Warlord: King of All Clans

The next morning, Freya, with a bruise on her head, proudly called for the city gate to be opened and swaggered back to Buck Fortress.

She and the enemy general chased and fought on the grassland all night. Although she was caught up and beaten severely several times because of her improper distance management, she escaped soon after.

Ge Shuman had been chasing the enemy hard for a whole night and his strength was almost exhausted, but he found that the enemy was still alive and well, and his reactions were getting faster and faster, seeming to be at ease.

This is not about escaping, this is just cat playing with mouse, practicing body skills.

After fighting several times, Freya only fought back once when she was forced into a corner, and she almost tore open Geshuman's chest.

Geshu Man was terrified and dared not to pester the enemy anymore. He turned around and went back to the military camp.

Although Freya was beaten, she felt that her fighting ability had greatly improved, so she was very proud.

As for Leo and Ostara, who were worried about her, they got bored after watching for only half an hour and went to play cards at the table.

Freya had just returned to the city when Talhanberk's legion had already started moving. A large number of defensive wooden carts and seven or eight siege towers were pushed out, with some small catapults following behind.

Teams of grassland cavalry dismounted, hid behind defensive wooden carts and simple rattan shields, and advanced towards the city wall.

This time, they came out in full force.

Buck Fortress is not big. The side facing the west is only four miles wide. Apart from the dangerous areas on both sides relying on the mountains, there are not many flat areas in front of the city walls where siege towers can be piled up.

Talhanberk personally led the charge, accompanied by Arina Mishe and the Prairie Wolf Wizard, and watched from behind the army.

After Buck Fortress was captured by the Northerners, Talhanberk knew that the chances of taking it back were slim. The enemy was able to easily break through Buck Fortress, which proved that they had enough strength to defend it.

But looking at the lone defenders on the city wall, Talhan was a little confused. The enemy's performance left him puzzled.

But he couldn't show his worry. Talhan just said, "I have observed these days that there are not many defenders on the city wall. As long as two hundred elite soldiers attack the top of the city and occupy a corner, Buck Fortress will be back in my hands."

The Prairie Wolf Wizard could not see any fighting power on the city wall, and said proudly: "You just use the troops, I will take action."

On the walls of Buck Fortress, the number of defenders was not large, and their numbers seemed very small. Compared with the densely packed soldiers defending the city in the cold weapon army, they were really too sparse.

The Solovyvian Knight was not very familiar with the troops in Hewan, so he simply let Ivan be responsible for the defense, while he took the Petukhov family's army to supervise in the rear and provide support at any time.

In terms of individual strength and leadership ability, Ivan is still a first-level transcendent who has just awakened, and has no experience in commanding more than a thousand people. His overall strength ranking is at least outside the top ten in Hewan.

But in terms of understanding of the new army and firearms in Hewan, Ivan, who just hangs out with Leo when he has nothing to do, can at least rank third in Hewan.

Seeing tens of thousands of troops slowly approaching the river bend from miles away, Ivan couldn't help but ask the artillery officer Marvin beside him, "What should we do? Captain, fire a round?"

Marvin was looking around with the monocular telescope he brought from the capital. He could almost see the wrinkles on Talhanberk's face. He shook his head and said, "The long-range shooting ability of the thousand-man commander is not good. The ten-thousand-man commander only has one gun. Firing from such a distance will only alert the enemy. Let's wait until they get closer."

He looked at the defenders on both sides of the city wall and said, "Why not just wait for Strong to finish his deployment and defeat them in one round? We can also save some gunpowder."

Ivan agreed with this. The scale of the gunpowder workshop in Hewan could not keep up with the consumption no matter how much it expanded. If the military consumption was too high, civilian consumption would inevitably be reduced.

In the past, when the battles involved less than a thousand people, Hewan’s gunpowder reserves could be quickly restored after the battle. But now, when the battles involve tens of thousands of people, it will take at least half a year for Hewan’s gunpowder reserves to recover after a battle.

He was used to living a hard life, so of course he would save as much as possible.

Bjorn was also on the side, watching them talking, and deeply felt the crisis of his career. He quickly raised the yew longbow in his hand and said, "The longbowman's arrow can shoot 300 meters. We can suppress him first."

Ivan and Marvin looked at the leader of the long-range shooters that Hewan had once relied on the most, and said at the same time, "Okay, okay, you go first."

Bjorn stared at the two men and suddenly felt that he, the leader of the Longbow Regiment, had become shabby.

While they were talking, Strong, who was not far away, was excitedly directing the gnolls to join in defending the city.

A large number of Gnoll Gunners crowded onto the city walls to grab their desired combat positions.

Two River Bend infantrymen who were guarding the city were still sitting behind the wall, eating sunflower seeds. When they saw Strong's Kobold artillerymen approaching with their cannon barrels, they quickly waved their hands to drive them away, "Stay away! Stay away!"

The ogre gunner was still afraid of the River Bend Infantry, and upon hearing this, he quickly ran away with the gun barrel.

The gun barrels in their hands were still the iron barrels used in the last attack on Fort Buck. Although Strong tried every way to strengthen it, its safety could not be guaranteed.

This primitive grenade launcher can launch Kobold grenades to a distance of zero to two hundred meters for ground bombing.

By the time the deployment on the city wall was completed, the Talhan Legion had gradually approached the city wall.

Bjorn finally took action first. His longbowmen, standing on the city wall, began to rain arrows over the heads of the enemy.

However, the 300-man longbow unit was ultimately outnumbered in the face of tens of thousands of enemy troops. No matter how amazing their shooting speed was, the rain of arrows seemed sparse when falling on the heads of wave after wave of enemies.

The army under Talhanberk's command was the elite of the Western Territory. They had seen the longbows of the Northern Territory and were still able to advance under a hail of arrows.

Basarov's musketeers were also on the top of the city wall, placing their heavy muskets on the battlements and firing at the dense formation of the enemy.

This level of casualties was still within the tolerance of the Talhan Legion, and the slowly advancing attacking troops showed almost no signs of slackening.

What followed was the prepared Kobold grenade launcher.

Grenade after grenade landed among the legion and exploded in the dense crowd. Each grenade could cause terrible casualties.

Seeing this, Talhanberk could no longer sit still and looked at the prairie wolf wizard beside him.

The Prairie Wolf Wizard had no choice but to start casting a spell. He opened his arms, closed his eyes, and the surging magic power swept around his body and then spread forward.

As the magic power dissipated, strong winds began to surge on the battlefield ahead, mixed with raindrops.

The longbowmen on the city wall shot arrows against the strong wind, and their arrows were blown away and fell at the base of the city wall.

The musketeers were unable to open their eyes due to the strong wind and their bullets were flying everywhere.

The trajectory of the Kobolds' howitzers also became crooked, and many of them exploded in mid-air.

This is the high-level shamanic magic of the grassland, which can call the wind and rain.

The soldiers attacking the city were encouraged and immediately ignored their casualties and charged forward bravely.

Ivan saw that the siege tower was within 200 meters, so he could only wave his hand and say, "Fire."

His standard-bearer waved the flag as ordered, and all the cannons on the city wall were fired.

After one round of bombardment, all the siege towers fell apart.

After two rounds, the entire army was defeated.

The cannon of the ten thousand located in the middle of the city wall has three times the amount of powder of the cannon of the thousand and ten times that of the cannon of the centurion. The first shot is loaded with compound shotgun shells.

The so-called composite shotgun shells are first loaded with shotgun shells and then stuffed into a solid iron bullet to fully ensure the airtightness of the artillery.

Such solid shells can create a bloody alley in the infantry formation, and the scattered shotgun shells can also cause a bloody storm.

One shot caused destruction for several miles.

The loading process of the Centurion's cannon was very cumbersome. Marvin was very satisfied with the kills caused by one shot. Then he looked at the battlefield below and it seemed that the firepower provided by the Centurion was not needed.

The thousand-man cannon was equally powerful. Twelve cannons fired at the same time, and the lead bullets and iron sand could cover a thousand people, destroying all the siege towers, defensive wooden carts, and infantry shield formations.

For an army equipped with cold weapons to attack a city wall defended by hot weapons is simply seeking death.

Marvin's eyes were fixed on Talhanberk who was leading the charge in the distance.

This time, Talhanberk personally led the charge, following closely behind the army, only three miles away from the city wall.

The several Kobold gunners around him also started to make a noise, "One more shot! One more shot!"