As a former general of the royal army, Parona's vision was not very broad. He recognized the enemy's methods in just a moment. However, this realization left him even more surprised and speechless~
Enchanted enhanced war machines... can generally only be realized on mid-to-high-end larger war machines, but their value is dozens of times higher than ordinary unenchanted war machines!
But these war machines all have astonishing and terrifying destructive power, and they have always been the secret trump card in the hands of various large lords!
And this small dark city in front of us is just a third-level marginal territory...
Damn it!
How come they have such good equipment?
"charge!!!"
The desperate roar sounded the next moment~
Although Parona didn't understand how the other group of adventurer lords could possess such high-end city defense weapons, one thing was certain!
When the opponent has such an absolute advantage, unless the battle is fought quickly, our losses will be extremely heavy!
Following Parona's roar, a roar like a tide suddenly sounded from the entire bandit undead army!
The next moment, tens of thousands of undead surged towards the Dark City hundreds of meters ahead like a frenzy of breaking a dike. At the same time, dozens of catapults from the enemy group also passed by the Dark City.
After the collective bombardment, they took action one after another~
For a moment, the sound of catapult bombardment and the roar of crossbow arrows piercing the sky were heard on the ground.
It seems as if the entire earth has been completely filled with this shocking sound...
In the undead land lacking archers, it is difficult for you to hear the astonishing trembling sound of thousands of bows firing in unison.
However, the continuous sounds of the motorized ballistae left a deep impression on everyone around them at this moment!
Compared with the city defense bed crossbow, the mobile crossbow can only be regarded as a transitional level of war machinery. The rated arrows used for shooting are about the thickness of a little finger, and the arrows are armor-piercing arrows made of pure steel.
Although it is not as easy as the city defense bed crossbow, which can easily penetrate dozens of enemies with one arrow and kill them all, it is more than enough to kill or seriously injure two or three people at once, even if the opponent is equipped with high-grade plate armor made of heavy armor.
As long as it is not a turtle wall combination of tower shield + plate armor, powerful arrows can break it open with one blow~
In terms of attack power, the mobile ballista is not as overbearing as the city defense ballista, but it is perfectly useful against the current players~
On the other hand, the motorized ballistae also has powerful advantages that the city defense ballistae cannot match!
That's excellent mobility!
Basically, the maneuverability of the mobile ballista depends on the movement ability of the player controlling it.
As long as the basic strength requirements are met, the mobile ballista can run as fast as the player can run.
In order to maximize its mobility and lethality, there is a group of serious "mechanical regiments" among the plague forces that have been training in this area for a long time!
Since the formation of the Plague Fighting Alliance, especially after joining members like Wanwucheng who have experience in the application of war machinery, Liu Yifei has begun to work hard to build a mechanical group.
The operation of war machinery is simple, such as catapults and ballistas. You only need to load the bullet and pull the switch and it seems to be done~
But in fact, if we say it is complicated, it is quite complicated.
Because in war, due to changes in the enemy's attack direction and attack formation, all war machines cannot be static.
The best idea is that a war machine should have three groups of people in charge, one group is responsible for loading, one group is responsible for micro-moving the position, and the third group is the most troublesome, actually adjusting the attack angle.
The power of war machinery is astonishing, and its range is far beyond that of ordinary bows and arrows or magic.
However, just like the problem with hand crossbows, the farther the range, the lower the attack hit rate!
How to use a war machine with slow reloading speed but huge lethality to ensure that it hits the enemy in every attack actually involves another important game-derived "subject" - the calculation of the arc angle of the function throw.
This is a bit funny~
Isn’t it just a virtual game?
Do we want to be so serious? Why should we be academic?
However, after careful practice and calculation, Liu Yifei and the others found that this was the simplest fact.
In reality, the process of calculating the impact point of a cannonball is so complicated and there are so many factors to consider that it is difficult for ordinary people to start. However, in the game, such troubles are somewhat shielded.
As long as it is not a powerful storm that can blow people away, the impact of heavy ammunition such as crossbow arrows and bombs can be ignored. You only need to consider the attack angle of the machine to roughly calculate the impact point of the ammunition.
and specific location.
You expect every player to memorize these theoretical things...
That's absolutely impossible~
Even though this "title" has been widely used among undergraduates nowadays, after graduation, especially those who are obsessed with games, how many of them do you expect to be able to calculate those things?
Therefore, although there are specialized talents responsible for these theoretical calculations and summaries of skills, the main "training" conducted by Liu Yifei and the others under the leadership of the "Mechanical Regiment" is "school attack".
That is to say, all members of the "Mechanical Regiment" are given several attack angles that must be memorized. Once the commander gives the order, they can accurately adjust the war machinery in their hands to a similar or even accurate angle, and then carry out purposeful regional coverage attacks.
!
In this way, war machines will no longer be rigid in battle and can only blindly release attacks from the predetermined farthest attack angle.
As the enemy continues to rush forward, the war machinery will also change its attack angle and position, causing it to continuously cause damage to the enemy group. In this way, under the control of the "Mechanical Group" players of the Plague Alliance, the same number of
War machinery can exert two or three times more actual combat power on the battlefield!
In order to curb the opponent's heroic assault, Xue Lan even mobilized a regiment of mobile ballistas, divided them into ten squadrons, and under the command of the leaders of each group of mechanical regiments, tried their best to suppress the enemy's main breakthrough!
The advantage of the bandit siege force is that there are many heroes, the strength of the mercenary force is amazing, and they also have a large number of siege machines. As long as they can destroy the enemy's city defenses, especially after opening a breach in the city wall, their ground combat power is amazing!
The advantage of the Dark City side lies entirely in war machinery!
In addition to the long-term accumulation of nearly a thousand motorized crossbows, the team also has thirty-two small bed crossbows, twelve small crossbows, twelve medium bed crossbows, three medium frost-enchanted catapults, and three-level city defenses.
Three turrets.
In fact~
When the number of crossbows and catapults exceeds a hundred, the firepower of the three local city defense turrets in Dark City can be almost ignored~
The advantages of city defense turrets are only one: it is more lethal, nearly twice as powerful as ballistas and catapults of the same level; second, it is difficult to destroy; and the last point is actually convenient, with automatic calibration and locking, so there is no need to trouble the player.
For players who are not accustomed to the war mechanical aiming system in the early stage, this is an almost miraculous non-destructive killing effect~
But for today’s Plague Alliance, all this is just a cloud~
Automatic aiming and so on, they have their own mechanical regiment, and they need round firepower...
Just those three medium-sized frost-enchanted catapults are enough to easily defeat them!
These three frost-enchanted catapults are all from Emoni, and they are one of the biggest bets that Liu Yifei finally decided to make after much thought.
After returning from the Tower Clan, Liu Yifei brought back a large number of alchemy formulas and manufacturing drawings, and the most precious among them were those drawings of frost-enchanted war machinery.
It's a pity that Liu Yifei and the others don't even have the talent on hand to manufacture ordinary small war machines, let alone such high-precision technology that can only be applied to medium-sized war machines.
In desperation, Liu Yifei took out a drawing inventory and cooperated with Emoni.
The best partner is naturally Toradre, but unfortunately he is a king and his vision is too high. Unless it is something rare and rare like a soul bomb, it will never be possible to arouse his interest.
Emoni is Liu Yifei's most important strategic partner these days. A large amount of various low-price raw materials are purchased through her every week, and a large amount of dwarf-made arms and weapons are sold to foreign countries. She is definitely the best candidate for cooperation.
As a result, it became a cooperation model in which Aimoni provided talents and materials, and Liu Yifei provided remuneration for work.
Even so, Liu Yifei had to pay a minimum cost of 100,000 gold coins for each medium-sized catapult with level 5 frost enchantment...
The price is outrageously high!
But it is undeniable that... the power is equally outrageous!!!
The killing power of the medium-sized catapult can be said to be a one-hit kill for the opponent's small war machinery!
The scene of a huge stone as big as a house flying across the sky and smashing into the enemy group with a roar that tears the air is not something you can easily see~
Just the smoke and dust rising into the sky and the trembling of the earth are enough to devastate the enemy and make the blood of our own people surge~
Even if the attack occasionally misses, the frost and snow freezing ability added to the bombs by the enchanted catapult can destroy everything within a ten-meter range!
Regardless of whether they are skeletons, corpses, undead, vampires, or corpse witches, as long as they are frozen by the ice and snow caused by the bombing, almost all of them will break into pieces and be killed instantly!
The only thing that can offer some resistance may be the enemy's war machinery itself.
If it is not directly hit by a bomb, the spreading ice and snow can only freeze the enemy's small war machinery for a short time. To completely destroy it, at least three or four repeated frost attacks are needed.
However, even so, the power of the three frost catapults cannot be underestimated by Parona~
After firing in half a minute, each fire would almost certainly destroy two or three of their catapults, and also freeze seven or eight of them.
Less than five minutes into the battle, nearly twenty of our own improvised catapults had been destroyed by the enemy!
And since these enchanted catapults are in the deepest and most hidden locations in the enemy's territory, it is even more difficult to destroy them with catapults!
In these few minutes, Parona and many other enemy heroes have tried to rush forward more than once, at least into the enemy's territory to destroy the most obstructive catapults. However, they were all defeated by the enemy's first wave.
The crossbow arrows forced him back!
Whenever these heroes show signs of charging forward, a rain of locust arrows will immediately fly in this direction, sweeping away all the enemy units in this direction, making it impossible for these heroic units that may rush to the city to hide.
Can hide.
And then as long as the hero dares to take a risk...
A clustered volley of crossbow bolts can beat them to the point of bleeding and tears, almost killing them instantly!
Even when Parona tried to charge for the first time, he was so frightened by the hundreds of crossbow arrows that flew towards him that he almost couldn't retreat~
"Damn!!! Damn!!!"
Another attempt to charge failed, and Parona retreated again, almost gnashing his teeth and roaring~
He couldn't figure it out...he really couldn't figure it out!
How could this small group of adventurer lords on the border have such good mechanical equipment?
By now, Parona has basically figured it out.
The reserve standards of the enemy's crossbows and catapults are almost the same as those of their serious domestic mid-level local lords, and they are many times more powerful than those domestic adventurer lords~
But when it comes to transitional war machinery such as mobile ballistas, the enemy on the opposite side has a terrible numerical advantage!
In a short period of time, Parona estimated...the enemy has at least a thousand mobile ballistas!
Death is upon us~
That's a thousand mobile ballistas!
Even if it only sells for two to three thousand gold coins a piece...that's still two to three million fucking gold coins!
Are these adventurer lords crazy?
To actually invest millions in this kind of junk war machine?
If you have that kind of money, you might as well buy a crossbow or a catapult!
Wouldn't it be more powerful that way?
However, as the saying goes, "having too many soldiers of any kind is just as troublesome"!
Even the skeletons, which are said to have the worst basic attributes among first-level soldiers, will still frighten the enemy once they gather into a "sea of skeletons"?
And the same goes for mechanical crossbows~
Among war machines, its power is indeed the lowest. However, when there are thousands of them... just hearing the continuous bee-like whistling sound on the battlefield is enough to make Parona despair.
Got it!
Before the war started, Xuelan's words "Our strength is far more than this", Parona thought it was just a feign of momentum. However, after the war actually started, he realized...
This damn thing is really awesome!
It’s not pretending~~~
How could Parona expect that the adventurer lord would be able to develop such amazing territorial strength in less than a year?
In fact, strictly speaking, this is indeed not the strength developed by Dark City.
The most advanced enchanted catapult. It comes from the funding of Plague City, and the cost is high. It is rare in quantity, and the interval between attacks is extremely long, and the reload time is as high as an outrageous thirty seconds!
Various types of mid- to low-level ballistae and catapults are jointly funded by the entire Plague Alliance.
These things are expensive, and no one company can buy a few of them individually. Once the number of war machines is reduced, it will not be enough to form overwhelming firepower on the battlefield.
Therefore, the rules of the Plague Alliance are that you usually buy it and place it at home, but when it comes to use, everyone works together to attack and leave it to the main person in charge of Plague City to command.
Once damage is caused due to personal command errors, Plague City will unilaterally compensate for the damage.
If it is a normal war loss, the alliance will settle the claim at the same average price and buy new ones to replenish them.
This reduces the financial pressure on each family, but when used, it appears to be astonishing in quantity and powerful!
As for the thousands of motorized ballistae...
In the early days, each family indeed bought it themselves, but as the level of carpenters in Wanwu City improved rapidly, the subsequent more than 600 aircraft were all manufactured by themselves at low cost.
The alliance only needs to purchase a small amount of high-quality wood, crystal iron and a small amount of fine steel to be self-sufficient at a price of less than 1%. While saving a lot of money for the entire alliance, it also improves everything.
The city has trained a large number of senior carpenters!
Now, almost all craftsmen and players in Wanwu City are practicing carpentry crazily!
Anyway, other types of craftsman level can be improved slowly. Sometimes there is not even enough materials to upgrade.
But the carpenter has the entire alliance to ensure the supply of wood, especially the Plague City, which is adjacent to the Sighing Mountains and has established several strongholds in the mountain area. It can easily collect a large amount of high-grade wood that is difficult to find in the ghost tribe. It can be said that it is
Ensuring adequate supply of raw materials!
Junior carpenters make arrows, intermediate carpenters make crossbow arrows, and advanced carpenters can start manufacturing and assembling mobile crossbows. If you work alone, you have more experience and the cycle is slower. If you work in a group, it is basically an assembly line mechanical production, a squadron of fifty people
The team of carpenters worked hard for 16 hours a day and were able to build more than 20 mobile ballistas. The efficiency was amazing!
In fact, if it were not for the purpose of hoarding some accessories for small bed crossbows and selling a batch of sub-class players as salary to compensate for the hard work of carpenter level, the number of mobile crossbows currently owned by the entire Plague Alliance would only be more than 3,000.
shelf!!!
Not only that~
The reserves of other supporting crossbow arrows and the like are even more astonishing!
Territory warehouses in almost every city are full of these supplies. Even recently, everyone is still discussing whether to form a group to sell a batch of arrows to the elves or humans. After all, this thing is made in large quantities but is not used much by the ghosts.
But it’s very small, and there’s almost no place to store it if you stock up a lot. Although the cost is slightly higher, if you can organize a group to take out, you can still make a little profit...
Relying on the support of the Kingdom of Garswood behind him, Palona has gathered a large number of bandit groups in the Fostel Basin. He thinks he can sweep across the northwest territory of Solna while Solna has no time to clone...
...At least we can grab a foothold.
That's why he didn't take Xuelan, the "adventurer lord", seriously.
But he never thought that he had no idea what kind of opponent he was facing!
Although Parona has a hundred thousand men, he still lacks the decisive high-level combat power of the sixth and seventh levels~
There are three types of ghost aerial units: undead, vampires and bone dragons.
However, except for bone dragons, undead and vampires are only third- and fourth-level mid-level standard volume units. They cannot withstand the intensive shooting of mobile ballistas. Not to mention there are a large number of bed crossbows watching eagerly from the top of the city.
Got it!
If you attack intensively, you will be locked and killed by the bed crossbow~
The scattered charge will be met with free fire from a large number of mobile ballistas...
Originally, we could still count on the catapults to destroy the enemy's city wall as soon as possible, allowing ground troops to rush in and enter the street fighting stage. However, the catapults in the rear formation were completely suppressed by the enemy's advanced war machinery...
And the people in Dark City are thieves too!
Seeing that the enemy was unable to gain a breakthrough advantage, it actually began to weaken the encirclement and suppression of the enemy's ground troops, and instead began to target all vampires and undead!
As long as the enemy's flying units dare to take the lead, they will definitely be covered by a hail of arrows!
Xuelan and the others were determined not to let the enemy board the city until they died~
As for the direction of the city gate, in addition to a large number of approaching wizards in the city who are frantically summoning cannon fodder undead to block the city gate to prevent the enemy from breaking through, regardless of MP losses, there are also more than ten ballistae vehicles locking the triangle area in front of the gate. As long as the enemy gathers
Once the number of them increases, it will definitely be a volley sweep~
In normal times, the firepower of the three territorial turrets is used to cover the door, trying not to give the enemy a chance to gather firepower to attack the city gate...
About 20 minutes into the battle, Paron's side only destroyed less than twenty enemy city defense machines, more than half of which were bed crossbows at the top of the city, because they were the only ones within sight and easy to standardize.
As for the enemy's catapults... very few were damaged~
On the other hand, on the Parona side, due to the presence of three enemy level five enchanted catapults, all the catapults have been completely smashed!
Even in order to rescue these catapults, Parona even hired more than half of the senior carpenters!
Damn it~
You must know that although these catapults are not valuable and are just defective products made on a temporary basis, these craftsmen are secretly supported by the country!
This time, so much was lost all at once. Even if Parona received the secret order from King Garthwood, it would be hard to explain~
And what makes Parona collapse even more is...
It’s been twenty minutes since the fight started!
Our side has not yet broken through the city gate!
This is a fucking joke!
The city gate was continuously bombarded by the siege forces. It was already in tatters and seemed to be crumbling.
But as long as the siege party lowers its bombardment firepower a little, the durability of the city gate will increase like crazy...
There are countless craftsmen behind the door who are working on repairs all the time. However, the protection is so tight that Parona and the others can't find a chance to charge in and kill him~
The originally mighty 100,000-strong army has been damaged by more than half, and what makes Paro Na even more frightened is...
With all the undead, vampires and catapults in the team lost, the enemy's firepower is beginning to focus on the remaining melee troops!
Although the melee troops are constantly gnawing at the city gate and the surrounding walls, the speed of our own attrition is really too fast...
If we continue fighting like this, it won't take long before the entire attacking force will be wiped out by the enemy!
Palona and the others have tried several heroic charges, trying to fly into the city and forcibly destroy the enemy's war machinery~
But there are too many mobile ballistas!
After launching a successful raid on our side and destroying several of the opponent's crossbows and more than twenty mobile crossbow vehicles, the opponent cunningly gathered their combat power together.
In the subsequent raids, as soon as Parona and the others showed up, they would be completely overwhelmed by the enemy's mindless crossbow attacks~
Six skilled players were lost in vain, but the gains were less than half of the first raid. The kill gap between the two sides was rapidly widening. At the moment, the only one on Palona's side who could resist Dark City was the only one in the team.
There are thousands of corpse witch legions and a small number of wizard heroes. The skeleton archer’s bone arrows are only a threat~
Because the level is too low, the attacks of skeleton archers today cannot be absolutely lethal to players. On the contrary, once the skeleton archers gather in large numbers, they will be attacked by mechanical firepower from the direction of Dark City, and they will be destroyed in a short time.
Completely dead!
In this way, the long-range firepower of the siege troops has to be continuously dispersed under pressure to prevent being attacked by the enemy~
And as a player...
The last thing these drug addicts are afraid of is a war of attrition!
Unless you focus your fire to kill them instantly, any player who can take drugs continuously on the battlefield is known as the immortal Xiaoqiang!
Being thicker than the legion, that is a job that only the boss can do...
The battle has completely entered the rhythm of the Dark City side. At this moment, wherever the firepower in the Dark City is covering, the attacking enemy groups will retreat with howling ghosts and wolves. It is impossible not to retreat!
In a matter of minutes, there were so many corpses piled up outside the city that it even made Palona feel distressed~
Even if these are just bandit groups wandering in the Forstel Basin, they may be summoned by him... They are also the forces he has secretly developed over the years!
After losing his position in the Royal Legion, Parona accepted King Garthwood's secret order and came to the Fostel Basin to carefully develop his own secret power, just waiting to return to the Royal Legion one day when he could become famous~
But unexpectedly...unexpectedly...
Could it be that all the power that I have worked so hard to develop for many years will be destroyed here today???
"Blood Moon Black Cloud!!!"
Parona roared and rushed into the team of the Desolate Bone Society who had been hiding behind them since the beginning of the battle. He dragged the Black Cloud of Blood Moon to him like a chicken, with a pair of eyes condensed by will-o'-the-wisps.
Staring at the "adventurer" in front of him, he looked like he wanted to eat him!
“You bastard!!!
Didn’t you say that the other party is just an adventurer lord worth mentioning?
Didn't you say that their combat effectiveness is nothing compared to ours?
Is this what you mean by not being worth mentioning?
Is this the ashes you are talking about?
All my troops are before your eyes!
Where is the internal response you promised me?
Where is the chaos you promised me?
Where are they all!!!!!!”
By the end of Parona's question, he was roaring like a wounded animal~
In fact, the secret order Palona received from King Garthwood was to "lurk for a long time and prepare military strength." However, if he hadn't listened to the rumors of the adventurer in front of him this time, how could he have come here to ruin his hard-earned savings?
The army coming down?
The biggest temptation why Parona was persuaded by Blood Moon Black Cloud was that it guaranteed to induce "chaos" in the opponent's territory...
However, let alone the bloody chaos since the war started... those "internal agents" Parona have not been seen at all~
And right now, Parona can't wait to chop this despicable and dirty adventurer alive...
He is also an adventurer, but the strength of the woman named Xue Lan opposite him is so powerful that even he has to be in awe, and this waste from the same country can't even arrange a little spy...
What's the use of such waste?
"I...I..."
Blood Moon and Black Cloud couldn't help but be confused~
Before the war started, he also knew through contact that the other party was "ready and just waiting for his order."
But since the war started...the other party actually kept showing that it was not online!
Damn it~
What on earth is going on?
If there is a problem with the internal response, forget it~
But what really scares Blood Moon Black Cloud to pieces is...
Damn it~
Why are these guys from the Plague Alliance so powerful in combat?
After a long period of dominance on the strategic map, Blood Moon Black Cloud gradually became bored and slowly began to switch to the world map, becoming a guild player loyal to the world map.
And just playing in any guild is obviously not enough...
Isn't that Liu Yun already a lord?
After all, that guy was once defeated by his subordinates. Even he could play the role of lord with such glory, why can’t I?
With such thoughts in mind, Blood Moon Black Cloud also began his bumpy journey as a lord~
And as people declared war on Liu Yifei one after another on the forum, Xueyue Heiyun, a guy who thinks very highly of himself, simply formed the "Desolate Bone Society" and prepared to continue to use Liuyun's "golden brand" as his stepping stone.
I want to repeat its glory on the strategic map and let this guy fall into pieces again~
And how did he know...even before the real owner showed up, the opponent's firepower was already so strong that it was going to wipe out the entire NPC army on their side...
