Chapter 66: Defense of Fort Vick II

Sophia's mobilization achieved very good results, and the tension and fear of the soldiers in the two newly formed squadrons were slightly relieved.

At the same time, the orc brigade began to slowly approach the direction of Vickburg.

The wild boar captain Shamok was reckless and rude. He launched an attack on Vickburg without any reconnaissance.

And in order to show his bravery, he actually led the charge.

Shamok asked three dog-headed man squadrons to be the vanguard, and serve as cannon fodder to consume the arrows and wood of the defenders.

He led two wild boar man squadrons in the middle.

The third echelon was the snake-bodied heavy infantry, followed by two tauren squadrons.

The wolf-headed men were cavalry, protecting the orc flanks.

The two sheep-headed man squadrons had the weakest combat effectiveness and were used by Shamok as logistics transport soldiers.

When there was a serious shortage of food, Shamok would even eat sheep-headed men.

Led by professional officers, the dog-headed men slowly approached the city wall.

Vickburg was not particularly large and was built on the hillside.

There are cliffs several tens of meters high on both sides, and a hillside behind.

If you want to conquer Fort Wick, you have to climb the mountain and attack from above.

Although the mountain trail is not narrow, only two squadrons can be deployed at a time.

Although Sophia is commanding a battle for the first time and has little experience, some of her officers have experienced many wars in the northern border.

Her uncle Vito is an old officer. Although he is only a third-level warrior, he has experienced nine orc invasions.

His experience in war is even better than William.

By identifying the flag, Vito found the orc commander as soon as possible.

After the orcs lined up, Vito aimed the trebuchet at the two wild boar squadrons, preparing to focus on the second echelon of the orcs.

After the dog-headed man entered the range of the trebuchet, Vito did not expose the trebuchet, but asked the archers on the castle to draw their bows.

When the dog-headed man was less than a hundred meters away from the castle, Vito issued a military order.

"Archers, shoot!"

The archers on the top of the city had already drawn their bows, and they almost released the strings at the same time after hearing the order.

More than 200 arrows were shot down, knocking down several dog-headed men on the spot.

The archers on the top of the city kept shooting arrows, shooting five or six rounds in a minute.

The closer the dog-headed men were to the city wall, the higher the archers' hit rate.

When the two dog-headed men squadrons began to climb the city wall, the casualties had exceeded 20%.

Without urging, the dog-headed men quickened their pace and climbed the city wall with agility.

After finally climbing to the city wall, they were stabbed by the spearmen on the top of the city wall, and fell off the city wall like a rolling gourd, and died one after another.

Several dog-headed officers gave orders one after another.

"Raise your shield, pay attention to your feet, and defend against arrows.

Concentrate your strength to attack one place.

Pay attention to protecting the wooden ladder to prevent it from being pushed down or destroyed by humans."

Sofia carefully observed the battlefield, and after discovering the dog-headed commander, she immediately launched a magic missile.

Sofia is already a five-ring magician, and even releasing a one-ring magic missile is enough to threaten low-level professionals.

Several magic missiles flew from the top of the city wall and accurately hit two first-level kobolds.

The violent explosion engulfed a small group of kobold warriors. In an instant, two first-level kobolds were not prepared and lost their lives on the spot.

The remaining kobold officers raised their shields and hid themselves among the ordinary kobold soldiers.

As the casualties increased, the kobolds finally couldn't bear it and retreated under the city wall.

In the first tentative siege, the kobolds suffered 70 to 80 casualties, while the casualties on the castle were minimal, with only five or six soldiers injured by stones.

The kobolds' probing made Shamok think that he had figured out the defenses of Vickburg.

Soon he punished several fleeing kobolds, and then forced the kobolds to attack the city again, but this time two wild boar squadrons were also ready to go into battle.

Shamok also followed the two wild boar squadrons and led the siege in person.

When the two wild boar squadrons entered the range of the counterweight trebuchets, Vito immediately issued a military order.

"Number one, number two trebuchets, fire 200-jin stone bullets, with a counterweight of 2,600 jin.

Number three, number four, number five, number six trebuchets, fire 100-jin stone bullets, with a counterweight of 1,200 jin."

After the military order was issued, the heavy trebuchets fired immediately, and stone bullets fell from the sky one after another.

The landing point was almost very close, accurately hitting the wild boar formation.

All the wild boars hit by the heavy stone bullets were immediately reduced to meat patties.

The stone bullet hit the ground and rolled around, and the powerful kinetic energy injured more than a dozen people.

A stone bullet hit Shamok, who was a fifth-level warrior and reacted very quickly. Seeing the stone bullets falling from the sky, he exerted his strength with both feet and jumped up, avoiding the attack of the first wave of stone bullets.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, another stone bullet hit near him.

The 200-jin bullet directly smashed a third-level wild boar squadron leader to death, and the powerful kinetic energy rolled towards Shamok.

Shamok kicked hard, and his strong legs actually kicked the stone bullet to pieces.

But he felt a sharp pain in his limbs, and his left leg was broken by the stone bullet at the same time.

Shamok jumped hard on one leg, leading the wild boar squadron to run desperately, and was hit by two rounds of stone bullets before he passed this deadly journey.

Shamok endured the severe pain, and his heart was furious to the extreme.

Prepare to slaughter all humans after breaking the city.

Especially the beautiful human girl on the top of the city, cut off her delicate flesh bit by bit, and bite her bones.

Let her watch her body being swallowed into Shamok's stomach bit by bit.

Every time he tortured a human noble girl, Shamok was very excited.

Just when Shamok was secretly dreaming about breaking through the human castle, a fireball landed from the top of the city and was aimed at Shamok.

Shamok had a broken leg, and his reaction and speed were a bit slower than normal.

Just as he was about to dodge, the fireball fell from the sky and hit Shamok fiercely on the chest.

The fireball exploded instantly, and the violent energy killed and injured more than ten wild boars.

Shamok was at the center of the explosion. He barely managed to save his life due to his high professional level and strong magic resistance.

However, this fireball directly severely injured Shamok, leaving him in danger of death.

The wild boar people have conflicts with the fox people, and the fox magicians are not willing to serve the Shamok Brigade.

In the entire Shamok brigade, there is only one tauren who is a magician and can use healing techniques.

Fortunately, the tauren magician was relatively close to Shamok, and he quickly used the healing minor injury spell to hang Shamok's life.

The orc brigade was severely wounded, and the orcs attacking the city were immediately thrown into chaos.

By the time the tauren deputy captain took over the command, this siege had already ended without any problem.