Archdemon

The battle was over, and the enemy was in a state of panic.

Kangchuan Fort was surrounded on all sides, and there were at least thousands of Gnoll soldiers on each side preparing to launch an attack.

The tactics of the Gnolls were very simple, that is, to rush up with the advantage of numbers. In the eyes of high-level Gnoll nobles, low-level Gnolls were just cannon fodder.

In the Gnoll Empire, they were divided into four levels from birth, relying on the hair on their backs as a division of levels.

Goldback, Silverback, Blackback, Grayback.

Goldback Gnolls are generally Gnoll royals or nobles, Silverbacks are ordinary nobles, and Blackbacks are natural warriors and officers in the army.

As for the Graybacks, the Grayback Gnolls are all poor people, their talents are poor, and only a small number of them can cross the threshold of the Black Iron Stage.

The Grayback Gnolls are also the most numerous in the empire. They are weak in strength, but they are numerous, so they naturally become the most conscripted objects.

Among the Gnolls who came to attack Kangchuan Fort this time, at least 80% are Grayback Gnolls. They are like leeks in the vegetable garden, and they are cheap in the eyes of the nobles.

Even if all these Grayback Gnolls died in the battle, it is not a big problem in the eyes of the high-level Silverback and Goldback Gnolls. At most, they can return to the country to recruit another batch.

"Woo!..."

The Gnolls blew the horn of attack, and the soldiers under the four walls began to howl and launched the attack.

The four walls of Kangchuan Fort are not four sections of walls, but eight sections. The overall structure is a polygon, which is conducive to defense.

When attacking, these gnolls had to face the shooting of mechanical crossbows on at least two or three sections of the city wall.

However, if there is a spear, there is a shield. The defenders on the city wall have mechanical crossbows, and the gnolls under the city also have siege ladders.

The gnolls have no archers, so this will suffer a lot when attacking the city. Their only long-range means is to throw short spears.

The front row of the gnoll soldiers who launched the attack were mostly gray-backed gnolls. Their equipment was poor, and they generally only had leather armor with low defense.

At this time, they held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, followed the ladder, and formed a tight formation to resist the arrows on the wall.

More than a dozen gnolls carried shields on their backs and pushed the ladders towards the city wall. The ground under the city wall was not flat, and the ladders were extremely heavy, which made the gnolls face huge casualties in the process of pushing the ladders.

From time to time, gnolls were hit by arrows on the city wall, wailing and falling to the ground, but the vacant positions were quickly filled by the gnolls behind.

"City defense crossbows! Hit the ladder for me!" On the city wall, the garrison officers looked at the approaching ladders and shouted at the top of their lungs.

Then several tall city defense crossbows on the city wall turned their direction. The mechanical kinetic energy of these crossbows was even stronger, and the arrows used were also enchanted products, each as big as a spear.

The attack of these crossbows, the huge mechanical energy plus the enchantment of the arrows, made their attack intensity even reach thousands of degrees after hitting.

The giant crossbows were built on the crossbow platform on the city wall, and the outer periphery was wrapped with armored shields, like the turrets of Blue Star warships.

This huge city defense crossbow could not attack flexible enemies, but it was very useful for huge siege equipment such as ladders and siege vehicles.

Following the commander's order, these city defense crossbows quickly aimed and fired, and huge arrows shot out from the crossbow platform.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The arrows collided with the defensive magic circle on the cloud ladder, making a huge roar, and the flames and arrow fragments of the explosion splashed everywhere.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

Many arrow fragments and the flames produced by the explosion fell on the neatly arrayed gnolls below, and their simple shields could not resist such attacks.

Many gnoll soldiers howled miserably, and some of their hair was ignited by the flames, and their bodies were on fire, billowing black smoke, and emitting a burnt smell.

The other city defense soldiers were not idle at this time, and the mechanical crossbows in their hands were also constantly shooting. The mechanical crossbows in their hands could also burst out the killing power against the black iron-level enemies.

Steel arrows kept shooting down from the city walls, like black lightning, and some were blocked by the shields held by the gnolls.

Some arrows were able to penetrate the shields of the gnolls, then tear apart their armor and penetrate into the gnolls' bodies.

The road where the gnolls approached the city wall was littered with the bodies of gray-backed gnolls, and the blood-soaked large

On the ground, many gnolls died with their eyes wide open.

"Boom!"

The defensive array of a siege ladder was blown up by the city defense crossbow. Before the defense shield could be restarted, it was hit by two huge crossbow arrows.

The huge explosion directly overturned the entire ladder, and the fragments of the ladder flew everywhere, hitting the gnolls behind and howling like ghosts and wolves.

Huo Ling in the central tower was not idle either. He and his silver-level skeleton mage were also constantly casting spells.

Quenching Hell!

After the spell was successfully released, some illusory runes appeared under the feet of the gnolls who were holding shields and moving forward, followed by an extremely cold breath.

This kind of coldness that penetrated into the body and soul made the gnolls move slowly, and some gnolls with poor strength were even directly frozen to death in it.

Even the black iron-level gnoll warriors, who circulated their fighting spirit, only slightly eased the pain, but they were still shaking uncontrollably.

Negative energy bursts!

There is a group attack spell, and huge negative energy is gathering.

"Disperse quickly!"

A silver-level shaman sensed this condensed energy. He was too late to release the dispersal spell, and could only shout loudly to remind the jackal soldiers.

The casters did not need to participate in the tragic battle of the city wall. They were far away from the range and provided some auxiliary witchcraft.

But the jackals affected by the quenching hell had no time to disperse now. They could only barely ignite their fighting spirit in an attempt to withstand this attack.

"Boom!!!"

The negative energy that had been stored for eight seconds burst directly pushed the energy storage to the extreme. The attack of more than a thousand degrees was not something these black iron-level and apprentice-level warriors could resist at all.

It was like a bomb exploded in the crowd, and the broken jackal corpses and armor fragments flew everywhere.

The gnolls who were not hit by the spell stared at the scene in front of them in amazement. This attack killed at least dozens of gnoll soldiers.

The gnolls following them were like taking a blood bath. They were already covered in blood before they even started to climb up the city wall.

"Disperse the formation!" A silver-rank gnoll officer shouted loudly. He followed behind the large army and supervised and commanded these soldiers as a grassroots commander.

After receiving his order, the gnolls who were originally densely holding shields no longer cared to avoid the arrows on the city wall, and raised their shields in groups of three or two.

After being dispersed in this way, even if they were hit by spells, they would not suffer too much loss at once.