Amid the magical warning fireworks flying all over the sky, I had just placed boxes of special equipment that had been transported from the Iron Battle Fortress, and I was just not far from the city wall that faced the orc camp. After all, those supplies could be used at any time, and the more convenient it was to pick them up, the better.
As the large number of soldiers rushed up the city wall, I was immediately shocked by the scene in front of me. The countless rafts, ladders, climbing platforms, and a large number of large trebuchets in the orc camp made me feel very unusual.
From the previous records of battles between humans and orcs, I have only seen orcs use the simplest siege equipment, some of the most primitive climbing tools made of tall trees (such as pine trees and large bamboos that are about 2 meters higher than the city wall, remove the excess branches and leaves outside the left and right sides, and then trim and remove the branches on the left and right sides, but leave each branch about 1 to 1.5 feet long for climbing), but I have never seen those orcs use so many siege equipment! Is the history of this world really going to be completely overturned with my arrival? But this progress is really too fast, right
Looking at the groups of orcs carrying large rafts and moving forward in the distance, my heart also became heavy. This raft made of dozens of bowl-thick trees made me feel the danger. Under the protection of this raft, not to mention my ordinary bows and arrows, even the catapults could not cause much damage to them. Even my magic cannon, which has the best attack power and lethality, could only break up the raft at most, and could not cause any damage to the people below.
At the same time, a large number of humans without any armor were also mixed in, carrying ladders, pushing platforms, catapults, etc., and moving forward with all their might.
"What should we do? Sir, can you give us an idea?" Looking at the orc army dragging heavy rafts and marching briskly in the distance, Victor was the first to lose patience and asked me for a solution.
"In the first round, don't worry about anything... After all, those little gadgets we buried in front of the position are not flowers and plants. They can defend above their heads, but they can't defend under their feet, right? In addition, mobilize all the bottles and jars in the city, those small-mouthed porcelain bottles and pottery jars that are larger than a fist, and collect them for me. In addition, bring up the flammable oil and gather them next to the catapult..." In order not to cause panic to the generals around me, I still maintained a nonchalant look in the face of the orcs' attack. After instructing Victor, I called Shen Qiang and asked him to assign the soldiers of the First Division, which was the original Sixth Division of the Flame Legion, to various positions on the city wall, and let them instruct the catapult operators to use **********.
"All magic cannons are ready. When the target enters the 2-kilometer range, the entire army will begin to cover the beastman troops. When the beastman army enters the 1-kilometer position, the odd-numbered magic cannon troops will continue to attack the orcs 1-2 kilometers away, while the even-numbered magic cannons will target those long-range weapons such as catapults. I don't want them to threaten our soldiers on the city wall.
In addition, when the enemy enters a distance of 500 meters, the trebuchet troops on the city wall must switch to using incendiary bombs to attack the enemy, and the destruction of the enemy's trebuchets and other equipment, as well as the task of preventing them from building trenches, will be the sole responsibility of the magician troops. "
Seeing that the orc army had begun to enter the attack range of the magic cannon, I immediately issued an attack order. Then, the roar of hundreds of magic cannons shook the entire city wall. At the same time, at 1,500 to 2,000 meters outside the city wall, hundreds of magic cannon shells overturned dozens of rafts carried by the orcs on their shoulders and hands, and also broke many rafts into pieces.
But just as I guessed, the chaos caused by the explosion of hundreds of magic shells brought a certain degree of panic to the orcs, but the actual casualties were pitifully small. In addition to the casualties of the humans pushing the siege equipment, the orcs hiding under the huge rafts did not suffer much loss. The orcs whose rafts were overturned by the magic shells did not suffer any damage, except for the orcs who were unlucky enough to stand on the edge of the rafts. At most, they were scratched. And the rafts that were directly hit were only blown away by the huge kinetic energy of the magic shells. The orcs who were protected by the rafts almost all ran under other rafts at the moment when the rafts flew away.
"This... This is too incredible! Is it so easy to deal with the magic cannon? At this rate, the magic cannonballs won't threaten their soldiers at all..." Seeing this scene, the first to stand up was the Holy City Guard. The others, including Victor and Shen Qiang, had worried looks in their eyes, but their facial expressions still maintained the most basic calmness, or trust in me.
"Continue the attack, don't stop..." I didn't care about the words of the Holy City's defenders, I asked the herald to pass on my order. At the same time, I was in awe of the orcs' strength. Almost every orc carried a tree that was more than ten meters long and as thick as a bowl, and these orcs could actually carry them and walk fast. They really deserved the name of beasts.
When the orc army broke into the city wall 500 meters away, the entire orc army began to change its formation. Some orcs rushed out from under the rafts, and frantically whipped the human soldiers to continue pushing forward the trebuchets that were lucky enough to break through the blockade of the magic cannons, while also fixing the trebuchets that were already in place, ready to start throwing bombs.
"City defense magician troops, attack those catapults immediately until they are completely destroyed..." Seeing that the orcs had begun to prepare to counterattack the defenders on the city wall, Victor, who was ordered to command the magician troops, immediately gave the order to attack those catapults and giant crossbows.
"Good..." After watching Victor give the order, a large number of magicians and catapults completely destroyed the heavy catapults and other equipment that the orcs had moved with great difficulty from the gap between the explosions of the magic shells before they stopped to attack the city walls. I couldn't help but whispered a good word. (To be continued)