What the leader of the Yongye Army can do now is to further downplay the role of the Crocodile Tribe in the defense of Brother Port, and then negotiate with Nidia, Weber, Bishop and other relatively rational elders to encourage them to increase their support against the Crocodile Tribe's army.

Take control.

Instead of excluding them from some important military meetings, we actively invite them to participate so that they can have a clearer understanding of the entire situation. The frequency of the previous irrational behavior will be much reduced.

The problem exposed by the Kingsley family is also obvious, that is, the serious lack of long-range attacks.

The long-range attacks of both sides are not at the same level at all.

The range of the Andis longbow itself is astonishing. Now that it is condescending, it has different levels of bonuses. The arrows flying out of the more than ten-meter-high arrow tower can easily shoot to 500 meters away.

The archers of the Kingsley family had no way to press forward and provide remote suppression support. The entire siege force was directly exposed to the rain of arrows, and they could really shoot as they wanted.

Akmesser is a veteran in the army, so it is impossible that he does not know the consequences of suppressing long-range attacks.

It's definitely not just a matter of casualties, but also a blow to one's own morale.

Facing the overwhelming rain of arrows, many heavy armored infantrymen, even though they were wearing heavy armor, knew that they could not cause much damage to themselves, still fought in two groups. It was difficult to muster the courage to charge, let alone those with thin armor.

Cannon fodder.

Including those mercenaries who are willing to sacrifice their lives for money.

They are not fools. They can risk their lives for the bounty, but that is only if there is hope of getting the bounty. Only fools will rush forward if it is a fatal situation like before.

Compared to the cannon fodder of the Crocodile Tribe, the mercenaries faced a more ferocious rain of arrows, and the reason why they only lost less than 3,000 people was because they saw that the momentum was not right, so they hid behind and paddled.

For them, the Kingsley family cannot drive them away like cannon fodder of the Crocodile tribe. Until there is no corresponding solution, there is no hope that they can continue to charge bravely.

This is the biggest drawback of using mercenaries.

It's not that the Kingsley family didn't build siege equipment, but the surrounding trees were completely destroyed by the Yongye Army. Not to mention the tall trees, even the shrubs were uprooted by them.

The nearest deforestation areas are dozens of kilometers away.

Moreover, the trees produced in the Swamp of Despair are usually relatively low and have loose wood. Most of the trees that can be built are small siege machines and large siege machines. They are picky and picky, and not many of them have been built so far.

Akmesser now holds it in his hands like a treasure and is reluctant to use it on these cannon fodder.

"Pile up the earth and attack the city!" Some smart people in the Kingsley family's Eastern Army came up with new methods to deal with this situation.

"That's the only way." Akmesser nodded and agreed to this plan.

Pile earth to attack the city.

As the name suggests, the soil is piled into mounds until it reaches the bottom of the city wall. After exceeding the city wall, the siege soldiers rush along the slope of the mound to the top of the city wall.

It goes without saying much about the advantages and disadvantages.

Once successful, if a gap is opened in the city wall, a large number of soldiers will pour in, and the rest will be an out-and-out hand-to-hand fight. If the defenders cannot hold it back, the city will be broken.

The disadvantage is that this is an out-and-out stupid method, which requires a lot of time, manpower, and material resources.

Especially when facing a castle with natural dangers or a small-scale siege, this trick is not useful at all.

The Kingsley family has no better solution now.

The feasibility of this stupid method is actually relatively high.

After all, the natural danger that Brother Port relies on is water.

Although Ashan does not say that the five elements are in conflict with each other, there is a theory that the elements are in conflict with each other.

Regardless of the five elements or elements, earth is absolutely inferior to water.

What's more, the Kingsley family now has a large number of idle manpower, and indeed has the innate conditions to implement this method.

Whether it was due to the paralysis of the Yongye military leader or the preparation of a multi-pronged approach, the Kingsley family began to pile up soil and attack the city before waiting for the cold winter to come.

During this period, the Kingsley family successively drove away cannon fodder and organized several exploratory attacks.

However, the purpose of these tentative attacks was not to try to fill in the moat of Brother Port, but to test the maximum range of Andis's longbow.

Then set up temporary defense tools to prepare for the siege.

Even if you plan to use a stupid method, you have to start from the closest point with the weakest firepower. At this time, you can save any effort you can.

Akmesser had prepared not one, but as many as eight points for mounding earth to attack the city.

There were tens of thousands of people at each point, and the soil was piled up non-stop for 25 hours. The mounds of more than ten meters long began to spread towards Brother City little by little.

The Andis Longbow, which had repeatedly performed extraordinary feats in the Eternal Night Army, was a little helpless this time.

Once the mound is formed, there will be a large natural blind spot for bows and arrows, making it impossible to do anything whether it is horizontal shooting or projectile shooting.

Furthermore, the Kingsley family was fully prepared to defend against arrows this time. They used logs to build fortifications. If the mound was pushed forward a little, the fortifications would be pushed forward a little to provide cover for those who were mounding the earth.

It is true that the trees produced in the swamp are not very hard, but the quantity can make up for the defects in quality.

No matter how powerful the Andis Longbow is, it cannot change the fact that it is a bow and arrow. Its power is limited after all, and it cannot have the same penetrating ability as a siege crossbow.

Besides, facing a log wall dozens of centimeters thick, not even a siege crossbow can do anything.

Although the Kingsley family does not care about the life and death of these cannon fodders, it is still possible to reduce the possibility of their death as much as possible. After all, the number of cannon fodders is also limited, so use as much as you can.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder.

The leader of the Yongye Army was not helpless against the Kingsley family's pile of earth to attack the city.

Brother Port not only has a large number of Andis longbowmen, but also a large number of defensive equipment.

Influenced by Sean, the leader of the Yongye Army paid great attention to the research of siege equipment from the beginning, especially the attached engineer regiment, which took tower defense tactics to the extreme.

Since Brother Port's geographical location is so important, this tactic was naturally used to its extreme.

The hundreds of tower trebuchets are the best proof.

The true official name of the Tower Catapult is the Sky Catapult.

As you can tell from the name, the Yongye Army Leader already has a relatively clear hierarchy in terms of catapults.

However, in order to make it easy to remember, the leader of the Yongye Army did not give them too complicated names. They named them after easy-to-understand small, medium and large trebuchets. Only the unconventional super giant Yunxiao trebuchet has its own

name.

The number of trebuchets placed on and inside the walls of Brother City is mind-boggling.

The reason why it was not used before was because the longbowmen alone were enough and it was not worth wasting the extra firepower.

Andis's longbow was unable to do anything, so it was their turn to show off.

After the calibration test, rocks ranging from a dozen kilograms to dozens of kilograms hit the Kingsley family's defenses with a sharp roar.

The earth and rocks broke apart, and pieces of wood flew everywhere.

Once it collapses accidentally, you may die.

The catapult led by the Yongye Army is extremely accurate. Once calibrated, it can hit the same target with a diameter of more than three meters in one out of ten.

The problem is not the catapult, but the catapult.

These stones are not randomly picked up, but are fired in the furnace cellar. Their shapes and weights have corresponding standards and are almost the same.

After the throw is made, the instability factors are reduced a lot, and the accuracy is naturally greatly improved.

The density of bombing is also terrifying and frightening.

Under the continuous bombing, no matter how strong the defense facilities are, they will be smashed at some point.

What's more, the crude defensive shield wall made by the Kingsley family at the beginning was very ordinary. The strongest one made for the first time could not withstand two hours. This was the correct time for the catapult of the Yongye Army at the beginning.

included.

Although it was continuously thickened after subsequent repairs and repairs, it was difficult for it to withstand four hours.

No living person will suffocate to death.

Soon the Kingsley family adjusted their strategy.

The fortifications are no longer placed in the open, but placed inside the earthen walls.

in other words.

The Kingsley family used various support pillars to build a tunnel, then kept burying soil outside the tunnel, and pushed forward bit by bit towards Brother Port.

Although this is a little troublesome and will greatly limit the accumulation speed of the earth wall, it is more safe. The thick soil layer outside is the best protective layer.

Even those thrown by large catapults, the impact of stone projectiles weighing forty to fifty kilograms on them is quite limited.

The only thing that can pose a threat to it is the Sky Catapult.

This kind of super giant catapult requires half a centenarian to operate at the same time every time it is loaded. Both the throwing distance and the lethality are far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Let's not talk about anything else, just the roar of its winch rotation.

The loud noise makes people's scalp numb.

The shortcomings of the Yunxiao Catapult are also obvious, that is, loading the bomb is very troublesome and requires specially trained professionals to operate it. Being able to launch one in seven or eight minutes is already the limit of what can be accomplished.

Therefore, of course they cannot test the firing angle like other trebuchets and trebuchets.

The leader of the Yongye Army has already thought of this problem in advance.

Each Sky Catapult has several attached catapults in different directions.

Not only do these attached catapults look like scaled-down versions of them, many of their attack routes are on a straight line. Even if they are not on a straight line, they have been positioned through special mathematical calculations and can overlap.
To be continued...