Chapter 71 Shrek Warriors
The ogre lord raised his hand to signal the poet not to get excited, and stared at the whirlwind until the magical creation hovered in front of him, and then asked in a low voice: "Fenger, show Shrek the news you brought. "
The magic whirlwind seemed to be intelligent, following Shrek's instructions to speed up and circle around, and the eye of the wind released the words that the soul-stealing spirit had stored before, repeating them verbatim.
Shrek and Casio could hear clearly, and the moment their eyes met, they both showed joy.
"My lord, it's time to attack!" Casio said impatiently.
Shrek waved his hand, dispelling the whirlwind that exhausted his magic power, turned over and rode on the armored dire bear nicknamed "Baron", held the fine gold helmet decorated with griffin feathers in both hands, solemnly put it on his head, and shook the reins Ride down the hillside.
Casio watched as Shrek rode the armored giant bear down the hill, raised a huge bronze horn and blew it vigorously. The high-pitched sound of the horn shook the jungle, revealing a sense of killing. The ogre warrior group stationed at the foot of the hill heard the sound of the charging horn, quickly gathered together, and rushed towards the Algonquin Valley following King Shrek. The aggressive nature of the ogres that had been suppressed for many days was finally released at this moment, and the wild roar echoed over the horns and echoed over the jungle.
At the same time that Casio blew the horn, the sentinels in Powhatan Village were alerted and sounded the alarm bell quickly. Magni and Kandy, who were dealing with government affairs at the village office, were taken aback by the sudden police. The siblings looked at each other in blank dismay, and then jumped up at the same time, rushing to the village sentry tower.
"What's going on!" Magny climbed up the sentry tower like a wind, and questioned the sentinel who rang the alarm bell.
"Enemy attack! It's ogres, a large group of ogres!" The young sentinel was incoherent because of extreme tension.
Magny snatched the binoculars, and sure enough, he saw a large group of heavily armed ogres coming from the northern forest like a tide. He wears a giant warhammer with a golden feather on his head, and rides a giant bear covered in steel armor. Just looking at it from a distance gives people a strong sense of oppression.
"It's Shrek and his ogre warriors!" Magny threw away the binoculars, angry and puzzled, "The ogres in the deep forest valley have always been inseparable from us Algonquins, why did they suddenly come here? Raid our village!"
Conti remained calm as much as possible, and speculated: "This may be related to the wither monster that appeared in the north not long ago. The ogre family in the deep forest valley may have been bought by the conquering sect and became the accomplices of the cultists."
"It's very possible!" Magni nodded, with a serious face, "I'll call the tribe to organize defenses, Kandy, you immediately cast a spell to send a letter to your parents, tell them the crisis at home, and then find a safe place Hide and take care of yourself!"
Without waiting for his sister to answer, Magni hurriedly got off the sentry tower. Kandy didn't want to hide and become a deserter at such a moment when the survival of the tribe was at stake, but what my brother said was right - with the strength of the troops left behind in the village, I am afraid that it would not be able to stop the ogre army that suddenly attacked. Letter to parents for help.
Canti took out the charcoal pencil that he carried with him, replaced it with a handkerchief if he didn’t have letter paper, and hurriedly wrote down the news of the attack of the ogre army. It delivered the letter to the father as soon as possible.
Watching the raven spread its wings and fly away, Kandy's heart also hangs in the air. After hurriedly getting off the sentry tower, Kandy saw crowds of clansmen gathering towards the city gate, all holding crossbows or swords in their hands. Most of the elite warriors in the tribe were taken away by Victor and Matoka, and there were no more than 300 militiamen left behind in Powhatan Village. Fortunately, the Asa people have always upheld the spirit of martial arts. The women and children in the clan have more or less received military training, and most of the elderly are retired militiamen. Although they are not as flexible as the young, they have more experience in dealing with enemy attacks.
Kandy whistled and called for his animal companion, Minnie, quickly mounted the Deinonychus, and followed the flow of people to gather in front of the city gate.
Magni was inspecting the defensive facilities, and did not notice his sister in the crowd. All his thoughts were on blocking the ogre army that was approaching from outside the city wall. When the group of vicious bandits came within range, Magni immediately ordered to fire the crossbow gun.
The ballistas placed along the city wall lined up, and the large ballistas were like sharp spears, fired by the powerful ballista, with such power that even a strong ogre couldn't hold it. Accompanied by a piercing howl of piercing wind, the ogre rushing to the front fell down in a row. Unluckily, it was pierced in the chest, and died before it could scream.
Shrek swung his mace away from an oncoming crossbow bolt, raised his hand to signal his subordinates to temporarily buffer the front, and retreated out of the range of the city defense ballista. Squinting his eyes to observe the ballistas lined up on the opposite city, he gave two orders after thinking about it.
The "Ogre Warriors" created by Shrek's painstaking efforts are not a group of reckless men who can only charge. This army has a complete mix of arms, including the "Ogre Siege Team" and "Ogre Ballista" specialized in long-range firepower.
Fifty ogre ballistas were first ordered to come to the front line of the battlefield. These tribesmen carefully selected by Shrek have far better agility and sense of distance than ordinary ogres, and their strength is of course not weak. The size of the giant crossbow on the shoulder is not inferior to the ballista on the opposite wall.
With such a huge crossbow, even with the brute force of the ogre, it is impossible to pull the bowstring with just two arms. Fortunately, every giant crossbow made by a dwarf craftsman is equipped with a device similar to a stirrup. Standing on the ground, he skillfully stepped on the crossbow stirrup with his right foot, grasped the arm of the crossbow with both hands and pulled upwards vigorously, stretched the bowstring with the help of waist strength, and finally loaded the javelin-like crossbow arrows, completing the preparations before firing neatly.
"emission!"
With Shrek's order, fifty giant crossbows fired their bolts simultaneously. Most of the crossbow arrows penetrated deeply into the city wall 300 yards away. The sawdust on the wall around the arrows splashed, and a large hole was blasted out. The defenders on the wall were also impacted and fell on their backs one after another.
After finishing the first round of firing, the ogre ballista players put down the ballista in a uniform manner, stepped on the bow and pulled the string, reloaded the bolts, and corrected the shooting angle according to the error of the landing point of the first round of crossbow bolts.
The aim of the crossbow bolts fired in the second round was significantly improved, and several of the crossbow bolts passed close to the top of the city. The Asa militiamen stationed on the city wall were just wiped by the crossbow bolts and fell down with blood spattering. The huge wounds were shocking. . A city defense ballista erected on the top of the wall was directly hit by a crossbow arrow flying from below the city. The ballista exploded on the spot, and the surrounding crossbowmen were also injured by flying metal and wood fragments.
Magni's face was so gloomy that it almost froze, and he gestured to the clansmen to carry away the wounded soldiers and ask the druids to cast spells for treatment, and then ordered the ballista of the city defense to launch a counterattack.
The attacking and defending ballistas have the same shooting range, but the ballista on the defending side is semi-fixed on the wall, making it inconvenient to move, and correspondingly more vulnerable to sniping. Immediately after the launch, the ballista was pulled back behind the shield wall, and the arrows fired from the opposite side were blocked by the tower shields in a row, making it difficult to cause effective damage.
Shrek is very satisfied with the performance of his ballistas. He didn't expect the ballistas to kill many Asa people. The main purpose was to create a psychological deterrent to the enemy defending the city and contain the city defense ballistas to cover the advance of the "ogre siege team".
The exclusive siege force of the Shrek Warriors consists of thirty of the strongest ogres, lined up in three columns, of which twenty ogres hold huge tower shields, and ten people form a group on both sides, and the remaining ten ogres The head ogre lives between the two rows of shield bearers, and together they carry a battering ram made of a whole log. In order to enhance the destructive power of the battering ram, the front end of the log is also connected to a giant forged steel bull. sheep head.
The row of ogres in the center yelled in unison, took up the battering ram and strode forward, across the battlefield full of crossbow arrows, and marched towards the city gate. The ogres living on the left and right side held their shields obliquely and moved forward synchronously. The two sets of shield walls formed a "herringbone"-shaped barrier above the head of the siegeman in the center, forming a moving tunnel together.
Seeing the ogre siege team approaching the city gate quickly, the Asa warriors who defended the city hurriedly threw javelins, bows and arrows, trying to stop them. However, the arrows and javelins were blocked by the thick tower shield, which could not kill the closely guarded siegemen, and could not even stop them from slowing down.
Seeing this scene, Magni frowned slightly, turned around and gave three orders one after another: take all the blazing glue in stock and use it to defend the city; call on the clansmen to prepare a large amount of fat, burn it to a boil and put it in a vat to transport to the city; The greenfield druids of Vatan village gathered before the city gate.
The gate of Powhatan Village is made of wood, if it is hit by a heavy hammer from an ogre siege team, it will shatter on the spot if it can't support it for a few times. Fortunately, Magni remembered that there were some spell scrolls specially used to strengthen the city defense in the material warehouse, so he immediately ordered someone to fetch them and hand them over to the green field druids, ordering them to work together to cast spells to strengthen the city gates.
These scrolls are the 6-ring natural magic "Adamantine Wood" copied by Victor Kalinin himself, which can temporarily make wood as hard as steel. The druids staying in Powhatan Village are all disciples of Victor Kalinin. They are generally relatively young, and their spellcasting level is not high. They have not yet learned the "Vajra Wood". It's not difficult.
There is only one door away from the ferocious ogre, and the young druids of the green field did not dare to delay. Overcoming their fear, they unfolded the magic scrolls in their hands, and focused on chanting prayers praising the origin of nature. The magic power in the scroll was successfully guided out, turning into streams of golden light and shooting towards the city gate.
At the same time, the ogre siege team was already approaching the gate under the rain of arrows. Ten strong ogres chanted and pushed the log together, and the sheep's head hammer hit the gate heavily!
With a loud bang, a large area collapsed at the impact site, and dense spider web-like cracks appeared around it.
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