334 Surrounding the City (1/2)

_2nd month 11th day_

The grassland alliance troops surrounded the Friendship City Region.

After two days of slaughter, the alliance had 37 thousand men left and only the city protection division defended Friendship City. In terms of numbers, the alliance army didn't have the absolute advantage.

Apart from that, Daiqin arranged 2000 troops to guard the two bridges.

Although the grassland army was mainly cavalry, this didn't mean that they didn't know how to siege.

For this battle, the alliance army had been preparing for a long time.

One of the things they prepared were siege machines. Apart from the simple siege ladder, the alliance also prepared a secret weapon, the trebuchet.

The trebuchet was provided by the Yanhuang Alliance.

If Ouyang Shuo could obtain the technical manual through raiders, naturally, the Yanhuang Alliance could too.

Chances were equal.

The trebuchet was sneakily transported to the Tianqi tribe around half a month ago and was kept a secret.

Today, the mysterious veil was finally taken off.

When 30 odd trebuchets were placed on the northern side of Friendship City, Zhao Sihu's face was bitter.

He had already reported the intel to the commander group, and they had also sent spies to find out what it was.

Unfortunately, the alliance army kept it a secret, and anyone who tried to get close was mercilessly killed. As such, no spy could get near it.

At 9 AM sharp, with the explosive sound of the trebuchets, the siege had begun.

Large amounts of stones were flung into the inner city by the trebuchets, destroying anything that could be destroyed. Be it archer towers or houses, none of them could hide.

Especially the arcuballistas mounted on the north city wall, they were the targets of the trebuchet.

Arcuballistas were the absolute counters to cavalry, so why would Daiqin let them off?

However, in front of the three-bow arcuballistas, normal trebuchets didn't have an advantage.

The range of the trebuchet was 400 meters, while the three-bow arcuballistas could reach 500 meters.

Hence, the trebuchets were totally in the range of the arcuballistas.

The god machine unit returned the favor and rained down bolts at the trebuchets.

Be it the trebuchets of the arcuballistas, they were all very exquisite machines. Hence, the moment they were hit, they were easily broken and couldn't function normally.

In this battle, the god machine unit won.

Of the 30 odd trebuchets, in less than an hour, 20 were destroyed.

In comparison, only 10 arcuballistas were destroyed.

The god machine unit had once again performed a miracle.

At the high platform of the alliance army, Daiqin's face was totally black. He remembered that when the Yanhuang Alliance gave them the trebuchet, they swore that Shanhai City had no way to defend against it.

Who would have thought that right from the start, his trebuchet strategy would fail?

At the crucial moment, he still needed the grassland sons to fight. Daiqin was more and more annoyed by the Yanhuang Alliance. He sent orders for the army to use the sieging ladder and charge towards Friendship City.

With the protection of the god machine unit, whichever army wanting to siege it, the task was highly difficult.

With such a killing machine coupled with the archers on the city walls, they were a real-life human Grim Reaper. Before the large grassland alliance could come close to the wall, they had suffered heavy casualties.

The thinly equipped soldiers were like wheat in the fields and got harvested batch by batch.

What was good was that the grassland alliance army was fearless. They braved the arrow rain and resolutely rushed towards the city wall. When they got near the wall with much difficulty and latched it on, what awaited them was an even bigger catastrophe.

Numerous rolling woods and huge stones pelted down from over the wall, taking away life after life.

Siege battles were all along the most brutal ones.

In the battlefield where blood and meat flew around, if one wasn't cruel enough, he would instantly collapse.

The siege lasted until noon, and Friendship City was still as strong as a rock. The alliance didn't have a single soldier that managed to get on the wall and cause a threat to the city protection division.

In the end, without the trebuchet, the grassland alliance army was still weaker.

On horses, they were heroes; at sieging, they were total noobs.

Making use of the break, the city protection division could finally take a breather. With only one division to defend such a huge area, it wasn't as easy as it seemed.

As for the arcuballista archers of the god machine unit, these were strong men as they had been continuously operating the arcuballista. Not only did they use up all their energy, but their hands were also swollen and shaking.

Not only the strong men but those soldiers in charge of throwing the rolling wood and stone had it tough too. The enemy was really too fearless and kept on attacking. They could only follow and move around the rolling wood and throw it down.

The continuous battle had totally exhausted the soldiers.

Luckily, at this time, the Combat Logistics Department had arranged for the commoners to bring delicious and warm rice.

The alliance army was similarly cooking rice, but their atmosphere was really depressing.