Heroes of the Invincible Knight

Regardless of the town that hadn't been completely burnt down, amidst the black smoke, the system army led by Sir Mrak rushed towards the deserted stone city at a speed faster than the light cavalry.

"Master Richard, if you continue to fight, the dragon's fighting power will be affected!"

During the normal march, Morrell did not lead the giant dragon in the air in the form of an ancient black dragon, but followed Li Cha in human form, riding a red flame horse, and reminded with some concern:

"The giant dragon has been fighting at a high intensity. Although its physical strength can persist, if it does not recover for a period of time, it will be difficult to use the dragon's breath. If it continues to fight, it will only be able to land close combat, and its combat effectiveness may be greatly reduced."

In the battle against the orcs, half of the dragon's combat power is in the dragon's breath. Relying on the dragon's breath, as long as a small amount of dragon hunting crossbows are cleaned up, the dragon can easily harvest the orcs without landing. There is nothing the giant dragon breathing in mid-air can do, but if the dragon's breathing ability cannot be recovered, not to mention the lethality to the orcs will be greatly reduced, and the close combat will also give the orcs more opportunities.

Fortunately, all this has been in Li Cha's expectation. At least in the battle of Huangshi City, even if the dragon can't exert its full combat power, Li Cha has other ways to break through the outer wall of Huangshi City.

"It's all right, the next battle, the two thousand kilograms of gunpowder that I have been carrying with me will come in handy."

"Is Mr. Richard so confident in those gunpowder? Those things have been carrying them, but they have delayed our marching speed a lot."

The army of the system has been trying to lighten the burden during the march. They didn't carry too many things, but they have been carrying more than 2,000 kilograms of gunpowder for backup. Now when the dragon uses the dragon's breath intensively and needs to rest and recover, it's time for gunpowder to fill the gap. .

"I don't have much confidence, but it always works wonders when used for the first time."

Li Cha's words are not modest. He really doesn't think much of the power of black powder. Although it has been improved many times by researchers in the Northland, there is still no major breakthrough in essence. This thing is still not powerful enough. , and the stability is not high, if you don't find a suitable way to use it, you can only become tasteless.

It's just that compared to the era when black powder just appeared on the earth, Li Cha also has a huge advantage. His subordinates have the ability to accurately throw black powder weapons at high altitudes, without the need to use some crappy primary gunpowder weapons, and step into the "bomber" era.

"Speed ​​up and take down the deserted stone city first."

"Yes, my lord!"

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wild stone city

This is the only big city adjacent to the dense forest. There are about 100,000 civilians and there are several small cities around it. When humans were still in an offensive situation in the early years, the deserted stone city was the place that human elites had to open to enter the core area of ​​orcs. of a door.

Because of its important location, the deserted stone city was built with more military use in mind. The city wall is more than ten meters high, and the widest part is more than four meters. There are turrets on all sides, and the city is extremely strong.

The daily garrison has never been slack, not counting the 100,000 reinforcements brought by Ruhr. There was a legion of orcs stationed on the front line of Huangshi City for a long time. In the castle of the small town, several dragon-hunting crossbows were placed in the city to target the human dragon knights.

It stands to reason that the front line defense of Huangshi City, even if an army of 100,000 troops, plus two or three dragon knights may not be able to break it easily, if you count the 100,000 people brought by Ruhr, it will be a million troops Strong attack can also defend for a period of time.

However, I met such an outlier as Li Cha, and regardless of the way out, he led the army directly through the defense line of Huangshi City at an extremely fast speed. The defenders on this line of defense have not yet reacted. Li Cha He ran to the most elite site of the orcs and made a circle. Ruhr, who led his troops to help, had to go back to chase after him, and there were only more than ten thousand garrisons left in the whole barren stone city.

At this time, on the wall of Huangshi City, several orc officers were patrolling the wall, and they should be dressed as senior generals in the city.

"General Zafaru, is it too frequent for us to patrol three times a day? Humans have already passed Xiaohe City, and now Master Ruhr has led his troops to chase after him. I am afraid that we in Huangshi City will not have the opportunity to fight with that team now." Let's fight humans."

The leading orc officer, Zafaru, was the commander of the garrison in Huangshi City before Ruhr led the army to help. He has always been the highest commander of the defense line. Compared with a group of monsters, it can be regarded as a strong side wherever it is placed.

At this time, Zafaru, who was leading the team to patrol the city, was stopping in front of a bed crossbow, stretching out his hand to check the quality of the noose, ignoring the suggestions of his subordinates, Zafaru was just like an ordinary crossbowman, After checking the parts of the bed crossbow bit by bit, he finally said to the sergeant next to him:

"Put some oil on it, it's rough in some places."

"Yes, my lord!"

The soldiers on the side were a little nervous. As soon as Zafaru ordered, he immediately acted according to the order.

"If possible, I would like to sleep on this city wall every day. This human army is really weird. They suddenly bypassed us and captured Xiaohe City before. It doesn't mean that we are safe, but it proves to us that their marching Ability, with a team of this marching speed, you will never expect where they will appear, so be more prepared."

"Yes, General!"

Although Ruhr has already led the army to leave, Zafaru who stayed behind is still conscientious and does not slack off in the slightest. I have to say that most of the orc generals are good generals. It is not unreasonable for their military strength to overwhelm humans. Relying on his high-end strength to crush, and his serious command, he may not be the opponent of these orc generals.

It was Zafaru's prudence and due diligence that made the orcs stationed in Huangshi City die a little bit more clearly.

It was just past noon, and the orc soldiers on the city wall were taking turns eating in twos and threes. Zafaru just sat down and took a bowl of the same rations as the soldiers and began to eat. At this time, the orcs were not short of food. The supply is quite sufficient. Although the food in the bowl tastes average, the portion is not small, enough to make up for the orc's daily consumption.

It's just that Zafaru hadn't had a few mouthfuls of food yet, and the sound of urgent golden cries came from the watchtower at the highest point of the city.

"clang!"

"clang!"

"clang!"

The sound was rapid and sharp, which was a signal of a threatening enemy attacking. As soon as Zafaru heard the sound, he stopped caring about the few mouthfuls of rice left in the bowl, stood up and rushed to the top of the city.

Twenty-seven giant dragons approached from a distance at a speed visible to the naked eye, growing from a small point to a larger one. A seemingly small army on the ground approached the deserted stone city at the same speed as the giant dragon.

This is the human army that Lord Ruhr wanted to chase after, and they really came here again! Could it be that the troops led by General Ruhr?

"Ready to fight!"

"Order the bear hunting crossbow to prepare for firing, wait for my order to release the arrow!"

"Order the reserves to get ready!"

He didn't dare to think too much about what happened to the friendly army. Facing this strange human army, Zafaru immediately raised his attention, holding his battle ax and staring closely at the slowly approaching giant dragon and human army.

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On the other side, Li Cha was approaching the city wall of Huangshi City with his army without any disguise. It was useless to cover up in broad daylight, as any movement on this large flat ground would be clearly seen by others.

"Master Li Cha, there shouldn't be many orcs in this deserted stone city, but the city walls are closed now, and we don't bring any siege equipment. Should we stop and build ladders first?"

Although the system army is powerful, except for a few top-ranking troops, even high-ranking troops such as champion knights cannot fly over the city wall more than ten meters high and attack the city.

The walls and gates of this barren stone city are not the ones that can be easily smashed open in Muel Town. It is normal for Mrak to ask Richard if he wants to stop and build siege equipment.

There is no need to build complex advanced siege equipment like Jinglan, just build some long ladders, and these systematic troops under Li Cha can easily climb to the top of Huangshi City.

However, Li Cha had no plans to build siege equipment at this time. Instead, he stopped under the deserted stone city and asked someone to carry a large bag of black powder prepared in advance.

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"boom!"

"kill!"

With a loud bang at the gate of Huangshi City, the thick iron gate was broken into several pieces, splashing out and killing several orc warriors behind. Zafaru, who was standing on the wall and fighting desperately, felt that the whole city seemed There was a shaking, and the whole city wall seemed to collapse, but fortunately, the city wall returned to normal after shaking for a few seconds.

Just after a puff of black smoke passed, a gap five or six meters wide appeared at the city gate. At this time, Taris, who had already been prepared, led the cavalry team headed by the champion knight and rushed into the city gate at the fastest speed.

"My lord, the power of this gunpowder is not bad."

"Well, it's a little worse than expected."

At the beginning of the siege, Li Cha ordered two outstanding swordsmen to bury the prepared large bag of black powder directly under the gate of Huangshi City. Originally, this process had to be dug slowly to get close to the city wall. Opportunity buried gunpowder in it.

But Li Cha can be unreasonable based on the strength of his subordinates. The orcs who were directly beaten by the angels and dragons after falling on the city wall were devastated. If you have time, pay attention to the two outstanding swordsmen with strange things entering the city gate.

The two outstanding swordsmen buried and ignited the gunpowder according to Li Cha's instructions, and the scene just now happened. The thousand catties of black gunpowder did not cause any damage to the city wall, but only tore open the iron gate of Huangshi City. Sir Mrak, who was used to magic, could only use one sentence to describe it. Even Richard was not very satisfied with this power, and he didn't feel like the world would collapse when he exploded.

In fact, it is normal to say that if the power of black powder can satisfy Li Cha, then the gunpowder weapons that have been active on the battlefield since the Song and Yuan Dynasties will not be reduced to a supplementary component of the war, but should play the leading role. Gunpowder, and well-crafted gunpowder weapons, have been improved for hundreds of years. and

There is still a long way to go for the improvement of black powder. Li Cha’s limited knowledge level will not be of much help to the next improvement of gunpowder. He can only give some suggestions on usage, grasp the general direction, and then Desperately spending money on research to promote this progress, gunpowder can still only serve as an icing on the cake in a short period of time.

But the more than a thousand catties of black powder was considered a meritorious service, at least breaking through the gate of the orcs. Talis and Elena took this opportunity to directly lead people into the deserted stone city. The cavalry led by Rees blocked the city gate, and the battle directly changed from siege warfare to urban street fighting...

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"boom!"

"ah!"

When the city gate was wide open and Taris rushed into the city with the cavalry, the battle had already been declared over. Elena, Ron and others quickly followed up with the follow-up infantry to expand the results of the battle. Zafaru prepared The more than one thousand reserves in the city were destroyed before they had time to join the battle city.

At this time, Zafaru was trying to resist in the inner fort of Huangshi City with a group of troops that he finally gathered.

Although the inner city is small, as the inner fortress of a military city like Huangshi City, it is actually built stronger. After the area is smaller, the wall is a circle higher than the outer city, which seems to be a difficult bone to crack. .

But Zafaru, who had retreated back to the inner castle, had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief, a fiery giant sword gathered in midair, and then saw the giant sword waved, and a ball of golden-red battle energy came out from the sword.

It was as if someone swiped a pen in the air and drew a meteor straight towards the gate of the inner castle. There was a huge roar at the gate, and the thick iron gate collapsed directly. A dozen orcs blocked behind the gate Soldiers were killed and wounded everywhere.

The terrifying power even caused several terrifying cracks to appear on the wall around the iron gate. If there were a few more blows, not only the city gate would be smashed, but even a section of the wall would collapse.

"This power is much stronger than the explosion of a thousand catties of gunpowder."

In the middle of the air, Li Cha extinguished the flame on the Vulcan sword, and did not continue to consume fighting energy. As long as the door is opened, the next thing will be left to Elena, Taris and others, so that he will not have to work hard to get rid of it. The entire wall was blasted away.

This is the first time Li Cha has used his full power after entering the holy rank, and it really is a different level of power.

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