Warlord: King of All Clans

The border between the north and south is formed by the Fabados Mountains and the Dome River.

This line is not only a border line, but also a precipitation line and a climate dividing line.

To the south is a paradise in the eyes of northerners, with a warm climate, rain and heat occurring at the same time, flat terrain and fertile land.

Wheat can be harvested twice a year, and the yield per mu is easily higher than that in the north.

But the land in the north is also coveted by people in the south. The sparsely populated north is actually rich in resources, but lacks development.

A small knight territory with less than a thousand people can occupy tens of thousands of acres of land!

Looking at their own one and a half acres of land, all the people in the southern border would be jealous and crazy.

During the decades of annexation wars in the south, the Brutus family in the east almost controlled the entire south bank of the Dome River.

The MacDonald family in the west occupied the entire southern foothills of the Fabados Mountains.

Over the course of twenty years, the MacDonald family built five avenues in the Fabados Mountains and established military fortresses to control the exits so that they could invade the Earldom of Gustav at any time.

When the Blood Moon incident broke out, MacDonald's two legions had already crossed the Fabados Mountains and arrived at the foot of Broken Rock City, a branch city of Earl Gustav.

The arrow is on the string and must be shot. Regardless of whether there is a blood moon event or not, they must attack the city.

Unlike the Northerners who were stingy in their fights, the Southern Legion had better conditions than the Northern Legion except for the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

There are two main armies with fully armored personnel, followed by two auxiliary armies.

The siege was in full swing at the front line, and the logistics and transportation lines in the back were also crowded with people.

If we follow the way the novel is written, it is not an exaggeration to say that there are 30,000 troops.

The quality of armor, siege equipment, and even military organization of the Southerners were more advanced than those of the Northerners.

Under the walls of Broken Rock City, more than a dozen large counterweight catapults were slowly releasing stones to smash the city.

There were three siege mortars next to them, but they stopped firing after firing three rounds of stone bullets.

This is a firearm that has become popular in the South in the past two years. Unfortunately, the consumption of gunpowder is too rapid, and the wealthy McDonald family cannot use it wantonly.

Relatively speaking, traditional siege equipment with complete inheritance is more cost-effective.

In addition to the siege mortars, Earl MacDonald also brought two thousand newly trained musketeers to replace the previous crossbow troops.

The barbarians in the north have thick skin and strong flesh, and the armor on their bodies is thick enough that even the foot-operated crossbows of the crossbow corps cannot penetrate them at a long distance. Only the more expensive capstan heavy crossbows equipped with armor-piercing arrows can cause damage at a distance of a hundred meters.

But the latest popular heavy musket is different. It is easy to load and requires little effort to shoot, yet it has the power of a capstan heavy crossbow.

As long as the caliber is large enough and the lead bullet is heavy enough, not only the soldier's iron armor but also the knight's plate armor can be blasted open.

The technology in the South was more advanced, and the speed at which they imitated muskets was faster than that of the Earl in the North who had come into contact with firearms earlier.

Every earl's main city in the South Territory has its own newspaper. After the River Bay firearms were introduced to the South Territory, the newspapers published the analysis of the firearms' structure, principles, and various advantages by the South Territory alchemists.

Not to mention those sharp-eyed ruling families, even ordinary citizens know that firearms are good things.

With a population base, artisan base, and technological base that crushed the North, the speed of development of firearms in the South quickly caught up with the Northern earls who were the first to use firearms.

The advanced iron smelting technology that restricted the development of firearms by the northern earls was not a problem at all in the south.

While the earls in the north were forming private teams to research firearms, the earls in the south had already issued tasks directly to the Alchemist's Guild, offering rewards of titles and huge sums of money for the design plans of gunpowder, muskets, and artillery.

Among the tens of thousands of alchemists, there are always a few who have a flash of inspiration and give the earls a satisfactory answer.

By the time the counterweight catapults had basically destroyed the battlements and other defensive facilities of Shattered Rock City's walls, the MacDonald Corps had already pushed the siege towers close to the walls, ready to climb the city.

Two fully-strength legions crowded under the city, completely demoralizing the defenders on the city walls.

The number of enemies attacking the city is three times that of the defenders!

Although the soldiers from the Southern Territory are shorter than those from the Northern Territory, there are more low- and middle-level transcendents in their troops, and there are even quite a few magicians mixed in!

The mages in the North are all superior people, and low-level mages can be guests of honor in the City Lord's Mansion.

But in the southern territory, low-level mages are also low-level transcendents and are still workers.

The low-level mages hiding behind the siege equipment have much higher lethality than ordinary long-range shooters. Although their low-level elemental spells do not have the same area damage as mid- and high-level spells, they are enough to kill ordinary soldiers easily and cause them to panic.

A low-level fireball spell can turn a defending soldier into a howling, running human torch, disrupting the formation of an entire infantry squad.

Under the suppression of fireballs, powerful bows and crossbows, and muskets, the Northern longbowmen, who had lost the protection of the battlements, had almost no chance to draw their bows.

At this moment, a loud shout came from the top of the city, shaking the battlefield. Andrew, a high-ranking knight of the Gustav family, appeared and punched a nine-meter-high siege tower.

The full-strength attack from the eighth-level knight caused the sturdy siege tower to shake violently and collapse.

Seeing the fate of the high-level extraordinary on the opposite side, Earl Orlando MacDonald sneered and said to the family priest beside him: "You go and fight."

The war has just begun, and the enemy's high-level combat power has been forced out. It can only be said that they are at the end of their rope.

Next to Earl Orlando MacDonald was a swordsman of medium build. He just nodded when he heard the words and stepped onto the battlefield with his sword in hand.

Soon, two level eight transcendents started a fierce battle, and during the competition they gradually moved away from the battlefield and to the open space outside the city.

The strength of the two men was almost the same, and Andrew was relatively stronger, but he became more and more anxious as the fight went on, because on the battlefield behind him, the soldiers from the southern border had slowly crowded onto the top of the city wall.

Broken Rock City is an important frontier city of the Gustav family. Once it is lost, there will be no strategic locations to defend for hundreds of miles to the north. The Southern Border Legion can march straight in and approach the Earl's main city, Osluden.

What's more, now the Gustav family only has two cities left, and neither of them can be lost.

Because of his impatience, Andrew revealed a flaw, and the swordsman on the opposite side took the opportunity to cut open the extraordinary armor on his body with a sword.

The extraordinary armor that was powerful enough to resist any conventional weapons was easily cut by the enchanted sword of a high-level swordsman, just like the wrought iron plate armor of a country knight.

The leather lining was cut open, blood seeping out.

The Southern Territory swordsman who succeeded in his sword strike smiled and said, "The Northern Territory warrior is nothing special."

Andrew is the strongest man in the Gustav family. Even he can't stop this swordsman, let alone others.

But this time, there is more than one level eight swordsman in the McDonald Legion.

The commander of the First Legion, Earl Orlando MacDonald, is also an eighth-level knight!

The commander of the Second Legion, Earl Morrison, is accompanied by an eighth-level wizard!

During the interval between the two men's battle, the sky gradually became covered with dark clouds. This was an unusual phenomenon caused by the release of large-scale spells by high-level mages.

Andrew was anxious. Archmage Sapir from the Earl's main city was on the way, but it was obviously too late.

Once a high-level spell that requires a long time to prepare is formed and falls on a densely packed army formation, it will definitely cause thousands of casualties.

At this moment, a roar was heard from far away in the sky.

The sound waves vibrated the air, and a corner of the dark clouds in the sky suddenly collapsed. The extraordinary people on the battlefield all felt a great crisis and couldn't help but look up.

A huge black shadow broke through the dark clouds, and another dragon roar was heard.

The dark clouds in the sky suddenly dissipated.

It's a dragon!