Chapter 162 Fortress Attack and Defense 4

Duke Dodge looked at the battle above the fortress with a stern expression.

The current situation is very bad. The defenders are obviously being suppressed by the rebels.

After careful consideration, he ordered: "Send reserve troops to assist the soldiers in front to withdraw into the inner wall."

The trumpeter on the side immediately raised his horn and sang in a special rhythm It whistled loudly.

The old Duke said to an officer behind him: "Take out our secret weapon."

The officer was shocked: "Sir, that is our last trump card! It cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary. ! "

Duke Dodge smiled bitterly: "Can't you see? It's the last resort. In other words, if we don't show this trump card as soon as possible, we won't be able to survive. It's time."

There was a bitter look on the officer's face, and he nodded and said, "Yes, sir."

Then he turned and ran away.

...

"Withdraw to the inner wall!"

The officers who fought with the soldiers on the outer wall of the fortress turned to themselves. convey orders to his subordinates.

The garrison soldiers immediately gathered around their respective commanders, covering each other and moving towards the inner wall.

As a complete defensive fortress, Thorn Fortress has two layers of walls. The distance between the outer wall and the inner wall is 15 to 20 meters. The inner wall is higher, thicker and more difficult to conquer than the outer wall.

The rebel soldiers who scaled the city wall are in hot pursuit. They cannot stop and rest at this time. If the defenders are allowed to retreat into the inner wall, it will cause a lot of trouble. The battlements on the inner side of the outer wall are short and small. , which has poor defense against bows and arrows coming from interior walls.

But the door to the inner wall suddenly opened, and a large number of soldiers rushed out. This group of garrison reserves had been recuperating in the rear, watching the fighting on the outer wall, and they were forced to do so at the Duke's order. He rushed out without haste.

The reserve soldiers immediately replaced the brothers who were fighting in front. The rebel soldiers who attacked the fortress had fought hard for a long time and were already showing fatigue. In their haste, they were suppressed by a counterattack from the defender's reserve team. on the wall.

However, the reserve team did not hesitate to fight. After all, they were still at a numerical disadvantage. After covering the retreat of the retreating brothers, they immediately retreated to the inner wall and closed the door tightly.

"Lord Samar! The outer wall has been taken down by us!"

"Okay!"

Samar was extremely happy. He did not expect to be able to take down the outer wall of Thorn Fortress so quickly.

"Let the second wave of city troops press forward immediately!"

"Yes!"

The rebels who captured the outer wall braved the arrow and crossbow attacks from the defenders on the inner wall and opened the door to the outer wall. A large number of rebels rushed in carrying ladders and battering rams, and the attack on the inner wall of the fortress began immediately!

It was still the soldiers wearing enchanted leather armor who took the lead. They held sabers in their mouths and struggled to climb up the ladder to the inner wall. After the previous fighting, about 300 of the original 500 soldiers were still able to maintain combat effectiveness.

Another group of soldiers gathered at the gate of the city and hit the gate hard with a battering ram.

But the strange thing is that the defenders only hindered them when they climbed the ladder. Without the cover of siege engines, the rebels suffered many casualties from attacks such as stones and kerosene. , but when they jumped onto the city wall, the defenders who had just struggled to stop them suddenly dispersed to both sides, leaving a large area of space near the siege ladder.

“What are they doing?”

With such doubts, the rebel soldiers who climbed onto the city wall were stunned for a moment, but they still raised their weapons and were on full alert to cover their subsequent companions as they climbed onto the city.

In this way, more and more rebel soldiers climbed onto the inner wall.

“Kill!”

After they gathered a certain number, they all roared and rushed towards the defenders regardless of the questions in their hearts.

Suddenly someone among the defenders shouted: "Aim!"

Then many soldiers holding strange weapons emerged from behind. The front end of the weapon was facing them. It... seemed to be a nozzle.

"Launch!"

I saw those strange "nozzles" suddenly spraying out a long tongue of fire, rushing straight towards the rebel soldiers.

In an instant, Hell came!

When the tongue of fire reached the place where the rebels gathered, it had turned into a huge pillar of fire. A large number of soldiers were sprayed, and their bodies immediately burned.

"Ah~~!"

Cries of horror and pain immediately rang out among the rebel soldiers.

If someone observes carefully, they can find that the strange weapons of the defenders spray out a stream of burning liquid. The liquid splashes on the rebel soldiers, providing fuel for the flames, which eventually ignites the fire. Set fire to the target's clothing.

The soldiers who were on fire beat the flames on their bodies in horror. Their companions around them also helped to put out the fire. Some soldiers with larger fires fell directly to the ground and rolled, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not put out the fire. The flames engulfed his body, and he could only watch in pain as the flames devoured his body.

What’s even more frightening is that the hands of those who helped put out the fire also caught fire. They shook their hands repeatedly, or put their hands on the wall and rubbed and touched them before extinguishing the flames.

No one dared to put out the fire for those who were on fire anymore. They could only watch them being swallowed up by the flames.

Even the onlookers and defenders were stunned, including the "fire-breathing soldiers" who had personally created this scene. The weapons in their hands were so powerful that they had not expected.

Those who stayed around the "Pyrotroopers" subconsciously kept a distance from them.

"Why are you still standing there! Keep spraying!"

The officers were the first to wake up from the state of shock and loudly urged their subordinates to carry out the second wave of attacks.

"Yes!"

The fire-breathing soldiers reacted and continued to activate the "pipes" in their hands, and the fire dragons once again rushed towards the rebels fiercely. The door to the inner wall also suddenly opened. When the rebel soldiers gathered at the door were about to rush in, they were greeted by fire dragons...

A tragic scene came again. .

……

"What happened?"

On a temporary wooden tower, Samar and Scott stared dumbly at the scene happening on the inner wall.

In their eyes, they saw only a flash of fire on the wall, and then their own soldiers caught fire one after another. Those soldiers who were on fire struggled feebly in the flames until they fell down and could no longer move.

The soldiers who were lucky enough not to be burned got off the wall and climbed down the ladder desperately. However, when the entire city ladder became a string of people, the defenders on the wall immediately saw the opportunity. A stream of flames shot out from the ground, and the ladder burned from beginning to end...

Samar came down from the wooden tower angrily and ordered a knight: "Go and see what happened!"< br>

Before the knight set out, he saw a large group of his own defeated troops pouring out of the fortress.

Following them were the cavalry in the fortress. The defending cavalry slaughtered them wantonly, but their own soldiers were defeated and could not organize an effective resistance at all. They just kept running towards themselves.

Samar immediately ordered: "Form up!"

There were many soldiers around him, who immediately formed a tight square formation, pointed the spear in his hand diagonally in the direction of the fortress, and aimed The enemy's cavalry and... our own broken troops.

A knight with a loud voice shouted to the retreating soldiers: "Anyone who dares to rush into the battle will be killed without mercy!"

The defeated soldiers knew that this was no joke, so they scattered and ran to both sides.

The rebel cavalry also began to urge their horses to trot to cover their flanks.

The defending cavalry who rushed out saw that the remaining enemy troops were heavily guarded, and after pursuing for a certain distance, they withdrew from the fortress.

Samar breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately ordered the retreating troops to be gathered up, and found an officer who had escaped to question him carefully.

The officer had shocking burns on his arms and said in shock: "The other party didn't know what method they used to spray out streams of flames that couldn't be extinguished at us. Many...many brothers were burned to death. ”

"A flame that cannot be extinguished?"

"Yes, sir! It cannot be extinguished!"

A look of horror and disbelief appeared on the officer's face.

"There is a small pond between the outer wall and the inner wall. Some brothers who are on fire jumped into it to put out the fire! But...but..."

Samar asked sharply: "But What?”

"But...but the fire on them is getting bigger and bigger!"

"This...how is this possible?"

Even Scott, who was standing next to Samar, was doubtful. I heard it wrong. Water controls fire. This is common sense that every three-year-old child knows.

The flames only grew stronger when exposed to water. Even the magic that mages were proud of couldn't do it. How did those mortals do it?

At this time, Samar was extremely calm. He asked the officer to go down and rectify his team, and then ordered with a straight face: "Withdraw the troops!"

"Withdraw? No, sir!"

Scott didn't want to retreat in vain, but he had high hopes for this attack.

"It's just some kindling. A fire that can't be extinguished by water must be an excuse for those deserters because they are afraid of death."

"Shut up! My soldiers Fighting desperately at the front, how dare you slander them like this?"

Samar suddenly yelled at him, and the general turned red from his face to his neck, obviously irritated.

Scott was so frightened by him that he didn't know what to say.

"Sorry! Mr. Mage, I was a little impulsive just now."

Samar calmed down.

"I know that officer. He is definitely not a coward afraid of death. Otherwise, he would not have been selected to command the assault force. And...do you know about 'Hellfire'?"

Scott heard this word for the first time, with a look of confusion on his face: "Hellfire?"

Samar nodded: "Hellfire, a terrible flammable liquid. On the battlefield a long time ago, probably during the time of the Gubera Empire, hellfire was once rampant."

"It is said that it It is a kind of liquid made from a kind of black viscous grease mixed with a certain proportion of sulfur, asphalt, resin and other flammable substances. It is not only very flammable, but also can float on the water and burn, and cannot be put away no matter how hard it is thrown. Destroyed. But what the black grease was and what the specific formula was were eventually lost due to excessive confidentiality."

Scott's eyes widened: "There is such a magical substance?"< br>
“This is a disaster that cannot be saved except by God. The only way is that whenever the enemy attacks us with hellfire, the only thing we can do is to kneel down and pray to God for salvation to escape - the legend That’s how I described it.”

Samar sighed: “Alas! I didn’t expect that this long-lost weapon would reappear in the world, and I would encounter it.”

Scott asked reluctantly: "Isn't there a way to restrain Hellfire?"

Samar shook his head: "Maybe there is, but I don't know. Now we can only retreat and continue to stare at the fortress, I I can’t take a second risk with the troops entrusted to me by the Archduke. If something goes wrong, it will cause great trouble to the Archduke’s plan to unify the south.”

Scott turned his head and glanced at the Thorn Fortress. With endless regret, he said:

"Okay! I will follow your arrangement!"

Hey, guess what the prototype of "Hellfire" is?

(End of this chapter)