Retracting the bone needles, Geyi felt a burning pain in his lungs. He used the sword aura to create a real wound on himself. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to fool the magician. He took two steps back, and the two pirates who followed him on his left and right used wooden shields to block the arrows for him. Geyi took out a small bottle and drank a mouthful of magic liquid.
This time, Salin gave Geyi three portions of magic liquid and told him that the magic liquid could only be stored for three months at most before losing its effect.
Of course, Geyi wouldn't be stingy. There were already hundreds of soldiers coming from afar. As the commander, he had to fight personally. Geyi made up his mind and used the sword aura to catalyze another portion of magic liquid, turning it into a mist and inhaling it into his lungs to heal his injuries.
These little tricks were taught to him by Zola. Geyi was not only ruthless to others, but also to himself. This healing method was extremely fast, but it required more pain.
Geyi spat out a mouthful of purple blood, and his face turned pale.
Pui!
Geyi spat out another mouthful of bloody phlegm on the magician's corpse on the ground.
So what if you're a magician? Didn't I still kill you? Thinking of this, Geyi's eyes glowed fiercely. He pulled out his short sword and rushed towards the city gate.
The narrowest part of the city gate was only six meters wide. Six iron shields were erected, blocking the attacks of the enemy. Geyi rushed over from the back, and the two pirates were loyal to his side, blocking the arrows for him.
An iron crossbow shot into the arm of a pirate, passing through the bone. The pirate's face twisted in pain, but he was really brave. He swapped the long sword to his other hand, pretending that his injured right hand wasn't his.
Geyi didn't look back. He rushed to the city gate, and the iron shields naturally parted to let the three of them pass. At this time, even Geyi was hit by a few arrows.
The big hole in the city gate continued to expand. The barbarians continued to use the few iron axes they stole to destroy the city gate so that the magic chariots could rush in. These barbarians were also certain of one thing. As long as the magic chariots could rush into the city, this battle would be considered a victory.
The battle was extremely tragic. The defending side saw the enemy destroying the city gate and knew that there must be something more dangerous behind, so they attacked the rows of iron shields at the city gate with all their strength. The barbarian knew that if the city gate was taken back, his hundred brothers would be killed by the enemy.
There were a thousand heavy cavalry in the west of the city, and if they were to be transferred over, the hundred or so barbarians would not be able to stop them.
At this point, Ge Yi also knew that he had miscalculated. In his opinion, his sudden sneak attack would definitely cause the opponent to panic, and it would not be a problem for him to last six minutes. But when he was a pirate, he faced the soldiers or mercenaries of small nobles. Today, his opponent was the imperial army.
Faced with a sudden attack, these regular soldiers quickly rushed forward, almost without any hesitation. Although the low-ranking officers of the Empire had sinister expressions on their faces, their commands were methodical. Seeing that the row of barbarians behind the iron shields had been beheaded, the row of barbarians at the back took their place.
The biggest problem for the Barbarians was that they had lost their weapons. If they had axes and halberds, they would not have been broken through so quickly. The Empire's army had already begun to mobilize the spearmen. When the seven-meter-long spears formed a human wall, no formation could stop them.
Tap tap, tap tap …
The crisp sound of horse hooves came from outside the city. The barbarians cheered and slashed at the city gate even harder. The pirates under Ge Yi did not follow the magic chariot, but arrived first. Their skeletal horses all had barbarian axes and halberds hanging on them. The soldiers on top of the city wall immediately released arrows.
But these pirates were all holding shields and wearing armor designed by Salin. Unless they had medium-sized alchemy crossbows or above, it was impossible to kill them directly.
The skeletal horses were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they had already rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and the soldiers on top of the city wall could no longer mobilize heavy crossbows to shoot them.
Strangeburg's terrain was strange. It was a city built between two towering mountains. The city wall was built extremely high, and it was extremely difficult to climb it. But Strangeburg did not have a barbican, only a city wall. The pirate in front lifted his horse's head and jumped into the huge hole in the city gate. He took off the heavy halberd and threw it on the ground, then turned around and rushed out again.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten axes and halberds were in the hands of the barbarians. These axes and halberds were abnormally sharp and very heavy. The barbarians gathered together and used the axes and halberds to completely destroy the city gate. In less than a minute, the city gate loudly collapsed outwards.
The pirates braved the arrows shot down from the top of the city wall, threw out ropes, and dragged away the broken pieces of the city gate. Soon, the road in front of the city gate was cleared.
A few pirates who were good at shooting even picked up small alchemy crossbows and fired back at the top of the city wall. Unfortunately, the terrain was unfavorable, and they could not even suppress the enemy.
A large group of spearmen had already gathered in the city, and seeing that they were about to launch an attack, the barbarians who had gotten their weapons crossed the line of iron shields and actually launched a counterattack against the enemy that was ten times their size.
Arrows fell like rain, and more than twenty barbarians who had lost their armor were instantly shot down. But there were still more than thirty who rushed into the formation of the spearmen. To be exact, they did not rush in, but jumped in.
The spearmen in the front row had their spears raised horizontally, and even large magic beasts would have a hard time breaking through this formation. But the barbarians jumped several meters high, and two of them were pierced by the spears in the back row. Even if magicians arrived, they would not be able to save them.
Most of the barbarians avoided the spears and fell into the ranks of the imperial army. The spearmen also had short swords, but in order to break through the city gate, the formation of this large group of spearmen was extremely dense. Throwing away their spears, it was already chaos. How could short swords be a match for axes and halberds? The barbarians were simply fighting in a chaotic manner.
Since there were enemies all around them, they could swing their axes and halberds and hit their targets even with their eyes closed.
The spearmen had appeared, and they could no longer maintain their morale. They had never seen an enemy that could use axes and halberds like this. Every barbarian chosen by Salin was a man of great strength. Such people could be trained in the imperial army, and they could become low-ranking sergeants. Low-ranking sergeants could lead five to forty soldiers, and as the elites of a small team, they would be responsible for attacking the city walls.
Mages, mages?
The low-ranking officers began to shout loudly. The city gate had already been broken, and if there were no mages to block it, everyone knew what would happen next. Although the number of pirates that appeared outside the city gate was small, every one of them was riding a skeleton warhorse. The imperial officers knew that this meant that there was a necromancer among the enemies, and a great mage at that.
If they were unlucky, it might not be a great mage, but a magic shooter. If the necromancer entered the city and released a large number of undead troops, then Strandburg would be completely finished.
When the mages flew in the sky, they could still rely on the concentrated fire of the alchemy crossbows to threaten the safety of the mages. After all, this was the city's defense, and there were a large number of crossbows installed at the top of the city walls and in the city. But if the mages entered from the ground, they simply couldn't do that kind of attack.
On the west side of the city, two infantry platoons had already approached Strandburg's city walls. The mages in these two platoons had already cast Wind Speed on the soldiers to prevent them from being hit by the magic stones falling from the sky. The speed of the magic stones wasn't fast, and many mages could rely on Wind Speed to completely dodge them. This weapon relied on concentrated attacks to kill, and was very effective against a large number of targets.
The catapults at the top of the city walls could accurately kill targets within two and a half miles, so the two platoons of infantry stopped at two and a half miles away and began to set up their own catapults at the back.
The two platoons of soldiers set up heavy crossbows near the catapults, and the mages stood at the side with grave expressions. At this distance, if the catapults at the top of the city walls wanted to hit their targets, they would need to rely on some luck. These mages risked using magic strings to protect the safety of their own catapults.
This was the safest tactic. Only when their own catapults were installed and formed a suppression on the top of the city walls could the infantry rush up. Otherwise, more than half of the soldiers would be killed by the magic stones thrown by the enemy before they could even reach the edge of the city.
Catapults were such things. If you had them and the enemy didn't, they would be very useful. If both sides had them and were evenly matched, and mutually destroyed each other, in the end, it would still be up to the soldiers to resolve the battle.
The magic catapults that were more than ten meters tall were set up, and the mages guarding the catapults were very excited. In the past, the Qin Yin Empire relied on mages and catapults to conquer a large territory.
In that era, the magic shooters set up large-scale defensive magic spells in front of the catapults, and then used meteor-like attacks to destroy the enemy's city.
This method of attack was very efficient, and it was much more effective than relying on mages to bombard the city. After all, even for magic shooters, there was a limit to how many magic strings they could use. On the other hand, as long as there were enough magic stones, the catapults could attack continuously.
Back in the day, the Glucos Family was so powerful that even the Holy Church had to compromise with other forces in order to protect the last holy land of the Dongulas Empire.
This kind of scene hadn't appeared for thousands of years, right?
Actually, Rex didn't expect these 2,000 soldiers of the Banner Legion to be able to take down Strandburg. The reason she pretended to attack was to reduce the pressure on Daniel at the east gate.
The good thing was that when this happened, the soldiers of the Bitter Water Legion were almost ready. The battle puppets were also activated, and they followed the infantry of the two Banner Legion to the outside of the city. These battle puppets were also responsible for moving the magic stones. As long as there were magic cores, these puppets wouldn't tire at all. Also, doing this kind of simple task, the mages commanding the puppets didn't consume much spiritual energy.
The two Banner Legions were only the vanguard. Soon after, the cavalries of the two Banner Legions arrived, and they arrived almost immediately. These infantrymen weren't heavy infantry. If the enemy sent out heavy cavalry to attack when they were in formation, these soldiers who mainly relied on magic machinery would have a hard time defending.
The tactic of charging out of the city was very dangerous, but if it was used well, it would cause great damage to the enemy.
The people on the defense wall had already discovered the actions of the Bitter Water Legion through the alchemy telescope, and they immediately started to summon mages to adjust the catapults on the defense wall. At this time, it wasn't the advantage of the first attack. All the catapults had to be adjusted to ensure their landing range. However, the attacking side had to at least wait until the defending side attacked to know the exact location of the catapults on the defense wall.
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