Starting the next day, the French army adopted a new siege. Italian mercenaries led by Pasto forced the 4,000 local farmers to climb the city wall with swords and guns from behind, allowing them to climb the city wall through the ladder.
The so-called cloud ladder is not a longer ladder. It was replaced by a poor ladder in later generations in order to save money by the crew. Ordinary ladders siege the city, which is simply a joke. If you really use an ordinary ladder to attack the city, the soldiers guarding the city will not need to use weapons and just overturn the ladder from above. Then, the person who climbs the ladder will fall together with the ladder and fall down.
A real ladder is actually a large chariot with wheels underneath. The main body is an inclined staircase, but there will be a movable secondary ladder on it. The height of the ladder is similar to the city wall. When the ladder is pushed under the city wall by soldiers, the soldiers will reverse the movable secondary ladder and put it on the city wall. At this time, the top of the ladder is basically parallel to the city wall, while the secondary ladder is like a plate on the dock between the long bridge dock and the ship. This type of plate-type secondary ladder is not as easy to push down as an ordinary long ladder on the city wall. Because it is horizontally mounted, and someone can't lift it when stepping on the secondary ladder. What's more, the theme of the secondary ladder and the ladder truck is connected with axle, and it is difficult to move it away.
In addition, there is another type, which is a long ladder fixed to the body of the car. Because it is connected to the siege car, the defenders cannot turn over. However, this integrated ladder has a fatal flaw - as long as the defenders roll stones or logs down from the top, they can easily glimpse all the siege soldiers on the ladder. Therefore, it is still a safer type with a secondary ladder. Inconsistent slopes can block the integrated attack of rolling wood and rocks.
For cloud ladders with parallel sub-ladders, there is generally no way to defend the city. Rolling wood and rocks is not easy to use, so you have to shoot the enemy on the ladder with a bow and arrow. Also, use a spear to stab the enemy who dares to approach. Moreover, you don’t have to stab the opponent to death, just stab the opponent so hard that you can fall off the ladder.
Of course, you can also use a sledgehammer to smash the secondary ladder on the city wall to destroy the secondary ladder. Also, pour oil and ignite the secondary ladder to make it burn. However, the siege is not a fool. There are also archers on the ladder to prevent you from destroying the ladder. If you dare to show your head, you will shoot you.
However, that was the tactic of the cold weapon era. If the sword and shield soldiers held a large shield and launched a charge on the gentle secondary ladder, the defenders at the city would be helpless and would easily be attacked on the city wall. Because, facing the large shield, the archers seemed very powerless. At this time, the warriors could only rely on the warriors to kill or push down the city wall.
But in the age of muskets, it is much more difficult for the sword and shield soldiers to rush up the city wall from the ladder to the ladder. In particular, large-caliber muskets such as Mushket muskets have a particularly great threat to the sword and shield soldiers. The huge impact force brought by 50 grams of lead bullets can even kill you, and they can still knock the sword and shield soldiers on the charge on the secondary ladder down from the secondary ladder and become disabled...
In front of the Mushket musket, no matter whether you are a sword and shield soldier or a plate-armored knight, you have to fall down after being bombarded. Therefore, the French army did not use the precious French knights at the beginning, but instead let the Italian mercenaries go up to consume the defending ammunition...
However, Pasto and other Italian mercenary generals were not fools, so how could they be willing to die easily? So they captured 4,000 local farmers and asked them to carry the damaged door panels and rush forward from the secondary ladder...
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"What's going on? Are these people?" Torres, the defending general, was puzzled by the head of the city of Naples. Because the siege today did not look like an army. Because these people were carrying the door panels, and holding the door panels with both hands, without even a knife in their hands...
"Report to the general, these people seem to be nearby villagers..." A low-level military officer who often deals with locals said. He still recognizes the costumes of nearby villagers.
"Then... will you kill?" asked the adjutant.
Torres hesitated:
"I always feel that something is wrong. What are they doing with the villagers? Is it... by the way, they want to consume our bullets!"
"Will you still shoot?"
"Stop firing, but send spearmen and swords and shield soldiers to block them and prevent them from going to the wall. If they rush to the wall, they will be ordered to hold their heads and squat down immediately, otherwise they will be killed immediately without mercy!" Torres ordered.
"Crouch down with your head and throw away the door panel! Otherwise, you will be killed without mercy!" The Spanish officer in charge of defense shouted in Italian. They have lived in the city of Naples for several years and still know some local languages.
However, things are not that simple...
Most of the local villagers who were forced to rush up the city walls honestly threw away the door panels and squatted on the top of the city after hearing the shouts of Spanish officers.
However, these people are not all local villagers. Some mercenaries under Pasto were mixed in. Although these people were wearing ordinary people's clothes, they had short knives hidden in their clothes...
Taking advantage of the Spanish's negligence that the overall situation was settled, among the Italian farmers who were squatting on the top of the city with their heads in their arms, a group of people suddenly rose up, took out short swords from their clothes, and rushed towards the unprepared defenders...
The Spanish soldiers on the top of the city were caught off guard and killed a group of people. Then, a group of Italian mercenaries saw the opportunity and rushed up quickly from the corresponding ladder to try to control the city where those people controlled...
The Spanish defenders were caught off guard at first, but General Torres quickly reacted:
"Reinforcement! Reinforce that section of the city wall! Be sure to drive those bastards off the city wall!"
Then, the most elite group of subordinates under General Torres were sent over and fought fiercely with the Italian mercenaries who had begun to rush to the city.
The elite group of Torres's men were basically heavy armored infantry. However, the armor they wore was exposed to the back, pp and the castrated plate armor on the back of their legs. 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 person will reveal his back. Such a person is more dead...
In this way, relying on this group of Spanish elite warriors wearing "backless outfits" plate armor who were originally close guards, the offensive of the Italian mercenaries was finally repelled...
"Oh, it's a pity! If the French Cavaliers rushed forward... they wouldn't lose at all..."
Seeing this scene, Louis XII in the distance was so depressed that he jumped straight. If it were the French knights who had excellent martial arts skills, they would definitely be able to gain a foothold on that section of the city wall and support the subsequent troops. Unfortunately, the combat effectiveness of the Italian mercenaries was too poor...
But he didn't think about it. So early, was he willing to send French Knights as his trump card early? Moreover, this attack was clearly a test by Italian mercenaries, and no one could guarantee success...
Chapter completed!