Warlord: King of All Clans

The first day's siege was just a concentrated bombardment in the early stages.

This was originally planned to last three to ten days. Everyone would concentrate the catapults of the five major legions, surround Clemens and bombard it violently, exhausting the magic power of the defensive array, then destroy the battlements, fill in the moat, and launch an ant-like siege.

In previous sieges of the Northern Earl's main city, this was the most common method.

However, due to the presence of the city breakers, the time was shortened to one day, and even the blockhouse defense systems that could only be filled with the lives of soldiers were completely cleared.

The entire city wall is now in a state of ruin, with the base rammed earth exposed everywhere. Not to mention setting up city defense weapons, it is even difficult for the defenders to deploy their battle formations.

In the evening, the commanders of various armies gathered in Grant's tent, but Leo had obviously become the protagonist.

Count Fabuti has a system of goblin craftsmen and a high level of technology. He once used a goblin alchemy bomb to destroy the main city of Count Isharov.

Thousands of years ago, goblins were also spread all over the continent. The goblins in the north, like the trolls and orcs, all obeyed the rule of Midgard and had a seat in the Midgard Lords' Assembly.

Half of the goblin craftsman system was learned from the atrium and developed slowly.

Even after they rebelled with the orcs and were exiled to the northern snowfields for seven hundred years, they still have a large amount of ancient heritage, and the system of craftsmen is not much worse than that of the humans in the north.

The orcs' siege preparations for the south, as well as the war preparations in the Earldom of Kurolov, were almost all handled by the goblin craftsman tribe.

However, alchemical creations involving extraordinary magic have always been costly. Although alchemical bombs are powerful, their cost is as high as tens of thousands of gold. It takes a long time just to collect the materials.

Now Leo's three-gate city-breakers have been bombarding for a whole day and have not stopped. This really opened the eyes of this warlord who thought he was at the forefront of the times.

Looking at the imposing Leo, Fabuti suddenly had an idea, "No wonder Grand Duke Michel wants to adopt him as his adopted son. This is how a son should be."

He then looked at his son Locke, "Of course, little Locke is not bad either, but he still needs time to grow up."

Looking at Leo, Fabuti asked with interest: "Is this the elven technology that River Bay has mastered? I wonder if you can sell me a few of your artillery?"

Leo laughed in his heart: I'll sell it to you to conquer the world so that you can quickly reach the river bend?

But he spoke sincerely, "This is an alchemical creation of the courtyard. Each one is worth a million gold coins. The cost of maintenance is also very staggering. Today's shooting has already cost me 3,000 gold coins in military expenses. I will have to ask the Grand Duke to pay me back later."

Fabuti secretly calculated that if he was to use the magic stone crystal dust from the alchemical bomb as propellant, this price would indeed be needed, so he gave up the desire to purchase.

Grant, who was in the main seat, was a little anxious. He quickly said to Leo, "This is war damage. Why bother asking the Grand Duke for an account? I will compensate you immediately after we capture Clemens."

Leo said quickly: "Second brother is very generous! When we attack the city tomorrow, my firearms will definitely help you!"

In fact, one stone bullet consumed only seven or eight kilograms of gunpowder, and the shooting speed of the city destroyers was extremely slow, even slower than the largest counterweight catapult next door.

In order to prevent the barrel from overheating and deformation, the guns would be stopped in turns to wait for natural cooling.

In this way, the ammunition consumed in a day is less than three hundred gold.

Three hundred gold can also be said to be three million. Although it is an astronomical figure for ordinary people in the North, it is just a fraction of the material consumption when it comes to attacking the main city.

Leo increased the price tenfold, hoping to discourage Fabuti from buying, but he did not expect to receive a pleasant surprise.

Earl Hard was also envious of the River Bay firearms, but he had no intention of asking for it.

His army of barbarians was also called the Army of Poor Guys. They bought firearms, and after using them the ammunition became scrap metal. They had no industrial capacity to manufacture their own weapons, and their products were far less cost-effective than longbows and sharp arrows.

If he had not captured the city of Asgar, which belonged to the Beboos family, and seized a large amount of weaponry, his army of wild folk would not even be able to cover all its members with armor, and half of the legionnaires would have to continue fighting in bear skins.

After a discussion and agreement on tomorrow's siege arrangements, everyone dispersed.

The next day, Leo changed into Pegasus and overlooked the battlefield from the air.

The melee troops of the four legions pushed siege equipment and slowly approached the broken city wall.

The city wall was repaired a lot overnight. The defenders mobilized tens of thousands of people and tried their best to fill most of the gaps and barely restored the prototype of the city wall.

The defensive array was also repaired overnight to continue to block the suppression of catapults outside the city.

With a deafening roar, three huge iron balls flew out, and the defense formation of the Earl's main city of Clemens collapsed again.

The River Bend Legion followed behind Grant's Legion, pushing the siege tower closer to the city wall.

These siege towers do not participate in close combat, but are mobile arrow towers nearly ten meters high.

When they were within two hundred yards, the wild archers hiding behind climbed up the arrow tower and began sniping at the soldiers defending the city.

Except for a few crossbows and extraordinary archers, no one could shoot against Virgil's rifle at this distance.

The Savage Sniper Regiment led by Bjorn was fully equipped with rifles and pointed bullets. Although there were only two hundred rifles, the explosive killing power was equivalent to that of two hundred low-level extraordinary archers with enchanted longbows.

In addition to the Wild Folk Sniper Regiment, the two musket regiments led by Basalov and Ivan also followed behind the melee troops, hiding behind thick wooden wall bunkers and pouring fire on the top of the city.

The defenders of Clemens also burst out with amazing fighting power. They held the city walls despite the firepower of the River Bend Legion and blocked the soldiers of the Grant Legion who were attacking the city outside the city walls.

While the high-level combat forces in the city were entangled by the high-level friendly forces, Leo flew low and circled over the city to spy, found the assembly point of the enemy's reinforcement troops, and then commanded the River Bay Artillery Regiment to carry out a burst of indirect bombardment, plowing several barracks and playgrounds.

By the afternoon, lightning and fireballs began to appear on the city walls, as well as fog that blocked the attackers' vision.

All the low- and middle-level extraordinary magicians went up to the city walls, which was their best effort in the siege.

But even so, after a day, they still failed to capture the city wall.

By the evening, the siege troops called off their operations, with casualties everywhere. Even the River Bend Legion, which was only responsible for fire suppression, lost dozens of musketeers.

Of Grant's 4,000 siege troops, 1,000 were killed.

Although the battle on the other side was not as intense, the three legions suffered a combined loss of more than a thousand people.

Leo rode on Pegasus to watch the battle. He originally wanted to see the Dragon Knights of the Fabti family and the Beastmen Heavy Armored Corps.

In the end, they didn't bring any of them with them, only the human army led by Count Kurolov came.

When the enemy troops retreated like a tide, Count Fred Beboos, whose body was covered in blood, looked at the defenders, nearly half of whom were killed or wounded, and the family's main city, which had been run for hundreds of years, turned into a ruin. A trace of brutality and madness appeared in the depths of his eyes.

Count Fred returned to the Earl's Mansion, changed his clothes, and walked all the way to the deepest part of the castle and into the underground.

Dozens of meters underground, Count Fred opened the ancient seal of a stone door, and suddenly a hot breath hit him in the face.

In the darkness, a pair of scarlet dragon eyes as big as wheels slowly opened.