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Chapter 92: Bloody Battle at the Castle (Part )
"Well done!"

Xiaodao watched with joy as the Tiger Crouching Cannon fired fifty lead bullets, knocking over a barricade and several fleeing crossbowmen behind it, successfully clearing the obstruction in the passage.

In order to quickly capture the city gate, the players paid a huge price. They tried taking a detour, but the spiral staircase leading upstairs was really difficult to take.

The plate-armored knights guarding the stairs held a knight's shield in their left hand and a chain hammer in their right hand. Anyone who rushed up could be beaten to death by just swinging the chain hammer.

Even experienced players can't withstand the chain hammer's simple and unpretentious blow from top to bottom.

This clockwise spiral staircase is very convenient for the guards standing on top.

As an attacker, you not only need to raise your head to attack, but your dominant hand will also be blocked by the wall, making it difficult to swing your weapon.

The defender has half of his body protected by the wall, so his right hand is not only unobstructed but also has the advantage of being high above.

In addition, the stone steps of the spiral staircase were deliberately made into irregular blocks of different heights. Except for the local guards who were familiar with the stairs, it was easy for attackers to bump their feet into the higher stairs while climbing.

It was bumpy and difficult to swing the weapon with my dominant hand, and the extremely narrow stairs made it impossible to use the flintlock rifle.

Under such circumstances, Xiaodao found that he really couldn't rush to the second floor in a short time.

He had no choice but to turn around and lead his men to attack the city gate area head-on again.

Xiaodao asked the player to make a smoke bomb using the chili peppers, cumin, turmeric powder and flammable materials found in the castle, and then pulled the tiger squat cannon left on the drawbridge over.

Finally, have the first wave of attackers, including the musketeers, wear the armor from the NPC corpses and let them charge.

After such a fierce attack, they finally broke through the barricades and defeated the crossbowmen who were blocking the passage.

"Go ahead, brothers! Go ahead and clear the wall! Go open the city gate!"

Xiaoda shouted excitedly. He raised the eight-sided Han sword and shield and was about to rush out first. However, as soon as he stood up, he heard gunshots from behind him, as well as the shouts and fighting sounds of players.

The players' battle cries are quite distinctive in the game. After all, apart from them, no one else would shout "Demacia", "For the Emperor", and "For the Horde".

"How to do?"

someone asked.

"What can we do? You guys charge, I'll take the men back to hold them off!"

Xiaodao turned around and cursed, then he casually pointed at two armored players and asked them to follow him.

"Quickly take down the city gate. Only by taking it down and letting the players outside in can we have a chance of capturing this castle!"

As he said that, Xiaodao ran back in a hurry.

When he turned around and walked twenty meters with his team, he saw more than twenty players retreating in a small hall that looked like a waiting room.

And before them stood a vast mass of infantrymen in grey robes and plate mail.

Xiaodao rushed forward, relying on the armor on his body, he charged forward with a shield and knocked to the ground an extremely arrogant enemy holding a long-handled axe.

He then wielded the Eight-sided Han Sword with swift and heavy strikes, striking the helmets and shields of the two enemies. The Eight-sided Han Sword, as its name suggests, is a two-handed sword with eight blades. It was a military weapon during the Han Dynasty. Compared to the Four-sided Sword, its blade is thicker and heavier, making it more powerful.

Therefore, during the chopping, the enemies who were hit by the knife were forced to take two steps back to temporarily avoid the sharp edge.

However, Xiaodao was able to force back two people, but he could not fight ten alone in this wide terrain. More enemies surrounded him on both sides, and they were equipped with half-swords, axes, guns, and powerful crossbows, forcing Xiaodao to retreat again and again.

The players behind also caught up. They fired with flintlock rifles together with other unarmored players, and chopped with swords and knives, but they were unable to stop the decline.

This is not because the players are not working hard, but because the enemy has the advantage in numbers. Secondly, it is also because these guys are all wearing armor.

Full armor vs. no armor is the easiest battle to determine the winner, like a hammer colliding with an egg, while full armor vs. full armor is like weights poking each other with embroidery needles.

In this situation where multiple weights are poking at each other, the side with more weights will have the advantage in the pushing and shoving.

Xiaodao and others, who were smaller in number, could only keep retreating in such a pushing and shoving. If they did not retreat, they would be knocked to the ground, and either trampled to death, or have their masks taken off and stabbed in the neck with a dagger.

Two unarmored players were hit by crossbows and javelins thrown by the enemy while retreating. Their pace slowed down, and they were then caught up and hacked to pieces.

The remaining heavily armored players were at the front, while the unarmored players lagged behind. They retreated all the way until they exited the small hall and returned to the narrow passage that could only accommodate one carriage, only then did they stop their retreat.

"Clap clap clap..."

Four players who had taken the time to reload their rifles while retreating raised their flintlock rifles and fired from their shoulders.

Although this dangerous behavior made the ears of Xiaodao and several other players at the front buzz,

However, the volley of smoothbore rifles was still very intimidating, especially when it was close to the enemy. After four shots, four chain mail infantrymen fell to the ground.

The smoke filled their faces, and the chainmail infantrymen who were rushing forward desperately were also frightened and subconsciously stopped their steps to move forward.

When more players raised their flintlock rifles, even though some chainmail infantrymen knew that the flintlock rifles in the hands of the former were empty, they did not dare to take a gamble, so they all left the passage and hid to the left and right of the hall.

The enemy retreated temporarily, which made Xiaodao finally breathe a sigh of relief. He reached out to adjust the steel helmet that was knocked crooked by the chain hammer, pulled up the iron mask with a dent in it, and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"Fuck, what's going on? With so many of you and over twenty guns, how did you get beaten to death? The stone bridge has already been lost?"

"It's lost. The enemy came from the suspension bridge."

"Boss Xiaodao, this is not our fault. I don't know what happened to these bastards. They suddenly appeared from the other side of the suspension bridge. Carrot, who was guarding the bridge, was beaten to death without even seeing anything.

He died a terrible death, his head exploded."

"Yes Yes……"

Many players answered Xiaodao's questions at once, and he quickly summarized the key points in this chaotic conversation.

Those raiders who had previously fought with him for the suspension bridge belonged to a third-party force, suspected to be the Restoration Army. They were back.

Something is wrong. Why can't I stop them? I clearly left several old players and a cannon at the suspension bridge... Oh, I forgot, the tiger crouching cannon is now in the front.

(End of this chapter)