Chapter 872: Killing Horses and Filling Pits
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"Hooray."
"Hooray."
"Hooray."
The eerie calm was soon shattered by the tsunami-like cheers of the defenders at the head of the city.
Face off against the most powerful fighting class in the Adelai Savannah. The steppe heavy cavalry that once almost brought the disaster of annihilation to the Abel tribe. No one thought that victory would come so lightly.
On the other hand, the fierce soldiers of the Lugao Legion. All of them are glazed over. The face is like ashes. The most elite heavy cavalry divisions were almost buried by these criss-crossing trenches. If it is two armies in close combat. Even the heavy cavalry was beaten like never before and lost a lot. Then they can bear it a little. But now I can't even touch the enemy's edge. Their spears and spears had not yet had time to stain half a drop of enemy blood. Most of the cavalry was inexplicably buried. This fiasco really shows their psychological endurance.
At the moment the two armies are still far away. Trebuchets and goblin artillery, despite their condescending range bonuses, are still not up to Rugao's army. Therefore, Ye Feng did not give the order to attack. Nor is there a rush to attack.
After a while. The remnants of the heavy cavalry that stood still slowly parted. A head as black as inky jade. The terrifying-looking giant lion slowly walked to the front of the formation.
This lion is comparable in size to Ye Feng's Ugo Battle Tiger. Domineering is not inferior. Quite the king of beasts. On its back sat a knight in gray-black armor. Visor pulled down. Can't see the face clearly. Only a pair of eyes that faintly burned with real anger were exposed. It was the commander of the Legion of Lugao, the Ash Knight Lugao. An epic powerhouse of one hundred and thirty levels.
Lu Gao silently glanced at the crisscrossing ravines in front of him. Moment. Raising the knight's spear, which was also as black as black jade but glowing with a faint red glow, it pointed at Ye Feng who was suspended in mid-air.
"Shameless."
His voice was soft and cold. But it was clearly spread all over the battlefield. It was passed on to the city.
Just shameless. It's too much. It's called tactics. Ingenuity is right.
The castle defenders immediately booed. Even Luo Donghua and Haoqing Tianzong laughed: "This guy is probably crazy."
Ye Fengli ignored Lu Gao. His eyes looked down at the battlefield with a calm and cold gaze. He was waiting for Lu Gao's deployment.
This deep, wide trench undoubtedly destroyed the cavalry completely. Cavalry is strong. But only on flat terrain battlefields. Now we are facing a battlefield that looks like a giant fishing net. It's like letting the cavalry wield its might. These ravines can only be filled in first. There is no other way.
Otherwise, it is a shift of position. Attack from three other gates. But the strip in front of the West Gate was hollowed out. How could there be no other three gates?
Actually, there really isn't. Time is in a hurry. Excavating from the ground is difficult. The project is also relatively vast. In just a few days, Ye Feng didn't have so much time to dig up the nearly forty-mile long area around the Golden Castle.
However, in the eyes of ordinary people, since a big hole has been dug. There would be no big pit in the other three. For example, Lu Gao.
If you change it to those dark legion beasts or undead monsters with low IQ. One look at the offensive line was dug into a trap. Their simple minds must not have thought of shifting ground at once. But Lu Gao is a high-level NPC.It is not an exaggeration to say that it is even more than the brains of most players.It can be seen that sometimes being too smart is not necessarily a good thing.For example, if Zhuge Wuhou's opponent was not Sima Yi.Then his empty city plan may not be so successful.
Really. Lu Gao despised Ye Feng's shameless fighting style without any chivalry. Ponder for a moment. The knight's spear was raised high again.
"Build a pontoon."
Formation on one side. Columns of engineers rushed forward from the baggage troops carrying siege ladders and huge wooden bridges for cavalry to cross the ditch and river.
Soon. Thirty yards of ladder planks were laid out on the trenches. Compactly connected to form a wooden bridge nearly 300 yards wide.
But the distance between the two armies is still very long. Ye Feng watched coldly as these grassland soldiers paved the wooden bridge all the way towards the castle faster and faster.
Nearly 100 trebuchets, large and small, carried by the Lugao legion, began to advance step by step. The large siege engines were pulled by the horse-drawn wagons and moved forward unhurriedly. Look at the stance is ready to suppress the long-range fire of the city head. Covering the siege of infantry cavalry.
Haoqing Tianzong and others couldn't help but be a little curious. Could it be that these heavy planks can carry a behemoth siege vehicle? If that's the case. Then this improvised wooden bridge could not be destroyed by trebuchets.
The remnants of less than 5,000 heavy cavalry were reprimanded by Lu Gao. Also began to assemble the whole team. A skirmish line of the same width as the wooden bridge was arranged.
Seeing the wooden bridge getting closer and closer. Ye Feng was still standing lightly on the back of the golden-winged Dapeng bird. Silently calculating the distance in my heart.
1,000 yards...... Nine hundred yards...... Eight hundred yards......
"Hey. I said boss. into the firing range. We'll have to wait." The Viper, who personally manipulated the ballistic trebuchet, came to whisper.
"Six hundred yards to start a salvo. Be careful not to break those siege engines. And I don't know how many harpies Lu Gao brought with him. Let the master hunters in the club keep an eye on the spot. Later if I can't intercept them all. The first concussive arrow stunned them. Don't let them fly up to the city." Ye Feng replied.
"Understood."
……
About twenty minutes later. The wooden bridge had almost paved more than half of the nearly 2,000-yard-long trench area. It looks like it can be paved to the edge of the trench at the very edge of a few dozen yards. At this time, even the ordinary trebuchet with the shortest range can throw the black iron balls fiercely by taking advantage of the condescending projectile.
"Let's get started." Ye Feng slowly pulled out the open sky that seemed to be deliberately and naturally carried on his back.
"Shoot."
The firing range has long been calibrated to lock on to the target of the trebuchet and goblin artillery at the same time. Nearly 100 iron balls and cannonballs roared through the air. In the desolate gray sky, there are beautiful half-arcs. It slammed down on the thick wooden bridge that was connected together.
Occasionally, a missed shell fell into the trenches on both sides of the wooden bridge. Blow up the dead cavalry horse corpses at the bottom of the ditch. The gravel and sand raised by the air wave were wrapped in flesh and bones, scattered and splashed out of the bottom of the ditch.
In the blink of an eye. The front of the wooden bridge is full of yellow sand and billowing smoke and gray fog. The engineers in charge of laying the wooden bridge were constantly blown out. The burst of blood seemed to coat the billowing black and yellow mist with a layer of red blood.
Even the only six Thunderbolt trebuchets were dispatched. Plus the bombardment of more than twenty goblin guns. In particular, the first round of shots was all bursting bullets with armor-piercing effects. The power is unquestionable. But the wooden bridge, which looked flat but not very strong, was hit so densely and powerfully. There were only a few shallow cracks. Not even the large iron balls thrown by the trebuchet could penetrate and shatter the planks that were no more than two feet thick.
No doubt. The ladders carried by the Lugao Legion and the simple wooden bridges for cavalry to cross ditches and rivers were blessed with extremely expensive magic defense enhancement circles.
It's just that even if the defense enhancement blessed by this wooden bridge is twice as strong. It can't withstand the constant bombardment of trebuchets and goblin artillery. The destruction of the bridge and the death of people are only a matter of time.
And now the unfilled trench less than two hundred yards long between the wooden bridge and the city has become an impassable moat. The steppe soldiers on the wooden bridge were bombed except for holding their heads. I can only look at the city and sigh.
Ye Feng couldn't see Lu Gao's expression blocked by smoke and dust. The deafening sound of explosions and smashes also drowned out Lu Gao's angry screams.
Suddenly. A dense and desperate scream resounded over the wooden bridge. Then a series of bloody arrows sprayed into the air. Then the horses separated. The war horse, which gushed blood from its neck, was thrown into the trench......