Power and Empire Chapter 1486: The life and death battle of Rwanda Akka (5)
The storm is like a wild horse running off the rein, floating from the edge of the earth, black clouds are rolling over, and the hard wilderness ground is turned into a piece of muddy with cascading rain,
The "Boom Rumble" thunder rang, and the disorderly silver lightning pierced the sky overhead, illuminating the neat Gallic array in front of Rwanda Akka. The shining electric light instantly illuminates the Southwest Army. Soldier's face,
The one hundred thousand army is divided into 30 squares, each square with 3,000 people, and finally a layered defensive line. The Gaul soldiers are mainly infantry with a small number of cavalry. The number of cavalry units in the South Congo’s first line of combat is more than in other regions. Among the 100,000 army, there are about 30,000 cavalry, mainly arranged on the flanks of the main array, which can make up for the weakness of the phalanx.
On these cavalry helmets are half-meter long white tassels. The thick armor is brightly washed in the rain. The upper body is a whole piece of forged plate armor, and the lower body is an iron armor with joint protection. The left hand is The tower shield is used for protection. The right hand holds a five-meter-long cavalry spear, with the sharp tip of the spear facing upwards. From a distance, it looks like a dense forest shining with metallic cold light.
The tight array, forming rows of steel walls on the wasteland outside the city, the flags fluttered in the wind and rain, making crackling noises, and the cold rain fell on the faces of the cavalry and infantrymen, following along The cold armor flows to the ground,
Although the weather is very cold, no one complained that the iron armor on their bodies was too heavy, or that they left to shelter from the rain without authorization. From morning to noon, the queue was not messy. It can be seen that the Southwest Army is not a group of mobs,
To some extent. The Southwest Army can be said to be an elite with hundreds of battles. In the decades of confrontation with the Congo and Filipino Empire, the Southwest Army has fought hundreds of battles, large and small, with more than 400,000 casualties. However, the Southwest Army is still like a barrier. Standing in the southwest of the empire, it blocked the ferocious Gangfei empire from the gate of the empire. It can be said to be one of the most resistant troops in the Imperial Border Guard, so that in the Gaul Empire, the Southwest Army has the title of "Iron Legion",
"Woo" the long and passionate bugle sounded across the sky, and the regular Gaul Empire army, wearing Gaul Empire-style armor, shouted "Attack!" and began to lean against the city wall side by side, behind them. . It’s a large-scale siege tower that has just been built.
The huge arrow cluster baffle and the three-story height are like giant beasts emerging from the rain and fog. Below the siege tower, there is the attack line of the phalanx infantry because of the lack of wood. The Southwest Army had to run a few miles away to cut timber. In the previous attacks, the siege truck was destroyed by the trebuchet on the wall before it came close to the wall, like piles of huge piles. The rock pile was paralyzed on the road.
The steps of these soldiers are as slow as the siege tower, although they are wearing heavy armor. Holding the tower shield in his hand, the whole body is protected extremely tightly, well-trained, without panic, but the look on his face is not relaxed at all,
A sloppy rain of arrows shot down from the wall in the distance. A dozen soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, but the others continued to advance,
100 meters in front of them, a wide moat ditch ran across it, like a giant beast’s open blood basin, even in heavy rain, the air was filled with an unpleasant pungent nose. Taste,
This is where the soldiers of the Southwest Army feel distressed.
The small city in Rwanda that seems to be broken in a single blow has a moat as wide as five meters. It is pitiful in the sky. Even the most experienced frontline officer does not know what such a wide moat is. Is it just to increase the difficulty of siege and bridge? But unfortunately, the commanders of the Southwest Army found that they still underestimated the enemy. It was this river that blocked the footsteps of the 100,000 army for four days.
A few days ago, when the most elite siege troops braved the arrow rain on the city wall, they desperately built wooden bridges on the moat with planks and let thousands of soldiers rush across the river. Suddenly, there was a fierce fire like The Raptors swept the entire moat,
More than 100,000 pairs of eyes witnessed the terrible scene with their own eyes. All the soldiers on the bridge were lit like candles by the rising fire, like burning people running around, even if they jumped into the river. It’s useless, the flames burned everything on the river, all kinds of screams, and even truce the two sides of the war.
The first attack was frustrated, the Southwest Army adjusted its tactics and immediately launched the second offensive
Heavy infantry of more than 10,000 people served as a cover. 15,000 archers shot rockets into the city in sequence, hoping to burn the entire city directly, but they just approached a distance of 150 meters. It was suddenly attacked by a mysterious weapon from the city wall. Hundreds of huge metal forged arrow clusters, like the sun-shooting arrow clusters shot by the legendary giant pulling the bow of the sky, poured in from the queue of archers.
Even if there is a shield wall with heavy infantry in front of it, the powerful arrow directly penetrates the heavy infantry and the archer behind. The flesh and blood that has been squeezed and exploded is like being dragged out of a long red road. It was extremely tragic. Although the archer’s loss was not great, it was just over a hundred people, but no matter how the officer scolded, he dared not take a step forward. The angry Algernon Katja shouted that the archer was a "coward".
Today, the weather finally showed a positive change. The heavy rain poured down and the wide moat that had been burning for several days finally stopped emitting flames. A lot of black things could be seen rising with the waves. Ups and downs, some Southwestern soldiers who saw the situation turned pale, their legs and feet were soft~IndoMTL.com~ Vomiting. Some people even couldn’t help but vomit. They were corpses, countless corpses burned by the fire, because they were completely dehydrated or carbonized. The one-meter-eight people are now less than one meter at most, they are completely curled together like dried shrimps, black, just the color of death
"Go forward, retreat to the latter in order to escape!"
An officer’s urging voice came from behind. The distant city wall was washed away slightly white in the pouring rain, the blood-stained battlement mouth looked very sad in the rain, and the scattered stones of the city wall were covered with trebuchet bombs. Depressed traces,
Amidst the flying white raindrops, the opponent’s tenacious archer figure appears from time to time in the collapsed battlement,
Several days of confrontation, the trebuchets of the Southwest Army gradually gained the upper hand. Although they could not cross the moat, the continuous impact of the trebuchets outside the city also caused a small part of the walls of Rwanda to collapse.
"Mi Li, do you think the Falcons will really bite Rwanda Akka?"
In the distance, Markus, the commander of the Sixth Army of the Southwest Army, who was looking at the siege troops, turned his back on his back, with a trace of dignity in his eyes. Next to Markus, there is a middle-aged general with flaxen hair. The drops of rain flowed down the lines of the bright lock armor on his body,
"From the current point of view, it should be so! "The middle-aged general called Mi Li smiled." The other party may still be very proud of it. With 10,000 troops against 100,000 elites, it is a very good thing. It’s a great thing, but he didn’t even know that Master General has actually set up a net here, using the enemy himself as a bait to seize the entire Falcon Army! Now we only need to wait for the prey to enter the net!"