Chapter 20: Siege in the Magical World

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Although the Radiant Alliance planned to start attacking, it still paid some attention to the terrain of the Scarlet Canyon, after all, after the reconnaissance of the Air Force Griffin Knights, the rough rock wall of the Scarlet Canyon was also fifty or sixty meters high!

Therefore, before the official attack was announced, Rhodes, like the other infantry regiments destined to be put into the front line, began to watch the siege of the magical world two kilometers from the city wall.

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Three kilometers from the walls of the Scarlet Canyon, several positions of long-range siege weapons with a combined strength of more than five hundred heavy trebuchets were quickly constructed, and tens of thousands of craftsmen and auxiliaries began to assemble them.

In almost an hour, hundreds of erected heavy trebuchets were ready.

"Quick! Heavy catapult!! The city wall in front of the target, fire !!"

Under the orders of a high-ranking officer, the herald's magician quickly passed the message to the mage apprentices in the siege weapon positions, and then with the orders conveyed by the mage apprentices, hundreds of heavy trebuchets opened fire in a minute, smashing hundreds of projectiles into the still-silent walls of the Scarlet Canyon!

"Whoosh-whoosh-"

"Boom-boom-boom-"

The large projectiles (at least the size of a water tank) thrown by the trebuchets made a graceful arc in the sky and slammed down on the walls of the Scarlet Canyon, and then exploded with great lethality!

Although most of the projectiles are hard stones, the kind of hard stone the size of a water tank roars down from the sky in a way of gravity + speed, and the power is definitely not inferior to the iron ball fired by the old artillery - even the flower pot smashed from the second floor can kill people, not to mention the terrifying force of this hard and heavy stone falling from high altitude gravity + acceleration.

Even if the boulder hits the ground in the air, the debris formed by the impact force of the boulder shattering will sweep around like a splash of shrapnel, and if you get too close, it will definitely not be weaker than directly hitting a shotgun!

The boulders smashed by hundreds of heavy trebuchets were comparable to the high-grade magic meteor shower, and the boulders that were smashed wildly ravaged the solid walls on the rocky walls, and even submerged several sections of the walls in dust!

"Sure enough, it's a magical world, and it's all up to modern artillery."

In the infantry position he was in, Rhodes turned his head to look at the trebuchet position behind him that was thousands of meters away, and then looked at the city wall in front of him at least two kilometers, and couldn't help but complain in his heart.

Heavenly pity, this kind of heavy trebuchet with a range of more than three thousand meters also appeared in this magical world with magical beasts and high-grade solid wood, if it is replaced by the era of cold weapons on the earth, even the best counterweight trebuchet has a range of only one-tenth of this!

An effective range of three thousand meters and a throwing weight of at least two hundred kilograms ?! This terrifying number is enough to make all the eighteenth-century bronze cannons on Earth cry!!

Fortunately, now Rhodes is at least used to it, after all, magic has not been popular on the earth in the previous life, right? In a world where the materials and properties far exceed those of the earth, this kind of extraordinarily long-range trebuchet is also understandable - at least in the case of this simple magic trebuchet that appeared during the sniper battle in the Scarlet Canyon, the range and power have shrunk a lot compared to the number of mature versions of magic trebuchets that Rhodes collected in later generations!

Not to mention that compared to the roaring scenes of artillery that he had seen in film and television works on Earth, this attack of hundreds of trebuchets just made Rhodes sigh.

However, for the humans and orcs in this challenging world, this behavior of hundreds of long-range trebuchets frantically tilting their firepower is extremely terrifying!

The situation of the orcs in the Scarlet Canyon was unclear, but among the infantry legions who were sitting down to rest and awaiting orders, a relaxed atmosphere and conversation was spreading - after seeing the trebuchets firing, almost everyone thought that they would easily climb the walls in a moment, and then go straight after the fleeing orc remnants.

The fire of the trebuchet group lasted for more than half an hour before stopping!

Almost 10,000 boulders even smashed several meters of the city wall, and even outside the city wall, you can clearly see the depressions and pits that have smashed into the city wall and the big craters on the earth.

For the most part, though, the improvised walls, apparently crudely made by the Orc Empire, were solid enough to do the heavy trebuchets to do effective damage, at the very least.

After watching the ceasefire of the trebuchet group, Rhodes, who had just watched the excitement and was very happy, discovered a new problem.

"Where's the ladder? What about siege engines? You won't let us climb up like this," Rod couldn't help but wonder when he turned around and found that there were no other siege engines on his side except catapults firing.

Although in the Scarlet Canyon sniper battle, the human legion of the Radiant Alliance has not yet developed to the later magic siege equipment with a variety of tricks and well-made, but there are still siege equipment similar to the magic world version of the Earth Cold Weapon Age (not called this name, but the same function), siege vehicles (ditto) and other siege equipment. But Rhodes looked around and found that there were no other siege equipment outside the long-range support corps composed of a few archers and giant crossbows, could this be that the siege troops were going to climb the city wall dozens of meters high with their bare hands? I'm still going to pile up the corpses

"Huh? This is"

When Rhodes was wondering, he felt the huge elemental fluctuations coming from the formation behind him, and then he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

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At the same time that Rhodes sensed the elemental fluctuations, behind the human siege force ten kilometers away from the Scarlet Canyon, hundreds of mages who were only qualified to wear magic robes by formal magicians were forming a corresponding formation in front of three Sanctuary-level magicians who exuded powerful elemental fluctuations.

And above this legion mage formation, a huge spell model has begun to form, and the powerful elemental fluctuations directly break through the hidden spells that were originally applied, so that any magic apprentice or a sharper person on the battlefield can feel the powerful elemental fluctuations!

However, when the elemental fluctuations spread, this powerful spell had actually been completed, so after a few seconds, everyone on the battlefield saw a huge earthy yellow ball directly streak across the sky, directly smashing into the rock wall that was dozens of meters high in front of the Scarlet Canyon in front of everyone!

Without making a sound, a ten-meter-diameter ball of earthy yellow light disappeared directly into the rocky city wall like a drop of water melted into the sea.

After a few seconds that seemed to have passed for 10,000 years, the city wall that was still standing suddenly seemed to come to life, and a section of the wall that was nearly ten kilometers long changed!

"Boom—"

"Boom-boom-"

The ten-kilometer-long section of the wall toppled directly towards the human attack formation in an oblique manner, and the corresponding ground was also suddenly raised with a roar, and the two sides of the wall and the ground were directly softened together, and then turned into a rocky slope in an earthy yellow light??!

In less than a minute, in full view of everyone, a stone slope almost a kilometer long and ten kilometers wide was directly shaped by the power of magic!!

"Hiss!!" After seeing this kind of scene, even Rod, who had been nurtured in his previous life, couldn't help but gasp.

You must know that although this is only in the challenge world called "Scarlet Canyon Sniper Battle", it is equivalent to a reenactment of the original Scarlet Canyon Sniper Battle, which means that this large-scale combined spell that can be called to change the combat terrain and landform can also appear in the real world where Rhodes is located!

"Charge !!" *3

When Rhodes was stunned, the Supreme Commander of the Radiant Alliance issued the relevant order, and it seemed that the three ordinary knights who were serving as reserves directly launched a charge under the orders of their respective commanders, rushed out of the prepared passage, and launched a desperate charge towards the blood-colored canyon that was no more than three kilometers away.

That's enough distance for ordinary Knights riding half-blood horses and a handful of Monster mounts to charge, and now they can go straight up the walls along the gentle slope created by the Legion's spells!

"Quick! Let's keep up!"

At the same time, the commanders of the phalanx of the seven or eight infantry regiments also received orders from the magicians around them, and began to order the light infantry of their own regiments to hurry up!

I don't know if it's a coincidence or deliberately, the infantry regiment that Rhodes is in is exactly in this sequence.

"I'm X!"

Seeing this situation, Rod couldn't help but curse in his heart.

Who doesn't know that in this kind of tragic siege battle, the first troops to invest are basically the greater the losses! Even now, it seems that the human alliance has won the battle, but Rhodes himself clearly knows how tragic the legendary battle of the Scarlet Canyon sniper battle was, and the number of dead humans and orcs is definitely astronomical!

But now, as an ordinary infantryman, Rhodes is more sure that if he shouts something inappropriate or retreats in this situation? Then the consequence will definitely be that the army of the Human Radiance Alliance will enforce the military law first!

Therefore, after thinking for a while, Rhodes could only helplessly follow the people in front of him, quickly following the knights who rushed to the front, and rushed towards the direction of the Scarlet Canyon.

"Whew!!" Just as the three knights, thousands of cavalry, and nearly a thousand knights rushed to the rocky slope, thousands of werewolf cavalry appeared on the head of the originally empty city wall, and in the roar of the werewolf high-level who rode on the wolf-type demonic beast, these werewolf cavalry began to launch a counter-charge towards the human knights!

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