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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 39 Friction

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    In this way, the Norman Empire destroyed the coalition's night attack attempt.  Nearly a thousand Hungarian cavalry were killed and wounded.  Even General Carr, one of the commanders of the coalition forces, almost died under the sword of the Norman hussars.  Although such a record did not weaken the strength of the coalition forces.  But it severely damaged the morale of the coalition forces.  Let them all behave like lambs in the next few months.  Just stay and shiver behind the walls of Prague.

    After defeating this cavalry, General Erth tried to launch an attack on Prague - he took out the siege machinery made by the engineers accompanying the army in the previous two weeks.  And dispatched twice as many troops as the previous feint attack.

    It¡¯s like a replica of the classic siege warfare of the Norman Empire.  With the long-range support of catapults, ballistas and other crossbowmen standing on the carts, the Norman infantry pushed and pulled the ladder trucks and struggled forward - in addition to these ladder trucks used to build up the opponent's city walls,  There is another modified version of it, which is a bridge erecting truck with thicker and longer boards than the ladder truck.

    This kind of siege machine was recently designed by General Erth, specifically to quickly cross Prague's wide moat.  A wooden bridge twelve meters long and four meters wide can be quickly erected across the river.  For the moats of most cities, it is a surefire success.  Just for the sake of stability, the weight is a little too much.  At the same time, it is inconvenient to move because it is too heavy.  Fortunately, it is very difficult to destroy it because it is too heavy

    In the ranks of the army.  These folded bridge-building vehicles are extremely conspicuous.  There were more than seventy Norman infantrymen and engineers struggling to drag it.  In addition, a dozen pack horses and mules were used.  This made the coalition soldiers at the top of the city.  The knights were very surprised.

    "What kind of weapon is that? Why are there so many people moving it?" General Karl turned his face and asked the knights around him.  Of course, no one could answer his question.  The knights around him also looked bewildered - which led to several tragedies.  Because they were too surprised, their brains did not react, which made several knights slow down when dodging the stone bullets fired from the opposite side.  Then he was hit by a large rock and his waist was broken.  That scene was full of flesh and blood and brains bursting

    "But it doesn't matter. The other party didn't bring tools to fill in the moat. It seems like it's still a feint attack today. Don't worry at all."

    ??Seeing the knights beside him, they looked like rabbits and foxes.  General Carter opened his mouth to encourage them.  Then, he just breathed a sigh of relief.  The knights who were ready to echo General Carter's words stared wide-eyed as they watched the soldiers of the Norman Empire unfold the bridge-building vehicles one after another beside the moat.  A total of five bridge erecting vehicles are aligned in a row.  A twenty-meter-wide bridge suddenly appeared.  All the coalition forces took a breath of cold air.

    At that time, after seeing this scene, General Carter's face turned red and hot.  It felt like someone had slapped me hard in the face

    "Damn bastards! They have never made anything like this before! A bunch of sons of bitches!" On the tower on the other side, General Wallenstein also screamed loudly after seeing such a scene.  .

    As an excellent military strategist and general.  After the general re-emerged from his master, Henry the Lion of Bavaria, he paid great attention to various military intelligence, military systems, equipment, training and logistics of the Norman Empire.  The general could say.  He is the one who values ??Norman the most among all the countries.  This behavior became even more obvious after the expedition to the Near East.

    After the war between the Norman Empire and the Anti-Norman Alliance began, this general spared no effort in collecting intelligence from the Norman Empire.  He originally thought that although he could not understand 100% of the Norman Empire, he could always understand 85% of it.  Even at some banquets, the general boasted: I know the Normans better than the Normans.  However, today, General Erth's bridge-building vehicle shook his confidence.  Same as General Karl who said the wrong thing before.  General Wallenstein also felt his face burning at this moment, as if he had been slapped

    that's all.  While the Normans were trotting calmly and pushing and pulling a large number of ladder trucks across the moat, opposite them, the coalition soldiers were making a fuss from top to bottom.

    "With weapons like this //fastest text updates without ads//, plus their ladder trucks. The city is high and the pond is deep. For the Normans, it really doesn't matter" Wallenstein  He sighed secretly, and then ordered the soldiers to draw their bows and fire arrows.  Shoot at the Normans who are about to rush to the city.

    Although, under the suppressive attack of the crossbowmen, catapults and ballistae on the Norman carriages, and under the excellent defense of the three-quarter plate armor of the Norman infantry, the role that the coalition crossbowmen could play was  Very limited.  But no matter how limited it is, it's still better than nothing.

     Seeing the rain of arrows coming from the city, the Norman infantry immediately raised their kite shields.  Protecting the vital point of the defenseless face in the open-face helmet, he accelerated the speed of pushing and pulling the ladder truck.  As soon as the ladder truck was pushed to the base of the city wall, the folded ladder was immediately erected, and the plank with sharp barbs slammed towards the six-meter-high city wall of Prague.  Then due to the weight, it was inserted deeply into the city bricks.

    "Okay! Attack!!" This time, a captain wearing gorgeous armor was leading the team. He saw that his own ladder had been set up.  With a roar like this, he took the lead and was the first to charge towards the city of Prague.  And behind him, those holding high the half-phoenix flag, those holding high the infantry battle ax flag, those holding high the emperor's will flag, and those holding high the numbered flag of the Thousand-Man Corps - these four flag-bearers also blew the horns and waved the flags together.  Inspire military morale!

    "Quick! Do as I said!!" Seeing the Norman infantry rushing over at extremely fast speeds.  General Wallenstein at the top of the city immediately shouted like this.  Immediately afterwards, soldiers were busy pouring vats of grease onto the ladder truck.

    Although the ladder truck has the word "ladder" in its name.  But it's actually a large piece of wood.  After the grease was poured on it, the smooth and flat surface became extremely difficult to climb.  Wallenstein played this skill beautifully, and many Norman infantrymen immediately slipped and fell uncontrollably.  The ensuing domino effect caused a bunch of Norman infantrymen behind him to also fall miserably.

    Seeing the menacing Norman, when he suddenly wanted to pounce on him, he suddenly fell down and fell down in embarrassment.  The coalition forces on the city couldn't help laughing loudly.  Morale also suddenly improved a lot.  Such laughter, as well as the various infuriating grimaces and gestures made by the coalition soldiers, made the Normans roar in anger.  Immediately, a few of them were hit hard, and some of them, who were not very clear-minded, took their axes and tried to climb up again - but soon, these guys fell down again.

    So, the laughter at the top of Prague became even louder.

    Although I was surprised that the other party had a machine that could cross the moat.  But General Wallenstein knew quite a bit about the ladder truck that was invented earlier.  In order to defeat such a terrifying siege method by the Normans, the general spent a lot of money.  A ladder truck was obtained from the Venetians that was damaged and could not be used.

    Originally, he was thinking that he could follow this example and produce some similar equipment on his own.  But this idea cannot be implemented in a short time.  Because of the problem of craftsmen-Bavaria does not have enough skilled carpenters and talents studying machinery.  The ladder truck looks simple, and most of the materials are made of wood.  But there are many other parts that are forged from fine steel.  This was nothing to the Normans, who were very advanced in metallurgy.  But for Bavaria, whose productivity level is still in the Middle Ages, it is a very difficult thing.

    In addition, the thing sold to him was "broken" as mentioned before.  It was missing some necessary parts¡ªand that, above all, was the reason for Wallenstein's despair.

    After abandoning this unrealistic fantasy, Wallenstein began to continue his experiment.  He ordered his subordinates to dismantle the car body, leaving only the wooden boards.  Then I saw wooden planks erected on the city wall of Munich.  To imitate the siege party.  And find a way to break this trick.

    He tried burning it with fire, but the burning speed was too slow.  Not very practical.  I also tried hitting it with large rocks, but the board was stronger than expected.  He wasn't even afraid of the iron cone until finally, after a heavy rain, he fell because he was walking too fast.  Wallenstein then thought of how to deal with the Norman ladder truck

    "Hmph I didn't expect that there are a few clear-minded guys on the other side."

    Seeing the offensive of our own army, we suddenly suffered a setback.  But the morale of the army on the opposite side was high.  Behind the Norman army, General Erth snorted coldly on a carriage.  Then he ordered the troops in front to be patient for the time being, using the ladder truck as a shield to postpone the attack.  At the same time, he ordered the engineers under his command to transport a new round of siege ladder trucks.

    It went on like this for a while.  Although there were fewer attacks from enemies at the top of the city, the casualties were not large.  But at this moment the Normans were also quite depressed.  Wallenstein was secretly proud, but saw that the Normans had transported many more ladder trucks.  The general was about to laugh at the Normans for not learning their lesson, but suddenly discovered that the wooden boards of these ladder trucks seemed to be wrapped with a layer of hay-

    Wrapped with a layer of hay, the oil will seep into the hay. The Normans do not directly touch the flat board, but step on the hay to move forward, so they will not slip on it!  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.force.  )

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