Vol 11 Chapter 19: : Siege

咚, 咚, 咚 ...
Exciting drums of war came from behind the Imperial Army. At this moment, more than 300,000 troops of the Empire were advancing towards the Black Earth Fortress.
In the face of the towering dark wall, the imperial soldiers did not fear, but maintained a neat queue and advanced forward at a uniform speed.
The front of the Imperial Army is a large row of heavy shield soldiers. The shields in their hands are tilted upwards, and no enemy will appear on the front. The deadly attack must come from the fortress that is tens of meters high.
The heavy shield soldiers are very special. They wear light armor and do not even carry weapons. Each person is carrying a bamboo basket behind them. The bamboo basket contains irregularly shaped stones. These stones are the key to this battle.
In front of the Imperial Army, there are queues of this size. A heavy shield soldier, a transport soldier carrying a rock behind, and a heavy shield soldier behind it.
As the Imperial Army moved forward, the Horde forces on the black soil fortress walls were struggling.
On the edge of the fortress wall is a large mob crossbow. These crossbow are like metal turrets. They are completely forged from metal. If you want to refill this thing, you must use a rocker. The starter lever just enlarged the model.
Click, click, click ...
The stringing sound of the machine crossbow is one piece. This large machine crossbow cannot be wound up in advance. It will not be fired within one minute after being wound. The strong pulling force of the bowstring will deform the machine crossbow, showing how terrible the power of this thing is.
A famous dwarf was busy on the wall. There were three dwarfs near each crossbow. One was responsible for launching, one was responsible for filling, and one was responsible for winding the winding wheel. Their movements were neat, less than ten seconds, and there were more than three hundred on the wall. The machine crossbow has been wound up. Do not think that there are only three hundred machine crossbows on the black soil fortress. Look at it. There are at least thousands of machine crossbows on the fortress, but the battle line is so long that other machine crossbows are not available. This kind of mobile The crossbow has filled this wall.
Before the imperial army attacked the black soil fortress, it was almost the unilateral slaughter of them by the tribal side. As for the counterattack with the arrow rain, it basically had no effect.
This horrible war weapon is called 'Moat Roller Crossbow' and was invented and built by the dwarves.
If the "protection round crossbow" only fires ordinary large crossbow arrows, then the tribe will not use it to defend the fortress. Even if the power of the crossbow arrow is strong, it only attacks a point, which has little effect on the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of people. However, the attack range of the moat heavy crossbow is not a point, but a large area.
"ready."
An dwarf almost wrapped in an iron bucket stood high, holding a small red flag in his hand.
When the dwarf banner soldier raised the small flag, the Imperial Army was on the way, and those soldiers carrying the bamboo basket rushed out. On the way, they took off the bamboo basket behind them and wanted to dump the stones in the bamboo basket under the city wall. As long as this 'simple' mission is completed, they can retreat to the rear of the army.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the opportunity at all.
"Rush!"
A soldier rushed forward.
"hair!"
At the fortress, the dwarven flag soldiers swung down the chess pieces, and the dwarves behind the three hundred 'protection rounds' pulled down the trigger.
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The crossbow strings make a muffled sound. This is not that the crossbow strings are broken, but that the crossbow strings are too strong, and the sound made by rapidly rubbing the air.
Crossbow arrows with a length of more than three meters are shot. These crossbow arrows are not pointed, but oval arrows, like a large match. The crossbow interrupts several rows of reverse air holes. Once the speed of the crossbow reaches a certain limit, This killing weapon will show its ugly side.
The whole crossbow arrow is spiral, so after the crossbow is fired, it starts to spin at high speed.
Ding ~
A large crossbow stretches out in the mid-air, a ‘wing’. What kind of wing is this? It ’s a three-meter-long thin double-edged blade.
The crossbow arrows are rotating at high speed. After the double-edged blade is deployed, each crossbow arrow becomes high speed rotation.
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Turned reamer.
Hum ~
A harsh whistling came, and hundreds of high-speed rotating crossbow reamers attacked the Imperial soldiers under the fortress.
The crossbow reamer flew into the crowd and began to cut the human body. The armor could not protect it at all. Blood and flesh splattered. A dozen soldiers were chopped into flesh instantly. This is not the end. Because the tip of the crossbow reamer is round, After landing, it will continue to kill the enemy. If the angle is just right, this thing is like a spinning top.
Mud splattered and the limbs flew across. After a round of volleys by the Horde Army, a large body appeared under the fortress.
"Hahaha."
"These are pieces."
"Come again."
While the dwarves laughed loudly, the second round of salvos was ready.
Under the fortress, Carlos, the head of the legion, looked grim, beside him was a chopped crossbow reamer.
"carry on."
Carlos roared and heard the voice of his own legionnaire. Those soldiers carrying bamboo baskets yelled and rushed forward, and their legionnaire was watching them. They were the ones they worshiped.
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The fortress started the second round of salvos. Although the Imperial soldiers suffered heavy casualties, under the leadership of the Corps Chief Carlos, soldiers rushed forward without fear.
In less than two minutes, the stones under the fortress have been piled up one meter high, but of course the stones have no such effect. It will be different if a broken body is added.
While the dwarves were busy reloading at the fortress, the Elf Archers behind the Imperial Army had been preparing for a long time.
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The dense arrow rain shoots parabolically towards the fortress. When you see these arrow rain, the dwarves on the fortress don't care at all. The role of the "moat heavy crossbow" originally invented is not actually to defend the city, but to deal with The arrow rain of the elves is just that this thing is difficult to carry, and it does not work well against the light and easy-to-move elbow bows.
But now it ’s a siege battle, and the ‘Moatrunner’ has demonstrated its ability to respond to arrow rain.
The dense rain of arrows in the air fell before ~ ​​EbookFREE.me ~ A crossbow reamer has approached.
Click, click ...
The arrow rain was twisted into sky sawdust. Not only that, but the crossbow reamer flew to the middle of the Imperial Army.
The crossbow reamer fell to the ground, and a large number of soldiers were smashed into flesh without even screaming, and the situation of the tribal army was very good.
Is it really like this? No, once the stones + corpses piled under the fortress have accumulated to a certain height, the Imperial Army will rush to the fortress and start a white-blade battle.
Strangely, there was no large-scale magic in the armies of the two sides, and no fire or wind storm had ever appeared.
It's not that there are no mages in both camps, but that the world's caster ability is not strong. In one-on-one, the caster's ability is not weak. As for large magic, that thing never appeared after the establishment of the empire. Specifically, The reason is unknown.
Nowadays casters have rarely participated in wars. They prefer to explore magic, that is, they do not participate in the struggle for power. As for the second-order contractor mage, they may have less mastery of large-scale magic. Mass-destructive magic is not this It can be obtained at the stage, and the mana value of large-scale magic consumption is also an astronomical number. The second-order contractor mage can throw small and medium-sized spells on the fortress at most.
The backbone of this world is the army, and the physical fitness of each soldier is not weak. Under the pressure of the army, even the strongest caster can only roll up and escape.
At this time Su Xiao was in the middle of the Imperial Army, on a high hill, he was carrying the Spider Queen.
Although the appearance of the Spider Queen in this world is somewhat inconsistent, under the camouflage of Samsara Paradise, other soldiers only think that this is a special ability of Su Xiao, similar to alchemy or magic.
Of course, more than Su Xiaoyi used a sniper rifle on the battlefield. In this particular case, the contractor's influence on the war began to show.