Under the northern wall of the Far North Fortress, the orc army began a full-scale attack.
If all the orcs swarmed up, even the elite soldiers of the Far North Fortress would probably be overwhelmed by the vast sea of people. Fortunately, the relatively narrow city wall played the most critical role in diversion. The orcs who attacked the city wall each time could only attack at most.
Maintained at around 50,000 to 60,000. This is already the limit of the city wall. If it exceeds this number, there may not even be a place to stand.[.]
However, the orcs did not maximize this number, they adopted a more appropriate method.
That is to say, they will go up in batches one by one. The number of people in each wave is about 40,000. Especially under the city wall, this number is basically maintained. It is clear that they are prepared to fill the Far North Fortress with human lives.
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Zhang Liao was not worried because he believed that the Far North Fortress and the soldiers of the Second Army below could completely withstand this torrent. As long as they held on for more than a day, they would see friendly forces rushing to help from the south.
The forward pressure of the orc army also let the defenders in the far north fortress know that a cruel battle was about to begin.
"Mark! One thousand meters!" The rangefinder shouted again from the tower.
This time, the equipment troops inside the Far North Fortress were going to use the real thing. They excitedly loaded the projectiles into the trebuchet, and then made the final alignment.
"Marked! Eight hundred meters!"
"Wind up!" the commander of the trebuchet crew loudly ordered his men to start winding up the trebuchet.
Following his order, a trebuchet with a height of about three meters gradually tightened its trebuchet string under the pull of four team members.
In the bed crossbow group, the crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm have already been placed on the taut crossbow string. The entire bed crossbow head is tilted, and the elevation angle is adjusted to two degrees, preparing to attack from the furthest distance.
When everything was ready, the soldiers in the equipment team were nervously waiting for the commander's order to show off their performance for the first time in actual combat.
"Marked! Five hundred meters!"
As the rangefinder on the tower called out the distance of five hundred meters, the commander of the equipment team immediately waved the battle flag in his hand and loudly ordered all equipment teams to attack.
Squeak...
Swish, swish, swish...
Two different voices sounded.
The trebuchet went from static to dynamic, and the sound caused by the gears and torque was a bit like the sound of grinding teeth. The thick colander rushed into the air with the stone projectiles on it, rolling and roaring away into the distance. The crossbow arrows fired from the bed crossbow took
It's much more uniform, but the high speed caused by the crossbow string driving the crossbow arrow makes people hear the sound of breaking through the air and can't help but think of the explosion caused when the sound barrier is broken.
Of course, it is impossible for a crossbow arrow to break the speed of sound, but relatively speaking, the huge pulling force of the crossbow makes the initial speed of the crossbow arrow fired at this time reach as high as 100 meters per second!
It was really fleeting. In just a short distance of 500 meters, the crossbow arrows on the bed crossbow were as thick as a child's arm and reached the enemy's formation.
You can imagine what kind of horrific damage it would cause when a crossbow arrow with a diameter of about five centimeters hits the human body at a speed of nearly 100 meters per second.
Flesh and blood flying everywhere, hell!
That's right, under the blow of the bed crossbow, the orc who was unfortunately hit met the God of Death almost instantly!
The orcs who were killed on the spot were relatively lucky, but the orcs who were unfortunate enough to be wiped out were the saddest ones.
As long as a bed crossbow arrow with such a lethal power touches a certain part of the body, it will inevitably take that part and separate it from the original body. Some orcs' arms were forcibly torn apart, but I was still watching the blood spurting out blankly.
The pain in the broken arm only appeared after a few seconds. Maybe it was a broken hand, maybe a broken foot, and some had their heads taken away directly by the crossbow arrows. The body still took a few steps forward before falling. It can be seen that the crossbow arrows
How terrifying the power is!
The most terrifying thing is the powerful penetrating power of crossbow arrows. One crossbow arrow can often penetrate at least three to five orc warriors before being nailed to the ground.
The orcs in a line fell down in droves, which was simply a nightmare blow.
This is not over yet. The speed of the crossbows is far faster than that of the trebuchet crew. Therefore, after the first wave of crossbow attacks, the orcs thought that this horrific attack was over for the time being. They resisted and ignored the body fragments of their compatriots scattered on the ground.
, continue to move towards the Far North Fortress.
But above their heads, there were pieces of "meteorites" whistling and falling at an accelerating rate.
Some orcs seemed to hear movement above their heads and couldn't help but raise their heads, running and watching.
"Oh my god, what is that?" An orc shouted in surprise when he saw the stone projectiles growing larger above his head.
Before the orcs around him had time to look up, they were turned into minced meat by the rocks that suddenly fell from the sky.
A stone weighing one ton is a weapon that makes people desperate. The huge weight and the damage caused by the high speed when falling are completely unbearable.
Zhang Liao used the trebuchet originally used to bombard the city walls to deal with these flesh and blood bodies, which can be said to be overqualified. Although the trebuchet is actually not very effective in attacking ground troops, because after all, the lethality of stones is compared to the penetrating power of crossbow arrows.
It's still a lot inferior, but the deterrent effect it brings is huge.
Look at the orcs, before it was raining arrows from the sky, they could muster up the courage to continue charging, but now it is raining "stones", which is also a torture and challenge to the orcs' neurological limits!
Many orcs were turned into unrecognizable pieces of minced limbs under the impact of the stones. Moreover, the stones would bounce up after falling to the ground, and the irregular rolling also greatly reduced the chance of evasion. And bed crossbows
Like a crossbow arrow, this kind of stone can be said to cause injury upon being rubbed and death upon contact.
Like the previous crossbows, the trebuchet was like a rake plowing the ground, drawing lines of death among the neat orc army.
Sol looked at the horrific situation in front of him and held his hands tightly.
He now knows that the people in the Far North Fortress are definitely not ordinary humans. They are probably the most elite and elite troops among humans. He knows that the most dangerous moment for the orcs has arrived. The brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. This has always been the belief that the orcs follow.
"Warriors! Charge!" Thor once again loudly aroused the faith of the orc warriors. After being hit by a double blow, the orc troops once again gathered their courage and rushed towards the city wall just around the corner.
After the first wave of strikes, the equipment unit was also nervously preparing for the second wave. The bed crossbow was okay, three team members could carry out the second strike within a minute, but the trebuchet team took a little longer.
Slow down, after all, it still costs a lot from loading to stringing.
In accordance with the commander's request, the bed crossbows carried out non-stop attacks to reduce the pressure on the front line against the enemy. Therefore, the bed crossbow group carried out continuous attacks alone, and the sound of whistling could be heard in the sky for a while.
The trebuchet unit is required to attack at the speed of normal training, so as to ensure that the precision trebuchet will not be excessively worn. You know, the cost of building a trebuchet is equivalent to building four crossbows! This is a very expensive thing.
, is also an important reason why many commanders in the Dragon City Army are reluctant to write about trebuchets running around. This thing is too expensive and will fall apart if you are not careful.
Under the joint attack of the two groups in Dragon City, at least more than two thousand orcs were wiped out. This kind of lethality made Ian's eyes twitch after he had just witnessed being baptized by the rain of arrows.
"It's too scary, it's too scary!" Ian felt trembling all over after seeing the huge destructive power below that human beings could not resist.
As a soldier, and a soldier who has led the army, it is not difficult for Ian to imagine what these things are used for. He couldn't help but look at the walls of the Far North Fortress. Can these strong walls be used?
Withstand the bombardment of those rocks just now?
Ian doesn't know this question, but one thing he is sure of is that these things are definitely not used to deal with people! Because although this kind of lethality is great, compared with the vast number of hand-held crossbows, it is actually inferior in efficiency.
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Ian took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. In his mind, Dragon City was no longer just a legendary and mysterious force. All the shocks that had shocked him in the past few days had unknowingly changed Yi'an.
kindness.
After the attack by the equipment troops, it was the turn of the archers and crossbows.
When we were dealing with the 30,000 orc forwards before, the sword and shield men on the city wall were so happy that they fired nearly 600,000 crossbow arrows. It was a waste of money to the extreme. But now in the battle, they can kill the opponent with money.
And protecting oneself is also a characteristic of Dragon City.
But problems also arise. The troops on the front line have almost fired all the spare crossbow arrows. Now, facing the main force of the orcs pressed by heavy troops, they are embarrassed that they have no arrows to use.
Fortunately, the spearmen who were on standby under the inner city saw that the situation was not good and immediately gave their hand crossbows and spare crossbow boxes to the swordsmen and shieldmen on the city.
This solved the embarrassing situation of no arrows on the front line. Zhang Liao looked at the soldiers below who were reassembling crossbows and shook his head slightly.
Having confidence is a good thing, but being overly arrogant can lead to ruin.
It seems that behind the glory of the Second Army, there are also dangerous signals hidden.
The Second Army is a legendary force in Dragon City. It was sent to the front less than three months after the establishment of the previous army, creating the final glorious battle of the April War. From then on, it became famous in one battle and was regarded as
Dragon City's most shining ace unit. However, compared with the First Army or the First Cavalry Division, the Second Army is obviously still relatively new, especially in some aspects, it is still better than these veteran units.
It's not that Zhang Liao didn't notice this, it's just that in his opinion, except for a few troops in Longcheng, there really haven't been any troops on the mainland that can make the Second Army suffer.
The mighty orc army, after overcoming the terrifying ultra-long-range attack from Dragon City's far north fortress, will face the baptism of arrows again. Can they successfully scale the city wall?
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