Chapter 335 (1/2)
What Yongye army leader can do now is to further weaken the role of crocodiles in the defense of brotherhood harbor, and then negotiate with a group of relatively rational elders, such as nitia, Weber and bishop, to urge them to increase their control over the crocodile army.
Some important military meetings, instead of excluding them, actively invite them to participate, so that they can have a clearer understanding of the whole situation. The frequency of previous irrational behaviors will be greatly reduced.
The problem that Kingsley family has exposed is also obvious, that is, there is a serious shortage of long-range attacks.
The long-range attacks of both sides are not at the same level at all.
The range of Andes's long bow is amazing. Now it is at the top of the world, with different levels of bonus. The arrows flying out of the ten meter high arrow tower can easily shoot 500 meters away.
The archers of the Kingsley family had no way to press up and carry out long-range suppression support. The whole siege troops were directly exposed to the rain of arrows, and they could shoot as many as they wanted.
Akmether is a veteran. It's impossible not to be unaware of the consequences of suppressing long-range attacks.
It's not just about casualties, it's a blow to our morale.
In the face of the overwhelming rain of arrows, many heavily armored infantry, even wearing heavy armour and knowing that they can't do much harm to themselves, are still fighting in two battles. It's hard to summon up the courage to rush, let alone the cannon fodder with thin armor.
Including the mercenaries who sacrificed their lives for money.
They are not fools. They can sacrifice their life and death for the reward, but that is when there is a hope of getting the reward. If they die like before, the fool will rush forward.
Compared with the cannon fodder of the crocodile people, the mercenaries only lost less than 3000 yuan in the face of more ferocious arrow rain, because they all hid behind and paddled in the water when they saw that the momentum was not right.
For them, the Kingsley family can't drive them away like crocodile cannon fodder. They can't continue to charge bravely without corresponding solutions.
This is the biggest drawback of using mercenaries.
The Kingsley family did not build siege equipment, but the surrounding trees were completely destroyed by the Yongye army leader. Not to mention the tall trees, even the shrubs, were uprooted by them.
The nearest logging area is also dozens of kilometers away.
Moreover, the trees produced in the desperate swamp are usually low and loose in wood. Most of the small siege equipment and large siege equipment can be built. So far, few of them have been built.
Akemaiser is now like a baby in his hands, he can't bear to use it on these cannon fodder.
”Heap up the earth and attack the city!” There were also intelligent men in the Kingsley family's army of conquering the East.
”That's the only way.” Akemeiser nodded and agreed to the plan.
Build up the earth and attack the city.
As the name suggests, it is to pile the soil into a mound until it reaches the bottom of the city wall. After exceeding the wall, the soldiers who attack the city rush to the top of the wall along the slope of the mound.
There is no need to say much about the advantages and disadvantages.
Once it is successful, if a gap is opened on the wall and a large number of soldiers rush in, the rest is to fight hand in hand. Once the garrison can't carry it, the city will be broken.
The drawback is that this is a stupid way out of the box. It takes more time, manpower and material resources than a little bit.
Especially in the face of a castle with natural danger or small-scale siege, you can't use this move at all.
Now the Kingsley family can't think of a better way.
This kind of stupid method is more feasible.
After all, the natural danger of brotherhood port is water.
Although Ashan did not say that the five elements were mutually exclusive, there was a view that elements were mutually exclusive.
No matter in the five elements or elements, soil is absolutely a deterrent to water.
What's more, the Kingsley family now has a large number of idle hands, and indeed has the inherent conditions to implement this method.
I don't know whether it is the reason for paralyzing the Yongye army leader or preparing to take various measures. Before waiting for the cold winter, the Kingsley family began to heap soil and attack the city.
During this period, the Kingsley family kept driving away the cannon fodder and organized several exploratory attacks.
However, the purpose of these tentative attacks was not to try to fill the moat of brotherhood again, but to test the longest range of the long bow of Andes.
Then set up temporary defense tools to prepare for the siege.
Even if you are going to use a stupid method, you have to start from the weakest and closest point of fire. In this case, you can save one point if you can.
It is not one but as many as eight.
Each point has tens of thousands of people. Twenty five hours of non-stop negative soil accumulation, more than ten meters long mound, began to spread to the direction of brother city.
The long bow of Andes, who has made remarkable achievements in the army at night, is a little helpless this time.
First of all, after the mound is formed, there is a large area of natural dead angle for bows and arrows, which can't be done either by flat shooting or by throwing.Then, the Kingsley family made full preparations for the defense arrow branch, and used logs to build fortifications. When the mound was pushed forward a little, the fortification was pushed forward a little bit to provide shelter for the mounds.
The trees produced in the swamp are not good in hardness, but the quantity can make up for the quality defects.
No matter how strong the Andes longbow is, it can not change the fact that it is a bow and arrow. Its strength is ultimately limited, and it is impossible to have the penetrating ability like a siege crossbow.
What's more, even a siege crossbow can't do anything with a log wall tens of centimeters thick.
Although the Kingsley family didn't care about the death of the cannon fodder, it was still possible to reduce the possibility of their death as much as possible. After all, the quantity of cannon fodder was limited, and it could be saved if it could be saved.
You have a good plan. I have a ladder.
The Yongye army leader is not helpless for the Kingsley family's earth piling and siege.
Brother harbor not only has a large number of Andes longbowmen, but also a large number of city guarding equipment.
Influenced by Sean, the Yongye army leader paid great attention to the research of siege equipment from the beginning, especially the affiliated industrial Corps played the tower defense tactics to the extreme.
The geographical location of brother ports is so important that this tactic naturally reaches its peak.
The hundreds of tower throwers are the best proof.
The real official name for the tower catapult is the roller coaster.
Listen to the name, Yongye army leader has a relatively clear hierarchy in terms of the catapult.
However, in order to remember, Yongye Army leaders did not give them too complicated names. They were named after the small, medium and large-scale stone throwing machines that are easy to understand. Only the unconventional super giant roller coasters have their own names.
The number of stone throwers placed on the walls and inside the city walls of brother cities makes people feel numb.
The reason why they didn't use it before was that longbowmen alone were enough, and it was not worth wasting extra firepower.
Andes's bows can't do anything about it, so it's their turn to take power.
After the correction test firing, stones ranging from more than ten to dozens of kilograms, with sharp whistling, hit the Kingsley family's fortifications.
The earth and the earth broke and the wood flew in all directions.
Once it is accidentally collapsed, it is likely to die.
Once calibrated, 12 out of 10 can hit the same target with a diameter of more than 3 meters.
The problem is not in the catapult, it is in the catapult.
These stones are not picked up at random, but fired in the furnace cellar. The shape and weight of these stones are similar to the corresponding standards.
After casting, the unstable factors are reduced a lot, and the accuracy rate is naturally greatly improved.
The density of the bombing was just as terrifying.
Under the continuous bombing, even if it is the most solid defense facilities, it will have to be smashed.
What's more, the shoddy defense shield wall made by Kingsley family at the beginning was very ordinary. The first and most solid one was not able to carry it for two hours. This still included the correction time of the trebuchet of Yongye army leader.
The follow-up repair and manufacturing, although constantly thickening, it is difficult to carry over four hours.
Living people will not be suffocated by urine.
Soon the Kingsley family adjusted their strategy.
The fortification is no longer placed in the light, but placed inside the advancing wall.
In other words.