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Chapter 312 The city gate is wide open
In a siege, the attacker will suffer heavy losses on the way close to the defender. The archers, crossbows, catapults and other defenses on the city walls are not just for show, and the attacker can only passively take the beating during this time. Even if you use bows and crossbows to fight back, it will be quite disadvantageous because the enemy has the city walls and you have nothing around you.

As a result, the white dragon attracted a lot of people's attention and successfully tore two crossbows into pieces with its claws, which allowed the Avarus Demon Kingdom army to get close enough for close combat.

Arrows were shot at the city walls in large numbers, and the catapults made a terrible explosion like thunder. This time, what were thrown out were not enemy heads, but real boulders wrapped in oilcloth and set on fire.

Cut the boulder into slightly round points, wrap it with linen soaked in crude oil, light it and throw it out. The lethality is not actually increased much, but the visual effect is very cool.

The defenders were beaten and fled in panic the moment they made contact, and their morale, which was already low, dropped even more instantly.

The Avarus Demon Kingdom's heavily armored shield soldier phalanx then revealed a siege ladder hidden in the crowd. This thing is much easier to make than a catapult. In essence, it is just a very long ladder.

Tie a thick hemp rope to the end of the ladder that is resting on the city wall. Once the ladder is placed on the city wall, the people below hold on to the rope tightly to prevent the ladder from being pushed away by the defenders.

Some of the defenders who still had the will to fight picked up boulders and wooden planks and threw them down the city wall, trying to knock over the people holding the rope and push the ladder down, but most people were frightened and this effort had little effect.

Upon seeing this, the defending generals quickly climbed up the city wall, shouted to boost morale, and swung heavy weapons to cut off the ladders.

It is indeed a boost for a general to lead his troops by example. When the defenders who had been retreating saw their general rushing forward, they all mustered up their courage and confronted the vanguard troops that had climbed up the city wall head-on.

Although they could climb up the city wall, only a few of them could do so. The numerical advantage of the defenders was still very obvious, and it was impossible for them to break into the fortress so easily.

Near the gate, a team of heavily armored shield soldiers put down their shields, picked up battering rams and attacked the gate.

It is called a battering ram, but in fact it is just a thick log with one end sharpened.

It was customary to use this thing to break down doors, and the defenders followed the convention.

The city gate is sunken, which means that the city gate is actually inside the doorway, not outside it.

One advantage of this design is that holes can be opened around the doorway, and the defenders can use these shooting holes to shoot crossbows at the soldiers who are breaking through the door.

The movable door panel right above the gate can also be opened. Many people picked up stones and smashed them down. Several shield soldiers who were concentrating on smashing the door were knocked down in a short while.

Siege warfare is difficult. Even if the enemy's morale is low, even if there is a white dragon swooping down on the city wall repeatedly to spread fear, it is still not easy to break into the fortress. It can even be said that it is not something that can be taken down in one or two attacks.

In many siege battles, the defenders would open the gates and surrender on their own, or they would be besieged to the point where they had run out of ammunition and food and were unable to hold out.

The besiegers would need to launch repeated attacks before they could defeat the defenders head-on, which might take days or even weeks.

But as mentioned before, Viola cannot be held back by the Lookout Fortress. She needs to capture the Lookout Fortress and the Gate City south of the fortress as soon as possible, otherwise the situation will be dangerous.

Don't forget, it was the coalition of four nations that invaded the Demon Kingdom of Avarus.

The disastrous defeat of the Subia Demon Kingdom’s army would reach the ears of other coalition forces within a month. Taking into account the time it takes them to mobilize their forces and react, Viola would only have two months at most.

During this period of time, she must take over Kaimen City, forming a triangular area with Kaimen City as the vanguard, passing through the Lookout Fortress, Half Moon Fortress and Sailing City, and then using the Leon Territory as the rear.

Expand the battle line to avoid being beaten down, especially by the coalition forces. After all, she only has so few troops at hand and cannot afford to waste them.

To do this, it is imperative to quickly capture the Lookout Fortress.

But as I said just now, siege warfare is not that easy to deal with, so what should we do?
This requires some operations that are not suitable for frontal battlefields.

The general defending the city wiped the blood off his face. He couldn't tell whether it was his own, his soldiers', or the enemy's.

As expected, the siege became intense as soon as it began. The morale of the Avarus Demon Kingdom army shocked the soldiers defending the city. One could even see a fierce scene where some soldiers roared and hugged the defending soldiers, and fell off the city wall together.

This group of people seemed to have no fear of death, and they shouted words that the generals defending the city could not understand, such as "淦" and "草", as if there was a source of continuous courage behind them.

Our side's morale was already low, and with the situation weakening, it became extremely difficult to resist.

But I can still hold on.

The advantage provided by the city wall is too great, and the number of enemy troops that can climb the wall is not that large, so they are not at a disadvantage by relying on the advantage in numbers.

We are now in a delicate balance. If something breaks this balance, it will be hard to say what will happen.

Maybe there is some truth to Murphy's Law: the more you worry about something, the more likely it is to happen.

The general defending the city suddenly saw a string of colorful sparks on the other side of the city wall, accompanied by a loud bang of something exploding, and felt a slight vibration in the ground along his toes.

"It's dynamite! They used dynamite! The drain is about to be blown open!"

Of course the fortress must have drainage space, otherwise thousands of people eating, drinking, defecating and urinating in the fortress would soon be soaked in shit.

This is a weak point, but it is not so easy to blow it up with explosives, so it will be given special attention when building the fortress.

But again, morale.

It doesn't matter whether the drainage hole was blown up or not. What matters is that the act of blowing up the drainage hole made the already demoralized defenders extremely frightened, as if the army outside the city could sneak in through the hole at any time.

Panic spread like a plague, and the morale that had finally been raised was brought back to normal.

The general defending the city could clearly see that many soldiers even turned around and ran down the city wall, and became timid when facing the enemy troops climbing up the ladders. They could not hold on even with the numerical advantage.

"The city gate is opened!"

Bad news came one after another. The defending general turned and looked at the inner wall. A dozen agile men in black chopped down the soldiers near the capstan and quickly pulled up the gate. Among them, the woman who looked like an elf was particularly eye-catching. She shot the soldiers who tried to stop her to the ground with a few arrows.

Sending people into the castle and opening the gates can greatly reduce casualties, but where did they come from?

The defense standards of the Lookout Fortress are not low, and there are no loopholes at all. Even if you rappel down from the cliff behind, you will definitely be discovered by the patrolling soldiers.

Suddenly, the general defending the city thought of a possibility.

White Dragon, they have been standing on the back of the White Dragon, and secretly jumped down and sneaked in when the White Dragon dived!
The city gates were wide open and morale was completely gone.

The defender knew that the Lookout Fortress could not be defended.

(End of this chapter)