Chapter 683 Avalon Meat Grinder (IV)

"One, two... one, two... one, two..."

A huge battering ram, pushed forward by the Hiran army, crossed the filled moat and approached the outer wall of the Avalon Fortress.

This battering ram is extremely large, and it takes at least 20 people to push it successfully.

The soldiers responsible for pushing the battering ram carefully hid behind the protection plate of the battering ram to avoid being injured by the arrows of the Knights of Michael, while using all their strength to push the battering ram forward at high speed.

Shouting neat slogans, the dust was flying under their feet.

Before and after arriving at the outer wall gate of the Avalon Fortress, the soldiers of the Hiran army grabbed the battering ram of the battering ram and rammed it hard against the outer wall gate of the Avalon Fortress.

Bang!

A huge noise sounded, and the wall trembled and the earth roared for a while.

This battering ram looks scary, but Su Cheng doesn't care much about it.

Avalon Fortress is the result of the efforts of the top craftsmen and architects, and its defense capability has almost reached the highest level that can be achieved in this era.

Based on the solidity of the gate of Avalon Fortress, it doesn't matter if this battering ram hits it for a year.

Even if this battering ram hits it day and night for a year, it can't break the gate of the outer wall of Avalon Fortress.

So Su Cheng was too lazy to care about this battering ram that could not break the gate at all, and let it hit it, not wanting to waste kerosene to deal with it.

The real threat is still the siege towers with extremely high troop transport efficiency.

Dominic of the Hiran Army also knew that his battering ram could not break the gate of the outer wall of Avalon Fortress at all. The reason why he sent out the battering ram was just to boost his morale a little and bring some psychological pressure to the soldiers of the Knights of Michael.

Whether he could take down the outer wall of the Avalon Fortress still depended on whether his soldiers could climb the wall in large numbers and suppress the Knights on the wall.

Although the Avalon Fortress had a lot of kerosene reserves, it was not unlimited.

In the face of Dominic's "sea of ​​siege tower tactics", the kerosene reserves of the Avalon Fortress quickly ran out.

Every time a siege tower was burned down, a large amount of kerosene was used, and the siege towers prepared by the Holy Hilan Empire for this "Hammer Operation" were simply countless.

I don't know how many siege towers have been burned down, but there are still countless siege towers being pushed over.

The kerosene reserves of the Avalon Fortress can no longer withstand such consumption.

After learning that the kerosene reserves of the fortress had run out, Su Cheng immediately ordered to stop using kerosene.

After all, it is impossible to really use up all the kerosene reserves of the fortress in order to burn the siege towers of the Hilan Army. Some must be left for emergencies.

After stopping the use of kerosene,

the Knights of Michael could do nothing with these tall siege towers.

With the accuracy of catapults and siege crossbows, they could not destroy many siege towers at all.

They could only watch the siege towers approach and build up the outer wall of the fortress.

The efficiency of siege towers in transporting troops is far different from that of ladders.

After these siege towers were built on the outer wall of Avalon Fortress, a large number of Hiran soldiers climbed up the outer wall along these siege towers.

The battle on the wall became more intense and bloody.

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The battle was fierce from morning to noon.

Even though it was noon, the battle did not stop.

Su Cheng and Dominic kept withdrawing the wounded and tired soldiers from the front line to rest, and then filled the front line with soldiers ready to go.

Both sides kept replacing the soldiers on the front line, allowing the battle to continue.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion, where Darlena was, was ordered to withdraw to the rear for rest.

After withdrawing from the front line of the city wall where fierce fighting and shouting were endless, fatigue immediately flooded Darlena's body like a tide.

She didn't feel tired at all when she was fighting with the Hiran army on the city wall just now, but when she withdrew from the front line of the city wall and finally relaxed, Darlena found that her body was exhausted.

The battle on the city wall was fierce, and even a soldier like Darlena who usually had very good training results had a lot of wounds on her body.

Fortunately, these wounds were not deep and only needed to be bandaged.

Darlena lay on the straw on the ground for the soldiers who withdrew from the front line to rest, and let the military doctor bandage her wounds while sleeping.

When she finally woke up, it was already noon.

When Darlena woke up, it was just time for lunch.

Bowls of hot rice were distributed to each soldier.

The troops that were fighting with the Hiran army on the city wall were the ones that had just finished lunch.

In the fierce battle just now, 21 people from the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion were killed.

Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise that Darlene's acquaintances and friends, such as Yara, were still alive.

The remaining survivors of the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion, including the squadron leader Lindsay, looked at the rice in their hands with a dull look.

The fierce battle on the city wall just now brought them a great psychological shock.

Even Lindsay, who had experienced many battles and won the position of squadron leader through military exploits, had never seen such a fierce battle before.

Both sides were like crazy, constantly replacing the soldiers in the front line with soldiers in the rear.

Looking at the dry rice in her hand, Darlene said in her heart:

--How long will such a fierce battle last...

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The position of the Xilan army.

"Everyone--! Get ready--!"

After hearing this shout, Gabriel carried his giant sword and moved his neck: "Is it finally our turn?"

The wounded and tired soldiers on the front line were constantly replaced, and the soldiers who had rested in the rear were constantly added to the front line.

Now it was finally the turn of Gabriel's troops to go to the front line.

After receiving the order to charge, Gabriel held the shield in his left hand and his giant sword in his right hand, and rushed towards the siege tower closest to them.

Gabriel's luck was pretty good. Except for a few arrows shot on the shield on the way to the siege tower, no other accidents happened.

He was not hit or shot by the huge rocks or huge arrows that suddenly flew down from the sky.

After climbing up the wall along the ladder of the siege tower, Gabriel saw the outer wall that was already littered with corpses.

Because there were too many corpses and it had hindered the battle between the two armies, in order to make it easier to fight, the soldiers of both armies tacitly kicked the corpses on the wall to the bottom of the wall from time to time to free up more space for fighting.

When Gabriel climbed up the wall and thought about which enemy soldier to attack first, he heard a male voice with no sadness or joy:

"Raymond said - there is a brown-haired strong man holding a giant sword in the Xilan army, who is very skilled. Is he talking about you?"

The military genius came to another world with Zizhi Tongjian

The military genius came to another world with Zizhi Tongjian