Xu Lai blinked his eyelids. This time the siege was divided into three parts, and the three parts were not close to each other.
Both sides of the valley where Xu Lai was located were basically mountain walls tens of meters high, and the troops on both sides could not be seen at all.
Therefore, in addition to protecting Naga and Xiandeng camp, Xu Lai integrated Eric and Emilia's troops into his own army.
Leina and the Qingfeng Legion led by her will lead the army independently and will not unite with Xu Lai.
The disadvantage is that the attributes of the two sides' troops cannot complement each other. For example, Xu Lai cannot take advantage of Rena's ultimate ballistics and defensive skills.
Similarly, Xu Lai's ultimate offensive technique and speed talent do not cover the Qingfeng Legion.
But there are also advantages. The advantage is that the strategic casting opportunities of both sides will not overlap, and they can each release their own spells.
On the other hand, even if other troops suffered relatively large losses, the morale loss of our own troops was only based on the standards of friendly forces.
The morale lost by friendly forces in battle is definitely impossible to compare with that of our own troops.
Generally speaking, depending on the ratio of the number of friendly troops to the number of your own troops, the morale loss is only about 3-7 levels of your own troops.
The greater the number of friendly forces, the greater the impact on one's side.
However, this impact is not important to Xu Lai and the others, because they are at a low point and cannot see clearly the movements of the friendly forces above.
The last benefit is the convenience of command, which can be adapted to local conditions.
Don't let the whole army charge, and the catapults below the valley will also hit other people's city walls.
But the lack of ballistics had a great impact on Xu Lai's side.
Although the opponent only had one ballista to attack, since it was already within the attack range of the ballista, the catapult must also be able to attack.
At this time, although our own catapult can also attack, it is a few kilometers away after all, and the hit rate will drop significantly.
Xu Lai gritted his teeth. This time he was not prepared to grind slowly. There was no point in procrastinating.
“Let the ram go up first and attack the city gate!”
Under normal circumstances, the ram is used to attack the city gate, and the city gate suspension bridge needs to be destroyed first. Lose.
But Graycastle is built directly at the exit of Gray Valley. The biggest problem here is that it is inconvenient to divert water.
Therefore, Graycastle does not have a moat, so naturally there is no need for a suspension bridge, only a city gate.
Two assault vehicles built with steel plates rushed to the city gate side by side.
Behind them, there are many crash cars that are just covered with iron sheets.
Time was short and Xu Lai didn't have time to prepare. He only found dozens of rush cars with the help of warehouse rings.
But fortunately, Qingfeng City is no longer what it used to be. There are many craftsmen, mages, and alchemists.
Although Xu Lai's request was urgent, he still got Xu Lai two good things.
The all-steel frame is mixed with fine steel baffles, as well as several tons of steel-clad impact wood, and is enchanted with an acceleration effect.
Without this acceleration effect, even four wheels made of steel would not be able to run such a car at all.
If Xu Lai was here, he might study the track structure.
But this was actually just self-consolation. Xu Lai had long wanted to start a research institute, but it was only after the founding of the country that he could gather enough talents and resources.
Even if he did it, Xu Lai himself would not be able to participate in the research. He is a king, and to be honest, he really doesn’t have time to mess around.
Besides, he is not good at research. What he knows about modern technology and modern ideas is about the same as any Advent Hero.
Even if there are people who specialize in various aspects of scientific research, the results will definitely be 10,000 times better than Xu Lai's own.
Of course, these are all things for later. The most important thing Xu Lai needs to do now is to break open the gate of Gray Castle opposite.
As a large military fortress, the gate of Graycastle is not simple.
In addition to using the top layer of materials, many additional layers of spells are also solidified.
The most important thing is that the city gate of Gray Castle is a double gate. Even if the outer gate is opened, there is still a long corridor inside.
The corridor was originally staffed by human shooters, but now there are a large number of fire demons crowding on it.
There is no way, the place is only so big, if the devil deploys the fire trolls with stronger attack power, even a few of them will not be able to squeeze in even with their rickety body.
But even so, the guard still couldn't let the human car rush into the city gate so unscrupulously.
The whistling wind sounded, and a large number of boulders crazily smashed into the human position.
The trebuchets deployed by Graycastle are not many, but all of them are well-adjusted, and they are basically aimed at the open space in the valley.
In such a narrow terrain, Xu Lai and the others didn't even have a place to hide. At most, they could only let the infantry pushing the catapults and charging the carts raise their shields.
However, even a low-level catapult is extremely destructive.
What's more, the ones deployed in Gray Castle are basically high-level catapults, and the damage is even more exaggerated.
With the blessing of ballistics, let alone the pushers are just ordinary infantry.
Even the most elite royal guards of the Qingfeng Legion would be smashed to pieces here.
Perhaps only Lena, who has the expertise in defense and her top infantry, can withstand this wave of stone bombing.
Xu Lai can do it too, he uses the holy armor of the Paladin.
In the middle of every section of siege weapons, there is a Holy Light Knight following, responsible for providing shelter to the soldiers pushing the carts in front, left and right.
Of course, although the sacred armor can help soldiers resist damage, serious injuries will still occur if the boulder hits the siege vehicle.
Although the craftsmen of Qingfeng City worked hard, except for the two at the front of the row, the rest of the siege vehicles could only be hit two or three times at most.
If you accidentally trigger a lucky hit or a critical hit, it will be destroyed in two hits.
Being destroyed is not terrible. What is terrible is that the terrain is narrow, and the destroyed siege weapons will block the road and hinder other vehicles.
It would take a lot of time for the soldiers to clear these obstacles.
Even if the sacred armor can last for an additional ten seconds with Roland's special skills, it is not enough.
Xu Lai has no other good idea and can only rely on luck.
This is why, even though he knew that being at the front of the queue would inevitably be specially targeted by the enemy, he still had to put the two charging cars at the front of the queue.
The Great Demon has the effect of reducing the enemy's luck, but it seems that even in Graycastle, the Great Demon is not deployed.
I don’t know if this is the reason, but Xu Lai is lucky.
The enemy's catapults bombarded the troops' progress to a certain extent, but the two rams in the front row failed to cause any damage.
Suddenly, there was a bang, and about a hundred meters away from Gray Castle, a thick wall of fire burned fiercely. Catapults have a minimum attack distance limit. Only ballistas and demonic long-range troops can attack this position.
However, even though one minute of invincibility had passed, Xu Lai had used fire-bending magic on everyone before setting off.
With this effect, the troops rushing into the formation directly ignored the triggered flame trap.
On the tower of Graycastle, a Hell Evil God laughed ferociously and opened his spell book with a calm expression.
The next second, a dispersing method emitting blue light was thrown out.
As ancestors who played with fire, demons are very sensitive to fire-bending magic that restrains fire spells.
As early as when the human army charged together, he was keenly aware of the existence of fire-bending magic.
However, it wasn't until he saw the human troops rushing into the flame trap that he calmly released the dispersal technique and drove away the fire-bending magic.
Without the magic of fire control, he was still worried that humans would not dare to rush into the fire. Then his flame trap would be in vain and a lot of energy would be wasted.
But just as the evil god of hell was grinning, a red shield continued to cover everyone.
Xu Lai did not hesitate and tore open an extremely precious scroll of the ultimate fire control magic.
The Evil God of Hell hesitated for a moment, but in the end he was not willing to tear open a spell scroll and allowed the human troops to rush through the wall of fire.
There are no other traps behind the fire wall, mainly because most demons are only good at fire spells.
But although there are no traps behind the wall of fire, the gate to Graycastle opens on its own.
A group of horned warlords wearing heavy armor filed out from behind the door.
The Evil God of Hell will never give humans the opportunity to approach the city gate easily, let alone let the seemingly powerful siege vehicle crash into his gate.
Xu Lai didn't have any good ideas. The people pushing the cart were just a group of ordinary infantrymen selected by Xu Lai from the logistics corps.
Although the average level of this group of infantry has reached level 5, it seems that it is not much different from the level 6 horned warlord.
With the addition of the God of War Statue and the Angel Alliance, there is no difference even in the basic attributes.
But the infantry recruited by Xu Lai are logistics troops. Their main tasks are to push carts and transport, and the weapons in their hands are rarely used.
And as logistics soldiers, their equipment is also relatively inferior. They are all wearing white suits. Except for the better breastplates and shields, they have almost no good things.
Their opponents were a group of horned warlords armed to the teeth. Not only were their equipment luxurious, but they also held long whips that could attack at mid-range.
Xu Lai's infantry was slapped on the head and face.
Fortunately, although these logistics soldiers are indeed not good at fighting, as heavy shield infantry, their defensive instincts are still there.
The horned demon is the human shield of the hell army. Even the most senior horned warlord among the horned demons still has this fate.
The evil god of hell sent this horned warlord. The purpose was not to kill the human infantry, but to let them block the advancement of humans.
The flame trolls and lava trolls on the arrow tower are throwing fireballs in their hands.
Fireballs can't do much damage to infantry protected by firebending magic, ultimate resistance, and anti-magic cloaks.
But the rush car they pushed could not enjoy any magic effect, and its durability continued to decrease little by little.
If this continues, no matter how durable the two rush cars are, they won't be able to last very long.
But the road is narrow, let alone moving long-range troops to shoot at each other, even sending cavalry to break through the roadblocks is only possible in dreams.
Fortunately, at this time, on both sides of the Ashen Valley, the First Deng camp led by Eric had already arrived first.
Eric's first camp was originally based on lightweight infantry, and he did not need to bring heavy equipment such as catapults and rams like Xu Lai.
Therefore, although the mountain road was difficult to walk, with the blessing of Xu Lai's speed talent, he still reached the city quickly.
However, on their side, the only thing that can be seen is the city wall.
And because there is no baggage, there must be no high-end goods such as siege towers. At most, they are just some long ladders.
The walls of Gray Castle are not capped. This is not a small fortress like Little Gray Castle. The Big Gray Castle is tens of meters high and ordinary people cannot climb up.
Eric was not in a hurry to launch an siege. Although he had to climb the camp first, he was not here to die.
The fire troll on the city wall throws fireballs down for free.
Of course, the damage of the fireball is not high, but if you can't hold it against the opponent, there are still a lot of ballistae.
Now use a shield to resist, and with the additional defense provided by the Angel Alliance, it can last for a while.
If we really want to climb now, without the protection of a shield, we don’t know how many people will die before we can climb up.
Eric waved his hand, and the phantom shooters from the rear rushed over quickly under the cover of the infantrymen of the first camp.
The terrain here is not flat, but it is not like in the valley where it is squeezed by the mountain walls on both sides and unable to move.
Although the phantom shooters cannot use the dispersed formation they are best at, they can at least ensure that every shooter has a shooting position.
Even if they cannot see the target for some reason, they only need to deliver the arrows to the city walls and arrow towers anyway.
These more than 2,000 phantom shooters are the ceiling of long-range troops, with ultra-long range, ultra-high damage, exaggerated number of arrows and rate of fire.
For a time, the city wall on the left, which was in charge of the Qingfeng Legion, was covered by the rain of arrows from the phantom archers.
The flame troll above was shot and exploded from time to time, splitting into multiple low-level fire demons.
Theoretically, if a flame troll splits into two fire demons, the output will be significantly increased.
However, even with the advantage of the high wall, the Fire Troll was barely able to get up to some of the front row troops.
This is because the phantom shooters really have no place to stand and output, so they have to squeeze forward.
If we put the situation on the plains, with the phantom shooter's range advantage, it would be possible to compare the range unless the fire demons' city walls were increased by 20 meters.
The huge battle loss ratio between the two sides is not on the same level at all, which is unacceptable to the evil god of hell.
Grinning his teeth, he still tore open the dispersing spell and first dispelled the fire-bending magic from humans, otherwise he would really be unable to fight.
Xu Lai, who quietly touched the front row, suddenly fell into hesitation.
He still had a chance to cast spells at this time, but he was hesitant between the magic of fire control and the shaking of the earth.
Thinking back to the beginning, Xu Lai's stubborn stone city, which was full of confidence, was almost destroyed by the beast king's earthquake and mountain shaking.
In order to attack the city, Xu Lai also tried every means to buy a high-grade earth-shaking scroll. He was even reluctant to tear it open and use it directly.
Thinking of his strategic purpose, Xu Lai finally gritted his teeth and released this Earthquake with advanced effects. (End of this chapter)