Chapter 181: The Response of the Two Sides and the Walls Climbed
In the following temptations, Giant Fang made quite a few more attempts, such as changing the direction of the siege, and even attacking from multiple sides, but the 'curse' always followed.
After discovering that the enemy casters did not have a conventional spell such as "group dispel negative states", the shamans seemed to rely on this technique, adhering to the principle of "one trick fresh" from beginning to end, and repeatedly thwarted several tentative attacks organized by the teeth with it.
After several rounds of fruitless attempts, Megatooth gave up on the attack for the time being.....
However, this is not to say that the teeth are really helpless.
The roar of the siege equipment had never ceased during this period, and after the experience of being incinerated several times, the fangs had already tested the farthest range of the previous 'Flowing Fire Technique';
As a result, the larger, even more mobile 'Giant Counterweight Trebuchet' appeared at the rear of this side's camp and began to launch a fierce attack on the walls and the city from a distance of more than a kilometer.
A large number of pebbles were brought back from the river banks, and they were loaded into woven baskets and assembled into 'shotshots', which were thrown against the walls by small and medium-sized 'conventional' catapults;
When this 'ammunition' hits the target, its outer basket will fall apart at the first time, under the action of the impact, and a large amount of debris will be splashed out of it, causing non-negligible damage to the angular hoofed warriors.
In addition, the witch doctors quickly set up an emergency 'stone mill' factory on the riverbank, and some of the pebbles were fed into it, and after a series of processing, they became the material for the manufacture of 'wood, stone, and concrete', and the final processing was completed on the front line, turning into projectiles.
The previously mentioned 'giant counterweight trebuchet' fired this huge projectile made of concrete weighing several tons.
A total of ten of these trebuchets fired one after another, striking heavily at the walls, and finally began to shake the southern wall, which had been somewhat reinforced by magic.
In the beginning, the walls were already showing more and more dense cracks, and once a projectile hit the same area in a short period of time, the wall would be visibly damaged and dented.
Seeing the hope of breaking the city, the Tooth further ordered to 'concentrate on one point', in addition to organizing the soldiers to prepare and wait for the moment when the wall collapsed.
But it was half a lamp, a lamp, or even longer, and the wall looked crumbling, but it didn't have the complete collapse effect that the trolls had hoped for.
'It's not normal, the opponent's caster seems to be continuing to stabilize the strength of the wall, but.... Does this affect their ability to cast other spells at the same time? β
With this in mind, Tooth decided to send another six hundred warriors to the trial.....
Amid the incessant roar of catapults of all sizes, the Troll Warriors split into 20 groups and dispersed, once again charging the walls.
On the south wall, the hornhoe warriors, especially the people who assisted in defending the city, could not raise their heads at this time because they had been suppressed by various types of catapults, and even couldn't help but hide to the sides and under the city wall.
The Great Chiefs and Clan Chiefs are leading the most elite clan warriors under their respective commands at this time to 'supervise' the defenders of the 'escape'";
With the harshest orders and the means of killing chickens and monkeys, they forcefully forced the people to maintain their defensive positions.
Behind him is a 'lottery' butcher's knife, and in front of him is a 'scattered bullet' that I don't know if it will fall on my head;
In comparison, the people still returned to the city wall and began to learn to avoid the threat of "high-altitude projectiles", after all, being hit by a scattered bullet may not necessarily die, but a knife on the head is definitely dead....
It was in such a defensive state that twenty squadrons of troll warriors began to disperse and approach.....
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At the ancestral altar in the center of the city, the shamans were sweating on their cheeks and blue on their complexions at this time, and their overall state was far less comfortable than before;
The siege machinery of the teeth, whether it is the size of the model, or the speed of damage refill, or the scale, is unprecedented for them;
No one would really think about building a city, 'What if there are tons of stones falling from the sky?' "This inexplicable question;
Therefore, the defects of the materials used in the walls themselves (lack of stone, lack of concrete technology) make them have to spend more energy on 'maintenance and repair' at this time.
On the whole, Giant Fang's guess was accurate, and the shaman of the Toulon tribe had indeed been dragged down at this time.
Therefore, at this moment, after they knew that the troll army was approaching again through the Ancestral Inspiration, their faces were already difficult to see.
"What to do? Do you want to divide the power to balance it? A shaman gasped and asked as he 'danced'.
".....," said the chief priest, squinting after a moment's silence, "they don't have a ladder to climb the wall, so let's see what they do; If there is really a way to climb up..... Let the true elite of the clan try to resist, and let's focus on repairing the walls first. β
With this in mind, the rest of the shamans began to concentrate on the 'dance' again, trying to keep the southern wall from falling down.
But just a moment later, the shamans who were casting the spell suddenly frowned in unison, and immediately yelled at them like crazy.
"Go to the North Wall!
Go to the North Wall! Let the chiefs go to the North Wall too!
Enemies are digging holes!
οΌ β
The remaining Ancestral Spirit warriors did not dare to slack off, and they hurried down the altar, grabbed a patrolling warrior, and asked him to bring the shaman's judgment to the place where the chief of the southern wall was;
And themselves, after letting out a roar to bless the state, hurried towards the north as fast as they could.
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Outside the wall, the seven witch doctors had moved to the northern part of the city of New Toulon, and after looking up at the relatively sparse garrison on the wall, they burrowed into the ground from a long distance.
Underground, the witch doctors each took a different number of seeds from their blankets, planted them in the ground in front of them, and then began to cast spells on them.
The seeds gradually began to sprout and turn into vines under the scare doctors' urging, and when they thickened and grew to a certain extent, they turned to drill in the direction of the city walls.
After some time, the shouts of killing at the south wall reached the ears of the witch doctors, and the vines arrived at the bottom of the city wall at this time.
At the beginning, Daba and his cavalry had been waiting here for a long time, and once the witch doctors gave the signal, he would lead his men to charge through the tunnels and kill him without a single piece of armor.
Thinking of the excitement, Daba showed a bloodthirsty smile....
In the underground caverns, directly below the city walls, a witch doctor once again launched a sonic detection diagonally upwards at the last distance;
After closing his eyes and analyzing for a while, he asked for help with some uncertainty.
"Hey, why don't you come and see it? How do I feel like so many horned hoofs popping up on the top of my head all at once? β
"Really? It shouldn't be discovered, these dwarves are really a bit evil, they can be found on the ground and underground.... Will it be the same number as our acoustic detection? β
"Cast the spell first, and then talk about the rest..."
"Oh, understood."
After a brief exchange, the seven witch doctors paused their 'drilling' and instead probed diagonally upwards.
"The feedback I received was nearly four thousand..... What about you? β
"Also, there are at least eight hundred of them .... There are dozens of other ones that give me a bit of a strange feeling...."
"What to do? Still executing the original plan? β
"Forget it.... The hole is too small for our warriors to wield. β
"It's a pity... Wait a minute! I have an idea! β
"How?"
"How about planting keel wood here? I'm talking about the kind of improvement that was used to build the outer wall of the camp. β
"This.... It seems like it really works, so try it? β
"Good!"
"I'm looking forward to it...."
After the witch doctors had finished their deliberations, they gathered together a total of more than 30 modified 'Dragonbone Alter' trees from their respective blankets, and began to roughly estimate the load-bearing structure of the city wall overhead.
Soon after, they set a few spots that would "do the most damage to the wall" and began to bury more than a dozen of the seeds.
"If we can't start it here, we might also be buried alive, so let's use special vines to connect."
Another witch doctor came up with an idea, got approval, and everyone began to follow up.
Dozens of meters above the heads of the witch doctors, the warriors, militiamen, and high-ranking people who had been assigned here after being warned by the shamans were waiting anxiously, but the expected 'coming out of the ground' was slow to appear.
The chieftain's eldest son, as well as the four clan chiefs, were particularly anxious at this time, and their eyes kept wandering back between the north and the south, worried about the situation here and the situation in the south.
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Southern wallγA little earlier
The six hundred trolls quickly approached the city wall under the cover of the siege machinery, and this time they were not affected by the previous 'weakness', and for the first time, they actually touched the city;
Although there were no ladders, the twenty-meter city wall, especially with the huge crossbow embedded in the heavy crossbow fire, was nothing for trolls who were used to climbing trees.
Carrying the heavy shield behind him, the outer parts of the armor were now empty;
The Heavy Throwing Spear that had been placed on it, which had been thrown away during the charge, was now just enough to place the Heavy Shield.
The trolls gripped their swords in one hand, jumped and stomped, gripped or grappled, and quickly approached upwards against the walls of crossbows.
The hornhoofs were not blind, but of course noticed their actions at this time, and began to collect ammunition from the walls under the leadership of the elite warriors to give the trolls a 'return of the favor'.
The effect was there, but it wasn't great, and the trolls reached the end point - the city wall with a swiftness that was extremely unfitting of their weight and size.
In the number of positions, the first troll warrior swung his sword to block the horned hoof, and stepped on the wall with a single jump;
They swung their weapons to kill or repel the horned hooves that stood in front of them, and then took off their heavy shields and stood a few steps in front of the wall, standing firmly like a reef to create space for their comrades to follow.
More than ten, dozens, hundreds... More and more troll warriors roared up the walls;
They all had one thing in common at this time, except for ferocity, a steel and wooden dagger crossed their cheeks, leaving hideous wounds on the left and right sides of their faces that were still dripping blood.