The city wall of the edge town is very wide, more than ten meters wide. This width may be extremely narrow if it is on flat ground, but on the city wall, it is a very wide distance, enough for the soldiers guarding the city.
, with enough position to defend against attacks from monsters.
The city wall is divided into two layers. The inner layer is two or three meters shorter than the platform on the top of the wall. Along the city wall, a suspended platform with the same length as the city wall protrudes. The width of the suspended platform is not wide, only about five meters, and there is only
A kind of weapon, Ruian learned from the level 6 swordsman who was originally stationed in the edge town. This kind of weapon is called a ballista, and one is placed every ten meters.
It turns out that directly in front of the ballista, there is a square hole half a meter long and wide, running through the city wall of more than ten meters, leading to the outside. The giant crossbow fired by the ballista can pass through this hole and shoot at the monsters outside.
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Ryan looked at the ballista and found that the principle was similar to his crossbow, but it was fixed in the shape of a small ballista, with huge bow arms and thick bow strings. It was obvious at first sight that it had powerful firing power. It was even more terrifying.
The arrow is a giant arrow, five or six meters long, and the thickest part is more than a foot thick. The tip is
A triangular fork in the shape of an ordinary bow and arrow. Judging from the appearance of the arrow, it seems that the entire body is made of metal. With such a long length, it must be very heavy. Coupled with the power of the ballista, it can be imagined that the power is huge. Ryan estimated
Now, even if it is a level 6 monster, if it is accidentally shot by an arrow, its body will definitely be penetrated.
Of course, ballistae also have shortcomings. The holes of more than ten meters make the angle at which they fire is very small, almost limited to a very small angle. However, a ballistae every ten meters is enough to cover all places. In addition,
The crossbow arrows seem to be too long and heavy, so each ballista does not have many spare crossbow arrows.
There are only more than ten of them. When all these crossbow arrows are fired, the ballistae will be useless. Furthermore, firing the ballistae is very simple. Just turn on the firing wrench, but installing the next crossbow arrow is very difficult, at least.
It takes several people to work together to pull the thick bow string, and then several people to move it to load the arrows.
Ruian led his team of twelve level 6 swordsmen. At this time, they had gone up to the city wall to garrison. They were responsible for assisting in the defense of a fifty or sixty meter long area, with other teams on both sides responsible for assisting in the defense. This area was closer to the center of the city.
The gate, so it will be the place where the most violent attack will be. Outside the city wall, it is not dark.
Nothing could be seen. In the evening, the garrison of the edge town was already burning a bunch of bonfires every few tens of meters on the plain outside the city. Therefore, looking down from the city wall at this moment, by the light of the fire on the ground
With the moonlight in the sky, you can vaguely see far away, without any traces of monsters.
It's close to midnight, and the Warcraft has not appeared yet. If the Warcraft never appears, everything will be fine, but obviously this is impossible. The Warcraft caused huge casualties to the edge town last night. It will definitely continue to attack the city tonight.
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"There are only one-third of the people on the city wall now, and the others are taking turns to rest. Once the monsters come to attack, everyone will be in place immediately." Ryan asked the level 6 swordsman who was stationed in the edge town to introduce each member to the team members.
situation.
Ruian thought this was normal. It was impossible for everyone to stay on the city wall and stay up all night. Otherwise, when the monsters came, everyone's energy would definitely drop. Furthermore, if everyone stayed up late to garrison, then there would be no one to garrison during the day tomorrow.
"How are the mercenaries arranged?"
"They have all been integrated into the army. The current situation makes it impossible for them to act without authorization. They must follow the unified command of the army. Otherwise, not only will they be in danger, but the defense rhythm of the army will be disrupted."
Ruian nodded. Their team, which was composed entirely of swordsmen above level 6, was considered a special existence. However, they had a heavy responsibility, and they had to deal with all high-level monsters.
With the continuous introduction of the level 6 swordsman, Ruian and the other level 6 swordsmen who came with him basically understood how to defend the city.
The siege of Warcraft is very different from the siege of humans. Warcraft are no better than humans. They can use various ladders to climb the city wall and come into close contact with the defending army. Therefore, they want to climb the city wall that is more than ten meters high.
They can rely on jumping, but no matter how powerful the monster is, they cannot jump to a height of more than ten meters.
If you want to jump onto the city wall, you must jump on those very tall monsters, such as elephant-like monsters that are five or six meters tall, before you can jump onto the city wall. In addition, bird-type monsters can fly directly to the top of the city wall.
, attacking the defenders on the city wall, either from a distance or from a short distance, which is very lethal.
The most powerful attack of Warcraft is magic attack. Most Warcraft, more or less strong or weak, have some magic attacks. Therefore, when Warcraft attacks a city, thousands of Warcraft will use magic to attack the city wall at the same time.
It is a great test of the defensive ability of the city wall.
The magical attacks of Warcraft can be divided into two types. One is to directly attack the city wall or city gate. Unfortunately, this type of attack is basically ineffective. The city wall of the edge town has been tempered for thousands of years.
meters thick, plus countless molten iron melted into the hard rock
, it can completely withstand the magical attacks of Warcraft. In addition, the city gate is made of heavy pig iron, with a thickness of several meters. Now that it is closed, it is blocked with countless huge rocks. The entire thickness is thicker than the city wall.
It is thicker and can withstand the attacks of monsters.
Another magical attack by Warcraft is to directly attack the garrison on the city wall, or to cross the city wall and attack inside the city wall. However, the garrison on the city wall has already had a way to deal with this situation, and will not be helpless. And those who fly into the city
After magic travels a long distance, its speed and power will be significantly weakened, and people inside can generally dodge it.
As for the garrison defending the city, excluding those who were injured last night, there are still more than 20,000 soldiers, 40% of whom are non-swordsmen and ordinary soldiers who do not know how to fight. The city defenders mainly rely on division of labor and cooperation, and their attack methods are relatively
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Ordinary soldiers are generally not placed on the front line. They are usually placed inside the city wall, which is much safer. For example, inside the city wall, there are hundreds of slingshots and dozens of ballistae, which are the most powerful means of attack.
, these soldiers responsible for firing slings and ballistas numbered four to five thousand, and they were all
Ordinary soldiers do not need fighting spirit. As long as they are strong, they can skillfully operate these catapults and ballistae. In addition, other ordinary soldiers are responsible for logistics work, such as carrying stones for catapults, carrying various weapons for city wall defenders, and providing rescue services.
Wounded soldiers in the city wall defenders, evacuating the wounded from the city wall, etc.
Soldiers with the swordsman level have to go up to the city wall to fight to the death with monsters. They also have many divisions of labor on the city wall. On the edge of the city wall is a wall about one meter and three meters high. This height of the wall is suitable for soldiers to attack the monsters below the city.
, it is also easy for the magical attacks of Warcraft to come over, so it is necessary to
Use a huge shield to hold it up. Some large and powerful junior swordsmen hold up a large shield one meter wide and one and a half meters high, erected on the groove on the top of the wall. The bottom of the shield is concave against the wall.
Slot support, junior swordsmen support the upper part of the shield with their arms, which saves a lot of strength.
There is a gap of ten or twenty centimeters between each shield. This gap makes it difficult for the magic attacks of monsters to penetrate, but the soldiers guarding the city can attack through the gaps. Under normal circumstances, soldiers attack monsters under the city from the city wall.
The main method is long-distance attack with bows, arrows and javelins. There are many specialized archers in the garrison. They shoot arrows from the gaps between the shields to attack the monsters.
In addition, soldiers at the intermediate swordsman level not only have to deal with the monsters that jump up the city wall, but also project javelins to attack the monsters. The javelin is one meter and a half long, but it is as thick as the forearm of a strong swordsman, so
The javelin is extremely heavy, and under the concentration of the fighting spirit of the intermediate swordsmen, it has very strong lethality. Moreover, there is a deep blood groove on the javelin. Once it stabs the body of the monster, it will cause the monster to bleed profusely.
Sometimes the javelin is fired from the gap between the shields, sometimes it is projected upward and flies out from above the shield, and sometimes several shields are withdrawn, and then a large number of javelins are launched out, and then the shields are blocked again. In short, the javelin is used to deal with
The main means of Warcraft is to have a large number of reserves on the city wall.
At the very back of the soldiers are the magicians. The magic they cast generally does not need to be aimed, but is thrown directly over the soldiers in front. Since there are many magical beasts under the city, the magic cast by the magicians generally does not need to be aimed.
Failed. Of course, if there are some very powerful monsters under the city that need to be dealt with, the magicians will step forward and cast magic through the gaps between the shields.
The main task of Ruian's expert team, which is composed of swordsmen above level 6, is to deal with those monsters that take the opportunity to jump on the city wall. Generally, only those high-level monsters have the ability to jump on the city wall. Once the high-level monsters jump on the city wall, the city wall will be attacked.
The soldiers on board caused heavy damage. At this time, many high-ranking officers were needed.
To resist these high-level monsters, Ruian and others have a very heavy task. According to Ruian's understanding, there were many high-level monsters and level 7 monsters jumping on the city wall last night, causing many casualties to soldiers. In the end, many level 6 swordsmen relied on
After a desperate effort, these monsters were driven down from the city, and the edge town was barely defended.
After understanding the specific situation of defending the city, Ryan asked the team members to rest first, while he walked around to confirm the condition of the city wall again.
A little while later, a sharp roar suddenly came from the watchtower in the middle of the city wall: "The monster is coming! The monster is coming! It's five miles ahead."
Immediately, a huge bell inside the city wall hit the ground, and everyone in the edge town suddenly heard the warning bell that represented the siege of Warcraft.