Chapter 112: Attack on Fort Kellrydan
After cleaning up the battlefield, Ye Tianlong led the army and began to continue to advance towards Fort Kerrydan.
At the same time, Count Starma, the lord of Kerrydan Castle, seemed to have known that the soldiers in ambush in the valley could not stop Ye Tianlong, and had already begun to recruit young men to join the army in his own city.
The first thing these young men did after joining the army was to drink a small bowl of dark green potion, which was obviously the beast elixir, which was not only strange in color, but also emitted an unpleasant stench.
After recruiting more than two thousand young men in one go, Count Stama finally stopped, and then he returned to his room and took out a bottle of dark purple potion from his desk drawer.
After looking at the purple potion for a few minutes, Count Starma seemed to have made up his mind, and threw up his head and drank the potion.
Immediately after drinking the potion, fine purple lines appeared on Count Starma's face, like blood vessels all over his head, and then these purple lines quickly spread from his head to his neck, then to his body, and finally to his limbs.
After the power of the potion completely spread to all parts of his body, Count Starma's size suddenly began to skyrocket, he was originally only about 1.7 meters tall, in just a few minutes, he turned into a small giant about 2.5 meters tall, and pieces of red thick scale armor appeared on the surface of his body, and his legs directly became an anti-joint structure like a horse, and the soles of his feet were greatly elongated and raised, and finally only the toes of the two hooves landed on the ground.
But the most terrifying thing was Count Stama's head, on his forehead, a pair of thick and curved horns actually grew, and the teeth in his mouth became much sharper.
As he slowly adapted to the changes in his body and reopened his eyes, a purple glow flashed deep under his eyes, and at this time, it could be seen that his eyes had turned from blue to blood-red, exuding a strong desire to destroy and kill.
"Huh! With such a powerful force, that guy really didn't lie to me! With such a powerful force, I will definitely be able to repel that Ye Tianlong's army and keep my territory and property! ”
Count Starma sneered, completely tore off the clothes on his body that had been torn due to the skyrocketing size, and then he pulled out his previous saber and slashed it hard at his arm, only to find that this sword did not leave any marks on the red scales of his arm at all, which shows that the scale on his body may have a higher defensive power than the full-body plate armor he wore before.
And just as he gradually got used to his skyrocketing strength, the soldiers outside the door shouted to remind him that the enemy army had been killed.
"Those guys are coming so fast!" Count Stamma muttered, then opened the door and walked out.
At this time, most of the soldiers under his command had also mutated more or less after taking the beast potion, so they were not too surprised in the face of the lord who had changed greatly.
And in the open space not far from the city, Ye Tianlong was already leading the army there slowly.
Count Starma looked at Ye Tianlong, who was riding a tall horse outside the city and commanding there, his eyes were full of strong killing intent, but he endured it and didn't kill it stupidly. Because he knows that the other party has a lot of extremely powerful firearms in his hands! If he dared to rush out of the city in such a daze, he would soon be killed by the other party with all kinds of firearms.
Even most of the defenders on the walls were called down by Count Stamar, leaving only a few men to observe the enemy's movements on them.
And Ye Tianlong saw that the other party was so smart to remove most of the soldiers from the city wall, and he also dispelled the idea of bombarding the opponent's city wall with rockets, after all, the accuracy of those rockets is too poor, just a few enemy soldiers, it is difficult to hit, and the killing efficiency is too low if you use rockets, so it is better to use heavy artillery to bombard the opponent's city wall and then kill it!
Since the walls of the castle were all solid stone walls, it was much more difficult to collapse it, and it took more than two hours to finally collapse a small section of the wall.
Ye Tianlong felt that this was mainly because the artillery he was using now was too backward, or some front-loading guns, with a slow rate of fire and poor power, and the same was true for rifles, and he didn't know when the firearms expert Guan Jun would be able to develop more advanced firearms to replace these backward products.
And now Ye Tianlong feels that it is too slow to bombard with artillery alone, and if he wants to blast out enough gaps, he may have to wait until tomorrow.
So he then sent a dozen artillery trucks equipped with those small-caliber guns to cover a large number of infantry approaching the enemy wall, among these infantry, there are a few people carrying powerful explosive bags, as long as they can successfully approach the city wall, put these explosive bags at the foot of the city wall, then they can directly blow up the wall of the Kerrydan Fort.
Although Count Starma didn't know Ye Tianlong's true purpose, after discovering that the enemy army was approaching the city wall, he immediately sent a lot of soldiers to prepare to meet these enemy troops.
However, those defender soldiers had just been urged to go up the city wall by Count Starma, and the battle airship commanded by Zhou Jiale also flew over the city wall and began to throw bombs at the defender soldiers below.
Although most of the bombs were not able to be dropped on the city wall due to the accuracy of the bombs, just the few bombs that fell on the city wall caused a riot on the defenders on the city wall.
Seeing this, Count Starma hurriedly climbed the city wall to stabilize the hearts of the army, this trick was very effective, seeing that his lords came up in person, those soldiers immediately calmed down a lot, after all, if the enemy army continued to bomb next, most of them would be killed together with their own lords! It would be an honor for them to die with a noble Earl.
However, Zhou Jiale did not continue to bomb, because he also saw that the accuracy of dropping bombs from a high altitude was too low, and it was difficult to accurately land on the city wall.
Seeing that the enemy army did not continue to bombard from the air, Count Stamar could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then leaned out from the city wall and carefully observed the enemy artillery carriages.
He could tell from the metallic armor of the gun carriages that they were made of fine steel.
Such a extravagant approach surprised the valuable Count Stamar, after all, if he had these fine steels, he would definitely choose to make weapons and armor! How could it be used to make armor for these artillery trucks!
And just as Count Starma was looking at the gun carriages made of stainless steel with a greedy look on his face, a feeling of extreme danger suddenly appeared in his heart, and his body, after sensing this sense of crisis, reflexively twisted some of his body to the left, and suddenly a bullet flew dangerously by his side, leaving a deep hole in the wall behind him.
This is a sniper trained by Luo Chenguang, holding a sniper rifle specially customized for them by Luo Chenguang, and when he saw Count Starma leaning out of the city wall, he immediately aimed at the other party and fired a shot.
Compared to those ordinary flintlock rifles, these special sniper rifles have a higher range, accuracy and power, just like at this time, the sniper is still more than 200 meters away from the city wall! But it was already in the effective lethal range of those sniper rifles.
After Count Starma turned around and looked at the small hole in the wall behind him that had been punched by the bullet, he couldn't help but be afraid for a while, such a terrible penetrating power, I am afraid that even those solid scales on his body could not be prevented! No wonder he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of crisis just now.
After quickly retreating behind the wall, Count Starma ordered the soldiers around him to prepare the rolling wood and stones, and smash the enemy as soon as he approached the wall. As for the ordinary crossbows, Count Starma felt that they would not be lethal at all in the face of those heavily armored enemy soldiers, and as for the bed crossbows on the city walls, it was difficult to penetrate the armor of the gun carriages that were pushed to the front as cover.
However, if the opponent wants to attack the city, he must get close to his city wall, and then he can use the rolling wood and stone to kill the opponent fiercely.
The enemy soldiers outside the city did not know what Count Stamma was thinking, and when they pushed the gun carriage to the city wall only twenty or thirty meters away, they aimed their guns at the wall, ready to fire at cover their comrades who were carrying explosive bags.
There were also plenty of musketeers and archers ready to open fire for cover.
Finding that the enemy army was getting closer and closer to the city wall, some defenders couldn't help it, and suddenly leaned out from behind the city wall, wanting to throw the stones in their hands at the enemy troops below.
However, no sooner had the defender emerged from the city wall than he was shot in the head and heart by two snipers, and he fell back without a snort.
"Hurry up!"
At the same time, amid the shouts of the officers, several soldiers carrying explosives bags emerged from behind the artillery carriage under the cover of dozens of comrades holding large shields, and ran quickly towards the city wall.
"Call me!" Although Count Stamma did not know that the enemy was preparing to install explosives packs under the base of his walls, he immediately shouted and gave the order to attack when he saw the enemy attacking.
Suddenly, a large number of defenders leaned out from behind the city wall, all of them holding high rolling logs and stones, trying to smash at the enemy troops under the city wall.
But the gunners below have been waiting for this moment for a long time! The guns, which had long been loaded with shotguns, opened fire, and suddenly a dense group of shotgun steel balls swept over the city like a torrential rain, beating a large number of enemy troops to the ground, screaming and falling back behind the city walls.
In addition, a large number of archers and musketeers opened fire, and the dense rain of arrows and bullets quickly cleared some of the fish that slipped through the net from time to time, and they were stunned not to let a single piece of rolling wood and stone fall.