The Knight commander on the Miracle Wall received the order and yelled, "Adjust the angle of the catapults on your own. Aim at the high platform on the opposite side. Fire in five groups!"
All the catapult teams began to adjust the angle of the catapults. They were all professional catapult operators. Their job was to practice the catapults almost every day. It could be said that they were more flexible with the catapults than they were with their own bodies.
It only took 30 seconds for the 60 catapults to be completely adjusted. The huge round stones were loaded into the catapults. With the inertia brought by the heavy objects on the catapults, these half-meter-diameter stone balls were thrown into the air.
The stone balls drew an arc in the air and landed heavily on the high platform. Some of them missed and rolled down the slope of the high platform. The Taurens at the front did not back down with their shields. They roared and blocked the stone balls with their shields.
Every time a Minotaur fell, another two would take its place. The huge impact of the stone ball also lost its momentum after crushing and killing nearly ten Minotaurs with iron shields.
Some of the stone balls directly hit the Taurens with shields and caused even more damage. A few Taurens were turned into a pile of flesh and blood on the ground. After crushing a few more Taurens, the stone balls slammed into the Orc catapult again.
A few huge logs of the Orc catapult were broken by the impact. The entire catapult began to shake.
"Repair! Repair! " A vulpera behind the Orc catapult yelled. A dozen vulpera rushed forward and used wooden blocks and iron nails to reinforce the damaged Orc catapult.
At the same time, elite shield-wielding Taurens took over the position of the dead Taurens. The Taurens' mission was to protect the Orc catapult and the vulpera.
The wood used for the catapults was very strict. Some of them had to be hard, while others had to be flexible. Also, they had to be huge trees to be used.
Due to the geographical location of the Orc Empire, there were very few trees like this. Therefore, they had to pay a huge price for these trebuchets. At the same time, due to the limited tree resources in the Orc Empire, although they had sent people to the most dangerous area in the Budapest Mountain Range to cut down some wood, it was still far from enough.
In the end, the Orc Empire could only demolish all the wooden houses in a few cities to solve the problem of wood.
Even so, the range of these trebuchets did not reach the range of human trebuchets. This was why they had no choice but to place the trebuchets 250 meters away.
"This won't do. If this continues, all of our stone throwers will be destroyed. Quickly use the ballistae to suppress the Miracle Wall. Raise the smoke signal so that the enemy can't aim!" General Jellal was not satisfied with the speed of the Tauren, but there was nothing he could do. He looked at the Tauren Rohr and ordered.
"Yes, General!" Tauren Ka Rohr replied.
Soon, smoke began to rise from the platform. The entire platform was shrouded in smoke. Although the human catapults had destroyed six of the orc catapults, they didn't achieve much. Under the protection of the smoke, the catapults, which weren't very accurate to begin with, relied on luck to attack.
At the same time, the Taurens lifted the ballistae and quickly rushed up the platform. In order to know their position in the smoke, these Taurens had been trained for a long time.
Four powerful Taurens were able to lift a ballista. Very quickly, forty ballistas were set up, taking up almost the entire front of the platform.
As the smoke signal dissipated, the first thing the Knight on the Miracle Wall saw were the ballistae flying towards them. He couldn't help but yell, "Watch out for the ballistae! Counterattack!"
The ballistae on the platform were timed perfectly. The smoke signal had just dissipated, and the Miracle Wall was not prepared for it.
This round of 40 ballistae destroyed 5 of the ballistae on the Miracle Wall, slightly damaged 2 of the trebuchets, and injured a dozen or so of the Knight.
In response to the orcs' attack, countless ballistae were shot out. Hundreds of Taurens were killed, and a dozen or so of the ballistae were destroyed.
10 of the orcs' trebuchets were still in good condition. The damaged trebuchets were being repaired by a group of vulperans. At this time, the orcs' trebuchets were already in place, and they began to throw boulders at the Miracle Wall.
The accuracy of the trebuchets was like winning the lottery. Both sides had to use their trebuchets to destroy the other's trebuchets. The orcs' trebuchets were not polished, so although they could deal more damage, they could not deal more damage.
At this time, the battle on the Miracle Wall had reached its most dangerous moment. The Taurens did not care about their own lives. Once a Tauren died, another Tauren would come from behind to replace it. Once a ballistae was destroyed, another 4 powerful Tauren would immediately send a new one to the platform.
Between the platform and the Miracle Wall, rocks and boulders were flying. Ballistae were constantly crisscrossing in the air. Knight would fall from time to time, and the ballistae would be destroyed. The battle on the platform was even more tragic. The Taurens were risking their lives to protect the trebuchets.
Their long-range attacks were weaker than humans, so the Taurens were the most vulnerable on the platform. These elite Taurens were risking their lives to fight against the well-equipped humans.
While both sides were attacking each other, a red fireball flew out from the white tent in the center of the orc battlefield and exploded in the air.
Tens of thousands of Pecker Knights received the signal and rushed out from both sides of the platform. They held ladders in their hands and rushed towards the Miracle Wall.
These Pecker Knights were the collateral products of the countless Pecker Orcs. The best of them had become the private army of some elite priests. However, most of them were not the most powerful Pecker Knights, but they were far more powerful than normal orcs.
These Pecker Knights had become the second main force to attack the Miracle Wall. At this point, the orc priests had sacrificed 20 black-cloaked priests to deplete the energy of the Miracle Wall's defensive circle. Both sides had yet to use their most powerful spellcasting ability.
This second wave of Pecker Knights was meant to test the limits of the Miracle Wall's defensive line. As long as the human wizards made a move, the orcs would know the limits of the Knight's defensive line.
Human Sorcerers had limited magic power. In a battle like this, the number of spells they could cast was limited. Every time they cast a spell, they would lose a portion of their offensive power when facing the orcs' most powerful attacks.
The Pecker Knights howled as they rushed towards the Miracle Wall. They stepped on the corpses of their own kind. They had never been so close to the top of the Miracle Wall. They were the closest orcs to the top of the Miracle Wall in thousands of years.
The ladders were made of bamboo. They were light and tough. Most importantly, the Orc Empire produced this type of bamboo. Therefore, these ladders were not precious to the Orcs. They could be used together with the Pecker Knights as consumables.
"Attention, the orcs are attacking the wall. Fire your arrows!" The Knight commander yelled.
Arrows flew down from the top of the Miracle Wall, and Pecker Knights fell one after another. However, even more Pecker Knights managed to reach the bottom of the Miracle Wall. They set up ladders and abandoned their mounts to climb up.
Every Knight on the Miracle Wall was an official Knight. They only needed to defend for 2 hours at a time, so they did not have to conserve their combat qi, especially at a time like this.
As the combat qi on the Knights flashed, the speed of the arrows increased. Not a single Pecker Knight could make it halfway up before they were shot dead.
However, the Pecker Knights were still climbing up. Since the human knights had stuck their heads out to attack, the Knight on the other side had more chances to attack. This had caused the human knights to suffer more casualties.
Hector and Manuel, the two human archers, were already tired. Although they didn't need to load the arrows, they had to make careful calculations every time they fired. The two of them were already old, and this kind of battle was still too intense for them.
However, the giant war ballistae controlled by the two master archers were still unleashing their terrifying power. Every time an attack was launched, the ballistae on the platform 250 meters away would be damaged.
The two of them had caused more damage to the orc ballistae than all the other human ballistae combined. Their feet were shaking as they stepped on the trigger mechanism, and their heads were covered in sweat.
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