With a creak, the three players pushed the wooden pole in front of them, one end of which was inserted into a huge winch, and with the full push of the player, the winch drove the rope to slowly tighten, lowering the heavy iron round bucket little by little.

When the bucket is lowered to the level of the ground, several players use the rolling logs laid on the ground to push a large, simply carved stone projectile into it, and apply it a thick layer of animal fat.

"Ignition!"

At the sound of an order, a player armed with a torch ignited the huge stone projectile weighing three tons, and the flames instantly rose into the sky with the help of animal fat.

"Launch!"

Another player, who had been waiting for a long time, struck the war hammer in his hand on the latch of the winch, and the latch came out, and the winch that had lost its restraint instantly rotated violently in the opposite direction, and the ropes surrounding the winch stretched at a rapid speed.

Without the pull of the winch, the round bucket, which had long been stretched to the extreme by the rubber band, was violently lifted, and the flame stone projectile placed in the round bucket crossed a parabola in the sky with the projectile of the round bucket, and smashed heavily on the head of Aston City.

Stone projectiles, almost comparable to an elephant, caused great damage on the city wall, and a section of the city wall more than ten meters long was smashed, and even the rebels on the city wall were turned into powder.

"Oooh!" There was a cheer from the position, but soon the players operating the heavy catapults, urged by the officers, began to spin their winches again, ready to launch their next attack.

These heavy catapults were brought from the city of Sirath by the Covenant of Angels, and since Sirath City was not an important city in the province of Aston, the number of such heavy catapults was not large, only eleven, and seven of them were placed by Mikael on the side of the First Legion.

Despite the master carpenter Kavlin, the Angel's Covenant still couldn't make this kind of heavy catapult, on the one hand, because it required a lot of high-grade materials to make this heavy siege machine, and on the other hand, because it was too large and inconvenient to move, and could only be used for defense, so the Angel's Covenant didn't bother to study this kind of thing.

But in the face of Aston City, ordinary simple catapults could not meet the needs of the attack, only this kind of heavy catapults could attack the city walls outside the range of the rebels, for this reason, Bell did not hesitate to demolish a wall of Sireth City, and moved these heavy catapults to the periphery of Aston City with a lot of manpower.

And their strength is indeed very satisfying to the Angel's Covenant, each heavy catapult can fire a huge stone projectile weighing no more than five tons to a distance of 1,200 meters, considering the 33-meter-high walls of Aston City, it only needs to advance these heavy catapults to a distance of about a thousand meters from the city wall, which can pose a huge threat to the rebels.

The only regret is that the size of this terrible siege machine makes the interval between firing prohibitively long, and it takes nearly ten minutes after each launch to carry out a second attack. And the accuracy is not high, almost only one out of five times can hit the rebels at the head of the city.

But after seeing the great damage caused by the flame stone projectile to the city wall, no one complained about those shortcomings, because when the smoke and dust cleared, the section of the wall that had been hit by the stone bullet seemed to be gnawed hard, revealing a gap more than two meters deep.

Inspired by the results, the players in charge of the heavy catapult roared as if they had been beaten with blood, and threw the stone projectiles into the huge round bucket and fired them continuously.

In front of these heavy catapults are hundreds of improvised catapults.

These improvised catapults, which are just over three meters tall and protected by up to three layers of iron decks, were created by the Angel's Covenant itself, and due to the presence of Kavlin, these self-made improvised catapults have increased their firing frequency and firing distance compared to those purchased from other lords, allowing them to fire stone projectiles at a distance of more than 800 meters from the city walls.

This is one of the reasons why Pompeii has a phalanx of players constantly attacking. Only after making sure that all the traps within this distance were destroyed could he put these siege equipment into the attack, knowing that even a simple catapult would cost enough to be on the same level as the equipment worn by players in half a small phalanx, not to mention the heavy catapults that could not be made on their own.

In front of these improvised catapults are the players responsible for protecting the siege machines, holding half-height round shields in groups of thirty in a simple array to prevent stone projectiles from the rebels from destroying them as they roll.

Further ahead, there is a phalanx of attacking players. From 9 a.m. to now, the First Army has launched a full eleven waves of attacks on the city wall, and the distance of the advance has reached less than three hundred meters from the city wall.

"The rebels' firepower seems to be slowly waning!" Seeing in the telescope that a phalanx of players began to crumble when it was almost two hundred meters away from the city walls, Pearl said to Pompeii, "As we get closer, the threat posed to us by the catapults in the city decreases rapidly, and the magic from the city head feels a little less. ”

"Last night's bombardment is estimated to have caused a lot of losses to the rebels' already small magicians, and I heard from Kasai that a certain little guy was lucky enough to destroy a large number of magic crystals used by the rebels to repair the teleportation array, I'm afraid that the reserves of magic crystals in the city are running out now!" Pompeii looked very satisfied with this wave of attacks, he nodded and said, "What's more, from the beginning of the war to the present, no matter how much magic the magicians of the rebels have, they can't help but use it so uncontrollably, I'm afraid their magic power is about to bottom out." ”

Pearl said approvingly, "That's right! The rebels didn't have many high-level magicians in the first place, and relying on fourth-order and fifth-order magicians alone, more than two hours of attack was indeed almost to the limit! Even if they used low-level spells like the Fireball Technique, they couldn't withstand the huge mana consumption that was repeated thousands of times! ”

"Here's our chance!" Pompey put down the binoculars and said, "Whether we can achieve our goal this morning depends on the next hand!" ”

"Do you really want to do that?" Of course, Pearl knew what Pompey was thinking, "Although the rebels have shown fatigue after a morning of attrition, the chances of success are still not great. ”

"Even if we fail, it will be enough for us to snatch the initiative from the rebels!" Pompeii said categorically, "I've made up my mind!" Order, the assault corps directly under the 1st Army Corps is dispatched! ”

Guan Ning, who had been waiting for a long time, saluted and immediately ran to the rear military formation and conveyed Pompey's order.

A few minutes later, a rumbling sound came from behind the position of the First Army, and as far as the eye could see, it turned out to be more than twenty huge siege towers!

Each siege tower is taller than the walls of Aston City, and in front of the siege towers, you can see a thick protective layer made of beast fur, as well as an iron sheet covering the surface of the protective layer, and at the top of the siege tower is a shooting platform of tens of square meters, which allows shooters to stand on it and suppress the rebels on the walls.

Below the emplacement is the hollow Vault, which is used as a thick layer of protection for siege towers and as a pedal for the player to attack the city walls, as long as these siege towers can be pushed in front of the walls, the overturned protective layer is the best way to connect the siege towers to the city walls.

Inside the siege towers there are also sturdy stairs that allow the player to quickly ascend the walls. In the face of a giant city like Aston City, ordinary siege ladders are useless, and only such giant siege engines can pose enough threats to the rebels.

At the base of the siege tower are six huge wheels, made of steel, wrapped in a thick layer of leather to reduce resistance during movement.

These siege towers are monsters created by the Angel's Covenant in the city of Sirath with a lot of manpower and material resources, and their design is based on the mobile siege vehicles of the Entagre continent, and they integrate a large number of design concepts in reality to create this jaw-dropping war monster.

Each siege tower has reached the level of Blue Refinement, which, like those heavy catapults, is the highest level of siege equipment that a player can make at this stage, and to reach the Red Rare level or even higher, it is necessary to do it with special types of siege equipment that are mainly magical.

There were more than twenty of these siege towers that appeared in the position of the First Legion, and they were war machines that the Angel Covenant had spent more than ten days to build, and at this moment, these terrible monsters were all thrown into the attack by Pompey in one go.

Corresponding to this are the players who quickly enter the assault position. There are a total of 20,000 players belonging to the Assault Corps directly under the First Legion, and the lowest strength is also the third order, and all the equipment they wear is the player's own equipment, not the standard equipment issued by the legion, which alone is enough to make their strength much higher than that of players in other legions.

Propelled by thousands of players, more than two dozen siege towers quickly followed the specially set aside passageway, and soon overtook the improvised catapults that were firing stone projectiles and rushed towards the city walls, while the impatient assault corps players who had been waiting for a long time jumped out of the trenches and followed closely behind these siege towers, ready to attack the rebels at the head of the city.

In the telescope, Pearl clearly saw that the rebel soldiers standing on the city walls were immediately thrown into confusion when these siege towers appeared on the battlefield, they had never imagined that they would one day face such a huge siege machine. But the chaos was quickly suppressed by the shouts of the rebel officers, and more rebel soldiers joined the guards of the city walls and began to attack the approaching siege towers.

Even the rebels' heavy catapults and heavy ballistae began to shoot at the siege towers, but the thick iron-clad protective layer was enough to keep the huge crossbow arrows out of the siege towers, and occasionally they could not cause fatal damage to the siege towers. Stone projectiles from heavy catapults posed a threat to the siege towers, and two siege towers were hit by stone bullets during the movement, causing the wooden support used to support one side to break, and had to be stopped for temporary battlefield repairs.

But more siege towers are still under the rain of bullets, little by little close to the city walls.

Seeing that the defenses were ineffective, the rebel mages under the command of the rebel officers shifted the target from the player's phalanx to the siege tower, and fireballs and even burst fireballs flew towards the siege tower under the control of these mages, apparently trying to destroy it in this way.

"Hmph, naïve!" The officer, hiding behind the siege towers and directing the players to push the wheels, said in a sarcastic tone, "Mage, shield!" ”

For a while, dense magic shields appeared in front of the siege tower, and the magic launched by the rebel mages was blocked by these magic shields in the air, and they could not hurt the siege tower at all.

"Quick, push hard!" After seeing that the rain of arrows shot by the rebels could not destroy the iron-clad protective layer, the players who followed the siege tower yelled excitedly one by one, and with the support of these players, the speed of the siege tower increased by a few points.

Eventually, the first siege tower was pushed in front of the wall, and the impatient players rushed up the stairs inside the siege tower, waiting for the protective layer to open and send them to the wall.

There were also some players who quickly climbed to the top of the shooting platform and shot the high-level arrows in their hands at the top of the city as fast as possible, at a distance where even the magic defense shield could not stop the players' attacks, and for a while, the city head was covered in explosions and freeze.

More and more siege towers were pushed in front of the walls, and then, under the control of the officers, the heavy layer of protection burst open, like a drawbridge, creating a wide bridge between the player and the walls.

"Rush!" With this roar, countless players rushed along the bridge to the city wall and strangled with the rebel soldiers!

"Order the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Corps to go into battle at once!" Seeing that the players directly under the assault regiment had climbed the city wall, Pompey did not hesitate to give the order for a general attack, "Also, let the siege equipment troops continue to advance, suppress the defenses in the city, and focus on the heavy catapults of the rebels!" ”

On the ground, countless players flocked to the city wall like a tidal wave, and at this time, the rebels had already fallen into the hand-to-hand competition on the city wall, and they no longer had the energy to launch long-range strikes against these players.

Pompey waved his hand, and the sound of a high horn echoed on the battlefield: "The whole army is attacking!" ”