#801 - Siege

Before long, the two sides were facing each other from inside and outside the checkpoint.

The guards led by Wood lined up on the city wall, crouching beside the wall, only showing their heads. However, the hundred-meter-long city wall could not be covered by these dozens of people at all, so it looked sparse from a distance. Moreover, if you counted carefully, you would find that not everyone was on the city wall.

On the other side, the attacking party hid behind the command post a hundred meters away, seemingly to avoid the enemy's detection. Only Percy came to the front and peered at the movements of the guards with a telescope.

When Percy returned to his teammates, he could only shake his head helplessly and say, "There isn't much useful information. I can't figure out what arrangements are on the city wall and behind it."

"How about using the flying broom to scout from the air?" Harry asked tentatively, tightening the grip on his flying broom.

"Not appropriate..." Percy shook his head. "Have you forgotten about the anti-aircraft weapons they use? Besides, they also have their own air force. Rashly ascending into the air will only make you a target."

"Then let's try a frontal attack first," Neville suggested. "But we have to be careful of the mines the enemy has placed in front of the city wall, as well as those lava shells. If that stuff is launched from behind the city wall, it will be difficult for us to defend against."

"Yeah." Percy nodded. "So for the first wave of attack, let's try to choose a low-power solution as much as possible, so..."

Percy beckoned everyone to gather around and ordered, "For the first wave of attack, the front troops will be divided into three routes, attacking the city wall and the city gate at the same time. The air force will patrol in the sky and look for opportunities on their own. Don't be reckless."

"Also, this time we won't use giants to assist in the attack, so as not to sacrifice them in the minefield. At the same time, the troops should remember to keep their distance. The enemy's artillery can't completely cover such a large front."

"Remember, everyone must prioritize protecting the Transfiguration Squad. When you get to the city wall, let them try to open holes in the wall, or transform stairs or ropes to climb the city wall." Percy arranged in an orderly manner.

In order to break through the checkpoint in front of him, Percy had adjusted the composition of the troops in advance, allowing all the wizards who knew the third-level Transfiguration spell to form a special Transfiguration Squad.

In addition, he also arranged for members with superb flying skills to form the air force. Obviously, after experiencing the first stage of the battle, the attacking side's tactics had become more mature and experienced.

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison, and then immediately took action.

Soon, there was movement around the checkpoint, and dozens of wizards divided into three groups and launched a charge towards the city wall.

At the same time, ten flying brooms flew into the sky, tentatively approaching the checkpoint.

Facing the imposing manner of the army pressing down on them, the city wall was unusually quiet. The wizards beside the wall still only showed half of their heads, without any additional reaction.

"Harry, can you see any useful information from above?" Facing such a strange checkpoint, Percy felt a faint unease in his heart and couldn't help but ask the air force.

"Everything is normal." Harry, who had been promoted to captain of the air force, replied honestly, "The people on the other side are indeed just squatting by the wall. Apart from a few anti-aircraft scattering cannons, I didn't see any strange weapons or props."

"Strange... are they planning to rely solely on wizards to fight?"

Percy watched as his troops rushed to the range close to the city wall, but the imagined minefield did not appear. Even when everyone rushed to the wall, the enemies on the checkpoint did not mean to counterattack.

The wizards who safely arrived under the city wall also felt a little inexplicable. Why didn't the opponents even have the slightest intention of obstructing them?

However, they didn't have time to think so much at this time, and the members of the Transfiguration Squad in the crowd immediately took action.

They first tried to cast spells on the city wall to see if they could directly break a hole with Transfiguration.

But as soon as they finished chanting the spell, they noticed something was wrong. There was magic flowing on this city wall itself!

"Not good! Be careful..."

The Transfiguration Squad, which discovered the anomaly, was preparing to warn, but it was too late.

Everyone saw the solid stone wall in front of them suddenly wriggling like a fluid, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a row of stone hands, slamming down on the attacking wizards under the wall.

"Diffindo!"

Faced with the sudden situation, the attacking wizards reacted quickly. Before the giant hands could slap down, several senior students quickly cast spells, blasting the stone palms to pieces.

But not everyone had such a quick reaction. Many little wizards were still hit by the suddenly materialized Transfigured hands. The result for them was self-evident, and they all turned into white light and went to revive.

At the same time, after the stone wall changed, the structure inside the city wall was gradually revealed. The inside of the checkpoint was divided into two layers, with a large number of sturdy stone pillars and walls dividing each layer into small rooms.

At this time, in the bottom layer, there were already a dozen wizards waiting in place, and it was obvious that the sudden transformation of the stone wall was also their doing.

After eliminating nearly half of the wizards with this sudden attack, the lower-level guards stopped guiding the Transfiguration spell and launched a counterattack against the enemies in front of them.

At the same time, the guards who had been watching the show on the city wall immediately raised their heads and launched attacks from above.

Faced with the dual attacks from the front and above, the remaining attacking wizards could only barely support themselves, but after persisting for less than a minute, they were overwhelmed and killed by the guards one after another.

Percy, who had been observing from afar, nodded knowingly at this time, "Using Transfiguration to target Transfiguration? I have to say, it's a good idea, but in this way, isn't your city wall full of holes that you made yourself?"

Thinking of this, Percy decisively ordered his wizards, "Everyone, don't delay after reviving. Launch another counter-charge against the checkpoint, with the goal of rushing into the city wall to carry out destruction and delay the opponent's time to repair the outer wall."

Then Percy pondered for a moment, and finally decided not to put the existing giants into the battlefield for the time being, because the other party was likely to use powerful weapons such as lava cannons to block their continuous charge.

At that time, the giants mixed in the front troops were likely to be affected by the artillery fire and die before they could even reach the city wall.

As Percy's orders were issued, the attacking wizards rushed towards the city wall as soon as they revived, without even regrouping with their teammates.

This continuous attack did have a good effect. Although the casualties were not small, many people still broke into the city wall, giving those lower-level wizards no chance to repair the city wall.

But soon, Percy felt that the battlefield was a bit strange. Looking at the performance of the opposing wizards, it seemed that from the very beginning, they had no intention of repairing the city wall!

"What's going on? Are they planning to fight us with their stomachs open like this? That saves us trouble, and we can even skip the step of destroying the city wall."

Percy shook his head self-deprecatingly, "But Wood is really calm. He hasn't used any defensive preparations until now. Why has he suddenly become so frugal?"

And as soon as he thought of military preparations, Percy's expression suddenly changed.

"That's not right!" Percy's heart skipped a beat. "Wood wouldn't be thinking that as long as I don't use tactical military equipment to attack the city, they won't use equipment to defend, right..."

"And the purpose of doing so..." His eyes suddenly lit up, "Is it to expand the difference in merit points between the two sides?"

Then Percy immediately raised the telescope to his eyes and observed the changes in the battlefield situation.

Then he discovered that although individual wizards from each wave of his attack could rush into the city wall, they could not cause any real trouble.

Because those guards had the advantage of terrain. Whether on the city wall or under the city wall, they could rely on cover to fight.

And his soldiers were like moving targets in the process of charging, and most of the time they could only be passively beaten. Therefore, the battle damage ratio between the enemy and us was basically between 1 to 4 and 1 to 5.

"Damn it! This is probably a trap..." Percy cried out inwardly, "If we continue to fight like this, the gap in resources between the two sides will only widen! And the reason why the other party completely opened the wall is probably to attract us to take the initiative to attack. This kind of unorganized charge to save time is simply a waste of sacrifice."

At this time, Percy finally saw through Wood's trick, and then he prepared to order everyone to withdraw, after all, if they continued to fight, the gap between the two sides in resources would definitely widen.

But just as he pressed his hand next to his earphone, he suddenly stopped the movement to continue.

There was no way, the bait that the other party put out was too tempting. If the attacking intensity was increased a little more by splitting the entire city wall and fighting with himself, would it be possible to completely take the city wall?

In Percy's mind, a voice kept bewitching himself.

"The other party dares to take such a big risk, I have no reason to retreat!" After pondering for a moment, Percy still decisively gritted his teeth.

"Put all four giants into the battlefield, divide them into two teams to attack the two wings, and the rest of the wizards, gather together and concentrate on charging the central area!"

Percy did not stop his wizards from continuing to attack, but only made slight adjustments to the tactics, and also put the giants left over from the previous stage into the battlefield.

The giants attacking on both sides can share a lot of pressure, and at the same time, if the other party starts to use military equipment to counterattack, it will not affect the front troops. In addition, the wizards concentrating on attacking one point can also increase their probability of breaking into the city wall.

However, Percy thought about it and felt that it was not stable enough just like this, and then he contacted the air force, "Harry, you also take the opportunity to move out and act according to the second plan."

"Roger!" Harry responded, made a gesture to his surrounding companions, and then began to increase his altitude until he rose to hundreds of people away from the ground, out of the attack range of the guards' anti-aircraft weapons.

Facing the attacking anti-adjustment, the guards also reacted very quickly. The wizards above and below the city wall began to gather in the area where the attacking army was advancing.

As for the giants on both sides, only a few people from the guards came to the city wall near the giants and exchanged a large ballista to shoot at them.

This kind of ballista, which appeared for the first time, can launch a giant arrow that is two meters long, but neither the loading speed nor the flying speed can be said to be very fast. Any ordinary wizard can easily avoid its attack.

But this weapon with very obvious defects also has particularly obvious advantages. Its attack distance is ridiculously far, and its power is even more ridiculously large.

With just one blow, a giant was instantly killed in full view, as if this kind of ballista was the nemesis of the giant, and it was specially designed to deal with them.

This kind of result frightened Percy, who was watching from afar. He didn't expect that the other party had this kind of weapon in their hands.

But on second thought, the reason why the other party had never used this kind of ballista was probably because its defects were too obvious, which made Wood think that this was a very cost-effective equipment.

But from the actual effect, this kind of ballista is obviously specially used to target giants, and this discovery also made Percy dare not exchange giants to fight.

"Harry, take action!" Percy didn't entangle with the ballista for too long. If he couldn't use the giant, then he wouldn't use it. Now is the most critical moment for the battle to progress.

Harry in the sky immediately led the remaining air force members to dive towards the position of the city wall after hearing Percy's order.

The guards who discovered this immediately skillfully manipulated the scattering cannons located on the city wall, preparing to let these air forces come and go.

But what Wood and the others didn't expect was that Harry and the others stopped after diving to a certain distance, but instead used the speed of the fall to throw a prop towards the top of the city wall in the process of sprinting.

"Damn it! It's a blast charm, hide quickly!" Wood, who was commanding on the city wall, immediately shouted to everyone. He didn't expect that the other party would have a tactic of aerial bombing.

However, despite Wood's timely reminder, most of the wizards on the city wall still didn't have time to react, and because the attacking side changed tactics, their positions were particularly concentrated at this time.

"Bang bang bang!"

With more than a dozen loud noises, a series of violent explosions occurred on the city wall. The wizards who were holding on to it were either killed as a target or blown away by the shock wave of the explosion. Only a small half of the members were very lucky to avoid this wave of bombing.

Unfortunately, Wood, the commander, was the first to issue a warning to everyone, but he failed to avoid this bombing himself and entered the resurrection time early.

"The remaining wizards immediately transfer to the second floor. The dead wizards immediately gather to the first and second floors after resurrection, and temporarily give up the uppermost city wall."

After the commander sacrificed, the defending wizards did not fall into panic like in the first stage. Hermione, who was responsible for the frontal interception below, took over the command at the first time.

Obviously, after experiencing a chaos, they were also learning from experience and adjusting the command structure. Now it is not so easy to deceive everyone by playing tricks.