Chapter 259: Scarlet Dawn
The night grew thicker and thicker, like the cloak of the Immortal King hanging over the sky over the Soros Desert, and before dawn came, it was the darkest hour of the day, but the dilapidated Paloferdi Academy was like an old beast waiting to die, lying weakly in the corner of the desert.
In the dead of night, the wind and sand stopped, and a huge black shadow suddenly crossed the narrow long line and appeared between heaven and earth, and a thick dark cloud drifted in the sky.
The thick and wide soles of the feet did not make a sound when they stepped on the sand, and each landing followed the law from the thickest pad of the palm to the center of the foot.
Hundreds of black shadows were like ghosts led by an invisible rope, so cold that the murderous aura almost condensed into substance, so that the scorpions, poisonous snakes, and sandworms in the ground did not dare to look up.
Little by little, the shadow approached the walls of Palofodi, ready to embrace or give death in the darkest hour of dawn.
However, just as the dark shadow drifted to a kilometer or so from the walls of Palofodi, a fierce fire suddenly rose in the darkness in the distance, and then there was a huge roar one after another.
The sound of dozens of cannons firing together directly tore through the night sky, and the heavy iron ball burst out in the darkness and then pierced through the darkness, and then exploded in the middle of the dark shadow in an extremely violent attitude.
The violent explosion of gunpowder ignited the air, illuminating the gray-white fur of the two terrifying beasts, and then the crackling iron slammed against the ogre's heavy armor, clanging like a repetition of Hades' passion before the war began, and the occasional howl of flesh being torn apart was not obvious.
"Assemble! Crush them!"
Now that the sneak attack was recognized, Jack Bass simply tore the veil of stealth, and with his command, the dark cloud in the sky suddenly fell rapidly towards the walls of Palofodi, and a red light passed through the deadwood staff in the hands of the ogre mage to all the black shadows, along with the two ghostly beasts, all the barbarian warriors let out a roar of war and death, and then a huge earth dragon composed of dust and smoke rushed straight towards Palofodi.
On the walls of Palofodi, the gunners were working in groups of six to clean the barrels, load ammunition and prepare the arquebus, they had been the vanguard of Kaesong for the first time, and although they had been drilled countless times, they were still a little nervous in the face of the rolling terrifying dust waves.
The walls of Palofodi, which had been completely destroyed once, were not a good place to defend, but there was a vast sea of sand everywhere except here, and a field battle without a basis would undoubtedly be a nightmare for the former if it took place between the artillery and the highly mobile enemy.
Mrak, Ivo, Tariq, Jeremy, and Iloror were standing on the walls with heavy faces, and when the first three returned, Jeremy immediately informed them of what they had discovered, and after deliberation, Mlak finally decided to hold the city.
In fact, this is not the best choice, but if they are allowed to abandon all the baggage artillery and flee lightly, no one can do it, whether they can be faster than the ghost beast and the thunderbird, but if these artillery pieces fall into the hands of the enemy, then no one can explain to Lear.
"This can't be done! we must go out of the city to fight for the artillery to open up the distance, if we let those two monsters rush to the city, they will not be able to be stopped here!"
Mrak retracted his gaze into the darkness, the effect of the first round of shelling with the blessing of Eagle Eye was already in full view, except for a small number of ogre mages who were killed and injured, at least more than half of the shells were blocked by the ghost beast, the gray-white fur did not know what it was made of, and the cannonballs that could explode the mountain peaks could only leave a small black spot on it.
Because of the protection of this layer of meat shield and heavy armor, even the casualties of the ogre were far from expected, but because of this sudden attack, the enemy's speed also slowed down, but Mrak also knew in his heart that if the two giant beasts that were more than ten meters high rushed to the city wall, the ten meter city wall would not be able to provide them with any protection at all, and the artillery that they relied on the most would be completely useless and even become the first to be annihilated.
"Field battle, how can the artillery attack when the armies of both sides are mixed?" Jeremy immediately questioned.
"Indiscriminate attacks. With this, Mrak turned indifferently and walked under the wall, where there were five hundred cavalry ready to attack, but a large, muscular hand stopped him.
"I'll go. ”
As a veteran of many battlefields, Tariq knew that the cavalry, as the most important mobile force and the sharpest spear, could not be consumed as cannon fodder on the battlefield in the early stage of the battle, they must use the most rapid posture at the most critical moment to become the sharp blade that pierced the enemy's heart, and before that, the sacrifice should be borne by other comrades.
Moreover, in Lear's absence, Mlak is the commander who is the commander, and letting the commander charge into battle is undoubtedly an insult to them warriors.
"Be careful. ”
Mrak didn't say anything, just patted Tariq on the shoulder, who nodded and leaped forward, slamming like a cannonball into the ground beneath the walls.
"Infantry, follow me!"
Spartacus's spearmen were not the wooden halberd-wielding infantry of Erathia, they were armed with uniform flintlock muskets, but the prismatic bayonets held under each barrel with two iron hoops gave them the ability to fight in close combat, and the short dagger at the waist and the light iron shield attached to the left elbow made them fearless even against the orcs.
After all, before these people became musketeers, they were all soldiers or bandits scattered on various battlefields, and the ability to get in and out of white was even more basic, and the leader of this team should have been Haag, but after he left, he could only be the deputy Tariq on top.
The gates were wide open, and a thousand infantry poured out like a tide, and then divided into three groups and stood four hundred meters from the gates, but no sooner had the infantry formation been completed than the barbarians rushed in under the leadership of two ghostly beasts.
"Bang bang!"
The continuous sound of gunfire is like the last code word that pulls the dawn to come, ushering in the light of the early sun and also ushering in the rain of blood splashing in the sky, after a round of salvo, the infantry team will no longer cross back and reload the enemy will not give them time to reload, the sharp bayonet is also broken by a mace or meteor hammer while hurting the blood of the eating demon, just a photo, the city will add more than a hundred souls.
"Fire!"
At the moment when the bloody storm under the city had just been lifted, the artillery team in the city had finally completed the reloading of gunpowder, Jeremy stood in the gap between the female walls and roared until his voice trembled, and the suppressed muzzle of the cannon thundered for a moment, and then dozens of cold iron balls exploded between the enemy and his own people with blazing flames.
The raging flames ignited the ogre's hair and the spearman's armor, but more human warriors jumped up as the ogre covered his head against the ensuing piece of iron.
The whistling shards slit their abdomen and let their intestines out, the larynx and their esophagus out, and the head and thighs let blood or brains out, but the warriors roared and screamed like demons crawling out of hell, yelling and yelling "x your mother" and stabbing their bayonets into the ogre's chest, using the last of their strength.
Then it hung like a rag on the ogre's huge body and swayed in the wind, or was grabbed by a giant hand, slammed to the ground, and then kicked his head to pieces.
Some died in the fire, some died at the ogre's feet, but all of them did not let go of their grips on the barrels of their guns until their arms were torn off and their bodies were torn apart.
"Fire!"
Jeremy stood on the city wall with bloodshot eyes that were about to burst, this is what war is like war, he kept saying this to himself in his heart, but how can those ogres raised by bitches not blow up!
The ogre's heavy armor is not invincible.
Without the protection of the ghost beast, the heavy iron armor finally began to crumble after two rounds of artillery fire at such close range.
The violent waves of air generated by the explosion simultaneously squeezed the internal organs of the warriors on both sides, and even though they were gifted and protected by stone skin skills, the flames and pieces of iron that followed finally began to treat the two sides of the battle equally.
Countless severed limbs and blood broke through the barriers of the crowd and rushed into the sky, both ogres and humans, after experiencing the baptism of the early sun, fell back to the ground and rolled up a piece of yellow sand with blood, which could not help but remind people of roasted pig's trotters wrapped in sesame seeds, fresh, fat, pale skin engraved with gorgeous death.
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