Lufasi's hole card is the repeater chariot, which has now been revealed, but it is a late hand, and Lufasi suffers much more than the enemy's first hand.

The assembled seventy or eighty crossbow chariots quickly shot rockets, like a meteor shower pouring into the catapult phalanx outside the city more than a hundred meters away, those catapults had just been formed, and before they could be put into use, they were on fire, and the fire oil on the rocket arrows fueled the fire, although the enemy quickly braved the rain of arrows to extinguish the ignition on the catapult, however, the crossbow chariots simply wanted to give the enemy any chance to fight back, in one minute, seventy or eighty crossbow chariots, they shot twenty rockets, and immediately replaced the arrow magazine, ignite the arrow, and continue to rain meteor showers towards the catapult phalanx.

More than sixty company* combat vehicles with only one goal, that is, the annoying deadwood warriors. This* is capable of shooting through the body of a Deadwood Warrior and even splitting it in half.

The addition of the crossbow chariot immediately stopped the enemy's momentum, one after another catapult ignited a fire, one after another deadwood warriors were killed by the catapult under the city wall, the operator of the enemy fireballista has been replaced by the phantom shooter, the first batch was basically all shot by the phantom shooter, the ballista had to retreat slightly more than ten meters, changed to raise the head of the ballista, parabolic shooting, although the shot was farther, but lost accuracy. The retreat of the opponent's ballista position finally freed up the phantom archers and began to turn their attention to the elven archers and dwarven warriors under the city......

The reinforcements of Lufasi and Maria gradually stopped the passive situation at the south gate, and even though the enemy threw in hundreds of deadwood warriors to fight for control of the south gate, no one was able to break through from outside the city under the combined attack of Maria and his Crusader Guards battalion and the Chinese Guards battalion, the phantom shooters in the city, and several musket wagons.

Hundreds of oil jars brought by dozens of dwarven slaves in the city were thrown on the wooden drawbridge, "Ignite the fire!" At the sound of Lufasi's order, several rockets were fired at the wooden bridge, and the entire wooden bridge burst into flames in an instant, blocking the progress of any enemy.

"Close the door!" Lu Fasi gave another order, and several dwarven warriors slowly closed the south gate, and all those who participated in the battle for the south gate breathed a sigh of relief, but the trouble was not all solved, Maria and his guards had been surrounded by dozens of deadwood warriors, although the closure of the gate made these deadwood warriors lose the control of the druids, but they would find opponents nearby to entangle, and they were evenly matched with Maria's formation. Maria and her guards use the agility of their formations to maneuver with the Deadwood Warriors, while the thick-skinned Deadwood Warriors are slow themselves, but their winding skills slow down their enemies. If it weren't for the Glaive Formation's cooperation, Maria and her thirty guards would have been defeated long ago!

Soon, after closing the city gate, as the dwarven warriors and centaur warriors near the south gate were eliminated, more and more dwarves joined in and began to besiege the deadwood warriors, but dozens of deadwood warriors still held out for more than ten minutes before they were completely killed.

On the city wall, although there are crossbow chariots and phantom archers on the defending side, but the number of enemy troops is too much, hundreds of ladders have been erected on the city wall more than 9,000 meters long, relatively speaking, there are too few crossbow chariots, although the rate of fire is fast, but the accuracy is too much worse than the shooters, shooting fixed targets such as catapults, ballistas are fine, shooting moving targets, because it takes time to adjust the angle, it is necessary to observe the tacit understanding between the observer and the shooter in order to accurately hit the moving target.

Gradually, the two sides began to fight hand-to-hand on the city walls.

Lufasi no longer had any reserves to reinforce the city walls, so he had to keep an eye on the movements of the enemy entering the city and divide his forces to guard important military targets.

After nearly an hour of hand-to-hand combat, Maria and the Crusaders paid a heavy price in the final moment of the battle with the Deadwood Warriors, with three killed, six seriously wounded, and the others all wounded to varying degrees, but Maria and Sindolph were left intact.

"If you can still move, follow me up to the city wall!" Maria cried out, and then took the lead up the steps and rushed towards the wall, and the cross guard, who was the princess's guard, had to follow her master at once......

The city was ablaze everywhere, many places were set on fire, and the enemy was killing people everywhere and setting fires, and they were scattered everywhere, giving the two thousand reserves a headache.

In front of the Chinese camp, Jesse and a hundred of his marksmen have already fought with the centaurs. At first, relying on the vantage point occupied by the first step, the centaurs who were about to rush in were caught by surprise, and more than a hundred centaurs were immediately reimbursed. But as more centaur armies swarmed in, some of them rushed straight to the position of the handsome banner, and some of them rushed to the sharpshooter whose position had been revealed.

Jesse had no choice but to lead the marksmen to fight and retreat, moving closer to the position of the commander.

Centaurs are numerous, agile, and have a clear goal, and that is Shuaiqi. Many parts of the Chinese army camp have been set on fire, and in the end, Jesse and the marksmen, who were forced to helpless, had to surround the Shuai Qi and shoot non-stop at the centaurs who wanted to come over and capture the flag, preventing the centaurs from taking another step, and the centaur warriors were killed by the dense arrows.

The manic centaur warriors also threw short spears at the archers under the flagpole, and the sharpshooters without any protection fell one after another, gradually, the arrows shot out became more and more sparse, and many of the sharpshooters had no arrows, and picked up the bows and crossbows of their fallen comrades everywhere, and completed their shooting missions one after another, and in the end, there were only seven sharpshooters and Jesse who had no arrows, and they all pulled out the daggers in their hands, ready to engage in the final hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, defending their dignity.

When it was time, the centaurs seemed to be in no hurry, stopped throwing their short spears, and slowly circled the flagpole, ready to chop the sharpshooters who had lost hundreds of their comrades to pulp.

Jesse, who was covered in blood, knew that he was in danger, but he also calmed down, and faced the group of centaurs slowly advancing with his seven comrades, without fear.

"Kill!" When both sides are close to the limit of the charging distance, they shout at the same time to kill each other......

"Huh-" The neighing of war horses came from the air, from far and near, and soon, more than 200 Pegasus warriors threw themselves into the battle to defend Shuai Qi, and the Chinese army camp made a shocking reversal in an instant, and the centaurs who were caught off guard were immediately killed by the powerful patrol cavalry and fled, disappearing into the depths of the dark streets.

"A team of twenty people, immediately clear the remnants of the city!" Marissa ordered loudly.

"Yes, General!" More than a dozen teams of centaur warriors immediately formed a team and chased them all the way in the direction where the centaurs disappeared......

"Jesse! Jessie! Marissa dug Jesse out of the pile of corpses, and several of the marksmen who had covered her body had been chopped up to a blur of flesh, and there was no good piece of flesh left.

Looking at Jesse, covered in blood, Marissa was terrified, constantly calling and slapping her face.

"Ahem, ahem!" Jesse coughed heavily, then opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was not Marissa and a dozen Pegasus warriors beside her, but the handsome flag still flying high, and a smile appeared on her bloodstained face......

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"Herald, let the guns and carts destroy the ladder!" Lufasi watched as more and more enemies climbed the city wall and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with his own defenders, finally showing his last hole card!

Ordinary ballistas can't see the ladders above the city wall, once these ladders are erected, the upper end will be tightly tied to the city wall, and it is basically difficult for the people on the city wall to push the heavy ladder to it, otherwise, it would be a joke to attack the city with a ladder.

However, the battlements extending from the walls of Horqin City expose all the enemies under the walls to the vitality of the three-sided archers, so even the *chariot can see the ladder of the wall where he is located in any position, and the other two sides are all within the attack range of the ballista.

After receiving the order, the operators of the company* immediately adjusted their orientation and vented their anger towards the ladder within their line of sight, firing a single shot, within a range of fifty or sixty meters, the roaring anger * can destroy everything, and together with the ladder made of thigh-thick wood, it can also be split in an instant. 、

Although the shooting accuracy of the car does not meet this requirement, after all, the ladder is a fixed target, as long as the observer and the shooter cooperate with each other properly, and a few more shots, they can always hit the target.

One after another, the ladders were cut off at the waist instead of being pushed, and they could no longer be erected, and gradually, fewer and fewer people climbed the city walls, and the hundreds of dwarven warriors and deadwood warriors who had already landed on the city gradually became alone, and there was no backup force, and only death awaited them.

Morris, who had lost most of the ladders, finally gave the order for Mingjin to withdraw his troops! The three gates only opened the south gate, leaving him at a loss, and the opponent's hole card, although it was the back hand, had one more card than his own.

The battle on the city walls was over in half an hour, but the battle to clear the remnants of the city lasted until noon the next day.

This offensive and defensive battle was so tragic that almost everyone on both sides did not want such a battle to happen again.

Horqin City, heavy losses: in addition to the Shuai Qi, the other battalions of the Chinese army were burned; Five granaries were burned down, and no particles remained; The catapult phalanx was quickly destroyed by the enemy who entered the city, eight of the ten were destroyed, and the baggage soldiers also lost nearly a thousand men; The weapons workshop was set on fire, but fortunately it was extinguished in time, but it also lost most of the military supplies, along with some spare repeater chariots, and countless other secondary strategic targets, not to mention civilian wooden houses.

More than 8,000 combatants were killed and more than 6,000 were seriously wounded, and nearly half of the defending sergeants were lost. Fortunately, most of them are recruits and degraded soldiers, and the backbone is still there. The dwarven slaves who assisted in the defense of the city also lost more than 3,000 people, and the inhabitants of the city also suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and the total casualties reached nearly 30,000, which was simply too miserable for a small city with only 100,000 inhabitants and 32,000 garrisons.

The losses of the druid's camp were not small, eighty percent of the three or four hundred catapults were destroyed, more than half of the five hundred ballistas were paralyzed, nearly 20,000 people were killed, and nearly 10,000 were seriously wounded, together with the number of dead three days ago, the druid's 100,000 army also exceeded 30 percent of the battle damage, plus the druid's magic power was also used to seventy-seven eighty-eight. It is estimated that it will be difficult to organize an effective offensive in a short period of time.

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