king of the castle

Chapter 442 Attack and Defense

There is a mysterious spiritual connection between the undead creatures. Although Neia didn't say the order, all the undead creatures already understood its meaning. 【】 Among the undead creatures, the largest skeleton mammoth started to move, moving towards the castle.

Skeletal mammoths are the main force of undead siege.With their huge stature and enormous strength, they have the ability to destroy any solid city walls built by humans.In the past, when attacking a certain city, only a dozen skeleton mammoths were enough to break through the city.However, this time Neia had assembled more than 200 skeleton mammoths. This was the total number of skeleton mammoths on the entire Lund Peninsula. Only from this point could it be seen how determined the Lich was to capture the castle.

The skeleton mammoth is large enough and powerful, but its flexibility is a little bit weak.When the densely packed undead creatures advanced, many skeleton mammoths would inevitably step on other undead creatures. By the time they all moved to the forefront of the formation, hundreds of skeletons and zombies had already been wiped out by their own people.

However, for the total number of undead creatures with more than 20, such a small loss is nothing at all.The skeletal mammoths lined up in charge of the undead creatures, and then went on the attack.These behemoths walked quickly at first, then slowly began to accelerate and entered a state of trotting.

Because of its huge size, the skeleton mammoth cannot run too fast.But even at this speed, when they hit the city wall, they will still cause great damage.

When the skeleton mammoth started to move, Roger, who was standing at the head of the city, immediately discovered the situation, and quickly ordered the catapult and ballista to prepare for the attack.

The long-range attack troops trained by the civilians of the castle immediately got busy and began to prepare for the attack.The dwarf crossbow bed was equipped with giant crossbow bolts like spears, and the arrowheads of the crossbow bolts were also doused with holy water prepared in advance.As for the catapult, it directly uses the crock pot filled with holy water as medicine.When the crock is shot at the target, it will burst, and the holy water inside will be sprinkled everywhere on the undead creatures, which will cause much more damage to them than ordinary stones.

The skeleton mammoth quickly entered the range of these heavy weapons, and the trebuchet launched the first attack.The crock full of holy water drew an arc in the air, and slammed heavily at the undead creatures rushing towards the castle.

Catapults have a longer range than dwarven ballistas, but are not as accurate.It is okay to attack large fixed targets such as city walls, but it is all about luck to attack fast-moving and small targets such as skeleton mammoths.

Although there were quite a few crockpots fired by the first wave of attacks, none of them directly hit the target.Fortunately, there were a large number of skeleton mammoths, and the holy water was sprinkled everywhere after the crock was broken, and many skeleton mammoths were splashed with holy water.

For undead creatures with dark attributes, holy water full of holy power is much more terrifying than sulfuric acid.Whenever the skeleton mammoth was stained with holy water, bursts of white smoke would rise immediately, and at the same time, there would be a soft "chi chi" sound.Rao, the skeleton mammoth is twice the size of an elephant, but it can't bear such damage.All the skeleton mammoths that were soaked in holy water slowed down noticeably, and some of the more heavily stained skeleton mammoths had begun to melt slowly. Some of the skeleton mammoths that were in the worst condition fell down after running for a short distance. It fell heavily into broken bones on the ground.

However, Neia had gathered more than 200 skeleton mammoths, so losing single digits was not a big deal.The other skeleton mammoths completely ignored what happened to their kind, and continued to rush towards the castle with big strides.

At this time, the dwarf ballista also began to attack.There was a series of "buzzing" sounds from the bowstring vibrating on the platform of the crossbow bed, and the giant crossbow arrows the size of spears were shot out one after another.Compared with the trebuchet, the accuracy of the dwarf ballista is much higher, and almost all the giant crossbow arrows fired hit the target.Most of the giant crossbow bolts shot at the target's huge skull, and the huge force often allowed a small half of the giant crossbow bolts to penetrate deeply into the skeleton mammoth's head.

Although the skeleton mammoth was huge and possessed the unique tenacity of undead creatures, it was still difficult to continue fighting under such a heavy blow.What's more, all the giant crossbows are drenched with holy water, which is even more lethal to undead creatures.

Those skeleton mammoths that were directly pierced by the giant crossbow bolts stopped in an instant, and the huge inertia caused them to fall heavily on the ground. Before they could struggle to stand up, the soul fire in their eyes gradually went out, and then turned into A pile of broken bones.As for those skeleton mammoths that were not shot at the vitals, it was not easy. The impact force of the giant crossbow arrows would often break any bone at the shot site, and then the holy power contained in the holy water would begin to purify their bodies.The surging and pure sacred power weakened the skeleton mammoths, so they had no choice but to slow down, and soon fell behind the other uninjured ones of the same kind.

Seeing that the army of skeleton mammoths had lost more than a dozen of them before reaching the castle, Neia's red eyes began to flicker again.This shows that the loss of the skeletal mammoth made the Lich very angry, and it also strengthened its determination to transform all living creatures in the castle into undead creatures, so that they could never rest in peace.

But Roger didn't care what the Lich was thinking, and ordered the trebuchet and dwarf ballista to continue attacking.As the gears slowly turned into place, the trebuchet was ready to launch again, launching the crock that could cause serious damage to undead creatures.

Because the target was much closer, this trebuchet attack had a very good effect.Several earthen jars hit the target directly, and the earthen jars were smashed into pieces by the skeleton mammoth, and the holy water inside naturally caused great damage to the undead creatures.Three skeletal mammoths were directly hit on the head by the earthen pot, and the whole head was drenched with holy water. The soul fire in the eye sockets was extinguished almost immediately, and fell to the ground into a pile of broken bones.Several other skeleton mammoths were also seriously injured. Although they could barely hold on, they could no longer pose any threat to the castle.

The dwarf ballista fired immediately afterwards caused even more damage. Sixteen skeleton mammoths fell under the giant crossbow bolts, causing the loss of skeleton mammoths to exceed forty.

Seeing the heavy loss of his siege weapon, Neia became more and more angry. He desperately ordered the skeleton mammoth to charge faster, vowing to break through the enemy's city wall in this round of attack.

After receiving the Lich's order, those skeleton mammoths who were not injured all sped up their pace and rushed towards the castle.In fairness, Roger saw so many skeleton mammoths rushing towards him, it would be a lie to say that he was not worried at all.He immediately ordered the soldiers on the ballista platform to speed up their attacks, trying to eliminate the big guys who were getting closer to the castle as much as possible.

The performance of the soldiers did not disappoint Roger. Before the skeleton mammoth approached the castle, the trebuchet and the dwarf ballista carried out two more rounds of strikes.Because the distance to the target was getting closer, the effect of these two rounds of strikes was better than the previous round. By the time the skeleton mammoth rushed under the city wall, more than half of it had been lost.

But for Neia, this was enough.Although the number of skeleton mammoths is less than a hundred, it is very easy to open a hole in the city wall.

The huge body of the skeleton mammoth slammed into the city wall, and the huge impact caused a lot of dust to fall from the city wall. Roger, who was standing on the city wall, only felt his feet shake obviously, which shows how amazing the power of these undead creatures is.

The skeleton mammoth ran at full speed and crashed into the city wall, and they themselves inevitably suffered some damage.Some skeleton mammoths had their tusks broken, others had cracks in their heads, and some even broke their bones directly, falling to the ground and unable to get up.However, these fearless undead creatures did not stop there. They slowly retreated 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 ballista could attack the skeleton mammoth near the city wall.At this time, these undead creatures can calmly hit the city wall and successfully break through this solid line of defense.However, where did Roger let these guys calmly launch consecutive attacks?After the skeleton mammoth hit the city wall, he raised an earthen jar that he had prepared a long time ago and slammed it heavily at the skeleton mammoth closest to him.

Roger used enough energy to smash the earthen pot out, but the force contained was greater than that of a trebuchet.The crock accurately hit the head of the skeletal mammoth, directly smashing a big hole in the skull of the undead creature.The crock also burst at the same time, and most of the holy water inside was poured into the skeleton mammoth's skull, instantly extinguishing the fire of its soul.

At the same time, many soldiers on the city wall, under the command of Roger, threw crocks filled with holy water at the skeleton mammoth under the city wall.Now the distance between the two sides is very close, and Roger's soldiers launched an attack condescendingly, and most of the earthen pots hit the target.The skeletal mammoths drenched in holy water were quickly purified, bursts of white smoke emitted from their bodies, and their huge bodies quickly melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, like ice cubes falling into boiling water.

However, undead creatures do have the characteristics of fearlessness.Even under such circumstances, the skeleton mammoth insisted on launching a fierce attack on the city wall.Under the continuous impact of many skeleton mammoths, cracks finally appeared in the tall and strong city wall, and finally there was a loud "rumbling" sound. The upper part of a section of the city wall collapsed, just pressing a skeleton mammoth that was crashing with its head down. up below.

Although under Roger's desperate attack, there were only a dozen skeleton mammoths left.But now the city walls are also damaged. As long as they are allowed to attack a few more times, large sections of the city walls will completely collapse, and they will no longer be able to play any defensive role.