"Shit! Which civilized army is this?"

A lord of an African tribal civilization occupied a city and possessed a military branch of tribal civilization. When he saw the mighty imperial army surrounding his city, his legs became weak.

There are at least 100,000 troops under the city, and they are not ordinary troops, but high-level troops!

The Hu Ben Army with complete armor, the vine armored soldiers with full body, the huge war elephant, the three-layer heavy armored Wei Wuzhang... Countless elite armored soldiers were shining with sharp weapons, holding sharp weapons, and were covered in darkness, without seeing the end.

It is obvious that this is the army that only a few of the most powerful civilizations have!

Chu Tian and Huo An, Xu Fengnian, Zhang Dao, Mu Ke and other princes were at the forefront and observed the tribal indigenous army guarding the city. Chu Tian rarely deals with African civilizations. In the past, he had seen the army of African tribes in Yekaterina's servant army.

Yekaterina, Chu Tian almost forgot her appearance.

Huoan held the restless war horses: "According to the captive indigenous scouts, this is the lord of the Sanghai Empire. The Sanghai Empire was a civilization in West Africa. Its heyday started from tropical rainforests in the south, ended in the Sahara Desert in the north, and the Atlantic coast in the west, and was known for its gold trade."

Mu Ke said: "The game expansion pack I saw before showed that the population of West Africa is one-sixth of our Eastern Han Dynasty, about two states, and cannot be underestimated."

Chu Tian narrowed his eyes, and behind him were Cao Cao, Xue Rengui, Chen Qingzhi, Wei Qing, and Le Yi: "Two states...how many cities do they have in this national war?"

"Five cities. At least 150,000 indigenous main forces."

"It's a neutral civilization. Let them get out of our path, otherwise we will attack the city immediately."

Chu Tian acted according to the established strategy and would greet great civilizations with some strength in advance. As long as they rolled aside obediently and handed over the cities along the way to the Han army to control, a great war could be avoided.

Like America, Africa does not have many decent heroes, but its arms are special. Given the balance mechanism of each civilization zone of the game, Africa has iron and war horses, which is equivalent to a special barbarian. It is a bit tricky to really fight.

Huo An gave a wink to his subordinate Gao Xianzhi. Gao Xianzhi rode his horse forward and conveyed Chu Tian's words to the African chief.

The indigenous defenders in the city were in a stir, and the Han Empire civilization was besieged!

The Eastern Army of the Han Empire asked the defenders of this city to immediately give up the city and allow their troops to leave.

"This is a trap. Once we leave the city, there is no city, arrow tower, and fortress, we will be crushed by the cavalry in the east!"

"Waiting for the arrival of other chiefs, the Han Empire will definitely withdraw its troops if it cannot be captured for a long time."

The lords of the Sanghai Empire believed that this was a trap set by Chu Tian and others, and refused to leave the city. Then they exploded soldiers frantically, transforming the residents of the city into tribal archers, large shield soldiers, javelins, noble cavalry, and guards.

Chu Tian gave the Sanghai Empire a chance, but the chief was completely unwilling to leave.

"Some of the troops attack the city, some of the troops attack the reinforcements, and the remaining troops protect the baggage team."

Chu Tian weighed the strength of the troops in his hand and decided to attack the city.

The Han army was divided into three parts. Chu Tian gathered a large number of low-level troops, and Le Yi was the commander of the siege. All the princes sent a team to take the lead in capturing the city.

The first team sent by Chutian were Le Jin, Zhou Cang, Dian Wei, Li Guang, Huoan sent powerful generals Li Siye, Xu Fengnian sent Wang Tieqi, Zhang Dao sent Zhang Liang, and Mu Ke sent a Southern barbarian general, who was more than two meters tall and had an amazing physique.

Mu Ke explained: "This is Wu Tugu's father, who surrendered to my army, and his army is the Vine Armor Army."

Wutugu was an unlucky character who was burned by Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Romance of the Tengjia Army, and was wiped out by the entire army. However, Wutugu was tall and his martial arts were not low.

A hundred thousand troops were preparing to attack the city. The army craftsmen skillfully commanded the soldiers to form stone-pouring machines, siege towers, ladders, chariots and other siege equipment, as well as various high-level cavalry and war elephants on guard. As long as other lords of the Sanghai Empire dared to reinforce the city, they would be attacked by a large number of heavy cavalry.

Even if the troops of the indigenous African empires are special, they cannot stop the assault of heavy cavalry in the Gobi Desert. The heavy cavalry has too great destructive power in the era of cold weapons.

While preparing for the siege, Chu Tian contacted two other armies and demanded cooperation to pacify the city blocked by the Sanghai Empire.

The current situation is that the Han Empire is in the south, the Persian Empire is in the north, and the Sanghai Empire is in the east.

The Han army marched a hundred miles northward, and the Persian Empire lord avoided his edge. Then the Han army turned east and marched towards one of the main cities, hitting the Sanghai Empire civilization, which was ignorant of life and death.

According to the marching route, it is not impossible to avoid it, but to avoid the Sanghai Empire and go around a big circle to make the supply line longer. It is better to directly flatten it and get points for the national war by the way.

"Attack the Sanghai Empire and drive them out of the national battlefield."

The troops of Lao Qin and Mingguan also began to attack the city of Sanghai Empire on the way and tempered the army.

The three Han army was composed of the troops of fifteen princes, while the Sanghai Empire had only five chiefs!

The chiefs of the Sanghai Empire gradually realized that something was wrong. Each of the three Han troops had more than 100,000 troops, and a total of 500,000 troops attacked. Such a military force was extremely terrifying for any civilization!

Chutian's Eastern Army spent a day building siege equipment.

The next day, dozens of trenchers, dozens of crossbows, hundreds of ladders, chariots were formed, and eight towering siege towers stood high and looked down at the city!

The chief of the Sanghai Empire knew this time that he had provoked an amazing behemoth. But he had too high expectations for the city wall and hoped that he could hold on with the city wall. As long as the Han Empire could not capture it for a long time, the Han army would soon withdraw.

The Sanghai Empire had five cities, three of which were attacked by three Han troops at the same time!

Since we decided to flatten the Sanghai Empire that was standing in the way and reduce a competitor to compete for the main city, the offensive will be as fast as the wind and as fire!

"Liang Hongyu, led three thousand sound shooting camps and five thousand crossbowmen to cover them."

Chu Tian asked Liang Hongyu, who was good at commanding crossbowmen, to command the crossbow troops to provide support to Le Yi's siege troops.

As a hero of the crossbow, Liang Hongyu was very practical, making up for Chu Tian’s lack of elite crossbow troops. Li Guang’s troops were actually more inclined to cavalry, while Li Ling’s infantry had not been recruited yet, and Liang Hongyu’s strength was greater than Li Ling.

The troops commanded by Le Yi had five first-row teams, each with one thousand elite troops, and 30,000 low-level soldiers as cannon fodder troops.

In addition, Huoan, Zhang Dao, Xu Fengnian, and Mu Ke each produced eight thousand crossbowmen, and formed a 40,000 crossbowmen with Chu Tian’s eight thousand crossbowmen!

"It is no problem to take down this city, the problem is that it consumes a huge amount of arms."

Chu Tian roughly estimated that if everyone shoots a round of arrows, it will consume 40,000 crossbow arrows! After a battle, hundreds of thousands of arrows will disappear!

Fortunately, when the Han army established a supply line, the rear would transport the produced arms to the front line, and at the same time, after occupying the enemy's city, some of the supplies could be obtained.

Only by relying on production and plunder can consumption be barely maintained.

"Siege!"

With Chu Tian's order, the soldiers pulled the rope of the catapult cart and shot out the stones weighing dozens of kilograms. The whistling stones hit the city wall, and spider-web-like cracks appeared in the bricks!

The martial master hammered the crossbow, and the sharp crossbow arrow shot into the arrow tower, taking away a corner of the arrow tower! A crossbow arrow shot into the city wall, and it actually sank into the city wall, and the stones fell and spilled all over the floor!

Hundreds of chariots covered the elite Han army archers advance, and hundreds of low-level infantry pushed the tall siege tower to approach the city wall. On the siege tower, the sharpshooters of the sound camp were ready. They would attack the defenders with the crossbowmen under the city in a condescending posture.

More crossbowmen and infantry are arranged in square formations. As long as the longbowmen protected by chariots and siege towers suppress the defenders, they will step forward and carry out a larger-scale suppression of the defenders.

The five teams are ready to go first.

Li Guang was moving his muscles and carrying a big bow on his back, looking majestic. Le Jin was relatively short, but he was extremely brave when he fought desperately. Zhou Cang was big and thick, and he couldn't marching and fighting, but his force was not good.

Chu Tian glanced at Huoan's camp and found that there was a powerful general Li Siye. Li Siye had an elite infantry - the Tang Dynasty Modao Team. However, Huoan was not as luxurious as using the expensive Modao Team to attack the city, but instead selected the elite infantry of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, commanded by Li Siye.

Xu Fengnian directly sent Wang Tieqin, the most powerful general under his command, to sweep away the thousands of troops with one iron spear.

Zhang Dao sent Zhang Liang and the Yellow Turban Chang. The Yellow Turban Chang was similar to the faith infantry of the Arab Empire, and was also considered elite.

Mu Ke sent Wu Tugu's father and the Tengjia Army.

In addition to the other party's ignorance of the city of the Sanghai Empire, Chu Tian also had the intention of adapting several princes to attack the city of Sanghai Empire. The Sanghai Empire is not a powerful civilization, and it is most suitable for practicing.

The black siege troops advanced forward, and the natives guarding the city began to panic. Faced with the powerful offensive of the Han army, they gradually lost confidence in whether they could hold on to the city.

Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao, Li Hu, and Liu Zongmin each chose a siege tower. The force of these generals also plays a role in siege battles. They can use their superb bow skills to snipe African tribal heroes on the city wall!

The function of the siege tower is not only to use crossbows to suppress the defenders, but also to lower the suspension bridge. Infantry continues to attack the city wall along the wooden ladder inside the siege tower!

The native archers on the city wall began to shoot archery rain and shoot carts!

A rain of arrows fell, and most of the cars were covered by arrows, but they were blocked by the cars, and the longbowers hiding behind suffered little losses.

“Use the Rockets!”

The chief of the Sanghai Empire scolded the native archers under his command, so the native archers replaced the more destructive rocket. A round of rockets covered the sky and turned sharply! The arrows rubbed violently with the air, colliding with the car and the siege tower!

"Did it work?!"

The chief of the Sanghai Empire and a group of tribal heroes hope to use rockets to burn siege equipment that poses great threat to the city, especially the siege tower that is 12 meters high.

Thousands of rockets were hit by the car and the cowhide or iron sheets of the siege tower. Even the fire arrows were difficult to ignite these siege equipment!

"Shoot the arrow!"

After entering the range, the Han army's long archer appeared from behind the chariot and shot the city wall defenders!

Arrows were like meteors, and dozens of indigenous archers were shot and killed by Han army's long archers!

"Go forward, divide into three columns, take turns shooting!"

Le Yi ordered the 30,000 Han army crossbowmen prepared in the rear to line up in three rows, each with 10,000 Han army crossbowmen!

Han army crossbowmen have long loaded crossbow arrows. Compared with the high rate of fire of the longbow, the advantage of infantry crossbows is that they can load crossbow arrows in advance without the need for power maintenance.

Thirty thousand Han army crossbowmen were moving forward step by step, and the first row of 10,000 Han army crossbowmen aimed at the city wall, and ten thousand crossbow arrows were shot out! The second row of Han army crossbowmen stepped forward, and another ten thousand crossbow arrows were shot out! The third row of Han army crossbowmen shot crossbow arrows...

When the third row of crossbowmen finished shooting, the first row of crossbowmen had reloaded the crossbow arrows!

Continuous high-intensity crossbow arrow shooting resulted in hundreds of tribal archers and infantry being killed! The native soldiers of the Sanghai Empire did not even dare to emerge, otherwise they would be shot and killed by dense crossbow arrows immediately!

The Han army seemed to have phobia for insufficient firepower. The continuous rain of arrows washed away the defenders. The wooden arrow tower was shot into sieve by thousands of arrows, and all the tribal sharpshooters on the arrow tower were killed!

Dong, Dong, Dong!

The sound of war drums echoed in the air. After the Han army's crossbowmen suppressed the defenders, Le Yi commanded a large number of low-level infantry to attack the city wall!

Team after team of cloud ladders attacked the city, climbing up like ants!

"Go to the team to attack the city first!"

Unexpectedly, Chu Tian originally thought that Le Yi would use cannon fodder troops to consume the defenders, but Le Yi suppressed all his troops at once, and had to make a concerted effort to seize the city with Cao Gui's effect!
To be continued...