''Chapter 82: Phoenix Defense''
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The red flags erected high in the base camp, a pair of golden phoenixes flying around, on the green grass, there are buildings with red roofs, and even on the city wall, there are many flags, painted with the banner of the king of birds.
However, there was not a trace of pleasure on the faces of everyone in the city, and the gnomes behind the cannon stuffed the cannonballs into the barrels without saying a word, and the archers on the turrets had a few more drops of sweat on their faces. Groups of troops climbed the city, looking at the army in the distance, clutching their weapons tightly.
Huge army! On the other side of the city, there was a huge force that could barely be seen, their ranks stretched as wide as the city walls, the soldiers in the phalanx held shields, the cavalry of the brigade wore full heavy armor, the strange catapults inlaid with blue hedrons moved slowly behind the ranks, and beside them, soldiers in ceremonial armor carried a large military flag. It was a blue flag, and on it was a large turtle with its neck raised high, revealing its stout, hideous head, and glaring angrily. It was a high-level magical beast, a rare creature of the Subic Kingdom--- the Ebralon giant tortoise, the most short-tempered of the turtle monsters. At the same time, he is also the symbol of the former third legion of the Subic Kingdom, the Kuba Legion!
''Is this a war between Suzaku and Xuanwu?'' Fang Zi stood on the city wall, looked at the huge army, and said to himself.
''May this bird help us win the battle.'' Finch said from the side.
Fang Zi looked at the troops below, and felt that her heart was beating a little fast, this was the largest battle she had fought since she came to this world, ten times the troops of her own, even she felt fear.
"Hopefully we can win, hopefully we can win." Fang Zi thought silently.
----The horn sounded, and the huge force below began to move, and a whole platoon of heavily armored infantry raised their iron shields and walked to the front of the team, their strength was above the low-level warriors, and hundreds of low-level warriors slowly advanced with large shields, protecting the other troops behind them. But instead of advancing at the first time, they let go of a loophole, and a large group of poorly equipped but seemingly demoralized people rushed out from behind.
"Test the firepower? It seems to be a bandit miscellaneous soldier. ”
Fang Zi raised his hand, and some cannons and archers on the city wall attacked, and in the roar, the robbers who rushed up were killed and wounded, and immediately ran back with their lives, and their sharpness was gone.
----The horn sounded again, but this time the troops with large shields moved with the troops behind, and simple siege engines such as ladders were also raised, and thousands of heavily armed infantry, led by the heavy infantry in front, rushed from slow to fast with a shout.
''Shoot!'' Several knights at the head of the city roared, and suddenly the fixed defensive cannons, ordinary level 2 and 3 cannons, and hundreds of archers above and below the arrow towers attacked, and arrows, cannonballs, and lead bullets fell together into the charging army, causing terrible waves like stones falling on calm water. The impact and flames from the explosion directly lifted the soldier throughout, and the sturdy iron shield could not withstand the terrifying force. The musketeers' bullets easily pierced the unthick iron shields and the armor of the hoplites, and the arrows that followed would knock down the soldiers behind them. The number of the legion's attack exceeded 2,000 men, but there were fifty large and small guns on Phoenix City, and under the continuous bombardment and soldier fire, the complete infantry attack formation was directly torn apart, leaving hundreds of incomplete corpses. But at this time the distinction between the regular army and the bandit motley army became apparent, and under the saturation blow of the defenders of the city, they continued to advance without the slightest thought of retreating.
''Keep shooting, don't stop!'' Finch's voice echoed through the city walls, the roar of artillery fire continued, and the legion's troops were only a hundred meters away from the city walls, and the archers were now shooting with all their might. More than a dozen sister archers drew their bows together, aiming at the officer-like people in the ranks under the city, and between breaths, arrows with light blue brilliance shot out, quickly hitting the officers who were desperately approaching, and the speed made those middle-level soldiers stunned. ''Steady Strike''' Sister Army's housekeeping skill, this arrow with powerful kinetic energy hits and pierces through the opponent's armor like a bullet, and with the triple bonus effect of Weakness Strike, even a low-level mid-level warrior will be fatal in one hit! The Sisters archers are constantly drawing arrows, aiming and shooting. The three movements were calm and smooth, and under their fire, all the low-ranking officers and the stronger soldiers who were targeted had only a dead end.
After the infantry of the legion approached, the archers of the legion also launched a counterattack as soon as possible, and the arrows on both sides came and went, and before they could get close to the city walls, the casualties on the battlefield increased like flowing water. The archers at the head of the city also suffered a lot of damage, but in order to maintain their firepower, they could only continue to shoot with their positions exposed. The musketeers stood tall on the top of the city with their sturdy cuirasses and high health, and each shot would result in an additional corpse or incapacitate the opponent. The height of the dwarf gunners had an advantage at this time, and the archers of the opposing side could only shoot blindly by the position of the cannon, and it was difficult to find their bodies, they shrank their heads and fired cannons, occasionally poking their heads out to aim, and there were no casualties in the rain of arrows. Fang Zi built some arrow towers on the city wall and the side of the city wall, relying on the stable support structure so that the arrow tower got a relatively sufficient space, many archers squeezed to the 1 and 2 level arrow tower that ten square meters of the platform, shooting wildly below.
"This is too much loss, let the siege vehicle launch." The leader of the Legion army spoke to the man next to him, and an order was immediately passed down.
"Magic Guided Stone Thrower ready!" The officer in the back shouted, and the soldier immediately loaded the stone-throwing machines with crystals and magic runes engraved with a combination of ground stones and some mixed magic materials.
"Launch!"
At the sound of an order, the soldiers pulled down the handle for activation, and the crystals on the stone thrower began to flicker, and energy flowed in the magic circuit, and with a loud bounce, something like a fireball flew out.
''Boom!'' ‘’
The terrifying explosion, the powerful air wave and the high-temperature fluid sputtered out, half of the arrow tower that was hit was destroyed in an instant, and if it wasn't for the archers above jumping away in time, I am afraid that they would also be directly engulfed in flames. But even then, they were scarred by the air waves and the hot fluid. In the other two places of the city wall, an ordinary summoning cannon was directly hit, and the dwarf gunner was directly hit, and the wreckage flew out more than ten meters away, falling heavily behind the city wall. Another magic missile hit a section of the city wall, and the stone shell was directly shattered, revealing the blackened wooden core inside, and the archers on the wall were also swept down by the air wave. Through observation, Fang Zi found that the durability of that section of the city wall went down by nearly half, and the two sections of the city wall next to it were also somewhat damaged.
''Terrible attack power, several times higher than a cannon!'' Fang Zi sighed at the great power of this magic guide weapon, and at the same time knew that no matter what shortcomings these weapons had, they must be cleaned up as soon as possible, otherwise the problem would be very serious. But...... Looking at the huge army and the soldiers on the inner and outer three floors, Fang Zi felt a sense of powerlessness.
''I can't clean it up for the time being.'' Fang Zi sighed and shook his head. Suddenly, she remembered what she had gotten when she opened the Crown Chest, and immediately took it out of the system.
[Fireball: LV: 1; Damage: 325-500; Damage Radius: 15m; Range of use: 500 meters near the host; Usage: 3/3, Cooling: 1 hour; Comments: What's cooler than a mage storing a fireball in a card? Three fireballs stored, of course! These powerful fireballs deal a lot of damage and don't halve to buildings, so when a horde of enemies attack, throw one out for a nice bonfire! It's just that people don't revolve around it to barbecue meat. 】
''That's you.'' Fang Zi took out the fireball technique that emitted orange brilliance, estimated the distance, and directly poured the holy water and threw it out.
Different from the effects of other cards, the fireball technique is very simple and crisp, the card floats in the air to form an orange vortex, and then a hot fireball with a diameter of more than one meter flies out of it and smashes directly into the magic guide stone thrower more than two hundred meters away.
''Not good!'' The general who led the army from the Kuba Legion shouted bad when he saw the incoming fireball, and then gathered his strength and threw the spear in his hand directly, trying to intercept the high-speed fireball with the power of his battle master.
That spear is an enchanted weapon, plus the combat magic of a combat master, the power of a collision is comparable to the bomb power of a level 4 bomberman, and he has no other means to intercept this rapidly approaching fireball at this time, he can only hope that the spear can break up the fireball, after all, the magic guide stone thrower behind it, one will cost tens of thousands of gold coins, if it is lost in the alliance, there is no land and no money to replenish it.
''Boom!'' The spear, which glowed with a pale yellow glow, hit the fireball, and the flames from the explosion made the soldiers below feel pain all over their faces. Just as the general was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the spear fell weakly from the sky, and the fireball, which was a little smaller but still powerful, slammed through the scattered layer of flames and smoke directly into the magic guide stone thrower.
''Bump! Rumble!!! ''Violent collision, flames rose wildly, engulfing everything around, and the terrifying heat wave lifted up all the soldiers within tens of meters, like a howitzer bombardment of the earth. Under the orange high temperature flame, the magic munition exploded for the second time, a magic guide stone thrower and dozens of soldiers around it were directly wiped out in the flames, and the magic crystal full of energy was directly shattered under the elemental frenzy, and the expensive magic guide device was reduced to nothing. In the midst of this powerful bombardment, even high-level fighters could not stop trembling, imagining whether they could save their lives if they were at the heart of the fireball bombardment. Several generals in front of the legion force also looked at the explosion, and their eyes were also glazed.
A magic guide stone thrower was finished, carrying dozens of soldiers and manipulators next to it. And what made them most sad was that the two apprentice magicians who charged it next to the stone throwing machine were also finished, that was the apprentice who followed the official magician, the good seedlings of the magician, just gone, it was a magic guide stone throwing machine that could not be replaced.
A general raised his sword angrily and was about to give the order for the whole army to attack the city, but the man next to him stopped him.
''Don't let anger consume your mind, our purpose is not just this city. ‘’