Alien Knights

Chapter 345: The ancient city strategy (2)

Todd, who entered the form of a tyrant, reflected the panic of the enemy in his huge scarlet eyes.

Holding the iron claws of the crossbow bolt tightly, charging backwards slightly, the beast-like golden pupils instantly dilated, and his arms slammed forward.

The heavy iron crossbow disappeared into the air in an instant. In the next second, the head of the defending army commander and a city wall behind the opponent burst into a pile of powder mustard almost at the same time.

The soldiers of the defending army first looked at the headless corpse of the chief, and then at the crossbow bolt that was still trembling stuck in the city wall. After a brief loss of consciousness, all the enemies began to panic. Backed away.

Todd, who was regaining his human form, took a long sigh and said to the Valkyrie and Little Jerry beside him: "While the enemy's morale is low, drive them out of the tunnel and block the road to the top of the city wall!"

After the order was issued, there was no response.

Todd looked back strangely, and found that the eyes of the people around him looked at him with horrified expressions.

Shaking his head helplessly, Todd yelled, "What are you still doing?! Don't go!"

Seeing other people come back to their senses and go to perform their tasks, Todd walked to the winch room alone.

Along the way, his limbs flew across and the corpses were everywhere. It was not difficult for him to imagine how tragic the battle just happened here.

When Todd walked into the winch room, the Valkyrie Evie, with her sister, was pinning the iron chain on the city gate winch to prevent the enemy from using the winch to raise the city gate again.

Seeing Todd's appearance, Evie put away the parasite limbs under the armor, first wiped clean the blade and shield with the clothes of the corpse, and then said: "I heard the alarm bells in the city. Enemy troops outside the city will come down."

Todd nodded indifferently: "The key question now is, when the enemy is attacking the city, can we survive the arrival of reinforcements."

Evie took the long sword back into the scabbard: "We pressed several guards and learned a piece of news. Half a month ago, the kingdom drew most of the slave trapping forces outside the city and sent them to the border line. Participating in the war with the Kingdom of Connaught, so there won’t be too many troops that can truly support the ancient city."

"This is good news!" Todd said overjoyed: "At first, I was most worried about two things. First, the defense of the port of Gupi City was too tight. Our fleet was discovered before it approached the port. Alert, the defenders will have enough time to build the defense line and wait for reinforcements at this time; second, there are a large number of reinforcements stationed outside the city. Only a few of us will launch man-sea-wheel tactics regardless of cost and consumption. Under such a premise, it is difficult for us to defend the arrival of reinforcements."

Todd shrugged: "Fortunately, these two things are unlikely to happen."

Evie said to Todd with a serious face: "I want to remind you that the ancient city wall is 30 meters long. With such a long defensive line, we have only ten people, and we have to leave two people behind. Guard the tunnel below to prevent the enemy from attacking. In this way, there are only eight people who can really defend against the enemy on the wall. With such a long wall, only eight people are used to defend against the siege troops, which is not at all possible."

Todd smiled and shook his head: "If you can hold it, you'll know then."

After leaving little Jerry with a dragon spear and heavy armor, and a Valkyrie who is good at using bows at the entrance of the tunnel to defend against the enemy in the city, Todd climbed up the city wall with the remaining seven people. Waiting quietly for the arrival of the enemy.

In the ancient city, the war in the port area has burned to the lower city. The well-equipped gladiators, barbarian warriors and the three-way alliance of the North Island Knights have transformed into a group under the belief of "Rebuilding Asgard". The fanatical holy warriors, with endless fighting spirit and crazy killing, crushed all the enemies in front of them.

These people face any living creatures that can move, with only one idea in their minds-to kill forward!

Todd, who climbed up the observation tower at the top of the city gate, looked at the direction of the gunpowder in the city, nodded with satisfaction and said: "The advancement of the landing troops is faster than I thought."

Evie, below the watch tower, looked towards the distant horizon, and shouted at Todd, "The enemy's reinforcements are coming!"

Todd turned around and cast his eyes on the plain outside the city.

At the end of the distant hill, a thick black line turned over the top of the hill and was slowly moving towards the city gate.

Using the ability of "Eagle Eye", Todd tried his best to look far away, and the enemy's formations and unit composition were in a glance.

The Ulster Slave Hunting Army that was reinforced this time consisted of about 1,000 people, divided into three phalanxes, the front, the middle and the back. The front phalanx was made up of slaves. The formation is the Ulster cavalry regiment and the main guard.

In addition to these, Todd found a very interesting thing, this reinforcement unit did not carry any siege equipment.

But think about it, the port of a city on your side was attacked. According to normal people's thinking, the landing troops would walk through the city step by step to attack the city gate. It is absolutely impossible for the troops who came for reinforcements to imagine that the city gate would be captured so quickly, so it was naturally reasonable not to carry any siege equipment.

Waiting for the enemy to walk down the hills, Evie looked up at the flag waving on the city gate, and then visually checked the distance. Said to Todd: "The enemy is in range, I'm ready."

Todd was a little surprised. The enemy's forward was about 400 meters away from the city gate. Even if the British longbow fired a light arrow, there was no way to reach this range, let alone cause lethality. But Evie's expression was clearly telling him-"I can shoot and kill the enemy."

Todd motioned everyone to squat down and hide under the battlements. He whispered to Evie, "Don't worry, wait."

The latter glanced at him and nodded without saying a word.

Soon, the enemy advanced another 150 meters.

This is already within the normal range of the bow and arrow, so the enemy's pace has slowed down significantly.

Evie turned his inquiring eyes to Todd, who still shook his head and said, "It's not time, wait."

In the enemy's phalanx, a cavalry squad rushed to the city gate to shout. After no one answered, the enemy advanced one hundred meters forward again.

Todd, hiding under the battlements, could already faintly hear the voice of the enemy.

Evie opened her eyes and stared at Todd and asked in a low voice, "The enemy will soon be under our noses! Do you still decide to wait?!"

Todd looked at her with a smile and said slowly, "Trust me."

Evie took a deep look at Todd, squeezed the arch in his hand, clenched his teeth, and turned his head in the direction of the enemy.

The enemy finally came to a place fifty meters away from the city gate, and a strong voice sounded outside the city gate: "I am the deputy commander of the Second Crusade Corps of Ulster, Masev! In the name of the king, I Command you, open the door!"

The only answer to him was a silent wall.

A person with the appearance of an aide walked up to Masev and asked: "My lord, this situation is totally unreasonable right now, what should we do?"

Another staff member suggested: "From the hills just now, there is thick smoke everywhere in the port area. Presumably the enemy has already taken over there. The enemy is probably marching towards the city gate. It will not take long before they will attack here. "

Masev on horseback has the typical appearance of Ulsters, with a beard, a burly figure and scars on his face. He yelled at everyone: "I understand what you are saying! What I wonder most is where the defenders of the city gate have gone? Why has no one responded to us?!"

The staff looked at each other and no one answered.

Seeing that no one gave an answer, Masev started thinking quietly after a fire, and then he asked the quartermaster behind him: "Do we carry any climbing tools? Wooden ladders? Hooks are fine!"

The quartermaster shook his head in embarrassment, and whispered: "My lord, your instructions are to throw away all unnecessary luggage and reinforce the city as quickly as possible, so..."

Masev waved his whip angrily: "Damn! How did I know that I came here, the city gate is closed!"

An staff member gave a suggestion: "If you just want to climb up the city gate, you can gather the ropes in the army to make a noose, and let a person climb in to find out."

Masev immediately agreed to the idea.

Soon, the noose was finished and thrown on the city gate, hooking a sharp corner on the battlement.

Driven by sticks and sharp blades, a slave began to climb up the rope.

Todd, hiding behind the wall, looked at the direction where the noose fell, and first gave the others a gesture of peace and quiet, and then signaled Evie to follow him and move in the direction of the noose.

That hapless slave soldier, under the gaze of thousands of people, finally climbed up the city wall with great effort. Jumping off the wall, before he could see the situation around him clearly, a hand covered his mouth from behind, and a sharp blade cut his throat.

Without a sound, the hapless slave soldier lost his life.

"That **** above! Hurry up and tell me what's going on in the city gate?!" Masev yelled a few times, and found that there was no response at all. Angrily, he yelled: "Find someone to climb. Go up! Hurry up!"

The second and third slave climbed up, but ended up with the same unlucky end as the first one.

The deputy commander Masev, who was already on the verge of fury, threw the whip in his hand heavily to the ground, and shouted at the people under his hands with red eyes: "Everyone! Roll me all under the wall and throw the wall over. Go in! I **** want to see what's going on inside!"

An staff member said worriedly: "The method of building a human wall will disrupt the formation of our army and will 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!"

The staff was silent for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, the deputy commander's words made sense. If there are enemies, according to the standard defensive process, they usually attack with arrows, slings, woods, etc. How could it be possible to attack? The city's army swaggered to the city?

"But...the few slaves we sent in before..." The staff waited to persuade them, but found that Masev had begun to give orders.

"Everyone is listening to me. The enemy's landing troops have already captured the port area and are calling towards the city gate. Our time is running out! We must control the city gate as soon as possible to reinforce the friendly forces in the city!" The husband waved his hand: "All the infantry phalanx follow the order! Set up a human wall! Climb in and open the city gate!"

Under the command of the commander, the infantry, lacking siege equipment, dropped their weapons and shields, and began to transport soldiers to the top of the city wall using the most primitive method of "stacking arhats and erecting human walls."

Listening to the movement outside, Todd smiled and opened the wooden box beside his feet, revealing a full cotton and linen bag.

"Remember how I told you how to use this stuff?" Todd drew an explosive package from the wooden box and said to the Valkyries behind the wall stack: "Light the fuse, and when you see the white smoke burning, immediately Leaving it off the city wall~lightnovelpub.net~ Evie looked at the wooden boxes that these griffins had brought, picked up a dynamite bag from it and checked it repeatedly, and asked: "On the ship, you did repeatedly introduce the use of Method, this thing looks familiar, but what's the use? "

Listening to the increasing number of soldiers climbing on the city wall, Todd first pulled the lead of the explosive bag in his hand and said to others: "Do as I said, and soon you will see its usefulness."

The soldiers who were climbing the city wall suddenly found one white cloth bag after another, which fell towards the foot of the city wall as if it was raining.

The cloth bag fell on the ground, and the white smoke of gas and the star-pointed sparks aroused people's onlookers. The courageous soldiers even wanted to pick it up and find out.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Along with the deafening loud noise and the dazzling white light, red lotus flowers bloomed brightly under the corner of the city.

The huge impact tore the human body into illegible fragments, and blasted the earth three feet underground into the air.

Blood, stumps and corpses stained the 30-meter-long gray city wall with blood; wailing, crying and moaning resounded above the ancient city gate.

Masev was lifted from horseback to underneath by the blast of air. The deputy commander of the legion fainted completely before he could say a word.

Waiting for the aftershocks of the explosion to subside, the Valkyries poked their heads out from behind the wall and stared at everything on the battlefield dumbfounded. Everyone had a **** expression on their faces.

Todd patted the dust on his body. Just as he was about to say something, fighting and shouting came from the other side of the city gate.

The landing force that responded to Todd has opened up the defense line of the entire city and has arrived at the gate of the city.

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