Can't I develop my own character?

He doesn't understand combat, but he understands the fear of insufficient firepower.

So when twenty cannons on the city wall fired at the same time, all the worries disappeared at this moment!

Boom!

The roar of artillery fire was deafening. When the first round of bombardment fell, almost all the Cainte soldiers at the front fell down. Only a few survivors were left, but they were killed by muskets before they could get close to the city wall.

"Fuck! What a powerful cannon!"

An old soldier on the city wall couldn't help but shout.

If you have never been a soldier, you will not know how much impact a good weapon can have on them. Times have really changed. The era of charging forward with swords and knives is now a thing of the past.

Knightly duels are still a symbol of honor, but war is not a duel. It is not that you and I must fight for honor. Why should I fight you in a duel when I have more people? Why should I use a cross sword when I have a musket?

These soldiers are neither extraordinary people nor bounty hunters who have honed their skills. They are just ordinary people.

They only know that all truth is within the range of cannons!

But what they didn't know was that in order to collect these cannons, Ryan emptied out all the family assets he had confiscated. The cannons were really useful and really expensive.

"Md! This feels so good!"

“They can’t get through at all!”

The originally tense atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed after several consecutive artillery attacks.

"Don't be careless, the real battle hasn't begun yet!" an officer roared. "The happier you are now, the more miserable you will be later. As long as the battle is not over, anything can happen in a flash!"

The officer's reprimand brought everyone back to reality.

Ryan nodded slightly. There are still talented people in the army. We cannot think that everything has problems just because there are problems at the command level. It is just like there are many people among the nobles who truly value honor and care for their people.

As expected, after the attack was blocked by cannons, magic shields appeared in the Caint army. Under these shields, the soldiers rushed forward and fired muskets at the city walls. At the same time, their siege cannons finally opened fire.

"Extraordinary people?"

These magic shields were released by the extraordinary people. Although they could not withstand the artillery fire for too long, they took advantage of the precious time and fired the siege artillery fire at the city gate.

Rumble~~~

The shells exploded at the city gate, but when the smoke cleared the gate was undamaged.

"Once the extraordinary people join in, the way the war is fought will change."

The cannons are very powerful, but if you set up a defensive barrier in advance, it will be no problem to hold out for a while, and sieges on the battlefield are a race against time.

boom!

In terms of the number of cannons, Berman City has more than Cainte. Twenty cannons on the city wall fired at the same time, completely shattering the shields temporarily supported by those extraordinary people.

The Cainte army never dreamed that they had never seen such an "armed sheep".

The situation in Berman City is probably the most special in the entire border of the Augustus Empire.

But Ryan had an even more powerful plan. He immediately switched to the character interface of 'Ina' and asked her to transport all the remaining cannons over.

The eighty cannons were initially divided equally among the four city gates, but after Ryan observed the movements of the Caint army, he removed the ten cannons from the north gate, and at the same time removed five cannons from the east and west gates.

These twenty cannons are kept as backup, and once the main attack point of the Kainte army is determined, all of them can be pulled over.

When forty cannons were placed on the city gate, not only Ryan, but even the soldiers defending the city straightened their backs involuntarily.

"They retreated! They retreated!"

The siege lasted less than an hour before the Kainte army began to withdraw to its garrison.

Looking at the soldiers cheering excitedly, Ryan didn't feel much in his heart. After all, this was just a tentative attack, so he didn't even use the extraordinary people, and Jonathan and others did not take action.

"Everyone, rest here and beware of sneak attacks from the Cainites." Ryan said.

"Don't worry, Mayor. No matter how many times they come, we can handle it!"

"Very good, this is the momentum we want."

After giving a few instructions, Ryan walked down the city wall and contacted Jonathan, asking him to arrange for the people of the Fire Covenant to prepare for battle.

After the Caint army's tentative attack, what will follow will definitely be a more fierce battle to break the city. The cannons can only block the frontal attack and stop the army, but cannot stop the extraordinary people.

In fact, this thing is only useful in siege warfare. If it is really used in the wild, the situation during marching and fighting changes too quickly. Sometimes the battle is over as soon as the cannon is transported there.

“I don’t know how these guys are going to attack next.”

Ryan ordered the twenty cannons at the south gate to be removed so that they could provide support at any time when the Cainte army changed its main attack position.

After doing all this, he opened the game interface. 'Xia Li' was not in a hurry to act. After all, there were still 5,000 people left behind by Cainte, so it was not the best time to attack.

The rest lasted two hours, and then the Kainte army began to move again.

Just like last time, they did not change their attack position. In fact, with the extraordinary people monitoring their movements at any time, it was impossible to sneak around the north gate and launch a surprise attack.

After all, a team of thousands of people can be seen by anyone who is not blind, unless they can eliminate the intelligence agents of the Fire Covenant in advance.

But this is obviously impossible, even Ryan doesn't know where the intelligence agent is hiding.

However, this time the Caint army increased the intensity of the attack. There were still 3,000 people at the east and west gates, but the number of people attacking the south gate head-on was as high as 7,000.

After confirming the main attack point, Ryan still placed the cannons on the south gate and engaged in a head-on firefight with the siege cannons of the Caint army.

"Mayor, something's amiss." The officer in charge of combat frowned. "The Cainte army seems to have slowed down, although their numbers are still large."

Ryan nodded slightly: "Continue to defend, I'll leave for a while."

Coming down from the city wall, he walked into an alley and met up with the members of the Fire Covenant who had been lying in ambush there.

Then I continued to wait for almost ten minutes.

Ryan took out his pocket watch and looked at it. Suddenly, a flare exploded in the sky in the direction of the west gate.

"It's Ximen!" an investigator said, "Deputy Captain, let's go over there!"

"Don't worry."

Ryan waved his hand.

A few minutes later, a flare was also sent out from the east gate.

"They're attacking both sides at once?"

The investigator wondered.

These flares were arranged by Ryan in advance. Once they were attacked by Caint's extraordinary people, the flares would be fired to notify them.

Ryan doesn't know how to fight, but he understands the meaning of the existence of extraordinary people. If a frontal attack is carried out, it will be very difficult to break the city unless the Caint people are willing to bear the huge losses from artillery bombardment.

Therefore, they will definitely take advantage of the special characteristics of the extraordinary people. For any extraordinary person who is a little more flexible, climbing over the wall of Berman City is not a problem at all.

All we have to do is open the city gate from the inside and let the army rush in. By then, no matter how many cannons are placed on the city wall, they will be useless.

Of course, Ryan wasn't 100% sure, he was just taking a gamble, and it turned out that he was right.

At this time, flares exploded one after another on the east and west sides, but Ryan still did not take any action because there were already enough people in those two places.

The east gate is guarded by Casladi herself and her men, who possess the power to kill top-level third-level transcendents. If she can't defend it, no one can.

As for Simon, with 'Weine' and Jonathan and a few investigators there, it won't be a problem either.

Although 'Weine' has not yet advanced, she has already captured two elite soul swordsmen. Together with four ordinary soul swordsmen, she can be comparable to three or four second-level extraordinary people.

So Ryan was not worried about being breached on both sides. As for the South Gate, it was obviously a smokescreen released by the Caint Army. They sent 7,000 people to make him mistakenly believe that the main attack point was at the South Gate.

But in fact, no matter which of the east and west gates was breached, there were only 1,500 soldiers guarding the city on both sides, and the quality of the soldiers was far inferior to that of the army of the Kingdom of Kaint. At that time, it would be impossible to stop the attack of 3,000 people from the other side.

In other words, whether there are 3,000 or 7,000 people, the effect is the same.

After making sure that there would be no problem with the South City Gate, Ryan immediately gave orders to all the investigators around him to prepare to go out of the city to fight - the Iron Blood Legion had already begun to act, Gluck led his men to attack the rear stronghold of the Kaint Army, and once 'Charlie' saw the signal, she would act immediately. The Iron Blood Legion would directly contain the Kaint Army's defense, and her mission was to lead the 1,000 royal guards straight to the granary and set fire to the grain!

At this time, on the game interface, 'Xia Li' led people to attack, and Ryan also acted decisively. He knew that the Cainte army was attacked in the rear, and would inevitably retreat after the attack in the front was unfavorable.

Of course, he would not send anyone to pursue them, but he still had the courage to take advantage of the chaos to destroy the enemy's siege cannons, and he did so very bravely.

......

Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Three kilometers south of Berman City, the Kainte army is stationed.

"Hurry, hurry! Don't linger in the fight, get back on defense! Get back on defense!"

The Kainte officers shouted.

There is a group of iron-blooded troops in front!

The charge of the heavily armored cavalry easily crushed the shields. Although there were only two or three hundred of them, it was indeed a nightmare for the Kaint army.

But they have nearly three thousand people after all. Even if they fight head-on, they will not be defeated directly. After the siege army retreats, they will be able to easily devour the Iron Blood Legion. But... the granary is about to catch fire!

When 'Xia Li' showed up with her men, the defenders of Kainte were no fools. They were obviously here for the granary, so they had no intention of fighting anymore. If the food was burned, they would commit seppuku to apologize in a minute when they got back!

But how could the two thousand Iron Blood Legion be so easy to deal with?

When Gluck saw them retreating, he immediately sent his entire army to chase after them, chopping them like melons and vegetables. For a time, the Kaint army suffered heavy losses.

When they finally turned back, they found that most of the 1,000 people who stayed behind had been killed by Xia Li and her men, and the rest were struggling to save food from the fire.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!!"

"Hurry up!"

"Something's wrong, there's an ambush—Ah!!"

"Those damned Ogus people are still here!!"

“They’re back again!”

Of course, 'Xia Li' didn't leave.

There are only a thousand people left here. Who are you looking down on? Who can kill a thousand people?

So after setting fire to the granary, 'Charlie' only pretended to retreat. The number of the Royal Guards was small, and the fire covered their territory, and it was pitch dark. The Caint Army was so focused on putting out the fire that they didn't notice them at all.

When 'Xia Li' led his men to attack, these Cainte soldiers immediately panicked.

There is a wolf in front, a tiger behind, and the house is on fire!

"Send a signal quickly! Request for help!!"

When the emergency signal flare was sent out, the Caint army attacking the city in front also began to panic. They had originally planned to launch a general attack the moment the east and west gates were opened, but they never expected that there was no movement at the city gate after waiting for a long time, and instead the fire broke out in the backyard first.

But what if the city gates reopened as soon as they left? Their efforts to send in the extraordinary would be wasted. Ultimately, only the troops attacking the South Gate withdrew, numbering nearly 4,000 men. After all, the South Gate had been used as bait.

As soon as the South Gate people retreated, Ryan immediately ordered the investigators to take action.

There are eight people on his side. Although they are all at the first and second levels, they can still destroy the cannon under the protection of a group of ordinary soldiers. After all, this is a sneak attack, not a frontal attack.

The cannons on the city gates were still attacking, the siege had not stopped, and the mixture of various things made the scene extremely chaotic for a time. There were no telephones in this world, so there was no way to keep in touch in real time and learn about the situation.

Fortunately, Ryan was able to get a rough idea of ​​what was happening on both sides through the character interfaces of 'Charlie' and 'Vine'. The granary fire lasted for nearly twenty minutes, and the support from the Cainte army that was attacking head-on finally arrived.

However, at this time, the more than 3,000 people who had stayed behind had almost been eaten up by the Royal Guards and the Iron Blood Legion.

Judging from the hard power, the gap between the two armies is still quite large. The army of the Kingdom of Kaint can only fight against the private soldiers of the lords of the Augustus Empire, and is not strong enough to fight against the regular army of the empire.

Not to mention the presence of 'Xali', the blood-killing knight. Blood is the product of feasts and carnivals, and 'Xali' does not need to make special sacrifices. She kills her way forward, and the blood flowing on the ground seems to be pulled by some force, naturally forming a bright red blood mist on the battlefield.

When the blood mist dissipated, the entire battlefield became very strange.

What's happening here?

Not to mention other people, even 'Xia Li' didn't know.

But it doesn’t matter. She doesn’t know what happened, nor does she care what happened. She only knows that she is going to start a killing spree now!

If there were elders of the Blood Cult here, they would kneel down and shout "Blood sacrifice to the Blood God", even ordinary members of the Blood Cult would do the same, but "Charlie" didn't care. As the chosen one of the Blood God, even if she didn't shout out the Blood God's greatness, Doclodes would still be willing to keep his eyes on her!

The appearance of the blood mist made everyone suspicious and uncertain, even the Iron Blood Legion. They even thought it was a conspiracy of the Caint army. Fortunately, they soon saw the heroic performance of their friendly forces - the Royal Guards who were still fighting, and realized that the blood mist might also be "friendly forces."

The royal guards were calm, even excited, because the killing blood mist came from their temporary commander, Miss 'Charlie'. After seeing how powerful 'Charlie' was, the blood mercenaries were no longer scary. They were very willing to see these bloody people stand up from the enemy's pool of blood and chop off the enemy's heads with swords.

"Blood mist...is this the power of the Blood God?"

In the Iron Blood Legion, Gluck was dealing with the last group of Kaint defenders. He was a third-level transcendent and could vaguely feel the impact of this blood mist on people.

The Iron Blood Legion was energized and emboldened by this. Look at those Royal Guards, following Miss Shirley around and slaughtering everyone, even chanting "Blood Sacrifice to the Blood God"? Damn, is there something wrong with me, or is there something wrong with them?

Gluck was confused at first, but he quickly realized that he was also a person who had been on the battlefield. More importantly, he had the honor of following Grand Duchess Maganna into battle. The situation now was the same as before. Maganna was fighting in the front, and an invisible field seemed to have formed around her.

All those who followed the Grand Duke to fight seemed to have gained strength, becoming brave and fearless, and even their combat effectiveness soared.