The town of Arano is no longer the hillside town it once was, and a few years of construction have turned it into the most important military and industrial center in the south of the territory. The city sprawled from the old city on the hillside to the surrounding hills, surrounded by wide walls that formed an oval-shaped behemoth.

Under the cover, the city was lined with factories and barracks, as well as towering turrets and pneumatic cannons arranged on the city walls, forming horns that blocked all directions outside the city.

Arano's shield is a one-way shield that follows the technology of the Seven Towers, which simply means that external attacks can be blocked, but internal attacks can be hit.

This huge egg-shaped shield was activated by more than thirty nodes located under the city walls.

Repairing shields can be done by engineering mages inside the city walls. However, the work of defending the breach must be outside the walls, otherwise with the power of those saints, the walls may be broken with a single blow.

Chen Hansheng had another job, and Wang Jiyuan personally took the elites of the four mage classes, as well as a melee regiment, and accompanied the three sages to the location that needed to be repaired.

Mo Yu looked out of the city, and this was indeed the focus of the siege. The enemy had set up a large number of siege circles on the small slopes in the distance, and under the control of those Holy Order mages, the fireballs hit Arano's shield across a distance of several hundred meters. And the return fire from Arano's side was also huge, with about eighty pneumatic guns, pouring shells on the opponent's positions. Those on the other side also prepared shields, and the shields that were opened resisted the explosion, but they were still strong.

Lorenzo saw such a scene for the first time and said: "The bombardment that comes and goes like this is amazing, but it is a bit monotonous, and there is no need for any tactics at all." ”

Wang Jiyuan said: "No, this is tactical. We've been playing the chase and run trick for two days. ”

"Chase and run?"

"They set up positions to attack, and we mobilized pneumatic guns to destroy the positions. Wang Jiyuan held the battlements with his hands, "Now is the time for us to carry out a concentrated counterattack, we call a large number of demon-breaking bullets, generally their shields can't last too long, and then the opponent's siege position will be destroyed by us." But such an artillery bombardment would hardly kill the nimble Sages, and they would soon set up positions in a new place to attack us. Our pneumatic guns are not as fast as they are, and that's what I call chase-and-run. ”

"What's the point?" asked Lorenzo again.

"Our cannons are in place, and there is always a large period of time before launching a counterattack, which is especially easy for the shield to be overloaded and damaged. In this way, they hoped to finally destroy the shield, and now under the protection of the shield, it was difficult for their Sage to exert his power. But as soon as the shield shatters and they rush in, the problem is big. We don't have the strength to deal with the Sage in street fighting. ”

Lorenzo said, "I always feel that they have a lot of power that the Sages have not brought into play. They should have a lot more means than this kind of attack, isn't there a saint on the other side who uses his own good spells or Dou Qi realm to attack us?"

Wang Jiyuan said: "Of course, at the beginning of the battle the day before yesterday, there were people who wanted to use large-scale illusions to confuse our escort soldiers, and there were also enemy warrior saints who used their special moves to attack a certain point of the shield and wanted to forcibly break in. But they're not going to eat dry food. ”

Lorenzo followed Wang Jiyuan's fingers and saw that there were many warriors with a new type of super-long air guns, working in pairs, guarding the city walls or towers. He thought the long guns with binoculars were a bit like sniper rifles, but they were much bigger than any sniper rifles he had ever seen.

Wang Jiyuan said: "These snipers are the most elite soldiers selected by our escort army, at least they have the strength of the middle level or above, and they are all blessed with a series of magic related to the use of firearms, such as precision magic, action vision, acceleration technology, perception technology, etc. They call these spells sniper packages, and they are especially good at striking high-speed moving targets, even warrior saints can be hit by them.

Their gun was a newly developed electromagnetic-pneumatic gun, called the Saint Hunter I, which used a coil to accelerate the fired bullets. Its special bullets are also powerful demon-breaking bullets designed for powerhouses above the master level.

Although it can knock out a super-high-quality magic crystal with one shot, damage the barrel with three or four shots, and the cost of a shot is several times that of a pneumatic cannon shell, it can indeed kill the Sage by accumulating fire.

One warrior and a mage died under this spear on the first day in the Divine City, and while it is difficult for us to destroy their souls in that situation, they may well have returned to the Divine City to come back to life, but it also curbs the situation in which the Holy Men of the Divine City can swagger before us. ”

"How many guns did it take to kill that warrior sage?"

Wang Jiyuan frowned slightly and said, "There are more than two hundred shots, most of which are empty." At that time, they appeared five Sages to attack our shield together, and our hundreds of sniper teams fired nearly a thousand rounds of ammunition and scrapped more than two hundred gun barrels to achieve such a feat. If we do this again, I'm afraid our gunners won't have that many barrels to use. ”

"So, because the enemy doesn't know about our attrition, he only dares to use this long-range attack method?"

"yes. That's why replacing the spare parts of the shield requires you saints to come here to take care of it. Otherwise, if there are enough spare parts, such a gun formation will have enough defense. ”

Mo Yu asked, "How long will it take to replace the magic circle parts on it?"

A middle-aged man in work clothes next to Wang Jiyuan said: "According to the current inspection, it will take more than half an hour. However, this is not to say that there will be no shield at that time, but it is that the shield in this area will become very thin, and if the enemy does not attack this side and does not notice this change, maybe there will be no fighting. We're just preparing for the worst. ”

Lorenzo shook his head and said, "As long as the other party has a sage who is good at perception and understands formations, such a thing as a weakening shield cannot be hidden." Let's make a plan based on the battle for more than half an hour. ”

Lorenzo had a basis for saying this, and at this time he could clearly feel that the shield of the opponent's position was beginning to crumble. Sure enough, two minutes later, a cannonball cut through the opponent's shield and landed in the enemy's position, and then, the fire filled the entire shield, tearing it apart from the inside, Lorenzo could faintly hear the sound of martyrdom and screams, and then the position no longer had huge fireballs, and slowly fell silent.