Chapter Seventy-One: Shooting Stars
Although the fire bolt drenched the leopard's bombardment with blood and flesh, it did not inflict fatal damage on it, and with the blessing of the strange roar coming from behind the herd, it was still able to endure the pain and try to continue to climb upward.
Unfortunately, the spears piercing from both sides disrupted all its plans.
"Poof!
The sharp spear left two bloody hollows in the leopard's body, and its vitality was rapidly drained, and it could no longer keep climbing upwards, and fell down with convulsions.
"One!" roared the spearman.
"Kang!"
"Kang!"
With the roar of two firearms, a clear response came from both sides.
"Two!"
"Three!"
"Cleared!"
"Ready to shoot!" the ballista and musket finished loading, and another salvo was fired.
The recruits carried bundles of arrows and poured water on the walls in wooden barrels, and the night temperatures were so low that it didn't take long for the water to freeze into a smooth layer of ice, and even with their claws it would not be possible to climb the walls again.
Rand sighed, although there are a lot of beasts this time, but according to the current battle situation, they can't break through the defense line composed of ballistas and muskets, only to deal with the swift leopards and wolves, then the remaining bloated tigers and bears are not a problem at all.
"Er!" came a grumpy eagle from the sky, and a flock of red eagles appeared.
Rand looked at the enemy from the sky and felt a little heavy, these red eagle groups are the biggest threat to them, since the last attack, he has conducted in-depth research on the red eagle, and after discussing with senior hunters, he has discovered the weakness of the red eagle.
Their wings are covered with a layer of grease, which provides them with protection from the cold and the heaviness of their feathers from rain, which is also their weakness.
In the dry winter, the oil acts like an accelerant, and once it is touched by the spark, it will immediately ignite a fire.
"Set the arrows on fire and shoot the Red Eagle in the air!" Rand said in a loud voice, as several young hunters were recruited by him to deal with threats from the sky, "Be careful not to let them approach!"
Hunters have been dealing with these creatures in the mountains for many years, and they are well aware of their habits and difficulties, and the red eagle is the most difficult to hunt, as it moves quickly and the huge wind pressure generated by the flapping of its wings can deflect the arrows, and the probability of hitting them head-on is very low.
But the lord has a life, and the hunters have to fight head-on with the Red Eagle flock.
Dozens of ignited arrows shot into the sky, but the power exerted by the longbow was so small that the arrows only flew about forty meters before losing power, a height that was simply not enough to hit the Red Eagle.
However, the red eagle swooped down, bypassing the sparse arrows, and swooped directly towards the city wall.
"Defense!"
The shield instantly formed an impermeable wall to protect Rand, and the spear passed through the gap in the shield and stabbed straight into the body of the red eagle.
Seeing that it was about to collide with the spear, the red eagle turned around, flapped its wings and turned to the young hunter next to him, its steely claws piercing the leather armor directly through the shoulder bone.
"Ahh
Give the dummy!
This beast knows a lot, Rand can't care about anger, at this time the hunter who was already attacked by the red eagle moved slowly and flew off the ground, the blood wet half of the young hunter's body, and the most terrible thing is that the rest of the red eagle attacked in this direction, ready to tear the hunter apart in the air and divide the food.
"Give me a musket!" Rand snatched the flintlock pistol of one of the guards beside him, raised the muzzle of the gun and aimed at the red eagle seven or eight meters above the ground, which could save the hunter's life, and it was up to him to see this shot.
"Kang!"
The feathers flew up, and the red eagle that was hit flapped its wings with a scream and fell into the city wall with the young hunter, but due to the resistance of the red eagle's wings, it did not receive much impact when it landed.
"Quick! go rescue the wounded!"
Rand's order reminded the recruits of their duty, and they divided five soldiers and hurried to the direction where the red eagle fell, preparing necessities such as stretcher beds and hemostatic cloths, time is of the essence, and in this world of extremely poor medical conditions, blood loss cannot be replenished by blood transfusions.
The heroic actions of the lord greatly encouraged the soldiers at the head of the city, and seeing that their lords were so desperate to participate in the battle, as a soldier, there was no reason to be passive and slack.
However, the threat of the Red Hawks was not removed at all, and the hunters were unable to deal effective damage and blow to the Red Hawks, but instead provoked the anger of the Red Hawks, making their attacks more and more ferocious.
"Get a tourniquet!"
"Substitutes! Substitute crossbowmen!"
"Ahh
"Damn!" Rand felt the anger in his chest, and in the face of these aerial enemies, all the power he had was unable to effectively strike at them!
In conjunction with the Red Eagle Swarm, the beasts climbed up to the top of the city several times, causing serious injuries to several soldiers.
"Prepare shields!" Rand instructed the recruits to rely on shields to fend off the Red Hawks so far.
At the stairs of the city wall, which no one noticed, two figures, one tall and one short, were walking up quickly.
"Hey, the children and the old man are out of here, the beasts are storming the fortress wall!!" someone spotted the old and young men dressed in black and stepped forward to stop them.
Oak looked at the soldiers leaning against the wall covered in blood and pain, his little face turned pale, he did not pay attention to the dissuasion, but sped up to the city wall.
A flame suddenly appeared above the city walls.
This was followed by two regiments and three regiments......
Until the flames turned into so many stars in the sky, the soldiers felt the burning heat from behind them, but they didn't have time to look back, and when Rand discovered the source of the flames, a cold sweat broke out in an instant.
Especially when he saw the pretending Snow, he immediately ran over and whispered, "What are you going to do? Do you know how dangerous it is to expose Oak to the soldiers?"
According to his plan, he didn't think about letting Oak reveal his identity so early.
Snow was uncharacteristically silent, pointing at Oak to indicate that it was Oak's own choice.
Oak raised his head, his eyes full of seriousness, and he asked word by word, "Lord Lord, you and the soldiers are fighting bloodily, why don't you let me go to battle?"
Well, Rand really didn't know how to answer Orc's question, and it was too late to say anything, the hunters and recruits had already seen Oak's magical abilities, and the starry flames were still floating silently around Orc.
"Protect him!" Rand immediately commanded Snow.
"As you wish!" Snow nodded, and said very seriously, "Unless I die, I won't let any creature hurt him." ”
It's a promise and a vow.
Flames rose into the sky.
In the next moment, it turned into a meteor in the sky.