Chapter 1416

The roar of war drums made the earth tremble, and the thousands of fierce beasts in front of the alien demon army began to have strange reactions one by one. Their eyes turned blood red and their breath became extremely violent. The next moment, the alien demon loosened the iron chain tied to the necks of these fierce beasts, After that, these fierce beasts seemed to be crazy and began to rush towards the walls and gates of londrick fortress.

"Guns shoot freely! Heavy crossbows aim at the heads of these fierce beasts! Attack!" Deben saw thousands of fierce beasts rushing down, his eyes were frozen, and then gave orders loudly.

Almost at the same time that Deben gave the order, 150 guns fired almost at the same time. The sound of continuous shelling rang through the world. Shells with a diameter of 15 cm were shot out and landed in the fierce herd.

These shells are made of pure iron. The middle is empty and filled with a large amount of flame and iron filings. After landing, the shells explode suddenly. The terrible impact directly breaks the iron sheet wrapped with gunpowder. With the iron filings inside, the lethality is absolutely amazing.

With the continuous roar of shells, some fierce animals that were slightly small or unlucky to be directly hit by shells all gave a sad scream, and then fell in a pool of blood. In this round of attack alone, more than 200 fierce animals fell in a pool of blood and died or lost their combat effectiveness.

However, compared with the total number of thousands of ferocious beasts, the loss of these more than 200 ferocious beasts is nothing. Only between a few breaths, the ferocious beasts have rushed to a distance of less than 150 meters from the wall of longderek fortress.

At this time, the heavy crossbows on the city wall began to become powerful. These heavy crossbows were specially designed to deal with giant animals. The crossbow body was three meters long, and the whole was made of refined steel. The crossbow string was made of a kind of tendon called steel skin beast, which was very powerful. The crossbows and arrows prepared by this Heavy Crossbow were also specially constructed, and the arrow body was five meters long, The arrow is made from the teeth of a snake named giant toothed snake. It can not only penetrate the iron plate, but also carry neurotoxins that can kill any creature hit by the arrow on the spot.

Each Heavy Crossbow is equipped with three people, one of whom is responsible for aiming and shooting, the other two are responsible for loading the crossbow, and the other is to use the winch to open the crossbow string of the heavy crossbow, because the base of the Heavy Crossbow is fixed with the city wall, and the connecting position in the middle is a bearing that can rotate 360 degrees, so the moving and aiming of the crossbow is not troublesome.

The firing speed of crossbows and arrows is much faster than that of artillery. In just a few tens of seconds, hundreds of crossbows and arrows will burst out. As long as the fierce animals coming from below are hit by the arrows, they will stagger to the ground. Unfortunately, these crossbows and arrows have a killing range and can only kill some animals in the front, but the ones in the rear do not play a great role.

In fact, most of the thousands of fierce animals below are ordinary fierce animals, with general defense and combat effectiveness, but there is also the existence of advanced fierce animals. These fierce animals are often huge, rough and thick. The crossbows and arrows that can shoot through the skin of ordinary animals have little effect on them, and even can't break the defense.

Fortunately, the firing of crossbows and arrows slowed down the charging speed of animals and bought valuable time for the guns. When 150 guns loaded the shells again, the guns began to roar again. 150 shells fell into the herd like raindrops, and then exploded one by one. Just this time, nearly 200 animals fell in a pool of blood.

After the artillery barrage, the crossbows and arrows continued to contain the guard group below. Unfortunately, these animals did not know what happened. They were fearless in the face of death. They rushed towards the wall like crazy. Two consecutive rounds of attacks did not effectively stop the attack of animals.

At the end of the second round of artillery firing, when the crossbow and arrow restrained the herd, the herd finally rushed to the huge wooden wall of longderek fortress and hit it hard.

Boom, boom ~! These fierce beasts almost hit the wall unreservedly, and some of them made too much force and even broke their heads. It was precisely because of this fatal impact that the walls of longderek's fortress shook violently. Many people on the wall even stood unsteadily and fell to the ground, and these fallen people were good, Under the violent vibration, the fixed hooks of more than 20 guns placed close to the city wall loosened and fell directly from the city wall.

The loss of these more than 20 guns is small. The key is that these animals rushed under the city wall. The guns and crossbows can't shoot at right angles directly below. How can they stop the attack of the animals below?

In a hurry, Deben ordered everyone to throw spears downward, and ordered to open the defense system under the wall to fight back.

Hundreds of soldiers and hunters on the city wall began to throw spears down one by one, while the soldiers under the city began to start some steam engine equipment. A large amount of coal was thrown into the boiler. As the flame in the boiler became stronger and stronger, a large amount of steam was squeezed into a huge equipment through the pipeline.

When the instrument pointer on the equipment reached its head, a soldier pulled a pull rod on the equipment. With the pull rod pulled down, the whole machine vibrated violently, and a large number of gears began to operate inside the city wall. More than a dozen holes with a diameter of about one meter were opened outside the wooden city wall, Then more than a dozen huge spikes with the thickness of an adult's thigh burst out of the hole.

Driven by the high steam pressure, the impact of the dozens of spikes was so terrible that they directly penetrated the animal bodies close to the wall. At that moment, it was like a string of sugar gourd. Some of the spikes even penetrated more than a dozen animals at one time.

These spikes not only penetrated the animals, but also pushed the animals back by more than 20 meters.

After the animals withdrew, Deben ordered the firing of crossbows and artillery again. This time, the distance was close, and the power of crossbows and artillery was brought into full play. Nearly 100 shells fell directly into the herd, directly lifting large animals that were not too big. Some huge animals were also blasted full of blood. Even if they did not die, they could not continue to impact the city wall.

Under this series of attacks, the herd was completely disordered, and the previous impact momentum suddenly stagnated. After the momentum disappeared, the herd even began to enter chaos. Although I don't know what means the demon clan used to drive these beasts crazy and rush over, this round of bombing obviously woke up these beasts, so those wounded and active beasts began to howl and rush forward, Soon these beasts disappeared quickly, leaving only the corpses of beasts everywhere.

On the wall, everyone cheered when they saw all the animals scattered below. Under the crazy attack of thousands of animals, the people in longderek fortress finally succeeded in holding it.