Chapter 438: Fierce Battle on the City Wall
The sky is blue, the mountains are yellow, and the walls of Capra Pass, which towers between the mountains, are dark gray. Flowing between the cracks in the stone blocks of the city walls was the blood of human and orc warriors, bright red.
Stones flew in the sky, arrows rained down like locusts, and the orc soldiers crawled through the corpses in the puddles of blood towards the city, and the human soldiers in the city drove the orcs down at all costs with their swords, hands and teeth. The battle for the city walls has entered its most critical moment, and the battle that will determine the final victory of the battle takes place on the east side of the city walls. The orcs built a wide passage above and below the city walls with huge siege engines, and the orcs rushed up to the city head along this passage, and the elite minotaurs of the orcs were killed at the front. The human defenders also placed their elite here, and the human soldiers led by the two personal guard battalions gathered here, firmly surrounding the rushing orcs on a section of the city wall, and more than a thousand people gathered at the head of the city in a short period of time, fighting fiercely face to face.
"It can't go on like this!"
Harvey wiped a handful of blood from his face, and secretly screamed in his heart. Since both warring sides are crowded into a small space, the Boys' Regiment, although they have the advantage of numbers on the city wall, cannot fully deploy it, and if they can't drive the orcs down in a short time, this section of the city wall will become a meat grinder, constantly consuming the vitality of the warring sides. The key is that the total strength of the Youth League in this battle does not have an advantage, and they will be the first to fall in the case of the same attrition, so the current stalemate must be broken, but what should be done?
Miranda has been watching the battle with a few magicians from the outside of the warband, they want to go up to help, but Harvey and Stanny do not allow it, melee combat is too dangerous for magicians, and it is difficult to have room to use magic from a distance, and the fighters on both sides may hurt their own people if they are not careful, so they can only wait for the opportunity anxiously.
"Mage Claire, Deputy Commander Harvey has an order, let you find a way to destroy that siege vehicle immediately. ”
Suddenly, a bloodied herald rushed up to Miranda, gave a military salute, and then said breathlessly.
"Destroy that siege vehicle?"
Miranda couldn't help but set her sights on the giant siege engine that was attached to the city walls. She immediately understood Harvey's purpose, that only by destroying the siege engines could she cut off the flow of orcs to the walls and win the battle.
But it's easier said than done to destroy siege engines!
The siege vehicle is made of huge wood, and there is a fireproof material on the outside, ordinary magic can't shake it at all, and can only use fire magic, but the small fire magic burns too slowly, and if you want to completely burn the siege vehicle, I'm afraid you have to wait until dark, and the soldiers of the Youth League on the city wall are afraid that they will already be bleeding. If you want to destroy the siege vehicle quickly, you need at least fire-based high-level magic, but now the city wall near the siege vehicle is the fiercest battlefield, and there are at least a thousand human and orc warriors nearby in hand-to-hand combat, and the mage can't get close to casting spells at all. If you want to cast a spell at least a hundred steps away, this distance to control a high-level fire magic is by no means so easy and takes a long enough time, although Miranda's fire magic strength has reached the peak of a high-level magician, but there is no complete certainty, not to mention that she is in a rapidly changing battlefield, in the process of casting spells, it is easy to attract the attention of the enemy and be attacked, which eventually leads to the failure of the spell casting or even being eaten by the magic.
"Feiqi, are you afraid of death?"
Miranda looked at the siege vehicle and pondered for a moment, then called Feige to the side and stared into his eyes and asked.
"Don't be afraid!"
Feige said without thinking, countless companions who had been with him in the past had died in battle, which aroused the blood of this somewhat cowardly magician, making him forget the fear of death for a while, and now even if he was given a machete, he would dare to fight the minotaur.
"Good Feiqi! ”
Miranda rarely praised Feige:
"I've got you on a dangerous mission, you're going there to cast a spell to attract the attention of the orcs and give me the chance to destroy the orcs' siege engines. ”
"Good!"
Feige replied cheerfully.
"Protect Mage Feiqi!"
Miranda pulled a squadron leader and asked him to lead his troops to escort Feige around the section of the wall where the battle was raging to the other end.
"Whew, whew!"
Feiqi recited the magic spell earnestly, and one by one the fireballs dragged the long tail inflammation under the control of mental power to accurately hit the siege vehicle, but it was quickly extinguished by the orcs above.
"Kill that magician. ”
The fireball succeeded in attracting the attention of Nurnaha, who was commanding the battle at the head of the siege engine, and he immediately ordered his men to attack Feiqi. The lizard shooter on the mammoth began to rain arrows on Feiqi, and the orc soldiers under the city also crawled down the ladder towards Feiqi's location. The squadron leader led his men to desperately protect Feiqi, but even so, Feiqi's spell casting was interrupted several times, and it was impossible to continue.
Seeing that Feige's spell had succeeded in attracting the orc's attention, Miranda reached out and pulled out a bone disc densely covered with intricate and delicate magic runes from his robes, inlaid with four red magic crystals that shimmered with blood. This is the Flame Burst Magic Circle that Eren created especially for Miranda, and it is the only large-scale magic that she can master so far. She had used this magic array to make great achievements in the night raid on the Flying Eagle Mercenary Regiment's camp in the Youth League, but now in the face of the orc's giant siege engine, she took out the magic array again, and immediately began to chant magic spells.
In a noisy battlefield environment, mages must concentrate on spell casting to ensure sufficient mental concentration, especially when casting advanced magic, and chanting spells loudly. So despite the fact that Feige attracted the orc's attention, and despite Miranda's body being blocked by a group of soldiers, her loud sound of magic spells caught the attention of Orc Commander Nurnaha.
"Oh no! We've been deceived, there's a magician hiding there!"
Nurnaha finally realizes that she has fallen for the man's trick, but it is too late to stop Miranda from casting a spell. With the chanting of the magic spell, the red light on the magic array disk in Miranda's hand circulated faster and faster, and suddenly the red light was flourishing.
The color of the sky dimmed, and a strange red ball appeared above the siege vehicle, emitting a dazzling light, and the red ball frantically absorbed magical energy, until the color of all the magic crystals on the magic array disk in Miranda's hand dimmed, and the red ball contracted violently, and then exploded.
"Boom!"
The siege engine was reduced to pieces with a loud bang, and the orcs on the cart were buried with them, and sawdust flew in the air along with stumps and broken arms.
A terrified Nurnahar ran out at the last moment, but before he could extinguish the flames, a human had already killed him, and the human seemed to know that he was the commander and actually declared his name to him.
"Stanny, the deputy head of the Youth League, is here to fetch your neck. ”
"Orc Forward Commander Noor..."
Nurnaha also wanted to learn from the other party to report to his family, but he stopped in the middle of the sentence, because Stanny on the other side didn't give him a chance at all, and a sword light brighter than lightning and brighter than a rainbow had already rushed to his face.
"Bastard!"
Nurnaha raised the mace in his hand and swung it towards the oncoming sword light, but he didn't expect this move to fail.
The sword light disappeared, and Stanny's sword was simply a false move, and with a flash of his figure, he had come to the right side of Nurnaha's sword and stabbed out. Nurnaha's mace was too late to retract and could only be blocked with his arm.
With a "bang", the long sword stabbed into the upper arm!
"Roar!"
The sharp pain from the injury to his arm did not frighten Nurnaha, but aroused his ferocity, his thick nostrils shook a few times, let out a roar, the muscles on his arm rose, and he actually caught Stanny's long sword, and then he stretched out his right foot, to be precise, the thick right hoof kicked towards Stanny, trying to force Stanny to give up the long sword.
To Nurnaha's strange feeling, not only did Stanny not abandon his sword, but he didn't even have the intention of dodging, and his kick was about to kick Stanny in the lower abdomen. The force of this kick is thousands of pounds, and if he hits the kick, he has absolute confidence that Stanny will seriously injure him. But when his foot was less than a foot away from Stanny's abdomen, he suddenly felt that his thigh was a little disobedient, and he couldn't kick his foot out again. He turned his head in surprise to see that the wound on his arm was covered with a layer of hoarfrost, and at the same time, a piercing chill was invading his body along his arm, and even half of his body was numb.
"Die!"
Stanny laughed proudly, the fighting spirit on the sword skyrocketed, and the body was like a dragon and came to Nurnaha's back with a flexible turn, gold and silver flashed, and a big bull's head had already flown into the sky.
"Your commander has been killed, and you should not surrender quickly!"
Stanny leapt onto a battlement and raised Nurnaha's head in the air.