Chapter 244 Cross Firepower and Continuous Pearl Fireball

"Gondor archer, free shooting! Isillian Ranger, northeastern, elevated at 40 degrees, shoot!"

After experiencing two mission worlds, and when he was in the central city, he worked hard to learn to charge, Jiang Hai is no longer the otaku who only knows how to play computer games and talks about war on paper. He does not lack practical experience or theoretical knowledge. Not to mention how outstanding he is, Jiang Hai is at least a qualified battlefield commander.

At this time, he keenly captured the changes in the battlefield and found that Shakt sent two thousand baggage soldiers to rush over with earth bags, obviously to pave a way for the siege tower and siege hammers. Jiang Hai immediately changed his tactics and allowed the Gondor archers on the wall to continue to use uninterrupted firepower attacks on the dense ants and taurens under the city. The Isillian Ranger located in the city placed his target on the unlucky earth-carrying coolies.

Before this attack, Shakt's plan was very good. First, use the dark elf crossbowman covered by moving wooden walls to consume the defenders' sharpness and attract their attention. Then the army pressed forward, siege hammer, siege tower, cloud ladder, and three types of siege equipment were put into battle, and multiple troops fought together. During the time when the atmospheric magic was in effect, they captured the city head in one go.

Unfortunately, the continuous accidents made Shacket's offensive plan disconnect. Now he wants to pave the road with earthen bags as soon as possible to keep the siege towers and siege hammers up, and Jianghai naturally cannot let them get what they want.

Those baggage soldiers who were carrying earth bags and didn't know they were running on the road to death were not aware of the tragic situation they were about to encounter. They felt that they were just coolies who were harmlessly fighting on the battlefield. The enemy should use limited arrows to deal with more threatening targets - such as those taurus warriors carrying shiny axes and full of tendon meat.

But when the rain of arrows fired by Isillian Rangers landed above their heads, the baggage soldiers realized that they were wrong.

Only half of the two thousand baggage soldiers finally ran to the bottom of the basin and filled the soil bags into the slope to complete their tasks.

Shacket had no choice but to continue to send baggage troops to carry out this work that was almost gone but never returned.

"Are you filling it with a soil bag or a human life?" Shacket was so depressed that he almost went crazy. The attack has been going on for fifteen minutes now. After another fifteen minutes, the magic of the atmospheric shield blessed by the soldier will be invalid. His own mana value can still be used again. In other words, if he cannot capture the enemy's fortress within an hour, today's siege battle will be declared failure - Shacket was not stupid enough to let his soldiers face the enemy's terrifying rain of arrows without the protection of the atmospheric shield. The failure last night gave him a very deep impression of the lethality of human archers.

Jiang Hai naturally knew the defects of Shakt's atmospheric magic. That's why he asked the Isillian Ranger to concentrate his firepower to attack the enemy's bags of bags to delay the opponent's attack progress.

The only good news that Shacket received at this time was that his soldiers finally rushed to the bottom of the bastion with great casualties and successfully put the ladder onto the city wall. Shacket's ladder was also from the hands of Gordon's engineers. At the top of the ladder, there was a pair of large metal hooks, with a small earth-type magic "clay technique" attached to it.

When the ladder is placed on the city wall, a pair of large hooks on the ladder fall down immediately, hook on the city wall, stuck tightly, and trigger the magic on the hook. A large ball of clay will quickly solidify, and then tightly stick the hook on the ladder to the city wall. It is necessary to spend a lot of energy and time to peel off the ladder from the city wall. However, on a tense battlefield, it is almost impossible to have free time to do such things. Therefore, as long as these special ladders of Gordon are mounted on the city wall, it is almost impossible to push down by defensive soldiers.

Shacket's main attack direction this time was six walls northeast of the bastion. At this time, at least a ladder was installed on each wall. As a pioneer, the heavy-armed Hell Cavemen began to climb first. They put their shields on their heads and rushed towards the city walls with arrows and stones.

However, the progress of the battle situation, which was piled up by countless corpses, was blocked by the strong defense system of the burg. The burg was able to replace traditional castles and become a trustworthy fortification in the era when firearms were first rampant. It does not mean that its walls are much stronger than ordinary castles and can be without fear of artillery bombardment. In fact, no matter how strong the city wall is, it cannot withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery.

The reason why the battalion is famous is that its special building structure allows the defenders to exert their firepower advantages of 120 or even 200.

The twenty-four-sided ridges built by Jianghai have each wall at an angle of 120 degrees to the other wall. In this way, when one wall is attacked by the enemy, the defenders located on the other wall can attack the enemy without any obstacles with long-range weapons. The enemy attacking each wall will be hit by fierce firepower from two directions and all-round and without dead corners. The traditional square city defense system has multiple shooting blind spots. Just by fully leveraging the advantages of firepower, the ridges are completely superior to the old castle.

Shacket's dungeon army was still the old-fashioned siege idea. The soldiers who climbed the ladder only focused on the shield to resist the arrows shot from their heads, but they did not expect that their backs were a large target with the center of the circle for the archers on the other wall.

Cross-shooting and covering each other, Jiang Hai taught Shakt a lesson, letting the other party know what the defense system in the new era is. Although he successfully boarded several ladders, in a full ten minutes, no dungeon soldier rushed up the city wall! Instead, the soldiers who climbed the ladders were shot in the back and then screamed and fell down, and one scene after another...

Seeing that the situation was too late, the number of casualties of his soldiers was rising sharply, his morale was declining, and Shacket's temper was getting worse and worse. Now, his only hope was Sherlocks, who had just volunteered.

"That hell mage who is covered in sulfur odor is better not bragging..." Shacket murmured.

Sherlocks volunteered to open up the deadlock for Shacket and asked Shacket for some precious stealth powder.

For dark elves who are good at stealth and assassination, stealth powder is an expensive and precious strategic material. Every dark elves or Negan nobles will hold some of these precious alchemy props. However, dark elves with lower status can only afford low-purity stealth powder. This kind of stealth powder can achieve stealth effect only under the cover of the night and with professional stealth skills.

Dungeon lords like Shacket, who are rich and powerful, have high-purity invisibility powder. Even in broad daylight, even ordinary people who have no idea what the word "slide" in their brains are able to easily hide through this magical powder.

Shackett had great expectations for Sherlocks' fire-type destruction magic, so he gritted his teeth and gave his precious high-purity invisibility powder to the other party.

There is a reason for Sherlocks to need stealth powder. In order to exert the maximum power of his destructive magic, he needs to try to get close to the enemy as much as possible. The ideal range of this hell mage's pearl fireball technique is 100 meters away. This distance is far smaller than the range of the enemy's bow and arrow. Therefore, he must rely on the help of the stealth powder to avoid the enemy's bow and arrow and sneak into the bottom of the bastion.

The human defenders' attention was completely attracted by the siege troops, and Sherlock easily came to the ideal distance needed to release the continuous fireball. He looked at the tall castle wall a hundred meters away, and the human soldiers who were fighting bloody battles and repelling waves of attacks in the dungeon army, showing a cruel smile.

"Since I have become a human traitor, I have to go all out and I have no way back!"

Sherlocks' hands began to condense fire elements crazily, and it turned red. After the energy balance around him was broken, his invisibility effect was also lifted. The hell mage was best at the continuous pearl fireball technique. He used this spell to turn many enemies into ashes, and he was already extremely skillful. Only two seconds passed in the chanting time, and the fireball condensed between his hands became as big as a watermelon.

Jiang Hai saw the magician who suddenly appeared out of thin air in the city wall mountain, and shouted anxiously: "Archer, hurry up, kill that magician quickly, and be sure to stop him from releasing his magic!"

He could feel that the other party was brewing terrifying destructive energy. If he was hit by this magic, he would definitely suffer heavy losses.

After receiving the order from Jiang Hai, both Isillian Rangers and Gondor Archer turned their target to Sherlock, who was as conspicuous as a bonfire in the dark. Countless arrows flew out and attacked him.

However, Jiang Hai found that when the arrow reached half a meter in front of the Hell Mage, a magic shield immediately appeared and blocked all the arrows. The protection of this magic is much stronger than Shakt's atmospheric Aura. However, Shakt's atmospheric Aura is a tactical magic that acts on plural units, while the magic shield of the Hell Mage only acts on single-player combat magic. Both have their own uses and cannot be generalized.

Sherlocks' unexpected raid did not leave much reaction time for Jiang Hai. Moreover, his chanting speed was fast. Before the human archer could shoot the second round of arrows, the continuous pearl fireball in the hand of the hell mage was ready to complete.

"Taste the flames of hell!" Sherlocks raised his hand and pushed it hard, throwing the orange-red fireball towards the city wall.

In the arrogant voice of the Hell Mage, the pearl fireball fell into the crowd of guards and suddenly exploded!
Chapter completed!