Chapter 100: Two-sided siege
"A big guy is approaching. Prepare to reload the counterweight trebuchet . Adjust the angle in advance!"
"Also, prepare the crossbow carts near point 5 and replace them with armor-piercing crossbow arrows."
"Mage group, get ready, prepare to cast a spell when the target approaches."
Outside the city wall, a giant stitched monster about six meters tall was slowly approaching the city wall with heavy steps.
The Stitched Monster is an undead monster formed by stitching together a large number of corpses, also known as an abomination. Its core is located in the thick space between corpses. It has thick skin and flesh and is extremely powerful.
This thing has circles of iron chains wrapped around its body to increase its defense, and it holds various heavy weapons. The most commonly used ones are huge boning knives and bloody hooks or meat forks. The boning knife can easily tear apart leather armor, and even mail armor and scales can be forcibly torn apart under the enormous power of the abomination.
One end of the meat hook is connected to a chain, which can be thrown out to hook the target and then the prey can be forcibly dragged back with the powerful force of hatred.
To deal with such a big guy, you can only use heavy weapons, catapults and crossbows, and of course spells can also be used.
At the same time, after receiving the battle report from his subordinates from the front line, Li Qing ordered Long Shoufei to fly over and provide support depending on the situation.
And then, nothing happened. There were more than a dozen such abominations and more than a dozen large resurrected corpses, but only one of them approached the city wall. There was no need to panic.
The abomination slowly approached the city wall amidst the crowds of undead. When it was close to a certain distance, the commander shouted loudly:
"Counterweight trebuchet No. 5, ready, 3, 2, 1, fire!"
The soldier, who was well prepared, smashed the bolt with a hammer, and the huge counterweight stone fell down, picking up the huge stone in the net bag at the other end of the lever and flying high into the sky, drawing a long arc in the air and accurately hitting the chest of the disgusting stitched monster.
The unimaginable force smashed large areas of rotten and smelly corpses on the Stitched Monster's body, and even the chains wrapped around its body were broken. The huge force knocked down the six-meter-tall Stitched Monster and crushed a dozen skeletons beside it.
But it was not dead yet. The attack only broke part of the stitched monster's body but did not damage the core inside.
The Stitched Monster struggled to get up and continued to stagger towards the city wall.
The commander turned his head expressionlessly and shouted to the seven or eight crossbow carts that had been pushed to the edge of the city wall and had adjusted their angles:
"Ready, enter range, fire freely without command!"
After saying this, he looked at the Dragon Vein Snake Mage Group behind him and said:
"When the abomination enters the casting range, no orders are needed and it will attack freely."
He didn't have time to care about this, because the enemy had already launched a full-scale attack. The many stitched monsters, resurrected corpses, and a large number of bone monsters that had stopped in the rear had left their original locations and were approaching the city wall.
"boom!"
Accompanied by a dull ricocheting sound, a huge rock flew over the city wall and headed outside the city, accurately hitting the skeleton of an unknown giant beast. The hundreds of kilograms of rock slammed down with unimaginable force, smashing the nearly five-meter-tall giant white skeleton monster into pieces in one blow.
The resurrected corpses and stitched monsters have rotten flesh as a cushion, so even a counterweight catapult can't kill them directly.
But it is different if it is a hard but brittle skeleton monster. Once hit, the skeleton will collapse directly, and even if the soul is not destroyed, it will lose its combat effectiveness.
Under the suppression of a standard counterweight catapult, no skeleton monster could cross a certain red line. As long as it got close, it would be destroyed with a precise strike like a guided missile, and no one would be spared.
Below the city wall, a large number of skeletons and zombies were lying on the ground, squeezing up layer by layer and starting to pile up .
Apparently, the commander in the rear was preparing to use one of the most common siege tactics of the Undead, the backfill tactic, and was preparing to pile up corpses underneath the city wall.
At the same time, various undead heroes in the rear were slowly approaching the battlefield, and a large number of ghosts were floating in the air towards the city wall.
There are commanders, professional adjutants, and professional observers on each of the four sections of the city walls.
The observers are responsible for observing the battlefield situation and reporting any ghosts they discover to the adjutant or commander as soon as possible. Then a group of dragon vein snake people are gathered and take their positions.
Magic is the best way to deal with ghosts.
Fortunately, these five hundred dragon vein snake people were pulled up. After all, they were all magicians, which was quite effective against ghosts. In addition, the dragon guard dragon magic flew up to fight and quickly blocked the ghosts.
There are three ways for ghosts to attack. One is direct attack, which will add two additional damages, cold and undead, to the target and slow it down. The lower the target's physique, the stronger the slowing effect.
The second attack method is the Soul Claw. The ghost can directly attack the target's soul, and even forcibly grab the soul of a mortal from the body. This is almost impossible to resist. Only some special spells can resist it, or rely on one's own powerful soul to forcibly resist it.
However, ordinary ghosts are not capable of doing the second method.
The third way of attack is to occupy.
The powerful ghost forcibly pulls the target's soul out of the body, then enters the body and controls it.
But this control is only temporary. After all, it is not your own body and you will naturally reject it.
These two undead heroes each have hundreds of ghost subordinates, most of whom only have the first attack method, only a few have the second attack method, and it is estimated that only the strongest ghosts have the third attack method.
Hundreds of transparent ghosts rushed onto the city wall under a hail of arrows, and pounced on the swords raised by the defenders.
Several soldiers were pounced upon by the ghost. They trembled all over and their faces quickly turned pale. Their bodies also froze, as if they were frozen.
Among them, more than twenty ghosts passed through, grabbing a soldier's struggling soul and rushing out from behind the soldier, who fell to the ground with a thud like a corpse.
Although the separated souls can still survive if they return to the body within a short period of time, no one has time to help their souls return to their bodies in this chaotic battlefield.
However, they are not doomed to die.
After pushing out their souls, these ghosts threw them away casually and were about to pounce on another soldier nearby, but the dragon vein snake people who were well prepared rushed over.
They are holding weapons that have been blessed with energy spells and can cause substantial damage to ghosts.
The ghost did not continue to attack the souls that were initially captured, nor did it push them away. These souls that were pushed out of the body would be attracted by the bodies not far away and slowly float back.
Not all lost souls can return, but most can return alive.
All this was so insignificant on this chaotic battlefield. Neither the defenders nor the enemy paid any attention to these struggling souls. Both sides fought back and forth on the high city walls.
As more and more undead poured in, they used the backfill tactic to fill the space under the city wall. In particular, after several large resurrected corpses and abominations rushed in, their huge bodies pressed down on the corpses, directly raising the pile of corpses by several meters.
At this time, most of the dragon vein snake people on the city wall were entangled by ghosts, and the remaining part was also fighting, so they had no time to burn the corpses.
Li Qing sat in the core of the divine realm and turned on the projection function of the divine realm. There were four huge light screens around him, which displayed the situation around the city. He could clearly see the current fierce battle situation.
There are too many enemies, with nearly 50,000 undead in the two groups combined. Even if we stand still, it will take an unknown amount of time to kill them.
However, he was not too panicked. Although the enemy was strong, he was not weak either. Besides, he had not shown his true strength until now. Not to mention trump cards like the Lava Crystal Dragon and the Iron Golem Squadron, even war spells were useless.
Li Qing would not use these trump cards before the enemy leader hero took action and the city wall was in danger of being breached.
Although this battle is dangerous, the situation is still under Li Qing's control.
Because this is an opportunity for the entire divine realm.
Such a large army of undead can be used for training.
Think about how we massacred the civilians and remnant soldiers in a snake city and trained them into such a strong elite force. Now these 50,000 undead are all combat soldiers, and the overall combat experience they can provide is enormous.
After the war, those who are still able to survive will definitely make great progress in strength, and it is possible to be promoted several times in a row, or even directly to the top.
so……
Li Qing withdrew his gaze, thought for a moment, and ordered Dai Lirong to prepare to gather two thousand civilians.
He wanted to expand his army to prevent the loss of too many troops and not having enough manpower to be promoted in time.
Dai Lirong acted quickly and completed the assembly in less than ten minutes. Li Qing quickly issued a series of orders to the commanders of each city, then left the command center and headed for the Divine Domain Farm.
At present, most of the civilians in the Divine Realm are concentrated on the third floor of the Divine Realm Farm and the Divine Realm Ranch. A small town has been built on each of the four floors, each with a population of about 4,000.
Dai Lirong only needs to pass Li Qing's order to each town, and the mayor will call up the militia and directly draw the militia out. There is no need to select them one by one.
After a year, these civilians have already become accustomed to life in the divine realm.
Although the town is not big and each floor of the Divine Pastoral Farm is not very large, for these natives who were born in alien dimensions, most of them have never left the village in their entire lives, so the impact is not significant.
Now only a part of these civilians are farming. The place is so small that it doesn’t take too many people to handle the work.
So each family only needs one person.
In order to ensure that these dependents have something to do and not be idle, Dai Lirong, Shang Yingxin and Xia Mang thought hard and formulated a set of circulation order within the territory.
First of all, the first and third floors of the Shenyu Farm are divided into farmland. The first floor is dedicated to growing rice, the second floor is dedicated to growing vegetables, and the third floor is dedicated to growing wheat, all of which are varieties that can be grown twice a year.
Then each family sends one person to farm the land.
Another person will be sent to serve the lord. For example, if some public construction in the territory requires laborers, or if laborers are usually drafted to dig the ground, cut wood, etc., they are all drawn from here.
After smoking all these, there are basically few idle people left in a family.
Of course, there are jobs for those who are in surplus.
Some jobs within the town require manpower, and the militia teams in each town need manpower.
Now Dai Lirong and others are thinking about whether to establish a financial system in the territory, try to pay them wages, and allow a small number of civilians to open shops and trade freely.
This is an inevitable path. When the size of the population within the divine domain expands, the original model will gradually be eliminated.
Just like the Black Stone Realm, which is the divine domain of the Black Stone Throne, it has a population of more than 18 million and it has long been a complete society. The civilians in it can enter and exit the Black Stone Realm freely and trade freely.
Of course, a war lord apprentice like Li Qing definitely can't do this. His divine domain is too small and is not embedded in the Tree of Eternity. It is completely independent internally.
But we can try it out first and establish a small social system within the divine realm to lay the foundation for future changes.
After all the militiamen gathered, Li Qing took out one thousand standard imperial infantry cards and one thousand standard imperial archer cards, and promoted these ordinary civilians to soldiers in large numbers.
By the time all the promotions were completed , an hour had passed.
Fortunately, promotions don’t have to come one by one, otherwise I would be exhausted to death and wouldn’t be able to finish them all.
All the promoted soldiers had their equipment changed and were directly transferred out and sent to the battlefield on the spot.
There was no need to make weapons and equipment on site. He had prepared a lot of them long beforehand, including weapons made of high-carbon refined steel, multi-layered large wooden shields, and three-piece sets of super-strong synthetic armor. There were several thousand sets in total, which was more than enough.
Each section of the city wall received support from more than three hundred new forces, and the pressure was instantly reduced.
The extra 800 soldiers and part of the troops previously reserved were kept as a reserve force, specifically to burn the bodies of teammates thrown back from the city wall.
This is facing the undead, whose spiritualism can resurrect the corpse.
So before the war, Li Qing gave an order that all the dead in battle should be thrown back to their own inner city wall before the enemy could use their spiritual magic. There were a large number of bonfires behind the wall, and the bodies would be burned directly.
After an hour and a half of preparation, the siege had just entered its most intense state. A large number of skeletons and zombies had rushed up the city walls along several slopes of flesh that had been forcibly backfilled, and started fighting with the defenders on the walls.
At the same time, the core forces of the Undead Army, such as the Ghouls, had just approached the city wall, and a large number of Corpse Witches also surrounded the Lich Hero and another Terror Knight Hero and approached the city wall.
At this time, the Dragon Guardian Dragon Fa was not idle either. He spread his wings and flew in the air, cooperating with the Dragon Vein Snake Man to fight with the ghosts that were rushing towards him from all directions.
The abilities of these ghosts are completely powerless against Dragon Guards and Dragon Magicians. Their direct attacks on souls are also unable to shake their powerful dragon souls. On the contrary, Dragon Guards and Dragon Magicians can cause fatal damage to the ghosts with both ordinary physical attacks and spells.
It was also because the ghosts were too fast and agile, otherwise, who knows how many people would have died if each of them had a breath of dragon sprayed on them.
However, after more than an hour of fighting, most of the ordinary ghosts had died in their hands, and now only a few elite ghosts and two ghost heroes were left.
These two ghost heroes are both fifth-level heroes, not sixth-level extraordinary ones, but in these two undead hero troops, there are indeed many extraordinary-level strongmen.
In addition to the two heroic leaders, one or two of the heroes under their command have been promoted to level six, plus the strongest resurrected behemoth and the tallest stitched monster are also at level six.
Together, there are about eight or nine strong men who have reached the sixth level on both sides, far more than Li Qing's side.
However, the stitched monsters and resurrected beasts here are not true sixth-level monsters. At best, they are pseudo-supernormal, that is, they have no supernormal traits and no supernormal aura. They are simply pushed up by their strong physique and power.
Strictly speaking, this can only be called the sixth level, and cannot be called extraordinary.
The extraordinary ones are above level six, but level six is not necessarily extraordinary, the two cannot be confused.
This kind of pseudo-supernormal combat power with only physique and strength is stronger than that of the fifth level, and is much inferior to the real supernormal. Even a powerful fifth-level hero like Long Shoulong Fa may not be able to defeat him, and even Li Qing can only defeat one in a single fight.
