Chapter 259: Furnace Tactics
With Bai Ze's order, the major legions led by the Condor quickly began to act, and the several legions that received the siege order directly pressed towards Liumang City.
Looking at the enemy army slowly pressing towards the city, Jun Moye stood on the city tower and stroked the beard on his chin, and said with envy:
"It's not a loss that he is the fifth evil man who can defeat the God King Palace, and there are really many elite divisions under his command, but it's a pity, it's not my subordinates, they are destined to fall under this Liumang City."
Soon, the besieging army approached the walls and came within range of the enemy's long-range units.
However, the expected rain of arrows did not appear, so Shen Wanli directly ordered the Condor Guard to start attacking the two small army forts located in front of the city wall.
As the siege towers approached the fortress, the defenders on the city walls finally made a move, and rockets were fired from the city walls, aiming directly at the siege towers.
Although many rockets hit the siege towers accurately, the Condor Leader had already guarded against the enemy's move, and all the siege towers had already been fireproofed, so this wave of fire attacks was in vain.
Just as the archers at the head of the city showed their heads, the elven rangers hiding behind their shields immediately launched a counterattack.
Although their archery skills were much better than those of the Terran archers on the city, they also failed to achieve much success, because the archers on the city were heavily armored and were not afraid of long-range attacks.
"Come on, let General Aurelia take her legion down."
After seeing the heavily armored enemy archers through the monoculars, Bai Ze decisively let the Windranger Legion withdraw.
At this time, he was full of admiration for the enemy lord in the city.
He was able to come up with the idea of forming a legion of heavily armed archers, and it seems that this lord who has never met before is also a master.
As an army that mainly attacks from a distance, archers need agility in addition to the requirements of arm strength.
And the heavily armored archers not only lost their agility, but also brought a lot of burden to the soldiers, after all, the weight of that heavy armor was not light.
After wearing heavy armor, the archers not only lose their flexibility, but the heavy armor will affect the physical strength of the archers, so this class is not practical at all.
However, in this kind of siege warfare, the archers only need to stand on the stake and output, and do not need to move much, and the heavy armor just provides them with a long-range protection, allowing them to ignore the enemy's long-range attacks and shoot with impunity.
In this case, the originally impractical heavily armored archers suddenly became the most practical elite soldiers to defend the city, so Bai Ze thought that the person who came up with this idea was a master.
Jun Moxie's innovative move can indeed surprise many people, but even if he meets Ning Yuan, he is unlucky, because Ning Yuan, who has a rich family, has a large number of heavy armor legions.
Although the defense of the heavy armor archers is excellent, their offensive ability has not been improved in any way, so as long as Bai Ze withdraws the Windranger Legion, it is difficult for the enemy's heavy armor archers to have any use.
When the mobile siege towers transformed by the dwarves and halflings slowly approached the Great Army Fort outside the city, Jun Moxie immediately frowned, because he had already seen the power of these siege machines.
"Come on, let the dwarven slingers prepare, and when the enemy's siege towers are close to the walls, use stones to attack the enemies who are attacking from the siege towers."
With a loud "bang", the heavy iron-clad wooden plank fell directly on the city wall, and then the Condor Guard, who was hiding on the cloud ladder, immediately followed the plank and killed the enemy on the city wall.
"Stone bombs, fire."
When the Condor Guard charged, a rain of stone bullets fell directly from the walls on both sides.
Fist-sized stones rained down on the Condor.
The stone rain combined with the sweeping wood used by the defenders on the city wall directly smashed many Condor guards off the wooden bridge.
Falling from a height of thirty meters, and wearing heavy armor, the end can be imagined.
Looking at the Condor Guard who kept falling from the wooden bridge, Bai Ze's face did not change, and he was still sitting still like an old monk, quietly observing the situation on the battlefield.
Because both sides are elite heavy armor legions, it is difficult for anyone to hurt each other except for hand-to-hand combat, except for those Condor guards who fell from the wooden bridge, there were not too many casualties on both sides.
The siege battle competition is the quality of will and the ability to adapt to changes, but Bai Ze and Jun Moxie did not rush to change their tactics, so although there were tens of thousands of soldiers on the entire battlefield, only two large army forts fought the most fiercely.
The newly developed siege tower of the Condor Leader, the wooden bridge is nearly four meters wide, which can accommodate four soldiers to charge at the same time.
Although the outermost Condor Guards kept falling from the wooden bridge, they were the most elite infantry legion of the Terrans, so some people soon rushed along the wooden bridge to the city wall.
Due to the limited space on the small army fort, which could accommodate hundreds of soldiers at most, the Condor Guards quickly gained a foothold on it.
Jun Moxie didn't expect the Condor Guard to be so brave, and seeing that the small army fort was about to fall, he had to take the lead in making a response.
"Someone, order the troops on the Great Army Fort outside the city to withdraw to the city immediately and carry out the furnace plan."
With Jun Moxie's order, the herald immediately turned around and left to deliver the order.
After receiving the order, the defenders of the two large army forts began to fight and retreat, and soon they retreated down the stairs to the basement.
When the Condor Guards chased them down to the basement and saw the dry wood and fire oil all over the floor, they immediately realized that something was wrong, but by this time it was already too late.
As the enemy dropped the torches on the dry wood, a raging fire immediately broke out under the fort.
The defenders of the fort locked the secret door and then safely withdrew through the tunnels into the city.
After the defenders fled, the Condor guards who had been chased down were miserable.
The height of more than 30 meters is not something that can be climbed up if you want to, and the fire is too big, and the smoke gushes out directly from the top of the Great Army Fort along the passage, and none of the Condor Guards who chased down can successfully escape in the end, and many people are choked to death by the smoke.
The Condor Guards, who were still at the top of the Great Army Fort, immediately retreated through the wooden bridge when they saw that the situation was not good, and finally survived.
Seeing that the two large army forts had turned into two huge chimneys in an instant, Bai Ze immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
After hearing the sound of the gong, the siege force led by the Condor retreated like a tidal wave.
Seeing that the enemy commander immediately chose Mingjin to withdraw his troops, Jun Moxie shook his head regretfully, he knew that he had encountered a difficult opponent.
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