Unknown Knight

For more than ten days, the Kugits did not launch any large-scale attacks.

Of course, exploratory attacks and night raids still occurred almost every day. One night in particular, the Kugits launched a surprise attack to take over the port.

The Kugits' intention was obvious, which was to cut off the only connection between Kudan City and the outside world.

However, the army in charge of this five-meter-high wall was that of Aix, which already had the rudiments of a modern army. Guarding and patrolling had been institutionalized and standardized, and they had discovered the Kugits who were carrying ladders and coming to attack early on.

The captain on duty on the wall pretended nothing had happened, and asked the crossbowmen to gather in one place secretly. When the Kugits approached, they suddenly launched a dense rain of arrows, killing and wounding more than 20 people on the spot. They were so scared that they didn't even want the ladders they had worked so hard to carry, and retreated in panic.

This seemingly ineffective exploratory attack, which resulted in few casualties, was a joke, but it was not without results. Through this exploratory attack, the Kugits gradually discovered the changes in the defenders on the city.

At first, they thought that the defenders on the city were like a schizophrenic person, then like a master, calmly and calmly waiting for you to attack, and then giving you a hard blow at the critical moment.

Then he was like a manic patient, shooting arrows at them before they even got close, trying desperately to keep them away.

Later, through repeated attempts, the Kugits discovered that the defender on the city was not a schizophrenic person, but two people, two completely different people separated by the city gate, one was mysterious and elusive, and the other was very scary with his fangs and claws.

Every mature Kugit is an old hunter who is good at horseback hunting. His ability to spy on the nature of prey is unmatched by ordinary people. This change in the defenders on the city has completely caught their attention.

Like a pack of vicious wolves, the Kugit people prowl around their prey. They not only claim to be the incarnation of vicious wolves, but also have the habits of vicious wolves.

After so many days of testing, observation, and preparation, their sharp white teeth could no longer hold back the saliva that was already flowing from their bloody mouths. Unable to hold back, they finally opened their terrifying bloody mouths again on the thirteenth day of the siege and launched an attack on the city of Kudan.

First, there was the old-fashioned attack of horse archers forming a circular cavalry formation and charging forward, but Aix felt that the attack was very different this time. When the horse archers rushed to the left side of the city gate, they all raised their shields for defense, and when they reached the right side of the city gate, they took out their bows and attacked the city.

This different treatment caused the people on the right side of the city wall guarded by Voldratboye to scream in pain and suffer heavy losses, and also gave Aix a sense of foreboding.

Whenever this happened, Aix would call Bandak and whisper something to him. This time was no exception. After receiving the order, Bandak looked at Aix deeply, nodded, and hurried down the city wall.

Following the rhythm of the archers' attack, the Kugits launched the main force of this attack, eight wheeled carts with logs as the frame and thick wooden boards as the outer cover.

As the name suggests, this siege weapon is a slope built with wood, with wooden boards extending in front, and its height is the same as the city wall. The attacking soldiers can follow the slope directly from the bottom of the city to the top of the city.

This type of chariot looks more than four meters wide and appears to be very large, but it is actually not heavy and is hollow inside. Another advantage is that soldiers can hide inside the hollow structure to avoid attacks from archers on the city walls.

The horizontal wooden bars inside, as thick as bowls, serve as the fulcrum for the soldiers to push the ramp forward. The soldiers inside are responsible for both protection and driving.

This was the siege weapon that Guo He, who was whipped by Hugunayan, had invented. In more than ten days, they rushed to make a total of eight sieves. In order to prevent the fierce incendiary oil from Kudan City, Guo He also pasted a thick layer of wet mud on the front of the siege vehicle.

Not only that, in the space below, Guo He also prepared three times the amount of wet ash soil as the siege tower. He believed that even if the Vikings set fire three or four times again, the stored wet ash soil could put out the fire.

As if they had seen the danger of this siege weapon, the soldiers on the city wall were in chaos. All kinds of things that could block the enemy were brought to the top of the city wall, especially the half of the city wall that Voldratboye was responsible for, where even bricks and tiles were piled up.

Aix looked at the characteristics of the slope car, and after a little thought, he also asked Fatis to lead the rotating soldiers to make some preparations, but they were much more orderly than those on Voldratboye's side.

The horse archers who had formed a circular cavalry formation retreated, and eight huge chariots were slowly approaching the city wall.

Voldratboye wanted to learn from Aix and use a crossbow to stop the ramp car from moving forward, but there was no one around the ramp car. All the people were hiding in the belly of the car. Even if he shot the ramp car into a hedgehog, it would be useless.

They also followed Aix's example and threw clay pots filled with flaming oil onto the car on the slope. However, the car body was covered with thick wet mud and even if the flaming oil adhered to it, it would not burn the car body for a while.

Originally, Voldrat did not have any kerosene, but the stingy old man actually wanted Aix to provide it to him for free. Of course, Aix refused. As he had no money, Voldrat had to ask for something in exchange. So Aix asked for thirty good horses from him in exchange for thirty cans of kerosene, as revenge for the thirty horses he had been blackmailed from.

Aix's side was much calmer. After shooting a few arrows and seeing no effect, he stopped this useless effort and did not use the flaming oil pottery jar to attack the ramp in advance. The soldiers in the array were ready and in place, just waiting quietly for the wooden planks extended from the ramp to be placed on the top of the city wall.

Soon, the wooden planks of the eight ramps under the city were placed on the top of the city wall one by one. The Kugits did not launch an attack immediately, but instead moved out of the ramps from both sides in an orderly manner and formed a shield formation under the vehicles.

Upon seeing this, Voldratboye hurriedly poured cans of kerosene on the wooden boards, trying to burn them to prevent the Kugits from climbing to the top of the city wall.

But how could the Kugits do as he wished? Four rows of shield-bearing heavy-armored soldiers rushed up in front of each ramp car at the same time, each holding a shield in one hand and an opened bag of wet soil in the other.

They rushed to the fire, and regardless of the burning flames, they poured the wet ash in their hands onto the kerosene at their feet. With just three or two strokes, they covered and stomped out the flames.

It was as easy as climbing a hill. Even the bricks and tiles thrown away by Voldratboye did not stop the Kugit people from climbing to the top of the city.

He had no choice but to yell at all the shield-bearing soldiers to press forward, and the two sides, shield against shield, engaged in a stalemate on the top of the city.