Chapter 687

However, Mai Libula didn't know that this throwing of stones was just a calibration, which is similar to the calibration of modern artillery.

The trebuchet designed by Ye Ting naturally has a relatively reliable gauge.

After the stone-throwing data has been determined through this attack, the real attack is about to begin.

Chapter 0849 Magic Artillery

What Melibra didn't discover was that, besides the working slaves, beside each trebuchet, there would be one or two people in elegant cloth robes holding paper and pens.

Just as artillery requires good mathematics, Ye Ting, a rigorous mage, designed the trebuchets as well. These people in cloth robes are the real operators of the trebuchets. Before each trebuchet is launched, they must Responsible for providing data for adjusting counterweight.

And the best of them will be responsible for leading the shot, and he will shoot the correction bullet and then determine the counterweight data.

Such a person's contribution in the war is often the greatest among his colleagues, so after the establishment of the "artillery unit", Egypt set off a small wave of mathematics learning.

After one of the first throwing stones was not accurate, the person in charge of the shooting immediately calculated nervously, and soon he got the data, and then shouted loudly to make all the trebuchets adjust.

When the two armies were about one hundred and twenty paces apart, the trebuchets attacked again.

And this time, it was a salvo.

More than a dozen huge spheres were thrown out, drawing beautiful parabolas in the air.

With the familiar sound of "huhu——", Mai Libula and the soldiers under his command were in danger for a while, and no one wanted to be smashed into pieces by these spheres.

Melibullah had already started praying to the gods, and the catapult was not accurate this time.

However, the blessing of the gods is not worth the rigorous calculation.

This time, the throwing points of the trebuchets were all in the middle of the enemy formation, and the error between different trebuchets was quite small, which showed the accuracy of the trebuchet itself.

Compared with the last throw, the result of this attack is much more tragic.

This is not just because of the number of trebuchets and the location of the hit, but also because of the difference in the throwing objects.

A ball-shaped stone bullet fell into the formation almost at the same time, and many soldiers were smashed into meat sauce at that time.

However, something even more terrifying happened.

"boom--"

"Boom——"

The falling stone bomb produced a huge explosion, and the nearby soldiers were either blown away by the violent airflow, or were covered in blood by the flying gravel, and even many unlucky ones were directly cut in half by the gravel.

Within a radius of tens of meters, it was instantly empty.

Mai Libula was stunned. He never expected that the stone bomb would explode, or was it the punishment of the gods?

After all, only the thunder of divine punishment can cause such an effect.

Melibula is still a knowledgeable person, even he would think so, and those ignorant ordinary soldiers naturally yelled in horror.

"It's God's punishment, that's God's punishment!"

"This is the fate of being an enemy of Pharaoh!"

"The gods are angry!"

Melibula's subordinates were in a mess instantly, and even the elite guards around him had the urge to run away.

"That's not God's punishment, it's the enemy's sorcery!" Seeing this, Melibullah immediately reacted, and began to order loudly, "The whole army attacks, everyone launches a charge, and destroys the enemy's props, otherwise the enemy's Black art will kill us all."

Mai Libula did have a few tricks. He had a lot of prestige in the army, so his decisive decision immediately had good results. Most of the soldiers believed his words, so they immediately charged towards the enemy.

The price is that their formation immediately became disorganized.

However, for Melibra, this is already the best result, it is better than the collapse of the army and the soldiers fleeing.

So, how did this explosive stone bomb come from?

Of course, Ye Ting did not use gunpowder weapons in this era. In other words, based on the processing level of this era, even if black powder is mixed, it is still impossible to create a bomb that can be used in trebuchets and explode stably.

In fact, these exploding stone bombs are all magical effects.

Although Ye Ting formed a war mage group for Nitocris, in fact, the role of the war mage group is not just to use spells to attack the enemy on the battlefield.

They can do much more.

For example, if the weather is bad before the battle, the mages of the School of Ra (the school that learns the magic of Ra's runes) will temporarily summon the scorching sun to disperse the clouds in the sky.

For example, in the process of investigating the enemy's situation, the mages of the Horus School will use the famous "Eye of Horus" spell to gain insight into thousands of miles.

And these explosive stone bombs are the enchantment from the mage group.

In fact, even the stone bullets were made by the Geb school mages after the slaves collected stones, using the "Gebu stone-shaping technique". If the bullets are not standard, then the so-called trebuchet calibration will not work.

However, because the effect of enchanting on ordinary materials such as stone bullets is not good, mages must temporarily enchant them and use them on the same day.

Even though it is troublesome, the effect of the stone bomb is self-evident.

Compared with these mages who have only studied for four years, the range of spells and enchanted stone projectiles thrown by trebuchets is much longer, and there is enough time to prepare

Instead of instant casting spells on the battlefield, enchanting stone bullets is indeed a very efficient behavior.

In the previous wars that captured various Nomes, these enchanted stone bullets played a huge role. Facing such magical artillery, soldiers of this era had no power to resist at all, and they were so scared that they surrendered just by being frightened.

Only Mai Libula and his soldiers launched a counterattack when facing the magic artillery.

However, in the face of Nitocris' glorious army, such a counterattack is doomed to be futile.

Looking at the scattered formation in front of her, completely lost formation, and the enemy who suddenly charged, Nitocris did not feel flustered by the sudden change, but her eyes lit up.

"Command, archers, three salvos!"

As the pharaoh's scepter was knocked down heavily, the guards naturally passed on the order.

Then, the archers in the formation bent their bows and set their arrows, and aimed their arrows in the air under a unified order.

The enemy has barely entered the range of a hundred paces, and ordinary archers want to hit enemies within this range, naturally they have to throw.

If it was Daqin's army, they should have shouted at this time: "Wind, strong wind!"

This is why wind direction is indeed an important condition for archers.

But for Nitocris...

Behind the archers, the mage group has already started to work.

Following the order of Nitocris, the mages of the Shu (Wind God) school began to cast spells together.

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