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In fact, no matter how much you ignore the enemy on either side, it is easy for Verina to solve the threat on the other side.

If the Marlon Legion on the front is not there, she can completely turn her head and eat the port guard brought by Bills in one bite; If there is no port guard behind her, she can also organize all her forces on the defense of the city, and she can draw the strength of Shawan Port for long-term defensive operations, although it is difficult to repel the opponent who is superior in quantity and quality, but at least, it will not be too much of a problem to hold on for three or five days.

But no how.

Verina could only rack her brains, maintain two lines of defense, and fight quite hard.

Behind her, she has handed over to her adjutant Paran to deal with the battle of the port guard, while she herself has to sit on the frontal battlefield.

The siege of the Marlon Legion had begun in full swing, and the six cannons were no longer firing at the defenders on the city's head, but shifted their targets and began to bombard the city gates.

The north gate of Shawan Harbor is quite strong, but no matter how strong the city gate is, it is impossible to withstand the continuous attack of six guns.

What's more, the siege weapons of the Marlon Legion are not only artillery. The ramming car that was pushed up, this thing slammed into the city gate, and it was more efficient than artillery. There are also trebuchets that have a longer strike distance than artillery, and although in terms of strike accuracy, they can be described as 'casual', but a boulder thrown high will cause considerable damage even if it hits the city wall directly.

Under such constant bombardment, the pressure on the city defense of Shawan Port was simply amazing.

Not to mention, under such a fierce attack, almost more than a thousand soldiers, either pushing the crash car or carrying the siege ladder, were breaking away from the army formation and began to approach the city wall.

"Shoot!" Several squadron leaders with crossbows were sweating profusely and shouting hoarsely, and arrows were fired at the approaching enemy below.

The long-range blow did cause some damage to the opponent, but overall it was not considered a nerve-wracking injury.

Many of these soldiers who came with siege engines were armed with shields. As you move forward, your shield is in front of you and on your head, just to guard against long-range attacks.

Verina didn't have the elite archers of the Ranger in his hands, and the crossbowmen in his hands could only shoot arrows according to the officers' orders at best, and it was already good to be able to complete disciplined rounds, and it was indeed difficult for them to shoot enough threatening arrows from the gap between the shields when there was still some distance between them.

With modest losses, the troops of the Marlon Legion had pressed to a very close position. The crash car approached the city gate, and the ladder had already been carried up.

At this time, the best solution is to dispatch an elite team, before the enemy's troops can fully deploy, take advantage of the chaos to kill, destroy the collision car, and by the way, can also cause some damage to the ladder troops under the city who have not had time to set up the formation.

However, Verina does not have such an elite team in her hands. These soldiers of the garrison corps have to pull out hundreds of people to open the city gate, and it is estimated that they will be beaten back not long after rushing out, not to mention that they will not achieve the strategic goal, and after losing manpower in vain, the city gate may also suffer a direct threat. This is a very cost-effective approach.

But that doesn't mean the master of defense isn't prepared at all.

"The first brigade of the garrison battalion is dispatched as planned."

As soon as the order was issued, the captain of the 1st Brigade did not immediately carry out the order.

"Legion Commander...... Didn't you say that our brigade will only be dispatched at the most critical time? ”

He asked, of course, for a reason. The task that Verina had assigned him beforehand was a cold sweat when he heard it.

"Now is the critical time." Verina said coldly.

The captain had to take orders.

A moment later, the crashing car had just been pushed under the north gate, and before it could make a move, the operation of the first brigade began.

I saw that at the head of the city, a soldier was put into the hanging basket, and two ropes tied to the hanging basket began to be lowered.

The soldiers who stayed in the hanging basket were also in a shaky and frightened mood like the hanging basket. The twenty-meter-high wall was nothing, and looking under the hanging basket, the soldiers of the Marlon Legion who were looking up at him with their swords in their hands, as if they were about to chop him into meat sauce when he came, were nothing. The most terrible thing is precisely in one's arms.

A black whirring iron ball.

He held the iron ball the size of half a watermelon in both hands, and as the hanging basket slowly fell, a cold light flashed in his eyes, he hurriedly lowered his head, and several arrows shot up from below were dodged by him.

But one shot still pierced the basket and landed in his thigh.

The hanging basket is not a sturdy thing!

He screamed, his hand shook, and he almost threw the iron ball in his hand.

But he eventually held on.

This arrow pierced the thigh couldn't kill him, but this iron ball could.

This is a shell.

Don't think that the cannonballs fired by the artillery of the world of Orodic are solid iron balls, and that's a big mistake. Artillery, in fact, is a product of alchemy. Although the alchemy technology of the artillery itself is not high, the shells are not.

The outer layer of the alchemy cannonball, don't look like a single piece of round cast iron, but it's not. It is a piece of curved iron, glued together in a special way, and filled with alchemical explosives. After being launched and detonated, the alchemy explosives explode with great power and impact, and at the same time, the wrapped iron balls will be exploded into pieces of iron for group killing.

It's just that shells don't explode easily. In addition to firing with artillery, you can only rely on ignition and throwing.

However, if it is manually ignited, it is very different from a specially equipped artillery. The most prominent point is that the detonation time is very short, it is not practical to project with tools, and the most reliable way is to throw it manually in addition to gun launch, and then quickly run away.

Like a ramming car under the city gate, this is not something that can be bombarded by turning the muzzle of the cannon on the city wall. This can only be done by manual ignition and then detonated around the perimeter of the crash car.

One can imagine how dangerous the soldier on the hanging basket will be and how much psychological pressure he will be in charge of such a mission.

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Suddenly found that before I found out, there was a mistake in the ten digits of the chapter number, and it has been corrected~ (to be continued.) )