127, the most extravagant counterattack
The great magician who fought with the defense line was Wald, who did not float into the air, perhaps having learned the lesson of Julian's death last time, and stayed behind the castle tower.
Gilgamesh couldn't make a single shot, and laughed and said, "Amon, did you use such a big battle just to catch my arrows? I want to see how strong the walls of Red Headland really are!"
The war drums thundered, and the forty guards carried the high platform and advanced to the left front, avoiding the location of the tower where Amon was, and the siege team rushed up. The drawstrings of the artillery carts on the city wall were tightened, and the bows and crossbows had already been wound, and when the enemy's siege engines came into range, the first round of flying stones fell into the sky, and the arrows on the arrow towers also shot into the city through the flying stones. Some people were hit by arrows and fell down the city walls, others were hit by flying stones and fell under the chariots, and the battle began again.
If the enemy army is allowed to push the chariot to unload the sand and gravel without any scruples, the walls of Red Headland can be filled in quickly. The Uruk legion's chariots were blocked by flying stones and arrows, but the artillery carts and crossbow arrows had a dead angle for shooting, and the siege vehicles passed through the dense arrows to reach the city walls, and the soldiers defending the city had to lean out of the walls before they could shoot, thus exposing themselves and becoming the target of the opponent's fire.
Truckloads of sand and gravel piled up under the base of the wall, and then scattered like quicksand. This is the quicksand technique in the earth elemental divine art, and it can also play a role in stopping the siege at the moment. Singing sounded on the city walls, all kinds of fire, wind blades fell, Uruk soldiers pushing chariots raised their shields to defend, and many people were hit by magic and let out a terrible cry.
The team of sorcerers sent by Amon to the walls is also helping in the battle, and is ready to attack the enemy at the base of the wall. They all stood a little further away from the pheasant moat, protected by samurai in front of them.
In the sound of war drums, the chariots with arrow towers in the Uruk army formation also approached, and the two sides fired arrows and crossbows at each other, only a swishing sound was heard breaking the sky. A curtain of light also rose around the arrow tower, and the arrows lost their strength and fell, and the priests of the Uruk Legion also advanced with the battle line, hiding behind the chariot to perform magical magic.
Gilgamesh said to Enqidu from the high platform, "Amun really sent the magicians to the city wall, and in groups of three, to help the warriors defend the city. ”
Enqidu sneered: "The number of magicians is much smaller than that of warriors, and the biggest use is not hand-to-hand combat on the front, they are jumping over the wall in a hurry." ”
Gilgamesh reminded, "As I had guessed beforehand, those magicians might be waiting for you with scrolls. ”
Enqidu: "It's just a shell, and if it is broken, it will be all broken!"
Gilgamesh smiled lightly: "Don't worry, let me try how hard this shell Amon covers the city." ”
Forty guards carried a high platform made of giant trees and walked around the city at the back of the battle array, and Gilgamesh avoided the tower where Amon was in the center, and shot his bow and arrow at the wall. The range of the arrows is not only in the crossbow or bow, but also in the person who shoots the arrow, and the crossbow arrows in the city do not hit Gilgamesh on the high platform, but the arrows of Gilgamesh are shot the city walls with the power of a roar.
The arrow sent the rocks that shot at the front of the city wall flying, and in an instant, a large piece collapsed, and several Eju soldiers fell. Singing was heard at both ends of the gap, and several magicians worked together to perform the Wall Technique, and the falling earth and stones flew up and rolled up, temporarily repairing the gap.
Gilgamesh smiled slightly, did not dwell on one place, and continued to move away from the high platform under his feet, and shot another arrow not far away. Several soldiers with shields were shocked by the arrow, and the protective shields offered by the three magicians behind them were also shattered by an arrow, one was shot through the chest, and the other two were swept down behind the city wall by the surging force, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.
Gilgamesh shot arrows back and forth unhurriedly, each arrow did not do its best, but the power was also amazing, and when he shot an arrow from place to place, he always made a catch, either breaking open a gap in the wall, or shooting down several soldiers, or overturning a catapult, causing panic on the wall. And the besieging soldiers found a breakthrough and took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, and in order to plug the gap, the defending army suffered great losses.
Amon who was watching the battle on the city tower was a little in a cold sweat, Gilgamesh's magic arrow was so powerful, fortunately, this kind of archery technique could not be used intensively without restrictions, and it itself was extremely mana-consuming, so Gilgamesh didn't have to go all out, and only shot an arrow every once in a while, otherwise this city wall would not have to be defended, and it was better to directly open the army and charge the battle.
The great magic array presided over by Wald also operated, and the great magician slowly flew up behind the city wall, flying not high or too far in front, just following Gilgamesh's position far around the city, there was always an invisible barrier above the city wall, and finally stabilized the situation. But if you fight like this, you are always passively beaten.
Artillery carts were also erected between the turrets of the Uruk Legion, and pieces of flying stones were smashed towards the walls of Red Headland, they were indeed the most powerful legions on the continent, and their marksmanship and the accuracy of the artillery carts were obviously better than those of the Eju soldiers. Amun, who was on the city tower, also took out his bow and arrows, and shot a dozen arrows intermittently.
He shot over two sandstone chariots, a cannon cart, and an arrow tower, but the arrows he continued to shoot were also resisted by the enemy camp's magic protection array. Looking at Enqidu beside Gilgamesh, he hasn't made a move yet. Amon sighed, quietly turned around and left the tower, and the great magician Li Quaid beside him was also gone.
There are only a few thousand defenders in Red Cape Town, and if you resist so hard, you will not be able to hold it sooner or later, and it depends on when Enqi chooses to launch a charge. Enqidu on the high platform had been paying attention to the arrows shot by Gilgamesh, and seemed to be oblivious to the fierce battle above and below the city wall, and quietly said, "Lord of the City, you have attracted their Great Divine Array and Great Divine Magician. ”
Gilgamesh nodded, "You can do it!"
Enqidu: "The cavalry on the left and right flanks of Red Cape Town should have been dispatched to outflank our military formation. ”
Gilgamesh: "The chess pieces are all clear, I have been prepared for a long time, and I am fighting a tough battle." As he spoke, he suddenly shot three arrows in succession, one faster than the other, and with unstoppable force, they all shot at a point on the city wall.
A huge roar was heard, and the invisible curtain of light that enveloped the city suddenly became extremely bright, and Wald, who was flying behind the city wall, waved his staff and blocked the three arrows with all his might. The entire section of the city seemed to tremble, and the soldiers on the wall fell to the ground unsteadily. Everyone thought that Gilgamesh was going to choose this place to launch the main attack, and Enkidu also jumped off the high platform.
As soon as he saw Enqidu move, Wald immediately flew back and disappeared from behind the city wall. This is what Amon has long admonished, he doesn't dare to let the great magician use his flesh and blood to resist the fist of the continent's number one warrior, and he must distance himself in order to launch an effective counterattack.
However, Enqidu did not rush directly forward, he ran wildly behind the battle formation, bypassed the tower and came to the city wall on the other side, faster than flying, and then turned around and rushed straight to the city, and when he was far away, he stomped his feet and jumped high, and smashed his fist into the city wall with a ball of golden light. Behind him, a group of Uruk heavy cavalry galloped out and followed the great warrior to break through the city's defenses.
This is where Gilgamesh's second arrow hits, and the three magicians guarding here have been killed, and the nearby magician group has reopened the distance to fill the void, but it is also a relatively weak point in defense. The mid-level magician holding the scroll is not a great magician, after all, the scroll must be used by people, and in the face of Enqidu, who can not panic?
Enqidu's speed was too fast, so fast that it gave people the illusion that he had just swung his fist as if he was in front of him. The magician holding the space-locked scroll unfolded the scroll too early, and the space in front of the city wall was distorted and trance-like, and many flying arrows were instantly frozen, and then slowly fell, including the crossbow arrows shot by the soldiers defending the city towards Enqidu.
This imprisoned space was instantly torn apart by a cloud of golden light, leaving cracks in the ground below. The sorcerer holding the high-level attack scroll made a slightly low shot, it was an air elemental scroll, and the diffuse wind blade danced violently, even leaving a mark on the city wall, and the nearby siege soldiers fell screaming.
But Enkidu passed through the edge of the wind blade from above, and the wind blade scattered under the glow of his fist, and occasionally a few aftermaths were obliterated by the light emitted by the snake scale armor. The great warrior slammed his fist into the city wall, and the magician with the high-level defense scroll didn't have time to unfold it!
The city wall collapsed in half, smoke and dust exploded to obscure the surrounding vision, and the soldiers on both sides were swept to the ground by the flying air waves. At this time, the thunderbolt was deafening, the flames were flying, and the other two groups of magicians, one on the left and one on the right, had already thrown out the scrolls, and they couldn't see Enqidu, but they knew that Enqidu was in the smoke and dust.
As the scroll unfolded, a loud shout was heard, and a burly figure flew out, flipped in the air, and fell far away from the city. Enqi didn't stop at all, and with the force of the recoil of the punch, he flew out upside down without waiting for the landing, and threw another punch in the air, dispersing the distorted space that entwined the body.
Finally, a space-locked scroll unfolded by a sorcerer worked, but unfortunately Enqidu had already prepared and was not trapped in place. Amun, who was watching the battle from afar, almost didn't vomit blood, and Enqidu seemed to have known the tactics of the Eju Legion against him, and he collapsed half of the city wall with one blow, and then flew back with the force of recoil. With his speed and strength, even the space-locked scroll couldn't be kept.
What's even worse is that the sorcerer teams on both sides have already unfolded the scroll, and the strong attack is concentrated on the half of the city wall that Enqidu has collapsed, and as a result, the already crumbling section of the city wall has completely collapsed, but it has helped Enqidu! There are still many fallen soldiers on both sides of the gap in the city wall, some may have been injured, some were just knocked to the ground by the power of that punch, but at this moment they died under the attack scroll launched by the sorcerer.
In other words, the scrolls thrown by the magician teams on both sides not only did not hurt Enqidu, but instead helped Enqidu to collapse the city wall and kill the soldiers defending the city. No matter how good Amon's plan is, it needs people to realize it, not to mention that doing so itself is a way to do it.
Divine magicians have never been suitable for hand-to-hand combat on the battle line, and these noble adults in ordinary times face the number one warrior on the mainland, even if they are not afraid, they cannot cooperate seamlessly, and the slightest mistake will not achieve the expected results, not to mention that Enqi has already been prepared?
Enqidu flew backwards and fell to the ground, the heavy cavalry behind had already followed, and the gap in the wall in front had also opened. He shouted again and strode into the two sections of the wall. The morale of the Uruk Legion was greatly boosted, and they launched an assault on the whole line around the city wall, cooperating with the breakthrough of Enqidu!
At this moment, I only heard Amon shouting: "Enqidu, I have been waiting for you to die for a long time!"
Where was Amon? Standing on the top of a building behind the tower, he could see the semicircular line of the city wall in front of him. Countless arrows flew over the walls and into the city, and clumps of stones wrapped in flames flew down to the inside and outside of the walls, which were fired by the siege artillery of the Uruk legion, and it was a sight to behold.
The sorcerers were also fighting, and from time to time flakes of ice mist extinguished the flames on the stones, and the twisting force changed the direction of the stones, making them unable to hit the soldiers below. The siege battle has entered the **, Amon stood on the roof and watched quietly, around the tall building where he was standing, there was a team of brightly armored cavalry silently lined up, waiting for something.
Amon stretched his bow and arrows, his expression was extremely solemn, and the ninth-level great magician Li Kuide was standing behind him, holding a magic staff in his left hand and a spatial magic weapon in his right hand, and he was meditating with his eyes closed, both of them had been gathering momentum for a long time.
As soon as Enqidu's figure appeared in the gap in the wall where the smoke and dust had not dispersed, Amon shot an arrow, which was silent and fast at first, but suddenly slowed down as it approached the city wall, and there was the roar of huge waves crashing, and a blue light flashed around him.
Countless sharp ice picks appeared, converging all over the sky and shooting directly at the center of Enqidu, and even the air became cold. With the slightest sound, the arrow suddenly accelerated between the ice picks again, like the peak of a huge wave, and Enqi could not avoid it. This is an arrow shot by Amon with all his might, and there is a ninth-level great magician who uses mana to attach to the arrow, in order to enhance the effect of the ice mang's concentrated shot, Li Kuide also holds a space magic weapon filled with water in his hand.
Both Gilgamesh and Enqi can play archery and cooperate, so Amon and Li Quaid can also cooperate in the same way, waiting for the moment when Enqidu appears. Enqidu rushed into the city to guard against all attacks, and immediately faced a fist of golden light, which smashed into Amun's arrow cluster with a loud bang, and the stirring force exploded the countless ice picks that flew into the powder.
Li Quid gritted his teeth and picked up his staff, and the dancing ice foam condensed into a huge ice shell, just blocking the gap in the city wall and covering Enqidu inside. The ice wall instantly ignited with fire, the flames changed from orange to blue and then to pale gold, this hand magic is similar to the effect of Nero's self-created scroll "A Song of Ice and Fire", Amon once used this move to kill the two-headed monster snake, and at this moment let a ninth-level great magician cast it to deal with Enqidu.
Enqidu is not as easy to deal with as the two-headed monster snake, he turned around and waved his fists on the spot, his body was like an invisible phantom, and the snake scale armor on his body also emitted a bronze light, and all the flames close to him were swept away. Suddenly, an arrow whistled and shot diagonally at the outer layer of the ice shell that had just condensed, and with a click the whole ice shell cracked, and it was an arrow that Gilgamesh had fired with all his might from a distance.
At the same time that Gilgamesh's arrow cracked the ice shell, Enkidu had already turned around and punched the ice shell from the inside. The most powerful lethality of "A Song of Ice and Fire" is the explosion caused by the flames in the thick ice, but just as it is about to explode, Gilgamesh's arrow and Enkidu's fist hit the ice shell at the same time, and the ice shell shatters, and Enkidu flies out.
Behind Enqidu, a huge explosion was heard, and ice and flames scattered in all directions, and the wave of air even swept over the Uruk cavalry who were rushing towards the city wall. Then the flames were extinguished, and the shattered ice and scattered earth and stones in the sky were recollected by a strange force, and a hard frozen ground was formed in the gap in the original wall.
The gap in the city wall has been repaired, and the frozen soil formed by the mixing of earth and stone and cold ice is quite tough, and a single cut can only leave a white mark, and such a large piece of frozen soil cannot be melted in a short period of time unless it is attacked by a concentrated onslaught with the fire element divine technique. Li Kuide saw that Enqi had escaped, and immediately used his mana to repair such a section of the city wall, this is the ability of a ninth-level great magician, it is simply a miraculous skill.
Not only is the movement in this place amazing, but under the walls of the entire frontal defense of Red Cape Town, there is a surge of mana, some of the siege vehicles of the Uruk Legion are on fire, some are torn apart, and some are rolled up high and buckled on the soldiers in the rear, and the soldiers who attack the city let out a wail, and they suffered heavy casualties in an instant.
The arrow shot by Amon was a signal, and he gave an order to all the magicians on the city wall in advance, and when he heard this arrow, he unfolded all the attack scrolls in his hand, controlling the scope of the outbreak so as not to hurt the city wall, only targeting the Uruk soldiers and chariots besieging the city. Some of the magicians had already died, and the remaining magicians had unfurled all the high-level attack scrolls, and the siege troops that had just pounced under the walls were almost devastated.
Amon had already planned that once Enqidu broke through on a certain section of the city wall, and the magicians in other positions could not use the scroll, then they would throw it out at the same time and severely damage the siege troops. The Rod Dick father and son have saved a lot of money over the years, and Amon is absolutely generous, and almost all of his efforts are squandered in the blink of an eye. No matter which legion on the continent it is, I have never seen anyone fight like this!
If there is a general who can spend the most money in the blink of an eye on the battlefield now, it is Amun's "feat" at the moment. But he spent the money of the Cape City-State and the Eju Military Department, and in the end it had to be counted in the Eju treasury, and he didn't feel heartache anyway.
The Uruk army was not defeated, but the siege troops at the front were already crushed, and at this time a short horn sounded from the distant army formation, which was an order to command the forward troops to gather and assemble and temporarily retreat, and they could not continue to attack under the chaotic city walls, and the army must be reorganized. The remnants of the siege force left behind the corpses and broken chariots in the ground, and quickly withdrew to the battle formation of the arrow tower, while the remaining siege arrow tower also slowly retreated beyond the range of the enemy to regroup.
(To be continued)