Chapter 173: Achilles' Hind Roots (I)

The horn of the attack sounded at dawn. [No pop-up novel network]

As soon as the sky was slightly bright, the Roland coalition began its first siege.

Dozens of catapults were assembled, and then, with a whistling sound, large and small boulders pierced the silence of the sky and smashed into Thundering City.

The warlocks in Thundering City immediately floated into the sky, and hundreds of warlocks used the same spell at the same time to prop up a huge air shield on the city wall, and countless stones smashed on the air shield, and immediately bounced off.

But after all, there is a limit to the size of the air shield, and the boulders that smashed into the city kept destroying the houses and buildings, and everyone was scattered and hiding, but there were still one or two unlucky ones who were smashed to pieces from time to time.

Luo Di stood on the city wall, coldly looking at the flesh and blood flying in front of him, his expression was cold, and there was no emotional fluctuation in his eyes - as if on the battlefield, he had become the commander who fought in the northwest in the flesh and blood, rebellious in the Xilin Province, and suppressed the mutiny in the southern Purple Leaf City.

"There is no way to fight in siege warfare, it is purely a fight for attrition. Miró stood beside him, also with a cold look.

The catapults in the city were finally pushed out, unlike the Roland land catapults. The frames of the Imperial catapults were not filled with stones, large and small, but huge clay pots that were simmering. The flames sizzled on the crockpot, and a strong smell of oil filled people's noses, and Roddy turned to see that the catapults inside the city walls were ready, and nodded to Zigger.

Ziggy waved his hand. The catapults below immediately began to fight back!

Fireballs were thrown into the sky. With a long tail flame, it smashed into the queue of the Roland people, and then burst out one brilliant spark, one by one red flames flickered in the line of the Roland people from time to time, and the sparks splashed on the body of the Roland soldiers, and countless screams came.

Barrels of seawater were poured on the flames, but to the surprise of the Rolanders. After the sea water was poured on it, the flames not only did not go out, but roared and rose a little higher!

Many of the soldiers were quickly engulfed in flames, and the others scattered in fear. Such a strange scene made many Roland people tremble—could it be that these heretics in the Great Land of Light were really protected by the devil?

Sparks bloomed dazzlingly in the Roland army, although many Roland slings were not directly hit, but as long as they splashed a little spark, they would immediately burn, and the flames burned more and more fiercely. No matter how much you save, you can't extinguish it!

"Idiot!!" Tiger stood behind, looking at the flames in the army. He shouted: "If the water can't be extinguished, just use sand!!Splash it up with sand!!"

Seeing the Roland people outside the city being burned to the point of black smoke, Luo Di stood on the city wall and sneered: "It seems that Dandong's words are true." This flame of burning black oil cannot be extinguished by water, and the more you water it, the more fierce it burns......"

Ziggy laughed and said: "Hmph, the Roland people's catapults were learned from us two hundred years ago, and they will always follow us ** behind imitation!"

After all, there were many Rolanders, and there was nothing else on the beach, but there was a lot of sand, and buckets of sand were splashed on it, and in a short time, the flames had been suppressed.

The magicians of the Roland people finally acted, and hundreds of high-level magicians in white robes slowly floated into the sky, hundreds of people chanted a low incantation at the same time, and the magical elements in the air quickly became violent and violent. The originally calm sky suddenly appeared a large area of dark clouds, the dark clouds that made people's hearts tremble became denser and thicker, and the clouds flashed from time to time with huge electric light, and thunder faintly came from the sky.

The clouds were getting lower and lower, and the dark clouds in the sky had completely covered the entire sky above Thundering City, but even in the distant sea, the sky was indeed still clear as usual, and even the sun was still bright.

"Hell, what kind of magic is this?" said Roddy, frowning.

Although this kind of thunder-based magic is very common, it is a little strange to make such a big movement - at this moment, a lightning bolt suddenly struck from the sky, and slammed into a section of the city wall, and with a bang, the strong city wall seemed to shake violently, and more than a dozen soldiers were swallowed up in a burst of firelight, and they died charred and black. Many of the people around him also fell, and many of them were paralyzed, and the weapons in their hands were thrown aside.

"Warlock!!" Rodi roared, and the warlocks in the city immediately deployed large and small air shields to block the city walls.

But soon, something even more terrifying happened.

The dark clouds in the sky flashed with electric light, and suddenly there was a loud bang, and a lightning bolt struck, and before the loud noise had subsided, a lightning bolt struck again...... In just such an instant, a series of lightning bolts struck the city wall like fried beans.

A loud roar pierced through his ears, the sky was lit white with an electric light, and the walls seemed to shake. The air shields laid out by the Imperial Warlocks grew more and more dim in this series of huge lightning bolts, and finally, blood spurted out of the mouths of several Warlocks and fell from mid-air, followed by even more violent lightning, and the Warlocks finally could no longer hold on. The air currents in the sky became more and more frenzied, and as the Imperial Warlocks fell more and more, it seemed that the air shield above his head could no longer support it.

In the end, even the bishop elder of the Divine Sect was sweating profusely and slowly falling from the sky with a pale face. The air shield was finally broken through in a lightning bolt, and one of the warlocks at the head was immediately struck by the lightning, and he didn't even react, his body was torn apart by the lightning, and then a huge fire flickered. Hundreds of soldiers fell on the city walls. Black smoke came out of his body, turning into a charred black.

"What's going on?" roared Roddy, "even their earth magicians aren't that powerful!"

Seeing that the thunder was getting louder and louder, Luo Di suddenly roared, pulled out the dragon tooth sword, and rushed straight into the sky!

A bolt of lightning struck his head. Luo Di's body instantly burst out with a blazing golden fighting qi. The dragon's tooth sword turned into a golden light. The lightning bolt was thrown away by Roddy, and it smashed down outside the city wall, and a deep pit immediately burst out on the ground!

"Spread it out for me!!" The golden flame on Luo Di's body in the sky rose more than two meters high, and a dazzling ball of light suddenly appeared on the dragon's tooth sword, and even the sun in the distant sky instantly lost color, and in the whistling sound, a huge light blade was shot out by him, and flew towards the thick dark clouds in the sky.

With a violent air current, the light blade hit the dark cloud like an entity and immediately burst open, the wind was fierce, and the energy was pulling wildly everywhere, and a big hole was torn out of the thick dark cloud at that time, and the golden fighting spirit on Luo Di's body became stronger and stronger, and he scolded: "You will fight continuously, won't I!!"

He shouted wildly in his mouth, and the dragon's tooth sword kept slashing left and right. Countless incomparably large blades of light shot out from under his sword, and the dark clouds in the sky were quickly dispersed in a series of explosions, getting darker and darker...... I can't gather any lightning anymore......

In the distance, over the Roland barracks. The magician of Roland Big 6 was dumbfounded, and one of them, a white-bearded old man, couldn't help but mutter, "That... That guy, is he still human?!"

"It's dragon qi ......" Luo Di was shocked in his heart, understanding that it was because he used his power too fiercely and stimulated the power of the demon dragon in his body, he took a deep breath, and suddenly slammed his fist in his chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, only to feel the boiling feeling in his chest loosen a lot.

The body slowly landed on the city wall, and Ziggy immediately went up and helped Roddy. Luo Di shook his head, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said lightly, "I'm fine." After a pause, he said, "The other party's magic is a little strange...... Even their Sages couldn't use such earth-shattering magic, such dense lightning ......"

Tiger looked gloomy, looked at the tired magicians behind him, and then gave an order, and launched a huge arrow tower in the barracks, each of which was ten meters high, and the bottom of the arrow tower was equipped with heavy wheels, which creaked and slowly moved towards the city wall under the vigorous push of countless soldiers. The arrow tower was wrapped in layers of thick cowhide, braving the continuous rain of arrows on the city wall and the fireballs thrown by the warlocks of the Bright Empire, gradually approaching the city wall!

The soldiers of the brigade marched forward with heavy shields, and from time to time the fallen soldiers lay on the ground and screamed, but the advancing Roland troops did not stop at all, and followed the corpses of their companions step by step towards the city wall.

The soldiers of the empire on the city wall aimed their bows and arrows at the city and fired a volley, and when the other party approached, the stone decoration on the city wall smashed down like hailstones.

But this time the Rolands apparently sent regular infantry, and these soldiers were much stronger than those of the previous day, with high morale, courage and determination. After a group of soldiers stepped on countless corpses and finally arrived at the city gate, they quickly withdrew the heavy shield held high, revealing the heavy siege giant tree under the shield, and hundreds of soldiers held the giant wood and slammed the city gate fiercely, and a loud sound seemed to smash into the hearts of the imperial soldiers.

After paying a considerable loss, the bulky arrow tower was finally pushed to the edge of the city wall, except for a few arrow towers that were smashed by the emperor's catapult in the process of approaching, the archers on the close arrow tower and the imperial soldiers on the city wall launched a confrontation, and the height of the arrow tower completely made up for the advantage in the height of the city wall. Immediately, one side of all the arrow towers suddenly left, and a huge wooden board smashed on the battlements of the city wall, and the wooden board with a huge iron hook immediately hooked the city wall, and hundreds or even more heavily armed Roland soldiers rushed out of each arrow tower!

Ziggy had already drawn his sword and roared, "Drive them down!!"

The soldiers were roaring. The men on both sides slammed into each other! Swords clashed and there were all sorts of desperate howls.

The Roland people who rushed out of the arrow tower were obviously carefully selected elites, each of whom had quite good strength, but after all, they were inferior in numbers, and the Imperial garrison infantry burst with high courage. One by one, they stepped forward bravely. The city walls were like a bloody hell, with broken arms and stumps flying sideways, and from time to time people screamed and fell from the walls.

Luo Di didn't know how many people he had killed, but the opposing infantry had already rushed to the city, and the towering ladders had already been erected, and the enemies who poured out from the arrow towers reduced a lot of pressure on the troops who climbed the ladders, and more and more Roland people climbed the city walls.

Warlocks of the Empire after a continuous stream of fireballs. Exhausted, the Rolanders were so numerous that they were exhausted of all their strength.

The dragon's tooth sword in Luo Di's hand was like a god of death who specialized in plundering life, and any enemy he met could not resist his casual sword! Seeing that a Roland man in front of him was slashed by his sword, he flew sideways, and fell down with another Roland man who had just climbed up from the ladder. Roddy stepped forward and slashed the ladder with a sword, and the ladder fell with a series of Rolands above......

Sensing a fierce gust of wind behind him, Roddy turned sideways to block the blow behind him. In front of him stood an armored knight of Roland, holding a long, cross-slashing sword in his hand. The head of the sword was still dripping with blood, his face was misty with blood, and he looked at the costume, it seemed to be a high-ranking warrior among the Rolands, and the man gritted his teeth and said, "Your Excellency is ......"

"Get out!!" Luo Di didn't even look at him, the dragon tooth sword slashed down, and the other party put the sword sideways, but he heard a "bang", his cross sword was split as easily as tofu, and Luo Di's sword took advantage of the situation to split the person from the shoulder with the armor and body!

Kicking away the corpse in front of him, Roddy quickly yelled at Zigger, "It's now!"

With that, Roddy jumped from the city wall and landed in the city, stepping on a deep pit in the ground.

In the Roland coalition army outside the city, Tiger looked at the battle on the city wall with a solemn face, watching the dense infantry queue advancing in the direction of the city wall, and the fierce scene of hand-to-hand combat on the city wall made it impossible for the archers of the Bright Empire to stop the advance of the dense infantry of the Roland people......

"Perhaps, we can take Thunder City today......" A thought flashed through Tiger's mind.

But at this time, an amazing scene was born!

Suddenly there was a loud trumpet in the city!

The huge and heavy city gate suddenly and slowly opened! The coalition soldiers at the city gate, who were still carrying huge logs to the door, were stunned by this sudden situation. Immediately, a look of fear and despair appeared on their faces......

Tiger clearly saw a black stream of iron rushing out of the city gate, and the spears in the hands of the cavalry immediately tore apart the infantry that struck the gate to pieces!

It's Thor's Whip!!

Countless horses' hooves beat the ground, and those cavalrymen in black iron armor first divided into two teams and killed along the city wall from both sides of the city gate! Under the city wall, the allied infantry with swords in their hands seemed to be stunned, until the enemy's spears pierced their bodies and screamed, and the other infantry suddenly realized that the enemy had actually opened the door to attack when they were attacking the city!!

The soldiers under the city walls who desperately used their bodies to hold the ladder were the saddest, their strength had already been exhausted by resisting the ladder, and they could only close their eyes and wait for death in the face of the spears of the enemy's cavalry charge. Countless coalition infantry under the city wall were driven and scattered by Lu Bu's cavalry, these infantry used to siege the city did not wear armor, they were all light infantry, because the heavy armor would become a fatal burden in the difficult climb of the city, but now in the face of the enemy's terrifying cavalry charge, there is no good defense ability, which has become a weakness caused by them!

The battle under the city walls continued, but the whip of Thor that poured out of the city gate behind it no longer ran to the sides of the city walls...... Their target was the infantry queue of the Roland people who were heading towards the city gates!

The dense sound of horses' hooves like muffled thunder seemed to drown out the original shouting and killing, and countless torrents of steel from Thor's whip rushed out of the city gate, forming a neat triangular attack formation, forming a rushing iron stream and rolling forward. The iron hooves of the war horse shook the sky, and even the sun hanging in the sky was shaken by the impact of this iron stream.

The horses' hooves trampled the ground and the dust was flying, and the heavy iron armor of the cavalry made a crisp clash.

The infantry of the Roland coalition army, who were preparing to advance close to the city wall, froze for a moment, and they seemed to subconsciously stop in the face of the large force of cavalry of the opposing party that suddenly rushed out of the city......

Dusty, a thousand steps, a hundred steps, ten steps...... The cavalrymen lowered their bodies and clung to the horses, their spears pointing horizontally forward, like a forest of edges!

"Kill!!"

Tens of thousands of voices sounded at the same time, and the spears in the hands of the cavalrymen running in the front line easily pierced the shields of the coalition soldiers, pierced into the fresh and fragile bodies, splashed out incomparably brilliant blood flowers, and then howled and screamed at the same time......

The charge of Thor's whip immediately tore through the array of the coalition's subsequent attacking infantry!

Although the advancing infantry under the city of Roland Coalition was very dense and thick, in the face of the charge of Thor's Whip, this thick array revealed a strange weakness - after the infantry in the front was crushed, the scattered deserters were blocked there, because the queue was too dense, and the defeated deserters instead crushed their own army behind!

Thor's whip smashed the ranks of the Roland infantry to pieces, and the iron armor on their bodies and the spears in their hands were the deadliest weapons of the allied infantry!

Tiger turned pale, drew his sword, and shouted, "Stop them, as long as you stop them, the city will be broken today!!!"