Chapter 358 Long-range Counterattack
The durability of the catapults close to the catapult was reduced by more than half, but the catapult attacked by Xu Lai only lost one-third of its durability. .
This means that in order to smash a catapult, Xu Lai must cast three times.
Fortunately, York did not bring supplies, otherwise if he asked the craftsmen to repair it now, Xu Lai might have to cast 4 or even 5 times to destroy a catapult.
However, at this time, York's four catapults had destroyed all the catapults in Qingfeng City, including the two that were exposed in the city.
Although Su Ya has sent craftsmen to collect the wreckage and repair it, it will take at least half a day to repair it even if all the craftsmen work together.
Knowing that his side had no range advantage, Su Ya simply asked people to leave the arrow tower. Even except for the necessary observers, most people hid under the city wall.
After all, York only has four trebuchets and no logistics troops. When the ammunition reserves are used up, they become just decorations.
When the trebuchet targeted by Xu Lai was finally destroyed, York, with only three trebuchets left, really had no good solution.
The bonus of ballistics and archery makes York's trebuchet extremely powerful.
However, the control of a group of big-eared monster kings made the hit rate of these trebuchets not high.
The three trebuchets smashed for a long time, barely knocking down the five arrow towers behind the west city wall one by one.
The remaining ammunition, apart from leaving a large number of holes on the walls of Qingfeng City, did not cause major damage to the walls and gates.
York did bring an ammunition cart, but he believed that the main attack was the orcs, so in the space he barely squeezed out, there were only two ammunition carts filled with throwing axes.
Who would have thought that there are only a few catapults in total, and it is almost enough to die with the enemy, but there are still three left.
The stone bullets required for the catapult require too much space. One stone bullet is worth a hundred throwing axes, so there is no need to carry it.
Now, either wait until 12 o'clock tonight, and the ammunition will be automatically restored.
This kind of mechanical unit cannot recover ammunition through the tent. It has always been automatically restored every 24 hours.
But by that time, the catapults in Qingfeng City will inevitably be rebuilt. When the time comes, the two sides will continue to trade their coins under the bombardment.
On the contrary, the longer it is delayed, it will be detrimental to them because they are the attacking party.
Originally, York wanted to use these catapults as bait to lure Xu Lai's cavalry to attack.
He has discovered Xu Lai hiding among the cavalry. As long as he can catch this guy, it doesn't matter whether Qingfeng City is destroyed or not.
But Xu Lai would rather watch the arrow towers being blown down. The most Xu Lai can do is come over and throw a spell from a distance.
And after discovering that it only took three or four times to destroy a catapult, they simply didn’t come back.
York regrets now. If he had known earlier, he should have brought more catapults and not even a ballista at all.
Before these ballistas could take effect, they were almost destroyed by Qingfeng City's catapults and Xu Lai's spells.
If we don’t bring these 30-odd ballistae, at least we can bring five or six more trebuchets, and maybe we can also reserve some ammunition.
At that time, Xu Lai probably couldn't sit back and watch, otherwise seven or eight trebuchets would be able to destroy a corner of the city wall in just a few rounds.
No matter what, Xu Lai can stand still, but he cannot.
Through the indiscriminate bombing, morale was partially restored, but neither the city opposite nor Xu Lai was actually damaged.
However, the arrow towers that worried York the most had all collapsed after all.
There are 5 high-level arrow towers. Even if there are ten archers in each tower, that is still 50 high-level archers with amazing range and terrifying power.
If these one-eyed men of his were to advance forward with the arrow towers in their sights, the opponent might kill dozens of them in one salvo, not counting the other archers on the wall.
Without the arrow tower and catapult, even several ballistas were smashed. York finally waved his hand and the troops began to move forward as a whole.
The packing trebuchet has started to be packed again. A trebuchet without ammunition is like a tiger without teeth and has no deterrent effect.
As soon as the orc troops moved, the defenders of Qingfeng City also returned to the city wall.
The broad city wall is full of gravel splashed by the ultimate ballistic technique. If they were still on the city wall just now, they would have suffered heavy damage from being splashed like this.
It is a pity that the orcs did not approach while the trebuchet still had ammunition, otherwise Su Ya would have to fight back on the city wall against the huge boulders of the trebuchet.
You can't blame York for his mistake. He just wanted to lure Xu Lai to attack. He can only blame Xu Lai for not being fooled at all.
Only using a ballista to suppress the effect will be much worse.
The crossbows are very powerful against Yan Feng's cavalry. Dozens of crossbows, especially those thunderbolt crossbows, not only do terrible damage, but also have an astonishing range.
Yan Feng and the others would be seriously injured if they were hit within the extreme range. If they approached and attacked within the standard range, they would really be exchanging lives with the orcs.
Xu Lai was not willing to lose his troops, and the orders he issued were just harassment, so Yan Feng did not dare to advance and failed to achieve any decent results.
But these ballistas are not enough to suppress units on the city wall. With the blessing of ultimate ballistics and ultimate archery, although the damage is terrifying, it must first be reduced by 50% by the base camp-level city wall. Moreover, in addition to the lightning summoned by the Thunderbolt Ballista, its own attack is physical damage, which must be reduced by 50% of Xu Lai's ultimate defense technique.
It is equivalent to the damage of a ballista, dropped by 75%. After deducting the defense, the damage caused is really limited. At least it cannot instantly kill the high-level shooters and priests on the city wall.
As long as he is not killed instantly, a healing spell can bring him back.
On the city wall at this moment, not counting Anna and Elena, Qingfeng City’s own priests, priests, and healers, there are more than 3,000 people.
Not only the healing technique, the priests, under the command of La Jinsi, released a group blessing, a small team released a physical shield, a small team performed treatment, and the remaining teams took turns to fill in the gaps.
The high-level shooters headed by Giselle, Dill and others only need to stare at the orcs' crossbows to attack.
Although the range and damage increased by the city wall are not as good as the arrow tower, with the double bonus of Xu Lai and Dier, the range of the high-level archer is no worse than that of the ballista.
The only troublesome thing is the thunderbolt and lightning summoned from time to time by the thunderbolt ballista. An unlucky shooter was unfortunately hit and turned into fly ash on the spot.
Seeing this, La Jinsi quickly provided spell shields for the shooters.
With the blessing of the spell shield, as long as you are not unlucky enough to be shot by two Thunderbolt Ballistas and attract lightning twice in a row, it will not be a big problem.
Moreover, the two sides were far apart. The orcs walked for a long time and were still 7,800 meters apart.
At this distance, the shooters on the city wall were as small as grains of rice. Even if York wanted to concentrate the ballistae to focus the fire, it would be difficult to do so unless he had the ultimate reconnaissance technique.
After several rounds of shooting and about ten minutes, the orc troops approached more than 200 meters away, but the ballistas they brought with them had been exhausted.
The distance of 500 meters is not within the attack range of the Orc warriors, not even a few Orc leaders.
Ultimate archery allows the orcs under York, the Cyclops, to increase the shooting range by 20%.
An Orc general increases the Orcs' range by an additional 15%, plus a piece of equipment that increases the range by 10%, for a total range increase of 45%.
The distance increased by nearly half, but it only allowed the Cyclops to attack the city wall. The orc warriors had to advance at least another 100 meters.
However, without the help of the ballista, Yan Feng had already led the horse archers to harass them again.
Although the number is not large, there are only dozens of mounted archers in total, but their power is extremely amazing.
Xu Lai's treasure increases the basic attack by 12 points, plus Xu Lai's 70% archery bonus, and the phantom bow is not affected by distance, and can hit straight arrow damage at half an arrow distance.
A round of charged powerful attacks by a dozen heroes, which added 250% damage after 5 seconds of charging, killed nearly a hundred orc warriors in one round.
The archers on the city wall are even more terrifying, including level 7 sky archers and level 6 archer masters, plus a full 80 flame archers and 20 level 6 and 7 magic archers.
They belong to Dill and have a 30% range bonus and a 15% power bonus. The spell shooter also has 10 attack and defense points and 15 life bonuses.
Add Xu Lai's 12 attack points and 70% archery bonus, as well as the city wall's range and power bonus.
Even without the Phantom Divine Bow, with so many bonuses, the damage has more than doubled. With the Phantom Divine Bow, the ultimate range has more than quadrupled.
Although the attack range of the 600 cyclops is very far, their attack speed is extremely slow, and their agility is much lower than that of human shooters.
Xu Lai also has the talent of speed, and Dill also has the acceleration effect. Almost when these archers have started to shoot the second round of arrows, the Cyclops throws the first round of stones.
In the first round of attacks, both sides did not hold back. York personally took action to bless the Cyclops with strategic spells that were always on target.
A perfect shot has two effects. One is to increase the attack power of long-range troops. The master-level perfect shot increases the attack power by a full 12 points.
The other is to increase the hit rate. The master-level hit rate increases by 40%.
Although the Cyclops' attacks are siege attacks, they are not siege equipment, so they cannot enjoy the bonus of ballistics and can only enjoy the bonus of ultimate archery.
50% damage, 20% range, 15% hit, 10% ammo reserve.
It is incomparable to the archers on the city wall, but the Cyclops, who is famous for his strength, has basic strength and basic attack far beyond that of archers of the same level.
It can only be said that this distance is still too far, exceeding the standard range of the Cyclops, and can only cause half damage.
Although the Cyclops attacked the city wall, it still suffered 50% damage reduction from the city wall. More than 500 of them caused a total of 30,000 points of durability loss.
The reason why there are more than 500 is because a few one-eyed ones missed, and a few one-eyed ones were killed directly by the shooters on the wall.
Multi-arrows for Sky Archers and Master Archers, Explosive Arrows for Explosive Archers, Fire Arrows for Fire Archers.
More than a hundred shooters produced horrific results, killing more than 70 Cyclops in an instant.
There are at least a hundred more one-eyed ones, which have been damaged by explosions and sustained damage by fire.
(End of this chapter)