Chapter 19: Siege

Boom, boom, boom...

The roaring 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 soil fortress.

Facing the towering pitch-black city wall, the imperial soldiers were not afraid, but kept a neat queue and moved forward at a constant speed.

At the forefront of the Imperial Army is a large row of heavy shield soldiers. The shields in their hands are raised diagonally upwards, and there will be no enemies on the front. The deadly attack must come from the fortress that is dozens of meters high.

The soldiers behind the heavy shields are very special. They wear light armor and don't even have weapons. Each person carries a bamboo basket behind his back. Inside the bamboo basket are irregularly shaped stones. These stones are the key to this battle.

In front of the Imperial Army was a queue of this size, with a shot of heavy shield soldiers, followed by transport soldiers with stones on their backs, followed by heavy shield soldiers, and so on.

As the Imperial Army advanced, the tribesmen on the walls of the Black Earth Fortress tensed up.

There are large moat crossbows on the edge of the fortress wall. These machine crossbows are like turrets. They are completely forged from metal. If you want to fill this thing, you must use a rocker. The rocker looks a bit like an old-fashioned walking tractor. The launch lever, just zoomed in on the model.

Click, click, click...

The sound of the machine crossbow being wound is continuous. This kind of large machine crossbow cannot be wound in advance, and it will not be fired within one minute after it is wound. The strong pulling force of the bow string will deform the machine crossbow, which shows how terrifying the power of this thing is.

A dwarf was busy on the city wall. There were three dwarves near each machine crossbow, one was in charge of launching, one was in charge of filling, and the other was in charge of winding the wheel. The machine crossbows have been wound. Don't think that there are only three hundred machine crossbows on the black soil fortress. Looking around, there are at least a thousand machine crossbows on the fortress. It's just that the front line is so long that other machine crossbows can't be used. Machine crossbows have filled this section of the city wall.

Before the imperial army attacked the black soil fortress, it was almost a unilateral massacre by the tribe, and as for the counterattack with arrows, it was basically ineffective.

This terrifying weapon of war is called the 'Motor Crossbow', which was invented and built by the dwarves.

If the 'fortified heavy crossbow' only fires ordinary large-scale crossbow arrows, then the tribe will not use it to defend the fortress. No matter how powerful the crossbow arrow is, it only attacks one point, and it has little effect on the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of people. But the attack range of the 'fortified crossbow' is not a point, but a large area.

"Prepare."

A dwarf, almost wrapped in an iron barrel, stood aloft, holding a small red flag.

When the dwarf flag soldiers raised their flags, the imperial army was already under the fortress, and those soldiers with bamboo baskets rushed out. They untied the bamboo baskets behind their backs on the way to charge, and wanted to dump the stones in the bamboo baskets under the city wall. As long as this 'simple' task is completed, they can retreat to the rear of the army.

Unfortunately, they don't have that chance at all.

"Come on!"

A soldier rushed forward.

"send!"

On the fortress, the chess pieces held high by the dwarf bannermen waved down, and the dwarves behind the three hundred 'fortified crossbows' pulled the trigger hard.

Crash, crash, crash...

The crossbow string made a muffled sound. It was not that the crossbow string was broken, but that the force of the crossbow string was too strong, and the sound was made by quickly rubbing against the air.

The arrows that are more than three meters long are shot out. These arrows are not pointed, but oval arrows, like a large match. The arrows are interrupted by several rows of reverse air holes. Once the speed of the arrows reaches a certain limit, This kind of killing weapon will show its hideous side.

The whole crossbow arrow is in a spiral shape, so after the crossbow arrow is fired, it starts to rotate at a high speed.

Ding~

A large crossbow arrow stretched out a circle of 'wings' in mid-air. What kind of wings are these, but small double-edged blades three meters long.

The crossbow arrows are rotating at high speed. After the double-edged blade is unfolded, the arrows turn into high-speed rotating reamers.

hum~

A harsh whistling sound 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 this thing at all. The blood and flesh splashed, and a dozen soldiers were instantly chopped into flesh. This is not the end, because the tip of the crossbow reamer is round. After landing, it will continue to strangle the enemy. If the angle is just right, this thing is like a top.

The soil splashed and the stumps flew. After a round of salvos from the tribesmen, a large body of corpses appeared under the fortress.

"Hahaha."

"These chops."

"Come again."

While the dwarves at the fort were laughing, the second salvo was ready.

Under the fortress, Legion Commander Carlos had a grim expression, and beside him was a chopped crossbow reamer.

"continue."

Carlos roared, and when he heard the voice of his army commander, the soldiers with bamboo baskets roared and rushed forward, their army commander was watching them, that was the person they admired.

Crash, crash, crash...

The second round of salvos on the fortress began. Although the imperial soldiers suffered heavy casualties, under the leadership of the army commander Carlos, batches of soldiers rushed forward without fear of death.

In less than two minutes, the stones under the fortress had been piled up to a height of one meter, but of course the stones did not have this effect. If the broken corpses were added, it would be different.

While the dwarves in the fortress were busy filling their bombs, the elven archers behind the imperial army had been preparing for a long time.

swoosh~

The dense rain of arrows shot in a parabola to the top of the fortress. Seeing the rain of arrows, the dwarves on the fortress didn't care at all. The original purpose of the 'City Protection Heavy Crossbow' was not to defend the city, but to deal with it. The rain of arrows of the elves is just difficult to carry, and it is not effective against the light elves.

But now it is a siege battle, and the 'fortified crossbow' shows its ability to deal with arrow rain.

Before the dense rain of arrows fell in the air, a crossbow reamer was already approaching.

Click, click...

The rain of arrows was twisted into sawdust, and not only that, those crossbow reamers flew towards the middle of the Imperial Army.

The crossbow reamer fell to the ground, and a large number of soldiers were smashed into flesh before they even had time to scream. The situation of the tribal army was very good.

Is it really like this? No, once the stones and corpses under the fortress accumulated to a certain height, the imperial army would rush to the fortress and start hand-to-hand combat.

Strangely, there was no large-scale magic in the armies of the two sides, and neither the fire rain technique, nor the wind blast technique.

It's not that there are no mages in the two camps, but that the spell casters in this world are not very capable of group battles. In one-on-one terms, the spell casters are not weak. As for large-scale magic, that thing has never appeared since the establishment of the empire. Specifically The reason is unknown.

Today's spellcasters rarely participate in wars. They prefer to explore magic, that is, they do not participate in the struggle for rights. As for the second-order contractor mages, they are less likely to master large-scale magic. Mass destruction magic is not this. It can be obtained at the stage, and the mana value of large-scale magic consumption is also an astronomical figure. At most, the second-order contractor mage throws small and medium-scale spells on the fortress.

The backbone of this world is the army. Every soldier's physical fitness is not weak. Under the pressure of the army, no matter how strong the caster is, he can only pack up and flee.

At this time, Su Xiao was in the middle of the Imperial Army. On a hillside with a higher terrain, he was holding the Spider Queen.

Although the Spider Queen appears in this world is somewhat inconsistent, but under the disguise of Reincarnation Paradise, other soldiers only think that this is Su Xiao's special ability, similar to alchemy or magic.

Of course, Su Xiao was not the only one who used sniper rifles on the battlefield. In this special battle, the influence of contractors on the war began to show.