Warcraft Eternal Tree - Chapter 568

c568 burning catapult

At this time, the three human empires have formed a united front. Although the orcs’ offensive was fierce and unexpectedly possessed a strong siege capability, the three empires at least managed to curb their momentum of continuous advancement.

The place where the Eighth Army marched to was actually not the territory of the Holy Lion Empire, but the territory of a kingdom in the original buffer zone between the Holy Lion Empire and the Bozana Empire.

The orcs chose to attack the two empires at the same time, and this buffer zone became a territory jointly fought for by the three parties – well, it should be said that it was two parties. Although the Holy Lion Empire and the Bozana Empire are still scheming against each other, resisting the orcs is the top priority of the two countries.

The Eighth Army is stationed in a relatively large city. This city is the largest city in the kingdom where the Eighth Army is located except for the capital, but at this time, this once prosperous city has only a large number of soldiers left, and no residents exist.

This kingdom is secretly controlled by the Holy Lion Empire. At this critical moment, I naturally have to take care of it. The residents in the city where the Eighth Army is stationed have all been relocated not long ago. The Eighth Army and the Fourth Army of the Holy Lion Empire are now stationed together in this city called Xirik.

Speaking of it, the Fourth Army of the Holy Lion Empire is four higher than the Eighth Army in terms of organization, but in fact, the overall strength of the Fourth Army is not as good as the Eighth Army. In addition to the fact that the Eighth Army has added a thousand-man mage regiment, it is more because the original Fourth Army has almost been destroyed, and the current Fourth Army is newly established.

After hearing Paramount’s introduction, Yu Fei felt even more weird. The Eighth Route Army is not enough, and there is also a New Fourth Army? Is there a big knife team or something? With a joking mind, Yu Fei asked casually.

Unexpectedly, Paramount really answered seriously that there is indeed a big knife team. It was composed of some officers left over from the former Fourth Army. They had an unspeakable hatred for the orcs and would rather fight against the orcs with their lives.

This team was originally called the Officers’ Suicide Squad, but later because most of these officers used knives as weapons, they were nicknamed the Big Knife Squad.

Yu Fei was really speechless now. He should just be the head of his own independent regiment. The New Fourth Army’s Big Knife Squad was totally unlovable!

Yu Fei didn’t have to wait too long. Three days after the Eighth Army entered Xirek City, the orc troops finally arrived here.

As a senior officer, Yu Fei saw some human rout troops fleeing into Xirek City from the tower. However, more human soldiers were not allowed in because the orcs were following too closely behind them, but died under the walls of Xirek City.

In the past, Yu Fei would definitely feel disgusted with this kind of behavior of not saving people in danger. However, after being a tree for so long, he seemed to have become indifferent to the disappearance of life and was unmoved – especially since the lives that disappeared were just some aliens in his eyes.

However, the orcs’ approach to the city meant that the mage group’s leisurely days were over. Yu Fei’s magicians were divided into two groups, led by two sky-level magicians, Scott and Morton, and rotated in two shifts.

Among the magicians under Yu Fei, almost three-fifths were earth magicians, not the most popular and most lethal fire magicians in the army. Yu Fei was a little surprised at first, but after Scott’s explanation, he understood it.

This is actually a matter of experience. The Holy Lion Empire has been fighting with the orcs for more than a month. The biggest problem found is that the walls that humans rely on as a barrier are relatively fragile under the inexplicable attacks of the orcs, and they are completely ineffective.

Those catapults that can produce incendiary bombs and wolf cavalry that can cause great damage to the city walls make the human defense advantage completely invisible.

After suffering a lot of losses, the Holy Lion Empire finally found an effective way, that is, to use magic.

Most of the orcs who have turned green seem to have no magic at all. The ability to cause great damage to the city walls is also the effect of a mysterious force. Neither the incendiary catapults nor the wolf cavalry has anything to do with magic.

Facts have also proved that magic can indeed bring relatively effective damage to the orcs. Correspondingly, the use of magic in defense can also have a considerable effect on the attacks of the orcs.

Using earth magic to strengthen the city walls is a method that humans and even all races in Eslazer will use. When the night elves raided the heartland of the Holy Lion Empire before, they saw how strong the city walls were after the combination of the mage group and the mage tower in those cities and passes.

As the second largest city in the local kingdom, there are naturally mage towers in Xirik City, which are located not far behind each city wall. The spells cast by the magicians in the magic tower can completely affect the city walls and even further outside the city walls.

The orcs seemed to be more cautious. When they attacked Xirek City, they did not launch an offensive directly, but surrounded Xirek City first. Yu Fei roughly estimated that there were about 300,000 orcs surrounding Xirek City.

This number is actually not as many as the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army combined, but the combat effectiveness is the opposite of the number.

In terms of defense, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were responsible for two walls respectively. Yu Fei’s magic regiment was also stationed in two magic towers – of course, not all of them.

Yu Fei divided the 8th Army Mage Corps into two parts for shifts, each part has five teams, led by a cloud-level magician. Two of the five teams are in each of the two magic towers, and the remaining team is used as a mobile force to put out fires in two places.

As for Yu Fei himself, he did not stay in the magic tower. His identity is a spiritual magician, and ordinary magic towers cannot amplify spiritual magic, so Yu Fei simply stayed on the tower.

The orcs did not play any tricks of surrounding three sides and missing one. Soon after completely surrounding Xirik City, they launched a tentative attack.

However, it was just a tentative attack for the orcs, but it made the humans in Xirik City feel like they were facing a great enemy. Because this first wave of attacks was launched by the strange catapults of the orcs.

In Yu Fei’s observation, the boulders thrown by the orcs’ catapults were actually not as big as those thrown by the mountain giants. The instantaneous damage caused by the stone hitting the wall of Xirik City was not that serious.

But after the boulder fell, the part of the wall that was hit strangely ignited some flames. The hard wall gradually showed some signs of cracking under the scorching of the flames.

It was indeed the catapult of the orcs, and it was an upgraded version with a burning effect. Yu Fei understood. In the previous battle, the catapult of the orcs that could burn the wall made humans miserable.

However, after such a long war, humans have also found some effective ways to deal with it-the mage group should do its part.

The various mage towers in Xirik City gushed out a large amount of khaki light and a small amount of aqua blue light, covering the wall of Xirik City.

The khaki light is naturally the effect of earth magic. The cracked parts of the wall and even the parts smashed by the boulders are gradually repaired under the effect of these khaki lights, as if a hand is reshaping the wall like a clay figure.

When the aqua-blue light reached the city wall, it immediately turned into streams of water, extinguishing the flames burning in various places on the city wall, making it impossible for them to cause subsequent damage to the city wall.

The orcs outside the city were not surprised to see this scene, as humans had used such means in some previous cities. In fact, the burning catapults could restrain human magicians, making them busy repairing and maintaining the city walls instead of casting a large number of killing magic to harm the orcs, which made the orcs very satisfied.

However, even if the burning catapults were offset by the magicians in Xirik City, the orcs still had two other types of siege weapons.

Thanks to the book friend Yibaerhong, 100 Niangbi for the reward!