Book IV, Chapter 18:

As I drew my sword and prepared to fight, a large arrow made of pure metal pierced the shoulders of the two Dreadknights in succession and sank into the rocky ground, but the metal arrow with exaggerated piercing power could not bring down the Dread Knights who were not afraid of pain, and one of the people who walked in front symbolically stabbed me 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 and go back and tell your leader, by the way, tell that guy, Lao Tzu's teeth are very expensive!!"

Ignoring the threat of the Fear Knights, Nabal strode forward and smashed the helmet of one of the knights with the handle of his axe, smashing the man's nose bone with a slam and slashing him to the ground with both axes. The remaining two Dreadknights did not choose to duel with Nabal, but instead rushed in the direction of reinforcements, wielding a long-handled chain gun to engage in a fierce battle with the Red Knights and the Navy Swordsmen, one of them was hit by the Red Lotus Knight's giant shield until he lost his center of gravity, and was immediately shot by the gray knight behind the metal arrow through the steel helmet, and the headshot flew out of the city wall along with the corpse.

The last enemy still did not retreat. I killed several Navy swordsmen with a sweep of the blade, and then prepared to shoot the chain gun to kill the Dog Knight not far away, and I immediately removed the crossbow from my back. An arrow aimed at his thigh was fired, and the steel crossbow bolt pierced through the leather armor and knocked the Dreadknight down, and the next thing to entertain him was the giant axe in the Red Lotus Knight's hand.

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 will definitely die......"

I reloaded my bolts, put them away and walked to the battlement, carefully looking down. However, he found that a striking piece of red cloth was slowly descending with the air current, and it was actually the Dreadknight who had just fallen, and his canvas cloak became an excellent slow descent object, plus the equipment was light. Carrying the master flew over the waters of the moat, which was nearly fifty meters wide. Directly landed on the wasteland on the south bank, and the dark war horse that received it also galloped out of the house in the distance.

The Banded Knight, armed with a large bow, immediately prepared to shoot his target, but Nabal stopped the Grey Knight on the grounds that 'Isaac will not allow defeat, and the immediate priority is to consolidate the defenses', and the latter agreed with him and formed the remaining warriors in the shortest possible time, assigning the wounded soldiers to clean up the corpses and carry the fallen soldiers to another makeshift morgue.

"Lemuel. Didn't the commander summon you a long time ago, and I was watching this position. Hurry up and go. ”

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

Out of worry, I still stopped and chattered before leading the team on the road, and the Bozzi people on the north bank of the canal in my 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 rocks that were not too big against the city wall, and suddenly the rubble splashed, and a piercing loud sound erupted.

By the time I arrived at the southwest corner with the lower platform of the crowd, the enemy had already begun a full-scale attack, and the walls of the catapult were almost completely destroyed, relying only on a large number of a dozen red-armored knights with large shields 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 Pozes were much more slender than the trebuchets of the Gronyas, and the ballistae were difficult to aim accurately at long distances, otherwise they would not have been 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, I squeezed through the crowd and climbed to the commanding heights of the command post where Julius was, where I observed the situation under the city with a telescope, it turned out that throwing small rocks and arrows of little significance were just simple suppression, and when the city was powerless 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, I still vaguely saw that there was something strange in the water between these warships, each ship was separated by more than ten meters, and several super huge projection weapons suddenly surfaced under the water, larger than any weapon I have 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, I quickly returned to my defensive position, loosened the ballista mounts in turn, and lowered them to the lowest height enough to shoot most of the area in the circular waters, and before I had time to calibrate the coordinates, I ordered several ballistae to be fired at the same time, praying that the arrows fired from 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, I leaned out of the city wall again, and the underwater part of several huge weapons under the city had already begun to operate through the water power, and easily threw two huge metal balls into 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 terrible, not only shattering the outer wall of the rock, but also causing nearly twenty centimeters of deep damage.

The less noticeable concussions can already be felt on the city walls, and 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 then attack, and that is the minimum range of our catapults, only need precise aiming to ensure that the stone throwing attack hits, and the soldiers on the city wall also began to act urgently, the crane arm lifted one rock debris after another from the water, and the catapult finally launched a huge building debris after several adjustments。

"Well done Lemuel!"

With a loud bang, the stone-throwing hit the target, and the sailors in the same boat shouted excitedly, and one of the enemy's frontmost battleships was pierced by the boulder and sank, directly dragging the connected siege weapon into the water, and the ballista that recalibrated the target also fired at the same time at another battleship connected to the equipment, and the giant crossbow bolt shot through the bottom of the ship, sinking the battleship on the other end of the chain, and finally successfully destroyed 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 I commanded was destroyed, an explosion occurred on the platform, and the fire spread rapidly, which was exactly what happened before, and my 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 me were instantly devastated. Fortunately, the impact of the explosion was much less due to the rain, so I pushed away a corpse as if nothing happened, took off his military boots, 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 their identities. And in a high place, the rain affected by the wind was so relentless, and gradually I couldn't even open my eyes, so I had to raise my hand to block the rain, lower my body and slowly retreat back.

In fact, I was the only one who survived the defensive position, and Julius sent two knights from the rear to carry me from the broken walls to the high platform in the rear, and within the reach of the siege weapons of Porz, the soldiers of Gronia also received an urgent order to withdraw to the lower platform for a while.

The increasing intensity of the offensive gradually threatened Julius's temporary command point, and he led us 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 Gronya knights were stationed, and Captain Shoy and Porcha and others 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 still have fuel bombs, we must not rush to the city wall to garrison, and we must take a single means to destroy the enemy's destructive weapons. ”

A noisy human voice came from outside the canopy, and in the pouring rain, I saw five or six navy soldiers with a large iron ball with a flange each walking into the canopy, and the thick black line on the iron ball was sealed with wax oil, which seemed to be something like a lead.

Julius disbanded the porters, personally pushed the seemingly dangerous orbs in front of us, and did not forget to check for any defects in the quality, before finally handing over the unidentified 'goods' to Shaw.

"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. (To be continued......)