After the attack on the sea entered a stable stalemate stage, the battle on land also broke out.
The battle horn sounded, and the artillery unit of the Boulder-Violet Allied Forces launched an artillery battle with Castel's fleet in the Dorne River.
In the loud noise like the fury of thunder, white gunpowder smoke spread across the river and the battlefield. From time to time, you can see the blue ripples emitted after stone bullets hit the magic shield.
This is a competition between ammunition and extraordinary material reserves.
In the North Port, the towering mage tower shines brightly, and the unfolded magic shield shines in the sun.
Among the coalition forces, stone bullets engraved with demon-breaking runes were stuffed into the dark muzzles by the soldiers, and in a series of loud noises, they were fired at the Castel galley in the Donne River and the quilt outside the North Port Bridge.
The outer wall is covered by a magic shield.
"boom--!"
"boom--!"
The earth trembled and the magic power stirred.
Although protected by a magic shield, the rock cannons carried by the Boulder-Violet coalition were obviously stronger than Castell's artillery.
Even though the power of most of the stone bullets was weakened by the magic shield, some still penetrated Castel's defenses, or hit the city walls, or hit the hull of the ship.
Especially the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge.
As the first line of defense of Beigang, the ten-meter-high city wall has received special attention from the Principality's coalition forces.
Dozens of stone-shooting cannons with a length of more than seven meters spit out white mist, and each shot means a stone bullet weighing more than 900 pounds (more than 400 kilograms) whizzes past.
Even with the weakening of magic, this weapon developed during the Star-Moon War to end the rule of the castle is still terrifying. The stone bullets engraved with the magic-breaking inscription still have terrifying kinetic energy after penetrating the shield. Each shot will hit the city wall.
There were hideous cracks left on it.
Finally, after who knows how many rounds of shelling by the coalition forces, the tall outer wall could no longer withstand the continuous artillery fire.
With a loud noise, another magic stone bullet penetrated the crumbling shield and hit a section of the outer wall that was already full of cracks.
Amidst a series of exclamations, a section of the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge collapsed with bricks and stones flying everywhere!
After the cloud-like dust swirled, a huge gap up to four meters wide appeared on the city wall.
Through the gap, the principality's army could already see the bridge behind it and Castre's army on the other side of the bridge.
The third prince Philip, who was riding on horseback, put down his telescope and showed a satisfied smile:
"Beigang's city defense...is nothing more than that."
Looking at the crumbling city wall, Earl Lint next to the third prince had a complicated expression and sighed softly:
"Times have changed since the advent of stone cannons."
The nobles rule the world with the castle as the center, and this has been the case for thousands of years.
But now, no matter how strong the castle is, it will become history in the face of the enchanted stone cannon.
It can be said that with the development of the times, since the improvement of enchantment technology and the optimization of alchemy in the late Star-Moon War, many war methods in the world of Miria have quietly changed.
"The city wall has been broken, order the vanguard to launch an attack!"
The third prince narrowed his eyes and ordered.
The loud and vicissitudes of the horn sounded again, this time... it was the signal for charge and siege.
The vanguard troops of the Principality's coalition forces, who had been waiting for a long time, raised their shields one after another, braved the arrow rain and artillery fire from Castel's side, and roared towards the outer wall of the North Port Bridge.
There are gaps in the city wall, and so is the magic shield covering the city wall.
There were loopholes in the magic defense system connecting the entire North Port, and soldiers from both sides quickly broke into a battle at the gap in the city wall.
The first to fight were the levies.
As cannon fodder for sieges, these soldiers with the lowest combat effectiveness exist to consume the extraordinary power of the enemy army.
A flood of soldiers rushed towards the gap, and the attacking soldiers set up ladders on the still intact city wall. The battle for the Beigang Bridge... officially began.
The gaped city wall no longer had the defensive advantage. Facing the large number of duchy coalition forces, the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge quickly fell.
Castre's soldiers fought and retreated, and the fighting soon focused on the bridge.
The arrows fell like raindrops, and the magic was colorful.
The narrow Beigang Bridge became the most brutal battlefield, like a huge meat grinder, crazily devouring soldiers on both sides.
Amid the continuous sound of artillery fire, fighting and shouting resounded across the sky. The gurgling blood dyed the entire bridge red like a stream, and even the water of the Dorne River under the bridge turned crimson.
The third prince picked up the telescope and looked at the battle situation on the bridge.
After a moment, he put down the lens tube and frowned slightly:
"too slow."
"Send an extraordinary military formation to capture the North Port Bridge as soon as possible and build a defensive array to prevent Castel from being forced to destroy the bridge!"
Earl Lint hesitated for a moment and said:
"Your Highness, Beigang's magic defense system is still intact and can still protect soldiers. At this moment, when extraordinary military formations are deployed, our elites can easily be targeted..."
"Then we have to fight. We don't have much time, and... we must be careful to prevent them from destroying the bridge. This bridge is the gateway to Beigang. If they destroy it ruthlessly, it will cause big trouble for our attack."
The third prince shook his head and said.
As he spoke, he squinted his eyes and looked at the magic shield above Beigang:
"As for Beigang's magical defense..."
"Hmph, inform the fleet to adjust the shooting angle and no longer aim at the Beigang fortress. All warships will attack Beigang City!"
"In addition to the magic-breaking stone bullets, use the latest enchanted stone bullets made by the alchemy workshop that I brought from the royal capital!"
"Haha, doesn't our little count want to protect the entire Beigang? Then let's see if she will spend more effort to protect the city under artillery fire, or give up on her subjects!"
"The larger the magic defense shield is, the easier it is to be broken... I don't believe that the Silver Moon mages in Castel who maintain the shield can withstand such an attack intensity!"
Following the third prince's order, the artillery fire of the principality's combined fleet quickly changed its target.
Amidst bursts of roaring, stone bullets slid across the sky like rain and hit Beigang.
Unlike the city wall itself, which is engraved with inscriptions and can easily open a magic shield, the shield covering the sky above Beigang is much weaker and requires more magic power to resist external attacks.
Facing the continuous attacks falling from the sky, the entire Beigang's magic shield continued to flicker, becoming bright and dim.
In the mage tower in Beigang, Sir Layton, the president of the Beigang branch of the Mercenary Association, who accepted the employment and personally presided over the operation of the shield, felt even more deeply.
After the principality fleet covered the urban area of Beigang with firepower and rained stone bullets into the weakest point of the shield, the huge magic pressure and energy tide caused the experienced Silver Moon mage to change his face almost instantly. He couldn't bear it.
A mouthful of blood spurted out...??m
At the same time, the elite standing armies from the two principalities also deployed their magic energy arrays and marched in neat steps to launch an attack on the Beigang Bridge.
The situation on Castel's side suddenly took a turn for the worse.