Chapter 325: Stoneing You to Death with Money (Part I)

Dozens of rounds of attacks, more than half of which were missed. Again, Saleen had adjusted the coordinates in advance. However, the coordinates of this kind of large weapon are fine against large weapons, but against a single soldier, it obviously depends on luck.

What really dealt a blow to the expeditionary force was the rain of arrows covering the city.

Salin looked at the hideous-looking expeditionary force, carrying the ladder and rushing towards the walls of Metatrin City, feeling that these people looked like evil spirits.

Legend has it that only creatures of the ghost plane can be so terrifying and crazy.

Those hundreds of steel arrowcarts are the last resort of the Holy See, which can only be destroyed by large trebuchets, and the trebuchets that fire shotshots can only hit the soldiers who operate the arrow carts, and they can smash these big guys made of steel.

The firing speed of this arrow cart is slightly slower than that of a bow and arrow, faster than that of a bow and crossbow, and it is a dozen rounds at a time, and it can be fired more than ten times in a row.

These more than ten launches were all completed within one minute, and the long arrows that were refilled with divine refining would also be completed within ten minutes. It can be said that the arrow rain of the expeditionary force is also quite strong, and the arrow cart made of steel is pushed to a distance of only 500 meters from the city wall, and it begins to send ****.

This distance is not something that ordinary soldiers' bows and arrows can reach, and the soldiers behind the steel arrow cart can calmly fire and replace their arrows.

The large trebuchet can't hit such a small arrow cart, and the scattered bullets of the magic trebuchet can't destroy it, so the best way is, of course, to use a powerful magic attack to destroy the apex.

However, to be able to attack magic from a distance of 500 meters, it requires at least a single magic attack of level 8 or above. Where is Salin going to get so many eighth-level magicians.

Fortunately, on the top of the city, there are undead archers, and some skeletons. Undead archers and skeletons stood at the battlements, throwing arrows with their bows and arrows, killing and wounding the Tangulas soldiers carrying the ladders, many of which were hit by the huge arrows fired from the wagons.

The speed of the undead is not very fast, but they have a keen sense and dodge in advance, and few of them are shot in the head. The skulls are not broken, the soul fire is not dispersed, and even if these undead are shot through the body, they can still fight.

The head of the city was extremely wide, and it was hidden in the fortifications made of huge stones, and the second battalion and the mercenaries were unscathed. However, they were also a little frightened when they saw a huge arrow more than a meter long shooting at the head of the city from 500 meters away. If it is up to ordinary soldiers to stand at the head of the city and fight back. There have already been more than a thousand dead and wounded.

"Let's get started. "Salin saw that the enemy's ladder might approach the city walls, and this was the first attack, so it would be too much to let the enemy get close like this.

The head of the city of Metatrine, and the part of Dante's sequence behind it, are all neatly aligned buildings, with more than a dozen cracks under Saleen's orders. These cracks are as smooth as a mirror, silently cracking to the maximum, and from under the cracks, more than a dozen metal arrow towers rise.

These dozen or so arrow towers are raised to a height of ten meters, forming an acute angle to the edge of the city wall in front of them, and can be shot downward. There are thirty-six shooting holes on the metal arrow tower, and behind each shooting hole, there is a magic alchemy crossbow.

The soldiers under the city rushed forward with ladders on their shoulders, and there were not even large puppets in front of them to open the way, and there were no large equipment such as battering rams, but Salin's eyes were sharp, and he could still see that there were several teams. Clearly strong, hidden among thousands.

"I want to fish in troubled waters, hehe. Salin sneered, fortunately at the head of the city, relying on a few alchemy binoculars on the city wall, it was still difficult to observe all the targets of the attack, who were there.

Among the three teams, there are at least magicians equivalent to fifth-level professionals, and magicians of this level generally don't follow the infantry to attack the city like this, but these three magicians are very well hidden, and they don't even use magic to speed up themselves. Otherwise, with their speed, a distance of several hundred meters, it will be there in the blink of an eye.

Salin's elemental eye was instinctive, and it didn't even attract the attention of the three magicians, Salin observed it clearly, and he whispered the location of the three magicians to the magicians around him, and the magician immediately sent the order into the arrow tower.

In more than a dozen metal arrow towers, at the core, there is a magic tablet, just like the one Salin got in Rafal's magic tower, and on each magic tablet, there is a three-dimensional image. The magician outside marked the target, and the three magic apprentices next to the magic tablet immediately reported three numbers.

Behind the shooting hole, there is a group of soldiers, each of whom is also equipped with a magic apprentice. Among them was a group of soldiers, staffed with a first-class magician. The magician immediately adjusted the angle of the alchemical crossbow and found a target to deal with in the observation hole.

This first-level mage quickly adjusted the alchemy crossbow and locked the magician at the firing point of the magic alchemy crossbow. Inside each metal arrow tower. There's a low-level mage doing the same thing. It is also an alchemy crossbow, and in the hands of a magician, the accuracy is very terrifying.

In more than a dozen metal arrow towers, a long arrow was shot almost at the same time. The arrow streaked a red light in the air, making a strong sonic boom.

Archbishop Nicholas, who was far behind, saw this scene, his face was very ugly, the enemy had so many magicians, and his surprise attack plan failed.

Usually the first round is a tentative attack, and Archbishop Nicholas hides three cardinal deacons, which are equivalent to the existence of a fifth-level magician. Let the three cardinal deacons go to the head of the city, unfold the magic scroll, and then he can send the cardinal to attack, tear a gap in the city, regardless of the casualties, and he will definitely be able to take a section of the city wall.

In many battles, the Holy See used this method to launch surprise attacks. Nicholas did not understand, and he specially instructed the three cardinal deacons not to use any magic before reaching the city walls. But how did the three of them get exposed?

It was too late, and in the alchemy telescope, Nicholas saw that there were fourteen red lines in total, drawing an accurate straight line in the air. Go straight to the three cardinal deacons.

The speed of this alchemy arrow is too fast, and the arrows are all stabbed and refined with the spear of the fourth-level demonic beast red krill, as long as it is shot, the instantaneous magic cannot be resisted.

What's even more terrifying is that after these fourteen red lines were launched, in the other shooting holes, nearly five hundred alchemy arrows followed these fourteen red lines at the same time, shooting at the three magicians.

A total of five hundred and four alchemy arrows suddenly came, these three magicians, along with the soldiers around them. The brushes are shrouded in the middle.

There is no way to avoid it!

The value of these five hundred and four alchemy arrows must be tens of thousands of gold coins, or even more. One salvo of Salin killed less than a hundred soldiers, and the three cardinal deacons instinctively unleashed the Shield of Light, an instantaneous defensive magic spell, and then they were shot into a honeycomb.

In this charge, the officers all knew who was the main force, but a sudden blow from the head of the city cost the lives of three powerful magicians, which was an extremely terrible thing. Because the three magicians released the shield of holy light, they were still shot out of dozens of holes.

Archbishop Nicholas, who was observing from afar, gritted his teeth in distress, and at the same time was glad that he hadn't sent more magicians to do this. Those more than 600 alchemy arrows, even if there are more magicians, can't resist it. Saleen's attack was to deter the enemy and kill him with one blow.

This kind of alchemy crossbow that can only be manipulated by a magic apprentice, the last time it was an arrow, it took about three minutes. At a distance of several hundred meters, a well-trained soldier can rush to the bottom of the city wall in three minutes, even with a ladder. Generally, they don't shoot all the arrows at once, and the low-level mage in the middle rarely makes a move, because only a low-level mage can instantly aim at the moving target and lock it. The rest were apprentices, and it was by relying on the red line left by his alchemy arrow as the coordinates that they could aim so quickly and accurately.

The alchemy arrow, which emitted a red light, corrected the coordinates for the other archers.

As soon as the three magicians died, the nearby Tanggulas Emperor ** suddenly lost his reliance on attack, but he still desperately rushed forward with his soldiers. There was only a minute before and after, and the infantry finally carried the ladder and rushed to the city wall.

The undead at the head of the city continued to shoot arrows downward, and the soldiers climbed upwards with only wooden shields.

The hundreds of metal arrow carts continued to shoot, and the undead lost a lot, and Diabinas summoned a few more. Fill it up. As the Undead King, the number of low-level undead he can summon is not limited for the time being. Saleen supervised the battle at the head of the city, and Diabinas did not dare to make ghosts, and protected this section of the city wall very well.

The soldiers in the back were originally hiding in stone houses, staggered cloisters, and dark castles. Seeing that the enemy had already climbed the city wall, the soldiers began to send a large number of grass balls outward. At the heart of these grass balls are stones carved out of many small holes, and inside the small holes of the stones are magic burning powder.

When a ball of grass is set on fire, it throws down the wall, and if it hits any soldier, it will cause a strong burn. Those magic powder** came out, and after sticking to the body, they couldn't be extinguished at all.

Nicholas felt like he was vomiting blood, and the city was too rich.

You know, magic powder is not valuable, but it is not something that can be used in large quantities. This is not the same as fire oil, which can be refined by ordinary people, but magic powder, which can only be made by at least a high-level magic apprentice.

The soldiers besieging the city were burned to the ground by these grass balls, and to make matters worse, those ladders were burned, and the soldiers behind them could not organize an attack at all. The undead at the head of the city continued to shoot, and for the first time, the soldiers retreated.

An attack of nearly 3,000 men was repulsed in this way, and this time, the retreating soldiers were all wounded, and the corpses left under the city were more than 1,400 people.

Nicholas understood that war was burning money, and that the people in the city were richer than he imagined, and that this battle could not be fought, but could he retreat?