290 Fortifications
Faced with such an unexpected situation, it was Duke's turn to be shocked. You must know that although Storm Castle is only a small castle, there were too many threats to face at the beginning, so the French Empire did not cut corners when building it.
For example, the city wall is not made of rammed clay, but is built of carved stone in a down-to-earth and practical way. Although in ancient times, there were also people who relied on bed crossbows and forcibly shot crossbow arrows into the city wall as a climbing point, but this kind of stone city wall, if it is not accurately inserted into the crack of the wall, can pierce the city wall like this, the power of this ice spear is too exaggerated.
However, Duke soon discovered a little abnormality, those ice demons who used the dark blue ice spear, almost immediately after projecting this ice spear, their whole bodies quickly shrunk in an instant, and then became a skinny appearance.
"Lord Lord, these ice demons have condensed all the magic power in their bodies into this ice spear, so that they can penetrate this thick city wall, and it will not melt quickly in the summer. It seems that this time the Ice Demon is planning to fight with us, otherwise they would not have used this method of burning jade!"
Hearing the words of Guard Officer Abil, Duke finally understood why this ice spear was so powerful, and even its color had changed. It is because the Ice Demon, as a magical creature, condenses all the magical energy that supports his inventory into this special ice spear, and then penetrates the city wall to form a climbing point.
You must know that even if the Ice Demon is extremely agile, it is still a city wall about ten meters high, and it is very difficult to climb quickly with bare hands without any borrowing points. Now with the support points of these special ice spears, the barrier between the ten-meter-high city wall and the fortress will no longer be a problem behind the ice demon.
, this sister hasn't killed a thousand enemies, and she has begun to lose eight hundred, this time it seems that the ice demon will not give up until he takes Storm Castle.
Duke looked at the ice demon who was quickly climbing towards the city wall, and his face instantly became ugly, after all, with the ice demon, a monster creature that would choose to give up the attack with dozens of dead and wounded, just this scene of the ice spear making a climbing point, there were more than a hundred ice demons who exhausted their mana and became completely dead, which was enough to see the determination of the ice demon this time.
"Thrower, press up!"
Alan saw that the Ice Demon had already begun to follow the ice spear climbing point and quickly rush towards the top of the city wall, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to smash the rolling logs and falling rocks that were prepared on the city wall and smashed them down towards the Ice Demon who was halfway up the climb.
These rolling logs and falling rocks are specially prepared by Duke for the Ice Devil, and they all use heavy stones that can only be lifted by at least two people, just to prevent the Ice Devil's physical fitness from being strong, and ordinary stones have no way to smash them down.
And Duke had thought that there was a chance of breaking the ice spears and icicles they were climbing, and as long as they couldn't jump on the walls, there would be much less threat to Stormcastle. Because Ice Demon is seriously speaking, except for a little long-range projection of ice spears that have lethality, there is almost no long-range offensive power.
But the result still made Duke feel very disappointed, because these hundreds of kilograms of rolling logs and falling rocks, except for a few ice demons who happened to hit the climbing process and could smash them down, as long as the basic mountain was a guarded ice demon, they could use their own strength to block these things.
Before, Duke still had a little pride in his heart about preparing these defensive weapons, because such a simple and effective defensive method was not used by Storm Castle before, not to mention strategic things, could it be said that the tactical style of the Middle Ages was so backward?
But now Duke understands that it's not that Stormcastle didn't think of it before, but that these things don't work as well as they imagined. Because if you want to have a little effect, at least Duke has to prepare this kind of throwable weight of hundreds of kilograms before you can smash the ice demon down.
But it would take at least two or more humans to lift such a weight of hundreds of kilograms. You must know that the overall defense force of Storm Castle was less than a thousand people before, how could you divide hundreds of people to carry these things.
And Duke can do this because even after the battle between the coastline and the Shark Tribe, the Storm Army's current defensive strength can still reach thousands of people, and there is also a reserve force like the new corps, so Duke can divide his combat strength to prepare for these. Otherwise, it would cost hundreds of people to move wood and stones, so how can this battle be fought?
Rolling logs and falling rocks kept smashing towards the ice demons' heads, and although some of the ice demons did not fall down, it also had a great impact on their climbing speed. And some of the ice demons waiting to climb below, some of them will inevitably be smashed by these noons.
It's hard to smash them to death, but it's easy to break your bones or something. After all, the prototype of the ice demon is also a human, except for a trace of weird magical energy on his body, the structure is basically the same as that of a human.
Of course, compared to the direct loss of combat effectiveness of human beings who are injured and bones, the ice demons are very indifferent to these, they basically have no pain and internal organ circulatory system, and they can still maintain their combat effectiveness, but their movements are inevitably affected, which has a great advantage for the soldiers of Storm Castle.
Seeing that some ice demons were about to climb the city wall, Fei Duo also ordered at this time: "Splash oil!"
With Fedor's order, several cauldrons burning with boiling oil on the castle poured down towards the ice demons below the city walls. This method is Duke's original in this world, and he has never used this method of pouring oil before Storm Fortress defended the city, because it requires a high level of cooperation from soldiers.
With the combat effectiveness of the City Lord Guard like the Storm Castle before, it was very difficult to achieve this cooperation. The time for the ice demon to really climb would not exceed ten seconds, maybe a few soldiers moved a little slower in these ten seconds, and they didn't even lift the oil pot, let alone lift it over the waist-high female wall of the city wall.
As the hot oil poured down, Duke finally heard the terrible scream that the Ice Demon finally came from. As ice demons with cold physiques, what they are most afraid of is all things with hot attributes, so when Gandalf had a fire magic, he directly repelled the ice demon's tentative attack, because they knew the horror of a fire type archmage.
The same is true now, the boiling oil has done a lot of damage to the ice demons, and they can watch the skin on their bodies peel off one by one, exposing the gray muscles inside. But what made Duke feel terrifying was that if he had to be a human, he might die directly, and as a result, although these ice demons screamed, they still had the ability to fight, and even some ice demons without skin jumped on the city wall like this!