Unknown Knight

The next day, after breakfast, the well-prepared territory army began to attack the city.

There are four machines used for siege, namely a catapult, two siege arrow towers, and a ramp.

The soldiers in the siege tower first used a loud speaker to shout to the soldiers on the top of the city:

"Listen up, brothers in the city. Let's test the accuracy of the trebuchets first. You must hide against the walls. Don't try to block them with shields. It's useless. Shields can't block them."

Sure enough, the catapult was pushed out first. After some adjustment and aiming, a stone hit the wooden battlements of Wo Che Ze.

Gravel and wood chips flew everywhere. A Nord soldier, who was not convinced, held up a large shield to watch. A piece of gravel hit his shield, shattering it. He was also hit and fell to the ground. The people on the city were so frightened that they hurriedly lay down, thinking:

"Odin's son is worthy of being the old city lord's son-in-law. Even his attack is so honest."

After firing a few more stones, the loud speaker on the arrow tower shouted again:

"Brothers on the city wall, the place where the last stone bullet hit just now will be hit by kerosene soon. Our catapults are not accurate enough. Everyone, retreat 30 meters away, otherwise you will be splashed with oil and burned. Don't blame us for not warning you."

This time no one doubted what the man shouting on the arrow tower said, and they all retreated to a place twenty or thirty meters away from that section of the city wall.

Sure enough, the soldiers brought a clay jar filled with incendiary oil. This was the latest incendiary oil bomb produced in the territory. There was nothing complicated about it. It was just that the original jar was made into a more spherical shape, sealed with yellow mud, and tied with a circle of hemp rope soaked in oil.

I saw a soldier lighting the hemp rope with a torch, and with a "whoosh" sound, the pottery jar was thrown out and hit a position five meters away from the last impact point.

With a loud bang, a huge fire immediately broke out on the top of the city.

This tactic was specially used by the Military Research Institute to deal with Wocheze City. The wooden fences outside the city wall would quickly turn into ashes once they were burned by fire.

Then, the ramp cart covered with wet mud was pushed forward. This ramp cart was the same one that the Kugits used to attack Kudan City last time. It was not complicated, but after being remade by the carpenters of the territory, it was optimized a lot as a whole, became stronger, and its weight was reduced by one third. The oiled axles also made the ramp cart move much faster.

At the same time, two arrow towers were pushed forward. Ten archers could stand on these two arrow towers. They were more than eight meters high, nearly two meters higher than the less than seven-meter-high wooden city wall of Wocheze. They could suppress the city walls from a high position.

As soon as the Nords saw the sloped car, they knew that things were not going well. The Nord archers hurriedly attacked with their longbows, but the loud speaker on the arrow tower started shouting again:

"Brothers on the top of the city, don't waste your energy. This ramp is not afraid of any arrows. You should save your energy."

Sure enough, just as the arrow tower said, the Nords shot a layer of arrows at the chariot, but it failed to stop the chariot from moving forward at all, so they had to stop shooting.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that as soon as the ramp got close to the city wall, the Nords' advantage in defending the city would be gone. However, a raging fire was burning on the city wall facing the ramp, and no one could get close. Borba was so anxious that he could only fuss and glare, but there was nothing he could do.

When the flaming oil on the city wall almost burned down the wooden outer shell of the city wall, the voice on the arrow tower that made Borba angry sounded again:

"Brothers on the city wall, listen up. Our master has pity on you and cannot bear to see you suffer from the fire. You must retreat thirty meters to the left and right of the burning area, otherwise you will be burned and unable to put out the fire."

Soon, a burning oil tank was hit on each side of the wall that was burning first. The raging fire drove the Nords on the wall out of a no-man's land of about 70 meters. Seeing that the fire in the middle was about to go out, Borba still didn't know what was going on. He shouted:

"Archers! Archers! Come here, don't let the Vaegirs come up to the city, shoot them down!"

At this time, someone on the arrow tower shouted:

"Brothers on the city wall, don't go forward. The archers on our arrow towers are all sharpshooters, as you have seen. If you come forward, we will shoot you, and you will surely suffer heavy casualties. It will hurt the harmony!"

The other nobles really took these words to heart and hurriedly stopped their own archers from moving forward. Dozens of archers under Borba also did not want to move forward, but under the intimidation of their lord they had to bite the bullet and move forward. As expected, they received precise care from the arrow tower who was high above them.

The archers were so terrified that they had to retreat. Borba did not dare to stop them in case of public outrage, as this would be tantamount to sending the archers to their deaths. Moreover, as long as they retreated to the back, the sharpshooters on the arrow tower would stop shooting. He controlled the situation very well, which made the Nords on the city wall couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in their hearts: It's really nice of the old city lord's son-in-law to show mercy!

When the fire in the middle was burned out, the ramp was moved to the bottom of the city wall. The wooden battlements were burned down, and it was as easy as walking on flat ground to get from the ramp to the city wall. The heavily armored shield infantry hidden in the ramp swarmed out and quickly took positions on the city wall, forming a tight shield formation.

Aix even learned a trick from Saiga Khan and sent a team of heavy cavalry to the top of the city wall along the ramp.

In terms of equipment alone, this team of heavy cavalry is much better than that of Saiga Khan. Not only do the soldiers wear thick plate armor specially made for the territory, but the horses' front legs are also covered with iron plates that hang down to the horseshoes. The raised iron plates on the front can protect against javelins and flying axes.

The horses used were large Vigia draft horses, which were not only half a head taller than ordinary horses, but also had hooves that were terrifyingly large, half the size of an ordinary person's face.

The weapon used by the knight is a larger hammer of justice with an extended wooden handle. Aix also covered it with a layer of polished and shiny iron sheet. It was so shiny that those who didn't know might think it was a real big hammer, which was quite scary.

The Nords, who were pure infantry, had heard stories of previous battles told by their ancestors and had a natural fear of cavalry. There were also cavalry in the city, but compared with the cavalry on the opposite side of the flames, the horses they rode were just smaller donkeys.

In addition, the knights were wearing terrifying armor and holding terrifying long hammers in their hands, so they all retreated unconsciously, not daring to block their sharp edge.

When the fire was extinguished, the loud speaker on the arrow tower shouted again:

"Brothers on the city wall, the people in front of you are our Lord Aix's most valiant knights. No shield formation can stop them from advancing. You must be careful, especially the horses under their crotches. Don't fall under the horses' hooves. No shield can withstand the blow of the horses' hooves. Don't say I didn't tell you."

But Borba had his arrow on the string and had to shoot, so he sent one of his Nord Royal Guards holding a two-handed axe and escorted by two Nord warriors holding shields to test the weight of the heavy cavalry.

Before they got close, two Nord warriors each threw a throwing axe, but the axe only scraped the protruding iron plate on the horse's chest, then slid to the side along the slope with sparks.

Before they could get close, the experienced knight squeezed the horse's belly, and the huge horse stood up like a mountain falling down on their heads. The three frightened Nords retreated in a hurry.

At this time, the giant horse kicked its hind legs forward and caught up with the three retreating Nords. Then a silver streak came down from top to bottom and hit heavily the axe that the Nord Royal Guard raised to block. The axe handle broke and the sledgehammer hit the chest of the Nord Royal Guard.

With a loud "wow", the Nord Royal Guard vomited blood and flew backwards, dying on the ground.

The two Nord warriors also had their shields crushed and were killed under the huge horses' hooves. Not only blood but also fragments of internal organs came out of their mouths.