Chapter 109, Mingzhe protects himself
The next day, as soon as it was dawn, the coalition army set out for camp, aiming directly at the werewolf city.
Thirty kilometers of the road, the coalition army walked for four hours, and when Ning Yuan and his party came to the vicinity of the werewolf clan's city, everyone's faces were not very good-looking.
The stone wall nearly five meters high was horizontally in front of everyone's eyes, and at this time, the city wall was densely packed with werewolf warriors, and it seemed that this Halle Loki was determined to fight a battle with them.
After a morning of rushing, the coalition forces did not immediately attack.
After lunch, Wang Zhong gave the soldiers half a day's rest and let them stay in the camp to rest so that they could quickly recover their strength, while Ning Yuan and the others were called by him to his big tent to discuss the next action.
In fact, there is nothing to discuss, they are all here, if they don't fight, everyone will definitely not be reconciled, this time Wang Zhong called everyone, mainly to assign the area that everyone is responsible for.
According to Wang Zhong's intentions, their army of more than 10,000 people should be divided into four parts, and then with the sound of arrows as a signal, they launched a siege battle from four directions at the same time.
Since Zhou Tengyun was seriously damaged before, he acted with Feng Tianyu this time and was responsible for attacking the city from the east.
Ning Yuan took his army around to the north of the city and was responsible for attacking the city from the north.
Wu Yitian led his army around to the south of the city and was responsible for attacking the city from the south.
Qin Hanhai took his army around to the west of the city and was responsible for attacking the city from the west.
In order to facilitate the communication between everyone, Wang Zhong also equipped each of them with ten werewolf scouts, and if they had anything, they could send these werewolf scouts to inform Wang Zhong.
However, in Ning Yuan's opinion, the biggest role of these werewolf scouts is probably to monitor them and prevent them from working hard, it seems that this Wang Zhong is not very at ease with them.
After assigning the task, Ning Yuan led his army to the north of the city and set up camp five miles away from the city.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, after breakfast, Ning Yuan took two thousand Terran soldiers and five hundred elven archers to a place more than two hundred meters away from the city wall, and waited quietly.
"Tweet ~~~~~~~, boom."
With the sound of the cloud-piercing arrow, Ning Yuan opened his eyes.
"Lao Qi, you bring a hundred heavy shield soldiers and four hundred Condor warriors to press me up, Cook Ivan, you take the elven archers to follow behind for long-range suppression, covering them close to the city wall, Lao Ba, you take fifty halberd soldiers to attack the city gate, set off."
After receiving the signal to attack, Ning Yuan began to dispatch troops, this time he learned wisely, and did not choose to personally lead the team to rush forward.
If he fought head-on, he might not want to kill it directly, but this time it was a siege battle, no matter how strong his personal strength was, there was no room to play, and the danger factor would increase exponentially, so Ning Yuan chose to be a commander who oversaw the overall situation this time.
The heavy shield soldiers held large shields to cover the siege troops and slowly approached the city wall, and the werewolf warriors on the city wall did not react to the approach of the siege troops, it seems that they are preparing to have a close offensive and defensive battle with the siege troops.
Just when Ning Yuan thought that the siege troops would approach the city wall unharmed, a voice suddenly came from above the city wall.
"Shoot."
With this sudden sound from above the city walls, a group of fox warriors armed with short bows appeared on the city walls, and they launched a fierce fire on the siege troops that entered the firing range.
"All attention, cover your head with your shield and move on."
For the long-range attack that may be encountered, the Golden Eagle Niu Jin had already prepared, and as the order sounded, the Condor warriors raised their left arms one after another and protected their heads with shields.
Although ordinary Condor warriors were not equipped with large iron shields like heavy infantry, in order to protect them from the threat of the enemy's long-range fire, Ning Yuan specially prepared a small round wooden shield for each of them.
The shield was covered with a layer of iron, and ordinary bows and arrows could not penetrate such wooden shields.
Although the appearance of the fox archers was very sudden, the well-prepared Condor warriors still withstood this wave of attack, facing the sea of shields, this raid of the fox archers did not achieve any results.
Looking at the fox archers who suddenly appeared, Ning Yuan was also taken aback.
Originally, they all thought that the werewolf army had no long-range attack means, after all, Zhou Tengyun was not attacked by long-range firepower at that time.
I didn't expect this Halle Loki to be so insidious, obviously as long as he sent fox archers, he could easily annihilate Zhou Tengyun's army, but he hid this killer weapon.
At this time, he suddenly took it out in the defense of the city, and caught everyone off guard, if he was not prepared, he would definitely suffer a big loss.
Fortunately, Ning Yuan had suffered a big loss from the elves, otherwise he would not have spent a lot of manpower and material resources to equip each Condor warrior with a shield.
As the saying goes, although the appearance of the fox archers was very sudden, the elven archers under Ning Yuan's hands were not vegetarians, and after entering the firing range, they pulled out the elven short bows in their hands one after another, sniping at the enemy soldiers standing on the city wall.
"Ah......h
Unlike the fox archers, the elven archers used a free-fire tactic, but any enemy soldier who dared to show his head was a target for sniping.
Werewolf warriors with shields in their hands were fine, they could use their shields to protect their vital positions, but the fox archers who were still drawing their bows and shooting arrows were out of luck, and without any protection, they became the main targets of the elven archers.
With the sound of screams, the fox archers suddenly fell in large numbers, and the remaining ones immediately launched a counterattack against the elven archers when they saw that the situation was not good.
It's a pity that their archery skills can't be compared with the elven archers at all, and as more and more people fall, the enemy generals have to let them retreat, otherwise if they continue to shoot, there will be only a few of these fox archers left.
Although the elven archers succeeded in suppressing the enemy fox archers, they had nothing to do with the werewolf warriors holding shields on the city walls, just as the fox archers could not hurt the Condor warriors, and the arrows in their hands could not penetrate the enemy's shields.
Although they could not continue to make contributions, they had already completed the long-range suppression task given to them by Ning Yuan excellently, and at least for the next period of time, the siege of the Condor warriors could approach the city wall unharmed.
Forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters,......。
Without the threat overhead, the siege force soon approached the city wall, and just as the Condor warriors were about to climb up the human wall, a sudden rain of stones fell on the city, and as a last resort, the Condor warriors had to protect their heads with shields to avoid the stone attack.
Facing the rain of stones, at this time, let alone attacking the city, it is very difficult to even dodge, although the Condor warriors firmly protected their heads, but the small round shield in their hands has a limited protective area, and their arms, thighs, and backs are still bruised to varying degrees.
Fortunately, Ning Yuan smashed out a hundred big iron shields, otherwise this siege battle would really have heavy casualties.
The heavy shield soldiers formed a shield formation with large iron shields, and they resisted most of the attacks for the other warriors, otherwise with the defensive strength of those small wooden shields, it would be a tragedy of broken shields and deaths.
In fact, Ning Yuan didn't plan to really attack the city this time, he sent these people over just to show Wang Zhong, the main force of this attack was actually the fifty halberd soldiers who attacked the city gate.
Ning Yuan's real purpose was to use Fang Tian's halberd to smash the wooden city gates, because in his opinion, the real weakness of this city was the four wooden city gates.
It's a pity, Ning Yuan can think of this, how could Halle Loki not think of it?
From the moment Halle Loki decided to defend the city, he had a large number of stones piled up at the gates, and when the raiding troops returned, he directly had the gates sealed with stones.
Although the halberd soldiers quickly cut down the wooden gates, the gates were already useless, and if they wanted to enter the city, they had to remove the stones that had been piled up there one by one.
But how easy is it to move stones in front of the defending troops?
After all, it is impossible for the enemy to watch you move the stones below, and by the time the Condor warriors have completely removed the stones, I am afraid that the blood will already flow down there.
Seeing that the city gate could not be broken through, the old eight white-headed eagle Niu Shan immediately withdrew with the halberd soldiers, and the old seven golden eagle Niu Jin then also led people to retreat, and the first siege battle was in vain.
After the siege troops withdrew, Ning Yuan asked people to count the casualties, and after the report was handed over, Ning Yuan couldn't help frowning.
Of the 500 siege troops, not a single one was killed, but 381 were wounded.
Moreover, many of these wounded soldiers were injured hard, and their arms and thighs were swollen like steamed buns, and if they did not rest for a while, it would be difficult for them to fight again.
It can be said that it is fortunate that there is no death in battle, but the battle attrition of nearly four hundred people at once can be said to have a very huge impact on the entire battle situation, although I don't know how many stones are still hoarded in the city, but Ning Yuan definitely does not dare to let the soldiers use their bodies to catch the stone rain.
At this time, Ning Yuan no longer had any confidence in capturing this city.
The enemy has blocked four city gates, and it is clear that they are going to fight them to the end, even if they can finally force their way in with the advantage of numbers, but so what?
It was their own soldiers who were lost, and it was someone else who picked up the bargains.
Anyway, Ning Yuan would not do this kind of thing that harms himself and others, whoever likes to do it will do it, at this time, he has gradually sprouted a retreat in his heart.
After Ming Jin collected his troops, Ning Yuan did not choose to continue to attack the city, nor did he withdraw the soldiers, after all, the other three sides are probably still attacking the city, so he will withdraw the army like this, I'm afraid it will not be good.
However, it is definitely impossible to continue the siege, Ning Yuan plans to send people to see the situation on the other three sides first, and then make plans.
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On the other three sides, in addition to the east wall of Feng Tianyu and Zhou Tengyun's main attack, Qin Hanhai and Wu Yitian in the west and south also chose Mingzhe to protect themselves like Ning Yuan.
Of course, the so-called self-preservation does not mean that they are unable to work, but that they immediately stopped the onslaught when they saw that the situation was not good.
The configuration of the two of them is similar to Ning Yuan's, with sword and shield soldiers in front and archers in the back.
The only difference is that the archers in their army are Terran archers, and they don't have much time to train, so they can't compare with the elven archers in terms of accuracy.
Without sufficient accuracy, they could not suppress the fox archers on the city, so the two sides directly engaged in a shooting competition, and there were casualties between the two sides.
Since they were unable to suppress the fox archers at the head of the city, the pressure on their siege troops on the ground was much greater than on Ning Yuan's side.
Seeing that the siege troops were attacked by stones and bows and arrows with heavy casualties, Wu Yitian and Qin Hanhai both sounded the horn of Mingjin to withdraw their troops.
In the absence of siege ladders and the city gates are still blocked, if they want to climb the mountain, they can only wait for the corpses to pile up to about one side as high as the city wall, and how many soldiers will have to be sacrificed.
Even if they were fighting alone, they wouldn't be so reckless, let alone making wedding dresses for others now, so the two of them and Ning Yuan thought of going together, that is, there was no need to fight this battle again.
Unlike the situation on the side of Ning Yuan and the three of them, the battle on the side of the east city wall that Feng Tianyu and Zhou Tengyun were in charge of was extremely fierce, and the battle directly entered the white heat from the beginning.
Feng Tianyu and Zhou Tengyun are two people, one is to please Wang Zhong, the cheap eldest brother, and strive to get the beauty back as soon as possible, and the other is to avenge the soldiers who died in battle.
As soon as the battle began, they directly sent two thousand soldiers to attack the city.
Although with the advantage of the city wall, the werewolf side took the absolute initiative at the beginning, killing and wounding many Terran soldiers, but as more and more soldiers died in battle, the corpses under the city walls began to pile up higher and higher, and in the end, the Terran soldiers besieging the city could even step on the corpses of their comrades and jump onto the city.
As the battle continued, Halle Loki's side ran out of arrows and stones, and without these two weapons to defend the city, the werewolves could no longer stop the human warriors from ascending the city.
After seeing this situation, Wang Zhong also sent the reserve team up, and he was bound to win the east city wall.
The Terran warriors stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed to the wall, and the werewolf warriors began to desperately block the enemy's attack in order to protect their homeland.
Seeing the enemy rushing to the head of the city, Halle Loki suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and he had the intention to transfer the garrison troops of the other three city walls to support, but Ning Yuan and the three of them stayed there all the time, always maintaining a state of deterrence against the city walls.
In this case, he did not dare to mobilize the garrison troops of the three city walls under any circumstances, and in desperation, he had to send all the adult werewolves in the city to solve the urgent need in front of him.
At this time, Halle Loki was very glad that he was an orc tribe with all the soldiers, otherwise he would really be breached today in the face of siege from all sides.
Of course, he was also very grateful to the three guys in the west, south and north, if it weren't for the fact that those three guys were afraid that their losses would be too great, and they all chose Mingzhe to protect themselves at the critical moment, his Sky Wolf City would really not be able to save it today.
Now Halle Loki only hopes that they can continue, and it is better to have some more infighting, so that his Sirius City will become even more impregnable.
With the addition of the werewolf side, those Terran warriors who climbed to the top of the city were gradually suppressed, and just as Feng Tianyu and Zhou Tengyun were about to continue to organize a counterattack, Wang Zhong received information brought back by the werewolf scouts.
"Hey, pass on my military order, Mingjin withdraw the troops."
After letting out a helpless sigh, Wang Zhong bit his lip and gave the order to withdraw his troops.
"Brother Wang Zhong, this city will be captured soon, why do you want to withdraw the troops, I don't agree."
Hearing that he was going to withdraw his troops, Zhou Tengyun immediately quit, at this time he had already killed his red eyes, and he had killed so many soldiers in battle, so he was unwilling to withdraw his troops like this.
"Yes, Brother Wang Zhong, as long as we work harder, this city wall will be captured, and when the time comes, the werewolves in the city will definitely be defeated."
Feng Tianyu's eyes were also red at this time, and now that more than half of the three thousand troops he brought were killed and wounded, he couldn't accept it just like this.
Looking at the two people with red eyes, Wang Zhong shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Two brothers, if it weren't for the situation, I wouldn't want to give up this great opportunity, but if we continue now, I'm afraid we will be wiped out."
Flowers on all sides? Hehe, you guys are so naïve.
Two good brothers, listen to my brother's words, immediately Mingjin and withdraw the troops, what is going on, let's go back to the camp and talk. ”
Although Feng Tianyu and Zhou Tengyun still wanted to continue fighting, when they heard what Wang Zhong said, they could only grit their teeth and give the order to retreat.
After hearing the clarion call to retreat, the Terran soldiers who were still struggling to support the city immediately retreated like a tide.
In the face of the retreating Terran army, Halle Loki did not choose to pursue, in this hand-to-hand combat, his werewolf army also suffered a lot of losses, and in the case of three new forces on the opposite side, he did not dare to have any carelessness.
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