Chapter 692: The Mage Siege of the City
However, Alexander Siraci was not willing to let this sink either, he felt that he was strong and had strong defenses, and he would not be vulnerable after all.
Alexander Siraci felt that he might be able to save it, as long as he could delay the war as much as possible, and given the daily cost of Emperor Shitian's army, he might be able to exhaust the other side's supplies and be forced to retreat.
But it is clear that Alexander Siraqi clearly overestimated himself, and at the same time greatly underestimated the strength of Emperor Shakti.
Early the next morning, after the army of Emperor Shakti had eaten a full meal, he immediately attacked from three directions, along the three main avenues.
In fact, Emperor Shi Tian had two attack plans at this time, one was to send 250 mm heavy artillery from the rear, like coaxing him for a few days, to ensure that he could blow up the castles over there one by one, and then he could easily attack.
The advantage of such an offensive is that it is safe and safe, with only 250 mm heavy guns left, and a range of up to 40 kilometers, which is enough for Alexander Silaki to have no room for resistance, and can only be beaten passively.
However, there is also a disadvantage, that is, although the power of the 250mm heavy gun is good, it can also destroy the city wall, but it can only go so far in the end.
If you want to completely destroy a full-fledged castle, I'm afraid it will take a long time to bombard.
You must know that the castle is garrisoned by undead troops, even if the castle is dilapidated, they can still fight stubbornly.
Unlike those who are alive, they will be killed by cannonballs, they will be crushed to death by falling masonry, or even crushed to death by collapsed buildings.
Anyway, the strong survivability of the undead makes them very resistant to heavy artillery attacks.
In this case, even if the castle destroyed by thousands of shells only leaves some ruins, there is no way to destroy the undead troops inside, and they can still retain a lot of combat power, and take advantage of the complex terrain of the ruins to better hide and sneak attack.
In addition, this plan consumes both shells and time, and Emperor Shi Tian really can't wait, so he has no choice but to give up.
As for the second way of attack, it is much more simple, go directly to the mage group, and the earth monks use their own soil control skills to demolish all the castles, or even completely raze them to the ground, even if they can't kill all the undead, they can also make them lose their protection, so that the artillery behind them can clean up.
There must also be mages who protect them from being harmed by the condescending forces of the undead.
I have to say that this way of attacking must be very sharp, but the weakness is also obvious, the range of the earth control technique of the earth monk is relatively close, the farthest is only a few hundred meters, plus the castle is built in the middle of the mountain, only one avenue can be approached, and the troops must be specially concentrated in order to attack at the same time, which is convenient for the undead troops above to sneak attack with spells.
Although a high-level mage will be arranged to resist, there is no guarantee whether it can be stopped, after all, there is also a legendary necromancer Alexander Sirachi.
Emperor Shi Tian quickly came to treasure his own descendant troops, earth monks, so he was generally reluctant to let them take risks.
But this time, Alexander Siraqi's defense was too tight, and there was really no good way to succeed, and Emperor Shi was in a hurry, so he had to do it within a month. Therefore, in desperation, Emperor Shi Tian could only choose a more adventurous and radical way to compete.
So, under the stunned gaze of the army of the undead, Emperor Shi Tian sent three mage siege troops to carry out the first wave of attacks.
Each siege force is composed of three parts, the first part is a thousand earth monks, all of them riding steel wolves, close together, walking in the front.
It was followed by a group of 1,000 mages, dozens of whom were silver-level mages, and a gold-level elven dragon.
Their mission is to unleash magic shields and cover the two mage troops.
They were followed by a mixed force of 3,000 men, a thousand minotaur lancers, a thousand orc howitzers, plus more than a thousand cavemen mortar gunners.
These people are the support group, used to stop the undead troops who dare to fight out of the city.
Alexander Siraci had conceived a lot of attack plans for Emperor Shakti, but he never dreamed that Emperor Shakti would attack like this.
Everyone else treats the mage group as a treasure, and they can't put it in the safest position of the legion, but Emperor Shi Tian is good, and he directly uses the mage as cannon fodder on the front line.
The first time he saw this siege method, Alexander Siraci was shocked, but immediately felt a deep sense of shame, and couldn't help but be angry in his heart, 'Is this looking down on me?
Thinking of this, Alexander Silaki was furious, and immediately ordered his front-line troops not to retain their strength, and directly use the strongest means of attack, even if they can't kill the opponent, they must try to consume the opponent's magic power.
In this middle demon plane, mana is consumed quickly and recovery is slow, and mages without mana are scum, and their combat effectiveness is even inferior to skeleton soldiers.
Alexander Siraci wants to use the cannon fodder on the front line to exchange as much as possible for the magic power of the mage, as long as the magic power is exhausted and he does not evacuate quickly, then he will give the other party a lesson that will never be forgotten.
Soon, on each official road, there were more than 300 steel war wolves, rushing up along the avenue.
The steel wolf is large in size, and if there is one per person, it will take up too much space, which is not conducive to the follow-up of the troops behind.
Therefore, Emperor Shi Tian asked three earth monks to ride a steel wolf together, so that as long as there are more than 300 steel war wolves, they can carry a thousand earth monks.
I saw that the steel wolf warriors were flying fast, and soon came to the firepower point of the first line of the undead army.
The three firepower points on the three official roads are basically the same, they are all small watchtowers built on the ridge, and they are nearly 100 meters apart from the official roads, but there is a big ravine dozens of meters deep in the middle, and there are many strange stone obstacles.
Therefore, if you want to attack these small watchtowers, you must first go down and then up, and cross layers of obstacles, which is slow, and in this process, it is simply a live target for others.
Although the small watchtower is not large, only a dozen meters in a radius, about three or four floors, but there are hundreds of skeleton archers stationed inside, they can shoot skull white bone arrows from the top of the tall building and the shooting hole in the middle, and continue to shoot skeleton white bone arrows to the enemy passing by the mountain road.
There are even two large crossbow arrows on the top floor, which can shoot more than 1,000 meters away with the advantage of geographical advantages, which is too strong.
After receiving the order of Alexander Sirachi, the skeletons on the small watchtower immediately sprang into action, replacing the large crossbow arrows with special runic arrows, which contained the third-level necromancy Stygian Fire Explosion.
This thing is very precious here, and it is usually reluctant to use it, and it is a sharp weapon for desperate efforts in times of crisis, but now it is used as soon as it comes up, which shows that the other party attaches great importance to these mages.
Soon, the earth monks entered the range of a thousand meters, and the three small watchtowers all shot rune white bone arrows.
Of course, this kind of little trick will definitely not hurt 2000 mages, and the leading elven dragon is not even bothered to do it, but the silver mages in front of him waved their hands casually, and the threat of rune white bone arrows was eliminated.
A mage used a magic shield at a medium distance, and with a silver-level magic shield, he easily blocked the rune white bone arrows, even if the exploding green ghost fire exploded a fireball several meters in size, it failed to break the magic shield.
And the other mage is more intelligent, and even used a special wind spell, which directly blew the two rune white bone arrows that came over, and stabbed them into the ravine under the mountain road, although the sound and light scene of the explosion was good, but there was no way to hurt anyone.
As for the last mage, the shot was even more exciting, and he even used a particularly wonderful long-range blocking technique to directly ban two rune white bone arrows and turn them into his own trophies.
Although it is the product of a necromancer, after all, it is also a bronze-level one-time magic item, and it can be worth dozens of bronze law coins together, which is a small fortune!
I have to say that with the escort of the silver mage, the low-level alchemy weapon of the Rune White Bone Arrow basically cannot pose any threat if the number does not reach a sufficient level.
However, Alexander Sirach was satisfied with this result and let the troops continue to shoot.
Because in his opinion, exchanging a few rune white bone arrows for the precious magic power of a silver mage is not a loss.
So in this case, three small watchtowers shot two more rounds in a row. Although he didn't hurt the other party in the slightest, he also successfully wasted the silver mage's magic power.
Moreover, the skeleton archers in the small watchtower also raised their bows and arrows, wanting to wait for the mage to enter the range and shoot hard.
But alas, they apparently lost this opportunity forever.
The range of the skeleton archer is too close, even if it is condescending, it is only two or three hundred meters, but the range of the mage's spell is much farther, how can it be more than a few hundred meters.
Anyway, the earth monks were already impatiently starting to cast spells at a distance of about 500 meters from the small watchtower, and they couldn't see anything on the surface, as if everyone was waving their hands very casually.
Then immediately afterwards, the foundations of the three small watchtowers collapsed, and the small watchtowers that lost their support fell down under the action of gravity, and fell directly on the side of the mountain, and a large number of stones and bones rolled down the hillside.
Under such a brittle disaster, the skeleton shooters inside the small watchtower were almost crushed without exception, and some of the shooters at the top did not escape, and they were all smashed by the stones that built the watchtower when they rolled down the hillside.
Anyway, these three invisible spells of 3,000 earth monks easily destroyed three small watchtowers, and the surviving skeleton shooters inside were less than one in ten!
(End of chapter)