Chapter 378: The Battle Under the City

The horror of the battlefield outside the city exceeded Comey's expectations.

He had seen the power of a gunpowder explosion two years earlier, and he knew that artillery had no advantage over bursting fireballs.

In Comey's eyes, muskets and gunpowder are all things that only extraordinaries use.

So when Comey saw that a thousand people of the Legion had been wiped out in fifteen minutes, he felt that the entire worldview had collapsed, and that the world was still respected by the transcendental?

If the transcendents can be easily defeated by ordinary people with cannons, then what is the Fu they are recognized by the Obelisk? Why train so hard? Why hone yourself in the adventure?

As long as you learn how to fire!

How easy it is to load, aim, pull the lead.

It's not a source of energy!

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As early as last night, the "revenge army" had carried down the guns from the three warships in advance and installed them in the western section of the Ilga city wall, which was the direction of the military town where the legion was stationed, and if the 8,000-man team of the second army stationed near Irga wanted to rescue Ilkah, they would inevitably attack from the west.

Comey believes that although he has never commanded an army, he is familiar with the characteristics of artillery.

Although it is powerful, it cannot be used if it is approached by an opponent.

Therefore, since the invention of the cannon, the first to use them was the warship adrift at sea.

The artillery solves the pain point of the warship lacking long-range attack means, while the warship makes up for the shortcomings of the inconvenient movement of the artillery, and the two complement each other and complement each other.

Therefore, unloading the artillery from the ship and installing it on the city wall is certainly not the best choice, whether it is the pursuit of the opponent when retreating, or the retreat of your own side, it is definitely not easy to move with the artillery.

However, the commander of the "Avenger Army" still chose this option.

A bunch of stunned young people who have never fought!

The best option should be to evacuate the ship, which can take advantage of the flexible movement of the sea ship to bombard the legionnaires who enter the city of Irga, even if it will injure some residents by mistake.

Anyway, the strategic goal of the "Avenger Army" is to move and fight, plunder the entire coastal areas of the Northern Regions, harass the army of the Northern Regions, and pave the way for the follow-up plan of the acting president.

Comey made a judgment and gave advice.

However, this unruly group of "revenge army" completely ignored Comey's advice.

Comey was only responsible for coordinating the resources of all parties, but had no command over specific operations, and all his suggestions were ignored by the female grandmaster known as the "Fire Phoenix".

"Did she fight in a real war? The battle to capture Irga was nothing more than a large-scale street fight. Comey doubts Fire Phoenix's ability to command battle.

In the face of the legionnaires coming in formation, Huofeng's response plan was to concentrate two hundred masked warriors outside the West City Gate and make a posture that they would face off against the legion outside the city.

Regardless of the power of the Synergy Source Energy Technique, the Masked Samurai would not be able to withstand the Legion's attacks by comparing them in terms of numbers alone.

However, the masked warriors outside the city were full of self-confidence, and instead of panicking, they loudly insulted the legions in the distance.

This way of provoking the opponent is very much like the habit of pirates. Combined with the various armors and weapons of these masked warriors, the commander who led the legion of a thousand people judged that the arrogant opponent in front of him was just a group of uninformed pirates.

The waters between the New World and the Empire do exist with pirates, who occasionally come ashore to raid, but they have always only operated in the New World. At the beginning of the Age of Discovery, there were pirates who dared to appear on the territory of the Empire. Such incidents have become less and less common in recent decades, and the attack on Irga was the first pirate landing in the Northern Regions in more than two decades.

At this time, the commanders of the legion did not know what was happening in the city, and when they received the urgent report yesterday, they only knew that the city had been attacked, and the city guards were defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Although the commander was eager to rush to the aid of Ilgar City immediately, there were also his annexes and outer chambers in the city. But the transfer of more than the Parao Legion had to be approved by the headquarters of the Second Army Corps.

A telegram requesting Xu Fa sent troops, but it was not until the next morning that a reply from Xu Xian from the headquarters of the Second Army Corps reached the garrison of the 8,000 men near Ilga.

The 8,000-man squad did not expect to see arrogant and provocative pirates outside the city of Ilga, and they actually fled, but instead made the appearance of wanting to fight the 1,000-man team of the legion.

Are all the current pirates so inflated?

No matter how arrogant the pirates were, the commander remained calm and arranged the attack in order.

Ten Scorpion Cannons were the first to launch a long-range attack.

The Scorpion Cannon's range can reach a distance of two miles, but its attack accuracy is not high.

Some pirates raised their shields to resist the incoming projectiles, some pirates held up their earth shields, ice shields and other defensive source skills to resist, and even even simply lay on the ground without regard to the image, laughing at the projectiles flying overhead.

Under the cover of the scorpion cannons, the legionnaires formed a standard offensive phalanx, one for each hundred, ten rows each, and advanced neatly towards the city.

According to the normal flow of warfare, once the legionnaires approached the enemy camp for about 100 meters, they would temporarily stop, pull out the short javelins they carried, and throw a rain of javelins with great damage towards the enemy camp.

Later, taking advantage of the javelin rain, the legionnaires will launch an assault, and when the two lines collide, the ten-man team in the front row will use the synergistic source energy technique "phalanx" to smash the enemy in front of them. When the front row is running low, the back row of 10 people will immediately fill in and start a second round of attacks, and the cycle will continue.

The commander was very confident in the victory of the battle, and at a glance, the pirates on the opposite side were a rabble who could not use the synergistic source energy technique, as long as the two sides of the army line met, they would immediately make a judgment, and it might only take three or five rounds of substitution to kill all the pirates under the city.

When the phalanx of the legionnaires was still two or three hundred meters away from the pirate camp outside the city of Ilga, a roaring explosion suddenly sounded from the narrow walls of the city of Ilga.

The commander in the back row of the phalanx, before he could figure out the cause of the explosion, the second round of explosions sounded over the phalanx composed of legionnaires!

Countless pieces of iron and iron beads exploded, pouring down into the dense phalanx Zheng

Immediately, a large number of legionnaires were hit by these fragments, only the helmet, hands and feet of the Zheng legionnaires were armor metal, and the shoulder guards and leg guards were leather armor, and these metal fragments could easily tear the leather armor into the body and get out, and there were also a few unlucky people who were hit by the fragments, and they couldn't do it on the spot.

The unexpected attack, although the legionnaires were caught by surprise, they immediately put up their shields to protect their vital points, and continued to advance in the face of explosions.

The explosions on the walls continued, and more and more legionnaires were injured.

The commander felt that if he continued to be beaten passively, by the time he came to engage the opponent in a short fight, more than half of the legionnaires would have been wounded, which would greatly affect the battle.

This situation is also easy to deal with, although he doesn't know what the pirates have used, he just thinks that his opponent has sent an extremely dense rain of arrows.

After the order was given, the legion quickly changed formations, and the front row of each phalanx was replaced by a team of ten people who could use the synergistic source energy technique "Solid Shield", and the "Strong Shield" supported by them opened the way and quickly advanced.

As a result, the number of soldiers of the legion killed by the artillery on the walls immediately decreased, and the pirate artillery fire also stopped. The legions under the city are silently advancing, and the pirates in the city are silently waiting.

After a safe advance of several hundred meters, the "strong shield" was finally unable to sustain itself.

At the moment when the "strong shield" in front of the legion phalanx disappeared, the artillery fire on the city rang out again, and white smoke filled the city.

The damage caused by this round of shelling was so great that at a cursory glance, nearly 100 people were injured by the fragments of the explosion. As a result, before they could get close to the enemy line and throw their short javelins, the casualties of the legionnaires had reached more than two hundred. The fact that so many people have lost their combat effectiveness has a great impact on the subsequent use of synergistic source energy technology operations.

However, the commander was still full of confidence, and while directing his men to advance in a surprise attack, the distance between the two sides was only three hundred meters, and as long as they entered close combat, the legionnaires would be invincible.

At this time, the pirates on the opposite side seemed to be in a panic, and since they could not retreat from the city, they even crawled directly to the ground.

Seeing this, the commander gave up throwing his javelin, intending to strangle the pirates as soon as possible to avoid further attacks from the strange weapons in the city.

When the legion phalanx approached within 100 meters of the pirate line, the legionnaires in the front row held up the symbolic "phalanx" of the synergistic source energy technique, and set up a forest of spears at the front end of the line.

The "Phalanx" is an offensive-biased synergistic source skill, and although dense spears can also resist some source skill attacks, their role is more to pierce the opponent with a sharp spear tip.

The pirates didn't know how to use the Synergistic Source Technique, and in the face of the rapidly approaching Spear Jungle, they still crawled on the ground in vain, but struggled to throw many black balls.

The black orb was slightly larger than a fist, and seemed to emit a faint white smoke, but it did not carry any source energy fluctuations.

The distance between the two sides was already very close, and the black orb without source energy fluctuations did not attract the attention of the legionnaires, who were not feathered arrows and javelins, and it was difficult to pose a threat to the legionnaires composed of transcendents.

However, the accident happened inadvertently, and the black balls exploded one after another!

In the violent explosion, the black sphere turned into a rain of metal fragments, raging in the dense phalanx.

Many of the Legionnaires were wounded in multiple places by metal fragments, and while not immediately fatal, they were incapacitated.

It takes at least five people to perform the synergistic source energy technique, and the smaller the number of people, the greater the consumption. Many of the ten-man teams were injured, especially the ten-man captain who was the core of the skill was injured or killed in battle, which immediately made it impossible for the ten-man team to perform the Synergy Source Energy Technique.

After an explosion, the pirates crawling on the ground rose to their feet, their muskets in their hands, and pulled the trigger on the approaching legionnaires.

There was another burst of explosions, and the legionnaires in the front row fell like wheat blown down by a strong wind.

Although the "Phalanx" of the Coordinated Source Energy Technique has a certain defensive ability, it is to prevent the attack of the Source Energy Technique, and the "Phalanx" is helpless against muskets and artillery, as well as the newly developed hand-thrown bombs.

After two rows of guns, the pirates in the smiling masks shouted in unison, screaming and charging at the legionnaires, who were unable to organize an effective formation.

At the same time, a group of masked pirates on the city walls also fell down the zipline and joined the charge.

On the other side, the city gate was wide open, and more than 200 knights also rushed out of the city gate. They gave up tangling with the legionnaires in front of them, and instead went around the flanks to the rear, where there were still more than two hundred legionnaires who had been burdened by the previous artillery attack.

These knights were there to harvest the wounded and cut off the way out.

What made the commander of the 8,000-man team even more frightened was that more than a dozen figures flew up from the city, these were more than ten grandmasters!

Even if the thousand-man team is unscathed, in the face of more than a dozen grandmasters, they can try to keep the team from being broken up and divided by endless attacks under the containment of the three grandmasters of the team, but it is impossible to defeat these grandmasters.

However, the 8,000-strong team of the Second Legion is currently less than 30% uninjured, and has been attacked by hundreds of fierce pirates, and the most important thing is that among the 100-person teams of 100 people, there are less than 30% of the teams that can still use the Synergy Source Energy Technique.

Coupled with these sudden grandmasters, this is already a sure defeat.

When did there be so many grandmasters among the pirates!

And what are the strange explosive weapons used by pirates?

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