Thea uses the fourth-level natural magic, the language of nature. Within a certain range, she can understand the surrounding situation through plants, and can also see through the eyes of animals or hear with ears.
With Thea's current ability, this range is roughly ten kilometers. If it is any further, there will be requirements for animals and plants.
For example, the plants must be planted by her personally, and the animals must be her spiritual beasts.
The little bird Cuiyu often serves as Thea's "messaging tube".
During the days when Thea was lurking in Cartagena, she did not hide and escape blindly. Wherever she passed, she would leave some plant seeds more or less.
Now the seeds sprouted and the plants burst out of the ground and became her eyes.
"'Mighty Punch" Ken Rohag has been guarding the gate of the Holy Descendant. I also saw the swelling and the soul. "Thea said.
When she heard Lonely Soul's name, Ofina's eyes lit up: "Lonely Soul is right in front of the door. Why doesn't this person come out? My Soul-Destroying No. 1 is ready!"
"The Lonely Soul has the skills of soul sound and soul eye, and is most suitable for liaison and command from the center, and also monitors the situation in Cartagena City." Thea explained.
Filia asked: "Then will you be discovered if you use the language of nature?"
"No, I just use plants and animals. I am not possessed. There will be no soul fluctuations, and the lonely soul cannot find me."
"Well. How is the situation on the other three fronts?"
"The artillery on the dwarf side has been saved. Just now you stimulated Malkem. I believe he can break through the city wall before the day after tomorrow."
"Vidnina in the west is sleeping, and she asked me not to disturb her during the day... But I think the undead army is advancing at a pretty good speed, and I think we can catch up."
"The fighting at King Charles's in the east is very fierce, and the situation is not optimistic."
Filia adjusted her armor and said: "The army on the east route barely rested. When they arrived at their position, they immediately attacked the city. The soldiers were able to hold on with only one breath. And there were no siege equipment modified by Nana over there. The city’s efficiency is definitely not as good as ours.”
"Well, Gruul is there. The morale of the orc warriors is much higher than ours here. It's really difficult to fight."
"But I believe in the abilities of Emperor Charles and Marshal Edlache. They will definitely be able to break through the city wall. Thea, is there still no news from the Sea Tribe?"
Thea shook her head: "No, the Southern Abyss is still closed. No one can enter or come out after so many days."
The two fell into a brief silence. Upon seeing this, Ofina pulled the two of them and said, "Don't think so much. Cartagena is going to fight anyway. Let's go find my brother and see if he loses me." Is your little cutie ready?"
The three women left the command room.
The city walls of Cartagena are much stronger than the fortresses built overnight on the outside. A single stone throw from a heavy trebuchet can only leave a small hole in the wall.
If you want to use siege equipment to blow down a section of the city wall, you can only concentrate your firepower and bombard it continuously. However, the accuracy of heavy trebuchets and trebuchets is limited, and concentrated bombardment cannot accurately hit the same point.
Attacking like this is tantamount to a lottery. Philia didn't like doing things that were uncertain, so she decided to use trebuchets and trebuchets to focus on bombarding the enemy's defense equipment and the locations where the defenders were concentrated to provide fire support for the infantry attacking the city.
With fire support, the warriors received significantly fewer attacks from their positions to the walls of Cartagena. In many cases, they only had to focus on defending against the arrows of the orc archers.
In this section of the death zone, the casualties of soldiers are reduced, their morale can be kept high, and they can fight more bravely.
However, the meat grinding mode was still started under the city walls of Cartagena. Both sides were causing casualties every moment, and the bodies inside and outside the city were piling up more and more.
The large number of spikes on the wall of Cartagena did indeed go as Filia expected. They did not cause too much trouble to the Imperial Army. Instead, they were modified by senior and king-level experts and turned into dangerous shapes. A starting point for climbing.
The soldiers climbed up the spikes, which was equivalent to having one more way to attack the city, which speeded up the progress of the siege in disguise.
But the city of Cartagena
The wall is not that simple. Its structure is different from the imperial city wall. There are many holes in the wall.
These holes are not reserved for archery, but holes for slender and sharp spears to be thrust out and retrieved.
The design of the stabbing spear is extremely unique. It is thrust out and retracted in a uniform manner and according to certain rules. It is obvious at a glance that it is not controlled by human beings.
Moreover, not all the spears were thrust out and retracted at the same time. According to Rogge's estimation, they should have been divided into four batches, and the intervals between thrusting out and retracting were inconsistent.
This design is to prevent the siege party from finding the pattern, making it impossible to avoid it and increasing the kill rate.
Approximately 30% of casualties among Imperial soldiers were caused by spears. This is a very terrifying statistic that deserves special attention.
Roggang led the flying spirit beasts to destroy an orc air force.
The scale of this orc air force is small, with flying monsters as the main force and only a few bipedal flying dragons. It is obviously used to delay time.
But the value of the air force is very high, and Rogge still has to spend some time to eliminate them.
Rogge looked worried as he looked at the stabbing spear that was thrust out and retracted regularly. From the appearance, it was impossible to tell what its principle was.
The young man was thinking about letting the eight dragons in the spirit beast army, plus Canxing and Haijin, cover the city wall with dragon breath. While killing the enemy, see if they could destroy the spear mechanism as well.
Ofina came to his side.
"Brother, why aren't you using my little cutie? Try it quickly and let me see how it works. There is still time to improve!"
"We just wiped out an air force and haven't had time to use it yet. Nana, you came just in time. What is the principle of the thrust spear?"
"Let me be healthy."
Arcane master Ophina can make complex arcane devices and is an expert in this field. If even she can't figure out the secret of the piercing spear, she can only consider attacking by force.
Ofina stared at it with wide eyes for a while, then put her hands on her hips and said, "It's interesting."
"How?" Roger asked.
"It doesn't look like it's controlled by a magic circle, it should be mechanically driven!" Ofina concluded.
"Mechanical drive..." Rogge's guess was the same, because orc magicians were extremely rare, and it was impossible to create such a large magic circle.
"Nana, is there a solution?"
Ofina said: "It can only destroy the driving core."
"Can you guess the location of the drive core?"
"Yes!" Ofina pointed to the largest tower in the city wall, "Maybe it's there!"
"A mechanical device that can drive so many stabbing spears to move at the same time must be very large, and it will definitely not be inside the wall. Besides, if the device is hidden in the wall, the wall will not be so strong if it has a hollow structure. .”
"Of course, there is a possibility that there is a driving core in every tower. Well... it may be another situation." Ofina scratched her chin, "The driving core is underground!"
"Goblins are very familiar with the underground environment. Hiding the drive core underground is safe and does not take up too much space to defend the city. It is a good choice!"
Ofina's analysis was very reasonable, and Rogge praised: "Nana, that's amazing!"
"Huhu, of course! But brother, no matter whether the drive core is underground or in a tower, it's not easy to destroy."
"Yes."
While the two were talking, the number of lives taken by the spears had increased by several hundred. This problem must be solved as soon as possible.
Rogge thought for a while and said to Ofina: "Nana, tell your sister Filia what you just speculated, and ask her to command the army to attack each tower first."
"Also, the length of the stabbing spear is about one meter. It should be able to be broken. However, the pattern of thrusting out is difficult to determine and there is no way to start. Find the pattern and let the soldiers break as many spears as possible. .”
"Attention warriors, I'm going to throw away the cutie you made."
"Okay!" Ofina left.
If the driving core of the spear device is in the tower, breaking through the tower as early as possible is definitely the best option.
However, if the core is underground, the empire has no way to attack it and can only choose to reduce the number of stabbing spears to weaken its power.
Rogge's arrangement was to be prepared on both sides and to minimize casualties.
Several familiar figures appeared above the city of Cartagena, but Rogge was not under any pressure.
Rick, the martial saint-level archer, was exerting his extremely strong long-range containment power, preventing Xiva, Jebacs and Zhan Po from daring to act rashly.
They didn't respond to Matilda's call for formation outside the city. After all, on the southeastern front, the Empire had the stronger high-end strength.
Filia will definitely adjust her tactics after learning the news about the stabbing spear. At this time, Rogge can do something.
When the offensive of the Imperial Army slowed down and the soldiers adjusted their formation and stopped attacking the city wall, Rogge led the team to set off.
Without the opponent's air force to contain them, and the crossbows on the city wall being suppressed by our siege equipment, the strategy is very simple. The dragon's breath opens the way.
Two Star Yao Dragons, three Sun Flame Dragons, and three Golden Glory Dragons, led by Canxing and Haijin, came to the sky above the city wall and lined up.
Ten giant dragons were hanging in the air, and the pressure was so strong that even the warriors from the empire held their breath.
Seeing this, Jay Bacchus was about to rush to fight, but was forced back by an arrow that was so fast that it was almost invisible.
Rick is in control and no one can act rashly.
Ten giant dragons opened their mouths at the same time, spitting out dragon breath in tacit agreement!
The gorgeous galactic breath, the dazzling golden breath, the blazing flame breath and the deep torrent breath rushed down and blasted towards the tower!
"Boom!"
After several loud noises, both human soldiers and orc warriors were shocked by the power of the dragon's breath.
The difference was that the human soldiers were quite excited, while the orc warriors were terrified.
The city tower was washed away by the dragon's breath, as if it had been hit by a heavy trebuchet several times in succession. Among them, the dragon's breath, which was dominated by the energy impact of galactic breath, was the most destructive.
The city tower bombarded by the three galactic breaths soon suffered serious damage. At this time, Canxing still had some strength left, and the other two dragons had stopped breathing. ..
Canxing took his last breath and blew out the last dragon's breath.
"boom!"
Half of a city tower collapsed, exposing its inner structure.
