From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 181 Mechanical confrontation and flame clouds

"If I had known that we had brought the wolves with us, we might have been able to use them for a wave of testing."

"Don't think about it. If the Speaker and Witch Doctor Azshara are not available, the wolves will not die for us in vain."

"That's right. Anyway, let's test it with the siege engineering vehicle first. Don't send flesh and blood up there easily."

The results of the witch doctors' deliberations were sent to Big Tusk as 'suggestions'. As the frontline commander, he accepted the witch doctors' concerns and issued an order to temporarily use machines to attack the city.

Near the battlefield at this time, the stones have been used up by the horned hoofs when building the city, and there is no way to transport stones further away efficiently;

Therefore, in the absence of suitable projectiles, the catapult resorted to the next best thing and began to launch previously prepared log piles.

Dozens of catapults more than ten meters high began to attack the city wall under the control of the trolls. Although the wooden stakes they fired were huge, they did not really bring a devastating blow to the city wall. They only acted as 'projectiles'.

'Only when it is swept across its top can it bring considerable killing effect.

Faced with this situation, Juya changed his strategy in time;

He ordered to change the projection angle, no longer pursuing the direct destruction of the wall, but trying to launch wooden stakes into the city as much as possible to attack the residential areas of the horned hoof species.

On the other hand, ballistas firing super-heavy spears also failed to achieve the desired results;

The enemy's city wall was too solid. Even if the overweight spear had a certain weight and a considerable initial launch speed, it could only break a few bricks in vain before inserting its tail into the gap in the city wall while shaking.

But overall, it is obvious that the engineering equipment on the troll side is more powerful in the confrontation.

And the consequences of this disadvantage were quickly revealed.

In the troll's position, the witch doctor apprentices have already begun to make calculations;

They used the projectile's final impact point, flight curve and other factors to reversely deduce the location of its launch point behind the city wall, and quickly made adjustments to their own launch points.

All in all, due to the interaction of the many 'causes and effects' mentioned above and the differences in the development paths of both parties, the horn-hoofed instruments showed a great disadvantage at this time, both in terms of quantity and accuracy.

On the altar, the shamans were also deeply shocked.

"What a deformed civilization."

However, there is a gap in this aspect for the horn-hoofed species. The materials it obtains should be whatever they are. If the wood is not strong enough, replace it with metal. If a certain metal is not strong enough, then replace it with another more suitable metal.

"This is definitely a magic! Their casters must have used magic power that we can't see! No living thing can do it! Absolutely impossible!"

All in all, they look for whatever they lack and are accustomed to looking for substitutes in nature;

The catapults in the Hornhoof City have now been 'cleared out', leaving only a pile of scraps and corpses on the ground, proving everything that happened here before.

This 'unknown' caused the hearts of the brave horn-hoofed warriors to waver.

Doubts such as ‘Can we really win?’ were gradually tugging at their perseverance at this time.

The giant wooden piles here and the stones and building materials on the other side interacted repeatedly in mid-air for a while;

But the dental department is different. From the beginning, the development of dental techniques has been biased towards 'transforming nature', 'interpreting nature' and 'precision manufacturing';

Although the results are very preliminary, even the 'runes' as the basis cannot be fully interpreted;

But this effect made Big Ya's eyes light up, and he seemed to see a feasible method that could be applied to the city.

So, after several more rounds of "rumbling" sounds, no more "projectiles" were thrown in the city.

Because of these characteristics, ‘Dragon Bone Wood Kai’ has become the best material for frontline emergencies;

Whether it is building a camp or manufacturing machinery, witch doctors can transform it in a short period of time without spending much effort, and produce it in large quantities quickly.

The main material of the siege vehicle is 'Keel Wood·Gai', which is corrosion-resistant and water-resistant, and also has a certain degree of stiffness and toughness;

Although their total output is far less than that of steel wood, that is only because the planting area of ​​steel wood is too large. In fact, its unit production speed is much faster than that of steel wood.

The trolls beside the machine only had time to subconsciously take a few steps back before they were doused in high-temperature flames.

As for the teeth? Whatever is missing is replaced, and the teeth are constantly upgraded based on natural materials.

After a while, the 'red cloud' was completely formed, and it was like a waterfall of water as many trolls looked up at it, pouring down along with the cheers coming from the city wall.

This concept that has been questioned by the Yabu witch doctor seems to have a richer form of utilization in the hands of the shaman who does not ask for a thorough understanding. While the priests danced, large red clouds formed in the sky in the south outside the city.

"Watch your head!"

I don't know who shouted, and the trolls looked up one after another, and when they saw more than ten strange clouds appeared in the mid-air at the top of the battle formation;

And the vast majority of them are now concentrated above the roaring engineering equipment.

As a result, their equipment also began to exert force, continuously launching the building materials and stones reserved in the city towards the troll position.

Of course, "mechanical precision" and "excellent materials" alone cannot actually achieve the so-called "hit wherever you point". There is indeed a very important factor - the development of mathematics and physics.

The Black Forest, or more accurately the Teeth, their mathematics and physics were based on the knowledge that Nesta brought from his previous life from the very beginning;

The northern region where they originally lived was not a civilized desert like the Black Forest fifty years ago;

In hundreds of years of continuous exchanges with the northern tribes, and in successive wars with their old enemies, they have gradually learned the manufacturing methods and application methods of similar machines, and have also made preparations to a certain extent here.

Therefore, the engineering vehicles produced by the Tooth Department have the effect of "hitting wherever you point it", instead of like the opposite, where the landing point of a projectile mostly depends on fate.

The chief shaman looked at the difference in the performance of the two sides in the water curtain and let out a confused sigh. Then he spoke again,

"Prepare to use your spells, we can't let them attack anymore."

While the shamans were arguing, or persuading themselves, the chief shaman finally spoke.

In fact, there is no question of which one is better or worse, but before the "metal civilization" develops to the stage of "actively seeking special alloys," the dental path will undoubtedly have more advantages.

But no matter what, they are indeed walking on this path, they will 'seek the truth', and will actively seek to use magic to create more sophisticated 'non-magic' props.

This was a huge result. Most of the tribe's catapults were burned down in one blow. However, the horn-hoofed species who should have been cheering for joy gradually became quiet at this time, and soon fell into a death-like silence.

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The horned hoof species on the city wall did not sit back and watch the troll attack at this time.

The chief and the clan chiefs were already organizing an evacuation, but the continuous bombardments had damaged the morale of the city, causing the panic that had been finally contained by lies to spread again.

However, its weakness seems to be reflected at this time.

The 'Dragon Bone Wood Kai', which did not have very good fire resistance properties, turned into huge torches in the flowing fire;

When the flames extinguished, only pieces of charred broken wood were left on the spot. Only the high-strength parts made of steel and wood were stubbornly preserved among the "ruined walls".

The trolls' catapults adjusted their angles again and resumed their previous attack mode;

The huge wooden piles swept across the city wall accurately, and while they continued to cause damage to the soldiers, they entered the city unabated, further destroying a large number of residential buildings not far or near the southern city wall.

Trolls are committed to transforming trees, constantly obtaining various high-performance materials from research and development, and even many materials that exceed the properties of wood that are common sense.

The seven witch doctors looked up. Although there was surprise on their faces, they could not see much fear.

The gap caused by this first depends on the difference in materials used by both parties;

Its development speed and achievements cannot be compared with the naturally growing civilizations in this world at this time.

"It wasn't a cloud. It seemed more like some kind of flame."

However, the performance of the horn-hoofed species at this time proves that at least they themselves have a huge gap with the dental department in this aspect.

The horn-hoofed warriors on the city wall stared ahead in disbelief and horror.

There, most of the flowing flames had dissipated, and the trolls that had been swallowed up by the flames now seemed to be standing unscathed, even jumping up and down in celebration.

Although they had seen the scene where trolls moved freely amidst the flames lit on the farmland before, that was just 'natural fire'.

In the understanding of shamans, "magic fire" and "natural fire" are definitely not the same thing. The powerful "fire element fire" can even melt metal, and there is absolutely no one that can produce resistance to it.

'race of life.

The flames flowed in all directions from the 'siege base' like water, rapidly expanding its coverage;

Until the 'red cloud' in the sky completely faded and disappeared, it had already created more than a dozen burning areas of about ten square meters each on the position.

However, the north is too far away after all, and the world seems very vast. Perhaps this shouldn't be said too much;

"clear"

At this moment, under the leadership of the chief priest, the shamans began to communicate with the ancestors' spirits together, and used them as a bridge to start linking the 'elemental power'.

On the other hand, this is also a gap caused by the different development models of the two parties;

The magic techniques of the horned hoof species tend to be 'mysterious' and 'unknowable', and they rarely work on the 'intersection of magic and non-magic';

Powerful magic effects, powerful magical warriors, and powerful magic props are what they are focusing on.

They occasionally collide with each other, occasionally pass by each other, and cause large or small damage at the end.

He did not express any opinions to convince the bewildered shamans, but expressed calmly,

"We successfully burned down the siege equipment, but it also damaged the morale of the soldiers. Now it's time to remedy the situation. I'm going to use group encouragement to improve the condition of the soldiers. Please help me."

This chapter feels like there is a lot of nonsense, but I feel like I want to stay in every sentence.

In addition, many people don’t seem to like watching war. They didn’t like watching War of the Wolves before, and they still don’t like it now. The drop in subscriptions is quite obvious.

It seems like it should be sped up and abbreviated?

(End of chapter)