At the same time that the man in the demon mask was being forced back by the patrol, an apocalyptic catastrophe was descending on the outer walls of Coventry. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Attracted so much attention by the tall siege towers, it wasn't until hundreds of barbarian catapults pushed about three hundred meters from the city walls that a city guard officer spotted them and immediately sounded the siren.

Thousands of pneumatic rifles then diverted and fired a deadly stream of steel at the bottom of the city walls, causing heavy casualties among the barbarian siege troops, with hundreds of people falling to the ground and a row of catapults at the front being shattered. However, the barbarians also counterattacked, and a full two hundred catapults creaked and opened their throwing arms, and the wicker basket at the end was filled with fist-sized rocks.

Baron Edelman remained on the outermost wall, holding a special pneumatic rifle with a compressed gas canister more than half a man tall behind him. Using the cover of the battlements, he aimed at a barbarian leader with his arms raised, ready to give orders, his arms as motionless as iron.

The trigger was pulled, and the muzzle of the pneumatic rifle let out a slight air explosion, and then the barbarian leader hundreds of meters away stiffened, a small red flower bloomed on his forehead, and the whole person fell down like a wooden stake.

A precise shot stopped the barbarian troops from about a few breaths, and the second leader, much more cunning, waved his banner under the protection of more than a dozen burly warriors, and his throwing arms bounced up, and a deadly rain of stones suddenly fell in the air.

It's hard to describe the horror of this moment. Countless stone projectiles flew into the air, as if the gates of hell were opened, releasing a flock of silent crows, and as if the sky had changed, a dark cloud rose that covered the sky. Overhead, beside him, under his feet, everything was trembling and moaning. A tower was hit by countless stones, the load-bearing wall was partially broken from the middle, and the entire upper floor collapsed along with more than a dozen soldiers above, and the screams were breathtaking; a rain of stones swept over the city wall for tens of meters, and many battlements immediately cracked, and a whole group of city guard soldiers who were aiming at their guns were all gone, only red blood slowly oozed from under the large number of stones piled up.

In a matter of minutes, the defenders of the western wall had lost a third of their companions, and even though Baron Edelman had expected the war to be very difficult, the loss of such magnitude still made him blush.

"Take advantage of the barbarians to fill the stones, withdraw the troops, and leave only the high-ranking molten gold warriors on the city wall to carry out the guard mission!" he roared at the deputy commander of Chiyovala, who had just been grazed by the stone on his forehead, but fortunately his helmet blocked most of the damage, and now he was only a little dizzy.

"Yes, Your Excellency!" said Chiyovala, raising her voice as high as she could, as she straightened up from behind the battlements where she was evading, "blow the trumpet and tell the companies to withdraw their positions temporarily and be ready behind the walls!" he commanded the herald who followed him in a hoarse voice, and then turned his head back in the direction of Baron Edelman.

"Your Excellency, it's time for you to get out of here. "It's not safe here, and it's no exception for Mentor-level molten warriors, the repulsive shield can't withstand the projected stones, and the steel body will be smashed to pieces." ”

Baron Edelman returned with a bitter smile and raised the special pneumatic rifle in his hand, "If you can't stop the first wave of the desert barbarians here, Coventry will not be safe anywhere." There was a subtle frustration in his voice, but on the whole he was calm, "The City Lord's Mansion is not safe, Veronica is still poisoned and injured under the protection of many guards, here, I can at least use this gun to protect myself, and the enemy is far more obvious than in the city." ”

Chiyovala didn't know how to persuade her, so she sighed, "The gods are above, may the thorn flowers never wither." ”

Baron Edelman nodded, "Thorn flowers never wither. He replied, then pointed under the walls. "Lord Chiyowara, now you go and organize the second group of troops to defend the city, so that the people who have just withdrawn can at least rest for a few more hours. ”

It was a perfectly reasonable order, and the unspoken subtext of Baron Edelman was that both commanders were simply mad to stay on the walls. Chiyovala, a seasoned commander with twenty years of war experience, quickly left the walls without much hesitation, shouting orders along the way, demanding that the reserves be assembled immediately.

The second round of stone throwing of the desert barbarians soon began, this time with fewer stones thrown and much larger in size. A boulder crashed down only ten meters away from Baron Edelman, causing a section of the city wall to collapse two or three meters long. In the gap between the stones, the molten warriors who remained at the head of the city rose up to fight back, unlike the stones that rained down like a torrential rain, the bullets they fired were inconspicuous, but after each shot, almost one of the barbarian warriors fell to the ground.

The stone-throwing attack lasted for two hours, and the western wall of Coventry was already devastated. Sections of the city wall were smashed through breaches, three of the four towers collapsed, and at least 300 stretchers were carried down from the city, and even the high-ranking molten gold warriors suffered casualties.

Although the losses of the desert barbarians were greater, they did not exceed two thousand by visual inspection, which was simply insignificant compared to the huge scale of nearly one hundred thousand.

A low march drum sounded, and the Ranger Captain Ansenbach stood up to observe, and then shouted, "Come, those barbarians are gathering behind the siege towers! I see them preparing long ladders and climbing hooks!"

Baron Edelman then raised one arm and waved it twice, which was a signal to Chiyovala. The deputy commander-in-chief immediately dispatched his troops, and four companies of the city guard and nearly a thousand molten gold warriors from the major forces of Coventry rushed to the city, most of them carrying pneumatic rifles and compressed gas canisters, and holding heavy shields that covered half of their bodies.

Hundreds of these shields erected a new line of defense on the walls of Coventry, connected by skewers between shields, made of hard wood and covered with a layer of lead foil beneath the colourful lacquer patterns on the surface, to defend against alchemic attacks from shamans.

The vanguard of the desert barbarians gathered into a team of four thousand men, and under the cover of the siege towers that continued to march slowly, they began to run forward, like four black pressures rushing across the plain. As they ran, they roared, and the voices of thousands of voices converged as if the sky was falling apart, as if the plain in front of them had suddenly taken on life, and was crushing towards Coventry with unstoppable courage!