Chapter 938: The Battle of the City Gate (2)
The soldiers on both sides who had received Owen's instructions roared and rushed towards Du Yuanzhi's troops.
In the face of such a battle, Du Yuanzhi, who had an obvious disadvantage in troops, naturally it was impossible to fight them hard.
Maintaining the iron bucket formation, he resolutely retreated, and withdrew to the area of the city gate passage with a group of soldiers.
His retreat can be said to have changed the entire situation in an instant, effectively using the special space and terrain of the city gate, and instantly resolving the flanking attack from the enemy forces on the left and right.
At the same time, he gave full play to his talent of arranging troops and arranging troops in the 'Divine Machine Military Division', and quickly transformed the iron bucket array into an iron wall array with a single block.
The tight shield wall composed of large shield soldiers directly kept the enemy soldiers rushing out of the door.
Then seeing the opportunity for the enemy soldiers to storm the shield wall, Du Yuanzhi decisively ordered!
"Gale bomb, let's go!"
Among the mage troops, the wind mage also unleashes a gale bomb to attack.
The Gale Bullet has an excellent formation-breaking effect, and even if the shield and axe soldiers who rush up to the front of the attack, even if they use their shields to block the attack, the small whirlwind generated by the explosion of the Gale Bullet will still blow the soldiers in the front row out at once.
As soon as the shield wall in the front row is broken, the output opportunity of the rear row troops comes.
The other mages conserved their mana for the time being, and the goblin crossbowmen and archers opened fire decisively, and a dense rain of arrows directly crushed them.
In the face of the oncoming rain of arrows, the momentum of the enemy soldiers who rushed up to kill them was decisively stagnant.
Amidst the screams, a large number of soldiers subconsciously retreated to the left and right.
At this moment, Owen, who had been observing the battle situation from a distance, had a gloomy face.
There is no doubt that the opposite side is in a routine for him!
He ordered his soldiers to launch an outflanking attack, and the opposite side would retreat to the city gate, and then form a shield wall with large shield soldiers to block the entrance, and then use that special spell attack to match the fire of the rear troops to repel them.
On the contrary, if he let his soldiers retreat, the opposite side would be changed to an iron bucket formation again.
Continue to destroy the ladder with powerful spell attacks, killing and injuring his soldiers.
Just like the means he used to fight the war of attrition a few days ago was Yang Mou, the means used by Du Yuanzhi at this time were also proper Yang Mou.
You know what the other person's purpose is, but you just have to take it.
This terrible situation made Owen's face almost dripping with gloom.
There is no way, and that is to take human lives.
Let your soldiers storm the gates in large numbers, and put pressure on the troops below, so that they don't have a chance to rush out and destroy the ladder.
At the same time, make the soldiers on the wall move faster, so as to occupy the entire wall faster.
But this method will obviously cause heavy casualties to his troops.
I saw that I could control the victory before, but I was forced back to this point by the other side, which really made Owen's whole mentality explode slightly.
Putting on his bucket-like helmet, Owen rode his war horse and led the guards behind him directly to the front.
While using this to boost morale, shout loudly......
"Push the ironclad cart and storm the city gate!!"
The last ironclad car that he had ordered to abandon was near the city gate and was not destroyed.
In the current situation, since it is necessary to storm the city gate, it is natural to make good use of it.
The Europa soldiers, who received the order, pushed the ironclad carts and began to rush to the city gate.
According to the strength of the big shield soldiers, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to want to hard-catch the frontal collision of the ironclad car.
At this moment, I saw Du Yuanzhi see the move.
While the Europa soldiers on the opposite side began to push the ironclad car, he directly led the soldiers under his command to maintain the formation and quickly retreat.
Before the ironclad car completely rammed in, signal the soldiers to crush it with artillery!
This whole process is a life-and-death game for both sides.
By the time the roar of the shelling sounded, the Europa army's ironclad carts had already rushed in front of their eyes.
At that time, the distance between the two of them was no more than twenty meters.
The powerful artillery bombardment directly blasted an entire ironclad car away.
Later, the shrapnel that flew away because of the explosion even affected the defenders in the rear.
Fortunately, Du Yuanzhi was mentally prepared and asked the big shield soldiers in the front row to raise their shields in advance.
Shrapnel splashed on the shield, but it didn't have much impact on them.
At most, some of the soldiers did not have time to react, and their ears were temporarily deaf.
"Fire, keep shooting for me!!"
With a roar, three cannons opened fire one after another.
Without the cover of the ironclad car, the flying cannonballs hit the Europa soldiers who poured into the passage of the city gate.
The successive shelling made the entire city gate passage tremble violently, as if it was about to be blown down.
The soldiers who were hit head-on by the shells were even more dead.
In the passage of the city gate, blood, severed limbs, internal organs, and minced flesh were splattered everywhere.
It makes the entire city gate pass seem to be a hell on earth.
The soldiers of Europa began to be afraid, the power of the artillery on the opposite side was too strong.
However, they have all fought to this point, and the price has already been paid, where will Owen allow them to retreat at this time?
Decisively unleash the 'morale-boosting' skill, and while pulling a wave of morale, give a loud order......
"Charge, keep charging for me!! Whoever dares to take a step back will be hanged for desertion!! ”
Owen had already given the order to die, and the soldiers who had been cut off from the back began to charge desperately with their shields.
The cannon could not immediately pick up the next round after one round of fire.
For this point, Du Yuanzhi, who had been prepared for a long time, naturally had a way to deal with it.
The mage troops in the back row had already begun to chant incantations as early as when the artillerymen began to operate the cannon to fire.
Now looking at the Europa soldiers who rushed up again, Du Yuanzhi decisively ordered......
"Mage troops, carry out the second tactic!"
The so-called No. 2 tactic is one of the tactics used by the mage unit to deal with the charging troops.
At the moment of receiving the order, the wind mages decisively struck first, breaking through the formation with gale bullets.
Later, the earth mage used the flying stone technique to destroy the enemy's formation twice.
After completely disintegrating the enemy's formation with two rounds of spell attacks, it finally ended with the fire mage's second-order fire spell bursting the fireball, and the lightning mage's second-order lightning spell thunderstorm spell to deal damage!
With a full set of spell baptisms, from destroying formations to bursting damage output, the mage troops have once again shown their value!
Needless to say, the damage of the Burst Fireball and Thunderstorm Spell is not to mention.
The proper high-damage spell was hit head-on by these two spells, and ordinary soldiers were basically dead.
Although after this, the mage army needs a lot of time to slowly recover its mana, but this power alone is already worth it!