Chapter 564： siege

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Quiller Foster carefully cleaned his long sword. This weapon that his father entrusted to him was finally about to be used. It was not used to compete with other people in martial arts, but to take the life of the enemy he was about to face .

Yesterday afternoon, General Charuba Vazquez, the supreme commander of the Confederate Army, gave the order to attack. In the evening, the barracks slaughtered cattle and sheep. When it was daylight, the battle began.

The first thing the Confederate army had to overcome was the three trenches surrounding the Skitarii fortress. For this reason, they specially prepared chariots for filling the trenches with defensive shields on the sides of the chariots. The sides and the top of the chariot are covered with cowhide, which can protect the soldiers from being attacked by the opponent's bow and arrow when pushing the chariot. After pushing it to the edge of the trench, throw the earth and rocks loaded on the chariot into the trench. A total of twenty such chariots were prepared.

Of course, the enemy's defenders would not wait indifferently for their defenses to be breached, and a large number of bows, arrows, ballistas, and catapults were fired at the advancing trench-filling chariots. The loss of chariots exceeded the previous estimate of the Confederate Army. When the first trench was filled with earth and rocks to create three wider passages, 8 vehicles were lost. When the second trench could pass, only the trench filling vehicles were left. The next two vehicles, there are hundreds of casualties.

General Vazquez ordered the implementation of the second plan with a dark face. A large number of prisoners collected from the rear (and many unlucky civilians) charged to the third trench with sacks full of sand on their backs.

Quiller looked at those poor people who didn't know if they could survive with pity. They were like a group of ants carrying things, running desperately towards the ditch. After landing on the ground, some could no longer get up, while others struggled to avoid being trampled by their companions behind.

Finally, some lucky people ran to the edge of the third ditch. They threw down the sandbags they carried along the way, and then started running back without hesitation. These people were lucky, and throwing a sack meant their punishment Will be lessened.

When the defenders concentrated their firepower to prevent the third trench from being filled, Vazquez organized manpower to widen the passages of the first two trenches, and finally a section of trenches about 200 yards in length in front of them could allow the brigade to pass through.

"It's time for us to play!"

Quick's face turned serious, and he buckled the mask-style helmet on his head.

"Child." General Vazquez was beside Quick. He grabbed Quick's shoulder and hugged him. The armor on the two of them made a loud collision sound.

"Your father and I would be proud of you."

Vazquez and Quiller's father, the Marquis Foster, have also known each other for a long time, and he looks at Quiller as if he looked at his nephew.

Quiller looked at General Vazquez, nodded silently, turned around to look for the subordinates who had been preparing for a long time, quickly joined them, and set off with the siege vehicle assigned to him. The target of this team is about 20 meters to the right of the gate of the fortress.

All the troops in charge of climbing the city were dressed in excellent armor and held their most convenient weapons in their hands. They were all noble children or professional fighters with superb martial arts skills. Although they were assigned siege vehicles, they didn't need to push the vehicles. A group of handymen did the job. They shouted loudly and pushed the siege vehicles forward step by step towards the goal with difficulty.

The siege vehicle equipped by the Jiaowan Alliance Army is a tower-like structure. There are three wheels on the left and right sides of the bottom for the siege vehicle to move. The left and right push rods are equipped with shields to shield them from the arrows they shoot. As for Quiller and others, they bowed and hid behind the car, holding the round shield high, and followed the car step by step.

Along the way were people who had died filling trenches before. Some people lying on the ground seemed to be still alive. They stretched out their hands to call for help from the attacking troops, but no one paid any attention to them at this critical moment.

Quiller tried his best to ignore the wailing he heard along the way and concentrate on the road ahead. Arrows shot from the fortress made a clanging sound on the siege vehicle, stimulating the hearts of everyone behind the vehicle.

If there wasn't the tall car in front of us, would he and his companions be shot into a group of hedgehogs? Quiller thought so.

The terrible battlefield environment made it impossible to calm down to estimate the time, and I didn’t know how long it had passed. I only heard a loud bang. This was the pedal on the top of the siege vehicle falling. Finally, the pick was firmly buckled on the wall, and the siege engine was firmly attached to the city wall. In this state, the enemy had no way to get rid of the siege engine in a short time.

"Kill!" As soon as he heard the sound of the pedal hitting the city wall, Quiller immediately drew out his long sword and shouted.

"For victory! For the alliance! For all those who endure the injustice of the church, go up!"

He was the first to step onto the ladder on the siege vehicle before his words fell, holding a shield and holding a sharp sword, with a look of deathQuiller's subordinates Infected by the atmosphere he created, they rushed forward with weapons in hand.

There was a square opening in the top of the siege engine, connected to the ladder below, through which Quiller went to the topmost level of the tower-like structure, and then a few steps through the treads already built on the city wall. He soon encountered the person who stopped him, a skitarii soldier holding a spear, and the sharp point of the spear stabbed at him fiercely.

With spare energy, Queller didn't want to take the initiative to verify the defensive effect of the armor on his body. He dodged the spearhead sideways, and then stuck the shield on his chest and rushed forward. His original weight plus armor was about 400. It weighs more than a pound, and the impact generated in this situation is terrifying. The Skitarii soldiers gathered near the attacking point were almost scattered by him, and a soldier who was hit by a shield in front of him even fell unconscious.

Taking advantage of this precious opportunity, Quiller immediately rushed forward to make room for his brother who followed him, only this time he swung his long sword. In just a few breaths, at least three people were inflicted with terrible wounds.

The soldiers defending the city were not all weak chickens who had just been knocked apart, and soon there were also elite skitaris who were not weaker than Queller and the others, and they fought together with the Protestant army who had already climbed the city wall.

For a moment, the sound of shouts, screams, and the collision of swords and armor filled the entire city wall, boiling back to the sky.