After a brief respite of ten minutes, Newman ordered the seven field regiments to advance and attack without interruption, and also equipped them with almost 2,000 crossbows carried by all hoplites to enhance the troops' long-range strike capabilities.

On the aerial platform of Shenlong Pass, Mu Sen also summed up some deficiencies of his own troops according to the battle just now and adjusted them in time, ordering the logistics troops to send a large number of idle spears to the city wall, so that while increasing the attack distance for the soldiers, they can also be used to throw and enhance long-range strike capabilities. The hoplites of the two wings were also assembled under the tower, ready to rush to the city wall to take over the defense, and use crossbows to cooperate with the archers to cover the enemy's long-range strikes without dead ends.

The horn of the Eternal Empire sounded again, and the field legions, which were already five miles away from the walls of the Shenlong Pass, continued to accelerate under the urging of the horn of attack, stepping on the corpses and blood all over the ground and still rushing towards their target.

With the experience of the cannon fodder, the soldiers of these field regiments held their shields high and charged in the face of the rain of arrows, but their soldiers were not much better than the cannon fodder troops, and people continued to fall to the ground and die or be trampled to death by their comrades behind under the dense rain of arrows.

What made him even more desperate was that while they were preparing for a rain of arrows falling from the sky, huge arm-thick crossbow arrows shot out from the bottom of the city wall, cutting out lines of death in the dense formation with absolute penetrating force and impacting force.

After a volley of crossbow arrows from the enemy, there were few soldiers left standing within five hundred meters of the city wall, but these lucky guys had not had time to rejoice, and they were overwhelmed by the rain of arrows that kept falling.

Newman's eyes narrowed into slits, and he looked through his lookout glass at the slender hollows at the lower end of the city wall of Shenlong Pass, his face full of shock. At first, Newman wondered why there were no ballistas on the city walls, and he thought it was because of the limited space on the city walls. And the enemy was reluctant to use the ballista and trebuchet against the cannon fodder, waiting for the main force of their own army to appear before carrying the ballista to the city wall. Newman was also scoffing and dismissive of the idea of the enemy commander, because his non-stop assault would never give them the opportunity to transport the ballista to the city walls and install and debug it.

But now seeing the huge ballista bolts fired by the ballista from the slender gaps, Newman admired the genius design of the architect who built the city wall, and was also shocked by the great lethality and deterrence displayed by the ballista after such design.

Seeing that his troops had become a little sluggish after a salvo of the enemy's ballistas, Newman hysterically ordered his troops to continue to rush forward, no matter what method was used, they must use the fastest speed to block the firing ports of those ballistas, and sent a large number of overseers to supervise the battle, and those who dared to retreat were killed on the spot.

Newman now regrets why he didn't prepare for a little longer. Prepare a little more siege equipment, and blindly lead the troops to attack the Shenlong Pass.

In fact, this can't be completely blamed on Newman for underestimating the enemy, because according to the height of the city wall and the space on the head of the city at the Shenlong Pass before, with the strength of almost 50,000 troops, even if the enemy's resistance is fierce, it is definitely not difficult to occupy the city wall, the difficulty lies in the street battle that unfolds in the pass after capturing the city wall.

Newman didn't expect too much, he didn't expect the enemy to really occupy the Shenlong Pass, he didn't expect the enemy to build a larger, higher, and stronger wall in such a short time, Newman didn't expect that the enemy's ingenious design of the bunker could bring a lot of casualties to his side. But it's too late to say anything now, and he can only fill it with crowd tactics.

Newman reluctantly said to Doyle and Dunbar, the two magicians, "I was going to wait a little longer before asking you two to make a move, but now our morale has dropped greatly, and I need you two to kill the enemy's sharpness." ”

Doyle nodded solemnly and said, "Okay." However, please also indicate our objectives. ”

Newman pointed to the tower above the gate and said, "If the gate is too strong, attack there, cut off the connection between the two ends of the wall, and then try to kill the enemy on the south wall, and cover our soldiers to occupy the wall." But the two also have to watch out for the enemy magician. ”

Doyle and Dunbar nodded disappreciatively, the two of them were laymen in the military aspect, but when it came to magic. They have an absolute say. With the strength of the two of them, they can completely stand outside the range of the enemy's long-range weapons and release their magic to their heart's content, and Newman is worried about the other party's magician, the two of them don't pay attention to it at all, they don't think that such a fledgling province can have any magic masters, even if there is the aid of the Eldidu, it is impossible to pose any threat to the two of them, they can't fight and retreat, they are not soldiers, and they are not subject to military law.

In the dark castle at the lower end of the city wall of Shenlong Pass, after the first salvo of the ballista, the soldiers in charge of the ballista saw through the shooting hole that the enemy was killed by crossbow arrows, and the effect shocked everyone, and everyone cheered and celebrated. Although the cheers that resounded through the passage of the bunker quickly ceased as the officers reprimanded them, the soldiers felt the same excitement in the smiles and pride on the faces of the officers.

After the brief celebration, under the command of the officers, a crossbow cart was fired in turn, firing at the enemy who rushed up without interruption, and with the rain of arrows from the archery corps, the enemy was suppressed dead five hundred meters away, and not a single enemy rushed to the city intact.

The reason why these ballista cars can do this is entirely because of the dangerous terrain of Shenlong Pass, almost two miles outside the city wall is like a canyon, only a large road with the same width as the city wall, and hard and steep cliffs on both sides, the enemy who rushes up can only be confined to this small space, there is no room to dodge, so these ballista can exert such power.

The officers of the Eternal Empire are not idiots, they did not watch their subordinate soldiers go up to death like this, but mobilized a large number of heavy shields to form a shield array, the front rows of giant shields to defend against the enemy's ballista, and the shield on the top of the head is to defend against the enemy's arrow rain, from the city wall, the enemy is like a metal giant snake does not care about the rain of arrows falling, constantly crawling forward, slowly approaching the city wall.

The effect of the heavy shield phalanx is very good, although on the way forward, the heavy shield hand at the front is constantly pierced or hit by huge crossbow arrows, but it is much better than before, and looking at the city wall that is getting closer and closer, the soldiers are full of confidence. (To be continued......)