Archmage Of The Undead

Fort Kangchuan was besieged from all sides, with at least a thousand Jackal soldiers on each side preparing to attack.

The tactics of the jackals are very simple, which is to use their numerical advantage to charge forward. In the eyes of the high-level jackal nobles, the low-level jackals are nothing more than cannon fodder.

In the Gnoll Empire, they are divided into four levels from birth, relying on the hair on their backs as a division of levels.

Gold back, silver back, black back, gray back.

Gold-backed gnolls are generally from the gnoll royal family or great nobles, silver-backed gnolls are ordinary nobles, and black-backed gnolls are natural warriors and officers in the army.

As for the gray-backed gnolls, the gray-backed gnolls are poor people. Their talents are relatively poor, and only a small number of them can cross the threshold of the black iron level.

The gray-backed gnolls are also the largest in the empire. Their strength is low, but their numbers are large, so they naturally become the most recruited targets.

Among the gnolls who came to attack Fort Kangchuan this time, at least eight were gray-backed gnolls. They were like leeks in the vegetable field, with low value in the eyes of the nobles.

Even if all these gray-backed gnolls were killed in the battle, it would not be a big problem in the eyes of the high-level silver-backed and gold-backed gnolls. At worst, they could just go back to their country and recruit another batch.

"Woo!..."

The jackals blew the horn of attack, and the soldiers under the four walls began to howl and launch the attack.

The four walls of Fort Kangchuan are not four sections, but eight sections. The overall structure is a polygonal structure, which is conducive to defense.

When these jackals attacked, they had to face at least two or three sections of the city wall with mechanical crossbow fire.

But where there are spears, there are shields. The defenders on the wall have mechanical crossbows, and the jackals below the city also have siege ladders.

The gnolls have no archers, so they suffer a lot when sieging a city. Their only long-range method is to throw short spears.

Most of the gnoll soldiers who launched the attack were gray-backed gnolls in the front row. Their equipment was poor, and they generally only had leather armor with low defensive power.

At this time, they held swords in one hand and shields in the other, following the ladder, forming a tight formation to resist the arrows fired from the wall.

A dozen Jackals put their shields on their backs and pushed the ladder towards the city wall with all their strength. The ground under the city wall was uneven and the ladder was extremely heavy. This made the Jackals have to face difficulties while pushing the ladder. To huge casualties.

From time to time, gnolls were hit by arrows on the city wall and fell to the ground wailing, but the vacant positions were quickly filled by the gnolls behind them.

"City defense crossbow! Shoot this ladder for me!" On the city wall, the garrison officer looked at the ladder getting closer and closer, shouting at the top of his lungs.

Then several tall city defense giant crossbows on the city wall changed their directions. The mechanical kinetic energy of these giant crossbows was even more powerful, and the arrows they used were also enchanted products. Each one was as huge as a spear.

The attack of these giant crossbows, the huge mechanical energy and the enchantment of the arrows, allow them to attack with intensity reaching thousands of degrees after hitting.

The giant crossbow is built on the crossbow platform on the city wall, and is surrounded by an armored shield, just like the turret of the Blue Star battleship.

This huge city defense crossbow cannot attack agile enemies, but it is very useful for huge siege equipment such as ladders and siege vehicles.

Following the commander's order, these city defense crossbows were quickly aimed and fired, and huge arrows were shot out from the crossbow platform.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The arrows collided with the defensive array on the ladder, making a huge roar, and the explosion flames and arrow fragments flew everywhere.

"Ouch!"

"ah!"

Many arrow fragments and the flames generated by the explosion fell on the gnolls arrayed neatly below, and their simple shields could not resist this attack.

Many Jackal soldiers were howling miserably, and some had their hair set alight by the flames. Their whole bodies were on fire, with billowing black smoke and a foul smell.

The other soldiers defending the city were not idle at this time, and the mechanical crossbows in their hands were also firing continuously. The mechanical crossbows in their hands could also explode with lethality against black iron-level enemies.

Steel arrows continued to shoot down from the city wall, like black lightning, some of which were blocked by the shields held by the jackals.

Some of the arrows were able to penetrate the shields of the gnolls, then tear their armor apart, and then engulfed the entire body of the gnolls.

The road where gnolls approached the city wall was filled with the corpses of gray-backed gnolls. The ground was soaked with blood, and many gnolls died with their eyes open.

"boom!"

The defensive array of a siege ladder was exploded by a city defense crossbow. Before the defensive shield could be restarted, it was hit by two huge crossbow arrows.

The huge explosion directly overturned the entire ladder, and the fragments of the ladder flew everywhere, making the jackals behind them howl like ghosts.

Huo Ling in the central tower was not idle either. He and his silver-level skeleton mage were also constantly casting spells.

Tempering hell!

After the spell was successfully released, some illusory runes appeared at the feet of the gnolls who gathered together with their shields raised, followed by an extremely cold breath.

This kind of cold that penetrates into the body and soul makes the Jackals move slowly, and some weak Jackals even freeze to death inside.

Even the black iron-level jackal warriors, the fighting energy running through their bodies, was only slightly relieved, but they were still trembling uncontrollably.

Negative energy explodes!

There is a group attack spell, and huge negative energy is gathering.

"Spread out!"

A silver-level shaman noticed this condensed energy. He had no time to release the dispersing spell, so he could only shout loudly, trying to alert the jackals.

Spellcasters do not need to participate in the fierce battle of attacking and defending the city wall. They are far outside the range and provide some auxiliary witchcraft.

But the jackals affected by the quenching hell had no time to disperse now. They could only barely ignite their fighting spirit in an attempt to withstand this blow.

"boom!!!"

The negative energy burst that lasted for eight seconds directly pushed the energy to the extreme. Attacks of more than a thousand degrees were completely beyond the ability of these black iron and apprentice warriors to withstand.

Like a bomb exploding in the crowd, broken Jackal corpses and armor fragments flew everywhere.

The gnolls who were not hit by the spell stared at the scene in front of them dumbfounded. This blow killed at least dozens of gnoll soldiers.

The gnolls following them seemed to have taken a bath of blood. They were already covered in blood before they even started to climb the city wall.

"Disperse the formation!" A silver-ranked Jackal officer shouted loudly. He followed the large army and, as a grassroots commander, supervised and commanded these soldiers.

After receiving his order, the gnolls who were originally densely packed with shields now no longer bothered to avoid the arrows on the city wall, and moved closer in twos and threes with shields raised.

After being dispersed in this way, even if it is hit by a spell, the loss will not be too great all at once.