Lord of the Gaming World Chapter 392: Songhai Empire
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A lord of an African tribal civilization occupying a city with the arms of a tribal civilization, his legs go weak when he sees the mighty imperial army surrounding his city.
There are at least 100,000 troops under the city, and they are not ordinary troops, but high-level troops!
The fully-armored tiger Ben army, the rattan armored soldiers with all the rattan armor, the huge war elephants, the three-layer heavy armored Wei Wu soldiers... Countless elite armors are shining brightly, holding sharp weapons, black and dark, and there is no end to it at a glance.
Clearly, this is an army that the most powerful civilizations can have!
Chu Tian and Huo An, Xu Fengnian, Zhang Dao, Mu Ke and other princes were at the forefront, observing the tribe's indigenous army guarding the city. Chutian rarely dealt with African civilizations, and he had seen African tribes in Yekaterina's servant army before.
Ekaterina, Chutian almost forgot what she looked like.
Huo An restrained the restless warhorse: "According to the captured native scouts, this is the lord of the Songhai Empire. The Songhai Empire is a civilization in West Africa. The Songhai Empire in its heyday stretches from the tropical rainforest in the south to the The Sahara Desert, west to the Atlantic coast, is famous for its gold trade."
Mu Ke said: "The game expansion films I have seen before show that the population of West Africa is one-sixth of that of our Eastern Han Dynasty, which is equivalent to about two states. It cannot be underestimated."
Chu Tian squinted his eyes, behind him were Cao Cao, Xue Rengui, Chen Qingzhi, Wei Qing, Le Yi generals: "Two prefectures... how many cities did they have in this national war?"
"Five cities. At least 150,000 indigenous main forces."
"It's a neutral civilization, let them get out of our way, or we'll attack the city immediately."
Chutian acted according to the established strategy, and would say hello in advance to the great civilization with a little strength. As long as they obediently roll aside and hand over the cities along the way to the control of the Han army, a major battle can be avoided.
Africa, like America, doesn't have many decent heroes, but it has a special class. In view of the balance mechanism of each civilization area of the game, Africa has iron and war horses, which are equivalent to special barbarians, and it is a bit tricky to actually fight.
Huo An gave Gao Xianzhi a wink to his general, Gao Xianzhi rode his horse forward and conveyed Chu Tian's words to the African chief.
There was a commotion among the native defenders in the city, and the largest Han Empire civilization was besieging the city!
The Eastern Route Army of the Han Empire demanded that the defenders of the city immediately abandon the city and allow their troops to leave.
"This is a trap. Once we get out of the city, without the city, arrow tower, or fortress, we will be crushed by the cavalry from the east!"
"Waiting for the arrival of other chiefs, the Han Empire will not be able to attack for a long time, and will definitely withdraw."
The lords of the Songhai Empire believed that this was a trap set by Chutian and they could not refuse the city, and then frantically exploded troops, turning the residents of the city into tribal archers, large shield soldiers, javelinmen, noble cavalry, and guards military.
Chutian gave Songhai Empire a chance, but the chief was completely reluctant to leave.
"Some soldiers and horses attack the city, some soldiers and horses fight for assistance, and the rest protect the cargo team."
Chu Tian weighed the strength of his troops and decided to attack the city.
The Han army was divided into three parts. Chutian gathered a large number of low-level arms, and Le Yi was the commander of the siege.
The first team sent by Chutian was Le Jin, Zhou Cang, Dian Wei, Li Guang, Huo An sent Li Siye, Xu Fengnian sent Wang Tiegun, Zhang Dao sent Zhang Liang, and Mu Ke sent a Nanman The general, more than two meters tall, has an amazing physique.
Mu Ke explained: "This is Wu Tugu's father, who is subject to my army. His army is the Fujijia Army."
Wu Tugu is an unfortunate character who was burned by Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Tengjia Army, and the entire army was wiped out. However, Wu Tugu's stature is tall, and his force is not low.
An army of 100,000 people is ready to attack the city. The military craftsmen skillfully instructed their soldiers to set up siege equipment such as trebuchets, siege towers, cloud ladders, and chariots. All kinds of high-level cavalry and war elephants were on guard. If the lord dared to come to reinforce the city, he would be attacked by a large number of heavy cavalry.
Even if the African indigenous empire's arms are special, they can't stop the heavy cavalry's assault on the Gobi. Heavy cavalry is too destructive in the age of cold weapons.
While preparing to siege the city, Chutian contacted the other two armies and demanded cooperation to push down the city that was blocked by the Songhai Empire.
The current situation is that the Han Empire is in the south, the Persian Empire is in the north, and the Songhai Empire is in the east.
The Han army marched north for a hundred miles, and the Persian Empire lord avoided its edge. Then the Han army turned east and marched toward one of the main cities, bumping into the unknown Songhai Empire civilization.
According to the marching route, it is not impossible to avoid it, but to avoid the Songhai Empire, it will make a big circle to make the supply line longer.
"Attack the Songhai Empire and drive them out of the national war battlefield."
The old Qin and Mingguan troops also began to attack the Songhai Empire city on the way, tempering the army.
The three-way Han army consists of fifteen princes, while the Songhai Empire has only five chiefs!
The chiefs of the Songhai Empire gradually realized that the situation was not right. Each of the three Han armies had more than 100,000 troops, and a total of 500,000 troops attacked. This kind of army is for any civilization. , are terrifying!
The East Route Army of Chutian spent a day building siege equipment.
The next day, dozens of trebuchets, dozens of ballistas, hundreds of ladders, and chariots took shape, and eight towering siege towers stood tall, overlooking the city!
The chief of the Songhai Empire knew this time that he had provoked a monstrous behemoth. However, he had high expectations for the city wall, hoping that he could rely on the city wall to stand firm. As long as the Han Empire could not attack for a long time, the Han army would soon withdraw.
There are five cities in the Songhai Empire, three of which were attacked by three Han troops at the same time!
Since the decision has been made to level the Songhai Empire on the way and reduce one competitor for the main city, the offensive will be as swift as the wind and as the fire!
"Liang Hongyu, led the 3,000 Shesheng Battalion and 5,000 crossbowmen to cover."
Chu Tian asked Liang Hongyu, who is good at commanding crossbowmen, to command the crossbow troops to provide support for Le Yi's siege troops.
Liang Hongyu, as a crossbow hero, is very practical, making up for the lack of elite crossbow troops in Chutian. Li Guang's arms are actually more inclined towards cavalry, while Li Ling's infantry has not yet been recruited, and Liang Hongyu is stronger than Li Ling.
The troops under Le Yi's command consisted of five first-boarding teams, each of 1,000 elites, and 30,000 low-level soldiers as cannon fodder.
In addition, Huo An, Zhang Dao, Xu Fengnian, and Mu Ke each sent 8,000 crossbowmen to form a 40,000-strong crossbow force with Chutian's 8,000 crossbowmen!
"It's not a problem to win this city, but the problem is that it consumes a lot of armaments."
Chutian roughly estimated that for 40,000 crossbow troops, if everyone shoots one round of arrows, it will consume 40,000 crossbow arrows! After a battle, hundreds of thousands or millions of arrows are gone!
Fortunately, the Han army established a supply line, and the rear will transport the produced armament to the front line. At the same time, after occupying the enemy's city, you can also get some supplies.
Relying on the methods of production and plundering, it can barely maintain consumption.
"Siege!"
With an order from Chutian, the soldiers pulled the rope of the catapult and threw several tens of kilograms of stones out.
The soldiers hammered the bed crossbow, and the sharp crossbow arrow hit the arrow tower and took away the corner of the arrow tower! A crossbow arrow hit the city wall, and it sank into the city wall. The rubble fell and scattered on the ground!
Hundreds of chariots cover the advance of the Han army's elite archers. Hundreds of low-level infantry push the tall siege tower to approach the city wall. On the siege tower, the sharpshooters of the Shesheng Battalion are ready. With a condescending attitude, it will flank the defenders with the bowmen under the city.
More bowmen and infantry form a phalanx. As long as the longbowmen protected by the chariots and siege towers suppress the defenders, they will step forward and suppress the defenders on a larger scale.
The five first teams are ready.
Li Guang moved his muscles and bones, carrying a large bow on his back, looking majestic. Le Jin is relatively small in size, but he is extremely brave when he tries his best. Zhou Cang's five and three are rough, and he can't fight on the march, but his force is not bad.
Chu Tian glanced at Huo An's camp, and found that there was a strong general named Li Siye. Li Siye has an elite infantry - the Datang Modao Team. However, Huo An did not have the luxury to use the expensive Modao team to attack the city, but selected elite infantry from the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, commanded by Li Siye.
Xu Fengnian directly dispatched Wang Tiegun, the most powerful general under his command, and swept thousands of troops with one iron gun.
Zhang Dao sent Zhang Liang and Huang Jinchang. The length of the yellow scarf is similar to the faith infantry of the Arab Empire, and it is also considered an elite.
What Mu Ke sent was Wu Tugu's father and Fujijia Army.
This time, when attacking the city of Songhai Empire, in addition to the fact that the opponent did not know how to promote it, Chutian also meant to run in a few princes. The Songhai Empire was not considered a powerful civilization, so it was the most suitable for practicing.
The dark siege force moved forward, and the natives who defended the city began to panic. Facing the powerful offensive of the Han army, they gradually lost confidence in whether they could hold on to the city.
The generals Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, Xia Houyuan, Zhang Liao, Li Hu, and Liu Zongmin each chose a siege tower. The force of these generals also plays a role in the siege battle. They can use their superb bow skills to snipe the African tribal heroes on the city wall!
The function of the siege tower is not only to suppress the defenders with bows and crossbows, but also to lower the drawbridge, and the infantry can follow the wooden ladder inside the siege tower to continuously attack the city wall!
Aboriginal archers on the city walls began to throw arrows, shooting chariots!
A round of arrows rained down, and most of the chariots were covered by the rain of arrows, but they were all blocked by the chariots, and the longbowmen hiding behind suffered very little.
"Use a rocket!"
The chief of the Songhai Empire scolded the native archers under his command, so the native archers switched to more destructive rockets. A round of rockets filled the sky and turned sharply down! The arrows rubbed violently with the air, and collided with the chariot and the siege tower!
"Did it work?!"
The chieftain of the Songhai Empire and a group of tribal heroes hope to use rockets to burn down the siege equipment that threatens the city, especially the 12-meter-high siege tower.
Thousands of rockets struck, but were blocked by the hide or iron of the chariots and siege towers. Even fire arrows could hardly ignite these siege machines!
"Fire arrows!"
The Han army longbowmen behind the chariot came into range, appeared from behind the chariot, and shot the city wall defenders!
Arrows are like shooting stars, dozens of indigenous archers were shot and killed by Han army longbowmen!
"Go forward, divide into three columns, and shoot in turns!"
Le Yi ordered the 30,000 Han crossbowmen prepared in the rear to line up in three columns, each with 10,000 Han crossbowmen!
Han army crossbowmen have long loaded their arrows. Compared with the high rate of fire of the longbow, the advantage of the infantry crossbow is that it can be loaded in advance without the need to maintain strength.
The 30,000 Han crossbowmen marched forward step by step. The 10,000 Han crossbowmen in the first row aimed at the city wall, and 10,000 crossbow arrows were fired! The second row of Han crossbowmen stepped forward, and another 10,000 crossbow arrows were fired! The third row of Han army crossbowmen blazing arrows...
When the third row of crossbowmen has finished firing, the first row of crossbowmen has reloaded their bolts!
Hundreds of horde archers and infantry were killed by constant high-intensity crossbow shooting! The indigenous soldiers of the Songhai Empire didn't even dare to take the lead, otherwise they would be shot to death immediately by the dense crossbow arrows!
The Han army seems to have a fear of insufficient firepower. The continuous rain of arrows washed the defenders. The wooden arrow tower was shot into a sieve by thousands of arrows, and all the tribal marksmen on the arrow tower were killed!
Boom, boom, boom!
The sound of war drums echoed in the air. After the Han bowmen suppressed the defenders, Le Yi commanded a large number of low-level infantry to storm the city wall!
One team after another team of cloud echelons attacked the city, clambering up like ants!
"Go first to attack the city!"
Unexpectedly, Chutian originally thought that Le Yi was going to use the cannon fodder troops to consume the defenders, but Le Yi overwhelmed all the troops at one time, and he wanted to take advantage of Cao Gu's effect to capture the city!
Soon Chutian understood Le Yi's intentions. The attack on this city was only a small-scale battle on the way of the Han army's expedition. The number of arrows was limited, and the arrow rain of the Han army could not last. Use the rain of arrows to suppress the defenders, and then capture the city in one fell swoop, with minimal losses!
Five first-boarding teams were ordered by Leyi to attack the city wall!
Li Guang, Le Jin, and Zhou Cang lead Yanjia~IndoMTL.com~ to drive straight!
The Fuji Jia Army, the Yellow Turban Leader, and the Heavy Infantry are the first to enter the siege team one after another!
The cloud ladder hooked on the city wall, and the Han army climbed up in groups. Li Guang held a longbow and shot and killed the emerging defenders one after another!
The hulking siege tower was pushed by thousands of low-ranking infantry and gradually approached the city wall. Huge siege towers cast shadows and frighten native soldiers!
Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, Xiahouyuan, Zhang Liao and other generals on the siege tower looked down on the defenders of the city wall, holding a longbow in their hands.
The mighty army is like waves crashing on the reef, and the city of the Songhai Empire is in jeopardy!
"Ask the wizard to cast spells!"
The chieftains of the Songhai Empire saw that the situation was critical, so they let their heroes use their abilities.
The wizard with mud paint on his face held a wooden staff and muttered words in his mouth. The defenders on the city wall began to fall into a frenzy. The indigenous archers braved the rain of arrows from the Han army and began to fight back!