The battle in Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, has just begun. Before the siege forces and defenders from both sides formally come into contact and engage in bloody hand-to-hand combat, the long-range attack equipment of both sides, those catapults They have already started competing with each other.
More than half of the dozens of orcs' large winch torque catapults are still left. They are being controlled by huge trolls, and they are constantly twisting the force arms and saw-tooth winches. After the torque reaches the maximum, another person The trolls carried huge stones, and then they faced the black iron ball shells flying out of the city or the large weighted trebuchets of the Gondor defenders. Even the fragments of buildings as big as half a city gate kept fighting back.
Basically, neither side needs to aim. The boulders or cannonballs thrown from Minas Tirith can always crush countless enemies or plow bloody roads in the Orc Legion's formation; similarly, The orcs' troll trebuchets can always successfully smash down a certain section of city wall or house, and finally successfully knock away or bury part of the defenders and residents...
In this long-distance stone-throwing battle between the two sides, in general, the Gondor side that defended the city had a big advantage!
Because, just for those large defensive equipment at high places, those fixed counterweight catapults, their attack distance and accuracy are far better than those of the orcs' winch torque carts. This is also This is why the Nazgul Knights are sparing no effort to attack those large and small counterweight catapults first.
Of course, the artillery units of the United Kingdom of Alicia at the top of Minas Tirith are also among their primary targets!
Now, in addition to the other five Nazgul who were still flying around and wreaking havoc in the city below, there were three Nazgul Dragon Knights who were circling upward.
"Line up! Everyone check weapons!"
At this time, Alicia's group of fifty musketeers had just arrived near a large counterweight catapult. When they had just formed their formation, they saw:
In the distance, about a few hundred yards away from them, another unlucky trebuchet was being grabbed by the powerful hind claws of a Nazgul Flying Dragon monster flying down, and then, The huge machine fell apart and was caught in the air with half of its frame torn off. When it was dropped, it accurately killed and injured a large number of Gondor soldiers who were trying to shoot arrows at it below.
After destroying a trebuchet, the Nazgul did not grow taller or fly far, but turned its head to look this way.
Then, under the control of the Ring Spirit again, the terrifying big demonic beast turned around in mid-air with a dexterous gesture with just one turn of its wings, and began to move towards them, with fifty musketeers. The counterweight trebuchet guarded by soldiers flew over here...
Obviously, it and its owner want to destroy this war machine that is still firing boulders at the Orcs outside the city, and give the stubborn Gondor defenders a good look!
"Put your gun on your shoulder, raise your muzzle! Aim at that flying dragon!"
Under the orders of the squad leader of the Kingdom of Alicia, under the puzzled eyes of other Gondor soldiers wearing plate armor, a total of forty of them formed a neat four rows of loose formation, and They all raised their muzzles and pointed them at the Ring Spirit Flying Dragon monster that was gradually losing altitude and beginning to glide over at high speed.
"Hi~ga~!"
Before it even arrived, the flying dragon-like terrifying beast repeated its old tricks and once again made that sharp and terrifying neighing sound, causing the group of Gondor soldiers who were operating the counterweight trebuchet to cover their faces. Holding their own ears, they suddenly dispersed...
A few brave Gondor soldiers who were planning to shoot arrows couldn't help but relax their bows immediately under the ear-piercing screams, letting the arrows fly out feebly, then dropped the bows and held them tightly. helmet and run!
"Everything is aimed at me, ready..."
Compared to the Gondor soldiers who were fleeing, Alicia's musketeers seemed much calmer. Although the screams still made them feel uncomfortable, they dealt with the blast of muskets and cannons every day. They said that the noise of this monster is still within the acceptable range.
Furthermore, human fear often stems from the unknown.
Whether it is monsters, monsters, dragons, snakes, wolves, or dogs, as long as you kill one of them with your own hands, the fear will no longer exist when you encounter the same target again!
And just now, in the royal garden at the top of the city of Minas Tirith, they had successfully and easily defeated a Nazgul Flying Dragon Knight without losing any of their own. They were facing this one flying towards them. The Ring Spirit Dragon Knight who came was actually not a coward at all.
That's because each of them knows that no matter how powerful the enemy is, they can still be hurt and killed by the weapons in their hands. Therefore, they only need to be more accurate now. If they are not rushed by the enemy, then enough.
"Fire!!!"
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
As the Ringwraith Dragon Riders gradually approached, under the command of the captain, and after a series of gunshots, a total of forty hot cone-shaped projectiles spurted out from the muzzles of those Mini rifles. He came out and shot straight towards the huge body of the flying dragon beast under the crotch of the ring spirit knight that was swooping over!
"Gah..."
In an instant, the neighing sound of the flying dragon monster that was shouting happily suddenly stopped!
Then, when its huge wings were instantly hit with more than a dozen large air leakage holes, its huge and strong body also instantly had several hideous wounds, which exploded into balls of black poisonous blood!
Immediately afterwards, it seemed to have lost the strength to glide, and just relied on inertia to fall forward and downward...
Bang! ! !
Amidst the chaos of a huge collision and flying giant trees, when the falling monster killed and injured many Gondor soldiers, the Alicia officer who directed the musketeers to shoot found out in embarrassment: just now This monster and the Nazgul Knight on its back finally succeeded in their goal of destroying the trebuchet...
"..."
"That knight isn't dead yet?!"
When more and more Gondor soldiers were holding daggers and shields, or holding spears with both hands, and they were attacking the flying dragon monster that was seriously injured but was still screaming and struggling, trying to hit it, they I was horrified to see that under the flying dragon, a Nazgul holding a mace and wearing a black robe crawled out. Hey Knight?
The other party just fell from such a high place, and he was not killed yet?
"Everyone, come on! Kill him quickly!"
"Kill!!!"
As a Gondor general immediately issued an order, a group of Gondor legion infantrymen armed with shields and spears shouted slogans to kill the enemy. They planned to bully the few and beat the drowned dogs, so they waved their respective weapons. Shields and weapons rushed forward.
"Ha! Stupid humans, I will never spare you!"
A hoarse voice sounded, and then, as the Nazgul Knights swung their maces violently, the first few who rushed forward held shields with their left hands, and before their right hands could swing their daggers, they struck the Gondor soldiers on the other side. They were hit by the opponent's ferocious sledgehammer on their shields. They screamed and were instantly knocked away. After falling heavily to the street on the lower level of Minas Tirith, they remained motionless. Already...
Of course, the attack of this Nazgul Black Knight is far from over!
Then, the Ringwraith roared angrily and rushed directly into the square formation of dozens of Gondor spearmen and sword and shield infantry. They didn't care about the spear points and sword blades that the other party slashed at themselves, just a series of hammer blows and With a sweeping movement, he crashed straight in!
Amidst the wails of those shields and soldiers flying around, and the daggers and spears breaking, in less than ten breaths, the group of Gondor soldiers either fell to the ground with their heads broken and bloody, or... I don’t know where it was because it was smashed and flew away...
"Hehehe..."
"Stupid humans, enjoy the last fear! Your end...has arrived!"
Here, the combat effectiveness of the Ringwraith Knights was fully demonstrated in this short period of time.
When facing ordinary Gondor soldiers and the standard ordinary steel weapons in their hands, this Ringwraith would not be harmed at all!
Therefore, he can rush into the Gondor garrison formation and attack without restraint, and when those daggers or spears stab his body, they will not damage him except creating holes or dents. Cause too much impact.
"How can it be?"
"He, what kind of monster is he?!"
"Don't push me! He, he can't be beaten to death!"
In just the blink of an eye, they lost at least thirty or fifty elite legionnaires?
This situation beyond imagination caused the surrounding Gondor soldiers and the general who had just given the order to start to retreat continuously. Their faces were pale, as if they had seen the undead, and they were retreating continuously.
Now, no one is willing to rush forward and face that kind of black-robed monster that cannot be beaten to death and is extremely powerful!
"Where is the Demon Breaking Team?!"
After seeing that all the Gondor soldiers who rushed forward were defeated, and no one dared to attack or block their own gunshots, Alicia's team officer issued an order again to let the forty soldiers who had been there. Behind him, the other ten musketeers who did not fire quickly rushed forward from behind, and all pointed their rifles at the arrogant Nazgul less than twenty steps away. .
Just because the legionnaires of Gondor can't do anything to him doesn't mean that the weapons of the United Kingdom of Alicia can't do anything to him! Now, this team official seems to have seen the prospect of promotion and salary increase! Leading her soldiers to destroy a flying dragon and a powerful Nazgul would definitely be enough for her to be promoted to the third level and enter the ranks of legion centurions!
"Shoot! Shoot now! Kill him!"
Chi Guoguo's achievements are right in front of him, how can he let it go so easily? How about the powerful psionic energy of the Ringwraith Knight? So what if the dragon can fly?
Times have changed now. No matter how high your martial arts skills are, no matter how ferocious your appearance is, no matter how strong your strength is, you can all be knocked down with one shot!
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
After a series of ten volley shots, under the shocked and puzzled eyes of the Gondor soldiers, the arrogant Ringwraith was directly pierced by magic-breaking bullets engraved with mithril patterns on his body. After opening ten transparent holes of different sizes, they quickly screamed and twisted and collapsed, turning into a pile of broken iron sheets...
When everything calmed down, the only thing left in the ruins of the counterweighted trebuchet was a flying dragon monster that was still groaning and struggling to get up due to serious injuries.
"Such an evil and terrifying creature actually exists in our Middle-earth world?"
After seeing another Nazgul being eliminated, the officer of the Musketeers came over holding his reloaded mini rifle.
She first looked at the evil dragon monster lying on the ground for a while, bleeding all over the ground but not completely dead. When she found out, it still dared to open its ferocious mouth and bared its teeth at her. After biting her teeth, she raised the muzzle of the rifle in her hand with a cold snort, and pointed it at the monster's head...
Snapped! ! !
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Now, the Orcs' giant siege shaft vehicle has finally approached the towering city wall of Minas Tirith in Gondor, and has successfully smashed the iron gate at the top of the shaft, which is both a protective and landing board. He was buckled hard on the battlements of the city wall!
Then, countless orc infantry screamed strangely, jumped directly from the well onto the city wall, and began to fight with the Gondor infantry and the archers who were caught off guard!
They shouted various slogans to each other and began to fight and struggle wildly on the small city wall. In an instant, the scarlet blood belonging to humans and the dark brown blood belonging to orcs filled the white The city wall floor...
"Hurry up! Where are the archers leaving immediately! Shoot the opponent's pedal!"
"The sword and shield infantry of Gondor, as well as the spearmen, follow me and drive them all off the city wall!"
After seeing that the soldiers from both sides finally started to fight together, Faramir, who was directing the battle on the city wall, hurriedly summoned a group of elite Gondor shield infantry, and fiercely led the way towards the sections of city wall that were in contact with the enemy. Rushed over!
Fortunately, their trebuchets and the artillery units supported by Alicia have successfully destroyed most of the giant wells of these orcs! Now, if the other party thinks that they can break through the wall of their capital of Gondor with just five surviving Jinglan vehicles, that is simply wishful thinking!
You know, the city wall of Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, is hundreds of yards high. Without the ability to set up a siege wall ladder, they can't even hope to capture it with just these few wells. City wall!
"Hurry up, push them back! We must defend this place!"
Faramir, who was in the lead, jumped over and swept the long sword in his hand. In an instant, he cleared out several Orc soldiers around him. The sword and shield soldiers behind him who rushed up immediately filled the gaps and moved them. The orcs were knocked back!
Several orcs were pushed directly outside the city wall by the combined efforts of Gondor soldiers, and began to scream and fall...
"Hit them hard! Lancers! Quick! Attack from behind and push them back!"
Since there were only five small gaps on the city wall for the orcs to rush up to, and the Ringwraith Flying Dragon Knights, who were originally thought to be strong reinforcements, had suffered losses and did not dare to fly lower, those who were supposed to be The orcs, who relied on the human sea tactic to exert their combat effectiveness, were quickly blocked by the taller, stronger and more powerful Gondor defenders from both sides of the city wall using shield formations and driven back into the wells. .
For a while, the two sides kept consuming each other in the small gaps created by the wells.
The orcs kept trying to jump from the steps of the well into the city wall, but the soldiers of Gondor kept pushing them back with shield formations and spear formations, allowing them to lose strength in vain. At the same time, many others were squeezed off the pedals and fell to the ground screaming.
"Quick! Shoot arrows from both sides! Attack the sides of the pedal!"
Faramir is still commanding loudly. Everything is going well now, and the orcs can't even think of breaking through their walls!
"Hold still, don't mess up! They are no match for us! That's it, push hard and push them out!"
As far as the current battlefield situation of both sides is concerned, the Gondor defenders occupying the city wall have a greater advantage!
When the orcs tried to attack the shield wall of the Gondor shield infantry, countless arrows were shot at the narrow platform of the well. Countless orcs were shot without even a chance to dodge. They turned into hedgehogs, just like dumplings. After falling to the bottom, at least one or two could be killed?
"Okay! That's it! Defeat them!"
"By the way, where are our oil tanks? Come on! Throw them over and burn them immediately!"
Gondor's general, Faramir, son of the regent Denethor, after he successfully commanded the defenders on the city wall to drive the orcs back, he hurriedly shouted loudly to the infantry who were still shooting arrows.
If he remembered correctly, there were a lot of small trumpets and oil cans that could be thrown by hand for setting fires on the city wall! And now is the time to use them.
Looking at the current situation, although the orcs can't get up for the time being, they'd better burn the remaining five giant shaft carts as soon as possible, otherwise, let those orcs risk their lives If they charge forward, their city wall will be breached sooner or later!
After all, their Gondor defenders are far less numerous than the orcs outside! Moreover, those temporarily recruited militiamen cannot have too many expectations on their combat effectiveness.
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"Hmph! Damn it..."
Among the orcs, the general with a sarcoma-like scar on his face and a severely distorted hand was looking up angrily at dozens of little beasts roaring down from the top of Minas Tirith. black spots.
Soon, those black spots once again plowed bloodstains in the large square formation of their orc army!
Every time, these big black iron balls fired by the opponent can always cause dozens or even hundreds of casualties to them. Although the damage is not too great, they can't fight back even if they are beaten in the ears, which has a negative impact on their morale. The blow was really too big...
"Lord the Witch King of Angmar!"
After pondering for a while, the orc general saw that his attack was unfavorable, and looked angrily at the leader of the Ringwraiths next to him who was landing on the ground and was commanding and supervising the army's attack with him.
"Can't you let your Nazgul Knights destroy those things that shoot iron balls? They are so annoying!"
Now, after statistics, it found that those black iron balls launched every once in a while had a huge impact on their orc army!
So far, among the thousands of soldiers they have injured or killed, at least half of them had their hands smashed and bruised by those black iron balls that were blasted down at high speed!
Just now, even one of those tall and strong trolls had half of its body destroyed by that terrifying black iron ball! If this continues, it will be a great challenge for it to restrain its troops from continuing the attack! You know, when the morale drops to the bottom and those orcs disperse in a hurry, it is no joke!
"shut up!"
The Witch-King of Angmar turned his head viciously and looked at the half-orc general who was riding a warg and dared to accuse him. Until the other party and the warg, together with the warg, retreated and cowered for several steps. Then he pointed angrily at the top of the gate of Minas Tirith and said:
"We already tried to attack!"
"However, my three men are all hanging there now! They humans have magic weapons against us!"
The Witch King of Angmar felt ashamed and angry when he mentioned this matter. He still thought that those things that were glowing with fire must be magic weapons!
In fact, at the beginning, the Nazgul immediately discovered the unusually thick smoke and the flaming weapons that fired black iron balls at the top of Minas Tirith.
At that time, he, the Witch King of Angmar, immediately sent the Dawn Destroyer, whose strength was second only to his own. But how could he have imagined that that bastard would be killed by the enemy on the spot? !
So, when he called the other two companions again and prepared to go up to find trouble with those humans, they were surprised to find that those humans actually had terrifying weapons to deal with them?
At that time, when the three Ring Spirit Dragon Knights had just dived in, the strange defenders above used their weapons to hit them with some terrifying iron pellets! He and the other Ring Spirit were so frightened that when they saw something was wrong, they quickly grabbed the reins of the flying dragon monster and ran away!
The other one that was shot down because it ran a little slower has now been killed by those damn Gondor defenders together with the Dawn Destroyer at the beginning and the other unlucky guy who was shot down while attacking the trebuchet. The head was cut off and hung on the city gate...
"So tell me, what should we do now?"
"Look, we only have five Jinglan trucks left now, oh, no! Now there are four..."
After looking at the heads of the three flying dragon beasts and the three twisted pieces of broken armor and black cloaks above the city gate, the orc general was filled with resentment.
It's all because of these Nazgul, who have little success but more than failure, that the orcs' originally high morale almost fell to the bottom!
Above the city gate, the three bloody dragon heads and the armor of the Ringwraiths were a naked insult and provocation to their powerful orc army!
"Hmph! Stop talking nonsense and continue the attack!"
"Don't be afraid of losses. No matter what, you must climb the city wall, break down the city gate, and be sure to break in!"
Looking at the heads of the three flying dragons and the remains of the three Nazgul hanging on the enemy's city wall, the leader of the Angmar Witch King certainly felt a little embarrassed. Because of this, the Ringwraiths no longer dare to fly too low, or fly up to attack the defenders in the city.
Because the opponent has weapons that can hurt and kill the Ringwraiths. The iron poles that emit fire and smoke are really powerful! Without knowing how many weapons the enemy had, they would definitely not dare to fly over the city of Minas Tirith easily again.
They were afraid of flaming weapons...
As for the life or death of the orcs, he didn't care at all!
Anyway, they have a large army of Orcs. Even if all the 100,000 Orcs here die, he can still pull out 100,000 or more Orcs from Mordor.
"But sir, we only have five...four troops left in Jinglan now. Those ordinary troops can't rush up at all! Moreover, that city gate is so strong that we can't break it open at all!" "
The battle is still going on, and on the remaining four wells, only ordinary troops of orcs or small trolls can go up! On that small well platform, there was no way to break through the shields and spear formations of the Gondor defenders!
It had just seen several small trolls being pushed off the city wall by Gondor's defenders...
And look at the piles of Orc corpses in the city gate area, and the defenders on the city gate. They can even calmly and condescendingly target the Orcs who hit the gate, shoot arrows or throw stones at them. So far, At least a thousand orcs had died at the city gate alone!
"Hmph! If a small battering ram doesn't work, then we have something else. Push that 'Gron' up for me!"
The Witch King of Angmar glanced at the corpses piled high at the city gate with a ferocious smile, and then gave the order calmly.
Just now, the Goron behind them was bombarded two or three times by the enemy's powerful iron ball weapons. However, the Goron is a giant steel door hammer cast in one piece. It is not afraid of the enemy's bombardment or stone attack, or even setting it on fire. Don't be afraid!
Because Goron itself carries flames!
He believed that their 'Gron' wolf head would be able to destroy the city gate of Gondor, definitely!
That thing is simply too big to be imagined!
When transporting it, it was pulled by several one-horned monsters, the giant one-horned rhino native to the southern plains of Mordor! At the same time, it must be equipped with a dozen large trolls and countless orcs to push it. Otherwise, there will be no existence with enough endurance to push it for a long time!
And now, it's time for it to take action! As long as the city gate is broken, they can capture the city!
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"Wow...what a big door-rammer..."
On the roof of the Royal Palace of Minas Tirith, Anne also saw the huge monster made of steel at a glance: it was actually a steel ram driven by an extra-large one-horned rhinoceros and some ogres. ? How much does that have to weigh?
"But they are really stupid!"
"Even Saruman knows how to play with gunpowder, and yet they stupidly bang on the door?!"
Watching dozens of artillery shells fly towards the door-ramming chariot made entirely of steel, hitting several directly, but they only made a few dents and killed a large rhinoceros pulling the cart?
After seeing this situation, Anne herself didn't know what to say to those orcs.
They have the time and thought to build this thing, so wouldn’t it be better to do something else?
Let’s talk about the opponent’s Ring Spirit Flying Dragon Knight first!
In Little Annie's opinion, if the flying dragon carried two pockets of gunpowder bombs, flew over Minas Tirith and used it as a bomber, ignited the bombs and dropped them for fun, the defenders of Gondor would definitely not be able to withstand it. Right?
If there is no gunpowder, it doesn't matter, she has other ways!
Then you might as well install some kerosene cans, light them on fire and then throw them down. It would be much better to lose the whole city directly than to be stupid enough to try to attack the defenders with your voice, claws or swords, right?
If there are any good off-the-shelf bombers, you won't use them. Instead, you will go to great lengths to make a steel ram. What else is that if it's not out of mind?
