Chapter 784.1: Beginning of the Siege
*Boom-boom-boom...*
The thrilling sound of battle drums reverberated through the surrounding area from the rear of the empire's army.
The Empire's army of more than 300,000 men was advancing towards the Black Earth Fortress.
Facing the towering and pitch-black great wall, the empire's warriors were not afraid and quickly formed formations that began to advance at great speed.
Ahead of the imperial army were rows of warriors with heavy tower shields. The shields in their hands were now pointing upwards. There will be no enemies in front of them. The attacks of their enemies will rush towards them from the sky, from the walls of the fortress tens of meters high.
Warriors with heavy tower shields were special. They only wore light armor and didn't even have weapons. Each of them carried a bamboo basket on their backs. Inside these bamboo baskets were stones of various shapes.
These stones were the key to victory.
In front of the army were soldiers with heavy tower shields, followed by the people responsible for providing the army — at the moment they were all carrying stones, and then they were followed again by soldiers with heavy tower shields, and so it was repeated until a certain point.
As the imperial army advanced, the warriors of the Tribal Alliance on the walls of the Black Earth Fortress became increasingly tense.
Large- caliber defensive crossbows were mounted on the walls. These crossbows were more like small defensive fortifications, as they were completely forged from metal. To charge such a crossbow, it was necessary to use a special mechanism in the form of a robot. As for the shots, they could be fired with a huge lever.
*Click-click-click...*
All the crossbows on the walls were quickly loaded and cocked. They could not be cocked in advance, because if a shot is not fired within one minute, the strongly stretched bowstrings will simply deform the iron crossbow.
Dwarves were positioned around each of these crossbows. There were only three dwarves on average standing around each crossbow. One was responsible for aiming and firing, the other for loading, and the third for carrying bolts. Their movements were precise and precise.
In less than ten seconds, more than 300 crossbows were loaded on the fortress wall. Of course, there were a lot more than 300 crossbows on this truly huge fortress, at least there were more than a few thousand of them on this entire fortress, however, because of the huge wall, it was impossible to use all of them, because the empire's army only attacked a small gap of the fortress, but even so, most of these three hundred crossbows it was moved to the place of attack in advance from remote areas of the fortress, which is why the crossbows now stood almost end-to-end with each other.
Before the Empire's army could reach the fortress, the Tribal Alliance would launch an almost one-sided massacre. As for the arrow rain counterattack, it will be mostly ineffective.
This terrifying weapon was called the "Heavy Crossbow for the Defense of cities", and the dwarves invented and constructed them.
If the "Heavy Crossbow for City Defense" only fired ordinary large crossbow bolts, then the Tribal Alliance wouldn't have spent so much effort to move these crossbows to the point of attack. After all, no matter how much momentum a bolt fired from a crossbow had, it could only hit a single point and at best it could disable about ten people in a single shot, which in the context of a siege would have made almost no difference, but these crossbows hit not just one point, but quite a lot large area.
— Get ready! A dwarf almost completely wrapped in solid iron armor shouted as he stood on a raised platform, holding a small red flag in his hands.
When that dwarf raised his small flag, the empire's army was almost at the fortress, and people with bamboo baskets were already running towards the fortress walls.
Once they were at the right distance from the wall, they had to pick up their bamboo baskets and throw all the stones in the baskets under the walls of the fortress.
After completing this very simple task, they should have immediately retreated back.
Of course, it wasn't really that simple a task.
— A dwarf holding a red flag on the fortress wall lowered his red flag, and three hundred heavy crossbows spat out huge bolts.
*Phew-phew-phew...*
The crossbow strings made a muffled sound. The tension force was so great that when the bolts were spat out, it cut through the air.
These crossbow bolts were over three meters long. The tips of these bolts were not pointed, but oval, and they looked more like a large match than anything else. There were several rows of return air holes in the middle of the bolt.
Once the bolt's speed reached a certain limit, it would unleash all of its terrifying power.
The body of the bolt had a spiral shape, so after the shot, it began to rotate at great speed..
*Ding~*
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