my fortress

Chapter 18 Artificial Barriers I
"Woo woo woo..."

As the battle horn sounded continuously, the orc army, which had been preparing for a long time, began to press towards the castle.

The orcs are attacking!

Yifei heard the sound of the horn again from outside the city, and hurriedly looked in the direction of the orc army!
Wooden shield, I'll go, the orcs even prepared a wooden shield!

At this time, Yifei found that after the wolf knights standing in the front spread out to the two sides, the Tauren warriors standing behind them were exposed.

Those tauren warriors in heavy armor stood at the front, holding huge wooden shields in their hands, while those lizardmen hid behind the tauren!
Looking at the huge wooden shield, Yifei found that its workmanship was very crude, that is, some thick trees were tied together, and there were even some fresh branches and green leaves on it.

But the wooden shield made of those trees played a huge role at this time,
Each wooden shield is five or six meters high. From a distance, those tauren seem to be holding rafts, completely covering the figure of the orc warriors behind them.

"Dong dong dong dong..."

The tauren warriors holding the raft lined up in a very neat phalanx, approaching the castle step by step, as if they were approaching the castle like a wooden wall.

After seeing this scene, Yifei was a little startled. It seems that these orcs are not stupid. Although such a wooden shield is simple, it is very sharp.

Not to mention using it to block bows and arrows, you can't even see exactly how many people are behind you.

What should I do now, the archers are useless all of a sudden, and the most part of my troops is just abolished?

After seeing the attack of the orcs, Yifei was stunned. Having never experienced war, he prepared for the war according to the war situation in the game, but the cruel reality immediately told him with facts. It's not the same as the game!

what to do?what to do?Yifei started to use his brain quickly!

"Crack, creak, creak."

At this time, he heard a creaking sound coming from his ears, and his eyes lit up immediately, and he found the situation to solve the crisis in front of him!
Haha, how could I forget that they still exist.

So he hurriedly ordered Tom beside him to tell the siege fighters who manipulated the crossbows and catapults to focus on the huge wooden shields of the orcs, and to destroy the tree shields in the hands of the enemy.

At the same time, he regretted that he should not have intentionally not arranged an asphalt ditch outside the city in order to save money.If an asphalt ditch is set up, killing the tauren holding a raft is absolutely impossible.

But now that the orcs had already started to attack, he had no choice but to lay out the asphalt ditch, so he could only take a step forward and take a look.

At this time, Yifei found that the werewolf knights and wild boar knights circling along the two sides surrounded the entire city at a distance of more than 1000 meters from the castle. Every palm-sized hillside was full of orc cavalry. Its purpose is self-evident, that is to prevent people from escaping.

I'll go, is this formation ready to not let anyone go?
Looking at the formation of the orcs outside the city, Yifei suddenly felt a sense of crisis. If he loses this battle, he will definitely die!

But at the same time, the formation of werewolf knights and wild boar knights also made him let go of part of his worries. He was afraid that the orcs would adopt crowd tactics. After all, his current strength is only more than 500 people.

No matter how fast the archers shoot, they can only shoot one at a time. If the orcs outside the city adopt crowd tactics, maybe they really can't help it!
But since the orcs are so confident and willing to come to die in batches, then you are welcome!
So he asked the archers standing on the high tower to watch out for the orc cavalry around him, while he focused on the attacking tauren and lizardmen.

1000 m.

800 m.

500 m.

The tauren holding the wooden shield finally entered the range of the tower crossbow, and the tower crossbow and trebuchets arranged on the city wall immediately attacked.

"Swish, swish..." Ten long-charged crossbow bolts shot out from the crossbow like lightning, broke through the air, and flew towards the orc's wooden shield in the distance with an ear-piercing sound.

Yifei saw a few lights flashing in front of his eyes, and then he heard a sound of "bang bang bang" coming from the orc's wooden shield in the distance.

The huge crossbow arrows directly shot through the simple wooden shield in the hands of the tauren, and the crossbow arrows that passed through the wooden shield directly hit the tauren behind the wooden shield.

When the heavy armor on the tauren faced the strong force of the crossbow, it was like made of paper. The crossbow directly broke through their heavy armor, and the remaining force even shot through the lizardman hiding behind them Archer.

The orc warriors linked together by crossbow arrows were like candied gourds, they were strung together at once, and there was a neat gap in the orc's neat wooden shield phalanx.

And a bunch of small stone balls thrown by the six catapults also "accurately" smashed into the orc army formation, and the orc soldiers who were directly hit turned into a puddle of mud.

After the stone ball fell to the ground, it exploded immediately, and a large number of irregular stones splashed in all directions in the orc army formation. The orc army formation that was hit by the stone ball suddenly wailed, and the ground was also shattered. The blood was stained red.

Standing on the fortress and watching, Yifei found that the neat army formation of the orcs in the distance suddenly became bumpy.

"Okay, well done!" Seeing this scene, Yifei shouted excitedly, looking forward to another attack from the tower crossbow and trebuchet!
"Swish, swish..." A minute later, the sound of air tearing sounded again in the sky, and the orc army formation was hit by tower crossbows and catapults again, leaving blood on the ground again.

Regarding the casualties in front of them, the orc army was only a little flustered, and then continued to approach the castle, but their pace began to speed up.

A few minutes later, the orc's shield formation was only 200 meters away from the city. At this moment, the orc formation suddenly divided into dozens of small formations, and the ones rushing to the front were still Tauren warriors holding large shields. Behind him was still the lizard man holding a longbow. This change weakened the effect of the trebuchet a lot.

Yifei had already expected this change in the orcs. They are also an intelligent race, and they have been able to fight against the human race for so many years, and their IQ will not be so low!

But Yifei is not worried at all, because the tower crossbows produced by the system are not afraid of this at all, as long as they are within their shooting range, they can be intelligently locked, that is to say, the arrows are sure to hit.

A few minutes passed, and after hundreds of casualties, more than 3000 orc warriors finally rushed to only more than 100 meters away from the castle. At this time, Yifei found a flaw in the tower crossbow, a fatal flaw!

The tower crossbows arranged on the high platform are all for shooting down at close-range targets, but the wooden shields in the hands of the orcs are really too crude, and each crossbow bolt can penetrate 100% of the wooden shields in their hands.

But as the distance got closer and the shooting angle became smaller and smaller, after the long crossbow arrow shot through the wooden shield, the arrowhead hit the ground before the arrow tail passed through the wooden shield, and it was like a bracket immediately. , supporting the wooden shield on the ground, leaving barriers one by one in front of the castle.

Damn, seeing this situation, Yifei, who was commanding in reality for the first time, never expected that although the tower crossbows arranged on the city wall prevented the orc wooden shields from advancing, they also provided hundreds of barriers for the orcs.

Seeing this scene, Yifei had no choice but to direct the trebuchets to clean up the acquired barriers one by one, but those tower trebuchets all attack in a range, when will they be able to destroy the wooden shields and giant crossbows outside the city? The barrier composed of sticks all depends on luck!
He also tried to let the catapult be loaded with only one stone ball, but the siege man who manipulated the catapult told him regretfully that the catapult was not a ballista at this time, and precise attacks could not be guaranteed!

Regarding this result, Yifei could only express his helplessness, at this time it was impossible for him to open the city gate and let the besiegers push the ballista out to die!

His only hope can only be pinned on luck, hoping that the scattered stones will be lucky enough to hit the scattered wooden shields and destroy the wooden shields erected outside the city.

(End of this chapter)