Chapter 694: Sharpshooter
"Open the shield!" Calder Intermediate Wizard commanded again when he saw the dwindling number of Peak orcs.
His understanding of the orc's tactics let him know that the next step was the crazy 'corpse explosion' of the sacrifice, which was a test of the miracle wall defense circle, and the miracle wall on the two archers was based on this consideration.
Sure enough, twenty black-robed orc priests rode their mounts and quickly approached, and had already caught up with the last Picks orcs, as if they didn't care about the life and death of these Picks orcs at all.
Before all the Peake orcs are dead and they start to use the 'corpse explosion', then these Peak orcs who rush forward last will not die at the hands of humans, nor will they die in the suicide attack that hits the miracle wall, but will die in the 'corpse explosion' of these black-robed sacrifices.
At this time, the two archers were already standing next to the two huge war machines in their cloaks, and each of them had two ice knights beside them, nervously watching the possible attacks outside the miracle wall.
"Manuel, let's see which of us has the most kills today!" Hector's archer, though old but full of energy, said loudly to Manuel, another archer who was ten meters away from him.
"Hector, you old fellow, where is my opponent, I'll bet you on a good bottle of wine!" Manuel said the archer laughing, forgetting his gray hair.
The tunic of the war machine was torn off, revealing the massive warcity crossbows within, which were much larger than the normal ones.
"Use this big guy again!" Hector said with a laugh as he watched the War City crossbow.
The prefix of the word war means that the item that follows it serves the war, and every item prefixed with war is extremely precious.
Today's weather was already gloomy, and at this time it had been fighting for almost a day and a night, and it was the darkest morning of the day, and the sunlight did not appear, only the lighting circle on the miracle wall emitted a strong light, which made it more difficult for the orcs to attack against the light.
The work of attaching crossbow arrows will not be done by two archers, who are already old, and next to each archer there are two powerful knights who specialize in loading crossbow arrows for them.
Hector's archer stood behind the giant war bolts, which were now loaded and the giant wheel had pulled the strings to the firing position.
His eyes did not fade with age, but with age, sharpening as the years passed, his calloused hands gently moving the war bolts, his feet on the initiators, ready to fire the first bolts.
There was a sound of bowstrings and a crack in the air, and he knew it was his old friend Manuel Sharpshooter who had struck first.
However, this did not affect his aiming process, his hand was still very steady, and for a moment his eyes froze, and then he stepped on it hard, the same bowstring sound and the sound of breaking the air later.
The two crossbow arrows were one after the other, inconspicuous among the constantly flying arrows, and the most important thing was that the lighting circle on the miracle wall was shining at the orcs, which made it difficult for the advancing orcs to see the oncoming arrows.
The crossbow bolts flew over a long distance, and a black-robed priest riding a wolf was approaching the Miracle Wall, and he only needed to get close to within two hundred meters to activate the 'Corpse Explosion' and exert the maximum power of the 'Corpse Explosion'.
It was almost there, he whispered in his heart, the sudden palpitations that rose made his hair stand on end, but the body's warning came too late, and a crossbow arrow pierced his body and pierced into the pile of corpses at his feet.
As he fell, he saw another of his companions fall to the ground after being similarly hit by a crossbow arrow.
There was no sadness or joy in Hector's archer's eyes, and he was as accurate and ruthless as a machine when he entered the state.
The two Great Knights loaded his crossbow bolts for him again, and his War City crossbow spun again.
At this time, more than ten black-robed priests had already come to within two hundred meters of the Miracle Wall, and there were four black-robed priests who died in the hands of the divine arrows, while there was only one black-robed priest who was shot by other knights using city crossbows.
On the one hand, the orc sacrifices that came to perform the 'corpse explosion' were all very experienced agile orc sacrifices, and coupled with the speed of the mounts, it was not easy to snipe them from a long distance.
On the other hand, it also reflects the importance of the archers for defense, and with the presence of the archers, the strong among the orcs will have some scruples when they try to get close to the miracle wall.
More than a dozen black-robed priests already knew about the existence of archers, but they had already received military orders, and under this kind of war, anyone's life was like a mustard, even if it was a sacrifice like theirs.
If they don't complete the task and return, then what awaits them is also military law, forward is death, backward is the same death, they choose to move forward and complete the mission.
Before this great battle, all the orcs knew a piece of news, a piece of news that made them desperate, if this mission to capture the Miracle Wall failed, then most of them and their families would starve to death.
And the Wall of Miracles is their only hope, to seize the Wall of Miracles to gain human resources.
It is rumored that there is countless food and countless weapons in Miracle City, but a weak and infighting race like humans occupies the richest land in the entire Holy Continent, while the brave and warlike orcs stay in the poor and cold land, suffering to survive.
The only thing that stands in front of the orcs is the Miracle Wall, and as long as the Miracle Wall is occupied, then everything will change.
The sound of 'corpse explosion' sounded, and the huge miracle wall shield was constantly shaking, and this shaking became more and more obvious as the number of 'corpse explosions' increased.
Hector Archer and Manuel Archer cleaned up the black-robed sacrifices that were casting spells one by one in the flames of the explosion, and the black-robed sacrifices that had stopped casting spells were also attacked by other city crossbows at the same time.
In two minutes, there was a sudden dead silence on the Miracle Wall, all the black-robed sacrifices died on the battlefield, and the shield of the Miracle Wall had lost more than half of its energy.
The silence did not last long, and from the orc battlefield appeared countless ox carts, all very rudimentary, and many of them barely able to pull.
These oxcarts are the result of collecting almost all the oxcarts of the entire Orc Empire, and the task of the oxcarts is to pull the stones to stop two hundred and fifty meters away from the Miracle Wall, then unload the stones, and then return to the rear again.
At four hundred meters, dozens of black-robed priests were standing there ready to activate the 'corpse explosion' at any time, and the corpses of the Peak orcs everywhere provided them with a large amount of spell casting materials.
Calder Intermediate Wizard knew what the orcs were doing, but he couldn't help it, because the orcs pulling the cart were just ordinary orcs, and the distance of two hundred and fifty meters was only accessible by the city crossbow.
If you use the city crossbow to attack the orcs who pull the carts, no matter how many ordinary orcs die will have no effect on the orc empire, and the crossbow arrows fired may be recovered by the orcs.
At the same time, intermediate wizards can't go to cast spells, because the black-robed sacrifices at four hundred meters are waiting for the appearance of human intermediate wizards, and these black-robed sacrifices don't care about the death of hundreds or thousands of ordinary orcs.
As long as you can kill a mid-level wizard and weaken the guardian power of the Miracle Wall, it will be worth killing as many ordinary orcs as possible.
The orcs began to build a high platform with stones 250 meters from the miracle wall.
A steady stream of stones was piled up, filled with dirt, and it was a war tower, a way to siege a city, and to build a platform like the city wall would give you the same attack advantage as the city wall.
The premise is that there are countless logistical forces to transport these materials and that the building can be protected from attack.
And the orcs did, and they built the platform right under the noses of humans, who could only watch from the Miracle Wall.
Of course, it's not that humans have no way to do it, no matter how high the platform is, the difference between the weapons level of the two races is still too much, and when the war machine is fully opened, no matter what large war machine appears on the high platform, the human side is confident that it will be destroyed.
"Don't let the orcs build too easily, let the trebuchet attack the five wheels, or our morale will suffer!" Calder Intermediate Wizard commanded in a deep voice, with a different perspective than the others.