Chapter 203: Attacking the City

The generals under Hieudon began to boost morale among the human legion and roared loudly with various inspiring words. Aragon, Legoras, and Jinpi joined the ranks of elves, and Aragon also began to mobilize pre-warly with elves. Of course, facing these elves with calm expressions, his words did not seem to cause any turmoil.

Zhu Lingsan and his dozen others stood between the elves and humans, just above the canal under the city wall. Zhang Donglin put the machine gun on the city wall, but used a few shields to make a bunker in front of him. The other people each held guns and hid the battlements of the city wall, and the muzzles were facing the city wall.

Yu Mingxia changed her flying gun. Her mission was to snipe the commander among the orcs. Yang Lingqin stood beside her, ready to open the shield of the guardian ring to protect Yu Mingxia at any time.

Only Zhu Lingsan, holding two staffs, stood behind his team members. He would use other means to participate in the war. If everything could be as he imagined, perhaps he could really kill Saruman's Orc Legion before Gandalf brought reinforcements back.

Now there are about three days left before Gandalf’s five-day appointment. It should be said that he left yesterday, that is, from now on, there are still three days and two nights to defend, which is a bit different from the original plot. The original defense battle lasted only one night.

The defense war of human castles in this world is not as good as in ancient China, such as burning gold juice, heating oil, rolling wood and stones, large crossbow machines, etc., and can only rely on the bows and arrows and swords in the hands of human power.

Of course, this is also because the Holy Helmet Valley Castle was originally small, at least it was replaced by the magnificent White City of the Gondor Capital. That would be different. The seven-story city walls along the mountain were equipped with stone chariots and other equipment for defending the city in the castle, but there were only a few.

When people look endlessly, although they will not be overwhelmed by their heads when they look down from the city wall as high as six meters, they can also see a sea of ​​black steel spears rushing in from the entrance of the relatively narrow canyon where the terrain is higher.

As the commander of the orcs who acted as commanders in the orcs shouted, the orcs in their arms, held a spear and were in iron armor, formed a square formation, the orcs in the front stopped at the same time, and the orcs who continued to pour in from behind also lined up according to the formation and stood in a row.

The Orcs showed extremely formal combat qualities. From their actions, they showed that they could do the orders and were definitely much more elite than the rammed human defense soldiers on the walls of the Holy Helmet Valley.

Among the bodies of these orcs, there were many corpses of Gondor and Rohanguo warriors. These soldiers died in the battle between the two countries to resist the Dark Demon Army of Soren. Their bodies were taken away by Soren, and some were taken to Mordor to create the Dark Demon Army, and some were given to Saruman for him to create a strong orc army.

It is precisely the addition of these warrior corpses that have made these orcs bear the murderous aura on the battlefield from the beginning of their creation and are the most suitable soldiers for war. They are truly the strong orc legion carefully created by Saruman.

I don’t know whether it was Saruman’s spell or the changes caused by the natural sensing of heaven and earth. A sudden thunder and lightning roared in the sky, and a heavy rain fell in time, covering the defense and offensive sides in the rain. It seemed that I wanted to use the cold rain to dissolve the fighting spirit gradually ignited up and down the city wall.

The Orcs all entered the low slopes in the west valley outside the Holy Helmet Valley wall, and were arranged into several formations, mixed with several siege ladders and crashes.

As the commander of the Orc Legion located behind the Central Army shouted loudly, military orders were issued one by one, and with the sound of horns of different rhythms, all the Orcs held the steel spear in one hand and the shield in the other, and began to slowly approach the wall of the Holy Helmet Valley. They actually attacked directly.

The generals under Hiyoudon kept shouting in the human defensive camp, "Stable! Stable!"

The human camp in the Holy Helmet Valley Castle was also divided into two waves. Some veterans with good archery skills and active-duty soldiers stood on the city wall, including more than 200 guards in Hyoudon and the 1,500 veterans in the Holy Helmet Valley Castle. They gathered together, and all kinds of short bows and long bows in their hands were pulled open and aimed at the orcs outside the city.

Nearly two thousand farmers, old men and children remained under the city walls, lined up in several rows on the open space in the city, pulled the bows they developed and raised at an angle of 65 degrees. They did not need to aim, and used parabolic archery to shoot arrows, and then they could use the gravity acceleration of the bow and arrow to shoot out of the city to kill opponents.

This arrangement can also reduce the panic of these temporary recruited troops when they see the 10,000 orc legion outside the city, and can also protect them from reducing the losses in battle. They just need to follow the orders to shoot arrows.

The wind and rain sprinkled on the armor of human soldiers, and their faces turned into water and dripped onto the ground. The cold air gradually made people tremble involuntarily, but they didn't know how many of them were trembling because of the cold or because of fear.

The elves archers on the city wall remained quiet. Even Aragon stopped talking. Like those elves, they pulled out the elf longbow, but aimed at a target. Every arrow from the elves would not fail. They had seen clearly that although the orcs had passed the best protective iron armor, there was no defense barrier between their necks and mouths.

Although these elf longbows, unlike the Kellandeum bow given to Legolas by the elf witch, are special magic bows with spells, which can help them hit every shot and speed up their firing rate, they will definitely shoot farther than the ordinary bows used by humans, and their lethality is much more powerful, and they can even penetrate iron armor.

The Orc Legion continued to advance slowly towards the city wall of the Holy Helmet Valley. Before the range that the bows and arrows could shoot on the city wall, the formation suddenly changed. The Orc Legion was divided into two formations. The main force occupied about half of the total force, stopped in place, suppressed the formation, but the half of the troops in front were divided into several waves, pushing the siege ladder, rushing into the city car, forming a shield formation, holding a spear that was nearly three meters long, and rushed towards the city wall.

The rain clouds in the sky moved slowly, and the rain gradually moved from the city wall to the back of the Holy Helmet Valley Castle, as if the attack of the orc legions outside the city walls had driven the movement of the rain clouds.

A human veteran on the city wall subconsciously relaxed the bow that was pulling the string. With a "bang" sound, the bow string ignited the contaminated rainwater into scattered water vapor, and a long arrow shot out.

The long arrow shot straight into the neck of an orc at the front of the Orc Legion, and pierced through its neck through the gap between the armor.

The orc reached out and touched the arrow on his neck in disbelief, and suddenly fell backwards. The orcs behind him stepped on his body without caring about rushing towards the city wall.

With this subconscious arrow, the battle between the defensive party began. The human general shouted, "Shoot the arrow!", and Aragon in the elves' bow also shouted, "Shoot!"

Various bowstrings vibrated at the same time, and a "buzzing" sounded on the city wall, and the rain of arrows sprayed on the orc legion under the city wall.

Although the human archers on the city wall are not as good as those of the elf archers, they can shoot arrows into the orc's mouth, neck, arms, and other areas that are not protected by iron armor, they also hit the target and almost no one is lost. Among them, the long arrows of some advanced human archers directly penetrate the orc's steel armor and pierce the orc's heart.

Afterwards, the vassal soldiers who were neatly arranged in the open space in the castle also shot out a rain of arrows, flew over the tall city walls, and fell into the formation of the orcs.

More than a hundred people fell down instantly, but these orcs were extremely fierce. Many of them still had arrows hanging on them. More bows and arrows were blocked by them with iron shields, and "arrow grass" quickly grew on the orc's shield formation.

The remaining orcs also roared and rushed towards the city wall. The orcs also had crossbows in their hands. There were about a thousand orcs in front of them half squatting on the ground and using the crossbows in their hands to fight back against the city wall.

Then the main force of the orc siege who was pushing the siege ladder rushed towards the city wall in the rain of arrows. The Holy Helmet Valley Castle had no moat, and the orcs could directly push the siege ladder and hit the foot of the city wall. Then dozens of orcs lay directly on the siege ladder and hung it on the city wall.

The seven siege ladders hooked the battlements of the city wall with iron hooks, making it impossible to push them away easily. The assault soldiers among the orcs who came up with the ladder jumped to the city wall in mid-air, and used the spear and iron sword in their hands to kill the defensive soldiers on the city wall and protect the city wall where the ladder was located.

The close combat on the city wall began. The combat power of these orc assault soldiers was extremely strong, causing chaos in the people on the city wall, especially in the area where the elf archers defended, several elf archers died under their spear swords.

With precise archers, the elf archers have strong long-range attack power, but in close combat, they are far inferior to the powerful orc warrior.

Faced with the fight between strong orcs, the elves who hold longbows and rely solely on the bow horn bone blade to maintain their melee ability will find it difficult to cause any damage to the strong orcs approaching, and the exquisite armor on their bodies cannot stop the slashing of swords in the hands of strong orcs, which makes the formation of the elf archers a little confused.

Fortunately, there was only one siege ladder in the Elf Defense Zone. Aragon, Golden Pi, Legolas and the elf nobleman Halda, located in the Elf Defense Zone, quickly rushed up, so that these powerful orcs did not allow these powerful orcs to continue to slaughter the elf archers.

With the four of them resisting in front, the surrounding elves archers regained their terrifying lethality and shot fiercely at the orcs who were rushing up with feather arrows in their hands.

And Jinpi and Legolas once again compared the number of murders in the battle...
Chapter completed!