Chapter 21 Resistance

"It doesn't matter. If this trick doesn't work, I have other ways." The Eastern man is no longer as calm as before. Before this, his strategies had always worked well, but he didn't expect that he would suffer consecutive setbacks as soon as he encountered Rock City. It’s really not enough to come up with something to show off. He whispered a few words to his attendant, and the man immediately ran out to prepare.

Ten minutes later, there were some new things under our city wall. These things looked like bed crossbows, but there were a lot of arrows on these crossbows. Each crossbow cart is equipped with more than thirty giant arrows, and they are arranged vertically in the manner of a peacock spreading its tail. The bottom crossbow is placed horizontally, the arrow on top has an elevation of one degree, the arrow on top has an elevation of one degree plus one degree, and so on.

Of course I found these big guys easily on the city wall, and I quickly understood their purpose. "City Tree, have you seen those strange ballistas under the city?"

The Eye of Hell between the two spiritual gathering towers in Panshi City suddenly turned its direction, and a beam of yellow light shone directly on one of the ballistas. "Already seen it."

"Kill all of this stuff off me."

"clear."

Small holes suddenly opened in the front of the city wall of Panshi City, and then there was a bang, and a row of steel balls with a diameter of one meter flew out. These things are fired by air pressure, with a maximum range of three hundred meters, and no minimum range. They are specially used to attack targets that are too close to the city wall and cannot be shot by city weapons. The landing points of these steel balls were very accurate, and almost every one of them hit a ballista. Except for one of the ballistas that successfully launched, the rest of the ballistas were all smashed to pieces. However, the only successful launch also made the gun god understand the method of this thing. The ascending crossbow arrows were sent out by strong springs and then inserted into the wall more than one meter deep. The part left outside just formed a gradually upward spiral ladder, which was just right for climbing up on these arrow shafts. It's just that the walls of Panshi City are too high, and a row of crossbow arrows is still far from the top of the wall. They had to shoot up more than a dozen rows in order to reach the top, but the problem was that they didn't even succeed in firing once, let alone the second and third time.

"Prepare for the second round." The military advisor ordered.

"Slow down." The gun god stopped him from giving the order. "You'd better find another way! This thing only hammered a few nails in a row for me. The loss is too great. It's better to think of another way!"

"Then we have to dispatch the air force!" the military advisor said through gritted teeth. This time not only the Gunslinger, but also Yusina looked at him blankly. He asked in confusion: "Why are you all looking at me?"

Yusina turned to ask the gun god: "Where did you find this living treasure?"

"What do you mean?" the Oriental asked angrily.

The Gunslinger ignored him and just said to Yusina: "He used to be the general military adviser of China City, and his results have always been good. Unexpectedly...!"

The Orientalist was still asking angrily: "What do you mean?"

"It means you are a big idiot!" A girl next to Yusina finally couldn't help it. "Are you here to help us with ideas or to cause trouble? Use the air force? You can think of it. Don't you know where the Frost Rose Alliance started?" The military advisor shook his head, and the girl scolded fiercely. Said: "If you don't know, don't pretend to be a pig. The specialty of the Frost Rose Alliance is absolute air supremacy. No guild can clamor for air supremacy with Frost. Even we don't dare to say so. Our flying monsters only It can be regarded as a piston aircraft, but Frost has long guns, which are jet flying creatures. As long as they take off to fight, they have an absolutely overwhelming advantage. So we will never fight the Frost Air Force unless we have to, because that is Fighting without hope. Do you understand now?"

"I see. It seems that I really underestimated their guild before." The oriental man walked up to the gun god and said, "You don't have to worry. Although my brain is not a combat genius, my resourcefulness is absolutely unmatched. Before. I underestimated this guild and did not do any investigation. Now I will study the information of their guild and prepare an attack plan immediately. You first ask the troops to reduce the intensity of the attack, but don't stop. We must continue to maintain the oppression war. , we need to consume their energy first."

"Then there's no need." Yusina said: "Frost people seem to never sleep. I don't know how they do this, but I'm sure that the purple sun and rose can often stay awake for two or three days in a row. This is a common thing, so don’t expect to use this method to drag down their chain of command. It will only make us sacrifice more people in vain. The information we have prepared for you is not just for decoration. Please read it before you come up with an idea. OK?"

"Then stop first. I'm going to look through the information."

In fact, the resourcefulness of the wise man is indeed very high, but he has a serious and fatal flaw, that is, the boy's pride has completely obscured the light of his wisdom. In such a big battle, he was actually so proud that he thought he could defeat the opponent without looking at their information. Although some legendary generals can indeed win wars without knowing themselves and their enemies, most of those people rely on experience or luck. Not everyone can have such good luck.

Because there was a problem with the military plan, the Gunslinger had to withdraw the army. The blow to morale between this advance and retreat was terrible. Fortunately, the gunman had said before that this was a probing attack. So most players haven't reacted much to this yet.

It's even simpler here in our city. The walls were almost unscathed. The range of American cannons is not as far as ours, not to mention that our cannons are on top of the city wall. They took a big advantage, so the Americans didn't prepare artillery fire or anything. It was in vain anyway. As for the ground offensive troops, it seems that no one has jumped over the electric pillar, leaving nothing but a wall of corpses made of barbecued meat.

The battle on both sides was miraculously silent for two hours. When the think tank returned to the headquarters again, the military god almost jumped. "Have you finished reading?"

The think tank nodded: "The strength of this Frost Rose Alliance is indeed very terrifying. It was because our plan did not take into account some characteristics of frost before. This time there will be no problems. You guys will be like this in a while..."

After placing the order again, the Gunslinger began to order the siege again, and a cavalry team composed of hundreds of thousands of people appeared at the front of the team.

Zhenhong stood beside me and was stunned for a moment. "Cavalry? What are they thinking? Are they planning to use cavalry to collapse the city wall? The wall of Rock City is two kilometers thick! Is the commander of the other side an idiot or a lunatic?"

"No, it's a very clever strategy." I reminded: "Pay attention to the mounts of those knights."

Zhenhong picked up the binoculars and looked at the mounts. "Netherworld Death Soul Beast? Isn't that rare?"

"We are fighting against half of the United States. How many players do you think we can get from all the players in the United States?"

"It's not surprising to say that." Zhenhong nodded: "I think I understand the opponent's strategic intention. The dead soul beast ignores gravity. As long as it is a flat surface, it can run up, which means these guys can follow the city wall. Climb up directly. If they occupy a small section of the city wall and throw the rope down, they can indeed buy enough time for the follow-up troops to climb the city wall."

"But this is impossible." Jin Coin said: "If we only break through at a fixed point, we have many experts. If we gather them together, we can easily throw them all down."

"Their goal is not that simple." I said to the two of them: "Pay attention to the back of those guys."

"Want to bring a mage into the city? Is it useful?"

"Pay attention to those mage badges." I reminded again helplessly.

"Wind specialization? Are you planning to rush us all off the city wall?" Gold Coin gave a silly answer.

She was so red that she understood what I meant. "They are rushing to the city gate."

Zhenhong also reacted when he said gold coins. "Understood. First use the knights who can climb the wall to bring the wind mage up, and then they will jointly use anti-gravity to raise the gate, so that the city gate is completely open."

"correct."

"They won't succeed." Zhenhong said.

I shook my head: "Maybe we can really make them rush in." I pointed to the distance: "Let's see what else is around the knights."

"Isn't that the special ballista just now? There seems to be that kind of 'shooting' rope cannon. Wait, there is something else, but I don't know what it is."

"We'll find out later when they unfold it. It won't be a good thing anyway." I patted Zhen Hong and said, "You two are responsible for one side of the city wall. I'll go to the gate."

"Okay." The two people nodded and immediately ran to both sides. In fact, letting them guard both sides of the gate is just to stabilize the morale of the army. Rock City is a replica of Essinger. Even half of the city wall is more than ten kilometers long. If a person stands in the middle, he can't see his head on either side. Not to mention defense, vigilance is not enough.

I ran alone to the top of the Broken Dragon Stone in the center of the city wall. This is the gate. Now the Broken Dragon Stone is put down and connected to the city wall as a whole, so there is no difference. If the city gate is usually open, this place should be much higher than the city walls on both sides.

Not long after I arrived here, the American players on the opposite side had already launched a charge, but the way of charging was a bit strange. The first ones to move were not the special knights with wind mages, but the miscellaneous soldiers from before. Moreover, the team was deliberately dispersed to form a sparse skirmish formation, which could greatly reduce the damage caused by artillery fire to them.

Millions of dead soldiers rushed toward the city wall screaming, but our side didn't even bother to fire a single shot. These are all hired NPCs. They are worthless at all. Killing dozens of them is not enough for my shells. Besides, they are so sparsely arranged that one shell may not be able to knock down a few of them. But I soon realized something was wrong. When these people first rushed under the electric pillar, they were massacred just like before. But suddenly, a guy jumped out of the crowd and struck the electric pillar with a knife. There was a local metal collision, and the electric pillar was directly cut off, and then collapsed, but the guy was also scorched by electricity when he jumped up.

There are masters among the soldiers. I understood the current situation instantly, but it didn't make much sense to react to this kind of thing. You don't know where to fire the artillery, and it's pointless to explode randomly. In just ten minutes, our first line of defense was knocked down. But those involved in the attack were not safe either. All were killed. The setting of the Electric God Pillar is to give priority to those who actively attack it, so none of those masters can escape the attack.

After arranging the electric pillar, the soldiers finally rushed to the city wall. However, they immediately discovered to their dismay that even reaching the city wall did not mean victory. Because they can't climb up this wall at all. But just because they can't come up doesn't mean I'm going to let them go. At the bottom of the city wall, a row of finger-thick holes suddenly opened two meters above the ground, and thin tubes protruded from them. Then with a bang, all the tube openings simultaneously spurted out fifty-meter-long flames. , the people below immediately screamed.

When Isinger was building the city, he was afraid of Warcraft. Later, we summed up the experience last time and added a lot of small things. Although they are not very powerful when viewed alone, they can achieve unexpected effects when used suddenly. The most important thing is that these small designs are not difficult things. It is cheap to install and does not affect the defensive effect of the original equipment.

The people who were burned by the fire screamed and fell down, but there were still people rushing behind, but they just continued to add more meat to this barbecue event.

Behind the position, the special cavalry finally moved. Following them were more strange equipment and some messy cavalry. It seemed that the gun god had turned the air cavalry into the ground. Although these air cavalry are afraid of our air force and dare not take off, they can fly after all and can definitely climb the city wall and serve as a vanguard. Now. These people were mixed into the special brigade and planned to be used in the battle for the city wall.

Although these cavalry units are very interesting, what I am more concerned about is the things behind the gun god's command tent. Although the world of "Zero" is just a game world, the people who play it are real humans, and Americans are well-equipped in reality. When you enter the game, you will naturally have habitual thinking and actively engage in weapon research. We and the Germans both have very good magic research results, and the Russians and Japanese people also have similar technologies. There is no reason for such a powerful United States to have nothing, right?

The Gunslinger finally couldn't bear it any longer. The canvases on some carriages hidden in the large baggage units behind the team were lifted, revealing a large number of rectangular mechanical parts. The All-American Coalition Forces organized by the Gun God brought almost as many baggage troops as the regular army at the front. In-game supplies are not very important. Bringing so much baggage can only mean that there are many combat equipment inside. Sure enough, as soon as the canvas was lifted, a player commanded several giant familiars to start organizing those things. Soon, I saw a dozen giant cannons.

The simplest way to increase the cannon's firing range is to increase its size. In reality, it is affected by gravity and material strength. The cannon cannot be made too big. There are anti-gravity magic arrays and solid magic in the game, which can exponentially increase the strength of materials, so the cannon can be easily made very big. Of course, it's not that easy to get the big guy, at least not everyone can do it. The RB people had built one before, but it was destroyed after only a few uses. The few ones our guild has trial-produced are still usable, but there have never been any worthy targets. And those cannons are mounted on the city walls. There's nothing I can do if others don't attack the city!

The advantage of the Gun Gods is that they have made their giant cannons mobile. This thing from our guild can only be installed on fixed objects. It can't be moved casually, but they can actually take this thing apart and run away with it. Really good technology.

The thing was installed quickly, but I was in no mood to be a target for them. "City Tree, use the Tower of Babel to blow those things up for me."

A red line quickly fell from the sky and shone on a giant cannon, followed by a white ball of light. But just when the white light group was only a few meters away from the top of the cannon, it suddenly hit an invisible wall. The red light flashed and the light bomb exploded in mid-air. Although the flame was isolated, it followed the cannon. The flames spreading from the invisible wall also mark the appearance of this protective shield. This is a protective cover like a hemispherical cover. There is no energy fluctuation and no light refraction. If the flames were not rolling along the surface of the protective cover, it would not be visible.

The energy beam cannot destroy the shield, so use something else. "The city tree shoots magic arrows."

Three magic cruise missiles with long tail flames suddenly flew out of the inner city of Rock City. City Tree's intelligence was much better than expected. He also knew that the missiles might not be able to penetrate the protective shield, so he only fired " Shoot three of them to test the effect.

Although the missiles trailing long flames stunned the people below, the effect after they hit the protective shield stunned me for a moment. Those protective shields were completely unresponsive, with no cracks or flashes. It was hard to tell whether they were crumbling or whether they didn't care about the attack just now. Anyway, the attack was ineffective.

"Full protective shield?" I sighed to myself. "City Tree. Push out our heavy artillery. I want to see if the protective shield is really invincible."

The top of the outer wall of Rock City suddenly shook, and then a dozen huge holes opened. The weapon systems in Rock City are basically built-in, but few people have seen such a large exit. The most conspicuous thing in the huge hole is a huge hole. It seems that there is no problem with the gun carriage inside. Following a huge metal collision, a gentle and powerful sound of mechanical operation gradually sounded in the cave, and the large iron pipe in the center actually began to rise upwards. After more than ten seconds, the metal cylinder that stood upright like a chimney was completely lifted out of the top of the wall. At the same time, the huge mechanical mechanism connected to its lower part also rose up.

The fort that rose to the top stopped with a click. Inside the invisible city wall, thirty-six metal columns with a diameter of ten meters were inserted into the corresponding holes under the fort to completely secure the fort. Several military brackets on the upper part of the fort rose up, lightly clamped the chimney-like barrel, and then began to slowly level the barrel amid a burst of mechanical movement.

The tail of this super cannon has a revolver-like bomb bay. This is based on the structure of the special cannon used on battleships to launch golems for assault operations. The shells of large artillery are very heavy and reloading will be very slow, but with something similar to a revolver magazine, it is much simpler. Firstly, six rounds of ammunition can be loaded in advance. Secondly, when one shell is in the firing position, the other five positions can actually be loaded at the same time, so that a relatively sustained firepower can be formed.

After the gun was in place, a row of yellow crystal balls popped up around the gun mount. These crystal balls flashed yellow light regularly. At the same time, a pre-recorded prompt sounded below the gun mount: "Heavy Canon is in position, please all personnel retreat outside the yellow line, stay as far away from the artillery as possible, and pay attention to protecting your eardrums. Count down before firing, three, two, one, reflect."

boom. More than a dozen cannons made a unified sound. These cannons were operated by City Tree, so the time of firing was naturally very precise. Almost at the same time as the shelling, all the players near the cannon were knocked down. These cannons with a caliber of more than three meters are absolutely miraculous. Even with the strength of our guild, we only have a dozen or so cannons installed on the outer walls of Essinger. The ones here in Rock City are completely copied. It saved us a lot of money.

Although the cost is high and maintenance is complicated, compared with their power, these can be ignored. In the opposite position, the Gunslinger was proud that his protective shield system had successfully blocked two attacks. Suddenly, with a bang, there were more than a dozen large craters on his position, and six super cannons were disabled. The cannons of our guild are very powerful, but they are no longer accurate when shooting such a distance. Hitting six in the first round is already a matter of luck. According to my calculations, it would be good if I could knock out two shots, but I didn’t expect that I actually hit six shots at once.

"Okay, well done." The players with telescopes around me shouted excitedly.