Chapter 40: The Trebuchet Unleashes Its Fury

  Xiao Yu's small scheme instantly annihilated nearly two thousand of Karu's troops, causing his face to turn ashen as if water was about to drip from it.

  Twenty thousand troops, he originally thought it would be easy to take down the Lion King's territory, but now they have suffered such a heavy loss.

  This Xiao Yu is really too despicable, too shameless.

  "Ballista, bring it up, suppress those archers." Originally, according to the plan, the ballista was supposed to be brought in after a while, but Xiao Yu's insult and heavy losses to Kalu made him furious, bringing the ballista into the battle sequence ahead of schedule.

  The soldiers operating the catapults were given orders and immediately pushed the catapults forward, advancing towards the city walls, preparing to attack once they reached firing range.

  The crossbow was shot from the bottom of the city to the top, but due to its strong power, its range was no shorter than that of arrows shot down from the top of the city.

  This is just an ordinary crossbow, if it's some magically enhanced crossbows, paired with magical armor-piercing arrows, the range achieved will be even more terrifying, and the power will also be much greater.

  Xiao Yu watched from the city wall as Karu's scorpion carts began to move forward, and he knew that Karu had something in mind. Immediately, he waved his hand, and ten catapults adjusted their direction, targeting four of the scorpion carts clustered together.

  "Ready, fire." Xiao Yu personally directed and gave the order.

  In an instant, hundreds of rocks flew down from the city wall, like a meteor shower, in a very dense formation, directly smashing into the four ballistae on the other side.

  Buzz buzz buzz......

  The sound of the rocks flying through the air was accompanied by a force that shook people's hearts, as if countless locusts were rushing over.

  "What's going on?" The soldier operating the crossbow cart looked up at the hail of stones in the sky, stunned for a moment, and hadn't yet reacted to what was happening.

  By the time they reacted, the boulders were already above their heads. Because of the dense distribution, they wanted to dodge but had nowhere to hide.

  Xiao Yu uses this long-range heavy weapon, absolutely different from Karu's troops. Karu's crossbow carts are distributed behind several phalanxes to help the light infantry suppress the archers on the city wall and allow them to climb up smoothly.

  Xiao Yu's use of catapults was aimed at using large-scale concentrated heavy firepower to exert absolute suppression and lethal damage on the enemy.

  That's the difference in thinking between people of Xiao Yu's past life and this Cold Weapon Era.

  Heavy weapons can only be used in combination to produce great power and to crush and annihilate the enemy.

  Xiao Yu naturally saw the more than 20 ballistae on the opposite side, and he was also clear that if these ballistae were to enter their range, they would cause huge casualties among the elven archers on the city walls.

  These elven archers are all his treasures, and it's not easy to cultivate them to level three. If one of them dies, like Xiao Yu, he'll be heartbroken to death.

  So, Xiao Yu naturally had to eliminate them first before these heavy weapons came into range.

  It's just like in that era when you saw the other side had a strong artillery, then you must first destroy all their artillery, only then can you gain a better advantageous position than them.

  In this way, Xiao Yu can attack them, but they cannot pose a threat to Xiao Yu's troops.

  When two armies clash, it is essential to take out the enemy's heavy firepower first. This was also common sense in that previous era.

  The power of the catapults, Xiao Yu had tested them before, and he was extremely satisfied with both their range and power. He had absolute confidence that on top of the city walls, these catapults could completely suppress any powerful siege engines brought by Karu.

  Originally, there weren't many better machines than the Beast Tribe's catapults in this era, and Xiao Yu's side occupied the high ground, so their throwing distance was definitely much stronger than the opponent's.

  So, before the other side launches an attack, they can completely strangle them in the cradle.

  Now, the only problem that troubles the catapult is the accuracy issue. The long-range weapons of this era are not as accurate as those in Xiao Yu's era. If the deviation of the catapult is within ten meters, it can be considered accurate.

  So, Xiaoyu directly uses a large-scale concentrated fire attack to cover up the problem of accuracy. If one catapult is firing at another ballista, it may take several shots to destroy one catapult.

  However, ten catapults fired at the same place together, with seven or eight blocks of 30-40 kilograms each on top of each catapult, which is almost a hundred blocks of stone densely covered.

  Even with a large margin of error, under such intense bombardment, there will always be rocks that can hit the target and destroy the enemy's catapult.

  As expected, the boulder weighing over 30 kilograms combined with the free fall from a height of over 20 meters formed an enormous force that not only crushed the frames of those catapults into powder but also turned all the nearby soldiers operating them into minced meat.

  Four chariots were smashed together into a pile of fragments.

  "Hmm, it's working well, these ten catapults were worth buying, although the price was a bit expensive, but absolutely worth it."

  Xiao Yu narrowed her eyes, very satisfied with the first use of the catapult.

  But in a very short time, less than ten seconds, the black iron tribe's slaves and beastmen had already refilled the catapults, ready for a second attack.

  The beastman's hard work was also called by Xiao Yu to participate in the defensive battle. At first, Xiao Yu still wanted to use the loophole to make the beastman's hard work also become a warrior. After all, although they were not as strong as the beastman soldiers, at least their physical advantage was there, and ordinary soldiers should not be their opponents.

  However, after testing their combat capabilities, Xiao Yu directly gave up on this idea. It was as if the Elves' archers were unable to improve their close combat abilities no matter what, and the Beastmen were good at hard work and could endure hardships, but when it came to fighting, they were truly a lost cause, and no amount of training could change that.

  They look tall and powerful, but any elite human soldier can easily kill them. There's no way around it, Xiao Yu can only pull them up as logistics support at this time and use them as laborers.

  Although they won't fight, moving stones and lifting catapults are still very useful. They have great strength and a sturdy build, so a few beastmen can labor to move the catapult, saving on the number of beastmen infantry.

  "Switch target, ready, fire!" Xiao Yu shouted loudly again.

  Buzz buzz buzz......

  Again, a hail of boulders came crashing down, like countless meteorites falling from the sky. The enemy's five ballistae were directly smashed to pieces, reduced to a pile of kindling.

  A barrage of catapults' concentrated fire directly stunned Caru's army, they were all shocked to think that Xiao Yu's side had a high-level magician who could release the large-scale spell "Meteor Shower".

  This is something that can be done by at least a 5th or even 6th rank magician.

  The driver of the crossbow cart saw the powerful catapults on Xiao Yu's side and didn't dare to move forward, wanting to retreat quickly. However, how could Xiao Yu let them off easily? He continued to command the ten catapults to launch a concentrated attack three times, killing six more of Karu's crossbow carts.

  Karu's more than 20 catapults now have only over ten left, losing half of them.

  "What is that thing?! Do they have a sixth-tier magician?!" Kalu stared at the hail of boulders falling from the sky, instantly crushing several ballistae into fragments, his shocked eyes almost bulging out.

  At this time, although there was no help from the crossbow carts, many light infantrymen had already rushed to the bottom of the city and set up cloud ladders, starting to attack the city head.

  Under the promise of a heavy reward to whoever first climbed onto the city wall, these infantrymen still risked their lives and crawled up the city wall amidst a rain of arrows.

  Although they had just seen something whizzing by on the city wall, in the chaotic battlefield, they didn't have time to think too much, they only blocked the arrows, advanced quickly, climbed up the city wall, that's the real deal.

  One hundred infantrymen of the tribe marched forward, holding up shields to defend against the sneak attack by the crossbowmen below. The beastman infantry followed closely behind, and they were filled with anticipation for the incoming Carlu army soldiers.

  At the same time, Caru's heavy infantry was also gradually approaching the open city gate, and the elves' bows and arrows had not been aimed at them from the beginning.

  Xiao Yu knew that using bows and arrows against heavily armored infantry was a complete waste of arrows, so he ordered all the elven archers to only target lightly armored infantry, while completely ignoring the heavily armored ones.

  "Prepare to meet the enemy." Long Hui shouted loudly as he watched the Karasu soldiers about to climb over the wall.

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