Chapter 105: Dhrim's First Battle
So the diesel company's attack began.
And the tactics are very simple, which is to mobilize all the vassal troops regardless of the consequences, and use everything they can get to fill the trenches and pile up the slopes of the city walls!
This was also the most common tactic used by these bandits living in the desert to deal with the border towns of the Lion Principality.
The border towns and villages of the Lion Principality have walls that are no more than 5 meters high, or walls that are 3 to 4 meters high.
As long as these bandit races collect a large amount of firewood or piled materials, even the corpses of their own people, and raise them to a height of more than 2 meters in front of the enemy's wall, they can rely on their barbaric nature to jump directly onto the wall or fence, and fight with the conscripted militia of the human race, gaining a significant advantage in close combat.
Especially these spiritual creatures who have been living on the edge of the desert and bordering the Lion Principality for many years, they are already familiar with the route.
Although he knew that he was being used as cannon fodder and was full of complaints, he was even more angry towards the Orc tribe.
However, facing the tyranny of those pig-headed men, these servant races, which were already at a disadvantage in the desert, did not dare to express any opinions at this time and could only bite the bullet and charge forward.
Put your hopes on the experience you had in dealing with the Lion Principality.
As long as they can kill the guys in front and then raise the city wall to a height high enough to climb up and engage in hand-to-hand combat, they will be able to let those human soldiers know how cruel they are!
In close combat, these bandit races from the desert have never been afraid of humans!
"Go! Get to the wall! Fill up the trench! Pile things up on the wall!"
So under the orders of Zhang Caidong and the captains of the temporary convoys, these followers of the spiritual creatures howled one by one, picked up the tables, chairs, benches and mud wrapped in rags that they had found nearby, and rushed towards the west gate of the city.
There is no way to avoid it.
Beside those captains were more elite gnolls, hobgoblins, lizardmen, bear goblins, etc., who were watching them eagerly.
Once it finds someone hesitant and afraid to charge forward, it will bar its teeth and roar.
At the same time, they began to raise the weapons in their hands, as if they were drooling over the delicious food.
After all, among the desert races, the corpses of their own kind can be used as food.
Sometimes, the fresh blood and active brain matter of a recently dead relative, along with the soft and nutritious internal organs, is a delicacy that makes you drool just thinking about it!
Under this pressure, the vassal armies composed of these wasteland races had no choice but to rush forward.
After all, they rushed forward, picked up all kinds of debris, threw them into the trench and came back.
There is still a possibility of survival.
If you don't rush.
If they still dare to resist, then not to mention the leaders of the more elite wasteland races, even those pig-headed people behind them who are more numerous and more powerful will not let them go!
However, on the walls of the town of Dehrim, the Vikian archers, skilled Rhodok crossbowmen, and mercenary crossbowmen who were on high alert showed no fear on their faces, only calmness.
Including Shen Mu, who was standing on the top of the city gate, with five Lake Rat Gang vandals beside him, holding heavy round shields for protection.
"They are preparing to attack." Bandak spoke in a deep voice beside Shen Mu.
"Yeah." Shen Mu nodded.
Because they all saw that, in the green area of the community, groups of servants began to lift up their belongings and prepared to come over here, howling as if to encourage them to disperse in formation.
This was obviously a charge, and they were going to throw the tables, chairs and benches held above their heads into the trench to fill it up.
Compared to those demons who only knew how to rush forward in a mess and fill the trenches with the corpses of their own kind.
These desert bandit races under the command of the humans from Blue Star do have some tactics.
"Get ready." Shen Mu reminded.
"Pass it on! Get ready for battle!" Right beside him, the Lake Rat Gang vandals and the Lake Rat Gang's veteran thugs operating the light crossbows shouted loudly at both sides of the city wall.
"Get ready for battle!" Then the archers on the city walls on both sides of the city gate responded one after another.
Some of them were holding heavy crossbows in one hand and running quickly behind the shield of the city wall, checking the distribution of these long-range shooters on the wall.
Try to arrange the long-range output that is bound to erupt on the city wall more reasonably.
We also hope to be more effective in striking at the enemy's offensive formation.
Bandak, who was born as an officer of the Rhodok Kingdom, has good experience in how to arrange output positions, how to form cross-fire, and how to make it easier for his people to shoot on the city walls.
This is also the reason why Shen Mu would safely hand over all the arrangements on the city wall to Bandak.
Bandak is a professional expert in city defense!
However, in front of Shen Mu's eyes, new content has appeared in the dialog box from the system.
It marks the beginning of the battle.
[Ding! The temporary task system detected the occurrence of an event, so a temporary task was issued - guard the town. ]
【Task name: Guard the town.】
[Task Introduction: When Dehrim grows into a town, enemies who covet your wealth will come to attack. Now, the enemies have come, and they have sent a terrible army to destroy your town, plunder your wealth, and kill you and your soldiers. This is absolutely not allowed.]
[Mission stage requirements: Defend against the attack of the vassal army. ]
[Mission stage reward: 5000 dinars. ]
[Tip: This task is a multi-stage temporary task. You can get corresponding rewards after completing the corresponding task stages. ]
At this moment, looking at the reward appearing in the dialog box in front of him, Shen Mu could no longer suppress the smile.
"A dinar reward." Shen Mu chuckled, "That's what I need."
That’s still a full 5000 dinars!
No one knows how much Shen Mu needs the dinar now. This unified currency in the entire Mount and Blade world will help him promote his soldiers as quickly as possible.
You know, now whether it is the Swadian light infantry, the Rhodok skilled crossbowmen, or the Viktor recruits.
But a large amount of dinars are needed to complete the upgrade!
If these 5000 dinars are obtained.
So for Shen Mu...
It is definitely a huge improvement!
Seeing more and more spirit world servants rushing out of the green belt and rushing towards this side, Shen Mu waved forward and issued an order in a calm tone: "Free shooting."
Then this order was conveyed to the entire city wall, including Bandak's ears.
"Everyone free fire!"
Then, on the city wall of the town area, Bandak pulled the trigger and shouted to the surrounding crossbowmen and archers to start shooting freely.
Looking at the groups of scattered spiritual creatures rushing over with all kinds of miscellaneous items held high, they understood.
Now, the killing begins!
"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow!"
On the city wall, whether it was the skilled Rhodok crossbowmen, the mercenary crossbowmen, or the Vikia archers, they all began to pull the trigger and release the bowstrings at the captain's shouts.
The buzzing sound of countless bowstrings or crossbow strings vibrating suddenly appeared on the city wall.
Then came the shrill screams of arrows and crossbow bolts breaking through the air!
'Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!'
At this moment, arrows rained down!
The instantaneous burst of output from 100 Vikian archers, 50 skilled Rhodok crossbowmen, and 50 mercenary crossbowmen, a total of 200 long-range shooters, directly caused the vassal troops who rushed out from the green belt of another residential area to be hit by arrows like rolling gourds, and they kept falling down and dying in wailing!
As long as you get within the range of 200 meters, you can only withstand the output of these shooters.
Withstand those deadly feather arrows and crossbow bolts.
Even these vassal soldiers, who tried to spread out and run forward, with tables, chairs, benches, or door panels on their heads, were still hit in various parts of their bodies by the rain of arrows. More and more guys staggered and fell.
What's more, within the range of running forward, there was a light crossbow set up above the city gate.
There is also a siege crossbow mounted on a square tower in the northern town area close to the castle area.
Under the control of the Lake Rat Gang's senior thug, those spears were blasted out with terrifying force and speed through this powerful crossbow device, turning into deadly spears of death.
Then, any spiritual creature that dared to appear within the range of the spear would be nailed to the ground alive!
If, after enduring the damage from the arrows and crossbow bolts, he could still struggle and hold on, and continue to move forward, he could throw the tables, chairs and benches in his hands into the trench, complete the task, and go back to recover. With the strong vitality of the desert race, he could still save his life.
But he was hit by a spear fired from a crossbow.
Whether it is a light crossbow or a spear fired from a siege crossbow.
There is only one outcome -
The spear drew an arc and pierced through the chest or abdomen diagonally, crushing all the internal organs inside, and then the terrifying force of the blast nailed the whole body to the ground.
It was as if someone had pierced his body with a short spear, and stuck it into the ground like a specimen, becoming a hanging sign to intimidate others!
Even sometimes, the bombardment of light crossbows and siege crossbows did not work.
The horrible spear shot missed its target.
But even if it hit the ground, it looked like a big nail nailed to the ground, and the rain of arrows falling around it like a rainstorm, it still brought a spiritual shock to the servant races that were still charging forward.
They were filled with great fear, and their steps to charge forward with the sundries in their hands slowed down.
They hesitated!
"Or rather, they are scared." Shen Mu spoke slowly at this time, without much excitement in his tone.
He just calmly watched as waves of crossbow arrows flew out from the city wall next to him.
Another number of feather arrows whizzed past.
As a result, more and more spiritual creatures, who were running slowly due to hesitation, became targets and were constantly hit by feather arrows and crossbow bolts and fell down.
Shen Mu's eyes gradually became sharper.
"Keep shooting!"
"Don't let those enemies get close to the trench!"
Right next to Shen Mu, Bandak was operating the heavy crossbow in his hand, aiming at the werewolf that was rushing in the front with a desk on its head. He pulled the trigger and shot the steel crossbow arrow accurately into its chest.
The hyena was filled with disbelief. He subconsciously ran two steps and then fell to the ground with a bang. He twitched and died.
Bandak turned around and shouted to the skilled crossbowmen of his tribe, "Pay attention to accurate shooting!"
"understand!"
Whether it was the skilled Rhodok crossbowmen or the mercenary crossbowmen, they all responded loudly at this time.
As crossbowmen, they understood what Bandak meant.
So they changed their previous tactics of quickly reloading the bow, roughly aiming at the enemy and pulling the trigger, and then reloading and loading the crossbow again regardless of whether the target was hit or not, in pursuit of shooting speed.
Instead, he began to take advantage of the crossbowman's ability to aim accurately and have a straight trajectory, and accurately shot the enemies who were getting closer and closer.
Comparing the shooting speed, they are indeed not as good as the Vikia archers around them.
The continuous firing of arrows, one after another, erupted in a short period of time, like an endless rain of arrows, a torrent of long-range firepower.
But when he started sniping the enemies one by one, who were getting closer and closer and were within 50 meters.
Instead, it is a professional theater for these crossbowmen!
In an instant, the servant army of about 500 heads, which rushed out from the green belt of other residential areas 300 meters away, were suppressed from the range of 200 meters to the range of 50 meters.
He was shot all the way by the 200 long-range archers and two crossbows.
There were piles of corpses falling down.
In the last 30-meter range, the precise shooting of the Rhodok's skilled crossbowmen and hired crossbowmen, including the more powerful direct shooting of the light crossbow cannon, directly caused the morale of the remaining 200-odd servants to collapse, and they dropped the things in their hands and turned around and ran away.
He exposed his back to the Vikia archers without any care and was chased by arrows.
Then there were more corpses left behind.
The casualties are increasing faster!
"Sir, we have repelled the enemy's first wave of attack!" Manidu, wearing chain mail and a warrior helmet, walked over quickly holding the crossbow that Shen Mu had won in the lottery.
There was an excited smile on the warrior's face under his helmet.
Apparently, the first wave of attacks by the servant races of the Diesel Company outside was repelled, which made him, who was personally participating in the battle on the city wall, extremely excited.
Although he is good at business, he also has unique insights on how to develop the town's economy.
But this does not mean that Manid is afraid of war and dare not directly enter the front line of the battlefield.
After all, for anyone coming out of the continent of Calradia.
It was common to eat, drink, go to the inn and chat with the waitresses in bed, fight with robbers, bandits, rebels, and even be hired by the lord to fight his enemies.
Even Manid had personally participated in several battles on the continent of Calradia.
Whether he was hired by villagers to resist bandits or served as a guard in caravans heading to various cities, Manid accumulated some combat experience.
Including killing experience!
"Sir, I feel good!" Manide said while holding the crossbow in his hand.
"That's good." Shen Mu nodded. He didn't want to dampen Manide's excitement, so he said calmly, "Be careful. If you encounter an enemy attacking the city wall, I will allow you to evacuate on your own and shoot from a distance to avoid close combat."
"I understand." Manide raised the crossbow in his hand, patted the half-empty steel crossbow arrows on his waist, and said seriously: "When the time comes, I will shoot and kill more enemies!"
"Hmm." Shen Mu suddenly thought of something at this time, and turned his head to look at the still peaceful east gate of the town.
Ponder for a moment.
He said to Manid: "Now you withdraw from the city wall first, and arrange for the Swadian light infantry to move all the light crossbows and siege crossbows on the east side to the west gate and the big tower and re-erect them."
"Understood. I'll arrange it right away." Manide nodded, turned around and made arrangements without hesitation.
Soon, after the tentative attack of the servant race was repelled, the Vikia recruits, who had nothing to do in the first place, took action.
Not only did they move the light crossbows on the east city gate and the siege crossbows on the square tower of the east city wall to the corresponding positions on the west city gate and the square tower, but they also brought bundles of spears, feather arrows, and crossbow arrows over.
The consumption of those Vikria archers and mercenary crossbowmen, as well as the skilled Rhodok crossbowmen, was replenished.
Especially for the Vikia archers, as rapid-fire long-range archers, a bag of conical arrows only contains 28 arrows.
In a field battle, perhaps for various reasons, 28 arrows are enough.
But in a city defense battle, especially when standing in a safe shooting position and inflicting damage to the enemy, these 28 conical arrows can be used up in just a few minutes.
Even if you are serious about continuous shooting and try to reduce the frequency of shooting, 28 conical arrows will not be enough to consume 5 minutes.
That is to say, thanks to the fact that we are now in the real world, after all the arrows in our quiver have been shot, we can always replenish them with the reserves in the armory.
As long as the physical strength and arm strength of these Vikia archers can keep up.
Then you can continue to shoot arrows.
Therefore, the supply of conical arrows represents the output standard of these 100 Vikia archers.
And now, with bundles of cone-head arrows, the Vikia recruits were placed at the feet of the Vikia archers, leaning against the baffles, so that they could bend down at any time to take out new cone-head arrows and directly draw the bow to shoot.
This made these Vikria archers quite satisfied.
They were still moving their shoulders, taking advantage of the breaks in the fight to relax the muscles that had just been overused.
Looking into the distance, in the dense green belt of the community, there were spiritual creatures who were still preparing to assemble, holding up tables, chairs, benches, and even ladders in their hands, ready to start a new round of charge, and a smile appeared on the corners of his mouth.
Being able to stand on the city wall and shoot these enemies who have no armor to protect them.
It’s like an after-dinner entertainment activity, where you can shoot live targets at will!
"Sure enough, as long as it is a battle to defend a city, then having a certain number of archers and crossbowmen is an absolute advantage for the defenders."
Shen Mu looked at these Vikia archers who looked so relaxed and a smile appeared on his face.
At this time, he also looked at the Vikia recruits who were still running back and forth on the city wall, replenishing arrows for these crossbowmen.
There are a total of 200 new Vikria recruits.
"It seems that the Diesel Company's tactical arrangement is to let these spiritual servant tribes take the lead in launching an attack to pave the way for the pig-headed people behind them."
Shen Mu raised his head and looked at the rooftop of the community in the distance, and vaguely saw a fat figure.
The corners of his mouth curled down slightly, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes:
"The guys from Diesel Company probably didn't realize that sending out low-quality servant troops to consume these soldiers under the Mount and Blade rules would not only be a waste... but the key to helping me achieve a qualitative change!"
(End of this chapter)
