Section 48 Soldiers Approaching the City (2)

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"Attack, attack immediately. Victor gave the order.

The order to attack was passed on quickly, and Modo's legions completely gave up on negotiating with the Free City to see if they could persuade them to surrender, and instead took the attack quickly.

The soldiers on both flanks moved first, surging forward like ant colonies, and then dispersed in formation under the command of squadron leaders and squad leaders at all levels, and the outermost walls of the Free City approached.

The outermost walls of the City of Liberty are rough and not very tall, and strictly speaking, they lack actual protection, and are not really at the level of military walls, at most they are just up to the level of the walls inhabited by ordinary civilians.

It's not that Franklin doesn't want to build strong walls, it's a limitation of time and cost.

The many expansions of Liberty City, this is the fourth, but look at the previous history to see what it was.

The first expansion formed a clear boundary of the city, that is, it was also the most basic wall that pulled out a contour from town to city, turning a large wilderness into the direct territory of the free city, and then the second and third expansions formed various areas on the land that had been enclosed by the wall, and distributed them to the inhabitants who were willing to explore, slowly forming the current urban outline.

At the same time, in both processes, the ordinary walls that originally defended the city were torn down, rebuilt, and strengthened to become a military-grade wall, and then a fortress was built between the two sections of the city to form a perfect fortification.

The fourth expansion is also like repeating the previous process, first demarcating the area, and although the ordinary wall built is difficult to resist the official army attack, it can at least separate the place from the wilderness, so that the beasts in the wilderness can clearly feel that it is not a place they should invade, and then after subsequent construction, the scope of the free city will grow again.

But it is clear that the demarcation has only been completed, and the walls have not yet been rebuilt to a military level, let alone connected by bastions, which will be vulnerable to siege equipment.

"Report, there was no one on the other side of the city wall to defend, not even a single archer. The outpost in charge of reconnaissance said contemptuously.

As far as the sight was concerned, it was very smooth, and the reconnoitring soldiers even thought that the enemy had given up the defense because the army of Modo had been frightened, and perhaps only needed to send messengers to persuade him to surrender to get the city, and not to attack.

"Start destroying the walls and be careful when you enter. ”

With the cold words of the squad leader, several stout soldiers pulled up the leather rope together, which was made of tough animal skin, which could bear hundreds of catties, or even thousands of catties of weight without breaking, as the tightened leather cord was suddenly released, the large and small stones in the basket were thrown out by the throwing arm, and they hit the city wall hard, and suddenly hit a big gap.

The auxiliaries kept putting stones into the baskets, and dozens of trebuchets threw them together, and the city wall in front of them quickly collapsed, revealing the place behind the wall.

It was evident that it had only recently become a settlement, and that it was strictly a matter of relying on the construction of a wall that would have dared to settle there, and if there were no walls, it would have been nothing more than a wilderness, which could be attacked by wild beasts at any time.

Such a settlement is far from the prosperous commercial streets in the city of freedom, and it is not even as good as the town where Wang Qinian and they rested, but within the walls, it is much safer than the original town.

Because the wall separates most of the beasts, and this means that the establishment of the second city will slowly build various roads from the city to the second city, and over time, the commerce of the city will reappear in today's settlements, forming a continuation, and the outer city wall will also be expanded into a military-level city wall, which can not only allow the beasts with low intelligence to consciously bypass, but even effectively isolate the attack of the enemy with intelligence, but today it is all in vain.

The soldiers began to march towards the settlements that could be seen after the destruction of the city walls, and they were a little cautious at first, but because they could not see a single enemy in their sights, and their ears were quiet, and they were like the scout sentries just now, and the Free City had given up resistance, and were timid, or at least the turtle had retracted back to its own city, abandoning this new city that had just been carved out.

Their steps began to grow bold and eager, and their greedy eyes began to look at the houses in the settlement ahead, where they might get some possessions?

The White Feather Legion came so suddenly and quickly, and if the people of these settlements withdrew to the safety of their own city, they would not be able to take everything with them.

It is impossible for any army to completely prohibit its soldiers from taking the enemy's property, especially the enemy's goods after defeat, not to mention that the White Feather Legion also has merchants who are attached to the army, and their own storage is to harvest other people's property from the soldiers at a low price, and then sell it at the normal price in the future to make a profit.

This phenomenon is regarded as normal in almost all wars, and of course the victor deserves the property of the loser, but now it is only because of the strict military discipline of the White Feather Legion that the soldiers did not immediately start plundering.

This is also a big difference between the general legion and the main legion such as the White Feather Legion, the strict legion will "make sure" that the enemy has been defeated before allowing the soldiers to start plundering, while the ordinary legion will not see the enemy after the trebuchet breaks through the wall, and there may be unrestrained plundering behavior.

"There are no enemies, we go in and search. The soldiers in front shouted.

Even the White Feather Legion was psychologically relaxed, and the soldiers in charge of the search had already made up their minds that as soon as they entered the house and cut off the commander's view, they couldn't wait to see if they could find anything.

After all, they are just regular soldiers in the White Feather Legion, not as good as those elite soldiers covered with white armor, and the treatment is only slightly better than those ordinary legionnaires who are guarding other cities, far inferior to the elite soldiers with wind spirit white feather armor in the White Feather Legion, strictly speaking, those talents are the real White Feather Legion, due to the number of wind spirit white feather armor, the annual increase in production is also limited, so generally only when the white armor warriors die, will they be selected from these regular soldiers.

Just as the soldiers at the front had already set foot on the land of the settlement, and were about to enter the house to search, a strange sound suddenly sounded, as if something was coming out of the ground.

Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers in the rear, the earth suddenly turned open in the open space between the ruined walls and the houses of the settlement, and a thick tower-like building with a pointed top and a bottom was breaking through the dirt.

The strange structure was about five or six meters high, like an arthropod, made up of overlapping segments, the thinnest part about the size of a basket, and the bottom part of the base about the size of half a house.

"Be careful, it's a magical defense tower!"

However, it was too late to warn, and the very top of the tower-like structure suddenly lit up like a hedron and began to glow red.

Red scorching rays fell one after another from a height of more than five meters, bringing all the soldiers within a radius of thirty meters into range, and several soldiers were on fire, turning into terrifying burning men, and then into charred corpses.

This was just the beginning, and the same magical defense towers kept burrowing out dirt along the side of the city walls, flashing red and emitting a power comparable to the scorching rays of second-level spells.

"Destroy the towers, destroy the towers, destroy these magical defense towers. "It's the squadron leader commander who is commanding loudly to stop the chaos.

Even if they were only regular soldiers, they were not really white-feathered warriors, but the reaction of the main army level was much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers, and they quickly woke up from their panicked state and began to attack the enemy according to the order and according to their usual training.

These enemies, as the name just called the Magic Defense Tower, is a kind of magic defense device combined with alchemy, and is one of the common things used by magicians to guard their residences, usually a magic circle with some kind of spell solidified on it, as long as there is enough energy support, you can always cast a fixed spell attack, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, there is a range limit.

Advanced magical defense devices can even identify friend and foe, and not only do not actively harm those who have the mark of the creator, but protect them.

The scorching rays continued to flicker down from the spire, and the scorching rays intertwined into a net, first turning the soldiers who had invaded the besieged city into clusters of flames, and then began to attack the soldiers of the White Feather Army who were not far from the city walls.

Although the captains tried their best to organize the counterattack and destruction, what appeared now was not a magical defense tower, but a row, dozens of such towers.

The intertwined rays are almost non-existent, making them difficult to defend, and while they will use the round shields on their arms to resist the power of the frontal rays, the rays from the sides and behind them will still turn them into charcoal.

Under a round of fire, none of the three squads that had invaded the wall, as many as 300 soldiers, survived, and all of them died.

The scorching fire from the ground continued to burn, and although the flames slowly extinguished after a while, it was enough to form an effective hindrance to the enemy in the process.

"Is this a gift from the City of Freedom?" Victor, who saw this qiē from a distance, sneered.

"I've heard that Free City has been recruiting wandering mages over the years, and it is suspected that they have built an underground base for magicians underground, and that these magical defense towers may have come from there. Paul said.

"Stop approaching and attack with trebuchets. The squadron leaders in charge of directing the attack quickly gave new orders to attack the magical towers from a distance with catapults.

It's a good idea, catapults have a farther attack range than magic defense towers, and can attack outside of scorching range.