[By the way, I had a toothache last night and didn't sleep, so I wrote slowly today. The third chapter might be before or after midnight, but there will definitely be. There's something wrong with the computer, and it crashes easily on QQ, so I haven't been in the group. I applied for broadband at home, so I didn't get a wireless router, just a computer. I'm a bit stupid, but when I'm refreshed, I can use my laptop and QQ. It's just that the network cable is easily damaged when plugged in. I don't know if there's a network cable distributor. The main text is 3147 words, and this nonsense won't affect the subscription …]
Heavy infantry had always been the main force against heavy cavalry in field battles. Equipment was a problem for heavy infantry to attack a city. How many countries could form an army of swordsmen and above to attack a city?
At the level of a swordsman, sword aura could be released from the body and attached to equipment. For example, armor, swords, and even feathered arrows. If a swordsman wore heavy armor, he could still leap as if he were flying.
A Senior Swordsman who was one level lower than an ordinary person could only be slightly stronger and last slightly longer. Unless they wore magic armor, swordsmen wearing heavy armor could last from one to six hours, depending on their level.
Now, heavy infantry began to appear among the cannon fodder charging at the city wall. These heavy infantry were glowing with white light, which was a forceful enhancement of magic that increased the speed and strength of these soldiers by a dozen times.
For the first time, Salin saw heavy infantry running at the same speed as cavalry. Although it was only a short distance of one mile, it was still quite terrifying. His heavy infantry weren't that fast even when charging at the top of the city wall. Forcibly increasing the speed of humans like this would cause serious damage to lives.
But so what if it was? This time, the Church was determined to raze Metatlin City to the ground regardless of the cost. It wouldn't be a problem to sacrifice all the expeditionary forces.
This was something only fourth-level magic and above could do. The expeditionary forces of the Vatican had begun to use intermediate mages, and on a large scale.
Salin regretted not producing a large amount of high-level magic armor at this time. If all his officers were equipped with high-level magic armor, he would be able to pass down his orders to every combat unit immediately.
Salin had to order all the arrow towers to rise and shoot with alchemy arrows together with the fixed arrow towers. Fortunately, Salin had peeled off all the shells of the red krill during his first hunt and made them into equipment. Among them, the thorns of the red krill were refined into the arrowheads of Alchemy Arrows by Salin.
Although the Red Krill was a weak level-four magical beast, their strongest attack was their spear thorns. This part of the material was worthy of their title as a level-four magical beast. The refined arrowheads could be sold for a few dozen gold coins, and people would be willing to buy them.
This was because this material was more durable than metal. As long as the refining technique was good enough, it would have a strong penetrating power. The red krill relied on this thorn to survive in the sea. If tens of thousands of red krill attacked at the same time with their spears, even a level-nine magical beast would have to dodge.
Even Holy Rock City didn't burn as much money as Salin. Every spear was put to good use, and three or four arrowheads were refined. Salin divided the three hundred thousand alchemy arrows among the five battalions. On the western city wall, there were more than a hundred thousand.
This was what Salin meant by using money to crush the enemy.
These alchemy arrows could be recycled after they were used, and they were much cheaper than magic scrolls. In the watchtowers on the city wall, the metal watchtowers that could rise and fall shot small alchemy arrows. The fixed watchtowers had strong defense, and they were equipped with medium and large alchemy crossbows.
The enemy strengthened their attacks, and Salin also showed his true skills.
These crossbows could shoot accurately. Immediately, more than a thousand arrows flew up from the top of the city wall. Salin held back for this round of attack. If the enemy mages could barely fly, he had more alchemy crossbows waiting for them.
Before Rex left, the most equipment he made for Salin was the alchemy crossbows, and Salin had paid a large number of magic cores for them. Now it was time to reap the rewards. Salin's alchemy crossbows hit the target every two times. The more than a thousand arrows instantly killed more than five hundred heavy infantry on the spot.
The Tanggulas heavy infantry wore white steel armor, and their helmets were made as a whole. Even axes might not be able to cut them open. Every heavy infantry had a metal round shield in their left hand. Their movements were nimble. When they sensed the incoming arrows, they actually had time to react and block their vitals in advance.
The spear of the red krill played a huge role at this moment. Penetration …
It was as if Salin had thrown tens of thousands of gold coins down from the city wall, bringing a series of pleasant sounds. The metal round shields and white steel helmets were as fragile as paper in front of the alchemy arrows.
At this moment, the magic array around Salin was fully activated. He could finally communicate directly with the mages in the watchtowers. These watchtowers were very important. With them, Salin didn't care about the enemy's attacks. Using flesh and blood to fight magic equipment had been proven to be extremely stupid a thousand years ago.
The powerful knights of the Divine Kingdom had also been annihilated in front of Sacred Rock City. It was said that the armor of the knights of the Divine Kingdom had the ability to fly. Back in the days, the Holy Church's soldiers were all powerful swordsmen and above. There were no weaklings. Even so, the city wall of Sacred Rock City was a natural moat.
Once the magic bell rang, everything within a hundred miles would be within the range of the attack. There were no exceptions.
Salin didn't have a magic bell, but he had a huge amount of magic beast materials, which he was willing to use.
The red krill were non-poisonous magic beasts. The spear was their only means of attack. According to the level of ability, they were Penetration, Tearing, and Healing. As long as the spear could penetrate the enemy's defense, the latter two would be more useful. The red krill were no longer than one and a half meters long. Normally, an adult red krill was only one meter long. The longest one could live was only one and a half meters long. The magic beasts in the sea could easily be more than a hundred meters long. Only the bigger warships could survive in the Frozen Sea. If the red krill wanted to reproduce in the Frozen Sea, they had to have these abilities.
The wounded heavy infantry were basically disabled. Their wounds were torn into more than half a foot long. Even the shining holy light couldn't heal them. Blood gushed out. More than two hundred soldiers fell one after another. Those who could continue to move forward were the ones who were only slightly scratched by the alchemy arrows.
Salin had set up a lot of watchtowers. However, the speed of reloading the alchemy crossbows was not as fast as normal crossbows. These powerful alchemy crossbows needed about three minutes to reload the arrows. Salin could only shoot in half a minute by shooting in sections. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to reserve the alchemy crossbows to deal with flying enemies.
Salin was most afraid that the enemy would have flying equipment and send the soldiers directly up the city wall. So he left half of the alchemy crossbows to deal with such enemies.
They fired once every half a minute. Due to the high hit rate, the heavy infantry fell like they were cutting chives. Cheers could be heard from the top of the city wall, but it was from the brave mercenaries who did not retreat. The Second Battalion had better discipline, so they all kept quiet. However, the cheers of the mercenaries made the Second Battalion very excited.
In the first half of the battle, the enemies could still run and climb at high speed even after being hit by arrows. This made the Second Battalion a little tired. During the attack on the city wall this time, none of the enemies who were hit could stand up again. Moreover, the hit rate seemed to be terrifyingly high.
"It's good to be rich!" Salin sighed. If it were someone else defending the city, they would have had a mental breakdown due to the frequency of the Vatican's attacks. However, Salin had only used tens of thousands of gold coins to raise the morale of the soldiers.
Tens of thousands of gold coins were spent every time. The entire battle would cost a few million gold coins. Salin didn't care. As long as he obtained the final victory, most of the equipment could be retrieved, repaired, and used again.
Salin sighed. Archbishop Nicholas was a tragedy. He had wanted to create an opportunity for the main army, but he didn't expect to save less than a thousand heavy infantry soldiers by the time they reached the city wall. Salin had used over ten thousand alchemy arrows to finish off over four thousand strong enemies.
Most importantly, this was a defensive battle. Every alchemy crossbow had already marked out hundreds of coordinates in the defensive area outside the city. All the mages needed to do was to calculate the enemy's running speed and design the landing point of the arrows in advance. This way, the accuracy could reach about 50%.
The Red Phosphorus Arrows were so powerful that even the heavily injured soldiers would die quickly. That was why they had such a shocking effect.
One had to know that the arrows of the undead archers only cost a few dozen copper coins to produce in Metatlin City. In terms of cost, the difference was a thousand times.
Dozens of boulders flew out from the rear and landed in Metatlin City. It was Salin's catapults that had been sent to deal with the steel monsters and arrow carriages. The expeditionary army had seized the opportunity to use the dozens of newly installed catapults.
These catapults had no aim, but they were still lethal. The houses in the city were abnormally sturdy, but many horses and slaves were crushed to death by the dozens of boulders. Salin had already ordered the slaves to enter the barbican. If the enemy broke through the gates, the slaves would hold them off for a while. These slaves would be rewarded for killing one enemy, and granted freedom for killing three. Those who could kill more than five enemies and still live could join Metatlin City.
The Church had cannon fodder, and so did Salin. The slaves he had bought were all sent to the mines. The ones left behind were people Salin could consider absorbing. The only way for these people to survive was to fight for Salin.
Under the continuous attacks of the expeditionary army, someone finally managed to reach the top of the city walls. This wasn't because Salin was going easy on them, but because there were simply too many enemies. The alchemy crossbow was slow, and the arrows were fast, but their damage was small. Unless everyone was like Zola or Eleanor.
On the top of the defense wall, Banchagana's body quickly expanded, and he took up the space of two battlements. The soul fire in his eyes danced intensely. Judy shouted in surprise, "Banchagana, don't go crazy!"
"Ok!" Banchagana answered in a heavy tone. He waved his two arms in front of him and smashed down dozens of heavy infantry that climbed up the defense wall. The short axes in the hands of those heavy infantry only left streaks of sparks on his white bones; they didn't cause any damage.
However, Judy felt like something was wrong. It seemed like Banchagana couldn't control his emotions and wanted to attack the people of Salin.
This wasn't a good time. The people of the Holy Church were attacking the city. Even if they could get away from Salin and Ainphent and the contract didn't backfire, the three of them would still fight the people of the Holy Church to the death. The Holy Church didn't care which side you were on. To the believers, even undead mages had to be burned to death, let alone real undead creatures.
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