At this time, the Jepen infantry, who had been dispersed by Andrei's cavalry regiment, began to gather again. They lined up the gun and shield soldiers in the first three rows, and the rear rows were full of archers, and began to squeeze from both wings towards the cavalry of Baissus.

"Take the Stone Car and the Archers, please pay attention: shoot the Japeng infantry that formed a square formation with all their strength. Don't worry about the arrow tower, you can't beat the arrow tower!" Bill paid attention to the ever-changing changes on the battlefield and issued one order after another.

At this time, the main force of the Seventh Legion of Jie Peng had pressed to the second trench, and with arrows and dozens of powerful catapults, they began to bombard the city wall with all their might, in order to reduce the pressure on the Baisus defenders on the city wall against the Je Peng infantry.

The Japeng cavalry on the front held their special weapon, scimitar, and fought with the Baisus cavalry holding long swords, with great casualties on both sides.

Three of the four arrow towers had been destroyed by Balov, but the last one was surrounded by Jepeng's heavy infantry phalanx because it was far away from the city wall. Although Barov led his army to attack several times, he still failed to rush to the front of the arrow tower. Instead, under the attack of Jepeng's spearmen, many cavalry were injured and killed.

Arrows in the air scattered, and each sharp arrow took a life.

"Send another 10,000 cavalry out of the city! You must destroy that arrow tower! And rescue Andrei back!" Bick ordered with a gloomy face. At this time, he had seen that the five thousand cavalry led by Andrei had been surrounded by more than 20,000 cavalry in the core and were struggling to support. Although they suffered heavy casualties, they also firmly stuck to Jepeng's cavalry, making it impossible for the enemy to divide the troops to attack Barov's troops attacking the arrow tower.

At this critical moment, the city gate opened again, and the Southern Legion also joined their cavalry division. Xiang Jie Peng's infantry phalanx was killed behind. Seeing this, the Jie Peng's infantry officer had to make most of the soldiers turn around to deal with the cavalry of the Southern Legion.

Seeing the opportunity, Barov said with orders, he led his thousand-five cavalry to chase the enemy and kill him. He held a shield in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, and took the lead, stimulating the fighting spirit to the extreme. The entire gun body was filled with a strong white fighting spirit, urging the white horses under his seat to assault like a whirlwind. The spear was everywhere, and the enemy soldiers were overturned, and the personal soldiers around him also followed him to advance bravely to protect his flank. The heavy infantry formation of Jie Peng's army was opened by him, and the formation was in chaos.

The chaos spread like waves, affecting the entire infantry formation of the Jiepeng army. The cavalry following behind Barov flocked to him, and the enemy was already in chaos and began to flee backwards, dispersing his cavalry.

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With the support of this new force, Barov finally successfully broke through Jepen's gun and shield formation and destroyed the last arrow tower. Andrei was also taken back without any danger and retreated to the city.

Although Theodore failed in the battle, he was not very depressed. It seemed that everything was within his expectations. Seeing that it was almost dusk, he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops: "Call them to retreat! I think the fight is almost done today! I guess that old guy Bill must be cursing with a slight face now."

"Commander Bill, what is the loss in today's battle?" Jessica asked anxiously. Today's daytime battle allowed her to truly see the spectacle and cruelty of a large-scale siege battle. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a meat grinder.

"Today we suffered heavy casualties, more than 1,800 archers and infantry on the city walls, more than 3,000 cavalry in the Eastern Legion, and more than 1,500 cavalry in the Southern Legion, totaling about 6,500 casualties. It can be said that this is the most casualties we have since the war started." Bill said with a dark face.

Everyone was silent after hearing this. The number of troops gathered by the Hammer of Thunder was nominally more than 300,000, but after two months of casualties, only more than 200,000 were able to invest in the battle. Today, more than 6,500 casualties were killed or killed in one day. If this continues, I am afraid that it will only last for more than a month.

"Today, the enemy suddenly launched an arrow tower with iron sheets, forcing us to dispatch cavalry to destroy it. In this way, under the attack of the enemy's heavy cavalry and heavy infantry, there were major casualties." Bill sighed. What he felt most heartbroken was the cavalry, because the value of a cavalry can be said to be equivalent to three infantry. Originally, there were very few cavalry guarding the city, so the total number of cavalry of Thunder Hammer was only more than 25,000, and more than 4,000 were killed or injured in one day. If the enemy did the same in the future and attacked with the iron arrow tower every time, then his cavalry would probably die in a few days. After the cavalry was finished, he would have no choice but to use these arrow towers. It is estimated that the Thunder Hammer Fortress would be captured.

"Is there any way to destroy the arrow towers without leaving the city. Otherwise, if this continues, we may be in danger." Singh said.

The generals were thinking hard at this time, thinking about how to destroy these iron arrow towers without leaving the city.

"I think the original catapult was able to destroy the arrow tower, but now the reason why it cannot be destroyed is because the Jepeng people wrapped the arrow tower in iron sheet and increased its defense. If we still want to use the catapult to destroy the arrow tower, we have to find a way to increase the power of the catapult." Jessica showed his eyes and proposed a way of thinking.

Everyone's eyes lit up suddenly. This is a good idea.

Andre immediately said, "Isn't this simple? If we increase the weight of the stone, will we increase the power?

The quartermaster immediately objected: "The stones used for the catapults are heavy enough now, and the passage to the city wall is very narrow. It is already relatively difficult to transport the stones used now. If you want to increase the stones, you can only ask your cavalry division to find a way to transport them to the city wall by yourself."

Andrey suddenly blushed and dared not speak anymore.

After thinking for a while, Barov said, "Or, let the magicians go to the city wall to defend, and the wind magician can blow the arrow tower down with a hurricane technique."

"No!" This time, the commander of the Southern Legion Magic Corps, Basten and the commander of the Eastern Legion Magic Corps, Gulit, spoke out against each other.

Basten shook his head and said, "The status of the magic group is very important. You have also seen the battle situation today. How tragic it is. If we put the magicians on the city wall, although they can cause serious casualties to the enemy, their own casualties will never be light. By then, when the enemy's magic group comes up, we will really be defeated. Don't forget that we only have two magic groups from the Southern Legion and the Eastern Legion here. It is understood that the enemy has five magic groups on the front line."

"Five magic groups?" Jessica asked in surprise: "Don't Japeng have only five magic groups in total?"

"Yes! They are all here, this is really a desperate bet! King Jepeng doesn't know what he thinks. If he makes such a heavy bet, wouldn't he bet for losing all his money?" Basten said with a wry smile.

Jessica was speechless after hearing this. Baisus also had five magic regiments, but now one magic regiment is in Andorra's Central Army, the other two magic regiments are close to the Kingdom of Methia and the Western Army in the west, and the Northern Army near the Kingdom of Hegmoria in the north, and the Northern Army near the Kingdom of Hegmoria in the north, have not been transferred to Renos.

Seeing everyone's frowning, Jessica thought to herself, it would be great if Roger was here. He often had some ideas and might come up with some ideas... By the way, didn't Roger mention "gunpowder"? He also said that this thing has the power of a magic bomb. Jessica suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind, remembering what Roger said to him the day before Hetante City was poisoned.

"Basten, Gulit, can you two commanders do me a favor?" Jessica said with her beautiful big eyes blinking at this time.

"The princess is instructed that as long as we can do it, we will never refuse!" The two of them hurriedly saluted.

"You lend me all the people who know some alchemy in the magic group. I want to develop 'gunpowder'!" Jessica said seriously.

"This... Princess, what is gunpowder? We have also studied alchemy for many years, but have never heard of it."

"I heard Roger say that it seems to be made of saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur in a certain proportion of mixing. He said that after making it, the power is equivalent to a magic bomb."

"Oh my God! Magic bomb!!! That's something that only a few top holy magicians can do." Basten and Gulit said in shock after hearing this.

"Well, so I want to test it according to the materials Roger said. Anyway, we can't think of a better way now. We magicians are idle now, so it's better to be a living person!" Jessica said solemnly.

"Okay... Since the princess has said that, let's work together with the princess to experiment!" Basten and Gulit looked at each other. Although they didn't believe it at all, Jessica had to give him face. Moreover, as Jessica said, they really have nothing to do now, so it's better to get lucky. If this gunpowder is really developed and has the power of a magic bomb, it is estimated that their names can also be recorded in the history of the mainland.
Chapter completed!