Chapter 1438: Defeated
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Starting the next day, the French adopted a new method of siege. The Italian mercenaries headed by Pasto forced the 4,000 local farmers who were caught with swords and guns to climb the city walls through the ladder.
The so-called cloud ladder is not a longer ladder. It was replaced by an ordinary ladder in order to save money in the later generations. Ordinary ladders siege the city, which is a joke. If an ordinary ladder is used to attack the city, the soldiers defending the city do not need to use weapons, and they can overturn the ladder directly from above. Then, the person climbing the ladder will fall down with the ladder and fall.
The real ladder is actually a large tank with wheels underneath. The main body is a sloped staircase, but there will be a movable auxiliary ladder above it. The height of the cloud ladder is similar to that of the city wall. When the cloud ladder is pushed under the wall by the soldiers, the soldiers will turn the movable auxiliary ladder upside down on the wall. At this time, the top of the cloud ladder is basically parallel to the city wall, and the auxiliary ladder is like a board on the pier between the long bridge pier and the ship. This kind of slat-type auxiliary ladder is not as easy to push down as an ordinary long ladder leaning against the city wall. Because, this is horizontal, some people step on the auxiliary ladder, they can not lift. What's more, the theme of the auxiliary ladder and the ladder truck are connected by a shaft, and it is difficult to do it if you want to move away.
In addition, there is a long ladder fixed on the car body. Because the siege car was connected, the defenders could not be turned over. However, this integrated ladder has a fatal flaw-as long as the defenders roll stones or logs from the top, all siege soldiers on the ladder will be able to A light. Therefore, it is still the kind of safety with auxiliary ladder. The inconsistent **** can block the combined attack of rolling wood and stone.
For cloud ladders with parallel auxiliary ladders, the defender usually has no choice. Rolling wooden beating stones are not easy to use, so they have to shoot their enemies on the ladder with bows and arrows. There is also the use of a spear to stab an enemy who dares to approach. Moreover, it is not necessary to stab the opponent, just stab the opponent down the ladder.
Of course, you can also use a sledgehammer to smash the auxiliary ladder against the city wall to destroy the auxiliary ladder. Also, pour oil, ignite the cloud ladder auxiliary ladder, and make it burn. However, the siege side is not a fool. There are archers on the ladders to prevent you from destroying the ladders. Dare to show up and shoot you.
However, that was the tactic of the cold weapon era. If the Sword and Shield soldiers hold large shields and charge on the gentle secondary ladder, the defenders at the head of the city will be helpless and easily attacked against the city walls. Because, in the face of the large shield, the archer seemed very weak. At this time, the warriors could only kill or push down the enemy sabers and soldiers who accidentally rushed up the wall.
However, in the era of the Musketeers, it was more difficult for the Sword and Shield Soldiers to rush from the cloud ladder to the ramp. In particular, the large-caliber muskets of the Mushket muskets are particularly threatening to the sword shield soldiers. The huge impact of 50 grams of lead bullets, even if it does not kill you, can also throw the sword and shield soldiers in the charge on the auxiliary ladder off the auxiliary ladder and fall into a disability ...
In front of the Muskete musket, whether you are a sword shield soldier or a plate armor knight, you must fall down if you are hit by a bomb. Therefore, the French army did not use the precious French knights from the beginning, but first let the Italian mercenaries go to consume the defensive ammunition ...
However, the Italian mercenary generals such as Pasto are not stupid, how can they easily die? So, they brought in 4,000 local farmers and let them rush forward from the auxiliary ladder of the ladder with the broken door ...
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"What's going on? Are these people?" On the head of Naples, the defending general Torres was a little puzzled. Because the people who are attacking the city today don't look like an army. Because these people are carrying a broken door panel, and they are holding the door panel with both hands, without even a knife in their hands ...
"Report general, these people seem to be villagers nearby ..." said a low-ranking officer who often dealt with locals. He still recognized the costume of the nearby villagers.
"Then ... kill or not?" The adjutant asked.
Torres hesitated:
"I always feel wrong, what are they doing with the villagers? Is it ... yes, they want to use our bullets!"
"Do you still shoot?"
"Stop firing, but send a spearman and a sword shield to stop them and prevent them from going to the wall. If they rush to the wall, they are ordered to immediately squat down with their heads closed, otherwise they will immediately kill without amnesty!" Torres ordered.
"Crouch down with your head and throw away the door! Otherwise, there will be no amnesty!" The Spanish officer in charge shouted in Italian. They have lived in Naples for several years and still know some local languages.
However, things are not that simple ...
The local villagers who were forced to rush up the city wall heard most of the Spanish officers, and most of them honestly dropped the door and crouched on the city head.
However, these people are not all local villagers. There were also some mercenaries under Pasto. Although these people wear ordinary people's clothes, they hide short knives in their clothes ...
Taking advantage of the negligence that the Spaniards thought the overall situation had been fixed, a group of Italian farmers squatted on the head of the city suddenly, suddenly a group of people broke up, took out their short knives from their clothes, and quickly rushed to the unguarded city guard …
The Spanish soldiers at the head of the city were caught flat-footed and killed a group of people. Then, a group of Italian mercenaries saw the opportunity and rushed up from below the corresponding ladder to try to control the city controlled by those people ...
The Spanish defenders were caught off guard at first, but General Torres quickly responded:
"Reinforcement! Reinforce that section of the wall! Be sure to get those **** off the wall!"
Then, the most elite group of generals under General Torres were sent over and engaged in fierce fighting with the Italian mercenaries who began to flock to the city.
Torres's elite group ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ are basically heavy armored infantry. However, the armor they wear is a castrated plate armor that exposes the back and pp and the back of the leg. The advantage of this plate armor is that it is much lighter. As for the problem of no defense behind it? That's nothing, only the escaped talents will show their backs, this kind of people will die.
In this way, the attack of the Italian mercenaries was finally repelled by this group of elite Spanish warriors wearing "halterback" plate armor that were originally bodyguards ...
"Oh, what a pity! If it was the French knight who rushed up ... will not lose at all ..."
Seeing this scene, Louis XII in the distance was so depressed that he jumped. If you just changed to a martial arts French knight, you will definitely be able to gain a firm foothold on that section of the city wall and respond to the follow-up troops. It's a pity that the group of Italian mercenaries has too little combat power ...
However, he did not want to think about it. So early, is he willing to send the French knight as the bottom card early? Moreover, this attack is clearly a trial of Italian mercenaries. No one can guarantee success ...
In this way, Pastor came up with this great idea, because of the problem of the combat effectiveness of Italian mercenaries, the defeat was ...
