my age of magic

Chapter 738. 238. Fight, Trum

After bidding farewell to Felix, we walked out of the Quartermaster Office. Katerina looked a little depressed. It seemed that most people in the stronghold maintained a very optimistic attitude towards the battle of the city. They thought that even Tru Relying on various large-scale ordnance and various arrangements on the city wall, these troops in the city can also withdraw from the city of Trum in a planned, stepped, and orderly manner.

The reason why the defenders in the stronghold have such confidence is that most of them come from Earl Horace's oath. Although it has not been publicly stated, the identity of the young earl is no secret in the Trum stronghold. His father The Marquess of Armand is the second son of the Duke of Samoyed, so the Duke of Samoyed is the grandfather of the Earl of Horace.

In the Hierro plane, some people may not know who the Emperor of the Green Empire is, but there will never be anyone who does not know who the Grand Duke of Samoyed is. In fact, the Grand Duke of Samoyed is the real ruler of the Hierro plane. Therefore, when these garrison troops saw Horace's swearing promise that he would live and die with the Trum stronghold, this sentence immediately became the most powerful spiritual pillar in the hearts of all the garrison troops.

I sighed secretly, and said to myself: If these garrison soldiers knew that the second son of the Duke of Samoyed, the Marquis of Armand was also trapped in Tanton City, I don't know what they would think.

"Don't be so depressed. Since they all have the determination to defend the city, let's sneak out of the city tonight. We can still find opportunities in the black forest to hunt and kill the spider warriors who ran out alone, at least Help the defenders at the Trum stronghold to contain the Nibru spiders a little bit, I think we can do this easily." I patted Katerina on the shoulder and comforted her.

Then pointing to the solid fortress-like wall of a male city, he said to Katerina: "Look, this is a male city, it's not that easy to break into, the city wall is completely built of rocks containing iron ore, It looks dated, but it's definitely solid."

The guards on duty on the back wall looked much more relaxed than those on the front tower, so they knew that there was no pressure on patrol here.

So I pointed to these soldiers on the city wall again, and said to Katerina: "Look at those soldiers on the city wall again, their faces are full of desire for fighting. It is a kind of experience that everyone must go through. Every man must serve in the military. As long as the belief in their hearts is still there, the defense line will not collapse."

I wiped the teardrops from the corners of Katerina’s eyes with my thumb, and said softly: “Wipe your tears quickly, I agreed to take me to visit the Trum stronghold today, and tell me how you have come here in the past few years of."

Katerina sniffed, tried to smile at me, took a deep breath, and said stubbornly, "I'm not crying!"

Afterwards, Katerina really sorted out her bad mood, smiled again, and led me from the stone steps in the northeast corner of the stronghold to the wall behind the stronghold. She was still the red-haired girl in the dance troupe's caravan. Her enthusiasm and her gentleness were revealed little by little in front of me.

Perhaps before this, she had almost completely integrated into her new role, the battalion commander of the seventh battalion in Trume stronghold.

The Trum stronghold can also be regarded as a small castle. The entire castle is very complete with various facilities. There are two gates in front of and behind the stronghold. The moat filled with sand and gravel, and the wooden suspension bridge have been completely crushed, broken into several pieces and discarded at the front gate of the city.

The city gate in front has been completely blocked with sand and stone by the defenders of the Trum stronghold from the inside.

The back gate of the Trum stronghold is very narrow, and only two horses can pass in parallel. This road leads to the back mountain of the Trum stronghold. I did not expect that there is a passage left behind the gate of the stronghold.

The Trum stronghold was built next to the mountain, on the gentle slope of the mountain. The terrain is low at the front and high at the back. This is the intersection of two mountain ranges.

Although the actual height of the city wall in front of the stronghold is much higher than that of the rear city wall, due to the terrain, only by standing on the rear city wall can one have a panoramic view of everything.

The building structure in the city is very simple. The outermost circle is a solid city wall. Inside the city wall is the barracks of the ten battalions. A little further inside, there are actually some craftsmen’s workshops specially serving the barracks. When we walked over, we passed by A wood workshop, so we can see the whole stack of bed crossbow shafts stacked together.

In fact, there are more than one workshops around the campus.

I stood on the city wall and turned my eyes. On the other side of the stronghold school yard, I found a blacksmith shop and a leather shop. This stone house is very special. A tall chimney is emitting thick smoke, and there are faint clanging and knocking sounds inside.Another leather shop is even more eye-catching. The whole shop is covered with wooden shelves, and some animal hides are dried on the wooden shelves.

The central area of ​​the Trum stronghold is a huge school field, which can accommodate thousands of people.

Katerina took me up to an archery tower on the city wall. Just as the guards at the gate were about to stop us, Katerina took off the steel helmet on her head and held it in her hands. Her long red hair fell like a waterfall. The guard His eyes widened, and he looked at Katerina in astonishment, unable to speak.

Katerina walked past the guard coldly with a straight face, but the guard didn't dare to stop us. We easily boarded the arrow tower in the northeast corner.

I carefully looked at the building layout inside the Trum stronghold, and silently wrote down all the details.

I looked around and said casually, "Those guards seem to be afraid of you?"

Katerina smiled lightly and said, "They are all fighters from the third battalion, and they were taught by me in the school grounds."

Seeing Earl Horace standing majestically on the city wall in front of the stronghold, surrounded by a group of trusted followers.

The guards of the city wall carried bundles of thick bed crossbow bolts to the top of the city, and some soldiers were overhauling the bed crossbows on the top of the city. On the raised platform behind the city wall, there were catapults built with huge wooden frames. These catapults look like tower cranes, and they use the principle of leverage to throw out huge boulders covered with grease in the iron frame. This kind of catapult can reach a long range, and the stone balls thrown are also heavy A ton of huge rolling stone, this kind of stone falls on the ground, and the broken and flying stone chips are also very lethal.

All the longbowmen in Trume's stronghold were stationed on the south wall, and at this time they were resting with their backs behind the protruding walls of the city wall.

……

A piece of gravel the size of a thumb suddenly rolled down from the cliff above my head and landed on the ground made of square bricks in the arrow tower beside me. It smashed to pieces with a bang, and the sound startled me. If I got a little bit off, the stone would hit me directly on the head, and I thought to myself: How dangerous!

Luckily, he had escaped a catastrophe, so he casually raised his head and glanced at the top of the cliff, only to see dozens of thick spider threads hanging down from the top of the cliff, and a group of spidermen with one or two pieces of hard armor covering important parts of their bodies. The warrior was silently rushing down along the rope.

Seeing those spider warriors hanging above my head, I broke out in a cold sweat at the moment. I didn't expect that the spider's surprise attack came so fast, and the spiders even resorted to a kind of cliff-top airborne attack. The way of surprise attack is to capture the back gate of Trum City and completely block the defenders of the Trum stronghold in the stronghold.

However, on the walls of the back city, the defense force is the weakest. It seems that these spider warriors have seized this weakness.

"There is an enemy attack!" I tore my throat and shouted to the guard soldiers at the top of the tower.

The guards at the top of the tower below the archery tower didn't hear my broken shouts clearly for a while, but they all looked towards the top of the tower, and I pointed to the stone cliff on top of them. The guards who looked relaxed at first, When he raised his head and saw those black figures falling from the sky, his face turned pale with fright.

Before the guards could get ready their longbows, a huge black figure had already appeared above the rocky cliff following the falling gravel.

That spiderman warrior, who was only halfway up the cliff, saw that the city wall guards below had already looked up, without much hesitation, he let go of the white spider web with both hands, and the eight spider legs came out from the cliff at the same time. Pulled out from the wall, the bulky body suddenly lost control, like a huge boulder, accompanied by countless stones rolling down from the top of the head.

The defenders on the top of the city had already picked up their longbows, but when they saw the spiderman jumping off the cliff, they threw away the longbows in horror, and grabbed spears one after another with their backhands. , Facing those spider warriors.

Katerina reacted faster, and ran directly to the arrow tower where the bed crossbow was placed, shaking the winch with both hands quickly, and shouted to me: "Ji Jia, help me quickly, get the crossbow behind me!"

I didn't dare to neglect, I hurried to the corner of the archery tower, picked up a crossbow arrow from there, placed it on the arrow bracket of the bed crossbow, and fixed it.

At this time, Katerina had already calibrated the front sight of the bed crossbow, and moved the mechanism on the bed crossbow, trying to adjust the angle of the bed crossbow, but it was hopeless that the elevation angle of the bed crossbow was only about [-] degrees. No matter how proofread it is, there is no way to aim at the spiders on the cliff.

I looked at the spider warrior like a sea tide, and without any hesitation, I took out a magic scroll of 'Magic Power Catalysis' from my magic pocket, and quickly tore it open. I could clearly feel the countless magic elements floating in the air around my body. At this moment, I became restless, a huge light blue magic circle floated under my feet, and an ice gun appeared above my head.

……

Just at this time, the horn of war finally blew from the top of the city in front of the Trum stronghold.

"Woooooooo..."

A row of black waves suddenly rushed out of the spider camp in front of them. Those black waves were the spider warriors holding a heavy shield in one hand and a black iron spear in the other. Behind them, four spidermen that looked like hills The warlords also came out of the camp one after another, and the four spider warlords followed behind the spider warriors, holding ten-meter-long spears in their hands.

This battle came so unexpectedly.

Earl Horace, who was standing on the top of the city, was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground at this moment, but the next moment he was helped up by his followers, and immediately pointed to the spider warriors on the battlefield with both hands, and he didn't know what to say. Order, the distance between me and Earl Horace is too far, and I don't know what the young Earl is talking about.

However, the soldiers on the top of the wall in front reacted quite quickly. After hearing the horn of the warning sentry, the longbowmen hiding behind the wall immediately grabbed their longbows and stood behind the wall. Each long archer is surrounded by a shield warrior as cover.

As the sound of "creaking" began to be remembered one after another, one after another, bed crossbows were pushed to the front, and the shining arrow points of the crossbow arrows were all exposed from the city wall, one after another. The lever of the catapult was tightly stretched, and a layer of hay was hugged on the huge rolling stone in the iron yard. The hay was tightly wrapped around the stone, and some soldiers poured the black oil from the bucket on the side of the catapult onto the hay.

In just a few short breaths, on the frontal battlefield of the Trum stronghold, those spider warriors had completely spread out, and thousands of spider warriors ran wildly together. Strong shaking sensation.

With a sound of 'whoosh whoosh' piercing the air, those longbowmen standing on the top of the city fired the first round of arrow rain at the spiderman warrior in the distance.

At the same time, the continuous voices of contention also sounded one after another. The soldiers standing behind the bed crossbow pulled the handle vigorously, and the bed crossbow bolts, which were no less than ordinary spears, flew out at lightning speed, making a loud noise in the air. There was an empty pop.

A total of more than a dozen bed crossbows on the front wall fired the first round of arrows almost at the same time. Afterwards, the loading hand next to the bed crossbow hurriedly installed the next crossbow, and another soldier immediately twisted the winch.

There were several big fireballs in the sky. These fireballs were full of billowing smoke, and they were thrown from the trebuchet, drawing a beautiful arc in the air. From time to time, some unburned grass blades were broken, constantly fell to the ground.

A siege without any warning is the prelude.

Katerina and I looked at each other, and each understood the other's concerns.

The meaning in my eyes is: Once there is an uncontrollable situation, I will open the portal, let her hide in, and then find a way out by myself.

But Katerina's eyes were full of pleading, she wanted me to find a way to save the Trum stronghold, but when she saw those black waves surging in the spider forest, thousands of spidermen Warriors, in any case, cannot be resisted by the guards in the stronghold.

At this time, the first wave of armor-piercing arrow rain has fallen into the wave of spidermen...

(End of this chapter)