Chapter 734: Overwhelming (2)
After about six days of rest in front of the Three Peaks Fortress, General Dahni arrived here with an army of 600,000 troops, and she brought the latest results of the war to Lanina.
General Dahni's side launched the Battle of Snag, and the other four offensive directions of the Dark Elf commanders also launched battles aimed at defeating the Rakshasa Demon Army, and the results were not the same, some won big victories, got new breakthroughs, and some suffered small defeats, and had to retreat and wait for more reinforcements to arrive.
Since the overall situation is that the dark elves have an absolute advantage, the partial defeat in the battle cannot affect the essence of the Rakshasa Demon's retreat, especially since General Dahni's headquarters has already hit the front of the Three Peaks Fortress leading to the core area of the Rakshasa Demon, which makes the Rakshasa Demon's victories in other aspects completely come to naught. At this time, in the other offensive directions of the dark elves, the four legendary peak powerhouses under Aledia's seat each spread their own legions, either holding on to the key transportation arteries, or firmly dragging the nearby Rakshasa Demon Legion to prevent the Three Peaks Fortress from getting new reinforcements, so as to reduce the pressure of attacking the Three Peaks Fortress.
After General Daheni arrived here, he did not deploy an attack, because Lord Aledia would personally come to the Three Peaks Fortress, which is said to never fall, and lead the army to level everything in front of him, what General Daherne had to do was to make all preparations in advance, after all, millions of troops were concentrated here, not to mention anything else, just drinking water for a day could almost drink up the reserves of a medium-sized lake, and all of the Three Peaks Fortress had never been captured, and it was also related to its geographical location.
There was plenty of water behind the Three Peaks Fortress for the defenders, and these water sources were firmly protected by the precipitous terrain of the Three Peaks Fortress with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and it was almost impossible for the dark elves attacking from the outside to bypass the fortress and get clean water from those water sources. The other three directions of the fortress were only plains or hills, which could place enough troops, but they lacked drinking water sources such as lakes and rivers.
In this way, any enemy who tries to attack the Three Peaks Fortress will face a dilemma, if you want to quickly capture the fortress with millions of people in front of you, you need several times or even more than ten times the troops, but the daily consumption of these troops and clear water is a huge amount that the logistics officer of the attacking side cannot bear, if you can't capture the fortress before these things are exhausted, the army without supplies can only be defeated. However, if the attacking army is mobilized and assembled here within the amount of logistics supplies within its ability, it will not be able to support the high-intensity attack due to insufficient troops, and it will also end up in defeat and retreat.
To solve this problem, General Dahni came up with a solution, she divided the Dark Elf camp into several parts, arranged in a pattern of surrounding the Three Peaks on three sides, and a huge pit was dug behind each camp, which was then connected to the interior of the camp by a drinking channel. After the reinforcements from the rear arrived here one after another, General Dahni, in the name of the commander, recruited the legendary ** divisions of these legions, and asked them to release forbidden spells in turn, change the climate above the pit, and rain so that the pit would soon fill up into a medium-sized lake to ensure drinking water for the dark elf army. Of course, the dark elves stationed here were also ordered to control the use of water in order to reduce the pressure of those dark elf ** masters.
With enough drinking water, the dark elves also have the logistical foundation to storm the Three Spires Fortress, and half a month after Lanina came to this fortress, Aledia's main legion also arrived, and in addition to the millions of elites who came with the army, there were also Ryan, Galib and others. Now the dark elves have gathered more than eight million troops in the three directions of this fortress, of which more than eighty percent are Aledia's descendants, and the other legions belonging to the private soldiers of the dark elf family also have the combat effectiveness of the elite legions, which is also to maximize the use of the limited drinking water resources here and avoid unnecessary Lang fees.
After three days of rest, Aledia gave the order to storm, and her elite legions began to leave the camp and march to the front of the fortress. This kind of assault order is to attack continuously regardless of time, so it is impossible to put out eight million troops at once, so I am afraid that the time of a whole day will not be enough for so many dark elf warriors to line up, so the dispatched legions will attack in a rotation system.
The first wave of the offensive began, because the three directions were the main direction of attack, so the troops invested were about the same, and the frontal battlefield that Aledia personally visited dispatched three legions with a total of 360,000 troops at one time, and these dark elves who were about to go to the battlefield lined up in a neat phalanx and slowly advanced towards the direction of the Three Peaks Fortress. The thirty-six phalanxes were divided into nine rows, so that the vertical rows looked rather thick and could not be seen at a glance, but the horizontal rows were a little far apart from each other, and heavy stone-throwing carts were dispatched just between the gaps in these phalanxes.
Since there are also stone-throwing carts fixed on the Three Peaks Fortress, the dark elves can only project those boulders ten kilometers away, such a distance, and the throwing is quite heavy boulders, which can no longer be done with a single projection rod, and must be done with a roulette noose and counterweights, so the volume of each heavy stone-throwing cart is much larger than the usual one, and in order to make them, General Daheni cut down all the forests within a radius of thousands of kilometers, and the time and energy spent is unprecedented。
If you want to push such a huge heavy stone-throwing truck, you need at least 300 people to pull forward and push backwards, and this is not counting the people who use logs to drag and throw boulders in the rear, and as a result, 30 such heavy stone-throwing vehicles used more than 100,000 people, which is almost equivalent to one-third of the attacking force. Once the catapults were in place, hundreds of Dark Elf warriors worked together to secure boulders weighing at least several tons to the heavy catapults, and then fifty people twisted the wheels to slowly raise the counterweight underneath the carts.
Aledia stood side by side with Ryan and the others, watching the Three Peaks Fortress from a distance. These are three extremely short peaks next to each other, the highest of which is the main peak, which is not inferior in height to the Hengduan Mountains in Ryan's hometown, and it is difficult to climb to the top even if you cast your flying skills at such a high distance, let alone conquer the fortress built by the mountain from the foot of the mountain through a thousand obstacles.
The entire fortress is not just a surface layer, in fact, the interior of the three peaks has been hollowed out, and there are winding and rugged passages that connect to the foot of the mountain and beyond, because the attacking army of the dark elves is not just "climbing the mountain" It's so simple, the first thing they have to face is the layers of positions on the plain at the foot of the mountain, which are vertical and horizontal deep pits dug in advance, so that the attackers can't use cavalry to quickly approach, and the fixed stone throwing carts on the mountain peaks and the large ballista trucks on the positions will also make the attackers understand how stupid it is to want to capture this place, basically if they don't send super strong, they can only exchange the lives of several times the defenders.
Ryan looked at those dark elf warriors with a hint of pity in his eyes, because he knew very well that none of these warriors could survive, and these people might not even be able to completely break through the outermost plain position, but how could there be an epic victory without the dead, without the foreshadowing of countless corpses in front of him? In this kind of life-and-death war, the only thing Ryan could do was to protect Lanina and them, and not let his companions and subordinates become the part of the sacrifice.
"Attack begins!" With Molik's order, three meteor-shaped balls of magic light soared upward, dragging their curvy tails in the sky, they did not have any lethal effect, and the only purpose was to light up the dim sky of the Atlas and ignite the flames of this three-pointed fortress attack and defense battle. The Dark Elf Commander, who was in charge of the heavy catapult in front, received the commander's order and gave the same order to the heralds beside him.
As the order to attack was passed from near and far, the heavy stone throwing trucks that were ready to go made a squeaky sound, and the counterweights that had been hoisted high in advance fell rapidly towards the ground after losing their restraints, and their drooping drove the winch to rotate rapidly, and the force generated pryed the projectile rod with a diameter of more than one meter, throwing boulders weighing several tons into the distance.
The irregularly shaped boulders tumbled in the air, and the harsh whistling sound of the air was filled with a sense of oppression. Soon the boulders flew to the highest point and began to descend towards the ground, and below them were the plain positions of the Rakshasa demons. The ground trembled slightly, which was caused by the boulder smashing into the ground with huge energy after flying a distance of nearly ten kilometers, and the cover that looked indestructible on weekdays was directly shattered and collapsed in this impact, and the Rakshasa crossbow archer hidden under the cover lost his life without even having a chance to hum.