Nabal, who had retreated to the back row, suddenly ran up, pulled Lemuel to the side, and the destructive stone crossbow bolt shattered a battlement in a blink of an eye and hit the place where Lemuel was standing, and the splashed rubble also injured several soldiers in the back row, unlike the previous weak stone throwing attack, the giant crossbow could easily shoot to the top of the wall more than twenty meters high to destroy the battlements with defensive effect, causing considerable pressure on the defenders in the surrounding area.

When the enemy's offensive was slightly reduced, Lemuel once again appeared in the rain of arrows, holding a telescope to observe the enemy formation, according to the estimated distance, these giant crossbows were outside the range of the trebuchet, about three hundred yards away from the city wall, the ultimate range of the Gronian trebuchet was two hundred yards, even if the extra flight distance brought by the altitude difference was counted, it could not hurt them a single hair, fortunately, several nearby fire points were equipped with more than two repeating ballistas, although the accuracy was not good at long distances, but after several rounds of counterattacks, a number of giant crossbow arrows shot into the enemy formation were still quite successful, usually a blow through the entire phalanx, bringing more than a dozen casualties。

In this way, the two sides relied on longbowmen and crossbowmen to fire each other for nearly an hour, plus the indiscriminate attacks of giant crossbows and other equipment, the Druas had already paid hundreds of dead and wounded, and the defenders of Gronya, with the advantage of the high wall, only about a hundred casualties. Since the Druas had been in the stage of testing the defenses of the walls, Julius realized that the enemy did not have the means to breach the walls, and that Gronya's longbowmen could cover any area within four hundred yards, and that the crossbowmen could directly threaten the Underworld spear position five hundred yards away, so he ordered the whole army to fire a salvo without giving the enemy a chance to breathe.

Soon, the herald arrived at the position again, and the soldiers near the catapult also began to fire a salvo at the enemy formation, and the Druas also reorganized the infantry phalanx, relying on a large number of long kite shields to form a tortoiseshell formation to resist the rain of arrows, the offensive of the ballista was still continuing, although the hit rate of the huge crossbow bolts was low, once they hit the enemy, they would easily destroy the enemy's formation, and it didn't take long for the Druas to drop hundreds of corpses and begin to retreat slowly to the rear, not forgetting to pull the heavy ballista back.

"Mr. Sigris, the commander has asked your team to rush to the southwest corner, the Barrions are ready to attack. ”

The herald signaled to Lemuel to take some of the equipment to the southwest corner of the defensive position, this group of crew members who had served on the Goshawk for a long time, and had already mastered the handling of heavy equipment, he wanted to send a few brothers directly to the southwest position for reinforcements, but he felt that it was inappropriate to veto it directly, so he asked Nabal's opinion.

"Since they need you, go ahead, I'll stay here and continue to fight the Dark Army, but you have to bring the Goshawk brethren back alive, understand?"

"No problem! Todd, Jarek, Dave, Roza, pack up your gear and keep up, it's time for us to shift positions!"

As the group was about to leave, the lookout Jarek leaned against the battlement and looked down at the city, when suddenly a throwing spear shot through the head from below, and the body fell straight down the wall with a huge impact. Nabal, who was checking his equipment on the side, sensed the attack, so he led people close to the city wall to check, and suddenly five or six more throwing guns were thrown from below, and Nabal narrowly escaped, but several guards beside him had already been shot.

After the attack, six hooked claws with thick ropes grabbed the battlements, and before Nabal could react, six extremely fast figures climbed the wall from the ropes, and all the nearby guards were stunned. Lemuel was also shocked to observe the details of these attackers, the wild black leather iron armor set off their muscular limbs, the black armor like a sheep's skull and the blood-colored cloak on the shoulders all glowed with an evil aura, the pitch-black iron chain connected to their hand armor at one end, and dragged a long-handled chain gun that only a few people could wield flexibly, these uninvited guests were the strongest combat force of the Spear Legion of the Underworld, the Dark Dread Knight.

Nabal suddenly came to his senses, kicked a man who had just stepped on the city wall from a height of more than twenty meters, and immediately scuffled with the other enemies, and a dozen nearby guards also swarmed up, hoping to end the battle in an instant. But the Dreadknight's force was beyond everyone's expectations, first of all, Nabal was taught a solid lesson by his swift physical skills, and then it was the turn of the other guards to suffer, and the five Dreadknights wielded the long-handled chain guns in their hands, killing an entire team of guards with all kinds of bloody and cruel means, and then crossed the corpse and killed Lemuel's team.

"Come here, you bastards!"

When Lemuel drew his waist knife and prepared to fight, a large arrow made of pure metal pierced the shoulders of the two Dreadknights in succession and sank into the rock-made ground, but the metal arrow with exaggerated penetrating power could not knock down the Dread Knights who were not afraid of pain, and one of the people who walked in front symbolically stabbed Lemuel back a few steps, and all of them turned around and looked in the direction where the arrow was flying, and it turned out that two Gronia knights with a dozen naval soldiers had arrived to support.

The silence lasted less than ten seconds, and a sharp axe flew from a short distance and embedded deep in the face of a dreadknight, killing him instantly. Nabal, who had suffered from the fists and feet of these black knights just now, spat out a mouthful of blood that flowed out of his teeth, and killed him with both short axes, and the gray knight who was more than a dozen paces away pulled the metal bow again, and the red-armored knight who was traveling with him led a dozen swordsmen forward with an angular rectangular shield.

"Sir Bravo is about to conquer this city, and you will die here. ”

"Save this for back and tell your leader, and by the way, tell that guy that Lao Tzu's teeth are very expensive!!"

Unbelieving the threat of the Dreadknights, Nabal strode forward and smashed the helmet of one of the knights with the handle of his axe, shattering the man's nose and slashing him to the ground with both axes. The remaining two Dreadknights did not choose to duel with Nabal, but rushed in the direction of reinforcements, wielding long-handled chain guns and engaged in a fierce battle with the Red Lotus Knights and Navy Swordsmen in red iron armor, one of them was hit by the Red Lotus Knight's giant shield and lost his center of gravity, and was immediately shot by the gray knight in the rear The metal arrow pierced through the steel helmet, and a headshot flew out of the city wall along with the corpse.

Killing the last man, the enemy still did not retreat, a sweep of the spear killed several naval swordsmen, and then prepared to shoot the chain gun to kill the Fanu Knight who was shooting arrows not far away, seeing this, Lemuel immediately took the crossbow from his back, aimed at his thigh and fired an arrow, the steel crossbow easily shot through the leather armor and caused the Dreadknight to fall, and the next thing to entertain him was the big axe in the hand of the Red Lotus Knight.

The axe struck the rocky ground and exploded into a spark, and the Dread Knight dodged the brute force blow with his tumbling, staggered to the battlements without thinking, pulled the chain and retracted the chain gun, and jumped straight out.

"These guys are crazy, if you fall from here, you'll die......"

Lemuel reloaded the crossbow arrows, put away the crossbow and came to the battlement, carefully looked down, only to find a striking red cloth slowly descending with the air current, it was actually the Dread Knight who had just fallen, his canvas cloak became an excellent slow descent object, coupled with the light equipment, carrying the master over the moat waters nearly fifty meters wide, and landed directly on the wasteland on the south bank, and the corresponding dark war horse also galloped out of the house in the distance.

The Tsing Yi Fan Dog Knight, armed with a large bow, immediately prepared to shoot the target with his bow, but there was also a possibility that the probe shot would be killed by the opposite shooter, and Nabal immediately stopped the Tsing Yi Knight on the grounds that 'Isaac will not allow failure, and the priority now is to consolidate the defense', and the latter agreed with him to withdraw a few steps, forming the remaining warriors in the shortest possible time, and assigning the wounded soldiers to clean up the corpses and carry the dead soldiers to another makeshift morgue.

"Lemuel, didn't the commander summon you a long time ago, I'm keeping an eye on this position, hurry up. ”

"Then don't hang up before I get back, be careful. ”

Out of worry, Lemuel still stopped and nagged before leading the team on the road, the Bozzians on the north bank of the canal in their field of vision had begun to dispatch in large numbers, and more than three hundred yards away from the city wall, a number of fixed catapults with extra-long booms began to operate, throwing pieces of rocks that were not too big towards the city wall, and suddenly the rubble flew and burst into bursts of piercing loud noises.

By the time Lemuel led his men through the lower platform to the southwest corner of the position, the enemy had already begun a full-scale attack, and the walls of the catapult position were almost completely destroyed, and only a large number of a dozen red-armored knights with large shields formed a shield wall to resist the splashing of flying stones, Julius repeatedly ordered a counterattack, but unfortunately the enemy catapults were erected outside the range of our catapults, and the large catapults of the Boz were much more slender than the trebuchets of the Gronyas, and the ballistae were difficult to aim accurately at a long distance, otherwise they would not be suppressed.

The Porzes had much more than that, they also sent two hundred crossbowmen in three columns to inflict uninterrupted fire on the walls, and the archers of Groña lost their battlements as bunkers and could barely lean out to counterattack.

In order to get a glimpse of the enemy's movements, Lemuel squeezed through the crowd and ascended to the commanding heights of the command post where Julius was, where he observed the situation under the city with a telescope, and it turned out that throwing small rocks and arrows of little significance were just simple suppression, and when the city was unable to fight back, several Poz warships sailed down the river to the position of the circular water, although it was not very obvious in the field of vision of the monoculars, he still vaguely saw that the water surface between these warships was a little abnormal, each ship was separated by more than ten meters, and several super huge projection weapons suddenly surfaced under the water, which was larger than any kind of weapon he had seen so farIt is equipped with three composite elongated booms, and the projectile used by this device is a large hollow iron ball floating on the water, with a radius of about 50 centimeters.

"What are those things......"

After asking the commander for permission, Lemuel quickly returned to his defensive position, loosened the ballista mounts in turn, and lowered them to a minimum height sufficient to shoot most of the area in the circular waters, and before he had time to calibrate the coordinates, he ordered several ballistas to be fired at the same time, praying that the arrows fired by one of the ballistas would successfully sink the enemy's massive siege weapon.

After each ballista was fired three times, the enemy's arrow rain gradually stopped, Lemuel leaned out of the city wall again, and several huge weapons under the city had begun to operate through the water force, easily throwing two huge metal balls at the city wall, but the height was not enough to reach the top of the city wall, only bombarded less than ten meters, but the explosion after the hit was very terrible, not only shattering the rock outer wall, but also causing nearly twenty centimeters of deep damage.

The walls can already feel a less noticeable concussion, these hollow metal balls are known to contain unstable explosives, according to my analysis, if the enemy wants to use this weapon to greatly damage the living force of the city wall, he must extend the distance to provide a higher range, and can only retreat into the canal and launch an attack, and that is the minimum range of our catapults, only need to aim accurately to ensure that the catapult attack hits, the soldiers on the city wall also began to act urgently, the crane arm lifted one rock after another rock ruins from the water, and the catapult finally launched a huge building debris after several adjustments。

"Lemuel! You've done a great job this time!"

With a loud bang, the stone-throwing hit the target, and the sailors in the same boat shouted excitedly, and Lemuel did not forget to praise himself, a battleship at the front of the enemy was pierced by the boulder and sank, directly dragging the connected siege weapon into the water, and the ballista that recalibrated the target was also fired at the same time as another battleship connected to the equipment, and the crossbow bolt shot through the bottom of the ship, sinking the battleship on the other end of the chain, and finally succeeded in destroying one of the enemy's siege weapons.

But things are not so simple, the two groups of weapons in the rear were activated, firing a continuous thunderbolt with amazing destructive power towards the city wall, and hundreds of meters of Boz crossbowmen fired thousands of arrows, and an unparalleled offensive was about to approach the city wall......

The moment the catapult commanded by Lemuel was destroyed, an explosion occurred on the platform, and the fire spread rapidly, which was exactly what happened before, and his thoughts gradually became clear in the cold and heavy rain, but at this time, another huge ball hit the city wall, and the group of naval soldiers who were still fighting in front of him were instantly devastated. Fortunately, the impact of the explosion was much less due to the rain, and Lemuel pushed away a corpse as if nothing happened, took off the military boots on his feet, and began to search for survivors in the chaos.

"Dave, are you still alive...... Ahem!"

There was no response except for the rustling of the rain, and the tar and charred corpses were mixed up everywhere, making it impossible to distinguish the identity of the deceased. And in a high place, the rain affected by the wind was so relentless that he gradually couldn't even open his eyes, so Lemuel had to raise his hand to block the rain, lowered his body and slowly retreated.

In fact, he was the only one who survived the defensive position, and Julius sent two knights from the rear to brave the wind and rain to carry Lemuel from the broken walls to the platform in the rear.

The increasingly fierce offensive gradually threatened Julius's temporary command point, and he led the soldiers to evacuate from the metal ladder at the edge of the support, and braved the torrential rain to reach a canopy platform on the lower level, where nearly fifty Gronian knights were stationed, and Shoy and Porcha had just arrived.

"The elite of the Knights, and the two of the Wings of Freedom, we must try to deal with the siege artillery of the Pozzians, but this plan must be agreed to by you, please be patient with me......"

After most of the defenders had withdrawn from the walls, the enemy temporarily halted the attack due to the rain, and at an emergency meeting, Julius explained his plan to the crowd......

"As long as they have fuel bombs, we must not rush to the walls and garrison them, and we must use all means to destroy the enemy's destructive weapons. ”

Noisy voices came from outside the canopy, and in the pouring rain, I saw five or six navy soldiers with a large iron ball with countless protrusions each walking into the canopy, and the thicker black line on the iron ball was sealed with wax oil, which seemed to be something like a lead.

Julius disbanded the porters and personally pushed the seemingly dangerous orbs in front of the Wings of Freedom, not forgetting to check for any defects in quality, before handing over the unidentified 'goods' to Shoy.

"These are depth charges used to open underwater tunnels, and this rain is the best cover, and I want to borrow your skills to plant these explosives in the waters below the enemy ships and destroy their hydraulic siege weapons, I don't know what Miss Ogust's wishes. ”

"I can't do such a task, although you say that the rain is the best cover, but my people are not ghosts, nor are they water ghosts, how can they just slip out of the city surrounded by enemies, let alone swim across a moat fifty or sixty meters wide without being detected by the enemy sentinels. ”

She was contrary to her confident attitude in the past, and she did not intend to accept the task rashly without a plan, but now that Sieg and Nabal were not around, she could only pull Polcha to the corner to discuss, but Porcha was also not confident in this situation.

Looking at Xiao Yi's hesitant look, Julius noticed that he couldn't express it clearly, and quickly explained: "This tall façade was originally built not for war, but because when the ambitions of Western countries were growing, Gronia was frequently invaded, and the exterior wall was transformed into a barrier against enemies, and even now, some facilities that have been preserved from ancient times are still in operation, such as secret passages that can directly reach the outside of the city." ”

This news changed Shaw's attitude, and she approached Julius to inquire about the details, it turned out that there were drains and inlets throughout the city wall, and the passages above the water were temporarily sealed because they would be used by the enemy, but the many passages under the water were still in operation, enough for Shoy and the Porcha and the Goshawk brethren to pass with bombs, and once they reached the annular waters outside the city, the enemies along the coast could not see the water from a long distance in the torrential rain, and it would not be too difficult to sneak.

In this way, Shoy and Julius agreed on a plan, and a quarter of an hour later, a dozen men were seated in a crowded dinghy, accompanied by Shoy and Porcha, four Gronian warriors in leather armor, and the rest were experienced goshawk sailors, the towering walls slowing the howling winds of the city, and only the heavy rain poured down on the people at intervals through the buildings on both sides of the waterway.

It wasn't long before the boatmen rowed the boat under the city walls, and according to the wall structure map, there was a passage about five meters below the surface of the water where they were located leading to the outside of the city, which was cut off by a fence, and Shoy obtained the key to the fence from Julius.

"Hey, Lemuel. You old seamen are good at water, so take care of moving those bombs, and I'll dive down and unlock the locks first. ”

She brushed her soaked hair, jumped into the water with the key, and gradually disappeared under the rippling water, Lemuel did not intend to delay, according to her wishes, came to the middle of the dinghy and picked up a bomb, strange to say, it seems to be a very heavy metal ball, but it does not feel cumbersome in her hand, it is estimated that it is only a dozen pounds, and a sailor who is proficient in water can do it to carry objects of the same weight underwater.

After the crew was ready, Shoey resurfaced, panting and gradually regulating his breathing, asking everyone to dive out of the city immediately, and the sailors who received the order jumped into the water with bombs one after another, and Porcha patted his burdensome armor and barely paddled to the end of the group.

The underwater condition is not bad, Gronia attaches great importance to the ecology, the clean water provides enough view, Shoy swims alone at the front, the others follow her instructions to paddle down, and after diving for a while, the group reaches the entrance to the water built under the city wall.

The metal pipe built in the rock could hold more than a dozen people almost at the same time, Lemuel put the bomb in his arms at the mouth of the pipe, and gradually pushed forward, and soon arrived at a rusty iron gate, Shoy had already opened the lock, and the team adjusted the order at the exit of the passage, and Lemuel led the team forward.

The group successfully sneaked out of the city, and when most of the people couldn't hold it back, Xiao Yi motioned for the team to float against the outer wall, and more than a dozen people poked their heads out of the icy river one after another, and just wanted to take a good breath, when the dense rain split their heads and covered their faces.

Porcha, who was not good at water, choked enough underwater, and in the face of the heavy rain on the water, he was helpless for a while, but found that a large number of driftwood fragments were floating not far away.

"Those logs fell from the catapults, right? Maybe you can use ......."