this small catapult are polished and round in shape.
Even though the round stone bullet did not hit the target the moment it landed, its huge inertia caused it to bounce up again and continue to bounce forward, just like the effect of a solid cannon bullet in the previous life.
This is why a single volley of a hundred projectiles from this small catapult could cause up to thirty or forty casualties.
After a round of catapult stone attacks, the battlefield was no longer filled with only shouts of killing, but also with many cries of pain.
However, there are no medical soldiers in this world, and their comrades are unable to take care of them at the moment.
These wounded soldiers who fell to the ground, wailing and rolling could only struggle helplessly on the ground. Some of the more seriously injured soldiers would be relieved by death after a few minutes.
Some soldiers who were not so seriously injured might need to hold on until the charging team retreated, and then they would meet kind comrades who would drag them back.
As for organizing rescue efforts in the rear camp, I'm sorry! This world doesn't have such a habit!
"Idiot, hurry up and move forward, the next wave of throws will come soon! If you don't move forward, I will kill you now!"
Why is it said that the battlefield is the best place to test and screen soldiers? Because only after experiencing the cruelty on the battlefield and eliminating the fear in one's heart can a person exert his true combat effectiveness.
At this moment, some new recruits had seen the miserable condition of their comrades and were so frightened that they dared not move forward even a bit.
But when he thought of his family, he didn't dare to escape, so he could only curl up on the ground with his head covered and shivering.
After the young noble who led the team discovered the situation, although he wanted to kill these cowards with a sword, these people were his subordinates after all, so he could only run over quickly, roared, picked them up, and urged the timid recruit to move forward quickly with a long sword.
Just as the young noble said, the next wave of catapults arrived as expected more than ten seconds later, once again claiming the lives of many charging soldiers.
After the catapult fired three projectiles, killing nearly a hundred soldiers in total, it was finally unable to pose a threat to the charging troops due to the angle problem.
The charging soldiers crossed the first line of death and rushed to the shore of the moat.
At this moment, the moat has been filled with more than 20 passages that are more than ten meters wide.
But before these soldiers could breathe a sigh of relief, the defenders on the city wall had raised their longbows and shot arrows at them like raindrops.
The arrows flew through the air, making a whizzing sound, and shot towards them like a death warrant.
"Raise your shields and move forward. Do not stop! Anyone who retreats will be killed!"
Tap! Tap! Tap!
The damage caused by this wave of arrows to the charging team is not as significant as the effect of the catapult.
Only occasionally some soldiers were shot and fell to the ground howling because they did not hold their shields tightly. Most of the arrows were blocked by the wooden shields.
"Longbowmen! Start firing back!"
As they got closer to the city wall, the attacking team finally had the possibility to fight back.
At the command of the young nobles, the longbowmen on the large siege ladder that was more than ten meters high began to fight back at the city wall in front!
This large siege ladder looks more like a tower with wheels. Three sides of the tower are covered with wooden boards, with only the rear side unobstructed.
Looking from the back, this huge tower has layers of stairs inside.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The battle between the attackers and defenders finally reached a white-hot stage. As the siege soldiers finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the soldiers worked hard to carry all the huge siege stairs and simple wooden ladders onto the city wall. Then the most intense and cruel ant-like siege began.
A huge wooden board was lowered from several tower-like siege ladders and placed directly against the battlements of the city wall. The armored soldiers who had been prepared for a long time rushed forward with their shields raised, trying to jump onto the city wall to buy time for their comrades behind them.
The soldiers who were using the simple wooden ladders did not retreat. They climbed up the city wall with difficulty, holding large shields and long swords in their mouths.
While the soldiers were climbing up the wall, hundreds of longbowmen more than ten meters away continuously poured arrows onto the wall to buy more time for their climbing comrades.
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"Hello, Lord Gervis! I am Pusda, the captain of the Blizzard Legion from the Weldon family!"
"Lord Gust asked me to ask you what you are doing here camping? Lord Gust said it is dangerous here. If you want to continue watching the battle, you can go to the camp."
After the battle began, Gervis had been using a monocular telescope to observe the fierce and brutal battle two miles away.
However, he did not expect that his strange team had already fallen into the eyes of the four earl families stationed 500 meters away.
Everyone in the camp was puzzled by Gervis's strange team. In the end, it was the Lord of the North who sent people to inquire about the reason because he had seen Gervis's flag.
"Oh, Captain Pousta! Go back and tell Lord Gust that I thank him for his kindness, but I am not here to watch the battle!"
"I'm here to make money...ah, I'm here to save people!"
Thanks to "Rotsen" and "Zhuifengshusheng" for the tips!!!
(End of this chapter)
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