Chapter 162 Fortress Attack and Defense 4

Duke Dodge looked at the battle on the fortress with a grim expression.

The current situation was not good, and the defenders were obviously being suppressed by the rebels.

After careful consideration, he ordered: "Send out the reserve troops to help the soldiers in front retreat to the inner wall."

The bugler on the side immediately raised the bugle and blew it with a special rhythm.

The old duke said to an officer behind him: "Take out our secret weapon."

The officer was shocked: "Sir, that is our last trump card! It cannot be used until it is absolutely necessary!"

Duke Dodge smiled bitterly: "Can't you see it? Now is the last resort. In other words, if we don't show this trump card as soon as possible, we won't be able to survive until it is absolutely necessary."

The officer's face was bitter, and he nodded and said: "Yes, sir."

Then he turned and ran away.

...

"Retreat to the inner wall!"

"Retreat to the inner wall!"

The officers who fought with the soldiers on the outer wall of the fortress conveyed orders to their subordinates one after another.

The defending soldiers immediately gathered around their respective leaders and covered each other as they moved to the inner wall.

As a complete defensive fortress, Thorn Fortress has two layers of walls, with a distance of 15 to 20 meters between the outer wall and the inner wall. The inner wall is higher, thicker and more difficult to conquer than the outer wall.

The rebel soldiers who climbed the wall were chasing them closely. They could not stop to rest at this time. If the defenders were allowed to retreat into the inner wall, it would bring a lot of trouble. The battlements on the inner side of the outer wall were short and small, and the defense effect against arrows from the inner wall was very poor.

However, the gate of the inner wall suddenly opened, and a large number of soldiers rushed out. This group of reserve troops of the defenders had been resting in the rear, watching the fighting on the outer wall, and they rushed out impatiently as soon as the Duke ordered.

The reserve soldiers immediately replaced the brothers who were fighting in front. The rebel soldiers who attacked the fortress had fought hard for a long time and had already shown signs of fatigue. In a hurry, they were suppressed on the outer wall by a counterattack of the reserve troops of the defenders.

But the reserve team did not linger in the battle, after all, they were still at a disadvantage in numbers. After covering the retreating brothers, they immediately retreated to the inner wall and closed the gate tightly.

"Lord Samar! The outer wall has been taken by us!"

"Good!"

Samar was extremely happy. He did not expect to take down the outer wall of Thorn Fortress so quickly.

"Immediately send the second wave of city troops to press on!"

"Yes!"

The rebels who occupied the outer wall opened the outer wall gate despite the arrows and crossbows of the inner wall defenders. A large number of rebels rushed in with ladders and battering rams, and the attack on the inner wall of the fortress started immediately!

It was still the soldiers wearing enchanted leather armor who took the lead. They bit their sabers in their mouths and struggled to climb up the ladder to the inner wall. After the previous fight, only about 300 of the original 500 soldiers remained combat-ready.

There was also a team of soldiers gathered at the gate of the city, hitting the gate hard with battering rams.

But strangely, the defenders only blocked them when they were climbing the ladder. Without the cover of the siege vehicle, the rebels lost many people to attacks such as stones and kerosene. But when they jumped onto the wall, the defenders who had just tried to stop them scattered to both sides, and a large area near the siege ladder was vacant.

"What are they doing?"

With such doubts, the rebel soldiers who climbed the wall were stunned for a moment, but they still raised their weapons and were fully alert to cover their subsequent companions to climb the city.

In this way, more and more rebel soldiers climbed the inner wall.

"Kill!"

After they gathered a certain number, they ignored the doubts in their hearts and rushed towards the defenders with a roar.

Suddenly, someone in the defenders shouted: "Aim!"

Then many soldiers holding strange weapons came out from the back, and the front end of the weapons was facing them. That... seemed to be a nozzle.

"Fire!"

I saw those strange "nozzles" suddenly ejected a long tongue of fire, rushing straight towards the rebel soldiers.

In an instant, the hell of fire descended!

When the flames reached the place where the rebels gathered, they had already turned into a huge column of fire. A large number of soldiers were sprayed and their bodies immediately burned.

"Ah~~!"

The screams of fear and pain immediately rang out among the rebel soldiers.

If someone looked carefully, they would find that the strange weapons of the defenders actually sprayed a burning liquid, which splashed on the rebel soldiers, providing fuel for the flames and eventually ignited the clothes on the target.

The soldiers on fire beat the flames on their bodies in fear, and their companions around them also helped to put out the fire. Some soldiers with larger fires fell directly to the ground and rolled, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not put out the flames on their bodies. They could only watch the flames devour their bodies in pain.

What was even more frightening was that the hands of those who helped put out the fire were also on fire. They shook their hands repeatedly, or put their hands on the parapet and rubbed and touched them, and then the flames were extinguished.

No one dared to help those on fire put out the fire, and they could only watch them being engulfed by the flames.

Even the guards who were watching were stunned, including the "flamers" who created this scene with their own hands. They had never expected that the weapons in their hands would be so powerful.

Those who stayed next to the "flamers" subconsciously kept a distance from them.

"Why are you still standing there? Keep spraying!"

The officers were the first to wake up from their state of shock, and loudly urged their subordinates to launch a second wave of attacks.

"Yes!"

The flamethrowers reacted and continued to fire the "tubes" in their hands, and the fire dragons rushed towards the rebels fiercely again.

The gate of the inner wall also suddenly opened. When the rebel soldiers gathered at the gate were about to rush in, they were greeted by fire dragons...

The tragic scene came again.

...

"What happened?"

On a temporary wooden tower, Samar and Scott stared at the scene on the inner wall in amazement.

In their eyes, they saw a flash of fire on the top of the wall, and then their own soldiers caught fire one after another. Those soldiers on fire struggled weakly in the flames until they fell down and could not move anymore.

The soldiers who were lucky enough not to be burned withdrew from the top of the wall and climbed down the ladder desperately. However, when the entire ladder was connected to a person, the defenders on the wall immediately seized the opportunity to spray a flame straight down, and the ladder was burning from beginning to end...

Samar came down from the wooden tower in a rage and ordered a knight: "Go and see what happened!"

Before the knight set off, a large group of their own fleeing soldiers poured out of the fortress.

Following them were the cavalry in the fortress. The cavalry of the defenders killed at will, while their own soldiers were in disarray and could not organize an effective resistance at all. They just kept running towards their side.

No mistake, one sentence, one content, one book, one bar!

Samar immediately ordered: "Line up!"

There were still many soldiers around him, who immediately formed a tight square formation, pointing their spears obliquely in the direction of the fortress, aiming at the enemy cavalry and... their own fleeing soldiers.

A knight with a loud voice shouted to the fleeing soldiers: "Anyone who dares to charge the battle will be killed without mercy!"

The fleeing soldiers knew that this was not a joke, and they scattered to the sides.

The rebel cavalry also began to trot their horses to cover their flanks.

The defending cavalry who rushed out saw that the remaining enemy troops were on high alert, and retreated to the fortress after chasing for a distance.

Samar breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately ordered the fleeing soldiers to be gathered and found an officer who had fled back to interrogate him in detail.

The officer had shocking burns on his arms, and he said in shock: "I don't know what means the other side used to spray us with unextinguishable flames. Many...many brothers were burned to death."

"Unextinguishable flames?"

"Yes, sir! Unextinguishable!"

The officer's face showed a look of horror and disbelief.

"There is a small pond between the outer wall and the inner wall. Some brothers who were on fire jumped in to put out the fire! But...but..."

Samar asked sternly: "But what?"

"But...but the fire on them is getting bigger and bigger!"

"How...how is this possible?"

Even Scott, who was standing next to Samar, suspected that he had heard it wrong. Water overcomes fire. This is common sense that even three-year-old children know.

The flames that burn more and more when encountering water, even the magic that the wizards are proud of can't do it, how do those mortals do it?

At this time, Samar was unusually calm. He asked the officer to go down and reorganize his team, and then ordered with a stern face: "Retreat!"

"Retreat? No, sir!"

Scott didn't want to retreat in vain. He had high hopes for this attack.

"It's just some kindling. The fire that can't be put out even by water must be an excuse for the deserters because they are afraid of death."

"Shut up! My soldiers are fighting desperately in the front, how dare you slander them like this?"

Samar suddenly yelled at him, and the general turned red from his face to his neck, obviously angry.

Scott was frightened by him and trembled, not knowing what to say.

"Sorry! Mr. Mage, I was a little impulsive just now."

Samar calmed down.

"I know that officer. He is definitely not a coward, otherwise he would not have been chosen to command the assault force. And... do you know 'Hellfire'?"

Scott heard this word for the first time, and a puzzled look appeared on his face: "Hellfire?"

Samar nodded: "Hellfire, a terrible flammable liquid. On the battlefield a long time ago, it should be during the era of the Gubella Empire, Hellfire was rampant for a time."

"It is said that it is a liquid made of a black viscous grease mixed with a certain proportion of flammable substances such as sulfur, asphalt, resin, etc. It is not only very flammable, but also can float on the water and burn. How can it be so flammable? It can't be extinguished. But what is that black grease and what is the specific formula, eventually lost due to strict confidentiality. "

Scott widened his eyes: "Is there such a magical substance?"

"This is a disaster that cannot be saved except by God. The only way is that every time the enemy attacks us with hellfire, all we have to do is kneel down and pray for God's salvation to escape danger - this is how it is described in the legend. "

Samar sighed: "Alas! I didn't expect this long-lost weapon to reappear in the world, and I happened to come across it. "

Scott asked unwillingly: "Is there no way to restrain hellfire?"

Samar shook his head: "Maybe, but I don't know. Now we can only retreat and continue to keep an eye on the fortress. I can't take a second risk with the troops entrusted to me by the Grand Duke. If there is a mistake, it will cause great trouble to the Grand Duke's plan to unify the south."

Scott turned his head to look at the Thorn Fortress, and said with endless regret:

"Okay! I follow your arrangements!"

Hehe, guess what the prototype of "Hellfire" is?