Chapter 840: Can’t wait any longer!
Edward quickly arranged the order of the round-robin battle.
Because Gervis' team was the weakest, they were placed in the last wave.
Of course, before the round-robin battle, they still need to work together to accomplish the most important thing, which is to fill the moat.
The name of this large indigenous city is different from other small cities. It does not begin with the word "holy", but is directly named after the word "god".
This divine city can accommodate at least two to three million people. For such a large city, one can imagine the width of the moat, which is more than 150 meters wide.
The crossbows on the city walls were so densely packed that it made people's scalps numb.
Earlier, scouts went to the west to check on the Golden Shield Family, and found that most of the thousands of people there had died under this crossbow.
"Gervis, I'll leave those ballistae to you. Any problems?"
All the city lords had returned to their respective camps to arrange personnel and make preparations, but Edward called out to Gervis.
Edward had heard from Johnson a long time ago that Gervis had a strange weapon. Although the power of this weapon was similar to that of a catapult, its accuracy was extremely high.
"No problem, but the natives have too many crossbows and the city walls are too high, so it may take a little longer!"
Gervis certainly wouldn't hide it, but this city was more than a hundred meters high, and there were at least eight or nine hundred crossbows on each side, so it would not be easy to deal with it.
"It's okay Gervis, just do your best!"
Edward did not put pressure on Gervis and immediately comforted him.
"good!"
After saying this, Gervis said goodbye to Edward and returned to his camp.
After arriving at the camp, Gervis brought Ik and others and ten cannons and headed directly to a place five hundred meters outside the city of God.
"Ike, you take command!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
This is not an emergency, so there is naturally no need for Gervis to personally take command!
He gave an order to Ike, then sat on the soft chair prepared for him by the guards and began to wait leisurely.
Boom boom boom! Soon, under Ike's command, ten cannons began to operate, and bursts of explosions suddenly sounded outside the city of God.
Although Gervis left room for maneuver when he promised Edward, the use of artillery still caused considerable trouble to the natives defending the city.
After only three rounds of bombardment, more than ten crossbows on the hundred-meter-high city wall were destroyed.
Of course, compared with eight or nine hundred crossbows, more than ten crossbows are just a drop in the bucket.
Edward gave Gervis half an hour's advance time. At this rate, he should be able to deal with hundreds of the natives' crossbows within half an hour.
And half an hour later, each holy city would need to temporarily fill the river at the risk of being hit by arrows.
…
To the west of the city of God.
When the Sky City coalition forces began the river filling operation, Batman was sitting in his tent.
At this time, an aerial knight who had just returned from reconnaissance was reporting the situation to him.
"So, the Killer God's weird weapon can easily deal with those crossbows on the native walls?"
Batman had a blank expression on his face. After listening to the report from the Air Knight, he asked in a deep voice.
"Yes, Your Excellency! The God-killer weapon only fired three times, and more than ten crossbows on the native city walls were destroyed! It only took four or five minutes."
The aerial knight immediately nodded in confirmation.
Bang! After receiving the affirmative answer from the Aerial Knight, Batman suddenly slapped the table and then stood up.
It has been three days since the Golden Shield Family coalition arrived at the foot of this sacred city.
However, faced with the dense crossbows on the city walls, it took them more than two days just to fill the river.
It took more than 3,000 people to complete the river filling.
If the weapon of the God of Death can effectively deal with the crossbows on the city wall, then the Golden Shield Family coalition will definitely be no match for the Sky City and others.
"We can't wait any longer!"
Batman frowned and muttered to himself.
Although he hoped that Edward and others could quickly start attacking the city, that was based on the premise that the Sky City coalition forces would consume as much manpower as possible.
But now the God of Death used his strange weapon to destroy the crossbows on the city wall, which disrupted his plan.
More importantly, once the crossbows on the city walls were completely eliminated, Edward and others could concentrate on attacking the city. If the Lord God was really quickly captured by the Sky City coalition forces, then his plan would be completely ruined.
Thinking of this, Batman finally made up his mind.
"Go out now and call Kui Ying and the others to come here!"
Batman gave an order to the Aerial Knight who was half-kneeling on the ground.
"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke!"
The aerial knight didn't dare to say anything more. He immediately responded and then quickly left the tent.
About five minutes later, a series of footsteps were heard outside Batman's tent.
"Just come in!"
Hearing the footsteps, Batman gave orders without waiting for the people outside to report.
"Your Excellency the Duke, you are looking for us!"
A total of five people came in from outside the tent, all of them were at the level of Black Flag Knight.
These people are the natives of the God's Falling Land, and they were appointed to take charge of the Golden Shield Family.
Although the Golden Shield Family has grown in strength and can no longer play a leading role, they have been retained by Batman.
"Well, our plan needs to start early! Go and inform the high priest now."
Batman nodded to several people.
"Should we act in advance? Your Excellency the Duke, didn't those people from the Sky City just arrive?"
"Moreover, your allies..."
One of the natives heard Batman's words and immediately spoke in confusion.
However, before he could finish, Batman interrupted him.
"Something went wrong in the Sky City. To be on the safe side, I decided to act sooner rather than later!"
"As for the problem you just mentioned, I will naturally have a solution!"
"Okay, Your Excellency the Duke, let's go and inform the high priest now!"
After hearing what Batman said, the descendant of God's servant had no more objections and immediately bowed and responded respectfully.
"Um!"
Batman nodded, then thought of something, and solemnly said again! "By the way, Kuiying, you must remember to be fast!"
"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke!"
Soon, the five descendants of the gods' servants left the tent and rode the Golden Shield family's swift dragon birds towards the west.
After the descendants of God's servants left, Batman walked out of the tent, stood on the high slope and looked towards the camp in the southeast.
"The casualties aren't great enough? Wouldn't it be solved by creating some conflicts?"
…
Gervis and others didn't know what Batman was planning. Half an hour passed quickly, and Gervis had destroyed as many as eighty or ninety crossbows of the natives.
However, the work of destroying the crossbow has come to an end for the time being.
Because the artillery is firing at a high density, the barrel is already terribly hot. If it is not rested for a while, it is likely to be damaged and there is even a risk of explosion.
When the sound of artillery fire from Gervis disappeared, his allies had already assembled a team to fill the river, with a number of about five to six thousand people.
“Let’s get started!”
Woo woo!
Following Edward's order, the sound of horns was heard in the camp.
“Start moving forward!”
Afterwards, these river-filling teams began to advance towards the Holy City under the leadership of their respective captains.
Because the walls of the city of gods are too long, it is impossible to fill them all up in a short time.
Therefore, the teams filling the river were now concentrated in the section where the crossbows had just been cleared.
Buzz buzz buzz! However, even though the number of crossbows had been drastically reduced, Gervis only had time to destroy eighty or ninety of them. When everyone approached within a range of two hundred meters, a creepy buzzing sound still rang out from the city wall.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Puff, puff! After the buzzing sound was heard, hundreds of crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm followed.
These crossbow arrows were more than two meters long. After being shot, they immediately fell into the river filling team, and dozens of soldiers were pierced through the bodies in an instant.
"Quick, speed up! Be careful to disperse!"
Fortunately, in this medieval world, siege is one of the battlefields most familiar to soldiers.
Compared to the rain of hundreds of longbow arrows, the deterrent effect of a hundred or so crossbow arrows was already very small for them. After all, although the crossbow was powerful, its number and attack speed could not compare to that of the longbow.
Then, thousands of soldiers began to transport soil into the river amid rounds of crossbow fire.
And after resting for half an hour, Gervis's small cannon began to destroy the crossbows again.
In this way, the river filling operation continued until midnight.
Just as the sun was about to set, the clarion call for the troops to retreat was sounded outside the city.
After most of the day's work of filling the river, there was a river crossing outside the city that was large enough for 10,000 people to pass through at the same time.
The completion of the river filling also indicates that the first wave of siege will begin tomorrow morning.
…
That night.
To the west of the Holy City, outside the camp of the Golden Shield Family coalition, a team of two thousand people was lying in ambush in the grass outside the camp.
The bright moon in the sky tonight was completely obscured by clouds, allowing the two thousand people to lurk at the edge of the camp without being discovered.
"Coo! Coo!"
At this moment, a few bird calls were heard near the camp ahead.
After hearing the bird's singing, more than 2,000 people who were lying on the ground like ghosts suddenly sat up.
One of the men who seemed to be the leader even leaned towards the wooden wall of the camp.
When the man reached the wooden wall, he immediately saw five men wearing armor but without any family emblems on their chests.
"Everything inside has been arranged! The guards have been dealt with, let's get started!"
"yes!"
After the two sides met, they just had a brief conversation and then waved to the people on the grass behind them.
In an instant, the team of two thousand people started moving and moved towards the wooden wall.
When everyone walked more than a hundred meters to the left along the wooden wall, an unbelievable scene appeared.
The gate of the Golden Shield Family coalition's base was completely open, and all the guards fell in a pool of blood.
You have to know that there are 60,000 to 70,000 troops stationed in this camp. Such a thing would have been impossible in the past.
However, these two thousand people were not surprised by this. Instead, they seemed to have known it for a long time.
When they arrived at the gate of the camp, they immediately rushed into the camp with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other.
"kill!"
Afterwards, bursts of shouting and killing were heard from the camp of the Golden Shield Family coalition, and countless tents were set on fire.
"Enemy attack ! Enemy attack!"
Suddenly, shouts of killing and alarm bells from the west outside the holy city resounded through the sky.
Affected by it, both the natives in the City of God and the Sky City Allied Forces camp in the northeast were in a state of panic.
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