Chapter 421: War of Unification (6) Goths' performance

Wiglaaf's attention was not just on the berserkers who had stormed the walls, he had to deal with all the other mess as well, not to mention the culprit that had caused the situation to become like this, the siege ladder that kept sending the enemy up the walls.

I have to say that this siege equipment specially used to deal with the city wall in the hands of the dwarves has reached the pinnacle in terms of materials and skills, and ordinary attacks and magic cannot cause damage to it.

Coupled with the support of enemy druids and shamans, the Jeats' attacks can only be described as a drop in the bucket, and even if they use crossbow arrows obtained from Jutland to attack, they only leave a few white marks on its surface, and cannot really achieve the purpose of destroying them.

On the defensive side, the Yaats had their city behind them, their relatives inside, and they were well aware of the battle, knowing that according to Scandinavian customs, the loser would lose everything.

They resisted with all their might, with their warriors armed against the Goths who rushed up the walls, while other women and children struggled to carry stone bullets and smash them under the walls.

Falling rocks kept falling from the city walls, and the dense density of Goths below the walls saved the Jeats the effort of aiming, and with their efforts, these ordinary stones, which were sharpened into spherical shapes, became the weapons that killed the Goths the most in this battle, except for the swamp below.

Even if you use a shield to resist, you can easily break your sluggish hand, and if you are unfortunate enough to be hit in the head and body by a stone, you can declare that you have lost hope of survival, because being seriously injured on the battlefield is equivalent to death.

Not to mention that after these stone balls fall to the ground, they will also become the best material for shamans to cast [Stone Explosion], which is a spell similar to [Corpse Explosion], the difference is only that it is used as a medium for bombs to change from corpses to stones.

However, the Goths had no other means of resistance, and there was only one way to reach the wall, and only two people could climb at the same time, while the rest of the people could only gather nearby, raise their shields, and resign themselves to their fate.

The dull sound of explosions kept coming from under the city walls, and the gathering of Goths made the power of [Stone Explosion] reach the maximum killing limit, just like cutting rice in autumn, and every explosion caused pieces of Goths to fall.

Because it was just a level of magic like [Bear Tenacity], there was no way for them to survive the situation of being pierced by stone fragments like a hive, and the rudimentary armor and protection were not much different from not wearing them in the face of such a mystery as magic.

Seeing that today's first attack was once again resisted by the Yaats, and the casualties began to gradually increase, the Goth leaders led by Siegel began to get anxious.

It was not surprising that they were in a hurry, after all, there was not much time left for the Goths compared to the Yaats, and they could waste too much time on the city, both strategically and tactically.

According to the plan, the berserkers who use the berserker skill, after attacking the city wall, will provide a foothold for the subsequent army in a state of devastation, and then with the connection of the siege ladder, the Gothic army will continue to go to the city wall.

But now, whether it is the [Corpse Explosion Technique] that Wiglaf ordered to use the corpses of his compatriots as a material, or the bed crossbow that has been kept in the warehouse for a long time and is specially used to deal with large creatures, it has exceeded the expectations of Siegel and others, making the Goths' plan deviate and cannot be implemented smoothly.

"No, only one siege ladder is still too few, give me a way, give it to me. ”

"This is the order, this is the order of my Goth king, Siegel. ”

With a bruise on his face, Siegel commanded the two shamans and druid leaders on the left and right.

Although Siegel was not good at commanding such battles, he also knew that his previous plans were no longer suitable for the current battlefield situation, and it would be a foolish mistake to continue to put his hopes on that siege ladder.

If yesterday had not been so reckless and impatient, and had thrown the important ladder into battle without figuring out the strength of the Yeats, then there would have been a great chance that he would have been able to take advantage of the berserker's assault on the wall just now, and use the ladder to climb the wall elsewhere.

Of course, now is not the time to regret, and Siegel is not the kind of person who will dwell on the mistakes of the past, fortunately, this world is a world where gods and magic coexist, even without the help of the ladder, Siegel believes that his shaman and druid can use a way to redeem the current setback.

The shaman leader and the druid leader glanced at each other, and then conveyed Siegel's order to their respective men, and after last night's discussion, the conflict between the two had been temporarily put on hold, so the shaman leader chose a temporary compromise and handed over the task assigned by Siegel to the druids to complete.

In addition, what Siegel gave at this time was an order that must be completed, and if he could not complete this order according to his requirements, and continued such a clumsy performance in this war, it would definitely not be a good fruit to eat waiting for them.

The druids moved forward from Siegel's home formation, and the magic they were going to perform next would have to be closer to the walls, which would have made them vulnerable to the Yaats, but they were confident that the Yaats were now too busy to focus on themselves, not to mention that they were also one of the spellcasters, and they had more or less the means to deal with enemy attacks.

【Force Field Ladder】

The power of magic distorted the force field, creating an invisible staircase on the outside of the wall, one end reaching the edge of the wall, while the other end plunged deep into the swamp outside, stained with dirty, reddish clay.

Seeing the ladders that appeared in front of them, without the slightest hesitation, and without giving them time to hesitate on such a battlefield, the Goths quickly climbed up the city wall along these invisible ladders.

Although they had the same problem as yesterday, the head-sized stones could slide down the ladder and inflict damage on them, but the ladder made purely of stance was stronger than yesterday's ladder, and with the current attacks of the Yaats, it was impossible to threaten it.

On the other side of the city wall

Under the attack of those bed crossbows, the berserkers who climbed the city wall became more and more rare, and when the [Great Transformation] and [Maze] were over, it was even more difficult for them to resist the attack of the Goths, the city wall was already covered with their corpses, and their footsteps had retreated to the top of the siege ladder, if they continued to retreat, their previous efforts would be in vain.

If he could, Wiglaf would like to take advantage of the current situation to destroy the culprit who caused all this, the siege ladder made by the dwarves, and completely deal with the Gothic berserkers, but the Goths in other directions who climbed up with the force field ladder also need to be dealt with by him.

Once again, a brutal white-knuckle battle unfolded on the city wall, and the Goths, who were blessed with magic such as [Brute Force of the Ox], [Tenacity of the Bear] and [Grace of the Cat], launched an attack on the Yeats with the anger that had been suppressed for the past two days.

With the blessing of magic and high morale, in just a few rounds, the Jeats were pushed back by a distance of more than three meters, which also caused the Goths to gain more footholds.

Now the shamans of the Yeats have no way to repeat their old tricks, because if they use the [Corpse Explosion Technique] again now, it will be the Yeats who will fall the most, even if the current casualty ratio between the two sides has reached the point of 1 to 5.

The brutal white-knuckle battle continued, but the Goths took on a new twist, with about thirty diminutive Goths mixed in with the attacking ranks, protected by other Goth warriors with shields.

They had no armor on them, they were empty-handed, and they couldn't find any weapons on them, and the only thing that made them pay a little attention was a pair of black leather gloves on their hands, because the Scandinavians didn't like to wear gloves on their hands, which they felt would prevent them from having a good fight.

The Jeats were engaged in a fierce battle with the Goths who had climbed the walls, and as a result, their ranged attacks were extremely sparse and unable to form a barrage of barrages, and even the occasional flying axe would be blocked by the Goths with their shields.

With the help and protection of the other Goths, these slightly strange creatures crossed the swamp area and came to the edge of the city wall, where they did not need the protection of their companions, because this was the dead end of the attack.

They crouched down, their black-gloved hands easily digging into the solid earth, and it only took a few strokes to dig a hole, which was rapidly expanding.

The black glove has the magic of [high-speed burrowing] attached to it, and in the north, a land where even spellcasters are very rare, only Alice of Jutland has the leisure to make these items that have little to do with combat.

Originally, these gloves were used by Alice to practice, and later they were also used to dig harpies' lairs and sewers, and the goblins who stayed in Jutland also purchased a few from Alice for some reason.

This is also the reason why things from Jutland will appear in the hands of the Goths, those green dwarfs who only have money in their eyes don't pay much attention to too many things, and in the face of the gold coins thrown by Siegel, they can easily send all kinds of things, which is why Alice hates these green dwarfs so much.

In a matter of moments, small mounds of earth were piled up behind the Goths, and their figures disappeared to the ground, leaving only a dark hole near the wall.

The Yeats were still unconsciously fighting the Goths, relying on their superiority in equipment and numbers, they once again succeeded in repelling the Goths' attack, and as the pace advanced, the place occupied by the Goths had been compressed to less than five meters of space.

Five meters, in such a battlefield, it is only barely able to stand alone and fight without being affected, if it is more, it will only interfere with each other and become the target of the enemy.

However, at this moment, a violent shaking appeared in this ancient land of the Yeats, and some of the Goths standing on the edge of the city wall fell backwards one after another, falling from the towering city wall, and even some of the [Force Field Ladders] were affected, twisted and flickered, and then disappeared.

The panicked expressions on the faces of the Yaats only lasted for a short time for the sudden earthquake, as they remembered that the wall under their feet had been specially reinforced, and that it had been blessed with magic, and that it had been connected to the solid ground below, and that magic like [Seismic] would be difficult to have an effect.

But soon they knew that their self-confidence was so wrong, and a wall of three hundred meters not far from the city gate began to tilt outward, and everything that had been placed on it, whether it was a stone bullet, a bed crossbow, or even a human body, fell like raindrops.

The Yaats standing above fell to the ground splashing with a splash of blood, and the Goths below were not much better, even if they were blessed with magic, they could not escape the fate of being crushed into meat sauce by heavy objects.

The earth-shattering sound drowned out all the sounds on the battlefield, and the smoke and dust that rose into the sky also turned everyone's eyes into gray, and before everything could calm down, the shaman invited a gentle breeze to blow away the smoke and dust, and everything inside was exposed to the people at the same time.

The stumps were mixed with broken walls, blood seeped into the earth, and occasionally people who were not dead were sobbing, and their mouths were intermittently exuding screams of pain.

The gloves enchanted with [High-Speed Digging] from Jutland played a decisive role this time, originally only small props used to dig nests, but at this time, they easily dug through the foundation of Upplan's city walls, creating favorable conditions for the use of [Seismic].

"Hurry up and figure it out, hurry up and think of a way for me to fill this gap. ”

Wiglaf quickly recovered from this shocking turn of events, and he reached out and grabbed the leader of the Yayat shamans, and roared loudly with one hand pointing at the great gap that had been opened by the collapse of the wall.

As Beowulf's deputy, Wiglaf had followed him through an unknown number of battles, and of course knew how bad news the fall of a wall would be for the defenders.

On the one hand, it will wipe out the defender's greatest advantage, and on the other hand, it will also change the morale of both sides.

In just a few minutes, Wiglaf saw that the movements of the warriors around him began to slow down, not because of physical exertion, but because of the collapse of the wall, and despair began to appear in their hearts.

And, to make matters worse, despair is contagious and spreading.