Chapter 1162 (1/2)
The first round of arrow shooting destroyed thousands of skeleton soldiers on the spot.
However, this number is a negligible number for more than 300000 dead cannon fodder. It can even be said that the number can be ignored. In particular, these skeletons broken into bone fragments on the spot are just the most ordinary skeleton soldiers.
Although skeleton soldiers are divided in more detail, they can be basically classified into three types: skeleton swordsman with sword, skeleton gunner with long gun and skeleton archer with bow and arrow, which can be summarized into three types: short-range, medium-range and long-range. Because it is a unified form of resurrected undead, there are relatively consistent configurations in body shape and weapons, and there are rarely too special situations. After all, it is only a second-order undead creature, which is not worth wasting their mind by those undead mages.
However, at this time, only skeleton swordsmen and skeleton archers appeared on the battlefield. Perhaps because they knew they were going to attack the city, they didn't see skeleton gunmen.
In the field, the killing power of the gunmen is much higher than that of the sword soldiers, but in the siege, unless they have entered the occupation battle of the city wall, the long gunmen are not suitable for the siege environment.
After the first round of arrow rain coverage attack, soon more undead creatures continued to charge on their companions' bodies.
This time, the real war begins.
The spread of the undead army is completely the same length as the whole fortress wall, but different from the wall, they have a greater thickness. Moreover, after the first wave of arrow rain covered attack, the undead pioneer army had some subtle changes - this change seems to have nothing special, but it is no longer skeleton swordsmen, but lower level skeleton soldiers who rush in front.
This is only a first-order skeleton creature. Their body bones look a little gray and yellow, as if they are seriously short of calcium. There are even cracks in some places, and even the weapons in their hands are rusty. It seems that they can't cut people at all. But on the contrary, they have the equipment that other undead creatures do not have - shield. This round wood shield without even iron sheet may not be able to block a powerful arrow shot from the steel winged soldiers, but it is enough to weaken the power of arrow coverage.
”Leave those skeleton soldiers alone!” Although Abaza has not entered the golden territory, he is no longer the lengtouqing in those years. He can see at a glance that these skeleton soldiers are not a threat at all. If it is not for the position of the dead creatures of the skeleton system, he doesn't even want to waste his precious arrows on those skeleton soldiers.
”No.” This time it was Levi who spoke against it.
As soon as he returned the bow and arrow in his hand to Abaza, he opened his mouth and explained: ”in other places, we may ignore these skeleton soldiers, but we absolutely can't do it in the urban defense war. Because these guys are the ladder of the army of the dead. Once these guys build a road close to the wall, the skeleton cavalry behind them can charge. ”
”Charge?” Abaza was stunned for a moment and then smiled, ”let them come.”
Then the whole steel winged soldiers laughed.
Levi is a new commander who has just joined the void duchy. Therefore, he does not know that the most famous achievement of steel wing in that year was to block the group charge of the most famous cavalry regiment in the kingdom of dabion. Perhaps other enemies will make steel wings a taboo, but the cavalry charge, which makes countless infantry troops pale, is the least they need to worry about.
Levi wondered why these people laughed so happily.
Alfred came forward and patted him on the shoulder: ”steel wings are called steel. Do you think they're just nice? What their regiment is most afraid of is charging. There is no difference between cavalry and knight. ”
Just as Alfred and levy were talking, the steel winged archers had shot two more rounds of arrow rain. But after all, they did not completely let go of the skeleton soldiers, but began to limit their attack pace. However, the main force covered by the attack was still slightly in a more rear position, and those undead creatures were the real combat main force of this vanguard army.
”Two thirds of the benchmark!” A scout issued a warning.
The vanguard of the undead army is close to the position of two-thirds of the benchmark.
”The second and third columns of the bow troops cover and shoot alternately!”
Abaza raised his right hand and waved it suddenly. The archers standing in the second column no longer shot with full strings, but began to cover and attack the undead creatures close to the second benchmark line alternately with the archers in the third column. Only the archers at the forefront still keep shooting at the furthest undead in a full string state, but because the second column that should have shot alternately gave up the furthest shooting, it is naturally not more efficient than before.
But this time, all the steel winged archers standing on the wall began to shoot, covering a wider attack area, and the threat to the undead army naturally increased a lot. Almost every moment, thousands of undead were hit into pieces of bone fragments by powerful arrows, most of which were directly shot through the skull by an arrow and extinguished the fire of the soul.
But even so, for this army of the dead, it is still completely unable to shake it.
And as more undead troops poured into the front, skeleton archers began to appear in the sight of the steel winged soldiers.
But in the face of these skeleton archers, no one pays attention to them.
The void principality may not have a special understanding of the intelligence data of the dead, but it still has an understanding of the most conventional knowledge of the dead: skeleton archers, second-order undead creatures, the effective shooting distance is less than 100 meters, and the best killing distance is 30 to 60 meters. In other words, the so-called skeleton archers are not much more threatening than a hunter holding a hunting bow.
Standing on the city wall up to 30 meters, it is the city defense side. Skeleton archers are even 300 meters away from the city wall. These skeleton archers are no different from live targets in the eyes of steel wing archers. Therefore, there is almost a tacit understanding. The arrows of all steel wings and archers avoid these skeleton archers, because all the empty barbarians, including Abaza, think it is the problem of the commander of the undead army, and unexpectedly put skeleton archers into use so soon.
If the undead army attacks the city wall, and then let these skeleton archers push under the city wall, it may pose a certain threat to the defenders.
As for now?
No one cares at all.
The distance between the two-thirds pole and the half chord pole is only about 100 meters.
Therefore, when the undead army crossed the two-thirds of the benchmark, it naturally soon pushed the front to the position of the half chord benchmark, which is only about 200 meters away from the city wall. If it is a real siege, the attacker will generally start to rush forward desperately after arriving at this position, and then try to climb the wall and fight with the defenders - all those who have fought the siege and defense of the city war know that the closer they are to the wall, especially at the last 100 meters, the fighting between the two sides will be more bloody and tragic.
But in the face of the unconscious army of the dead, the situation naturally appears very strange.
All the undead creatures did not make any final crazy charge, but still kept their tepid rhythm and pushed forward slowly. The defenders with steel wings naturally want the undead army to continue to do so, because they have more time to shoot. This may not really destroy the undead creatures attacking the city, but it can at least weaken the number of these undead armies to a certain extent.
Facing the army of the dead who had entered the half chord benchmark, Abaza didn't say anything, but made a tactical gesture.
Soon, several heralds began to wave the command flag signal.