Chapter 442 Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 1)
There is a mysterious spiritual connection between the undead creatures. Although Neia did not say the order, all the undead creatures already understood its meaning. [] Mixed among the undead creatures, the largest skeletal mammoth began to take action.
, and moved closer to the castle.
Skeleton mammoths are the main force of undead creatures in attacking cities. Their huge size and huge strength make them capable of destroying any solid city wall built by humans. In the past, when attacking a certain city, only a dozen skeletal mammoths were enough to break through the city.
However, this time Neia gathered more than two hundred skeletal mammoths, which is the number of skeletal mammoths on the entire Lunde Peninsula. From this alone, we can see how determined the Lich is to capture the castle.
The skeleton mammoth is large enough and very powerful, but its flexibility is a bit lacking. When the densely packed undead creatures move forward, many skeletal mammoths will inevitably step on other undead creatures until they all move into the formation.
At the front, hundreds of skeletons and zombies had been eliminated by our own people.
However, to the total of more than 200,000 undead creatures, such a small loss is nothing at all. The skeletal mammoths formed a charging formation in front of the undead creatures, and then began to attack. These behemoths first walked quickly, and then
Slowly began to accelerate and entered a trot.
Because they are too large, the skeleton mammoths cannot run too fast. But even at their current speed, they will still cause huge damage when they hit the city wall.
When the Skeleton Mammoth began to take action, Roger, who was standing at the top of the city, immediately noticed the situation and quickly ordered the catapult and crossbow bed to prepare for the attack.
The long-range attack force trained by the civilians of the castle immediately became busy and began to prepare for the attack. The dwarf crossbow bed was equipped with a giant crossbow arrow like a spear, and the arrowheads of the crossbow arrows were poured with pre-prepared holy water. As for the
The catapult directly uses an earthen jar filled with holy water as medicine. When the earthen jar is shot at the target, it will burst, and the holy water inside will be scattered everywhere on the undead creatures, causing more damage to them than ordinary stones.
Much larger.
The skeletal mammoth quickly entered the range of these heavy weapons, and the trebuchet launched the attack first. The earthen jar filled with holy water drew an arc in the air and slammed heavily into the undead creatures rushing towards the castle.
The trebuchet has a longer range than the dwarf crossbow bed, but its accuracy is not satisfactory. It is fine for attacking large fixed targets such as city walls, but it depends on luck to hit fast-moving and large targets like skeletal mammoths.
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Although there were a lot of earthen jars shot out in the first wave of attacks, none of them directly hit the target. Fortunately, there were many skeletal mammoths. After the earthen jars broke, the holy water spilled everywhere, and many skeletal mammoths were still killed.
Holy water was poured.
For undead creatures with dark attributes, holy water full of divine power is much more terrifying than sulfuric acid. Whenever the holy water touches the skeleton mammoth, bursts of white smoke will rise immediately, and a soft "chichi" sound will be made at the same time.
Although the skeleton mammoth is twice as big as an elephant, it can't
Withstanding such damage, all the skeletal mammoths that were stained by the holy water slowed down significantly, and some that were stained more began to melt slowly. Some of the most serious skeletal mammoths disappeared after running a short distance away.
Then he fell down and was smashed into pieces on the ground.
However, Neia had gathered more than two hundred skeletal mammoths, so the loss of single digits was not a big deal. The other skeletal mammoths completely ignored the fate of their kind and continued to rush towards the castle with long strides.
At this time, the dwarf crossbow bed also began to attack. A series of "buzzing" sounds of vibrating bowstrings sounded on the crossbow bed platform, and giant crossbow arrows as big as spears were shot out one after another. Compared with the trebuchet, the dwarf crossbow bed is more accurate
degree of need
Much higher, almost all the giant crossbow arrows hit the target. Most of the giant crossbow arrows hit the target's huge skull, and the huge force can often make less than half of the giant crossbow arrow penetrate deeply into the head of the skeletal mammoth.
Although the skeleton mammoth is huge and has the unique toughness of undead creatures, it is still difficult to continue fighting under such a heavy blow. What's more, all the giant crossbow arrows are sprinkled with holy water, which makes them even more lethal to undead creatures.
Big.
Those skeletal mammoths whose brains were directly pierced by giant crossbow arrows stopped in an instant. The huge inertia caused them to fall heavily to the ground. Before they had time to struggle to stand up, the soul fire in their eyes gradually extinguished, and then turned into
A pile of broken bones. As for the skeletal mammoths that were not shot in the vital parts, it was not easy either.
The impact of the crossbow arrows will often break any bone at the shooting site, and then the sacred power contained in the holy water will begin to purify their bodies. The surging and pure sacred power makes the skeletal mammoths weak, so they have no choice but to lower themselves
The speed quickly fell behind other uninjured similar ones.
Seeing that the skeleton mammoth army had lost more than a dozen before they even rushed to the castle, Neia's red eyes began to flash again. This showed that the loss of the skeleton mammoth made the Lich very angry, and it made it even more determined to take action.
All the living creatures in the castle were transformed into undead creatures, so that they would never be able to rest in peace.
But Roger didn't care what the Lich was thinking, and still ordered the trebuchet and dwarf crossbow to continue attacking. As the gears slowly turned into place, the trebuchet was ready to launch again, which would be able to cause serious damage to undead creatures.
The earthen jar is launched.
Because the target was closer, this trebuchet attack achieved very good results. Several earthen jars directly hit the target. The earthen jars smashed into pieces on the skeleton mammoth, and the holy water contained in them naturally caused huge damage to the undead creatures.
Damage. A three-headed skeletal mammoth was killed by a clay jar
A direct hit on the head, the whole head was drizzled with holy water, the soul fire in the eyes was extinguished almost immediately, and they fell to the ground into a pile of broken bones. Several other skeletal mammoths were also seriously injured, although they could barely hold on.
, but it no longer poses any threat to the castle.
The dwarf crossbow launched immediately afterwards caused even greater damage. Sixteen skeletal mammoths fell under the giant crossbow arrows, bringing the number of skeletal mammoths lost to more than forty.
Seeing that its siege weapon suffered heavy losses, Neia became increasingly angry. It desperately ordered the skeletal mammoth to speed up its charge, vowing to break through the enemy's wall in this round of attack.
After receiving the Lich's order, the unharmed skeletal mammoths all quickened their pace and rushed towards the castle. To be honest, Roger saw so many skeletal mammoths rushing toward him. It would be false to say that he was not worried at all.
. He immediately ordered the soldiers on the crossbow bed platform to speed up the attack and try their best to eliminate the big guys getting closer and closer to the castle.
The performance of the soldiers did not disappoint Roger. Before the skeletal mammoth approached the castle, the trebuchet and the dwarf crossbow carried out two more rounds of strikes. Because the distance between the targets was getting closer and closer, the effects of these two rounds of strikes were also increasing.
Well, by the time the Skeleton Mammoth rushed under the city wall, more than half of it had been lost.
But this was enough for Neia. Although there were less than a hundred skeletal mammoths, it was very easy to open a hole in the city wall.
The huge body of the skeletal mammoth hit the city wall hard, and the huge impact caused a large amount of dust to fall from the city wall. Roger, who was standing on the city wall, only felt a clear shake under his feet, which showed how amazing the power of these undead creatures was.
The skeletal mammoths ran at full speed and hit the city wall hard, and they themselves inevitably suffered some damage. Some skeletal mammoths had their tusks broken, and some had cracks in their heads, and some even had their bones broken and fell down.
They couldn't get up from the ground. However, these undead creatures who were not afraid of death did not stop there. They slowly backed away from the city wall, obviously planning to launch a second round of impact.
Because of the shooting angle, neither the trebuchet nor the dwarf crossbow can launch an attack on the skeletal mammoth located near the city wall. At this time, these undead creatures can calmly hit the city wall and successfully break through this solid defense line. However,
How could Roger let these guys launch attacks calmly and continuously? After the skeletal mammoth hit the city wall, he had already raised an earthen jar that he had prepared and smashed it hard against the skeletal mammoth closest to him.
Roger used enough fighting spirit to smash the earthen jar out, and the force involved was greater than that of a trebuchet. The earthen jar accurately hit the head of the skeletal mammoth, directly smashing a big hole in the undead creature's skull. The earthen jar also
It burst at the same time, and most of the holy water inside poured into the skull of the skeletal mammoth, extinguishing its soul fire in an instant.
At the same time, many soldiers on the city wall, under Roger's command, smashed earthen jars filled with holy water at the skeletal mammoth under the city wall. Now that the distance between the two sides was very close, Roger's soldiers attacked again from a high position.
Most of the jars hit their targets. The skeletal mammoths that were doused with holy water were quickly purified. White smoke emitted from their bodies. Their huge bodies melted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like ice falling into boiling water.
Same as blocks.
However, undead creatures are indeed fearless of death. Even under such circumstances, the skeletal mammoth still insisted on launching a fierce attack on the city wall. Under the continuous impact of many skeletal mammoths, cracks finally appeared in the tall and strong city wall, and finally issued a
There was a loud "rumbling" sound, and the upper part of a section of the city wall collapsed, just in time to crush a skeletal mammoth that was lowering its head and slamming into it.
Although under Roger's desperate attacks, only a dozen skeletal mammoths were left. But now the city wall is also damaged. As long as they attack a few more times, a large section of the city wall will completely collapse, and it will never be able to lift again.