Chapter Fourteen: Siege Warfare

  "Hahaha..." More than 200 arrows shot down from the sky like raindrops, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound.

  Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh...

  At this time, the elves archers hiding behind had moved to the front, standing in a row along the entire city wall, drawing their proud longbows.

  The Elf archer took action, at such a distance, and with the high ground advantage, the hit rate could reach over 70%. It was just a brief encounter, but after the hail of arrows passed, nearly two hundred enemies fell to the ground.

  The elf archer is currently at a low level and cannot yet achieve the goal of hitting every shot, one arrow to kill. When upgraded to a higher level, skills such as multi-shot and accurate shooting can be learned, making it even more powerful.

  The Elf Archer has three skills to learn. When reaching level 3, they will automatically master the "Precision Shot" skill, which greatly increases the hit rate and attack power of Feather Arrows. At level 6, they can master "Multi-Shot", shooting out 3-7 arrows at once. At level 10, they can learn "Moon Goddess Protection", increasing the accuracy and strength of their shots, as well as absorbing a portion of physical and magical damage through the Moon Goddess' aura.

  If the Elf Archer can break through level 10 and reach level 11, it will become a postnatal hero, which can continue to grow and learn more skills. These skills are mainly learned from heroes, that is, Tyrande.

  The infantry of the beast tribe is also the same, reaching level 3 can learn the frenzy skill, increasing attack power by 50%, but will lose some sanity, only knowing to attack, continuously killing until the frenzy effect disappears. Reaching level 6, the beastman soldier can learn the slash skill, swinging their weapon to cause a certain range of damage, very suitable for large-scale battles. Reaching level 10, the beastman infantry can learn the heavy strike skill, launching an attack with several times the power, and has a certain probability of stunning the opponent. If the beastman infantry breaks through level 11, they become a postnatal hero, can follow the Sword Saint or the Minotaur Chieftain, or the Hill King to learn skills.

  The fall of 200 people was not enough to shake the morale of the great army of Karu, because they had 5,000 people, and 200 people were just a small part of them.

  However, the next moment, another burst of breaking sound started again, and more than 150 people fell down. The second wave of arrow rain did not fall so many people because the opponent had a defense, they all held up their shields to resist or dodge, so some missed. However, this accuracy is already very high in the archer team.

  This scene suddenly made a commander in the Karu army's heart skip a beat.

  According to their understanding of the Lion King's territory, there shouldn't be many troops left here. Where did so many elite archers come from? Did they hire mercenaries? But hiring mercenaries would cost a lot of money, and wasn't the Lion King's treasury already depleted?

  Although he saw the enemy's archers were powerful, now he couldn't issue a retreat order. The charge emphasizes momentum; if they see the situation is unfavorable and withdraw, the losses will be even more severe. Now that the charge has begun, the best strategy is to quickly rush to the bottom of the wall, set up cloud ladders, and climb over the city walls. As long as they climbed over the city walls, the archers' effect would not be apparent.

  Long Hui was also shocked to see the two hundred archers' double shots, this is the most accurate archer he has ever seen.

  With this kind of archer defending the city, the enemy will definitely suffer greatly. At this time, he regained some confidence.

  "Hold them back, hold them back! Don't let them set foot on the city walls." Long Hui commanded the nearly four hundred infantrymen led by Lion King to prepare for the soldiers who were about to attack the city.

  For a moment, the shouting and killing sounds of the charge and the breaking sound of arrows became the main melody on the battlefield. The enemy continued to fall down, unable to get up again.

  However, after a few breaths of fierce fighting, the enemy army had already arrived at the foot of the city and began to set up ladders. Just from this bout, Karu's army had actually suffered nearly 800 casualties. This was just in a matter of a few breaths, causing such slaughter, it was simply unthinkable.

  The cloud ladder was set up, and the soldiers below began to climb up towards the city wall with all their might. Although the archers did their best to shoot them down, there were too many people and the city wall was very long, so they couldn't cover every place, and many of them climbed up anyway.

  Once these soldiers climbed onto the city wall and formed a close combat situation, the role of the archers would be greatly reduced, and they could no longer pose a great threat to the soldiers below.

  Archers defending a castle are most useful in the initial stages, before the enemy has climbed onto the walls. However, this period of time is usually quite brief.

  "They actually have archers?" Karu saw that a batch of his troops had fallen, although not all of them were dead, some of the wounded could still continue to fight, but so many archers were also a great threat to the siege.

  He had thought that Sima Wang's forces were already depleted and that his own arrival would cause their morale to collapse, leading to a direct surrender.

  That magician and the battering ram were just there for show as a deterrent force, didn't think they would actually be of use.

  But he didn't expect that in just one encounter, so many people would be killed by the other side, this was really beyond his expectations.

  However, he didn't have too much to worry about, because he had 5,000 men, and the enemy's current military strength would not exceed 1,000. Five thousand against one thousand, even in a siege, was absolutely no problem, let alone with mages and catapults.

  At this time, looking at the soldiers on the cloud ladder who were about to climb up to the city head, a smile appeared on Carlu's face. Everything will be over soon.

  As soon as the soldiers rushed up to the city head and occupied a bridgehead position, the Lion King's territory was equivalent to falling.

  Roar...

  But at this moment, a burst of thunder-like roar echoed from above the city wall.

  Two hundred tall and strong men, over two meters in height, wearing black cloaks, suddenly climbed onto the wall. Just as the first soldier of the Karu army was about to take action, one of the strong men charged forward, using his shoulder to knock him off, sending the soldier flying tens of meters away from the top of the wall.

  Shocking

  The sudden appearance of two hundred strong men made the other soldiers who were climbing up pause for a moment, but they also knew that this was not the time to retreat. If they retreated and piled up with the soldiers behind them, the enemy's archers would be able to shoot them down easily.

  Then, after a brief pause, they rushed towards the city gate again quickly.

  However, what greeted them were wheel-shaped axe heads the size of a washbasin. As soon as they stepped onto the wall, an axe came down and directly chopped through their shields, which couldn't withstand it at all. The men and their shields were split in two together.

  The city walls of the Lion King's territory were very long, stretching for thousands of meters. Two hundred beastmen infantrymen were distributed along this distant defense line, seemingly a bit stretched thin.

  However, the ferocity of the Beastmen infantry can completely ignore these.

  When Karu's soldiers attacked the city, they could only use ladders. All that was needed was to station a few beastmen at the ladders, no matter how many came, they absolutely couldn't climb up.

  If saying that the beginning of the archer only made Karu slightly surprised, then the appearance of these beastman infantry completely shocked him.

  He didn't know where Xiao Yu had found these strange troops, although he still didn't know that the other side was a beastman, but he could also see how powerful these soldiers were.

  Karu's commander looked sternly at the dozens of cloud ladders that had been set up, but as they went up, they all turned into corpses and fell down, his face was extremely unsightly.

  So many cloud ladders, distributed so far away, should have been attacked long ago, but just a few soldiers guarding, not one can climb up.

  At this time, the bowmen above were still firing, and the arrows were coming down like rain. The soldiers below used their shields to defend themselves, but they had already suffered heavy casualties.

  The battle had lasted less than 10 minutes, but they had already lost over a thousand men. As for the enemy, it seemed that not one of them had been injured.

  "They have such a strong infantry and archers, it seems that climbing the city wall is very difficult. The only way is to break through the front gate, as long as we break through the gate, go in and engage in close combat, relying on our numerical advantage, we can easily defeat them." This commander was not feeling well in his heart, originally bringing 5,000 people to bully such a small territory, he still thought it was killing a chicken with a bull knife, but unexpectedly, more than 1,000 people died in the first battle, how could he bear it?

  This time back, it is certain to be punished, although the responsibility does not lie with him, but because he did not understand the opponent's information, and the opponent's archers and infantry were very strong. However, Caruna would definitely push all the blame on his body, and at that time, he could not avoid a punishment.

  I can only hope that the siege engine breaks through the city walls and wins this victory, so that when I return, I can somewhat make up for my past mistakes.

  Rumble...

  The battering ram had now reached the bottom of the city gate, and the huge battering ram was pulled up by the soldiers shouting slogans, heavily hitting the city gate.