Chapter 238: Final Word (2) (Ask for Recommendation!Ask for a Monthly Pass!Ask for Subscription!)
"This town is a decoy," Bracky explained his tactics to several desert kobolds and lizard captains, "and when the camels came to attack, we went around behind their backs. ”
This is a typical desert elf tactic. Although this dragon clan army does not have four-legged horses, each of them is equipped with fanatic armor, which can still allow them to outrun galloping horses and come and go like the wind.
However, the key to victory or defeat will depend on whether the armed logger Jamah can withstand the first wave of attacks from the camels. If it can act like a magnet and firmly attract the attacking army, the surprise attack will be effective after the rear.
As soon as the walls were built, Brac made good on his promise and let go of all the camel inhabitants, leaving only their food - with the elemental shaman as a hostage, the chips were enough.
Moreover, if the camel army began to attack this wall, leaving so many camels inside the city wall would be a hidden danger after all. At the same time, defensive equipment privately made by the kobolds of the desert was put on the walls.
In the early morning of the third day of the occupation of Jamaher, all the work began to come to an end.
Rolling logs and pegboards were piled up on the city wall at intervals. The surplus armor of the madman was dismantled, and the ballista and trebuchet made of breeding muscles and flesh were also erected.
In order to prevent the enemy from charging in formation, some warriors of the Dragon Clan rushed to work overnight and dug dense traps around the camp. Some of them were so vicious that they planted wooden thorns in these shallow pits, which were only slightly larger than the soles of the camels' feet.
The nobles' private soldiers who had been let go did not let these preparations go to waste—they received conditions that were impossible to fulfill, and the Twin Peaks nobles who ruled over Jamach did not hesitate at all, and soon gathered a larger and better equipped army and returned here.
When they saw the newly renovated wall made of earth and stone, everyone couldn't help but gasp, and the Twin Peaks nobles who personally commanded the army frowned.
In order to get faster, this camel army did not carry heavy siege weapons, so it was somewhat helpless when faced with the strong walls. However, when he saw the gate of the camp, the Twin Peaks nobleman finally found a flaw, and he couldn't help but sneer twice.
"Even if you learn some of the fur of fortification, monsters are still monsters," he saw the desert kobold on the city wall, and found that those fellows were indeed short and ugly, as reported by the captain of the private army, "The shield axe man charges, and breaks down the gates of Jamaher!"
After receiving the order, a group of camels dressed in bronze plate armor, armed with huge shields and large axes, rushed out to the gate of the camp. They scattered, shielded themselves with huge shields, and charged with their heads. As long as you get close to the wooden fence-like gate, with the giant axe in your hand, it doesn't take two or three swings to complete the demolition.
However, it always backfires so unexpectedly. The giant shield protects the hunchman shield axemen well, but also completely obscures their sight. After stepping on the trap, they tumbled and fell to the ground one after another.
The weight that was not invited, coupled with the heavy equipment of the body, and the inertia proportional to the mass, made every camel man shield axe who fell to the ground break his ankle, stepped on the horse pit with wooden thorns, and even more bleeding, and fell to the ground.
"Shaman...... Master, hurry up and help them withdraw!"
In his eagerness, the Twin Peaks nobleman almost forgot about etiquette. But no wonder he was in such a hurry, after all, each of those shield axes was the strongest warrior under his command.
Hearing this order, the elemental shaman standing beside the Twin Peaks nobleman had an unhappy look on his face that became even more gloomy.
He didn't agree to this kind of behavior of directly attacking monsters without regard for the life of the hostage Berber.
Elemental shamans are not easy to cultivate, and each one is a valuable asset of the camel empire. What's more, although Berber is not close to him, he has studied under Master Gelsang anyway, and he can be regarded as a fellow disciple.
Still, he did what he said - it was the tradition of the camel army to obey the command of the Bactrian nobles, and he really didn't want the elite warriors to die in vain.
Reciting a mantra to communicate with the elements, the elemental shaman slammed his totem pole into the earth, the spirits of the air and earth elements haunting him, listening to the relays of his elemental spirits.
A puff of sand and dust rose from beneath its feet with a gentle breeze, and suddenly intensified after a dozen steps away from the elemental shaman. The sandstorm obscured the view of everyone present, temporarily depriving the desert kobolds who were shooting the wounded with bows and arrows out of their sight.
It was only when the camel warrior who rescued the wounded carefully carried all of his comrades with broken legs back into battle that the elemental shaman, who was sweating from his continued concentration on casting spells, stopped chanting the incantation.
As he pressed his hands downward, the dust floating in the air instantly fell, filling the trap on the road to the gate of the camp.
"I need to take a break," the elemental shaman said decisively as he reported his situation to the Twin Peaks nobles after completing the ritual of summoning the sandstorm, "In two hourglass hours, I will be able to regain my ability to provide spell support." ”
The Twin Peaks nobleman, who was the commander, nodded, he also knew that before these elemental shamans became masters, communicating with the elements was an act that consumed both mental and physical strength. The more powerful the elemental spells are summoned, the more difficult it is to last.
"Whip and arrow archers prepare, suppress the shots of those monsters on the city walls," the Twin Peaks nobleman changed his tactics, he wanted to provide some help to the shield and axe warriors who were charging into battle, "The spear team mobilized men to take charge of shield protection, and the remaining shield axe men gave up their shields and attacked at full speed. ”
As the order was given, teams of camel whip and arrow shooters surrounded the walls of Jamach, and the half-encirclement spread.
Each of them was separated by at least one person or so, and the rain of arrows was somewhat sparse at first. Later, as the tip of the whip spun faster and faster, the arrows in everyone's arrows decreased rapidly, and the dense rain of arrows weighed down the defenders on the city wall to raise their heads.
According to the plan, the desert kobold who remained on the city wall quickly bent down and lowered his head at this time, and hid in the small hole shaped like a cat's ear that had been dug out in advance. Let the whip and arrow fly overhead, nail into the wall or fall into the wall, and never shoot at it and die in vain.
Without the trap and the bow and arrow suppression, the camel soldiers quickly rushed to the gate of the camp. Then they threw off their arms one after another, and chopped them with big axes, making a "ping-pong" sound.
In a few moments, one after another, the log fence was cut down, and a large hole was dug out at the bottom of the gate.
I don't know who could cut it, and with a throwing axe, it directly cut off the rope hanging above the fence gate. Losing the bottom support, the upper half of the fence collapsed and fell to the ground with its own weight alone.
"Rush in!" and see that no monster is left behind," the Twin Peaks nobleman, seeing all this, immediately ordered, "Be aware that they have Berber shamans as hostages, and they are held hostage in one place, and I will deal with them." ”
He knew very well that under this attack, although there was a high probability that the hijacked Berber would be killed by the angry monsters, the process that should be followed still had to be followed, after all, disregarding the life of an elemental shaman would still attract a lot of criticism.
"I hope you will be decisive," the Twin Peaks nobleman thought to himself, "As a loser close to Gelsan, that Berber guy really doesn't need to continue to survive......
In a way, his wish did work—the defenders of the Dragonlord Clan were very resolute—and once the gates of the camp were breached, the Desert Kobolds fought back while the Shield Axe men held on to the gate and waited for the follow-up spearmen to arrive.
"Moo", "Moo", "Moo...... The crumbling howls of the Split-Hoof Ox continued to be heard, followed by the trembling of the earth under the frenzied hooves of this originally tame giant beast.
The sharp-eyed camel man was already seeing the first split-hoofed cow, which was running around the bend in the central street of Jamaher. Its tail was firmly tied to the already lit pine branches, and its rump seemed to be greased, and the burning pine branches splattered with sparks, easily igniting its entire hind rump, and the pain filled its brain for a moment. Flames, roars, and frenzied Splithoof Oxen make for a terrifying picture, and it's all coming at the hunchman.
Then, the second, the third......
"Go up to the wall!" Looking at his comrades who wanted to hold a shield to resist, the captain of the shield axe man slapped the back of the fool's head, "Hurry up to the wall, let the spearmen behind scatter the formation, and be careful to avoid the crazy Split-hoofed ox and don't be hit by them!"
But how could the desert kobolds on the city walls let them get their wish?
When the shield axe men began to climb the city wall, the ballista that had not been used until now immediately began to roar, like a fire gathering near the walled gate.
Wound by the muscles and used steel spears as crossbow arrows, the bronze plate armor worn by hoplites such as camel shield axemen was like pieces of paper, shattering with a single blow, and did not hinder them in the slightest.
The Split-Hoofed Ox, or Fire Ox, rushed out of the gate and collided with the spear-armed camel warriors. Stimulated by the pain of the flames, the beasts ignored the death of their spears and trampled many of the camel warriors under their hooves.
The Twin Peaks nobleman, commanding in the rear, was so stunned that he personally snatched the axe from the guards around him, intending to take the lead in rushing forward to slay the mad Split-Hoof Ox in order to stop the disaster.
Thanks to the camels' size, they were not necessarily weaker than the split-hoofed oxen, and because they were armed, they were able to slaughter them all after much effort.
Trampling on a stream made of the blood of the Split-Hoofed Ox and the blood of the Camel, the tired Twin Peaks nobleman immediately ordered the frightened warriors to be gathered, and in the current situation, even if the door of the monster-occupied Jamah was opened, he would not be able to order a storm into it.
However, the "backfire" came unexpectedly again - more than a thousand dragon clan warriors who had been waiting in the dense forest for a long time instantly killed and attacked the camel army that had lost all fighting spirit.