Chapter 459
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Chapter 459: Unrestrained Power
The constantly approaching, heavy rumbling brought immense psychological pressure to the defending general, Yang Bufan.
It made him clearly realize that the city’s location had most likely been exposed.
Standing atop the city wall, with a bronze battle saber at his waist and clad in bronze armor, he quickly waved his hand, signaling his soldiers to light the beacon fire on the signal tower.
Luo Ji smirked as he gazed at the smoke billowing into the sky in the distance.
He had already assembled an offensive-focused army, so his expression showed no concern.
The army continued to advance, and the moment they left the forest and fully approached the outskirts of the enemy city, Yang Bufan and the defending troops on the city wall turned pale with fright.
“Mon-monsters! There are monsters!!”
Amidst a shriek, the soldiers’ fear was clearly visible on their faces.
Let alone the ordinary soldiers, even Yang Bufan’s heart was continuously twitching.
Having never engaged in battle with special civilizations, how could they have witnessed such a sight?
The 2 Elephantmen, with their colossal 10 meter tall bodies, were enough to scare them out of their wits!
However, Yang Bufan was, after all, a person who could be assigned by a player to serve as a defending general in a border city. His inherent abilities couldn’t be too bad.
Forcing himself to steady his breath, Yang Bufan shouted.
“Don’t panic! We still have the city walls! Those monsters can’t get in! All soldiers, prepare for defense! Load the bed crossbows and catapults!”
Probably due to a morale boost, the panicking soldiers on the city wall calmed down slightly. They quickly returned to their respective positions.
On the wall, 2 bed crossbows and 2 catapults began adjusting their firing angles, ready to unleash their power.
Through his binoculars, Luo Ji shook his head in amusement, looking at the defending siege weapons on the opposite wall.
It wasn’t that the opponent was a complete novice. It was just that, in the eyes of a veteran player of war strategy games like him, it seemed a bit foolish, or perhaps too wishful thinking.
Catapults and bed crossbows, two major war machines, indeed had certain differences in their attack effects.
But they generally fell into the same category; in other words, their roles were similar.
In the later stages of development, when your army was strong and resources abundant, it was certainly the correct approach to build a pile of each type of weapon and deploy them specifically against different enemies.
But in the early stages, with limited conditions, you’re dabbling in a little bit of everything, spreading your limited productivity and research thin.
The result is that your war machine production and research are stalled, isn’t that foolish?
Furthermore, they had actually deployed 2 bed crossbows and 2 catapults on the city wall.
It looked quite impressive.
But it had been said long ago that more war machines on the wall weren’t always better. Because these things take up space.
The more war machines you deploy, the fewer soldiers you have on the wall.
The scale of this city’s walls, Luo Ji estimated, was even smaller than White River City’s.
And White River City’s walls only had 3 Triple-bow Bed Crossbows, in other words, three weapon units.
This city actually had four weapon units.
Luo Ji, seeing this, almost wanted to ask who gave him such courage.
At the same time, he felt a slight regret.
If he had known it was such a clueless idiot, he should have brought a siege tower.
With so few troops on the opposite wall, pushing a siege tower forward would have meant taking the wall in minutes.
But dwelling on it now was useless.
Luo Ji directly signaled the Triple-bow Bed Crossbow to advance.
In terms of early-stage large-scale military units, Luo Ji had been diligently researching and improving the Triple-bow Bed Crossbow.
Now, the Triple-bow Bed Crossbow was more powerful than ever, whether in range, accuracy, or destructive power.
Leveraging its range advantage, after one angle adjustment, with a roar, the second heavy crossbow bolt directly obliterated one of the bed crossbows on the opposite wall!
Facing Luo Ji’s utterly unreasonable ranged assault, the scattered and cowering soldiers on the enemy’s wall stared blankly at the remains of the bed crossbow, their eyes utterly listless.
Their expressions and reactions were as if their brains had short-circuited, completely failing to comprehend what had just happened.
Luo Ji felt no pity for this.
The Triple-bow Bed Crossbow’s ranged attacks continued, demonstrating a truly overwhelming suppression.
To put it in terms of their gaming circle: “My Triple-bow Bed Crossbow is ‘level 5 modified.’ How can your four unmodified bed crossbows and catapults possibly compete with me?”
At this moment, Luo Ji was a prime example of someone who had accumulated strength over time and was now unleashing it.
In the early stages, he had diligently defended his territory and focused on development.
Now, with development progressing well, he was immediately in a state of unrestrained power.
The almost unanswerable ranged attacks forced the opponent to keep their heads down.
After successively destroying all four weapon units on the opposite wall, Luo Ji signaled the Triple-bow Bed Crossbow to withdraw.
The 2 Elephantmen Slingers then led the siege troops forward.
The first battle of this invasion had begun less than 30 minutes ago.
Luo Ji had already practically ground the defending forces of the enemy city into dust.
The Elephantmen Slingers hadn’t even exerted their full power yet.
The siege troops had already easily pushed to the city gate.
With the city gate breached, Luo Ji’s army, maintaining a ‘shield and spear’ formation, marched straight in.
The city’s defending forces had long been terrified, their morale plummeting to the point of near collapse.
How could they possibly withstand Luo Ji’s high-spirited siege troops at this moment?
After a brief last stand, the defending forces quickly fled in disarray.
With the city fallen, Luo Ji, having immediately occupied the military camp, leaned back in a grand armchair.
He looked at Yang Bufan, the defending general, who was tied up and brought before him.
Luo Ji waved his hand.
“Put him in the prisoner cart outside.”
He had no intention of killing this general. Doing so would easily create grudges.
He was just looking to play a few random games and incidentally seize some resources.
He had no interest in creating sworn enemies for himself.
Of course, more importantly, by capturing this general alive, he could wait for the opposing player to come and ransom him.
That would be a good business deal.
Luo Ji, back to his old tricks, continuously calculated how many ‘valuable’ individuals there were in this city.
The defending general counted as one, and the city lord clearly counted as one. As for the heads of other departments… their importance was rather subtle, as this wasn’t the opponent’s main city after all.
Capturing department heads, while it could yield some resources, probably wouldn’t amount to much.
Luo Ji’s invasion this time was solely to seize resources, and he had no intention of capturing the population. After all, his Myriad World Civilization was currently in the midst of a blizzard.
Capturing population now would just be adding a burden to himself, wouldn’t it? As such, Luo Ji immediately dismissed that thought.
Capturing the two most valuable individuals would suffice.
As for the others, he would let them go.
