Chapter 545: Magic Mage
Without Higg's order, all the defenders of the city had consciously taken their positions, and carried the crossbow chariots to the city walls and began to assemble; Bundles of arrows were carried up the tower with the help of the people; A catapult platform has been set up in the city, and the catapult at the catapult position is also being assembled busily......
The same is true outside the city, where the two sides seem to have very tacitly begun to prepare for the siege and defense of the city......
For the defenders of the city, there were few people but many supplies, and the materials of the Fifth Army were concentrated in Bobohua City, which was almost inexhaustible, and the army of Simak did not have time to transport so many materials, so they were left in the city, and the workshops in the city were constantly producing; For the more than 400,000 troops of Ma Potter outside the city, there were many people, but there was a shortage of materials, and the Fifth Army's policy of clearing the wilderness made them not reap much benefit even if they occupied a large amount of territory.
Now that the spring snow has melted, the sky has gradually warmed up, and people no longer shrink their hands and feet, and the war is about to be a hot scene.
"Woo woo woo ~~~~" Ma Potter, who couldn't wait, finally activated his war machine, without any main attack feint, nor any tentative attack, four gates, four city walls, all invested the same full load of troops, Ma Potter wanted to use his thunder momentum to level Bobo Hua City in one fell swoop.
The stone bullets of catapults, ballistae, and crossbow chariots poured down towards the city gates and city walls......
Since there is a repeater chariot, the role of the siege catapult has been weakened a lot, this siege heavy weapon, the hit rate is too low, if you want to improve the hit rate, you must close to the distance of about 150 meters of the city wall is ideal, but the distance of 200 meters is the range of the crossbow chariot on the city wall, the catapult does not dare to approach at all, can only be thrown indiscriminately outside the range of the catapult, the ultra-low hit rate, so that many catapults of the stone bullet accidentally injured a lot of soldiers who are using the ladder to climb the city.
The role of catapults in the city is more obvious than that outside the city, especially in such a dense offensive situation of the enemy, as long as the stone bullets of the catapult cross the city wall, it can pose a deadly threat to the enemy under the city, and the enemy's crossbow chariot and catapult basically cannot threaten the catapult phalanx in the city, because the catapult in the city is only aimed at the enemy's siege soldiers, and will not shoot at the opponent's catapult.
Although both sides have repeater chariots, but the defender is arranged on the city wall, which has an advantage over the besieging side, the high city wall can increase the range of the repeater chariot, and there is the protection of the wall battlements, as long as the enemy does not attack the city wall hand-to-hand combat, this long-range weapon, will always be the enemy's nightmare.
There are too many enemies, the catapult is not high in the mission, and it can also be made up for by the number, no matter how powerful the crossbow chariot is, it is impossible to deal with so many people attacking the city at the same time, and at the same time it is necessary to suppress the enemy's crossbow chariot and catapult, therefore, as the battle progresses, the soldiers on the defending side of the city begin to be overwhelmed.
The crossbow, a lightweight, semi-long-ranged, half-flesh weapon, is semi-automated, crushing the enemy who is attacking the city with ladders again and again.
The siege vehicle did not appear for the time being, because Bobohua City had a moat, and the moat at the location of the city gate was not filled, and the siege vehicle did not want to cross the river defense to attack the city gate.
Both sides fought valiantly and fearlessly, and despite the heavy casualties of Arad's army, the Chinese battalion ordered all the armies to press on the walls with all their might.
Iona was terrified, this was the first time he had seen the form of war in Aracia, which was completely different from the army of the witch clan, although she had also seen the barbarian country using catapults and ballistas as siege weapons, but the barbarian country whether it was a catapult, a ballista, or a ladder, compared with the army of Aracya, it was not at all a grade, they still mainly relied on the body of the soldiers, and the soldiers of the barbarian country relied on brute force and bravery, and the use of equipment was only a general auxiliary, so the barbarian country was much worse than the field battle in attacking the city. It is the first time that the soldiers of Erathia are physically strong compared with the barbarian country and the water Ze country, which are much weaker, but the cohesion and cooperation between the arms and the perfect combination between people and equipment make her dumbfounded, and she has to sigh that the witch clan who is immersed in the glory of antiquity and does not want to make progress is simply a frog at the bottom of the well.
Hundreds of griffons in the sky swooped down, aiming directly at the catapult phalanx platform in the city, but before they got close to the catapult phalanx, the crossbow chariots and a small number of elven archers on the side of the city wall stared at them, plus the crossbows in the hands of the hundreds of sharpshooters guarded by the catapults, fired a large number of arrows towards the nineteenth legion, weaving into a dense firepower network, so that the griffin legion lost nearly one-third before rushing to the catapult phalanx. This huge half-beast and half-bird class, the size is too huge, and it pounces on the catapult with lightning speed, destroying the catapult phalanx in an instant, but the marksman can rely on a variety of buildings to copy and conceal, flexible and maneuverable, so that these bulky griffins can not cause blow damage to the soldiers, but only destroy dozens of catapults, but because of this one back and forth, more than 200 griffons were killed and injured, which was extremely tragic.
The catapults are gone, and the soldiers are gone, but it's bad. The soldiers defending the city knew this very well, and the most important thing in the entire Bobo Hua City was the war machine, and the citizen volunteers who assisted the city defense without the command of others quickly cleaned up the destroyed chariots in the catapult phalanx, and then brought the catapult parts from the warehouse and reassembled them.
However, this round of strikes on the Griffin Islands in the air did cause great trouble to the defending side, and the crossbow chariots and elven archers on the city wall were distracted from dealing with these nasty flying troops, and the pressure on the city wall suddenly increased, and many enemy soldiers began to rush up the city from the ladder in pieces......
Maria and Iona tensed their nerves to look at this horrific scene, and suddenly felt extremely worried in their hearts, while Jesse carried his crossbow and crossbow, wearing strong armor, shuttling through the city wall, but behind him was followed by an annoying Noah babbling and screaming, if he wasn't wearing a full set of dragon king armor, it is estimated that he would have been killed ten times by the enemy's arrows.
A heavy rain came out of thin air, this offensive and defensive battle only lasted more than two hours, and when the two sides were in the thick of the fierce battle, it actually started to rain, and it was heavy rain!
Although the heavy rain has increased the difficulty of the siege, the complication of the weather can also make the situation also complicated, and it may not be known who will be beneficial!
Why is there heavy rain? It's spring, it's spring in the north, and it's raining in the arid spring, and it's raining heavily?
All the besieging armies were suppressed at once!
Yes, all of a sudden, the enemy on the ladder was instantly suppressed by the defending army to the bottom of the city.
Why can a rain that is supposed to be fair only benefit the defenders?
I saw that the repeater chariots, the crossbow crossbows of the marksmen, and the elven archers at the head of the city were still firing their arrows, while the repeater chariots, ballistae, crossbowmen, and marksmen on the besieging side of the city were all dumb.
The heavy rain drenched the bowstrings of the attacking side and the crossbow chariots outside the city, but the defenders above the city had expected a heavy rain and had already set up high tents at the beginning of the war.
Without the threat of crossbow chariots, marksmen, and crossbowmen under the city, the defending side can concentrate the fury of all the arrows on the enemy who is climbing the ladder, and even use * to try to destroy the broken ladder, and the siege soldiers who couldn't reach it and didn't know what was happening were suddenly blinded, either shot down from the ladder, or they were forced to jump down, and quickly withdrew from the opponent's range.
Glaring angrily at his soldiers who were almost on the top of the city wall just now, but now they turned into chickens and fled, Ma Potter's heart burned with anger: "What the hell is going on, doesn't it mean that there is no rain today?" ”
"Magic mage, this can't be!" One of the magic guides beside him was shocked and said, "This is not natural rain, but magic rain!" ”
"Rosta, what did you say?" Marpot grabbed the wizard's chest and said angrily, "Nonsense, where did the magic mage come from?" ”
"Marshal!" Rosta easily broke free from Mapote's restraint and said, "My lord, please see, the rainy area is only around the city, a little far away from the city, the rainfall is very small, even we here, not as heavy as the rain on the other side of the city, how can it be that it is going to rain in the sky?" This is magic rain, only a magic mage can control it, even the strongest super magic guide in the water system can't cause such a large area of rain! ”
"Magic Mage Dronso?" Marbot said hatefully, "Isn't he from the Alchemy Country?" And it's the magician of the Rainbow Island Magic Guild Revival City, when did the Magic Guild also participate in the war? ”
"I don't know!" Rosa said, "Because of the reason why the Sixth War Zone and Shenlong Island jointly launched a naval war against the Alchemy Country, the Alchemy Country and us are actually in a state of war!" Delongso is a native of the Alchemy Country, and he is also in charge of the Magic Guild of Fuxing City, and he is inextricably linked to Higg of Fuxing City, that is, the marshal of the Fifth Legion! Hmph, Higg of Fuxing City is under the banner of neutrality, but he provokes war everywhere, and he sells his reputation like Delonso, maybe he has long been colluded and colluded together, and there is nothing impossible about it! ”
"Don't talk so much nonsense, is there any way to crack this magic?" Mapote was resentful, but he didn't dare to look at Rosta beside him with his nostrils, and asked calmly.
Rosta smiled: "Although this kind of magic to manipulate the weather is extremely powerful, it is extremely mana-intensive, no matter how powerful Delongso is, he can use it at most once, and the time will not exceed an hour, we can concentrate all the magician groups, we can cancel out part of the intensity of this weather, and also shorten the duration of his magic!" ”
"Forget it today!" Ma Potter breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "After all, on the first day of siege, I didn't find out this detail in advance, but fortunately, the other party showed his hole cards on the first day!" Today, the morale of our army has been discharged, and the road is slippery after the rain, so it is not suitable to fight again, you immediately organize a group of magicians to discuss how to deal with it, and we will fight again tomorrow! ”
"Yes, Marshal!"