Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

What the Beastman needs to do now is to dispatch soldiers to start the siege and kill the defenders.

As long as the number of defenders is insufficient, the time to activate the shield will inevitably increase.

By then, whether using the Magic Energy Assault Vehicle to deplete the shield, consume the magic stones inside the city, or employing a swarm tactic to attack the shield, all can expedite consuming the defenders’ magic stone reserves.

Even if they don’t attack and just watch, maintaining the shield’s consumption is astonishing.

You should know that the slimmed-down Black Iron Tier defense array that Fang Zhou previously captured from the raiding team already incurred significant expenses to maintain the shield.

The Silver Tier defense array consumes at least several hundred times more than the Black Iron Tier.

Once the magic stones are exhausted, even if the city has Silver Tier casters, they can’t stir up much trouble.

The battle between the extraordinary, after all, is different from battles between mortals.

As long as the fortress dares to activate the shield, the Beastman’s Magic Energy Assault Vehicle dares to go up and hammer it.

This Magic Energy Assault Vehicle also has a slimmed-down defense array to protect it from being damaged temporarily.

Therefore, now for both sides, whether the defenders or the attacking Beastmen, their goal is to damage the enemy as much as possible.

Tiger Suppression Fortress is surrounded on all sides, with at least several hundred Beastman soldiers prepared to launch an attack on each side.

The Beastman’s tactic is very simple, using a numerical advantage to charge and kill.

In the eyes of high-tier Beastman nobles, low-tier Beastmen are just cannon fodder.

In the Beastman tribe, they are divided into four levels from birth, based on the hair on their heads.

Red Skull, Purple Skull, White Skull, Black Skull.

Red Skull Beastmen are typically Beastman Royal Family or great nobles.

Purple Skull are ordinary nobles, while White Skull are born warriors, serving as officers in the army.

As for Black Skull, Beastmen with Black Skull are commoners, their talents are inferior, and only a small portion can surpass the threshold of the Black Iron Tier.

And in the tribe, Black Skull Beastmen are the most numerous.

Their strength is weak, but because of their vast numbers, they naturally become the primary target for conscription.

In this attack on Tiger Suppression Fortress, at least 80% of the Beastmen are Black Skull Beastmen.

They are like chives in a vegetable patch, perceived as having low value in the nobles’ eyes.

Even if all these Black Skull Beastmen die in battle, it’s no big deal in the eyes of high-tier Purple Skull or Red Skull Beastmen.

If worse comes to worst, they can just recruit another batch from the Northern Wilderness.

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"Wuu!"

The Beastmen blew the horn of attack, and the soldiers beneath the walls on all sides began to howl as they launched their assault.

The walls of Tiger Suppression Fortress aren’t just four segments, but eight.

The overall structure is polygonal, advantageous for defense.

These Beastmen, when attacking, must at least face the shooting from the Magic Energy Crossbows on two or three segments of the walls.

However, where there are spears, there are shields. The defenders on the walls have Magic Energy Crossbows, while the Beastmen below have Enchanted Cloud Ladders.

Beastmen are not skilled with bows and arrows and lack strong ranged attack units.

So they suffer quite a bit in siege warfare; their only ranged means is throwing javelins.

The Beastman soldiers initiating the attack, most in the front row, are Black Skull Beastmen; their equipment is poor, generally only having leather armor with low defense power.

At this time, they hold a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, following behind the cloud ladders, forming a tight formation to resist the arrows shot from atop the walls.

A dozen Beastmen carried shields on their backs, vigorously pushing the Enchanted Cloud Ladders closer to the walls.

The ground beneath the walls was uneven, and the ladders were incredibly heavy,

forcing the Beastmen to face enormous casualties during their push.

Beastmen were constantly hit by arrows from atop the walls, howling as they fell dead, but their places were quickly filled by other Beastmen from behind.

"Giant Magic Energy Bed Crossbow! Hit those ladders for me!"

Atop the wall, the officer of the garrison watched the approaching cloud ladders, shouting hoarsely.

Subsequently, a few tall Giant Magic Energy Bed Crossbows on the wall changed direction.

These giant crossbows’ magic energy enhancement was even stronger, and the arrows used were also enchanted, each as large as a long spear.

The attack from these giant crossbows, with massive magical energy plus arrow enchantment, allowed their impact upon hitting to potentially reach the Silver Tier.

The giant crossbows were set on crossbow platforms atop the walls, externally wrapped with armored shields, like the turrets of a battleship.

This huge Giant Magic Energy Bed Crossbow couldn’t attack small and agile targets but was excellent for large siege engines like Enchanted Cloud Ladders and Magic Energy Assault Vehicles.

With the commander’s order, these Giant Magic Energy Bed Crossbows quickly aimed and fired, and massive arrows shot from the crossbow platforms.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The collision between arrows and the defense array on the cloud ladders created a huge rumbling sound, with explosive flames and shrapnel scattering everywhere.

"Howl!"

"Ah!"

The many arrow fragments and flames from the explosion reached the neatly arrayed Beastmen below.

The simple shields they wielded couldn’t withstand such attacks.

Many Beastman soldiers wailed in pain, some with hair ignited by the flames, their bodies ablaze, black smoke billowing and emitting a scorched stench.

Meanwhile, the other defending soldiers were not idle, continuously firing with their Magic Energy Crossbows.