Chapter 107 Generosity from the King
These have been tested for a long time on the continent of Calradia, experienced countless battles, and even killed many people before being promoted to the fourth level of the Vecian archers, three The skilled crossbowmen and mercenary crossbowmen of Rodok at the same level all know very well that eliminating the enemy's effective strength is the key to winning the next victory!
So these crossbowmen had no intention of holding back at all. Instead, they were more serious and precise when shooting the spirit world creatures with their backs turned to them and trying to escape quickly.
‘Swish, swish, swish! ’
I could only hear the screams of arrows and crossbow bolts tearing up the air one after another.
After a series of spiritual creatures came over wearing turtle shells.
As soon as I overturned the turtle shell into the trench, I barely ran two steps when something suddenly hit me and my whole step staggered. With the heartbreaking pain, I was lucky enough to be able to run again. Two steps.
I was unlucky, but I just fell to the ground with my head down, twitching and trying to crawl forward.
But a shrill scream emerged in my ears.
At this time, the huge force that suddenly appeared on the back, chest, and even the neck or the back of the head made their breathing suddenly stop. In less than ten seconds, they lay there completely motionless.
Completely turned into a corpse!
And on their bodies, whether it was their vests, necks, or the backs of their heads, there was already a steel crossbow bolt or cone-headed arrow nailed to them.
What was punctured was either the heart, the skull, or the spine.
It’s completely a life-threatening injury!
The killer.
There are those 100 expressionless Vecian archers, 50 Rhodok skilled crossbowmen and 50 mercenary crossbowmen on the city wall!
How could they come to the city wall where they were stationed, throw down these turtle shells, and run away?
Do you really think that these elite archers or crossbowmen from Calradia have no respect for themselves?
However, even these crossbowmen shot the servants so hard.
However, the number of servants recruited by these pig-headed men is too many. There are 2000+ people here. Even though so many shooters at the top of Shen Mu City are venting their anger, Leaving them behind in dozens and dozens of corpses.
Still somewhat...a drop in the bucket!
Deep in the green belt of the community 500 meters away, more and more furniture was plundered by the pig-headed men or slave races in the community, and then placed in the open space.
Then several servant races armed with hammers or axes smashed the pots and pans flat.
There are also Blue Star manpower with quick hands and feet, who use ropes to tie up the furniture at will, forming a protection like a shield, increasing the defensive effect.
Then let the lower-level servant races carry them up, and while hiding below, continue to move towards the trench to fill the trench and pile up the slope rushing towards the city wall.
It can be said that every time there are twenty or thirty turtle shells slowly walking out from there.
Even if four or five were blasted by crossbows along the way.
Only the remaining twenty or ten turtle shells can fill the trench with a depth or width of one or two meters as long as they arrive at the trench.
As time went by, the trench outside the west city gate was actually filled with those turtle shells.
Even outside the trench, hundreds of corpses of spiritual servants were already lying.
However, the trench that has been filled in and is close to a width of about 6 meters, and is piled up to a height of 1 meter less on the city wall, has already represented the tactical success of the spirit world servant army and has begun to enter the stage of directly attacking the city wall!
“Keep shooting arrows!”
Bandak had already put away the heavy crossbow in his hand. Instead, he pulled out the mace on his waist and wore a hooded left hand. Leather bucklers walked quickly on the walls on both sides of the city gate, loudly encouraging the crossbowmen who stood behind the baffles and were still pulling the triggers or pulling the bow strings to shoot outwards.
Things have gone wrong.
He must ensure that he observes the movements of the entire city wall to arrange when the crossbowmen are suitable to retreat and when to transfer.
And when is the right time to ask the senior thugs of the Lake Rat Gang who are still waiting on the stairs inside the city wall to come up!
The city wall here is only 6 meters high and 3 meters wide.
And there is a range of more than half a meter, because a baffle with a somewhat inclined angle is installed.
Another half meter is the activity range of the crossbowman.
The remaining 2 meters are the passages needed for passing and moving, as well as transporting supplies and replenishing arrows.
In addition, there must be a certain distance to prevent yourself from falling off the city wall.
Then the distance within which one can move is quite narrow.
Most of these fourth-level senior Lake Rat Gang thugs, as well as those fifth-level Lake Rat Gang saboteurs, are waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
Just say hello.
Then these rebellious members of the Lake Rat Gang will immediately rush to the city wall, using the shields and javelins in their hands to let the enemies who dare to attack the city wall know that while defending the city, Lake The members of the Rat Gang family are all equally tough!
That's right, members of the Lake Rat Gang work in places with complex environments, especially when defending a city, when facing the enemy's attack on the city wall or attacking key points.
The role it can play is quite huge!
The javelin itself is a short-range throwing weapon, with a short range but extremely powerful.
Ordinary heavy crossbows or sniper crossbows, when faced with throwing weapons such as javelins or throwing axes at close range, are inferior in terms of power and impact on the enemy's morale, armor and shields.
Of course, the properties of throwing weapons are weapons with high power and damage thrown at close range.
These two types of long-range rapid-fire weapons and long-range precision weapons are fundamentally different from bows and arrows or crossbows.
But at this moment.
Once the city wall changes, they, the members of the Lake Rat Gang, rush up, using harpoons or hooked javelins, and they are unable to take effective defensive actions against those slopes that can only be climbed and built up with furniture. The spirit world servant army can be used to its full potential!
At close range, there is no way to avoid it. This is the specialty of the members of the Lake Rat Gang!
And in order to prevent special circumstances from happening.
Shen Mu also arranged in advance for the 50 Swadia sergeants wearing sleeveless plate armor, heavy chain armor, flat-top helmets, and holding long guns to line up and wait.
As long as the defense line on the city wall is there, problems may arise due to the speed and intensity of the enemy's attack.
Then it is not the Swadian light infantry.
But these are specially used to carry the line, Svadia sergeants, serious, reliable, absolutely professional heavy-armed line-carrying infantry!
In a sense, Shen Mu also used these Swadia sergeants to prepare for the worst.
Worst case scenario regarding the west wall.
“And my reward from the ‘trebuchet squad support’ can be used.”
Shen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Looking at the twenty or thirty turtle shells that came over again, I slowly exhaled a sigh of relief, but my thinking did not communicate with the riding and slashing system in my mind.
This reward is one of his trump cards.
Shen Mu looked at the turtle shells in front of him, although they were still coming, but they were obviously repelled by him in waves, and he was still convinced that he could hold on.
After all, the two light ballistae beside him and the two siege ballistae on the large square tower were still exerting their power, smashing the shells of the turtles that came over one by one. , exposing the spiritual creatures underneath and being shot dead on the spot by the crossbowmen on the city wall.
What's more, the city gate at Shen Mu's feet is 200 meters away.
The corpses of the servants of the spirit world were already densely packed.
Just by taking a cursory look at it and making a vague estimate, I am afraid that I can already detect that the dead ones were jackals, hobgoblins, bugbears, lizardmen, etc. , these desert bandit races have already laid down 1,000+ corpses.
For the more than 2,000 spirit world servants who originally came over, more than half have now been lost.
Even if the trench is filled.
On the city wall, a 3-meter-high, 6-meter-wide, and 7-meter-long slope was piled up. It was bumpy, full of furniture, angular and rugged. It looked like you could already walk on this slope. Dao rushed forward to fight.
Already suffered heavy losses, more than half were killed directly in battle, and the casualties were close to four-fifths of the servant army.
There is really no way to continue attacking!
"Brother Caidong! We really can't let our brothers continue to attack! The casualties are too tragic!"
"Yes! Brother Caidong! Just talk to the bosses of the diesel companies behind you! If If we let our brothers go up again...the brothers will fall out!"
"We are all temporary workers! Although we also want to become regular employees of the diesel company, if we have these followers! It’s over!”
“Brother Cai Dong! I’m begging you here! If you lose all your money, you won’t even be qualified to join the temporary team! Now! We usually just hang out at the diesel company, so we don’t have to work hard!” Already full of helplessness.
Especially looking at Zhang Caidong, who was still expressionless in front of him, everyone wanted to cry without tears.
I originally thought that if we rushed up with turtle shells on our backs, threw away the turtle shells, and then filled the trenches, it would be fine, and it would be safe to withdraw.
But who would have imagined that there are so many crossbowmen on the human city wall. And the archery skills are so fierce and precise.
Plus there are also ballistae.
Beat them to the point of defeat!
Even if you can grit your teeth, rush over with the furniture, fill the trench, and even accumulate a number of ramps on the city wall, you can directly attack the city wall.
But now.
All the members of the temporary convoy have no more than two or three spiritual followers left.
If you try again.
I'm afraid that all the followers in the spirit world will be wiped out, so I have to let them carry the furniture to the city wall, throw the things on the ramp with all their lives, and continue to increase the height to give those pig-headed men The way is paved!
"Yes, I know." Zhang Caidong said expressionlessly at this time.
Looking at the temporary team captains in front of him who all looked extremely sad, there was a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.
The tone was still very calm and he said: "Crush again and raise the slope of the city wall to more than 4 meters. I will notify Brother Fu Jian and let all of us evacuate at that time. Come down and let them get on."
"Come on again..." The captains of these temporary convoys were extremely embarrassed at this time.
"Yes, let's go." Zhang Caidong looked at them one by one, with some determination in his tone:
"This is the task given to me by Brother Fu Jian, and I am not afraid of fighting with him. You say, the original task he gave me was to consume most of your spiritual followers to avoid any backlash to the diesel company in the future, but now I have suppressed it and just let those unfamiliar temporary workers work. Most of you, the captain’s spiritual followers, have not gone to the battlefield to die!”
The captains of the dozen or so temporary convoys suddenly looked a bit ugly.
This is the truth.
The elite spiritual followers in their hands were indeed not sent to the front lines to pave the way with turtle shells.
Those who went there were all the other guys who were recruited by the diesel company and had to be forced to join the temporary fleet. Some of them looked down on and some were irritating to the captains of the temporary fleet.
The main reason is that now Zhang Caidong actually said that the diesel company deliberately sent them to die.
Of course this is the truth.
They all understand too.
That’s why the captains of these temporary convoys didn’t say much. They finally looked at each other and saw the dejection in each other’s eyes.
The situation is weaker than that of others.
Compared to the Diesel Company now, they are the weak ones, the one who can only be regarded as fish on the chopping board, and have no room for resistance.
Thinking of this, the captains of these temporary fleets made up their minds.
“Charge!”
They turned around and left here, arranged for their temporary workers, summoned their spiritual creatures, once again raised the turtle shells, and rushed forward. passed.
Then waves of death followed, and the spiritual creatures fell in front of the city wall one by one.
"Almost." Zhang Caidong then showed a sarcastic smile and turned around and walked towards Fu Jian.
Waiting for those temporary workers in the temporary fleet to be exhausted.
He began to recruit the captains of these temporary convoys into his subordinates again.
Waiting to reorganize a new temporary fleet.
That's when.
Isn’t it Zhang Caidong who has the final say!
This is equivalent to controlling the rights of the temporary fleet outside the Diesel Company behind the scenes. It is equivalent to saying that Zhang Caidong, a fake tiger, can have his own military power!
When the time comes, he will definitely not be such a small person who can only pretend to be powerful!
“Diesel Company, I must move to a higher position!” Zhang Caidong’s eyes flashed with ambition.
Just when Zhang Caidong went to report.
The top of the city gate tower.
A dialog box appeared in front of Shen Mu.
【Ding! You and your troops successfully defended the city wall and withstood the fierce attack of the first wave of servants! 】
【You have received a reward - 5,000 dinars. 】
[Tip: The battle has come to an end. You can take a short break and face a more intense battle. (During this process, you can upgrade your soldiers)]
The contents of the dialog box will appear after the completion of the first phase of the task.
The sound of metal coins colliding appeared in Shen Mu's ears.
Crisp and sweet.
This means that the attack of the servant army has finally come to an end.
And right in front of him, Shen Mu looked at the remaining spiritual followers who were retreating with a solemn expression.
Because right in front of him, on a section of the city wall on the north side of the city gate, various furniture and sundries had been piled up to a height of more than 4 meters, and because of various edges and corners, there were also dead spirits hanging on it. The corpses of the creatures were already close to 5 meters.
And the slope is quite gentle and smooth.
If someone climbs from the bottom, he can really reach the high point of the city wall, then jump to the edge, grab the city head with both hands, climb up forcefully, and stand on the 6-meter-high On the city wall, if you cross the 2-meter barrier, you will have successfully climbed to the top!
"It's true, a more violent storm is coming." Shen Mu had nothing to fear now, and he was still a little poetic.
This is his advantage.
The more critical the moment, the calmer you become.
By the way, I glanced at the dialog box that popped up on my retina, especially the prompt. My thoughts at this time also communicated with the system: "Upgrade the new recruits from Wikidia!"
[Ding ! It is detected that you have 200 'Vekian Recruits (First Level)' and if you pay 30 dinars per person, you will be allowed to upgrade to 'Vekian Light Infantry (Second Level)'. 】
【If all are upgraded, 6,000 dinars will be required. 】
[Tip: Currently you only have 5,000 dinars and cannot complete the promotion of all ‘Vekia Recruits’. 】
[Tip: King Yarogork from the Kingdom of Wikiia is satisfied with your generous payment of 1,000 dinars for the upgrade of the Wikiians, so at this critical time , he is willing to refund your fee of 1,000 dinars to help the 'Wikiya recruits' serving under you complete the upgrade. 】
Right in front of Shen Mu, a new dialog box appeared.
Just the content that appeared at the bottom made Shen Mudu slightly stunned: "Wait? King Yarogerke of the Kingdom of Wiki...refunded me 1,000 dinars?"
This did not even occur to Shen Mu.
Previously, in the newly established village "New Zhivadin", the Wikiyan immigrants were upgraded to Wikijan recruits, and 1,000 dinars were indeed paid.
But this is the cost of the upgrade and the cost of going to the Kingdom of Wikiya for special training.
Shen Mu didn't expect that the money could be returned to him at the most critical moment.
Just to make up for the gap of 1,000 dinars.
Allow yourself to upgrade all 200 Vecian recruits into second-level Vecian light infantry!
‘Buzz! ’
While Shen Mu was meditating, the data flow from the center of his eyebrows surged out and began to rush towards the back.
And just when Shen Mu subconsciously turned his head to look, those Vecilia recruits were already wrapped in white light, forming egg-like objects one after another.
Then after more than ten seconds, the Vecian light infantry, who looked tough and looked like they were wearing leather armor and holding two-handed axes, appeared behind the city wall, moving. The shoulders seem to be eager to try.
But at this time, Shen Mu's mind was slightly disturbed and he did not carefully observe these light infantrymen of Vikia.
Instead, he communicated in his mind that he had received the reward very early -
Designate 200 low-level infantry to be upgraded immediately!
Special rewards for this rule category!
Why is Shen Mu so concerned about leading these Wikiya villagers and immigrants to upgrade.
Why are these new recruits from Wikiia given more experience?
This is the reason...
Once you use this reward, you can directly upgrade the second-level Vecian light infantry again to a third-level Vecian guerrilla shooter that uses bows and arrows!
(End of this chapter)