Chapter 1012, Siege Master
The dwarven army retreated into the city, and the heavy city gate fell with a bang, and the moment the city gate landed, there was a loud bang, and the surrounding ground was shaken.
It is enough to see how heavy this gate is.
In general, in battles of this level, the city gate undoubtedly needs to be specially reinforced to avoid being knocked open by the enemy's siege equipment a few times.
Especially after seeing the giant elephant warriors of their Ten Thousand Realms civilization, John Sal gritted his teeth and directly replaced all the city gates on his four borders with armor plates, which greatly improved the defense capability of the city gates.
Now to get back to the point, the offensive of the vanguard army is undoubtedly continuing.
The dwarven city, the gate and the towering wall, are obviously much more defensive than the trenches.
After all, the level of defense is not at the same level at all.
Under this premise, the fundamental reason why John Sal still had to dig trenches was to reduce the burden on the gates and walls of his border city.
Even as a defender, defending the city wall is the last resort in a disadvantaged situation.
Everyone will not choose to defend at the beginning, but more to go out of the city to meet it.
Because once they are firmly defended, the gates and walls will begin to withstand attacks from the opposite side, and then they will begin to be damaged.
No matter how strong the copper wall is, there will be times when it will collapse in the face of continuous and indiscriminate bombardment.
And as soon as the gates and walls fell, the city was basically equivalent to falling.
Therefore, in the case of having the power of a battle, it is necessary to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the attack.
And as soon as the fight started, there were basically only two reasons why they chose to defend the city wall.
The first reason is that the general defending the city is an idiot who has no actual combat experience, pretends to be smart, and only thinks beautifully with his brain.
The second reason is that the defenders of the city are in an absolutely unfavorable state from the beginning, and they will definitely die when they go out of the city, so they can only defend the city wall and wait for reinforcements from the rear to help them relieve the siege.
Although the dwarves are short, the walls are not short at all.
At a glance, the height was properly reached at the level of 20 meters.
Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Gawain decisively pushed the siege troops forward while ordering the vanguard to retreat temporarily.
On this expedition, he directly pushed out twenty three-bow bed crossbows and twelve cannons, after all, the time was relatively tight, and the number of new cannons was also limited.
After the start of the all-out war, he had dragged all the cannons of several other cities in the western realm, and the effect of his besieger's talent would be maximized at this moment.
"Fire !!"
With the roar of cannon fire, the cannonballs flew directly towards the walls of the dwarven city in the distance.
However, the dwarven artillerymen, who were gifted in firearms, were obviously not vegetarians either.
Under the cover of the city wall, they have a more comfortable output environment than the siege troops outside the city, and at the same time, the height advantage of the twenty-meter city wall also allows the city defense equipment to obtain a certain degree of attack range blessing.
Therefore, in this piece, Karadine Black Iron is still quite confident.
The powerful firepower roared wildly, maintaining the maximum effective range, and the attack of the cannonballs directly blasted into a large crater the moment it fell on the surface of the city wall.
The continuous shelling actually caused the specially thickened and reinforced city wall under his feet to shake!
Feeling this change, it had been transferred to the wall, and Karadine Black Iron's face changed suddenly.
As the general of the border city, when he fought invasion wars before, he naturally had experience in fighting with the army of the Ten Thousand Worlds civilization.
Compared with that time, the effective range of the artillery on the opposite side has been significantly improved, and at this moment, the artillery of the two sides is bombarded against each other, and the other side basically does not have much disadvantage.
But the point is the power of this shelling! This level of destructive power has clearly surpassed the batch of cannons that their dwarf civilization is serving!
"How is that possible? How could the power of the opposing cannon be raised to such a level in such a short period of time?! ”
At this moment, a storm directly set off in Karadine Black Iron's heart, and the shock on his face was already to the point where he couldn't hide it at all.
However, how did he know that the main reason why the artillery power of this siege force was so powerful was because of the humanoid buff of Gawain!
The effect of the Siege Master's talent allows Gawain to increase the destructive power of all siege equipment under his command to the enemy's defense buildings and facilities by 45% when he commands the siege troops to attack the city!
Under this premise, the effect of the silver-level passive skill, 'Siege Technique', increases the bonus effect of this destructive power by another 15%!
It is no exaggeration to say that under the blessing of this double BUFF, once you enter the siege link of the siege force, as long as there is no decisive huge gap between the siege equipment of the two sides, then Gao Wen, as the siege party, will basically win!!
The indiscriminate bombardment of twelve cannons, combined with the heavy crossbow arrows of twenty three-bow bed crossbows, the ferocious firepower looked as if it was about to destroy the city wall in one go.
The huge pressure made Karadin Black Iron hurriedly signal the cannon on the wall to attack the siege troops outside the city, trying to suppress them.
Sensing the other party's intentions, how could Gawain let them get their wish?
"All elven archers, prepare to chase the wind! Snipe all the artillery on the opposite wall to death! ”
The elven archers equipped with wind-chasing arrows are simply super snipers of this era.
The elves' superb archery skills, combined with the ultra-long range and penetration of the wind-chasing arrows, are not so easy to survive the targets they are targeting.
The elven archers who received the order bent their bows and arrows, and at the same time, the skills were activated!
"Hawkeye!"
In an instant, his gaze became as sharp as that of an eagle falcon, directly locking on the figures on the opponent's wall.
This is a class-specific skill that can only be unlocked after upgrading the 'Elven Archer's class item to level 4.
To put it simply, with the effect of this skill, Elven Archers can gain super long-range vision and dynamic vision!
After a quick lock-on aiming, a round of wind-chasing arrows suddenly whistled out.
Almost in the blink of an eye, a precise sniper shot instantly claimed the life of a soldier on the opposite wall.
The death of a large number of dwarven artillery halted the fire of the defenders.
Fortunately, the Karadine Black Iron was standing relatively backward at that time, otherwise, I am afraid that his name would have to be added to the list of the dead in that round!
But even so, this miraculous sniping ability still plunged an entire wall into chaos.
"Shield soldiers, shield soldiers, block up! Fast!! ”
In the slightly frightened roar of Karadin Black Iron, the armored shield soldiers quickly formed a shield wall on the top of the wall.
Hiding behind the shield wall, Caladin Black Iron was a little relieved, and quickly fell on the dwarven soldiers who had been killed by an arrow.
Looking at the arrows that pierced through their eyebrows, throats, and hearts, the muscles in the corners of Karadin's eyes twitched wildly at this moment.
"Where the hell did this arrow come from?!"
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