The Origin of Arcane

What the leader of the Yong Ye army can do now is to further downplay the role of the crocodile tribe in the defense of the brother port, and then negotiate with Nidia, Weber, Bishop and other relatively rational elders to urge them to increase their attack on the crocodile tribe army. Take control.

Some important military meetings did not exclude them, but actively invited them to participate, so that they can have a clearer understanding of the whole situation, and the frequency of the previous irrational behavior will be much reduced.

The problem exposed by the Kingsley family is also obvious, that is, the serious shortage of long-range attacks.

The long-range attacks of the two sides are not at the same level at all.

The range of Andis' longbow itself is astonishing, and now it is condescending, and it has different degrees of bonuses. The arrows flying out of the ten-meter-high arrow tower can easily shoot five hundred meters away.

The archers of the Kingsley family had no way to push up and carry out long-range suppression support. The entire siege force was directly exposed to the rain of arrows, and they could shoot whatever they wanted.

Ake Messer is an old soldier, so it is impossible for him not to know the consequences of suppressing long-range attacks.

It is definitely not just a matter of casualties, but also a blow to one's own morale.

Facing the overwhelming rain of arrows, many heavy armored infantry, even though they were wearing heavy armor, knew that they could not do much damage to themselves, still fighting in two directions, it was difficult to muster up the courage to charge, let alone those with thin armor Cannon fodder.

Including those mercenaries who would risk their lives for money.

They are not fools, they can risk their lives for the bounty, but that is when there is hope to get the bounty, if it is a fatal situation like before, fools will rush forward.

Compared with the cannon fodder of the crocodile tribe, the mercenaries faced a more ferocious arrow rain, and the reason why they only lost less than 3,000 yuan was because they saw that the momentum was not right, so they all hid behind and paddled.

For them, the Kingsley family can't drive them away like the cannon fodder of the crocodile tribe. Before there is no corresponding solution, they can't imagine that they can continue to charge bravely.

This is the biggest drawback of using mercenaries.

It's not that the Kingsley family didn't build siege equipment, it's just that the surrounding trees were completely destroyed by the Yong Ye army leader, not to mention the tall trees, even the shrubs were uprooted by them.

The nearest forest felling site is also tens of kilometers away.

Moreover, the trees produced in the Swamp of Despair are usually relatively short and loose in wood. Most of the small siege equipment that can be built, large siege equipment, pick and choose, and so far have not built a few.

Now Ake Messer is holding it in his hands like a baby, and he is reluctant to use it on these cannon fodder.

Let's pile up the earth and attack the city! There are also smart people in the Kingsley family's Eastern Expeditionary Army, and they have proposed a new method in response to this situation.

That's the only way to go. Ake Messer nodded and agreed to this plan.

Siege the city with piles of soil.

As the name suggests, it is to pile up the soil into mounds until it is piled up under the city wall. After exceeding the city wall, the siege soldiers rush to the top of the city wall along the slope of the mound.

The advantages and disadvantages of course needless to say.

Once it is successful, if a gap is opened on the city wall and a large number of soldiers pour in, the rest will be outright hand-to-hand combat. Once the defenders can't hold it, it will be time for the city to break.

The disadvantage is that this is an out-and-out stupid method, and it requires time, manpower, and material resources, not a single star.

Especially in the face of castles with natural dangers or small-scale sieges, this trick is not used at all.

The Kingsley family has no better way to think of it now.

The feasibility of this stupid method is relatively high.

After all, the natural danger that Brother Port relies on is water.

Although Ashan didn't say that the five elements restrain each other, he has the theory that the elements restrain each other.

Regardless of the five elements or the elements, soil is outright against water.

What's more, the Kingsley family now has a large number of idle people, and indeed has the inherent conditions to implement this method.

I don't know if it was because of the paralysis of the Yong Ye army leader, or because they were planning to use multiple measures. Before waiting for the cold winter, the Kingsley family began to pile up soil and attack the city.

During this period, the Kingsley family drove away the cannon fodder one after another and organized several tentative attacks.

However, the purpose of these tentative attacks is not to try to fill up the moat of Brother Port, but to test the longest range of Andis' longbow.

Then set up temporary defense tools to prepare for the siege of the city.

Even if you plan to use a stupid method, you have to start from the weakest and closest point of firepower. At this time, save every point you can save.

There was not one but as many as eight points for the siege of the city that Ake Messer had prepared.

There are tens of thousands of people at each point, and the accumulation of negative soil for 25 hours non-stop, with a length of more than ten meters, began to spread in the direction of Brother City little by little.

Andis Longbow, who has made outstanding achievements in the Yongye army, is a little helpless this time.

First, after the mound is formed, there is a large natural dead angle for bows and arrows, and there is nothing they can do no matter whether they are flat or projectile.

Furthermore, the Kingsley family made sufficient preparations to defend against the arrows this time, and used logs to build fortifications. Pushing the mound forward a little, the fortifications were pushed forward a little bit to provide shelter for those who piled up the soil.

It is true that the trees produced in the swamp are not hard enough, but the quantity can make up for the lack of quality.

No matter how powerful the Andis longbow is, it cannot change the fact that it is a bow and arrow. Its strength is limited after all, and it is impossible to have the same penetrating ability as a siege crossbow.

Besides, facing a log wall tens of centimeters thick, even a siege crossbow is helpless.

Although the Kingsley family didn't care about the life and death of these cannon fodder, they should do as much as possible to reduce the possibility of their death. After all, the number of cannon fodder is limited, so save as much as possible.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder.

The leader of the Yongye army is not helpless against the Kingsley family's siege.

Brother Port not only has a large number of Andis longbowmen, but also a large number of defense equipment.

Influenced by Xiao En, the Yongye army leader has paid great attention to the research of siege equipment from the beginning, especially the affiliated engineering regiment has brought tower defense tactics to the extreme.

The geographic location of Brother Port is so important, this tactic is naturally brought to the extreme.

The hundreds of tower trebuchets are the best proof.

The real official name for the Tower Catapult is the Sky Catapult.

As you can tell from the name, the Yong Ye army leader already has a relatively clear division of ranks in terms of catapults.

However, in order to be easy to remember, the Yongye military leader did not give them too cumbersome names, but named them after the easy-to-understand small, medium, and large catapults. Only unconventional super-giant catapults have their own. name.

The number of trebuchets placed on the walls and inside the walls of Brother City is so many that it makes one's scalp tingle.

The reason why they didn't use it before was because the longbowmen alone were enough, and it wasn't worth wasting extra firepower.

The Andis longbows were helpless, so it was their turn to show off.

After the calibration test, stones ranging from a dozen kilograms to tens of kilograms smashed on the Kingsley family's fortifications with a sharp roar.

The earth and rocks cracked and pieces of wood flew everywhere.

Once accidentally collapsed by it, it is possible to die with it.

The catapult led by the Yong Ye army was terrifyingly accurate. Once it was calibrated, it could hit the same target with a diameter of more than three meters in one out of ten.

The problem is not with the catapult, but with the catapult.

These throwing stones are not randomly picked stones, but fired in the kiln. There are corresponding standards for shape and weight, and there is little difference.

After throwing out, the unstable factors are reduced a lot, and the accuracy rate is naturally greatly improved.

The bombing density is equally frightening.

Under the continuous bombing, even the strongest defense facilities will have to be smashed.

What's more, the shoddy defensive shield wall made by the Kingsley family at the beginning was very mediocre. The strongest one, which was made for the first time, could not withstand two hours. included.

The ones made by subsequent repairs, although they are constantly thickening, it is difficult to carry them for four hours.

The living will not be suffocated by urine.

Soon the Kingsley family adjusted their strategy.

The fortifications are no longer placed in the open, but placed inside the advancing earth wall.

in other words.

The Kingsley family used various support pillars to build a tunnel, and then kept burying the outside of the tunnel, pushing towards Brother Port bit by bit.

Although this is a little troublesome and will greatly limit the accumulation speed of the earth wall, it is better than safety, and the thick soil layer outside is the best protective layer.

Even the stone bombs weighing forty or fifty kilograms thrown out by those large catapults have quite limited impact on them.

The only thing that can threaten it is the roller catapult.

This kind of super-giant catapult requires half a hundred guards to operate at the same time every time it reloads. Regardless of the throwing distance or lethality, it is far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Not to mention anything else, just the roar of its winch turning The loud noise makes one's scalp tingle.

The flaw of the roller catapult is also obvious, that is, loading is very troublesome, not only does it need to be operated by specially trained professionals, but it can be fired once in seven or eight minutes, which is already the limit of what can be done.

So, of course, they cannot test shooting angles like other trebuchets and catapults.

This question was already thought of by Yongye Army Leader in advance.

Each roller catapult has several subsidiary catapults in different directions.

Not only do these attached catapults look like scaled down versions of them, but many attack routes are in a straight line, even if they are not, they are positioned through special mathematical calculations and can overlap.

When the roller catapults changed their attack direction, they had already completed the corresponding calibration and test firing work.

In data theory, of course.

However, these data theories have also been rigorously calculated by Yong Ye's army leader. I dare not say that it is 100% accurate. Hit the target directly by mistake.

Everything is possible.

Sometimes things are just that.

When a boulder weighing more than 100 kilograms falls from the sky, the shock is not to be mentioned.

Even if it is a solid ground, a big hole can be blasted.

Not to mention the tunnel buried under the mound, which itself is full of weight and pressure.

Once it is hit directly above, the tunnel collapse is inevitable, and the tragedy can be imagined. It is not just a matter of being buried alive. If it is unlucky, it may even be shaken to death alive.

Now every time they heard the whistling sound of huge rocks thrown by the roller catapult, the soldiers of the Kingsley family trembled in their legs, and they dared not go into the narrow tunnel, for fear that once they entered, they would not be able to get out.

This situation changed a lot after the reinforcements from the Kingsley family arrived.

More than half of them are miners who have just been pulled out of the mine. Not to mention that they are professionals in digging and digging holes, most of them have become numb to life and death.

Even in Xiao En's previous life, who had the concept of safe production, mining, especially mining deep underground, and formal mines with corresponding safety measures, the risk factor is quite high.

Not to mention those black mines where safety measures are not in place. Every year, an unknown number of people are buried forever in the extremely dark underground.

No matter how poor the safety measures were in the black mine in Xiao En's previous life, there were still some basic inputs.

Most of the excavation conditions of the Kingsley family's mines are not even comparable to the black mines of Xiao En's previous life.

Not only is the awareness of safety production weak and the investment cost reluctant, the most important thing is that the corresponding technology cannot be achieved.

Among other things, the mine has been dug deep, and the continuous groundwater is a big problem that is difficult to solve, and it is one of the main culprits that cause the mine collapse.

To put it bluntly, the gold coins of the Kingsley family are all stained with blood, the blood of those miners.

Struggling on the death line for a long time, slowly and naturally numb.

The earth-pile tunnel passing through their hands has become much stronger. Even if it is hit by a roller coaster in the front, it can resist a few more times.

It's not that they have the ability to turn decay into magic, but that they know how to make the tunnel stronger, just make it narrower and have more parallel tunnels.

Furthermore, there are only a handful of people who can directly attack outside the city walls of Brother Port, and even if they can turn around, the Yong Ye army leader will not do so.

After all, they exist for the deployment of the Donau River.

The fleet of the Commons family is still eyeing the Danube.

If the leader of the Yongye army turned all the roller coasters around, it would be as they wished. Even if they did not launch a surprise attack on the brother port, once they passed through, they would block the military supply of the leader of the Yongye army from the upstream, and the ten brothers in the brother port would be blocked. Wan Shoujun, then it will all become rootless duckweed.

At that time, not only the danger of destroying the city, but also the danger of annihilation of the whole army, the leader of the Yongye army naturally would not do such a stupid thing.

In the battle of wits and courage between the leader of the Yongye army and the Kingsley family, time passed at a slow and irreversible speed.

Not only is the weather getting colder and colder, but the chances of the river freezing are also increasing.

The big killing move in the moat has been half useless, and the swamp war crocodile is becoming less and less active, and it rarely stays in the water, and spends most of its time lying on the shore basking in the sun to absorb heat.

Although the swamp war crocodile has evolved to be somewhat different from its own kind, the nature of temperature-changing animals will not change, and their common problem is that they are afraid of cold.

In order not to let them be lost in vain, the leader of the Yongye army could only gather them back.

Without the protection of the river, they couldn't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the Kingsley family's siege equipment.

After three or four months of preparation, the Kingsley family's siege equipment was gradually prepared.

Compared with the Yongye army leader, their siege equipment is between small and medium-sized. These gadgets eat wood, especially solid wood.

Compared with the leader of the Eternal Night Army who sits in the Andes Mountains for 800 miles, the Kingsley family is simply not comparable in this respect.

Naturally, Akemesser did not dare to easily push these siege equipment in the direction of Brother Port.

Once they show up, they will definitely be targeted by the Yongye army leader, but with their range, there is no way to touch the city wall of Brother Port.

The Kingsley family can only use another trick.

The most helpless and clumsy, but also quite useful move.

Mounds of soil.

Install these siege equipment on the mound, and use the height to make up for the lack of range.

In order to make up for the gap in technology and raw materials, none of the mounds that the Kingsley family piled up outside the Port of Brothers was lower than 20 meters.

It is conceivable how big the project is.

In the later period, the Kingsley family piled up the earth for the siege plan, and no longer planned to push it directly under the city wall of Brother Port, but concentrated on piles of earth mounds needed for these siege equipment.

Because the workload of the previous siege of the city was too much, even if they now have more than 200,000 people, if they want to push it under the city wall of Brother Port according to the current progress, it will take at least a year.

Another concept of a large number of people is that the logistics supply pressure is heavy, especially the current supply line of the Kingsley family is so long.

Even the wealth of the Kingsley family can't afford it.

The wealth of the Kingsley family did not come from strong winds, but was accumulated bit by bit.

What's more, this kind of wealth still has moisture.

When they leave this kind of impression on people, it must be because they spend money like water, and their usual style of doing things has the demeanor of spending a lot of money.

To a certain extent, this has become one of their golden signs, and with this golden sign, the Kingsley family will get a lot of convenience.

But maintaining this golden signboard costs money.

Moreover, the Lancelot royal family has been using food to get their necks stuck, and they must be exploited by them first.

In the past ten years, Carter's military leader has not been quiet.

Among other things, the rise of the slave rebel army led by Man Yu and the Yong Ye army had already caused an indirect impact on them in the early stage, and put their miners into a state of tension.

The shortage of mine slaves naturally means that the output will decrease, and the amount of money entering the pocket will naturally decrease.

After the remnants of the slave rebel army rushed into the Carter army, it was even more catastrophic. Although it did not provoke a full-scale turmoil, there were many things that lured miners to defect, but they were suppressed by the Kingsley family.

It also costs money to encircle and suppress the remnants of the slave rebel army, right?

To put it bluntly, war is fought for military supplies and money.

It will feel nothing for a while, but if it bleeds for a long time, it will be terrible.

Not to mention that the Kingsley family launched a full-scale invasion of the Swamp of Despair without any chance of recuperation.

In the past two years, money has been spent like water, and when listed, it is a terrifying figure.