Volume 1: Soaring to the Sky Chapter 27: The Battle of the Black Gate

The Legion cavalry in the cavalry used spells to scout and shoot arrows, indicating that the Amazon threw the arrows successfully, and the coalition forces cheered loudly.

Hippolyta smiled and ordered the sappers: "Do a good job and find a chance to smash it!" ”

Since then, the Amazon arrow has become an offensive and defensive artifact that both sides of the siege world in the Middle-earth world love and hate.

When ordered to do so, the Gondor sappers began mass-producing Amazon arrows and began building siege towers.

In order to prevent Mordor's trebuchet from smashing the siege tower and destroying the warriors in the tower, the siege tower only installed arrow guards on the front, so that the warriors in the tower had more directions to jump from the tower to escape.

In the middle of the night, the lights were still bright in front of and behind the black gate of Mordor, and the trebuchet fired arrows again, but the cavalry of the Legion in front did not shoot rocket guidance.

Hippolyta guessed that this was because the Ringwraith had reduced the number of orcs waiting behind the door in order to reduce the damage caused by throwing arrows.

Two freshly built siege towers began to approach the Black Gate.

Seeing this, the Ring Spirit immediately ordered a large group of orcs to assemble behind the Black Gate to fight.

Another rocket rose in front of the black door, and the throwing arrow was quickly thrown by the trebuchet, killing a large number of orcs behind the door.

Mordor's counterattack soon arrived, and several large rocks flew out from behind the black gate and smashed into the siege tower.

The legionnaires on the siege tower hurriedly jumped down, and the fallen legionnaires were quickly dragged away by their companions and retreated into the cover of the night.

Hippolyta saw that the boulders flying out of the Black Gate were gradually decreasing until they were gone, and the Gondor cavalry came out of the camp and pulled back the remains of the siege tower and the boulders with ropes.

The remnants of the siege tower were brought back to Gondor sappers for repair, and the boulder was sent to the trebuchet to smash into the Black Gate wall.

In this way, the coalition forces continued to send siege towers to seduce the Ringwraiths to send troops to gather, and then used Amazon arrows to kill a large number of orcs waiting behind the door, while the siege towers were constantly destroyed by boulders, and then the wreckage and boulders were pulled back for reuse.

On the morning of the ninth day.

Hippolyta received a report from the sentinels, and Antiope appeared in the northwest with reinforcements, and the army of Lune appeared in the northeast.

The Black Gate offensive and defensive battle has entered a new stage, retreat or hold?

Retreat can be regrouped, but all existing siege equipment must be abandoned, and there is a high risk that they will be chased by orc wolf riders.

Holding on to the enemy must be flanked or encircled on both sides, and the trebuchet ramparts cannot completely suppress the Black Gate.

As long as the Runians entangle the legion, the legion will soon be surrounded by the orc army that rushes out of the black gate and falls into a bitter battle.

Beat! There are infantry, and you can't run away! Rather than being chased and killed while fleeing, it is better to kill and wound the enemy in the attack.

Hippolyta hurriedly ordered 4,000 cavalry to follow her to the northeast to slow down the Lune army.

All the Gondor sappers went to the trebuchet rampart, and 1500 legionnaires protected the trebuchet rampart.

2000 Gondor cavalry abandoned the camp and fought around the trebuchet barrier to relieve the pressure on the barrier.

The cavalry of the 800th Legion continued to ride and shoot in front of the Black Gate, cooperating with the trebuchet barrier to prevent the Orcs from breaking out of the Black Gate and forming a formation.

He also told Antiope to march quickly to the front of the Black Gate and block the Orcs.

While Hippolyta was delaying the Rune army with cavalry in the war plain northeast of the Black Gate, Antiope finally led reinforcements to the vicinity of the Black Gate.

At this time, the army of orcs was rushing out of the black gate in a steady stream.

The trebuchet ramparts are operating the trebuchet, continuously throwing slings of all sizes and Amazon arrows at the wide open black door.

The cascades of orc corpses and stones near the Black Gate seriously hindered the speed and number of orc armies rushing out of the Black Gate.

Legion crossbowmen stood on siege towers within the ramparts, shooting large orcs as they approached.

The orc infantry that rushed through the Black Gate were held back by the legionnaire infantry from the trebuchet barriers.

The Gondor cavalry and the wolf riders are huddled together in a bloody battle.

The 8 arrows of the Legion cavalry stared at the Orc Archers outside the barrier to prevent the Orc Archers from throwing arrows to kill the Gondor sappers inside the barrier.

The Ringwraith flew around the sky to avoid the attacks of the Legion's archers, and every now and then the Fallen Monster howled, affecting the morale of the Gondor soldiers.

More than a dozen giant siege orcs are preparing to seize the time difference between the trebuchets and rush out of the black gate.

Seeing the fierce battle, Antiope ordered all the legion infantry to form a shield formation and line up, and 2 teams of legion crossbowmen followed behind the legion infantry to shoot the large orcs, and the reinforcements quickly formed an array and quickly pressed towards the battlefield.

But far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and the giant siege orcs had already rushed out of the black gate with their heads bowed in the stone-throwing interval.

The heads and shoulders of the giant siege orcs were topped by a large triangular stone, and as they charged with their heads down, the ground shook with their chariot-sized footboards, and the rubble bounced off the ground.

Large, triangular boulders shielded their front, and the orc infantry in their path were mercilessly knocked away.

The crossbow arrows fired by the legion's crossbowmen on the siege tower could only penetrate deep into the triangular rock, but could not hurt the giant siege orcs hiding behind them.

In the path of the giant siege orcs, the orc infantry who were besieging the trebuchet ramparts hurriedly scattered to both sides, leaving only the thin wooden walls of the ramparts and legionnaires still blocking them.

The wooden walls of the trebuchet ramparts were not thick, and with the 1400 legion infantry defending the entire wooden wall of the rampart, there were only a few more than 40 legionary infantry facing the giant siege orcs.

The half-orc infantry's act of giving way gave the more than 40 legion infantry a chance to condense a lightning orb infused with all mana.

The lightning orb flew out of the wooden wall of the rampart, and the four giant siege orcs who charged in front were hit by the lightning orb, and their whole bodies spasmed on the ground and slid forward by inertia, and finally the triangular solid stone still knocked down the wooden wall of the rampart.

The four giant siege orcs finally showed the back of their heads to the legion crossbowmen, and a few bolts seized the opportunity to quickly stop their simple thoughts.

The legionnaires, who had fallen from the collapsed wooden wall, quickly got up and blocked the gap in the wooden wall.

The 8th Legionary cavalry finally arrived, charging the other giant siege orcs from the flank.

The combined charge of the legion cavalry knocked down the giant siege orcs and shattered the blade array, and the fallen giant siege orcs were quickly stabbed through the brain by the legion cavalry with their long swords.

The last few giant siege orcs tripped over their fallen counterparts, crushing many of the legionnaires to death, and were finally stabbed to death by the nearby legionnaires.

The Legionnaires, who had lost their horses, retreated to the barrier to help hold the gap, and the other Legionnaires quickly formed into five frontal formations and continued to attack the orc archers around the barrier.

After a long battle, Antiopal's array finally broke through the barriers, leaving a trail of orc corpses behind them.

The 14 regiments of infantry in the ramparts pushed the siege towers and attacked the remaining bottom walls of Nahorst and Kahorst on either side of the Black Gate.

The array pressed forward, and soon rescued the besieged Gondor cavalry.

The Gondor cavalry, who had just finished the battle, dragged their tired bodies and under Antiope's orders constantly carried arrows from the trebuchet ramparts to supply the depletion of the array.

After receiving a sufficient supply of arrows, the legion archers in the array covered the battlefield with a rain of arrows to cut off the battlefield and reduce the pressure on the array.

The 5th Legionary Cavalry left the Black Gate to support Hippolyta, who was holding back the Runians in the northeast on the war plains.

As the Legion Array entered the range of the Mordor Trebuchet, Mordor's trebuchet began to throw stones at the Legion Array indiscriminately.

Under Antiope's loud encouragement, even though his companions were killed by the boulder and spurted blood, the array did not panic and still moved forward steadily, and soon blocked the wide open black door.

The legionnaires who stormed the walls of the Black Gate from Nahorst and Kahorst quickly took control of the locking mechanism of the Black Gate.

With the cooperation of the upper and lower roads, the left gate of the Black Gate was slowly closed and fixed under the push of the legionnaires, and the right gate became fixed at 75 degrees.

The boulders on the ground that prevented the gate from closing were shattered by the Legionnaires' spells, killing many orcs in the vicinity.

The change in the angle of the gate reduced the width of the Legion's frontal encounter, and most of Mordor's slings were stopped by the cast-iron covered gate.

As the gate closed and the angle changed, legionnaires withdrew from the array. Through the siege towers erected in Nahorst and Kahorst, attack the caves on the sides of the Black Gate. In the narrow terrain in the Tibetan Cave, with tacit cooperation and superb martial arts, they continue to slaughter orcs.

The Gondor cavalry pushed out urgently modified siege towers from the trebuchet ramparts in the rear, which slowly advanced against the mountain wall to avoid Mordor's slings, and were eventually placed behind the legion array beneath the Black Gate.

These urgently modified siege towers were 2-3 stories shorter than the Black Gate, and after hiding behind the Black Gate, they could not be hit by the slings that crossed the Black Gate, and the Legion Archers and Legion Crossbowmen stood on them, swooping down on the Orcs attacking the array.

As more and more orcs escaped from the caves on both sides of the Black Gate, Sauron saw no hope of retaking the Black Gate, so he ordered the Ringwraith to lead an army of orcs to retreat to Aesin Maus to reorganize the defenses.

While the Black Gate is Mordor's gateway, Ecinmoth can be said to be Mordor's throat.

As an important passage to the north of Mordor, Esimus was heavily fortified after years of construction, and a large number of fortresses and towers were built on the slopes on both sides. An earthen wall was built and a trench was dug at the pass, on which only a bridge connected the two ends.

Zoro has put most of his forces on Isinmous, where he will fight the coalition to the death.

But Hippolyta and Antiope knew that with Li Yi's character, he would not order a storm on Aesimus unless he had to, and blocking the Black Gate and killing the enemy was his ultimate goal.

At the end of the battle at the Black Gate, nearly 1,000 Legion infantry were stoned and killed, more than 200 cavalry were lost, nearly 100 horseless men were killed, more than 1,500 Gondor cavalry were lost, and more than 200 Gondor sappers were shot and killed.

In the evening, Hippolyta returned to the camp at Hermon with the cavalry of the 4500th legion.

The Lunes army was defeated by Hippolyta's cavalry in the Plains of War and fled, fearing that the Black Gate would be unstable, did not pursue him too far.

The legionnaire cavalry became a nightmare for the Lunes in the future, and the Lunes did not dare to advance westward.