"You don't need to use too hard magic. Seeing that the three of them began to shirk, General Villeneuve became anxious and hurriedly said.

"The iron-armored ladder knife can't cut in, and the arrow can't hurt, I think about it, the only drawback is that I'm afraid of living. As long as the masters attack with fire magic, even if this iron-armored ladder can withstand the fire, the soldiers of the Northern Frontier Army staying in the ladder will definitely not be able to endure such a high temperature. ”

Listening to General Villeneuve, the three mages found out that this was indeed the case. One of them coughed and said, "What did the general say...... It's a good idea, and this kind of fire magic is a breeze for us. ”

"In that case, please hurry up to the city, if you can't withstand the first round of onslaught of the northern army, then everything will be over. At the urging of General Villeneuve, the three mages reluctantly rode in a carriage with the general and hurried to the outer city.

After all, they are the mages of the Northern Legion, and if the reputation of fleeing in a battle spreads, the entire kingdom of St. Teresa will probably have no place for them. Moreover, they still have some illusions in their hearts: if they help General Villeneuve to receive the Shining City, they will be rewarded for meritorious service in the future, and even be crowned a nobleman, it is not yet known.

By the time the three mages arrived at Shining City, a corpse had fallen on the city, and the blood had completely stained the walls red.

Two groups of people with different banners, different clothes and weapons are fighting desperately with each other, and several pairs of corpses can be seen twisting and hugging each other, dying together, and the scene of the entire city wall is very tragic.

Adjutant Arnold, who had previously commanded the defense of the city, reported to General Villeneuve: "The first round of attacks by the Northern Army has passed, and the offensive is so fierce that we almost did not get through. In the end, I transferred the reserves, and finally accepted it. ”

General Villeneuve had a happy look on his face, he patted the lieutenant on the shoulder, and encouraged: "Well done, the first wave of the offensive has always been the most ferocious, we can withstand the first wave, the second wave, the third wave, the boys are all good!"

"Tell the fighters not to let up, the next round of the offensive is about to begin. ”

It was only when Adjutant Arnold turned to leave and set up the defense line at the head of the wall that General Villeneuve's brows were full of gloom.

"I just put in the reserves to defend against the first wave of attacks, what can I do in the future? According to this posture, I am afraid that I will not be able to withstand this day. ”

He was also quite familiar with siege warfare, and the first day of the offensive of such a high-spirited and determined siege force was extremely difficult to resist, and it was also the most dangerous day for the entire defensive line. This kind of high-intensity attack will continue until dusk, and if the opponent's commander is eager to break through the city, he will even resort to the extremely brutal combat method of field warfare.

And until the siege is long, if the attacking side can't attack for a long time, it will slowly slack off. In the experience of General Villeneuve, after five or six days, the offensive will slowly slow down, and after a month, the offensive will usually adopt the method of besieging but not attacking, through the siege to wear down the will of the defenders, cut off the supply of goods to the city, so as to achieve the effect of conquering the city.

This is because if the defenders are determined and well-trained, the attackers will suffer heavy casualties. Generally speaking, the battle loss ratio between the defender and the attacker is 1 to 3, and if you take a sudden risk to attack, you will suffer unnecessary casualties and weaken your own strength.

And this reserve team hidden in the bunker was General Villeneuve's emergency force in the first three days of offensive and defensive battles, in case of emergency, but he didn't expect to be forced out in the first round of attacks of the Northern Army.

It is precisely because of this that General Villeneuve judged that the situation is not good, "These damned Yankees. He scolded angrily, and couldn't help but urge the three mages: "Masters, okay, do you know that the second round of the offensive of the Northern Frontier Army is about to begin. ”

"It's coming, it's coming. The three mages were so busy that they were sweating so hard that they even had the strength to feed. It wasn't until they saw them that they realized how huge these ladders were, and how ridiculous their original idea was that they could work with some ordinary fire magic. Forced to carve a magic circle on the ground of the city wall, they hoped to unite the three of them to release a powerful fire magic.

The second round of the Northern Army's attack came as scheduled, and the Northern Army was once again at a disadvantage under the suppression of the arrows from the top of the ladder, and it was also thanks to General Villeneuve who put on the armor that he himself was ashamed of, and went to the front to fight in person. This heroic act of his encouragement to the soldiers of the Northern Legion made it to the top of the city three times, and was driven down three times. After leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the second offensive ended with the sound of horns.

General Villeneuve panted with his sword in hand, when was the last time he had personally gone into battle to slash the enemy? It wasn't until he slashed his sword into the enemy's body and almost pulled it out that he realized: when did his sword become so sluggish?

"Isn't it okay yet? If we don't get rid of these damn ladders, we're not going to be able to withstand the next round of attacks. At this moment, all the hopes of General Villeneuve are pinned on these three mages and the circle they have drawn.

"Don't worry, this is our trick to press the bottom of the box. One of them slipped out without paying attention, but General Villeneuve couldn't tell if they were bragging.

I saw that the three of them were separated except for the other three directions facing the north side of the ladder, and after a long chanting, a string of fire crows appeared out of thin air. The wings made of flowing fire continued to wave, and the elves who burned everything in pairs, like a "river" of fire, crashed towards the iron armored ladders, and the air in the path seemed to burn, forming a faint black smoke.

The "Fire Raven", which is specially used for group attacks in fire-based magic, does not have the explosive and destructive power of fireballs, nor does it have the destructive power of Flying Fire Meteors, and what can be praised is the continuous high temperature. And the formation arranged by these three mages, as long as they continue to replenish the Yuan Stone and other materials in the formation after completion, they can continue to generate new fire crows.

Otherwise, so many continuous fire crows would have to suck the spiritual power of these three people dry.

"Oh, it's magic, it's magic!", the appearance of magic suddenly boosted the morale of the originally sluggish army, and under the command of General Villeneuve, the soldiers poured the collected wax oil, lamp oil and other flammable materials on the ironclad ladders, and the fire that struck these ironclad ladders became more and more ferocious and more intense.