total war rise of empire

Chapter 81 The First Official Siege

Under the sound of aggressive war drums, the Pylos prisoner-of-war camp in the front row and the Siris revival army were told that the Pylos people in Argos city did not repent. Three days and three nights of carnival!

For the Pylos prisoner-of-war camp that has lost its faith, looting and forced beeping may be the only effective way to boost morale. This group of ruthless fighters whose hands are stained with the blood of the Pylos family is only left with the wine of today. Drunk looking forward to it today!
With the order for the carnival for three days and three nights, a series of more detailed military merit and material reward policies were also conveyed to the ears of every soldier through layers of officers!
For example, what kind of promotion will you get if you are the first to climb the city wall, what extra rewards you can get, whether the female slave is white bread or something...

The most hilarious thing is that Lei Zihao promised that whoever personally kills the commander of Pyrrhus wearing a wind-feathered helmet at the top of the city, he will be rewarded with...a pepper!
For heaven's sake, this is a pepper of the same size as gold!

Most importantly, pepper is edible, but gold is not...

You know, most people in this world don't know the taste of pepper all their lives...

In fact, these incentives have been circulated in Lei Zihao's army laws. Most soldiers understand the content of military merits more or less. morale boosting effect!

That's why when the old society fought wars, the commanders liked to sprinkle a box of gold and silver property all over the ground before the battle. This way of agitating before the battle is very effective!
As the gang of big soldiers in the TV series said, 'Your life is gone, what do you need money for? 'This kind of bullshit, pure nonsense!
If the illiterate little soldiers in ancient times had such a high level of ideological awareness, would they still be able to join the army?
Is it true that in ancient times, defending the home and the country could make the people work hard?

Don't forget that in later generations, there will still be deserters and traitors in the army armed with powerful international working classist ideology!
To put it bluntly, in wars in ancient times, one of the biggest motivations for being a soldier was to rob, and the other was to be able to unscrupulously fuck all kinds of women when you were victorious, and you don't have to be responsible!

There really wasn't much military pay in ancient times, and they were often eaten up by their superiors!
This is also the reason why, in ancient times, when fighting in ancient times, the cost of sending troops to the battlefield was much higher than the maintenance cost in normal times!
Fortunately, Lei Zihao's main force is the benefits provided by the total war system, as long as he can eat, live, and eat, that's enough!

Soldiers of the Revival Army of Siris, shouted by the general officers and other junior officers, worked together to push the ladder cart with wheels underneath, while the Pylos prisoner-of-war camp and other soldiers of the Revival Army of Siris held simple wooden shields in front of them. open circuit!
When dozens of ladder trucks were being pushed over, a trace of fear appeared in the depths of the eyes of Commander Pylos. The battles between the city-states of Pylos were all in the battle mode, that is, the two sides agreed to an open area. , play Field Brawl!
How can there be such an advanced siege ladder with wheels?
However, the war has already begun, either he dies or I die. Commander Pylos waved his sword madly and shouted at the enemy troops who entered the range: "Shooting arrows!!!"

Whoosh whoosh~~~
Ordinary wooden bows and arrows shot a hundred steps away by virtue of the height of the earth wall!
How can those wooden shields used to comfort the Pylos prisoner-of-war camp and the Siris Revival Army prevent the overwhelming arrow rain?

The Pylos prisoner of war camp and a small number of Seris soldiers in the front row suddenly suffered hundreds of casualties!
This is just a round of arrow rain!
As the distance gets closer, the Pylos archers on the dirt wall will shoot more and more accurately, and it's unknown how many people will die by then!

Seeing the heavy casualties in the Pylos Prisoner of War Camp, Li Si couldn't help but tighten his sword grip, and sighed inwardly: "The Governor has noticed the lack of fighting spirit in the Pylos Prisoner of War Camp, and plans to bury him as cannon fodder in Al Below Gos City!"

However, even cannon fodder cannot be killed by the arrows of the Pylos people meaninglessly. When the Pylos archers at the head of the city began to shoot with open arms, the serious archers hidden behind the ladder truck finally advanced to the effective range Inside, start a counterattack against the Pylos archers at the head of the city!
Lei Zihao's archers don't use longbows and recurve bows with great range. In terms of technical level, they are not much different from the bows and arrows of the Pylos, but they are more refined and reliable!

After the skilled archers approached the Argos earth wall, under the orders of officers at all levels, they immediately carried out rapid and intensive shooting!
The rain of arrows all over the sky immediately suppressed the archers of the Pylos people!
Commander Pylos did not expect that the Serisians would directly invest thousands of elite archers!
The training of archers is far more difficult than that of crossbowmen. It takes at least several years of training to truly master the use of bows and arrows. This is just a simple use of bows and arrows. If you want to train them into an organized army, you need to spend extra time on collective training!
Therefore, everyone knows the benefits of archers, but in the hands of lords everywhere, there are not many real archers. After all, few lords can be rich enough to support a large number of archers for training in a few years!
This is also the reason why crossbows were so popular during the Warring States period in ancient China!
Compared with crossbowmen who can officially become an army after a few months of training, the training period for archers is really too long!

The rise of crossbowmen does not lie in their range and speed of fire, but in their cheap and fast training cost and superior armor-piercing ability!

Of course, for fishing, hunting and nomadic peoples, it is much easier to recruit archers, because the children of this kind of people have been exposed to bows and arrows since childhood, and as long as the leaders randomly recruit young men from the herdsmen, they can draw thousands of bowmen. scholar!

This is also the reason why when the nomads claim to have a hundred thousand people who can control strings, they will cause great turmoil to the Central Plains dynasty. It is not that the Central Plains dynasty cannot raise an army of [-], but that if they want to train [-] farmers into [-] archers, they will go bankrupt. of……

This is also the natural advantage of nomads!

Obviously, the people of Pylos did not have the tradition of playing with bows and arrows since they were young, so there were not many archers. Even if they were condescending to shoot arrows, they were suppressed by Lei Zihao's archers!
The Pylos archers are not fools either. After seeing the opponent's archers who can cause damage to them press up, they naturally started to fight back against Lei Zihao's archers!

The pressure on the pioneer who pushed the ladder car was greatly relieved!

Soon, the ladder cart was pushed under the earth wall several meters high. The remaining Pylos prisoners of war and the Siris revival army, under the cover of their own archers, hurriedly started to set up the ladder. As long as the ladder successfully drove to the top of the city, The people behind can climb to the top of the city continuously!

(End of this chapter)