Chapter 112: The Joint Array of James
Chapter 112: Jamins's Joint Magic Formation
Among the towering mountains, three pitch-black all-metal fortresses showed their figures. Facing the approaching Jamins army, Fort Reston also showed its hideous fangs.
The arrow has been stened and the knife has been unsheathed. The sword tip refers to the coming bloody storm.
The blue sky is still clear, but the dense clouds of war are pressing on everyone's heart.
The preparations for war on the city were in full swing. All the soldiers were busy and orderly under the command of the officers. The bundles of spears and feather arrows were carried onto the city wall one after another. The priests of the Aussettine Divine Cult priests also climbed to the city tower one after another. On the inside of the city wall, more than forty slashers were lined up side by side, and baskets of stones as big as a head of the adult man were piled up next to the slashers, and piles of heavy and hard rocks were piled up in the bags of the slashers. Piles of fires rose from the city wall, and in huge iron pots, hot hot oil rolled and scorching bubbles boiled...
Jace and Feng Kan climbed the city tower together, and through the shelter, the enemy troops surging in sight.
"call out……"
Dante, who was standing aside, whistled, "Is the human sea tactic? I have to admit that looking down from a high place is really spectacular."
He was right. Although the narrow valley could not accommodate many people, Grand Duke Francis sent more than 50,000 troops to take the lead at one time!
Why are you so clear about how many people there are on the other side? You just need to count how many battle formations there are!
The front row opposite was the three thousand mercenary legion that Feng Kan had seen. Although these mobs did not deal with each other very often, once they faced the same fate, they immediately let go of their grudges. In front was the indestructible Reston Castle, behind them were the regular legion eyeing them. No one would be so stupid that he thought that he could easily plot against others in this environment. If he wanted to survive, only by working together could he have a glimmer of vitality!
No matter which mercenary group these mercenaries originally belonged to, they are now hugging tightly into a wedge formation that is slapped into a triangle. All heavy armored warriors are lined up in the front to cover the few crossbowmen and guide warriors behind them. Although this does not play much role, it is better than doing nothing.
Behind the wedge array, there were more than twenty square arrays arranged densely. Four or five ladders in the front row of five square arrays were towering like clouds. The outer edge of the square array and around the ladder were filled with heavy shield players holding giant shields. Spears stretched out sharp spearheads from the iron wall made of shields. The twenty-two infantry phalanx looked like a colorful, thick and long caterpillars from a distance...
“So disgusting…”
Feng Kan frowned. No one would feel better when he saw this situation. "Are they fighting a siege? I think it's more appropriate to fight a siege!"
To be honest, this method of placing troops and formations is indeed more effective on the open plain than in the current environment.
"You can't be careless!" Jace said cautiously, "The Faramo Legion is good at field battles. This is what everyone knows, but Grand Duke Francis will never be stupid enough to use field formations to fight siege battles. There must be something strange about it!"
"What's weird? It's so tight that a pot of oil will be cooked immediately after it goes down. The archers don't need to aim, and can shoot one of them with just one arrow! I think Grand Duke Francis just wants to fight a war of attrition and fill in his life, so he relies on his own to have many people."
The adjutant beside Jace said disdainfully. Although he said this, in fact, no one would be afraid of the posture that Grand Duke Francis had put on.
"It's true that something strange!" Feng Kan held the telescope and carefully observed the enemy's formation, which really allowed him to find a strange place.
"How strange?" Jace asked, turning his head.
"They gathered the guidance warlocks together and pulled them to the front line!" Sneck, who was also holding a telescope on the side, explained.
Anyone with a little common sense knows that in large-scale legion battles, magic units must be placed in the rear for long-range support attacks. No one expects that those weak guide warlocks can charge like a warrior, especially the one with absolute advantage in military power, which is purely done by a brain-breaking person.
"Really?" Jace widened his eyes in disbelief, and then the electronic telescope that had always had autofocus function was placed in front of him.
"It's useless to just say it, you can see it yourself!"
Jace pointed the camera at the center of the enemy's phalanx with scepticism...
In the square array, a series of carts surrounded by steel plates on the outer circle. More than a dozen guide warlocks were forming a circle, standing on the magic array engraved on the steel plate under the car. The strange magic array was rippling with a faint layer of light mist on the surface. From time to time, colorful guide flows were cruising like meteors passing through the sky...
"United Magic Formation? Is there really such a thing?" Jace exclaimed.
"United Magic Formation? What is that?" Although he can release all kinds of magic as he pleases, Feng Kan knows nothing about the guiding magic of different systems.
"This is just an idea! Teacher Mandorov once proposed to use some magic circle to unite the magic power of several or even a dozen magicians to release more powerful magic, but this is just an idea. No one has ever succeeded. Has the Jamins Empire found this method?"
"This... why can't it work?" Feng Kan was puzzled. According to theories, this was simply a very simple thing.
Before Jace could answer his question, dazzling light suddenly burst out from the carts carrying the guide warlocks, and a colorful and transparent light mist rose on each square array. The light mist expanded rapidly, like a blowing balloon. After a while, a semicircular transparent cover completely enveloped the infantry phalanx. Looking from a distance, the infantry phalanx seemed to be shrouded in a colorful soap bubble...
Everyone on the top of the city was stunned, facing the magnificent scene, her mouth wide and could not speak a word.
"Wow..." Feng Kan sighed, "Is the magic shield? It's really rare to see such a large magic shield."
Under the cover of the magic shield, the infantry phalanx immediately accelerated the marching speed. More than 20 huge magic shields quickly "drifted" towards Fort Reston like soap bubbles floating on the water.
"Bowman! Guidance Warlock! Priority attack on magic shields! Quick!" Jace also reported it at this time and immediately shouted and issued an order to the soldiers!
For a moment, a loud noise in Reston Fort was heard, and the shooting windows were opened. The limited number of warlocks stationed in Reston Fort also immediately climbed the arrow tower. The guide disks hanging on their bodies shone brightly, and hot fireballs and sharp ice arrows flew towards the gradually approaching enemy troops as if they were not worth it.
“Buzz…”
“Huhhhh…”
"Swoosh swish swish..."
At the same time, the crossbowmen also tried their best to pull the bowstrings and shoot long feather arrows at the huge magic shield.
For a moment, the clear sky darkened, and thousands of feather arrows rushed into the sky like locusts. After a while, it seemed like a heavy rain fell in the sky! The feather arrows and magic that covered the sky and the sun hit the magic shields on the head like raindrops.
The huge magic shield swayed and twisted under the blow of this storm, like a fragile balloon being pinched by an invisible big hand, but the extremely fragile light fog has an incredible degree of toughness. It is in danger under the blow of arrow rain and various magic bullets, but it is not broken!
"There is a set!" Feng Kan narrowed his eyes and sighed. These magic shields actually used this method to buffer the enemy's attack power, which was more difficult than hard cover.
"Continue! Continue! It's still a little bit!" Jace shouted and encouraged the defenders on the city wall, but anyone could see that these attacks only slowed the enemy's pace a little. Under the protection of the magic shield, the enemy's phalanx did not even have a slight fluctuation. He continued to move towards Fort Reston unswervingly. The phalanx in front of him had already separated a road, and a huge siege car was pushed to the front, and the city hammer with an iron head flashed with a ferocious cold light.
"Damn!" Jace unwillingly punched the hard steel wall. The wall of Reston Fort was indestructible, but it had a fatal weakness - none of the three forts were protected by the moat!
Someone once imagined that the river water of the Great Bar Mountains was brought here to build a wide moat, but there was no suitable water vein on the mountains near Fort Reston. The daily water use of Fort Reston is provided by a deep well. The advantage of having rich groundwater resources is that there is no need to worry about the enemy making trouble in the water, but the disadvantage is that it is impossible to form a moat that protects the fort.
"Reinforce the city gate immediately! Ask everyone who is waiting for the plane behind to set up defenses at the top of the city! Prepare for hand-to-hand combat!" Grimmed his teeth and issued the order he was most reluctant to give. Jace's heart began to bleeding. In the end, he still had to use the lives of his soldiers to defend St. Ostan's gate.
"Don't be anxious first." Feng Kan smiled and comforted him.
Jace turned around and glared at him, saying nothing, now he didn't know what to say.
"Their magic shield is about to be useless! Let your soldiers prepare more bows and arrows, and it may not be enough to wait."
"What?"
Feng Kan did not answer his question, but licked his lips and smirked silently at Sneke next to him, "When I came back last night, I didn't forget to leave a 'gift' on the avenue, right?"
"What do you think?"
Snake's face showed a smirk exactly like him, playing with a green box the size of a brick in his hand.
"What are you talking about?" Jace asked inexplicably, but he slowly calmed down by Feng Kan's calm attitude.
"How about let's change a magic trick?" Feng Kan said with a smile, "Look at me, when I count to three, the garbage trucks equipped with guide warlocks in the front array will fly into the sky!"
"Varied……"
"one!"
Without giving Jace the chance to ask why, Feng Kan prideed a finger and shook it in front of him.
"two!"
"Boom!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The advancing enemy army suddenly boiled like boiling water. The most stringent guiding warlock protected in the center of the square formation and the cart engraved with the joint magic array flew into the air one by one with loud noises.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The violent explosion did not stop, and fountains seemed to have appeared on the uneven ground, but these fountains did not erupt in clear spring water, but blood rain and broken limbs and broken arms...
"Snake?" Feng Kan turned his head with gritted teeth, "I haven't counted to three yet!"
Snake spread his hands and shrugged helplessly, "It will be too late to count to three!"
Chapter completed!