After the attack on the sea entered a phase of steady stalemate, fighting broke out on land.

The battle horn sounded, and the artillery units of the combined Boulder-Violet army engaged in an artillery battle with the Castel fleet in the Dorne.

White smoke spread across the river and the battlefield with a loud thunderous roar, and from time to time you could see the blue ripples emitted by the stone projectiles hitting the magic shield.

It's a contest of ammunition and extraordinary material reserves.

In the middle of the North Harbor, the towering mage tower shimmers with brilliance, and the unfurled magic shield glistens in the sun.

In the midst of the coalition, a stone bullet with demon-breaking runes was stuffed into the swarthy muzzles of the soldiers and fired into the Castel galleys in the Dorne River and the magical shield of the outer wall of the North Harbour Bridge in a series of loud noises.

"Boom ——!"

"Boom ——!"

The earthquake trembled, and the magic was restless.

Despite the protection of a magical shield, the Boulder-Violet forces carry significantly more powerful catapults than Castel's cannons.

Even though most of the stone projectiles were weakened by magic shields, some of them pierced through Castel's defenses, either hitting walls or hitting ships.

In particular, the exterior wall of the North Port Bridge.

As the first line of defense in the North Harbor, the ten-meter-high walls were taken care of by the principality's coalition forces.

Dozens of stone-shooting cannons over seven meters in length spewed white mist, and each shot meant a stone projectile weighing more than 900 pounds (more than 400 kilograms) whizzing by.

Even with the weakening of magic, the weapon that developed during the Star-Moon War to end the castle's rule is still terrifying, and the stone projectile engraved with the demon-breaking inscription still has terrifying momentum after piercing the shield, leaving a hideous crack in the wall with each shot.

Finally, after not knowing how many rounds of artillery shelling the coalition forces carried out, the tall façade could no longer withstand the continuous artillery fire.

With a loud bang, another Broken Stone Bullet pierced through the crumbling shield and struck a section of the already cracked outer wall.

In a series of exclamations, I saw a section of the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge collapse with scattered bricks and stones!

After the clouds of dust churned, a huge gap of four meters wide appeared in the city wall.

Through that gap, the Duchy's army was already able to see the bridge behind it, and the Castel army on the other side of the bridge.

Philip, the third prince on horseback, put down his telescope and smiled with satisfaction:

"The City Defense of the North Harbor...... But that's it. ”

Looking at the crumbling city wall, Count Lint beside the third prince had a complicated expression, and sighed softly:

"Times have changed since the introduction of the stone cannon."

The aristocracy ruled the world with castles as the center, and this has been the case for thousands of years.

And now, even the strongest castle will be a thing of the past in front of the enchanted stone cannon.

It can be said that with the development of the times, since the improvement of enchantment technology in the late stage of the Star-Moon War and the optimization of alchemy, many methods of war in the Miria world have quietly changed.

"The walls are broken, order the vanguard troops, launch an attack!"

The third prince narrowed his eyes and ordered.

The loud and vicissitudes of the trumpet sounded again, this time ...... It is the signal to charge and siege the city.

The vanguard of the Principality's coalition forces, which had been waiting for a long time, raised their shields one after another, braving the rain of arrows and artillery fire from the Castel side, and roared towards the outer wall of the North Port Bridge.

There was a gap in the wall, as did the magic shield that shrouded the wall.

The magical defense system that connected the entire North Harbor had become porous, and soldiers from both sides soon fought through the gaps in the walls.

The first to engage in battle were the conscripts.

As cannon fodder units for siege cities, these soldiers at the bottom of their combat power originally existed to consume the extraordinary strength of the enemy army.

Tides of soldiers poured into the gap, and ladders were also erected on the still intact city walls by the attacking soldiers, fighting for the Beigang Bridge...... It's officially started.

The breached walls no longer had a defensive advantage, and the outer walls of the Beigang Bridge soon fell in the face of a large number of principality coalition forces.

Castel's soldiers fought and retreated, and the battle soon focused on the bridge.

The arrows fell like raindrops, and the brilliance of magic was colorful.

The narrow Beigang Bridge became the most tragic battlefield, like a huge meat grinder, frantically devouring the soldiers on both sides.

In the continuous sound of artillery fire, fighting and shouting resounded in the sky, and the gurgling blood stained the entire bridge red like a stream, and even the water of the Dorne River below the bridge turned crimson.

The third prince picked up the telescope and looked at the battle on the bridge.

After a moment, he put down the mirror barrel and frowned slightly:

"It's too slow."

"Send out a transcendent army formation, capture the Beigang Bridge as soon as possible, and build a defensive formation, lest Castel be forced to destroy the bridge!"

Earl Lint hesitated for a moment and said:

"Your Highness, the magical defense system of Beigang is still intact and can still protect the soldiers, and at this moment, send out an extraordinary military formation, our elite is easy to target......"

"That's going to be fought too, we don't have much time, and ...... Beware of their destruction of the bridge, which is the gateway to the North Harbor, and if they are ruthless, it will cause great trouble for our attack. ”

The third prince shook his head and said.

As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the magic shield above Beigang:

"As for this magical defense of Northport......"

"Hmph, notify the fleet, adjust the angle of shooting, no longer aim at the fortress in Beigang, all the warships will be sent to Beigang City!"

"In addition to the magic stone bullets, also use the newly made enchantment stone bullets from the alchemy workshop that I brought from the royal capital!"

"Hehe, isn't our little earl going to protect the whole of North Harbor? Then let's see if she will spend more effort to protect the city under artillery fire, or give up her own people! ”

"The bigger the magic defense shield, the easier it is to break...... I don't believe that the shield-maintaining Silver Moon Mages in Castell can withstand such an attack! ”

With the order of the third prince, the artillery fire of the combined fleet of the principality soon changed the target.

In the roar, the stone bullets slid across the sky like a pop rain and smashed into Beigang.

Unlike the walls that are inscribed with inscriptions, making it easy to open their magic shields, the shields that cover the sky over the North Harbor are much weaker and require more mana to resist external attacks.

In the face of the continuous attacks falling from the sky, the magic shields of the entire North Harbor continued to flicker, becoming bright and uncertain.

And in the mage tower in Northport, Sir Laiton, the president of the Northport branch of the mercenary association, who was hired to personally preside over the operation of the shield, felt it even more.

After the Duchy fleet covered the city of Beigang with firepower, and the raindrops of stone projectiles smashed into the weakest part of the shield, the huge magic pressure and energy tide made the experienced Silver Moon Mage's face change almost instantly, and he couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of blood.

At the same time, the elite standing armies of the two principalities also opened their magic energy arrays and launched an attack towards the Beigang Bridge with neat steps.

The situation on the Castel side suddenly took a turn for the worse.