The town of Arano was no longer the small town on the hillside. After several years of construction, it had become the most important military and industrial center in the southern part of the territory. The city spread from the old town on the hillside to the surrounding mountains. The wide city walls surrounded the city, forming an oval-shaped behemoth.
Under the shield, there are continuous factories and military camps in the city, as well as towering turrets, which form a corner with the pneumatic cannons arranged on the city walls, blocking all directions outside the city.
Arano's shield is a one-way shield based on the Seven Towers technology. Simply put, external attacks can be blocked, but attacks from inside can be fired out.
This huge egg-shaped shield is activated by more than thirty nodes located under the city wall.
The work of repairing the shield can be done by engineering mages inside the city wall, but the work of defending the gap must be done outside the city wall, otherwise, with the power of those saints, perhaps just one strike would be enough to break the city wall.
Chen Hansheng had other work to do, so Wang Jiyuan personally brought four elite members of the mage class and a melee regiment, and accompanied the three saints to the location that needed repairs.
Mo Yu looked outside the city. This was indeed the focus of the siege. The enemy had set up a large number of siege arrays on the small slope in the distance. Under the control of those holy-level mages, the fireballs crossed a distance of several hundred meters and hit the shield of Arano. The counterattack from Arano was equally powerful. There were about eighty pneumatic cannons pouring shells at the enemy's position. The enemy also prepared shields. The shields were turned on to resist the explosion, but they were still strong.
Lorenzo saw this scene for the first time and said, "This back and forth bombardment is impressive, but a bit monotonous, without any tactics at all."
Wang Jiyuan said: "No, this is a tactic. We have been playing the chase and escape trick for two days."
"One chasing and one fleeing?"
"They set up positions to attack, we mobilized pneumatic cannons to destroy the positions." Wang Jiyuan supported himself on the battlements, "Now is the time for us to launch a concentrated counterattack. We mobilized a large number of magic-breaking bullets. Generally, their shields cannot hold out for too long, and then the opponent's siege position will be destroyed by us. But such artillery fire is difficult to kill the agile saints. They will immediately move to a new place to set up positions and attack us. Our pneumatic cannons are not as fast as theirs. This is what I call one chasing and one fleeing."
"What's the point of this?" Lorenzo asked again.
"We have artillery in place, and there is always a long period of passive attack before we launch a counterattack. At this time, it is particularly easy for the shield to be overloaded and damaged. They hope to eventually destroy the shield in this way. Now under the protection of the shield, it is difficult for them to exert the power of the saints. However, once the shield is broken and they rush in, it will be a big problem. We don't have the power to deal with the saints in street fighting."
Lorenzo said, "I always feel that their saints have a lot of power that they haven't used yet. They should have many more means than this kind of attack. Isn't there a saint on the other side who uses his own magic or fighting spirit to attack us?"
Wang Jiyuan said: "Of course, at the beginning of the battle the day before yesterday, some people tried to use large-scale illusions to confuse our guards. There were also enemy warrior saints who used special skills to attack a certain point of the shield and tried to force their way in. But they are not just for show."
Lorenzo looked in the direction Wang Jiyuan pointed and found many soldiers holding a new type of super-long air rifle, two people in a group, guarding the city walls or towers. He thought that the long rifle with a telescope was a bit like a sniper rifle, but these guns were much larger than the sniper rifles he had seen before.
Wang Jiyuan said: "These snipers are the most elite warriors selected by our guards. They are at least above the middle level. They are blessed with a series of magic related to the use of firearms, such as precision, vision, acceleration, and perception. They call these magics sniper packages, which are particularly good at hitting high-speed moving targets. Even warrior saints may be hit by them.
Their gun is the latest electromagnetic pneumatic gun, called Hunter Saint Type 1, which uses coils to accelerate the bullets being fired. Its special bullets are also powerful magic-breaking bullets designed for masters and above.
Although one shot would knock out an ultra-high-quality magic crystal, three or four shots would damage the barrel, and the cost of one shot was several times that of a pneumatic cannon shell, it was indeed possible to kill a saint by accumulating fire.
A warrior and a wizard from the City of Gods died the day before with this kind of gun. Although it was difficult for us to destroy their souls in that situation, and they may have returned to the City of Gods to be resurrected, it also prevented the Saints from the City of Gods from appearing before us in a swaggering manner."
"How many shots did it take to kill that warrior saint?"
Wang Jiyuan frowned and said, "More than 200 shots, most of which were fired empty. At that time, they had five saints attacking our shield together. Our hundreds of sniper teams fired nearly 1,000 rounds of bullets and scrapped more than 200 gun barrels to achieve such a record. If this happens again, I'm afraid our gunners won't have so many gun barrels to use."
"So, the enemy only dares to use this long-range attack method because they don't know our losses?"
"Yes. That's why we need you saints to come here to watch over the replacement of spare parts for the shield. Otherwise, if there are enough spare parts, such a gun formation will have enough defense."
Mo Yu asked, "How long will it take to replace the magic array components above?"
A middle-aged man in work clothes beside Wang Jiyuan said, "According to the current situation, it will take more than half an hour. However, it does not mean that there will be no shield at that time, but that the shield in this area will become very thin. If the enemy does not attack this side and does not discover this change, there may be no battle. We are just preparing for the worst case scenario."
Lorenzo shook his head and said, "As long as the opponent has a saint who is good at perception and understands the formation, the weakening of the shield cannot be concealed. Let's make a plan based on the battle lasting more than half an hour."
Lorenzo had a basis for saying this. At this moment, he could clearly feel that the shield of the enemy position was beginning to crumble. Sure enough, two minutes later, a shell pierced through the enemy's shield and landed in the enemy's position. Then, the flames filled the entire shield, tearing it apart from the inside. Lorenzo also vaguely heard the sound of explosions and screams, and then there were no more huge fireballs shot out from that position, and it slowly calmed down.