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However, Melibula didn't know that this sling was just a calibration, and it was almost the same as the calibration of modern artillery.

The trebuchet designed by Ye Ting naturally has a relatively reliable scale.

After confirming the sling data through this attack, the real attack is about to begin.

Chapter 0849 Magic Artillery

What McLibra did not notice was that besides the slaves working on each trebuchet, there were also one or two people wearing elegant cloth robes and holding pens and paper.

Just as artillery requires good mathematics, the same is true for the catapult designed by Ye Ting, a rigorous mage. These people in cloth robes are the real controllers of the catapult. They must Responsible for providing data for adjusting the weight.

And the best of them will be responsible for leading the shot, he will shoot the corrective rounds, and then determine the weight data.

Such a person’s contribution in the war is often the greatest among his colleagues. Therefore, after the establishment of the "artillery force", Egypt has set off a small upsurge in mathematics learning.

After one of the trebuchets failed to hit the first shot, the person in charge of the lead immediately calculated it nervously. He quickly got the data, and then yelled to make all the trebuchets adjusted.

When the two armies were about 120 steps apart, the catapult attacked again.

And this time, it was a volley.

More than a dozen huge spheres were thrown, tracing beautiful parabolas in the air.

With the sound of the familiar "huhu--", Melibula and the soldiers under his command were all in danger for a while, and no one wanted to be smashed into pieces by these spheres.

Melibula had already begun to pray to the gods, and this time the trebuchet was not accurate.

However, the blessing of the gods is totally beyond rigorous calculations.

This time, all the landing points of the catapult were in the center of the enemy's formation, and the error between different catapults was quite small, which shows the accuracy of the catapult itself.

Compared with the last throw, the result of this attack was much more tragic.

This is not just because of the number of catapults and the location of the hits, but also because of the difference in the thrown objects.

I saw a round of stone bullets falling into the formation at almost the same time, and many soldiers were smashed into meat sauce at that time.

However, something more terrible happened.

"boom--"

"Boom boom—"

The falling stone bomb produced a huge explosion, and nearby soldiers were either blown up by the violent air currents, or were blown up with blood by the flying gravel, and even many unlucky ones were directly cut in the middle by the gravel.

Within a radius of tens of meters, it was instantly empty.

McLibra was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that the stone bullet would explode, or was it a punishment from the gods?

After all, only the thunder of God's punishment can cause such an effect.

Melibula is still a knowledgeable person, even he would think so, those ignorant ordinary soldiers naturally yelled in horror one by one.

"It's a divine punishment, that's a divine punishment!"

"This is the end of an enemy against Pharaoh!"

"The **** is angry!"

Melibula's forces were in a mess in an instant, and even the elite guards around him had the urge to escape.

"That's not a divine punishment, it's the enemy's magic!" Melibula immediately reacted when he saw it, and began to order loudly, "The whole army strikes, everyone launches a charge to destroy the enemy's props, otherwise the enemy's Black magic will kill us all."

Malibula did have two things. His prestige in the army was very high, so the decisive decision immediately got good results. Most soldiers believed his words, so they immediately launched a charge toward the enemy.

The price is that their formation immediately scatters.

However, this was the best result for Melibula, better than the army collapsed and the soldiers escaped.

So, how did this exploding stone bullet come from?

Of course, Ye Ting did not activate gunpowder weapons in this era, or that, based on the processing level of this era, even with black powder, it is impossible to create a bomb that can be applied to a catapult and explode stably.

In fact, these exploding stone bullets are all magical effects.

Although Ye Ting formed a war mage group for Nitocris, in fact, the role of the war mage group is not just to attack the enemy with magic on the battlefield.

They can do much more.

For example, if the weather is bad before the start of the war, the mages of the Ra school (the school that learns Ra’s rune magic) will temporarily summon a blazing sun to disperse the clouds in the sky.

For example, in the process of investigating the enemy, the mages of the Horus school will use the famous "Eye of Horus" spell to gain insight into thousands of miles.

And these explosive stone bullets are the enchantments from the wizard group.

In fact, even the stone bullets were made by the wizards of the Geb school after the slaves collected the stones using the "Gaibu stone molding technique". It is quite difficult to make such standard stone bullets by ordinary craftsmen. If the bomb is not standard, then the so-called trebuchet calibration will not work.

However, because the effect of enchanting on ordinary materials such as stone bullets is not good, the mages must temporarily enchant them and use them on the same day.

Despite the trouble, the effect of stone bullets is self-evident.

Compared with these four-year masters who have only studied for four years to cast them, the range of spells and catapults to throw enchanted stone bullets is much longer, plus enough time to prepare instead of casting spells on the battlefield, the enchanted stone bullets are indeed Very efficient behavior.

In the previous wars that captured each Nome, these enchanted stone bullets played a huge role. In the face of such magic artillery, soldiers of this era had no resistance at all, and they were scared to surrender just by scaring them.

Only Melibula and his soldiers launched a counterattack when facing the magic artillery.

However, in front of Nitocris's brilliant army, such a counterattack is doomed to be futile.

Seeing the enemy whose formation was scattered, completely lost, and suddenly launched a charge, Nitocris did not panic because of the sudden change, but her eyes brightened.

"Command, archer, three volleys!"

With the heavy knock on the Pharaoh's scepter, guards naturally passed the order.

Then, the archers in the formation bend their bows and shoot arrows, aiming their arrows in the air under a unified command.

The enemy has entered the range of a hundred steps, and ordinary archers who want to hit the enemy in this range naturally have to throw.

If it were Daqin’s army, at this time they would have shouted: "Wind, gale!"

This is why the wind direction is indeed an important condition for archers.

But for Nitocris...

Behind the archers, the wizard group has already begun to work.

Following the order of Nitocris, the wizards of the Shu (fengshen) school began to cast spells together.