Chapter 44: Human Sea Tactics

  When people go crazy, they can do anything. Now Karu has been driven into such a situation.

  He was originally the most trusted, most capable and most favored among his father's three sons, and was designated as the next lord.

  However, because of the failure of the last attack on Lion King's territory, his two older brothers have seized this opportunity to severely beat Karu, wanting him to lose power and thus gain a chance to inherit the lordship.

  Karu's father was also extremely dissatisfied with Karu's actions that time, 5,000 people couldn't even take down a Lion King territory that was already weak and on the verge of collapse, this was truly too incompetent.

  So after going back last time, Karu's father was also furious. If it wasn't for Karu's mother pleading for mercy, he would have definitely been severely punished.

  Karu found some more reasons for the beastmen, and Karu's father suppressed his anger and reorganized the 20,000 troops to let Karu attack again.

  He mobilized an army of 20,000, but in fact it was not just to attack the Lion King's territory. In this era, chaos is approaching, and training troops more will be crucial for future territorial expansion and gaining benefits in this turmoil.

  For the Lion King's territory, Karu's father had never thought that 20,000 troops, plus so many magicians, warriors and siege engines would not be able to take it down.

  Perhaps any other commander would have achieved the same result as Karu in attacking Lion King's territory at this time, but since it is Karu who is leading the army now, all the responsibility lies on his shoulders.

  Karu led an army of 200,000 to attack a lion king's territory called Broken Land and lost more than 60,000 men. How dare he return like this?

  No one says Xiao Yu's strength is too strong, they just say he is incompetent.

  So, Karu had to prove himself, he had to conquer the Lion King's territory, personally take those blade chariots, take those strange catapults, capture those beastmen and elves, only then could he clear his own name.

  If he goes back like this, he will inevitably face his father's severe punishment, and no one can save him.

  Now, Karu's only way out is to go all-in and take down the Lion King City with his life. Now, he still has nearly 15,000 people, and if he relies on human sea tactics to pile up to death, it's not necessarily impossible to win.

  Those well-trained infantry phalanxes and siege strategies now seem to be of little use in the face of Xiao Yu.

  The only useful thing is the advantage of numbers.

  "I don't believe that Beastman infantry is so powerful. I can pile up ten times the troops you have and still not take down Lion's Castle."

  Karu's gaze was filled with an almost morbid determination, as if he had made up his mind that if he failed, he would rather die.

  "Everyone, prepare! Whether you're heavy infantry, light infantry or mages and archers, I want all of you to push forward. Anyone who dares to take a step back will be beheaded on the spot. If we can't take down Lion's Pride Castle, then all of your corpses will remain here!" Karl's voice echoed across the entire wilderness through amplification magic, like a trapped beast letting out a furious roar.

  "Charge for me, wipe out those filthy beastmen, capture those self-proclaimed noble elves, seize those beautiful women as our playthings. Retreaters will die. Your path is only one, which is to charge into the Lion King City and kill all who resist inside. As long as we break through the city, everyone can slaughter and plunder for three days, everything that can be seized is yours."

  Karu stood on the carriage, waving the sword in his hand, his eyes had already turned completely red.

  "Kill..."

  Under the death order of Karu, these soldiers seemed to have a desperate morale, although they were full of doubts about the strange troops in front of them that made them suffer heavy losses. However, they still had an absolute numerical advantage and thought that the enemy was only relying on the thick city walls to block their way. As long as they broke through the city walls, they could win and slaughter freely in Lion King City.

  Siege warfare is all about when you can break the city. Once the city is broken, the defending side will inevitably suffer a significant drop in morale and lose the will to resist, leading to a direct collapse.

  So, they think it's justified to have so many people die under the city walls, because the other side has high and grand city walls, what they need to do is to charge into the inside of the city walls, where there is their glory, their wealth, their female slaves, so they want to rush in.

  Xiao Yu sat in the rocking chair on the city wall, listening to Kalu's loud shout, narrowing his eyes and murmuring: "This Kalu is really daring to fight to the death, it seems that he has also been forced into a desperate situation, and will be severely punished when he returns. So he doesn't care about anything and wants to take down Lion King City at all costs. This time he didn't follow the military formation to attack, but simply relied on numerical superiority to overwhelm, which is also a big trouble."

  Xiao Yu's forces were ultimately too few, and the soldiers under Long Hui's command couldn't play a significant role. Relying solely on this thousand men to resist an army several times their size would be extremely difficult, even for the beastmen.

  At this time, Xiao Yu also wanted to win by tactics, but it seemed that there was no good way to deal with this kind of tactic that relied solely on human waves, and could only be fought head-on.

  "It seems that it's time for the real thing." Xiao Yu stood up, putting down his wine cup. He knew that the moment to test the combat strength of the Beastman infantry had arrived.

  "Kill......" The charge of the Kalu army was like a wave, all the reserve cloud ladders, military crossbows and other things were brought up, charging to death.

  "Also louder than the beastman infantry, roar at them." Xiao Yu gave the order. In battle, morale was the most important thing. Once morale was lower than the opponent's, they would definitely be at a disadvantage. Many of Long Hui's soldiers were now starting to get weak in the knees, so it was necessary to boost their morale.

  Roar...

  The beastman infantry excelled at this kind of work, with five hundred big mouths roaring together like the howling of millions of wolves, forming a sound wave that surged forward like a tidal wave under the moon.

  At that moment, the voice of the Carthusian soldier was covered up, at least on this side of the city wall, no sound could be heard from them anymore. The beastman's voice was simply too loud.

  This time, Xiao Yu could no longer use the Empty City Strategy. Kalu's soldiers charged towards the city gate with one mind.

  "Catapult, ready, fire." Xiao Yu calculated the distance and gave the order to the catapult. Now that the enemy had abandoned their heavy infantry formation, the catapult could no longer just focus on attacking the heavy infantry. Xiao Yu only needed to pay attention to the enemy's crossbow carts and catapults.

  Waaah...

  Rocks flew through the air with a wailing sound like a ghost, falling down in sheets like hail from the sky.

  Boom boom boom...

  In areas covered by the trebuchet's range, less than a third of people could survive, and most were directly crushed to death.

  "Their catapults have arrived, aiming at the first row of catapults on the left side, the first group of five catapults, ready to fire simultaneously." Xiao Yu saw that the opponent had actually separated the catapults, with a large gap between each pair, so it would be too wasteful to attack all ten catapults together, so he divided the catapults into two groups.

  Even if there are five catapults, all of which have a range attack capability with broken stones, they can still take down one ballista.

  Buzz buzz buzz......

  Rocks flew everywhere, smashing an entire catapult and the soldiers next to it without any suspense.

  "The second catapult team, aim at the first trebuchet on the right side, fire." Xiao Yu gave the order again, and both lines opened fire.

  Boom boom boom...

  Another wave of stone projectiles hit, and one of the catapults was destroyed. However, the enemy still had over a dozen catapults, which continued to move rapidly towards the city walls under the push and pull of the soldiers. Once they reached attack range, these catapults could pose a huge threat to the beastman infantry on the city walls, and even the shields of the human infantry could be directly penetrated.

  "Four blade chariots, aim at the second ballista on the right side, fire together." Xiao Yu gave orders to the beastman soldiers controlling the four blade chariots on the other side of the city head.

  There are ten blade cars in total, six at the city gate and four on the city wall.

  Actually, the effect of crossbow bolts is best when shot horizontally. Shooting downwards from a city wall is not as effective as the scattered firepower of catapults.

  Unless these crescent-shaped blades can curve, their power would be greater.

  Hehehe......

  Four-wheeled chariots under the control of the beastman infantry suddenly shot out four moon blades, with a strong whistling sound, like four giant silver discs, and struck the crossbow cart on that side.

  Boom boom boom...

  The powerful Moon Blade struck the ballista, directly cutting it in half. However, out of the four Moon Blades, only one hit its mark, while the others all missed their target.

  The blade car's attack at such a long distance is also very inaccurate. So, it makes sense for Xiao Yu to start letting the four blade cars fire together, at least one of them will hit.

  Otherwise, let a sharp car go continuously for one second, and it may take half a day to hit an arrow car.

  Although they didn't hit the war chariots, those crescent blades still struck some of the enemy soldiers, cutting them in half directly, with a shocking visual effect.

  The catapults went to attack the rear crossbow carts and catapults, those soldiers rushed to the foot of the city wall like crazy, some continued to climb the city wall, and others rushed towards the city gate.

  The elven archers have begun firing, and the orcish infantry at the gate has already strung their crossbows, ready to fire at any moment.

  ………

  Thank you to Junzi for the first reward, thank you to Keke for being so generous with a one-time reward of so much, becoming the first person to break through the barrier in this book. Xiaosa is grateful and will work hard to repay Keke's kindness. Today, Xiaosa will go all out and update four chapters. Xiaosa's typing speed was never fast to begin with, but updating four chapters at once is an enormous challenge. However, for Keke's generous support, Xiaosa must make it happen.