Chapter 40: The Catapult Strikes
Xiao Yu's small plan caused all the nearly 2,000 troops of Kalu's army to be killed in an instant, which made Kalu's face gloomy as if it was about to drip water.
With an army of 20,000, he thought that it would be easy to take the Lion King Territory, but now he has suffered such a heavy loss.
This Xiao Yu is really too despicable and shameless.
"Ballista, get on me, suppress those archers for me." Originally, according to the plan, the ballista was to wait until a while before getting on it, but the insult and heavy losses caused by Xiao Yu to Karui made him angry and put the ballista into the battle sequence in advance.
The soldier operating the ballista was ordered to immediately push the ballista and march under the city walls, ready to reach the attack distance, and began to attack.
Although the ballista is fought from the bottom of the city to the city, because of its strong power, the power is no shorter than the arrow attack distance shot from the city.
This is just an ordinary ballista, if it is some magically blessed ballista, with magic annihilation arrows, the range will be even more terrifying, and the power will be even greater.
Xiao Yu watched Karui's ballista start to move forward from the top of the city, and knew what Karui was thinking, and immediately he waved his hand, and the ten trebuchets immediately adjusted their direction and aimed at the four ballistas distributed together.
"Ready, put." Xiao Yu personally commanded and gave the order.
Suddenly, in the middle of the sky, hundreds of rocks flew down from the city, like meteors sliding down from the sky, and smashed directly at the four ballistas over there in an extremely dense formation.
Buzz Buzz......
The sound of the stones flying in the sky carried a terrifying power, as if countless locusts pounced on them in one go.
"What's that?" The soldier operating the ballista looked up at the rocks in the sky, a little dazed, and did not react for a moment what was going on.
By the time they reacted, the rocks were already on top of their heads, and because they were so densely distributed, they had nowhere to dodge if they wanted to.
Xiao Yu's use of this long-range heavy weapon is definitely different from Kalu's troops. Karui's ballista was distributed behind several phalanxes, helping the besieging light infantry to suppress the archers at the head of the city, so that they could smoothly climb to the top of the city.
And Xiao Yu's purpose in using the trebuchet is to use large-scale concentrated heavy firepower to inflict absolute suppression and fatal damage on the opponent.
This is the difference between the thinking of people in Xiao Yu's previous life and in this era of cold weapons.
Heavy weapons, only when used together, can produce great power, and can suppress and devastate the opponent.
Xiao Yu naturally saw the other party's more than 20 ballistas, and he naturally knew that if these ballistas were allowed to enter the firing range, they could cause huge damage to the elven archers at the head of the city.
These elven archers are all his treasures, and they have finally been cultivated to the third level, and Xiao Yu will die of heartache if he dies.
Therefore, Xiao Yu naturally wanted to destroy these heavy weapons within the firing range first.
It's like seeing that the opponent has mortar heavy firepower in that era, so you must first kill the opponent's mortars, so that you can achieve a better advantage over the opponent.
In this way, Xiao Yu can fight them, but they have no way to pose a threat to Xiao Yu's troops.
When the two armies intersect, they must take out the heavy firepower of the other side first. This was also something of common sense in the past* era.
Xiao Yu has tested the power of the catapult, and he is very satisfied with the distance and power. He had absolute confidence that at the head of the city, these catapults could completely suppress any powerful siege equipment that Karui brought.
Originally, there were not many machines that could be better than the beast clan's catapult in this era, and Xiao Yu and the others occupied a high place, and the delivery distance was definitely much stronger than the other party.
Therefore, before the other party attacks, they can completely strangle the other party in their infancy.
Now, the only problem that plagues the catapult is the problem of accuracy, the long-range weapons of this era are not as accurate as Xiao Yu's era, and the deviation of the catapult is accurate if Xiao Yu is ten meters.
Therefore, Xiao Yu directly covered up the problem of accuracy with a large-scale concentrated fire attack. If a catapult shoots at a ballista, it may not be possible to defeat a catapult several times in a row.
But ten catapults shot at one place together, and each catapult placed seven or eight stones weighing thirty or forty pounds, which was a total of nearly a hundred stones densely covered.
No matter how big the error is, under such a dense blow, there will always be stones that can hit the target and kill the opponent's ballista.
Sure enough, the thirty or forty pounds of stones and the free fall movement more than twenty meters high formed a huge force, not only directly smashed the skeletons of those ballistas, but also turned all the soldiers who were controlled nearby into pulp.
Four ballistas together, all smashed into a pile of splinters.
"Well, it's a good fight, these ten catapults really didn't buy in vain, although the price is a little expensive, but it's definitely cost-effective."
Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes, very satisfied with the effect of the catapult's first use.
And in just a short time, less than ten seconds, the slaves and orc laborers of the Black Iron Clan had filled the catapult again, ready for a second attack.
The orc laborers were also transferred by Xiao Yu to participate in the defensive battle this time, and at the beginning, Xiao Yu also wanted to take advantage of the loophole to make the orc laborers also become warriors. After all, although they are not as strong as orc soldiers, at least the physical advantage is there, and ordinary soldiers should not be their opponents.
But after testing their combat ability, Xiao Yu directly gave up this idea. It's like the melee ability of the elven archers can't be improved no matter what, the orcs are very good at hard work, and they can bear hardships and stand hard work, but let them fight, it's really a dou who can't be helped, and they can't train no matter how they train.
It seems that they are tall and big, but any elite human soldier can easily kill them. There is no way, Xiao Yu can only pull them up and use them as labor when this kind of logistics assistance.
Although it is said that they can't fight, it is still very useful to carry stones, carry a catapult or something, with great strength and burly body, and a few orc laborers can carry the catapult away, saving the amount of orc infantry.
"Switch targets, prepare, put." Xiao Yu shouted loudly again.
Buzz Buzz......
The stones in the sky fell again, like countless meteorites falling, and the opponent's five ballistas were directly smashed and turned into a pile of firewood.
A series of catapult fire attacks directly stunned Kalu's army, and they were all shocked to think that Xiao Yu had a high-level magician on his side who could release a large-scale spell called "Meteorite Falling from the Sky".
This must be done by at least a fifth-order or even sixth-order magician.
The controller of the ballista saw the power of the powerful catapult on Xiao Yu's side, and did not dare to step forward again, and quickly wanted to retreat, but how could Xiao Yu easily let it go, and continued to command the ten catapults to carry out three concentrated fire attacks together, and once again killed the six ballistas in Kalu.
Of the more than twenty ballistas in Kalu, only a dozen are now left, half of which have been lost.
"What are they? Could it be that they have a sixth-order magician? Karui watched as the rocks fell from the sky, and in an instant, several ballistas were smashed to pieces, and his eyes were about to bulge out in shock.
At this time, although there was no help from the ballistas, many of the light infantry had already rushed to the bottom of the city, set up the ladder, and began to attack the city.
Under the promise of Karui to be the first to climb the city, these infantry braved the rain of arrows to climb the city walls.
Although they had just seen something whizzing past the city, they didn't have time to think too much about it in the chaotic battlefield, they could only block the arrows, move quickly, and climb the city wall.
A hundred Terran infantry held their shields in front of them to defend against the crossbowmen below, and the orc infantry followed, and they were full of anticipation for the Karui soldiers who arrived.
At the same time, Karui's hoplites were gradually approaching the open gates, and the elven bows and arrows were not aimed at them at the beginning.
Xiao Yu knew that bows and arrows against hoplites were a pure waste of feather arrows, so he ordered all elven archers to shoot only light infantry, and the hoplites were completely left alone.
"Prepare to meet the enemy." Long Hui looked at the Karui soldiers who were about to climb the wall and shouted loudly.
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