Chapter 458 Flying Dragon Fire
In a siege, the ideal situation for the defender is to avoid being approached by the enemy as much as possible, but this ideal is almost impossible to achieve.
No matter how perfect the defenses on the city wall are, the enemy army has ten times the number of defenders. Looking down from the top of the city wall, it is as dense as a swarm of cockroaches. Whether it is arrows or trebuchets, they are smashing. The killing efficiency when going out is not high.
Of course, it would be another matter if we had two rows of Maxims, or even went one step further and sat the Gatling Bodhisattva on the city wall.
The army of the Tandelon Demon Kingdom moved forward steadily under the rain of arrows. When approaching the city wall, they would come into contact with rows of resisting horses.
These horses had been watered, and due to the cold weather, they were quickly frozen in place, and it was difficult to move or destroy them.
Juma is mainly used to deal with cavalry. When placed under the city wall, it plays a diversion role to destroy the enemy's formation.
In order to get around these resisting horses, the formation of the soldiers of the Tandelon Demon Kingdom was obviously skewed, and the strong vine armor shield wall also showed weaknesses.
The defenders on the city wall seized the opportunity and took away a piece of them with a wave of output.
But the effect was limited to this. More soldiers rushed through the blocking horse.
Then they saw a moat under the city wall of Kaimen City.
Or to be more precise, it is now just a protective ditch due to the dry season in winter.
The ditch was already filled with sharpened stakes, which looked innocuous now, but would soon be there.
The soldiers who rushed to the ditch under the rain of arrows will soon face the 30-meter-high enchanted city wall. Since they can only stand under the ditch, the height may be even more exaggerated.
It is not easy to climb such a high city wall. Even if you bring a siege ladder, the length may not reach the side of the house.
Moreover, the shape of the city wall is wide at both ends and narrow in the middle. The curvature is not large according to visual inspection. If you actually climb up, it will slide down very quickly.
Coupled with the fact that the defenders on the city wall were throwing rolling stones and wooden logs down, the Tandelon Demon Kingdom army who had climbed halfway up was immediately attacked intensively. Some of the unlucky ones fell on the wooden stakes in the ditch and were stabbed through the heart. cold.
Such a tall city wall obviously cannot be attacked simply by relying on crowds. The main force of the Tandelon Demon Kingdom army still aimed at the city gate.
The city gate is a concave structure. As soon as a group of soldiers approached with a battering ram, countless shooting holes were opened on the walls on both sides. A row of crossbow arrows let them know what a killing area was.
So far, the defense has gone very smoothly, but both the enemy and Viola know that this is just a tentative attack, just an appetizer.
Due to their huge size, a large number of siege equipment, which was a step slower, were actually pushed up at this time.
The rams and clouds were slowly approaching, and the trebuchets made a shrill sound of breaking the wind, throwing huge rocks into the open city. Accompanied by a row of dense cannons, hundreds of field cannons dragged by horses also began to pour ammunition towards the city wall. .
The enchanted city wall is very strong. Even if you use modern self-propelled artillery on earth to blow it up, it may not be able to blow it open. These primitive artillery will not even leave a mark.
But just because the city wall is fine, doesn't mean the people are fine.
When heavy artillery shells whizz past your ears, the colleague who was talking to you just now will be lying on the ground with his lower body left in the blink of an eye. The psychological impact is more terrifying than the lethality of artillery.
Moreover, the approaching rush cars and cloud cars are also huge threats.
Once the ram car enters the city gate, it is equivalent to an armored pile driver hitting the city gate. The cloud car is filled with archers. The height is shorter than the city wall, but the arrows fired will suppress the city wall. The defenders on top.
Once the cloud car is attached to the city wall, the Tandelon Demon Kingdom army can use the combination of cloud ladder and cloud car to climb the city wall.
On Viola's side, the ballistae, repeating crossbows, and a few artillery pieces all aimed at the approaching siege equipment, but the effect was not very good. In addition to the problem of the accuracy of these weapons, the Tandelon Demon Kingdom army also prepared a large number of siege equipment. After finally dismantling a cloud cart, when I turned around, I saw that there were more than ten more.
The morale of the Tandelon Demon Kingdom soldiers was high, and no one was afraid of death. Less than an hour after the war started, the situation on the battlefield was tilted in their favor.
However, this is not the only ability that opens the city. Viola also has a trump card that she has not revealed. Although it is a bit early now, she can only try it.
After receiving the order, the soldiers on the city wall pulled back the curtains at the back, revealing a seven or eight meter long metal track.
Then they put the track on the city wall and aimed at the approaching siege machinery with a special iron sight.
Another group of soldiers brought up a large number of things that looked like kites from under the city wall, but each one was four or five meters long.
The Tandelon Demon Army under the city wall immediately heard a harsh explosion, accompanied by sparks, something that looked like a bird, with a wooden frame all over its body, and something covered with a layer of paper that dragged the sparks. Flying out from the city wall.
No one has ever seen such a thing before, and it can even be said that it is shocking to the locals.
This thing can actually fly?
In their opinion, birds can fly because they can flap their wings, and dragons can fly because they have magic power. But this kind of thing made of paper with a wooden frame obviously has nothing to do with flying.
After all, how does it flap its wings?
Although it may be related to the quality, these big kites fly a little crookedly, but compared with the trebuchets, the accuracy can be said to be that they hit wherever they go, and without exception they all go towards siege equipment.
Especially the moment they hit the target, these big kites exploded into a large ball of flames. After a few repetitions, the wooden siege equipment was ignited. For a while, the outside of the city wall was filled with the piercing scream of the violent burning of gunpowder. And balls of fire, large and small.
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Under the city wall, in the temporary command post, Aldai covered one eye. She was observing the battle situation with the mystical eye used to connect the optic nerve.
"Viola used my dragon fire, and it seems to have a good effect."
Due to the local concept that "you must have magic power to fly," this simple glider bomb was unprecedented for them.
To be honest, there is actually no technical content. Use a balsa wood skeleton, paste a few layers of paper to make the shape of a flying dragon, stuff some alchemy bombs or oil into the stomach, and the rest is to use gunpowder gas to launch it through the orbit. That's all, the principle is the same as that of the Sky Monkey.
It's hard to say what Aldai watched when she went to Li Chengqi's house to watch TV, but this thing is indeed useful as a precision strike weapon.
After all, it is easy to destroy a siege vehicle with Aldai's ability. But let her do it all, and the three walls of the open city are now under attack, and she is so exhausted that she can't finish it.
"I know your invention is very useful. Please monitor the situation of the city wall."
The commander-in-chief of the entire defensive battle was not Viola, but Wendy. However, Wendy was an ordinary person with no strength. She could easily be hit by stray bullets when she went up to the tower to watch the battle, which was too dangerous.
So Wendy stayed in the safe command post and observed the battle situation outside through Aldai's magic screen.
For now, the one with the strongest offensive is the Tandron Demon Kingdom, the Enwei Demon Kingdom is relatively average, and the one with the strongest offensive is the Lakshurya Demon Kingdom, and they have just begun to take action.
Since the situation is not yet clear, Wendy does not dare to move soldiers to the city wall where the Tandelon Demon Army is attacking, so she can only continue to pay close attention.
At this time, Wendy saw several behemoths appearing on the side of Enwei Demon Kingdom's army. She initially thought they were siege equipment, but when she got a little closer, she was suddenly shocked.
--boom!
With the loud noise from the roof, gravel and rubble fell like raindrops, and the temporary command post under the city wall that was supposed to be safe was directly hit...
(End of chapter)