"Prepare for battle!" Rant roared as he stood on the wall, "the battle that will decide the fate of the Empty Crossing Territory is coming, raise your weapons and let the enemy know that we are ......"

"Lion!"

There was a cohesive earth-shattering response from the walls of the fortress.

Rand nodded secretly, the high fighting spirit can be seen in every soldier, which has a lot to do with the non-stop combat training on weekdays, and it is a key point to strengthen the courage and self-confidence of the army through various ways.

It is not realistic to improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers as a whole in a short period of time, but it is not too difficult to improve morale and fighting spirit, and compared with combat effectiveness, the courage and self-confidence of soldiers themselves in the face of the enemy are equally important.

With the experience of the last time against the enemy barbarians, the soldiers did not appear to panic, but calmly checked the weapons in their hands to prevent them from being unusable due to stagnation or malfunction in battle, and there were no less than a hundred soldiers distributed on the thirty-meter-long fortress wall, and the musketeers stood at the forefront, with an assistant in charge of loading beside them, and the two muskets were used alternately in pursuit of the maximum rate of fire.

The ballista carts have been replaced with armor-piercing heavy arrows, and unlike beasts, light arrows with group hair will not be of great use against barbarians, and may even break due to the material of the shaft.

"Clank!" The three rudimentary barrels are placed side by side and held securely in place with brackets to prevent ballistic deviation caused by the recoil of the shells pushing the barrels.

Since the rescue team took away six rockets, only twelve were left for Rand and the soldiers.

But, it's enough.

Rand carefully observed the barbarians' ranks, trying to find the leader or leader, but the barbarians were distinctly different from humans, and there were no overly bright attire and armor to help Rand find the leader, most of them were dressed in the same attire, wearing simple necklaces made of animal skins and animal teeth.

Rand sighed, if he could find the leader and kill him successfully, then the threat that the barbarians could cause would be greatly reduced, and under the command of this mysterious leader, the barbarians knew the classification of marching formations and troops, so that some of the methods they had prepared could no longer be effective.

Connor regained control of a bald eagle and flew into the sky to keep an eye on the barbarians and any other enemies nearby.

When the barbarian team approached the fortress at a distance of five hundred meters, it began to accelerate, and the shield soldier at the front raised the plank in his hand, completely covered his body and his companions behind him under the defense, and began the first charge against the fortress wall.

This is probably the largest barbarian invasion that the Empty Realm has ever experienced.

The earth began to shake at the sight of more than one hundred and fifty large barbarians running, and the snow mixed with the dirt under their feet, and as the weather began to warm, the snow began to melt, and the topmost permafrost had formed mud, forming a natural obstacle to the road, slowing down the charge of some of the barbarians.

"Winter is almost over, and we only need a few more days to get through the time when food is scarce, so why do these guys have to risk death to attack our territory at this time?" Touron looked at the approaching barbarian army in confusion, "Didn't you beat them last time?"

"Fear may be there, otherwise they wouldn't have waited so long before launching a second round of attacks," Rand stood at the head of the city, watching the artillerymen push rockets into the barrels and quietly waiting for the target to come into range, "but they have no other way, even if their leader unifies the tribe, the price must be extremely heavy, have you noticed that in today's ranks, there are even young barbarians?"

"I think they must have consumed not a single grain of food left, otherwise they wouldn't have brought their young children to the battlefield with them. Rand said expressionlessly: "This behavior has only one meaning. ”

"All or nothing. If you don't win, you will be destroyed. ”

Rand would not feel pity for the presence of a young enemy in the ranks of the barbarians, who had just seen the young barbarian nibbling on the dried human female head.

If even a savage deserves mercy, then who should pity the woman who has become the blood of the barbarian's mouth?

Who will remember that she also had relatives and families?

For the barbarians, Rand had no other thoughts.

Blood debts can only be paid with blood.

This is the irrepressible anger of human beings.

Suddenly, the barbarian team split into two teams, with the shield men protecting the hammermen and rushing to the gate of the fortress wall, while the rest of the barbarians scattered and approached the sides of the fortress wall, intending to distract the defenders and win the main attack team a chance to touch the fortress wall.

However, the rocket artillery on the walls roared.

The modified rockets roared out like spinning tops, drawing a straight vertical line in the air, and the smell of burning gunpowder filled the walls.

"Maybe I should improve the composition of the propellant, and the pungent smell might be better if I used aluminum powder. Rand waved his hand and shook the area in front of his nose, choking and coughing.

At a distance of 300 meters, almost in a breath, the rocket hit the area in front of the shield soldier with the sound of breaking wind.

The roar rang out instantly.

The flying earth and the instant expansion of gas, mixed with flying shrapnel, covered the area within five meters, and the barbarians who were the target of the attack did not have time to react at all, only felt the flash of fire, an incomparable force came from the front, and the wooden plank in his hand as a protective force made an overwhelming sound, and then it was reduced to pieces in the firelight.

Touron only saw an explosion, and a stump flew out bloodily.

The rockets in the other two barrels followed, and before the smoke had cleared, the barbarians of the main attacking force who had survived the first shells had just risen from the ground and had not yet grasped their weapons when they heard a deafening sound again.

The world is completely dark.

When the smoke cleared, the bombing area of the rockets and bombs formed a sunken crater, and the internal organs and stumps were sprinkled in the surrounding snow, and the blood flowed together, forming a stream-like flow.

The first round of rockets and bombs, as the target of the barbarian siege troops, there were no survivors.

The barbarians were stunned by the sudden bombardment, compared to the last battle, it seemed that the human defenders had moved out some kind of new weapon, even the shield and the steely body could not form an effective protection, and the flesh and blood could not maintain strength in the face of the advanced* even if it was too strong.

A man who can't hold out even three seconds in front of a rocket or bomb is worthy of ...... The hardest?