Chapter 106: Defending the City

The undead army arrived at the foot of the fortress of Lashen the next night, and thousands of people densely surrounded the small fortress.

In the darkness of the night, I could only hear all kinds of strange shouts, and I couldn't see anything clearly, and the next morning I saw that this group of strange beasts had brought a lot of large centipedes, which were forty or fifty meters long, enough to climb the fortress walls.

Menes took the telescope and carefully observed the situation of the alien beast, and there was a clerk next to him who was speeding down, skeleton soldiers: four thousand, termite cavalry: one thousand, lizard archers: one thousand, nine-winged chickens: three hundred, winged locusts: thirty, hyena beasts: one thousand, frog-headed people: six hundred, human-faced scorpions: one hundred, giant centipedes: forty, gerbils: unknown.

With so many undead beasts gathered together, it was no longer a scattered undead beast fighting for each other, it was already a disciplined army of undead.

The siege battle began with the human-faced scorpion, this huge guy used the scorpion tail to throw the stone eggs over, more than a hundred scorpions attacked together, a salvo was hundreds of stone eggs smashed on the walls of the fortress, even if the cement was poured, the magically blessed city walls were also smashed and splashed with rubble.

Menes' legions could only hide behind the walls, not daring to show their heads, and their catapults and crossbows could not attack each other.

In order not to reveal his strength, Menes hid the Noa legion behind the city wall and waited for the impact of the undead legion.

The supreme commander of the Legion of the Undead is a golden winged locust, very large and tall, standing majestically in the legion.

A few rounds of missiles came over, and the houses in the fortress were also hit, but there were not many casualties, everyone hid well, the golden general, seeing that the number of guards in the fortress was scarce, with a wave of his claws, the giant centipede began to advance, and the skeleton soldiers lay on the centipede's back and prepared to kick the city together.

As the big centipede kept approaching, Menes hid in the tower and watched the centipede move forward, "ready to ......," Menes said.

The towers of the fortress walls and the catapults behind the city walls, the strong crossbows are all ready to "release!" At the sound of an order, the catapults took the lead in attacking, and the stones crossed an arc and smashed on the path of the undead beasts, and the stones smashed on the backs of the huge centipedes, smashing several skeleton soldiers.

But the big centipede didn't suffer much damage and moved on.

"Two hundred meters, ready, put!" was another second round of attacks.

"One hundred meters ready, put!" After three rounds of attacks, the undead beast was slightly damaged, but it was still advancing.

"Ballista ready, release!" The beast was close enough, and the Ballista began to roar.

The powerful crossbow arrow instantly penetrated the body of the big centipede, and the force was still very strong at this distance, but the tenacious vitality of the big centipede could not be solved by a single crossbow arrow.

The number of trebuchets in the fortress of the gods is not much, there are more than 20 in total, and there are more than 30 strong ballistas, and the attack ability is limited, and the crosshairs of these machines are really not flattering, they are okay to use to hit fixed targets, but it is terrible to move targets, and in the face of undead beasts, the crossbow arrows that fly over are inserted into the back of the centipede as if they were inserted into the centipede, which has little effect and cannot form fatal damage.

"Archers prepare, ignite the fire!" Menes commanded all the soldiers to suddenly emerge from the city, and the sky was overwhelmingly shot at the undead beasts with flaming feathered arrows.

There isn't much accuracy at this distance, and it's completely dependent on covering shots, as long as it's roughly in this direction, you can always shoot at the beast.

Thousands of feather arrows flew over, instantly knocked down a piece of skeleton soldiers, the most weapons in the fortress is the bow and arrow, the Nine Gods Fortress is in a defensive posture all the year round, so the most attention is paid to the use and production of projection weapons, and the people in the fortress also participate in military training all year round, basically it is regarded as the fortress reserve of the guards for the people and out, and a round of bows and arrows has achieved remarkable results.

The golden general was a little proud, he didn't pay attention to the soldiers of the fortress at all, and he didn't expect that there would be so many soldiers, so he didn't arrange for archers to cover him.

The skeleton soldier could only charge forward with arrows, and the huge centipede climbed directly over the moat and climbed up the fortress wall, and the skeleton soldier on his back hid behind the big centipede with his head down and waited for the centipede to climb to the top.

The big centipede was like a walking ladder on the city wall, and a bunch of legs were firmly clinging to the wall, and Menes' soldiers could not push them, so they could only keep firing arrows to try to kill the skeleton soldiers on their backs, and the strong crossbow fired crossbow arrows at the big centipede at close range.

This situation was considered when the walls of the fortress were built, so there were many rooms in the walls of the fortress, the passages were connected, and there were windows facing outward, which were closed on weekdays, and all of them were opened at this time, and the windows were very small and could not penetrate anyone, but they could stretch out their spears, and the soldiers would stick the lit oilcloth into the spears and stab the body of the big centipede.

The back of this big centipede is relatively strong, and it is difficult to pierce with ordinary weapons, but the abdomen is relatively soft, and countless spears wrapped in burning oilcloth are killed into the body of the big centipede, this guy keeps swinging in pain, and the skeleton soldiers on his back fall down without grasping it steadily, and the height of dozens of meters is enough to break them.

The golden general used all the giant centipedes in the first wave of attack, more than forty centipedes were lined up on the city wall, every few meters was a centipede, a small number of skeleton soldiers rushed to the city head and were directly cut to the ground, other skeletons were still climbing hard, the soldiers on the city wall smashed stones, hot oil, and boiling water at the skeleton soldiers, and the hot oil made the big centipede sway in pain.

The ladder of this action is very useful, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it will die and be afraid of pain, unlike ordinary ladders, at least it will not sway casually when attacked.

Several large centipedes began to retreat under the strong attack, with many spears and feathered arrows stuck in their abdomen, and still burning, some of their heads were burned by hot oil, their eyes were useless, and they were running around with their heads covered.

The brave soldier simply jumped directly on the back of the big centipede and faced the skeleton soldier, and some climbed to the belly of the big centipede to find the heart of the Kaba, a big centipede was cut open by the soldier and the heart was taken out of the Kaba, and the soldier excitedly held the Kaba and cheered loudly.

The big centipede without Kaba immediately collapsed, and the soldiers, who were still cheering excitedly, fell from a height of thirty meters and fell to pieces.

Most of the big centipedes began to retreat, and the golden general's angry roar didn't work, and the big centipedes crawled all over the ground in pain.

Seeing that the attack failed, the golden general could only order a retreat, and at the same time, the human-faced scorpion launched another stone-throwing attack.

The position of the undead beasts is relatively far, and Menes' catapults are not as good as the attack range of the human-faced scorpions, so there is no way to take them, so they can only shrink up and let them smash the city wall, the magically blessed city wall can withstand for a long time, but it is very demoralizing to avoid being beaten like this.

Spent the rest of the day hiding like this.

Menes stood in the fortress of the main building and discussed with everyone how to deal with the human-faced scorpion, but everyone looked at Menes at a loss.

"The last time we were in the tavern through a secret passage, we went around behind to attack the human-faced scorpion, is there a secret passage in this fortress?" Menes asked.

The officer on the left side of the island spread his hands and said, "No, at least I don't know. ”

Menes squinted at Snefru, if there was this guy, he would know, but this guy didn't speak.

"We can go out through the east gate in the darkness of the night, bypassing the legions of undead beasts and attacking from behind, but our attack is not strong enough to destroy the human-faced scorpions. The officer said.

This is also the truth, last time I had a god punish the mummy, but this time there was nothing, and I really couldn't beat the human-faced scorpion.

"The undead beast can't always have big stone eggs, and those nine-winged chickens won't stop laying eggs all day, right?" asked Auden.

"It'll stop, but you can continue to rest for a while, and it looks like the walls will last for two days at most before a big hole is smashed out!" Snefru said.

"You know, didn't you say there were no undead beasts? Menes said angrily.

"What kind of magic do you know, weren't you very good last time?, you wrapped a bunch of shrouds around me, can you wrap the human-faced scorpion around me now?" Menis said.

Snefru ignored Menes' scolding and said, "It's too far away, my magic is useless." ”

"Rubbish!" Menes scolded.

"You ......"

"What are you, hurry up and find a way. ”

"There is nothing we can do at the moment, unless Zose's reinforcements arrive, there are many demigods in his army, there will be a way. The officer said.

"Hey, then find a way to defend it, the red bricks, cement, stones, and wood in the city are all gathered, ready to repair the city wall at any time, and you also give some strength to use your magic to help repair the city wall, we will try to wait until Zosse returns, fortunately, my messenger has already set off, as long as you survive these days, maybe reinforcements will come." Menes sighed.

"My lord, do we need to prepare for a gerbil attack, although we haven't seen the undead gerbils, it's possible that they're hiding underground!" Auden asked.

"Well, this is also a precautionary measure, although our foundation is very strong, you should arrange it!" Menes said.

Auden turned to leave, but Menes suddenly stopped him and said, "Do you think we can use the passage dug up by the gerbil?" Menes said.

"This ...... My lord, we shouldn't be able to use it, because the gerbil's burrow dirt is discharged backwards, which means that we are digging holes and plugging the holes behind us, so we can't use them. Auden replied.

"Okay, okay, you go and arrange it first!"

There are only a small number of mourners in the entire fortress now, and there are no other demigods, and Menes' mummies are not around, so their means of attack are very limited, and they rely entirely on conventional offensive methods, and Menes is thinking about machine guns and artillery tanks again.

The stone egg attack of the undead beast continued until dusk, and finally stopped temporarily, Menes arranged for personnel to start strengthening and repairing the city wall, and the undead beast also temporarily stopped attacking and recovered a little.

"The undead look like they're going to attack at night. Auden said.

"Night raids, you say undead beasts will raid at night?" Menes asked.

"That's right, the undead beasts have better vision at night than us, so it's good for them to fight at night, and besides, they basically don't need to rest, and we look like we're going to have a fierce battle at night. Auden said, glancing at his soldiers.

Menes arranged for the men to begin preparations for the night battle, with torches lit everywhere on the walls, illuminating the walls, boiling hot oil, waiting for the undead to rush up at any time.

When night fell, the undead beast did not rush to attack, it seems that it is still waiting for the opportunity!