Todd, who entered the tyrant form, reflected the panicked look of his enemy in his huge scarlet eyes.
Holding the iron claws of the crossbow bolt tightly, he slightly charged back, his beast-like golden pupils instantly enlarged, and he threw his arms forward violently.
The heavy iron crossbow disappeared into the air in an instant. The next second, the head of the defender commander and a city wall behind the opponent exploded into a pile of pink mustard almost at the same time.
The soldiers of the garrison first looked at the headless corpse of the chief, and then looked at the trembling bed crossbow bolt stuck in the city wall. After a brief period of confusion, all the enemies began to panic.
and retreated.
Todd, who returned to his human form, took a long breath and said to Valkyrie and Little Jerry beside him: "While the enemy's morale is low, drive them out of the corridor and block the road to the top of the city wall!"
After the order was issued, there was no response.
Todd turned around strangely and found that the people around him looked at him with frightened expressions.
Shaking his head helplessly, Todd yelled: "Why are you still standing there?! Go quickly!"
Watching others come to their senses and go about their tasks, Todd walked to the winch room alone.
Along the way, there were broken limbs and corpses scattered all over the field. It was not difficult for him to imagine how tragic the battle that had just happened here was.
When Todd walked into the winch room, the Valkyrie Evie and her sisters were fastening the chains on the city gate's winch to prevent the enemy from using the winch to raise the city gate again.
Seeing Todd's appearance, Evie put away the parasitic limbs under the armor, wiped the sword blade and shield surface with the corpse's clothes, and then said: "I heard the alarm bell in the city. It won't take long before the station is stationed in the city."
The enemy troops outside the city will come to the city."
Todd nodded nonchalantly: "The key question now is whether we can hold on until reinforcements arrive when the enemy attacks the city."
Evie put the long sword back into the scabbard: "We questioned a few guards and learned a piece of news. Half a month ago, the kingdom mobilized most of the slave-catching troops outside the city and sent them to the border.
We are participating in the war with the Kingdom of Connaught, so there are not many troops that can really support Gugu City."
"This is good news!" Todd said overjoyed: "Originally, I was most worried about two things. First, the defense of the port in Gugucheng was too tight, and our fleet was discovered and attacked before it even approached the port.
Alert, the defenders will have enough time to build a defense line and wait.
Reinforcements; secondly, there are a large number of reinforcements stationed outside the city. Once they learn that the city gate is under attack, the commander of the enemy's reinforcements will launch a sea of people regardless of cost and consumption if they see that we are the only ones defending the city.
Tactics. Under such a premise, it will be difficult for us to defend until reinforcements arrive."
Todd shrugged: "Fortunately, both of these things are unlikely to happen."
Evie said to Todd with a serious face: "I want to remind you one thing, the wall of Gugu City is thirty meters long. For such a long defense line, we only have ten people, and we have to leave two people.
Guard the corridor below to prevent the enemy from attacking. Based on this calculation, there are only eight people who can really defend the enemy on the city wall. On such a long city wall, it is simply impossible to use only eight people to defend the siege troops.
possible."
Todd smiled and shook his head: "You will know when the time comes whether you can hold on."
After leaving Jerry, who was holding a dragon spear and wearing heavy armor, and a Valkyrie who was good at using a bow at the entrance of the corridor to defend against the enemy's counterattack in the city, Todd climbed up the city wall with the remaining seven people, quietly
Waiting quietly for the enemy to arrive.
In Gugu City, the war in the port area has spread to the lower city. The three-way coalition of gladiators, barbarian warriors and North Island Knights wearing sophisticated equipment, with the blessing of the belief in "Rebuilding Asgard", transformed into a group of
The fanatical holy warriors used their endless fighting spirit and crazy killing to crush all enemies in front of them.
These people face any living creature that can move with only one thought in their mind - to kill forward!
Todd, who climbed up to the watchtower at the top of the city gate, looked at the direction of the smoke in the city, nodded with satisfaction and said: "The landing force is advancing faster than I thought."
Evie below the watchtower looked towards the distant horizon and shouted to Todd in a deep voice: "The enemy's reinforcements are coming!"
Todd turned around and turned his gaze to the plains outside the city.
At the end of the distant hill, a thick black line climbed over the top of the hill and was slowly moving towards the city gate.
Using the power of "Eagle Eye", Todd tried his best to see far away, and the enemy's formation and composition of troops could be seen at a glance.
The reinforcements of the Ulster Slave Capture Army, which consisted of about a thousand people, were divided into three square formations: front, middle and rear. The front square was composed of slaves, the middle square was mostly regular infantry, and the last square was composed of regular infantry.
The formation was the Ulster cavalry regiment and the Lord's Guards.
Apart from these, Todd discovered something extremely interesting. The reinforcements did not carry any siege equipment.
But think about it, if the port of one of your own cities is attacked, according to normal people's thinking, the landing troops will march through the entire city step by step to attack the city gate. The troops coming for reinforcements would never have imagined that the city gate would be so fast
was captured, so it makes sense not to carry any siege equipment.
Waiting for the enemy to walk down the hill, Evie looked up at the fluttering flag on the city gate, and visually measured the distance. She said to Todd: "The enemy has entered the shooting range, I am ready."
Todd was a little surprised. The enemy's forward was still about 400 meters away from the city gate. Even a light arrow fired from a British longbow could not reach this range, let alone cause lethality. But Evie's expression,
It was obviously telling him - "I can shoot and kill the enemy".
Todd motioned for everyone to squat down and hide under the battlements, and said softly to Evie: "Don't be impatient now, wait a moment."
The latter glanced at him, nodded and said nothing.
Soon, the enemy advanced another 150 meters.
This was already within the normal shooting range of bows and arrows, so the enemy's pace slowed down significantly.
Evie turned her inquiring eyes to Todd again, who still shook his head and said: "It's not that time, just wait."
In the enemy's phalanx, a cavalry squad rushed to the city gate to shout. After no one responded, the enemy advanced another hundred meters.
Todd, who was hiding under the battlements, could already faintly hear the enemy's discussions.
Evie opened her eyes wide, stared at Todd and asked in a low voice: "The enemy will be under our noses soon! You still decide to wait?!"
Todd looked at her with a smile and said slowly: "Trust me."
Evie took a deep look at Todd, clenched the bow in her hand, gritted her teeth hard, and turned her head in the direction of the enemy.
The enemy army finally arrived fifty meters away from the city gate, and a deep voice sounded outside the city gate: "I am Masev, the deputy commander of the Second Expeditionary Corps of Ulster! In the name of the king, I
I order you to open the door!"
The only answer to him was a silent city wall.
A man who looked like an aide walked up to Masev and asked: "Sir, this situation is completely unreasonable. What should we do?"
Another staff member suggested: "Looking from the hills just now, there is thick smoke everywhere in the port area. It must have been captured by the enemy. The enemy is probably marching towards the city gate. It won't be long before they attack here.
"
Mashef, who was riding on horseback, had the typical appearance of an Ulster man, with a beard, a tall build, and a face full of scars. He shouted at everyone: "I understand what you are saying! I most
What I’m wondering is, where did the defenders at the city gate go? Why didn’t anyone respond to us?!”
The staff looked at each other in confusion, and no one answered.
Seeing that no one gave an answer, Masev got angry and began to think quietly. Then he asked the quartermaster behind him: "Do we carry any climbing tools? A wooden ladder? Hooks and ropes will also work!"
The quartermaster shook his head in embarrassment and whispered: "Sir, your instructions are to throw away all unnecessary baggage and reinforce reinforcements towards Gugu City as quickly as possible, so..."
Masev waved his whip in annoyance: "Damn it! How did I know that the city gate was closed when I came here!"
An aide gave a suggestion: "If you just want to climb the city gate, you can gather the ropes in the general to make a noose, and let a person climb in to find out."
Masev immediately agreed to the idea.
Soon, the noose was made, thrown up to the city gate, and hooked on a sharp corner on the battlement.
A slave, driven by sticks and sharp knives, began to climb up the rope.
Todd, who was hiding behind the wall, looked at the direction of the noose's landing point. He first gave the others a calm gesture, and then motioned for Evie to follow him and move in the direction of the noose.
The unlucky slave soldier, under the watchful eyes of thousands of people, finally climbed up the city wall with great effort. He jumped down from the wall stacks, and before he could see clearly what was going on around him, a hand fell from the wall.
He covered his mouth behind him and slit his throat with a sharp blade.
The unfortunate slave soldier lost his life without even making a sound.
"That bastard above! Tell me quickly, what's going on in the city gate?!" Masev shouted several times, but found that there was no response at all. He was so angry that he shouted: "Find someone else to climb up."
Get up there! Hurry up!"
The second and third slaves climbed up and met the same fate as the first unlucky slave.
The deputy commander Masev, who was already on the verge of rage, threw the riding crop in his hand heavily to the ground, shouted to his men with red eyes: "Everyone! Get under the city wall and climb over it."
Go in! I want to fucking see what’s going on inside!”
A staff member said worriedly: "The method of building a human wall will disrupt our army's formation and give the enemy the best opportunity to attack..."
Masev raised his arms and yelled at the man: "You idiot who can't think! Can't you see it? If there were enemies in the city, arrows would have fallen on our heads long ago!"
The staff member paused for a moment and thought about it carefully. The deputy captain's words were quite reasonable. If there were really enemies, according to the standard city defense procedures, they would usually attack with arrows, stones, wood, etc. How could the attackers be allowed to attack?
The city's army came to the city in a big way?
"But...the few slaves we sent in before..." The staff was still waiting to persuade, but found that Masev had already begun to give orders.
"Everyone, listen to me. The enemy's landing force has captured the port area and is heading towards the city gate. We don't have much time! We must control the city gate as soon as possible to reinforce the friendly forces in the city!" Ma Xie
The husband waved his hand: "All infantry phalanxes obey the order! Set up a human wall! Climb in and open the city gate!"
At the commander's order, the infantrymen, who lacked siege equipment, dropped their weapons and shields, adopted the most primitive method of "building a human wall by stacking Arhats", and began to transport soldiers to the top of the city wall.
Listening to the commotion outside, Todd smiled and opened the wooden box at his feet, revealing a full of cotton and linen bags.
"Remember what I told you about how to use this thing?" Todd pulled out an explosive bag from the wooden box and said to the Valkyries behind the wall: "Light the fuse. When you see white smoke igniting, immediately
Throw it over the wall."
Evie looked at the wooden boxes brought by the griffins, picked up an explosive bag and checked it over and over again, and asked: "On the ship, you did repeatedly introduce how to use it. This thing looks familiar, but
What’s the use?”
Listening to more and more soldiers climbing on the city wall, Todd first pulled the fuse of the explosive bag in his hand and said to the others: "Do as I say, and you will see its use soon."
The soldiers who were climbing the city wall suddenly discovered white cloth bags one after another, falling to the foot of the city wall like rain.
The cloth bag fell to the ground, and the white smoke of the gas and the sparks attracted people's attention. Some brave soldiers even wanted to pick it up and find out.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Accompanied by deafening loud noises and dazzling flashes of white light, one red lotus flower after another bloomed brightly under the corner of the city.
The huge impact tore the human body into unrecognizable pieces and blew three feet of soil underground into the air.
Blood, mutilated limbs and corpses stained the thirty-meter-long gray city wall with blood; wailing, crying and moaning resounded in the sky above the gate of the ancient city.
The air wave when Masev was exploded knocked him off his horse. The deputy commander of the legion completely fainted before he could say a word.
Waiting for the aftershocks of the explosion to gradually subside, the Valkyries poked their heads out from behind the walls and stared at everything on the battlefield in amazement. Everyone had a ghostly expression on their face.
Todd dusted himself off and was about to say something when the sound of fighting and shouting came from the other direction of the city gate.
The landing force that responded to Todd had opened up the entire city's defense line and had arrived at the city gate.