249 Siege
The main reason why Xuan'er, the leader of the pig-headed people, and Han Duoer, the leader of the minotaur, were unwilling to work hard was that even if this war was won, even if the lion general didn't make any effort, he would take one-third of the spoils, and now everyone said that the spoils were all theirs, so of course they were energetic.
"Okay, General, this time we will destroy that city and let those damned humans know what will happen against our army!"
Ni Xuan'er replied with a sly smile...
At the same time, Xiao Feng had already returned to the base with the ambush team at this time, down the river.
The road went very smoothly, and the morale of the human soldiers was much easier than when they came, the laughter of the soldiers could be heard everywhere on the ship, obviously the smooth ambush this time had boosted the morale of the human soldiers a lot, Xiao Feng was also relieved when he saw such a scene, and the goal was finally achieved.
Otherwise, when an army of 10,000 orcs came to attack the city, he would rely on 2,000 demoralized soldiers to defend the city walls, even if his thermal weapons were powerful, he might not be able to defend them.
Birodis and Kayla, who had been looking forward to them at the base, cut them down, Xiao Feng returned safely with a large group of people, and even a single soldier was not killed or injured, and he was also very happy, especially those soldiers, after the miracles shown by Xiao Feng on the battlefield were publicized to everyone, the originally demoralized base was instantly boosted, and the originally panicked people's hearts were stabilized at once.
Although most of the people in the base have heard of the mage's boundless mana, but after all, they have not seen it with their own eyes, and they are not very confident in Xiao Feng, this time they heard that the orc army was coming, and many people even had the idea of smearing oil on the soles of their feet, and now after listening to those soldiers describe the scene of the mage master's great power on the battlefield and attracting the attack of heavenly thunder, that little bit of caution was instantly extinguished!
When he saw the ten-meter-high wall in front of him, Tadel felt his head buzzing, how could this be?
This time he had made full preparations before setting out, and had questioned all the orc soldiers who had patrolled the vicinity before, and according to them, there were no walls here at all more than a year ago.
But now when he saw the 100-meter-long, 10-meter-high city wall in front of him, he felt that the blood vessels in his temples were about to explode, how did these damn humans do it?
When he went to conquer the Human Empire with a large army before, it was not that he had not attacked the city, but the walls of those human empires were not so tall at all, even the walls of the capital of the tallest human kingdom that he had seen were only seven or eight meters high, all of them were made of stones, according to the human captives they captured, the human beings of this country had been repaired intermittently for more than three hundred years just to build this city, and hundreds of thousands of people died.
And how did the humans here build such high walls in just over a year? And I don't know what kind of material these walls are made of, they look neat and even colorful from the outside, how did these humans do it?
Could it be the mysterious mage again?
At this time, several orc leaders standing next to him looked at the tall city wall in front of them, all of them were silent, obviously these guys were shocked by this tall city wall.
The army of half-orcs stopped in front of the city wall about a thousand meters away, but after the experience of being attacked before, this time they set up the camp far away, about 1,500 meters away from the city wall, to be honest, such a long distance, it is very unfavorable for launching an attack, after all, the infantry set off from the camp, wearing armor, with weapons, and walking to the city wall is also very energy-consuming, but compared with the consumption of some strength, this lion general Tader, obviously more reluctant to be bombarded by the thunder, the painful lesson last time, he was impressed, he has been pondering the scene of that day for the past few days, and then he finally figured out a weakness of the thunder bombardment this day, that's the distance!
That human mage is powerful, and obviously can't do it yet, to the point where the heavenly thunder bombardment covers the entire battlefield, so as long as he keeps a safe distance from humans, then he doesn't have to worry about being sneak attacked.
And when these half-orcs were observing the city wall, Xiao Feng also took the leaders of the base and was standing on the city wall to observe these half-orcs.
Although the previous sneak attack was a great success, Xiao Feng believed that the ambush was not enough to make these orcs retreat, so after coming back, he did not let the people in the base relax their vigilance, and they have been rearming for the past few days, but unlike before, the morale of the human soldiers this time has risen a lot.
The entire base was operating in an orderly manner, everyone was preparing for this upcoming big battle, and Xiao Feng was inspecting the city wall for several days in a row.
When he left before, he had asked the human scholar Charlesman and Kyle to be in charge of repairing the city wall, and he really hadn't checked it carefully before, but this time, this Charlesman had really made a lot of improvements to the defense of the city wall during this time.
For example, this guy is at the top of the city wall, built a tower that sticks out of the city wall, for the archers to use, when the enemy ants climb the wall, the archers can enter the tower that sticks out of the city wall, shoot at these enemies who climb the wall from behind, reduce the dead angle of defense, in fact, the concept is more similar to Xiao Feng's fortress in that world, it is an offensive means of defense, using the tall city wall, for the civilization of this era, to be able to think of this, this is enough to show that this Charlesman is not a straw bag, there are still some ideas。
In addition, he and Kyle also built a row of strong female walls on top of the smooth container city wall, so that the archers could hide behind the wall and shoot like enemies, and also installed several trebuchets on the city wall, as well as long-range large crossbow arrows, these are the strength of the ancient city defense, and Xiao Feng is very satisfied with these reconstructions.
And Kyle also painted the cat and the tiger, during Xiao Feng's absence, according to the experience of the previous city defense, he had three deep and wide moats dug in front of the city wall.
The emergence of these defensive means, coupled with Xiao Feng in charge, undoubtedly gave the more than 2,000 people on the city wall the courage to fight against tens of thousands of orcs.
In fact, it is mainly Xiao Feng's backbone, otherwise, even if there are so many defensive means, let more than 2,000 people go to fight against tens of thousands of half-orcs, I am afraid they will still disperse in a hurry, after all, they used to have hundreds of thousands of people, and they did not get any advantage against less than 100,000 half-orcs, and now the number of opponents is five times that of them, how can they have confidence that they can hold it?
Xiao Feng put down the binoculars in his hand, and he probably saw the half-orc battle formation on the opposite side clearly, compared to the previous sneak attack, the number of people has increased a lot, the number of people should exceed 10,000, and many people are wearing armor, and it is dark that they can't see what these people look like from a distance, so it is not easy to judge the characteristics of these people.
And Tadel, who was on the side of the battle array, also felt the human walls and defense system almost clearly, and he turned his head and waved his hand: "Let's start!"
Hundreds of werewolf soldiers pushed groups of humans, elves, and dwarf slaves, out of the back of the battle array, these slaves were ragged, all of them were yellow and thin, men, women and children, werewolf soldiers walked back and forth in front of those slaves loudly, and then kept saying something, and soon everyone's hands were stuffed with a rough cake, these slaves quickly gobbled up those rough cakes, and then each of them carried a bag full of dirt, and walked in the direction of the moat.
Some of them have flexible brains and walk slowly, but the werewolves who followed behind came up with a knife and directly hacked people to death, such a scene suddenly calmed those slaves who had ideas, and everyone rushed to the moat as quickly as headless flies.
And behind these slaves were hundreds of minotaurs and pig-headed men, shouting and pushing forward giant trebuchets...
The humans on the city wall were stunned when they saw such a situation, obviously no one expected that these orcs would pioneer slaves of various races to fill the pit...
Not only did the human soldiers not know how to deal with it, but even an experienced veteran soldier like Kyle didn't know how to deal with it, so he could only turn his head to look at Xiao Feng...
Watching the orcs drive those slaves of all races and fill the moat in front, Xiao Feng was a little surprised at first, but he quickly calmed down.
In the modern world where he lives, the entire history is a history of war, and human beings have a history of thousands of years of fighting each other, and such a method was used by people in the history of China in his time more than a thousand years ago.
To be honest, he drove civilians to fill the holes, and if it happened in his world, he would probably have a headache, because in his opinion, the people in his world are the same people as him, but this world...
After all, they were in the age of barbarism, and there was a civilization gap of dozens of centuries with the world he was in, and in his eyes, these slaves could not even be regarded as human beings at all, but only conscious beings.
So he won't be soft-hearted when he faces these people, and when he sees Kyle's eyes, he just said lightly: "What are you hesitating about, waiting for them to rush over?
Listening to Xiao Feng's cold words, Kyle is also a dignified, and indeed now is not the time to be soft-hearted.
He turned to look at the scholar and said, "Let the soldiers start!"
The scholar, who was obviously more sensible than the others, nodded, then walked up to the trebuchet with a few apprentices and began to tell the soldiers to reload.