After cleaning the battlefield, Ye Tianlong led the army and continued to advance towards Fort Kelridan.
At the same time, Count Starma, the lord of Kelridan Castle, seemed to have known for a long time that the soldiers ambush in the valley could not stop Ye Tianlong, and he had begun to recruit young men and women to join him in his city. army.
The first thing these young men do after joining the army is to drink a small bowl of green potion. This potion is obviously the animalization potion. Not only does it have a weird color, but it also exudes an unpleasant smell. stench.
After recruiting more than two thousand young men in one breath, Count Starma finally stopped. Then he returned to his room and took out a bottle of dark purple potion from his desk drawer.
After looking at the bottle of purple potion intently for several minutes, Count Starma seemed to have made up his mind and drank the bottle of potion.
After drinking this bottle of potion, fine purple lines immediately appeared on Count Starma's face, like blood vessels all over his head, and then these purple lines quickly spread from his head to his neck. , then its body, and finally its limbs and bones.
After the power of the potion completely spread to all parts of his body, Count Starma's size suddenly began to increase dramatically. He was originally only about 1.7 meters tall, and in just a few minutes, he became a man of 2 meters tall. The little giant, who is about five meters tall, has patches of thick red scales emerging from the surface of his body. His legs have also directly transformed into an anti-joint structure like a horse. The soles of his feet have been greatly elongated and lifted. In the end, only The toes that sprouted two hooves touched the ground.
But the most terrifying thing was Count Starma's head. On his forehead, a pair of thick and curved horns actually grew, and the teeth in his mouth became much sharper.
As he slowly adapted to the changes on his body and opened his eyes again, a purple light flashed deep in his eyes. At this time, you can see that his eyes turned from blue to blood. It was red, and it exuded a strong desire for destruction and killing.
"Haha! With such a powerful power, that guy really didn't lie to me! With such a powerful power, I will definitely be able to repel that Ye Tianlong's army and keep my territory and property!"
Count Starma sneered, and completely tore off his clothes that had been torn by the sudden increase in size. Then he pulled out his old sword and slashed his arm hard, and found that This sword did not leave any traces on the red scales on his arms at all, which shows that the scales on his body are probably more defensive than the full-body plate armor he wore before.
And just as he gradually adapted to his suddenly increased strength, the soldiers outside the door shouted to remind him that the enemy had already arrived.
"Those guys came so fast!" Count Starma muttered, then opened the door and walked out.
At this time, most of the soldiers under his command had mutated to a greater or lesser extent after taking the animal-transformation potion, so they were not too surprised when facing the lord who had greatly changed his appearance.
And in the open space not far outside the city, Ye Tianlong was already leading his army to form a formation there.
Count Starma looked at Ye Tianlong who was riding a tall horse and commanding outside the city with strong murderous intent in his eyes, but he suppressed it and did not go out stupidly. Because he knew that the opponent had many extremely powerful firearms in his hands! If he dared to rush out of the city like this, he would soon be killed by the opponent with various firearms.
Even most of the defenders on the city wall were called down by Count Starma, leaving only a few people responsible for observing the enemy's movements.
When Ye Tianlong saw that the opponent was so smart and removed most of the soldiers from the city wall, he also gave up the idea of bombing the opponent's city wall with rockets. After all, the accuracy of those rockets was too poor, and there were only a few enemy soldiers. Soldiers are difficult to hit. The killing efficiency of using rockets is too low. It's better to use heavy artillery to blast open the opponent's wall before fighting in!
Since the walls of Kelredan Castle are all solid stone walls, it was much more difficult to blow them down. It took more than two hours of bombardment to finally blow down a small section of the wall. Collapsed.
Ye Tianlong feels that this is mainly because the artillery he is using is too backward. They are still front-loaded artillery, with a slow rate of fire and poor power. The same is true for rifles. He doesn’t know when the firearms expert Guan Jun will be able to study it. Introduce more advanced firearms to replace these backward products.
But now Ye Tianlong feels that bombarding with artillery alone is too slow. If he wants to blast enough gaps, he may have to wait until tomorrow.
So he then sent out a dozen artillery carts equipped with small-caliber artillery to cover a large number of infantry approaching the enemy city wall. Among these infantry, there were several who carried powerful explosive bags. As long as they could If you successfully get close to the city wall and place these explosive packets at the foot of the city wall, you can directly blow open the wall of Kelridan Castle.
Although Count Starma did not know Ye Tianlong's true purpose, after discovering that the enemy troops were actively approaching the city wall, he immediately sent many soldiers to prepare to fight these enemy troops.
However, the defenders had just been urged onto the city wall by Count Starma. The combat airship commanded by Zhou Jiale also flew over the city wall and began to drop bombs at the defenders below.
Although most of the bombs were not actually dropped on the city wall due to the accuracy of bombing, the few bombs that landed on the city wall caused a commotion among the defenders on the city wall.
Upon seeing this, Count Starma quickly climbed onto the city wall to stabilize the morale of the army. This move was very effective. Seeing that his own lords had come up in person, the soldiers immediately calmed down a lot. After all, if the enemy army continued to bombard them in the future, , most of them will be blown up together with their own lords! It would be an honor for them to die with a noble earl.
However, Zhou Jiale did not continue the bombing, because he also saw that the accuracy of dropping bombs from high altitudes was too low, and it was difficult to accurately land on the city wall. They did not carry many aerial bombs this time, so it was better not to continue. It goes to waste.
Seeing that the enemy did not continue to bombard from the air, Count Starma couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Then he leaned out from the city wall and carefully observed the enemy's artillery carriages.
From the gleaming metallic armor of the artillery carriages, he could see that these artillery carriages were made of fine steel.
Such a luxurious approach surprised even the wealthy Count Starma. After all, if he had such fine steel, he would definitely choose to make it into weapons and armor! How could they be used to make armor for these artillery vehicles?
And just when Count Starma was observing those gun carriages made of fine steel with greed on his face, a feeling of extreme danger suddenly appeared in his heart, and his body sensed this crisis. After feeling the sensation, he twisted his body to the left like a conditioned reflex, and suddenly a bullet flew past his side, leaving a deep hole in the city wall behind him. .
This was a sniper trained by Luo Chenguang. He was holding a sniper rifle specially customized for them by Luo Chenguang. When he saw Count Starma leaning out from the city wall, he immediately aimed at the opponent and fired.
Compared with ordinary flintlock rifles, these special sniper rifles have higher range, accuracy and power. Just like at this time, the sniper was still more than two hundred meters away from the city wall! But it has already entered the effective killing range of those sniper rifles.
Count Starma turned around and glanced at the small hole made by the bullet in the wall behind him, and couldn't help but feel scared. Even the strong scales on his body might not be able to prevent such a terrifying penetration! No wonder he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of crisis just now.
After quickly retracting behind the city wall, Count Starma ordered the soldiers around him to prepare rolling logs and rocks, and wait until the enemy troops approached the city wall to hit him hard. As for those ordinary crossbows, Count Starma felt that they would not be able to do any damage to the enemy soldiers wearing heavy armor. As for the crossbows on the city wall, it would be difficult to penetrate those who were pushed. At the very front, the gun carriage armor serves as a bunker.
However, if the opponent wants to attack the city, he must be close to his city wall. Then he can use rolling wood and rocks to kill the opponent severely.
The enemy soldiers outside the city didn't know Count Starma's thoughts. When they pushed the artillery cart close to only twenty or thirty meters away from the city wall, they pointed the muzzles at the city wall, ready to fire at any time. Cover your comrades carrying explosive bags.
In addition, there are a large number of musketeers and archers who are ready to fire and cover at any time.
When they discovered that the enemy troops were getting closer and closer to the city wall, some of the defenders couldn't bear it anymore. They leaned out from behind the city wall and wanted to throw the stones in their hands at the enemy troops below.
However, as soon as the defender emerged from the city wall, he was shot in the head and heart by two snipers, and fell down again without even making a sound.
"Come on!"
At the same time, amidst the loud shouts of the officers, several soldiers carrying explosive bags, under the cover of dozens of comrades holding large shields, emerged from behind the artillery cart and ran quickly towards the bottom of the city wall.
"Hit me!" Although Count Starma didn't know that the enemy was preparing to install explosives under the base of his city wall, when he saw the enemy's appearance, he immediately shouted and gave the order to attack.
Suddenly a large number of defenders leaned out from behind the city wall, each holding high rolling logs and rocks, intending to smash them at the enemy troops under the city wall.
But the gunners below have been waiting for this moment for a long time! The artillery that had been loaded with shotguns opened fire one after another, and suddenly dense pieces of shotgun steel balls swept across the city like a torrential rain, beating a large number of enemy troops until they were covered in blood and screamed before falling back behind the city wall.
In addition, a large number of archers and musketeers opened fire one after another. The dense rain of arrows and bullets quickly cleared away some fish that slipped through the net, but did not let a rolling log or stone fall.
