Chapter 139: Heaven's Fall A tepid offensive
"I know what you mean!" Huck nodded to Farah and summoned the herald to his side after seeing Farah leave, "Tell the herald to go down and let the squads take turns resting, according to the normal schedule, according to the horn and bell of the Goddess Temple!"
"Yes—" Because Huck had been in the watchtower all along, and the heralds had gathered around the watchtower, and when they heard Huck's call, they immediately ran to Huck's side, most of them were young men, many of whom had never even had weapons before this, and had lived in the city of Raki for generations, and in more extreme directions, they might not even have even been out of the capital of Rakhi. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
With the issuance of Huck's order, the soldiers guarding the city wall began to be forced to rest in shifts, and some who were unwilling to rest were also required to lie in the camp tent and close their eyes to recuperate, in order to save physical strength, because of too much tension, some soldiers could not eat food, and could only rely on drinking some water all day long, Huck asked the kitchen to prepare some meat porridge that was easy to swallow and digest, and let the soldiers eat some simple food mixed with meat porridge to ensure the next high-intensity battle.
This situation not only happened to the east gate, north gate, and west gate guarded by Huck to varying degrees, similar to the situation on Huck's side, most of these situations appeared in the soldiers who volunteered to participate in the defense, among which the north gate as the main gate had the smallest reaction, because most of them were soldiers who fought on the frontier all year round, and Ximen had the strongest reaction, because the terrain of the west gate was bad, even if the demon had wings, it was difficult to capture it, so the guard of the west gate was a mixed corps of various volunteers, although most of them had participated in the war, but they had killed a few people in the sky, and it was really said that in the face of this kind of group battle scene, few people have seen it!
Nearly half a month has passed since such days, and the demons seem to have disappeared in this half month, and even the soldiers in the watchtower have not seen any movement in the camp, but because of the last sneak attack, everyone has not relaxed their vigilance this time, plus sufficient sleep and the gradually recovering drink *** God is also much better than last time, so the observation is more careful than in the past.
"Your Highness, look, is there any movement over there?" Huck first patrolled the front line as usual, and then returned to the watchtower to continue to observe the demon's movements, this time Huck had just stepped into the narrow staircase of the watchtower, and heard a report from a soldier above, these soldiers had become very familiar with Huck after a period of time together, and also knew roughly when Huck had come, so after hearing the dull sound of Huck stepping on the stairs in his heavy armor, he began to report his findings to Huck.
Huck took three or two steps up the stairs to the lookout at the top, "Look, over there—" said the soldier, pointing north-east, "when I looked at it before, it was pitch black, but now there is a fire, as if it was heading towards our north gate!"
According to the soldier's guidance, Huck looked to the northeast, and could indeed faintly see some fire, but it was very faint, and sparse, it didn't seem to look like a demon, nor like a large-scale march would have a state, but the devil's cunning was notoriously, let alone the gesture he made, even if he died, he might not be able to believe it, "Shoot the red alchemy flare—" Huck thought for a moment, and finally decided to treat this as a possible sneak attack.
The soldier received Huck's order and immediately fired three red signal flares into the sky, and the three red lights rose from the top of the watchtower to the sky, so that the dark clouds were printed crimson, and the demons hiding behind the dark clouds were printed with a large black reflection by the red light, and after finding that they had been exposed, the demons flapped their dark bat wings and launched a surprise attack on the sky fortress, and in response to the sky troops, the demon troops lurking on the ground could only speed up and run forward, rolling up a large area of desert dust behind them。
"Assemble and blow the horn!" Huck saw that the dust suddenly rose in the distance, so he immediately ran down the watchtower, while shouting to the heralds to gather troops, while picking up and blowing the horn hanging from his waist, the soldiers immediately began to assemble to the city wall where they were after hearing the layers of horns, because of the experience of the last time, so this time everyone seemed much calmer, and the speed of the assembly was also faster, although it seemed that they were still in a hurry, scolding, but the speed was indeed faster than last time, especially the speed of the recruit archers, compared to the last time they didn't even shoot a few arrows, this time they could barely catch up with the start of the war。
"Where's your captain?" said Huck in a panic, grabbing a consecrated knight running to his place, "where is he now?"
"Captain Farah was ordered by the Lord to go to the Goddess Temple, I'm afraid he won't be able to arrive in time!" The Consecrated Knight saluted Huck and continued to run towards his position, and Huck took a look at the temple of the goddess, drew his sword and returned to the city wall, standing with the soldiers responsible for protecting the musketeers, when the shield that served as the dome began to crackle again, and it was even denser than last time, Huck glanced at the distance between the demons in front of him and the city wall, those demons moved much slower than the previous group, even if it looked like they were running forward very hard, but the speed was really not flattering。
"Your Highness, what are those demons doing? Are they using all their power to strengthen their armor? It seems that the demons are not as crazy and not afraid of life and death as the legend says!" one of Huck's lieutenants kept a full posture, and he couldn't stand it anymore at this moment, so he put his hand down, "Those guys are too slow, even the turtles are faster than them, right?"
"Don't underestimate them, no demon of any kind is easy to deal with!" one of the devotion knights warned, "Do you have any armor-piercing arrows?" and after a moment of silence, he continued.
"Huh, armor-piercing arrows?" Huck repeated, "are they really using all their power to strengthen their armor?"
"Your Highness, those guys seem to be easy to bully, and if you don't have enough armor-piercing arrows, they can even push your walls to the ground!" another consecrated knight admonished, "We have suffered from them in the past!"
"Pass the order, let all the archers replace them with armor-piercing arrows, and then, let the musketeers stand back and push the alchemy cannon up!" Huck didn't show the slightest hesitation, and after glancing at the consecrated knight who spoke, he began to give orders again.
Alchemy artillery was first developed by Rakhi, a kind of alchemy weapon that uses spars as energy and fires magic through the magic array in the barrel, and Fei Yue did not suffer from this kind of thing when he competed in the academy, and then Fei'er and Rakki united, and these cannons were strengthened again and again, and Fei'er has now popularized this kind of artillery, but unlike Rakhi, Fei'er is a cannon that fires alchemy cannonballs, and those shells are full of alchemy substances engraved with unstable and repulsive magic arrays, while Rakhi's is still the same as before, using magic arrays to release magic, but the use of energy has been greatly improved。
When the alchemy cannon was pushed up the city wall, the demon troops that rushed to the forefront had already entered the range of the archers, but the armor-piercing arrows were different from ordinary arrows, and the number of such arrows was less than one-tenth of that of ordinary arrows.
"Wait until they're fully in range!" Huck ducked sideways behind the battlements, the pitch-black barrels of the alchemy cannon right next to him, and there was a dead silence all around him, except for the sound of the armor still falling from the dome hitting the shield.
"Archers prepare!" After about three minutes, a third of the demons were already within range of the archers, and Huck suddenly raised the sword in his hand and roared loudly, "Full strings—shoot—" As Huck's words fell, the armor-piercing arrows turned into silver meteors that swept over everyone's heads, unlike ordinary arrows, the armor-piercing arrows did not make a whizzing sound in the air, and there was no sound of regular arrows falling to the ground after hitting, but the sound of piercing the pages with a pen, and with that sound, the demons with thick carapace like turtles were all nailed to the ground by arrows, and after a few struggles, they turned into a ball of flame and turned into ashes along with the arrows.
"Damn demons, our arrows are worth more than your lives!" Huck scolded when he saw the demons like this, "Have they always been like this, using the lives of their own soldiers to consume each other's arrows, and even drawing those horrible runes on their own soldiers' bodies, so that they can die as they deserve?"
"Your Highness, you must know that they are demons!" Farah also rushed to the city wall at this time, and sighed helplessly after seeing the demons use such tactics. "When we fight, they even use civilians as vanguards, or infected civilians mixed in with civilians, and those guys have no morals at all!"
This battle is as unhurried as the soldiers standing on the city wall from beginning to end, it is said that it is an attack, it is also an attack, but it is still only an attack to consume the armament of the defending army, Huck prepared alchemy artillery for them, but until the last demon fell, they did not rush into the range of the alchemy artillery, but the consumption of armor-piercing arrows is probably not small, and not only the east gate, it is not surprising that the north gate also uses armor-piercing arrows, so that a few rounds go on, it will not be long before the armor-piercing arrows will be consumed, although the heart is angry and disdainful, but Huck can not do anything, The other party used such a tactic to recognize that the Raki side could not complete the supply of alchemy items in a short time, and the previous use of illusion was probably also to consume Raki's flares, but now it seems that their purpose has been achieved!