Chapter 22 Wood is not as hard as stone
After formulating a strategy with Borshu, the Mongolian army began to secretly mobilize and adjust the strategy. However, this was not something that could be accomplished in a short time. After three days of rest, the Mongolian army still launched an offensive against the Norman Empire's defense line. It was also during these three days. Egil used his means to rekindle the morale of the Norman Empire and its allies and encourage the highest. The first round of the competition ended like this. Both sides began the second round.
At the beginning, the Mongolian army did not attack directly. Instead, it was like before attacking the periphery defense line, sent a large number of slave soldiers to operate. It was hoped that the outer line of the Norman Empire, the damaged and intrusive wreckage, as well as the trenches, traps, mines and other objects in front of two fortresses five kilometers apart in the Norman Empire.
As a result, the time for these suffering slave soldiers came again. The large fortress built by the Norman Empire had much higher garrison capabilities than the previous outer defense line. The towering arrow towers were filled with stone casters and city crossbows, and the turrets had powerful artillery. A total of 300,000 troops of the Norman Empire were stationed among these two fortresses. The main force of the regular army, and more recruits with stronger combat power, and the elite troops that all the allies were proud of were all concentrated here. Such defensive power once gave the Mongols a great surprise.
The fortress of the Norman Empire, the octagonal, towering city wall with a total length of 24 kilometers is seven meters high and three meters wide, slightly inclined, making it even harder to climb. Such a city wall has three sides. After breaking through the three walls, there is a more dangerous inner city castle in the fortress.
The main body of the fortress is all made of solid granite boulders and large stones. It is close to indestructible. There are solid city walls on all sides. Only on the west side, there is a high-rise gate near Europe. There is also a two-story urn city on the inside of the city gate. There is also an extremely abundant garrison supplies in the city. The Norman Empire’s years of preparation and savings were enough for 300,000 troops to be open for a year.
Such a strong city defense and a large number of defenders made the Mongols feel their powerlessness. Genghis Khan sent tens of thousands of slave soldiers to clear the debris and landfill traps and trenches every day. At least one person had to be beaten to meat sauce by the overwhelming firepower net of the Norman Empire. The other two could not be hurt. Therefore, under the cover of the Norman Empire's firepower, the cleaning work was extremely slow. It was not until mid-August, after nearly 100,000 lives were consumed. The Mongol Empire barely established a passage to these two fortresses.
Or they were shot and killed by the Norman Empire's catapults, city defense crossbows, artillery, and crossbow soldiers, or fell into a trap of the Norman Empire and died. Or they stepped on a pedal mine, were killed, or they were disabled, and were abandoned by the Mongolian Empire... There were many slave soldiers from Persia and the Central Plains.
Because sometimes, what the Mongol Empire needed was just victims for landmines. So among them were not only young and middle-aged men, but also young women and children. The Mongol Empire completely used these people as consumables and had no mercy. On the contrary, the Mongols were worried that it would be even better if some Norman civilians could be found nearby. It was just that Egil was so powerful that he was able to clear the world. The Normans would never be seen in the absolute defense circle of Moscow. So they had to give up.
Seeing these slave soldiers and the miserable situation of the elderly, weak, women and children, Egil ordered them to be shot and killed without mercy, while taking the opportunity to promote to his soldiers:
"Did you see it?! The tragic state of aliens ruled by the Mongols. If you don't want to become like this, just give me a good fight!"
In this way, on August 21, as the road leading to the Norman Fortress, the originally existed fortresses had been flattened. The soil, wood and corpses filled the trenches and traps. The ground had completely become a suitable road for traffic. Genghis Khan ordered the attack.
The first one to take the lead was Guo Kan, the first-class subordinate of the Mongolians, and a Mongolian vassal army for his command. Like the previous one, the broken Mongolian vassal army. These soldiers were well-equipped and well-trained, but their morale was very problematic.
But this is not important. Just a little blessing is given to the state of a Mongolian military god. These soldiers who were originally slightly setbacked will become lively and lively. Just like now.
There are also amazing numbers of Hui cannons, large-scale siege machinery, and crossbowmen covering the flanks. They are also after Temujin used the Mongolian military god skills. But the difference is that this time, what they are going to attack is the main body of the Norman Empire's defense line. A large fortress with copper cast iron and solid strength!
"Prepare to fire!" With Egil's order, deafening roar of artillery came from the various artillery batteries of the Norman Empire. The Norman artillery used the flowering bomb to bomb, and hundreds of enemy soldiers were blown away. Before the enemy advanced to the range of the catapults and the city defense crossbow, the monotonous sound of artillery was the highest melody on the battlefield.
Speaking of which, after more than a month of continuous firing, Norman artillery fired dozens of shells almost every day. The wear and corrosion of the barrel was very serious. There was a cannon before, but due to operational errors, several engineers killed. The casting process of the twelve-pound long-barrel cannon and the steel used was not as good as the newly developed 24-pound cannon. It is already very good to support it until now.
"So, we should have to rest for a while." Egil secretly planned, and after the opponent's army advanced to the range of the catapult and the city defense crossbow, he decisively ordered to stop the artillery firing. The engineers ran over immediately and took the opportunity to inspect and maintain the artillery.
Although the artillery stopped bombing, the casualties suffered by the Mongolian minions were much higher than before. Although they were equipped with more pointed wooden donkey carts than before, siege siege chariots with baffles, or shields were erected to form shield walls. However, the casualties were the casualties - because the number of city defense crossbows and catapults arranged on these two fortresses was three times that of the previous peripheral defense system!
A total of eight hundred brand new and shiny, waxed and painted heavy city defense crossbows, and six hundred heavy ones that can throw ten kilograms of stone bullets or iron cannons of the same weight to heavy stone trenchers five hundred meters away. These equipment are fired at the same time, and in an instant, they can form a firepower network that is almost insurmountable!
Stone bullets, crossbow guns, iron cannons, and heavenly flames pots... These deadly weapons were continuously thrown out. Exploded, burned, pierced, smashed in the array of Mongolian minions... accompanied by broken armor, shattered, broken, flesh-flying corpses, and screams of dying soldiers, a tragic scene called the battlefield was presented.
"This, this is..." Genghis Khan, who were watching the battle in the rear, and the Mongolian generals, all opened their mouths in surprise.
“It’s like the end of the world…”
The dozen square formations in the front row were completely broken. A round of volleys from the Norman Empire caused damage to more than 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol Empire and hundreds of various cities. The wreckage was fragmented and fragmented. It had no value for reuse. It could not be seen at all. It was impossible to imagine that these things were an elite infantry team of thousands of people.
Such a powerful long-range strike force made the Mongolian minions stunned. Some soldiers were ready to move forward, while others were ready to escape, but most of them stopped and stood still, looking at a loss. At this time, the second round of attacks in the Norman Empire arrived.
Because of the correction of the previous round of attacks, the bombing effect of this round was better. On both sides of the thousand-person team that had become ruins, after a burst of explosions, the Mongolian minion army lost nearly two thousand-person teams.
Suddenly, he suffered such a density of blows. He saw the heavy casualties in front of him, a mess of friendly soldiers. The Mongolian Servant Army, the morale of thousands of soldiers and horses that were closest to the bottom suddenly dropped to the bottom. Egil also seized the opportunity to use the roaring skill of the Underworld.
So it collapsed.
The soldiers of the Servant Army shouted in surprise and fear, turned around, dropped their weapons and started to run away. Behind them, the other soldiers of the Servant Army were soon trapped, collapsed, and began to run away.
Following them were deafening explosions, more screams, as well as all kinds of terrifying sounds that were smashed, cut, pierced, crushed, broken... and so on, all kinds of terrifying sounds that would only be made after being injured. And there were not a few soldiers who trampled on each other and died.
Although many officers were still responsible, they shouted loudly, trying to calm the army again, especially the best-purpose dog, the Han general named Guo Kan, who even tried his best to massacre the defeated soldiers. They shouted as if they were crazy. But they were all powerless.
They neither had enough prestige to make the soldiers absolutely obey, nor could they create fear that was more intense than fear. They made the soldiers afraid of him more than the Normans' outrageous attacks. So all this was just useless work. It was like the spectacular Hui cannon group that could only leave some insignificant white dots on the walls of the Norman Fortress...
The collapse was as unstoppable as an avalanche and a tsunami. The chain reaction quickly appeared among these soldiers. Even Egil was surprised - it seemed that he was about to win the battle?
Of course it is not that simple. Although the generals and officers of the Servant Army did not have the ability to stop this collapse, the Khan of the Mongol Empire, Borjijin and Temujin, had it.
Chapter completed!