What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

What's more, the artillery of Orila City is clearly priced in Bieson Port. The elves must have bought a lot of artillery and studied them secretly to understand their parameters.

After the ancient trees stopped, a shield slowly formed on the bodies of the ancient trees in the front row.

Zhu Chongba recognized them; they were guarding the ancient trees.

Unlike the ancient war trees, they did not have the powerful ability to throw earth elements, but they could condense a huge shield in front of them. These shields were connected together like a wall, sharing the damage between them.

The shield condensed by divine magic is extremely strong. Even with the power of today's artillery, not even a salvo can break it. It can only be bombarded again and again until the divine magic is exhausted.

It seems that Elendil has learned the lesson from the last time when the Tree of Life was directly burned. That's why he came up with such a turtle tactic.

"El'Arendil has come up with a lot of new tactics." Sankara, a seventh-level warrior, was far from being as afraid of the ancient tree as the other trolls. Instead, he teased, "I thought she would just let the ancient war tree throw earthen golems without hesitation like before, and then the soldiers would charge and defeat Grom with the force of thunder."

"It's not that she wants to use new tactics, she's just afraid." Gustav said, "Elendil is very inflexible on the battlefield and only knows how to use one tactic. Unless the situation forces her to do so, she is not willing to think or change. In my opinion, she is just a second-rate commander."

Gustave was the youngest of the staff officers, and also the calmest. Others rarely saw her express any other emotions.

Her words surprised Sankara a little.

Sankara asked curiously, "If I remember correctly, Elendil and Queen Margrot fought blood on both sides of the Soul-Guiding River for more than a month, basically suppressing Margaret. Margaret is known as the military god of the Holy Roel Empire. Although Elendil is our enemy, we have to admit that she is indeed very difficult to deal with."

"Aarendil has ancient trees and tree ships, and the army behind him is several times that of Queen Margaret. He also has so many allies, but he was blocked in the Soul-Guiding River for a month without any progress. In my opinion, he has already lost."

Margaret and Elendil.

The two are of similar age and both are women.

After the bloody battle at the Soul-Guiding River, both of them were regarded as rising stars in the main plane. The streets, alleys, taverns and brothels were happy to compare them to see who could overwhelm the other. But I didn't expect Gustaf to have such a low opinion of Elendil.

If any other woman had said this about Elendil, everyone would have probably just laughed and left it at that. But it was Gustave who made this comment.

Everyone present knew that they must not underestimate her just because she was young. After this period of contact, Gustav showed amazing talent as a general, and all her plans were flawless. In time, her achievements might surpass those of the current Twin Stars.

"Little Gustav thinks that Margaret's talent for command is far stronger than Elendil's?" Sankara continued to ask.

"I don't know about her talent. As the descendant of a marshal like the New Leaf King, and with the blessing of a divine magician, Elendil's talent should not be too bad. However, the ability she has shown is far worse than that of Queen Margaret." Gustav said

"why is that?"

"I think this may have something to do with their birth backgrounds."

"background?"

In terms of background, Elendil's birth was obviously much better than Margaret's, so why did her background become a burden to her?

"Queen Margaret started as a small sergeant, and gradually became a general through fighting. She had no retreat, no backing, and basically turned the tables in every war." Gustav said, "She experienced a lot of battles, both successful and failed. The various battles, big and small, forced her to adapt to the complex battle situation and choose different tactics to achieve the best solution. Because Queen Margaret really didn't have much wealth to spend."

"What about Elendil?"

"El'Arendil's backing is too strong! She has an entire southern army at her service. There are also a large number of excellent junior officers who carry out her orders. And her enemy has always been only one - the poor and weak Troll Empire that has been suppressed for more than a hundred years. In this case, as long as you are not a fool, you will definitely win the battle. In fact, since she came into the public eye, she has rarely been defeated."

"Under the glory of countless victories, I saw a set of rigid tactics that were completely inflexible. She seemed to never know what a disadvantage was, and would only use a force several times greater than the enemy to directly crush the situation. If the two sides had swapped commanders at the Soul Guiding River, I'm afraid the war would have ended long ago."

Having said that, Gustav looked towards the elf troops lined up in the shape of long snakes in the distance.

"From the beginning to the end, El'Arendil had no idea why he had to change his tactics or what he had to change. The tactical changes that were made because of the situation had actually fallen into the enemy's rhythm. Just like now..."

At this moment, loud and clear horn sounds resounded throughout the forest. Countless birds were startled and flew into the sky in panic.

The siege begins.

Chapter 317: Tortoise vs. Tortoise

The shields guarding the ancient trees were condensed, and they took another step forward, heading towards the direction of Grom City.

"Gunners! Get ready!"

"three."

"two.

"one!"

"emission!"

When the guarding ancient tree came into range, the city defense artillery of Gorom City was instantly activated.

Dozens of shells whizzed towards the guarding ancient tree.

After a series of violent explosions, the guarding ancient tree remained motionless, but the light of its shield dimmed a lot.

The situation was exactly as they expected. The artillery could not directly penetrate the defenses guarding the ancient tree.

Soon, the second round of artillery fire started again. The shells hit the golden shield fiercely, creating a series of violent ripples that continued to spread around, but that was all. The shields guarding the ancient tree were connected to each other, sharing the damage, so even if they fired at the same place, it would be useless.

After a series of bombardments, the light of the guarding ancient tree's shield was finally almost gone, but at this time, the guarding ancient tree in the back row stepped forward and came to the front, replacing the original guarding ancient tree. As soon as the guarding ancient tree in the front retreated, it was immediately surrounded by several divine magicians and began to charge, slowly restoring the shield's ability.

This is the new tactic that Elendil came up with.

Three-dimensional roller defense tactics

As long as Gorom's artillery is not strong enough to tear through the defenses guarding the ancient tree in an instant, as long as the divine magician still has divine power, the defenses guarding the ancient tree will not be broken.

The First Legion, as the most elite force of the Southern Legion, possessed divine mages far exceeding the established number. Moreover, as the legion commander, El'Arendil also quietly transferred divine mages from other legions to serve his own tactical concept.

Looking at the ancient tree moving forward in an orderly manner, Elendil couldn't help but feel complacent.

When the ancient war trees in the back row enter the range of their projectiles, it will be a nightmare for Grom City. Oh no, the death knell!!

In order to prevent the earth element from hitting the towering shield, the War Ancient Tree had to increase the angle of the throw, and the range became very short, but now it seems that this is not a problem. As long as Grom cannot break through the defense of the defensive guarding ancient tree, she can even order the War Ancient Tree to keep close to the city wall.

From a distance, the ancient tree formation looked like a tortoise, slowly and firmly crawling towards the city of Gorom. Any attack from Gorom would collapse in front of the tough tortoise shell.

Seeing the ancient war tree getting closer and closer before their eyes, the soldiers on the city wall swallowed their saliva secretly.

Such oppression is really terrible, especially since the process is so long.

It was like a death row inmate waiting for the executioner to clean the execution weapon. But the executioner had obsessive compulsive disorder and spent the whole day cleaning the weapon.

This is really torture.

The tug of war between the two sides continued until noon, when the ancient war trees finally reached their range. Yellow balls of light continued to condense on their sturdy arms. When the balls of light condensed, all the ancient war trees threw them high into the air.

Compared to the cannonballs, the volume of the earth element is several times larger.

Destroy it

Watching the earth element draw a beautiful arc in the air, Elrondil's pupils sparkled. The warriors inside the city wall covered their heads involuntarily and turned their bodies backwards.

This instinct cannot be overcome no matter how many military exercises are conducted.

"Relax! Boys! We are with you." At the critical moment, several officers immediately comforted their soldiers.

Boom boom boom

The entire city of Gorom began to tremble. The dust produced by the rupture of the earth element instantly enveloped the entire city of Gorom.

The effect of dozens of ancient war trees made Elendil extremely satisfied. In the face of such an attack, no artillery or muskets would be a threat.

However, when the dust cleared and Grom's appearance was revealed again, Elendil was stunned.

The outer wall of Gorom City was surprisingly intact. Apart from the huge cracks on the outer wall, the overall structure was not damaged at all.

This...this...what is going on.

Although Elendil already knew that the wood and plants outside of Gorom were camouflage, he never imagined that there would be such a solid wall behind the camouflage.

Such solid fortifications, it’s obvious that they were definitely not built by the trolls themselves! It must have been the city of Aurora who helped from behind.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery fire sounded again.

Due to the limitation of the artillery elevation angle, the shells could not cross the shield to attack the ancient war trees in the rear, but they still fired at intervals, trying their best to prevent the ancient tree formation from approaching.

Fortunately, in order to ensure that the first two rows of guard ancient trees can condense shields on time, a large number of divine magicians were transferred over, so that the earth element condensation speed of the war ancient trees was very slow, and it even took more than half an hour to throw it once.

The huge interval gave the city of Gorom a chance to catch its breath. After each attack, the soldiers in the city immediately rushed up to repair the cracks and fill the gaps.

"Hmph, no matter how strong the city wall is, it doesn't matter! Even if you move a mountain here, I will definitely blow it up in front of you!" Aarendil snorted coldly.

However, after repeated attacks, the walls of Gorom still did not collapse, and Elendil became a little anxious.

Although the high throw of the War Ancient Tree could avoid the shield in front and attack Gorom, the high angle of elevation caused the hit rate to drop sharply. A large number of earth elements fell into the empty city or simply flew into the wilderness. Only one-third of the earth elements could accurately hit the city wall.

Elendil paced anxiously in front of the formation, as if hesitating about something. After a long time, he finally said, "Pass my order! Let the guards of the ancient trees continue to move forward! Give the war trees enough elevation! I don't believe that this can't blow down the gate of Grom!"

Hearing this, Modsheka and other generals were horrified. Modsheka immediately stood up and said, "Captain, we are very close to the city wall! Continuing to move forward will certainly allow the War Tree to have a smaller elevation angle, but it will also be the same for the city of Gorom! What if, what if their shells cross the guard tree!"

"Absolutely impossible!" El'Arundil said, "If they could do that, they would not have waited until now! They would have attacked us long ago."

"But..." Modsheka thought for a moment, then said, "What if they are deliberately luring us closer? Then the ancient tree will be caught in a dilemma, and the divine magicians will all be buried in the sea of ​​fire."

After hearing this, Elendil immediately recalled the tragic situation in the Feruman Empire three years ago, but she was reluctant to continue sacrificing the firepower of the ancient war tree!

The broken city wall in the distance! It seemed that as long as the ancient war tree's hit rate could be improved, it would collapse in an instant.

Chapter 318: Tactics of Riding a Tiger

In the end, Elendil listened to Modsheka's words and did not take the risk of letting the guard of the ancient tree continue to move forward.

Modsheka's suggestion obviously saved El'Arundil. If the guarding ancient tree had taken a few steps forward, the artillery might have been able to successfully cross-fire the ancient war tree behind it.

Although Modsheka was able to persuade El'Arundil, they couldn't think of any good way to break through Grom at the moment.

In addition to the ancient war tree, Elendil also organized the elven soldiers to capture the city several times, attempting to climb the city walls with bows and ladders.

However, just as they arrived under the city gate, they were instantly hit by musket fire from the stomping holes in the city wall. A large number of elves fell on the way to charge. Even if a few lucky ones reached the bottom of the city wall, they would be blown to pieces by grenades.

After leaving a pile of corpses on the ground, Elendil urgently called a halt to this suicidal siege.

Compared with the dense muskets, the elves' bows and arrows were completely useless. No matter how strong the elves' archery skills were, they could not accurately throw arrows into the stomping holes in the city wall on the battlefield, while the troll warriors only needed to point the barrel downwards and pull the trigger.

The siege continued until dusk.

Thanks to the long attack intervals of the Ancient of War, Gorom's walls finally withstood the attack.

The sun gradually set, and the outer wall of Gorom was already in tatters, and some of the fortifications hidden inside the wall were also exposed. The repeated bombings reduced the firepower by at least a quarter. The setting sun gently caressed the wounds on its surface, and soon the night was coming.

Now a difficult problem is placed before Elendil.

Continue to attack or retreat.

Attacking at night is not a good choice no matter how you think about it. Even though the elves are good at fighting in the dark, that is only relative to other races! Darkness is the nightmare of every surface race.

Under the cover of darkness, the elves' archery skills will be greatly weakened, and the unknown fear around them will also reduce the combat effectiveness of the troops. If the divine magician who commands the ancient trees makes a mistake at this time, causing flaws in the entire ancient tree formation, I am afraid that the elves will be doomed.

But if we retreat...

The disadvantages of the ancient tree formation began to emerge.

The shield guarding the ancient tree can only protect one direction, which means that even if they retreat, they can only make the guarding ancient tree retreat slowly. This is a huge test for the ancient tree and the divine magician.

The city of Gorom will obviously not just watch the ancient trees retreat, and will inevitably launch a fierce artillery attack. If they are not careful, the guarding of the ancient trees may be overturned by the impact of the artillery. Therefore, the entire retreat process will have to be very cautious and the speed will be very slow, several times slower than the attack.

This is the biggest weakness of the ancient tree formation of El Arundil... Once it is put into battle, it will take a huge amount of time and energy to stop it. And in the process of retreating, a large number of soldiers are needed to protect it, and no interruption is allowed, otherwise the entire ancient tree formation will be in chaos.

Before the battle, Elendil never thought that the siege would last until night.

She didn't expect that the outer wall of Gorom City would be so strong. Even after repeated bombings with so many ancient war trees, they couldn't blast a gap in it.

She didn't expect that the artillery power of Gorom City would be so great that she had to deploy more divine magicians for defense.

She also did not expect that the troll soldiers would eat up Florenceni's troops first and bring them such tremendous pressure afterwards.

Countless things she had not expected were intertwined, putting Elendil in a dilemma.

The battlefield situation changes rapidly, and various emergencies emerge one after another. For the coach, of course, it is not necessary and impossible to be all-round. At this time, it depends on the ability to respond on the spot to deal with various situations.

However, it now seems that Elendil does not have such ability. Because in the sieges she experienced in the past, she just relied on the ancient trees to crush them directly, and she never encountered so many messy things.

The only thing she could think of now was to keep fighting until the city of Gorom was conquered. If everything was over as soon as possible, she wouldn't have to bear such pressure.

It's just that... the ancient trees can keep fighting, but the divine magicians can't. The longer they drag on, the more tired they will become, and the more likely they will make mistakes. Moreover, no one can guarantee that they can take over the city of Grom in a few hours.

If we still can't capture Gorom City, retreating at that time will be even more difficult than it is now.

Sankara had already arrived at the front of the city wall. He stared at the ancient tree position below, quietly waiting for Elendil's next move.

The later Elendil decides to retreat, the better it will be for Grom.

He knew very well that with the slow attack frequency of the War Tree, it was impossible to break through the city wall. Even if it managed to break a hole, what would it matter? The elf soldiers could not charge forward under the dense firepower and could only retreat. If they could keep on wasting time until the divine magician's power was completely exhausted, they could even rush over the attacking troops in one go!

Thinking of this, Sankara gripped his weapon tightly.