Chapter 524: The Nest Car is on the Move
These clay pots had already been timed, and the fuse was lit before takeoff, and at this time, the falling exploded in layers, and suddenly there was a rain of fire in the city! Moreover, some clay pots were shattered at the head of the city, and the fire oil in them was splashed directly on the city wall, and the falling fire rain immediately set the wall of this city head on fire!
In the sea of fire at the head of the city, the black-armored samurai screamed and turned into flying ashes, and only one corner was wrapped in a white mist, which was Satsuma who launched the Wind and Snow Enchantment, blocking the fierce fire several meters away! Rao is like this, the temperature of the flames that came to his face still melted the wind and snow, and the water vapor steamed, making Zhang Fan and his partners across the wind and snow enchantment feel a scorching heat!
At this time, the Mo family army who rushed to support pushed the earthen cart to extinguish the flames at the head of the city, although there were losses in personnel, but the other party wanted to rely on these dozen wooden kites to take the city, which was delusional. So this can only be a retaliatory counterattack by Lu Ban, which has little effect on the war situation. After all, he didn't have the means to make this kind of sophisticated wooden kite on a large scale, just like Zhang Fan and they didn't have an entire air force for them to deploy and bomb.
But this surprise attack by the air forces of both sides also made Zhang Fan's team understand that they did not have much advantage in the air, and to win this trial, they still had to rely on their own wisdom to mobilize the resources of the battlefield, rather than their own props and skills. Items and skills can only save an emergency, or make a surprise attack. Otherwise, if you can wipe out 100,000 troops just by relying on props and skills, it won't be called a trial.
The Chu army under the city formed a phalanx, pushing large equipment such as ladders, rushing cars, trench bridges, and nest cars to move forward slowly, and the solemn atmosphere of the army made Zhang Fan's team shudder. The sky above the formation was surging as if a storm was coming!
The projectile at the head of the city fired first, because it was condescending, and the range was relatively far away from the opponent's catapult, so the fireball flying in the sky smashed like the opponent's formation! In the neat phalanx of the Chu army, ugly scars like leprosy were smashed one after another.
The trench wagons of the Chu army braved flying stones and fireballs, and first drove to the front line, and one by one the trench carts were pushed into the trenches on the periphery of the city, and the flying bridges were opened, and the trenches were erected as a passageway. These trenches and bridges are all made of rough wood, and the flying stones projected by the small projectiles of the Mo family army cannot cause damage to these wooden bridges, only those fireballs will burn and destroy the trench bridges. In this round of charge, a quarter of the trench bridges were burned, which made the Chu army feel some inconvenience.
However, now that the moat bridge is under the city, the attack is different, and the fire oil canister at the head of the city was dropped, burning most of the entrenchment bridge, along with the Chu soldiers who erected the entrenchment bridge, into flying ashes!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Chu army immediately withdrew the Yunti troops, and the siege troops that followed behind also retreated. This first round of attacks was so easily dismantled!
Zhang Fan and his teammates just took a breath and relaxed. Repelled an attack so easily, why doesn't it seem as good as the siege of Talas?! Will the next eight attacks be just as simple?
The answer came immediately, the Chu army's 'Linche' was pushed and pulled over, and these 'Linche' were very heavy, because these 'Linche' were installed with eight wheels, more than ten meters high, and were divided into five layers, each of which was full of soldiers! The soldiers at the bottom are all strong men who push the approaching chariot forward. The other four floors are filled with soldiers, the best of all being archers, who can shoot at the soldiers in the city!
Dozens of other light 'nest cars' were also pushed, these nest cars, also called watchtowers, were two meters higher than the front cars, and at the top of a high support, there was a wooden house pulled up by a winch, in which you could look out, or stand on the archers to shoot.
Behind these two siege vehicles are large catapults, the tight rope strings make a "squeak" sound, and in the net pockets behind, huge stones are daunting!
Shoot! The tragic confrontation has begun! Although Zhang Fan's team has also seen a big battle, it is the first time that so many archery troops and catapults have encountered such a cluster attack! The Arab forces in Talas could not have been so organized in siege! The arrows in the sky are as straight as a rainstorm, and there is no place for them! The fireball flew stones, and it blew up inside and outside the city wall!
Zhang Fan and his teammates can only rely on their own good haode equipment to cover the archer Yao Ji as much as possible, Akon blessed the earth barrier for everyone, Satsuma erected an earthen wall barrier on the city wall, Willis covered with his own body, and everyone has no problem protecting themselves. It's just that when the opponent's heavy catapult throws boulders, he still has to rely on Zhang Fan and Yaoji's early warning to dodge.
These bean soldiers at the head of the city and the siege troops of the Chu army, except for fighting and making exactly the same shouts and screams, are usually silent, and this battlefield is weird and lifeless, just blindly using the liliang of ancient equipment to decide the fate of both sides.
Anyway, the attrition would be restored, and Akon did not hesitate to launch two 'Faith Storms', destroying the two enemy forces and the heavy catapults that posed a great threat to them. Akon smiled wryly and put away the 'Storm of Faith', which would be 12 hours before it could be used. Will this trial last 12 hours? But it feels like time is slower here than outside.
The density of arrows in the siege troops is lower than that on the city tower, because the Mo family's retort machine is a machine that can continuously fire crossbow arrows, just like the ancient version of the heavy machine gun, with dense firepower! There is also a kind of ballista, which fires dozens of thick crossbow arrows each time, and the firepower is very fierce, like a miniature version of the rocket car. These two pieces of city defense equipment make the Mo family's army far more powerful than the Chu army!
The ordinary archers of the Chu army fired from their backs under the city, which hardly posed much threat to the soldiers at the head of the city. Only the archers on the chariot and the nest chariot can pose a threat to the Mo archers at the head of the city at the same height. The Mo archers at the head of the city can use rockets to attack unscrupulously! And the soldiers in these wooden carts could only fight back with ordinary arrows.
The only thing that the soldiers of the Chu army were fortunate enough for was that their heavy catapults, because they were larger than the light projectiles at the head of the city, had very strong firepower, and they had destroyed nearly one-third of the opponent's arrow towers and light projectiles in an hour's counterfire. It's just that he also lost nearly half of himself, most of which were burned by rockets and projectile fireballs!
In such a long-range attack, Zhang Fan's team did nothing in other tactical aspects except for giving some limited long-range fire support to the defending troops. Because these Mojia army bean soldiers are very rigorous in combat, they operate the transfer machine, ballista car, and projectile like a machine, and strike at all kinds of siege vehicles of the Chu army.
In this kind of attack, Yao Ji and Willis contributed the most, as the best archers, Yao Ji's archery skills made the Chu army suffer, her flame burst arrows, at least five nest cars and two temporary cars! Moreover, her accurate archery skills put the trebuchet's operator in a very dangerous situation, and if he was not effectively protected, he would be killed by Yao Ji's arrow. There is also the rope string of the trebuchet, which is also very fragile under Yao Ji's arrows!
And Willis's missiles every twenty seconds, as well as the strafing of the bombardment machine guns, the fire was ferocious, and under the coordinated attack of the Mo archer rockets, he also killed two temporary vehicles and two heavy catapults.
Satsuma's spells, except for some wind-based spells, have no way to attack very far, and it can be seen from here that the mage's combat distance is much closer than that of the archer, and it belongs to the medium-range firepower output. Zhang Fan and the three took out blue machine guns to shoot, and such an attack was better than nothing. Zhang Fan's team has too few high-level weapons for long-range combat......
Akon suddenly remembered that he still had a dark gold bow that he had just gotten, and he was happy, grabbed an arrow basket, and became addicted to archery. But this guy's archery jishu is so inferior, even if he grabs a peerless bow, he can't take out a single enemy. He was so angry that he scolded the fat shopkeeper for being black-hearted and deceived himself.
Oh, in fact, he still killed a nest car, after pulling the bowstring for the first time, he was smashed not far away by a flying stone of dozens of pounds, startled, but as soon as he let go of his hand, this arrow was really amazing, and it actually destroyed the hook of a nest car, and the nest car fell from a height of more than ten meters! The Chu army bean soldiers inside suffered heavy casualties. It really impressed the uninformed Yaoji.
As a result, Akon's shooting behind him really made Yaoji really unbearable. So he snatched the dark gold bow, but found that his liliang was too small to pull the bowstring. So he silently recited the incantation, blessed himself with the tree man's liliang, and his two arms turned into the shape of a tree trunk, and easily pulled the bowstring. With just one arrow, one of the opponent's catapults was destroyed! It's just that after she fired the bow three times, she couldn't support it anymore and regained her original white arm.
Those three arrows were really amazing, ordinary arrows, under the addition of the dark gold bow and Yao Ji's mana, turned into a golden streamer, and hit the main parts of the catapult, paralyzing the catapult at once, and the huge and heavy catapult, because of the sudden loss of power of the trebuchet, fell from mid-air and smashed on the Chu army's own formation, causing a lot of casualties. If Lu Ban's disciples were still there, these three catapults could be repaired quickly, and it would be very troublesome now.
The Chu army probably discovered that Zhang Fan's attack power at the head of the city was very strong, and concentrated their firepower to attack it. For a while, flying stones were like hail and arrows were like rain, which made the members of Zhang Fan's team tired. Those arrows are fine, just protect them with a shield. But dozens of pounds of stones, with gravitational acceleration and the bonus of the difficulty of the scene, are not a joke!
And Akon was depressed to find that these flying stone arrows were extremely accurate when attacking his team! This is the consequence of the scenario difficulty bonus. It is estimated that the damage of the smash may be much higher than the damage to the Mo family's army!