Section 82 Enemy Attack (Medium)
However, the Firebeard Dwarves soon appeared, and it was not easy for them to attack the eerie and tall structure.
Because in the Black Rock Plane, there has never been such a fortress-level defensive structure.
Dwarven clans usually defend their villages with stone or wooden walls, and then place sentinels at various entrances and exits.
Climbing over the stone wall is inherently a difficult task for the dwarves, although the black rock plane is generally short due to the height of the builders, but due to the dwarves' close to round, and at the same time short hands and legs, it is destined that even if the wall decreases proportionally, the difficulty of climbing the wall will still only increase.
Therefore, when the dwarves encounter obstacles such as walls, they prefer to use their sharp axes to destroy them fiercely, simple and rough, rather than climbing and climbing.
The dwarves were exemplary infantry warfare, neither good at bows nor magical enlightenment, lacking effective ranged strikes.
Although the clan war is cruel and fierce, this kind of war has a bit of the demeanor of a knight charging into battle, often gathering a large army and launching a decisive battle of infantry brigades in the open plains, dividing the victory and defeat, and deciding the ownership of the territory.
Only when they know that they are invincible, they will retreat into their own tribe to defend.
But in fact, due to the aforementioned lack of effective long-range warfare, the dwarves lack proper war theories and strategies, and even defense does not take much advantage.
Having said all that, in a word, the dwarven clans of Black Rock do not have the experience of large-scale siege and defense of the Kaos plane.
Faced with a fortress made of huge strips of stone, the dwarves quickly appeared, their sharp axes were difficult to destroy, and the axes could only produce deep blade marks when they cleaved on them, and they could not be as many axes as they did in destroying the stone walls of the clan settlements, and the axe blades rolled up first.
A large crowd of dwarves swirled around like headless flies under the walls of the fortress, except for a large metal door, which Solomon had built after collecting all the metal stocks of the small clans they had conquered.
If it weren't for the construction of this gate, it would have been possible to arm a lot more dwarven warriors.
The dwarves are now very limited in the direction they can attack, because the fortress stands on a steep slope, except for the dwarves uphill, which is relatively flat, only the east can barely attack, and the other two sides are not suitable for attacking due to the steep slope.
The original terrain was not like this, and the reason for this was excavation, because George did not use black rock, which was easily available from the ground, to build the fort, but used other rocks, so he excavated vigorously.
As a result, the fortress was transformed into what it now looks like it is overhanging a slope.
"Crack that door!" Zam ordered.
The dwarves rushed to the metal gate and slashed at it with their axes.
It was very difficult for the dwarves to enter the fortress by breaking the walls with an axe, and the rock-made walls were at least a few meters thick.
But it is easier to concentrate on the destruction, such as the metal gate.
This is also where Solomon's fortress is not perfect, for example, there is no moat or ditch in front of the fortress.
But there is no way, there are not many rivers in the Black Rock Plane, Solomon can't bring living water over, the backwater ditch is not easy to form, the Firebeard Dwarves are not slow, and they don't give Solomon enough time to perfect, they can only rely on the basic function of the fortress wall to defend, like the arrow holes, fortresses, and traps that should be in the fortress, and they haven't had time to set it up now.
The defender only has this basic advantage, and if it is in Keos, the defense is too difficult, because whether it is from the siege experience, the siege equipment, or because of the effect of magic, the attacker has too many options to try to break through the defense of the fortress.
But this is the Black Rock Plane, and the dwarven clans accustomed to being in the open area are still in the stage of tribal warfare, and they lack the experience and means to attack a castle.
The Firebeard Dwarves who were attacking the gates of the fortress suddenly screamed and ran out of the recessed front of the door.
Zam yelled in anger to stop the cowards.
His unruly subordinates pointed to the walls of the fortress, where they were leading a group of dwarves to pour some larger stones down from them, and some of the enemy were shooting with slingshots of animal skins that they had used to snipe on the road.
The damage of the Hides Slingshot is limited, but if the Firebeard Dwarves are gathered in the recess in front of the door and used as live targets, the damage will be increased considerably, not to mention that the defenders are still pouring the rolling stones down.
Those stones are black rocks that can be found everywhere on the earth, but they are not small, and if they fall on the dwarves, even if they are protected by armor, they will break their tendons and fractures, and if they are hit by two more pieces, they will have to go to see the god of death.
Zam rode on the lizard, driving his men back and forth to continue the siege, believing that if he could split the metal gate, victory would be on his side.
"Lord Zam, we can make ladders, make ladders to climb!" someone under his command gave Zam the right idea.
As a result, the war broke out in a more intense direction, and although the Firebeard Dwarves stayed at a very crude stage in the art of war, and did not make some siege equipment, such as catapults or building carts, to help attack, the most ordinary ladders were still available.
They cut down some slightly tall trees from a distance and cut them into wooden strips, and then used vines to fix the wooden strips into simple ladders, and then fought with the help of ladders without fear of death.
The dwarves on both sides fought fiercely on the walls, and Tieye himself led the dwarven warriors to defend it.
Zam reprimanded confidently, and he decided to wait for the victory to reward his men who reminded him to use a ladder.
While the Firebeard Dwarves are not good at besieging cities, luckily the enemies aren't good at defending them either.
Although they are protected by the fortress walls, they lack long-range attacks and cannot make full use of this advantage, and the damage of the animal skin slingshot is really limited.
And Zam has too much advantage in numbers, even if the climbing battle is very unfavorable to the Firebeard Dwarves, but with several times the battle damage, the Firebeard Dwarves may really be able to occupy the top of the wall, and once the head of the fortress is occupied, more Firebeard Dwarves will enter along the ladder, and then destroy the gate inside and outside, and capture this solid structure that has caused some trouble for Zam.
At this moment, the earth suddenly trembled slightly, and the firebearded dwarves who were running under the city let out angry screams.
A huge golem emerged from the ground, followed by a second, a third, a fourth, and a total of eight golems appeared in front of the city.
Golem used his tall body to knock down the dwarves along the way, and the huge soles of his feet even had a trampling effect.
A dwarf was trampled by the stone foot, half of his body was blurred with flesh and blood, screaming in pain, pushing hard, but unable to push away.
Thankfully, Golem wasn't targeting them at all, but the ladders.
Eight golems swept across with their arms, their thick stone arms smashing the ladders hard, and the dwarves on them fell like rolling gourds.
"Stop them, kill these monsters!" Zam said angrily, and his climbing battle was ruined.
He personally led a large group of dwarven warriors to rush up and fight the stone giants, the stone giants were divided by the dwarven warriors, and a stone giant was surrounded by dozens or even hundreds of dwarves, greeting with weapons such as axes and hammers.
Although the body of the stone giant is black rock, it is far from the fortress wall, and under the crazy siege of the dwarves, it means that every time he raises his fist, or raises his foot to step on it, or raises his arm to sweep once, his body will be frantically cut by dozens of sharp axes at the same time.
Stone chips were everywhere, and a stone giant had just lifted his left foot and was about to step on it, but suddenly he paused, and then his whole body fell forward, and it turned out that his other foot was finally broken.
Even after falling to the ground, as an elemental summon, it still fulfilled its master's orders, and continued to hit the dwarves who dared to approach with their fists and arms.
But that didn't stop him from going down the path of ruin, and after paying the price of seven or eight more lives, the dwarves completely destroyed the huge creature completely.
This was the first, then the second, and the third, and while each Golem took the lives of dozens of dwarves, all eight Golems were reduced to pieces of rubble.
"There's aliens!" said the man who had reminded Zam of the ladder to use it, pointing to the head of the fortress wall.
There were some tall figures on it, well, this tall figure was relative to Tieye.
Those people are, of course, Solomon, and them, to be precise, the magicians of Solomon and George, although their height is not great among the Koos, but they are tall compared to the dwarves.
These people do not include Wolfe, who has not been present in the war until now.
Of course, the stone giant just now is Solomon's handiwork, and the firebeard dwarves are engaged in a climbing battle, and Tieye and they can't stand it.
The dwarven warriors in the city are mainly the original clansmen of the Stone Fist clan, and in this defensive battle, Solomon only dared to let in the Tieye, who had a deep hatred for the Firebeard clan.
Solomon allowed the dwarves of the Rough Stonefist clan, the people of Tieya, to enter the fortress.
This is both a shelter and a hostage.
In this way, Tieye can only help defend the fortress, otherwise the firebeard dwarves will attack and only the clan will be destroyed.
The other small clans that merged into the Stonefist clan, Solomon did not let them enter the fortress in large numbers.
These small clans are not loyal now, and they don't have the same hatred as the Firebeard Dwarves do.
To put it bluntly, they are actually all grass on the wall now, which was forcibly pinched together by Solomon with violence.
Although he succumbed, Solomon also used various means to strengthen his rule, but the time was too short and he could only fight a good fight.
If the Firebeard Dwarves lose, Solomon will have no problem driving them in pursuit.
But in the face of the great enemy, if you want them to be complete cannon fodder, you have to take a certain risk, and it is very likely that they will be scattered in a hurry, even if you bite the bullet, I am afraid that you will not be able to withstand it for long in front of the firebeard dwarf.
This kind of example is not nothing, the ancient Chinese war before Solomon crossed, the famous battle of Weishui, Fu Jian led a large army to attack the Jin Dynasty, Fu Jian thought that the half crossing could be attacked, so he retreated, expecting the Jin army to cross the water when he hit hard, who knew that this retreat, was taken by the Jin people to shout that the Qin army was defeated, so that the rear army really thought that the front army lost, and the result was a big mess, and the Jin army won.
In that battle, Fu Jian's troops were several times larger than the Jin army, but they were out of control, in the final analysis, the reason was that although his army was large at that time, it was combined by the former Qin to conquer various ethnic groups in the north by force, and he did not really return to his heart.
Returning to the heart does not mean that you must be loyal, you can make the other party completely afraid, but you would rather accept the drive to fight with the enemy than dare to run away, and you can also wield combat power.
But it is clear that Solomon could not do that yet.
Unless this battle is won, perhaps the rule over these dwarven clans will be stronger.
The appearance of the stone giant interrupted the rhythm of the Firebeard Dwarf's attack, if this was in an open area, it didn't matter, and then organize an attack.
But now it's different, this is attacking the fortress, which means that Zam and they can only have the fortress gate as an attack point for the time being.
The Firebeard Dwarves must once again cut down trees and rebuild ladders in order to climb the city.
But soon, before Zam could build their ladder, Solomon on the wall had swallowed a tube of magic potion and let the magic begin to slowly recover, and the eight stone giants reappeared, this time at the gate.
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