I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 111 Bombardment
"Clang—clang—"

Over the Great Mine, heavy bells echoed above everyone's heads, waking up the barbarian soldiers who were still in the barracks, and ran out of the barracks in a panic with their weapons, climbed up the fence, and entered their respective combat positions.

In the sight of Britt's infantry on the fence, thousands of enemy troops holding the Macedonian flag were added overnight outside the fence. Among these troops, there were also many barbarian infantry without armor. Everyone was assigned a shield in their hands, and looked at the fence of the mine stronghold with eager eyes.

Behind the barbarian infantry are heavily armed Macedonian heavy infantry. Because this is a siege battle, there are no phalanx spearmen deployed here. There are only two battalions of 512 Macedonian heavy infantry. It is small, but it is the main force of this army.

The Britt looked over the infantry in front, and saw in astonishment behind them twenty tall machines that had never been seen or heard before. Although they didn't know what those twenty unknown machines were, their intuition told They must not be a good thing—at least for them, not a good thing.

Chief Britt Bradley, who was in the crowd, did not forget to order his soldiers to prepare to defend against the Macedonian attack despite being astonished.The Council of Chiefs in Greatrum had long predicted that the Macedonians would discover the mine on the other side of the mountain and launch an attack, so they deployed more than [-] native warriors and infantry from the servant tribe here. The importance of the Te people is not only to provide them with a steady stream of iron ore, but also a trail that can lead directly from the mountains to Great Rum. If the mine falls, the Macedonians will be able to directly attack along the trail. into the city.

The walls of the Great Mine are taller and thicker than the walls of the capital. This is not only because it is convenient to use local materials, but also because the Brits attach great importance to her.Therefore, in the opinion of the Council of Chiefs, as long as more than 2000 garrisons are deployed here, unless all Macedonian troops are concentrated to attack here, there is no way to break through the wall of the mine.

After all, in their eyes, there are only two primitive methods of attacking the city: ladder ants and battering hammers. Of course, Antigonus has other methods, such as building siege towers that are higher than the city walls. And digging tunnels directly to the bottom of the city wall, destroying the foundation of the city wall, etc., but the wood required for the siege tower is huge, and digging tunnels requires high soil quality in this area.

Therefore, Antigonus decided to launch a wave of simple and brutal siege. Since the siege tower could not be obtained, he directly used trebuchets and ballistas to blow down the Britt's city wall.

Cough, far away.

While Bradley was deploying defenses, dozens of ballista and trebuchet operators were busy behind the Macedonian army formation outside the city around the heavy equipment. Skin bag, while the final calibration is being carried out, the first round of salvo is not aimed at killing the enemy, but as a reference, so that they can adjust in the second round of salvo to improve accuracy.

Kronos, the military consul who was in charge of commanding the army, watched the craftsmen gradually adjust, and then made a gesture of completion towards himself, then slowly pulled out his saber, raised it high, and slashed towards the void in the direction of the stronghold. Down--

"emission!"

In the next second, twenty siege machines were activated at the same time, and the heavy stones were thrown into the sky under the action of torsion, roaring and drawing arcs in mid-air, and then smashed heavily on the wall of the stronghold. Only eight Yuan boulders hit the wall, but the entire wall trembled at the moment of impact.

boom!
On the fence, the sudden impact and vibration caused the Britt infantry to stand unsteadily and fell down one after another, which was also mixed with screams of horror. Bradley stuck his head out to look at the wall behind the wall. Cold sweat immediately broke out from the pitted wall underneath, soaking his back. If these boulders fell on them, wouldn't they become meatloaf directly?

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Bradley looked up at the twenty tall siege machines behind the Macedonian army outside the city. He could never have imagined how the Macedonians sent heavy boulders to the sky. In the world, only the mysterious and powerful gods in the legend can do this kind of thing!

Frightened, he quickly called his confidant and told him to follow the path back to Greatroom City and report what happened here to the Council of Chiefs.He has never participated in the Battle of Arcelos, so he has never seen this kind of thing happen, but several people in the chiefs council have seen it, so that after his cronies reported the incident, the chiefs all turned pale. Ugly, thought the end of the world was coming.

On the other side, the Macedonian siege equipment was still projecting boulders at the mine wall. After the first round of test firing, they calibrated the projection angle again and carried out a second round of salvo. Although this second round of salvo was not 100 % hit the wall, but it was much more accurate than the first time. More than a dozen boulders hit the wall at the same time, causing many potholes and cracks to appear on its surface—although the Brits were able to use stone to build the city wall, But this does not mean that their construction technology is comparable to that of civilized countries. Their city walls can only defend against barbarians of the same technological level, but they cannot defend against Macedonian trebuchets and ballistas!

Looking at the few more cracks on the wall, Cronos had a smile on his face. He turned his head and looked at the operator who was operating the ballista, and said: "The barbarian wall is so fragile, you should do it within a day." Can it be destroyed?"

"We'll try our best, general." The person being questioned replied, turning off the engine and projecting the boulder contained in the leather bag. His eyes flew over the sky along with the stone, and then he looked at the stone. The huge boulder hit the Britt infantry on the wall, and a large spray of blood burst out.

The accuracy of the Macedonian ballistas and trebuchets can only be said to be relatively high, but this does not mean that they can point to where to hit, and things that are offset by a few meters also happen from time to time, which also caused occasional attacks. Stones flew over the fence into the stronghold or directly hit the soldiers on the fence. The Britt soldiers on the fence and in the stronghold were panicked, and their eyes were focused on the sky between the Macedonian army formation and the fence, afraid of the heavy Boulders will fall on top of their heads.

Under the successive blows of siege equipment, the damage to the walls of the mine strongholds has become more and more serious, and some places have already collapsed slightly. Bradley can only let some soldiers withdraw to prevent the wall from collapsing when the walls collapse. were buried together.

(End of this chapter)