Chapter 30: The Fall of Tower Hill (Part II)

At the head of the tower hill fortress, the human warriors were busy again, and the attack of the 21st Legion of the Orcs three days ago had dealt them a big blow. Although the Orcs eventually withdrew their troops on their own initiative, until now, they had not found a good way to effectively deal with the Orc's fireball attacks.

The fact that the beast soldiers were able to use the fireball technique to attack had been reported to Chen Bin, the military chief of the Tashan Fortress, and Chen Bin did not dare to slack off after getting the news, and immediately ordered the communication soldiers to pass this important information to Marshal Zhao Yunnan, the supreme commander of the Northeast Theater of the Dragon Empire. It's only been three days, and before the communication soldiers have brought back Marshal Zhao's instructions, the army of the beast clan has come again. Chen Bin was also a little uneasy in his heart, he didn't know what tricks the beast clan would play this time, so he hurriedly took the guards to the head of the fortress.

Looking at the black and oppressive beast army under the fortress, Chen Bin's worry in his heart was even deeper, the beast clan is menacing this time!" "Pass my order, all the defenders of Tashan Fortress are all assembled, ready to resist the attack of the beast clan, if there is any disobedience and disobedience, they will be killed." Chen Bin ordered to the herald with a gloomy face.

The 21st Legion of the Orcs stopped a kilometer away from the Tashan Fortress and set up a position, while Sato sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, arranging the attack plan in an orderly manner.

With the sound of rapid war drums, the 37th Brigade first rushed towards the Tower Hill Fortress. The 41st and 42nd Brigades each sent five wings of pig-faced men pushing ballistas, catapults, and bows and arrows to cover the attack of the 37th Brigade.

The two Minotaur Wings rushed to the front as the first echelon, and the werewolf team fifty meters apart was the Werewolf United, and the Pig-Faced Man Wing fifty meters behind. The remaining six wings, as the second echelon, opened a distance of more than 300 meters from the first echelon. The 40th Brigade will attack after the 37th Brigade as the second wave of the attack. Ten wings of pig-faced soldiers arrived at a distance of 500 meters from the fortress to set up heavy ballistas and catapults, while the archers stood 350 meters below the city......

Before the attack of the beast army began, Chen Bin ordered the human warriors to prepare for defense. Forty bronze ballistae were already scattered along the walls of the fortress, mixed with heavy catapults, and crossbow arrows and stones were piled up beside them. Under the battlements, rolling logs and stones are also piled up. The people who were recruited in the Tower Hill Fortress were still transporting various strategic materials and resources from the arsenal to the fortress head.

Twenty thousand human archers were already in place, nervously watching the enemy's every move below. There were also 20,000 warriors hiding behind the battlements, and if the enemy rushed to the bottom of the city, they would attack with rolling wood and stones. Another 20,000 shield warriors and 30,000 greatsword warriors had also assembled in place, waiting for the moment when the enemy rushed to the city walls. In the Tower Hill Fortress, 900,000 human warriors have been gathered, ready to fight at any time.

The combat order given by Sato Baoren to the two Minotaur wings of the first echelon was to quickly charge under the fortress of Tashan, set up a ladder in the shortest possible time, climb the city wall, disrupt the defense of the soldiers defending the city, and reduce the burden on the follow-up troops to ascend the city.

Under the rain of arrows, the Minotaur soldiers quickly approached the Tower Hill Fortress. The tower shields in their hands and the battle armor on their bodies shielded them from the arrows fired by the human warriors. Seeing that the attack of the bow and arrow could not kill or injure the beast soldiers, Chen Bin could no longer care about preserving his strength, and ordered the bronze ballista and heavy catapult on the city wall to fire together, making sure to block the enemy's attack.

The investment of heavy equipment did play a role, and the attack of the orc army was delayed a little, and dozens of minotaur soldiers were killed in each round of shooting. But after all, there were too few of them, and the speed of loading crossbow arrows and stones was slow, and before a few rounds were fired, the minotaur soldiers had already rushed to the city, and could only attack the orc army behind them.

As soon as the Minotaur soldiers arrived at the city, they immediately began to erect ladders in preparation for the siege, and a squadron of Minotaur soldiers continued to pound the city gates with battering rams.

The human warriors who threw the rolling wood and stones had already begun to attack, and the human archers also changed the direction of their attacks, shooting at the orc archers below the city to cover the human warriors on the walls.

The rolling wood and stones rained down on the Minotaur soldiers under the city walls, and now the Minotaur soldiers also followed the example of the pig-faced people to hold the tower shield diagonally above their heads, which made it easier for the rolling wood to slide and reduce the impact force they were subjected to. The rain of arrows from the pig-faced soldiers under the city continued to shoot at the city walls, and the heavy ballistas and catapults were also constantly attacking, and many battlements were destroyed under this high-intensity attack, and the human warriors defending behind the battlements were either killed or wounded.

Although the shooting speed and firing distance of the pig-faced archers are much worse than the centaur archers, the range of 300 meters is still 100 meters more than that of human archers, so they use direct fire at a distance of 350 meters from Tower Hill Fortress, while human archers can only use projectiles due to insufficient range. As a result, their shooting accuracy and power were much worse than those of the pig-faced soldiers. Even if they were twice as numerous as them, they were gradually overwhelmed by the pig-faced soldiers, and the casualties increased dramatically.

The human archers were suppressed, and the other human warriors on the city walls were even more difficult to defend, as long as the body was slightly exposed, they would be shot by the pig-faced soldiers, and every time they attacked the minotaur soldiers who climbed the ladder with rolling logs, there were many casualties among the human warriors, and the attack became slow. The weakening of the attack caused many minotaur soldiers to quickly climb the city wall and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the human warriors on the city wall.

At this time, the advantage of the minotaur is revealed, holding a tower shield in his left hand and slashing with a sword in his right hand. Before the human shield warriors and greatsword warriors arrived, no one could stop them. Sato gave the death order, and until the werewolf soldiers climbed the city wall, the minotaur soldiers could not leave the battlements, and they had to defend the ladder behind them to clear the way for the werewolves and pig-faced people to enter the city.

Suddenly, the human defenses on the walls were thrown into disarray by the minotaur soldiers, with shield warriors and greatsword warriors rushing forward, archers and stone-throwing warriors dodging backwards. This time, the minotaur remembered the order of Commander Sato, and just kept driving the human warriors along the city wall, no longer rashly pursuing.

The Shield Warrior and the Greatsword Warrior quickly came up to meet him, and the two Shield Warriors and the three Greatsword Warriors formed a squad to besiege a Minotaur soldier. The shield warrior fends off the minotaur in front, while the greatsword warrior attacks the minotaur from the side.

Since the minotaur soldiers were concentrated near the battlements, there was no gap between them, and the human warriors tried to provoke them several times without success, and the plan to divide and surround them as they had done in the past fell through. Looking at the orc soldiers who kept climbing the city walls, the human warriors could only attack from the front.

A frontal assault is not an advantage for human warriors, the shield warriors fight hard and cannot shake the minotaur soldiers, often two shield warriors collide with a minotaur soldier at the same time, and when pushed by the minotaur soldiers, they staggered backwards. The Greatsword Warrior couldn't get around the back of the Minotaur soldiers, and the front couldn't break through their defenses at all, and the greatsword slashed at the Minotaur's tower shield, sending sparks flying. The tower shield was intact, but the human warrior's greatsword was crumbled out one by one. And a single sword of a minotaur soldier could end the life of a human warrior.

In the face of the powerful attack power of the Minotaur soldiers, the human warriors suffered heavy casualties and could only fill them with human lives. They had no way out, and if they were allowed to attack the walls by the orc soldiers, it would be even more difficult for them to resist.

Chen Bin's military chief has already seen that something is wrong, there is no reason for magic to be popularized in the beast clan, and now they can all use the fireball technique, which shows a problem, that is, the beast clan has produced magic equipment! As the military chief of Tashan Fortress, Chen Bin has also dealt with the 21st Legion of the beast clan more than once, and he also has a deep understanding of their equipment and the quality of the soldiers.

In general, their individual combat ability is okay, and they have been trained well by Sato, but their equipment is much worse, so when they fight, human warriors can have a certain upper hand. But now it's the other way around, their equipment is even stronger than that of human warriors, which makes Chen Bin very confused, I don't know what the beast clan thinks?

Looking at the heavily armed Minotaur soldiers on the city wall, Chen Bin's heart was extremely regretful, if it wasn't for his own self-righteousness three days ago, if he could have stayed on the city wall for a while, maybe he would have been able to discover the difference of the 21st Legion of the Beast Clan earlier, right?

The battle on the city wall has entered the white heat, the Minotaur soldiers guarded the ladder behind them, which paved the way for the werewolf team to ascend the Tower Hill Fortress, as soon as the werewolf soldiers boarded the fortress, the Minotaurs began to counterattack, they had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and the successful completion of the task allowed them to no longer have any scruples and be able to attack as they wanted.

Chen Bin gritted his teeth, now is not the time for a woman's benevolence, in order to keep the Tashan Fortress, in order to be able to defeat the beast clan, even if it is worth sacrificing more. "Throw in another 50,000 shield warriors and 50,000 giant sword warriors, even if they are all fought out, they will drive the beast army off the fortress!" Chen Bin shouted loudly.

Immediately another hundred thousand human warriors poured onto the city wall, and the shield warriors advanced one by one, in five rows, and when they fell, one person immediately came up to replenish them. The bronze ballistae on the city wall also divided into twenty to shoot at the beasts on the city wall.

Under the desperate fighting style of the human warriors, the attack of the beasts on the city wall was gradually contained, and there were signs of retreat.

However, Sato has adjusted his deployment, and the pig-faced people under the city no longer go to the city, but instead use fireball techniques to attack the city gate to make room for the second echelon to attack. The second echelon accelerated to the city, and it was necessary to reinforce the soldiers on the city walls as soon as possible. The 40th Brigade advanced at full speed, following the second echelon to the city, and when the four pig-faced men arrived, two of them attacked the city gate together. Ten other wings of pig-faced archers attacked two hundred meters before the fortress.

The rapid addition of support troops gave hope to the orcs on the city wall, and the minotaurs continued to attack the human wall lined up by the human warriors, while the werewolf soldiers behind strangled the human warriors who were scattered by the minotaurs. The boundless rain of arrows fired by the pig-faced soldiers was already indistinguishable from friend to foe, covering every inch of the city walls. It's just that the orc armies that rushed up to the city wall were all newly equipped, and the damage to them from these arrow rains could be said to be minimal. The human warriors were not so lucky, and more and more people fell under the rain of arrows of the pig-faced people.

Both sides are constantly increasing their forces, human warriors are constantly replenishing the city walls, and the second echelon of the beast clan has also climbed the city walls. With the addition of six new wings, the Orcs' counterattack is even more ferocious. With powerful equipment, they are like no one, slashing and slashing human warriors like crazy. The fireball attack of the two pig-faced people is even more difficult for human warriors to resist.

Just when the killing on the city wall was earth-shattering, a situation that neither side expected, or what the orcs wanted to see, happened!

Under the continuous fireball attack of the three wings of pig-faced people, the bronze gate of Tashan Fortress could no longer support it, and collapsed with a bang!