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Chapter 5085 [Battle for the Defense of Minas Tirith]

At this moment, a shrill scream suddenly came from the air again.

"It's the Ringwraiths, they're coming again~" the Gondor warriors shouted in horror.

They saw five Ringwraiths in the air, circling towards them.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan immediately waved his hand.

In an instant, dozens of thunders struck down.

In an instant, the fallen beasts ridden by the Ringwraiths were struck by lightning and turned into charcoal, falling heavily to the ground.

The five Ringwraiths also fell to the ground, no longer as majestic as before.

Seeing this, the people in the city cheered deafeningly.

It turns out that in the past few months, the Ringwraiths have often come to Minas Tirith to harass on their fallen beasts.

In fact, they couldn't cause much damage. After all, the strength of the fallen monsters was still far inferior to that of evil dragons like Smaug.

But the key is that the screams of the fallen monster can make people feel terrified and miserable, so the people in the city are also extremely afraid of it.

Every time it appears, it causes considerable turmoil in Minas Tirith.

That is why the citizens of Minas Tirith are so excited to see the Ringwraiths defeated and the fallen beasts killed.

Afterwards, the gates of Minas Tirith were opened, and Xiang Nan and others were able to evacuate successfully.

As they withdrew, the orcs recaptured Osgiliath.

Then they destroyed the stone wall built by Xiang Nan, occupied the bridge across the Anduin River, and transported a large number of siege equipment over.

Immediately afterwards, a column of dozens of orcs also arrived on the plain in front of Minas Tirith and lined up one after another. It was so vast and boundless that it made people dizzy just by looking at it.

"We can't win, we can't run away, let's run away~" Seeing this, Regent Denethor went crazy and shouted while standing on the wall.

Seeing that he was talking nonsense and disturbing the people, Gandalf immediately picked up his staff and knocked him out with one blow. "Don't be afraid, everyone, muster up your courage and keep defending. Reinforcements will arrive soon!"

……

After Mordor's 100,000 orc army arrived at the plains under the city of Minas Tirith, they began to attack this thousand-year-old city.

A large number of catapults were started at the same time, and huge stones fell towards the city like raindrops.

Although orcs look wretched, ugly, irritable, and violent, and appear to be fools with low IQs, they are actually quite intelligent.

Moreover, with the guidance of Sauron, the fallen Maia, the siege machinery produced was equally powerful. The stones thrown by the catapult flew from far away, flew over the city wall, and hit the city heavily.

The buildings in the city collapsed under the bombardment of the boulders, and the falling bricks and rubble injured countless people. Some people were even killed by the boulders.

The city was suddenly in chaos, with people crying and shouting, fleeing in all directions.

"Don't be afraid, don't panic, pick up your weapons and prepare for battle!" Gandalf said loudly, "Go to the city gate and block it. Don't let the orcs attack."

Even if the trebuchets threw more stones and reduced Minas Tirith to ruins, as long as the city gates were not broken, the people in the city could still survive.

But if the city gates were breached, and an army of 100,000 orcs broke into the city, even if Minas Tirith had seven layers of defense, it would be killed by the orcs sooner or later.

After hearing what he said, the soldiers rushed to guard the city gates. The people also took up weapons and prepared to defend themselves. However, their weapons were very diverse, including hammers, iron bars, wooden sticks, and even brooms. But no matter what, they at least dared to resist. Unlike Denethor, who was so scared by the sight of so many orcs that he lost the will to resist and only wanted to escape.

……

Xiang Nan, Boromir and Faramir stood on the first layer of the city wall to defend.

Then the ogres were seen pushing huge siege vehicles towards the walls of Minas Tirith.

The siege vehicle is ten feet high and was designed for Minas Tirith. It is filled with orcs. Once it gets close to the city wall, a hook will be dropped from the siege vehicle and it will be tightly hung on the wall.

At that time, hundreds of orcs on the vehicles would rush out, and other orcs would also attack along the siege vehicles, which could be extremely dangerous.

Boromir naturally knew the danger and immediately called on everyone to shoot arrows to prevent the siege vehicles from approaching.

But the surface of the siege vehicle was covered with thick iron plates, so that ordinary arrows had no effect at all and were bounced back as soon as they hit the surface.

"Shoot the ogre pushing the cart~" Xiang Nan immediately instructed.

Apart from the powerful ogres, there is almost no other race that can push this heavy siege vehicle.

As expected, after hearing his words, the soldiers all aimed at the ogres and shot at them. After a burst of shooting, more than a dozen ogres were killed.

But the remaining siege vehicles gradually approached the city wall.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan quickly cast his magic, and a huge meteorite fell from the sky again, destroying more than a dozen siege vehicles and taking the lives of thousands of orcs.

But the remaining siege vehicles were still close to the city wall, and then a huge hook was thrown down and hooked tightly onto the city wall. Then the doors of the siege vehicles opened, and hundreds of orcs rushed up to the city wall, howling, and fought with the Gondor defenders.

In a short moment, dozens of Gondor defenders were killed.

Although the number of orcs killed was much higher, more than a hundred, but their numbers were too large, more than a hundred thousand, so more than a hundred casualties were just a drop in the bucket for them.

But all the defenders of Minas Tirith together only numbered a little over 10,000, so even exchanging one for ten would not be worth it.

Moreover, the reason why the orcs suffered so many casualties was because few of them came up. Now that the siege vehicle was successfully hung on the wall, there was an endless stream of orcs who immediately attacked the wall along the siege vehicle.

As a result, the losses of the Gondor defenders were even greater.

……

As for the city gate, the orcs also carried huge battering rams and hit the gate of Minas Tirith, making the gate clang.

However, the gates of Minas Tirith were extremely strong. Even though several teams of orcs took turns attacking the gates, they were only shaking and there was no risk of being breached for the time being.

On the contrary, under the concentrated shooting of the defenders at the city gate, a large pile of orc corpses was piled up in front of the city gate in a short while.

Seeing this, the defenders of Gondor breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that as long as the city gates were not broken, no matter how many orcs came, they would only die.

But at this moment, the orcs sent out the ultimate battering ram, Grond, which was named after the hammer of the first demon king Melkor.

This battering ram was extremely huge, with the body of the ram more than three meters long, and was shaped like a giant beast breathing flames from its mouth.

It was suspended on a huge cart, and it had to be pulled by three unicorns in front and pushed by four ogres in the back to slowly move it, which showed how heavy it was.

Seeing Grond appear, the orcs were very excited and shouted its name.

"Grond~", "Grond~", "Grond~"