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Chapter 39 Friction

As an excellent military strategist and general, after the rise of his lord, Henry, the Bavarian lion, paid extreme attention to the various military intelligence, military systems, equipment, training and logistics of the Norman Empire. This general can be said to be one of the nations who valued the most. This behavior became more obvious after experiencing the Near East.

After the Norman Empire started war with the anti-Norman Alliance, the general spared no effort to collect information from the Norman Empire. He originally thought that although he could not know about the Norman Empire, there were always 80% of them. Even at some banquets, the general boasted: I know the Normans more than the Normans. However, today, General Ershi's bridge carriage shook his confidence. Just like General Carl who said the wrong thing before. General Wallenstein also felt his face burning, as if he was slapped in the face...

In this way, while the Normans were jogging calmly, pushing and pulling a large number of ladders across the moat, opposite them, the coalition soldiers were fussing from top to bottom.

"With this kind of weapon with the fastest text update without ads, plus their ladder trucks. For the Normans, the city is really nothing to do with it..." Wallenstein sighed secretly, and then ordered the soldiers to shoot at the Normans who were about to rush to the city.

Although the effect of the coalition crossbowmen, catapults and crossbowmen on the Norman Tower car is very limited under the suppressed attack of the Norman Tower car, under the excellent defense of the three-quarter plate armor of the Norman Infantry, the effect of the coalition crossbowmen is very limited. However, even if it is limited, it is better than nothing.

Seeing the arrows on the city wall raining, the Norman infantry immediately raised the kite shield to protect the face-opening helmet, which had no defense, and at the same time accelerated the speed of pushing and pulling the ladder. As the ladder was pushed to the base of the city wall, the folded ladder was immediately raised, and the wooden board with sharp barbs suddenly smashed towards the six-meter-high city wall of Prague. Then, due to weight, it was deeply inserted into the city bricks.

"Okay! Attack!!" The commander in the team this time, he saw that his ladder had been set up. He shouted like this, took the lead, and charged towards the head of Prague. Behind him, the one holding the half phoenix flag, the infantry tomahawk flag, the emperor's will, and the thousand-person team numbered flags - these four flag bearers also blew the horns and waved the flags to inspire the morale of the army!

"Quick! Do what I said!!" Seeing the Norman infantry rushed over at an extremely fast speed, General Wallenstein shouted immediately on the top of the city wall. Then a soldier poured the big bucket of grease onto the ladder truck in all his hands.

Although the ladder truck has the word "ladder" in its name, it is actually a large piece of wooden board. After the grease was poured on it, the smooth and flat surface became extremely difficult to climb. Wallenstein was playing this beautifully, and many Norman infantry immediately slipped under his feet and then fell uncontrollably. The subsequent domino effect made the group of Norman infantry behind him fall miserably.

Seeing the aggressive Normans suddenly thinking of rushing over, they suddenly fell down a horse in embarrassment. The coalition forces on the top of the city couldn't help laughing loudly, and their morale increased a lot. Such laughter, as well as the various infuriating faces and gestures made by the coalition soldiers, the Normans couldn't help but roar. Immediately, a few guys who were hit hard and didn't know much about their minds wanted to climb again with an axe - but soon, these guys fell down again.

As a result, the laughter on the top of Prague became even louder.

Although he was surprised that the other party had a machine that could cross the moat. General Wallenstein knew a lot about the ladder truck that was invented earlier. In order to crack the terrifying siege such as the Normans, the general huā paid a lot and got a damaged ladder truck from the Venetians.

Originally, he thought that he could imitate this and produce some similar equipment by himself. However, this idea could not be implemented in a short period of time. Because of the craftsman problem, Bavaria did not have enough exquisite carpenters and talents to study machinery. The ladder trucks looked simple, and most of the materials were made of wood. However, many other parts were forged from fine steel. This was nothing for the Normans who were very developed in metallurgy. However, for Bavaria, where the productivity level was still in the medieval era, it was a very difficult thing.

In addition, the thing sold to him was said to be "bad". It lacked some necessary parts - this is the most important reason why Wallenstein felt desperate.

After abandoning this unrealistic fantasy, Wallenstein began to continue his experiments. He ordered his subordinates to remove the car body and leave the wooden boards. Then he saw the wooden boards on the walls of Munich to imitate the siege and find a way to crack this trick.

He had tried burning, but the burning speed was too slow and not very practical. He also tried to hit it with large stones, but the wooden board was stronger than imagined. He was not even afraid of iron cones... Until the end, after a heavy rain, he fell because he walked too fast. Only then did Wallenstein think of how to deal with the Norman ladder truck...

"Hmph...I didn't expect that there were a few guys on the opposite side who had a clear mind."

Seeing his army's offensive suddenly suffered setbacks, the morale of the army opposite was high. Behind the Norman army, General Ershi, on a building car, snorted coldly. Then he ordered the army in front to temporarily endure the attack with the ladder truck as a shield. At the same time, he ordered the engineers under his command to transport the new round of siege ladder trucks over.

After a while, although the enemy was attacked by the city wall less and the casualties were not large. However, the Normans were also quite depressed at this moment. Wallenstein was secretly proud, but saw that the Normans transported many more ladder trucks. The general was about to mock the Normans for not knowing to learn from their lessons, but suddenly found that the wooden boards of these ladder trucks seemed to be wrapped in a layer of hay...

——Wrapped with a layer of hay, the oil will seep into the hay. The Normans do not directly touch the flat wooden boards, but step on the hay and will not be slipped! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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