Roland Kolas galloped his horse along the slope of the abandoned buildings and rushed up to the top of the thirty-foot slope to hold the reins, and the Purgatory Pony stood up under his crotch, raising his hooves and neighing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The midday sun shone through the smoke that covered the sky, from behind the collapsed Heroic Tower, illuminating the strife in front of Roland's eyes.

Relying on the ruins of the Heroic Tower, Grande's followers built a group of fortresses with astonishing efficiency, like poisonous mushrooms growing on the ground after rain, firmly occupying the territory. In the center of the fortress complex is a rock palace, where Grande's headquarters and teleportation array are located, and every six seconds, a creature from the war-torn fortress comes out of it, like a huge womb that is constantly breeding monsters.

The fort complex stretched outward along the ruined streets, stretching for ten miles, with the most dense fort complex at the front, and the Kitlander positions a thousand yards away.

Beowulf and Natasha have gathered the city's best troops, with the Totem Samurai and Priest Kord as the main forces, and are organizing a counterattack to try to reclaim the land occupied by the invaders - only by conquering the Grande's palace and destroying the teleportation circle can the war in the city be completely ended.

Beowulf did not order his guards to rush into the enemy's position, he knew very well that it would cost great sacrifices and might not achieve strategic intentions, and it was not the totem warriors or the Kod priests who really played a decisive role on the battlefield at this moment, but the ten smoothbore infantry guns lined up.

The structure of the infantry cannon was not complicated, the weight was not heavy, a mule and horse could be dragged, and the ammunition loaded looked inconspicuous, nothing more than a 12-pound lead ball. However, after the accelerated ejection of the magic crystal power device, these lead balls can cause great damage from a distance of 1,000 yards, and the makeshift fortress of the Grande army immediately collapsed after being shot at all, and the cultists hiding in it were shocked to death before they could react and were buried alive.

Infantry guns require three people to work together, a gunner, a loader, and most importantly, a surveyor - the latter is mostly a reverend of Cord with some cultural and mathematical knowledge, who calculates the optimal firing angle according to the wind direction and distance, and provides this data to the gunner in a timely manner.

Relying on artillery positions, the Kitland army could destroy a row of pillboxes with each round of shelling, and when a position was cleared, they moved the artillery wagons and slowly moved forward.

"Keep this rhythm moving steadily, as long as there are plenty of shells and the weather doesn't change abnormally, you can dismantle Grande's headquarters before dark." Roland witnessed the magnificent scene of the salvo of the magic crystal cannon, and a stone finally fell to the ground in his heart.

"Tsk, I didn't expect you Kitlanders to make cannons too." Bloom climbed to the top of the slope and looked at the artillery position from afar, and couldn't help but sigh.

"We can only cast gun wagons and cannon barrels, and the core magic crystal power unit is imported from Baiou Port, we have neither the magic crystal here, nor the relevant technology, and we can't produce it ourselves at present." Vigraf said with some regret, "Over the years, in order to resist the invasion of the Dragon's Eye and the Fortress of War, the lord has spent a lot of money and effort to buy the magic crystal cannon, and at least forty percent of the annual military expenditure is spent on this, and each cannon is piled up with gold coins!" ”

"Haha, in fact, you don't need to import from Baiou Port, Baiou Port itself is just a trading port, there is no arsenal, you still have to import the magic crystal power device from the inland of the empire and sell it to you, and the price of the second dealer will of course rise a lot." The dwarf touched his beard with pride on his face, "Instead of being exploited by traders, you should come directly to Icewind Dale and buy cannon cores, the price will definitely be cheaper and the quality will be better." ”

Roland nodded and smiled: "Bloom, my brother, Lord Bratu will be happy to know that you have done a big business for him." ”

"Hah! My dad is a typical hillbilly, short-sighted, shrinking in Icewind Dale behind closed doors to be the king of the mountain, what future can he have? People, you still have to take advantage of your youth to come out and walk, the world is so big, and there are many opportunities to make money. The dwarf cocked his beard, smug and proud.

"Look! The War Scourge Thug has fought back! Vigraf looked nervous.

Roland looked at the battlefield from afar, and Grande's position was really in turmoil, and many big goblins led the wolf out of the fortress, and quickly gathered to charge the Kitlander army.

Unlike their timid and obscene goblin cousins, the goblins are fierce and aggressive by nature, and even more rarely, they obey the order, worship the strong, believe in the spirit of bushido, and can form powerful troops with a little training, so they are very popular with those evil warlords. In fact, there are many famous warlords in the history of Vares, who themselves are from the Great Goblin clan.

The Great Goblin Wolf Cavalry is undoubtedly the most suitable trump card in Grande's hands to charge, and playing it at this moment shows that Beowulf's artillery advance tactics have made him feel restless, and he has to do something to try to change the passive situation.

The charge of the goblin wolf cavalry was not without its bravery, but it did not reap the fruits that Grande longed for.

The Kitlanders on the opposite side sensed the enemy's cavalry and immediately moved under the command of Beowulf. The armoured heavy infantry armed with tomahawks and shields moved forward to form a strong defensive line, while the archers of the Northland rangers waited in the back row, and it was the ten infantry guns that were the first to inflict a head-on attack on the enemy, this time the loaders were no longer filled with solid lead balls, but a shotgun wrapped in a cast iron case, commonly known as "grapeshot" by the locals.

The shell of this kind of shell is relatively brittle, and most of them disintegrate in the air after being launched, and the steel fragments and the small steel balls wrapped in the shell are splashed in the air, like countless powerful arrows, directly cutting down a large piece of the goblin wolf cavalry that rushed in the front row, and the people who were shot were all bloody and miserable.

Some of the shotguns exploded only when they fell to the ground, and countless shrapnel exploded directly in the crowd, as if a flower of steel bloomed on the earth, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere they went, and the ground was rotten......

Whew! The Northland rangers were unwilling to be robbed of the limelight by the artillery, and when the wolf cavalry rushed into a hundred yards, they immediately shot a wave of arrows, although the face damage was not as exaggerated as the shotgun, the sniper accuracy and penetration were still excessive, countless arrows gathered into a flash torrent, and after the waves rolled, the goblins fell off their mounts and sank their corpses on the spot, leaving only a few wolves who were lucky enough to escape the sniper and wailed in panic, turned around and fled.

Under combined artillery fire and sniper fire from the archers, the imposing goblin wolf cavalry did not rush to the Kitlanders' position at all, and crawled back like fallen leaves swept by a strong wind.

Grande didn't give up on the counterattack, and the horn of silence sounded again, this time rushing to the forefront of a large army of trolls with regenerative abilities and fearless swords, guns, and arrows! (To be continued.) )