Chapter 409 Siege

"Your Excellency Belester..."

General Jumonville still wanted to speak, but was interrupted impatiently by the "Lord of Black Castle".

"Your Excellency, if you have anything else to do, just discuss it with my adjutant Narf. The weather in this place is cold and humid, and it often rains. It's unbearable!" Bilester said lazily. He yawned, "I'm sorry, I have to go back to the boat to take a nap, excuse me."

General Jumonville watched as the tall mercenary leader climbed up the gangway, and shook his head helplessly.

Bilester's arrogant attitude made him unhappy, but fortunately, the hundred mercenaries under Bilester were kind to him and very dedicated. They acted immediately when they received the order to siege the city. With the assistance of Hailan officers and soldiers , Collect stones on the spot as ammunition for siege.

It is very difficult for ordinary people to hold a large stone weighing more than a hundred pounds, but the tall fire giant can easily pick it up with two fingers, and throw it at will like picking up an apple. The people in the camp deeply admired them, and they also horrified the defenders of Nissei Fortress, who had an ominous premonition about the next move of this group of fire giants.

People's premonition quickly turned into actual disaster.

The fire giant mercenaries put the collected stones into a large bag that they carried with them, dragging the thousand-pound bag in their right hand, and holding a giant tower shield commensurate with their stature in their left hand, and spread out their skirmishers towards the Nisisi Fortress. The front door advances.

Lieutenant Colonel Vasa had already learned from the "wind message technique" sent by Joan that the fire giant mercenary group had joined the enemy's camp, so he personally came to command the officers and soldiers to defend the city. He observed those huge figures with red complexion through the binoculars, and quickly ordered to defend the city. The army attacked with catapults, bows and catapults to prevent the group of fire giants from approaching the city walls.

At this time, the fire giant mercenaries were still more than 300 yards away from the city wall. At such a distance, the arrows fired by ordinary bows and crossbows could hardly pose a threat to them. Occasionally, one or two arrows hit the body and were bounced off by the thick iron armor. .

As for the trebuchet and ballista, the range and power are enough to kill the fire giant. However, these large devices are usually used to deal with the same heavy and bulky siege equipment. In comparison, the fire giant is not large enough to be a target.

Moreover, fire giants are far more flexible than equipment such as siege vehicles. Facing the giant crossbows or rocks shot from the top of the city, they either dodge or raise their shields to block them, like moving fortresses against the rain of arrows. Rockfall continued on, and soon approached two hundred yards from the city wall.

Belester's adjutant, Narf, blew the horn, and a hundred fire giant mercenaries stopped at the sound, dropped a large bag full of stones, and smashed the giant steel shield with both hands to the ground.

The giant tower shield dedicated to the fire giant has a cone-shaped lower end that sinks deep into the sand. There is a bracket on the inside of the shield, which can be folded and hidden at ordinary times. At this moment, the bracket has been skillfully opened by the fire giant mercenaries, providing the shield with a stable support point.

When the hundred huge shields were all fixed, they formed a sloping shield wall on the battlefield, providing an impeccable cover for the fire giant mercenaries, blocking the arrows and stones thrown by the defenders on the opposite side.

The fire giant mercenary hid behind the shield wall, and took out a hundred-pound rock from his pocket. He held it in his palm and waited for a few seconds until the hot magic power in his body was stimulated and poured into his palm through his fingertips. The stones burned the originally cold and hard rocks red like coals, and then they were thrown out with all their strength.

Throwing stones is a housekeeping skill that all fire giant mercenaries practiced hard since childhood.

The stones thrown by their hands were not only powerful, but also as precise as eyes. They were all firmly locked on the ballista and trebuchets erected on the opposite city wall.

The scorching stones, like meteorites, roared towards them with a suffocating heat wave.

The stone bullets hit the ballista and the trebuchet, and while destroying the equipment, they also shattered themselves, turning into countless burning debris and splashing, wounding and igniting the surrounding defenders, and fell down screaming one by one.

The defenders who were splashed struggled and rolled trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies. It seemed that the inside and outside of the city walls had been bombed by cannons, and the chaotic scene was appalling.

After a round of stone-throwing attacks by the fire giant mercenary group, there was no longer a complete ballista or trebuchet on the opposite wall, all of which were accurately blasted by the "cannonballs" thrown by the fire giant.

Before the defenders could restore order, the fire giant mercenaries raised stones infused with scorching magic power one after another, and started the second round of throwing.

This time, they directly destroyed the city wall.

After a round of earth-shattering roars, cobweb-like cracks appeared on the walls where the defenders relied for concealment, and they were only one step away from collapsing.

The fire giant mercenaries are like a hundred humanoid turrets without emotion.

The crumbling city wall in front of them, as well as the panic and despair of the small and weak human soldiers behind the city wall, could not arouse the slightest pity in their hearts. They still grabbed stones step by step, poured magic power into them and roasted them until they turned red, and then threw them calmly. go out.

The boulder flew across the sky like fiery meteors, and finally hit the city wall two hundred yards away and exploded, shooting hot shrapnel flying all over the sky, knocking down and igniting the defenders on the wall who couldn't dodge, most of them were killed on the spot.

Faced with such a fierce offensive, George Vasa felt powerless, so he had to order the defenders to withdraw from the city wall and try to avoid unnecessary sacrifices.

Under such circumstances, the city wall is destined to be unable to defend.

After the fourth round of bombing by the fire giant mercenaries, the city gate, together with the walls on both sides, collapsed unexpectedly.

At this moment, the Nissei Fortress is like a girl whose skirt has been ripped off, naked in front of the enemy's eyes.

The troops that had been guarding the city wall withdrew to the interior of the fort like an ebbing tide, and the wounded soldiers were carried into the fort in time for treatment.

Although all the officers and soldiers of the defenders, including Lieutenant Colonel Vasa, have fallen into deep despair at this time, what else can they do besides stick to this last position?

General Narf, the deputy head of the "Black Castle Mercenary Regiment", once again blew the horn to march.

The fire giant mercenaries at the forefront put away their tower shields upon hearing the news, and marched forward in line.

In front of them was a flooded ditch.

This kind of fortification used to stop humans is just a shallow stream to the tall fire giant, easily wading through it and continuing to advance towards the collapsed city gate.

The horn of Narf sounded for the third time, and the fire giant mercenaries stopped collectively.

They set up a shield wall in front of the ruined wall, used local materials, grabbed the fragments of the city wall as cannonballs, injected their natural magic power into a semi-melted lava shape, and threw them with all their strength, hitting Nisai, who was less than a hundred yards away. West Fort.

Countless scorching stones hit the sky and covered the sky, first smashing the wooden sentry tower on the top of the fortress, and then shattering the more fragile doors and windows.

The fortress itself suffered heavy damage one after another, and the thick stone walls trembled under the onslaught of the fire giants, and cracks appeared.

The violently shaking ceiling above the head seemed to collapse at any moment.

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