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The southwest side of Dorne is backed by the Forgotten Sea, the east side is forested, and the north side is mostly mountainous, with only a small plain near the north gate.

Even if Deves didn't do anything about the walls, most of the enemies with so many siege engines would only attack from this flat land.

This small plain was only about a kilometer wide, and the defenders hit the walls of this kilometer wide.

At this time, a large number of Thorns infantry, already under the cover of mages and archers, approached the city walls with siege engines, mobile towers and ladders.

On the city wall, the defenders did not have much time to prepare, and there were no common garrison materials such as rolling wood, stones, and hot oil.

With his magic gun, Donner killed three high-level mages in succession, and almost single-handedly suppressed all the mages in the Thorn Army.

Deterred by his firepower, more than forty magicians in the defending army cast their magic with impunity.

It was only at this time that the great role of the magician in defending the city was revealed.

Even if he is a first-level magician, the destructive power of siege equipment is higher than that of fourth-level knights such as Kane.

A large number of siege engines and mobile towers were destroyed by magic before they could be used, and many ordinary soldiers were killed and wounded.

But the defenders were too few in number, and the area covered by the fire was too small, and the archers of the Thorns army advanced under the walls with almost no hindrance.

A dense array of bows and arrows shot at the top of the city, and immediately a magician fell to the ground with an arrow.

"There's a strong archer on the other side!" Kane shouted warning as he continued to shoot arrows.

Donner can spot the mages in the opposing army at a glance, but he can't do anything about the powerful archers who hide among ordinary archers.

Seeing that there are constantly arrows from your own magicians, you can only do it in a hurry.

"Commander, do you want to deal with the archers first?" said Sarah, with all her might, before her voice could reach Donner's ears with the loud shouts of killing.

"Catapults, catapults!" Donner shouted desperately, "Magicians hide! Let them attack for a while!"

Soon after his order was heard, the ballistas were again in force, and this time, with the reference of the first round of firing just now, almost all of the remaining twenty or so catapults were destroyed.

It didn't take long for the catapults to be ready, and maybe this time they could collapse a small part of the wall.

"Dean, how much did the magician hurt?" Donner asked aloud as he checked the results through the observation hole.

"Deves is wounded! about a dozen wounded!" Victor shouted.

The mages defending the city heard Donner's order and did not continue to cast spells.

And the knights such as Kane and Kaz continued to shoot arrows, they themselves had a fighting spirit to protect their bodies, and they wore armor, and they were not afraid of those powerful archers.

But with a few dozen of them alone, there was no way to suppress the enemy army.

After shooting two arrows straight down, Kane pushed out a long ladder that had just been taken up, shouting, "They're coming!"

"Wait a minute, sorcerer!, target archer!" Donner asked, continuing to look through the observation hole for the enemy mage.

Sarah's young army soldiers, who operated the ballista, were desperately turning the crank handles, and the battle situation was precarious for more than a minute that they had been preparing.

There were only fifty knights left on the walls, all of whom had already thrown down their bows and arrows, and ran back and forth, trying to push down the long ladders, and occasionally killing one or two enemy soldiers who had already climbed up.

Under the city walls, there was already the sound of siege vehicles crashing against the city gates.

"Ballista! Push it up! Target archers!"

Sarah's call finally sounded.

More than fifty ballistas were pushed to the outside of the city wall at the same time, the modified brackets were lifted high, and a soldier cat in charge of aiming was on the rack behind the ballista, directing a dozen other people to operate.

Countless bows and arrows came at them, slamming against the iron plate in front of the ballista.

"Put!"

Sarah gave the order, and the crossbow arrows flew towards the opponent's bow and arrow position.

After firing, the ballista was immediately dragged back to the other side of the wall, lowered the stand, rewound, and prepared for the next round of shooting.

......

"Why is it so fast?" General Klee, who was commanding in the rear, was shocked and hurriedly ordered: "The archers disperse!"

Before attacking the city with all his might, Klee had speculated that it might take more than an hour for the opponent's crossbow bolts to be prepared, and he didn't even think about splitting the formation for a quick victory.

But it only took twenty minutes for those crossbow arrows to be fired again, destroying all the catapults in his hands.

Klee reviewed his light enemy as he estimated the time, and after ten minutes of preparation, he commanded the archers to disperse in formation.

However, he was wrong, and he paid a greater price for his mistake.

In order to ensure the scale effect of the archers, as well as to take into account the concealment of strong archers, the more than 5,000 archers under his command formed a very close formation. The opponent's round of crossbow arrows almost wiped out half of his archers.

......

On the city wall, the mages who returned to the battle immediately destroyed the siege vehicles that were hitting the city gates, and the large-scale attack magic killed and injured a large number of soldiers who were close to the city wall.

The pressure on the defenders was suddenly reduced considerably.

Only half of the archers of the Thorn Army remained, and after they were dispersed, their power was much weaker.

The powerful archers, who had lost their cover, were finally exposed, and within a while, more than a dozen were shot by Donner.

A little more than two minutes later, another round of crossbow arrows was fired, again killing hundreds of archers.

The threat of ranged attacks on the walls is getting smaller and smaller, and magicians can cast their magic almost with impunity.

By this time, the siege engines and mobile towers in the Thorn Army had all been destroyed under the magic, but there were more and more soldiers holding long ladders against the city walls.

"Sarah, the Knights' Camp Opposite!"

Sarah understood, and after the ballista was ready again, she aimed at the knight camp of the Thorns Army nearly two kilometers away.

Another round of crossbow arrows was fired, and a third of the four thousand knights were annihilated.

Once again, General Klee lost to his own common sense, he could never have imagined that at such a distance, the opponent's crossbow bolts would be so powerful. While directing the knights' camp to retreat, he fell into an inner tangle.

The crossbow bolts on the opposite side continued to eat away at his elite troops, and every time he stayed on the battlefield, he would pay a huge price.

But at the same time, the siege war has entered the white heat, and his army may win at any time. And once you win, those magical weapons are your own. Maybe they could be transported to Coenas right away and end that disgusting negotiation.

In the midst of this ambivalence, Klee continued to endure.

......

Another round of crossbow bolts was fired at the cavalry battalion, this time killing and wounding more than 400 people, and the knight battalion retreated.

Klee was already shaking with rage.

Adjutant General Gilfrey suddenly thought of something and asked tentatively: "General, we command the battalion, it seems that we have been within their range from beginning to end......"

"You mean......" Klee asked with a frown.

At this moment, on the city wall, the ballista carts were pushed out again, and this time, those ballista carts actually stood up and shot directly at the city, and the thorn army suffered countless casualties.

"They don't want us to withdraw......" Gilfrey said, trembling.