Chapter 128
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Chapter 128: Battering Ram
As a player whose initial plan was to play a defensive city-building game, it wasn’t enough to just timidly farm within the city walls.
You absolutely had to understand your greatest enemies, or rather, the things that could threaten you, and that is siege weapons!
As an experienced veteran, Luo Ji had clearly studied this aspect well.
Under the players’ operational development, even in ancient times, creating some siege weapons wasn’t actually difficult.
The simplest siege weapon was the battering ram, carried by a large group of people, desperately ramming city walls.
The most primitive battering ram was essentially a sharpened tree trunk.
It was very crude and very cumbersome.
In the chaos of battle, those unfortunate souls carrying the battering ram would usually get shot in the knee and fall halfway before even getting close to the city gate.
Later, ancestors who discovered this flaw, in order to overcome the battering ram’s cumbersome and slow drawbacks, thought of building a small cart to transport it.
From then on, this siege weapon, which held an important position throughout the entire cold weapon era, officially made its grand appearance!
As mentioned above, the overall structure of a battering ram was actually not complex, but that didn’t diminish the immense pressure it brought to Luo Ji!
Was his city gate sturdy enough, or was the battering ram’s destructive power greater?
He absolutely did not want to find out!
After confirming that Zhou Kai’s advancing troops were within the range of his slingers, Luo Ji waved his hand, directly signaling the slingers to attack.
Heavy stone projectiles, accompanied by continuous whistling sounds, traced dense arcs through the air, then soared over the ancient city wall and slammed down onto the invaders outside.
“Everyone, raise shields and advance!”
As a player who enjoyed invasion battles, Zhou Kai was clearly no stranger to siege warfare.
He was well-prepared.
A line of shield-axemen immediately raised their shields to block, and even the six warriors responsible for pushing the battering ram adopted a one-handed shield stance, showing clear experience.
However, even with all that, he had miscalculated.
The stone projectiles slamming into the shields felt incredibly heavy.
This type of attack was completely different from arrow attacks.
In their game terms, it was the difference between blunt weapon damage and piercing damage, and blunt force pierces armor!
Even when blocked by shields, the heavy impact of the stone projectiles had a noticeable effect on them.
The dense impacts made every shield-wielding warrior feel as if their shield-holding arm was about to lose sensation, greatly slowing their advance.
This was something archers absolutely couldn’t do.
The slingers were truly producing unexpected results for Luo Ji.
Watching the invaders struggle to advance under the suppression of his slingers, Luo Ji’s face beamed with joy from atop the watchtower.
That gold-grade slinger mastery skill book was certainly worth buying!
Just for this effect, it was absolutely worth it!
On the other hand, Zhou Kai outside the city looked utterly disbelieving.
The enemy’s ranged suppression from these slingers was somewhat fierce, completely unlike any he had encountered before.
It felt like advancing through a storm of bullets, which was truly outlandish!
The powerful ranged suppression made his troops feel as though they had been struck by a bolt from the blue, and their morale dropped to a certain extent, making Zhou Kai’s face turn grim.
“Damn it! Am I going to fall again?!”
“Losing twice to the same person, what kind of joke is this?!”
If the previous defeat could be attributed to the opponent’s cunning schemes, this time, he had legitimately launched a siege, and the opponent was properly fighting a defensive battle.
If he lost again, he would truly have nowhere to put his face.
“Don’t panic, everyone!”
“With such dense attacks, their stone projectiles won’t last long!”
“Hold your shields firm, protect the battering ram, and push forward!”
“Once we break through the city gate, mere slingers are nothing to fear!”
While calming his troops, Zhou Kai decisively activated his ‘Inspire Morale’ skill, boosting morale.
Meanwhile, Luo Ji, standing on the watchtower, wasn’t idle.
Command of the slingers was directly handed over to Zhao Pan, so he didn’t need to worry.
Luo Ji, now free, quickly directed the archer unit members to ascend the watchtower.
In a siege battle, if the defending side faces siege weapons from the attacking side, how should they deal with them?
It’s simple, first, use large-area ranged attacks to suppress the main enemy force’s advance speed, then use precise strikes to pick off the siege weapons!
It was a pity his triple-bow crossbow hadn’t been completed yet.
Otherwise, one shot would string them all together, ram and men included, saving all this trouble.
“All archers, aim at the men pushing the battering ram!”
“Shoot to kill them!”
With a command, the archers who had ascended the watchtower began drawing their bows and firing arrows.
Due to the limited space on the watchtower, those who could stand on it were mostly the most outstanding archers in the archer unit.
Plus, with the slingers’ large-area ranged suppression providing cover, there wasn’t too much pressure on them to fire arrows from a height.
Arrows mingled with the raining stone projectiles, flying towards the invaders pushing the battering ram!
After two rounds of firing, one of the invaders pushing the battering ram was hit in the abdomen and fell to the ground.
Zhou Kai’s face turned grim.
Since the start, it had always been his men getting injured.
But there was no other choice, this was the advantage of the defending side and the disadvantage of the attacking side.
“Archers!”
“Where are the archer units?!”
“Quickly fire arrows and shoot down the archers on the opposing watchtower!”
Upon receiving their Chief’s command, Zhou Kai’s archers braced themselves and drew their bows.
Their environment was not as comfortable as the enemy archers.
The overwhelming barrage of stone projectiles made their hearts pound.
After a few volleys, their arrows hadn’t even reached the opposite city wall before they were forcefully knocked down midway by the dense stone projectiles, making Zhou Kai furious.
“Damn it!”
“How many slingers does that guy have?!”
“And how many stone projectiles has he stockpiled?!”
Since the beginning, the slingers on the other side had been impossibly strong!
And this overwhelming rain of stone projectiles, Zhou Kai felt like he was going crazy.
He probably couldn’t even imagine that, at this very moment, Zhao Pan, who was commanding the slinger unit on the other side, had a Gold-grade slinger mastery skill.
As for the quantity of stockpiled stone projectiles, it went without saying.
In the previous two invasion battles, Luo Ji hadn’t been able to achieve his desired defensive battle, so that warehouse full of stone projectiles had been stockpiled until now, and its quantity had only increased over several months.
Hoping for them to run out in a short time was probably out of the question.
