When he looked back, he saw the city lord Palau wearing a paladin armor and a dozen of the city lord's guards walking over quickly to report,
"Your Excellency, the vanguard of the barbarians has arrived at the Wall of Hell."
"Hey," Strauss sighed. After giving the order to arm the knights, he looked at Palau who was respectful to him and asked, "What are you and the nobles going to do?"
"This," Palau hesitated for a while and said with a frown, "the vanguard of the barbarians has about a thousand cavalry. Even if we go out of the city to fight, it will be difficult to annihilate these cavalry, not to mention the casualties."
Strauss nodded. Among the city-states of Olympus, cavalry has never been the main force, and there are only more than 2,000 soldiers in the city. In addition, there are 800 Hell Wall guards stationed one kilometer away from the city.
Less than three thousand.
This few people went out of the city to fight with a thousand barbarian cavalry. If they didn't eat the enemy, they would be severely wounded, and then they would break through the city and attack the city.
"So, the nobles plan to close the Hell Wall and then wear down the barbarians' logistics, or solve the problem through negotiation?"
Palau nodded. There was a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, so defense was the right choice. The only thing that dissatisfied him was,
The nobles hadn't yet made up their mind, so they mobilized the young men of the entire city to help the city guards guard the Wall of Hell.
However, to be honest, the Wall of Hell is a super fortification based on a mountain that is about ten meters high, expanded to a height of more than twenty meters, and the wall is dozens of meters thick.
In this era, not to mention humans, even the gods may not be able to break through this wall head-on.
As long as the three-meter-thick huge stone door is lowered from the mechanism, no one can break through the stone door unless it is chipped bit by bit.
As for Hell City, as long as you stand on the city wall more than 20 meters high, shoot arrows from a high position, and have 800 gate guards, you can really cause heavy casualties to the barbarians, and leave the world helpless.
As for building siege tools, ladders more than 20 meters high, that is, wood as high as an eight-story building, are not so easy to find.
Hell City, who had thought of this early on, cut down all the trees within a few kilometers of the city wall. Within a radius of nearly 30 kilometers, there was no tree with a height of more than ten meters.
Even if the materials are found from further away, processed, built, and shipped over, hey, don't even think about it within a month.
Moreover, just climbing up the eight-story ladder consumes almost all your physical strength. With the number of giant ladders reduced, it is no different than dying.
As for the ladder truck, it is still a ladder truck with a height of more than 20 meters. Even the Greeks themselves could not build this thing, let alone the barbarians.
Not even the ancient Chinese people built such a large ladder truck.
The safest way is to fill in a huge slope with a lot of soil, but this can't be done in one month or two months.
Strauss and other 101 people rode on the divine war horses sent by William and jogged for a few minutes to reach the Wall of Hell.
Let most of the knights stay, with Palau, the city lord, taking the lead. Strauss led ten paladins through the dozens of meters long city gate hole and came to the outside of the city wall.
I saw thousands of barbarian cavalry without any horse gear, waving their spears and swords, looking eager to try, and wanted to rush up and kill the twelve Strauss men.
But before the barbarians could start charging, someone yelled "stop".
Samuel, who was riding next to the barbarian king Hain, hurriedly said to Hain under the angry gazes of the surrounding barbarians, "Your Majesty, the gates of Hell City have three levels.
The outermost and third-level city gates are both bronze-clad and easy-to-open city gates. The second level is a mechanism gate made of huge rocks. Once put down, even if the people of Hell City want to open it again, they will have to spend a lot of money.
Huge manpower and time.
We’d better talk to the people in Hell City first and try to persuade them to surrender.”
Hain smiled and nodded, "Then you are responsible for negotiating. If the negotiation is completed, you will be treated like a captain."
"this,,".
Samir cursed in his mind, just by looking at his appearance, everyone could tell that he was a serious Greek.
If the person on the opposite side hears the words of persuasion and becomes angry, or just kills him without thinking, then who can he call to complain?
But if he doesn't go, the barbarians around him won't mind killing him.
At this time, Samir regretted not following Theseus and leading hundreds of cavalry to carry out the task of driving ordinary Greeks into the Hell City.
After the barbarian king showed a meaningful smile, Samuel could only bite the bullet and drove his horse to Strauss' side.
When he was five or six meters away, he pulled the reins and shouted, "I am the messenger from the Kingdom of Crete. The great King Hain orders you to surrender, otherwise on the day the city is broken, everyone in the city will be reduced to slaves."
For the sake of his own life, Samir did not dare to say that the barbarians would massacre the city. Unfortunately, Strauss's mission in coming to Hell City was not only to help the Greeks defend the city, but the bigger task was to ensure that the barbarians would attack the city.
As for the release of Titan, William did not tell Strauss.
After Samir threatened him, Strauss wanted to kill Samir, but at first sight he was a traitor to the Greeks.
While angering the barbarians, they also cleared out the leading party who were familiar with Hell City.
But unless you are the decision-maker of Hell City, killing the messenger as soon as they meet is too conspicuous, and it will inevitably make people suspect that the Paladin is actively provoking a war.
"Traitors have no right to negotiate with me."
With a look of contempt on his face, Strauss turned the horse's head without any hesitation and led the way into the city gate more than ten meters away.
But the barbarian king didn't pay attention at all, and felt anxious about Samir kneeling on the ground.
With the Bow of Epirus in hand, whether it is a bronze city gate or a giant stone mechanism, they are just decorations to him.
The purpose of asking Samir to negotiate was just to delay time and avoid fighting with the Greeks before the 50,000-strong army arrived.
With a thousand cavalry and the bow of Epirus, it is indeed possible to storm the wall of hell, but he is the king, and he cannot be stupid enough to let the cavalry dismount and use them as infantry to fight against the Greek shield phalanx.
After all, the cost of training an elite cavalry is enough to arm a squad of ordinary soldiers.
Strauss rode into the Wall of Hell and saw a dozen nobles riding horses coming from the city in the distance.
As soon as they met, a noble asked anxiously, "What do the barbarians say?"
Palau glanced at Strauss, and seeing that the old guy had no intention of speaking, he said, "Let us surrender, otherwise everyone will become slaves after the city is broken."
When the nobles heard this, they asked in surprise, "How is this possible? How can there be any negotiation where people surrender without mentioning conditions?
And we are all nobles, why aren’t we even given the chance to redeem ourselves with money?”
"It's not that the barbarians don't understand the rules, it's that they never thought of accepting our surrender," Strauss took the opportunity to say,
"Have you ever thought about why the barbarians spent more than ten days bypassing the nearest city-state without fighting, and had to come to Hell City?"
There were also smart people among the nobles present. After a while, someone frowned and asked, "Is this the reason why you suddenly appeared in Hell City?"
These words immediately made all the nobles and surrounding soldiers stare at Strauss nervously.
Strauss nodded with a straight face and said, "According to legend, after twelve years of the Titan War, Zeus and other gods, plus the Titans who were dissatisfied with the second generation of god kings, finally defeated the third generation of god kings.
Cronus, the second generation god king,
But he didn't have the extra power to eliminate all the enemy Titans, so he could only watch many God-level Titans flee the battlefield.
And that's not the most troublesome thing.
Since it is impossible to eradicate the root cause, and both sides of the Titan War are, after all, related, the injured and captured Titans can only be imprisoned and cannot be killed directly.
To avoid triggering the Second Titan War and dissatisfaction among the Titans who helped Zeus fight, many enemy Titans could only be sealed and imprisoned."
Hearing this, the nobles exclaimed, "So, Titan is imprisoned in Hell City?"