Unknown Knight

Now the Kugits assembled six siege towers at once, which made Voldratboye panic.

At most, only one crossbow could be placed on the stone tower in front. He didn't even have the money to add more crossbows, let alone build a few more stone towers to place crossbows.

He was so panicked that he broke out in a cold sweat and looked at Aix in a panic. However, Aix had the experience of attacking and defending Schulersburg, and he had also thought of the Kugit people's move and was prepared in advance, so he said to Voldrat Boyer with a calm face:

"Don't worry too much, Lord City Lord. I have made preparations."

Voldratboye saw how confident Aix was. Although he knew that Aix was well prepared, he felt more at ease. However, he still said to him in a timid tone:

"Exboya, you must not be careless. You must not let the Kugits climb the city walls. Their vanguard armored soldiers are all selected warriors. These armored soldiers wear fish-scale armor and their defense is better than our best Vaegir guards.

Last time, a siege tower was not pulled down in time, allowing the Khergits to climb onto the city wall. More than 20 of my Vaegir guards died before we drove them off the city wall. You must not be careless, son-in-law."

After Voldratboye married his daughter in Aix, he had always been repulsive and wary of him. He never addressed Aix as father-in-law and son-in-law in public. Now that he inadvertently blurted it out, it shows his concern about this matter.

Looking at his earnest expression, Aix shook his head and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, Lord City Lord. We have seen this kind of siege tower before when we were in Shules. I have my own plan to deal with it."

After hearing Aix's reconfirmation, Voldratboye felt relieved and muttered:

"That's good, that's good."

Then he went to inspect other parts of the city wall, without any interest in talking to the son-in-law he had just mentioned, as if he had given the son-in-law a sky-high dowry and that the son-in-law had an obligation to guard the city for their family.

Looking at Voldrat's receding back, Aix curled his lips and shook his head. He guessed that even if he died in the battle on the city wall, his nominal father-in-law would think it was deserved.

He no longer had the mood to worry about it, so he gave some instructions to Fatis who was on duty and went down the city wall to rest.

Aix did not rest well that night. The whole city seemed to be in a state of tension and anxiety. From time to time, shouts and ringing bells were heard continuously in his relatively quiet residence, disturbing him and making him unable to sleep well.

Apparently the Kugits outside the city were making a big move. After finally waiting until dawn, we arrived at the top of the city and saw that the Kugits had indeed pushed six siege towers to the front of the Kudan city gate.

When Fatis saw Aix climb up the city wall, he came over to report to him what happened last night.

It turned out that at midnight yesterday, the Kugits pushed the siege tower to its current position, set up a simple barrier camp around it, and sent heavy troops to guard it for protection.

Looking at the smoke rising from the makeshift camp opposite, Aix knew that the Kugits were cooking. Once they had eaten, they would push the siege towers to launch an attack. He hurriedly asked the soldiers on and off the city to take the time to eat and rest, so as to prepare for the first wave of attacks from the Kugits.

Half an hour later, the Kugits started their attack. Six siege towers were rumbled out of the makeshift camp and approached the city wall in front of the city gate little by little.

There are no less than three thousand men guarding the six siege towers, including infantry and cavalry. They are lined up in layers around the towers, as densely packed as rows of huge waves. Their might arrives before they do, and strikes the heart of every soldier on the city wall.

Just when the siege tower was about to reach the maximum mark for crossbow shooting on the city wall, a team of about 500 cavalrymen suddenly rushed out from under the siege tower.

They were like a long dragon, rushing towards the city wall in pairs from the left side of the city gate. Before the archers on the city wall could react, they had already run to the front, and suddenly turned to the right, using the speed of the horse to shoot the arrows in their hands.

These arrows were fast and fierce. The two soldiers who stretched their heads to watch were shot dead before they had time to dodge. The terrified soldiers on the city wall lowered their heads and huddled under the battlements, not daring to look up.

For a while, the sound of flying arrows hitting the city walls continued, and the soldiers on the city walls dared not show their heads.

A few soldiers wanted to observe the enemy through the shooting holes on the battlements, but the enemy's arrows actually went through the shooting holes and hit one of the soldiers in the face. The soldiers on the wall were so scared that they didn't even dare to stand at the shooting holes, which shows how superb and ruthless the archery skills of this team of Kugit cavalry were.

Aix looked out through the safe slanted gap in the battlement and found that the cavalry team circled in front of the city wall and shot two arrows. Then, the head of the team led the tail and formed a large circle in the open space in front of the city wall, spinning and shooting non-stop.

Even if the archers on the city wanted to stand up and fight back, they would lose their accuracy due to the high-speed advance of the horses and the sparse circular formation. If they hesitated for a moment, they might be shot down from the city by an arrow flying out of the circle.

Fortunately, Aix had another plan for the attack under the city. He nodded to Resarit beside him.

Resarit came to the inside of the city wall with a bent waist, and waved his hands towards the two hundred archers standing in three rows below the city. Three rows of arrows were shot out of the city in turn at an angle of thirty-five degrees.

Although this kind of blind shooting wastes arrows, its advantage is that it covers a large area and can continue shooting without being affected. It can effectively suppress the cavalry running in a circle outside the city, forcing them to put away their bows and arrows after shooting one or two arrows at most, and take out cavalry shields to guard in front of them. However, they are still inevitably hit by the blind shooting and fall off their horses, dying or getting injured.

As a result, their superb archery skills intimidating the soldiers on the city walls were no longer effective. The pressure on the archers on the city walls was reduced, and they began to boldly stand up and fight back with bows and crossbows. The casualties of the circular cavalry team began to increase.

These nearly two hundred archers who were shooting projectiles behind the city wall were originally prepared to attack the Kugits when they attacked the city of Haiden. Unexpectedly, they had to launch the attack in advance. It was really helpless because the six siege towers were gradually approaching the city wall under the cover of the circular cavalry.

Seeing that our crossbows were able to suppress the enemy's cavalry archers, Aix waved his hand, and two groups of array soldiers holding broad shields guarded the operators behind the shields and moved little by little towards the stone tower where the crossbow carts were placed.

The operators of the crossbow carts on the stone tower were the main targets of the enemy's archers and were attacked from the very beginning. Some of them were shot and killed on the stone tower before they could even dodge. Now the stone tower was covered with a layer of arrow feathers.

It seems that after the last experience, the enemy is still very afraid of the ballista ropes on the stone tower. In fact, Aix did not have too high expectations. He just hoped that the two ballista ropes could pull down the two siege towers.