Chapter 39: Goblin Siege
The frontier troops of the goblins were only about 500 meters away from the moat. Vey subconsciously raised his sword, but Liana beside him chuckled: "Don't be so nervous. It's still a while before we take action. Now the soldiers responsible for long-range attacks launch the first wave of attacks."
Vey's nervousness slowly disappeared in her chuckle, and he took a deep breath, lowered his sword-holding hand, staring at the approaching army of goblins.
"Woo!"
The clear and long horn sounded in the city. The next moment, Wei Yi heard a clapper sound from the turret closest to him. The dense black light flew out from the turret's muzzle, drew a curve in the air like a locust, and fell into the army of goblins hundreds of meters away.
This scene not only appears on the southern city wall. The turrets attacked the first time after hearing the horn sound of all four city walls. Each turret can accommodate hundreds of soldiers. With the bows and crossbows on the soldiers' hands, at least thousands of arrows are shot out from the turret every minute, shooting towards the goblins approaching their respective city walls.
If you look down from the sky, you can see arrows flying out of the surroundings shooting into the dark army of goblins with the city of Doro as the center. Each round of shooting will cause the goblins in front to fall down like cutting wheat, and then they will be replaced by the goblins behind. Therefore, although many goblins fell in the rain of arrows, the goblin army still approached Doro.
In the rain of arrows, the giant catapult cart that had been behind the goblin army was slowly pushed to the front of the team, less than 500 meters away from the city wall.
Wei Yi's pupils shrank, and a bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart.
"Damn, those bastards are going to throw fireballs at the city wall!" The thin senior soldier cursed.
Suddenly, Wei Yi's face changed instantly. He saw the goblin beside the car lit the black sphere in the throwing bag with a torch. The sphere burned violently and rolled black smoke came out. More than a dozen goblins in front of the vehicle shaking the wheel, and the movable arms on the seat hang back to the lowest position under the pull of the rope. Then, the movable arms bounced up suddenly, and the fireball flew out under the force, dragging the black smoke trail towards the city wall.
"Everyone is down!" Weiy shouted.
It was not only a giant catapult that launched the attack. A large number of moving arms were bounced in the army in the goblin army. Almost in one or two breaths, dozens of black smoke trails appeared in the air, and all fireballs hit the city walls like meteor showers.
On this section of the city wall, the thin soldier next to Weiyi was the leader responsible for defending the section of the city wall. However, at this time he had become a little panicked and obviously did not think of a way to deal with it. When he heard Weiyi's roar, he almost immediately repeated what Weiyi said. All the soldiers immediately squatted down on the spot and quickly fell to the depression behind the battlements.
The next moment, the city wall suddenly shook, and it was urgent. A huge roar and swaying spread throughout the city wall. The hot flames rose into the air with the broken gravel on the surface of the city wall. Several soldiers near the gap in the city wall had no time to hide, screaming and being engulfed by the hot golden and red flames.
Weiyi pressed against the heavy battlements tightly, and the gravel fell from the sky and fell beside him. He raised his sword and pushed away several large pieces of gravel, leaned against the battlements, coughing up a mouthful of blood.
With his medical skills, he probably was injured by the internal organs when the fireball hit the city wall just now. Vey touched his chest and other painful areas of his body. Except for the skin trauma caused by falling rocks, the bones did not shift or fracture, which is also good news.
Weiy poked out from the battlements. The first wave of attacks from the goblin's giant catapult car had passed, and the vibration of the city wall gradually became smaller. He stood up with the battlements, but he was suddenly stunned by the scene in front of him, and his vision suddenly became dull.
The city walls that were relatively intact in the past few minutes have become dilapidated. Most of the jagged battlements, which were previously jagged, were damaged by falling rocks and flames, and some battlements' locations have even been moved to the flat ground.
Large pieces of cracks and gaps appeared on the outer surface of the city wall. The pits nearly ten meters wide were obviously left by the impact of fireballs. The bluestone walls inside the city wall can be seen at the bottom of some pits. Fortunately, the walls of Duoluo City are extremely strong, and the pits left by the fireballs are still acceptable for the damage range for the city walls nearly ten meters wide.
However, although the city wall resisted the first wave of attacks from goblins, the city guards on the city wall have reduced their combat effectiveness by nearly 30%.
Most of the city guards were wearing heavy armor, so although they were injured by falling rocks, they had little impact on them.
However, the archers in the artillery tower and the mages on the city wall were greatly damaged. In order to launch an attack more freely, they were not wearing any armor with high defense. Therefore, when the fireball attacked the city wall, they were shocked and fell down the city wall or were killed by falling rocks. Apart from the three turrets of Vie, a turret was directly hit by a fireball. Hundreds of archers were instantly engulfed by flames, and the entire turret was even razed to the ground. Blood dyed the four walls of Doro City red. Nearly a hundred soldiers guarding the city died under the dense attack of the catapult fireballs, and some soldiers even left only wreckage under the burning of the flames.
The wall where Wei Yi is located is not bad, because with Wei Yi's reminder and the thin soldier's first quick decision. Although the wall was seriously damaged, not many injured soldiers were injured. The most surprising thing is that no soldier died. However, this battle has been deeply imprinted into his heart. This is also the first time he has experienced the real war. In the battle between alien races, he often dies!
The thin senior soldier stood up. He looked at Vey gratefully, waved his hand and shouted: "Everyone returns to the original position to be alert!"
The soldiers in charge of medical treatment quickly climbed up to the city wall with medical kits from under the city wall. After bandaging the injured soldiers, they took them down the city wall. The new soldiers took over the injured soldiers. It was precisely because of this rotation strategy that the losses in the city of Doro were greatly reduced. Once a soldier was injured, he would be sent to the rear for treatment. After almost the injury was good, he would continue to climb to the city wall to defend. This was also the defensive strategy of many big cities in the empire.
"Are you okay?" Liana slapped off the dust on her body and looked around.
The thin little soldier and Weidu shook their heads at her and signaled that they were fine. Liana used magic to clear most of the gravel on the city wall, so that the medical soldiers could carry the stretcher to send the wounded down the city wall.
A few minutes after the aftershock, the top of the turret was once again full of archers. The remaining archers who dodged the attack in the turret walked out of the turret again and took arrows to aim at the army of goblins outside the city wall.
After the first wave of attacks, Weiyi looked outside the city wall. The giant catapult car had already stopped, but the goblins next to the catapult car kept transporting black stone balls from behind the team to the next to the catapult car. It seemed that the giant catapult car would continue to launch a terrifying attack in a few minutes.
Vey looked at Liana holding up the gravel with light magic and throwing it down the city wall. After a moment, he looked at the large hard crossbow at the top of the turret. He had a sudden inspiration and came to the head of the thin soldier and whispered something. The thin soldier was stunned at first, and then his eyes lit up. He waved his hand to signal Liana to come over. After Liana heard Vey's thoughts in confusion, she also felt a little more excited in her eyes. She nodded and said, "It's true, I will do my best to cooperate with you."
Liana and Weiyi entered the turret and went directly to the large hard crossbow at the top of the turret. This giant crossbow, four meters long, two and a half wide, was fixed to the top of the turret with a base, and each turret had five hard crossbows. Ten arrows with arms were arranged neatly in the grooves. As long as the person who operated the turret pulled down the latches, the arrows would automatically enter the ejection port.
Wei Yi learned from the soldiers responsible for manipulating the hard crossbow that the range of the hard crossbow was 500 meters, but in order to ensure the damage level of the target, they adjusted the shooting groove nearly 80 meters, which means it turned into about 420 meters.
After a while of skill in operation, Vey nodded to Liana. Liana nodded. She walked to the hard crossbow, stretched out her palm toward the ten arrows, muttering something. After a few breaths, several balls of white light flew out of her hands and merged into the arrows, dyeing the surface of the arrows with a hazy white halo.
Chapter completed!