Chapter 204: Blood Debt and Blood Repayment
The catapults, which posed the greatest threat to the mountain Kentana barbarians, were also gradually declining in lethality.
At the cost of blood, these barbarians learned to be shrewd, and although they did not make siege vehicles, they made shelters similar to siege engines, and a large number of logs were staggered together, and they were pushed forward with brute force, which became the best cover for them to throw spears.
Even a large catapult mounted between two walls would have to hit more than two shots at the same time to completely destroy these shelters.
This difficulty is not ordinarily high.
Even with coordinate markers, the error range of a large catapult can be controlled within five meters, which is quite accurate.
Even after firing, the probability of the same stone hitting the same pit is almost zero if the large catapult is reloaded intact.
Not to mention that in this process, it is difficult to determine how much power the catapult gave to the stones.
There is no way to determine the angle of ejection and the angle of rolling.
The most important thing is the shape, texture and weight of the stone itself, which is very different, after all, it is impossible to become exactly the same even if it is artificially carved.
And all of this creates a difference in the final landing location, most of the time it means left to right, attack before and after.
More often than not, it's by Meng.
Of course, if there are enough of them to form a saturation attack, you don't need to think about the foothold or the like.
Unfortunately, the manufacturing process of this thing is relatively complex and very cumbersome, except for some relatively complex key parts, which can be prepared to be transported in advance, as the main body of the log of the support, it is necessary to take materials on site and make it temporarily.
Even if the Eternal Night Group Army has a highly professional subsidiary engineering regiment, in a week, it has rushed to work overnight, but only 12 planes have been manufactured, and three are still in the process of being rushed.
The firing speed of this large catapult is even more impressive, and it takes three or four minutes to shoot a shot.
In the face of a large-scale charge, throwing a fist-sized gravel is its most lethal means.
Unfortunately, this move is quite lethal to the mountain Kentana barbarians who are jumping around with shields like door panels, and it is not as deterrent as those boulders.
In desperation, he had no choice but to use fire and oil bombs to burn and clean up the piled log shelters all over the ground.
Otherwise, let them advance to the bottom of the city wall, the ten-meter-high city wall, the blocking effect on them will be greatly reduced, with the help of these three or four meters high stepping objects, two or three times with the help of force, you can jump directly on the city wall.
This is a great challenge to the black fire oil reserves of the Eternal Night Group Army, although it has already organized manpower and kept transporting it to the front line.
However, the oil-producing area is too far away from here, and the communication arteries between the Eternal Night Army and the Walled City Alliance have been deliberately destroyed by the Walled City Alliance before, and the efficiency of transporting all kinds of materials up is pitiful, and many places need people to carry beasts.
Although additional manual repairs were also dispatched, the winter was really not suitable for infrastructure projects, and the frozen soil was harder than ordinary masonry and the speed was very slow.
The continued low temperature weather has both positive and negative sides for the Eternal Night Army.
The Black Fire Oil Reserve of the Eternal Night Army is being depleted at a rate visible to the naked eye.
And this is exactly what the barbarians of Kentana in the mountains want to see, divided into several groups, cutting down trees day and night, forming new log shelters, and as soon as the fire stops, a new round of advance is launched.
As long as the black incendiary material of the other party is lured and consumed, they have the confidence that they can charge down the two walls in a row.
Then the Cliff Clan warriors will let them experience what terror is, what despair is, and the blood debt must be repaid with blood.
The mountain Kentana barbarians did not notice that this ice city was like a very thin spike inserted into their bodies, and it continued to bleed.
With each attack, the corpses of as few as a dozen barbarians were dragged down.
At first, I didn't feel any pain, but cumulatively, the amount of damage was quite staggering, and in just three days, it was more than twice the amount of the first collective charge.
If it weren't for the fact that the frequency of the other party's arson was significantly reduced, and now it was about to be pushed under the city wall, and the other party did not move for a long time, and the man bear Yale had the heart to lead the people to rush hard.
"Rush, attack on all fronts, the first one to rush to the city wall, half of the loot belongs to him, pick whatever you want. ”
This was originally just a habitual temptation, but as a result, the shelter rushed under the opponent's city wall, and the other party did not respond effectively, and the man-bear Yale gritted his teeth and took advantage of the situation to launch a full-line attack, even if the other party still had black fire oil, the number was definitely not much.
"Rush!" the mountain Kentana barbarians, who had been holding their breath, were swept in like a flood once again, they were more prepared than the last time, and the three-day setback did not seem to have dealt any blow to their morale.
The old trick was repeated, and before the person could rush to it, the cloud-like spear was smashed down first, this time it was loaded with an iron spear head, densely packed, and the nails were all over the wall.
There was a riot on the city wall, and it was also the old way to deal with it, and a large amount of black fire oil was poured down, but it was not the same as the first time, and even a third of the wall was not covered.
Moreover, the barbarians of the mountain Kentana have also learned wisely, and many of the previous spears are fire spears with fire, and when the black fire oil comes down, they will automatically ignite, and they will avoid it from a distance, and the killing is also not satisfactory.
Yale was overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "The other party's fire oil has run out, and with a lot of anger, it will take down the two cities in a row, so that these rats who only dare to cower behind the city wall can taste the anger of our Cliff Clan warriors, Cliff!"
"Cliff!"
The wild roar of the barbarians of the mountain Kentana resounded through the heavens and the earth, and at the same time jumped out from behind the bunkers, and launched a charge against catapults and crossbow arrows, and the earth trembled.
Many of the braves, in order to increase their speed, even dropped their log shields.
The mountain Kentana barbarians are not good at speed, and that's relatively, relative to their terrifying strength and physique.
People have long legs and big steps, and when they really run, they are at least short sprints, which is not necessarily much worse.
Each of them is a good parkour athlete, and the various obstacles on the road are not a problem for them at all.
The situation that the Eternal Night Army feared the most appeared, those shelters became the best stepping stones for these barbarians, three steps and two steps, rushed to the top, jumped up, the standard big slam dunk posture, hung directly on the ice wall, with agility that did not match the huge body, climbed up at high speed.
One!
Two!
Three!
Four!
With just four borrowings, the mountain Kentana barbarian who took the lead threw himself against the ice wall.
"Cliff!"
The mountain Kentana savage shouted excitedly and took a defensive stance.
But the situation in front of him made him stunned.
There was no mass of soldiers of the eternal night coming towards him, and the whole city was empty, except for the catapults and ballistae that were crackling and burning.
He strode to the other side of the wall, and the large catapult in the clearing, also burning violently, saw only the tail of the other party retreating in an orderly manner behind the other wall and the gate slamming shut.
The other party consciously abandoned the first wall.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
More and more mountain Kentana barbarians rushed up, and when they saw this, they couldn't help but let out angry roars.
The walls were indeed captured, but the anger they had been holding back for so long did not come out.
It's like an iron fist, attacking with all his strength, but it hit the cotton with a punch, and there was no force point at all, but he vomited blood uncomfortably.
Although Yale was delayed a little, he was the first wave to rush up, his face was also very ugly, and the grievance in his heart was stronger than anyone else.
Taking the city wall is never what they want, tearing and crushing the enemy is fundamental.
The opponent didn't hurt his muscles and bones at all, but damaged some equipment and changed the city wall to continue the defense.
And for this city wall, they have already paid the lives of more than 1,500 Cliff Clan warriors.
Each of them was an extremely brave warrior, the foundation of the Cliff Clan, the hope of the Cliff Clan's rise, and now, without even touching the face of their enemies, they were lying here, forever under a makeshift ice wall.
Their blood cannot be shed in vain, and their lives cannot be wasted in vain.
"Blood debt and blood payment!"
Yale raised his arms and shouted.
"Blood debt and blood payment!"
Countless mountain Kentana barbarians who had already climbed the city walls shouted wildly.
"Blood debt and blood payment!"
People are roaring, the wind is howling, and the earth is shaking.
Without even repairing, Yale led the army of mountain Kentana barbarians who had just climbed over an ice wall and rushed to the second ice wall.
Many barbarians recycled their spears from the walls and prepared to repeat them on the second wall.
It doesn't matter if the move is old or not, as long as it is easy to use.
Soon the second city wall was also densely nailed with throwing spears.
The strange thing is that on the second ice wall, there is no shadow of the other party, as if the other party has even given up on this wall, or a bigger conspiracy is brewing.
But no one thought about it anymore, and all the mountain Kentana barbarians had only one thought in their minds - to pay the debt with blood, to take down the second wall, and kill all the rats who dared to hide behind the walls.
"Blood debt and blood payment, I will let you pay for blood debt. Dozens of soldiers of the Eternal Night cowered behind the city walls, grinning at the sound of the mountain crashing and cracking.
Without hesitation, he threw the torch in his hand towards the fuse that was half the size of a baby's arm, and then pulled his legs and ran wildly, using all the strength of his life, as if there was a wild beast behind them, chasing them, and shouting wildly while running, "Ignition, ignition, ignition, into the earthquake pit, into the earthquake crater." ”
After running for nearly 100 meters, he plunged headlong into a pit nearly one person deep.
Boom! Boom!
Landslides and ground cracks.
A landslide in the true sense of the word.
Broken ice is splattered, air waves are churning, and flesh is flying.
A series of explosions began under the second wall and spread to the bottom of the first wall.
It is like countless earth dragons rolling under the ice wall, and it is like countless flowers blooming, flowers composed of earth and stone, emitting a thunder god roar.
When the earth and stone are endowed with powerful kinetic energy, they burst out with a terrifying lethality, even the mountain Kentana barbarians can't bear it, and many of them are smashed into pulp.
Even some unlucky, right at the explosion point, the flesh and blood that were directly blown up flew sideways, and their own flesh and blood became a sharp weapon to attack their own people.
Click!
The ice wall, which was already shallow, with all the load-bearing pillars destroyed, naturally began to tilt in the desired direction - all inward.
That is to say, the mountain Kentana barbarians, who were in the middle of two ice walls, had become rats in the cracks, rats in the cracks that were collapsing.
"Run, don't stop, you'll die!"
"Run to the middle, there is still hope to run to the middle!"
"Open the gates, hurry up and open the gates, and rush out of the gates!"
"Into the lake, hurry up to the lake. ”
In the face of the might of heaven and earth, the mountain Kentana barbarians are also vulnerable and will panic.
There were those who rushed to the gate of the second city wall, and wanted to rush through here, but when they got closer, they found that this was a trap, and in the process of blasting, they were taken care of and completely deformed, and the ice wall collapsed the most.
There are also those who run back, trying to cross the first wall and return to safety.
There are also some who rush fast, have been hanging on the wall, and have not been shaken down, and want to climb and climb over the wall that has begun to tilt severely, which may be a glimmer of life.
There was also a wall in the direction of the Andes Inland Lake, but only five or six meters high, to prevent the mountain Kentana barbarians from attacking from the water.
The natural fear of water made them not have such thoughts at all, but now under the threat of life and death, they can't take care of it, one by one over the low wall, and plop into the icy lake, most of them are the same as the scales, after entering, they flutter a few times, and then sink directly to the bottom, able to struggle, floating on the water like a dog, there are only a handful.
In addition to the fact that most of the mountain Kentana barbarians rarely have the opportunity to swim and have not learned to tread water, it is also because their body gravity is indeed relatively high, and the highly developed leather muscles, bones, and tendons give them terrifying physical strength At the same time, it is more laborious to float in the water than ordinary people.
There are also some smart people who know to throw a log removed from the catapult in advance, with the help of log buoyancy, so as not to sink to the bottom.
More are like headless flies, jumping around in front of two collapsing ice walls, never finding a way out.
In the end, they found in despair that the height of the two ice walls and the distance between them seemed to have been carefully calculated, and they could not avoid it like two doors.
Their only glimmer of life is that the two city walls cannot always remain intact in the process of collapse, and the speed of the collapse is not the same, so there is a gap in the time difference between the two.
It's a long story.
In fact, it took only five or six minutes from the blasting of the Eternal Night Army to the complete collapse and collapse of the two city walls.
But for the mountain Kentana barbarians in the middle of it, these five or six minutes were so long, a time to fight for their lives with death.
"This is the power of Thor? It is not the power that mortals can have. ”
"The mountain god is above, and the power of this thing is even greater than I expected. ”
"Succeeded, haha, we succeeded, blood debt and blood repayment, this is what you said yourself, only your blood can wash away the debt you owe. ”
Not only were those mountain Kentana barbarians like they were in hell, but even the executors of the blasting plan were stunned one by one, and their eyes were wide open and shocked.
Many things are far more powerful than they are on paper and in words.