The day gradually disappears from the west, but today's night is not as clear as yesterday. At this time, the bright moon has just risen, and the stars are hidden in the dark clouds one after another.
On the low hillside outside the city, Angmar, with a steel sword in one hand and a meteor hammer in the other, rode a tall black horse that exuded an evil aura, staring at Pelagir not far away with terrifying eyes.
There was anger in his cruel and dirty heart, because the ferocious beast that was stabbed by Angelimir could not fully recover in just one day.
At the very least, it is impossible for him to direct tonight's battle from heaven.
In addition to this incident, what made Angmar even more unhappy was that the flag representing the Dom Aros family was erected on the top of the city of Pelargir this afternoon.
This meant that the human prince who was hit by him did not die. Even in the evening, Angmar saw the old man patrolling the city wall, encouraging the human soldiers around him.
This made Angmar's anger boil to the extreme.
However, Angelimir was not as healthy as he seemed because he was already dying.
Even though he was wearing well-made armor and had the blood of Silvan elves, Angmar's heavy blow still caused fatal injuries to the old man.
Being able to appear on top of the city in the afternoon to encourage all the soldiers was just a last moment of reflection.
Angelimir, who returned to the inner city of Pelagir, fell into a coma again, and before he fell into coma, he entrusted all matters in the city to Berelach, the commander of the royal navy.
This is a capable middle-aged man over fifty years old, with dark skin and a pair of weather-beaten eyes.
Berylach's family was not very prominent in the Kingdom of Gondor before. His family had lived in Los Arnach for generations, where they owned a vast and beautiful land, and they were once wealthy manor owners.
That is to say, it was probably around 2700 of the Third Era that his ancestors officially joined the royal navy of Gondor.
And in the war with the Umbar pirates in 2758, he made great contributions, and was favored by Beregond, the Prime Minister of Gondor at the time, and became a high-ranking official in the navy.
Since then, Berelach's family has always had a very high reputation in the navy, and has been loyal to the Prime Minister's family that rules Gondor.
Berelach also has the blood of the Númenóreans, and he is also the lord of Pelagir, but he is not a lord.
Due to the extremely special status of this city, it is one of the oldest and most important ports in the Kingdom of Gondor. Many kings have built palaces here, so this seaport city is under the direct jurisdiction of Minas Tirith.
It is a territory directly under the royal family.
In the fierce battle last night, it was Berelach who issued the order to go out for rescue when the prince led his troops to break through, and successfully rescued part of the friendly troops from the enemy's siege.
At this time, when he looked at the enemy troops gathered outside the city, he felt very heavy. Especially when several ferocious-looking trebuchets were erected, the pressure in his heart reached its peak.
After all, the walls of Pelagir are not as strong as Minas Tirith, and they may still collapse under the bombardment of trebuchets.
And those Uruks, who were as busy as ants, started to dig dense trenches just a stone's throw outside the city. Compared with the huge machinery, they did not pose much of a threat.
However, none of this can be compared with the black shadow not far away.
Berylach knew that it was the shadow that brought despair, the spear in the hands of evil, and the head of the Nazgûl, known as the Black Commander in the Kingdom of Gondor.
The name alone is enough to make people wary, let alone standing outside the city alive, commanding the battle.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, and the evil outside the city has accumulated to a level that satisfies Angmar.
Then, the leader of the Nazgûl, who was sitting on the horse, slowly raised the steel sword in his hand and pointed directly at Pelagir in front of him.
"winter" "winter" "winter" "winter"
As the drums sounded, the orcs' attack officially began at this moment, and the pirates in the river also cooperated with the orcs' army and entangled with the ships of the royal navy.
The first ones to attack Pelagir were naturally the huge machines that had been built. However, unlike Berylach's worries, the enemy did not waste ammunition on the solid city wall.
The projectiles launched by the trebuchet fell directly into the city behind the high wall with a roar.
These projectiles were processed by Angmar's secret method and exploded directly when they hit the ground.
Groups of flames began to burn on the wooden buildings in the city. Amidst the billowing smoke, the city became chaotic, and shouts and screams rang out in the sky above Pelagir.
The chaos did not last long. Under the leadership of city officials, a large number of residents began to walk out of their shelters and join in the fire-fighting operations.
Fortunately, Pelargir is a port city close to the Anduin River, and the streets are filled with grooved canals, which makes the fire-fighting work easier at this time.
However, the second wave of enemy trebuchet attacks soon arrived, and the weapons launched by the enemy this time were not so easily accepted by the residents.
Because the enemy sent in hundreds of pale heads.
Although they are small in size, their destructive power is very huge. After being baptized by a wave of flames, the residents in the city nervously looked at these terrible things scattered everywhere, either screaming in shock or crying in pain.
The owners of those heads suffered great terror before death, and their frightened expressions were frozen on their pale faces.
And every head is stamped with that evil mark, that eyelidless evil eye.
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This method of attacking the heart is one of the most commonly used strategies by the Witch King of Angmar when attacking cities and lands.
First, use flames to lure the residents out of their hiding places, putting them in a state of tension, and then project their heads to suppress the will of humans to resist, rooting fear in the hearts of humans to maximize the effect.
When grief and fear began to spread in Pelargir, the Orcs' general attack also began.
As the third wave of trebuchets was launched, a large number of Snaga carried the hastily made ladders and jumped into the trenches dug in advance.
Like long black dragons, they approached the city wall of Pelagir along the trenches dug in advance.
When the human guards on the city wall discovered that the enemy had entered their attack range, they immediately began to attack the enemy head-on.
A large number of arrows flashed with cold light and fell towards Snaga's head. Some were blocked by the slopes on both sides of the trench, while some accurately hit the vital points of the orcs, causing their dead bodies to cause a burst of fire in the trench.
The commotion of the formation was used to delay the enemy's approach to the city wall.
However, the attacking Snagas quickly threw their dead or injured comrades who could not move out of the trench.
Some even directly placed the corpses of the same kind on the ladder to block the arrows falling on their heads.
Although their progress was hindered, they did not stop.
At this time, the target of the trebuchet began to change, and flaming projectiles began to be fired towards the city wall.
Although the accuracy of the trebuchet was not high, one of the five or six projectiles still managed to land on the city wall.
At the same time as the bombardment was caused, the bursting flames also splashed onto the guards.
The blazing flames instantly ignited the clothes on the guards, and the burning pain made these burning humans howl in pain.
No matter how strong their will is, there are only a very small number of human beings who can remain rational under the flames.
Suddenly, under the influence of the flames, the guards on the city wall began to slow down their shooting speed at the enemy.
Most of the residents in the city were still affected by fear and panic, and were indifferent to what was happening around them. Only a handful of determined people responded quickly to the officials' calls and rushed to the city with containers of water.
The city wall helped the soldiers guarding the city wall to extinguish the burning flames.
After the trebuchet was fired, the orc archer troops began to approach the city wall with wooden shields that could block the bows and arrows.
There is no way, ordinary Snaga can't draw a long bow with a long range, and most of the Uruks in the army led by Angmar are good at close combat.
At this time, the ballistas on the city wall that were not affected by the flames also found targets worthy of their action.
Thick crossbow arrows were shot directly from the city wall, smashing the enemy's obstructions and killing a whole bunch of Snaga.
One salvo took away dozens of dirty lives.
Its terrifying lethality even caused the surrounding orcs to stop their progress.
Just as the human guards wasted no time in loading the ballistae.
The drumbeat urging the orcs to attack became more and more urgent.
"winter" "winter" "winter"
An entire army composed of Uruks began to approach the city wall with neat steps.
They wear complete armor, hold strange-shaped machetes suitable for close combat in their right hands, and have a round wooden shield tied to their left arm.
And the symbol of the Dark Lord is engraved on it.
As the Uruk army set off, the Snagas, who had been stagnant at first, suddenly accelerated their attack.
If they are overtaken by Uruk who set out later, they will be greeted by the same ruthless knife. Their death may be more miserable than being shot. It is better to risk their lives and move forward, maybe they can find a way out.
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At this time, the Snagas who were running along the trench carrying ladders had already reached the end of the trench.
In front of them was a three-meter open space, plus a several-meter-long moat.
After a brief preparation, more than a dozen Snaga teams carrying ladders rushed out of the trench and rushed towards the moat amid bursts of curses and whips.
Naturally, this kind of behavior would be paid close attention to by the human guards on the city wall. Thick arrows flew towards these dozen teams, nailing all the Snagas carrying the ladders to the ground.
With the death of these Snaga, a large number of orcs rushed out of the trench again, and this time it was no longer the short and squat Snaga, but the well-equipped Uruk Lan.
They held the buckler in one hand and raised the ladder at their feet with the other and rushed toward the city wall. Using their lives and the bucklers and armor they equipped, they sent the ladder to the side of the moat.
Soon, they were wiped out again.
The archers composed of Snaga, facing the rain of arrows and thick arrows, were already close enough to launch an attack.
Although they left countless corpses along the way, the orc phalanx behind them, which was invisible in the dark night, always had enough Snaga to pick up the bows and arrows on the ground and add them to their team.
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When the orc archers began to exchange fire with the human guards on the walls of Pelagir, the orc army in the trench finally used the archers' cover to set up shorter but wider ladders on the
On the edge of the moat.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of Snaga were holding wooden planks, and under the rain of arrows that was sparser than before, they laid the wooden planks on the ladder.
Although the ladder was pressed into the water by the weight of the wooden planks, the road to the city wall was also opened at this time.
At this moment, almost all the orcs nesting in the trench rushed out. They carried long ladders and approached the city wall along the simple bridge paved with wooden planks.
One of the orcs carrying the ladder died, and another orc climbed back on his horse to take his place and continued to approach the city wall.
After arriving at the city wall, he tried to put the ladder on the high city wall.
The eyes of these half-orcs who are willing to sacrifice their lives are shining with a different red light.
At this time, the Witch King of Angmar, who had been observing the entire battlefield, put down the steel sword in his right hand with a dull red and black light with satisfaction, and let out a terrifying scream.
The Uruk army that had already set off was walking faster.
At this moment, the orcs who had put up the ladder on the city wall suffered a heavy blow.
Because countless stones and logs flew down from Pelagir's city wall, directly killing all the orcs under the city wall.
Berelach, who was originally directing the battle on the city wall, was keenly aware of the situation of the residents in the city, so he personally walked down the city wall to inspire the residents' confidence in resisting the enemy.
Then he led them up the city wall and joined the team resisting the enemy's invasion.
There are still too few among them who can use weapons. Those with a little combat experience have been recruited into the army long ago, but it can still be done if they are asked to lift stones and wood to hit the enemy.
As all the orcs under the city wall were killed and injured, most of the ladders that went up to the city wall were pushed down with difficulty. These siege equipment were equipped with iron hooks that could hook the stones and needed to be smashed with a hammer.
Only then can I push it down.
The other small part of the ladder was too late to be knocked down, because the Uruks who quickened their pace had already reached the bottom of the city wall.
The siege has now reached its most brutal stage.
As Angmar's screams rang out, dozens of mountain trolls emerged from the orc phalanx.
They raised their heads and roared angrily, then rushed towards the south gate of Pelagir with their thick legs.
Seeing the dozens of trolls rushing toward him, Bei Ruilach's eyes instantly became serious.
If we talk about the previous situation, he was still certain that he could hold on to the city, but with the emergence of the trolls, his confidence has been shaken.
However, Berylach still had no intention of abandoning the city and escaping. He waved the mace in his hand and killed an Uruk that climbed up to the top of the city. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Prepare the ballistae, shoot me to death."
Those big guys coming over."
At this moment, an army composed of humans appeared in the west of the entire battlefield.
After approaching the battlefield, a small number of cavalry clenched their lances and rushed towards the dozens of trolls.
A large number of infantry rushed towards the Uruks gathered under the city wall.
Only the soldiers at the front had complete armor and high-quality weapons.
Most of those following behind were militiamen armed with crude weapons.