Chapter Ninety-Four: High-Altitude Ambush
The sound of pneumatic cannons rang out again, and the cannonballs cut through a high parabola, and then fell heavily and smashed on the head of the city or behind the city walls. Although the mage's eye was obscured by magic power, it did not affect the artillery battalion to attack the target determined by Wang Jiyuan.
This time, more than 300 mortars also joined the attack, and the range of more than a kilometer was more than enough for these small pneumatic guns, so the explosion effect was several times more violent than when they bombarded the city gates and suppressed the city walls before.
In this attack, these artillery crews replaced the armor-piercing shells with shield-breaking shells and various elemental shells, and from a distance, in addition to the fire of the explosion, there were various colors of magic light, electric light, frost, and flame. No matter how high a person's cultivation is, as long as they stand within these ranges, it will be a disaster.
In addition to the pneumatic cannon, there are also five mage classes composed of a spell casting team, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy at the head of the city can not stand on them to suppress them, and flew closer to the place of Heimu Pass, their task is to use joint spells to throw groups into the city to disperse magic, this magic is useless for the city gate of Heimu Pass, but it is very threatening to individual enemies, if the enemy behind the city wall is protected by magic, it is likely to be hit by the dispersal magic falling from the sky for some reason, and the shield on the body is scattered in a daze.
Huang Zheng stood at the front of the assault team and said, "These Imperial people will understand why artillery is the terminator of the city wall today. Even if it can't destroy the city walls, it will destroy everyone above and below the walls. ”
Gabriel held the long sword in his hand, and the God of War was already on his body, and he said, "They may not realize that the Black Wood Pass has now changed from a natural danger to a cage. ”
"It's really a terrible cage in flames, and I, along with the other Imperial generals, have been figuring out how you're going to attack Blackwood Pass for the last few weeks. Morette, the leader of the Black Guard, had a complicated expression, and there was both awe and frustration in his eyes, "However, no matter how much we imagined, we could never have imagined that you would fight us in such a way, and people are still a kilometer away, and they can already inflict decisive damage." We know your pneumatic cannons are powerful, but the scale of today's attack is more than ten times greater than when we attacked Kuroki Pass. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have imagined that a cannonball would have such an amazing effect. ”
"This is a qualitative change caused by quantitative change. Huang Zheng said: "What form do you estimate the imperial people will use to meet the battle, and what will be the effect of this round of artillery fire?"
Morette said: "Since they didn't choose to go out of the city to face the battle before, they must be lined up behind the gate." There is a big problem with the imperial army, that is, although those beast legions are powerful, they must be well commanded, otherwise it will be difficult to control them after they fight the wild. If they don't hold their positions behind the gate and go straight into street fighting, it will be a mess, and then the upper echelons of the Imperial army will lose control of the lower levels, and it will be difficult to predict whether they will win or lose.
But since Emperor Alfred is here, he should not allow this to happen, he is a person with a strong desire to control. He always wanted to fight the war under his control. Therefore, it is an inevitable choice to defend the city gate. ”
"That means they are likely to eat this round of shelling in its entirety. Huang Zheng said.
Morlett nodded slowly.
"However, if I were the commander of the other side, knowing that the enemy's artillery fire was strong, I would not have lined up all my troops before the enemy charged. So, it's time to get on the field and push those troops to where they have to be. Huang Zheng confirmed the time again and said, "Let's go!"
With his order, the team around him began to advance quickly towards the city gate, and at the forefront was the golem team led by Gama. These steel bodies moved forward in the same rhythm, and the feet made of metal stepped on the ground again and again, making a rumbling sound, obviously there were only dozens of golems, but there were thousands of people charging with the momentum, and they already had a bit of the feeling of the Black Dragon Empire's Golem Legion. The warriors who controlled the golems only followed them from a distance, and did not charge quickly.
Behind the Golem were several high-ranking mages led by Glade, who floated in the air and followed the Golem, tasked with building a bridge for the Golem to cross the moat. The elven alchemist Maya also followed, ready to repair the golems that might have problems, and her own strength in cultivating to a high level of magic and martial arts was also a combat power that could not be ignored.
Some distance behind, it was Huang Zheng and those masters, their task was naturally to quickly rush through the city gate after the golems attracted attacks, establish an advantage as soon as possible, and deal with the enemy's masters at the same time. And in the end, there is the group of spirit soldiers, whose survivability is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, so it is most appropriate to send them to rush into this dangerous situation.
After Huang Zheng's troops set out, a regiment of regular guards followed them and also marched in the direction of Heimu Pass, as long as they could occupy the city gates, the task of this force was to clear the city of the enemy.
As the assault team advanced, more than a hundred people flew up from inside Heimu Pass, crossed the wall full of artillery fire, and flew from the air in the direction of the assault team's advance. These are all mages from the Blackwood Pass, led by the three archmages of Gandath, Eder and Avelino, who have come to stop the advance of the assault team.
These Imperial mages did not dare to cast spells on the top of the city, nor did they dare to stay in the parabola where the shells fell, so they had to fly out of the walls from both sides of the shelling area and then move closer to the middle.
However, before the Imperial Mages could strike at Huang Zheng's legions, arrows and magic slashes were coming at them from higher in the air. It was Gordon, Lorenzo, and Dinein, three great mages, who led a mixed army of humans, dark elves, and high elves, who had mages and magic archers, who suddenly emerged from invisible magic and began to condescendingly fight against the Imperial mages.
Master Gordon's team had previously hidden in a very high place to avoid the invisible detection of the Imperials, and at the same time as Huang Zheng launched an attack, they also flew down from the ambush in the sky, and sure enough, they bumped into the Imperials who came out to block the attack.
Although the Imperial Mages have shields, these invisible enemies that fall from the heights, with the help of the right time and the earth, can suppress them at once, and the arrows of the Demon Archers have undergone a certain amount of Demon Breaking Treatment, although they are far less than the genuine Demon Breaking Arrows, but they are also quite threatening to the shields of the Imperial Mages.
The mages led by Gandath could no longer care about the enemies on the ground, so they could only hurriedly meet the enemy in the air and fight a group battle of mages.