Chapter 17 The Norman Battle II, Like Hell
War, war, war, war, war, war... On the extremely chaotic battlefield, fighting wildly, bravely, desperately - the Normandy siege battle has reached a white-hot stage amid the roars of soldiers on both sides.
After killing a group of deserters without mercy, the morale of the French coalition mixed with the blood of its own soldiers rose to the highest level. Afterwards, using shields and the bodies of the dead of their own soldiers as shields - a large number of French soldiers used the arrow rain on the top of the city to squeeze out several unlucky ghosts. Amid the screams, they were pierced by a large number of sharp wooden stakes and turned into meat paste, the French soldiers emptied the sacks filled with debris and gravel, and threw them down together with a large number of corpses...
After repeated several times, the entire moat was filled with corpses, mud and other messy things. In this process alone, thousands of French artillery fire were killed.
However, only one percent of the 100,000 troops were only one percent. It was completely unpainful. On the contrary, because the first obstacle to siege was filled, the coalition forces were more motivated.
King Philip II of France seized the opportunity to launch his special skill, French fox hunting. All French soldiers' attack frequency and movement speed increased, and their morale increased by one level. At the same time, they were either in a sympathetic or the king had the same grasp of the battle situation. Charles Duke of Burgundy also used the decisive assault stunt, and the attack frequency and attack power of the Burgundy army increased significantly.
The kings of both countries have powerful stunts, and it goes without saying that they are. However, Lufos is just a poor general. Three excellent generals, command talent, and military academy origin gave him four basic command points. In addition, the qualified defensive generals and qualified city defenders, only six points. The virtue is only loyal and knight origin, which adds up to two points. Before the two kings used the stunts, he could barely support it, but after the two kings used the stunts, the French coalition's offensive became more and more urgent. He rushed towards the rain of bows and arrows that were intertwined by the city defense crossbow and crossbowmen. Then he put the ladder to the battlement, and then he held up the shield.
"Push them down quickly! Prepare stones and tinder oil, and smash them with stones!" Lufos couldn't help but shout like this. So the guard knights beside him (wearing a composite armor of the chain, with equipment equal to the Royal Knights, and belonging to the early general guard sequence) took out the horn and blew it up. At the same time, many messengers ran away quickly - the soldiers recruited by the system naturally knew the meaning of the horn. But those peasant soldiers who were temporarily recruited could not have such ability. Therefore, the messengers must be used to convey the orders.
After Lufos issued such an order, soon the towers on the gate towers of other city walls also heard the same rapid trumpet sound. Immediately afterwards, a large number of stones were lifted up to the wall by the auxiliary peasants and then smashed them to death. The Normandy castle wall is eight meters high, equivalent to several floors. If the stones were smashed at such a height, it would be enough to make a person's brain break if they were smashed - even those professional soldiers with iron helmets would probably break the cervical spine with a "crack", or because the helmet was deformed, the iron piece pierced directly into the head... In short, it was dead.
However, when dealing with the opponent's ladder, the Normans encountered a little difficulty. There were many French soldiers supporting the ladder under the siege ladder, and several of them could hold the ladder below, plus the inclination of their physique, and the weight of the soldiers who were climbing the ladder one by one, were almost thousands of pounds of strength. It was difficult to push.
Seeing the opponent's soldiers climbing over and getting closer, and the ladder could not be pushed at all. Before Lufos could order, the defenders on the city wall had a new solution.
The big stone was smashed down. Although the other party's head was covered by a shield, it could not block the impact of the stone. It was directly hit. Even if it was not dead, it would be even worse if it fell into the crowd. Not only would it be smashed down by the spear tips of the comrades, it was very likely that the body would be penetrated by the spear tips of the comrades standing up, and they died in their own hands in a daze...
After smashing the French soldier on the top, the French soldier below was already ready, and his hands and feet were pressed against the ladder without moving. In this way, although he was led by the people above, he just swayed for a while and could continue to climb up. In this way, the French soldiers approached the city wall bit by bit - until a large bucket of boiling oil poured down his head and face...
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The boiling oil directly penetrated the French soldiers' armor, fryed their bodies, and burned their skin. No one could bear such a terrifying pain. However, the diffusion ability of the liquid was much stronger than that of the solid, and the boiling oil in this big pot was much larger than that of the stones. Then I heard the same howls below the soldier.
"Set the fire!" Lu Fuss' heart was as iron as stone, completely ignoring the screams of the opponent's soldiers, and gave such an order in a cold voice.
So, as a series of torches were thrown down, the city wall was covered with large scattered flames, and the French soldiers who were poured with oil were screaming and screaming, rolling on the ground in pain, twisting and shrinking until they could not move.
In this way, the entire Normandy castle was shrouded by a circle of flame walls. The French coalition lost all morale and fled in a panic, and was killed by Norman crossbowmen during this period.
In this way, the enemy's first siege ended in failure. Few French soldiers could attack the city, and they left two or three thousand corpses and retreated. The French soldiers who died in the siege battle were extremely miserable. Under the continuous attack of crossbow arrows, stones and oil-rolling flames, they could not even get a whole corpse. Especially those soldiers who died in the fire had their faces destroyed and their death was terrifying and terrifying. It is conceivable what kind of pain they suffered before their death.
Normandy was in full bloom.
The city of Normandy is extremely bleak.
In the next few days, the French coalition attacked several times, but they were all defeated by Lufos one by one, and the casualties gradually increased to more than 6,000. Morale fell slowly and steadily. However, the Normandy Castle was still firm, which hurt Charles and Philip.
That night, the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France held a series of consultations. They unanimously felt that this forced attack was not a solution. The tactics should be changed.
The siege is protracted and there are too many variables. Maybe when the siege is halfway through, the enemy reinforcements will come. Therefore, it is not advisable.
So, how about buying and winning over? But the chance of success is not very high: the other party is obviously able to defend and there is no reinforcements. There is no situation where ammunition and food are exhausted and there is no help. Then, if you want to win over the other party, you have to invest a lot of chips, such as directly enthroning Lufos as the Duke of Normandy. But in this case, they have been busy for so long, spent countless money and food, delayed their precious farming time, and even lost their troops and generals. What is this for?!
Therefore, this is unlikely to be implemented. But you can try it at least. Take a blank check first, and you may get a miraculous effect.
Just when the two lords finalized this strategy and seemed a bit playful, they heard that the guy next to them had been ignored by them, wearing black armor and looking slightly old snorted coldly.
"But so, it seems that the ability of both of them is only so high, which is really disappointing."
Such rude words angered the lords of France and Burgundy. Philip II was nicknamed the Fox and was still a little bit cultivated. However, Charles was bold but could not bear the guy's words of holding a gun and stick. He slapped the table directly, and then pointed at the guy and shouted: "What's the good idea?! The defeated Vikings' men!"
That's right, this man was Edward IV, the Duke of Aquitaine who had owed Egil a large amount of money and was squeezed to hang himself. Speaking of which, he also had a share of 21,000 people in this coalition, but because of such a number, Philip and Charlie were a little different. Moreover, these two lords also looked down on the Duke of Black who had suffered a great loss at Egil. Therefore, they didn't like to pay attention to him.
Edward IV did not take Charlie's scolding seriously. He calmly expressed his thoughts: "Retreat, send a messenger to apologize, it is best to pay another compensation. The amount should not be too large, but not too small. That's it."
Immediately afterwards, the entire camp was quiet for a few seconds, and then the other two lords burst into a very ironic way of using all the dirty words he could imagine to describe Edward IV's timidity. Philip II's eyes were also full of contempt.
"Coward, if you want to go to the Viking pirate's butt, just go. I really don't understand, why are there any waste like you in this world?" Charlie walked out after saying this. And Philip also snorted twice, said nothing, and stood up.
"You think, too, I'm a fool and a coward?" Edward IV asked this before Philip was about to go out.
"No, no, no, you are very brave, at least once very brave." The territory controlled by Philip II was adjacent to Edward IV, whether it was Normandy or Aquitaine. He had dealt with Edward IV before he became the king of France. Therefore, he knew him much more than Charles: "But, it is not. It is really not. If we do, we will definitely be despised by all the royal families in Europe."
"That's at least better than the destruction of the country and the race." Edward IV responded.
"That's absolutely impossible." Philip II's mouth curled up and a confident smile appeared.
"Where did you get such confidence?"
Although Edward IV wanted to ask this question, Philip II had already walked out and never looked back...
Chapter completed!