An old man in his fifties and wearing glasses said in surprise:
"I am engaged in architecture and have studied ancient buildings, but I have never seen such a structure!"
Fang Tianhua took out a small notebook and flipped through it: "Luo Zhonghua, right? What can you think of when you see this structure?"
Architect Luo pushed up his glasses and pointed to the high tunnel in the center of the fortress: "From our point of view, that's high ground, right? But thinking about it the other way around, if you stand there, what do our barracks look like?"
Ye Peng frowned: "Like a circle...a ditch?"
"It's also like a moat!" Shang Xue pushed up her glasses.
Luo Zhonghuan nodded: "That's right! The castle is built on a high place, surrounded by a deep ditch. If it is filled with water, it will be a moat. But they built the barracks here, which means there must be another mystery in this barracks!
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"Filling with water is impossible..." Fang Tianhua frowned and said, "But there must be a mechanism hidden here. If the high wall is breached, this will be a trench to block the enemy. It will definitely be dangerous to stay here!"
While everyone was discussing, suddenly a horn sounded from the city wall, and then a group of cavalry passed through the camp room, shouting as they ran: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, all soldiers go to the top of the city and stand by!"
In an instant, the soldiers rushed out of the barracks, and the originally quiet camp suddenly became agitated. Tens of thousands of soldiers ran towards the city wall with weapons in hand. The momentum was huge but not chaotic, which showed that this army was well-trained!
"Quick, let's go up too..." Fang Tianhua also ran towards the city wall.
"Aren't you going to die there?" At this time, a young man sang the opposite tune:
"The city wall is the front line. As you just said, the barracks are also very dangerous. If we want to survive, we'd better run inside!"
We were all ordinary people who had never been on the battlefield. They instinctively wanted to stay away from the front line. As soon as someone started, someone immediately responded. At that time, there were seven or eight people planning to run back!
"Don't do anything stupid!" Fang Tianhua shouted, instinctively wanting to draw a gun and threaten him, but here it was restricted to use cold weapons, and he didn't even bring a gun.
"Who listens to you!" The young man who started the game turned around and taunted: "There must be no monsters here anymore. If you want to die, just do it yourself. I want to live to the end..."
Before the word "hou" could be uttered, a cold light flashed, and a cavalryman and horse passed by the young man. The young man's head flew up, and blood spurted out from the cavity under the pumping pressure of the heart.
"Anyone who escapes from battle will be killed!"
The cavalryman turned his horse around and saw that he was wearing iron armor and holding a steel knife. He was well-equipped. He was obviously an officer. He was followed by about ten more cavalrymen, each holding a steel knife and killing with dignity.
The leader died, and the other newcomers collapsed on the ground in fear, rolling and crawling back. Fang Tianhua sighed:
"A safe place? How can there be a safe place in the mission of the altar!"
Under the threat of Zhanli Jue, the Samsaras followed the ordinary soldiers and climbed up the city wall. Although the city wall was high, there were stone steps at intervals on the inside. They climbed the three steep stone steps, wearing armor and carrying weapons.
The ten-meter-high wall was okay for young people, but the older ones couldn't bear it. They were out of breath halfway up the climb, so they had to rely on the help of kind-hearted young people to climb to the top.
Climbing to the top of the city, everyone sighed again. The wall was paved with wide bluestones, which were 17 or 18 meters wide, allowing more than a dozen horses to walk side by side without hindrance. There were also catapults, ballistas and other heavy equipment on the wall.
The city defense equipment and all kinds of materials are all available. The soldiers are also wearing bright armor. They are leaning on the battlements, setting up shields and setting up bows, and they are all ready.
As for Zhang Lang, looking at the wide city wall, he couldn't help but think of the wall of Shengjing... It was taller and wider than this. If there hadn't been that disaster, the city top of Shengjing should have looked like this...
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After boarding the city, through the contact between the badges, the male and female reincarnators also met. As soon as he saw Le Xinyi, Ye Peng immediately ran over: "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but..." This pretty girl with a high ponytail also put on armor and looked back:
"Three of us were killed for escaping, and now I only have eight left..."
"So, the total number of people is only twenty-five..." Fang Tianhua sighed:
"Including those eaten by monsters before, I have lost more than ten before I even see the enemy. This is not a good sign!"
“It doesn’t matter how many people there are, what matters is quality!”
Liu Xingwei said, at this time he also put on leather armor, put on an iron helmet, carried a short knife on his waist, and held a spear. However, due to his exaggerated height, the armor did not fit well, and the spear in his hand looked like
Shrunk...
"No matter what..." Le Xinyi looked at the defenders who were waiting at the top of the city. Except for heavy shield bearers and other units that require heavy physical strength, they were basically both men and women:
"It seems that they do not have a division of labor between men and women. Let's act together for the time being. We only have six days. I guess the first attack will not be too violent. Let's take a look at the enemy's offensive first!"
At this time, an officer on horseback came over, pointed at the reincarnations and shouted: "What are you doing? Quick, go over there to defend the opening..."
The reincarnations hurriedly agreed, and just as they were about to leave, the officer suddenly stopped them: "Wait a minute, you, that big man!"
The officer pointed at Liu Xingwei, who was at least a head taller than the others: "You have a good physique. Go over there, get a heavy shield, and put it on that gap!"
Needless to say, Liu Xingwei's physique is a professional basketball player and has been awarded three times. Among them, he happened to be very powerful. His fire attribute is much higher than that of ordinary people. With his huge physique, his strength is probably more than ten times that of ordinary people, and his physical endurance is also excellent.
first class!
But even with such a physique, when I lift a heavy shield, it actually feels a bit heavy!
The large shield is more than one and a half meters high. It is made of thick wooden boards covered with thick iron sheets. There are also barbs welded to the iron sheets. It is placed between the battlements like a small city wall. Holding it in your hand, I am afraid there will be some damage.
Weighs seventy or eighty pounds!
This is by no means a normal ancient piece of equipment. Liu Xingwei looked at the other strong men holding heavy shields. Although they were not as tall as him, they were still about two meters tall. They were very skilled in carrying heavy shields!
It seems that their power is much greater than that of ordinary people!
The physical quality of humans in this world is stronger than that in the main world! At least the upper limit is higher!
Liu Xingwei, who realized this, honestly propped up his heavy shield and blocked his own gap.
With this row of heavy shield soldiers, the original gaps between the battlements were filled into small gaps, which not only facilitated the attack of the archers behind, but also did not affect the field of vision too much because of their flexibility.
"Does any of us know how to shoot an arrow?" Le Xinyi tied the ponytail behind her head tightly and shouted loudly.
She has been practicing since she was a child and is very good at bows and arrows. However, it is a pity that she could not redeem the bow and arrows for three thousand-point rewards, so she exchanged 100 points for a foldable modern compound bow. Although the shape is a bit strange compared to the background of the world, but in
Under the influence of the altar, ordinary soldiers did not pay too much attention to her.
"I'm from the archery club!"
A man in his early thirties wearing glasses raised his hand and saw that he also had a compound bow in his hand. He had obviously exchanged it for the same equipment as Le Xinyi! As for the others, none of them seemed to be good at archery, and they basically just exchanged some.
Sword-like weapons...
Le Xinyi nodded: "I remember your name is Sun Ye, right? Your bow should only have sent ten arrows. Try not to use your own arrows first, pick up the arrows of the dead archers and shoot them. Don't worry,
The quality of the altar’s equipment is unparalleled, and there are very few malfunctions!”
"Others are the same. If the crossbowman dies, try to pick it up and use it. If you don't know how to use bows and arrows, you can use the crossbow. It's relatively easy to use!"
The newcomers swallowed their saliva and nodded. The more than twenty reincarnations were divided into two teams. One team had six seniors and fourteen newcomers. They all hid behind Liu Xingwei, who was holding a huge shield, and were ready.
The other team was composed of Zhang Lang and four newcomers, guarding another city entrance dozens of meters away. Because the army here was in a team of twenty, Zhang Lang and the five of them were separated separately, and they were separated from the ordinary soldiers.
We are together!
At this time, another horn sounded, and all the soldiers fell silent. Vaguely, it seemed that the bluestone bricks under their feet were shaking slightly.
"Here they come, there are quite a few!"
Fang Tianhua whispered, holding up a black crossbow worth one hundred points, aiming at the desolate horizon, where the billowing smoke and dust brought by the march of the army could already be seen.
Zhang Lang, on the other hand, tightened the spear in his hand, subconsciously took a few steps forward, and set his sights in the distance.
With such a sophisticated army and a tall fortress ready, I don't know what kind of enemy it is...
Zhang Lang was stunned!
Not only Zhang Lang, Fang Tianhua, Le Xinyi, Ye Peng, Liu Xingwei, Liu Mofei, but even all the newcomers in Samsara were also stunned!
Because they finally saw clearly that the troops emerging from the smoke were not the cavalry, infantry, or even chariots they imagined! They were a group of creatures they had never seen before!
Their bodies are segmented and have six limbs. Among them, they run on all fours. The first two limbs are curled up in front of the chest, like a mantis's sickle. There is a huge head on the inverted triangular chest, and two slender tentacles go back and forth like whips.
Swinging, while the thick, long and round abdomen is dragged at the end of the body, trembling up and down as it runs.
insect!
This is the word that appears in the minds of all reincarnations at the same time. These monsters are clearly a group of stout versions of mantises without wings, but it seems that their bodies are about the same size as humans!
Liu Mofei swallowed and looked at the ordinary soldiers around him. Their faces were only nervous and not surprised at all. They had obviously expected this army of insect monsters.
"Is this the enemy we're fighting?"
The thin Liu Mofei murmured, and Shang Xue on the side also showed disgust:
"It looks so disgusting..."
"I think it's okay..." Ye Peng, a tall and handsome man, whispered: "Killing aliens feels better than killing people..."
The seniors were still wavering, and the new reincarnations were even more commotion:
"I didn't say I was going to deal with that kind of monster!"
"They will eat us! I heard that mantises like to eat alive."
"When I was a child, a praying mantis pinched my finger. It was so small that it could bleed, but it was so big that my head flew off in no time."
"Everyone, hold still!" Fang Tianhua shouted: "Those soldiers are very calm, which shows that these bugs can still be dealt with. Everyone, protect yourselves and observe what those soldiers do!"
"Let go!" At this time, the herald not far away roared, the war drum beat, the trebuchet projectiles on the city top were sprayed with oil, ignited and fired, and dozens of fireballs roared out, heading straight towards the insect.
ocean!
The insect monster that bore the brunt of the attack was directly smashed into a pulp. The boulders dripping with kerosene rolled over the insect swarm, leaving burning walls of fire that disrupted the insect swarm's position. After several rounds of projectiles, the insect swarm was successfully separated from the middle.
Only those who rush forward continue to approach the city wall!
At this time, it’s time for the ballistae to go into battle!
The heavy crossbows that were wound up by the capstan were fired one after another, and the sound of whooshing was endless. Spear-like crossbow arrows flew out one after another. As long as they hit, they could nail an insect to the ground.
In addition to those who shoot crossbows, the Samsaras also noticed that there is a kind of crossbow on top of the city. It fires a centrally symmetrical double-edged blade. After shooting, the blade spins and flies like a propeller, sweeping through the densest insect swarm like a circular saw.
Every shot can kill a lot of bugs!
"It seems that there is no need for us to appear..." Seeing that most of the insects were unable to approach the city wall, a new reincarnator breathed a sigh of relief, straightened his body and stretched: "Maybe this task is not that difficult!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, there was a buzzing sound, and a huge flying insect flew by, grabbed the guy's head and carried him up into the air!