Diabinas was fooling Salin. Salin's killing intent was so strong that it couldn't be dispersed. Once the Undead Lord was out of control, he would be in great danger. However, the army of the Vatican was still here, and he had to rely on these three guys. Killing them now would be detrimental to the city's defense.
Salin patrolled the city with his men. Fortunately, his teacher had given him the blueprints for the city. Without the Sequence of Dante, the thirty-meter-tall city wall wouldn't have been able to withstand the attack of the army of the Vatican without the Magic Tower.
There were many Mages outside the city, some of whom were more powerful than the black deacon and the black bishop. They might even be inferior to Genaris. However, Genaris was a divine emissary, a level-nine expert. His Divine Punishment could almost kill opponents of the same level. If it weren't for Rex's Ring of God, Genaris would probably have the last laugh.
There were at least a dozen Mages outside the city, all of whom had reached the level of Magic Shooter. It would be quite dangerous for so many Mages to fly above the city.
However, with the Sequence of Dante, all the buildings on the city wall formed an elemental control array that wasn't a magic array but surpassed it. With the support of the magic array, it would be difficult to fly within five kilometers of the city wall.
The Mages didn't dare to approach near the city wall. Salin thought for a moment and said, "Send more barbarian archers, each with twelve flying axes. If the enemy can climb up, they might be heavily armored or death warriors with multiple layers of armor."
The enemies in the distance didn't plan to attack the northern city wall. The western city wall was eight kilometers wide. If they split their forces, they wouldn't be able to gather enough strength. The Vatican's estimation was somewhat wrong. They thought that they would face a battle line with a width of two kilometers. Salin estimated that the enemy would attack two or three points with all their might, instead of a pincer attack from the north and the west.
Seeing the enemy right under his nose, Salin wasn't so nervous anymore. At least part of his estimation was correct. The enemy didn't have any large equipment. After losing a batch of trebuchets and siege towers at Duanren Pass, the expeditionary army cut down trees and made a batch of crude trebuchets. However, in order to increase their attack range and avoid being easily destroyed by the trebuchets in the city, they were very large and required a long time to prepare, so they couldn't suppress the city.
The expeditionary army had built about a hundred catapults. These giant tree-made weapons required more than fifty soldiers to operate and at least five horses.
Salin did a simple calculation in his mind, and knew that this kind of crude catapult could only be fired once every half an hour, and it could not fire shrapnel. Because it was impossible to control the landing point, it could only be regarded as a form of restraint for the soldiers in the city. The speed of the catapult's projectiles was also relatively slow, so they couldn't hit swordsmen at all. At most, they would randomly hit some support soldiers or unlucky swordsmen.
When the soldiers of Duanren Pass retreated, they didn't leave much equipment behind. Salin saw a few hundred big crossbows and some small refined crossbows. The crossbow was made by Qin Yin, but the alchemy crossbow was made by a mage. Its range was definitely not as good as the real one in Salin's hands.
"Give each mage on the city wall twelve Rank 3 Fire Cloud Scrolls, twelve Rank 3 Wind Blade Scrolls, and two Rank 2 Acid Rain Scrolls. Hmm, everyone should also go to the temple to get a Rank 3 Icicle Scroll."
The Rank 3 Icicle Scroll that Salin mentioned was actually a scroll he had made himself. Its lethality was equivalent to a Rank 3 spell, but it could still be used by a Rank 1 mage. He had once used a compound Icicle Scroll to kill over a hundred people at once. It could be said to be the most powerful low-level spell.
The mages on the city wall were not of high rank. If not for the special city walls of Metatlin that could protect these mages, Salin wouldn't even dare to let them come up. However, the biggest problem for low-level mages was that they did not have enough magic strings, and their ability to release magic was limited. Thus, Salin prepared a large number of scrolls and diluted magic potions so that low-level mages' mental power could last for a long time in battle.
There were many low-level mages among the enemy's warriors, and Salin had also stationed low-level mages on the city wall. In this regard, the two sides were evenly matched. Salin, on the other hand, had the advantage. He had the city walls of Metatlin, while the enemy only had a few pitiful towers and ladders.
Siege hammers were useless against Metatlin because Salin had enough magic catapults that could destroy the enemy's large-scale equipment.
The enemy assembled the catapults at a distance of three miles. The catapults in the city did not wait for the enemy to finish assembling and began to attack. Huge stones flew through the air towards the catapult skeleton in the distance. Salin was well prepared, but he used ordinary catapults instead of magic catapults.
There were also a large number of these catapults, more than 200 of them. They were also made at the last minute and were originally prepared to deal with the enemy's infantry attacking the city. In the end, Salin discovered that the enemy had made a hundred catapults and immediately used them on this.
The first time, more than 30 huge stones were used to correct the direction. Then, the mages provided more precise shooting points. Thousands of barbarians operated the catapults and drove the purchased magical beasts to pull the capstans and launch the huge stones.
Immediately, more than 30 catapults were hit, and more than 20 of them were directly destroyed. Then, the last 50 catapults attacked, and more than 10 of the expeditionary army's catapults were destroyed.
A comprehensive attack destroyed half of the expeditionary army's catapults. Archbishop Nicholas knew that it was no longer possible to suppress the enemy with catapults.
The Tanggulas people were not good at this, but the real siege equipment had been sent to the front lines of Jialoulan. The pope did not expect to face this kind of city, so Nicholas was faced with such a predicament. As the attacking party, their long-range attacks were completely suppressed by the enemy, and they had to rely on the soldiers' climbing ability to attack the city!
If anyone were to command such an attack, there would be heavy casualties.
Salin simply returned to the main gate on the west side and watched the first attack and defense battle live. He was a level-six mage himself, and was very useful to the city's defense. The soldiers on Salin's side also had to adapt to the enemy's first wave of attack. Fortunately, the second and sixth battalions had fought with the expeditionary army before, so there would not be any panic.
With Salin personally in charge, the soldiers' morale was also raised to the extreme.
This was not only because of Salin, but also because of Holy Rock City. Salin had long spread the news that Qin Yin had sent a million troops to counterattack the Church's main force in Jialoulan. In Salin's Metatlin City, most of the residents were personally led by him. As long as Holy Rock City was not destroyed, they would not despair, nor would they surrender.
Salin's catapults could carry out the second round of attack in ten minutes, while the enemy's catapults were clearly much slower. In the end, only a dozen or so of the expeditionary army survived, and they launched huge stones into the city. These stones were not even polished, and were difficult to roll after landing on the ground, so their damage was limited. Even if they fell into the crowd, they would not be able to kill many people.
This was not like Salin's city, which was well-prepared. Every stone shot was oval, and after landing, even if they did not hit their target, they would roll randomly in an arc, killing and injuring many people.
The dozen or so huge stones really did fly more than three miles and land in the city. One of them smashed into a metal arrow tower, knocking it to the side and landing on the ground. The surrounding soldiers quickly dodged, and a few auxiliary soldiers were scared silly, but they were saved by the swordsmen beside them.
The rest of the stones smashed into the ground, rolling for more than ten meters before losing their momentum.
Thousands of soldiers, under the cover of the caravans, advanced towards the walls of Metatlin City. The magic catapults immediately showed their power, throwing out a large number of magic stone bullets. These magic stone bullets were fired diagonally upwards, relying entirely on the downward impact. They dispersed in mid-air and bombarded downwards.
In an instant, hundreds of caravans were destroyed by the magic catapults, and because the attacking infantry were too densely packed, there were casualties everywhere. Those who were not injured were all protected by the mages beside them. The mages hurriedly retreated. These low-level mages could defend against fist-sized stone bullets, but they could not face sharp bows and arrows.
These magic stone bullets had no accuracy to speak of, and were purely designed to deal with the enemy's dense formation.
The first attack was routed by the magic catapults. Sarin's eyes narrowed as he discovered the Church's greatest weakness. The Church's long-range attack ability was inferior to Qin Yin's, and the technology in Sarin's hands was all invented by Qin Yin's people. The Tanggulas' catapults, towers, and so on were not very effective.
No wonder the Church had so many troops to wreak havoc in Jialoulan territory for more than a year before gradually quelling the resistance of the local nobles. This kind of attack came at the cost of their own casualties.
"Get the craftsmen to speed up the production of stone bullets, use everyone." Sarin had enough arrows stored, and even if they fought for half a year, they would not run out, but the number of stone bullets was not enough. Now he found that, although stone bullets were less lethal, they were much safer than bows and arrows. Even if they attacked with crossbows, the soldiers would have to reveal half their heads, and it was impossible to shoot from a safe place. The catapults, on the other hand, were basically safe to kill and injure the enemy without considering their own losses.
Nania suddenly said from behind: "Sarin, don't do this."
"Okay, according to the original plan, but replenish the number of stone bullets as soon as possible. The enemy's main force has the support of high-level mages, this kind of attack is not very effective. " Sarin immediately changed his words, but in his heart he knew that Nania was right. If they relied on catapults to suppress the enemy on a large scale, then his own soldiers would probably never have the experience and courage to fight the enemy in close combat.
Sure enough, the enemy immediately changed their attack method, spreading out the infantry, carrying ladders, and charging towards the city walls. Hundreds of steel arrow carts were pushed up, also scattered far away, shooting at the city walls with hard crossbows, hoping to suppress the archers in Metatlin.
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