Tome of Blood

  Chapter 297-147-A sudden turn

  After the attack on the sea entered a stable stalemate, the battle on land also broke out.

  The battle horn sounded, and the artillery units of the Boulder-Violet coalition launched an artillery battle with the Castell fleet in the Dorne River.

  Among the loud noises like thunder and fury, white gunpowder smoke spread across the river and the battlefield, and from time to time, light blue ripples could be seen after the stone bullets hit the magic shield.

   This is a competition between ammunition and extraordinary material reserves.

  In Beigang, the towering Mage Tower shone brightly, and the unfolded magic shield shone brightly in the sun.

Among the coalition forces, the soldiers stuffed stone bullets with demon-breaking runes into the muzzle of the black guns, and fired them at the galley Castell in the Dorne River and the surrounding area of ​​the North Harbor Bridge with a series of loud noises. The outer wall shrouded in a magic shield.

   "Boom—!"

   "Boom—!"

  The earth trembled, and the magic was restless.

  Although it is protected by a magic shield, the stone-shooting guns carried by the Boulder-Violet coalition army are obviously stronger than Castel's artillery.

  Even though the power of most of the stone bullets was weakened by the magic shield, some still penetrated the defense of Castel Fang, or hit the city wall, or hit the hull of the ship.

  Especially the outer wall of Beigang Bridge.

  As the first line of defense in Beigang, the ten-meter-high city wall received the attention of the principality coalition forces.

  Dozens of stone-shooting cannons with a length of more than seven meters spit out white mist, and each shot means a stone bullet weighing more than 900 pounds (more than 400 kilograms) roared past.

Even with the weakening of magic, this sharp weapon developed in the Star-Moon War to end the rule of the castle is still terrifying. The stone bullets that depict the inscriptions of breaking the magic still have terrifying kinetic energy after piercing through the shield. Leaving nasty cracks.

  Finally, after an unknown number of rounds of shelling by the coalition forces, the tall outer wall could no longer withstand the continuous artillery fire.

  Accompanied by a loud noise, another magic-breaking stone bullet penetrated the crumbling shield and hit a section of the outer wall that was already full of cracks.

  Amidst a series of exclamations, a section of the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge collapsed with bricks and stones flying around!

  After the cloud-like dust churned, a huge gap with a width of four meters appeared on the city wall.

  Through that gap, the army of the principality has been able to see the bridge behind and the Castel army on the other side of the bridge.

  The third prince Philip, who was riding on horseback, put down the binoculars and showed a satisfied smile:

   "The city defense of Beigang... that's all."

  Looking at the crumbling city wall, Earl Lint next to the third prince had a complicated expression and sighed softly:

   “Times have changed since the introduction of the stone cannon.”

  Nobles rule the world with castles as the center, and this has been the case for thousands of years.

  Now, no matter how strong the castle is, it will become history in front of the enchanted stone-shooting cannon.

   It can be said that with the development of the times, since the improvement of enchanting technology and the optimization of alchemy in the later period of the Star-Moon War, many methods of war in the Myria world have quietly changed.

   "The city wall has been broken, order the vanguard to launch an attack!"

  The third prince squinted his eyes and ordered.

  The loud and vicissitudes of the horn sounded again, this time... it was the signal for charge and siege.

  The vanguard troops of the principality coalition forces, who had been waiting for a long time, raised their shields one after another, braving the arrow rain and artillery fire from the Castel side, and rushed towards the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge.

  There is a gap in the city wall, as does the magic shield covering the city wall.

  The magic defense system connecting the entire North Port had a loophole, and soldiers from both sides soon broke out fighting at the gap in the city wall.

  The first to fight is the levy.

  As the cannon fodder for the siege, these soldiers with the lowest combat effectiveness originally existed to consume the extraordinary power of the enemy army.

  The tide of soldiers rushed to the gap, and the attacking soldiers set up ladders on the still intact city wall. The battle for the Beigang Bridge... officially began.

  The city wall with a gap no longer has the advantage of defense. Facing the large number of allied forces of the Principality, the outer wall of the Beigang Bridge fell quickly.

  Castel's soldiers retreated while fighting, and the battle quickly concentrated on the bridge.

   Arrows fell like raindrops, and the brilliance of magic was colorful.

  The narrow Beigang Bridge became the most tragic battlefield, like a huge meat grinder, crazily devouring the soldiers on both sides.

  Amidst the sound of continuous gunfire, fighting and shouting resounded through the sky, and the gurgling blood dyed the whole bridge red like a stream, and even the water of the Dorn River under the bridge turned crimson.

  The third prince picked up the binoculars and watched the battle on the bridge.

   After a while, he put down the lens barrel and frowned slightly:

"too slow."

   "Send an extraordinary army to capture the Beigang Bridge as soon as possible, and build a defensive circle, lest Castel be forced to destroy the bridge!"

  Earl Lindt hesitated for a moment, and said:

   "Your Highness, Beigang's magical defense system is still intact and can still protect the soldiers. At this moment, when we send an extraordinary army, our elite can easily be targeted..."

   "We still have to fight. We don't have much time, and...we must be careful not to destroy the bridge. This bridge is the gateway to Beigang. If they destroy it cruelly, it will cause big trouble for our attack."

  The third prince shook his head and said.

   As he spoke, he squinted his eyes and looked at the magic shield above Beigang:

   "As for Beigang's magic defense..."

   "Hmph, inform the fleet, adjust the shooting angle, no longer aim at the fortress of Beigang, and all warships will fight to Beigang City!"

   "In addition to the magic-breaking stone bullets, I also use the latest enchanting stone bullets made by the alchemy workshop I brought from the capital!"

   "Hehe, doesn't our little earl want to protect the entire Beigang? Let's see, under the artillery fire, will she spend more effort to protect the city, or give up her own people!"

   "Magic defense shields, the bigger the spread, the easier it is to be broken... I don't believe that the Silver Moon mages in Castel who maintain the shields can withstand such an attack intensity!"

   Following the order of the third prince, the gunfire of the Principality's United Fleet quickly changed its target.

  Amidst the roar, the stone bullets slid across the sky like pop rain and hit Beigang.

  Different from the city walls that have inscriptions engraved on them to facilitate the deployment of magic shields, the shields covering the sky over Beigang are much weaker and require more magic power to resist external attacks.

  Facing the continuous attacks from the sky, the magic shield of the entire Beigang flickered and became indeterminate.

  In the mage tower in Beigang, Sir Layton, the president of the Beigang branch of the Mercenary Association who accepted the hire and personally presided over the operation of the shield, felt even more deeply.

After the principality's fleet covered the city of Beigang with firepower, and the raindrops of stone bullets hit the weakest part of the shield, the huge magic pressure and energy tide made the experienced Silver Moon mage change his face almost instantly, and couldn't help it. He spat out a mouthful of blood.

   At the same time, the elite standing troops of the two duchies also deployed their magic arrays, and marched in orderly steps to attack the Beigang Bridge.

  The situation in Castel suddenly took a turn for the worse.

  (end of this chapter)