Chapter 272: Battle for the Fortress
With this experience, the Wyvern knew that they couldn't drop the Wolf Tooth Ball too high, otherwise it would be easy for the enemy soldiers to grab the rope and tear it off.
The wooden shield in Sword Tiger's hand is only two inches thick, so the wolf fang ball and wolf fang rolling wood can easily smash and pierce them, so the attack effect is also very good.
The detachment of sword tigers aimed at a group of running sword tigers, all of whom were hunched overhead, with shields on top of their heads, spears in one hand, dodging attacks from above.
"Bang", a huge sound sounded, a wolf tooth ball smashed on the top of a sword tiger's head, his wooden shield was instantly smashed to pieces, several iron thorns pierced into the sword tiger's head, and immediately smashed his head into flowers, and several sword tigers next to him immediately screamed and dodged.
The Wyvern quickly lifted the Wolf Tooth Ball upward, and then began to choose a second target to attack, and soon one by one the Sword Tiger Soldiers were either hit by the Wolf Tooth Ball, or were knocked down and flew out, and some lost their shields and rolled on the ground to dodge the attack of the Wolf Tooth Ball. Many corpses of sword tigers were suddenly left on the grass, as well as a piece of red-dyed blood grass.
On the other side, the enemy soldiers who were cutting down trees were attacked by a focused attack, and when the big trees fell to the ground, it took a lot of people to drag them forward, so the wyvern began to throw various weapons at those people, making it difficult for them to move.
Many enemy soldiers were too frightened to approach the big tree lying on the ground, because they would be killed by the dragon sooner or later, so there was chaos in the location of the tree cutting for a while, and the enemy soldiers did not dare to go over to cut down and mop the tree, and then Balam gave a death order and forced a group of human soldiers to go over and cut down the tree. Then they sent again.
The battlefield was chaotic, and the enemy army could only endure the wanton attacks of the wyverns. However, they were unable to knock the dragon down from the height, and the enemy soldiers began to fall to the ground in pieces.
Balaam did not dare to attack the fortress yet. He knew that even if his men rushed over, they would be sent to their deaths, and they would become targets for the enemy, and the enemy's bows and spears would easily kill them, so Baram was still telling his men to carry the trees. But after half an hour, the tree had not been moved to this side, and seeing his people lost one by one on the riverbank, Balam was so anxious that he sweated.
As the three Wyverns did their best to attack the coalition forces on the other side of the river. On the other side of the river, another wyvern flew over, these were two logistics detachments, and they were carrying not weapons, but strange things, dry branches tied together with ropes, and all of them had already been set on fire.
In order to ensure that the rope does not burn, each wyvern uses several ropes, and the ropes are tied to those branches with long ends, some of which are several meters long. In this way, the branches in the middle are burning, and they will not easily burn the ropes on both sides.
Seeing the Wyvern dragging piles of burning dry branches over, Balam immediately understood what they were going to do, and immediately shouted, "Disperse." They will burn us with fire. ”
The enemy began to scream and run around, but the wyvern was fast, and they soon flew to the opposite bank. Nearly three hundred wyverns, each with a bundle of burning branches. Start selecting a target and drop it downward.
Then the dry branches fell on the sword tiger's shield. Or near their bodies, the grass in some places also began to catch fire, and the fire was spreading everywhere.
It was autumn and the climate was dry, so some of the weeds on the meadow began to burn, and three hundred fire sources were put down one after another, causing a large area of fire, and in some places the flames rose several meters high, and some enemy soldiers' bodies began to be covered by the fire, and there were bursts of miserable screams.
There is no oil in this era, and if there is oil, their losses will be even more severe, and the rich oil reserves in the Middle East have long been in Zhang Jun's eyes, and Egypt also has some oil fields that can be exploited, but Zhang Jun has not yet had the technology to exploit oil.
Then some of the dragons attacked with fire, and some attacked with weapons, and the scene was very chaotic, and the shouts of the enemy soldiers continued to flow, and many enemy soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
The focus of the Wyvern Fire Attack is the wooden shield in their hands, as long as their wooden shield is burned, they are gone to protection, and they can be projected with bows and arrows and small arms.
Many wyverns dragged flaming branches, mostly two wyverns carrying a pile of branches, and they raised the branches above the heads of the sword tigers, chasing after their wooden shields, and not letting the branches fall to the ground, and wherever the enemy soldiers ran, the flames followed until their wooden shields burned.
Some of the enemy soldiers could not withstand the heat above their heads and had to give up their wooden shields, some of them poked burning branches with their spears, and some of them endured the harassment of the wyvern and refused to give up their shields and ran around.
When the branches of the wyvern were burned, they immediately returned, and behind the fort, many of the young dragons who had been organized were tying up the branches, and then slowly igniting them with torches, and when the fire came, the wyvern carried the branches into the sky and began to fly quickly towards the other side of the river.
Under the harassment and fire of the flying dragons, Ballam's men carried the two large trees to the bank of the river with great difficulty, and finally had two tools to attack the fortress, but by this time several hours had passed, and the losses of the enemy soldiers had almost exceeded about two thousand, and the dead were more than a thousand, and some were seriously wounded and incapacitated. Most of them died from weapon attacks, a small number were burned by fire, and the enemy lost more than a thousand shields and continued to lose.
Zhang Jun looked at the firelight on the other side of the river in the distance, and the enemy soldiers running around, and saw the results of his first stage, and he had a little bottom in his heart.
Zhang Jun shouted to those flying dragons: "Keep up the good work, you must burn the enemy's wooden shield." ”
The young dragons of the Flying Dragons and Allosaurus, led by the big dinosaurs, skillfully tied together the dead branches they had prepared long ago, and handed them to them as soon as the Wyvern flew over, and the young dragons of the Wyvern helped them pass torches around, making them move faster.
"Our fire attack has really worked very well, they have lost a large number of their wooden shields, and I hope that before they cross the river, we can burn more than half of their wooden shields, so that our archers will have enough for them, and then it will be our turn to slaughter them with our own hands." The giant axe in Blackskin's hand was clenched tightly. He wanted to rush across the river bank to kill the enemy, and watched the enemy fall to the ground one by one. It's also very itchy in my heart.
"The intensity of the battle today is estimated to be before nightfall. Wyverns have to fight at high intensity, and at night, we can give them a good rest, such a battle will make them physically exhausted and unable to support it. Qili looked at the soldiers who were fighting on her side and said with concern.
"My goal today is to make it impossible for the people of Balam to cross the river, and to spend at least a day on the other side of the river. Suffering from us, we can't let them attack so easily. Zhang Jun also knew the hard work of the flying dragon, but he knew that this battle was very important, and he had to let Feige's people resist it first, and he couldn't let them stop attacking until night.
The weather has been dry and rainless these days, which is a good time for fire attack, if you wait until it rains, the fire attack of the flying dragon will not have much effect. Therefore, Zhang Jun wanted to seize the fighter plane and inflict some more losses on Balam.
"Ancestral God, the enemy soldiers have begun to attack the fortress." In the afternoon, Zhang Jun heard a report from the front.
Several Ancestors immediately stood up from the grass. Zhang Jun also got up and looked towards the fortress in the distance, and he saw that Dagen was shouting loudly there. It seems that the people of Balam have carried the trees to the river beach and have begun to attack the opposite bank.
"Tell Big Root. Be sure to destroy their siege tools and don't let them climb up. Zhang Jun immediately ordered.
Although Balaam gave the order to attack. But it is not easy for them to put a tree trunk on the fortress, there is an Allosaurus team to guard it, and there are flying dragons in the sky to attack, and they will not attack it for a while.
Of course, there are times when Allosaurus and Wyvern are tired, and as long as Ballam's people continue to attack, they will break through the fortress sooner or later, but Zhang Jun wants to make this time later, at least after a day.
Dagen stood on the boulder platform of the fortress, and on the entire fortress, there were Allosaurus guards, and there were more than a dozen Allosaurus standing on the front line, and they had their spears ready and ready to attack at any time.
The neck and head of the Heterosaurus also had some armor protection, which was their weak point, and if they were pierced by a spear, they would also lose their lives.
There is a large iron ring around the neck of the Allosaurus, which is connected to a helmet like a pot lid on the top of the head, which can protect the head and back of the neck above the forehead, as well as the lower neck, and the vital parts of the front half of the body are protected, and there is no protective armor in other places for the time being.
Dagen had already placed his spear on the edge of the stone, his head poking out slightly, watching the situation on the other side, at this time the Wyvern had been ordered to concentrate fire on the enemy soldiers on the other side of the fortress, inflicting maximum damage on them, and delaying their attack on the fortress.
In addition to the Wyverns who had returned to rest for a while, there were about four hundred Wyverns still flying in the sky over there, and they continued to attack the enemy soldiers despite their fatigue, and the number of Wyverns on the river bank reached two hundred, and Balaam had retreated to the back, so that his men were ready to attack the river bank.
Soon Balaam uttered a heart-rending cry on the other side: "Rush forward for me, and whoever puts the branches on the boulder, will be rewarded with fifty acres of land and three women, and whoever is the first to attack the bank will be rewarded with five hundred acres of land and ten women." ”
Rewarded with land and women, Balaam began to order his own human soldiers to attack first, and the men of Pur and Hulin were also ready to attack.
When the enemy soldiers heard of the land and the women's bounty, they did not dare to move at first, but now some of them had rushed to the front, and a group of human soldiers, carrying siege trees, began to run forward, and they stepped on the reef and began to cross the river.
But the wyvern soon fell from the sky, and huge wolf tooth balls and wolf tooth rolling wood, stones and other weapons fell, beating the soldiers who rushed in front of them screaming, and many of them fell into the river, dyeing the river bright red.
Soon a second group of soldiers who were not afraid of death began to attack, and then a group of enemy soldiers risked death to carry the big tree forward, the attack of the flying dragon continued, and it never stopped, half an hour passed, they only moved dozens of meters, and on the water, hundreds of enemy corpses lay down.
"Rush, rush me." Bull's sword and tiger soldiers then rushed out, and a large group of soldiers in animal skins began to rush to the front, lifting the trees and walking forward.
The wyvern continued to attack with fire and weapons, and they were firmly stopped in the river, and some crocodiles also took the opportunity to go ashore and dragged a few enemy soldiers underwater for a full meal.
"The enemy is already approaching. Bows and arrows, spears ready to attack. Dagen saw a group of Sword Tiger soldiers carrying a large tree, moving slowly forward. It's almost within 100 meters.
The enemy soldiers who carried the trees did not have wooden shields, so they could not block the attacks of their bows and arrows. So the Allosaurus archers immediately drew their bows and arrows, ready to attack at the right distance.
But even for a short distance, the enemy soldiers had to surface a heavy price to move forward a short distance, so Ogen waited a long time to see an enemy soldier enter the attack range.
Dagen put down the spear in his hand, asked for the bows and arrows of the soldiers around him, and then began to open his bow, aiming at the first sword tiger at the front. Then a sharp arrow more than two meters long pierced the air, and with a whistling sound, it shot towards the body of the sword tiger.
With a "poof", a pillar of blood shot out from the sword tiger's chest, and the sharp arrow directly pierced his body, and the sword tiger fell to the ground screaming miserably.
Then two more wolf's fangs fell and hit the attacking soldiers, and soon the soldiers who rushed ahead were killed one by one, and the big tree lay on the reef. It has long been dyed blood red.
Behind the big tree, groups of sword and tiger soldiers rushed forward one after another, stepping on the corpses of their companions and continuing to charge forward. Crazy screams echoed throughout the sky, the river was completely stained blood-red, and the corpses of sword tigers and human soldiers floated on the surface of the river. Be a treat for crocodiles.
At this time, Dagen shouted loudly to the flying dragon in the sky: "Brother." Hold off those enemy soldiers for me, I'm going to kill them. ”
The flying dragon in the sky looked towards Dagen. I saw that he was carrying three Allosaurus, holding a giant axe, ready to jump off the fortress and rush to the front.
"Be careful, we'll try to stop them." The wyvern responded in the sky.
Then a large number of dragons flew behind the tree, and began to block the path of those enemy soldiers, blocking them behind the tree, and several enemy soldiers used their spears to pull away the dragon's weapons, and began to rush to the front, and continued to carry the tree.
"Rush!" Seeing that several sword tigers were already continuing to lift the big tree, the distance between the big tree and the fortress was only about eighty meters at this time, and the big root immediately shouted.
"Archers cover us." Dagen stood on the fortress and shouted again.
Then Dagen and the other three Allosaurus, standing on the edge of the rock, jumped to the grass below the fortress, and rushed forward with a giant axe.
"Son of a bitch, eat your grandfather's axe." Dagen shouted, and the first one rushed to the front, and the huge axe swept towards the first few sword tigers.
The giant axe roared past and slashed at the body of a sword tiger, and then I saw that the sword tiger was split in two, with blood flowers, the upper body went to the left, and the lower body remained on the right.
Then the other three Allosaurus also killed, and several giant axes frantically slashed at the tree more than ten meters long, chopping it into several pieces.
Seeing that there was an Allosaurus in front of him, Sword Tiger immediately began to attack them with a spear, several spears were thrown in this direction, and the big root and the Allosaurus soldiers began to block with axes, picking off a few spears, but one Allosaurus was injured by a spear in the left shoulder.
Big Root quickly picked up the big trees and threw them into the river, and the branches drifted down with the river, and the first big tree was damaged, and the enemy had already paid a heavy price.
"Keep rushing, keep rushing." Seeing this, Balaam, who was on the other side, immediately shouted loudly, and the second large tree was lifted up and began to move forward.
Seeing that the threat was temporarily lifted, Dagen immediately turned around and, under the cover of the wyvern and the archers, retreated to the edge of the fortress, climbed the boulder, and returned to the platform.
The Wyvern was already exhausted, and their rest time slowly became longer, while the enemy soldiers continued to charge the fortress, and then Dagen began to attack the enemy with spears and bows and arrows, and cooperated with the Wyvern to continue to block the enemy soldiers on the river.
The ensuing battle continued into the evening, and after the five Allosaurus warriors were wounded, the sky grew dark, the Wyverns were exhausted, and the Ballam men lost more than a thousand men on the river, leaving them with a total strength of only about seven thousand.
"Today's battle was generally successful, the enemy did not successfully cross the river on the first day, it was a heavy blow to their morale, their men also lost several thousand, and the situation slowly began to favor us." Although night fell, Zhang Jun's heartstrings were still tense, and when he heard the roar of the enemy soldiers on the opposite side, his heart still couldn't calm down, but he was also quite relieved to see the fruits of his victory.
"Don't let up at night, you must prevent the enemy from sneaking up, many of them can swim, and you must prevent them from swimming from the river to the shore." Zhang Jun then admonished again.
Carrying some herbs, several leaping dragons then walked over to the wounded Allosaurus soldiers, and then began to apply medicine to the bleeding areas of their wounds, bandaging their wounds.
The Allosaurus had retreated, replaced by the Leaping Band, who relied on bows and spears to hold the fortress firmly, making Ballam's men continue to pay a heavy price, and for a while the enemy could not get close to the fortress.
After nightfall, although Balam sent people to attack the opposite bank at night, the flying dragon still illuminated the river with firelight, so that they had nowhere to hide, and on the river, there were also flying dragons patrolling to prevent the sword tiger from swimming across the river, and by the starlight, the flying dragon flew close to the water several meters high, and would not let go of any suspicious target. (To be continued......)