Seeing that it would take some time for the enemy to make various siege equipment, Guo Dafu began to swallow pills and continue to practice, so as to prepare for his future breakthrough to the innate realm.

Zhao Jie also led a group of subordinates to seize the time to make a few more sets of armor to enhance the combat power of the militiamen.

Soon, Guo Dafu advanced his cultivation to the nine acquired perfections, reaching the point where he could no longer make any progress. His three attributes of strength, agility and mental strength had all reached ninety-nine points.

Unfortunately, it would take several hours for Qingzhou's Xiantian Pill to be refined, so Guo Dafu could only go and see how the armor production progressed at Zhao Jie's place.

It turned out that because the scales of the black-scaled dragon beast were too hard, Zhao Jie had only punched holes in dozens of scales so far.

Guo Dafu tried it and found that this thing was indeed very hard. Even a nine-level master like him had a hard time drilling holes in it. It took several minutes to drill a hole.

But Zhao Jie said that Guo Dafu was already very powerful. If they could drill a hole in a few minutes, then they would have already finished the armor by now.

Just when Guo Dafu turned into a hole puncher in order to speed up the armor production process, the steel-toothed rat army had already launched the first round of exploratory attacks.

The army of Steel-Toothed Rats had many soldiers. In the first tentative attack, more than 10,000 troops were sent out, including more than 3,000 troops on each city wall.

However, most of the people participating in this wave of attacks were ferocious wild beasts that had been brought in. It was obvious that the rat-man commander of the Steel-Toothed Rat was planning to use these guys as cannon fodder.

When the steel-toothed rat army entered a distance of 800 meters, the giant bed crossbows in the Arrow Tower of Dawn City opened fire one after another. The farthest range of these things was actually over a thousand meters. Just to ensure the lethality, they were responsible for controlling the bed.

The soldiers with the crossbow waited until the enemy came within 800 meters before shooting.

These bed crossbows not only have an extremely long range, but also have high accuracy. With two bangs and explosions, the two catapults exploded directly. The flying wood thorn fragments will push the rat responsible for pushing the catapults.

The soldiers were covered in blood. Although several other crossbow arrows did not hit the sling, they also landed in the enemy formation not far from the sling. Each of them penetrated at least seven or eight arrows.

The ferocious beast finally ran out of kinetic energy and stopped.

That small loss of troops was nothing to the Steel-Toothed Rat Army, but the damage to the two trebuchets made the rat-man commander of the Steel-Toothed Rat Army very angry, and he immediately pushed a large force under his command.

A giant tower shield was piled up in front of those slingshots.

These giant shields are more than three meters high. They are made of fine hardwood that is more than 20 centimeters thick, and then covered with several layers of animal skins. The outermost layer is a layer of iron. They have extremely strong defense.

Even the giant bed crossbow purchased by Guo Dafu from the mall could only penetrate more than half of it, but could not completely penetrate it.

With the cover of these giant tower shields, the catapults were able to slowly approach the city wall. Finally, when they approached about two hundred meters, they stopped and started loading stone bullets in preparation for firing.

"It seems that the level of craftsmen on the other side is not that good! The catapult actually has to be so close to enter the effective range!" After seeing this scene, Dr. Zhang couldn't help but mocked.

Then the next second, a huge stone bullet was thrown out by the sling, and with the roar of the wind, it hit the wall where he was.

"I go!"

Dr. Zhang looked at the impact point of the stone bullet and felt that it was heading towards him. So in desperation, Dr. Zhang could only jump off the three-meter-high city wall while swearing.

After a loud bang, Dr. Zhang discovered that the stone bullet finally hit the wall, peeling off a piece of bark from the outermost hardwood wall, but the city wall itself was

There was not much damage, which shows that the pioneers and civilians were very careful when building the city wall, and compacted the gravel and soil in the middle of the wall very well.

While Dr. Zhang slowly got up from the ground while rubbing his sore buttocks, a dozen other enemy catapults also fired stone projectiles, hitting various parts of the city wall.

During the second round of shooting, a stone bullet happened to hit the unfinished wall on the west section. Suddenly, the wall without gravel and soil inside collapsed.

A dent was made on the spot.

The Ratman commander who had been observing from behind was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered all catapults to concentrate their firepower on that section of the city wall.

Guo Dafu, who had just returned to the city wall, also ordered six crossbows to focus on the tower shields, hoping to destroy them so that they could attack the catapults at the rear. The other crossbowmen also fired with rockets to incinerate the enemy.

Siege equipment.

Finally, one of the tower shields could no longer hold up under the bombardment of the giant crossbow arrows. After another giant crossbow arrow was shot, it was shot to pieces on the spot, and the remaining giant crossbow arrows were shot again.

Behind the tower shield was a rat warrior who was loading stone bullets into a sling. The sharp arrow easily penetrated his chest and pinned him to the ground.

Unfortunately, the enemy had too many catapults. Guo Dafu and the others attacked with all their strength, but in the end they only had time to destroy two giant tower shields and one trebuchet. However, that section of the unfinished city wall was already in

Under the opponent's concentrated fire attack, he was completely crushed.

Looking at the collapsed city wall, waves of excited roars from the ferocious beasts immediately rang out from the army of steel-toothed rats.

The wild ferocious beasts that were originally brought to the scene as cannon fodder did not need the urging of the supervising team from behind. They saw the opportunity and rushed towards the gap in the collapsed western city wall.

As early as the beginning, Guo Dafu had made a tactical plan after the city wall was destroyed. As soon as the city wall was broken, several groups of soldiers immediately began to change their formations according to the previous arrangements.

Different from the corner defense tactics used in the first city defense battle, Guo Dafu this time used the scissors formation tactics used in the whole battle. Only two teams of gun and shield soldiers were seen lining up along both sides of the gap in the city wall.

It formed a V-shaped formation, just like the two blades of a pair of scissors, waiting to cut off the enemy as they entered.

This formation allows the gun and shield soldiers to avoid the enemy's frontal impact very well, and kill the enemy from both sides at the same time, and the space becomes smaller as you go inward, which can squeeze the enemy's activity space very well.

When the time comes, the crossbowmen will fire several rounds of arrows at the enemy troops that are squeezed together, and they can easily kill these enemies who have no room to dodge.

At this time, the situation developed according to Guo Dafu's plan. After the ferocious beasts rushed into the gap in the city wall, facing the sharp spears that were stabbed from both sides, they all involuntarily concentrated towards the center, trying to avoid the assassination of these spears.

, and then was pushed by his companions from behind and continued to move forward involuntarily.

Some stronger ferocious beasts forced themselves against the current and tried to rush towards both sides. Those halberdier soldiers who had been waiting behind the spear and shield soldiers would wave their three-meter-long halberds, slashing and stabbing them fiercely.

The ferocious beasts were killed. If the halberdiers failed to stop these ferocious beasts, the sword and shield soldiers equipped with javelins by Guo Dafu would fire another round of javelin fire to completely end the life of this ferocious beast.

Under such multiple insurances, the remaining ferocious beasts could only follow Guo Dafu's plan and were pushed forward involuntarily. In the end, they were crowded together and couldn't even stretch their arms and legs.

At this time, following Guo Dafu's order, the crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time on the three city walls fired arrows one after another. Arrows that were as dense as a violent storm suddenly fell into the group of murderers, almost in the blink of an eye.

The first wave of hundreds of ferocious beasts that rushed into the city were shot and killed. Because the ferocious beasts were so dense, the crossbow bolts fired by those powerful winch crossbows could often penetrate the bodies of two or three low-level ferocious beasts, killing these

The poor little thing was skewered like candied haws.

The ferocious beasts at the rear who had just rushed into the gap in the city wall saw the miserable fate of their companions in front. They were so frightened that they screamed and refused to move forward. Some of them were even so frightened that they urinated like urine.

It's a pity that these ferocious beasts who saw the situation ahead were only a few. Although they tried hard to stop their progress and wanted to exit again, they had no choice but to have more companions coming behind them, pushing them forward, and in the end they couldn't help but

fell into this deadly trap of the enemy.

Guo Dafu looked at the ferocious beasts that were quickly eliminated in waves, with no sadness or joy on his face. His eyes were scanning the group of ferocious beasts outside to prevent enemy masters from sneak attacks and destroying the formation.

Sure enough, Guo Dafu's precautions were very necessary. Just when the third wave of vicious beasts were pushed into the scissors formation and were about to be killed by random arrows, a rat man warrior suddenly shot from below.

The beasts burst out from the herd, leaping onto the city wall with just one leap, and then started to kill the crossbowmen on the city wall.

This orc warrior seems to have at least the seventh level of acquired cultivation. The weapon in his hand is very strange. Behind it is a nearly two-meter hardwood gun body, but the front end is composed of three sharp vicious beast claws. It looks like

It looks like a half-open bird's claw.

But just when the orc warrior waved his weapon and was about to catch one of the militia crossbowmen, Guo Dafu's halberd arrived first and hit a sharp claw on the front of the opponent.

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In this blow, Guo Dafu also consumed his internal energy to stimulate his body and increase its strength, so the force of this blow was at least tens of thousands of kilograms. The terrifying force directly caused the weapon in the rat warrior's hand to fly out, and then it flew out.

By the time the opponent regained consciousness, Guo Dafu had already taken a step closer. With a halberd in his hand, the sharp tip of the spear pierced the opponent's chest like lightning, easily tearing apart the opponent's iron armor and piercing his entire chest.

As Guo Dafu withdrew his halberd, large streams of blood poured out from the wound on his chest. The orc warrior lowered his head and glanced at the pair of wounds on his chest. Although his eyes were full of unwillingness, his body still looked up.

He fell and became the first rat general level master to be killed by the enemy in this battle.
Chapter completed!