Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Fall of Tower Hill (Part II)

Watching the orc soldiers retreat from Tower Hill Fortress, the human warriors could finally breathe a sigh of relief. They found that the soldiers of the 21st Legion of the Orcs seemed to have changed today, and the combat effectiveness of these Minotaur soldiers suddenly increased a lot, but fortunately, they were finally driven down the Tower Hill Fortress.

The orc army did not retreat, and the human warriors defending the city knew that the orcs would attack again, so they took advantage of this short gap to repair the damaged wall battlements and rush to transport the equipment and supplies to the city tower.

On the other side, the scouts of the 12th Legion had returned to Nara Castle to report to the commander of the Oshima Corps about the progress of the Sato Legion. After listening to the report, Oshima did not say anything, but only instructed the scouts to continue to inquire about the news.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the second group of orc armies began to attack the fortress of Tower Hill, this time the pig-faced soldiers of the 40th Brigade, who also changed their equipment.

Although the pig-faced people can be lazy and slippery, their minds are still very flexible, otherwise they would not be lazy. In fact, the pig-faced soldiers still have a certain combat effectiveness, they have strength and ideas. It's just because they always like to be lazy and slippery, and they always like to hide behind when they fight, so they are looked down upon by other orcs, and they are considered to be the least combative race.

Under the command of the brigade commander, these pig-faced soldiers, who had changed their new equipment, carefully held tower shields, and quickly approached the tower hill fortress in small groups in squadrons. There was a certain distance between each squadron, and the ten squadrons in front had already begun to erect ladders under the fortress of Tower Hill, and the ten squadrons at the back had not yet left the assembly area.

Such an attack also put the defending human warriors on the Tower Hill Fortress in a dilemma. Use heavy city defense weapons, there are too few enemies, which is a waste of resources and cannot effectively kill and damage enemies. Don't use it, after all, the pig-faced people have rough skin and thick meat, and light weapons are not very effective when used on them.

While the human commander was hesitating, the pig-faced soldier was already climbing up the ladder. The human commander could only order some of the warriors to attack the pig-faced soldiers on the ladder with rolling logs, and the archers shot at the orc soldiers who were still advancing towards the fortress behind, and the heavy ballista and heavy catapult were temporarily not engaged in the battle.

It is also characteristic for the pig-faced soldiers to climb the ladder, holding the tower shield diagonally, slowly climbing upwards, and only when the first soldier has climbed a third of the way up does the second soldier begin to continue to climb up. Since the defense of the tower shield in their hands was much stronger than the ordinary tower shield, a faint yellow light enveloped them. Because they are holding it diagonally, the rolling wood and stones fall on the tower shield, and it is easy to slip off, and it is difficult to exert the power they deserve. In addition, they have a lot of strength, which can fully support the impact of the rolling wood when it falls.

When the first pig-faced soldier climbed the city wall, he was not in a hurry to attack, but erected a tower shield to defend himself against the attack of the human warriors, waiting for his companions to follow. They wielded their swords desperately, not seeking to hurt the enemy, as long as they could block the human warriors and hold the ladder behind them.

The newly equipped swords of the pig-faced soldiers are very powerful, and the weapons used by humans are difficult to compete with, as long as they do, the greatsword of the human warrior will be cut in two, and only the tower shield can resist it. The strength of humans is not comparable to these pig-faced soldiers, and it is often difficult to move if they want to rely on the tower shield to rush them. If they wait for an opportunity to fight back, the loss will be even greater.

Another powerful feature of the swords used by the pig-faced soldiers is that every ten swings they make, they will form a magic fireball to attack the human warriors, and the effective attack distance of the fireball is ten meters. If they are caught off guard and are hit by fireballs, it will be difficult for human warriors to extinguish the burning flames, and many warriors will be burned to death by these fireballs.

Although the pig-faced soldiers hid back and forth in battle, they had a clear grasp of the surname of the equipment, after all, it was related to their lives. Their use of fireballs has also reached the point of perfection, and they want the fireball to attack wherever they want, just where they want it to be, unlike the Minotaur who swings his sword and the fireball doesn't know where it flies. Even werewolves can't control the fireballs as well as them.

With the auxiliary attack of the Fireball Technique, the Pig-Faced Soldier is even more calm. The human warriors did not dare to get too close to them, lest the fireball fall on them, which scared them more than being slashed.

Even so, the pig-faced soldiers were not in a hurry, and they still fought steadily, covering more of their companions to climb the city wall. There were more and more pig-faced soldiers, and it was as if fireworks were being set off on the city walls, and countless fireballs kept flying towards the human warriors. The pig-faced soldiers did not rush forward, erected tower shields, defended themselves, and kept waving their swords, that is, attacking with fireballs. In their words, this will be able to both strike the enemy and protect yourself.

The human warriors were also stunned by this attack method, all of them were long-range attacks, and they couldn't get close at all! Use the heavy ballista, those pig-faced soldiers are more cunning than the fox, as soon as they see the ballista aiming at it, they immediately shift, the ballista rotates slowly, and it is laborious, and it can't keep up with their moving speed. And even if those fireballs hit the tower shield, they could burn for a while, causing the temperature of the tower shield to be too high, and many human warriors' hands were burned as a result.

The human warriors are now helpless, and the commander is anxiously thinking about countermeasures, hoping to come up with a solution. Until there is a good solution, the human warriors can only line up the tower shields to fend off the fireball attacks of the pig-faced soldiers, and wrap the handshake of the tower shield with thick cotton cloth so that they will not burn their hands again.

After several attempts, the human warriors found that as soon as they were more than ten meters away from the pig-faced soldiers, the pig-faced soldiers would stop attacking, and within ten meters, the enemy would shoot fireballs.

Seeing that those pig-faced soldiers didn't rush up, the human warrior Suo also lined up the shield wall, and everyone hid behind the tower shield and didn't attack forward. Anyway, their purpose is to hold the Tower Hill Fortress, and if the enemy does not take the initiative to attack, they will just consume it like this, and see who consumes whom in the end.

So there was a peculiar battle of attack and defense on the walls of the tower hill fortress. The attacking side stood by the wall and threw fireballs desperately, but did not rush forward. The defending side is even more desperate, standing less than ten meters away from the opponent, all shrinking behind the tower shield, letting the opponent keep throwing fireballs over, after a while, a little back, the enemy's attack stops, and he rests for a while. Once you're rested, take a few more steps forward to attract enemy attacks. And so on, and the two sides are deadlocked there.

Watching the battle on the city wall, Sato's brain was racing to think. These bastards really left him speechless, and all his wisdom was used to keep himself safe. Don't expect them to rush at the slightest danger. However, the way they fought also reminded Sato, after all, the results of the battle were still good, they had zero casualties, and the enemy should have suffered two or three thousand casualties, right? Although the damage was much less than that of the Minotaurs, their own losses were even smaller.

It would be unrealistic to have the Minotaur master the attack route of the Fireball Technique so quickly. If you want the pig-faced people not to be so afraid of death, they can't do it in the short term, so they can only combine the two. It would be even better if the werewolves could be able to fully master this kind of attack, and it would be better if we could make a redeployment and adjust the composition of the soldiers, and we should not always put soldiers of the same race into a brigade, because this is not conducive to bringing into play their respective advantages for the races with outstanding advantages and disadvantages, and at the same time, the shortcomings are more likely to be magnified. Thinking of this, Sato summoned the herald again, and Naruto withdrew the troops.

When the gong sounded to order the retreat, the pig-faced soldiers fired the last fireball in unison, and then took advantage of the passive defense of the human warriors to quickly slip down the walls of Tower Hill Fortress. At this time, their movements were so fast, I don't know how much faster than when they attacked before, and they all returned to their own positions in the blink of an eye.

"After the 34th Brigade was broken, it returned to Nara Castle. After Sato finished speaking, surrounded by the guards, he left the tower hill fortress first.

Seeing that the orc army had retreated, the human warriors finally breathed a sigh of relief. They also didn't think about why the orc army had withdrawn so hastily without paying huge casualties, anyway, it was always a good thing that the enemy had retreated. The soldiers who were on guard were left behind, and the human warriors all returned to the camp to rest.

"Just withdraw, Sato, what is he going to do?" said the commander of the Oshima Army in confusion after listening to the scout's report.

For the next three days, the 21st Regiment remained in its own station, not even stepping out of the gate. Scouts from the XII came to scout several times, but they didn't find out what they were doing. Oshima also came twice, but Sato politely declined, and he didn't even let him in.

Three days later, the 21st Regiment again marched towards the fortress of Tower Hill. This time they still quietly left Nara Castle, but the composition of the soldiers had changed significantly.

The front army was the 11th Division, which was commanded by the division commander Akagi. The three brigades are lined up, with the 37th Brigade of Akagi when he was the brigade commander in the middle, and the left and right flanks are the 38th and 39th brigades. Now the brigades are no longer of a single race, and the 37th Brigade has four newly equipped companies of Minotaur soldiers, three wings of pig-faced soldiers, and three wings of werewolf soldiers. The 38th and 39th brigades still used old-fashioned equipment, with two wings of Minotaur soldiers and eight wings of pig-faced soldiers.

The Chinese army was the 10th Division, led by the division commander Hashimoto. In the middle, the 34th Brigade Corps guarded the headquarters of the Corps, and the 35th and 36th Brigades were lined up on the left and right. The 34th Brigade now has three Minotaur Wings, three Pig-Faced Man Wings and four Werewolf Wings. The 35th and 36th brigades and the 38th and 39th brigades are the same strength.

The rear army was the 12th Division, led by the division commander Ozawa. The forty brigades in the middle were three Minotaur wings, four pig-faced men and three werewolf wings. The 41st and 42nd brigades on the left and right each have one wing of Minotaur soldiers and nine wings of pig-faced men.

The 90,000-strong army marched mightily towards the Tashan Fortress.

After receiving the news that the 21st Army was going out again, Oshima could not sit still. Sato must have some secret that he doesn't know! Otherwise, he wouldn't have attacked Tower Hill Fortress again, and he is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the lives of his soldiers for the sake of merit! Thinking of this, Oshima ordered: "Pass my order, the Seventh Division will set off with me, follow behind the Sato Army, and see what they are going to do! The Ninth Division will stay at Nara Castle to guard, and the Eighth Division will prepare to take over." ”