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Chapter 24 Cannon Fodder

"This is really...will those humans feel regretful in their hearts now?"

On the city wall, Handel, the vampire commander wearing a cloak and a mitril mail, looked at the city wall, forced by the supervision team composed of the long halberd, sword, heavy crossbow, and musket of the Principality of Ivy. He had to carry sandbags and piles of firewood, and was about to run to the human civilians under the city wall, who were filled with arrows and rain of arrows under the city wall, and said to himself.

The answer was a deafening sound of artillery—a total of thirty artillery fired in a row in a row, and the super high decibels made his eardrums hurt. At the same time, the city wall trembled slightly like an earthquake, which almost made him unable to stand firm. Then some of the shells fell outside the city, some fell inside the city, and some fell on the city wall... and smashed the battlements, and at the same time smashed the skeleton soldiers hiding behind the battlements to pieces.

"After fighting this battle, all these broken bones should be recycled."

Before Handel could finish his thoughts, the second round of gunfire was bombarded. He hurriedly commanded the skeleton soldiers to squat down and lie on the city wall to reduce losses. He also blessed himself with four layers of physical defense barriers. Then he hugged his head without any elegance and lay on the city wall. Then another round of earth shaking...

After the previous round of bombardment, these veteran gunners had mastered the landing points and ballistics of the shells. After a slight adjustment, their hit rate suddenly increased a lot. Handel only heard a "crackling" sound in his ear, and his spine also felt a little painful. After the opponent's artillery was fired, he got up. Looking around, the original castle and the undead army had become rubble and garbage...

"It's really... it's so fucking." He felt that the four-layer defensive barrier he had just set up was over. Handel cursed with lingering fear - then he saw that fool Charles ran over from the city wall next to him while shouting. Handel was in a cold sweat at the time. He ran over and shouted, "Let's go down!" Then he pressed his head without saying a word, and then the third round of artillery bombing was followed.

After three consecutive rounds of artillery bombings, there were no enemy troops standing on the city. General Tarik expressed his satisfaction with this. He kept nodding, smiled, and waved his hand and ordered the militia and civilians to rush over to add a trench.

Although the nearby rivers were a little farther away, it was impossible to divert water to form a moat. However, there was still a trench one and a half meters wide and five meters deep outside the wall of Akendorf. If the siege battle was to be carried out next, then this trench would cause great trouble to the siege side. Therefore, General Tarik decided to solve this problem in the shortest time.

Most of the militia and civilians were not wearing armor, let alone helmets and shields. They were really cannon fodder among cannon fodder. The work they did was also what cannon fodder should do. Some of them carried sandbags, and some held firewood piles. Under the threat of the supervisory team behind them, they had to run forward, hoping to fill the trench and live for three or five more days...

Seeing that the cannon fodders were getting closer and closer, there was still no reaction at the city wall. General Tarik was feeling more and more relaxed - until the cannon fodder was less than five meters away from the trench, suddenly there was a piece of white bones on the city wall without warning! A large number of skeleton soldiers held bows and arrows in hand and pulled the strings at the fastest speed. Arrows on the city wall were fired at the top of the city wall. The hundreds of cannon fodders who rushed in the front suddenly fell to the ground, covered with arrows, and were shot like hedgehogs.

The civilians were forced to work and their morale was not high. They suffered huge casualties. Seeing the white bones on the top of the city as rained as the arrows, they were already scared to death. They threw down the sandbags and ran back.

"Shoot." General Tarik gave the order without any emotion - then the musketeers who were supervising the team in front of him shot ammunition at the civilians who had escaped. With the sound of the muskets and the smoke of gunpowders, a large area of ​​civilians fell down.

The civilian militiamen were unable to move forward or retreat. They immediately squeezed into a group and cried loudly. The scene looked desolate. The soldiers of the Principality of Ive were hesitant when they saw this tragic phenomenon. Several adjutants also looked at General Tarik.

However, this general seemed to have a heart of iron cast. He still had no expression on his face and just said to the Imperial Mage next to him: "Amplification." The Imperial Mage next to him quickly used the amplification magic and sent the general's calm and plain voice out.

"Those who retreat die, and those who move forward can survive. I set rules. Every time I throw a bag of sandbags and firewood piles, I can exchange them for a piece of token. I will let you go home after accumulating three times."

General Tarik's cold words made people feel cold on his back. The chaotic crowd calmed down. The people who were in the dead had no choice but to do as he said, turned around and ran over again, picked up the firewood bags on the ground and continued to move forward. Fill the trench with the rain of arrows on the wall.

Some people rushed to the side of the trench and fell to the ground. They fell into the trench all at once. The alive cried and wanted someone to help him pull him up. However, who else could care about him? They still tried their best to throw sandbags and firewood into the trench and buried the man alive.

"Why are you here?!" On the city wall, Handel commanded the undead troops to shoot arrows and block them. While asking Charles. Seeing a round of arrows, the other party rushed over as if he was crazy. He felt very irritated. The tone of talking to Charles was a little heavier.

"I was patrolling the city and heard the sound of the city at this side that was so powerful. I ran over and took a look." Charles was not angry and replied like this.

"It's the artillery." Handel said angrily.

"Architecture - Are human artillery so powerful? Its power is as good as ordinary intermediate magic!" Charles was surprised. He looked up at the city wall not far away, and was cleaning the cannon, watering and cooling, smacked his lips, and then said: "No wonder the leader always said that we also need to develop gunpowder weapons. Today I understand."

"See enough. If you see enough, go on patrol quickly - there are many places on the streets that are bombed and caught fire. You should organize the fire extinguishing. Also, demolish all the houses around the city walls and add wood and stones. It is also necessary to prevent the fire from spreading. Refugees and other things, drive them to live in the rich. The people in the city are unstable, so don't make any mistakes." It turned out that the two of them had agreed to divide the labor in advance. Handel commanded the city defense war, and Charles was responsible for logistics and suppressing the situation in the city.

"I understand." Charles nodded, jumped off the city wall, and then directed the skeletons to slap the flames, or pull down the houses, and organize the spread of fire. While doing this, he did not forget to smear the Avi Man** team outside the city: "Did you see it? The saviors you are counting on! While driving away your relatives outside the city to attack the city, he also fired shells into the city to kill you! Do you still think they are here to help you?"

Handel stood on the city wall, listening to Charles's breathless voice, nodding his head secretly. At the same time, he stopped the undead soldiers from continuing to shoot arrows. Anyway, even an enemy can't kill him at this moment. It would be better to save some ammunition and wait until the enemy really attacked the city.

Of course, Handel would also say that he also blessed himself with amplification magic, and then shouted to the civilians under the city: "I can't bear to see innocent civilians die tragically in front of me. People led by the Prince of the Border, I will stop the inhumane attack on you. Please find a way to escape from this battlefield as soon as possible and return home to hide!"
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