Black Iron Crown

As a woman who already has a child, what she hopes most is for her child to hold the highest power. What she doesn't want to leave her child is an empire full of holes and controlled by others.

But things have developed to this point, and she has no choice.

May 5th, Year 27 of the Empire.

The siege has lasted for a whole month. Archers, crossbowmen, and trebuchets kept attacking the city walls. Even the enemies have learned how to behave. No matter how fierce the shooting is, they just don't show their heads.

This made the archers and crossbowmen frown, they could only keep shooting helplessly, and they couldn't cause too many casualties.

Looking at the half-dead battle ahead, Lena couldn't help but frowned, and said angrily: "Order the soldiers to log in to the enemy's city wall through the well, try to avoid damage, and evacuate after contact!"

During this period of time, Leiner could clearly feel the changes in the defenders in the city. Their armored rate had risen from only about 30% at the beginning to 80% now, and it was still increasing slowly.

Obviously, people in the imperial capital have already started to sell iron to make iron armor. It is estimated that most of the iron products have been melted and cast to make iron armor.

In this way, Reiner no longer intends to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy on the city wall. Although Sergeant Moreland and his soldiers are superior in combat power, after all, they are not supernatural powers similar to the Scarlet Griffin Knight. Facing enemies wearing iron armor, there will be no small difficulty.

But if you continue to shoot with crossbowmen, it will be different. The crossbow in Winter's crossbowman's hand is a powerful crossbow that is more powerful than ordinary crossbows. It can even shoot through iron armor within 100 meters. power.

The distance from the well to the enemy's city wall is exactly about 100 meters, because this is the best range for the remaining 300 archers under Leiner's command who hold recurve bows produced by the system.

Under Leiner's order, Sergeant Moreland, who was wearing a double full set of iron armor, and a soldier from the north, wearing a full set of chain armor and simple armor, boarded the wooden planks of the well.

Afterwards, Jing Lan advanced slowly under the push of the soldiers at the bottom, and gradually approached the city wall of the imperial capital.

The archers on the city wall and on the arrow tower immediately started to fight back. Under this distance, their bows and arrows can reach the maximum power. Before shooting against the archers on the well, it was actually beyond their range. Best kill range.

Finally, Jinglan stopped at a position 20 meters away from the city wall, and the wooden plank on it also protruded, and slammed heavily on the city wall of the imperial capital.

As a springboard, this plank is very qualified. It is very strong and difficult to break. Dozens of people will pass through the plank without any shaking.

More than 600 people shouted loudly and rushed to the city wall. The weapons used by these soldiers were very disorganized, either a long sword with a shield, or a short spear nearly two meters in both hands.

As for the real spears, they didn't carry them. After all, they were just field weapons, and they couldn't be used in such a narrow place as the city wall.

After discovering that the northern army had launched an attack, the defenders on the city wall stood up from behind the battlements, brandishing short spears, long halberds (western halberds, please make up your own mind) or long swords to return to the northern soldiers. .

Even in order to cause enough damage to the soldiers wearing heavy armor, quite a few soldiers held one-handed axes or maces in their hands. These things are heavy weapons and can be called can-opening artifacts.

Although Leiner confessed that he could retreat with just one touch, the pride of the Merland sergeants did not allow them to do so. While harassing them, they had a small fight with the enemy, which did not violate Leiner's order.

Soon, the soldiers retreated. Although they had pride in their hearts, their obedience to orders was above all else. In other words, the pride and glory in their hearts was their obedience to orders.

Soon, they withdrew after causing 20 casualties to the enemy, and left the city wall fighting and retreating along the planks.

After leaving very smoothly, I began to count the losses.

Although this vague attack caused about 20 casualties to the enemy, Leiner also paid the price of three dead and two injured!

The five people who were killed and injured were all caused by the enemy's battle axes and maces. Blunt weapons and heavy weapons are really the nemesis of armor. Before the invention of plate armor, Reiner could not find any way to deal with it.

Therefore, he could only order his subordinates to collect the remains of these soldiers, and let the military doctors accompanying the army treat the wounded.

Seeing that the attacking enemy was repelled, the defenders on the city wall couldn't help cheering, and the atmosphere rose instantly.

Originally, many of them had faced Leiner's army directly, and the morale and self-confidence that had been collapsed at the beginning gradually recovered.

However, before they were happy for a while, eight hundred arrows fell from the sky like locusts.

The well fence is higher than the city walls of the imperial capital, and the archers and crossbowmen can completely shoot down. The distance of more than 20 meters allows the power of these arrows to be brought to the extreme.

Needless to say, the crossbow bolts of Winter's crossbowmen naturally came out of the body after killing one person, and got into the body of the second person.

Although the arrows shot by the recurve bow were not as good as crossbow arrows, the distance of 20 meters almost made them ignore the iron armor and directly penetrate the body.

The rest of the arrows also caused a lot of damage to the defenders on the city wall. After one round of shooting, three or four hundred people fell to the ground crying for their parents.

The rest of the defenders who were lucky enough not to be injured hurriedly lay down and leaned against the back of the battlements, trying to avoid the enemy's arrows as much as possible.

Another two rounds of arrows came down, but it was a pity that the enemy had already prepared a good defense, and the more than 1,600 arrows had only caused a few dozen casualties to the enemy.

This also completely broke up the good mood of the defenders, but killing three enemies made them so happy, but three or four hundred people were killed in the process of changing hands, such casualties were calculated more than anyone else.

In this way, the endless arrow strikes began again, the well fence retreated more than 80 meters, the crossbowmen continued to throw stones on the city wall, and the trebuchet also threw stones of different sizes on it.

Although the casualties caused were not large, it was more of a blow to morale.

May 28th, Year 27 of the Empire.

The siege of the imperial capital has lasted for two months, and the defenders lost at least 1,500 people in these two months, and it is beyond Leiner's expectations that they have not collapsed under such circumstances.

But he didn't care, because his logistics was very good. The food for hundreds of large carriages was placed in the camp. Even after a year of siege, Reiner didn't need to worry about food.

At the same time, the courier of the Kingdom of Bukeden with five horses was running desperately. With the queen's handwritten letter in his arms, he frantically beat the horses under his crotch and walked south.

In one month, he has traveled nearly 1,500 kilometers, which means that he has to travel at least 50 kilometers every day.