Riding and slashing the stars of empire civilization

In "Civilization 6", the unique unit of Rome's civilization is the Roman Legion, which has 4 points more combat power than the Swordsman. Its special skill is to build a legion fortress to provide garrison attribute bonuses.

This UU is not just made up by any designer. In history, although the Roman Empire during the Trajan period was not the period at its peak of national power, it was also a period when it was very keen on expanding its territory.

The established Roman legions conquered territory one after another for the empire. Each time they conquered an area, the Roman legions would rarely be stationed in the existing cities. Instead, they would build specialized Roman cities in nearby areas with greater military value. fortress.

Then some of the troops were left in these Roman fortresses to maintain their rule, and the rest continued on their journey of conquest.

There was also such a period in this world that was deliberately shaped by Kassandra to be an empire very similar to the Roman Empire.

The empire's invincible legions carried out extensive construction and construction of specialized military fortresses wherever they went.

As a result, during the heyday of the empire, similar fortresses were built in 80% of the continent.

Even when the empire fell into weakness and its territory shrank a lot, other countries that occupied the original territory of the empire did not abandon these areas. Instead, they built many castles with similar functions.

However, the one in front of Milin can be seen from the very imperial name of "Garius Castle". It was built by the empire during its heyday. It is much stronger than the castles copied from other countries.

The bow-shaped city wall, the painting style of a large city within a small city, and the three-dimensional defense buildings on the upper and lower floors show the very professional level of the builders.

If the city wall hadn't been high enough, Milin would have even thought he saw a bastion.

The defenders stationed in the castle seemed to have noticed that Milin's army was riding in front of them, and they no longer hid the fact that this place was already a chaotic territory.

The densely packed defenders on the city wall include not only the Kuset soldiers who have long been dehumanized, but also the half-orc trolls that Ella longs for.

Facing the pressure of Milin's army, these monsters roared and roared like wild beasts.

At the same time, the huge spiritual energy fluctuations also caused the sky of this castle to be always shrouded in a purple sky.

The evil power from Middle-earth mixed in it gave this purple mass a slight green light.

Coupled with the beam of light that penetrated the sky and the earth, Milin had the illusion that the fortress in front of him should actually be called "Suramar".

After all, the purple color is the same as the moon elf, and the green color is similar to the evil energy. It is really similar.

Just the painting style that carves evil chaos on the face did not affect Milin's morale. Perhaps as Galina said, as long as it can kill, then it is not a big deal.

The troops who came to the outside of the castle were stationed directly, setting up tents, felling trees, and digging pits.

The excavated earth was piled into small slopes and used as positions for hand-propelled cannons.

Later, as the artillery commander, Galina measured the distance with a rangefinder, and then directed the push cannons to climb onto these small mounds.

Although these hand-propelled cannons can only shoot flatly due to setting issues, as long as these gadgets still follow the most basic physical laws, then all that is needed to turn them into projectile howitzers to increase the range is a little terrain change.

After measuring the distance and angle with the gun scope, Galina turned her head and glanced at Milin beside her.

"Come on." Milin said, knowing that Galina was waiting for orders.

As soon as Milin finished speaking, the hand-propelled artillery unit, which did not require words or communications for command, launched a round of exploratory bombardment at the distant castle under the control of Galina's thoughts.

Although the method of raising the elevation angle is used to obtain a longer range, it also reduces the accuracy to a great extent.

Except for a few of the first round of exploratory shelling, which landed around the city wall, the other shots were not even considered near misses.

The monsters on the city wall immediately let out a cry that sounded like ridicule. Even though they were several miles away, Milin could still hear some.

...The voice is really loud...

"It's okay." Greena, who didn't feel any embarrassment about this scene, nodded.

At least these hand-propelled cannons still follow the rules of physics. The shells do not disappear when the range is reached, or they hit the sky directly.

With the help of Gray Wind's computing power, Galina immediately obtained the data on muzzle velocity, shell weight, and landing arc.

Then the height of the mound was adjusted based on this data.

This ensures that every cannon can accurately hit the seemingly solid city wall.

I don't know if it was to retaliate for the other party's ridicule, Galina even deliberately raised the elevation angle of several hand-propelled cannons so that the shells of these cannons could directly cross the city wall and hit behind the city wall.

Then, it’s garbage time for fixed turrets to hit fixed targets.

The first few rounds of shelling were okay, because the shells whose power dropped sharply beyond the range could only make a bowl-sized gap in the imperial-style concrete stone wall of the castle.

The monsters stationed on the city wall still had the strength to continue laughing at the weakness of Milin's weapons.

But as the bombardment continued, the hand-propelled cannon with unlimited ammunition and unlimited barrel durability made the defenders stationed in this castle understand that scraping can also be turned into scraping bones.

The golden silhouette man has a fixed 10-second reloading time without any fatigue value. There are a total of thirty hand-propelled cannons, with a stable 180 rounds of artillery shells per minute, and continuous bombardment for six hours.

The bombing continued from noon to dark, even including the fact that the mounds that were somewhat deformed due to recoil had to be readjusted every once in a while to ensure accuracy.

There were still almost 50,000 shells falling on the city wall.

The result was that half of the originally tall and strong city wall was cut off, and the city gate that had been cared for was directly bombarded into ruins.

The defenders on the city wall have long disappeared, although during the shelling, they wanted to rush out and attack the artillery position.

But the imperial guards and Darahan cavalry who had been waiting did not give them this chance.

When night fell, the veterans who had been cutting down trees all afternoon also assembled the felled trees into siege equipment more suitable for this era, including several lever-type counterweight trebuchets.

But this time, these lever-type counterweight trebuchets did not project boulders the size of millstones, but cluster grenades with a dozen hammer-type grenades bundled together.

The cluster bombs thrown into the castle added a different kind of fire to the purple-green evil castle.

With the Gray Wind reinforcement subsystem, these chain grenades used as cluster bombs are also endlessly manufactured.

At first, the veterans were very happy to carry bundles of cluster grenades onto the counterweight catapult, and were happy to watch these grenades set off fireworks in the castle.

But after more than three hours of continuous bombing, these soldiers were so numb that they seemed unable to feel the pain in their arms.

Not only them, but also Attila and Arthur, as commanders, were somewhat unable to accept this scene.

Except for the few times during the day when the other party rushed out, which made Attila and Arthur briefly happy, the rest of the time they just listened to the sound.

Only Galina remained calm. At the same time, she kept adjusting the shooting angle to ensure the efficiency of the bombardment.

After all, for Galina, this is the war she knows, not the passionate horse riding and slashing.