Warlord: King of All Clans

The tall and strong trolls had almost no iron armor for defense, at most some fine leather armor. Not to mention lead bullets, they couldn't even defend against the heavy arrows of the wild folk.

Small lead bullets flying at high speed can easily penetrate the troll's body, hit another target behind it, or shoot into the ground.

Unfortunately, Wood, who was in charge of guarding Gravel Fort, was not like Ivan who would hang out with Leo whenever he had nothing to do, and he didn't know much about the new weapons in River Bay.

The first volley, which had been calibrated early, was only a few seconds late and failed to hit the troll headhunters in the front row. Instead, it fell behind them and killed the troll warriors following closely behind.

If Ivan had not reminded them, these shotgun shells might have missed the front half of the troll elite troops and landed in the back row or even missed.

But the defensive weapons of Gravel Fort are not just artillery.

After waiting for a round of artillery fire, Wood continued to give orders.

"Trebuckle ready!"

"Crossbow ready!"

"Longbowmen, get ready!"

Five "Thousand Captain" cannons could theoretically repel an attack by 5,000 men.

However, when put into practice, various problems arise, leading to unsatisfactory results in actual combat.

For example, Wood, the military commander of Gravel Fort, was unfamiliar with the new weapons that had just arrived at Gravel Fort. He was just a few seconds late and missed the opportunity to kill the core combat force of the troll army in one fell swoop.

For example, the first artillerymen of Hewan had almost no systematic learning of theoretical knowledge except for the practical experience provided by artillery tests.

After the first calibration shot, they could only rely on past experience to reduce the charge and thus the range of the cannon, in the hope that the firepower coverage could keep up with the trolls' attack.

But whether this operation can be successful depends half on experience and half on luck.

For example, the trolls' will to fight was much higher than humans expected. Faced with their companions falling down like wheat being cut, they showed no signs of defeat and still rushed to the city wall fearlessly.

The five makeshift cannons didn't even have angle adjustment features or sights, so the damage they delivered depended entirely on the gunner's skills.

Because they were located on top of a ten-meter-high city wall and there was a gentle slope below, once the troll army entered a range of five hundred meters, they would be in a blind spot covered by artillery fire.

After three rounds of artillery fire, the "Century Captain" was directly retired.

But just three rounds of artillery fire cleared a large open space in the middle of the troll army, leaving the rear-row troops trapped in a sea of ​​corpses and blood, causing serious congestion and trampling.

Once the charge stopped, they were greeted by fire from catapults and crossbows.

The kerosene bombs and barrels of explosives dropped by the catapults were not as powerful as the gravel bombs used in the first actual combat.

The Adonis family and Lord Tariq's Mansion both have a group of war craftsmen that even the Fangqi family cannot afford to support, and they have a heritage of large-scale military equipment.

They were all packed up and brought back to Riverbend by Leo and became part of the Riverbend craftsman system.

Today's catapults have been revised several times, their accuracy and range have been greatly improved, the craftsmanship of kerosene bombs and explosive barrels has also been improved many times, and their power has finally exceeded that of ordinary gravel shotgun shells.

The sea of ​​fire created by kerosene bombs and the explosion caused by barrels of explosives did not cause as much damage as the lead bullets of the "Thousand Captains", but the damage to morale was no less.

In addition, there were five small crossbows and three hundred wild archers shooting, which also caused heavy casualties to the troll army.

However, the troll headhunters and troll warriors in the front were all muscular and thick-skinned. As long as the arrows shot by the wild people did not hit the vital parts, three or five arrows could not stop the trolls' charge.

Some troll chieftains who had been promoted to extraordinary levels even took a javelin-sized crossbow arrow and had five or six heavy arrows from the savages piercing their bodies, but they still showed no sign of collapse.

The trolls used their brutal flesh and blood to forcibly devour the humans' perfect armaments, and the outcome was obviously not ideal.

Wood looked at the trolls falling to the ground in groups with an expressionless face, and felt the hair on his back stand up.

The Wind Knight, who was accustomed to war scenes, thought that this battle was just a small scene against the foreign tribes in the wilderness.

But the intensity of this war, apart from the part involving extraordinary combat power, is no less than that of the racial war in Frovald.

This troll army has combat power and fighting spirit that is not inferior to the main orc army. It is truly the overlord of the wilderness. Unfortunately, the opponent they have their eyes on is equally powerful as the human earl army, and also has an endless stream of long-range weapons.

At the cost of the deaths of nearly a thousand trolls, the troll army successfully approached within a hundred meters of the city wall.

The leading troll headhunters took out their most powerful headhunting spears from their collections.

These headhunting spears are of different lengths. Some are rusty and blackened iron spears, some are bone spears made of monster bones or claws, and there are even high-quality steel spears given by elite human warriors.

They all raised their slender arms, the muscles on their arms bulged suddenly, the veins were exposed, and then they threw out their spears.

Dense spears, like those thrown from a crossbow with hundreds of pounds of force, were nailed onto the city walls.

Seventy percent of the spears penetrated the cement and bricks and were embedded straight in the city wall, but many of them collapsed and shattered directly, or failed to penetrate the bricks and fell to the bottom of the wall.

Taz, who was completely jealous, had two heavy arrows as thick as fingers stuck in his body. He raised his hand axe and shouted again: "Climb the city!"

The troll, who was more agile than apes, climbed over the bodies of his companions and various obstacles, approached the city wall, jumped up, grabbed the spear on the wall, and flew upwards at a high speed like a swing.

Some trolls even used their hands and feet to dig into the cracks in the city wall and climbed up with their bare hands.

The ten-meter-high city wall was impossible for human infantry to climb over without the help of siege equipment, but the trolls did not find it difficult at all.

If it weren't for the human warriors attacking from above, it would be as easy for the trolls to climb the ten-meter wall as it is to climb a tree.

Watching the troll warriors climbing up, Wood said to Ivan, "It's your turn."

As a reinforcement, Ivan had no command authority on the battlefield. He had been watching the battlefield from the sidelines and had been waiting for his instructions. Upon hearing this, he immediately shouted, "Hewan Heavy Infantry Regiment, prepare to meet the enemy!"

As he shouted, the standard-bearer next to him waved Ivan's battle flag vigorously, and the wild archers shooting on the city wall stepped back a few steps, vacating the battle position and giving it to the River Bay Infantry Regiment on standby behind them.

The ten two-headed ogres that were sitting against the wall stood up one after another, waving their wooden sticks inlaid with iron hoops and roaring.

What was different from the past was that their two huge heads, shoulders, and huge bellies were all covered with a one-centimeter-thick layer of bronze armor!

The three-meter-tall ogre had 70% of its body covered with bronze armor weighing nearly 500 kilograms, but they did not seem to have any difficulty in moving.

The only flaw is that you can no longer use stealth to perform sneak attacks like before.

The Riverbend Heavy Infantry Regiment and the Heavy Ogre Infantry Formation enter the battle!