Volume 8: War and Peace Chapter 53: Siege (1)

Let's look at the distance of more than 5,000 kilometers to watch an equally exciting game!

"The third squadron of the magician, the seventh section of the southern city wall of the target, the fire suppression!"

Dozens of magically charged fireballs flew up from the trench not far from the city wall, more than half of them were blocked by the looming magic barrier in mid-air, and the remaining lucky ones finally reached the end after a few seconds, but less than thirty percent accurately hit the city, and the rest either flew too low and smashed on the city wall, or because they flew too high, crossed the city wall, and landed on the roof of the house behind the wall.

"I've fought dozens of battles, and I'm still so bad! I said captain, don't let these rookies fill up in the future, you will be angry when you look at it! A player in light armor with a shield in his arms leaning back against the inner wall of the trench grumbled to another player next to him.

The player known as the captain looked to be in his thirties, with two scars on his face, and it was clearly recent, and just looking at it could tell you how dangerous the situation was: "I want to, too! But the mages with a little skill above the third order have all been transferred to the main group, and those who can be assigned to us are all rookies of this kind, what can I do? ”

"Then you can't just fight like that! Let's let them train for a few more days! Look! ”

"Hidden! Beware of concealment! ”

With a whistling sound, three bursting fireballs fired from the city hit the mage player's trench accurately, and by the time the smoke cleared, the trench that had been temporarily dug had become a mess.

An archer bent over and ran: "Eleven are dead, seven are crippled, and thirteen have fainted, and only five can continue the battle!" ”

"Look! These guys are just picking their feet! At this level, I feel like it's a waste to drink the potion! ”

The captain gave this guy an elbow angrily: "You have the ability!" Without the mage's firepower, you can touch the city wall alive, and I can let the captain do it for you! ”

At this moment, the player who complained stopped talking, just kidding, judging from the other party's counterattack just now, there are at least three high-level mages of the flame system at the head of the city, and if they rush out without protection on their side, they will only be blown to pieces!

"Where's the ammunition?" The captain asked the archer player.

"It's not much, ordinary arrows can still support more than a dozen rounds, but there is only half a base left for special arrows!"

The captain took off his helmet and touched the sweat on his face fiercely, regardless of whether he would turn himself into a big face: "Grandma, this kind of hot work, why don't you throw it to me!" ”

"Hehe, it's not the last time we were lucky, only three people died and they took advantage of the darkness to enter the city and make a fortune, of course our stingy head can't look at it!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Go tell the brethren to hold on a little longer, and when fighting begins on the south side, charge me again! ”

"Okay!" The archer answered, turned and left along the trench.

The battle did not stop because of this small episode, as if the magic and arrows from the city were exhausted, sweeping the trenches within range over and over again, and the attackers outside the city were not to be outdone, and the improvised catapults and ballistae placed behind them also shot burning stones and arm-thick crossbow arrows at the wall again and again, and the archers hidden in the trenches also seized the opportunity to shoot back at the soldiers on the wall with arrows in their hands.

This is the western part of the province of Aston, a small city called Arella.

Inside the city are more than 3,000 rebels, while outside the city there are tens of thousands of player troops. It's the second day of the attack!

Woo~~~ A low horn sound came from the south of the city, and after hearing this horn, the captain player instantly opened his originally closed eyes and put on his helmet.

"Archer, Lot Seven, Rapid Suppression, Ten Seconds!"

With the order he issued, the originally sparse attack changed in an instant, and the archers hidden in the trench shot the arrows at hand along the parabola at a speed of two arrows per second, and the sky was immediately occupied by hundreds of arrows, forming a rain of arrows, covering the entire wall of Lot 7.

"Suppress the shot! After three rounds, turn the burst arrow, don't stay, brothers, success or failure in one fell swoop! ”

After the order was given, it was quickly and strictly enforced, and when the first flower of flame bloomed at the top of the wall, the entire wall of Lot 7 was shrouded in the cover of bursting arrows.

"Rush! Rush! Rush! ”

The player holding the shield was the first to break out of the trench, holding the shield above their head at a 45-degree angle, and hundreds of these players formed a dense shield wall in a matter of seconds. Such a shield wall can effectively defend against arrows from the head of the wall, and can even resist the bursting fireballs fired by the mages for a short time.

This is followed by a group of players in light leather or chain mail armed with light short swords, carrying grappling claws and even groups of people carrying makeshift ladders, who will act as the first siege troops, relying on hooks and ladders to climb the walls as fast as possible to open up the situation.

Then there are dozens of players wearing heavy armor, because of the heavy load, their running speed is not as fast as the first two groups of companions, but they are the main force of the attack, relying on the heavy equipment on their bodies, as well as their own relatively strong combat power, they will be responsible for stabilizing the support points on the city wall, so that more players can safely enter the battle in the future.

This is not one or two, but everywhere, with the entire southern wall divided into twelve sections, each of which has such a player army to attack.

It has been almost two months since the beginning of the counterinsurgency, and not only has the Angelic Covenant used large and small battles to create a large number of players who fought tenaciously and obeyed the command, but even small guilds and miscellaneous armies like them have slowly gained some rules.

Bang! Bang!

Two more bursting fireballs exploded outside the city, causing the archers responsible for suppressing the wall of the seventh section of the city to fall more than twenty people, but the other archer players were not intimidated by such casualties, they had already experienced many battles, and they knew that if they chose to retreat, they could certainly save their lives, but without the suppression of the wall's firepower, the attacking troops would probably not be able to break the wall's defenses, and eventually the attack would be a complete failure. Not only will they be held accountable, but they will have to go through the same danger again next time!

Rather than that, it's better to fight for it!

The brutal battle continued, and the front trench was still more than seventy meters from the wall, which made it take nearly twenty seconds for those players to touch the wall, which was enough time for the rebel mages to fire six bursting fireballs!

The wails continued to sound, mixed with the cries of those who could not withstand the cruelty of the battlefield, and the cries of cowards who abandoned their weapons and chose to flee, and the rust smell brought by the blood continued to pour into the nasal cavity along the wind and waves of the explosion, impacting everyone's nerves and will!

Even if this is just a war in the age of cold weapons, the bloodshed and cruelty will not change anything!

"What are the siege engines in the rear doing? Why didn't the fire be concentrated! The captain said hatefully, "Xiao Lei, move fast, the archers are about to be overwhelmed!" ”

Half a base of high-grade arrows can not last much time, in order to carry it easily, archers generally carry twenty arrows as a base of ammunition, half a base is ten, at the speed of two in a second, it can only support five seconds.

"Top shield! Build a human wall! I don't believe it, I can't rush in this time! Big cat, you go first! ”

Without saying a word, a burly player threw away the shield in his hand, and in one step, two steps, three steps, he rushed to the shield that several players had raised together.

"Walk you!" The four players under the shield worked together to push the big cat up, and he himself jumped at the same time, finally climbing the bricks at the top of the wall with both hands.

With a single force, the burly player climbed directly onto the wall, then drew the short knife on his belt and pounced on a rebel swordsman.

Behind him, there were more than a dozen hooks that flew upward!

"Burst! Left! The captain, who had been on the lookout for his surroundings, roared as he picked up a shield at his hand and headed for the burst of fireball that had been fired at them.

"Tough body! Charge! In an instant, not only did he unleash a tougher body that increased his defense, but he also launched a charge, trying to explode the explosive fireball in this way.

A distance of several meters was fleeting, and the fireball hit the captain's shield, and then immediately exploded, the flames of the explosion not only swept the surrounding three meters of space, but the heat even melted the surface of the shield in the captain's hand.

Bang dang! A body fell to the ground, facing such a magical attack, even the captain who was a third-order and more than 80 level was not spared, fire damage, impact damage, and most importantly, suffocation caused by the burning flames, finally took away his already dissatisfied health.

"The captain has fallen, now I'm in command! One group, follow me to the left defense, the second group helps build a ladder, and the third group continues to push people up! "The name is Xiao Lei, that is, the player who has been complaining before, took over the command without hesitation and began to assign work.

"The three groups are gone, all dead!"

"Day! Big mouth, centipede, you go and push people, two of the second group will come out, and the others will come with me! ”

There is no quarrel, no pushing, and the players who can still insist on fighting on the front line have already learned how to be a qualified warrior, and the two players who were named immediately turned around, and the second group that was helping those light armor players build ladders immediately joined them, and the four people began to use the shield as a fulcrum again, pushing those light armor players who did not carry hooks and claws one by one to the wall.

The brutal battle continued, the rebels on the city walls occupied the advantage of quality, and the terrain provided help, with the fourth-order swordsmen as the mainstay, the first-order halberders as the auxiliary rebels firmly guarded the area on the city walls, plus the rebel magicians who were protected by them behind them, forming a complete battle group.

On the other hand, on the player's side, in order to reduce the weight as much as possible and increase the running speed, the weapons carried by the first and second batch of players are only short swords and short knives, and the equipment is mainly leather armor and chain mail.

In just a few minutes, more than forty players died on the walls of Lot 7 alone, and many more fell under the walls at the cost of their lives.

Fortunately, such a heavy effort was not without reward, and as the third group of main players arrived and successfully climbed the city wall under cover, the battle finally began to come to an end.

The main force wearing heavy armor and holding a large sword or halberd, forming a battle group in twos and threes, followed by one or two lightly armored players to replenish the sword, such a combination is enough to compete with the rebels, the only weakness is the magician.

After all, the player has only a short development time, and it is still difficult to organize enough powerful mages like a rebel army.

Two main players climbed the city wall again, and Xiao Lei, who was guarding under the city wall with a group to prevent those magicians from destroying the ladder, finally breathed a sigh of relief. More than twenty main players and twice as many lightly armored players have rushed to the city walls, and according to previous experience, this force is enough to occupy the advantage on the walls and hold out until the next batch of reinforcements arrives.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and was about to make a joke with his comrades next to him, a sharp howl came from the sky!

"Not good! Damn, why do the rebels here have griffins! ”

That voice is very familiar to Xiao Lei, a week ago, he was attacking another town, he was killed by the owner of this voice, when a griffin grabbed Xiao Lei who was fighting in the city, and then threw it from the air. He still can't forget the fear of free fall and the pain of touching the ground. For this reason, he even deliberately found a psychiatrist in reality, and he barely got rid of this feeling.

"Are those air combat units-eaters? If I fail again this time, I will have to go back with the captain and scold them well! ”

No amount of complaining could change that, as the whistling got closer, a griffon with messy hair but still largely intact sped down from the sky, swooped down and grabbed a player and flew into the sky.

Sparse hands. The crossbow couldn't stop the griffin's rampage at all, and Xiao Lei could only watch as the flat-haired beast let go of its claws and threw the player down. He could even tell that it was a guy named Tu Bai, who had followed him to top the big cat.

"Fuck it!"