Chapter 510: Western Expedition (12) Primitive
The following army of gnolls was still rushing from the rear, and they had to complete the tasks that their companions in front of them had not done, pushing these wooden ladders to the edge of the city wall and rushing up to fight them.
The Scandinavians weren't going to give them that chance, although none of the Scandinavians present, including their commander Siegmund, thought they would lose to the Jackals in hand-to-hand combat.
However, behind the jackals there are also centaurs, mammoths, and white bears, and it is not only the gnolls who will climb the wooden ladder, but also stand on the wall to face the centaur charge, which is no longer stupid, but a staff.
The closer you get to the walls of Upland, the higher the Scandinavian axe's hit rate, a game they've been playing since they were sensible, and the so-called low hit rate is only on par with the elves and centaurs, who are good at shooting and throwing.
The wooden ladder closest to the wall stopped, because the gnolls who pushed it were all gone, and even some of the guys who still had a breath of air and did not die for a while could not continue to move, and could only wait for the troops behind to come to the front to accept their unfinished tasks.
The other two jackals of the ladder ignored the wooden ladder, they were now focused on their own work, and they might as well work harder to focus on the things next to them.
Don't laugh, they're suffering from a storm of Scandinavian axes, and every moment someone is hit, cut in half, and falls to the ground and dies.
Besides, the wooden ladder that stopped, seen from another angle, is actually a very good target to attract the opponent's firepower, at least now the enemy's casters are focusing on it, and around that wooden ladder, the casters of the two armies are fighting.
rumble
The sound of violent explosions came again, making the whole battlefield even more noisy, more noisy, and more like those hells where death will come at any time, and no one will be spared.
The second one in the field, and the closest of the three wooden ladders that survived, exploded on its body, but compared to the damage caused by the [Explosive Arrow] last time, this explosion only caused some scorched black marks on the surface of the wooden ladder.
Although the power is not as strong as the last explosion, it is very secretive, and even those spellcasters who have become serious and focused on protecting themselves and fighting against the Scandinavian spellcasters have not discovered what this explosion is all about.
If they had been discovered so easily, then the elves' precise archery skills in the forest would not have caused Siegel's Gothic army to suffer so much.
Above the walls, tall towers of wood and stone were built at intervals of about ten meters, and the elves were on top of them, holding bows and arrows, observing the battlefield with sharp eyes.
Their weapons were similarly updated and renewed, and after seeing the exploding arrows used by the Jutlanders, the Scandinavian druids quickly enchanted them.
The left and right are just engraved with runes on the arrows, you must know that as believers of the Aesir gods, they have more or less obtained the gods, and some runes they mastered, as long as they pick out some suitable ones and engrave them on the arrows, they can create a destructive power that is not inferior to magic.
Although these arrows engraved with rune runes are still not as powerful as magic, in the hands of the elves, in the hands of these sharpshooters, it is very likely that this arrow will bring the fall of an important person in the enemy.
If you play it well, in high-end battles, use sneak attacks to use it, maybe there will be miraculous effects, for example, if Siegmund is in a battle with a knight, in a fierce confrontation, the knight needs to dodge or defend against this arrow, it is very likely that Siegmund will be caught by the flaw.
Just like that famous poem, one less nail loses a horseshoe, one less horseshoe loses a war horse, one less war horse loses a battle, one battle loses a country.
Although it is said that in this era, at this point in time, in the world of the main plane, because iron tools have not been popularized, because the horseshoe has not been invented, but a little negligence to change the truth of a battle will never change.
The explosion just now was actually a clarion call for the elves to start firing, and the enemy pinned down the casters of their own army, but the same opponent's casters were also restrained.
At this time, it is equivalent to the elves, this terrible firepower point is emptied, no one to watch, no one to defend, of course, it is also very likely that the Atila army does not know that the arrows in the hands of the elves engraved with rune runes can exert a power that is not inferior to magic.
The sudden explosion startled the jackals, and they subconsciously squatted down with their heads in their hands according to their body's reaction, and only after a few seconds did they carefully raise their heads and look at the wooden ladder beside them.
Seeing that there were only slight scorched black marks on it, the jackals breathed a sigh of relief, and then regrouped together and pushed the wooden ladder forward with all their might.
In front of them, there was only one last part of the journey left, and the last moat had already reached half the distance, as long as they worked hard, they had completed the task.
How could the Scandinavians just let them succeed like this, the condescending elves began to shoot, and when they saw that their secret weapons could not destroy the enemy's wooden ladders, they turned to ordinary arrows.
There is no way, those things are very precious, and it is very difficult to replenish them, and the spellcaster troops in a state of war do not have the time and energy to use precious magic to do things for the elves to engrave rune runes.
However, even if they didn't use these special arrows, with their archery skills, it was not a problem to send the arrows into the throats of the gnolls.
You must know that in those densely foliage, darkly lit forests, the elves can run extremely fast and shoot the wings of a fly three hundred meters away with an arrow in their hands.
Now in such an open environment, the target is the unprotected, slow gnolls, and the elves are showing their skills, harvesting the lives of their enemies with arrows one by one.
Their output is very comfortable, and the arrow towers made of wood and stone keep them safe from attacks from the sky, and neither the jackals' stone-throwing projectiles nor the centaurs' javelins can break through the towers' defenses.
It's really comfortable, the bows and arrows in their hands or the ordinary arrows used are all carefully crafted by craftsmen, which is probably the only place they feel comfortable after joining the Scandinavian Empire.
The elves rained down arrows for ten minutes, annihilating all the gnolls close to the city wall, and at a condescending angle, the gnolls had nothing to hide in front of them, even if they crouched down and put their shields in front of them, they were nailed to the ground by the elves by projectiles.
The gnolls were wiped out, and when the elves felt their fingers tingle, when the arrows in the quiver were running out, not a single gnolls were left dead, and before they could come here.
Until then, Attila's spellcasters were not without a way to help, and the gnolls and centaurs in the distance were also trying to help the gnolls, but the former was pinned down by the Scandinavian spellcasters, and the latter was unable to break through the defenses of the arrow towers where the elves stood.
There were only three well-preserved wooden ladders left in the field, bare and left there, all around them were corpses, and looking at the current invitation, it would not take much time, and the wooden ladders that had been turned into fixed targets without the jackals pushing them would also be destroyed.
Was the end of the first day's battle? Attila's army accepted defeat? Accepted that the wooden ladder that had been built with so much manpower and material resources had been wasted on the battlefield and had not achieved the slightest success? Accepted the centaurs' wasted ammunition reserves, and went on a morning of wasted effort?
How is it possible, think too much, the army of Atila has no reason for most of the time, they are a bunch of beasts dominated by emotions
Before thinking about whether it is worth it and whether it is worth it, they will complete their revenge first, just like just now, as soon as the anger comes up, they throw a legendary spell without saying a word, completely ignoring other things.
To use the mantra of a woman with short pink hair, it would be "punch first, and then ask all the questions when you hit." ”
The gnolls have been wiped out?Two wooden ladders have been destroyed?The remaining three will soon be destroyed?So what does it matter? It doesn't matter at all!
The use of wooden ladders for siege is a matter that civilization needs to consider, and what is the essence of Attila's army is easy for most people to summarize and summarize
Violent, bloody, and primitive
Without the slightest hesitation, the spellcasters in the Attila army were divided into two parts, one part continued to fight the enemy spellcasters, pulling each other's energy, and the other part was preparing great destruction, great power, and high intensity of magic.
As for the consumption of magic, the consumption of magic materials, the disruption of the rhythm of the battle and the plans made in advance, what are these things, can they be eaten, are they delicious, do they need to be bothered?
The casters of the Attila army can tell you with certainty that they don't need to be bothered at all, they are outnumbered and stronger than the Scandinavians, and careful temptation has never been their style.
Strong, big, thick
These three words are the style that sums up the style of the Atila army, it doesn't matter if it's not good-looking, it doesn't matter if it's messy, as long as the other party is killed, as long as they complete their goals, or even as long as they fight happily, it's enough.
The caster was like that, not to mention the rest of the army, Hogg's orders had reached the hands of every gnoll, the horn of attack had sounded, and the Attira army had begun to dominate the war with the rhythm of the battle they had always had.
What is the rhythm of the fighting that the Attila army has always had?
Power overwhelms everything
Quantity solves everything
Violence destroys everything
This is the characteristic of the Attila army, or this is actually the main reason why they can be invincible, the strength of the people who are more than them is not comparable to them, the stronger people are crushed by them in numbers, if the first two of the Atilla army is at a disadvantage? It doesn't matter, the three-color light cannon of the Atilla will raze everything to the ground.
Charge, charge, charge
Except for the gnolls who were still slinging and suppressing behind, the other gnolls rushed to the front in a swarm and began to charge towards Upland City, they didn't even want reserves, they moved quickly on all fours in a loose formation.
The Scandinavian spellcaster was completely involved in the spellcaster of the Attila Army, and was originally smaller than the other party in terms of numbers, and in terms of high-end combat power, because there was no legendary spellcaster, it was also inferior.
When they found out that the other party was starting to divide into two groups, one of which was preparing magic, which was obviously a legendary spell, the Scandinavian spellcaster was also in a hurry.
However, when there is an imbalance of power between the two and there is a big gap, no matter how anxious you are, there is no way to smooth out the gap between the two sides.
The same is true for the gnoll charge, the elves have had sore fingers from the high frequency of shooting, and now it is very difficult to even pull the bowstring.
The same is true of the Scandinavians standing on the city walls, who have been fighting until now, constantly throwing axes, which also consumes a lot of their physical strength.
Seeing the jackals rushing over like a tide, everyone standing on the city wall couldn't help but have a feeling of fear in their hearts.
This is not to say that the Scandinavian warriors are afraid of these gnolls, but rather the indescribable fear inherent in the innate bodies of living beings, if you use a metaphor to describe it, it is to see a group of ants charging at you in front of humans, knowing that these ants can trample to death with a slight lifting of their feet, but they hesitate to be charged by their indomitable charge.
Scandinavians are human, but those gnolls are not ants like creatures, and if they are pierced through their bodies by their weapons, they will also be injured, their heads will be cut off, their hearts will be pierced, and the Scandinavian warriors will also die.
At least in the matter of death, the two sides are equal, and they have nothing to do with other forces or statuses, they are equal...... This is true both in writing and in practice.