What the Eternal Night Warlord can do now is to further downplay the role of the crocodile people in the defense of Brother Harbor, and then negotiate with a group of relatively rational elders such as Nitya, Weber, and Bishop to urge them to increase their control over the crocodile army.

Some important military meetings do not exclude them, but actively invite them to participate, so that they can have a clearer understanding of the whole situation, and the frequency of irrational behavior in the past will be much reduced.

The problem exposed by the Kingsley family is also obvious, that is, there is a serious lack of long-range attacks.

The long-range attacks of both sides are not at the same level at all.

The range of Andes' longbow itself is amazing, and now it is condescending, with different degrees of bonuses, and the arrows flying out of the arrow tower more than ten meters high can easily shoot five hundred meters away.

The archers of the Kingsley family had no way to press on it and carry out long-range suppression support, and the entire siege force was directly exposed to the cover of the rain of arrows, and they could shoot as much as they wanted.

Akmesser is a veteran and could not have been unaware of the consequences of being suppressed by long-range attacks.

It's definitely not just a matter of casualties, it's also a blow to your own morale.

In the face of that overwhelming rain of arrows, many heavy infantry who were wearing heavy armor and knew that they would not be able to do much damage to themselves were still in two battles, and it was difficult to raise the courage to charge, let alone those cannon fodder with thin armor.

Including those mercenaries who sacrifice their lives for money.

They are not fools, they can sacrifice their lives for the bounty, but that is when there is hope for the bounty, if it is like the previous kind of death, the fool will rush forward.

Compared with the cannon fodder of the crocodile, the mercenaries faced a more ferocious rain of arrows, and the reason why they only lost less than 3,000 was because they saw that the momentum was not right, so they all hid behind and paddled the water.

For them, the Kingsley family can't drive them away like cannon fodder from the crocodile, and until there is a corresponding solution, it is not expected that they can continue to charge bravely and fearlessly.

This is the biggest flaw in the use of mercenaries.

It's not that the Kingsley family hasn't built siege equipment, but the surrounding trees have been completely destroyed by the Eternal Night Army, not to mention the tall trees, even the shrubs, they have uprooted them.

The nearest deforestation site is also dozens of kilometers away.

Moreover, the trees produced in the Swamp of Despair are usually relatively low and loose, and most of the ones that can be built are small siege machines, large siege machines, and there are not a few that have been built so far.

Akmesser is now holding it in his hands like a treasure, and he is reluctant to use it on these cannon fodder.

"Pile up the earth and attack the city!" The Kingsley family also had smart people in the Eastern Army, and proposed a new method for this situation.

"That's all there is to it. Akmaiser nodded and agreed.

Siege of the city.

As the name suggests, the earth is piled up into mounds, all the way to the bottom of the city wall, and after the city wall, the besieging soldiers rush down the slope of the mound to the top of the city wall.

Naturally, the advantages and disadvantages need not be mentioned.

Once successful, it is equivalent to opening a gap in the city wall, a large number of soldiers pour in, and the rest is an out-and-out hand-to-hand battle, and the defending side of the city, once it can't bear it, it is the time when the city is broken.

The disadvantage is that this is an out-and-out stupid method, which requires time, manpower, and material resources, not a star.

Especially in the face of castles with natural dangers or small-scale sieges, this trick is not used at all.

The Kingsley family now has no better way to think of it.

The feasibility of this stupid approach is relatively high.

After all, the natural danger that Brother Port relies on is water.

Although Ashaan does not have the saying that the five elements are mutually reinforcing, there is an argument that the elements are mutually reinforcing.

Whether it is the five elements or the elements, the earth is undeductible from water.

What's more, the Kingsley family now has a large number of idle manpower, and indeed has the innate conditions to carry out this method.

I don't know if it's because of the paralysis of the Eternal Night Leader, or if it's a multi-pronged approach, the Kingsley family began to pile up dirt and siege the city before waiting for the cold winter to come.

During this period, the Kingsley family drove out cannon fodder one after another and organized several tentative attacks.

However, the purpose of these tentative attacks was not to try to fill the moat of Brother Port again, but to test the maximum range of Andes' Longbow.

Then set up temporary defenses in preparation for the siege of the city.

Even if you are going to use a stupid method, you have to start from the weakest and closest point of firepower, and at this time, you can save a point of effort.

The points of the siege of the city prepared by Akmaiser were not one, but as many as eight.

There were tens of thousands of people at each point, and the negative soil piled up for 25 hours without stopping, and the mounds that were more than ten meters long began to spread in the direction of the sister city little by little.

Andes's longbow, who has led many miraculous feats in the Eternal Night Army, is a little powerless this time.

First, after the mound is formed, there is a large area of natural dead ends for bows and arrows, and there is nothing that can be done about whether it is flat or projectile.

Then the Kingsley family had made enough preparations to defend the arrows this time, building fortifications out of logs, pushing the mound a little further, and the fortifications followed a little further to provide shelter for those who were mounding.

It is true that the trees produced in the swamp are not hard, but the quantity can make up for the defects in quality.

No matter how strong Andes' longbow is, it can't change the fact that it is a bow and arrow, and its strength is limited after all, and it is impossible to have the same penetrating ability as a siege crossbow.

Besides, in the face of a log wall tens of centimeters thick, even a siege crossbow is powerless.

Although the Kingsley family doesn't care about the life or death of these cannon fodder, it is still possible to reduce the possibility of their death, after all, the number of cannon fodder is also limited, and if you can save some use, you can save some use.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder.

The Eternal Night Warlord is not helpless against the Kingsley family's siege of the city.

Brother Port not only has a large number of Andes longbowmen, but also a large number of defensive equipment.

Influenced by Sean, the Eternal Night Commander paid great attention to the study of siege equipment from the beginning, especially the attached engineer regiment took tower defense tactics to the extreme.

The geographical location of Brother Port is so important, and this tactic is naturally used to the extreme.

The hundreds of tower trebuchets are proof of this.

The real official name of the tower catapult is the Sky Catapult.

As you can tell from the name, the Eternal Night Warlord already has a relatively clear hierarchy in terms of catapults.

However, for the sake of memorization, the Eternal Night Commander did not give them too cumbersome names, that is, they were named after small, medium, and large trebuchets that were easy to understand, and only the unconventional super-giant such as the Sky Catapult had its own name.

The number of trebuchets placed on and inside the walls of the sister city is so numbing that it makes people's scalps tingle.

The reason why it was not used before was because the longbowmen alone were enough, and it was not worth wasting extra firepower.

Andes Longbows couldn't do anything, so it was their turn to strike.

After the calibrated test firing, stones ranging from a dozen kilograms to dozens of kilograms, with a sharp roar, smashed on the Kingsley family's fortifications.

The earth and rocks cracked, and the broken wood flew everywhere.

If you accidentally fall into it, you may die with it.

The Catapult of the Eternal Night Commander is terrifyingly accurate, and once calibrated, 12 out of 12 can hit the same target with a diameter of more than three meters.

The problem is not in the catapult, but in the catapult.

These stones are not randomly picked up, but fired in the furnace, and there are corresponding standards for shape, weight, and almost the same.

After the throw, the unstable factors are reduced a lot, and the accuracy is naturally greatly improved.

The bombing density is no less terrifyingly scary.

Under the constant bombardment, even the strongest defense facilities have to be smashed sometimes.

What's more, the Kingsley family's shoddy defensive shield wall at the beginning was very ordinary, and the strongest one made for the first time didn't last two hours, which still included the catapult correction time at the beginning of the Eternal Night Leader.

Subsequent repairs and manufacturing, although it is constantly thickened, it is difficult to carry it for four hours.

A living person will not be suffocated by urine.

It didn't take long for the Kingsley family to adjust their strategy.

The fortifications were no longer placed in the open, but were placed inside the earthen wall.

In other words.

The Kingsley family built a tunnel using various support columns, and then kept burying earth outside the tunnel, and pushed it in the direction of Brother Port little by little.

Although this is a little troublesome, it will greatly limit the accumulation speed of the earthen wall, but it is safe, and the thick soil layer outside is the best protective layer.

Even the stone projectiles thrown by the large catapults, weighing forty or fifty kilograms, had a very limited impact on them.

The only thing that can threaten it is the Sky Catapult.

This kind of super-giant catapult that requires half a hundred guards to operate at the same time every time it is loaded, no matter the throwing distance or lethality, it is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, not to mention anything else, just the roar of its winch turning, it makes people's scalp tingle.

The flaw of the Sky Catapult is also obvious, that is, it is very troublesome to reload, not only does it need to be operated by specially trained professionals, but it can fire one in seven or eight minutes, which is already the limit of what can be done.

So, of course, they can't test the angle like other trebuchets and trebuchets.

This question had already been thought of by the Eternal Night Commander in advance.

Each Sky Catapult has several attached Catapults in different directions.

Not only do these attached catapults look like smaller versions of them, but many of the attack routes are in a straight line, and even if they are not in a straight line, they are mathematically calculated and positioned to coincide.

When the Catapults were turning the direction of attack, they had already completed the corresponding correction test firing.

In data theory, of course.

However, these data theories have also been carefully calculated by the Eternal Night military leader, and they dare not say that they are 100% accurate, even if there is an error, it will not be too large, coupled with the instability of the catapult itself, this error will sometimes hit the target directly by mistake.

Anything is possible.

Sometimes that's how things go.

When more than 100 kilograms of boulders fall from the sky, the shock is not to be mentioned.

Even if the ground is solid, it can blast out a big crater.

Not to mention the tunnels that are buried under mounds of earth and are themselves full of weight and pressure.

Once hit directly above, the tunnel collapse is inevitable, and the tragedy can be imagined, not simply the problem of being buried alive, if you are unlucky, you may even be shocked to death.

Now, every time they hear the whistling sound of a boulder thrown by a catapult, the Kingsley family soldiers tremble in their legs, and they dare not drill into the narrow tunnel, lest they will not be able to get out once they enter.

This situation changed greatly after the arrival of reinforcements from the Kingsley family.

More than half of them are mining slaves who have just been pulled out of the mines, digging and burrowing they are professionals, and most of them have become numb to life and death.

Even in Sean's previous life, which had the concept of safe production, mining, especially mining deep underground, and regular mines with corresponding safety measures, were quite dangerous.

Not to mention those black mines where safety measures are not in place, I don't know how many people die in the pitch-black underground every year.

Sean's black mine in his previous life, even if the security measures were poor, there were still some basic inputs.

Most of the excavation conditions of the Kingsley family's mines are not even comparable to the black mines in Sean's previous life.

It is not only the weak awareness of safety production and the reluctant input cost, but also the most important thing is that the corresponding technology cannot be reached.

Not to mention anything else, just the deep digging of the mine and the continuous flow of groundwater is a big problem that is difficult to solve, and it is one of the main culprits of the mine collapse.

To put it bluntly, the Kingsley family's gold coins are stained with blood, the blood of those mining slaves.

Struggling on the line of death for a long time, slowly and naturally numb.

After passing through the dirt tunnel of their hands, it has become much stronger, and even if it is hit by a cloud catapult head-on, it can resist two more times.

It's not that they have the ability to turn decay into magic, it's that they know how to make the tunnels stronger, just make them smaller, have more parallel tunnels.

Moreover, the Sky Catapult can directly attack the outside of the walls of Brother Harbor, after all, there are a few, even if they can turn around, the Eternal Night Commander will not do this.

After all, they exist for the Danube to be deployed.

The fleet of the Cummins family is still eyeing the Danube.

If the leader of the Eternal Night Army redirects all the cloud catapults, it will really be as they want, even if they do not launch a sneak attack on Brother Port, once they pass through and block the military supplies of the Eternal Night Army Leader from the upstream, these 100,000 defenders of Brother Port will all become rootless duckweed.

At that time, there was not only the danger of breaking the city, but also the danger of annihilating the entire army, and the Eternal Night Army Leader would naturally not do such a stupid thing.

In the battle of wits between the Eternal Night Warlord and the Kingsley family, time passes at a slow and irreversible pace.

Not only is the weather getting colder, but the chance of the river freezing is increasing.

Half of the big killer move in the moat has been abolished, and the swamp war crocodile is becoming less and less active, and it rarely stays in the water, most of the time lying on the bank to bask in the sun and absorb heat.

Although the swamp war crocodile has evolved to be somewhat different from its own kind, the nature of ectotherms will not change, and fear of cold is their common problem.

In order not to lose them in vain, the Eternal Night Warlord had no choice but to bring them back.

Without the protection of the river, they could not withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the Kingsley family's siege engines.

After three or four months of preparation, the Kingsley family's siege equipment was also prepared one after another.

Compared to the Eternal Night Lords, their siege engines are between small and medium-sized, and these things are very wood-eating, especially sturdy wood.

Compared to the Eternal Night Commander who sits on the Eight Hundred Miles of Antis Mountains, the Kingsley family is not comparable at all in this regard.

These siege equipment, Akmaiser naturally did not dare to easily push them in the direction of Brother Port.

Once they appear, they will inevitably be targeted by the Eternal Night Warlord, but with their range, there is no way to touch the walls of Brother Harbor.

The Kingsleys can only do something else.

The most helpless, the most clumsy, and quite easy to use.

Mounds of earth into mounds.

These siege equipment were mounted on top of the mound and the height was used to compensate for the lack of range.

In order to bridge the gap in technology and raw materials, the Kingsley family piled up a mound outside Brother Port that was not lower than 20 meters.

How large the amount of work is, you can imagine.

In the later period, the Kingsley family's siege plan was no longer ready to be pushed directly under the walls of Brother Harbor, but concentrated on piling up the mounds needed for these siege equipment.

Because the workload of the previous siege was too large, even if they now had more than 200,000 people, it would take a year to push them under the walls of Brother Port according to the current progress.

Another concept of the large number of people is the heavy pressure on logistics, especially since the Kingsley family's supply lines are so long.

Even the wealthy Kingsley family can't afford it.

The wealth of the Kingsley family is not blown by the wind, but accumulated little by little.

What's more, this kind of wealth still has moisture.

When they leave this impression, it must be because they spend money like running water, and they usually have the style of spending a lot of money.

In a way, this has become a golden sign for them, and with this golden sign, the Kingsley family will get a lot of convenience.

But it costs money to maintain this golden signboard.

Moreover, the royal family of Lancelot has always stuck their necks through food, and they must be subjected to their exploitation first.

In the last decade or so, the Carthusian military leaders have not been quiet.

Not to mention anything else, just the rise of the slave rebel army and the eternal night army led by the Manyu army had already caused an indirect impact on them in the early stage, making their mine slaves fall into a state of tension.

The shortage of miners naturally means that the output decreases, and the amount of money that goes into the pocket naturally decreases.

After the remnants of the slave rebel army rushed into the Carthusian army, it was even more of a scourge, although it did not provoke a full-scale unrest, but there were not a few things that lured the mine slaves to defect, but they were suppressed by the Kingsley family.

It also costs money to encircle and suppress the remnants of the slave rebels, right?

To put it bluntly, war is about military supplies and money.

I don't feel anything for a while, but if I bleed for a long time, it's terrible.

Not to mention that the Kingsley family had no chance to recuperate at all, so they launched a full-scale invasion of the Swamp of Despair.

In the past two years, it has been like flowing money, and when listed, it is a terrifying number.