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    Section 6: Capture the outer city wall

    "Holy crap! They're crazy, they're going to attack the city in the afternoon."

    Miraris quickly ran to a nearby high platform, looked at the dust and smoke rising in the distance, waved and shouted in shock.

    "Sound the alarm, gather the entire army, and now enter a wartime state."

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    Woohoo!

    Woohoo!

    Woohoo!

    ¡­¡­

    ? Continuous sounds of horns, bells, and drums rang out from the watchtower barracks in Milis City. Many soldiers who were resting nervously picked up their weapons and gathered at the predetermined location.

    At this time, the Elante army was divided into two groups. More than 20,000 troops from the northeast corner and the southeast side ran towards the city of Milis. The remaining more than 15,000 people who arrived were cutting wood, transporting supplies, and making ladders to assist the troops in front.

    Boom!

    There was a sudden sound in the southeast of the small town of Milis. Blue-gray shells flew 1,200 meters away and hit the houses outside the city wall. In an instant, smoke and dust filled the face, rocks and trees flew down, and two nearby houses collapsed.

    "Damn it, missed."

    Heitel frowned angrily and shouted loudly: "Raise the bronze cannon by one degree. Now quickly splash water to cool down, dig out the gunpowder residue, and wait 60 seconds before firing."

    "yes!"

    The gunner, who was in his twenties, readjusted the height of the cannon. 75 seconds later, another cannonball was fired.

    Boom!

    A burst of gray gunpowder smoke flashed by, and the huge cannonball flew out of the gun barrel and hit the five-meter-high tower on the southeast wall.  In an instant, the city wall in the eastern part of Milis trembled, and more than half of the entire city tower turned into rubble and fell down, forming a gentle slope of more than 60 degrees.

    "oh!"

    "good!"

    "Well done!"

    "Keep fighting!"

    ¡­¡­

    The infantrymen of the Buckler Swordsman Regiment, who lined up 700 meters outside the city wall and prepared ladders for battle, shouted happily.

    On the wall of Milis in the distance, Baron Milis and General Milis were shocked and ran from the eastern city wall to the south. Looking at the half-collapsed city tower four to five hundred meters away, they said in shock: "What is this? What's going on?  He destroyed most of our city wall."

    Miraris took a deep breath.  Shocked said: "Nephew, let's not go there. This is a super projectile weapon in ancient technological records, a bronze cannon. It can use fuel to launch iron balls several kilometers away and destroy the city wall. And the Elantes are said to use  This weapon defeated the king's naval fleet in a naval battle, but I remember what Count Ramis said to me. The bronze cannon is very heavy and can only be used on the ocean and on city walls. How did they get such a huge weapon?  Woolen cloth?"

    "so smart!"

    "yes!"

    Miraris took a breath and said calmly: "Now that we can actually bring the bronze cannon over, our outer city may not be able to be defended."

    "Then shall I order the entire army to retreat now?"

    "No!"

    Miraris looked at the panicked Baron Milis and said: "We are protected by the city wall. First, let out two or three rounds of bows and arrows to shoot at them, and then retreat to the thick mountain city to defend it."

    "Since the bronze cannon is so powerful, can we defend the city?"

    Baron Milis asked worriedly.

    Miraris sighed softly: "I heard that a bronze cannon weighs more than twenty tons, and a cannon shell can weigh three to five hundred kilograms. Such a heavy thing must have many flaws. Besides, our inner city is built  On the hill, there is absolutely no problem in guarding it for a period of time. If we don¡¯t guard it, then the Milis family¡¯s territory will be lost.¡±

    "All right!"

    Baron Milis thought about it painfully, nodded firmly and looked at General Milis and said, "Uncle. I understand what you mean. I will do my best to protect our city and continue our family."

    Boom!

    Boom!

    The bronze cannon fired three more shots. The bronze cannon, which had found its position after the first two shots, accurately shot the weak wall of the outer city of Milis at the right time.  Waves of rocks and dust flew by, more than a dozen soldiers died tragically under the giant cannon, and the city walls in four places collapsed with gaps of five or six meters.

    "Attack!"

    Lin Fenghan looked at the situation ahead and quickly raised his arms and shouted loudly.

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    Woohoo!

    "Go!"

    "Kill!"

    "Go!"

    ¡­¡­

    Many centurions roared at the signal of flags and horns.  More than 7,000 troops ran towards the three-kilometer-wide city wall.

    "Damn it, they're coming."

    "Hurry up and fire the ballistae!"

    "Shoot!"

    ¡­¡­

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    ¡­¡­

    The three ballistae fired together and shot through six or seven Elante soldiers who were running forward. Then more than 700 archers standing on the southern city wall waited for a while, facing Elantes who entered the shooting range three to four hundred meters away.  The soldiers fired their bows and arrows.

    ah!

    Ouch!

    Ding dong!

    Ding!

    Ding!

    ¡­¡­

    The sound of shields blocking and soldiers being hit by arrows kept coming. Baron Milis breathed quickly and looked at the battlefield in front of him, touching his heart in excitement and panic.

    "Put it up!"

    "Raise the ladder!"

    "Archers suppress!"

    "Protect the transport infantry!"

    ¡­¡­

    The officers who ran close to the city wall in front shouted, and numerous teams released ladders according to the previously rehearsed plan, and the buckler swordsmen and infantry reared.  More than 2,000 pulley longbowmen who had not yet entered the effective shooting range took out their bows and arrows.  The Milis city defense troops standing three to four hundred meters away fired their bows and arrows at the city walls and towers.

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

    ¡­¡­

    Thousands of bows and arrows were shot at the Milis city defense soldiers like bees. The archers wearing cloth and leather armor standing behind the female wall of the city wall were shot by the Elante archers before they could take cover. Two to three hundred people were shot.

    "Walk!"

    "hurry up!"

    "Their light infantry has already pushed the ladder over."

    "let's go!"

    ¡­¡­

    Looking at the Elantes troops that had already rushed over, the city defense troops who were threatened by long-range bows and arrows, under the order of Baron Milis, picked up the wooden shields on their backs and ran toward the central mountain castle to cover each other.

    "Um?"

    "what happened?"

    "no one?"

    "Why is it empty?"

    "Have they left?"

    ¡­¡­

    Many Elante infantrymen with red eyes and excited minds who climbed up the city wall looked at the surrounding situation and exchanged doubts.

    "Look!"

    "They are running away!"

    "They ran to the inner city on the mountain."

    "Pursue!"

    "Go!"

    "Catch them!"

    ¡­¡­

    The enthusiastic Elantra soldiers and officers who climbed up the earth wall looked at the evacuating soldiers three to four hundred meters away. They shouted and climbed down the ladder to the watchtower passage to pursue them. Some soldiers who were agile and strong came directly from the three-meter-high city wall.  Jump onto the mound on the ground, use wheat straw and firewood as fuel and run towards the inside.

    Outside the city wall of Milis, Heitel laughed and took off his wet clothes and pants with a few sailors and placed them on the hot bronze cannon.  He laughed loudly and said to Lin Fenghan, who was making strange noises: "Baron, although the bronze cannon is powerful, it consumes too much energy. After each launch, the temperature of the cannon body can reach hundreds of degrees. It can directly scald eggs and flour cakes.  . We fleet sailors took advantage of the principle of heat generated by bronze cannons after firing several times. Splashing water to cool down fried eggs, scones, grilled fish, and dried clothes was much more comfortable than before. "

    "haha, yes!"

    The sailors around laughed loudly.

    Lin Fenghan looked at the charging troops around him and asked Heiter: "You are the captain of the battleship Clipper. You have fired bronze cannons many times. How many shells can your ship's artillery fire at its maximum speed in 10 minutes?"

    "not sure!"

    Haiter touched the bronze cannon with a solemn expression, looked at Lin Fenghan and said: "Bronze is more tough than steel, and it is easier to dissipate heat and cool down. However, the cannon we cast later is not pure bronze and cools down a bit slowly. Although  Our mixed black powder is surrounded by linen, but if the temperature of the cannon is not lower than fifty or sixty degrees, we still dare not put the shell into the barrel and fire it. So even if the navy has water at seaunder high temperature.  It usually takes 60 to 90 seconds to fire a shot. This is only when our mixed black powder can be completely burned for a predetermined period of time before it can be fired successfully.  Otherwise, like some times, the black powder packet only burns and smokes with little pressure, and the shell leaves the barrel for tens of meters and falls after a few hundred meters, or if no duds are fired at all, then we will continue to fire.  Therefore, the average time for a bronze cannon to successfully fire a shell is about 2 minutes.  This is the true firing level of bronze cannons on the battlefield.  "

    "oh!"

    Lin Fenghan nodded slightly and said slowly: "It seems that we need to continue to develop new gunpowder, redesign the gunpowder manufacturing process, and improve our technical level of mixing black powder!"

    "Report to the Baron, our infantry has climbed up the city wall, and the tower is undefended."

    Vera rode her horse to take a look ahead. After listening to the reactions of many soldiers and officers, she hurried to Lin Fenghan and said.

    "What?"

    Lin Fenghan looked at the north in surprise and said: "Weren't they shooting arrows just now? Why is there no one now? What kind of trick are they playing? Let's go and see on horseback."

    "Walk!"

    "Report to the baron, the soldiers guarding the city have escaped. They are running towards the inner city. Our brothers who came first have already gone to pursue them." Chakri, the commander of the infantry regiment, said excitedly to Lin Fenghan.

    "What?"

    "Is there a conspiracy?"

    Lin Fenghan was surprised and rode into the city gate that was opened from the inside. Looking at the chaos in the distance and the crowd shouting for death, he asked the nearby infantry commander Chakri doubtfully: "Have we laid down the city walls in other directions? Are there any?"  Send a signal to the troops to the north."

    ¡°Our troops have occupied the southern city wall and are running towards the eastern city wall, working together from the inside out to defeat their northern defenders.¡± Chakri, who is 1.7 meters tall and lean, said calmly.

    "good!"

    Lin Fenghan nodded with a smile and patted Chakri on the shoulder.  He said softly: "Since they gave up on the southern city wall after shooting arrows, I guess that Milis's armed forces in the east, north, and other directions will also retreat. They are preparing to defend the inner city castle."

    "ah!"

    Chakri looked up at the inner city on the towering hills and nodded in agreement.  The archer troops and super spearmen troops in the rear continued to enter the city.

    "Go!"

    "Kill!"

    "Go!"

    "Ah! No one!"

    "Why is it empty?"

    "Wait, look there."

    "The six-star holy love infinite reincarnation flag is the symbol of our Elant army. Commander Yi Liuyun has occupied the city wall."

    "good!"

    "oh!"

    "Go!"

    ¡­¡­

    Lana and Ramsay patted their horses one after another.  He sped up and ran towards the city with many troops.

    "one!"

    "two!"

    "three!"

    "Pull!"

    "one!"

    "two!"

    "three!"

    "Pull!"

    ¡­¡­

    Time has passed for most of the novel, and it is now 5:20 in the afternoon.  At this time, Elant's tens of thousands of troops had surrounded the one-kilometer inner city of Milis from all directions.  On the road south of the outer city of Milis, 10 cows and 20 people shouted slogans and pulled a heavy blue-black cannon from the uneven road.  Numerous war horses at the rear followed him, pulling heavy wooden boxes.

    Lin Fenghan sent many cavalry back and forth around the inner city on the hill, looking for a suitable breakthrough point.

    "Can not be done!"

    Kelande wiped his sweat and said to Lin Fenghan in the teahouse just east of the main road in the East City: "Baron, I took a look at the terrain on horseback and found that except for the lower area in the east. The terrain in the west is slightly higher.  The city walls are built directly on hillsides more than ten meters high. In these areas, except for the main roads, they are surrounded by houses and hills, and there is no place for our cannons to be released."

    "And there are dozens of crossbows and thousands of archers on their castle. Once our cavalry and soldiers get close to two to three hundred meters, they will encounter a torrential rain of bow and arrow fire, and it is impossible to detect an effective situation."

    ¡°Damn it, don¡¯t think that I can¡¯t do anything to you just by hiding in a turtle shell.¡±

    Lin Fenghan cursed angrily.

    At this time, Lana wiped his sweat and clapped his hands excitedly: "Baron, our sand table is set up. Since the central castle??The specific information is not clear.  The terrain and buildings of the outer city have been roughly marked.  "

    "okay!"

    Lin Fenghan stretched out his thumb in admiration, lowered his head to look at the sand table carefully, touched his chin and looked at the building, and said: "Everyone, please see, due to the low terrain in the east, the Milis people built solid walls and fortresses here that extend to the mountain.  Under the hill, they built two small city gates on the north and south sides to let people in and release people. The city walls were built on hills twenty or thirty meters above the ground. Therefore, although these two places are very high, there are slightly fewer buildings.  We can also attack. As for the inner city walls and hills in the west area, they are also fifty or sixty meters higher than the surrounding area. The terrain is gentle and there are few buildings. It belongs to the back gate of the inner city of the castle. I decided to lead the troops around here later.  Launch a sudden artillery attack, and then send elite forces to attack and destroy them. What do you think?"

    "Huh!"

    "good!"

    "That's a good idea!"

    ¡­¡­

    Ramsay frowned as he looked at the sand table, looked at Lin Fenghan seriously and said, "Baron, you lead the army from all directions to surround this place, and break through the city wall from the rearmost square to the west. It is a good strategy to surround them. But you have to  It is clear that according to intelligence, the Lord of Milis City has at least more than 5,000 soldiers, plus the nobles, knights, knight attendants, and noble warriors who have fled nearby, the number is definitely close to 7,000. Among them, they are loyal to the aristocratic system and protect their property.  The number of die-hard aristocratic members must reach 3,000."

    "These 3,000 people firmly control the entire army, and rely on the fortress that is very strong inside and outside to fight us in bloody battles. At least hundreds and nearly a thousand of us will be killed. And in order to capture Milis City, which is not geographically important,  We lost thousands of people and an infantry regiment. This is definitely not cost-effective, so I suggest that we besiege the city and block three of them, allowing them to leave a safe passage, so that those who have hope of survival and revenge will not fight desperately.  , reduce our losses.¡±

    "oh!"

    Lin Fenghan's eyes shone brightly, and he looked at Ramsay wisely and said: "You want us to attack from the east, north, and south. Leave the west direction where Ramis City is to Ramis.  The nobles of Lys City, let them leave safely and hopefully?"

    "Ramus, what do you mean?"

    Listening to the conversation between Lin Fenghan and Ramsay, Ma Youden looked at Ramsay breathlessly and asked: "Don't you know? The power of us and Earl Lamie is limited. Let us let go of the three  More than a thousand people asked them to leave. In the future, when we attack the city of Ramis, we will suffer greater casualties and lose more brothers. Don't you feel ashamed? In contrast, we used 1,000 people to replace five of the enemy's troops.  Six thousand people, what a deal!¡±

    Kelande approached Mayoden at this time, patted him on the shoulder, smiled, and said softly: "Mayoden, the Baron and Ramsay never said that they would let those noble soldiers leave!"

    "oh!"

    Ma Youden suddenly touched his head, looked at Ramsay and Lin Fenghan in surprise and said with a surprised smile: "Baron, Ramsay, it turns out that you are planning to pretend to let go of a way out, and then send infantry to intercept them, and cavalry to pursue and eliminate them.  !¡±

    "high!"

    ¡°It¡¯s really high!¡±

    "The Baron is so smart!"

    Farab looked at Ramsay in surprise and said, "I just didn't expect Ramsay, who has always been simple-minded, to be able to think of such a clever trick. What a miracle!"

    "yes!"

    Ramsay looked at his companions who were looking at him in surprise, and angrily threw himself at Farabu and shouted: "Farabu, are you seeking death? Who are you simple-minded?"

    "ah!"

    "I was wrong, don't slap me in the face!"

    ¡­¡­

    Many officers and soldiers nearby laughed when they saw the two of them. Lin Fenghan curled his lips, looked down at the sand table and map, thought for a moment and said: "It's already half past five, and the sun will set in an hour and a half.  Adding in the bronze cannon deployment time, firing time, and breaking the city wall, we have an hour to set up the situation."

    "I decided that our artillery would build a mound from the south as a fort to fire artillery shells. Our artillery quietly sent out two infantry regiments of super pikemen, two infantry regiments of buckler swordsmen, and three cavalry regiments, pretending to go out in search of food and grass, and turned  Go to an area 10 kilometers outside Milis city to ambush."

    "The rest of the troops are camping here, practicing, pretending to attack, and intimidating them. The south and southwest are seriously attacking and harassing them. At the same time, messengers are sent to distribute leaflets and rumors, and the spies in the inner city help us spread the news.  At the same time, we released the news that our two artillery regiments will arrive at around 10 o'clock tomorrow. Prepare for a strong attack and interception. Please prepare for detailed battles below.technical planning.  "

    October 23, 2013 22:57:09 (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please read it.)
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