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Savage May 1, 39

Trapped in the increasingly severe situation on the Indochina Peninsula, the weather has just gotten warmer, and the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces in Uzbekistan have begun a new round of castle advancement plans.

As a large amount of stone was transported to the territory of the Kazakh Khanate, tall castles soon rose from the ground.

After more than a month of working day and night, the leading troops of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces finally advanced to the Zhezkazgan area located on the banks of the Saresu River.

In the Zhezkazgan area, the Condor Empire built three castles at an angle to each other.

When the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces began to build a joint camp thirty kilometers away from Zhezkazgan, Bai Ze, who succeeded Ning Yuan in charge of the Kazakh Khanate theater, began to continuously send centaur troops to harass the enemy.

Facing the centaur army of the Condor Empire that would appear nearby from time to time, Iben and others who came to the front line were helpless.

Almost all of the troops they brought over this time were elites, and several of them were special forces unique to their country.

The frontal combat effectiveness of these armies is very strong, but they have obvious shortcomings in movement speed. Even the four-legged camel cavalry can't do anything to the centaur armies of the Condor Empire.

Faced with the constant harassment of the Centaur army sent by the Condor Empire, it was almost impossible to build a huge stone bunker in the Rezikazgan area, so Iben and others could only settle for the next best thing. , built a huge wooden camp using the camping tools carried by the army.

With the construction of the wooden joint camp completed, Iben and others began to mobilize troops and various grain and grass supplies to the front line areas.

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The Condor Empire has a total of 200,000 troops in the Zhezkazgan area, consisting of 150,000 infantry and 50,000 centaur troops.

As the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces gathered more and more troops in the Zhezkazgan area, soon all the 150,000 infantrymen of the Condor Empire shrank into three strong castles. The 50,000 centaur troops Then they retreated to Jezd, 60 kilometers away to the northwest.

Sixty kilometers is only an hour for centaur warriors who are good at running, so they can still be active around the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces and carry out various harassments every day.

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Savage July 1, 39

After two full months of preparation,

The Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces finally launched their first active attack in the territory of the Kazakh Khanate.

Under the leadership of Ibn and others, they first surrounded the three castles at an angle with each other with 200,000 troops, and then used 300,000 troops to dig trenches and build buildings in the outer areas of the three castles. camp, trying to completely cut off the connection between the defenders inside the three castles and the outside world.

Faced with the initiative of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces, Bai Ze, who was based in Zhezkazgan, immediately launched a counterattack.

In addition to sending several centaur troops to actively harass the enemy and make the enemy unable to rest assured, he also sent several centaur troops to go around the enemy's rear and constantly harass the enemy's logistics supply lines.

Although every time the Centaur army of the Condor Empire appears, the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition transport convoys walking between the two castles will immediately move to a nearby city, but they are faced with the lingering Centaur army. , the logistics and transportation efficiency of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces has been greatly affected.

In desperation, Ibn could only continue to mobilize troops from the rear and let those troops march together with the logistics convoy, so as to avoid being attacked by the elusive Centaur troops.

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Before you know it, the number of Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces in the Zhezkazgan area has reached over one million, and this does not include the troops specially used to protect logistics convoys.

After feeling the huge pressure from logistics, Iben and others immediately launched a fierce attack on one of the three castles after the siege equipment was in place.

Different from previous wars between players, this time both the enemy and ourselves used their trump cards as soon as they started.

In order to get a good start, even if it was just a tentative first attack, Ibn dispatched Iran's most elite heavy armored infantry, the Persian Immortal Army.

The Persian Immortals were a group of fully armored elites wearing chain mail, holding light shields, and holding short spears or heavy swords.

The chain armor on their bodies not only has excellent resistance to slashing, but also has a certain anti-puncture ability. Unless it is a direct shot from a strong bow at close range, it is difficult to hurt the person protected by the chain armor. Body.

Ning Yuan had heard about the Persian Immortal Army for a long time, so this time the Condor Empire's army was also well prepared.

Although there are only 50,000 defenders in each city, these 50,000 people are all elites in various fields carefully selected by Ning Yuan.

These elites not only possess well-made weapons and equipment, but also possess a lot of professional equipment customized for them.

If we analyze purely from the cost of weapons and equipment and the strength of the army, these 50,000 people are comparable to an elite force of 200,000 to 300,000 people.

Since Ningyuan had already formulated a defense-focused strategy and tactics from the beginning, all the 50,000 defenders in the castle were focused on defense.

First of all, there will definitely be fierce hand-to-hand combat on the city walls during the siege, so hand-to-hand combat units with excellent defense are very important.

In order to be able to defend the castle, there were 30,000 people in the castle just for hand-to-hand combat troops.

These 30,000 people are each 10,000 Ursine heavy infantry armed with huge fine iron spears.

Ten thousand quilboar armor-breaking heavy infantry armed with great axes.

Ten thousand Khajiit fighting masters wearing spiked gloves.

The remaining 20,000 people are all elven ranger troops.

A heavily armored army of 10,000 elves armed with god-armed bows.

A legion of 10,000 heavily armored elven archers armed with the power of nature.

Although these two elven legions appear to be long-range legions, if it comes to a critical moment, they will immediately turn into skilled combat experts when they pick up melee weapons.

Before the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces came over, Ningyuan had already stocked up enough grain and grass supplies for 50,000 people for a year and a half in three cities. Therefore, even the three castles were divided and surrounded by the enemy, but The Condor Empire didn't panic at all.

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Woo~~~

As the attack horn was blown, 10,000 fully armed Persian Immortal Army soldiers pushed ten huge siege towers and slowly advanced towards the city wall.

The elites are the elites. This can be seen from the various weapons and equipment. Even if it is just a tentative attack, they have no intention of being careless. They will launch ten vehicles as soon as the siege tower comes up.

This time, since both the enemy and we were on a long-distance expedition, and there were no large-scale stone resources exposed on the surface in the Zhezkazgan area, neither the enemy nor we deployed trebuchets here.

Without the long-range mutual fire from the trebuchets, the siege battle immediately fast-forwarded to the most brutal stage of hand-to-hand combat.

As long as the siege tower is successfully pushed under the city wall, a brutal hand-to-hand battle will officially take place.

In the view of Iben and others, unless the Condor Empire deployed large crossbows on the city wall, other long-range attacks basically did not threaten the Persian Immortal Army soldiers wearing chain armor and holding light shields.

The results they observed while standing on the command tower seemed to further confirm their inference, because at this time, all the people standing on the city wall were tall orc heavy infantry.

After clearly seeing the types of troops on the city wall, Iben immediately waved his hand and sent a group of his own powerful orc troops up.

Although the Persian Immortal Army is a heavily armored elite, all the soldiers are human beings. Facing the defenders of the Condor Empire, which are mainly powerful orcs, it seems that the Persian Immortal Army will be a little unable to attack, so Iben quickly made a decision Tactical adjustments.

Just when I thought there would be a powerful orc civil war like Mars hitting the earth, a group of little men wearing heavy armor suddenly appeared at the crenellations of the city wall.

Before Iben recognized those little men as officially members of the elves, the elf warriors had already fired a wave of arrows at the siege army that was fifty meters away.

When he saw the enemy starting to fire arrows from the top of the city, Ibn didn't pay much attention, because the troops he sent to attack the city were not very afraid of bows and arrows.

However, when he saw the Persian Immortal Army soldiers walking at the front suddenly fell in large pieces, he was immediately frightened.

While Iben and others were still in a state of shock, the city was already crowded with people.

After firing the crossbow, the elf warrior immediately stepped aside to give up his position, and then the elf warrior waiting behind him immediately moved forward to fill his position, draw the bow, launch, give way, cock the crossbow, load the crossbow, and line up...

As the elf warriors on the city wall were lining up and shooting in an orderly manner, all enemies who walked within fifty meters fell to the ground in pain.

At this moment, the powerful penetrating ability of the Divine Arm Bow was fully demonstrated, and Iran's most elite Persian Immortal Army became the first victim of the Divine Arm Bow in a foreign war.

Seeing that in the blink of an eye, thousands of Persian Immortal Army soldiers fell inexplicably to the enemy's long-range attack, the calmness on Iben's face immediately disappeared without a trace.

He didn't care about the problems of a bad start and low morale, so he urgently blew the retreat horn.

After hearing the horn sound that represented the retreat, the confused Persian Immortal Army and the powerful orc army immediately pushed back the siege tower.

In this way, the first siege battle between the enemy and ourselves ended in an anticlimactic manner by the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces.

In this battle, the siege towers of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces did not even touch the city wall. The Condor Empire troops on the city wall only lost some expensive crossbow bolts. There was no close combat between the enemy and us.

If you don't count the time of pushing the siege tower forward and backward, the duration of this battle was not even two minutes, which can be called a strange flower in the history of game sieges.

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"Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Why can the arrows of the defenders on the city wall pierce the chain armor of the Persian Immortal Army?

You know, those siege soldiers were wearing double layers of chain armor! "

After returning to the camp, Ibn couldn't bear it anymore. He looked directly at the generals under his command, hoping that they could give him a reasonable explanation.

Seeing that Ibn was really anxious this time, Abbas immediately stood up and explained: "President, chain armor focuses on its ability to prevent slashing, and its ability to prevent punctures is not very high.

In order to improve the puncture resistance of the chain armor, we specially made it double-layered.

After being made into a double layer, the anti-chopping ability becomes even better, and it also has a certain anti-puncture ability.

However, this is only for ordinary crossbows. If it encounters a powerful crossbow, it can still be shot through.

But even if it was shot through, the scene like just now should not occur, so the problem should arise from the arrows shot by the Condor Empire defenders on the city wall. "

"Then do we have anyone to bring back the enemy's arrows?"

Hearing that the problem was likely to arise on the arrows, Iben immediately asked.

"President, there are several wounded soldiers who have returned with arrows on their bodies. I will ask someone to bring the removed arrows to you."

After saying that, a player general hurriedly walked out of the camp.

After a while, the player returned with a tray.

After bringing the tray to Iben, Hoss said: "President, these crossbow arrows are extraordinary. Look at the material and the degree of polishing. These are crossbow arrows specially used to break armor!"

After hearing what Hoss said, Iben immediately picked up a crossbow bolt and examined it carefully.

I saw that the crossbow arrow in my hand was indeed more refined and sharper than what I usually see, but even so, it shouldn't have such a strong armor-breaking ability, right?

With doubts, Ibn looked at Hoth and asked: "Hoth, according to my observation, the crossbows held by the Condor Empire defenders on the city wall don't seem to be very big, but when they were shooting, the crossbows on the Persian Immortal Army were The chain armor looks like it's made of paper and doesn't play any defensive role at all. What do you think is going on?

It seems like I can’t do this just with the crossbow arrow in my hand! "

"President, I am also very puzzled by this. It stands to reason that even a crossbow bolt with strong armor-breaking ability cannot have such great power. After all, from the size of this crossbow bolt, it can be inferred that the crossbow machine used for launching is not It will be huge.

As far as I know, the bigger the crossbow machine is, the more powerful it will be. A crossbow machine that fires such a crossbow bolt shouldn't be so powerful! "

Hoss also looked confused.

"President, could it be the kind of divine arm bow that was circulated on the Chinese Forum a few years ago?"

Just when everyone was frowning, Abbas's voice suddenly sounded.

"Abbas, please tell me carefully."

Seeing that Abbas seemed to understand something, Ibn immediately asked him to explain it to everyone.

"President, it's like this. There was a debate on the Chinese Forum that the Divine Arm Bow is the most powerful long-range weapon...

At first, we all thought it was Chinese players bragging. After all, if they really had such awesome long-range weapons, wouldn't they have shown them off long ago and defeated the whole world?

Now it seems that this kind of divine arm bow should be real, but the production process is too complicated, so it is difficult to achieve mass production.

Ning Yuan has been pretending to be in seclusion these days. I guess he may have been secretly accumulating divine arm bows. "

Abbas explained to everyone in detail what he knew about the situation.

The wrinkles on Iben's forehead became deeper when he heard that the Condor Empire actually had a weapon such as the Divine Arm Bow.

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