Chapter 64: The Battle of Taicheng (3) Ice Earthquake Taicheng
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
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The sound of the ice wall cracking and falling was endless, many mercenary troops had already seen that something was wrong, and ran down under the ice wall one after another, the ice wall fell diagonally in the direction of Taicheng, and the huge ice wall directly extinguished the fire below, and for a while, the original smooth and flat ice wall fell into a piece and fell on a large open space between Taicheng, perhaps because this itself was a little incredible, or the ice or snow between the two blocked the way, and Harvey's fifth legion did not have follow-up actions.
"Damn, these ten days have been in vain!" one of the mercenaries scolded, in order to achieve the effect, and to make it more difficult for the mercenary army to build a new ice wall, they chose the north, this place away from Songjiang. So with one blow, you can see a mercenary army's barracks behind the ice wall from above Taicheng, lined up among them.
"Hemp, these Wang Ba cakes, don't do good things all day long, let Lao Tzu's more than ten days of hard work be in vain, am I easy?"
"Let him wait, and when we enter Taicheng, I will have to catch seven or eight Harvey soldiers and spank them. ”
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"Commander-in-chief, they have knocked down the walls on our side, what should we do now?" asked the commander from the north.
"Hehe, they have collapsed, we can build it again, ignore them, the day is not far away, hold on. In addition, you must rebuild this wall within a day, and do your best to keep up with the work, because the great war is about to begin. Kong Ming said.
"Okay, let's do our best, after all, we have a certain foundation. ”
"How are you preparing outside the South Gate?" and then Kong Ming asked Wei Qian next to him again.
"It's all ready, just wait for an order to move. Wei Qian replied.
"Hmm. When the construction of the northern side is twenty meters, it will begin, and people from other directions should be careful not to repeat such things to the enemy. ”
The next day, in the early hours of the morning, from the ice wall in the south, a large opening was exposed, and a large stream of water continued to flow out of it, which was a plan of Kong Ming. From the middle of the Songjiang River, dig several large canals that can reach under the ice wall, let the water flow in, and then use a magic pump. The water is pumped high and down the hole in the ice wall. This increases the amount of water between the two parties. Then through these waters, or in the form of ice, they will attack the passive defenses of Taicheng, so as to consume those magical energy and make these magic arrays ineffective, and only in this way can the casualties of the mercenary army when attacking. More than a dozen large mouths are like dragons spitting water, constantly pouring Songjiang water into the open space between Taicheng and the ice wall. The huge sound of water did not impact without any cover, and soon, the Harvey soldiers in Taicheng heard these sounds, but. In the snow, they could only faintly see that a lot of water was pouring into it, and the water was slowly rising.
"Legion Commander!"
"What's the matter?"
"Something is going on, the mercenary army from the south is pouring water between the ice wall and the city wall. ”
"I'll go and see it right away. After saying that, Alexander put on his clothes, took a few sage guards, and headed straight towards the south gate of Taicheng.
Standing at the head of the city gate, Alexander looked down, only heard the sound of "boom!", but he couldn't see it clearly, but the magic made him really see, more than a dozen mouthfuls of water actually flowed out of the ice wall, although the time was short, but the water had begun to overflow the root of the Taicheng city wall, and was hit by the water, the passive magic array, kept fighting back, making the water continue to retreat, and then began to rise again, just like the tide. The energy of the magic array is constantly being consumed.
"Damn, how can this be?" Alexander, as a well-educated disciple of the royal family, rarely had such foul language, which shows that he is extremely angry now.
"Commander, what's going on?" Zhang Yiming had just come up when he heard Alexander's scolding.
"That damn Kong Ming actually used water to destroy our passive magic array, you see, the energy in those magic arrays is constantly being consumed, and judging from this situation, maybe they can use up this magic energy in less than a day. Alexander aired.
Zhang Yiming took a closer look, it is true, because the water is constantly impacting, and the magic array has to fight back from time to time, the two are like a pair of enemies, constantly attacking and counterattacking, but the water does not need magic energy, as long as there is a height difference, they will flow to a low place, and the counterattack of the magic array, and let them not stop there, so that it will directly become a bad cycle, if this continues, the energy of the magic array will really be consumed.
"Let a water magician try to see if he can freeze the water, so that this situation will not be formed. "It's not a shame to be a wise man, and he came up with a solution at once.
"Alright, Your Excellency the Grand Magus, you can try it. Alexander said to a magician next to him.
In a short time, a powerful magic was directly cast, freezing a large area of water below, and the energy of the magic array seemed to have stopped being consumed, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that it was indeed effective.
"Well, their ploy soon failed. A general who followed beside him said. But just before his words fell, a surprising phenomenon appeared, due to the up and down fluctuations of the water, the ice was quickly washed away from the city wall, and then under the continuous impact of the water, this ice was like a boulder, impacting the magic array, and at this time the energy consumption of the magic array was more. There was even a magic array that stopped all of a sudden due to the cumulative consumption of energy, and some of it was abolished. And this time, on the contrary, there is nothing to do, because there is no magic array, and there is no counterattack. However, the impact of the water on the city wall was not damaged in any way.
"It seems that only by stopping all magic arrays will this happen again. Alexander sighed.
"Legion Commander, once the passive magic array is triggered, it is impossible to stop!" a magician added magic knowledge to Alexander.
"Then what can we do?" Alexander, sighed weakly.
"Unless you can freeze all this water in an instant, there's nothing you can do about it for a while. If I don't freeze them all at once, I think the water with the ice cubes will consume the energy of the magic array even more. Zhang Yiming said. For a wise man, things that are beyond his own power feel really powerless.
"Now it's just dawn. Only then can many magicians work together to solve this problem. I think if we ignore it now, the magic array won't consume too much energy after dawn!" Alexander said tiredly.
"At this rate, it really doesn't consume much energy until dawn. But I think if you throw some grass or something down, you can slow down the impact of water on the wall. The magician said on the side, as a magician of the water system, he still has a lot of research on the water system.
"Order, let the soldiers throw more soft things like grass and rotten clothes underneath. Alexander said.
On the other side, Kong Ming was also watching the whole thing develop.
"Commander, from now on, the effect of impacting the passive magic array with water is still somewhat. But now Harvey's soldiers are throwing in straw and clothes and the like, which makes the flow of water a little slower. Che Yi said on the side.
"Hehe, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other. Kong Ming smiled, that magician did know the properties of water. There may have been a lot of research on water, but he forgot one of the most important things. That is, if it is water alone. It's easy to freeze, but it's not easy to form ice, but if you put in straw and clothing, you can quickly facilitate the process, and it will get bigger and bigger. That is, now they throw so much into it. When the day dawns, there will be more ice cubes, which is a very simple reason.
"What's the matter, Commander?" asked again.
"Stupid!" Wei Qian scolded on the side.
"You ask Wei Qian to go. Kong Ming also said helplessly.
In this anticipation on both sides, hours passed. There is more and more water between Taicheng and the ice wall, and the ice blocks are also impacting more and more of Taicheng's passive magic array, and the magic crystal energy on it is also getting less and less.
"Legion Commander, it's not a good idea to go on like this, you know, there will always be a time when the magic array energy will be exhausted, and once that time comes, we won't have another chance. And now the water level has risen to five meters, and many parts of the city are flooded. A staff officer said to Alexander. At this time, Alexander sat in the city lord's mansion, constantly thinking about this, it is indeed not a way to go on like this, and the city will be destroyed sooner or later.
"Yiming, is there anything you can do?" Alexander said as he looked at Zhang Yiming.
"We may be able to use the Aerial Horseman, with a mage on it, to attack their ice wall, so that they can break down their ice wall, and then they will have no way to store water. Zhang Yiming said.
"But they have archers like the Archer, and it's hard to succeed in that way. And now the strip between the two sides has become a complete paradise for archers, and if anyone rushes over, they will inevitably attract a lot of bows and arrows. Isn't there some cocooning in our own way? Alexander said.
"There are good and bad things about this, the advantage is that we have a lot less to defend and can concentrate our forces, but the bad thing is that it is winter, and the cold weather gives them the opportunity to make something like an ice wall and besiege us. But as long as you hold on, you will definitely be able to drag the enemy across. Zhang Yiming said.
"Hmm, order, let all the archers above the Great Archer Division concentrate on the south gate, and then concentrate fire on the city to suppress the enemy, and let the First Army send two hundred magicians to use the effect of this cover to assault the enemy's ice wall and destroy it. Alexander pondered for a moment and then said.
Following the order, Harvey's Fifth Regiment began to mobilize archers to occupy the battlements above the south gate and start firing at the mercenary army. Due to the suddenness of their arrival, many of the mercenaries did not react at all, and fell directly under the bow and arrow, and those who reacted hid behind the ice wall one after another, and the observation of the enemy's reverse movement was carried out by the magician.
General Headquarters of the Mercenary Army.
"Commander, now those Harvey troops at the South Gate have concentrated most of the archers above the Great Archer, and they are constantly attacking the mercenaries on our ice wall, so that those brothers can't lift their heads. Che Yu said.
"Oh. Are you sure most of their archers have reached the south gate?" said Kong Ming.
"Judging from the reconnaissance of the magic horse in the air, most of the people we located a few days ago were concentrated there, and the rest of the words are not very clear. Che Yi said that since from the beginning, Kong Ming kept the scouts familiar with the situation of the archers in their respective areas, so they are now familiar with these archers.
"Haha, God help me, the art of war is really not wrong, 'Good attacker. The enemy does not know what I am attacking.' Order the First Legion to drop all the archers above level 7 to the east at once, and let a hundred mages prepare, and we will start doing some work as well. ”
An hour later, east of Taicheng. On the ice wall, Kong Ming looked at Taicheng opposite. I couldn't help but move. You must know that in order to make it impossible for the enemy to escape and play the role of the regular army's battle formation, Kong Ming not only set the distance to death at two hundred meters, which is outside the range of this magic attack, but also is not conducive to the development of the Harvey army after leaving the city, which limits the actions of the Harvey army. But these also limit the movement of the mercenary army, and there will always be two sides to the story. So the archers, a long-distance attacking class, became the only type of troops fighting between the two sides, and more than ten days have passed, but many mercenaries and Harvey's soldier archery skills have increased a lot. Right now. The main force of the archers of the Harvey army has gone to the south, and there are only a few inconsequential people left here. At this time, there was a team of six people standing beside Kong Ming, two great sword masters, and four senior sword masters with dual cultivation of magic and martial arts.
"Your mission is clear, right?" asked Kong Ming, turning his back to Taicheng.
"It's clear, cross the distance of two hundred meters, attack the city wall with magic, destroy the enemy's magic array, how much can be destroyed, as long as the enemy starts to attack, immediately retreat. One of the Great Swordsmen said.
"Well, that's right, all the archers are your cover, don't worry. Kong Ming said.
"Why don't you use my archery skills, I can complete all the tasks you ask for with just a few arrows. Elven archer Ye Wen said.
"You also have a mission, and your task is to use magic arrows to destroy and expand the weak magic circle on the city wall while they are doing. I had to do both together, because it's not safe to just be the same, and once one or two of these methods are exposed, the enemy will focus on them, and there will be no chance in the future, you know, now the enemy doesn't know that you are a rare magic archer, and the hole cards must always be used at critical times. Kong Ming said. It is true that after seeing such a perfect magic defense for the first time, Kong Ming thought about using the method of breaking through the Taicheng by breaking the surface, but although this idea is good, it is too unrealistic, you must know that many times a new method only needs to be used once, then the enemy will be guarded, and it will not work if you use it in the future. Moreover, if Taicheng is attacked at that time, because the mercenary army is not a systematic person, it is just a temporary combination, once it is defeated by the enemy, then the phenomenon of bombing the camp may occur at any time, and this kind of danger is not to be risked. Therefore, there is a method of besieging the city with an ice wall, and there is no fixed rule of war, which is a very important principle in the military, that is to say, all tactics can only be used as a reference, not a standard. And now it's time to use this tactic, whether you can break through the passive defense magic array, it's up to you, in a sense, the battle in the south is just to attract the attention of the Harvey.
The water between Taicheng and the ice wall is still lapping the waves, like the sea, which is mixed with a lot of ice cubes frozen with clothes and straw, Alexander They knew that they had done a stupid thing as soon as they found out about this situation in the morning, but it was irreparable, the faint flash of the magic array kept protecting the city wall, but some of them had begun to dim, too long of protection had already made many of the magic array's energy about to be exhausted, and the Harvey soldiers on the opposite side had also been paying attention to this matter, because Alexander wanted to activate the active magic array before the passive magic array disappeared, in that case, although the cost was greater, but at least it was safe。 And Kong Ming wants to destroy the city wall before the Harvey Army opens the active magic cover, and there is only one chance. Once missed, then the enemy will definitely be able to drag the battle to the reinforcements of the 6th and 8th Army Corps, and it is obvious that all the mercenary armies do not want to face such a bad situation.
The action began, and as soon as it happened, all the archers began to shoot arrows at Harvey's city head, suppressing the Harvey army and preventing them from destroying the movement of the six, at the same time, Ye Wen was also observing the weaknesses of the city wall to see which magic array could start. But the truth made him speechless, although many of the magic arrays were already half-dead, but none of them had stopped.
Wang Dao was one of the six, and he was a high-level swordsman with dual cultivation of demonic martial arts. At this time, the side of the mercenary army was seen looking up and shooting arrows. The appearance of ten thousand arrows firing at the same time was just to cover them. When I think about it, I feel a little excited. After seeing that your side is beginning to suppress the enemy. The six of them began to follow the plan, using a long rope, to hang down the ice wall, six people, two people, each group of a wooden boat. The two of them stood on the boat, and when they were still a meter above the water, he grabbed the sword on his back and drew his sword to cut the tether in front of him, and at the same time, another senior swordsman in the back, Wan Ping, also swung his sword to cut the tether. "Boom". The boat fell into the water, and a cold rushed up at once, gradually turning the two of them into the water, and soon the water turned into ice slag, scattered in all directions, and the two untied the oars tied to the boat as fast as possible, and then rowed in the direction of Taicheng. Arrows from the sky were flying, and from time to time some of the arrows that were shot down fell near them, but none of them could hurt them. In order to reach the opposite shore faster, they even used Dou Qi as an auxiliary means, so that the boat rushed to the opposite shore like a moment of flying, they were the slowest group, because the other two groups had great swordsman-level characters, so they were faster. A minute later, they came to the bottom of the city wall, when he was about to cast a magic scroll, suddenly two loud noises nearby made his ears roar, shook his head, he didn't look over, because the fluctuation was very familiar, he hurriedly cast a magic scroll, a seventh-level magic scroll of the earth system, suddenly a huge roar sounded in front of him, his heart couldn't help but tremble, all the mercenary army were paying attention to the magic attacks of these three groups of people, the three roars were not the same time, but when the roar passed, they suddenly found that the protection level of the enemy's magic array was very high, and they took over the three seventh-level magic at once, it just made those magic arrays dim. Kong Ming couldn't help but gasp, he didn't expect that the enemy's magic protection array would actually use such a high standard of equipment.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Three more times, but the enemy's magic array only reduced some energy. There wasn't even a crack at all.
"Damn, why don't these hangers make such good magical defenses?
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Three more times, but it was still only a little dim, and there was not much damage, Kong Ming shook his head, thinking that this method would not work, it seemed that it would still have to be wiped out by the constant impact of water.
After Wang Dao cast three spells, he looked at the city wall on the opposite side that had not changed much, and was disappointed for a while, and looked at the other two groups, there was still a magic scroll left in his hand, Wang Dao was trying to ruthlessly cast the remaining magic scrolls, so that he could quickly add them back after completing them, because Harvey's soldiers knew the following things through the magic mirror after the six magic explosions came out, and were about to fight back, when suddenly the undulating waves of water caused by the magic explosion were even bigger, and one head lifted the two of them up, Wang Dao grabbed the boat tightly, glanced at it, and found that there was a small opening under the original water in front of him,This is due to the fact that the adhesive in it fell off when the wall was built.,And it happened to be at the junction of the two magic arrays.,If there is no bombardment of these magic scrolls,There is no such obvious breakdown here.,But after a few bombardments,This unqualified magic array was revealed.,Wang Dao excitedly put the magic scroll in his hand,Towards the small hole and go,Huge energy,Impact on the whole small hole,In an instant,The small hole was destroyed into a big hole with a diameter of one meter,Wang Dao looked disappointed for a while.,But now the magic scroll is gone.,I had to leave. 。 (To be continued......)
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