Lord Highlander

  Chapter 1064 1050. When the horn sounds

  The Sairuman Plateau is about to usher in the rainy season, and the wind blowing from the south is warm and humid.

Suldak was riding a blue-scaled horse, standing on a high hill, and in front of him was the town of Sangpu, which was built on the south bank of Bellanoma Lake. The five-meter-high city wall was full of demon servants and flame singers. Leather, they uttered strange screams towards the heavy armored infantry regiment on the hillside.

  Suldak dispatched a total of six heavy armored infantry regiments and one archer regiment this time, with a total of 10,000 troops.

   In addition, there are another thousand heavy cavalry guarding the left and right wings of the army.

  Suldak raised his broadsword and assumed a forward posture, and the sound of low-pitched horns immediately sounded from all parts of the team simultaneously.

The soldiers of the Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment surrounded ten ladder vehicles. They slowly pushed forward with the ladder vehicles. These heavy armored infantry soldiers would be the first to rush up the city wall along the ladders. The grass and soil in front of Sangpu Town were a bit soft. The wheels of the ladder truck made two deep ruts.

  The whole army is slowly advancing...

  The heavy armored infantry fighters in front held huge tower shields, forming an indestructible shield wall.

   Neat footsteps. Let this piece of grass tremble.

  The main army attacking Sangpu Town was six heavy armored infantry regiments, and a thousand heavy cavalry guarded both sides of the main attacking army to prevent emergencies.

   At the gate on the west side of Samp Town, groups of hellhounds with blue smoke on their skin ran out. They didn't rush up immediately, but crowded densely at the gate.

  Ten ladder trucks stopped 200 meters away from Samp Town.

  Gog on the top of the city held a small fireball in his hands, and suddenly a dense fire was lit up on the city wall.

  The demon servants also showed devil faces from the top of the city, and these faces had a rotten breath...

  Suldak raised his long sword again, and the soldiers of the entire heavy armored infantry regiment neatly tapped their long swords on their shields, their morale soaring for a while.

   "Get ready... light the fire, let it go!"

Following the coherent orders issued by the commanding officer, twenty catapults threw twenty black powder kegs at the same time at the rear of the team. These black powder kegs were made of hard oak, and some powder kegs hit the wall. , The frame fell apart immediately, and the black powder in the barrel scattered out, bursting out a dazzling light. Only a few black powder kegs were successfully detonated, killing Gog and the demon servants at the top of the city immediately.

  The black powder kegs thrown round after round exploded near the city wall, and the soldiers of the heavy armored infantry regiment pushed the ladder carts and kept approaching.

  The hellhound huddled at the gate of the city did not rush out.

But when these heavy armored infantry soldiers pushed the ladder carts to a place less than 20 meters away from the city wall, they saw that the ten catapults were almost in no particular order, with the front wheels all sunk in sand pits, and the entire ladder cart tilted forward. , Even a few ladder trucks fell under the city wall.

  A row of heavy armored infantry soldiers walking in the front sank into the bunker one after another.

  At the same time, tens of thousands of cavemen emerged from the countless bunkers below the city wall, and they rushed up to the heavy armored infantry soldiers with broken copper and iron in their hands.

The heavy armored infantry soldiers who fell into the bunker were also fighting hard. Some heavy armored soldiers rolled with the crypt man, dropped the shield in their hands, and stabbed the long sword in their hand into the hard leather covered cave man. in the body.

  These cavemen opened their mouths full of sharp teeth, biting the body of the heavy armored infantry soldier.

  The hellhounds huddled at the gate of the city are like a group of arrows leaving the string, rushing towards the battlefield one after another.

The heavy armored infantry soldiers who were fighting hand-to-hand with the cavemen immediately felt the threat of the **** dogs. Some heavy armored infantry soldiers were bitten off their arms by the **** dogs, or simply bit their throats, even if the long dogs following behind The spear fighters stabbed Paglio's spear into the body of the **** dog.

  A rain of arrows fell on the top of the city, and the demon servants and Gogs screamed like ghosts and wolves...

  A round of flint fell on the top of the city, and the city wall was smashed to pieces of stones flying around.

  The flint ignited the inflammable materials on the wall, and some sections of the city wall suddenly caught fire.

There was a scuffle under the city wall. At this moment, a roar was heard on the city wall. A Gog leader who was almost as tall as a normal human stood on the high arrow tower at the top of the city and threw a huge fireball in his hand. Go down to the city wall.

  The moment it stood up, thousands of Gogs and demon servants appeared on the city wall. The Gogs threw the fireballs in their hands, and the demon servants also threw the ignited black oil **** on the ladder car.

  They don't seem to care about the hellhounds and crypt men below the city. There is a sea of ​​fire under the city wall, and many soldiers are on fire.

  The soldiers of the heavy armored infantry regiment behind held up their shields. Under the leadership of several regiment leaders, they reorganized a line of defense under the city against the bursting fireballs.

Under the support of their teammates, the heavy armored infantry soldiers who were fighting in the city quickly left the battlefield with flames on their bodies, ran back to the phalanx and immediately fell to the ground. Sand, put out the flames on your body.

  A sea of ​​flames had already formed under the city, and the black powder kegs thrown by the catapults carried by countless Gogs and demon servants were desperately throwing fireballs under the city wall.

  The soldiers of the Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment kept retreating and quickly got out of the fireball range of these Gogs.

  The Cryptman and Hellhound took the opportunity to bite the tail of the heavy armored infantry regiment, refusing to let the heavy armored infantry regiment easily withdraw from the battlefield.

  The group of archers in the rear quickly inserted, forming a rain of arrows against the city wall.

  The heavy armored infantry soldiers got into behind the shield wall, and the hellhounds caught up and were stabbed to death by spears.

Behind the Hellhound was a group of cave men who were not running fast. They rushed up, regardless of their own life or death, and threw their chubby bodies on the tower shield, hugging the tower shield tightly with both hands and feet. The caveman rushed forward stepping on the body of the caveman in front.

  The shield wall is broken.

  The heavy armored infantry fighters and the cavemen once again fell into a life-and-death hand-to-hand combat.

  Some black oil **** were thrown on the ladder trucks. Although the ladder trucks were fire-resistant, these black oil **** with super adhesion continued to burn and ignited the ladder trucks.

  The Hellhounds and Cryptmen attacked so fiercely that the soldiers of the heavy armored infantry could only keep retreating, and they couldn't bring the ladder truck back when they retreated.

   Lost the ladder car, and the heavy armored infantry regiment was unable to capture the city gate, so they could only use the rain of arrows from the archers to kill the **** dogs chasing behind.

  Even the two-headed ogre mixed in the heavy armored infantry regiment, this time was disgraced by so many Gogs on the top of the city.

  Suldak didn't expect Sangpu Town to be so difficult to attack. After making so many preparations before the battle, he was still blocked by the demon servants and Gog at the top of the city.

  He didn't even give the bearded Edgar who was waiting on the side of Lake Bellanoma an attack signal. There was no progress in the frontal attack on the city. He couldn't let their hundreds of heavy armored infantry soldiers land on the north pier and die in vain.

  The hellhounds and crypt men under the city wall were suppressed by several rounds of arrows, and hellhounds kept pouring out of the gate of Samp Town.

  Suldak ordered the catapult to continue bombarding the city wall of Samp Town with flint, but the heavy armored infantry slowly retreated to the front of the catapult, forming a solid human wall.

  The flints exploded one after another, and a large number of black powder kegs were mixed in during the period. With a loud explosion, several cracks were blasted on the surface of the city wall of Sangpu Town.

  Hundreds of hellhounds were under the city wall, and more cavemen emerged from the sand, slowly approaching the heavy armored infantry regiment.

This time, the warriors of the Cryptmen still rushed to the front, followed by countless Cryptmen. They didn't seem to realize at all that without the protection of Flame Gog and the demon servants, what use is their suicide attack? .

  Crypt people are indeed fearless of death, but hellhounds are different.

After the soldiers of the Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment rearranged their shield walls and pierced countless corpses of cryptmen with their sharp spears, the Hellhounds seemed to hear the call from the city wall, and then they abandoned the cannon fodder on the battlefield again. Crypt man, retreat to the town.

On the battlefield, although the soldiers of the heavy armored infantry could not continue to attack the city, they refused to give up the corpses of the **** dogs on the battlefield. They raised their shields and marched forward, cutting off the heads of all the **** dogs on the battlefield .

   Later, another infantry soldier discovered that the Crypt Warrior also had it in his body, but this guy's head and body were completely connected together, like a huge pea.

  The severed head was too big, and it was not easy to carry it back from the battlefield.

  So the infantry soldiers just cut their bodies open, took away the magic core inside, and also cut off the chest. The first few tough pieces of hard armor, these things will also be purchased by the business group.

Twenty siege vehicles were on the high hills 800 meters away from the city wall. They bombarded the walls of Sangpu Town with flint in turn. Withdraw back.

In fact, before the six heavy armored infantry regiments and two heavy cavalry regiments withdrew from the battlefield, six heavy armored infantry regiments in the barracks left the camp before dusk and rushed to the west gate of Samp Town. On the battlefield, the low-level demons in Sangpu Town continued to be suppressed.

   These twenty catapults will not stop bombarding the walls of Samp Town even at night.

  As for the flint and black powder barrels, they were all transported by Suldak from the pustule mountain.

  The mountain to the north of Wall Village is Oak Ridge. There is never a shortage of black powder and oak barrels in it. The old village chief Brett recently led people to fill the black powder barrels.

In addition, the flint thrown by the catapult is also the output of Wall Village. Compared with the explosive barrels filled with black powder, the cost of flint is relatively much lower, because these stone **** with a diameter of nearly one meter are no longer masons. They carved it out of granite or marble, but poured the unique cement from Wall Village into the wooden mold. After the cement dries, it will form a very regular cement stone ball.

   Then use flax thread soaked in kerosene to wrap such a thick layer on the stone ball, and it becomes a flint that can ignite a fire when thrown.

   This kind of flint is far less lethal than explosive barrels, but its advantage is that it is cheap and can be manufactured and used regardless of cost.

At present, the barren land is in the dry season. There are a large number of surplus laborers in Wall Village. The old village chief organizes 500 people to transport cement every day, pour cement stone balls, wrap them with oil-soaked linen, and finally use oil-filmed paper. Complete the package, and even each flint has a special simple wooden frame for fixing, which is convenient for handling.

   These flints were continuously transported to the Pustule Mountain in a four-wheeled carriage, and then moved by Suldak and Aphrodite to the military camp outside Sangpu Town on the Ganbu plane...

  (end of this chapter)