Chapter 64: The Battle of Minas Tirith (7)
World of the Ring, Middle-earth, Gangze, Minas Tirith.
It was already early in the morning, and in the past few hours, in order to cover the advance of the siege vehicle Grund, dozens or even hundreds of orcs had to be sacrificed for every step forward. Both sides at the scene knew that this siege vehicle was already the key to determining the victory or defeat of both sides, and even the battle between the two white-robed mages was also launched near the siege vehicle. However, it was Gandalf who was the attacker who had the upper hand.
At the same time, in order to stop the advance of the siege engines, Bolomo asked Wang Xia to activate the buried mines. The first to step on the mine was the three-headed demonic beast responsible for pulling the cart, and thirty mines were buried under each demonic beast, and the explosion of ninety B-level mines was enough to make the three-headed demonic beast die, but it left three deep pits of about ten meters in place, and a large number of pieces of blood and flesh, proving that the three-headed demonic beast once existed, but they have now been blown to pieces.
There are no demonic beasts pulling carts, and then the trolls who are in charge of pushing carts around the siege car, to deal with these trolls, each with only three mines can easily kill a trolls, even if the half-orcs and strong orcs leaders who are responsible for defense nearby can't guard against Zhang Heng's weird mines. Even though it was safe for the person in front to pass by, the person behind suddenly exploded when they passed by.
In the end, because a large number of trolls were killed, the remaining number of people was simply not enough to push the siege vehicle, so in desperation, the siege vehicle could only be stopped and the trolls were newly summoned. But what they didn't expect was that the trolls that had finally gathered together had an explosion under their feet at this moment, which directly wiped out these trolls.
And at this time, Gandalf's magic was also ready, and a hundred huge fireballs fell from the sky, aiming at the phalanx of orcs. These huge fireballs, which are more than a kilometer in diameter, if they are all allowed to fall, then this army of Mordor is almost finished. Of course, for the sake of this wave of fireballs, Gandalf drained the mana of all the mages of the two mage groups, and the purpose of this was to drain the mana of Saruman and his mage group on the other side. Gandalf said that whoever made you dare to be so arrogant with only one mage group, let me teach you how to behave.
Just as Gandalf thought, in order to save the army of these orcs, Saruman had to fight desperately to defend it. But after all, the mage group was only half the size of the family, and they had already cast two large-scale spells before, so even if Saruman and his mage group fought hard, they couldn't completely take down these fireballs.
Seeing the fireballs of more than a dozen fish that slipped through the net falling, the orcs below were already so frightened that they lost their minds, and they couldn't care about the formation or anything at all, and all of them entered the escape mode. At this time, who cares what formation you are, escape is the most important thing, countless orcs died in the trampling while fleeing. The last ten fireballs fell on the most densely populated place under Gan Dafang's control. At the same time, Wang Xia also controlled all the remaining mines to explode in the half-orc crowd, but Wang Xia still obeyed Li Nan and left five hundred mines as the last backup.
At this moment, more than 200,000 half-orcs have been consumed, plus the million troops of Mordor that have been eliminated earlier, forty percent of the troops have been eliminated, and only about 600,000 troops remain. At this time, the siege vehicle was still about ten kilometers away from the city gate, and the orcs also stopped the siege and entered a state of rest.
And the orcs stopped, and the humans who were defending the city had no reason to go out of the city to fight with them, knowing that the number of people on their side was not dominant now. Moreover, after more than ten hours of fighting, it is necessary to seize the time to rest when it is rare to rest. And the reserve troops also took over the soldiers on the city wall, and many of the troops that were replaced did not have the strength to go down at all, but just sat on the edge of the city wall and fell asleep. After all, they had been fighting for hours on end, and both physically and mentally were almost at their limit.
On the orc side, the troops seem to be resting, although the orcs are nocturnal creatures, but they have been fighting from morning to early morning, their physical strength is not comparable to that of humans, the human side can't hold on, and they have to fall. So both sides reached a tacit agreement to make a truce for the time being, and then sleep well for a night.
That night, the cat lady once again lay in the quilt and worked hard to write, today she overheard a lot of secrets from Li Nan and them, saying that eavesdropping is not right, anyway, Li Nan They completely ignored her, she was standing next to her and heard it openly. In short, these things, regardless of whether they are useful or not, are all passed on to Saruman, and as for the usefulness of this information, it depends on Saruman's arrangement. However, she didn't notice that Li Nanzheng was squatting beside her the whole time, reading everything she wrote clearly, and when everything was over, the cat lady also fell asleep, and then Li Nan left the room.
The next morning, around the start of the day, the horn sounded again in the half-orc camp. One by one, the trolls came out of the makeshift camp, and it seemed that they had gathered a new batch of trolls last night, and then the monsters had also brought in three new horses.
Seeing this phenomenon, Wang Xia looked at Li Nan, meaning that he wanted not to blow up again. Yesterday, he heard that Li Nan left 500 mines, and these trolls and demonic beasts can still be taken away in waves.
And Li Nan shook his head and said: "Don't worry about those demonic beasts and trolls, but the opportunity is rare, let's start with a wave of opening bombing." But this time it was the position of the wheels that was fried. ”
"It turns out that it can still be like this, and the posture is up." After hearing Li Nan say that he was going to blow up the wheel, Wang Xia also reacted. The huge siege engine had a total of sixteen wheels. And these wheels are also made of magic iron, and even Wang Xia's mines are unlikely to cause damage to them. But Wang Xia's mine can blow up a big crater at the position of the wheels, and then let those wheels fall into the big pit, if the explosion is properly placed, it can also make the big crater bigger than the wheels, so that the wheels can be suspended, and with the power of those demonic trolls, without the assistance of the wheels, it is impossible to drag the huge siege vehicle.
Wang Xia, who realized it, immediately mobilized sixteen mines, moved them to the ground of the siege vehicle's wheels, and then launched an explosion of maximum power with them empty.
"Boom, boom, boom......" There were sixteen loud noises in a row, and at the same time, a large amount of smoke and dust were raised, which frightened the orcs and ogres near the siege vehicle to run around. At the same time, the huge siege vehicle suddenly sank down, because the wheels sank into the deep pit, and the whole siege vehicle fell to the ground. At the same time that the heavy body fell to the ground, it even produced a huge vibration, and the huge vibration even made the nearby orcs and trolls unstable on their feet, and a large number of orcs and trolls fell to the ground at once.
When the smoke cleared and saw the intact siege engine, the orc leaders breathed a sigh of relief. Then organize the trolls and monsters again to come to the front of the siege engine, tie those monsters with iron chains, and then start whipping those monsters to make them start pulling the carts. At the same time, the trolls on the left and right sides of the body and behind them also began to push the siege vehicle hard, but the siege vehicle did not react at all, and did not even move a millimeter away.
"Damn, it was the explosion just now." At this time, the commander of the orcs finally noticed the problem: "These wheels are stuck in the pit and hanging in the air, and without the wheels, they can't push the car at all." It's going to fill in the hole, otherwise we won't be able to push the car at all. ”
The orc next to him tossed for half an hour, and finally filled up the pits, at least allowing the wheels to be pushed out of the pit smoothly along the slope. However, they had barely gone far before another explosion occurred. The explosion also occurred under the car, but the purpose of the explosion was not the wheels, but to blow up a crater with a diameter of 200 meters and a height of more than 20 meters under the siege vehicle. The car is at the edge of the big pit, but the left wheel has been volleyed, and the right wheel is still on the ground, but the car has turned over to the left side and then the whole car fell into the big pit, and then when it landed, it turned over to the left a few times, and then lay in the middle of the big pit. And in this process, whether it was the monster pulling the cart or the trolls pushing the cart, they were all swept under the car, and then they were crushed beyond recognition by the siege vehicle that ran over. In order to create this big hole, Wang Xia used one hundred and fifty mines at one time, but the effect was obviously very good, now it depends on what you can do, Wang Xia also smiled proudly.
However, soon a large number of trolls, half-orcs and strong orcs jumped into the pit, and then worked together to flip the siege vehicle over, and then there was a wave of magic fluctuations on the ground, which was the magician's shot, and the soil on the pit wall of the original ninety degrees quickly slid down, forming a slope of about fifteen degrees, which could allow the siege vehicle to pass. Then the magician cast the spell again, but this time it was on the siege vehicle, and by the fluctuation of the magic power, it could be judged that it was an anti-gravity spell.
The siege vehicle blessed with anti-gravity was obviously much easier to push, and it only took ten minutes for the siege vehicle to be pushed out of the pit. However, although it was pushed out, the forward speed slowed down again, because the anti-gravity spell had failed. As for why not engrave the anti-gravity magic circle on the car? This is a siege vehicle, its power depends on the impact of the battering ram, if you add anti-gravity, it is not equivalent to reducing the weight of the car, but also reducing the weight of the battering ram, resulting in a reduction in the impact force of the battering ram, anti-gravity for this siege vehicle is meaningless at all.
But when they came to the flat ground again, those orcs, trolls and strong orcs not only pushed the siege vehicles forward, but also a large number of orcs armed with bows and arrows, gathered near the siege vehicles, and guarded the advancing siege vehicles. At the same time, there were many orc and orc leaders standing on the siege vehicle, who were responsible for repelling the incoming enemy, a total of fifty people, each of whom was a commander-level leader who could launch a legion attack. With this kind of lineup, if they launch a legion attack together, then even Illidan and Zheng Zhe, who have reached the demigods with the blessing of the legion's energy, can only avoid their edge.
At the same time, there are also 100 earth mages gathered on the car, and when the siege vehicle advances a certain distance, the earth mage on the car will cast a spell to strengthen the ground in front of the siege vehicle's forward direction, so as to deal with Wang Xia's mine attack. However, this kind of response effect is also very obvious, these are third-order strength magicians, the ground strengthened by their spells is harder than steel, even Wang Xia's mines, it will take a lot of money to break through those hardened ground, and even if it is broken, it is difficult to cause damage to the outside, so Wang Xia simply gave up the plan to attack the siege vehicle again.
However, the speed of the siege caravan was much slower than yesterday's, and even so, the huge army was slowly advancing in the direction of the city gate at a turtle speed. According to Li Nan's calculations, at this speed, if there are no obstacles, he will be able to reach here by nine o'clock tonight. And it's still early, you must know that the time is not even nine o'clock in the morning.
And the siege vehicle is now more than ten kilometers away from the city gate, and it is difficult for the defenders to attack them, with bows and arrows, the distance is simply not reachable, and if you go out of the city and send a master team, this distance has exceeded the distance blessed by the legion's energy, and the legion attack of the commanders on the opposite car can teach you to be a man in minutes. And if a large army attacks, the people are even happier, they are already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and they are brave enough to die like this. Of course, after yesterday's Gandalf's magic and Wang Xia's bomb attack, the gap in the number of the two armies has narrowed a lot, but it can't be like this.
The tactic sent by Boromo was to form a squad of experts to raid the siege engines when they came within five kilometers of the city walls, in order to destroy them. And this distance is just the maximum distance that can be blessed with the energy of the legion, directly allowing a large number of legions to attack and wash the ground, and then concentrate fire to destroy this siege vehicle.
For this plan, Zheng Zhe was also very interesting, and he signed up for it as soon as possible, as well as Bruce, Overlord, Ming Yanwei and Zhao Yingkong. Several of them are all demigod-level powerhouses under the blessing of the legion's energy, and this plan is a surprise attack plan carried out by a team composed of demigods, it can be said that this team composed of demigods cannot complete the task, so it is better to arrange for the people in the city to escape quickly.