Chapter 317: Stalemate
It was as if the coalition soldiers had crashed into an invisible but deadly wall, but what made them even more desperate was that even if they hadn't been killed by this invisible wall, they would have been pierced through their necks by meteor-like arrows.
The mountain of corpses piled up by the fallen soldiers became higher and higher, and the speed of the fish-man charge with sticky hands and feet was greatly reduced, and the ape warriors in the second echelon gradually rose up.
The ape-man population is huge, but the physical indicators are relatively mediocre.
In terms of strength, most of them are not even as good as kobolds, let alone the top ten strong armies on the mainland.
Speaking of fangs and claws, it may only be a little bit stronger than the sheep people who have been exterminated.
Fighting speed, under normal circumstances, snake people who incarnate as soft reptiles are much faster than them.
It is really difficult for the ape to find something superior in terms of innate physical fitness.
However, it is such a race that is now the dominant position in the Eastern Continent.
Among them, there are inevitable reasons.
In fact, there was once a branch of the ape clan that stood at the top of the strength of the hundred tribes on the continent - the Vajra Clan!
The size of this clan can only be described as huge, compared to the giant elephant clan, which is now the leader of the single combat power of the continent, but without the clumsy body of the giant elephant clan, it is not difficult for a Vajra Clan to defeat three giant elephant warriors.
Therefore, for a long time, the Vajra Clan is the well-deserved overlord of the Eastern Continent, even if the Demon Saint Martial Saint Killing Saint encounters them, they will have a headache, and most of them choose to retreat, because their strength division is completely not limited by the current series of professions, and it is not a fantasy for the young Vajra Clan to defeat the high-level warriors of other races.
In that era, perhaps only the dragon clan who guarded the Eastern Continent on Shenlong Island could match the Vajra Clan in terms of physical fitness, but the Dragon Clan never easily got involved in the disputes of various races within the continent, so which of the two clans was stronger or weaker was like a spectator who asked Guan Gong to fight Qin Qiong, and there was no way to talk about it......
However, as large as the vast universe and as small as Sumeru mustard seeds, balance exists between all things, just like yin and yang, water and fire are incompatible, you are beyond ordinary people on one side, and there must be one side that is weaker than others, and sometimes it can even be said to be a fatal weakness.
The Vajra Clan's fighting instinct is the best in the world, and they are accompanied by a smaller number of races than the dragon clan and extremely low reproductive ability, but the direct cause of the eventual extinction of the Vajra clan is the thinking ability that is very different from the super high intelligence of the ape clan today.
There is nothing wrong with using words such as primitive, barbaric, stupid, etc. to describe the King Kong clan, especially in their state of fighting, after going crazy, the six relatives do not recognize, and there is no distinction between the enemy and me.
In this respect, the Vajra Gorilla clan is not as good as the current mastiff clan.
To sum up several reasons, the chief overlord of the Eastern Continent was finally completely wiped out more than 8,000 years ago, otherwise, how could the Western Continent dare to easily invade the Eastern Continent, which is full of hundreds of races, after 5,000 years.
Nowadays, there are very few people on the Eastern Continent who have an impression of the Vajra Ape Clan, even if it is the record of the historians of the Ape Emperor in the past dynasties, it is only a few words to mention this branch of the clan, maybe the long-lived Dragon Clan has been watching from the sidelines overseas since ancient times, and there will be more objective evaluations of the rise and fall of the Vajra Ape Clan......
Let's say that today's ape race, the glory of the overlord brought to them by the absolute strength of the Vajra Ape Race no longer exists, but it is still the absolute ruler of the Eastern Continent, which is where the ape race is different from the ape race in the first place - intelligence.
This alone has determined that the apes will continue to rule the Eastern Continent, and the powerful fighting races such as the giant elephant and the lion and leopard will not complain too much about this, although at some point it is inevitable that some of the pretentious people of the clan will jump out and try to touch this red line.
In addition, the ape tribe is second only to the cat clan in terms of physical flexibility and flexibility in the humanoid state, and this advantage makes the ape warrior not vulnerable, so there will be an ape warrior saint in some years.
However, the current ape clan seems to be influenced by the two pinnacle figures of the Fire Demon Saint and the Earth Demon Saint, and the apes who study magic account for the vast majority, and it is strange and alternative to the martial arts who are dedicated to the martial arts, but then again, there are many people who practice the Five Elements of Magic, but there are very few who have achievements.
Otherwise, how could Xiong Meng not think of using the magician to borrow the power of nature to attack the third battalion?
The ape magicians who traveled with the army this time were all at the intermediate level, and these people had indeed had a very short-term amazing move before, but unfortunately they were immediately killed by the Donghai Zhenbu spear team, causing Xiong Meng not to dare to send them into battle easily.
In the densest part of the firepower network, the corpses of the ape-men have gradually covered the corpses of the previous fish-men, but more and more agile ape warriors have begun to break through the blockade fire.
The men and horses at the head of the city kept bending their bows and arrows at the enemies who were approaching the moat.
The kobold, whose marksmanship was a little smaller, also pulled the bolt and loaded it to aim and shoot, and he couldn't relax for a moment.
Feather arrows whizzing, bullets whistling, hot and cold, the two representative weapons of weapons are fighting side by side like brothers in arms who are born and die, and the cooperation is tacit, and the coalition soldiers are still dying in batches.
Jing Jun had already put away his sniper rifle and calmly killed the enemy with a domestically made 95 automatic rifle.
However, the crowd tactics eventually worked, and the first ladder of the Ape Sea Coalition crossed the moat......
The third largest camp is more than five zhang high, and the moat at the bottom of the city is more than two zhang deep, according to the topography, the river water is directly introduced from the sea, and the water depth is usually up to one zhang and five feet, but since the siege of the shark four seas, the seawater drainage channel has been blocked, and even so, it is not so easy for the coalition forces to easily cross this trench.
Niu Ben stood proudly at the head of the city, and did not see any movement from him, but the crossbow arrows falling from the sky or the scattered arrows flying from the enemy formation avoided as if they were afraid of its majesty, and none of them even touched the steel armor of General Niu.
His deep gaze swept to the cannon fodder soldiers who were struggling to avoid the rain of bullets and crawling across the river ladder under the city, a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth, raised his right arm high, and slashed down violently.
Instead of attacking the enemy, he commanded.
The minotaurs, who had long been full of anger, screamed "whooping", and all of them leaned down and lifted a huge boulder basket and smashed it at the coalition soldiers who tried to cross the river.
After breaking through the firepower net by luck, the ape-man with a heart and courage fell into another series of nightmares, and the stones rained down like raindrops.
If the previous bullet or feather arrow, if it was not directly hit the vital point, maybe it could still escape a life, at most leaving some scar marks, but to be hit by a large stone, that level of injury is not trivial, the bones and tendons are light, the person who is recruited is often unable to maintain the human body image that has been determined for thousands of years, and completely becomes a pile of blood and mud meat sauce waiting for nature to recycle, and the scene is unbearable.
However, this is the case with war.
Both sides had forgotten why they had started the war in the first place, and all they could think about was taking the city or repelling the coalition forces.
"Plop!" "Plop!"......
The ape-men, the sea tribe, and some of the third-echelon leopard warriors who had already rushed to the front line fell into the moat like dumplings, and the water that was not clear turned into a strange crimson in an instant, and many hideous faces appeared on the surface of the water one after another.
Why did the leopard clan rush up, without him, the speed of the leopard clan's running ranked first on land.
Is there no end to the big stones at the head of the three camps?
Don't forget, the most important trait of the Minotaur is its long-lasting stamina and the strength that is not very weak, and finally the huge logistics personnel continuously transported the ore containing iron from the Iron Mountain behind to the city, so as to ensure the powerful firepower of the third battalion to make the coalition soldiers not wake up in a nightmare.
Niu Ben saw that the enemy's fierce offensive was temporarily contained, and a slightly raised heart under his calm dark face gradually calmed down, and raised his eyes to look ahead.
Promoted to the high level, all abilities have been qualitatively improved, and his gaze is like two substantial swords, piercing through the vast sea of people, and reaching Xiong Meng, the commander-in-chief of the enemy's siege.
The latter's face was gloomy, and half a day had passed since the beginning of the offensive today, but the results of the battle were obvious to all.
Because of the lack of heavy crossbows with red oil wood and cold steel arrows, the strength of the attack on the three battalions was greatly reduced, and the trebuchets hindered the firing range, and most of the stones were smashed on the strong and perverted walls of the three battalions.
The casualties of the low-level soldiers who charged on their own side were extremely heavy, and the latest reports of injuries of the Lions, Tigers and Leopards began to be reported one after another.
On the contrary, looking at the third battalion of the Niu Ben guard, the trebuchets at the head of the city were still throwing stones and explosive bombs at their continuous camp, and the limited number of battlements shone with dazzling white light, but they were alive to intercept a large number of charging soldiers a hundred meters away.
At present, the layers of corpses of low-level fighters have formed a mountain of corpses of a certain scale, which in turn seriously affects the smooth attack path of the follow-up fighters.
What made Xiong Meng even more unacceptable was that the soldiers who broke through the many obstacles and reached the city were smashed into the fertilizer of the earth by the raindrops of rolling wood and stones.
In other words, after attacking for half a day, the damage inflicted on the three battalions was limited to the heavy crossbows and trebuchets at the beginning, and the stormtrooping troops basically did not threaten the other side, and if they insisted on the results, at most they wasted some stones in the city, as well as the kind of small projectiles that the ape said Niu Ben's new weapons needed to exert their power, but then again, God knows how many of these military strategic materials Niu Ben has stockpiled these days?
"General Xiong, this battle is not optimistic......"
The mighty figure standing close to Xiong Meng spoke, this person is about the same length as Xiong Meng, but he doesn't have the gray and black hair of the Violent Bear Clan, but the big mouth that occupies nearly half of a face is its main feature.
He is the sea clan general, Shark Sihai.
Xiong Meng's face was expressionless, and he snorted coldly: "No matter how strong Niu Ben is, he is only his own strength, and he will not believe that his city is really unbreakable!"
Obviously, he didn't want to admit that the siege was unfavorable in front of the shark four seas, although the two were the same camp, but after all, the waiters were different, and they were always intriguing in secret.