Chapter 16 The Battle of Normandy Part 1, The Castle of Rock
After that, as Lufos imagined, the war began. Burgundy and France declared war one after another, and a total of 100,000 troops attacked the Duke of Normandy. The form instantly became stormy. The entire Normandy Castle had only 5,000 regular troops, and the people were only 10,000 strong, which was one-six or seventy-seventh of the enemy's army.
However, Lufos was full of confidence. It was naturally unlikely that he would repel or even defeat the 100,000 army. However, it was not a difficult task to defend the city for a year or two. He had a castle with heavy stone piles, deep enough, and a moat with sharp wooden stakes buried inside, a large number of professional crossbowmen, a strong city defense crossbow machine and a stone catapult. There were enough tinder and stones, and if necessary, the buildings in the castle could be demolished as throwing props.
In this way, if the other party does not have professional siege machinery, it is difficult to pose a sufficient threat to the castle. Are France and Burgundy countries with professional engineering machinery?
No.
At this moment, it was only a few months before the dwarves changed their lifestyle and flowed into the human world. It was very fresh in the Norman Kingdom, not to mention other countries. Therefore, the standard parts production technology of the dwarves and the siege machinery manufacturing technology were not widely spread. Only the Norman Kingdom relied on its innate advantages and the efforts of a large number of scientific research institutes to digest the siege. Other countries still use old and primitive, without any aiming equipment, and operated simply by the intuition and experience of the operator. It is commonly known as the engineering equipment of the barbarian siege caster. Even to the east, there is not even such siege caster, and it mainly uses siege hammers. Just like the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania.
France and Burgundy do have a group of trenched trenchers of varying quality and pieced together. But it is unknown how much of these trenchers can play.
In this way, on June 21, the Battle of Normandy officially began. Seeing that the Normandy Castle City was so strict that it was highly garrisoned. Both monarchs were unsure of the forced attack, so they sent knights to the top of the city to scold, hoping to lead the other side down and fight, so as to defeat the other side by taking advantage of the number of people. Then they took advantage of the situation to capture the Normandy Castle.
In this way, in France, southeast and Burgundy, northwest, they sent a team of not many knights, standing in the place where they thought they were safe, and neither longbow nor strong crossbow could hit, hoping to arouse the anger of the city defense forces. Then they fought and fled, and then led the enemy into the encirclement of their own side.
But Lufos, who was guarding the city, was neither a fool nor a natural fool. He did nothing but order the city defense crossbow to shoot the enemy knights that were too close to him. The French coalition did not achieve the task of seducing the enemy at all, but was startled by the powerful city defense crossbow of the Normans - the knight who was shot through the belly by a three-centimeter-thick steel-headed crossbow arrow was nailed to the ground by a man, horse and a layer of chain armor on his body, and was still crying and wailing. Several entourages wanted to help him pull the crossbow arrow out of his stomach. However, they found that the crossbow arrow drilled directly under the ground, and the few people could not pull it out at all.
At this time, the Normans' city defense crossbows were once again exerted. Five towers on the south wall, a total of fifteen city defense crossbow machines opened fire at the same time, and directly nailed the several entourages who were preparing to rescue the knight, as well as the knight's friends, together with the knight who was cursing the formation at the beginning, to the ground - because the power of the crossbow arrows was too great. The crossbow arrows passing by in the chest were like a support that would not fall down. Therefore, these guys were able to preserve their posture during their lifetime. The sky was blue and the ground was stained with blood. These French people who were almost dead, and they were almost dead, making a "giggle..." sound, like a rusty scrap iron clock. The whole scene gave people a strange and extremely appropriate feeling. It was just as if birds could fly and fish could swim.
This is art.
Of course, this postmodern art of expression is not something that the medieval rustics can appreciate. In their eyes, they are only steel, death, blood, horror, and strange scenes that can only be seen in hell. There are also strange weapons that are not seen, but are real and powerful, which can easily capture human life.
The morale of the French army was greatly reduced. The remaining knights and entourage fled in a panic. According to their words, when fighting against each other head-on, they were defeated by the other party openly and killed. This kind of thing is glorious, and they will go to heaven after death. However, they were killed by the evil weapons of the Normans from all invisible places. No matter who it is, they may not be able to accept that inexplicable way of death.
On the northwest side, the same was true for the Burgundian army. Especially after a few days, I heard about the fall of Groningen, and the morale of the Burgundian army dropped more than that of France.
In this way, both armies knew that their opponents were not the kind of useless people they imagined. The Norman Kingdom was well-known for being able to conquer such a territory in such a short period of time. Some of them were probably fighting this battle.
Next, a strong attack was made. The two countries had a total of 100,000 troops, relying on their large number of soldiers, to trap Normandy, and also rely on their superior number of people to attack the city. A large number of cannon fodder carried a ladder under the strict order of the supervising team composed of nobles and knights, charging forward as if crazy. These cannon fodder recruited soldiers in ragged clothes and many cannon fodders, which did not even have a round shield, were the best targets for crossbow soldiers with strong lethality. Moreover, these cannon fodders had no formation and did not even need to aim too much, just shoot in places with a large number of people...
Chapter completed!