Chapter 5266: Rolling Logs

One after another, rotten skeletons quickly poured out from under the shield formation like a black tide.

These skeleton warriors bit their weapons in their mouths or inserted them into their skeletons, like geckos, and began to climb up with their hands and feet pressed against the rock wall.

As a general who had experienced many battles, Zhao Zian naturally thought of a countermeasure long ago.

From the countless holes above, fierce fire oil began to pour down.

Unlike the bamboo tubes used to spray out the Eagle Cliff defense line ten years ago, Yumenguan adopted a pouring tactic.

The fierce fire oil flowed down along the stone wall, and soon the stone walls of the main defense line were covered with fierce fire oil.

When a torch was thrown down, the rock wall, which was about two miles long and more than thirty feet high, suddenly turned into a wall of fire, and billowing black smoke rushed into the sky.

The countless skeleton warriors climbing above were instantly engulfed by the flames.

These skeleton warriors are undead themselves. In hand-to-hand combat, the only way to kill them is to smash their skulls.

If you just cut off their bones, you can't kill them at all.

However, skeleton warriors also have weaknesses.

No matter how they change, the attributes of undead are all cold and yin.

The best way to deal with them is to use the attribute power of pure yang and extreme strength.

Flame is a typical representative of pure yang and extreme strength.

It is also the biggest nemesis of undead warriors.

Hundreds of skeleton warriors who have climbed up the city wall screamed in the flames and then fell from the city wall.

But this did not dispel the pace of the heavenly army to attack the city. The heavenly army rushed to the bottom of the city wall and formed a solid defensive formation.

Then, the large wooden barrels storing grape wine in the Western Region were carried to the bottom of the city wall by the crazy warriors behind.

The wooden lid was opened, and of course it was not expensive grape wine inside, but a pale white viscous liquid.

Each skeleton warrior jumped into the wooden barrel, soaked his whole body, climbed out, and rushed into the wall of flames.

It was strange that the skeleton warriors who had taken this mysterious white liquid could swim in the flames like fish in water, and the flames could no longer cause fatal damage to them.

This was the first time in millions of years that the heavens had used fireproof liquid in the catastrophe war.

After the wall of flames was no longer a threat to the skeleton warriors, the morale of the heavenly army was greatly reduced.

Some mad warriors, who were extremely irritable after going berserk, grabbed the wooden barrels beside them and poured this fireproof liquid on themselves.

Then they began to climb up like the skeleton warriors.

However, they did not have the skills of the skeleton warriors to climb the wall vertically, and they could not climb up at all.

Soon, the human warriors discovered that the heavens had used new weapons, and immediately passed the news to Zhao Zian who was watching the battle in Quelou.

When Zhao Zian and others heard that the heavenly warriors were not afraid of flames, their faces changed drastically.

The phantom used the fireproof liquid unexpectedly, catching them off guard.

Zhao Zian quickly calmed down and said, "Release the rolling log."

The rolling log is the last trump card of the first line of defense. Zhao Zian will not use it easily unless it is absolutely necessary.

Rows of huge gaps appeared on the rock wall about dozens of feet away from the ground.

One by one, huge logs pulled by thick iron chains were pushed out. The logs were three feet long and more than five feet in diameter.

On the surface of the logs, it was wrapped in thick iron armor, and there were countless spikes of varying lengths, like a giant mace.

At a glance, countless huge rolling logs were hung in a row on the two-mile-long Queguan.

This thing was used in Wangfu Ridge and Duoshi Peak in the Eagle Cliff Battle ten years ago.

However, the rolling logs ten years ago exposed many disadvantages in actual combat.

At that time, Yang Zhentian placed the iron log weighing 10,000 jin on the only gentle slope in the north, and then pulled it with an iron chain.

Mortals could not pull it. Inside the rock wall, several monks from the Royal Cultivation Academy were responsible for pulling the winch and recovering the log.

However, since the slope was not very steep, it would be difficult to recover the log once it was piled with corpses. The giant warriors could quickly cut off the huge chain with the giant axe in their hands.

After learning from the lessons learned ten years ago, the craftsmen made many improvements to the log.

First, the iron chain that pulled the log was thickened a lot, and two chains were added to be responsible for pulling.

The second is the battlefield environment used.

The reason why the logs on the Wangfuling defense line ten years ago did not have a very good effect was mainly because of lack of experience and consideration, so that the giant warriors quickly cut off the chain with a giant axe.

Now the logs arranged on major passes such as Yumen Pass and Shanhaiguan are no longer rolled on the gentle slope, but smashed down almost vertically against the wall of Queguan.

In order to prevent being attacked by giant warriors, the chains arranged on the rolling logs are strictly measured and calculated. When the rolling log falls to about four feet from the ground, it will stop falling.

In this way, it is difficult for giant warriors two or three feet high on the ground to cause damage to the rolling log.

The main task of the rolling log is to smash the enemies climbing the wall to death and smash the enemy's siege ladders, effectively stopping the speed of the enemy's siege, not to kill the enemy to the greatest extent.

Countless skeleton warriors soaked in fireproof liquid climbed up the rock wall of Yumen Pass. They crossed the sea of ​​fire and climbed up at a very fast speed.

In just a moment, there were thousands of skeleton warriors hanging on the city wall. The top skeleton warrior was less than ten feet away from the first line of defense.

Following the general's order from the forward position, countless large wooden hammers hit the machine frame.

Countless rolling logs hanging in a row above the rock wall crashed down with thunderous force. Countless cold iron chains thicker than arms were stretched downwards, making a clattering sound.

Each rolling log weighed tens of thousands of pounds, and they almost fell against the rock wall.

The sharp spikes installed on the surface of the rolling log scraped against the rock, making a sharp sound.

The skeleton warriors who were climbing up saw the behemoths falling above and the sharp thorns above. Even though they were just undead warriors, they screamed in fear at this moment.

The rolling log was like a comb. Wherever it passed, most of the skeleton warriors clinging to the rock wall disappeared, and only a small part escaped in the gaps between the spikes.

When the rolling log fell four feet above the ground, it was instantly pulled up by six huge iron chains.

The other end of the chain is hidden in the thick rock wall.

A group of powerful cultivators were quickly turning the winch to quickly recover the rolling logs.

When the rolling log was lifted about forty feet above the ground, it fell suddenly again.

After just two rounds of attacks, no undead warrior could be seen more than four feet above the rock wall.

At the foot of the pass, there were countless bones smashed into pieces by rolling logs.

Most of the bones are still squirming.

Even the long thorns on the rolling logs were hung with the bones of many mutilated skeleton warriors.

The senior officials of Tianjie who were supervising the battle in the distance looked solemn when they saw this scene.

Phantom said coldly: "Zhao Zian is much smarter than Yang Zhentian. The rolling log only fell four feet from the ground. In this way, he can greatly avoid being attacked by the giant warriors.

It seems that it will take some effort to break through the rolling log formation behind the Jade Gate. "