Chapter 114: Turning to War (5)
A phalanx of 10,000 Titans marched towards the fortress of Shamakalo with neat steps, and when these Titan warriors entered the range of the Dark Elf Catapult, they all raised their left shields under the orders of their commanders, the shape of this shield is roughly rectangular, but it should be concave down at the top, just leaving a gap for the Titan warriors to observe the enemy, and under the shield is a protruding piece, which coincides with the concave part above the shield.
Therefore, when 10,000 heavily armed Titan warriors uniformly raised this large tower shield diagonally above themselves, the lower end of each shield would be pieced together with the upper end of the shield of the warrior in front, so that 10,000 individual shields were pieced together into an airtight whole, which was the strongest means of defense of the Titan phalanx infantry - the shield wall. Humans, dark elves and other races have not used such defensive means, but if you want to talk about the defensive effect, you have to be the phalanx infantry of the Titans.
Those shields have independent defensive magic arrays, which can naturally exert their due effects when fighting alone, but when they are in contact with each other, these magic arrays have become part of all the large magic arrays of the entire shield wall, although the defensive effect is not directly superimposed, but it can allow the Titan phalanx infantry below to share the damage suffered, so that even if it is thousands of kilograms of stone projectiles fired by heavy stone throwing vehicles, there is no way to smash a blank in the dense phalanx of the Titans, but will be bounced out by the shield wall composed of tall and strong Titan warriors。
Seeing that the Titan phalanx was gradually approaching, and the ordinary catapult attack seemed to be difficult to produce any blocking effect, more catapult lifting platforms appeared on the flat city walls on the surface of the fortress, and in the case of countless dark elves struggling to twist the cables, one after another heavy stone throwing carts were raised from the inside of the fortress to the outer city wall, this kind of heavy stone throwing car is completely different from the general stone throwing car in appearance, its bullet bar is not in the rear but perpendicular to the bottom of the stone throwing car like a tower, relying on various gear winches to generate huge projectile power to launch projectiles, so as long as the design is precise enough, the materials used are strong enoughThe shape of the catapult is almost unlimited, and the distance to be thrown and the weight of the projectile are theoretically unlimited.
Of course, this is only a theoretical calculation, after all, the farther and larger the projectile is ejected, the precision of the catapult and the overall volume of the catapult are also multiplied, and the gap between the launches is outrageously long, and it is easy to lose practicality, so in the Shama Carlo Fortress, the range of the dark elves' heavy catapults is basically concentrated in the area of twenty kilometers in front of the fortress, and the stone projectiles fired are usually no more than 1,500 kilograms.
When the Titan phalanx entered the range of the Dark Elf Stonethrower, there was a "creaking" sound from the walls of the Shamakallo Fortress, and then the pre-twisted roulette suddenly lost its restraints, and the heavy object that was lifted high fell to the ground quickly. The fall of the heavy object also drives the internal gears, winches and other objects of the whole heavy stone throwing vehicle, so that the vertical erection of the projectile begins to swing from back to front, and the force generated is enough to throw the heavier stone projectile farther.
A familiar shrill whistling sound sounded in the sky, letting the Titan warriors marching on the ground know that danger was approaching, and they didn't need the commander to say anything, and they all held their breath and prepared to face the impact. A loud crash sounded coming, and several Titan warriors in the phalanx only felt a terrifying impact force that suffocated from their arms, if it weren't for the "coordinated defense" on the shield The protection of the magic array, even if these Titan warriors are strong, it is impossible to be unscathed under such an attack, Rao is so that the first few people still can't help but crash into the back, fortunately, because of the formation of the shield wall to advance, the area occupied by the Titan phalanx has shrunk a lot, and the warriors in the phalanx are almost closely connected with other comrades in the front and back, so those Titan warriors were blocked by the bodies of their colleagues behind them before they could leave their original positions, and the tight shield wall naturally did not appear even a little flawed because of this。
A dark elf officer standing on the city wall to observe the enemy's situation stopped the farsightedness he had cast with a blank face, and everything that clearly caught his eye from more than a dozen kilometers away quickly blurred. The officer waited until the farsightedness magic effect was lifted, and immediately turned his gaze to the heavy stone throwing cart that was rapidly turning the winch beside him, if it was an army of other races, at least a large blank space would be smashed in the dense phalanx just now, but now it only brought some small chaos to the other party, if the boulder could not be thrown more intensively, such a small chaos would not have any impact on the Titans' phalanx.
"Didn't you eat, move faster!" the officer scolded loudly, and then patrolled back and forth on the city walls, constantly urging the heavy stone-throwing trucks he was in charge to speed up the firing frequency. However, those dark elf warriors were highly trained, and the fastest speed they could maintain was what they could do, and even if someone was on hand to urge them with whips and scimitars, it wouldn't be much faster.
After six consecutive rounds of projectiles, the neat Titan phalanx in the distance could be seen clearly without farsightedness, and the dark elf officer was quite resentful after finding out that his attack did not destroy the opponent's formation, and at this time, a herald brought the latest order from the military intelligence command room, so the dark elf officer hurriedly shouted loudly: "Burning clouds!
Upon hearing the name "Burning Cloud", the warriors beside the Dark Elf officer all had frightened expressions on their faces, but under the urging of the whip, they quickly forgot about other things and threw themselves into the task at hand. By the time everything was ready for the heavy catapult, the thousand-kilogram stone projectile that had required a dozen or so moves did not appear again, but was replaced by a new type of projectile about three hundred kilograms, which was the one the Dark Elf officer had just said called the Burning Cloud Throwing Projectile.
Because of the greatly reduced weight, Burning Cloud only needs four people to quickly carry and install, if calculated from the weight, such projectiles are undoubtedly inferior to those thousands of kilograms of stone projectiles, but these new projectiles are not carved out of rock, but made of mythril, the inside of the projectile is hollow, sealed with strong fire oil, and on the surface of the projectile, many fire magic arrays are drawn.
When the Burning Cloud was placed, the Dark Elf warrior did not immediately start the stone throwing cart to launch, but a dark elf magician walked forward quickly and embedded several fire-based magic cores that had been prepared long ago into specific holes on the surface of the Burning Cloud, so under the effect of the fire-based magic core, a faint red halo appeared on the surface of the entire Burning Cloud Projectile, and it was obvious that these magic arrays had been activated.
The dark elf mage, who had completed the final steps, quickly moved away from the prepared catapult as if fleeing from hell, and before he could run away a few steps, the towering heavy stone throwing cart behind him immediately came out of the rotation of gears, the dark elf mage still cared about what demeanor, quickly prostrate on the ground and covered his head with both hands, he had just finished all this, and the incendiary cloud projectile placed on the heavy stone throwing cart not far behind him was thrown out with a huge roar.
As soon as the Burning Cloud Projectile left the catapult, the surface of its Mithril casting ignited with raging flames, and the dark elf mage lying on the ground only felt a wave of heat coming at him from behind, but fortunately he reacted quickly enough to lie on the ground in advance, otherwise the heat generated by the launch of the Burning Cloud would have ignited his clothes first. After making sure that he was safe, the dark elf mage jumped up and cursed a few words, but the soldiers in charge of the launch did not pay attention to these at all, and instead looked at the flame trail brought by the burning clouds in the distance as they swept high in the sky.
The incendiary cloud flying out of the wall of the Shamakalo fortress roared and fell towards the Titan phalanx on the ground like a meteor, the incendiary cloud projectile was still dozens of meters away from the ground, but the high temperature generated inside it had already formed a qi Lang swept towards those Titan warriors, looking from the distant city wall, this scene is indeed very similar to the clouds in the sky being ignited, falling towards the ground with raging flames, this is probably the origin of the name of the Burning Cloud Projectile.
When the burning cloud bomb roared and smashed on the Titan shield wall on the ground, a large amount of fire oil that was poured into the projectile was ignited in an instant and produced a violent explosion, the huge impact even the special shield of the Titan Clan could not withstand it, although the magic array on them could distribute the damage to everyone in the phalanx, but when the damage received exceeded the limit that the shield material itself could bear, the magic effect of sharing the damage naturally could not continue to take effect, so a hot flame mixed with billowing smoke rose from the ground, instantly shining a gray otherworld as if it were day。
The violent explosion of the burning clouds in the distance not only lit up the sky, but also made the ground under his feet shake slightly, such shaking was naturally quickly noticed by Ryan and Faras in the depths of the fortress, due to the protection of the magic enchantment, Ryan was not worried that such a shaking would affect his continued study of wishing arts, but since there was such a situation outside, it also showed that this fortress sniper battle had broken out, and the strong men on both sides would soon shoot separately, leaving less and less time for Ryan to continue practicing.