Chapter 423: Thrilling and Meritorious Service with Long Gang
The two flames surrounding the city wall did hinder the pace of the corpse sea's attack, but in the crowd of corpses that stopped outside the fire, a corpse mammoth suddenly rushed out of the army with a corpse giant and rushed straight towards the gate.
After being transformed into undead golems, the two big guys were no longer physically limited by extreme heart power, upper respiratory rate or lack of endurance as they were when they were alive, but their speed and endurance were much higher than before they died, and they ran from the perimeter to the fortress, stepping on the stakes and trenches that had been almost crushed, and slamming into the gates of the Shadow Tower in the face of the defenders' active defenses raining down arrows.
Whether it is the top of the Great Wall or the wall, there are actually some equipment such as bed crossbows or trebuchets prepared to deal with such large enemies, but at this moment it is the middle of the night, and the clouds are denser and thicker than at sunset, despite the firelight and snow, the army of ghouls outside the wall still looks completely black, and there is no difference between individuals. It took less than ten seconds to cross the fiery barrier and rush under the wall, and everything happened in an instant, with no large equipment having time to turn around and aim at them.
The thick-skinned corpse mammoth completely ignored the threat of ordinary dragon crystal arrows, while the corpse giant was covered in a suit of armor prepared for him by the Night King before he was born or after his death, and even held a long wooden stick in his hand, and the obsidian arrows shot at it and shattered into glass slag, and in front of everyone's eyes, the mountain-like giant elephant with various colors of fire slammed into the gate of the Shadow Tower.
The gate concave inward in an arc at the moment of impact, and in the loud muffled sound, thousands of hearts jumped in unison, fortunately, the newly built Shadow Tower Fortress was not a tofu scum project, and the heavy gate still stood firmly in the center of the doorway after the loud noise, only the craftsmen who were surrounding the door and planned to block it with stones were all frightened and fled.
If this is a living mammoth, it will have a concussion for half a day even if the skull does not shatter and the plasma splashes everywhere, but the problem is that it is dead.
The wildfire climbed up the limbs of the mammoth along the soles of its massive feet, and spread along the fur towards its body, but the beast did not hesitate or panic, taking a few steps back, and the corpse giant, left and right, and launched a second assault on the gate at the same time.
It was only then that the first bomb thrown by the defenders at the top of the wall in their panic crossed the arc and landed under their feet.
There were two more bangs: one was the explosion of a bomb, and the second was the sound of two big guys slamming into the gate again. The shockwave from the explosion of the bomb shook both the corpse elephant and the corpse giant, but the flying dragon crystal fragments that were enough to kill dozens of fruit body humanoid ghouls were a little powerless in the face of these two big guys: most of the fragments were stuck in the thick fur of the giant elephant and the armor of the giant, and only a few managed to pass through the defenses, and because the fire attribute magic contained in the small size was insufficient, it failed to cause a fatal effect.
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"Hey, old fellow, stay away from the door, I don't want to take your shift so early!" Severed Palm Colin, who was standing on the wall not far away, shouted, reminding Dennis, who was standing across the door, to stay out of danger.
But the Shadow Tower Commander didn't move, but gave the order quickly, summoning the reserves inside the fortress around the gate.
The third impact also came without stopping...... The heavy wooden doors and thick latches were strong enough on their own, but the hinges and iron deadbolts connecting the panels to the walls were deformed and loosened by the force of the process. After half a minute of buffering, the two heavy crossbows that could cover the gate finally squeaked and squeaked, and fired two dragon crystal spears with a thud, one into the snow, and one into the stomach of the mammoth, finally knocking it to the ground when it hit the gate for the fourth time.
Sporadic cheers were heard as the fallen mammoth slowly turned into a fire under the burning of the wildfire, but the corpse elephant's mission was accomplished: the gate, which had become crumbling after four hits, finally collapsed inward with the final kick of the corpse giant, and the door was wide open.
The corpse giant, whose lower body was glowing with yellow and green firelight, strode in from outside the door, swept the scene inside the gate with his blue eyes, picked up the thick wooden stick in his hand, swept away the obstacles piled up in the door with a few strokes, and stumbled towards Dennis Mellister with the debris...... and the guards around him rushed in.
The semi-stationary crossbows on the wall desperately shifted their positions to the door, but more ghouls had already followed in the giant's footsteps, swarming towards the first gap.
"Brothers, stop it with me!" Less than ten minutes into the battle, the Shadow Tower was in danger of falling! Dennis drew his sword in anger and roared at the corpse giants rushing towards him.
"Commander, please leave!"
Countless soldiers armed with dragon crystal spears surrounded and tried to kill the corpse giant, but the enemy was clad in skin, Iron-clad, tattered but sturdy armor, the wooden stick in his hand is far longer than any melee weapon used by humans, the dragon crystal arrow is too fragile to pierce its armor, the iron arrow can shoot through but has no lethal effect on ghouls, in the screams, there are constantly heroic and unlucky soldiers spurting blood and flying out, Dennis's guards have to carry the old man back, lest he suffer first, and the fortress defenders have no leader.
The breach of the city gate itself is not terrible, and it is even a situation considered in the defense plan, but the bad thing is: the first enemy who breaks through the city gate and enters the fortress, the defenders actually can't stop it!
Just as the Corpse Giant knocked down the first roadblock with the flames, and was about to tear through the internal defense line and wreak havoc in the fortress, an arrow that flashed a faint golden light that was so fast that no one could see clearly flew over the heads of everyone on the ground, destroying the heavy leather armor in front of the Corpse Giant, and burying deep into its chest...... The unremarkable blow of the mixed barren arrows had a very different result: the twelve-foot-tall giant fell to the ground with a thud as if he had tripped up, his weapon out of his hand, and he fell into a long sleep without a word.
Everyone looked in confusion in the direction where the arrow was flying, only to see Colin with the severed palm holding a purple wooden longbow, jumping from the wall to the roof of the nearest house, and then down to the ground, and hurriedly ran towards the fallen corpse giant.
As the deputy commander of the Shadow Tower and one of the best people, Colin became the carrier and user of the two "Light Messengers" in this fortress without any suspense.
The entire Lightbringer set claims to have seventy-seven sticks, but in fact it contains several fakes...... But Iger naturally didn't dare to joke with the soldiers on the front line of the Great Wall, although the number of dragon steel arrows he sent to various fortresses was small, but they were all genuine products melted from the "Dark Sisters".
"That kid...... Ahem, the Commander-in-Chief didn't fool us!This bullshit 'Lightbringer' is not a table-topped thing!" Colin shouted as he ran, "Come on a few people, help me turn this shit over, this arrow is so beautifully packaged, it should be reusable." I hurried to the door when I was idle, and thought of blocking the door. Dennis, tell the soldiers on the wall - use the bombs as they should, and don't worry about the ghosts!"
Killing the corpse giant with one arrow, the defenders who had raised their hearts to their throats a moment ago suddenly became demoralized. But what Colin was thinking about at the moment was: such an artifact, of course, it can't be used as a consumable!
After shooting his target, he rushed to the ground in front of the corpse giant, not afraid of the danger of the big creature coming back from the dead, with the help of several soldiers, he turned it over lying on the ground, and slashed it with an axe and a sword, and tossed it for a long time before pulling the dragon steel arrow off the giant's sternum - before the flames of the lower body spread to its upper body.
The barricade blocking the gate was squeezed out of a breach, but fortunately, the swarming logistics personnel quickly moved the debris and piled it up, and the open gate became a weak point that could not be ignored in the original solid wall.
The first wave of fiery humanoid ghouls had already rushed into the doorway with the mammoth's corpse blocked outside the doorway, and all the idle combatants in the fortress had rushed up to meet them with all sorts of guys. Amid the roars of the ghouls and the angry roars of the Night's Watch soldiers, a continuous explosion began to be heard on the side of the gate outside the wall - the sound of bombs, the whispering of wildfires, these powerful consumables that should have been used sparingly were now poured into the tide of corpses outside the gate like no money, and at all costs, within ten meters of the door, gunpowder and flames formed an invisible city wall, a death zone that was like a meat grinder to the ghouls, cutting off the possibility of the continuous influx of ghouls, and providing precious work time for the craftsmen inside the wall.
Under the watchful eye of a pair of soldiers, the craftsmen reluctantly erected a two-meter-high stone wall through the doorway against the sporadic threat of ghouls, and around the entrance, piled up layers of barricades in the shape of fish scales, and completely focused the defense on this place.
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"Bring two ballistas from the city wall, put them in front of the gate, aim only at the doorway, and if there are mammoths and giants coming in, don't let them step through the doorway!" Dennis looked at the city gate square where the corpse of a giant was burning, and his heart sank to the bottom, "Let the children and old people who can't hold weapons start to move through the stairs to the top of the Great Wall first!"
The combination of a giant and a mammoth that appeared moments before the craftsmen sealed the doorway made the Shadow Tower Commander suddenly realize something that he had inadvertently overlooked for a long time: the enemies were not all insane monsters, but magical creatures with the same level of intelligence as humans, and they could not be settled by devouring a defense plan. If there are only ghouls outside the wall, then you can keep the ashes of the dead until they are as high as the top of the wall, and they run out of ammunition...... But will the enemy give himself this chance to be a hero?
In addition to mammoths and giants, the strangers must have other tricks they don't know about yet...... And in the case that the gate has been destroyed and the defense of the fortress has been greatly reduced, the moment when he knows it, it is most likely when the Shadow Tower has fallen.
"My lord, the reinforcements and supplies from the Sentinel Building have arrived, please instruct!"
"Carry wildfires and bombs up the walls and get them where they are needed most. The soldiers were all brought to the door, fully equipped. β
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"Colin, come here!" Dennis stopped the deputy commander who was wiping the Lightbringer Sixty-Five, who was wiping his hands like a treasure, and gave him a new task with a serious face, "Give this arrow to the other soldiers, I want you to take a team of reliable brothers up to the fifth floor of the staircase to defend it, once the strange spirit breaks through the Shadow Tower, I want you to make sure to destroy the staircase to climb the wall, and don't let the loss of the Shadow Tower become the fall of the Great Wall." β
"What?" A look of disbelief and shock appeared on Colin's face, and his gray eyes widened, "But we're not ......"
"We've held the line, the situation is good, I'm not blind! it is true now, but will it last forever?" Dennis interrupted the lieutenant commander, "If the brothers end up holding the fortress, let me be old and suspicious." But if you can't, I assure you that the ground will never be defeated by having one more Ranger on the ground!It doesn't matter if the Shadow Tower falls, but there must be someone who has been through the battle in its entirety, and who can tell the Commander-in-Chief and his brothers in the rest of the fortress what kind of troops our enemies have used in battle, and how many methods and tactics they have usedβand especially how we ended up in the end. I can't let the brothers in the back continue to fight in confusion!"
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