Chapter 273: Hill Continent: All-Out War
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The latest chapter of "Monster Minotaur"...
After a long period of deployment, the coalition forces of the continent have formed a unified whole under the will of the gods, just as they had invaded this world, and the only difference is that they have lost their superiority in strength. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Lost the power of the rune, they are not strong in front of the monsters, and they are novices in the study of magic, and they are not opponents of the hell demons at all, even if the coalition forces have an advantage in numbers, but the direction of the war does not necessarily depend on the number of people.
The first combined army assembled in Carthage had come to the fortress named Tyglis, and the tall walls and the power of shields they had never seen before made the mages of the army uncertain how to take the fortress.
But they had no other choice, the fortress was in the way of their main advance, and without pulling out the nail, their large army would not be able to pass at all.
The other mountain roads are too narrow, and the hordes of monsters will guard the place tightly, and they can't take advantage of their numbers, so there is no difference between going there and capturing it. The siege of the fortress had been going on for several months since the Combine's arrival, with attacks being launched almost every once in a while, and nothing to be achieved other than to leave behind the corpses of the various races.
However, the coalition forces are not in a hurry for this result, they have a large number of backs, and the high-quality supplies provided by the economic power Carthage, they can still consume it. It is impossible to take a fortress of this size in a long time.
And in the capture of such a strong fortress, there are even more than decades of siege in history, so the consumption of a few months is also within the normal range. After all, this is the attack of the intelligent race of the entire continent, for a powerful demon king. If it can be simply ended, then there is no need to mobilize the power of the entire continent.
On a sunny and gloomy morning, the horn of the attack was again crisped. The warriors, who had already assembled, walked towards the high wall in the distance with neat steps. Above their heads is a light blue shield, the mobile shield invented by Marlo's great magician has played a non-negligible role in this war, if it weren't for the existence of this thing, the damage that those cannons of the monsters can cause, it really makes you feel chilling to think about it.
The legion responsible for the attack consisted of four legions of human infantry with two large numbers, as well as two legions of elves with relatively small numbers, as well as legions of dwarves. However, everyone knows that the elves went to the city to pile up corpses, and the only thing they had to do was to control the improved magic shield and provide some necessary arrow rain suppression, and they were already sparsely populated and could not withstand the wear and tear of war. The elves are only responsible for helping, which is the result of the deliberations of the big guys, otherwise they would not have come to help.
As for the bearded, drunken, wheat-skinned dwarves, they would have taken part in the assault. But no one expected them much, after all, they were not like the gray dwarf cousin who was driven into the ground by them, they got a weapon called a musket from the demon king, they were small in stature and suffered a lot in the war, and they were just selling cuteness when they went to war, and more people hoped that they could be responsible for repairing the weapon, or making some powerful siege equipment to that is the role that the dwarves can play.
However, since they are part of the coalition forces, it is obvious that only letting them do those coolies who strike iron will obviously not satisfy these guys who love to drink. So there is a situation like this, some warlike dwarves are organized into legions, and then sent to the battlefield to experience their war, and those who survive will honestly go to the iron and leave the meat grinder of this blood type.
The entire offensive queue left near the barracks and went halfway there. The usual shelling came, the flames of the orange explosion illuminating the faces of all the attacking soldiers, and the pale blue magic shield shook in the blast like a soap bubble that could burst at any moment. This kind of shelling happens in every attack, and the veterans who have survived the battlefield have long been accustomed to it, knowing that although the membrane looks fragile, it can withstand the attack for them and safely send them to the edge of the wall.
The composure of the veterans mixed with the entire column of the legion soon infected the new recruits who had just arrived at the battlefield, although they were still a little afraid, but they already knew that the explosions would not hurt them, and one by one they gradually straightened their waists and strode towards the great fortress.
Soon the magical shield approached the red rune shield, and at this point they could not move on, otherwise the power of the rune would tear through the magical shield, leaving the entire team under cannon fire and musket fire, and in the event of a failed attack, they would not be able to cover the surviving warriors from leaving the area. Therefore, the elven mages will need to wait here to maintain the magic shield until the attack is completed, and the elven archers will also be on standby, ready to enter the rune shield to provide arrow feather assistance.
The veterans who had arrived at this place to take charge of the whole team knew that the real place had arrived, and they shouted to the entire queue before the final charge, some of the fighting skills they had already said several times. Everyone was listening intently, how to move forward to dodge the attack called the musket, and some useful life-saving techniques, for the big guys the battle is to win, and for the soldiers at the bottom, it is true to hold their lives first.
After a few simple and rough admonitions from the veterans, the battle officially began. All the warriors rushed out of the magic shield to protect themselves, rushing towards the red shield that was close at hand, the original dense shape was torn apart at this moment, except for those warriors who were holding shields and wearing heavy armor, responsible for erecting and stabilizing the ladder, everyone tried not to stay together as much as possible, this is the lesson that the coalition has spent months, and the lives of thousands of people, for those gray dwarf musketeers above the fortress, the denser the crowd, the more they like it, after all, the dense crowd represents a high hit rate。
The real battle began at this moment, the warriors ran and made their armor rub against each other, and the gray dwarf musketeers who were already lined up on the high wall, waiting for them, aimed at their targets and pulled the trigger, and behind the gray dwarf musketeers, there was a group of monsters with super strong arms, throwing the ignited black orbs off the city wall. Although the rain of bullets from muskets is not as dense as that of bows and arrows, it is much better in terms of deterrence and range.
"Rush! Don't stay where you are!" a veteran kicked the soldier hiding behind a stone Lei and shouted: "Hiding here is only a dead end! If you don't want to be blown to minced meat, rush me! rush! rush!" There are some Shi Lei under the city wall that can be dodged, these are of course not the kindness of defending monsters, here is a **naked trap. In the face of muskets and arrow feathers, people will always subconsciously want to find something strong and avoidable to hide, and these stones are really set up for this.
After the soldiers of the coalition army learned to keep the stragglers in shape under the attack of muskets, these stones were established overnight. Once there are enough people to dodge that Shi Lei, then the artillery that has already calculated the coordinates will take these guys to heaven.
It's easy to hit your own wall with a close-range shell, but it's different if you calculate it in advance, and these rocks are the calculated shell landing points.
Under the roar of the veterans, four or five recruits hiding behind Shi Lei rushed out again, rushing towards the city wall like crazy. And the moment they just left Shi Lei, the cannonballs fell with a loud noise, turning Shi Lei, who they had just hidden, into a crater, all of which made the recruits feel palpitations, and they were even more grateful to the boss. In fact, the veteran who had experienced a siege was also saved by the warning of others.
If four or five recruits finish this siege and still don't die, they will pass on this experience when they participate in the next siege. In addition to learning through books, human beings learn from this kind of oral tradition.
The warriors, dressed in heavy armor, finally sent the ladder to the wall and erected it one by one. One by one, the warriors under the city wall climbed like ants down the long ladder towards the high wall. The elven archers in the distance also entered the range of the red shield at this time, and shot arrow feathers to cover the siege of the human warriors, and the accurate arrows took away the lives of the gray dwarves on the city walls from afar, and for a time the musket fire was suppressed, allowing the human soldiers to advance.
Then there was a reason why the fortress could not be captured for months, the black projectiles that could explode kept being dropped, and the position of the ladder hanging was taken care of. Even the warriors who were holding the ladders, wearing rare heavy armor, were powerless in the face of such an explosion, and the ladders were quickly shattered, and the warriors below the walls were reduced to minced meat, and some were lucky enough to climb the walls, and then what awaited him was piles of high-quality weapons.
Even in armor, they had no ability to resist, and were dismembered to pieces by the sheer force, and the attack was undoubtedly a failure. The clarion call for retreat sounded in the military camp in the distance, and the soldiers, who had already been unable to bear it, immediately turned around and rushed in the direction they came from, and the human warriors who set off were nearly 5,000 people, and at this time there were only less than half of the number of people left, and the responsibility of those who could run away quickly was only less than a thousand.
The sun was slowly setting downward, noon had passed, and the warriors who were not yet dead under the high walls were wailing, and some monsters came down from the walls in hanging baskets, collecting the weapons and armor of the warriors, and piling up the fragments of the corpses, and transporting them back to the fortress in hanging baskets. Human corpses are quite delicious food for monsters, and I don't know how long the war will last, and every supply is very important.
Although the few Salt soldiers in the fortress would be disgusted by eating human corpses, most of the people chose to remain silent after Mo Yan said that they would put an end to such a thing by distributing their supplies to the monsters for food. Maintaining the size of the nearly 20,000 troops in the fortress, the supply of food is quite important, and the Salts are not noble enough to be disgusted, so they let their stomachs starve, at most they don't go to see the monsters to eat.