Chapter 54: Pour the oil pot
PS: Woo woo woo................... isn't there a kind person to give an evaluation vote?
If you calculate it comprehensively, in fact, Sun Lin's long-range troops have reached their strategic goals, and the rain of rubble has weakened the morale and energy of all orc siege troops to a certain extent, and at least more than one-fifth of them have been injured to varying degrees, maybe these wounds will not affect the morale of the orcs at present, but in the next hand-to-hand combat, these orcs will suffer a painful price for these injuries; The damage done by the Burning Barrels, Scorpion Crossbows, and Rain of Arrows was also significant, at least as they left over 500 corpses before approaching the Wailing Wall and going up the mountain, and the damage was still increasing.
As orcs, although they are mentally retarded races with half-orcs in terms of intelligence, orcs are still much smarter than half-orcs to a certain extent, although the formation of these orcs is as scattered as the formation of half-orcs when they attacked last time, but they at least will not rush up in the narrow road like half-orcs and become live targets for scorpion crossbows and longbowmen in the stone towers.5 On the contrary, these slightly clever orcs knew how to slowly advance towards the edge of the mountain road by the uncleared rocks and dead corners, one by one.
"Humph! It's a bit clever, but that's all these orcs can do, and what will happen to them in the next trap? I'm really looking forward to it..............." Just as Sun Lin, who was wearing heavy plate armor, was standing on the newly built cast-iron city gate, looking at the more and more figures in front of him, and the larger and larger figures, a sound of rolling stones suddenly sounded from the orc troops, followed by countless wails from the orc troops: "I really want to know which fool actually touched the first hemp rope, causing the treated stones on both sides to roll down the mountain road.................. But the engineer who thought of this trap was really a genius, and even I didn't think of placing the polished and smooth rolling stones in the middle of the road, and when the enemy came, I borrowed them to trip over the hemp rope and pull the wooden sticks tied to the ends of the hemp rope to fix the rolling stones, but unfortunately, the next mountain roads are due to the limitations of the terrain and the problem of time, and it is impossible to transform such a damaging trap, but fortunately, there are more giant tree torsos collected this time, and you can come to play bowling..............."
On the other side, the orc troops in front of the 'Wailing Wall' were also subjected to even more terrifying fire from the defenders commanded by Bobby. Although they lost the cover of heavy trebuchets, 4 medium trebuchets and 30 scorpion crossbows, as well as two teams of 100 longbowmen, allowed the orc troops to advance just over 50 meters before leaving more than 200 corpses behind.
Because there is already the mouth of the canyon in front of it, compared to the open wasteland before, the spaciousness of the mouth of the canyon is not very high, so with Bobby's consent, the four medium-sized torsion trebuchets have replaced the gravel bombs with burning stone blocks at this time, which have been preliminarily surveyed and polished, and have two large stones the size of two heads in shape, soaked in fish oil similar to cubes, and their lethality to infantry will be twice that of ordinary stones.
As the burning stones were loaded into a wooden spoon cast with iron sheets and lit with torches, the four burning stones flew out of the 'Wailing Wall' and threw them into the chaotic orc troops as the sound of four wooden sticks hitting the wool pads sounded under the command of the four engineers.
"Ah............" A heart-rending scream sounded, and dozens of orc light infantry burst into flames as they came into contact with the two "fireballs" (the accuracy of torsion trebuchets has always been very low, even in the narrow space in front of them, it is already a very good record to be able to hit 2 of 4 shots, and the other two rounds are slammed into the cliffs on both sides because they deviate from the trajectory). However, despite such sharp city defense weapons, and forced by the infinite courage and strong endurance of the orcs, the firepower network did not slow down its forward movement except for leaving many orc light infantry corpses. A large number of orc light infantry charged forward with ladders as if they had finished the pain of a wound on their body.
Since the average level of orcs is much higher than that of half-orcs in terms of intelligence, even the orc warriors in the weakest orc tribes have learned to make simple ladders, and there are not no orc troops with more sophisticated siege weapons such as siege towers and stone throwers, but there is a premise that these orc tribes will only create this weapon when they have the hardcore alliance of orcs, goblin engineers.
Bobby was also very helpless about this situation, because the height of the 'Wailing Wall' had reached 18 meters until now, and due to the problem of the number of people, Bobby definitely didn't believe that the soldiers on his hand could knock down all the ladders on the city wall again and again, so when the orc troops were about to press closer' At the bottom of the Wailing Wall, Bobby ordered the surrounding engineers to drag down all the lighter scorpion crossbows that had been placed on the city wall section, because after entering the battle for the city wall, the scorpion crossbow came out and became an obstacle There is no other use, and Bobby is not stupid enough to use these well-made scorpion crossbows as obstacles, you must know that the current cost of making a scorpion crossbow in Nottingham City costs more than 100 gold coins, and at most 3 or 4 units can be pieced together every day. 30 scorpion crossbows are equal to close to 4,000 gold coins, if Sun Lin knows that he will take 4,000 gold coins to resist the attack of the orcs when he is defending the city, even if he has a private agreement with Sun Lin, it is estimated that it would be good if the angry Sun Lin did not skin himself alive, as for the city defense machinery like the torsion trebuchet, it was not dragged down, the reason is very simple, Sun Lin did not have so many engineers on hand.
You must know that this is the real world, not like in the total war game, you can build two torsion catapults to get 20 engineers. After the construction of the Ballista Workshop in Nottingham, Nottingham's stat board has an additional unit to recruit.
Corps Name: Engineer Corps
Number of people: 60
Class Type: Light Infantry
Features: Familiar control of various war machines
Attack: 4
Defense: 4
Charge Power: 2
Cost: 300 gold
And until today, Sun Lin has only more than 200 engineers on hand, of course, the reason why there are so few people, the main reason is that this kind of soldiers can only be displayed when they have large weapons in city defense battles and siege battles, or battles, and it is generally impossible to appear on the system interface, so Sun Lin is too lazy to recruit more of this kind of troops, and more than 100 of his more than 200 people were recruited by Richard when he was still there............
"Have the orcs reached the city walls? It's really quick................... engineers, push the oil pot up, let's bathe the orcs!" ”