The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai blinked his eyes. This siege was divided into three parts, and the three parts were not close to each other.

The two sides of the valley where Xu Lai was located were basically dozens of meters high mountain walls, and the situation of the troops on both sides could not be seen at all.

Therefore, in addition to protecting the Naga and the Vanguard Camp, Xu Lai integrated Eric and Emilia's troops into his own legion.

Reina and the Qingfeng Legion she led will lead the army independently and will not be united with Xu Lai.

The disadvantage is that the attributes of the two sides' troops cannot complement each other. For example, Xu Lai cannot use Reina's ultimate ballistics and defensive skills now.

Similarly, Xu Lai's ultimate offensive skills and speed talent do not cover the Qingfeng Legion.

But there are also advantages. The advantage is that the strategic casting opportunities of both sides will not overlap, and they can each release their own spells.

On the other hand, even if other troops suffer relatively large losses, the morale loss of their own troops is only based on the standards of friendly troops.

The morale loss of friendly troops in battle is definitely not comparable to that of their own troops.

Generally speaking, looking at the ratio of the number of friendly troops to the number of our own troops, the morale loss is only about 3-7 levels of our own troops.

The more friendly troops there are, the greater the impact on our own side.

However, this impact is not important to Xu Lai and his men, because they are in a low valley and cannot see the movements of the friendly troops above clearly.

The last advantage is the convenience of command, which can be adapted to local conditions.

If the commander leads the whole army to charge, the catapults below the valley will also hit the other party's wall.

However, the lack of ballistics has a great impact on Xu Lai's side.

Although the opponent only has one crossbow cart to launch an attack, since it has reached the attack range of the crossbow cart, the catapult must also be able to attack.

At this time, although the catapult of our own side can also attack, it is after all a few kilometers away, and the hit rate will be greatly reduced.

Xu Lai gritted his teeth. This time he was not prepared to grind slowly. There was no point in delaying.

"Let the battering rams go first, and hit the city gate!"

Generally speaking, battering rams are used to attack the city gate, and the gate drawbridge needs to be knocked down first.

But Graycastle was built directly at the exit of Grayvale, and the biggest problem here is that it is not convenient to divert water.

Therefore, Graycastle has no moat, and naturally there is no need to build a drawbridge, only the city gate.

Two battering rams built with steel plates rushed to the city gate side by side.

Behind them, there were many battering rams covered with iron sheets.

Time was short, and Xu Lai did not have time to prepare. He relied on the warehouse ring to find dozens of battering rams.

But fortunately, Qingfeng City is no longer what it used to be. Whether it is craftsmen, mages, or alchemists, there are many.

Although Xu Lai's request was urgent, he still got two good things for Xu Lai.

The all-steel frame, mixed with fine steel baffles, and steel-clad ramming wood weighing several tons, and enchanted with acceleration effect.

Without this acceleration effect, such a ramming machine, even with four wheels made of steel, would not be able to run at all.

If Xu Lai were here, he might have studied the track structure.

But this is actually self-consolation. Xu Lai has long wanted to set up a research institute, but it was only after the founding of the country that he could gather enough talents and resources.

Even if he did, Xu Lai himself would not be able to participate in the research. As a king, to be honest, he really has no time to get involved.

Besides, he is not good at research. Some of the modern technology and modern ideas he knows are almost the same as those of any advent hero.

Even if there are professionals engaged in various scientific research, the effect will definitely be 10,000 times better than Xu Lai himself.

Of course, these are all later stories. The most important thing for Xu Lai to do now is to break open the gate of Graycastle opposite.

As a large military fortress, the gate of Graycastle is not simple.

In addition to the top layer of materials, many layers of spells are also solidified.

The most important thing is that the gate of Graycastle is a double gate. Even if the outer gate is broken open, there is still a long corridor inside.

The corridor was originally staffed with human archers, but now a large number of fire demons are crowded on it.

There is no other way. The place is so small. If the demons deploy fire trolls with stronger attack power, I am afraid that even if they are hunched over, they can't squeeze in.

But even so, the defenders still can't let the human battering rams so recklessly ram the city gate.

The sound of whirring wind sounded, and a large number of boulders smashed into the human positions crazily.

There are not many catapults deployed in Graycastle, but all of them are adjusted in position, basically aiming at the open space in the valley.

In such a narrow terrain, Xu Lai and his men have no place to hide. At most, they can only let the infantry pushing the catapults and battering rams raise their shields.

However, even if it is just a low-level catapult, the destructive power is extremely terrifying.

What's more, the ones deployed in Graycastle are basically high-level catapults, and the damage is even more exaggerated.

With the blessing of ballistics, let alone the ordinary infantry pushing the carts.

Even if the most elite royal guards of the Qingfeng Corps were here, they would be smashed to pieces.

Perhaps only Reina, who is good at defense, can lead the top infantry to survive this wave of stone bombardment.

Xu Lai can also do it, he uses the holy armor of the paladin.

Every time there is a section of siege weapons, there is a holy light knight following, responsible for providing protection for the soldiers pushing the carts in front, behind, left and right.

Of course, although the holy armor can help soldiers resist damage, if the boulder hits the siege vehicle, it will still cause serious scars.

Although the craftsmen of Qingfeng City are attentive, except for the two at the front, the rest of the siege vehicles can only be hit two or three times at most.

If you accidentally trigger a lucky hit or a critical hit, it will be destroyed after two hits.

Being destroyed is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that the terrain is narrow, and the destroyed siege weapons will block the road and form an obstacle to other vehicles.

It takes a lot of time for the soldiers to clear these obstacles.

Even if the holy armor can last for an extra ten seconds with Roland's expertise, it is far from enough.

Xu Lai has no other good way, so he can only rely on luck.

This is why, even though he knows that he is at the front of the line and will be specially targeted by the enemy, he still puts the two rams at the front.

The big demon has the effect of reducing the enemy's luck, but it seems that even in Gray Castle, there is no big demon deployed.

I don't know if this is the reason, but Xu Lai was lucky anyway.

The enemy's catapults bombarded randomly, which brought some obstacles to the troops' progress, but failed to cause any damage to the two rams in the front row.

Suddenly, there was a bang, and a thick wall of fire suddenly burned about a hundred meters away from Gray Castle.

The catapult has a minimum attack distance limit. At this position, only the crossbow cart and the demon's long-range troops can attack.

However, although the one-minute invincibility time had already passed, Xu Lai cast the fire control magic on everyone before setting off.

With this effect, the troops charging the formation directly ignored the triggered fire trap.

On the tower of Gray Castle, a hellish evil god grinned and calmly opened his spell book.

The next second, a blue-light dispelling magic was thrown out.

As the ancestors who played with fire, the demons were very sensitive to the fire control magic that restrained fire magic.

As early as when the human army collectively charged, he keenly noticed the existence of the fire control magic.

However, he did not release the dispersal method to drive away the fire control magic until he saw the human troops rushing into the fire trap.

Without the fire control magic, he was still worried that humans would not dare to rush into the fire, so his fire trap would be in vain and a lot of energy would be wasted.

But just as this hell evil god grinned foolishly, a red shield continued to cover everyone.

Xu Lai tore open an extremely precious, ultimate fire control magic scroll without hesitation.

The hell evil god hesitated for a moment, but he was reluctant to tear open a spell scroll after all, allowing the human troops to rush through the fire wall.

There were no other traps after the fire wall, mainly because most demons were only good at fire magic.

But although there were no traps after the fire wall, the door of Gray Castle opened by itself.

Teams of heavily armored long-horned warlords filed out from behind the gate.

The Hell Evil God would never easily give humans the opportunity to approach the city gate, let alone let the siege vehicle that looked powerful crash into his gate.

Xu Lai had no good solution. The people pushing the carts were just a group of ordinary infantrymen that Xu Lai had drawn from the logistics corps.

Although the average level of this group of infantrymen had reached level 5, it seemed that they were not much different from the level 6 long-horned warlords.

If the statue of the god of war and the angel alliance were added, there would be no difference in basic attributes.

But the infantrymen that Xu Lai had drawn were logistics soldiers. Their main tasks were to push carts and transport. They had hardly ever used the weapons in their hands.

Moreover, as logistics soldiers, their equipment was relatively inferior. They were all in a white suit. Except for the better breastplate and shield, they had almost nothing good on them.

Their opponents were a group of long-horned warlords who were armed to the teeth. Not only were their equipment luxurious, but they also held long whips that could attack at medium distances.

Xu Lai's infantry was hit on the head and face.

Fortunately, although these logistics soldiers are not good at fighting, as heavy shield infantry, they still have the instinct of defense.

The long-horned demons are the meat shields of the hell army. Even the most senior long-horned warlords among the long-horned demons still have this fate.

The purpose of the evil god of hell sending this long-horned warlord is not to kill human infantry, but to let them stop humans from advancing.

The fire trolls and lava trolls on the arrow tower are throwing fireballs in their hands.

The fireballs can't cause much damage to the infantry who have the magic of fire control, ultimate resistance and anti-magic cloak.

However, the battering rams they pushed can't enjoy any magic effects, and the durability is constantly decreasing.

If this goes on, no matter how high the durability of the two battering rams is, they can't last for much time.

But the narrow road, let alone transferring long-range troops to shoot, even sending cavalry to break through the roadblock is only possible in dreams.

Fortunately, the vanguard led by Eric had already arrived on both sides of the Gray Valley.

Eric's vanguard was originally composed of lightweight infantry, and did not need to bring heavy equipment such as catapults and battering rams like Xu Lai.

Therefore, although the mountain road was difficult to walk, with the blessing of Xu Lai's speed talent, they still arrived at the city quickly.

However, on their side, they could only see the city wall.

And because they did not bring any baggage, they definitely did not have high-end goods such as siege towers, and at most they had some long ladders.

The wall of Gray Castle is not capped. This is not a small fortress like Little Gray Castle. Big Gray Castle is dozens of meters high. It is impossible for ordinary people to climb up.

Eric was not in a hurry to launch an attack on the city. Although the First Ascending Battalion had to climb first, they were not here to die.

The fire trolls on the wall threw fireballs down without any cost.

Of course, the damage of the fireballs was not high, but the opponent still had a large number of crossbow carts.

Now they can use shields to resist, plus the additional defense provided by the Angel Alliance, they can still hold on for a while.

If they really want to climb now, without the protection of shields, I don’t know how many people will die before they can climb up.

Eric waved his hand, and the phantom archers in the back hurried over under the cover of the infantry of the First Ascending Battalion.

The terrain here is not flat, but it is not like in the valley, where they are squeezed by the mountain walls on both sides and cannot move.

Although the phantom archers cannot use their best scattered formation, at least they can ensure that every archer has a shooting position.

Even if they can't see the target for some reason, they just need to throw arrows at the city walls and arrow towers.

These 2,000 phantom archers are the ceiling of long-range troops, with super long range, super high damage, and exaggerated number of arrows and firing speed.

For a while, the left wall of the Qingfeng Legion was covered by the rain of arrows from the phantom archers.

The fire trolls on it were shot and exploded from time to time, splitting into multiple low-level fire demons.

Theoretically, if a fire troll splits into two fire demons, the output will increase significantly.

However, even with the advantage of the high wall, the fire trolls can only barely get to some of the front-line troops.

This is because the phantom archers have no place to stand and output, so they have to squeeze forward.

If it were on the plain, with the range advantage of the phantom archers, unless the walls of the fire demons were raised by 20 meters, it would be possible to compare the range.

The huge battle loss ratio between the two sides is completely not on the same level, which makes the Hell Evil God unacceptable at all.

Gritting his teeth, he tore open the dispelling spell and first dispelled the fire control magic on the human, otherwise he really couldn't fight.

Xu Lai, who quietly moved to the front row, was immediately in hesitation.

He still had one chance to cast a spell, but he hesitated between the fire control magic and the earthquake.

Back then, Xu Lai's confident Stone City was almost breached by the Beast King's earthquake.

In order to attack the city, Xu Lai also did everything he could to buy a high-level earthquake scroll, and he was even reluctant to tear it open and use it directly.

Thinking of his strategic purpose, Xu Lai finally gritted his teeth and released this high-level earthquake. (End of this chapter)