Chapter 741: Overwhelming (9)
The fire in front of the dark elf army was finally extinguished, and the dark elves' logistical preparations were almost completed, with the help of the earth department, the dark elves tamped and strengthened the passage they had paved, and finally let those heavy stone throwers enter the launch position, and transported a large number of tons of boulders up for these big guys to consume.
Ordered to serve as the front-line commander, it was General Daheni, she was originally only a legion commander on the border of the dark elves, and the battle sequence belonged to the border garrison troops, but after Ryan defeated Fetahab, she was reused by chance, and the army under her command advanced all the way to the Three Pinnacles Fortress and made outstanding achievements, and because of the outstanding performance of the Lanina Legion under her jurisdiction, she was highly praised, and now she has become a senior commander commanding more than a dozen legions to fight, which can be said to be a step to the sky.
Looking at the dark elf army that was ready in front of him, General Dahni's eyes fell on the fortress in the distance, the fortress of the Rakshasa Demon was built on the mountain, and the bottom gate had long been filled with sand and stone by them, and it was impossible to break through the door from there, so the attack of the dark elves focused on those city walls on the surface of the fortress, because the Rakshasa Demon wanted to guard the passage where the army would definitely be mobilized, and as long as he conquered a few city walls, he could enter the fortress retrograde along those passages.
However, even the lowest wall is more than fifty meters above the ground, and the walls are treated so smooth that it is almost impossible to climb with bare hands, and only tools such as siege ladders can be used, but it takes no less time and effort to push such a slow-moving big creature in front of the city wall than those heavy stone-throwing trucks, and the fixed stone-throwing vehicles on the Rakshasa Demon Fortress are the biggest obstacle at this distance, so the first step of General Daheri is to clear them first.
The Rakshasa Fortress's catapults have a range of only about four or five kilometers due to their size, and the Dark Elves' heavy catapults can safely throw boulders out of their range, while the threat of those ballistas is not very large, after all, they are mainly installed here to deal with threats from the sky, such as air strike units riding bipedal dragons or Chimera.
Such a unit, the Dark Elves also brought a legion, but such an expensive Chimera flying unit will basically not be used in a brutal war of attrition, their biggest advantage is that they can search for targets from a high position, and they can reach a speed far beyond the ground cavalry troops after flying, which is definitely one of the best options for executing strategic objectives, such as destroying the opponent's headquarters, paralyzing the battlefield command, and so on.
The massive boulder was thrown into the air by the Dark Elves' heavy stone thrower, which targeted a fixed stone thrower on the distant fortress, and the boulder rolled in the air several times, slamming into the surface of the Three Peaks Fortress, knocking a large gap between the site and the nearby wall, but it didn't hit the target. More huge stones were thrown into the air, and the Dark Elves' heavy stone-throwing carts were firing at full power, concentrating on all the Rakshasa stone-throwing carts that could be seen in the field of vision.
Under this continuous attack, the city wall of the Rakshasa Demon has become a mess, and there are many damage caused by boulders everywhere, and many stone-throwing vehicles have been destroyed, but the casualties are not very large, because the Rakshasa Demon did not put a large number of troops on the city wall at the beginning, and there are quite a lot of internal passages in their fortress, which can mobilize troops to any place where it is needed in a very short time, and there is no need to put the warriors in the bright place too early to withstand the blow of the dark elves.
Those dark elf family private soldiers acted again, in order to push the stone throwing cart in front of the Rakshasa Demon Fortress, it was necessary to solve the problem of the road first, those crisscrossing ravines on the outer plain position spread to the vicinity of the fortress, the dark elves only paved the road to the location where the fire was ignited, and then went deeper into the range of the Rakshasa Demon Stone Throwing Vehicle, and if this project was carried out too early, it would definitely be attacked by the Rakshasa Demon head-on, and it must wait until the stone throwing vehicle of your own side was suppressed before it could be carried out.
With their previous experience, the movements of these family privates became more and more proficient and fluent, so the speed of paving the road was much faster than before. In order to shield the Rakshasa from attack, multiple dark elf phalanxes are on standby, forming a sturdy shield wall to defend against arrows. When the laying work entered the range of the Rakshasa demon stone thrower, the stone throwers on the fortress that had not been destroyed began to return fire, and the stones they threw were extremely threatening to the infantry phalanx with concentrated personnel, often a stone of hundreds of kilograms smashed on the ground did not immediately sink into the dirt, but was bounced up by the ground and continued to roll forward for a distance, leaving countless stumps and broken arms and red blood everywhere they went.
In order to minimize the casualties of their own team, every time the Rakshasa Demon's stone throwing vehicle is launched, the Dark Elves' heavy stone throwing vehicle will lock onto this target and bombard it repeatedly until it completely destroys the target. The boulders launched by the heavy stone-throwing vehicle are all multi-ton kinds, even if they are not directly smashed on the stone-throwing vehicle, the impact force generated by the huge stone hitting the mountain wall or city wall can completely shock the Rakshasa demon warriors within dozens of meters to the ground, and it can also effectively destroy the launch of the Rakshasa demon stone-throwing vehicle.
The dark elves' heavy stone throwing vehicles have caused quite effective destruction effects, but they are too few, only thirty bodies, facing the dense Rakshasa demon city wall and the stone throwing car on the city wall on the entire mountain peak is simply a drop in the bucket, and even if they destroy a Rakshasa demon's stone throwing car, they can mobilize manpower to launch a new stone throwing car from the cave passage and other places, because of the condescending reasons, the range of the Rakshasa demon's stone throwing vehicle does not need to be too far to cause an effective attack, this light stone throwing vehicle is very light, coupled with the relatively flat and smooth ground on the city wall, it is only a matter of ten minutes to regain combat capability。
This is the advantage of building a fortress, the attacker will always be at a disadvantage and pay more casualties, about this The dark elves were mentally prepared before attacking, so despite the heavy casualties, General Daheni was still unmoved, personally standing on the front line to supervise the battle, watching the soldiers in front of him slowly forge a road to the fortress with their lives and blood.
When those dark elf family privates paved the road to less than a kilometer away from the fortress, they ushered in a second heavier casualty, because this distance has entered the range of the Rakshasa crossbow archer, under the dense to cover the sky under the rain of arrows, unless the shield wall is a whole huge shield, otherwise there will always be flaws and gaps, as long as an arrow penetrates and shoots a dark elf that forms the shield wall, there will be a small gap in the front shield wall, and when the dark elves have no time to fill this gap, more arrows will enter from here and shoot more targets。
The screams never stopped from the beginning, too many dark elves died in the rain of arrows from the Rakshasa demon, and many more dark elves would not hesitate to step on the corpses of their companions. At such a close distance, it was already difficult for the Rakshasa Demon's stone-throwing cart to attack the dark elves, so in order to resist the rain of arrows that were so dense that they almost formed the curtain wall, the dark elves all crowded together as much as possible, forming the tightest shield wall to cover the advance of their companions.
Such a dense number of personnel immediately attracted the eighth-level spells of the Rakshasa demon magicians, and the loss speed of the dark elves increased again, but with the advance of the dark elves, the crossbow shooters and magicians of the dark elves began to fight back against the Rakshasa demon target who also entered their own range, although it would be a loss from the bottom up, but the troops invested by the dark elves were also several times that of the Rakshasa demon, which more or less offset the terrain advantage of the Rakshasa demon.
As the road ahead was almost completed, General Dahni gave the order to dispatch the siege ladder. This siege ladder is actually a moving platform, its front erected a hard baffle, can be used to shield the warriors on the platform from the front of the arrow attack, if it can be successfully pushed to the edge of the enemy wall, the baffle can be pushed down to become a tread connecting the siege ladder and the city wall, the dark elf warriors below can quickly walk along the ladder behind the machine to the platform above, and then parallel through this pedal to the opposite wall to fight.
The manufacturing principle of such a siege ladder is quite simple, but it is a big project to build a platform fifty meters high, in order to be able to form a local force advantage in a short time after knocking down the baffle, the platform must at least have a position for hundreds of people to stand, so as to calculate the volume of the entire siege ladder is naturally quite amazing, want to push such a huge siege ladder from those that are not even flat ground, not only need more manpower, the speed of action is also absolutely slow and outrageously slow, this is simply the best target for an opponent's catapult, so you can only rely on quantity and luck to make up for this defect。
One such siege ladder was pushed by thousands of dark elves in unison, slowly advancing towards the distant fortress, and there were more siege ladders in front of and behind it to advance to the city wall step by step, in order to resist the attack of the Rakshasa demon stone throwing vehicle, each stone throwing vehicle was equipped with a number of red-robed advanced ** masters who specialized in protective magic, and the defensive spells they jointly released could resist those boulders falling from the sky, of course, how long they could last could only be left to fate.
With the path forged by the dark elf warriors in front of them with life and blood, the speed of these siege ladders is relatively slow but quite determined to move forward, during which almost every siege ladder has withstood the attack of the Rakshasa demon stone throwing vehicle, at this time it depends on the luck of the individual and the strength of those red-robed mages, if you take less blows, the magician's defensive spell effect is stronger, and you can support it for a while in this harsh environment.